It should be noted that since abdicating the position of Secretary of State, and the introduction of Clinton’s ‘fixer’, John “Skippy” Podesta, the White House -and more specifically the activity that flows from within it- is now a synergy of both President Obama and Hillary Clinton’s goals.
Yesterday some pundits and media looked strangely at the non-scheduled meeting between Obama and Clinton as if fodder for grand conspiratorial questioning.
As with most issues the answers are not as complex as they seem.
(Via The Hill) White House press secretary Jay Carney is resigning as the White House’s principal spokesman.
President Obama announced the move in a surprise appearance during Carney’s briefing, and the same day he accepted Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki’s resignation.
Carney will leave his job next month, and he’ll be replaced by his deputy, longtime Obama aide Josh Earnest. Obama hailed Carney as “one of my closest friends” and a “great press secretary”. (more…)
Then again…. The White House has odd definitions of transparency. They’ll tell the world when they meet with the CIA Station Chief of Afghanistan but won’t mention the unscheduled meetings with Hillary.
“The White House confirmed that Hillary Clinton had lunch with President Obama today after People magazine tweeted about the meeting – a tweet that has since been deleted.
“The President enjoyed an informal, private lunch with Secretary Clinton at the White House this afternoon,” a White House official said on background in a response to an inquiry from your pooler. Your pooler also lodged a complaint about the lack of transparency on the meeting with White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.
The lunch was not on the president’s public schedule.” (link)
While the national media continue to re-run the various nuance stories stemming from shooter Eliot Rogers (shot 3 people, and stabbed 3 others, killing 6 in California), there have been three other mass shootings the same weekend without so much as a snippet of attention on CNN or other National Media.
• The Second silent shooting was in Tampa/Clearwater Florida where a crowd of 15 people at a hotel came under fire from another gunman, again on Memorial day this time four people where shot. Luckily no-one was killed. (link)
According to a whistle-blowing Op Ed piece published in the Wall Street Journal, doctors and residents in the VA system were prevented from providing care to patients if their actions were deemed to be “making federal workers look bad” :
You can offer limited medical care, as long as it doesn’t make non-medical Federal Workers “look bad”….
…”Scott Barbour, an orthopedic surgeon and a friend, trained at the Miami VA hospital. In an attempt to get more patients onto the operating-room schedule, he enlisted fellow residents to clean the operating rooms between cases and transport patients from their rooms into the surgical suites….
Instead of offering praise for their industriousness, the Chief of Surgery reprimanded the doctors and put a stop to their actions. From his perspective, they were not solving a problem but were making federal workers look bad and creating more work for others, like nurses, who had to take care of more post-op patients.”
Imagine that! Nurses having to take care of more post-op patients! You’d think they were working in a hospital or something…. It’s not like they can adjust their census to account for that, or anything. /s/. But, wait, there’s more ……
ARIZONA – Scores of undocumented immigrants from Central America have been released at Greyhound Lines Inc. bus stations in Tucson and Phoenix over the past several days after they were flown to Arizona from south Texas, officials acknowledged.
Andy Adame, a spokesman for the Border Patrol in Tucson, confirmed that over the weekend federal officials flew about 400 migrants apprehended in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas to Tucson to be processed. He said the migrants were flown to Arizona because the Border Patrol does not have enough manpower to handle a surge in illegal immigrants in south Texas.
The release has drawn criticism from those on both sides of the immigration issue. (more…)
At a meeting held in New Hampshire to address parent’s unhappiness and push back against the “Common Core” curriculum, the meeting opened with a “moderator” setting the stage for the idea that parents who oppose “Common Core” have a hidden (racist) agenda and their concerns about Common Core are unfounded, unreasonable and worthy of dismissal:
“Every teacher that’s using it, is basically saying, this is inspiring …people who are actually using it, like it, again, in terms of local control, you still have local control, if you want higher standards, if that is your genuine point (emphasis mine), then you can go ahead and do the higher standards and the process was indeed entirely transparent…
A teacher who drafted the standards starts to speak:
“I’m not being paid to be here, either. I’m just a teacher who helped write the standards. And the reason I helped write the standards, and why I am here today, is that I as a white male in society, I am given a lot of privilege that I didn’t earn.
….or so goes the Politically Correct CNN headline. Considering there were only two homocides in 2013 one would think this headline would lead to questions. Eight people shot in Myrtle beach – during one shooting spree and three of them dead?
Isn’t that actually more people than were shot by a Hollywood Socialite yesterday ? Yet, we don’t see wall-to-wall CNN media coverage of this one…. Why is that ?
Alas, a little further research and you discover this specific shooting spree has an element the PC media just cannot discuss. It’s Black Bike Week. From their website:
Now it’s it’s time for Black Bike Week 2014 The Revolution! Black Bike Week’s Back!! and Black Bike Week Back is GROWING!! No Helment law, No Noise Ordinance, No haters, AND MORE PEOPLE
Over 500,000+ People will be hitting the Myrtle Beach Area for 4 days of non stop riding, partying, and fun! “if you can stay long you def should!!!
Note how in the CNN article they make no mention of the event, and note how even in the Carolina article (below) they obfuscate the event removing the self-identified, and self-promoted, racial aspect of the event in favor of a disingenuous “Bike Week” label. Political Correctness running amuck. (more…)
2014’s Victim #21 finds himself facing an all too familiar response from Law Enforcement, “Denial”.
“My watch wasn’t taken. My phone, which was in my hand, wasn’t taken,” he said. “There was no attempt for my pockets that I could see.”
Despite the brutally obvious pattern the police say it was an attempted robbery. Yet nothing was taken from the victim, and nothing was even attempted to be taken from the victim. A 16-year-old black attacker, a random white male victim not paying attention to the inherent risk approaching him. Stop me when you’ve heard this before…..
(Via Daily Caller) A New York City man who said he was randomly attacked by three teenagers says he thinks he was a victim of the ‘Knockout game’ even though police are calling the attack an attempted robbery.
Sal Avila required surgery for a broken nose he sustained during the vicious attack, which occurred near the campus of New York University last Sunday, Channel 4-New York reports.
Avila told the news station he was leaving a friend’s house and looking at his cell phone as three teenagers passed by. Then he was punched.
“Just as they were about to walk past me, one of them moves very suddenly and I feel a very hard impact to my face, as if I got hit by a brick or something,” Avila told Channel 4-New York. (more…)
Folks *THIS* is exactly why patriotic Kentuckians need to hunker down, bite their lip and vote for Democrat Allison Grimes in the general election this fall. Is Allison Grimes a liberal moonbat? Oh heck yes… she ain’t moderate – she’s a loon. But after you read this article, citing the justification from McConnell for McConnell, you’ll probably recognize it’s better to vote in an honest liberal moonbat than keep around a lying Benedict Arnold who lies, manipulates and schemes, as a matter of his inherent constitution and cannot be trusted.
KENTUCKY – Mitch McConnell hasn’t spoken to Matt Bevin since primary night — but he’s convinced that Bevin voters will come home to Team Mitch in November.
Senate Minority Leader McConnell (R-Ky.) appeared alongside conservative icon Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) at a Friday presser in Louisville to tout party unity, hoping to heal the Kentucky GOP’s wounds incurred during a vicious primary contest between Bevin and McConnell, in which the insurgent Bevin received the backing of 35 percent of Republican voters. (more…)