Friday, May 26, 2017
Lock him up: FBI under Comey committed hundreds of 4th Amendment privacy violations
From the story here:
For instance, a ruling declassified this month by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) chronicles nearly 10 pages listing hundreds of violations of the FBI’s privacy-protecting minimization rules that occurred on Comey’s watch.
The behavior the FBI admitted to a FISA judge just last month ranged from illegally sharing raw intelligence with unauthorized third parties to accessing intercepted attorney-client privileged communications without proper oversight the bureau promised was in place years ago.
Thursday, May 25, 2017
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Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Trump resurrects Bush's idiotic war on evil ideology
Trump, quoted here:
'This wicked ideology must be obliterated – and I mean completely obliterated – and the innocent life must be protected. All innocent lives. Life must be protected.'
"The long-term solution is to promote a better ideology, which is freedom. Freedom is universal," Bush said in 2011 after Osama bin Laden was assassinated by Obama.
How long is long term? 6 years? 10 years? 16 years in Afghanistan and Iraq? The better ideology isn't working too well, is it?
You don't defeat ideas. You defeat the people who have them, and keep them out of your society. You know, like a Muslim ban.
How long is long term? 6 years? 10 years? 16 years in Afghanistan and Iraq? The better ideology isn't working too well, is it?
You don't defeat ideas. You defeat the people who have them, and keep them out of your society. You know, like a Muslim ban.
But no, we're "rights" absolutists and can't bring ourselves to infringe the rights of those who want to kill us.
That's the ideology that is killing us.
Living in the West should be viewed as a privilege, which then distributes the rights. Lose the privilege, and lose the rights.
Our real enemy is libertarians and liberals who think every man, woman and child in the world is entitled to come here, live here and enjoy the benefits previous generations bled and died to ensure for themselves.
The Manchester bomber is not equal to George Washington.
Monday, May 22, 2017
Visa overstays hit 740,000 through September 2016
From the story here:
Countries with the highest visa overstays during the period from October 2015 to September 2016 were Canada, Mexico, Brazil, China and India.
Trump isn't fighting to build a wall, in fact he keeps caving
Trump got nothing in the continuing resolution through this fiscal year, and will get even less than he was asking for, if he's lucky, in the next.
Story here.
What a pathetic loser this guy's turning out to be.
What the hell is this?! Now Comey is colluding with the special prosecutor to get their story straight!
Comey shouldn't be allowed to come near Mueller.
Chaffetz is a putz.
Trump's battle of good vs. evil sounds like George W. Bush, kind of warmed over for 2017
Flashback to 2004 here and The President of Good and Evil:
Bush's tendency to see the world in terms of good and evil is especially striking. He has spoken about evil in 319 separate speeches, or about 30 percent of all the speeches he gave between the time he took office and June 16, 2003. In these speeches he uses the word "evil" as a noun far more often than he uses it as an adjective-914 noun uses as against 182 adjectival uses. Only 24 times, in all these occasions on which Bush talks of evil, does he use it as an adjective to describe what people do-that is, to judge acts or deeds. This suggests that Bush is not thinking about evil deeds, or even evil people, nearly as often as he is thinking about evil as a thing, or a force, something that has a real existence apart from the cruel, callous, brutal and selfish acts of which human beings are capable. His readiness to talk about evil in this manner raises the question of what meaning evil can have in a secular modern world.
Ann Coulter's excellent rant against Heritage Foundation
We can bring Ann up to speed on the Germans later.
Best one: Burke said Americans were descendants of Englishmen, and Protestant.
Heritage should sell everything and donate it to the Center for American Progress. They're already doing their work anyway:
"champion the common good over narrow self-interest, and harness the strength of our diversity."
The Heritage Foundation are lunaticks, as the King James Version of the Bible would put it
They are oft cast into the sea in danger of drowning, or into the fire in danger of burns, were it not for the common sense of Americans who have been repelled by their passions, for health care mandates for example.
For a think tank they really should get some thinkers over there one of these days.
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Trump calls war on terrorism a battle between good and evil
Full transcript of remarks in Saudi Arabia here.
Gee, sounds just like Bush (and ISIS) and conservative talk radio is thrilled.
Typically, this rhetoric is used to justify treating the evil as less than human, which is what ISIS does, or sending American troops abroad in search of monsters to destroy. But we're 16 years into Afghanistan now, with no end in sight, and the monsters just keep reproducing themselves.
This is not to suggest moral equivalence, but only that the West continues to delegitimize the "Islamic" in Islamic State in order to keep the military-industrial complex busy.
The goal of war, rather, is supposed to be to end the enemy's ability to wage it. We haven't been serious about that, and I don't think Trump will be either.
Either end it, or quit it, but carrying on like this is bankrupting the country.
Enough.
Sunday, May 21, 2017
Flashback: Robert Mueller and James Comey at FBI accused the wrong guy in the 2001 anthrax letter deaths
Carl Cannon recounts the sorry episode of their incompetence, here, in The Orange County Register.
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