Wait, I don’t get it. If you remember the moments, days, weeks following the attacks on 9/11 then you certainly remember the importance of faith and religion on just about everyone. Churches, Synagogues, and Mosques were filled to capacity by those that regularly attend and those that maybe hadn’t been to a house of worship in years. 

The country was in despair, it was in fear and the country as a whole was sad and mourning. So most of us went to our places of worship to find solace and peace. It was the clergy of all these faiths that comforted so many people either directly or indirectly. In my opinion Religion is as much a part of the events of 9/11 as Fireman, Police, and military are. I consider it part of the fabric of that day.

So how can Mayor Bloomberg not include religious leaders in the memorial events on the 11th? Does he hate God? Does he hate religion? Is he a an Atheist or as known as in the Muslim faith, and Infidel?  

He should be ashamed of himself and all of the people from all the religions of this world should be ashamed of him too. I would like to see the leaders of all the faiths; Catholic, Baptist, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Mormon, Pentecostal, etc. etc. would stand up and ask their members to make their voices heard about how mad they are about this. I would really like to see the people of NYC stand up and demand that he step down as mayor. His time is done, it is time for him to go back to his millions of dollars and business ventures and leave public civil-service to those that care about truly representing and caring for the public. 

..to ruin it for everyone else.

I have some friends who work for the TSA and they are stand up guys. However there are always some out there that give them a bad name just like any organization (Liddy England, Michael Yon, OJ).
There is an old saying that goes like “you never do nothing wrong until you get caught”. Well when you do that wrong in front of a reporter for Time Magazine then you can rest assured you are coing to get caught.

Or it was, until a male TSA agent walked behind us and hollered: “Hey, I thought she was mine! I was gonna do her!”

Read more: http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2011/02/08/stay-classy-tsa/#ixzz1Df80sGHy

And that is why the TSA has started to become the most hated government organization in our country today. It is about freedoms and liberties ladies and gentlemen. We in America realize we have to give some up in current times due to security but it won’t be tolerated if you violate the trust of the American people for your own personal gratification.

Yes I am talking about the Internet. Of course I say it tounge-in-cheek when I say that Al Gore invented it but I am not kidding when I say Congress wants the ability to kill it.

 
On the very day that the Egyptian government shut down an overwhelming majority of the country’s Internet servers, Republican Senator Susan Collins began floating a piece of legislation which, if passed, would grant the President the power to do essentially the same thing in the U.S.

Why does anyone in our government, Republican, Democrat or Independent think they can regulate and control something they don’t own. We (the USA) do not own the internet, nor can we control it. Does the Congress and even more so, does the President think they can get away with shutting off hundreds of millions of Ameicans from the itnernet? The internet is not just a fun thing to do at night or a place to catch up with friends, it has woven itself into the fabric of many of our lives. 

Think of the “shock” and “disgust” many Americans had when we heard that Egypt and Iran (remember a few months back) had shut off internet access to the people of those countries. Imagine the uproar in this country if people could not update status, tweet or even surf the web. It would be on the scale of Red Dawn. I am just in awe that anyone with any kind of common sense would even think of doing this. 

The timing of the bill’s resurgence is also curious, as the Obama administration continues to urge Egypt to open up the Web and online social networks. National Post’s Matt Gurney acknowledges that Congress isn’t “wrong” to take strong measures against cyberattacks, but argues that “the irony of the U.S. debating how to kill the Internet while we all rely on the very same technology to keep us up to date about how other people are using social media to change the world is inescapable, and groan-inducing.”

And come to think of all the people who said that President Bush, Vice-President Cheney and SecDef Rumsfeld were bad guys trying to take away our rights as Americans. HA, they would have never tried something like this. And in fact the patriot act looks like nothing compare to this when you look at squashing the freedoms and liberties we enjoy as American citizens. 

Read the whole story at http://www.switched.com/2011/02/01/internet-kill-switch-bill-what-it-is-wont-die/

The video below is of LTG (RET) W.G. Boykin. LTG Boykin is one of the most combat exprienced Generals still alive today. He has been involved with and on the ground in every known combat action this country has dealt with since the Desert One Raid in 1979 trying to rescue the American hostages in Iran. Panama, Desert Storm, Somalia, Operation Enduring Freedom, and on and on. He has been involved in some that are not even known. As a former commander of Delta Force and actually in the first training class for Delta force back in 1978 he has been there and done it like nobody else. You can learn more about him at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_G._Boykin.

I had the privilege of talking to him and interviewing him last year on YouServed Radio soon after his book, Never Surrender, was released. It was a true honor to talk to him and I am still humbled to this day. Watch the video below to learn a little from LTG (ret) Boykin about Marxism and its influence into America today.

I was just as surprised as you are that the there are enough patriotic Americans in the Bay area to hold a Tea Party. Eric runs a blog called the Tygrrrr Express. It’s a hilarious and entertaining conservative blog that tells it like it is without the nonsense of trying to be politically correct. He was the headliner at the event on April 15th.

The Obama administration has taken the rare step of authorising the killing of a US citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical Muslim cleric linked to the attempt to blow up a US airliner on Christmas Day.

The decision to place Awlaki on a US hit list followed a national security council review because of his status as an American citizen.

Guardian

I have tried to think of a similar order given by a POTUS against and individual American citizen, and have come up with nothing….so this decision appears to set a precedent for sure. The problem lies in the fact that a sitting POTUS had with a few words changed a criminal act to a state of war, and a cowed Congress bought the bill of goods. If one act so drastically changes that dynamic, and the precedence has been set, what is in place to prevent a similar ‘state of war’ against other groups….christian militia’s, tea parties who advocate overthrow of the government, violent anti-war protesters…..?

It will probably be held up as Constitutional however. I don’t care if al-Awlaki lives or dies, we simply need to use some visionary application to ensure that this precedent does become abused in the future.

Or just accepted political expediency?

Internal CIA documents reveal a meticulous protocol that was far more brutal than Dick Cheney’s “dunk in the water”

Self-proclaimed waterboarding fan Dick Cheney called it a no-brainer in a 2006 radio interview: Terror suspects should get a “a dunk in the water.” But recently released internal documents reveal the controversial “enhanced interrogation” practice was far more brutal on detainees than Cheney’s description sounds, and was administered with meticulous cruelty.

Interrogators pumped detainees full of so much water that the CIA turned to a special saline solution to minimize the risk of death, the documents show. The agency used a gurney “specially designed” to tilt backwards at a perfect angle to maximize the water entering the prisoner’s nose and mouth, intensifying the sense of choking – and to be lifted upright quickly in the event that a prisoner stopped breathing.

The documents also lay out, in chilling detail, exactly what should occur in each two-hour waterboarding “session.” Interrogators were instructed to start pouring water right after a detainee exhaled, to ensure he inhaled water, not air, in his next breath. They could use their hands to “dam the runoff” and prevent water from spilling out of a detainee’s mouth. They were allowed six separate 40-second “applications” of liquid in each two-hour session – and could dump water over a detainee’s nose and mouth for a total of 12 minutes a day. Finally, to keep detainees alive even if they inhaled their own vomit during a session – a not-uncommon side effect of waterboarding – the prisoners were kept on a liquid diet. The agency recommended Ensure Plus.

Aside from the many…many testimonies and accounts of how ineffective and illegal torture is, here comes another expert knocking down the knee-jerk, fear-mongering leftovers from the last Administration.

Throughout his lecture, Sulick stressed the CIA’s need to uphold the law, while simultaneously protecting the American public.

“We have to find some way to achieve that balance,” he said. “We have to find the common ground between maintaining our values and safeguarding Americans.”

“I don’t think we’ve suffered at all from an intelligence standpoint,” he said, “but I don’t want to talk about [it from] a legal, moral or ethical standpoint.”

Michael Sulick, Ph.D., Director of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service

Are the sheep too willing to pave over our own laws in the name of partisanship? Are grave threats such as the ‘War on Christmas” and perpetuating the myth of a ‘liberal media’ too taxing to be able to concentrate on tedious technical annoyances like bring accountability to elected officials? Isn’t that the meme of the teabaggers? If Al Qaeda really wanted to yank our collective chain, they would videotape a waterboarding instead of a beheading…..

There’s a saying we have in Texas about taking away our guns. It involves cold, lifeless bodies as a prerequisite to taking them. In an effort to usurp our Constitution while pretending to not usurp our Constitution, the Obama Administration has taken another step in taking away your and my guns. The first step was allowing international organizations like INTERPOL to operate within our borders unconstrained. The next step is using the United Nations to take away our right to keep and bear arms:

The United States reversed policy on Wednesday and said it would back launching talks on a treaty to regulate arms sales as long as the talks operated by consensus, a stance critics said gave every nation a veto.

The decision, announced in a statement released by the U.S. State Department, overturns the position of former President George W. Bush’s administration, which had opposed such a treaty on the grounds that national controls were better.
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The proposed legally binding treaty would tighten regulation of, and set international standards for, the import, export and transfer of conventional weapons.

Supporters say it would give worldwide coverage to close gaps in existing regional and national arms export control systems that allow weapons to pass onto the illicit market.

You can read the entire article here.

I have also used the quote of “You can delegate responsibility, but not accountability” I am thinking I need to send Charlie Rangel the definitions of each and what that quote means. How does the guy keep a straight face when talking to the press and actually say that he should not be held accountable for unethical and illegally funded trips to the Caribbean because it was his staff’s fault for not telling him or whatever reason he gave. I am dumbfounded that he could try to use that defense and expect the American people to believe it. Whatever happen to the “Buck Stops HERE” or “Ignorance is not an excuse” when breaking the law.
Someone needs to bust this piece of crap and throw his fat butt out of office yesterday. He is the poster child of what is wrong with Congress and why we are in the situation we are in here in the greatest country in the world. He is why so many Americans are pissed at Congress. It is because of people just like him that homestead in Congress so long they think they are above the law.

Constituents of Rep. Charlie Rangel, do this country a huge favor and vote him out (if he is not expelled from Congress beforehand). I don’t care what party person you put in there, just not him, not anymore.