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Court
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 07:50 pm: | 
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I expect to see Rahm led fro the White House in handcuffs before the end of the truncated administration.
Again . . . absolutely nothing. I just like to speculate. IU was the one, when folks hailed the eternal demise "Buell is finished in racing" after the XBRR's at Daytona, that siad "In the next 5 years Buell will be one of the major names in Racing". I had nothing to go on . . . just experience and intution. That ol' "Just Doesn't Look Right" deal.
And it gets better . . . .
quote:President-elect Barack Obama, who campaigned on lessening the influence of lobbyists in government, has chosen a defense expert who is currently a vice president and lobbyist for one of the country’s biggest defense contractors, to be his Deputy Secretary of Defense.
Obama’s transition office announced that William Lynn, an Undersecretary of Defense in President Bill Clinton’s second term, is nominated to be Deputy Secretary of Defense to Secretary Robert Gates. Lynn is currently a senior vice president at Raytheon, which has billions of dollars in Defense Department contracts and is the maker of the Army’s Patriot Missile system and the Tomahawk missile used by the Navy and is developing a global positioning satellite communication system with the Air Force.
quote:Emanuel's theatrical style, ballet training and "Rahmbo" nickname, along with the well-worn story about a dead fish he sent to a rival, are duly noted on his Wikipedia page. But in his new job, Emanuel is overhauling his image, becoming more valet than hit man, and his formula for moving Obama's agenda through Congress is beginning to resonate. Even Republicans concede that given Obama's early victories, thornier tasks such as landmark health-care, energy and education bills may not be out of reach.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2009/04/12/AR2009041202629.html?wprss=rss_print
His appointment at the Pentagon the other day is going to be a dandy as well. . . .
Keep an eye on Rahm. |
Aesquire
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 07:53 pm: |
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I do love how some jump to hints & accusations of racism.
Rahm is no Rove. There was a cool operator.
I read the report. It read like an early ( pre primary ) Barack speech. About the only clich'e that got missed was the phrase "bitter clingers".
Sure, I'm paranoid, I keep thinking that N. Korea & Iran want to blackmail the world with nukes. I keep thinking that religious nuts want to impose religious law on me without my consent. Silly, huh?
When the Fatherland Security Agency published reports on leftist nut groups, they in fact mentioned some by name & supplied actual data. Peta, FOE, and other actual violent groups that actually hurt people and damaged property were named. ( If you think it's a good idea to break into a college lab and free the cute hamsters.... keep the frack away from me, please. The cute & furry things you rescue may have Pneumonic plague.... or Lassa Fever )
This report? it's a mantra of paranoia with no target besides a smear campaign on "conservatives", veterans, and citizens in general.
Starting with the statement that they have no evidence of violent intent, they launch into a smear calling those who do not agree with them racist, violent, and hate groups. Sounds a little like some who post here. You know who you are.
I got at least 3 outright lies in the first 2 pages, and would rate the emo index of this propaganda quite high. I expect his kind of crap from the radical right ( The kind who think Rush is a traitor for his support for NAFTA ... and think Bircher's are wimps ) and the counterparts on the left, like Obama's spiritual advisers, Soviet Commissars, or Rahm.
But I really have to ask. An agency created to coordinate intel & act on domestic & foreign threats with way too much power & little accountability was a bad scary thing to those who feared the abuse of power such an agency might do. Other than the general insanity of the airline security idiots, ( toothpick searches? ) I must have missed the abuse, though it may have happened.
But now, with this piece of utter crap attack on political enemies BY AN INTEL AGENCY!! the same folk insist that "right wing extreeemists" are being paranoid & there is nothing to worry about? A "report" issued to police around the country?
What? "nothing to fear if you are not a terrorist"?????
If this report came from Bush's admin. you'd sing a different tune. Hypocrites.
& yeah, the right wingers who said "nothing to fear if you are not a terrorist" were full of crap too.
Now as an old line Liberal/hawk, I get complaints that my own views are hypocritical, but I can argue each of them & they have nothing to do with political parties. This DHS report is pure politics & it's the politics of hate & fear. I see reflections of bad times of the past in this report. It's plus ungood. |
Johnnylunchbox
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 09:13 pm: |
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http://www.theonion.com/content/news/media_having_ trouble_finding_right?utm_source=a-section |
Ferris_von_bueller
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 09:36 pm: |
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Is this thread indicative of the "chattering class" that Chucky Schummer spoke of? |
Guell
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 11:20 pm: |
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need i say more? |
Dbird29
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 11:44 pm: |
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South Carolina? |
Ft_bstrd
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 - 11:49 pm: |
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Fort Sumter.
Yep. Strangely both the warriors AND the industry are in the south this time. |
Hexangler
| | Posted on Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 12:56 am: |
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Ok, I read it. I remember all the skinheads back in the '80, culminating with the Oklahoma bombing, and then residing. But I don't get out much anymore.
http://michellemalkin.cachefly.net/michellemalkin.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/hsa-rightwing-extremism-09-04-07.pdf
I don't see how it is any crappier than any other suspicious government report trying to prevent violence. I say read it, be aware of this real extremist potential, and then go about normal life.
I found these specifics interesting:
"Growth of these groups subsided in reaction to increased government scrutiny as a result of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and disrupted plots, improvements in the economy, and the continued U.S. standing as the preeminent world power...
"A recent example of the potential violence associated with a rise in rightwing extremism may be found in the shooting deaths of three police officers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 4 April 2009. The alleged gunman’s reaction reportedly was influenced by his racist ideology and belief in antigovernment conspiracy theories related to gun confiscations, citizen detention camps, and a Jewish controlled “one world government.”
"Prominent among these themes were the militia movement’s opposition to gun control efforts, criticism of free trade agreements (particularly those with Mexico), and highlighting perceived government infringement on civil liberties as well as white supremacists’ longstanding exploitation of social issues such as abortion, inter-racial crimes, and same-sex marriage.
Reminds me also of this guy :
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Network/3378/lenny.htm} |
Buellinmke
| | Posted on Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 09:28 pm: |
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Looks like the Obama DHS nailed it on this warning about right wing extremism-terrorists. Just in the past few weeks we've had right wing extremist-terrorists shooting Christians during Sunday service and shooting blacks at the Holocaust museum. Truly sickening. |
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