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Update Via Twitchy – Twitchy reported earlier today on Rep. Allen West’s ongoing recount battle in Florida, and tonight brought the discovery of a box of 304 ballots that hadn’t been read.

Division of Elections official says "at least" 304 ballots missing from early vote totals.

— George Bennett (@gbennettpost) November 17, 2012

@gbennettpost and that's better?

— Alex Vogel (@43vogel) November 17, 2012

FLORIDA – The St. Lucie County Canvassing Board has ordered the retabulation of all early votes in the highly contested congressional race between Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) and Democrat Patrick Murphy, according to Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, a volunteer lawyer for the West campaign. The board voted 2-1 in favor of recounting the votes.

“This retabulation of all early votes as the Supervisor of Elections originally planned is a victory for democracy,” Shapiro told TheBlaze. “This restores some level of trust and public confidence in the system…it was the right thing to do.” (more…)

You just can’t make this stuff up folks……  Yet the sheeple?

Egyptian President Morsi:

“I don’t want to take unusual steps, but if I see that the homeland is in danger, I won’t hesitate.”

“Gaza will not remain alone as it was,” adding that the aggressors “know they will pay a heavy price is they continue their aggression.”

He further said that the post-Mubarak Egypt was completely different and that all Egyptians were determined to stop the offensive on the Gaza Strip.

“The blood spilled over there will not get the other side peace and will serve as a curse on them. It will incite all the people of the region against them.”

And what does President Obama do?   He thanks him….. (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama called Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi on Friday to commend the country’s efforts to help calm the situation in Israel and Gaza and underscored his hope of restoring stability there, the White House said.

Egypt’s prime minister, Hisham Kandil, has said Cairo is prepared to mediate a truce in the growing violence between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist group that runs the Gaza Strip. Egypt’s government is allied with Hamas, but is also party to a 1979 peace treaty with Israel.  (article)

Earlier in the day   –   “The price will be high if the aggression continues,” Morsi said after he performed Friday prayers in Fatma Al-Sharbatly Mosque in Cairo’s Fifth Settlement. (more…)

Through the Chaff….

President Obama said he gave the order to “do whatever it takes to protect our people“.  Was he using the same definition of “our people” as Eric Holder?

Fair enough.   Who did Obama give that order to?   Where is the order?  What stopped them from being able to carry out that order? (more…)

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Does any else notice when the defensive shield ‘Iron Dome’ activates the media call it Israeli Rocket Attacks?

ISRAELI CABINET APPROVES PLAN TO MOBILIZE UP TO 75,000 RESERVE TROOPS FOR GAZA CAMPAIGN – POLITICAL SOURCES

— Reuters (@Reuters) November 16, 2012

JERUSALEM, Nov 16 (Reuters) – Israeli tanks and troops massed outside Gaza and the military said on Friday it was calling up 16,000 reservists, 75,000 reservists,  signs of a possible imminent invasion of the Palestinian enclave after 48 hours of air strikes.

Israel’s warplanes, drones and helicopters appeared to shift focus from suspected Palestinian rocket sites to the northern Gaza frontier, where their bombs created incursion corridors by clearing landmines or guerrilla gun nests. (more…)

*side note*  I don’t remember the CBC, the left, Democrats, or anyone else coming to defend Condi Rice in 2002 because she was black.  Nor do I remember the color of her skin ever being an issue in 2005 during her confirmation hearings…. do you?   I digress. 

As fully expected, the Benghazi Truth leads to new manipulated narratives.

The TRUTH  – The entire intelligence community knew that al-Qaeda operatives were the people who were behind the Benghazi attacks that killed Ambassador Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Ty Woods.   The TRUTH – Susan Rice was specifically and intentionally told to go out on Television and sell a complete line of bullsh!t.   She knew it was a load of crap, and she did it anyway.

So to excuse her intentional lying the White House now shapes the narrative to say she lied, and they told her to lie, because they removed the al-Qaeda truth to protect National Security….   so the lie was excusable.   Or so they claim.   We saw this coming. (more…)

While international eyes are on Gaza…… and the conversation is about how will Egypt react….. Now is when the islamist jihadists will move on Jordan…..   Dangerous time.

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The Media is now in full “protect Obama” mode, trying desperately to excuse the White House from changing the talking points given to them by the “intelligence community”.  The media is trying to explain the unexplainable, excuse the unexcusable, and obfuscate the meaning of intentional lying.

Petraeus confirmed the initial explanations from the intelligence community gave the White House specific information about the cause of the Benghazi Attack being related to al-Qaeda related terrorists.

Why the intelligence was changed, who changed it, and what motive was there for the White House to use an unattached spokesperson, Susan Rice, is still theoretically unadmitted. (more…)