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SEAL book raises questions about bin Laden’s death

 

 

 

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — A firsthand account of the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden contradicts previous accounts by administration officials, raising questions as to whether the terror mastermind presented a clear threat when SEALs first fired upon him.

 

Bin Laden apparently was hit in the head when he looked out of his bedroom door into the top-floor hallway of his compound as SEALs rushed up a narrow stairwell in his direction, according to former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette, writing under the pseudonym Mark Owen in “No Easy Day.†The book is to be published next week by Penguin Group (USA)’s Dutton imprint.

 

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Bissonnette also writes disparagingly that none of the SEALs were fans of President Barack Obama and knew that his administration would take credit for ordering the May 2011 raid. One of the SEALs said after the mission that they had just gotten Obama re-elected by carrying out the raid.

 

But he says they respected him as commander in chief and for giving the operation the go-ahead.

 

Bissonnette writes less flatteringly of meeting Vice President Joe Biden along with Obama at the headquarters of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment after the raid. He says Biden told “lame jokes†no one understood, reminding him of “someone’s drunken uncle at Christmas dinner.â€

 

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My link

It's quite an interesting read.

 

Rebublican National Committee Platform:

 

LINK

 

And . . . these nice fellas want to do away with the Post Office too. Those overpaid union government empployees. Gone. Let minimum wage non-union dregs deliver the mail. By for profit private companies.

The postage rates will increase so that the stockholders can get dividends on the stock that they own from these private mail delivery companies.

That makes sense, of course. Minimum wage dregs will be much more accurate in delivering the mails. And the stockholders will get a good dividend. The best of both worlds for the delivery of the mails. Got to love the thought processes of those Republicans. Always looking out for the little guy. Always looking out for the "middle class".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cat5SyMBSpk

Ryan: Rape is just another method of inception

 

This perhaps should be on that other thread about abortion but I'll put it here. Again, its a religious issue for the right. Scientifically, fundamentalists like myself (and I would deem myself fundamentalist in doctrine not in action, I'm a whoremongering, flawed Christian). Can't mix religion and politics folks! This statement is just plain wrong. Its insensitive.

 

Gurantee you that if any of these hardcore pro-lifers had a daughter raped or some black guy or latino guy knocked them up, they'd make an exception...LOL. I'm actually laughing as I write this thinking what would happen if the 18yo daughter of Mr. and Mrs hardcore fundamentalist in small town Iowa got pregnant by a black guy.

It turns out that the 9 people who got shot (wounded)

in front of the Empire State Building in NYC

were hit by the police (friendly fire)!

Nicely said.

I don't think that everything is being saved, but it's clear that everything is being monitored. Normal chatter by people like us is being scanned automatically checked for keywords. Also they don't need to store all the data, they just need to connecting existing databases commercial and governmental data bases for to get a pretty good view on what you are doing and _thinking_: financial information, health, political views, religion, e.g..

 

Also don't forget that the USA is starting to collect huge sets of data on anybody who is traveling form Europe to the USA.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk...europe-17764365

The PNR information includes names, addresses, credit card and phonenumbers, but in some circumstances may also include sensitive data on an individual's ethnic origin, meal choices, health, political views or sex life.

The US authorities say they will "employ automated systems to filter and mask out sensitive data from PNR".

Everything you do presently on your computer, phone, cell phone is now presently monitored by Homeland Security - a GW Bush initiative. ALL emails are saved by the government. All web searches are saved and have access by Homeland Security - a GW Bush initiative.

 

Yes, those good Republicans are truly looking out for your personal welfare.

As far as I am concern, Homeland Security looks like a National Police......

A police agency that doesn't have to operate like other police agencies.

 

Papers please!

 

Just don't go to Arizona. Just like any other. Unintended consequences. Walk or drive around without any big government issued ID. No ID - off to pokey for you.

 

The law was intened for illegals. But the law applies to all. No ID when questioned by your kindly constable, then off to station for you to be photographed and finger printed.

 

"Where is your ID sir?" "No ID?" Come down to the station. You are quilty until you can prove you are inocent. The Arizona law applies to all.

Poll: 0 percent of blacks for Mitt Romney

By: Mackenzie Weinger

August 22, 2012 05:04 PM EDT

 

President Barack Obama continues to beat Mitt Romney among African American voters with a staggering 94 percent to 0 percent lead, according to a poll released Tuesday.

 

The NBC/Wall Street Journal poll — which gives Obama and Vice President Joe Biden a small lead over Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan — shows Obama has a massive lead over his Republican rival in the key political base of African-American voters,NBCNews.com reported.

Obama also beats Romney among Latinos, voters under 35 and women, while Romney does better than Obama with whites, rural voters and seniors.

 

The poll surveyed 1,000 registered voters Aug. 16-20. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

 

Politico

 

TSA Rifles Through Bags, Conducts Pat Downs At Paul Ryan Event

 

 

For some time we have been warning that the TSA is systematically moving beyond the nation’s airports and conducting operations on the streets of America.

 

The latest example of this kind of activity occurred at an event organized by Mitt Romney’s GOP running mate Paul Ryan this past weekend in The Villages, Florida.

 

The Shark Tank blog reports that TSA officers showed up alongside Secret Service and the local Sumter County Sheriff’s Office, and proceeded to do what they do like no one else does.

 

“A big WTF is in order here.†the blog notes, adding “We heard that the TSA was going to expand its ummm, ‘reach,’ but to assist in political campaigns is quite the jump in broadening their ‘transportation security horizons.’â€

 

“I counted no less than 6 TSA agents alongside the usual uniformed Secret Service detail-not to be confused with the ‘Men In Black’ looking agents.†blogger Javier Manjarres notes, with a picture of the agents in action.

 

As we have previously documented, airport security style checkpoints and inspection procedures are already in place at bus terminals, train stations, and are rapidly being expanded to the streets of America.

 

Agents have even been spotted roaming around at public events such as sports games and music concerts, and even at high school proms.

 

The TSA even moved beyond its own borders this summer as agents were dispatched to airports in London for the Olympic Games.

 

The TSA has also announced its intention to expand the VIPR program to include roadside inspections of commercial vehicles, setting up a network of internal checkpoints and rolling out security procedures already active in airports, bus terminals and subway stations to roads and highways across the United States.

 

These internal checkpoints, run by Homeland Security, the Department of Transportation, and the TSA, involve trucks being scanned with backscatter x-ray devices in the name of “safety†and “counter terrorismâ€.

 

Homeland Security is also developing technology to be used at “security events†which purports to monitor “malintent†on behalf of an individual who passes through a checkpoint.

 

Since its inception in the US after 9/11, the TSA has grown in size exponentially. The agency was slammed in a recent congressional report for wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on security theatre.

 

If people think they can avoid the TSA by staying away from airports, they’re going to be in for a rude awakening. TSA is clearly engaged in a total takeover of society and plans to have its agents searching, patting down, scanning and harassing Americans at all levels of society, not just at transport hubs but at public events, in the street and on highways and roads across the country.

 

The implementation of ‘Checkpoint USA’, where citizens are routinely stopped, searched and radiated by federal VIPER teams is further evidence of how America is crumbling into a Soviet-style police state where the presumption of innocent until proven guilty is abolished and the 4th amendment eviscerated.

 

Arbeit macht Frei

So what?

Parley Pratt was one. He convinced a woman separated from her lawfully wedded husband that no marriage but an LDS wedding marriage was legal in the eyes of God. She had no need to divorce the guy she'd left, since her marriage to him was false. (Never mind that it was legally registered in the county it took place.) The gal moved in with Pratt and become a plural wife. When the husband found out the "missionary" was shagging his Mrs., he tracked him down and killed him. A court refused to convict the killers since the Pratt was messing with another man's wife. The Mormons were offended! Fuck 'em.

 

Meanwhile, something for Cav:

 

 

Obama's real father found!

When Mitt Romney was a Bishop and a President of a Stake,

did he have it in for Blacks like other mormon did of that era?

"The middle class in America is being systematically wiped out, and most people don't even realize what is happening.

 

Every single year, millions more Americans fall out of the middle class and become dependent on the government. The United States once had the largest and most vibrant middle class in the history of the world, but now the middle class is rapidly shrinking and government dependence is at an all-time high.

 

So why is this happening? Well, America is becoming a poorer nation at the same time that wealth is becoming extremely concentrated at the very top."

 

 

LINK

Why do you think only 50% pay income taxes?

 

It started during the Carter administration. Little tax breaks for the ultra wealthy. More better tax breaks over time for the ultra wealthy. The rich get richer and the middle class shrinks. More and more of the middle class sinks into poverty. Wages shrink. More and more goes to the top.

 

And Romney proposes to give MORE tax breaks to the ultra rich. Ya, that will solve the problems, right?

I am leaning toward voting Republican.

 

I think the country would be a lot better

with less Federal goverment such as Homeland Securty, the IRS.......