There are many administration claims that I shake my head when I hear, but this one is perhaps the worst.   It is a complete and utter fallacy to proclaim President Obama’s foreign policy has been even remotely successful.   This is just freestyle off the top of my head, but consider: 

Iran has slaughtered the freedom movement; is now almost in possession of a nuclear weapon, and is now in possession of Top Secret drone technology.   China is test launching ICBM’s from the coastal area of Los Angeles and has formed an alliance with Russia and Euro-asia, not to mention contracts with Canada for energy resources.   Vladimir Putin openly mocks and belittles President Obama in front of Global Allies.    Al-Qaeda is surging in the middle east: Yemen is gone, Egypt is under the control of the Muslim Brotherhood, Libya is controlled by radical Islamists and the al-Qaeda flag flies atop the courthouses in Tripoli and Benghazi.   North Africa is in terroristic turmoil.   Israel is isolated.   Turkey has done a 180 degree turn back to radical Islam.  al shabbab has sent operatives from North Africa into the United States via Mexico.   Obama mocks Netanyahu openly in France to Sarkozy, and France coincidently elects a Socialist.    North Korea is test firing Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, and has openly engaged heavy artillery fire against South Korea our ally, who we just signed a trade agreement with.  Coptic Christians are being killed in Egypt.   Afghanistan’s President calls our troops on their soil the scourge upon their nation.  Pakistan has become openly hostile to the West and radical Islamists now make decisions.  Chile and Brazil are drilling in the Gulf of Mexico while we refuse to explore and actually ban our own U.S interest companies to drill.   The EU has openly laughed in the face of Timothy Geithner as he attempted to influence European budget reform.  Thousands of tons of chemical and biological weapons are missing from Egypt, Libya and Syria.  At least 20,000 surface to air missiles are now in the hands of AQNA and AQAP.    300 US Marines were sent to Uganda to capture “General Kony” of the Lords Resistance Army, for what? – um, err, FAIL.  I could go on……. but  I think you get the point….. 

WASHINGTON DC – President Obama trumpeted his foreign policy record on Monday, telling a convention of veterans that his administration has spearheaded a “new era of American leadership” that has made the U.S. “safer and stronger and more respected in the world.” (more…)

Three punks in Chicago murder a 62-year-old disabled man while playing the knock out game.  A “game where the offender picks an innocent victim and knocks him out by striking him and likely robbing him as well,” Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Terry Clancy told Judge Israel Desierto in court Monday.

CHICAGO – Three teenagers accused of killing a 62-year-old father-of-12 in West Rogers Park were playing a game called “Pick ‘em out and knock ‘em down” when they videotaped themselves punching him in the face, prosecutors say.

Malik Jones, 16, Nicholas Ayala, 17, and Anthony Malcolm, 18, were caught after the video of Jones fatally punching Delfino Mora was posted on Jones’ Facebook page, according to authorities.

The three were playing a “game where the offender picks an innocent victim and knocks him out by striking him and likely robbing him as well,” Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Terry Clancy told Judge Israel Desierto in court Monday. (more…)

HatTip Sibiljx On the heels of multiple recent stories that show clearly ABC News being manipulative and inept.   Today the Colorado Shooter’s Mom blasts ABC for lying about her initial statement to them.   Still feeling the shame and embarassment from being caught intentionally lying about the identity of the Shooter, and a false Tea Party connection,  ABC lashes back at Mrs. Holmes.

COLORADO – Arlene Holmes, the mother of Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes, has suggested that ABC News mischaracterized her when it reported that her initial statement to the reporter, “you have the right person,” was a reference to her son.
“This statement is to clarify a statement made by ABC media. I was awakened by a call from a reporter by ABC on July 20 about 5:45 in the morning. I did not know anything about a shooting in Aurora at that time,” Holmes said in a statement this afternoon, read to the national press by attorney Lisa Damiani. “He asked if I was Arlene Holmes and if my son was James Holmes who lives in Aurora, Colorado. I answered yes, you have the right person. I was referring to myself.”

“I asked him to tell me why he was calling and he told me about a shooting in Aurora,” she continues. “He asked for a comment. I told him I could not comment because I did not know if the person he was talking about was my son, and I would need to find out.” (more…)

HatTip Kyozokuninja
Contempt motion withdrawn for sexual-assault victim Savannah Dietrich who tweeted attackers’ names:
KENTUCKY – Defense attorneys for two boys who pleaded guilty to assaulting a 17-year-old Savannah Dietrich have withdrawn their motion that she  be held in contempt for tweeting the names of her attackers in defiance of a court order.
David Mejia, an attorney for one of the teens, said now that the Louisville teen’s story has gone global because of a Courier-Journal article on Saturday there was no reason to continue the contempt motion.
“What could contempt do now?” Mejia said in an interview, adding that the boys names have already been circulated far beyond the original tweet. “Seems like a rather useless exercise doesn’t it?  (read more about the update)

Sunlight is the Best Disinfectant

The Kentucky Court Of InJustice

LOUISVILLE, Ky.  –  A 17-year-old Kentucky girl, Savannah Dietrich, who was upset by the plea deal reached by a pair of teenagers who sexually assaulted her is now facing a contempt charge for tweeting their names in violation of a court order.
Both Savannah Dietrich and her parents say they do not want to shield her identity and want her case to be public.
The boys’ attorneys have asked a judge , Judge Deana “Dee” McDonald, to hold Dietrich in contempt for violating the confidentiality of a juvenile hearing and the judge’s order not to speak about it.
Dietrich told the paper she was assaulted in August 2011 by two boys she knew when she passed out after drinking at a gathering. She learned months later that pictures of the assault were taken and shared with others. (more…)

The outcome from challenging the regime of Dear Leader….. 
Getting On The Enemies List – This column has already told the story of Frank VanderSloot, an Idaho businessman who last year contributed to a group supporting Mitt Romney. An Obama campaign website in April sent a message to those who’d donate to the president’s opponent. It called out Mr. VanderSloot and seven other private donors by name and occupation and slurred them as having “less-than-reputable” records.

Mr. VanderSloot has since been learning what it means to be on a presidential enemies list. Just 12 days after the attack, the Idahoan found an investigator digging to unearth his divorce records. This bloodhound—a recent employee of Senate Democrats—worked for a for-hire opposition research firm. (more…)

(Woody Woodpecker – CSM) Looking dazed and with bright orange hair, the man accused of killing 12 and wounding 58 in a shooting rampage in a Colorado theater appeared Monday in court for the first time.

James Holmes, wide-eyed and unshaven, his head bobbing slightly, appeared not to speak during the brief hearing. He will be formally charged next Monday.
Authorities say the 24-year-old former graduate student is refusing to cooperate, and it could take months to learn what prompted one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history. (more…)

President Obama recently said, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”  Small business owners all across the United States disagree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzZ0XNptRMA

• A $60 million fine, equal to one year’s revenue for the Penn State football program
• 40 scholarship losses, 10 a year for each of the next four years
• A four-year ban on Bowl Games 
• A five-year probation

*All wins vacated from 1998-2011, including 111 of Joe Paterno’s career victories
*All players can transfer and be immediately eligible

“This case involves tragic and tragically unnecessary circumstances. One of the grave dangers stemming from our love of sports is that the sports themselves become too big to fail, indeed, too big to even challenge.”
“The result can be an erosion of academic values that are replaced by the value of hero worship and winning at all costs. All involved in intercollegiate athletics must be watchful that programs and individuals do not overwhelm the values of higher education.
In the Penn State case, the results were perverse and unconscionable.”
– NCAA president Mark Emmert

I don’t know that much about punitive punishment in collegiate sports, but weighed against dozens of little boys being sexually molested, raped and abused, while facilitated by the silence of school administration and leadership, under the guise of protecting the football program, this NCAA “punishment” appears weak to me.  VERY WEAK.
(more here)

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