Hitler calls implementation of Manstein plan a "modest invasion" of France.

[Byron In Exile]

And yes, it's Monday.

 

[unregistered]

 

[ChinaBandit]

It's all too similar to "I did not have sex with that woman"...Shoving a Cohiba up her cunt while jacking off is something totally different.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Hey it was legal!! That makes it ok!!

 

[Byron In Exile]

And the Americans of today are just as befuddled and confused as the French in 1940.

"I just saw our tanks heading west... are we retreating already?"

"No, you idiot, those were Panzers."

 

[JohnnySavage]

I don't understand the current outrage. Didn't everyone already know this was going on? NSA is doing exactly what everyone knew it was doing.

For most of my adult life there have been leaks and innuendo about NSA... I remember reading about Echelon years and years ago. I remember hearing about massive super computers at NSA storing all phone calls and electronic communications. Every time you drive past NSA you see satellite dishes everywhere and lots of black vans driving around.

 

[ChinaBandit]

I take Byron's point as meaning our 'maginot line' has been crossed.

Some don't believe it. Some say don't worry. Some are concerned. Finally, there are all too many people who don't know what the fuck it is.

 

[Busybody]

I don't understand the current outrage. .

1-ObamaCO campaign was 100% against this

2-ObamaCO's who career has been one of "outing" secret Court ordered sealed documents vs his opponents

3-ObamaCO has declared the WOT ovah

4-With the attacks on the press

5-With the politicization of the EPA of the IRS of the DOJ against his political opponents and enemies,

6-It cannot be said he is doing this to protect the US.....where the fuck were they vs the Boston bombers? ALL TEH DOTS WERE THERE AND MOR

7-ObamaCO CANNOT BE TRUSTED

 

[JohnnySavage]

 

[unregistered]

 

[Busybody]

Good Moan in, Leslie

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The ramparts were breached before the ink on the Constitution was dry, that's the nature of government; but until recently the government didn't have the means to enslave us, now it does.

Every government that ever existed gradually and relentlessly enslaved its people, and the tyranny isn't a conspiracy in the normal sense of the word. Every government wants to remain top dog, and to that end leaders hire soldiers, bribe enemies, and confiscate power & resources from the people, to guarantee they cant act out any crazy ideas. Government files help Washington and you to communicate effectively.

 

[Byron In Exile]

N.B., Whenever the US government labels something TOP SECRET, what that really means is that it's of no value or importance and ought to be ignored.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

N.B., Whenever the US government labels something TOP SECRET, what that really means is that it's of no value or importance and ought to be ignored.

It means someone important seriously fucked up.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I don't understand the current outrage. Didn't everyone already know this was going on? NSA is doing exactly what everyone knew it was doing.

For most of my adult life there have been leaks and innuendo about NSA... I remember reading about Echelon years and years ago. I remember hearing about massive super computers at NSA storing all phone calls and electronic communications. Every time you drive past NSA you see satellite dishes everywhere and lots of black vans driving around.

I'm not outraged.

I voted for this. I've been trying to tell people that they are storing all of our emails, all of them out in the desert. Probably all of our conversations on Lit so that they could data mine them. This is what American voted for. They want security at any cost. So, the full weight of the government will be turned on those people who oppose what America voted for while the Boston Bombers sneak under the radar and shouting Allahu Akbar while shooting up a military base is just a simple everyday workplace incident as in going postal.

We are involved in a war on terror so we must keep an eye, a close eye on Christians, Libertarians and the white population.

This is not outrage, this is Social Justice.

Get a rope...

Mm-Mm, That's what I'm talkin' 'bout!

That's what I voted for!
6 TIMES!

*A-Kfire*

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

N.B., Whenever the US government labels something TOP SECRET, what that really means is that it's of no value or importance and ought to be ignored.

1.4 million with top-secret clearance...

http://abcnews.go.com/US/secret-his...tory?id=19366914&singlePage=true#.UbY7mfZa3VQ

The government keeps secrets like it runs an economy.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

"A 2010 Washington Post report found 'close to 30 percent of the workforce in the intelligence agencies is contractors.'"

This is how they advance the farcical notion that government is not growing; they do not have to count contractors when they tell you how many rogue employees they have on the payroll...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

All can agree that the Obama administration is mired in myriads of scandals, but as yet no one can quite figure out what they all mean and where they will lead.

Benghazi differs from all the other scandals — and from both Watergate and Iran-Contra — because in this case administration lapses led to the deaths of four Americans. Nine months later, the administration’s problems of damage control remain fourfold: (a) there was ample warning that American personnel were in danger in Libya, and yet requests for increased security were denied; (b) during the actual attack, the American tradition of sending in relief forces on the chance that fellow Americans could be saved was abrogated; (c) the president and his top officials knowingly advanced a narrative of a culpable filmmaker that they knew was not accurate; (d) a through c are best explained as resulting not from honest human error or the fog of war, but from a methodical effort to assure the public in the weeks before the election that “lead from behind” in Libya had been a successful venture and that the death of Osama bin Laden had made al-Qaeda–inspired terrorism rare. All other concerns became secondary, including the safety of Americans in Libya.

...

In the AP and Fox News scandals, it cannot have been leaks per se that prompted the administration to go after journalists, given that the administration itself had leaked key classified information about the Stuxnet virus, the drone program, the bin Laden hit, and the Yemeni double agent. The suspect reporters were not so much enemies as rivals. They were monitored not because the administration wanted all leaks stopped so as to ensure that national security was not endangered, but because it wished to retain a monopoly on them: In-house favorable leaks were okay; unauthorized ones by others were grounds for surveillance. Note in all these scandals that when the Obama administration begins demonizing an opponent — Fox News since 2009; the Tea Party in 2010 — then usually the government finds a way unlawfully to go after it. For now, the public wonders how does Eric Holder explain his conflicting testimony to Congress, and will those in the administration who leaked favorable classified information to pet reporters be prosecuted? Will granting exclusive access to the bin Laden trove to a reporter like David Ignatius, who could be expected to present a narrative laudatory of the administration, have any repercussions?

The AP/Fox scandal affects not only the reporters involved but also the way the news is disseminated, and the IRS mess potentially affects every American. When the IRS comes calling, Americans cannot employ the sort of obfuscation and dissimulation that the IRS itself now employs. Try taking the Fifth Amendment with an IRS auditor or claiming that a suspicious visit to a business associate was due to an Easter-egg roll, and then see how well your audit goes. Because the system of voluntary tax compliance collapses without honesty and nonpartisanship, our entire tax-collection apparatus is now suspect. Every prominent conservative from now on, every tea-party-like nonprofit organization, every Republican political donor will assume, rightly or wrongly, that the next IRS letter in the mail is not legitimate, but prompted by Obama-era politics.

...

Finally, the common denominator in these transgressions is that they all predated the 2012 election, were kept secret from the public, and emerged only once Barack Obama was safely elected. In that regard, they were successful operations that ensured that the voters went to the polls with the impression that al-Qaeda–inspired terror was rare, Libya was secure, the Tea Party had deflated and disappeared, and their unheralded president was, as the good leaks showed, in the shadows successfully fighting terrorists by drone, computer, SEAL teams, and double agents. The later whistle-blowers — the State Department’s Gregory Hicks, the NSA’s Edward Snowden, and Lois Lerner of the IRS in her psychodramatic response to the set-up questioner – were supposed Obama supporters and came forward only after the election. Note also the clear administration lying: Susan Rice reiterating the false story about a culpable filmmaker and a spontaneous demonstration; Jay Carney sticking to his lie about a single change in administration talking points; Eric Holder misleading Congress by assuring the House Judiciary Committee that he would not do what he in fact did in the James Rosen case; James Clapper insisting to Congress that the NSA collects data only under strict court supervision.

Paranoia over reelection, in classic Nixon style, is the common key that unlocks much of the mystery surrounding the administration’s reckless, unethical, and often unlawful behavior.

Victor Davis Hanson, NRO, "Pick Your Scandal"

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The Obama Scandals and the Limbaugh Theorem
Steve McCann
June 11, 2013

Virtually all the scandals erupting around the Obama regime involve the loss of individual freedom and the rapid evolution of an oppressive central government. These ongoing revelations eerily mirror the history of repressive nations such as Germany, Italy and Russia during the past century. Nonetheless, per the public opinion polls and the lack of enthusiasm by the mainstream media to cover these scandals, Barack Obama remains above the fray and is not directly linked or blamed for any of these debacles -- even something as egregious as the NSA and domestic surveillance of all Americans.


Over the past few months, Rush Limbaugh has posited what he calls the "Limbaugh Theorem." Essentially he contends that Barack Obama, as part of a calculated and permanent campaign strategy, maintains, with the help of a sycophantic media, high approval ratings despite the unpopularity of his policies. The core of this strategy is for Obama to remain above politics and not be identified with any of the policy failures or scandals surrounding his administration by blaming others for all that has gone wrong, as he is a dedicated "outsider "doing all he can to solve problems; but first he must slay those purveyors of evil rampant throughout the land: Republicans and conservatives.


The Limbaugh Theorem is spot on. However, the Obama tactics have been successful only because of the confluence of three factors that came together at a right moment in American history.


The first is the long-term and intentional dumbing down of the American people. The second, the incarnation of a celebrity culture as a byproduct of the ill-education of the citizenry as well as the concurrent decline of morality and denigration of religion. The third is this nation's unhealthy obsession with race.

http://www.americanthinker.com/prin..._obama_scandals_and_the_limbaugh_theorem.html

 

[Byron In Exile]

Victor Davis Hanson, NRO, "Pick Your Scandal"

The Obama Scandals and the Limbaugh Theorem
Steve McCann
June 11, 2013

http://www.americanthinker.com/prin..._obama_scandals_and_the_limbaugh_theorem.html

Cliff Notes, plz.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Of course, the soldiers attacked in the aggregate, so it was okay.

 

[WeedSmoke420]

thanks for sharing

 

[Byron In Exile]

thanks for sharing

You should just change your name to *bump*

 

[BotanyBoy]

The Obama Scandals and the Limbaugh Theorem

It was all good until....

"the concurrent decline of morality and denigration of religion."

Then it became a total fucking joke.

 

[ryan8558]

The Obama Scandals and the Limbaugh Theorem
Steve McCann
June 11, 2013

The Limbaugh Theorem is spot on. However, the Obama tactics have been successful only because of the confluence of three factors that came together at a right moment in American history.


The first is the long-term and intentional dumbing down of the American people. The second, the incarnation of a celebrity culture as a byproduct of the ill-education of the citizenry as well as the concurrent decline of morality and denigration of religion. The third is this nation's unhealthy obsession with race.

http://www.americanthinker.com/prin..._obama_scandals_and_the_limbaugh_theorem.html

The really ironic part is that those three factors also account for Limbaugh's popularity.