Four Americans Killed In Embassy Attack In Libya – Clinton Statement Added

By William Teach September 12, 2012 – 8:59 am

Breaking news, it wasn’t just our ambassador to Libya who was killed yesterday (see previous post)

(Fox News) The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other American staff members were killed Tuesday in an attack on the U.S. consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi, the White House confirmed. President Obama, in a written statement issued Wednesday morning, called the attack “outrageous” and “senseless.”

Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens was killed Tuesday night when he and a group of embassy employees went to the consulate to try to evacuate staff. The protesters, angry over a film that ridiculed Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, were firing gunshots and rocket-propelled grenades.

The State Department identified one of the other three Americans killed as Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith, a husband and father of two who had worked for the State Department for 10 years. The U.S. government is still notifying the next of kin for the other two individuals killed, and has not identified them.

Embassies around the world (read: in the Muslim world) have been put on notice to be on guard against further violence.

I’m confident all the Islamist apologistas will be out in full force (ones like The Atlantic’s Max Fisher), blaming America and attempting to paint Christians as exactly the same, yet, can anyone point towards Christians storming buildings, setting them on fire, and killing people? No one ever seems to be concerned about offending Christians and Jews, partly because …… Christians and Jews won’t go bat guano insane and riot, burn, and kill. And, about that video

A spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood, the mainstream Islamist group and the sponsor of Egypt’s first elected president, Mohamed Morsi, urged the United States government on Tuesday to prosecute the “madmen” behind the video, according to the English-language Web site of the state newspaper, Al Ahram.

The spokesman asked for a formal apology from the United States government and warned that events like the video were damaging Washington’s relations with the Muslim world. He also emphasized that any protests should remain peaceful and respect property.

Sorry, bub, but we have a thing called freedom of speech here in the US, and do not prosecute people for offending Muslims and denigrating Mohammed…..actually, under the crazy “hate crimes” laws, that could actually happen.

More: I listened to Hillary Clinton’s statement earlier, and some of it was just plain aberrant

(Mediaite) “This is an attack that should shock the conscience of people of all faiths around the world,” said Clinton. “We condemn in the strongest terms this senseless act of violence and we send our prayers to the families, friends and colleagues of those we’ve lost.”

Um, why should it shock Christians, Jews, etc? This was being done in the name of Mohammed.

“This is not easy,” said Clinton. “Today, many Americans are asking – indeed, I asked myself – how could this happen? How could this happen in a country we helped liberate in a city we helped save from destruction?”

Anyone else get the feeling she’s somewhat blaming the US? Anyhow, we kinda know the answer, and that it involves al Qaeda/hardcore Islamist front groups getting heavily involved with the Libyan rebels, much like in many other “Arab Spring” countries.

Oh, and the US embassy in Cairo was defaced with pro-Osama graffiti.

DrewM at Ace of Spades:

Compare that with Obama who said in part…

Appearing with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in the White House Rose Garden, Obama said: “We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others, but there is absolutely no justification to this type of senseless violence. None. The world must stand together to unequivocally reject these brutal attacks.”The President of the United States of America should not “reject” a citizens right to speak however he or she wants even (or especially) if it offends someone. A President who prioritizes the feelings of foreigners over a strong, unequivocal defense of an American citizen’s exercise of our fundamental freedom is unfit for office. (snip)

Naturally, the maker of the film that is the supposed flash point of this exercise in outrage is in hiding. Obama had no kind words of support for him.

Naturally, Outside The Beltway goes full on RDS (Romney Derangement Syndrome). I’m having a hard time differentiating OTB from Little Green Footballs, The Democrats Underground, Daily Kos, etc.

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Mostly Non-Radical Egyptians Assault US Embassy

By William Teach September 11, 2012 – 5:50 pm

Good thing our efforts in Egypt have worked

(CNN) Angry protesters climbed the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo on Tuesday and tore down the American flag, apparently in protest of a film thought to insult the Prophet Mohammed.

A volley of warning shots were fired as a large crowd gathered around the compound, said CNN producer Mohammed Fahmy, who was on the scene, though it is not clear who fired the shots.

The Jawa Report thinks they have a copy of the video, and you should probably download it before Youtube goes all squishy (as usual) and bans it. Anyhow, the “protesters” hung a flag

The black flag, which hangs atop a ladder inside the compound, is adorned with white characters that read, “There is no God but Allah and Mohammad is his messenger,” an emblem often used in al Qaeda propaganda.

But, wait, it gets better! This comes from the US Embassy in Cairo

The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims – as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans are honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fitting response to the enemies of democracy. Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others

And on Twitter

It’s cool, though, to treat women like garbage, hang gays, threaten Jews and Christians, assault Coptics…..Can’t have feeeeeewings be hurt

In other words, screw your free speech, a radical Islamist’s feeling might get hurt

And that’s why the radicals win, because people like these State Dept. weenies refuse to see.

Others discussing: The Gateway Pundit, Washington Free Beacon, Israel Matzav, The PJ Tatler, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, American Spectator, Blazing Cat Fur, Tablet Magazine, Weasel Zippers , Hot Air

More: The Other McCain points out that a mob of mostly non-radical Islamists set fire to a US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Doug Ross: “Another completely predictable result of The Obama Doctrine: ever-increasing chaos in the Middle East.”

Wednesday morning update: Those first two tweets have since been deleted (hence the missing icons) after the State Department disavowed the tweets. And then Hillary Clinton put out this statement which pretty much confirms the tone and content of the tweets

Press Statement
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State
Washington, DC
September 11, 2012

I condemn in the strongest terms the attack on our mission in Benghazi today. As we work to secure our personnel and facilities, we have confirmed that one of our State Department officers was killed. We are heartbroken by this terrible loss. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and those who have suffered in this attack.

This evening, I called Libyan President Magariaf to coordinate additional support to protect Americans in Libya. President Magariaf expressed his condemnation and condolences and pledged his government’s full cooperation.

Some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as a response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet. The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. Our commitment to religious tolerance goes back to the very beginning of our nation. But let me be clear: There is never any justification for violent acts of this kind.

In light of the events of today, the United States government is working with partner countries around the world to protect our personnel, our missions, and American citizens worldwide.

Which is rather strange, since Liberals and the State Dept. rarely have a problem when Christian and Jews religious beliefs are denigrated.

And over in Libya, our Ambassador was killed.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 11, 2012 – 1:00 pm

…..is the need to remember, God Bless You

The blog of the day is Little Miss Attila, who has some advice.

And, yeah, there are some bikinis below the fold, a certain motif for the day

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Using Obama’s Own Name Is Now Racist

By William Teach September 11, 2012 – 12:13 pm

No, really, this is what we get from Democrat crazies  (via Howard Portnoy)

(AP) “You recognize it when every time the Republicans with their own convention refer to him by his first name, Barack Obama. He’s President Barack Obama,” said Patt Sanders, a delegate from Englewood, Calif., who is black.

So, every time I call him “Obama”, “Mr. Obama”, or “Barry”, it means I’m blowing a dog whistle, speaking in coded language, and a raaaaacist. What if I refer to him as (NMP) Obama? Does that make me a double racist?

Anyway, Howard points out that Obama himself refered to George Bush as …. George Bush, rather than President Bush. And, to add to that, most of the media typically refers to the POTUS by their name, usually “Mr. Clinton,” “Mr. Bush”, “Mr. Obama”. Sometimes they will use the word President. Sometimes not. Guess that makes them all racists, too.

But, even if you don’t think you’re a racist, well, you are

Glisson knows that many conservatives disagree with Obama solely because of his policies. “But I am also quite certain that there are others who object to the president because of his race, because they have a fear of blacks that is embedded in our culture,” she said.

Her conclusion is based on something called “implicit bias”— prejudices that people don’t realize they have.

So, subconsciously, you’re a racist. Even if you couldn’t give a damn less what color Obama is (I usually see him as “red”) and have a big issue with his policies, well, you’re still a racist.

And when everything is racist, real racism becomes meaningless. Hell, even peanut butter sandwiches are now racist. Go figure.

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Sierra Club: Hey, North Jersey, You Really Don’t Need Power

By William Teach September 11, 2012 – 9:04 am

It’s interesting to note that every time there is a big storm that knocks out power, people immediately assault power companies for failing to spend oodles of money upgrading their infrastructure. Like just last year in New Jersey. This past July saw people and government freaking out on PepCo, a Maryland power company, along with a few others, blaming them for the power outages, for having done nothing to upgrade the system, even threatening fines. Remember how much people freaked out after the giant Northeast power outage in 2003 and how there where calls to upgrade the infrastructure? But, what happens when a power company tries to actually Do Something?

(NJ.com) The New Jersey Sierra Club says PSEG is “taking a risky bet” by moving ahead with construction work related to its massive power-line upgrade in northern New Jersey, as it’s still awaiting certain federal approvals for the project.

The Sierra Club has long objected to the Susquehanna-Roseland transmission line project, which would install a 500,000 volt transmission line from the Berwick area in Pennsylvania to PSE&G’s substation in Roseland, running through 16 New Jersey communities.

“PSEG is taking a risky bet because if they do not get federal or DEP (Department of Environmental Protection) approvals or our court challenge of the BPU (Board of Public Utilities) approval is successful, they will have wasted taxpayer money,” the Sierra Club wrote in a statement sent to media after initial construction work started.

Why? Well

Regional grid operator PJM Interconnection has argued the project is necessary to ensure reliable service. The Sierra Club and other environmental groups opposing the project have argued it will ruin views at the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, cut through public lands and keep coal-fired plants open by enabling them to sell power to East Coast customers.

So, they have a problem with ruing the view? What do you think happens when the landscape is blotted with solar panels and wind turbines? And then there’s the coal fired plant issue: enviroweenies/Warmists are really unhappy that other people should be able to get reliable, cheap power. PSEG should disconnect the headquarters of the Sierra Club and it’s employees from the power grid and tell them to install solar panels and wind turbines, see how quick these people whine about not having usable power.

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9/11 At 11: Patriot’s Day

By William Teach September 11, 2012 – 8:39 am

(graphic from Susan Polgar)

It’s hard to believe it has been 11 years since that fateful day when Islamic terrorists killed 2,996 of our friends, loved ones, and countrymen, as well as visitors welcomed to our shores. And they picked on the wrong country, as we took the fight right back at them.

Today has been designated Patriot’s Day, a day of reflection, when we are to fly the flag at half staff, and observe a moment of silence at 8:46am eastern time, the moment when the first plane struck. The editorial staff at the Hickory Daily Record discusses Patriot’s Day

Today is Patriot Day. We observe it in remembrance of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Patriotism is not a right, nor is it a privilege. Patriotism comes from individuals. It is a love of independence and liberty. It is a love of country – a love so deep that the patriot stands ready to remedy the ills of the country and even change the government if necessary.

There is no nation without the people. In the United States, there is no government without the consent and direction of the people. Americans are not third-party participants in government. They are the beginning and the end of the national will. They are the expression of unity and the embodiment of liberty.

By definition – written in blood and engraved on our individual and collective heart – there can be no United States of America without the people and their patriotism.

Make sure to read the rest.

The USA Today is wondering if 9/11 is becoming just another day, similar to Pearl Harbor Day

The Sept. 11 attacks still elicit sadness, anxiety and anger for many. But as we enter the 11th year after that tragic day, it begs the question:

How will the nation mark the occasion as the horrors of that day — as well as the victims and heroes — fade from our collective memories?

In decades to come, will 9/11 anniversaries remain a moment frozen in the nation’s consciousness? Or will they be more like time-softened remembrances of other iconic tragedies in U.S. history: Pearl Harbor (Dec. 7, 1941), President John F. Kennedy‘s assassination (Nov. 22, 1963) and the space shuttle Challenger explosion (Jan. 28, 1986)?

Nearly 70% of Americans say they somewhat or strongly agree with this statement: “I have moved on from (the events of) Sept. 11,” according to a new American Pulse Survey.

And how does the NY Times, the supposed paper of record, celebrate? By pulling out the Blame Bush card. Joshua Pundit tears the op-ed apart

I ordinarily wouldn’t even take notice of something like this appearing in Pravda-on-the-Hudson, especially given their record of endangering our troops and our country by leaking classified information. But these shameless,brazen lies demand a response.

This is an op-ed entitled ‘The Deafness Before the Storm’, and its premise is fairly simple – that the Bush White House was deaf to 9/11 warnings and thus allowed it to happen.

The writer is one Kurt Eichenwald, and he has top grade, cutting edge knowledge and experience with national security , since his credentials include being an ex-New York Times reporter and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Oh wait, maybe he doesn’t.

The problem with all the warnings was that there was no actionable intelligence. I’ve asked this many times, and always get interesting answers from liberals: what was Bush supposed to have done?

  • Warn the airlines? They were
  • Warn the airports? They were
  • Put soldiers in the airports? He could have asked the Governors to put the National Guard in them, since it is illegal to deploy active duty troops inside the US (Posse Comitatus).
  • For how long? Does anyone actually think that elected Democrats, liberals, and the ACLU would allow this without accusing Bush of being a dictator and all the other insane stuff they accused him of being?
  • The only rational thing to do would have been to profile Middle Eastern looking Muslim men. They were the ones who would be attacking. Thing Democrats, Liberals, the ACLU, and CAIR would have stood for that?

There was no idea as to when the attacks would happen, where they would happen (obviously, NYC and D.C. would be big targets, but would they have been the targets?), what airlines, what airplanes. There were no answers to the questions “when, where, what, and whom.” Thankfully, the Clinton administration instituted the “wall between intelligence and law enforcement”, so there was no sharing. We know that there were these same warnings going back several years, so, what seemed imminent wasn’t quite so.

But, for today, forget the insane people on the left, half of which are believers in the conspiracy that Bush made 9/11 happen or didn’t stop it. These are people known as “Truthers.” Just remember what it felt like that day, and that there are people out there who do want to destroy the American way of life.

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The Ugly Math Of The Chevy Volt

By William Teach September 10, 2012 – 2:06 pm

Or, really, the stupid reality of how government and unions run a business

(Reuters) General Motors Co sold a record number of Chevrolet Volt sedans in August —but that probably isn’t a good thing for the automaker’s bottom line.

Nearly two years after the introduction of the path-breaking plug-in hybrid, GM is still losing as much as $49,000 on each Volt it builds, according to estimates provided to Reuters by industry analysts and manufacturing experts.

Cheap Volt lease offers meant to drive more customers to Chevy showrooms this summer may have pushed that loss even higher. There are some Americans paying just $5,050 to drive around for two years in a vehicle that cost as much as $89,000 to produce.

Fortunately GM also makes vehicles that do sell and make money, like pickups and big SUVs, but the pure idiocy of selling a vehicle which loses as much as $49k per sale is staggering. And, let’s not forget that majority are sold to government.

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If All You See…

By William Teach September 10, 2012 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil fossil fueled vehicle certainly driven by an evil rich person causing the planet to catch on fire, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is And So It Goes In Shreveport, with a post wondering about Obama’s beer drinking.

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Rahm Emanuel Learns That Teacher’s Unions Are A Real Pain In The Behind

By William Teach September 10, 2012 – 10:57 am

Don’t ever let anyone tell you teacher’s unions are there for the kids

(Daily Caller) City officials vowed to keep hundreds of thousands of students safe when striking teachers hit the picket lines Monday and school district and teachers union leaders resumed negotiations on a contract that appeared close to being resolved over the weekend before the union announced both sides were too far apart to prevent the district’s first strike in 25 years.

The walkout in the nation’s third-largest school district posed a tricky test for Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his city, as parents and school officials begin the task of trying to ensure nearly 400,000 students are kept safe.

How far apart? Teachers are going to be given a 16% pay increase over 4 years, vastly higher than what we are seeing in the private sector during King Obama’s economic reign of terror. The teachers are upset over changes to the health plan and having to follow the state law requiring evaluation based on test scoring. Here’s where it gets real interesting

School officials said they will open more than 140 schools between 8:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. so children can eat lunch and breakfast in a district where many students receive free meals. The district asked community organizations to provide additional programs for students, and a number of churches, libraries and other groups plan to offer day camps and other activities. But it’s not clear how many families will send their children to the added programs.

Police Chief Garry McCarthy said he was deploying police officers to those sites to ensure kids’ safety but also to “deal with any protests that teachers may, in fact, have” while protecting their rights. He also was taking officers off desk duties and redeploying them to the streets to deal with potential protests — and thousands of students who could be on the streets.

So, Chicago needs to deploy police officers to protect the children who will go to the schools so that they can get a decent meal from the teachers? Says quite a bit about the teacher’s union, eh?

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About Romney Saying He’d Keep Parts Of Obamacare…

By William Teach September 10, 2012 – 8:46 am

…everyone relax.

(AP) Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, who promised early in his campaign to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, says he would keep several important parts of the overhaul.

“Of course there are a number of things that I like in health care reform that I’m going to put in place,” he said in an interview broadcast Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” ”One is to make sure that those with pre-existing conditions can get coverage.”

Romney also said he would allow young adults to keep their coverage under their parents’ health-insurance.

Those provisions have been two of the more popular parts of Obama’s Affordable Care Act.

“I say we’re going to replace Obamacare. And I’m replacing it with my own plan,” Romney said. “And even in Massachusetts when I was governor, our plan there deals with pre-existing conditions and with young people.”

This caused a freakout by some on the Republican side Sunday, and glee from some Liberals. But, should it cause those reactions? No.

Once Ocare was passed, it was always known that certain portions would have to be part of the Republican plan, because those ideas, such as pre-existing conditions and adults up to 26 being allowed to stay on their parents insurance are extremely popular with the American people when polled. Heck, the “up to 26 years old thing” is actually a part of SCHIP, and has been around for years now, and is actually not that bad of an idea. These younger adults are typically the ones that decide they won’t get health insurance because they are “freaking immortal man, nothing can hurt me!!!!!!”. Better that they have insurance and contribute healthy bodies to the insurance pools. Then there is pre-existing conditions. As National Review points out, Romney previously said this

I also want to make sure that people can’t get dropped if they have a preexisting condition. . . . So let’s say someone has been continuously insured and they develop a serious condition and let’s say they lose their job or they change jobs, they move and they go to a new place. I don’t want them to be denied insurance because they’ve got some preexisting condition. So we’re going to have to make sure that the law we replace Obamacare with assures that people who have a preexisting condition, who’ve been insured in the past are able to get insurance in the future so they don’t have to worry about that condition keeping them from getting the kind of health care they deserve.

Just like under O-care, there’s no mention of cost. And under O-care those with pre-existing conditions are being charged out the wazoo for insurance.

The notion that one cannot be actually dropped because they get sick is another notion in Obamacare that is popular. I bet you think this is a good idea. It’s not like getting dropped from your auto insurance because you’re a bad driver who keeps side-swiping other cars. You didn’t have that much choice in getting sick.

Romney also wants to empower consumer choice with

  • End tax discrimination against the individual purchase of insurance
  • Allow consumers to purchase insurance across state lines
  • Unshackle HSAs by allowing funds to be used for insurance premiums
  • Promote “co-insurance” products
  • Promote alternatives to “fee for service”
  • Encourage “Consumer Reports”-type ratings of alternative insurance plans

And plenty of other ideas, some of which may be popular with Conservatives, some of which are meant to be popular with independents and middle ground voters.

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