CIA Director Leon Panetta today released a statement defending his agency from charges that it mislead mmeber of Congress: There is a long tradition in Washington of making political hay out of our business. It predates my service with this great institution, and it will be around long after I’m gone. But the political debates […]
Archives for May 2009
Dead People Get Stimulus Checks???
Ever the model of inefficiency and incompetence the Federal Government is apparently sending dead people stimulus checks.
Barack Obama: U.S. Long-Term Debt Load ‘Unsustainable’
From Bloomberg News: May 14 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama, calling current deficit spending “unsustainable,” warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries. “We can’t keep on just borrowing from China,” Obama said at a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, outside Albuquerque. […]
Miss California USA Pageant Co-Director Shanna Moakler Resigns
I saw this over at Ace’s place last night and I wasn’t going to say anything about it but there’s something about Ms. Moakler’s self-righteous attitude that sticks in my craw: The day after Carrie Prejean was told she could keep her Miss California crown, Shanna Moakler has resigned, she confirms to Usmagazine.com exclusively. “Since […]
Joe Lieberman: ‘I Totally Disagree’ With Pelosi Assertion that CIA Lies
I disagree with Joe Lieberman on a lot of things but I like him and I respect him… and this is an example of why: MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell: “Speaker Pelosi came out today and essentially when asked if the CIA is lying, she said, ‘they mislead us all the time.’ Do you agree with that? […]
AP: Stimulus not Stimulating
The AP’s Matt Apuzzo yesterday examined Vice President Joe Biden’s first quarterly report of the Stimulus plan and found the picture to a bit more cloudy than the White House claims: Capturing the full effect of the stimulus at this early stage is difficult, but the administration has set high bars for success. In championing […]
CNN: Aide Told Pelosi Waterboarding Had Been Used
CNN reported yesterday that a source close to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has confirmed her intelligence aide, Michael Sheehy, told her in early 2003 that waterboarding had been used on CIA detainee Abu Zubaydah: WASHINGTON (CNN) — A source close to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now confirms that Pelosi was told in February 2003 by […]
Stupidity: FDA Calls Cheerios a Drug
This is a joke right… The FDA can’t be serious about this? From AFP: WASHINGTON (AFP) – Popular US breakfast cereal Cheerios is a drug, at least if the claims made on the label by its manufacturer General Mills are anything to go by, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has said. “Based on […]
Neo-Nazis Thugs Attack Concentration Camp Survivors
I can not find words to to express my outrage at this… From the Daily Mail Online: Survivors of a Nazi death camp were shot at and abused as they gathered to remember their liberation. Masked neo-Nazi thugs screamed ‘Heil Hitler!’ and ‘This way for the gas!’ at ten elderly Italian men and women, who […]
Carrie Prejean Keeps Her Crown
I haven’t felt the need to comment on whole Carrie Prejean “controversy” for various reasons… The whole affair has been has media fueled Charlie Fox Trot. Ms. Prejean has been demonized for expressing the same opinion on Gay Marriage that Pres. Barack Obama has expressed. The fact that it has taken two weeks for someone […]
Laughable: Pelosi Didn’t Object to Waterboarding in Order to Respect “Appropriate” Channels?
This is laughable… Madam Speaker if you’re going to lie at least try to make it convincing. From the Politico: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi learned in early 2003 that the Bush administration was waterboarding terror detainees but didn’t protest directly out of respect for “appropriate” legislative channels, a confidant of the San Francisco Democrat said […]
Golf Analyst David Feherty Apologizes for Pelosi Joke in Dallas Magazine
Fox News is reporting that CBS Sports Golf analyst David Feherty has apologized to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for a joke in a Dallas magazine: PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — CBS Sports golf analyst David Feherty apologized Sunday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid […]
Top Pelosi Aide Briefed on Enhanced Interrogations in 2003
The Washington Post on Saturday reported that a top aide to Nancy Pleosi attended a briefing CIA briefing on Enhanced Interrogations, including waterboarding in 2003: A top aide to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attended a CIA briefing in early 2003 in which it was made clear that waterboarding and other harsh techniques were being used […]
Roxana Saberi Released
Roxana Saberi, a 32 year American journalist who had been convicted of ‘espionage’ has reportedly been released from jail by Iranian authorities. Ms. Saberi had lived and worked in Iran for more than six years before she was and charged with “cooperating with a hostile state” in January. From the Telegraph: Lawyers for the 32-year […]
Reminder: Clinton Tea Party
“It does not take a majority to prevail…but rather an irate, tireless minority keen on setting brushfires of freedom and liberty in the minds of men.” -Samuel Adams Just a reminder to readers the Clinton Tea Party is tomorrow (Saturday, May 9th) morning. The rally kicks off at 10:00 a.m. at Clinton Town Hall, 54 […]