"FAILURE THEATER"

Ace says:

As Expected, John Boehner Sells Out the Conservatives In Yet Another Performance of "Failure Theater" 

Failure Theater is the process by which the Establishment deliberately fails to do achieve anything, but wants credit from the Dumb Conservatives they're playing to for allegedly "trying." 

Each of Boehner's and McConnell's "defeats" are in fact planned in advance. They are not trying to advance the conservative agenda; they are attempting to con conservatives into believing they have attempted to implement conservative policy, when in fact they were delivering their political deliverables to their Donor Class paymasters all along. 

Uneducated, gullible, and easily led: if we stand for this, we are exactly what the Washington Post slurred us as 30 years ago.

I think it may be time to begin donating to Democrats, and cc'ing the GOP on the donation.
— TheClassyLife (@AceofSpadesHQ) March 3, 2015

He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur

Obama, Iran, 5 other nations?

TREATY

Except by tortuous logic designed to obscure, and DEFEAT the Constitution

Senate?

House?

WHO ARE YOU?

News

I'm too depressed to actually spend my time constructing any posts.

So, here's some stuff I think is important:

Obama "Very Interested" In Raising Taxes Through Executive Action

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Obama planning on taking over state and local police which is very scary.

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AP/Yahoo: Obama: 'Now is the moment' for police to make changes

One, Two, Three And I Was Out

At a certain point in the speech, Bibi said, "Before we can do any deal, Iran needs to do three things: stop its aggression against its neighbors, stop supporting terrorism around the world, and stop threatening to annihilate Israel. Iran needs the deal a lot more than you do. Remember that."

After that point, I turned it off.

If Bibi would make these points, then we know he's not actually going to do anything.

Something needs to be done.

Who will do it?

Some of the Instant Reaction

Benjamin Netanyahu addresses Congress Today: Teaches Us About Violent Islam and Courage http://t.co/c8zRNCJgST

— Nancy French (@NancyAFrench)

March 3, 2015

RT @JacksonDiehl: Netanyahu is basically making the case that Iran must be sanctioned and contained until there is regime change in Tehran

— David Feith (@DavidFeith)

March 3, 2015

#BibiSpeech and "Elie Wiesel" are now trending worldwide. #NetanyahuSpeech

— Avi Mayer (@AviMayer)

March 3, 2015

Incredible speech, America take care of Iran or Israel will, when will we ever have a leader in America this strong. Well done.

— Cleve Tidwell (@tidwellusa)

March 3, 2015

BREAKING: Photo of Netanyahu after Congress speech pic.twitter.com/JaOFKWVLhn

— Ishaan Tharoor (@ishaantharoor)

March 3, 2015

Powerful message from @netanyahu. Glad he addressed Congress & detailed the dangers of a nuclear Iran. Their nuclear program must be stopped

— Jeb Bush (@JebBush)

March 3, 2015

He was talking to Democrats when he said "Stop threatening to annihilate my country, the one and only jewish state!" #NetanyahuSpeech

— CDM (@RWSurferGirl)

March 3, 2015

Boom, that's how it's done. Amazing speech by an amazing leader! #NetanyahuSpeech

— Jennifer (@jensicilian)

March 3, 2015

I hated this speech even more when George W Bush gave it 13 years ago

— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71)

March 3, 2015

You all know Obama is secretly watching this on TV and cussing up a storm, right? #NetanyahuSpeech

— Eye on Politics (@EyeOnPolitics)

March 3, 2015

Good speech. Bibi did it all. Promised peace and threatened war. Got Dems to give standing ovations -- even if for Harry Reid and Obama

— Haviv Rettig Gur (@havivrettiggur)

March 3, 2015

Netanyahu's Speech to Congress, LIve Video

"We cannot let a totally unachievable ideal stand in the way of a good deal”

Susan (I lied about Benghazi, and kept a straight face after everyone knew I lied) Rice, before AIPAC, describing why an attempted delay by treaty of 10 years in Iran’s quest for weapons of nuclear genocide is a better alternative than any other alternative.
Samantha Power, Obama’s Amb, to UN, who in 2002 called for US troops to go to Israel and OPPOSE Israel, a few hours earlier:

"The United States of America will not allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon. Period,"

The IAEA, LITERALLY while all this was transpiring:

A UN watchdog group warned Monday that Iran is still withholding critical information regarding its nuclear development program. “Iran has yet to provide explanations that enable the agency to clarify two outstanding practical measures,” said International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano. “The agency is not in a position to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran, and therefore to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities.”

Let’s be certain of something, we can NEVER be assured by technical means and the inspections allowed that Iran is not cheating on ANY DEAL, even if they seemed to acquiesce on demands about their centrifuges (and they have not given up AT ALL and indicated THEY will walk away).

Rice is staking out the ground that only by some marvelous achievement of talking Iran will now give up it’s 36 year quest to kill Israel AND the Jews. No Wahabbi or Salafi freak has been able to exceed the Hojatieh Shia fundamentalist racist and genocidal freaks of Iran in their proud hatred of the Jews, or their desire to end their existence, regretting only the lack of means.

"The head of the IAEA today said, ‘the agency is not in a position to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear activities in Iran and therefore conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is for peaceful activities,’" FNC’s Ed Henry said to Josh Earnest.
"That flies in the face of what you just said," Henry said.
"Well, Ed, what we have confirmed is that Iran has lived up to their agreement as part of the joint plan of action," Earnest replied.
"How do you confirm that on your own? Because this is the UN nuclear watchdog saying they haven’t been able to verify that. So can you explain how has the U.S. verified that without the U.N.?" Henry asked.

Netahyahu is not asking for American soldiers or planes.
Netanyahu is not asking for more aid
Netanyahu is asking ONLY for the USA to stand by it’s (RED LINE??) demand as Samantha Power said yesterday, before Susan Rice said it was impossible, that Iran NOT be allowed to get nuclear weapons.

“We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized.  That would change my calculus.  That would change my equation.”
– Obama, remarks to reporters, August 20, 2012

He will also, I believe be intimating if this deal is as reported, the best case will be a nuclear arms race among 5-10 nations, and the worst case, an all out war in the next 6 months.

Ebola Outcomes

Ebola virus

Please take time to read "Free of Ebola but not fear: Nurse Nina Pham to file lawsuit against Texas Presbyterian Hospital, worries about continued health woes," a lengthy article in Dallas Morning News article (February 28, 2015).

Nurse Nina Pham is twenty-six years old.

The article concludes as follows (emphases mine):

...Pham said she has a lot of anxiety about the possible long-term effects of Ebola and the experimental drugs.

She’s been told to look out for possible sensory changes, vision loss and organ failure.

Pham previously had complications with high levels of enzymes in her liver, and she’s concerned the problem has reappeared. She said that she can’t even have a glass of wine with dinner now without getting sick.

Some of her hair has started to fall out. A doctor at NIH told her that was caused by Ebola, she said.

“I don’t know if having children could be affected by this, but that’s something I worry about,” Pham said. “Just the uncertainty of it all. And if I do have a health problem in the future, is it related to Ebola or is it something else? How do we know that? ... That’s the scariest part — it’s the uncertainty.”

Serious case review slams police failure in serial abuse of Oxford girls

Serious case review slams police failure in serial abuse of Oxford girls

More than 300 young people have been groomed and sexually exploited by gangs of men in Oxfordshire in the past 15 years, a damning report into the failures of police and social services to stop years of sexual torture, trafficking and rape will reveal, the Guardian has learned. 

The victims, mostly girls, come predominantly from the city of Oxford, increasing concerns that the grooming and exploitation of vulnerable young people by groups of older men is not confined to the inner cities. One senior investigative source said: “If you think you haven’t got a problem in your city or town, you are just not looking for it.”

AND THEN THERE'S THIS:

Ten men charged over Rochdale child abuse claims

• Shayfur Rahman, 31, of Chapel Road, Prestwich, Greater Manchester, has been charged with one count of rape

• Kutab Miah, 34, of Ramsay Street, Rochdale, has been charged with three counts of sexual activity and one count of rape

• Rehan Ali, 26, of Cleethorpes Avenue, Blackley, Manchester, has been charged with one count of rape and six counts of sexual activity with a child

• Iklaq Choudhry Hussain, 37, of Mayfield Terrace, Rochdale, has been charged with three counts of sexual activity with a child and two counts of rape

• David Law, 45, of Colmanhay Road, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, has been charged with three counts of conspiracy to commit rape

• Mahfus Rahman, 28, of HMP Garth, has been charged with three counts of rape and three counts of sexual activity with a child

• Ashfaq Yousaf, 28, of HMP Forest Bank, has been charged with one count of aiding and abetting rape and rape

• Afraz Ahmed, 32, of Oswald Street, Rochdale, has been charged with two counts of conspiracy to commit rape, two counts of rape and two counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity

• Mohammed Davood, 37, of Leyland Road, Burnley, Lancashire, has been charged with one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, three counts of rape, one count of sexual activity with a child and one count of sexual assault

• Mohammed Miah, 39, of HMP Moorland, has been charged with three counts of sexual activity and two counts of rape

Humble Pie

30 Days In The Hole

Black Coffee

For Your Love

Fatwa Against Standing To Pee

Only pussies sit down to pee.

Syrian Al-Qaeda Branch Shows Off U.S. Weapons Seized After Overrunning Base Of Obama-Backed Rebel Group

IRS Employee Looking for Lois Lerner Emails Was Blind, LITERALLY!

From PJM:

An IRS employee tasked with trying to restore and obtain emails on Lois Lerner’s IRS computer’s hard drive was legally blind. Stephen Manning, the deputy chief information officer for strategy and modernization at the IRS, submitted an affidavit in the True the Vote vs. 

IRS litigation regarding the persons and procedures used to attempt to recover Lois Lerner’s hard drive containing emails pertaining to Tea Party targeting. The affidavit can be read here. 

 Paragraph 14 describes the educational background of the person searching for data on Lois Lerner’s hard drive: 

“According to the Specialist, prior to joining the Internal Revenue Service … training was completed through Lions World Services for the Blind.” 

Sources familiar with the litigation confirm to me that the government confirmed that the IRS employee searching for the lost data was legally blind. It was also revealed today that backup tapes of Lois Lerner’s emails were discovered in an off-site storage facility in West Virginia. 

The inspector general of the Treasury Department learned that the tapes existed and drove to West Virginia to retrieve them. 

Lawyers for the Justice Department as well as IRS officials have stated under oath or to the federal courts that no such backup tapes existed. They were “recycled,” DOJ lawyers told the court.

Obama White House: Banning Ammo Is a “Common Sense Step” We Can Take

"You can’t just let people go around filing false documents to judges trying to make them appear in front of courts that aren’t even real courts”

Kerr County Sheriff Rusty Hierholzer on a raid in which, local, county, state and federal officials converged on a ‘group’ calling itself the ‘republic of texas’ after they had issued a ‘court’ document looking for the appearance of a Texas (capital T) judge before a ‘republic of texas’ court.

The meeting at which a birthday arty was celebrated, was in the VFW of Bryan, TX.

It’s HERE

Not a big WND follower, but this story is a bit alarming.

The ‘republic of texas’ which may be a group having some semi serious fun claims the issue of the summons to the actual judge was satire and frivolous in nature.

Yet despite the lessons which began with the sheriff’s dept in Ferguson appearing on the streets with MRAPS and army equipment, it’s extremely WORRISOME to fin this reaction before a disciplined and meaningful talk was had with these people.

The ‘republic of texas’ site which is HERE

If you look thru the site, including the minutes of the last meeting in January, their purpose, etc, it looks like some quasi serious people having a good time meaningful to them and a VERY FEW OTHERS, with no advocacy that I saw of violence.

In fact, I would say that the reaction of the govt is PRECISELY that reaction Obama refuses to yield to ISIS.

If they were not serious before, they have garnered the attention of folks who now wonder, WHAT IN HELL THE IDIOTS IN THE GOVT WERE THINKING ABOUT?

At U VA in 1969 we joked about setting up the Republic of Lysergia (yeah, that right…welcome back to 1969) and inviting people to speak before us, some by subpoena.

I just can’t see that EITHER EFFORT deserves what happened to these guys.

Not a big fan of the idea of secession, but if the reaction of the govt is what these folks are joking around about seceding from .. well you get the idea.

KAFKA, people in the govt. With every such action you really DE LEGITIMIZE yourselves but for the force you can call upon which offers no legitimization, but instead ACCELERATES the idea that IT IS OVER HERE, in the USA, and that the semi joke these people were enjoying (and harming no one) was actually SERIOUS.

So I offer you the wisdom of my grandfather, who escaped the Cossacks, the Czar, the Poles, and finally the Germans.

"By the time you think you are being paranoid, the problem is usually that you are not being paranoid ENOUGH"

Is this what they are doing down there instead of guarding the national border?