Clinton: Hey, The Benghazi Attack Could Have Been Al Qaeda

By William Teach September 27, 2012 – 8:23 am

A spoonful here, a spoonful there…..it’d be nice if the Credentialed Media were doing their jobs and asking the hard questions from day 1 instead of waiting for the (supposedly) most transparent administration ever to dole out drips and drabs

(NY Times) Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday suggested there was a link between the Qaeda franchise in North Africa and the attack at the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the American ambassador and three others. She was the highest-ranking Obama administration official to publicly make the connection, and her comments intensified what is becoming a fiercely partisan fight over whether the attack could have been prevented.

Mrs. Clinton did not offer any new evidence of a Qaeda link, and officials later said the question would be officially settled only after the F.B.I. completed a criminal inquiry, which could take months. But they said they had not ruled out the involvement of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb — an affiliate of the international terrorist group with origins in Algeria — in an attack the administration initially described as a spontaneous protest turned violent.

How’s that investigation going?

(CNN) More than two weeks after four Americans — including the U.S. ambassador to Libya — were killed in an attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, FBI agents have not yet been granted access to investigate in the eastern Libyan city, and the crime scene has not been secured, sources said.

“They’ve gotten as far as Tripoli now, but they’ve never gotten to Benghazi,” CNN National Security Analyst Fran Townsend said Wednesday, citing senior law enforcement officials.

“They had difficulty, and we understand there was some bureaucratic infighting between the FBI and Justice Department on the one hand, and the State Department on the other, and so it took them longer than they would have liked to get into country. They’ve now gotten there. But they still are unable to get permission to go to Benghazi.”

FBI agents have made a request through the U.S. State Department for the crime scene to be secured, Townsend said, but that has not happened.

Great. Our consulate was attacked and burned, our ambassador and 3 others were killed, many were injured, and these fools are playing power games.

Oh, and speaking of al Qaeda, a bit of a bombshell was launched yesterday

(Daily Beast) Within 24 hours of the 9-11 anniversary attack on the United States consulate in Benghazi, U.S. intelligence agencies had strong indications al Qaeda–affiliated operatives were behind the attack, and had even pinpointed the location of one of those attackers. Three separate U.S. intelligence officials who spoke to The Daily Beast said the early information was enough to show that the attack was planned and the work of al Qaeda affiliates operating in Eastern Libya.

So Team Obama knew, yet were still yammering on about it being a spontaneous protest gone bad a week later, and still whining about the attack being caused by a stupid video no one had seen.

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Noted Warmists Speaks At UNGA

By William Teach September 26, 2012 – 3:43 pm

Now, if we could only get him to talk about “dirty weather”, he could speak on Al Gore’s Current TV!

(Policymic) -The environment as a common wealth and heritage of the entire humankind and a constant guarantor of man’s survival has been seriously damaged and devastated as a result of irresponsible and excessive use of resources particularly by capitalists across the world, a situation that has caused massive drought, flood, and pollutions inflicting irreparable damage and jeopardizing seriously human life on Earth.

Any guesses who?

Meanwhile, said Warmist also met with “peace activists.“

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 26, 2012 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil pork product killing Gaia, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Maggie’s Notebook, with an important post about military voting deadlines.

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Dems Whine About “Carbon Pollution”

By William Teach September 26, 2012 – 10:56 am

Don’t you love how people who are big “carbon” offenders like to preach?

(The Hill) Two senior House Democrats are circulating a detailed tally of extreme weather in the U.S. and worldwide as they seek to rebuild political support for congressional action to battle global warming.

Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) – authors of the big climate-change bill that narrowly passed the House in 2009 – released a report Tuesday about record-setting heat waves, droughts, violent storms and other costly disasters.

Bad weather only started with the invention of the combustion engine, apparently.

“While the Republican-led House of Representatives refuses to take climate action, carbon pollution is mixing a deadly cocktail of heat and extreme weather that is costing lives and billions of dollars in damages,” Markey, the top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, said in a statement.

The most deadly hurricanes all occurred below 350ppm. The Dust Bowl the same. Perhaps Markey should talk to his buddies in the Democrat led Senate

Airlines for America (A4A) commended the Senate for passage of S. 1956, which would allow the Transportation Secretary to direct U.S. airlines to not participate in the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) because it violates international law and U.S. sovereignty. The EU ETS tax has faced stiff opposition from the airline industry and international governments.

“Congress has spoken – U.S. airlines should not be subjected to this illegal scheme that amounts to little more than a cash grab for the European Union as none of the funds collected are required to be used for environmental purposes,” said A4A President and CEO Nicholas E. Calio, noting that the House previously passed a similar bill.

Will Markey and Waxman vote for or against the bill?

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Slate: Hey, Maybe We Need To Rethink This Whole Free Speech Thingy

By William Teach September 26, 2012 – 7:59 am

Ever since the planned terrorist attack on our Libyan compound and diplomatic personnel “spontaneous uprising” over a stupid video which none had actually seen, per the administration, there has been much hang wringing and navel gazing over the freedoms enshrined in our 1st Amendment. It’s the usual pattern, where something happens, liberals blame someone for saying something mean, and then start wondering about whether free speech is all that it’s cracked up to be, instead of saying “I disagree with what you’re stating, but, I’ll fight to the death to defend your right to say it”. And here comes Eric Posner at Slate wondering if the US overvalues free speech

The universal response in the United States to the uproar over the anti-Muslim video is that the Muslim world will just have to get used to freedom of expression…….Muslims need to grow a thick skin, the thinking goes, as believers in the West have done over the centuries. Perhaps they will even learn what it means to live in a free society, and adopt something like the First Amendment in their own countries.

But there is another possible response. This is that Americans need to learn that the rest of the world—and not just Muslims—see no sense in the First Amendment. Even other Western nations take a more circumspect position on freedom of expression than we do, realizing that often free speech must yield to other values and the need for order. Our own history suggests that they might have a point.

King George and his governors saw no point in freedom of speech, either. And once that free speech starts being chipped away, where does it stop? What freedoms will next be targeted?

More from Q&O

You see one of the acknowledged problems with freedom is it’s messy. That’s right, people get to make choices you don’t agree with and, even more importantly, get to act on them without your permission.

And the Left, much like Salafists, don’t particularly care for any dissent.

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Surprise! Poll Finds Most Think US-Muslim Relations Worse Under Obama

By William Teach September 26, 2012 – 7:24 am

Remember this gem from Cairo?

“I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition.”

And this one from 2007?

“If I’m reaching out to the Muslim world, they understand that I’ve lived in a Muslim country,” he continued. “And I may be a Christian, but I understand their point of view.”

How’s that working out?

(Daily Caller) A plurality of likely voters — or 45 percent — believe that U.S. relations with the Islamic world are worse under President Barack Obama than they were under President George W. Bush, according to a Rasmussen poll released on Tuesday.

A mere 18 percent believe that U.S.-Muslim relations are better, while 31 percent believe relations have stayed the same since Obama took the White House four years ago.

We certainly can’t blame it all on Obama: we have to consider that the continuous growth of extremist Islam plays a big part in the equation. Of course, when we consider Obama’s foreign policy, which is a muddled, mixed up, often contradictory, and mostly incoherent, we get a good picture. While he yammers on about peace and stuff, he uses drone strikes like some people use nicotine gum.

He said he’d close Guantanamo Bay, yet didn’t do any work to follow through.

The relationship between the Obama admin. and many Islamic nations, most notably Pakistan and Afghanistan, have become much worse. Blowing off the Iranian “green revolution”, leading from behind for the Arab Spring, starting a war of choice in Libya then only having slightly harsh words for Syria, etc and so on, they all contribute to a poor relationship. Kowtowing and apologizing to Islamists for our core freedoms certainly doesn’t help.

Then there’s Iran. That open hand with no pre-conditions sure worked miracles, eh?

On the flip side, it takes two to tango, and countries with ever increasing governments and people pushing for hardcore Islamic values certainly doesn’t help.

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Creeping Sharia: KC Imams Petition Obama To Restrict 1st Amendment

By William Teach September 25, 2012 – 3:04 pm

It’s not just Muslim leaders in other countries (Via ZIp)

(PJ Media) The leadership of the Islamic Society of Greater Kansas City have launched an online petition campaign for President Obama to back a bill to limit the free speech of American citizens they deem offensive.

The petition states:

The undersigned Board Of Directors and members of the Islamic Society of Greater Kansas City (ISGKC) urges you to sponsor a bill that outlaws any action that may insult one’s religion.  We utterly disagree with the violence that has taken place and the death of United States Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and other members of the United States embassy staff in Libya.  We support the apprehension and conviction of those responsible for such acts.

Continued below the fold

We understand the First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights and, as such, prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, etc., but when the allowance of “free” speech incites violence it should be banned. 

The film behind the violence that is occurring in part of the Muslim world, “The Innocence of Muslims”, although it may be amateurish, its contents are very disturbing and insulting to the religion and has ignited an already volatile part of the world.  The film is repulsive to the sensibilities of Muslims and offends the religion of Islam in multiple ways; by denigrating the seriousness of Islam, our Prophet and the Muslims in general.  We believe that it would be in everyone’s interest to ban such actions from reoccurring.

Actions as such should not be tolerated as they are very offensive.  The violence that has taken place as a result of this film is very alarming.  As Muslims, violence of any sort is prohibited in our religion.  Those people who are carrying out these acts cannot possibly call themselves devout Muslims as they are acting out of pure rage and not out of religious duties.  We condemn the violence and feel that, in spite of the First Amendment of the U. S. Constitution, action may be necessary to pass such a bill or, at least, censure such actions in order to calm the current situation as well as prevent future re-occurrences. 

Here’s the kicker

American Muslims are hard-working, law abiding, and tax paying citizens.  Everyone respects freedom of speech and the First Amendment in general, however, when freedom of speech results in defaming and insulting others and provokes the killing of innocent people, it should be outlawed.  In light of the recent situation, the Islamic Society of Greater Kansas City hopes you may take up this cause and urge other representatives to do the same.  We appreciate your time and efforts.

In other words, free speech is cool, unless it insults Islam, because many Muslims are prone to violence, therefor we should ban anything that could make violent Muslims act out in a violent manner.

At the United Nations, Islamic nations are going to use the yearly Big Meeting to push for anti-(Islamic) blasphemy laws. And the Seattle Times says that free speech is a “volatile issue” at the UN. Perhaps it’s high time that the UN be disbanded if free speech is “volatile.”

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 25, 2012 – 1:00 pm

…is an awesome tree taking dirty weather out of the air, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Sister Toldjah, with a post about veterans abandoning Obama.

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Obama Speaks At UN, Whines About Video And Stuff

By William Teach September 25, 2012 – 11:24 am

I thought about just adding on to the previous post, but, let’s give the Apology Tour a stand alone. From what I heard (I only listened to about 10 minutes, I didn’t hear the Iran talk), it was a rambling, incoherent, and contradictory mess. Much like his foreign policy itself. And, the apologies and denigration of Free Speech continue (page 3 of the Washington Post transcript)

…And that is what we saw play out in the last two weeks, where a crude and disgusting video sparked outrage throughout the Muslim world. Now, I have made it clear that the United States government had nothing to do with this video, and I believe its message must be rejected by all who respect our common humanity. It is an insult not only to Muslims, but to America as well.

Free speech is now an insult in Obama’s America and must be rejected.

We were also treated to this whine

And, there’s this

Pretty much.

Yet, he’s defending Islamists who treat women like property.

And said zealot? (via Twitchy)

The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam. Yet to be credible, those who condemn that slander must also condemn the hate we see when the image of Jesus Christ is desecrated, churches are destroyed, or the Holocaust is denied. Let us condemn incitement against Sufi Muslims, and Shiite pilgrims. It is time to heed the words of Gandhi: “Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.” Together, we must work towards a world where we are strengthened by our differences, and not defined by them. That is what America embodies, and that is the vision we will support.

So much for your 1st Amendment rights.

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Surprise! Consumers Less Willing To Pay For “Green” Products

By William Teach September 25, 2012 – 8:44 am

The main problem with “green” is that it’s no longer about being environmentally friendly: it’s about globull warming, the climate change hoax, hotcoldwetdry. Every issue has been linked, no matter how commonsense, and consumers are constantly barraged with preachy advertisements and news reports. Oh, and they realize that there are a ton of scams, and that “green” products are expensive

(Daily Caller) Call it the effect of a slow economic recovery or the results of excessive hype, but consumers have become less willing to pay for environmentally friendly products.

According to new research from GfK‘s Green Gauge, while aspects of the “green” movement have gone “mainstream,” those willing to purchase the more expensive green alternative products has decreased over the last several years.

The GfK study found that in the last 12 months, 73 percent of American consumers purchased an organic product, 93 percent had done something to conserve energy, and 77 percent had done something to conserve water. Respondents added that social media and other technologies such as home energy monitors have raised awareness about being environmentally friendly.

I purchase “organic” fruit all the time. They have these really great plums at Harris Teeter near work, which I hit about once a week. And their local! I do what I can to save energy, though I am rather bad about taking long showers. I buy the plums because they taste great, and are usually on sale. I save energy to save money, not to save the planet from getting a fever. And, like most people, including Warmists, there is no way in hell I will install a home energy monitor linked to the power company.

The research revealed, however, that while people are more aware, they are less likely to spend additional money to go green, with the percentages of Americans willing to spend on environmentally friendly alternatives noticeably dropping since 2008.

Part of the issue is surely the world wide recession reducing buying power. Also, that people are tired of being preached at to purchase a product.

According to GfK, the proportion of Americans willing to spend extra for cleaner cars has dropped from 62 percent in 2008 to 49 percent; and for energy efficient light bulbs, the number has decreased from 70 percent to 60 percent.

There’s nothing wrong with protecting the environment, saving energy, reducing water usage: people just aren’t willing to pay much higher prices to do it, especially when they are berated by people who themselves refuse to spend the money to change their own lives, nor do consumers want the Central Planning Office to make the consumer decisions (CFLs) for them.

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