Nom de plume: Rivrdog

The Benghazi Boogaloo

Yep, it's dancing time again for the Democrats, so they trot out the Boogaloo, and we have been treated to a full day of it on the telly.

I don't want to burst any bubbles here, but if there is a single conservative who doesn't know the truth about Benghazi by now, it's because that right-thinking person just got off the slow intergalactic shuttle from Planet Zargon.

It boils down to this: Since this Administration began, "sensitivity" has taken precedence over Security at every US embassy around the world, and that is obviously by order of President Obama. We pretty much had this embassy security thing covered for the first 225 years of our Nation's existence: put Marines at the embassies, and leave them in charge of Security.

Along comes the "apologize to everyone" crowd, and their first take on it was to end visible security. The USMC is nothing if not visible, so away they go. They were "replaced" (not really) with a bunch of ex-spooks (contractors of the State Department) in plain clothes, with various levels of armaments, usually little to none, plus totally untrustworthy locals hired for the job. This was done in the name of not "offending" anyone in the host nations of our embassies.

Consider the case of Libya: a nation without an effective government, one which had just gone through a violent revolution to depose a dictator. Armed militias roamed the streets, and Jihadi militants were everywhere. Our embassy in Benghazi, Libya last September was a pool of gasoline waiting for someone with a match to come along. And they did. And there was no security. And our people died.

Almost immediately after the 9-11-12 attack on the embassy (interesting, predictable date, yes?), the Administration went into full cover-up mode and has been there ever since. Lie after lie. "Talking Points" ad infinitum. New faces to lie for old faces, but lie, lie, lie.

Today, at the latest Congressional hearings, some of the lies were exposed. 

Huzzah, they exposed some lies. Give Rep. Issa a kewpie doll.

B.F.D.

Is anyone at risk of being indicted for lying to Congress at the earlier hearings?

Doesn't sound that way.

Here's the Rivrdog Solution, take it or leave it. Quit farting around, Issa. You're not going to indict anyone for lying to Congress and you know it, so put the other side on the spot by introducing and passing a Bill that denies funding for all embassy protection EXCEPT a reinforced rifle company of the USMC placed at every embassy in Harm's way.

In other words, put embassy protection back on the footing the previous Administration had it.

Bring real guns and real gunners to the next gun fight at any US Embassy. Bringing Talking Points to a gunfight is fatal, as we know now.

End of discussion.

Boston, a cradle of Liberty?

Yeah, THAT Boston, where the "shot heard 'round the world" was first fired at Concord, to start the Revolutionary War, the winning of which gave us our freedoms.

THAT Boston, where the new catch-phrase "Boston Strong" has just been crafted and is now seen all over the country.

The only thing about Boston that's strong is the smell left over, not from bombs exploding 8 days ago, but from the stench of a crapped-on Constitution lying in the gutter there.

A couple of shit-for-brains Jihadis were enough to cause the various levels of Government there to illegally declare the Constitution suspended?

Oho! You say, "there was no such Declaration, 'Dog."

You're right, the traitors (Governor Patrick and Mayor Menino) who usurped the Constitution for better than two days in Boston didn't bother to make a declaration, because they knew that such a move would only have highlighted the un-Constitutionality of their actions.

But wait! You sniffle, and your dim-bulb glows, "didn't the Mayor and the Governor declare States of Emergency, 'Dog, and don't those declarations cover the Government actions?"

Ah, no, they don't, Tony Macaroni. All they do is permit the City to govern, according to the Constitution, by decree of the Mayor (or Governor), instead of by the processes of the Legislature or City Council, and primarily they are published so as to deny the cops overtime pay, since the declarations suspend wage and hour rules. If that State allows such declarations to deny Constitutional Rights, then it needs to be challenged in Court and have that authority removed from the Governor. Likewise the City of Boston.

The States of Emergency cannot permit police to boot down doors without a warrant or  arrest without probable cause (4th Amendment violations) or totally deny freedom of movement and assembly (First Amendment violations). All those violations of Civil Rights happened. The declarations of Emergency might be stretched to include closing off an area which is actually part of the crime scene, but not the entire City. If the Governor wants to stop commuter trains, and the Mayor subways and busses, fine, that's their perogative: the State and City own them, and they can run them or not.

So we have every liberal in the whole damn deluded Nation slapping the MA and Boston Governments on the back, praising them to the skies for their "efficiency" in capturing/killing the incompetent Jihadis.

Stalin, Hitler and Mao didn't have much trouble capturing criminals, either, did they? Would you have wanted to live under their governance?

Didn't think so.

Aren't you just a bit curious as to what might have happened if the Jihadis had bombed, say, the Boise Marathon, or maybe the Salt Lake City Marathon?

Let's apply a "Second Amendment Filter" to this discussion, shall we? Take any City where the Second Amendment is broadly supported (not begrudgingly supported like my City of Portland, OR), and ask yourself if the Government would have even thought about cancelling the Bill of Rights to catch a couple of Jihadis. Nope, in those cities, citizens would have just slung their rifles, strapped on their sidearms, and gone about their business, and the cops would have used the Constitution to help catch the perpetrators instead of wiping their collective asses with it.

The "blue" States don't support or even use their Constitution anymore, so they are doomed to the predations of Government, whenever that Government gets a whim to act outside of their Constitutional authority. Boston just proved that.

"Boston Strong", WTF?

That should be "Boston Wrong".

2027 EDT: FeeBees raid dorm room of suspect/s, arrest roomies.

At U-Mass Dartmouth. Saw it on Fox News just now. Unknown charges, but if they found so much as a roll of caps in there, they'd bust the roomies for maintaining WMDs, I'm sure. They drove in and out with three rental box-van trucks, though.

Hmmm, this might be how to get the house de-cluttered without the back strain and dumpster charges....

1915 EDT: Suspect down in hail of police gunfire - Updated!

Suspect killed*. Had been hiding in a boat in a yard on Franklin St in Watertown.

Bugler, sound chow call. The troops may stand down.

Now the lad gets to meet his brother and munch his 72 raisins (Not yet) Something tells me that the older brother will be upset, having died at the hands of younger bro, and under the wheels of a stolen Benz SUV, not in gun-blazing or bomb-booming glory.

* Argument now among newsies an hour later says he is alive in the fishboat he was hiding out in, maybe even moving around. Maybe I should call him "in custody". Gotta solution for this. Back up a fire truck, and fill the boat with water. You either snaffle him out alive, or after he's assumed the consistency of a soggy bowl of cereal.

Mea culpa(s) and another Educated Guess - UPDATED!

UPDATE: I and many others bought the wrong photos, says the Feebees. They give us this pair:

Curious, just curious. Why the long delay?

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I bought into the "they've arrested the perp" theory yesterday, along with the networks except SeeBS. I was trying to live blog (note to self, don't live blog a repeated event) so I bought into it. Then, when it started to crumble as a story, I put two and two together and came up with five, another newshound error.

Sorry about that. Need to watch the "woo-woo" as the Rivrsis frequently tells me.

So, I'm going to follow MORE of the Rivrsis' political philosophy, and double down on the "woo-woo".

About those two "persons of interest" from the Lord & Taylor vids, and the fact that the cops have the photos, but the FeeBees won't show them to us. I might be suckering in on a net-sweep here, but the URL you can see it at is here. Go to Page 148 at that site. 

Drill down the photos until you get to the pair marked "Bag" and "No Bag". Look at the face of the guy in "No Bag". The photo embiggens with a click and HOLD from the left mouse button. Now you know why the public isn't allowed to see the photos. The guy is African ancestry. Yep. That's why the FeeBees ran off and hid. Somebody at the Top said put a lid on this. That much is obvious. I think that with the record of Mr. Obama and Mr. Holder on the New Black Panther Party affair in the '08 election, this is to be expected with a "person of interest" of African ancestry.

Is this racial? You bet. It is also vital if the authorities want to get this guy or guys. Every cop I know is totally chapped when the APB for a wanted person goes out from Dispatch, complete with race, facial characteristics, etc, but when you see the discription on the Evening News, all mention of race or racial features is missing.

We're dealing here with mass-murderers at the least, maybe persons conducting war against our civil population on orders from elsewhere, and using WMDs to boot.

This is OUR problem, FBI. The whole damn Nation is at risk until the perp(s) are caught. This Nation offers the FBI their eyes and ears and the FBI turns down the offer? What kind of Stupid is that?

F.B.I., put out the photos. Do it now. Not too many read this blog, but the FeeBees probably do. Oh, MSM: you also know where these pictures are. Obama is almost finished his campaign speech at the Boston Memorial Service, so when he is done, YOU put out the pictures. Tell the FeeBees to piss up a rope when they complain.

"Jesus" stomping was more than offensive - UPDATED!

At Florida Atlantic University, a professor had his students write Jesus in full-page letters on a sheet of paper, then place it on the floor and stomp on it.

The University is trying to roll this back by saying that it was not a mandatory participation exercise, but that doesn't wash because when a student, a practicioner of the Mormon faith, refused, he was booted from the class.

The University has "apologized"

Two things: this phony "communications" or "feelings" exercise was put on as Easter Week, Christendom's holiest holiday, approached. Second, this professor just happened to use the most powerful insult that a MUSLIM could use to defile something blasphemous in the Eyes of Allah.

It's strange that none of our stalwart newhounds on the Right have brought up my second point.

By his orders to his class, the Professor has identified himself as an adherent of Islam, and a rather pointed adherent at that. The islamic codeword for lying when it benefits Islam is "Taqiyya", and the professor obviously know what it means.

The proof of the Islamic Connection? The professor would have been playing more to Western mores by telling the students to rip up the paper with "Jesus" on it, because shredding or dividing the image would have been more to the point for a Western audience.

Offensive to Christians and a coded message to Islam, is more like what the professor did.

Fire his muzzie ass.

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The Patriot Padre reports that the professor in question has been placed on "administrative leave" by the University. Is this a two-minute Minor penalty-box visit, or a five-minute Major? Time will tell.

Immigration, again

...and again, nothing has changed. There are at least twelve million illegal aliens in this Nation, and it appears that they are going to be allowed to stay. Allowed by any politico who has had a voice on the subject, because all the plans of both parties include a "path to citizenship", i.e., Amnesty for their crimes of illegally entering and remaining in this Nation.

My position has not changed. My position says that US law has defined them as criminals, no matter what public policy might be in ignoring that law or that status of those people. In this Nation, you follow the law, or you are an outlaw, and immigration law is perfectly clear: as an alien, you may not remain in this country if you have committed crimes, particularly felony crimes.

We all know why the Demoncrats and Rethuglicans both want to give the illegals amnesty: they want to buy their votes. That's the 900# gorilla in the room, but it's also the way out of this mess.

The way out is to make it desireable for the aliens to leave. They have to WANT to leave. We make them WANT to leave by making it economically unfeasible for them to live here. Here's how I would do that:

• Throw the switch. End the transfer of dinero back to their home countries. Pass a law requiring that all persons wanting to transfer money to a foreign address prove their citizenship and if not a citizen of the US, show their US entry visa. I traveled extensively in Europe as a kid, some ten years after WW2, and my parents and I had to show our "papers" to everyone, even to hotel clerks to get a room. If you have "papers", you're not afraid to show them. When the illegals can't transfer their money, a black market for doing so will spring up, and when it does, our efficient Federal agants can seize ALL that money, probably enough to pay their way. For those who DO have visas, tax their dinero 15%. That will go some distance towards paying for the horrible bill that this immigration mess has caused. In my State of Oregon, it is well over 30% of the social welfare budget and the education budget.
• We have a "path to citizenship" already. It's called Naturalization, and it works. My paternal grandfather was naturalized, along with his wife. Let's enforce the Naturalization process, maybe streamline it some (although it's pretty easy already), and all those industrious individuals wishing to become US citizens can do so.
• Give out more work visas, but have a vigorous program of checking up on the workers. The FIRST time they switch jobs without reporting it, they are gone. No exceptions.
• End the "born in the USA" birthright, aka "anchor babies". End tuition assistance for illegals and their children. End the free rides wherever they exist. We save billions of bucks, and the illegals will want to get legal faster.
• Allow and even encourage local and State law enforcement to help enforce Federal Immigration law instead of discouraging them from doing so as now happens. That quintuples the enforcement resources immediately, and furthermore, puts those resources out of the political control of DeeCee, from which all this corruption in border control comes.
• Fence? We don't need no steenking fences, we need the Army. End of discussion.

All nations are entitled to secure their borders for the purposes of internal security. Some do a better job than others. All of them do a better job than we're doing, because of our politically corrupt idea of allowing illegal immigration for the purposes of packing voter rolls and buying cheap labor. Until that corruption stops, and I don't see that happening anytime soon, because both parties want to pack their voter rolls with hispanics, the problem can't be solved.

Isn't there something more important to be discussed, such as our impending collapse of the economy?

Monday Maudlin Meandering Manifesto

I have a few hours before the big fight to save the gudwife resumes, so here are some meandering thoughts I've been accumulating for a week or so.

• (Gun) Control: PawPaw skewers the traitorous Captain Mark Kelly with his sharp Acadian lampoon, and bastes him over a slow pit with his own juices. Laissez la Verite roule, monsieur!
• Our President: dares to flash his anti-semitism at Israeli defense policy. Here's a flash for YOU, Mister President: Israel is actually faced with nuclear annihilation should Iran get their nuke. We are only second on Iran's list. Being a small Nation, one nuke would do a lot of damage to the Israeli nation, whereas we could soak up one nuke and soldier on in the USA. If Israel is actually "beating it's chest", which I haven't seen, it's doing it as a means of issuing the strongest possible warning to Iran. Your "warnings" to Iran, Mister President, have no substance to them at all, and are taken as jokes, or worse, as Taqiyya in Qom and Tehran, so S.T.F.U., Mister President. BTW, the "beating the chest" remark is an obvious suck-up to Egypt's IMFWIC (Islamist mo-fo what's in charge) Morsi, and refers to his anti-semetic remark about the Jews being descendants of apes, so this is all about a bunch of anti-semites trying to one-up each other. Still think Obama isn't a closet Islamist?
• Nature musing: Do you read the venerable nature 'toon "Mark Trail" in the Sunday funny-papers? There is good stuff in there, and little of the usual earth-religion apple-crapple you get from other such sources. This weekend's enlightenment was about the genus Myocastor Coypus, better known by it's commercial name, Nutria, or it's local name, "water rat", except in Oregon, where "water rat" is the title given to OSU Beavers (by OU Duck fans, anyway). The story on the nutria was one of the usual meddling with nature and it's disastrous consequences. The prolific animal was brought here because of it's lustrous fur, and a commercial exploitation of that fur was made with varying success. Current exploitation of Coypus is to try to interest yuppies in eating it's flesh. One unscrupulous coypus farmer in Clark County, WA was discovered selling his skinned coypus carcasses to a local taco-shack chef, who put it in tacos and called it "pulled pork". While this sounds far-fetched, it's not, a good friend of mine from Seattle, down here to visit family, ate some water-rat tacos she picked up in Vancouver WA, got food poisoning from it, but had the left-overs to take to the King County medical officer, who positively identified it as water-rat meat, and had his counterpart in Clark County hammer the taco shack that sold them. I get a chuckle at the consternation of the enviros that all their precious wetlands are being done in by coypus, though, because, as the Wiki explains, they took care of this problem down Louisiana way by putting a bounty on the water rats, and .22s in the hands of hunters did the rest. Horrors! A GUN solution to a problem? Can't have that!

Well, it's getting on towards time to pester a few more medical staff about the gudwife's program, so I'll sign off for now.

All y'all keep your BeeEss detector screens on Double-Front, you hear?

First take on the "Rio Grande Compromise"

Bullet list in order of nothing:

• I have no beef with anyone who wants to come to this country to work, pay taxes, etc. Have a set of standards for immigrants to meet, open the door and get the Hell out of the way. The Devil's in those standards, of course, and PeeCee can't have a seat at the table when they are drawn.
• I am a second-generation American myself (father's side), so everyone should get the same opportunity my Grandfather Phillip got: the right to survive with and on his own initiative, with no-one behind him to catch him if he fell, which he did (great earthquake in Frisco in 1906 wiped him out totally and then the Depression again 19 years later). His new synagogue in Portland set him back on his feet in 1906 with minimum assistance, for a minimum time, in return for work.
• It seems that the Rio Grande Compromise has these basic underpinnings, but it also seems to me that the basics won't buy votes, so let's take a broad guess at how they will "have" to be modified to make them into vote-buying material. BTW, you can use my title, Chuckie. It's the only thing I'm ever gonna do for you, you Gun-Grabbing schmuck).

No fair, you say, you can't assign Evil to a government program even before it's had some meat put on the bones?

Well now, Pilgrim, take the not-yet dead Gun control issue and the un-dead Gun Controller Chuck Schumer. We knew all about THAT fiasco before it started, didn't we? Feinstein and her gun-grabbers had their dancing shoes on before those little hearts had stopped leaking, didn't they? Quod Erat Demonstratum est.

Here are the big dangers:

• The "some more equal than others" ploy, You're an immigrant "waiting in line." Okay then, let's say that you are working and you have your choice of jobs:, both involve agricultural labor. Job "A" involves just showing up at the farm labor center, punching in and going out to work on a farm. Job "B" involves joining a farm worker's union, then showing up and working on a farm. Do you suppose Job A or Job B gives you the best "path to citizenship"? Now let's say you stick out Job B for two years, and a new program is announced to give low-interest loans to farmworkers to pay their $5000 fee and back tax bill (supposedly this will be a pre-requesite). Who do you suppose will get those loans, Jobholder "A" or Jobholder "B"? I knew you could see the light.
• Then there's the old "anchor-baby" ploy. There's already talk of making a smoother or quicker "path to Citizenship" for those parents with Anchor Babies. Look for this issue to raise it's ugly head, and very soon. This issue might very well kill the program right off the bat. Thing is, it doesn't have to be a fight here. We may be the ONLY Nation to have the Anchor-Baby Doctrine (and if we're not, you can bet all the ones which do are Socialist countries by admission and trying to become more so). This is a no-brainer: Instead of Anchor Baby status, give Dual Citizenship to the Anchor Baby. That way, the youth has an opportunity to live in the USA if it can arrange foster parent status or some FAIR way can be devised to "hold" a slot for the parents that doesn't trump any other immigrants' rights, but the parents aren't rewarded for breaking the Immigration laws to have the child here. No one is disadvantaged with the Dual Citizenship plan, and that way two parents and a child don't steal TWO "places in line" from someone who did NOT have an anchor baby.
• How do State's Rights figure into this new system? LOTS of opportunity for vote-buying here, folks. The Liberal States already heavily regulate and subsidize immigrant housing, and to some degree, there is other subsistance as well. How about the Conservative states? Let's take two States, California and Texas. Let's say the total value of immigrant housing bennies in CA is $1,000/month, and in Texas it's $600/month. Let's say the generous Feddle Gummint adds $400 month to that total in each State, so there's no favoritism there, is there? Nazzofast, Guido, now toss in the fact that CaliforniKa can't afford those extra bennies, but they pay them anyway, and then snivel up a bailout from the Feds, when Tejas doesn't need a bailout, pays it's own way. NOW who is cutting the fat hog? Why, it's both the State of Kalifornika AND the immigrants, and they both scratch each others' backs.

If this Immigration Reform, I call it the Rio Grande Compromise, is going to work, it has to have a fine nit-comb used on it to get out all the political lice, or those immigrants are not going to be anything but a mechanism to insure the complete and forever Socialist conversion of the US of A.

Oh, Wait, maybe that's the whole Idea.

Mister Representative, can I talk to you just a bit....

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Thursday Thuds, Astrological Edition

Yep, there must be a conjunction that the horoscope didn't report:

The Constellation Ignoramus is in the Seventh House of the Moon, so we may call this Teh Stoopid Rising.

Thud the First: The looney Kimmy is at it again, sort of declaring war, nuclear war, on the USA. What Teh Stoopid Norky apparently doesn't realize is that he is ALREADY at war with the USA. Way back in 1953, when I was playing sandlot baseball with my first mitt, a Rawlings Al Kaline, we ended the Korean War with an Armistice, not a Treaty. We're still under the terms of that armistice, and still technically at a state of war. One B-2 Spirit with a belly full of nuke AGM-86s ends this war. Might be as easy as a B-2 Spirit with a single Small Diameter Bomb detonating on the pillow next to Kimmy in his bed.

Thud the Second: Goes to State Rep Mitch Greenlick (D-33), Oregon. He's a white guy, but has made a political career of being a race pimp, creating a Diversity in Sports Hiring Law for Oregon a few years back, and steamrolling it through the Legislature. The Oregon Ducks just replaced Head Football Coach Chip Kelly, now coaching the Philadelphia Eagles, with Offensive Coordinator Mark Helfrich. Both are white. Someone put the bug in Greenlick's ear that Da Rulz had not been followed, and no person of color had been interviewed before hiring Da White Guy. If Greenlick had paid attention to the local sports press, he would have gotten all these facts, but he decided to shoot off his face anyway, and when caught short on his accusation, he doubled down on Teh Stoopid and bitched that the SPIRIT of the "Diversity" law was not being followed, apparently because a person of color wasn't hired. The law, of course, does NOT mandate hiring people of color, it is only there to see that they are given a chance at the slots that come up. Now Greenlick has to re-double down by holding a Star Chamber hearing on this boneheaded "spirit of the Law" crap. Of course, what he really wants to do is be appointed Diversity Potentate/Caliph for Oregon. Perfect Celestial Alignment of Teh Stoopid. Letter to the Editor sent.

Thud Da Toid: What can I say, it's a toss-up between outgoing Secretary of State Hildebeeste and incoming S.O.S.-Nominee John Effing Kerry. Hillary got ground up, chewed up and spit out by Sen. Rand Paul yesterday, and today, J Effing Kerry got a John McCain blow job. Perfect alignment of McCain's dripping chin with Kerry's belt buckle. GOPes rolled over on the Swift Boat Liar. One can only hope that the Liar will soon embarass himself badly enough to be consigned to the dustbin of history, or maybe better, he will invent his own foreign policy and completely screw up Obama's.

Thud the Fourth: Rocks and Shoals edition. Yep, as long as men go down to the sea in warships, some of them will have to suffer bad navigation/ship-handling, and will wind up on the shoals. Happened here. Ship had just left Subic Bay. Do you suppose all the quarterdeck crew were sober? Pretty cheap drunk in Olongapo...worse news is that the shoal is a world-recognized endangered reef.

Thud the Fifth: We don't have many Thuds in the Art World, but what good can happen to the Paris Ballet Corps now that their Chef de la Danse is a chap named Millepied? That translates directly to "1,000 feet"...(H/T to the RivrSis, my Art Correspondent).

Ah, well. Time and the stars march on, so soon this alignment of Teh Stoopid will be over. Maybe I should go back to bed and wait it out. Fighting off Teh Stoopid Rays is giving me a headache, anyway.