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Home Front: Politix
Valerie Jarrett Must Go
h/t Gates of Vienna
DC political insiders believe that if President Barack Obama truly seeks compromise with Republicans, he should begin by ditching White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett. It goes without saying that Jarrett, the president's longtime trusted confidante, political ally, and family friend, is a divisive figure inside the beltway. Calls for her dismissal have been rampant since the president began his second term -- and even before then. It is a demand still ignored by the White House.
If you somehow believe The Champ has any desire at all for 'compromise with Republicans', I shall have to question your qualifications as a....political insider.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2015 06:05 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The longevity of Val Jar's stay at the whitehouse will be determined by an Iman from Iran.
Posted by: Airandee || 03/24/2015 6:38 Comments || Top||

#2  She will clutch the WH drapes and hang on for all she's worth(not much).
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/24/2015 7:46 Comments || Top||

#3  You mean she won't leave Mooch? Cuz Mooch often appears to be wearing the WH drapes
Posted by: Frank G || 03/24/2015 7:50 Comments || Top||

#4  She needs to start building a deep hole to hide in. Once Obby is gone, no more security detail for her. I'm sure she is on more than just a few peoples list. Vile creature.
Posted by: Woozle Scourge of the Wee Folk4194 || 03/24/2015 8:44 Comments || Top||

#5  Woozle, O can just start a new tradition: lifetime Secret Service protection for former aides.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 03/24/2015 9:12 Comments || Top||

#6  She won't go as long as Champ is there. She is his muslim puppetmaster.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/24/2015 9:52 Comments || Top||

#7  No, she won't be leaving. She's the third leg of a three legged stool. It's ValJar and FLOTUS with the Champ as the weak third leg and puppet, always has been. She'll be the last Obamanite out of the White House, making a last security check and closing the door behind her after Champ slips out.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/24/2015 10:04 Comments || Top||

#8  You are assuming that they will leave Besoeker.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/24/2015 10:07 Comments || Top||

#9  Correct DV. Yes, a bold assumption isn't it ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/24/2015 10:13 Comments || Top||

#10  witch
Posted by: newc || 03/24/2015 10:30 Comments || Top||

#11  At this point Besoeker, it is sad to say it almost is.

I am hoping for a nice, peaceful transition of power and planning for one where power is not given up as per the constitution.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/24/2015 11:28 Comments || Top||

#12  ^^^^^
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 03/24/2015 11:33 Comments || Top||

#13  I mean, what #10 said.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 03/24/2015 11:33 Comments || Top||

#14  Even if they do leave I wouldn't move into or have any kind of operations the White House. Who knows what kind of bugs, traps, and the like they have left behind. Remember the rumor where they removed all the 'W' keyboard keys when Bush took over? ValJar and the like are much, much, more vindictive and hostile.

The White House would need a very serious delousing. Replace everything. PCs, switches, routers, servers, maybe even cables - place them in isolation. Also get a new tinfoil hat :).
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/24/2015 12:27 Comments || Top||

#15  They'll leave. Or perhaps Zero & the Wookie will trade jobs. Zero will not get away with staying on as POTUS - that's too clearly illegal for even most of the far left and media to go along with. An attempt would probably result in civil war.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/24/2015 12:27 Comments || Top||

#16  I'd wager the Champ will discreetly leave behind some of his stash, to be discovered by the incomers. Just his flip-off style.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/24/2015 12:50 Comments || Top||

#17  Remember the rumor where they removed all the 'W' keyboard keys when Bush took over?

That wasn't a rumor. They pasted the W keys onto the ceiling.

Al
Posted by: frozen al || 03/24/2015 13:56 Comments || Top||

#18  This country needs a thorough cleansing!
Posted by: El Jefe || 03/24/2015 14:44 Comments || Top||

#19  We are talking national enema here folks. Lots of toxic waste.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 03/24/2015 18:39 Comments || Top||

#20  The maintenance crew is gonna' have to buff the nail marks out of the floor to make way for the next CiC.
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169 || 03/24/2015 19:04 Comments || Top||

#21  You forgot to finish the sentence!

Valerie Jarrett Must Go ... to prison for the rest of her life.
Posted by: OldSpook || 03/24/2015 20:19 Comments || Top||


'US political system awash in money and corruption': Analyst
[Iran Press TV] The US government is an undemocratic "oligarchy
... derived from the Greek words oligos, a few and the verb archo, to rule, to govern, to command. Oligarchies are invariably effectual rather than established, to whit, they disguise themselves as other systems, working as the real government behind the face of of democracy, fascism, socialism, monarchy, or what have you...
" where members of Congress are awash in corruption and are "thoroughly disconnected" from the American people, a writer and political analyst in Boston says.

US politicians are a group of wealthy individuals who have "very little in common" with the people who elected them, said Daniel Patrick Welch, an antiwar activist and outspoken critic of US foreign policy.

"You don't have a democracy at all, you have an oligarchy and that's why there is so little distinction between the parties, especially in terms of foreign policy," Welch told Press TV on Monday.
Yes, very "little distinction" when examined earnestly. Been that way since the 1950's. possibly earlier.
"So that idea that these officials are democratically elected or that they are chosen by the people is a complete farce, the system is thoroughly awash in money and corruption," he added.

Welch cited recent studies that show the American people have no control over government policies. "You can no longer say that this is a democratic system where people are fighting for the right of the people."

The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that the US Justice Department is expected to file corruption charges against Senator Robert Menendez as early as this week.

Federal prosecutors specializing in public corruption cases are preparing to file charges against the Democratic senator from New Jersey, according to people familiar with the inquiry.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been probing Menendez for more than two years to see whether he took things of value from a friend and donor in Florida.
Posted by: Fred || 03/24/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  And your point is ??????????
Posted by: Canuckistan sniper || 03/24/2015 1:31 Comments || Top||

#2  The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been probing Menendez for more than two years to see whether he took things of value from a friend and donor in Florida.

Taking 'things of value from a friend and doner'.....doesn't seem to have been an issue with anyone in Congress previously. Must be a new corruption crackdown. [sarc off]
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/24/2015 4:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Is it me Myrtle or does it seem that corruption is a part of radical lefty Donk regimes?
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/24/2015 7:50 Comments || Top||

#4  ..Donk is optional.

That's the whole point of the Constitution which the Left ignores and everyone else seems blind to. What the Founders understood when they wrote the document from studying real history is what is phrased as "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Therefore they accepted injustices created by dividing and dissipating power among several branches of government rather to put efficiency in the consolidation of power in a single governmental entity which eventually leads to tyranny, the worst injustice of all.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/24/2015 8:36 Comments || Top||

#5  The US government is an undemocratic "oligarchy"

Rapidly evolving into the least attractive form of government:theocratic oligarchy.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2015 11:07 Comments || Top||

#6  Well, yes. I must agree. I just don't like reading it in Iran Press TV. It's like the Mad Mullahs are attempting to justify themselves by pointing out the flaws in our system. But why should they complain when they have their little stooge in the White House?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 03/24/2015 11:56 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel using archaeological digs as cover to take Palestinian land, British government says
[Telegraph - Belfast] Isarel is colonising Palestinian territory under the guise of moving in to areas to protect historic archaeological sites, the British government has said.
There are few countries that know more about colonialism than Britain...
Ministers say they are concerned that the Israeli government agency in charge of preserving historic artefacts is undermining efforts for peace in the region by working with a group of "radical" settlers.

The 'Elad' settler group is known for aggressively colonising Palestinian areas, including evicting Palestinian residents from homes in urban areas.

"We are aware of the link between the Elad [settler] group and the Israel Antiquities Authority. We are concerned that this link has led to Israel Antiquities Authority's support of radical settler activities in and around the Old City under the guise of tourism and protection of Jewish history," Conservative Foreign Office minister Baroness Anelay said.
Hopefully the secret link btwn the Israel Antiquities Authority and Ancestors.com will go unnoticed.
"Such actions not only aggravate mounting pressures in East Jerusalem but serve to increase tension around the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif and further complicate future attempts to negotiate a political resolution on the city."
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/24/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I remember reading somewhere that they stopped teaching British history in British schools.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2015 5:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Colonization is often the only way antiquities get preserved - see what ISIS did to Nimrod recently, leaving for posterity only that which the British colonialists had hauled away decades ago.
Posted by: Glenmore || 03/24/2015 13:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Today in 1765, Parliment passed the Quartering Act.
Posted by: Anice Nim || 03/24/2015 16:20 Comments || Top||

#4  In America they create new species to justify taking people's land.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/24/2015 22:05 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
The Rules of Racialists ‐ Part One
Never should racial relations be better. Intermarriage between various ethnic, religious, and racial groups has become commonplace. Every family that I know can no longer be termed white or Latino or black, despite the efforts of government and academic clerks to insist on such.

Cousins, nephews, grandkids, spouses, and in-laws now all look quite different from each other. Walk downtown Palo Alto, and couples of the same racial appearance are not the norm. The president, the attorney general, the national security advisor, the chief presidential advisor, the director of Homeland Security, the director of NASA, and the former EPA head are black. To watch television commercials is to see all races hawking shared products -- quite unlike in the rest of the world, where they would be more likely killing each other.

Yet racial relations have also rarely been worse in the last half-century, illustrating the old sociology adage that the faster things improve and ameliorate, the more they are declared ossified and hopeless.

Perhaps because revolutionaries and the opportunistic fear that with progress for all comes obsolescence for themselves.
So, how long can the guilt-ride last before people become immune?
Nicole Brown Simpson would have been 56 on June 12th of this year. Does not appear much has been learned in 20 years.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2015 14:34 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


Phyllis Schlafly: Is Someone Trying to Destroy the U.S.A. ?
[Investors.com] Excerpt - The average DAPA-eligible family already receives about $6,600 a year in means-tested welfare benefits. That includes food stamps, school lunch (and breakfast), Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children.

Many Americans labor under the false assumption that because most immigrants are hardworking, they do not depend on welfare assistance. In fact, as Rector patiently explains, most welfare benefits go to households with children headed by a low-income employed adult.

Rector estimates that the combined cost of means-tested welfare benefits the immigrants who came here illegally now receive, plus other goodies such as EITC and ACTC cash, will encourage increased illegal immigration in the future.
Yes of course. 'What you subsidize, you get more of', as they say.
The average American, whose children and grandchildren will end up burdened with this enormous debt, must ask whether someone is trying to destroy America.
A bit of a rhetorical question at this point I'd wager.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/24/2015 01:30 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If you have to ask, you must be from another planet.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/24/2015 5:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Yes! Must be a rhetorical or trick question.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/24/2015 7:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes, next question.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/24/2015 8:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Of course.

And they have been successful since the 60s and are almost to the point of complete victory.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/24/2015 9:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Er the going to the state indoctrination area (formerly known as schools) costs 9000 USD / child per year.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/24/2015 14:10 Comments || Top||

#6  To once again paraph ANDY GRIFFITH'S "NO TIME FOR SERGEANTS" WILY USAF GENERAL BUSH > "Thats Ridiculous ... ... the OWG Globalists want the Ex-"Sole"-now-CoSuperpower USA to be humiliated and degraded as it unilaterally pulls back or self-retreats across the World".

"... AND WID ALL THESE WITNESSES AROUND"!

DON'T BE A WEIRD/FREAKY BOY, MORIARITY!

OOOOPPPSSSSS, my bad, Phyllis is a Girl.

The above being said, the "destruction" of the OWG Mighty USSA = OWG Weak USRoA Global SSR will occur after the US-N-Only-the-US DOTH RETREATS OR SHRINKS ITSELF TOO MUCH, WHILE AMERIKA'S GLOBALIST CO-SUPERPOWER SIBLINGS RUSSIA + CHINA + IRAN, ETC. DOTH EXPAND THEIR SPHERES TOO MUCH.

As said before, wouldn't it be funny or ironic iff the Bammer + Family retired + built their LIbrary in HAWAII, ONLY TO HAVE TO TURN OVER HAWAII TO CHINA ]Nuclear Islam?], ALONG WID GUAM-WESTPAC + MAYBE EVEN ALASKA [Russia?]+ 1/2 OR MORE of CONUS DUE TO CHINA'S DEMAND FOR DEBT REPAYMENT ANDOR DEFEAT AGZ CHINA IN ANY EAST ASIA LIMITED WAR ["red line" buster], I.E. AS A PRE- CONDITION OR ONE OF SAME FOR THE US TO AVOID ANY EAST ASIA-WESTPAC LIMITED OR TOTAL NUCLEAR WAR VEE CHINA [Nuclear Islam?].

Again, in China's mind the US has no de facto sovereign US States in CENTPAC andor WESTPAC, only small expendable island territories, as HAWAII is in EASTPAC; nor does the US have US States in EAST ASIA, hence the US has only nominal or superficial reasons for being in East Asia-WESTPAC, + SHOULD GO BACK TO HAWAII ONLY + WEST COAST LEAVING EAST ASIA-WESTPAC TO BE PART OF CHINA'S SPHERE.

* FYI IIRC GUAMPDN > BIKINIANS/BIKINI ISLANDERS WANT TO MOVE TO THE USA, as it is semongly only fair since the US uses their island homes as a Nuke + IRBM test range.

I have already indic here in RantBurg that, as per the desired CHUUK INDEPENDENCE VOTE from the FSM, I have been informed by resident Chuukese that many in their community have no qualms about turning or establishing diplomatic rapprochemnt wid CHINA iff the US won't help them - IFF CHINA REFUSES TO GIVE UP ITS AMBITION TO CONTROL 1/2 OF THE PACIFIC BY 2020 NLT 2025, THEN IT BEHOOVES CHINA TO DO ANYTHING-N-EVERYTHING NECESSARY TO GET INTO CHUUK LAGOON, I.E. THE FORMER JAPANESE CENTPAC HQ + MAJOR NAVBASE FKA TRUK LAGOON.

China can improve or build islands in the SCS, so also can it do for Chuuk/Truk + Other.

JAPAN BASES IN MICRONESIA SURROUNDING GUAM IN 1930'S = CHINESE BASES IN MICRONESIA SURROUNDING GUAM IN 2030.

Lets talk EX-WW2 USN "PERFECT FLEET BASE/
ANCHORAGE" IN ULITHI ATOLL/LAGOON, shall we???

But I digress ... ...
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/24/2015 21:10 Comments || Top||

#7  Meanwhile, NOT to be outdone by China + PLA [or even Darth Vlad], Radical Islam's Hard Boyz invade Guam's Cocos Island + CNMI, + demand the PLA surrender Guam's Camel Rock in exchange for no Local Jihad.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 03/24/2015 21:14 Comments || Top||


FEMA to Deny Funds to States Whose Governors Won't Endorse Global Warming Hoax
"The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making it tougher for governors to deny man-made climate change. Starting next year, the agency will approve disaster preparedness funds only for states whose governors approve hazard mitigation plans that address climate change."
We know who you are! Renounce your climate change denial or die.
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169 || 03/24/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "NO one expects the Spanish Inquisition! Confess your sins, unbeliever!"
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 03/24/2015 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Scallywags in FEMA must go. Original definition of Scallywag: " a White Southerner who supported the Republican Party and its policy of Black emancipation. Scallywags were viewed as traitors.."
I'll go with the last part. Stop funding them. Their just another O tool.
Posted by: Dale || 03/24/2015 7:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Look for other federal agencies to be unleashed on those states. "Climate change" is the new State religion.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/24/2015 7:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Start arresting these federal agents for treason against the state and after a few go against the wall, along with the black robed terrorist supporters, you might see some progress. Make it painful for the minions and they'll quit obeying the slavemasters.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 03/24/2015 10:20 Comments || Top||

#5  Stafford Act - Title II: Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation Assistance
Posted by: DepotGuy || 03/24/2015 11:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Big deal! Plans that address the effect of changing climate/weather are a good idea - until 2016.

In the meanwhile, you are making allowances for more storms, floods, droughts, storm surges, tornadoes, more snow, less snow, earlier spring, later fall, stuff that may or may not come.

Like having a plan on the books to invade Italy or Argentina.
Posted by: Bobby || 03/24/2015 13:30 Comments || Top||

#7  Denying disaster funds to Red State wild fires for the last few years anyway.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 03/24/2015 15:06 Comments || Top||

#8  Would those states also be able to without Federal Taxes?

I think the federal budget should be paid for by the states and do away with the IRS and federal taxes. Make them dependent on the states instead of the other way around. Isn't that the way it was originally intended?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 03/24/2015 16:05 Comments || Top||

#9  hazard mitigation plans that address climate change

Pass out tinfoil hats that reflect the sunlight back up into the ozone layer. Done.
Posted by: gorb || 03/24/2015 17:29 Comments || Top||



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