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Thứ Ba, 29 tháng 9, 2009

Larwyn's Linx: ACORN's Man in the White House

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Thứ Hai, 28 tháng 9, 2009

The largest dead snake ever found, over 50 feet long

Linda sends along this incredible video featuring a snake of truly epic proportions.

Yowie!

The Curious Case of the Four Edited Videotapes

Using Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, an attorney has secured access to security tapes that depict the aftermath of the 1995 Oklahoma City federal building bombing. The Oklahoman reports that Jesse Trentadue of Salt Lake City gave copies of the tapes to the newspaper as well as the AP.

The FBI and Attorney General Janet Reno had refused to release the videotapes, which led many to speculate that they confirmed the existence of "a third terrorist", reports of which had circulated for years.

The tapes turned over by the FBI came from security cameras various companies had mounted outside office buildings near the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. They are blank at points before 9:02 a.m., when a truck bomb carrying a 4,000 pound (1,815 kilogram) fertilizer-and-fuel-oil bomb detonated in front of the building, Trentadue said.

"Four cameras in four different locations going blank at basically the same time on the morning of April 19, 1995. There ain't no such thing as a coincidence," [Attorney] Trentadue said...

..."The interesting thing is they spring back on after 9:02," he said. "The absence of footage from these crucial time intervals is evidence that there is something there that the FBI doesn't want anybody to see."

Trentadue said he is seeking more tapes along with a variety of bombing-related documents from the FBI and the CIA. An FOIA request by Trentadue for 26 CIA documents was rejected in June. A letter from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which reviewed the documents, said their release "could cause grave damage to our national security."

Earlier today, Bob McCarty interviewed Jayna Davis, an author and investigative journalist who had written extensively on the Oklahoma City bombing.

At the time of the devastating attack, Davis was an award-winning investigative journalist for NBC affiliate KFOR-TV in Oklahoma City. Davis was the first to uncover reports of a "third terrorist" -- a man of Middle East origin who allegedly helped orchestrate the attack. Her subsequent book on the subject became a New York Times bestseller.

In the book, Davis presents an immense body of evidence that a former Iraqi soldier named al-Husseini -- probably a member of Saddam Hussein's elite Republican Gaurd -- helped plan and execute the bombing. Extensive interviews support the contention that other Iraqis collaborated to assist in the attack. Lest you think Davis is just a lone crackpot, the former chief counsel of the House Judiciary Committee, the House Terrorism Office's chief and a former Clinton CIA director all agree that this evidence must be pursued further.

Using information provided by 23 eye-witnesses, affidavits (depositions taken under oath) and several senior intelligence officials, Davis builds a case for a significant cover-up.

And why would the Clinton administration suppress evidence of an Iraqi link to a terrorist attack on the heartland? We obviously can't know all of the answers, but the administration's famous aversion to risk might explain a great deal.

Consider Clinton's treatment of terrorism as a law enforcement issue, beginning in 1993 with the first World Trade Center attack. An attack by Iraq would have devastated Janey Reno's "lawfare" approach to Islamic terrorism and have forced a military response.

It is hard to overstate the implications of these developments. Why did the FBI refuse, for over a decade, to release the security tapes? Why are the tapes all missing segments just before and during the catastrophic explosion?

Kudos to Jesse Trentadue, Jayna Davis and Bob McCarty for calling attention to a forgotten tragedy -- and the ominous implications of a few minutes of missing videotape.

Related: In Search of John Doe No. 2: The Story the Feds Never Told About the Oklahoma City Bombing, Mother Jones, 2007.

Guess who's still on the list of 'HUD Approved Housing Counseling Agencies'?

As of September 28, 2009, the Department of Housing and Urban Development still lists ACORN as one its "HUD Approved Housing Counseling Agencies."

Today, one of ACORN's biggest corporate partners -- Bank of America -- announced that it has "suspended current commitments" to Acorn Housing and "will not enter into any further agreements with Acorn or any of its affiliates" pending a review.

It's bad enough that ACORN has received the fourth-most taxpayer money -- roughly $25 million -- since late 2007 for distressed mortgage borrowers.

It's an absolute disgrace they're still permitted to receive any funds from taxpayers -- through HUD or anyone else.

Larwyn's Linx: POTUS and SEIU: tight as Heidi Klum's jeans

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Nation

ACORN and SEIU: Anatomy of a Shakedown: BigGov (MonCrief)
Is this any way to fight a war?: AT (Geller)
ACORN and its political seed: Parker

POTUS and SEIU: tight as Heidi Klum's jeans: RBO
Stop allowing the Left to set the rules: AT (Marcus)
Liberals seek health-care access for illegals: Times

Obama plays race card; links healthcare to civil rights: STACLU
Obama's G20 Anecdote: Patterico
CAIR Leader Tied to Nazi-Style Islamist Mosque: PJM

Economy

Social Security In Deficit; Obama Helped Kill Reform in '06: NewsBusters
Chrysler and the Dirty Rotten Scoundrel: SondraK
Trial lawyers lobby sinks $6.2M in debt: Times

Rights versus Profits: AT (Spivey)
Truth Czar: Obamacare will bankrupt country: GWP
Conyers (D-MI) named Comrade of the Month: BlogProf

Media

No Non-Profit Status for Newspapers: Wizbang
Yikes! Is the MSM turning on Obama?: Aces
Anti-Chicago Olympics story spiked in Chicago: Surber

The burden of proof is on the President, guys: Gormogons
Levin's book leads to 911 call in the Hamptons: Riehl
They don't call it 'Huff and Puff' for nothing: AmDig

Climate & Energy

Put on your snorkels! Head for the hills!: SDA

World

A Loyal Opposition: Hanson
Avoiding the Unthinkable: Missile Defense and Iran's Nuclear Weapons: Rubin
When is a strategy review not a strategy review?: JOM

Calculus: PJM (Fernandez)
How I learned to love the bomb: BigGov
Obama is no FDR: LegalIns

Riots on Temple Mount come after Obama's demand: RBO
Iran embarrassed by its 'Islamic' rape rooms: Prairie

SciTech

DNA: Hitler Survived: Surber

Cornucopia

Win a $33.18 grant from the Iowahawk Endowment for the Arts: IowaHawk
Fast and Pray: Anchoress
Onion: Little Boy Heroically Shoots Burglar: LGF

Chủ Nhật, 27 tháng 9, 2009

Clinton: Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy Still Exists, But Not 'Vast' Anymore

President Bill Clinton's wife earned notoriety by claiming that a "vast right-wing conspiracy" had orchestrated allegations of his adultery.

The ex-president is back in the spotlight after a visit to Meet the Press earlier today.

[He] told NBC's David Gregory... that the so-called "vast right-wing conspiracy" still exists and is "as virulent as it was," but has had its impact diminished by the nation's changing demographics.

"...It's not as strong as it was, because America has changed demographically. But it's as virulent as it was. I mean, they're saying things about him. You know, it's like when they accused me of murder, and all that stuff they did. … But … it's not really good for the Republicans and the country, what's going on now. I mean, they may be hurting President Obama. They can take his numbers down. They can run his opposition up. But, fundamentally, he and his team have a positive agenda for America. Their agenda seems to be wanting him to fail."

Vast right-wing conspiracy?

But I thought it was racism.

Or Karl Rove.

Or Glenn Beck.

Or the Tea Partiers.

Hey, Bill. Sorry to burst your bubble, but the Chosen One got 52.7% of the vote. He outspent a weak GOP candidate -- "Mumbles" McCain -- by half-a-billion dollars. He had a cool logo designed by the NEA. He promised a post-partisan world of transparency and Utopian change. He had a great speaking voice. He read from a teleprompter better than Brian Williams.

And he barely won.

Don't look now, Cigar-master, but the 2010 midterms are just around the corner. And I'm guessing we'll see real change.

Keith Olbermann's doing football highlights on NBC?

It's 6pm central time on a Sunday. Time to flip on the NFL highlights in high-def. Unfortunately, I selected the first pro football channel that came up. It was NBC.

Greeted with the discomfiting visage and intonation of Keith "Strap-On" Olbermann, I reflexively jammed the speed-dial for SportsCenter.

Ahhh, much better.

I wonder if Nielsen could tell the geniuses at NBC just how much advertising money they're hemorrhaging using a despicable partisan hack on their football broadcasts. I'll bet it's in the tens of millions of dollars.

Update: BlackFive: "Boot Olbermann."