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.

New treason case against Eric Holder?

Now it is revealed that a Federal Judge, accompanied by two defense lawyers, showed up at the junior boomer's bedside on Monday, while the FBI was still conducting their interrogation. Neither the Boston PD nor the FBI ordered the judicial crew, and no one has ever heard of a Judge just showing up to conduct an arraignment on their own.

The FBI had been told that they had 48 hours to interrogate before "Miranda" rights would have to be read to the suspect, but only 16 hours into that time period, their interrogation was halted.

There is wide speculation that Eric Holder, maybe acting on his own, or maybe acting on orders of President Obama, directed this little bit of nation-risking legal theater.

Should it turn out that the junior boomer DID know about terror events and someone else gets hurt because of the FBI being unable to get that information out of him before the judicial intervention, then Treason against the United States has been committed.

Everyone knows that Obama was desperate to downplay the Islamic aspect of this terrorism. What better way to get it downplayed than to stifle the bomber's stream of  information to the FBI on his Islamic connections?

This smells very, very bad. The Administration, at least the part of it that Holder controls, likely just put the Nation at risk to play up a mistaken political agenda.

That's treasonable.

Period.

Event horizon change

The Event Horizon for efforts to retain the Second Amendment against the relentless efforts of the political left to emasculate or remove it has changed.

I know of no better example than brilliant gun writer Oleg Volk's blog.

Read the last (summary) paragraph in this post (the final sentence will suffice):

"The opium pipe dreams of the “restoration of the Republic” through another revolution are best left for those who don’t much value a connection to reality."

Now, fast forward almost 6 months to just a few days ago:

"We are at war with those who would disarm us. (Snip) Our chances of fighting back effectively diminish with every concession we make."

Yep, getting into a fight for your survival changes your event horizon. We're not in a shooting war just yet, but the chance that somewhere in the USA, a shooting war will soon break out is getting better by the day. I'm fairly sure that every day, POTUS Obama calmly re-evaluates his chances of removing the threat to his agenda that is the Second Amendment, and so far, he has doubled down against his Constitution at every evaluation of this fight's worth to him and the Left. I analyze the fight he's bringing to eliminate the Second Amendment as an indication of his plans, and the fight that defenders of the Constitution such as myself are bringing every day as an indication of our countervailing resolve. In no previous attack on the Second Amendment has the Left stayed in the fight this long, nor have they previously coalesced around the fierce determination they now demonstrate to end our enumerated freedoms and give their Leftist President a carte-blanche to convert the USA to a dictatorship of the Left.

The Left hasn't blinked, and it doesn't look likely that they will, because the attack is being carried not only by the Feds, but also by every Democratic Party operative in every Statehouse across the land. The particular objective common to the fight is to gut the Second by restricting the right to own and carry militia-capable weapons. That is the common thread of the Federal and State/local efforts by the Left.

What is the next "double-down tactic" when the Left gets stalled in the Congress? I have no doubt in my mind that some sort of event will "happen" that POTUS Obama will use as a lever to grant himself extraordinary, un-Constitutional power, and suspend the Bill of Rights, in total, or maybe just the First and Second Amendments during the "emergency".

My best guess for this "triggering event"? The North Koreans will shoot some missiles next week, and our forces will say that they appeared to be not tests, but hostile shots, and we will fire on their missiles, killing at least one of them. We will then be in a shooting war with the Norks, and the POTUS will declare himself a wartime prexy and present "evidence" of Nork "infiltration" of the USA, and list his suspension of the Bill of Rights. The aggression of the Norks will never affect the mainland USA, but the suspension of the Bill of Rights will happen anyway.

The Right Hand vs. the Left Hand

So, what useful thing is Rivrdog up to today?

I'm acquainting the Oregon Right Hand with the Oregon Left Hand, that's what.

I got a letter from the Oregon Dept of Justice, demanding to know all about my tax-exempt corporation, the Willboat Education Foundation.

So, I have retrieved the Incorporation packet I got from the Secretary of State Corporate Division, I've copied the entire package of 8 pages, added to it the IRS form granting my company it's tax-exempt status, and also added the completed three-page questionaire from the DOJ, and I will now mail it off to the State Department of Justice, after adding $1.32 postage to the large manilla envelope.

Grrrrr.! Now they wonder why we think Government sucks?

There's a reason to call them "Ass Press"

Two reasons, actually:

1. They are nincompoops. Utter crap flows from their newswire in a constant stream.
2. They have their lips pressed so far into the ass of the Socialists and their agenda item of Gun Control that they can't get the brown off.

Example, current, common, one each

The AssPress article asks the question, of whether Costas overstepped his position, in it's title. The answer is a simple "Yes". The article then goes on to issue a "well, no" answer and deliver a standard lefty excuse that Costas' departure from sports to delve into social engineering and Civil Rights Denial is okay because, well, because his ideas "will keep us safe". Except they won't keep us safe, that science is settled; denying the Bill of Rights is not only unpatriotic, it's treasonable; and just because, well, a sports blatherer is supposed to stick to sports. That's why they're there, isn't it?

When I want to see ass-kissing of the serious sort, I always turn to the Ass Press.

For Maroon of the Month, I give you Bob Costas. Wotta Maroon!

Wednesday WTF,O

That stands for pilot lingo, "What the f**k, over" The "over" is from the earliest days of radio, when, to transmit voice, you were on such a narrow bandwidth that you couldn't transmit duplex (both halves of the conversation at once), so a switch had to be thrown "over" (it was usually a large bat-handle switch on the front of the transmitter cabinet) to end the transmitter's broadcast and change the antenna to receive mode. The word "over" was added to the end of each voice transmission so that the receiving party would know that it was his/her turn to transmit. The military probably still uses this protocol, although most forms of radio-telephony are now full duplex.

WTF #1: Do you get the feeling that the whole planet is going to Hell in a Handbasket just now? We just re-elected a President who cares not for the Constitution he's sworn to uphold, and a Congress which won't follow THEIR oaths of office, either. We seem to have a military whose Generals seem more concerned about the press and fit of uniforms and how those unis dazzle the babes than their prowess in battle. Europe applies band-aids to their trashed economies, economies beaten down into the dirt by the excessive expense of Socialism, but the EU citizens don't get it, and riot over every little cut to the largess of their Socialist regimes. Now Israel has slouched into full war with Hamas, which will likely bring in Hezbollah in the next few days, and the IDF will have to defend the Jewish State on all it's borders. But, back on Wall Street, the Day Traders make their lightning trades, advancing their portfolios a penny here and a penny there, and thinking that they are singlehandedly holding the American Dream together. People, we are exactly one RCH away from global chaos, driven mostly by fear, OVER.

WTF #2: The "fiscal cliff". This story rates not only a WTF, Over, it rates a resounding "Whoop Factor Nine". Game of farging chicken. Means exactly ZERO, because neither party wants to address the central idea at the root of the "Fiscal Cliff" issue: the size of Government itself. The current (minority) flavor of Righty politix is "center-right", meaning that government excess, both fiscal and power, can be tolerated with minor objection only. The current (majority) flavor of Lefty politix is that Government is never big enough or powerful enough, so it's NEVER excessive to increase it's size or power. It all costs money, that Government, and there is only so much of it to go around, and not enough to actually PAY for all that Government, so we get a deficit (debt) building up, sometimes less and sometimes more, but always building. Okay, there is a perception that the cost of Government has built up from "of serious concern" to the "dire copnsequence" level, to finally the "Fiscal Cliff". It's all perception, people. There is no bright line, that when crossed, the economy fails. Instead, there's a progression: the higher the debt-to-revenue ratio, the more the costs of Government rise, and when the rate of rise approaches vertical, then an end will come, but we're a long way from vertical, people. Look, I'm not sayin' don't fix this mess, but I am saying that 010113 at 0001 EST, there is not a "Fiscal Cliff" to fall over, unless the boneheaded Day Traders of Wall Street declare one (and some are trying that, even as I write). If everyone just does their job: the President managing the Administration the best he can, and the Congress producing and passing a budget the best they can, we'll get by. We may not be the perfect Jeffersonian Model of a Government, but we'll get by, OVER.

WTF #3: The Lemming Factor. Reading the above WTF,Os, you get the idea that it is fear that drives us these days. You would be right, to a degree. The preppers prepare out of fear (I am one of those who evaluate common fears as to their potential effect on ME, and prepare accordingly). The Press sells soap because of fear (righty and lefty press). Fear causes more fear, but what is all of this fear but momentary discomfort? Enter the Lemming Effect. That's when the fear makes you run in the direction the herd/flock/school is running, just to be doing something about your fear. Someone at the head of the herd/flock/school gets lost (lack of good Navigator, heh!), runs over a Cliff (Fiscal or real), and un-necessary carnage results (and the Zombies waiting at the bottom of the cliff get fed!). That's the Lemming Factor. My take on the Lemming/Cliff paradox is all about not running when the herd/flock/school runs, but standing still to wait until the group passes, just to see what or who is driving them. If they are being driven, I have choices: I can join the running group, I can challenge the drivers, I can hide from the drivers. I have CHOICES, and so do you, OVER.

 

Bloomie steps over the line

NY Citeh Mayor Bloomberg was asked by the Brooklyn Borough President for National Guard help. Hizzoner refused to pass along the request because the Guard would have showed up in uniform and bearing arms, lending the appearance of a...wait for it...wait...a POLICE STATE!

Okay then, first the Marathon issue, now this. New Yorkers, could your city possibly be mismanaged worse than it is now?

I didn't think so.

Recall Bloomberg's incompetent, dictatorial ass, and DO.IT.NOW!

H/T to Say Uncle Blog

Next election, remind me...

To never give any money to a candidate who learned to solicit at the same school where they teach Publisher's Clearing House ignorami how to do that.

The Romnoids are up to about 2 appeal emails per hour now...

cc: Romney HQ

Poll needed

We need a quick poll. Do any of the Geeks/libertarians that Romney was obviously aiming for yesterday feel better about him after the dee-bate?

Did his strategy work?

Did any of the backbone people* get insulted by his remark, "we can't kill our way out of this" (this meaning the FUBAR war in the 'Stan), and his follow-up remark that he will follow Obama's 2014 cut-and-run schedule for ending the war in 'Stan? Maybe we should poll some of the Friday night crowd at various VFW and American Legion posts this week...

Seems to me that Romney took a big chance, that he would win over more geeks/libertarians than he would lose with backbone people*.

Does this tell you that Romney feels good about playing the games of the spineless? I got that message last night.

There's always the "devil-you-know" theory of voting, and my guess is that some spine-people might just employ that rule in two weeks.

Romney's debate strategy was a loser, in my not-so-humble opinion. Last night was the perfect place for Romney to lift up the country, to show some backbone and help those who are losing their spines find them again. Romney did not do that, in fact, it seems to me that he deliberately appealed to Obama's base, not his own. He will be GWB-lite, if he can muster THAT much fortitude, and if he wins. I'm not putting any money on either of those two "ifs" happening.

I'm going to vote for the man, but I can tell you right now that afterward, I will feel like handing a rope and a whip to a Real American, having myself tied to a fence rail, and having the stupid beaten out of me.

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* backbone people: my term for folks who put up the Flag more than once or twice a year. Folks who feel that the Second Amendment to the US Constitution is perhaps the most important in the Bill of Rights, because it secures all the others and makes them the law of the Land. Folks that the Won once refered to as the "bitter clingers".

No big deal, the film sucked

I watched the part of the (horrors!) anti-Islamic film when it was available on You Tube. It might be charitably re-titled "Harold and Kumar become Hadeed and Omar", with apologies to the stoners in that film trilogy. It is low comedy at it's worst, and takes several opportunities to show the Prophet Mohammed as a dorky opportunist, and his acolytes, the Harold and Kumar characters, as frat-boy dorks of even lower caliber. The film-maker completely failed to properly use the satire he was obviously trying for, and the ultra-low budget location work, out in the dunes somewhere in SoCal or AZ, didn't even bother to use a leaf blower to erase the ATV tracks in the sand dunes. Losers.

If I'm a muzzie, my reaction is to ask why Westerners are such crappy film-makers, but if Hassan Nasrallah, Mullah of Hizbullah, actually appears in public to denounce it, I guess anyone can be a film critic these days.

The film-maker is not a threat to anyone or anything, but I will award him Maroon of the Month, anyway.