Hackers, very obviously agents of the North Korean government, have for a while now been trying to shut down a movie, The Interview, because it depicts an assassination attempt upon the Sacred Personage of the North Korean leader, mad tyrant Kim Jong Un.  Previous attacks on Sony included interference with commerce and other cyber-crimes committed ( Read more... )

By now, many of you know that President Barack Hussein Obama, perhaps the stupidest or most treacherous man to ever occupy the office of President of the United States of America, has traded five top-ranking Taliban members taken prisoner years ago for the return of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl -- a man who was almost certainly either a deserter or ( Read more... )

"And yet every day when I wake up, and I think about young girls in Nigeria or children caught up in the conflict in Syria . . . there are times in which I want to reach out and save those kids," said the Lightworker himself, Barack Hussein Obama, at Steven Spielberg's house earlier this month.  How forutnate we are to have elected such a pretty ( Read more... )

So, bureaucrats in the Veterans' Administration deliberately delayed medical treatments for veterans in order to get bonuses for themselves.  This has, predictably, resulted in deaths.  Dozens of them, which implies that hundreds to thousands more veterans were subjected to severe and needless suffering ( Read more... )

So ... does anyone else feel that they are living a dystopian near-future novel?  Perhaps one of the mildly-absurdist ones popular in the science fiction of the late 1950's through 1970's ( Read more... )

In 2008, America voted a crisply-creased pair of pants into office.  The pair of pants quickly showed itself incompetent at executing the primary duty of the American Presidency:  defense and foreign policy leadership.  In 2012, America -- deciding that it really liked this pair of pants -- re-elected it into office.  We are now living with the ( Read more... )

So far I haven't seen much coverage of this in the MSM or even Fox News, but Obama's Iran deal seems to have simultaneously

(1) - Totally failed to restrain Iran, even if the Iranians honor it (the deal lets the Iranians process nuclear fuel to a limited degree of enrichment, as far as I can see binds them to no effective means of inspection, and ( Read more... )

maxgoof points out in "Discretionary Enforcement" that

Obama is claiming he can delay the enforcement of the Individual Mandate as well as the Employer Mandate through discretionary enforcement, basically saying, oh, we simply won't enforce that part of the law ( Read more... )

(expanded from a long comment on cutelildrow's journal over here"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are ( Read more... )

This is a complex story, but I urge everyone who cares about the current massacre in Nairobi to follow the thread of this tale ....

Obama and his proclaimed ally Odinga


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