Moving at the speed of light the Obama administration limits access to sensitive files, well actually, two months after the fact. The barn has burned!

Still reeling from the WikiLeaks debacle the government finally decided today to limit access to sensitive materials in light of all that has surfaced. Kudos to the Obama administration for their quick action, two months late. Actually it seems more and more obvious that the Obama administration is either totally inept or, they are as some say, trying to destabilize the world in an effort to help usher in the 'New World Order' based on socialist principles. I have a tendency to believe they are a little of both.

If the WikiLeaks nightmare isn't bad enough it was reported late today that the Justice Dept, you know the one headed up by our totally incompetent Attorney General Eric Holder, had suppressed information on the state of the drug problem in Mexico specifically that the Mexican cartels were now the largest suppliers of Methamphetamine to the US. This information was suppressed when President Calderon of Mexico was making an official visit to Washington and they did not want him to be embarrassed. Not that he should be since his administration has been basically ineffective in their war on drugs. By the way this was as you may guess not reported on any of the major liberal media outlets, Fox was the only one to pick it up and report, also, this story was not covered on any of the Internet news sits for some strange reason, I wonder why.

Anyway, cutting access to government documents is one of the few smart moves this administration has made. The government need to reevaluate their security clearance process. We live in the computer age, so how difficult can it be if someone like Pfc Manning has issues outside the workplace that it can be flagged and his or her security clearance be reduced or removed if the problem is really serious, Pfc Manning had issues and no one did anything about it and now look what's happening. If the likes of a Pfc Manning managed to fly under the radar I can imagine how many more of his kind there are layered in the ranks of our military and other government services.


The search for Julian Assange is now being spearheaded by Interpol, who by the way don't have any idea where he is. The idea behind using Interpol is that it should be more difficult for Assange to travel. Mr. Assange appears to be supported by several highly influential 'progressives' (Socialists) and as such will be difficult to find unless he and or his supporter want him to be. So on that one we'll have to wait until he surfaces. The Justice Dept is intimating that they would like to prosecute Mr. Assange for espionage, I wonder if Mr. Holder will want him tried in the court in Manhattan, if so he'll probably get off with a warning and a beer summit at the White House.

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Bruce Ackerman
(1943-) American Constitutional Law Scholar

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Let's see, what's on the world buffet tonight; N. Korea, China, Iran, Bombers, WikiLeaks, Fed Pay Freeze---I'll have a big plate of WikiLeaks please!

This whole WickiLeaks mess is one of the most shameful episodes our country is going to experience for some time to come. How is it that there were so few controls in place that a Pfc could walk into his workplace with a CD in hand and walk out with so much sensitive material. How is it that this goof, Pfc Bradley Manning managed to to get the security clearance that allowed him access to anything more confidential than reading materials in a men's room to begin with? The only explanation is that our military and intelligence services have let their standards drop so low that anyone can get a security clearance. The news media and the government spout off on a regular basis about how the Military and Intelligence services have managed to attract the best and the brightest our country has to offer. If this is an example of the B & the B than we are in need of an overhaul of monumental proportions.

Whats worse is that the US government appears to have not done Jack Johnny since this whole thing came into the spotlight several months ago. Our CIA, FBI and the ever efficient Homeland Security have no idea where Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks is. Alright, the FBI and Homeland Security get kind of a pass because he probably isn't here, but the CIA, whats wrong with this picture, all the media and the government people keep saying is that this scum is well protected, I'll bet the NKVD ( formerly the KGB ) could dig up this turd in a day or so and the same applies to the Chinese Secret Police.

Our illustrious Attorney General Eric Holder came on today and couldn't have given a weaker response to what the Justice Dept and the Government plan to do, Hillary Clinton came on and had the look on her face that she was being forced to make a statement or she would have to eat poo and The President himself has completely refrained from making public comment, and in the current climate and state of security, should keep his mouth shut, because whatever he says will probably be leaked.

What this all boils down to is that the current administration is viewed as weak by the world powers at large and sadly their assessment is probably true. It has been rumored that the Russians view Mr. Obama as a weak personality, it's apparent that the Chinese feel the same way and the bowing thing to the Arabs was a dead give away that the 'leader of the free world' was humbled by bowing submissively to the Arab despots in Saudi Arabia, who by the way fund terrorism around the world.

Like it or not we need a return to the days when the likes of Pfc Manning would be tied to a post and shot, post haste. When our intelligence service 'took care' of problems like Mr. Assange quietly and efficiently. When we were respected around the world by our friends and our enemies as well. It appears Mr. Obama's 'Brave new world' isn't so brave after all.

"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies".
Honore de Balzac
1799 - 1850 French novelist, playright

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THIS IS A REALITY CHECK-THE CHINESE CONTROL EVERY MOVE THE NORTH KOREANS MAKE. It's time for the American people to wake up!

North Korea has been spouting off again today about retaliating if anyone crosses into their sovereign space, with the start of the US/South Korean War Games. Whether the threats are for real, which by the way all of the pundits, politicians and think tank advisers who make their livings off of fear mongering and posturing, claim are not, or if they, the North Koreans, are just 'kidding' and just want to get everyone to the table so they can get the palcators, litigators and the 'give away the farm' negotiators from the good old US of A to make concessions and give them gobs of aid for free, is up in the air.

Sadly this whole mess could have been avoided if the US had followed the advice of their Generals way back after the end of the Second World War (WWII). If you recall your history lessons, oh I forgot, this isn't taught in schools and hasn't been for years because our Socialist educators don't want reality or anything that resembles truth as part of the curriculum taught in schools, primary through college. Well anyway, when the really big one ended and the Korean War came about General Douglas MacArthur, you may have heard of him and his famous speech about " Old soldiers never die, they just fade away" which was given before Congress after he was fired because he disagreed with then President Harry Truman because he advocated wiping out the Communists in North Korea, who were actually the Communist Chinese and who by the way at that time had only manpower and could have been beaten back to their own border and maybe even overthrown.

Fast forward to present day and we have pretty much the same situation as existed fifty some years ago. The Chinese are still in charge and out weak kneed politicians are still licking their private parts. We have had one tough talking nut less President after another condemn the North Koreans for their actions and then cave and deliver whatever the North Koreans demand, our current President is no different.

What needs to happen is this, The US must demand that the Chinese put a muzzle on the current despot occupying the palace in Pyongyang, overthrow him and absorb the whole country if necessary, the people would probably be better off anyway. Admit that they, the Chinese, use North Korea to keep the rest of the world from noticing that the Chinese are in the process of developing the largest military in the world and it's just a guess that they are developing the largest nuclear arsenal at the same time. Basically it's time to start calling a spade a spade.

"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear-kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervour-with the cry of grave national emergency. Always, there has been some terrible evil at home, or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it".
General Douglas MacArthur
1880 - 1964
WWII Supreme Allied Commander Southwest Pacific, Supreme United nations Commander 1957

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With Europe on the verge of tanking Mr. Obama & Company appear to be ready to follow suit with more bad fiscal policy.

In case you've been limiting your TV watching to feel good sitcoms, dancing shows and liberal new outlets I'll attempt t bring you up to speed on global news. Europe has been experiencing a somewhat similar down turn to the one we have been experiencing for the last two years. However their downturn may end up being worse than ours for several reasons. First of which is the fact that the European countries are more socialized than we are and are being forced to make changes that we in the United States may not see as harsh but when you are living in a real nanny state like Europe it's like shock therapy.

Retirement age is being pushed up from 60 to 62, which here in the states may not mean much since we are at 65, but to these tools it's totally unacceptable. England is cutting 490K civil service jobs because their government is essentially broke. Ireland, we find out this week is on the verge of collapse as well as Greece, Spain, Portugal and as one article stated, all of Europe. So what are they going to do, slash spending and raise taxes, what else, which any economist will tell you is the exactly what should not be done to remedy the situation. Slash spending but do not raise taxes in times when your economy is tanked. Even a non financial guy like myself can manage to understand the concept so whats going on in the minds of the leaders of the European countries and in our own government as well.

Raising taxes curbs economic growth and that also applies to the extension of tax cuts here in the US. The Obama people are so taken up with their share the wealth socialist ideal they just don't get the idea that tax cuts need to be applied across the boards if they want to see growth in our economy. At the same time we need to reduce the size of government and reduce government spending. If the UK is letting 490K go we should be able to let several million go without affecting how the country runs.

We also need to look at the salaries being paid to government workers as they have shot up excessively in the last few years, remember government workers get retirement and benefits that have always been better than their counterparts in the private sector and this consideration should be factored into what they are paid. In short we are in need of a general overhauling of the system. If the system was to be overhauled our economy would begin to expand rapidly. But for some strange reason Mr. Obama and his liberal base don't want that to happen, they seem bent of instituting policies that will have the opposite effect on the economy and the country. I guess that's why Mr. Obama has been accused as of late even by the liberal media types of having socialist leanings.

I guess he hasn't learned much in the last two years and hopefully keeps on the same path for the next two, which will make it easier to send him back to Chicago in 2012, permanently.

" In every declining civilization there is a small 'remnant' of people who adhere to the right against the wring; who recognize the difference between good and evil and who will take an active stand for the former and against the latter; who can still think and discern and who will courageously take a stand against the political, social, moral, and spiritual rot or decay of their day".
Donald S. McAlvaney
Source; Toward A New World Order

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On his way to a Yahtzee tournament today, The President pledged to defend any of our allies who come under attack, then he asked if anyone was?

The shelling of South Korea today is just another indication of how little regard and how much contempt the Chinese have for the U.S. There is no doubt that the Chinese are the puppet masters when it comes to the goings on in North Korea. As Kim Jong-il has no other real allies, with the possible exception of that other despot Hugo Chavez, he relies totally on the Chinese for his very existence. So it only stands to reason that the Chinese ordered the shelling today. One of the reasons for the shelling is that the Chinese are trying to force the U.S. back into the so called 'six party talks' which include the North Korea, South Korea, China, Japan The United States and Russia, which I'd go way out on a limb and say the deck is stacked in the favor of our enemies if we sit down and attempt to negotiate anything more serious than a parking ticket.

Worse, the Chinese this past week declared sovereignty over the South China Sea and at the same time warned the U.S. not to send any aircraft carriers there to take part in war games with South Korea. In case the reader is not aware China is currently fielding a 10 million man Army and they do it under the guise of national and or internal protection. I continually wonder who buys this one since there are no, and I mean, unequivocally no countries that would invade China no matter what and for what. Since WWII Japan has had no real army so they're of no real threat, Russia has a shrinking population because of the lasting effects of Communist rule and an ingrained socialist mindset and in fact will probably lose Siberia to the Chinese by default within the next several generations because of the large influx of Chinese who continue to immigrate there. So who is interested in taking over China, the answer is no one. The real reason for the large army and the staggering military industrial complex is simple, China will move to expand at some time in the future and wants to be so formidable and sophisticated that no standing or combined armies in the world would dare to oppose them.

On a personal note, I don't buy goods produced in China unless there is no other viable alternative. And again, it is my belief that our government and the short sighted corporations made a colossal mistake getting into bed with Beijing to the incredible extent that they have.

"We must ask that government undertake the obligation above all of providing citizens with adequate opportunity for employment and earning a living. The activities of the individual must no be allowed to clash with the interests of the community, but must take place within the confines and be for the good of all. Therefore we demand an end to the power of financial interest. We demand profit sharing in big business. We demand a broad extension of care for the aged. We demand...the greatest possible consideration of small business in the in the purchases of the national, state, and municipal governments. In order to make possible to every capable and industrious citizen the attainment of higher education and thus the achievement of a post of leadership, the government must provide an all around enlargement of our system of public education...We demand the education at government expense of gifted children of poor parents...The government must undertake the improvement of public health--by protecting mother and child, by prohibiting child labor--by the greatest possible support of all groups concerned with the physical education of youth. We combat the materialistic spirit within and without us, and are convinced that a permanent recovery of our people can only proceed from within on the foundation of The Common Good Before the Individual Good".
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planks of The national Socialist Party of Germany (NAZI) adopted in Munich on February 24, 1920

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Is it proper etiquette to tip a TSA employee if he or she gives you a good 'rub' during a pat-down? And if so, what's a reasonable amount?

Once again the geniuses occupying the hallowed halls in Washington and specifically Homeland Security have missed the real point by attempting to be 'politically correct' and forcing all travelers to submit to scans and or pat-downs or both if they are good looking, when the real point here is profiling. And since the whole problem of travel security was brought about by Muslims, they should be the principle targets of the security people. It is a fact that we as a nation have never heard a collective voice from the Muslim community as a whole condemning the acts of their Muslim brothers and sisters, and for some strange reason our government seems to have missed this, I wonder why?

Aside from just having to go through an 'electronically' invasive process like scanning the real issue here is what do you tell travelers who fly frequently about their excessive exposure to radiation? What about people with health issues who are often X-Ray'd more than they should but require it to monitor their conditions and then are subjected to potential over dose of radiation?

Here's another question that I'm sure the big wigs at TSA won't touch; Are the people operating the scan (X-RAY) equipment at the airports trained to the same standards as a Radiology Tech, they're operating X-Ray equipment aren't they? I doubt it, my best guess is that the vast majority of TSA employee's couldn't even tell you what Radiology is. OK, maybe they have at least taken some of the prerequisites to become a Radiology Tech, like Biology and the ever popular Anatomy and Physiology, again I would guess we've entered the unknown zone for the average TSA employee.

And don't believe for one second that our government is trying 'desperately to balance security and privacy and will take the public's concerns and complaints into account' as stated by our defense secretary. Oh yes they'll do that, just like they did when the government was jamming all that unwanted legislation down our collective throats over the last two years.

These are strange times we live in for sure.

"On account of us being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only people that has to keep a government for four years no matter what it does".
Will Rogers
1879 - 1935 American Humorist

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As the President continues to avoid the economic mess at home he finds solace in in the embrace of the crumbling Socialist governments in Europe.

The President took off for Europe to get away from the beating he continues to get here in the states. He is attending a NATO Summit where he appears to still have some popularity. After today's meetings he announced that he had won summit agreement to build a missile shield over Europe. The missile shield is designed to protect Europe from possible attack by Iran and mainly an effort by another outdated organization, NATO. In case you don't know, NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization which was formed in 1949 with the basic goal of containing the Russians. It was set up as kind of an all for one and one for all if they were attacked, nice idea if you have a standing army capable of banding together with other to repel your enemies, and the only member with that standing Army then as well as now is guess who, us.

Well anyway the relevance of NATO has been in question for some years and this summit was supposed to show that it is relevant and that the member countries of the should continue to support it financially mainly by the U.S. kind of the way we do for the UN, which brings us to how much is this going to cost. As usual President Obama was more interested in crowing his triumph at the summit and as usual won't discuss the particulars like, will it work and how much is it going to cost, because he and his people know it will end up costing the U.S. a fortune and we as a nation will not receive any benefit whatsoever and Europe may not either. Why not just inform Iran than if they make any aggressive moves towards any 'NATO' member they will be blown off the face of the earth, the easy cheap and direct approach.

The best part of this fun weekend in Portugal is that the Russians are going to be invited to be part of the missile shield but will not be given joint control. This is like being invited to a strip club and forced to wear a blindfold. Again, in case you missed it, the last time a missile shield was brought up in Europe by another inept President of the United States, the Russians made it clear that it was a bad idea and if you're from that part of the world it's a real consideration. The Russians are and have been in bed with the Iranians for a long and will more than likely do everything to keep this bad idea from ever happening. And in the end will be doing Europe and the U.S taxpayers a favor by saving us a fortune.

"I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery".
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1712 - 1778 Political philosopher and educationist essayist

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No matter how hard they tried there was no political hay for the Prez and his Congress today. Whats that old saying, "Money talks and BS walks"

There has been a great deal of hoopla among all of the media outlets today with regard to the GM IPO and all of the money they are paying back to the government. There was so much in fact that President Obama got into the act touting the brilliance of his administration's bailout of GM and how the taxpayers are going to be the recipients of some kind of trickle down benefit from it all. Sadly, once again Mr. Obama failed to deliver anything more than lip service. The fact is, that GM could have filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy and accomplished the same thing without any burden on the taxpayers.

In chapter 11 they would have been able to close inefficient factories and facilities, probably made a better deal with the unions since the Socialists currently inhabiting the White House would not have owned a piece of their collective asses and been able to effect the same layoffs that they did without costing the TAXPAYERS of the United States BILLIONS.

One Democratic Congressman after another came on the news today touting the move as the only way to preserve the millions of jobs that would have been lost in the total liquidation of GM, which, by the way was never going to happen. GM needed to reorganize from the effects of years of bad management and corporate incest, nothing more nothing less and in reality the government had no business attempting to send up a trial balloon for nationalizing of our industrial base. Thank God we only have two more years of this disaster in political experimentation.

"Only the mediocre are always at their best"
Alan Jay Lerner
1918 - 1986 American lyricist and librettist

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If there's one thing Democrats know how to pick it's Hall of Shame Attorney Generals.

So the United States takes one on the chin from it's own executive branch with the total mishandling of the first Gitmo trial held in a civilian court. Eric Holder should go and hang himself for this disgrace, but don't bet on it since he's basically to stupid to tie the right knot. It appears as though we are going to be subjected to two more years of this moron since he has shown he hasn't the work or life experience to go for the gold like his compatriot and Obama Administration ditcher, Rammin' Rahm Emanuel who's in the process of convincing the Joe six packs of Chicago that he should be their next Mayor elect.

I wonder how much this monkey f_ _k disguised as a trial has cost the good taxpayers of our great country in terms of security and legal fees alone, remember this scumbag has no assets and as such his legal fees will be picked up by the government. This piece of human waste will probably end suing the government and if he manages to do it while Mr. Holder is still AG he'll probably win and collect big.

Thank God we only have two more years of this administration's antics to contend with. As it is, it will take years to undo the damage we have suffered at their hands.

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"It is a basic principle of a tyrant to unarm his people of weapons, money and all means whereby the resist his power".
Sir Walter Raleigh
1554 - 1618