A new Government Accountability Institute (GAI)report reveals that President Barack Obama has attended only 42.1% of his daily intelligence briefings (known officially as the Presidential Daily Brief, or PDB) in the 2,079 days of his presidency through September 29, 2014. The GAI report also included a breakdown of Obama’s PDB attendance record between terms; he attended 42.4% of his PDBs in his first term and 41.3% in his second. The GAI’s alarming findings come on the heels of Obama’s 60 Minutes comments on Sunday, wherein the president laid the blame for the Islamic State’s (ISIS) rapid rise squarely at the feet of his Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. “I think our head of the intelligence community, Jim Clapper, has acknowledged that I think they underestimated what had been taking place in Syria,” said Obama.Who is really running the show? Who is making decisions about the stuff in those intelligence briefings? Just thought I'd ask.
Showing posts with label corruption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label corruption. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Imagine This . . .
Imagine that you get hired to do a job. Any job.
Might be as low as being a garbage collector, oops, excuse me, a sanitation worker.
I understand that expectations in such a job may not be very high by the worker. It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it and it doesn't pay very much.
Do I really need to tell you all the things that suck about being someone who collects garbage?
Sucky job. Bet you want to work your way up into a better job. But at the same time you are glad as can be that there are people who need a job and need to start out by being garbage collectors until they work their way up the system.
I want you to think about how many jobs you have ever had where you could miss four out of ten days of work over a one year period and still expect to get paid for your so-called job.
Anybody?
Yeah. I didn't think so.
Now, that's just talking about any old body who misses work. Imagine yourself a "rich" person who owns a McDonald's franchise and you employ 30 or 40 people. You work on a budget that allows for about a 6% profit. How many people can you afford to hire who just show up to clock in and then spend 60% of their time doing nothing but personal stuff. Golfing, laundry, emailing friends, whatever.
You wouldn't tolerate it for several reasons. First, you can't afford to. One employee goofing off half the time would eat up most of your slim profit margin. If you tolerate it with one employee, pretty soon other employees will be doing it as well, and then you would be going bankrupt. It wouldn't be fair to the employees who do their jobs and they would get frustrated and quit to work someplace else.
Now imagine that it wasn't just an employee, but the manager you hired to run the place. How do you think that would work out? What if your manager never showed up for half of the planning meetings that were scheduled as a necessary part of running the business?
So, we have this story: http://www.infowars.com/report-obama-has-missed-over-half-his-second-term-daily-intel-briefings/
Friday, September 26, 2014
That Will Teach Him
Bitter abortion advocate demonstrates to Rush Limbaugh that no good deed goes unpunished
Merritt Tierce, budding novelist, former executive director of a not for profit and, of course, like all under appreciated artistes, a former moonlighting waitress, thought the $2000 in tips from Rush Limbaugh on a couple of meals at a high end Dallas restaurant "felt like 'blood money." So she gave it to her charity: the Texas Equal Access (TEA) Fund, a group that finances abortion for poor women.
Irony seems to be completely lost on this woman. I wonder if the concept was covered in the coursework when she got her MFA from the University of Iowa?
Of course, her first novel, which she is now promoting, is all about working in a restaurant.
Let me hazard as guess as to the tone of this work. Since she looks like she is mad at the world, I bet her novel tells in great detail how the main character is mad at life in general and then beats the reader over the head with "the truth" about the high-end restaurant business. She will then wonder why so few people bought her novel. (Or came to her play, or listened to his music or bought the painting or sculpture, etc. etc etc.)
Irony seems to be completely lost on this woman. I wonder if the concept was covered in the coursework when she got her MFA from the University of Iowa?
Of course, her first novel, which she is now promoting, is all about working in a restaurant. Let me hazard as guess as to the tone of this work. Since she looks like she is mad at the world, I bet her novel tells in great detail how the main character is mad at life in general and then beats the reader over the head with "the truth" about the high-end restaurant business. She will then wonder why so few people bought her novel. (Or came to her play, or listened to his music or bought the painting or sculpture, etc. etc etc.)
The world of art is full of poseurs who routinely mistake progressive dogma for profound insight and garden variety experiences as penetrating metaphor. Those few with genuine talent actually seldom tell the audience much of anything. Instead, a real artist makes an audience feel the emotion as if it were their own.
Merritt Tierce, budding novelist, former executive director of a not for profit and, of course, like all under appreciated artistes, a former moonlighting waitress, thought the $2000 in tips from Rush Limbaugh on a couple of meals at a high end Dallas restaurant "felt like 'blood money." So she gave it to her charity: the Texas Equal Access (TEA) Fund, a group that finances abortion for poor women.
Irony seems to be completely lost on this woman. I wonder if the concept was covered in the coursework when she got her MFA from the University of Iowa?
Of course, her first novel, which she is now promoting, is all about working in a restaurant.
Let me hazard as guess as to the tone of this work. Since she looks like she is mad at the world, I bet her novel tells in great detail how the main character is mad at life in general and then beats the reader over the head with "the truth" about the high-end restaurant business. She will then wonder why so few people bought her novel. (Or came to her play, or listened to his music or bought the painting or sculpture, etc. etc etc.)
The world of art is full of poseurs who routinely mistake progressive dogma for profound insight and garden variety experiences as penetrating metaphor. Those few with genuine talent actually seldom tell the audience much of anything. Instead, a real artist makes an audience feel the emotion as if it were their own.
Irony seems to be completely lost on this woman. I wonder if the concept was covered in the coursework when she got her MFA from the University of Iowa?
Of course, her first novel, which she is now promoting, is all about working in a restaurant.
Let me hazard as guess as to the tone of this work. Since she looks like she is mad at the world, I bet her novel tells in great detail how the main character is mad at life in general and then beats the reader over the head with "the truth" about the high-end restaurant business. She will then wonder why so few people bought her novel. (Or came to her play, or listened to his music or bought the painting or sculpture, etc. etc etc.)
The world of art is full of poseurs who routinely mistake progressive dogma for profound insight and garden variety experiences as penetrating metaphor. Those few with genuine talent actually seldom tell the audience much of anything. Instead, a real artist makes an audience feel the emotion as if it were their own.
So, let's think about this for a minute. "Blood-money?"
From Wikipedia I found this:
Blood money may refer to:
- Blood money (restitution), money paid to the next of kin of a murder victim as a fine
- Thirty pieces of silver, in The New Testament, the price for which Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus
- Weregild, in English history, reparational payment usually demanded of a person guilty of homicide or other wrongful death
- The money earned for contract killing
And even if Rush were guilty of something worthy of referring to the tip as blood money, in what universe does it make sense to help insure the brutal murder of an innocent child in the womb as a way to atone for whatever sins, either perceived or real, may have been committed by him?
I'm sure it would have been unthinkable to give the money to a homeless shelter or a community food bank or something that actually gives aid and comfort to someone who is suffering.
Naaaahh! Can't do that.
Saturday, September 20, 2014
How we got here
ATTENTION: This is reposted with corrections for the videos and other little details.
If I was forced to blame the current economic recession, malaise, problems (use whatever term you like) on only one thing, it would be ignorance of most of the people. Ignorance of both history and economics. And I do mean real economics and not Keynesian theory, which is why I say both history and economics. History proves which economic models work and which ones don't.
Notice the fact that the largest reserves of petroleum energy in the world, more than all of the middle east and Venezuela combined, is laying underneath United States territory. The only close second is Russia, providing 90% of Europe's oil.
By the way: you won't find this information easily on the internet anymore.
The above image is from 2011. Such info has mysteriously vanished from most sites. Just like some of my info on this blog has mysteriously vanished.
Thanks to Jerome Corsi's book on the oil conspiracy, we can now know what most of the rest of the world knows: that petroleum is abiogenic. There is no such thing as "fossil fuel." Crude oil and natural gas are not made from formerly living things, but by a chemical process in the earth's crust that a couple of Nazi scientists discovered during or before WWII.
We have the greatest technology. We have the greatest basic infrastructure. We have no lack of consumers who would be happy to purchase goods made right here on American soil.
We have plenty of scientists who know that we could build incredibly safe reactors that would use super cheap and abundant thorium. Before you watch the video, I want to make a couple of points. About 40,000 people die every year in the U.S. in vehicle accidents. About 800,000 people die from standard, non-malpractice medical care. Just to help you keep the deaths from coal in proper perspective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayIyiVua8cY
Of course that's not the only way to improve our energy situation. The bloom box.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shkFDPI6kGE
But of course, this government would rather throw money down the black holes of solar panels (Remember Solyndra?) Or windmills that nobody wants (NIMBY).
But I say all that to get to the question: What's the real reason we are in this situation?
If I was forced to blame the current economic recession, malaise, problems (use whatever term you like) on only one thing, it would be ignorance of most of the people. Ignorance of both history and economics. And I do mean real economics and not Keynesian theory, which is why I say both history and economics. History proves which economic models work and which ones don't.
Notice the fact that the largest reserves of petroleum energy in the world, more than all of the middle east and Venezuela combined, is laying underneath United States territory. The only close second is Russia, providing 90% of Europe's oil.
The above image is from 2011. Such info has mysteriously vanished from most sites. Just like some of my info on this blog has mysteriously vanished.
Thanks to Jerome Corsi's book on the oil conspiracy, we can now know what most of the rest of the world knows: that petroleum is abiogenic. There is no such thing as "fossil fuel." Crude oil and natural gas are not made from formerly living things, but by a chemical process in the earth's crust that a couple of Nazi scientists discovered during or before WWII.
We have the greatest technology. We have the greatest basic infrastructure. We have no lack of consumers who would be happy to purchase goods made right here on American soil.
We have plenty of scientists who know that we could build incredibly safe reactors that would use super cheap and abundant thorium. Before you watch the video, I want to make a couple of points. About 40,000 people die every year in the U.S. in vehicle accidents. About 800,000 people die from standard, non-malpractice medical care. Just to help you keep the deaths from coal in proper perspective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayIyiVua8cY
Of course that's not the only way to improve our energy situation. The bloom box.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shkFDPI6kGE
But of course, this government would rather throw money down the black holes of solar panels (Remember Solyndra?) Or windmills that nobody wants (NIMBY).
But I say all that to get to the question: What's the real reason we are in this situation?
Friday, September 19, 2014
Origin of Government
Morgan over at House of Eratosthenes got me going on this subject with this post.
My perspective on this is so divergent from his that I decided to make it my own stand alone post on my blog here. I couldn't just comment on his blog.
For the purpose of this discussion, trying to keep it in as narrow and controllable forum as possible, I'm going to define Column A and Column B in my own terms and maybe give them catchier names.
Severian says Column A people are: "A group of individuals, each as sovereign as his physical power can make him, agree to cede some of their rights to a collective, in order to better secure their remaining rights. The key player here is the individual." The only problem I have with that definition is that there is no need to cede any rights. This is a misconception that has crept into our republican society. Just because I agree with forming a local government with a police force and courts does not mean that I cede any rights or any sovereignty. I simply LEND my authority to those entities as a matter of convenience. I refuse to give up or cede anything to government. To do so would be to misunderstand and negate the very words of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. Until I come up with something better, I'll call the Column A group, "Indies."
The Column B group is made up of people who cover a wide range, as surprising as that may seem. At the worst end of the spectrum are those who are ravenously power hungry and mean to rule others. Such people have learned to parlay their narcissism and sociopathy into lucrative careers. At the mildest end of the spectrum are those who desire to be ruled under the guise of having security and believe that all others should feel the same way, believe the same way, and by God we will give whatever power necessary to our champions to enforce it. Probably the greatest rallying cry of this crowd is; "There Ought To Be A Law." So, I'll call them the TOTBALS. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. If it protects ONE child . . . Such are the self-proclaimed "liberals" who justify the most intolerant, totalitarian government for the purpose of enforcing what they believe is best for everybody at the point of a gun. And yes, there are more than enough of such people proudly bearing the labels of Republican and Conservative. They are just as bad. Don't talk to me about how evil abortion is and then in the next breath defend the so-called "war on drugs." Shut. UP. Don't you dare defend subsidies for industries and corporations and even farmers and then gripe about WIC and food stamps. All of the policies and bloated bureaucracies of government need to be destroyed or scaled back to make none of those things necessary.
The Indies are those who would love to not need any courts or any police or any government, except for the fact that they recognize that human nature won't allow it. Indies recognize that anarchy is not viable because there will always be evil people who mean to abuse other people, innocent people, and so we must establish and ordain at least some limited form of government in order to restrain the evil.
The biggest problem in this scenario is that the true-to-the-core Indies who would be the best and most trustworthy at executing that role don't really want the job. They just want to be left alone to pursue a multitude of worthwhile goals and just taking care of themselves and their loved ones.
Unfortunately, the kind of people who actively seek to get the jobs in government are the TOTBALS. And they actually think of themselves as really good people who are doing us a favor by sacrificing and working for far less than they are actually worth.
I get extremely irritated by anyone who thinks that the American Revolution and the French Revolution had anything remotely in common. Even if you don't want to study them in depth, at least read "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens. The former was a righteous attempt to redress grievances and establish a proper government. The latter was just an excuse to go on a cathartic blood-bath over a corrupt Church-monarchy cabal.
I don't know if there is much more that I should add to this post. Let me know.
My perspective on this is so divergent from his that I decided to make it my own stand alone post on my blog here. I couldn't just comment on his blog.
For the purpose of this discussion, trying to keep it in as narrow and controllable forum as possible, I'm going to define Column A and Column B in my own terms and maybe give them catchier names.
Severian says Column A people are: "A group of individuals, each as sovereign as his physical power can make him, agree to cede some of their rights to a collective, in order to better secure their remaining rights. The key player here is the individual." The only problem I have with that definition is that there is no need to cede any rights. This is a misconception that has crept into our republican society. Just because I agree with forming a local government with a police force and courts does not mean that I cede any rights or any sovereignty. I simply LEND my authority to those entities as a matter of convenience. I refuse to give up or cede anything to government. To do so would be to misunderstand and negate the very words of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. Until I come up with something better, I'll call the Column A group, "Indies."
The Column B group is made up of people who cover a wide range, as surprising as that may seem. At the worst end of the spectrum are those who are ravenously power hungry and mean to rule others. Such people have learned to parlay their narcissism and sociopathy into lucrative careers. At the mildest end of the spectrum are those who desire to be ruled under the guise of having security and believe that all others should feel the same way, believe the same way, and by God we will give whatever power necessary to our champions to enforce it. Probably the greatest rallying cry of this crowd is; "There Ought To Be A Law." So, I'll call them the TOTBALS. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. If it protects ONE child . . . Such are the self-proclaimed "liberals" who justify the most intolerant, totalitarian government for the purpose of enforcing what they believe is best for everybody at the point of a gun. And yes, there are more than enough of such people proudly bearing the labels of Republican and Conservative. They are just as bad. Don't talk to me about how evil abortion is and then in the next breath defend the so-called "war on drugs." Shut. UP. Don't you dare defend subsidies for industries and corporations and even farmers and then gripe about WIC and food stamps. All of the policies and bloated bureaucracies of government need to be destroyed or scaled back to make none of those things necessary.
The Indies are those who would love to not need any courts or any police or any government, except for the fact that they recognize that human nature won't allow it. Indies recognize that anarchy is not viable because there will always be evil people who mean to abuse other people, innocent people, and so we must establish and ordain at least some limited form of government in order to restrain the evil.
The biggest problem in this scenario is that the true-to-the-core Indies who would be the best and most trustworthy at executing that role don't really want the job. They just want to be left alone to pursue a multitude of worthwhile goals and just taking care of themselves and their loved ones.
Unfortunately, the kind of people who actively seek to get the jobs in government are the TOTBALS. And they actually think of themselves as really good people who are doing us a favor by sacrificing and working for far less than they are actually worth.
I get extremely irritated by anyone who thinks that the American Revolution and the French Revolution had anything remotely in common. Even if you don't want to study them in depth, at least read "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens. The former was a righteous attempt to redress grievances and establish a proper government. The latter was just an excuse to go on a cathartic blood-bath over a corrupt Church-monarchy cabal.
I don't know if there is much more that I should add to this post. Let me know.
Friday, June 24, 2011
Making Sense Now
DOUBLE RED ALERT
POSTED BY ANN BARNHARDT - JUNE 24, AD 2011 9:01 AM MST
Two HUGE intel leads in my email box this morning from way-back contacts that I've had for years, that are actually somewhat connected concepts.1. File this one under "Now It All Makes Sense". A Missouri farming and ranching contact just got off a conference call wherein he was informed that the federal government is sending out letters to all of the flooded out farmers in the Missouri River flood plain and bottoms notifying them that the Army Corps of Engineers will offer to BUY THEIR LAND.
Intentionally flood massive acreage of highly productive farmground. Destroy people's communities and homes. Catch them while they are desperate and afraid and then swoop in and buy the ground cheap. Those evil sons of bitches.
2. Speaking of evil sons of bitches, George Soros appears to be "investing" in farmground through the same puppet company that he used to get into the grain elevator and fertilizer business. The company is called Ospraie Capital Management and is buying up farmground in a joint venture with Teays River Investments as a partner. Here is that announcement:
Click Here
Okay. Here's the connection. This Ospraie outfit was a hedge fund specializing in commodities that was started and run by some cocky child who didn't know how to trade bear markets and got his butt kicked into next week in the grain market of 2008. He also lost a fortune trying to trade RARE EARTH METALS. In fact, it was so bad that he had to shut his fund down because he had promised his investors that he would give them all of their investment money back if the fund lost more than 30% in one year. Whoopsie.
But it appears that Soros swooped in and saved the day because this Ospraie is the "co-investor" with Soros that bought the remnants of ConAgra's trading operation and renamed it . . . Gavilon. In the industry, it is widely acknowledged that Ospraie IS Soros. That three-page article citation is here, copy and paste the URL into your address bar:
http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/12/news/companies/ospraie_demos.fortune/index.htm
As you probably remember, Gavilon just recently bought both DeBruce Grain out of Kansas City and the biggest grain elevator company in the Pacific Northwest, thus making Soros (who is the money behind Gavilon through both his own Soros Fund Management AND his de facto control of Ospraie) the third-largest grain company in the U.S. with 280 million bushels of storage capacity, behind only Archer Daniels Midland (542 million bushels storage capacity) and Cargill (344 million bushels storage capacity). That citation is here:
http://www.world-grain.com/News/News%20Home/Features/2010/12/A%20powerful%20signal.aspx?p=1
Bottom line: Soros, through Ospraie, is buying up farmground. Please also note that the hotlink citation above is dated June 26, 2009. My contact says this has been going on for two years - and also remember what I told you about farmground prices inflating wildly, especially in Illinois. I have personally confirmed farmground in Illinois selling for $13,000 per acre within the last month, whereas that same kind of ground in Illinois was going for $5500 per acre the day Obama was inaugurated.
Spread the word.
For the original post go to Barnhardt.biz
Friday, June 17, 2011
Gunwalker Scandal
. . . Is a lot more important than Wiener's wiener.
The story started circulating in the blogosphere months ago upon the death of agent Terry. I didn't comment on it until now, because I was afraid that, like the scandal over the two border agents who got railroaded into Federal prison for shooting a drug dealing, illegal Mexican, it would just get swept under the rug and nobody would pay attention.
But when I started seeing it on blogs that don't talk a lot about 2nd amendment issues, I thought maybe there would be hope that some people would wake up to what our government is trying to pull, flagrantly allowing people to die, in the hundreds to carry out policy that would rob us of our constitutional rights.
Read the most recent stuff on it here, and then do some more research on your own. And don't you dare tell me I should have anything BUT contempt and derision for this administration and anyone in Congress who knew anything about it and didn't blow the whistle.
I was tipped off to this most recent story by Ann Barnhardt, and I like what she has to say about it as well. She doesn't have permalink on her site so if you are going to read her comments on it, you will need to index her post by today's date: June 17, 2011
The story started circulating in the blogosphere months ago upon the death of agent Terry. I didn't comment on it until now, because I was afraid that, like the scandal over the two border agents who got railroaded into Federal prison for shooting a drug dealing, illegal Mexican, it would just get swept under the rug and nobody would pay attention.
But when I started seeing it on blogs that don't talk a lot about 2nd amendment issues, I thought maybe there would be hope that some people would wake up to what our government is trying to pull, flagrantly allowing people to die, in the hundreds to carry out policy that would rob us of our constitutional rights.
Read the most recent stuff on it here, and then do some more research on your own. And don't you dare tell me I should have anything BUT contempt and derision for this administration and anyone in Congress who knew anything about it and didn't blow the whistle.
I was tipped off to this most recent story by Ann Barnhardt, and I like what she has to say about it as well. She doesn't have permalink on her site so if you are going to read her comments on it, you will need to index her post by today's date: June 17, 2011
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