Theo Spark

Monday, 3 June 2013

Via super blogger, Doug Ross.

Dan Friedman
NYC

Here it is: the full, six-count indictment against Attorney General Eric Holder by former prosecutor Pirro

News.................

A Millionaire Shakedown Cruise

Rule 5

Google it -- pornography is toxic and needs controls by Melanie Phillips

True multi-tasking...

Troops Agree Staying In Afghanistan For Next Ten Years Or So Would Be Awesome

Military movement to combat terrorism

Iraq-Russian military contract under implementation

A Martini family portrait

Issa: Jay Carney is the administration's "paid liar" on the IRS scandal

Gettysburg National Military Park ups preservation efforts before anniversary

BLACKFIVE: No Posts Today

NYT: "Some in the West Wing" wish Holder would hit the road

Deadly SARS-Like Virus Spreads to Another Country - As WHO warns virus is 'threat to the entire world'

Govt Leech Alert: Illegal Immigrant Gets Food Stamps, Meds, Housing, & Social Security for 20 Years!

Congressmen find few Boston attack clues in Russia

Grrrreat! Is America's sweet tooth finally being tamed?

A Milton Marine's journey

RON HART: We don’t have Nixon to kick around, but we have Obama

Will U.S. workers ever be able to retire?

Jockey to debut 55 new bra sizes: One of them has to fit, right?

A lesson for "feminist" Andy Hinds: Here's how to be sexual without being a creep

House report: IRS spent $50M on conferences

Michael Douglas: oral sex caused my cancer

Seriously Jacked Up: Obama Admin Cuts Hot Meals for Afghan Troops

Taliban denies involvement in suicide assault on Red Cross office

Brokaw: 'It’s Tough to See How' Holder Keeps His Job

Iran Moves to South America - Experts say Iran’s global terror network is growing

The “Not Me” Administration

Journalist Lemmings Dive Off Cliff While AG Holder Spies, Blusters & Prevaricates

Gulf sources: "Accidents" to Ahmadinejad, Jalili were attempted assassinations

Jihad on Egypt's Christian Children

Turkey's Secular Backlash

Almost 100 Afghan schoolgirls poisoned in suspected gas attack

Maritime Game-Changer Revealed at Shangri-La Dialogue

Assad regime refuses Red Cross access to besieged Syrian town of Qusayr

Al-Qaeda's complaints department

Traditional Marriage Movement Sweeps France......................from Dan Friedman

mar·riage

/ˈmarij/

Noun

The formal union of a man and a woman, typically recognized by law, by which they become husband and wife.

Breitbart News, 2 Jun 2013

Millions Take Part As Traditional Marriage Movement Sweeps Through France

Hot Rule 5 Sunday

Some smokin' hot babes!

Woman Spreading photo 53013c_zps4fc080f1.jpg

See, "Spread-Eagle Sunday Rule 5."

Plenty of bazongas at the link.

Femen Protests 'Germany's Next Top Model'

Dang, that's something else when the protesters are as hot as the models!

See, "Topless Femen Protesters Storm 'Germany's Next Top Model'."

Click through to check out the hot activists (photos).

The Political Commentator is Boxing For Charity!...from TPC

On November 25, 2013 The Political Commentator Mike Haltman will be stepping into the ring for a 3-round bout to help raise money for the three charities supported by the Long Island Fight for Charity.

In this, the 10th Anniversary Edition of LIFFC, any amount that TPC readers are comfortable donating is greatly appreciated!

The event that includes 12 fights and dinner will take place at the Long Island Hilton located in Melville, New York.

Read more and donate at The Political Commentator here.

Sunday, 2 June 2013

Bedtime Totty................

Late Pic Dump...............

LFL | USA | Season 4 | Game 8 | Cleveland Crush vs. Atlanta Steam

Bonus Totty...............

A Thousand Words............

H/T Shelly

Pic Dump................

Top Twenty List of Obama administration scandals both past and present!...from TPC

This Obama administration scandal Top Twenty List will help those who believe that the current Benghazi, IRS and AP scandals are the only ones that have ever surrounded Barack Obama and his administration.

The fact is that the IRS and AP stories are simply the first ones that the mainstream media has decided to report on!

At The Political Commentator here.

H/T DJ Elliott

The Sunday Best..............

Yorkshire Pudding, the direct route to a Yorkshire man’s heart.

BLACKFIVE: Ouistreham

Commandant Attempts To Fire Entire Marine Corps

Workshops to Produce Chemical Weapons Uncovered in Iraq

Iraq to finish war reparations to Kuwait in 2015

Top aide to House Dem resigns in ballot-fraud scandal

Pig using wheelchair becomes an inspiration

Heroes Among Us series kicks off at Veterans Memorial Park

Uh oh: Solar panels are having more quality-control problems, and we just installed a whole bunch

IRS idea of "a few" turns out to be 88

Black Louisiana Democrat assails party, joins GOP

US drones kill 8 AQAP fighters in Yemen strike

Tapper: Gibbs, Plouffe and Messina Cash in

It’s Sunny, It’s Warm, and It’s Golf

Boeing Moving Hundreds of Jobs to Nonunion Locations

Tolerance: The New ‘Live and Let Live’ of the PC Indoctrinated

Report: Iranian and Russian arms giving Assad edge in Syria

Reviving military might: Russian nuke subs to patrol southern seas

UN lashes out at Britain’s human rights record

Why is the Benghazi military story still classified?

U.S., China to team up on issues of cybersecurity

Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's helicopter in emergency landing after 'accident'

Argentine prosecutor accuses Iran of establishing Latin America terrorist networks

Japan pledges $1 billion in aid for Sahel region of Africa

Great news: Kindergartner's sentence reduced to time served

MSNBC ratings "unexpectedly" take a turn

Cruise, stop, repeat: Beach driving evolves with new rules

Awww: Perry's poaching starting to annoy other states

and finally............

Leonard Bernstein Day

Sunday Totty..............

Old Glory Rule 5

What a hot babe too!

Lovely Kelly Brook for Saturday Rule 5

She's freakin' hot.

See: "Kelly Brook Shows Off Bodacious Cleavage at Shopping Center Celebration in Belfast."

Saturday, 1 June 2013

All the Things We Do Not Know

By Alan Caruba

On January 8, 1959 as Fidel Castro was entering Havana after the dictator, Fulgencio Batista, fled the revolution that Castro had led there was much joy among the Cuban people except for those closely allied with the Batista regime and those who saw Fidel as a communist. Many of them fled and Miami would become an outpost and a hotbed of hatred for Castro.

That year I was a 22-year-old senior at the University of Miami where some wealthier Cuban families sent their sons and daughters for a higher education. I recall discussing the events with a young Cuban, Blas Herero, who was wondering if he should return. I was utterly clueless. Other than reading some articles that portrayed Castro as a liberator, what I knew about Cuba and Castro could have fit nicely in a bug’s ear.

Castro had been actively trying to overthrow Batista since 1953. His brother, Raul, was known to be a communist and Che Guevera was a Marxist. As far as the U.S. government was concerned, Castro was a problem. He was a problem, too, for the Mafia that owned the casinos in Havana that were a major source of income. Batista received his payoff and the skim, overseen by Meyer Lansky, went to the Mafia bosses who had invested in the casinos. Castro would close them down.

Someone who knows a lot about such matters is William Wayand Turner, the author of a new book, “The Cuban Connection: Nixon, Castro, and the Mob” ($25.00, Prometheus Books). Turner is a former FBI agent who became an investigative journalist and author. Among his other books are “Deadly Secrets: The CIA War Against Castro” and “The Assassination of JFK” with co-author Warren Hinkle. Turner has personally interviewed many top Mafia members and many who were with Castro at the time and since.

Castro had more lives than the proverbial cat. He has survived more assassination attempts on his life that are known. He had the kind of luck that’s rare, but many of the attempts, frequently the plots of the CIA and some in collusion with the Mafia, simply were bungled failures.

The most famous effort to overthrow Castro was the Bay of Pigs invasion on April 16, 1961, organized by the CIA and it was a huge embarrassment to President Kennedy and his brother Robert who at the time was the Attorney General. A year later, in October 1962 when I was in the U.S. Army, we all waited thirteen days to learn the outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis. I was part of the Second Infantry Division and we were on full alert. Still in my twenties at the time, I was still essentially clueless about what had occurred except for what I heard on television. I was relieved the crisis was over and was discharged shortly thereafter.

It’s what you do not know about what the government is up to that can get a lot of people killed. For example, on June 3^rd, President Obama will sign off on a UN treaty which, if ratified by the Senate, would override the Second Amendment and deprive Americans of the right to own guns. A petition by the National Association of Gun Rights is circulating a petition to be sent to our senators to oppose it.

The problems the U.S. government encountered with Castro and his revolution began in April 1959 when the American Society of Newspaper Editors invited him to visit the U.S. President Eisenhower avoided meeting with him by being conveniently absent to play a round of golf in North Carolina. Richard Nixon, the Vice President, was assigned to meet Castro and Nixon who had risen to fame as an anti-communist had a three-hour meeting with him that destroyed any of Castro’s hopes to align Cuba with the U.S. The Soviet Union stepped in to become Cuba’s best friend.

“There are opinions pro and con,” writes Wayand, “as to whether Castro was a communist before his revolutionary victory. Jim Noel, the CIA station chief in Havana, traveled to the Sierra Maestra range, where the revolutionary was based, to see for himself. His take was that Castro was not a communist. Representative Charles Porter, who spent quality time with Castro in Washington, was convinced he wasn’t in the shadow of Karl Marx. The evidence stacks up that when Castro left Washington for home, he was not a believer in communism. This is convincingly illustrated by his vehement reaction to Nixon’s charge that his administration was riddled with communists.”

Fifty-five years later Cuba is firmly a communist nation with an authoritarian government and a captive population just ninety miles off the coast of Florida. For that we can thank Nixon. An irony of history was the fact that many of those caught during the bungled Watergate break-in were CIA contractors who had taken a role in some of the assassination attempts.

It’s the things we do not know about that the government is doing that shape history and which currently are eroding rights that Americans take for granted.

What we are learning today is that the Obama administration has been waging a war on conservative organizations and a growing number of individuals who are coming forward to share their stories of how the Internal Revenue Service has been used to harass them.

What we know is that Obama is abandoning the Middle East to the control of al Qaeda and affiliated Islamist groups.

What we know is that the Obama administration engaged in a secretive program to run guns to the drug cartels in Mexico. An investigation into “Fast and Furious” was shut down by an Obama executive order.

What we know is that the administration has engaged in a hoax to hide the true facts behind the attack that killed a U.S. ambassador in Benghazi, Libya, and those who know what actually happened, including the President and the former Secretary of State, are still stonewalling inquiries. Others closer to the event have been silenced.

As Turner’s book makes clear, it is what we do not know that is the real problem.