Monday, 22 October 2012
Consider this re Benghazi......................from Shelly
Yesterday's Wall Street Journal Online had an important piece by James Rosen comparing the coverup in Watergate with the coverup that was/is ongoing re Benghazi (witness the president's misleading statement, enabled by CNN's "moderator," made in front of millions who watched the last debate).
The difference is, with the rapid proliferation of information in 2012, as compared with 1972, much of the information about what the White House and senior administration officials knew, or should have known, is already available and not rebuttable.
The only rational conclusion one can draw from the incontrovertible facts is this: Someone within--or deeply connected with--the White House, most likely a political operative (Valerie Jarrett, David Axelrod, or the president himself?), made a decision to mislead the American people about what precipitated the events in Benghazi on the anniversary of 9-11.
In hindsight, the president's (and Sec'y Clinton's and Ambassador Rice's and Jay Carney's) "story line" about the role played by a YouTube video was not only false, it was utterly insane.
Had an honest statement been issued immediately following the attack, and notwithstanding the dampening effect it would have had on the president's claim that his Middle East policies have been a "success," the attack in Benghazi never would have become the sort of issue that could, by itself, drive this president out of office.
But it has become that; and it is right that it should. A man so lacking in character as to permit, if not direct, the spreading of false statements about the loss of American lives, deserves impeachment, not re-election.
A Conversation with Bernie Marcus
Home Depot Founder Bernie Marcus shares his concerns for our nation and how frightened he is by what Pres. Obama's policies mean for America, especially for our children and future generations. In particular, the lack of job creation and rising home foreclosures are limiting the American dream for millions of families.
As someone who has taken Home Depot from one store to one of the largest companies in the world, and as someone who has hired millions of people over many years in business, Bernie is in a unique position to know which policies can bring about economic growth and prosperity and how badly Pres. Obama's policies are hurting us
H/T Shelly
NYT "News Story" Tops Best Selling Fiction List....................from Dan Friedman
[When you’re a broadsheet that’s still head-over-heels for Obama after seeing him fail for almost four years, your employees are under pressure to keep the Obama myth alive – at least for a few more weeks. If that entails fabricating a few stories that stretch the truth to the breaking point, so be it. Even if it means violating the Times Golden Rules: never get caught lying and never look stupid. df]
U.S. Officials Say Iran Has Agreed to Nuclear Talks (NYT)
Bibi ‘knows nothing’ of Iran-US talks agreement (JPost)
Iran, like U.S., denies plan for one-on-one nuclear talks (Reuters)
News............
Navy Dodges New Khaki Uniform
Medal of Honor recipient Barnum speaks at Gettysburg school
Obama campaign accepting dubious contributions?
Nobody owning up to US-Iran talks story
Sandra Fluke Obama campaign rally draws about 10 people
President Obama’s Taxpayer-Backed Green Energy Failures
US ‘too slow’ to act as drone’s cam captured Libya horror
Enterprise and Nimitz-class carriers won't be museums
Ohio ABC Affiliate & Arizona CBS Affiliate Calls Obama Election Winner Two Weeks Early
Volt no jolt: LG Chem employees idle
Ethanol spurring new cases of sad cow
We keep Gary McKinnon but lose the trust of the Americans
Royal British Legion minders for young poppy sellers
The Syrian vortex
Scout revival in Afghanistan faces hurdles
Russia kills 49 Islamist militants in North Caucasus
South Korea bans propaganda balloons after strike threat from the North
Syria: car bomb kills 10 in Christian quarter of Damascus
A Cancer at the Center of the Presidency: Robert Roche a Chinese Agent-Of-Influence?
UN Warns Americans: Do Not Elect Mitt Romney
Obama Campaign is Like a Chicken With its Head Cut Off
Iran’s global cyber war-room is secretly hosted by Hizballah in Beirut
Sorry World: What Happens in Beijing, WON’T Stay in Beijing
GOP hammers Obama on foreign policy front ahead of crucial debate
Romney Can Beat Obama IF He Asks These Questions
Sunday, 21 October 2012
Newsweek: An Obituary
By Alan Caruba
Newsweek, founded in 1933 by a former
Time magazine editor, will cease to publish a print edition at the end of 2012.
As a former journalist it pained me to read there will be cuts to its staff of
270 reporters and editors, but Newsweek has been a dinosaur for a long time,
destined for extinction as a newsstand magazine and mailed to
subscribers.
Newsweek, founded in 1933 by a former
Time magazine editor, will cease to publish a print edition at the end of 2012.
As a former journalist it pained me to read there will be cuts to its staff of
270 reporters and editors, but Newsweek has been a dinosaur for a long time,
destined for extinction as a newsstand magazine and mailed to
subscribers.
It always trailed Time magazine in
circulation, a perennial bridesmaid, but the obvious reason is that digital
news, delivered instanteously, killed it; its declining advertising and
circulation was simply the arithmetic of failure. It will live on as Newsweek
Global in the Internet, but I have some doubts about whether even a $24.95
annual subscription price will keep it going. I suspect that most of its most
faithful readers are themselves dying off.
Newsweek used to arrive at my home and
was devoured by my Dad, Mom, and I. It was pretty good journalism until it was
purchased by The Washington Post Company in 1961. Its liberal bias began to take
a toll in much the same way it has done for other news
organizations.
The decline of anything resembling
journalism was captured when reporter Michael Isikoff learned of President
Clinton’s dalliance with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky only to have the
story spiked by Newsweek’s editors. When the story broke on The Drudge Report it
launched Matt Drudge and his news aggregation site into the Internet’s
stratosphere of success.
In 2004, a study by Tim Groseclose and
Jeff Milyo concluded that Newsweek, along with all other mainstream news outlets
except for Fox News and The Washington Times, were irredeemably liberal and, by
definition, no longer reliable sources of news.
Newsweek’s Washington Bureau Chief at
the time, Evan Thomas, had acknowledged that Newsweek was “a little liberal.” He
would later become its Assistant Managing Editor and, in 1996, he went on the
record after leaving the magazine saying “there is a liberal bias at Newsweek.”
Well, duh!
Things just got worse when, in the May
9, 2005 edition, Isikoff reported that interrogators at Guantanomo had “flushed
a Quran down a toilet” to intimidate a detainee, but the magazine later admitted
that its anonymous source for the story could not confirm the story. By then,
however, the story had sparked the predictable anti-American riots and deaths in
the Islamic world. The story was retracted under heavy criticism.
Newsweek’s only concession to a
conservative point of view has been the columnist, George W. Will who has been a
contributor since 1976. Writers need a steady paycheck like everyone else, but I
am sure it must have pained Mr. Will to be associated with a news publication
that was suffering a progressive form of suicide.
The Internet has put great strains on
the mainstream liberal news media. It came as a shock when historian Niall
Ferguson’s article, “Hit the Road, Barack: Why We Need a New President” was the
cover story on August 27, 2012. I am betting that Newsweek will still endorse
Obama before the election, but as I watch as one daily newspaper after another
endorses Mitt Romney, there might be one last gasp of reality at Newsweek. I
doubt it.
Liberalism killed Newsweek.
Yes, the Internet pushed it into its
coffin, but the mainstream media still haven’t gotten the message. In a world
where news is delivered 24/7 and available from a wide variety of sources,
putting out a magazine once a week is untenable. Putting out one that endorses
liberal politicians and policies is like drinking hemlock.
It is likely that Time magazine will
suffer a similar fate and I suspect a host of newsstand magazines will also
begin to disappear.
I may be among the last generation to
have enjoyed magazines, but I rarely read any these days. I am letting my
Bloomberg Business Week subscription lapse for the same reason I stopped reading
The Economist.
It gets tiresome to keep reading
references to global warming or climate change in these publications when that
huge hoax began to come apart in 2009 with the revelations of “climategate.” The
emails between the “scientists” who were cooking the books on climate data
revealed how worried they were over the beginning of a new climate cycle in 1998
in which the Earth was cooling, not warming.
It is sad to see how formerly
respected news organizations have abandoned any pretense about reporting the
truth. Perhaps the ultimate example of this was, as media critic Bernie Goldberg
put it, their “slobbering love affair” with Barack Obama that has afflicted
America with a President who does not like America and may not have spoken a
word of truth since he was an infant.
As a young reporter I used to write
obituaries. Now I find myself writing one for Newsweek and doing so with a great
sense of relief.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
Late News..............
Another poll, another Obama-Romney dead heat
Star power: Celebs and their picks for president
Iraq's arms' deals make it a part of /Russia-Iran-Syria/ alliance
Nine wanted men arrested in Kirkuk
Police group receives donation from Taser stun-gun maker
Dearborn: Where Americans Come to Hate Muslims
Naked photo shoot
Foundation: Veterans Park funds went to VFW post
Weird weather ahead as 'blood rain' forecast for Halloween
Afghan security force's rapid expansion comes at a cost as readiness lags
BLACKFIVE: Glenn Greenwald nails it
Iranian Media Charge Romney Will 'Steal' Election
Iraqis Squabble Over Plan to Redraw Borders
Jordan 'al-Qaeda plot uncovered'
The "end" will NOT be what you expect.............frm Rico
What a week!
- Gold ended down about 2% on the week and Silver down 4%, with Gold sitting right on it's 50-day MA and Silver just below it's 50-day MA.
For those who are 'bloodied but unbowed' expect Monday to be ugly too!
- The spec sheep will run to the wrong gunnel of the boat, and Gold may drop to ~1700 and Silver to ~31-31.50.
BUT the END is near...it's just NOT the end you'd expect.
- The trade will reverse in a few days and Gold will chase 1800 and Silver 36, ultimately moving higher still. It's fairly predictable, and many will get 'caught' wrong-footed and on the wrong side of the boat. The trick is to remain calm, stay relaxed, and ignore the short-term 'noise' (remember Kipling said something about keeping your head when all about you are losing theirs).
I am staying long, and playing the LONG game to the end.
- The SHORT term pain will eventually be over with.
1. Gold cannot be printed. Not like prettily-engraved linen strips nor electronic bytes of 101010101010.
2. Gold is the direct reciprocal of faith and trust in Central Banks.
3. Now even Central Banks distrust one another.
The Truth About Libya - Failed Foreign Policy
America was attacked on September 11th, 2012 by Al Qaeda at our consulate in Libya. Our consulate was burned and four Americans including our ambassador were murdered. President Obama and his administration denied it was a terrorist attack for weeks. Since then, Americans have learned that Obama and his administration knew it was an act of terror all along and chose to tell the public it was because of a Youtube video protest. It's time for Obama to tell the truth on Libya. We can't afford four more years of Obama's apologies, excuses, and weakness.
The Sunday Best..........
Yes, I Follow Orders
Intent and ethics .... in literature, and in politics ....
EagleSpeak: "Gods of the Naval Engagements"
Frankel retires unbeaten after Champion Stakes win at Ascot
Banana Boat recalls sunscreen due to fire risk
White House prepared to meet with Iran on nukes
Obama's private army .... a list of previous posts, going back to aug. 2009 ....
Obama admin recalibrating Benghazi narrative - again - before FP debate?
Bad Weather Saved GM, Not Big Government
AQAP's top sharia official killed in recent drone strike
Chicago hits 442 homicides, surpassing 2011 total of 441
Female reporter 'savagely attacked and groped' in Cairo during live broadcast for French TV news channel
Britain on mission to tap Moon water
Media Elite Knock Obama for 'Snarky, Belittling' Campaign
A year after Gilad Shalit release, deal for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners draws criticism
Everything About Obama’s Presidency Has Been “Not Optimal”
Rasmussen Poll: Second Debate has Little Effect
Hong Kong Customs Seize HK$27 Million of Ivory
Syria booby-traps ammunition to take out rebel fighters, weapons
Retired General Franks backs Romney
White House denies plans for one-on-one talks with Iran
Iraqi Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr criticizes Russian and Czech arms deals
Santa not seeing the Obama recovery
Worth A Thousand Words: "The Navy Diver Is Not A Fighting Man, He Is A Salvage Expert"
Iraqi officials venture into world of the Internet
and finally..........
Big Bird, Liberalism and Perversion
Saturday, 20 October 2012
Holy Smokes! Heidi Montag Shows Off Curves in Super Sheer Outfit at Las Vegas Gentlemen's Club
Utterly amazing.
See: "Heidi Montag Shows Off Surgically-Boosted Bod in See-Through Top at Crazy Horse Gentlemen's Club in Las Vegas":
As she posed for the cameras it was clear the 26-year-old had gone without a bra, with the see-through top showing off the results of her E-cup breast enlargement.E-cup? Those puppies are "G-cup" monsters.
And reports out yesterday indicated that Ms. Montag was having "regrets" about getting her body sculpted to such busting proportions.
I don't think she's regretting it, by the looks of those photos.
Vavoom!
Late News...........
CDR Salamander: Gods of the Naval Engagements
When desperation strikes incumbents
Meteor shower created by Halley’s Comet peaks tonight
USS Enterprise makes final port stop in Naples, Italy
With Topless Protests, 'Sextremists' March In Paris
RNC up $83 million, DNC taking out loans
"Exciting" early years of galaxies described
Are Neo-Nazis Aiding Greek Cops With "DIY Law Enforcement"?
Gas prices could soon drop 50 cents a gallon
Susan Katz Keating: A Thoughtful "Final Salute" to CSM Basil Plumley, a Man "Larger Than Life"
What Your Favorite Food Says About Your Sex Life
Candidate Caught Stripping for Playboy
Excellent Idea of the Day: Strips to Heal Pizza Burn
Democrat Strategist: "It's Over" For Obama
The Obama money machine: Shock and awe
Obama's biggest advantage: Incumbency
Gadaffi's spokesman 'captured' in Libya
New Ben Affleck film Argo upsets British who helped Americans in Iran
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