Scandalpalooza Update: Obama's Worst Day So Far?

One thing becoming increasingly apparent that the revelations regarding the Obama scandals are comings at a faster pace and in some respects the past 24 hours may be the President's worst day since this "scandalpalooza" began.  As bad as today's news was the indications are that it may get much worse.

Benghazi: 

• The terrorists are free because Obama insists on trying them in civilian court.  According to the Associated Press, U.S. officials say they have identified five men they believe might be behind the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year. The officials say they have enough evidence to justify seizing them by military force as suspected terrorists _ but not enough proof to try them in a U.S. civilian court as the Obama administration prefers.
  

  "They have let it slip by because of politics, and now we've taken all the correlation we had and dropped the ball because of risk (aversion) -- and now the security in Libya is more fragile than ever," one U.S. special operator told Fox News. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirms that U.S. forces have tracked the alleged attackers since October but have since lost the trail of some of them, as no one up the chain of command would authorize them to capture or kill the targeted militia members

So the officials say the men remain at large while the FBI gathers more evidence. The decision not to seize the men militarily underscores the White House's aim to move away from hunting terrorists as enemy combatants and toward trying them as criminals in a civilian justice system.

• The Next Whistle Blowers will be MUCH Worse. Roger Simon reported on PJM about diplomatic sources told him the next whistle blowers will tell congress that Stevens’ mission in Benghazi, was to buy back Stinger missiles from al-Qaeda groups issued to them by the State Department, not by the CIA. Such a mission would usually be a CIA effort, but the intelligence agency had opposed the idea because of the high risk involved in arming “insurgents” with powerful weapons that endanger civilian aircraft. Additionally military contacts of the diplomats tell them that AFRICOM had Special Ops “assets in place that could have come to the aid of the Benghazi consulate immediately (not in six hours).”

 And Commanding General Ham was ready to send them. However Ham was told by the White House not to send the aid to the trapped men, but Ham decided to disobey and did so anyway, whereupon the White House “called his deputy and had the deputy threaten to relieve Ham of his command.”

 According to Simon, these whistle blowers are colleagues of his diplomatic contacts and are, currently securing legal counsel because they work in areas not fully protected by the Whistle blower law. Until they are sure they can be protected they cannot testify.

• Hillary Part Two- the Hill Reports: The rising temperature of the scandal means it’s possible that Hillary could be asked to return and testify again. If she comes back, she had better be prepared, says House Oversight and Government Reform chairman Darrell Issa. “We are interviewing lots of people, most of them under oath,” Issa says, describing the “methodical” approach his committee has been using for months. “We’re going to go through . . . that so that if we bring Secretary Clinton back, we bring her back when we have a lot of questions, including who told her what, or, more importantly, who didn’t tell her something, and why” Issa says in his office in the Rayburn House Office Building. 

• The Scape Goat? Following the attack in Benghazi, Libya, senior State Department officials close to Hillary Clinton ordered the removal of a midlevel official who had no role in security decisions and has never been told the charges against him. He is now accusing Clinton’s team of scapegoating him for the failures that led to the death of four Americans last year. But what difference at this point does it make? 

IRS: 

• Senate Hearing- More of the same from our friends at the IRS. But this time Orin Hatch gave Mr. Miller.
  
  “Why did you mislead me and my colleagues, my fellow senators, and most importantly the American people by failing to tell us what you knew about the exact subject we were asking about? Why didn’t you tell us?” Hatch asked.
  
  “Mr. Hatch, I did not lie,” Miller responded. “I did not lie, sir.”
  
  “You lied by omission. You knew what was going on,” Hatch said. “You should have told us.”
  
  “I answered the questions. I answered them truthfully. Did I know about the list? Yes. Not on the first letter, by the way, because the timing I wouldn’t have known for that. On the second letter, we answered those questions, sir,” Miller said.

• I'm NOT Sorry We Targeted Conservatives:  Senator Cornyn grilled former IRS Director Schulman and asked if he like Steven Miller did would begin by apologizing for the IRS’ systemic targeting of conservative groups.
  
  “I’m deeply, deeply saddened by this whole set of events,” Shulman replied. “I’ve read the IG’s report and I very much regret that it happened and that it happened on my watch.”“Is that an apology?” Cornyn asked the Senator?

 Which eventually led to the former director saying “I certainly am not personally responsible for creating a list that had inappropriate criteria on it,” Shulman replied. “What I know, with the full facts that are out is – from the Inspector General’s report – which doesn’t say that I’m responsible for that.”

• But No One Told The President? During the White House press briefing on Tuesday, Press Secretary Jay Carney informed the media that there were discussions between White House officials and the Internal Revenue Service regarding how they would present the news that conservative groups were targeted with excessive scrutiny. Carney confirmed that Deputy White House Chief of Staff Mark Childress interacted with officials in the Treasury Department and discussed the IRS scandal. 

• I'd Take a Fifth Also:  If I was under the same pressure as Lois Lerner, I would take a fifth of single malt. But Lerner, was the IRS official who announced the scandal and followed up with a disastrous presser. Lerner was called to testify at the House Oversight Committee.
  

  “The committee has been contacted by Ms. Lerner’s lawyer who stated that his client intended to invoke her Fifth Amendment right and refuse to answer questions,” said oversight spokesman Ali Ahmad. 

• The Administration is Lying? MSNBC (yes that MSNBC)  is reporting that Bonnie Esrig, a 38-year IRS veteran, worked as an area manager in the Determinations Unit of the IRS’ Exempt Organizations department in 2011 and 2012.
  
  “The idea of two rogue employees,” Esrig said, “is inconsistent with the kinds of checks and balances that are inherent in the way the organization is set up.”
  
  Nor does she believe the IRS assertion in its response to the Inspector General’s audit that the use of such inappropriate selection criteria were “mistakes” and that “front-line career employees … made the decisions.”
  
  “Front-line employees (at the Cincinnati office) do not make key decisions about policy and how work is processed,” Esrig told us. “Work is reviewed by the managers. The employees don't operate autonomously where there is no review. The managers review.
  
  “I think that even if an employee were to veer off in a separate direction briefly, I would be very surprised if anyone could sustain that before management became involved.” 

• Your Tax Dollars at work: Entrusted with a government credit card, an Internal Revenue Service worker allegedly used the plastic for a years-long Amazon.com shopping spree that netted her hundreds of items, including a chocolate fondue fountain; Bollywood movies; Pampers; Harlequin romance novels; Omaha Steaks; Apple Bottoms skinny jeans; mango body wash; and a Ginsu knife set.
  
  Yetunde Oseni, 37, was named this month in a U.S. District Court felony complaint charging her with embezzling government funds. Oseni has worked since 2000 as a secretary in an IRS office in Lanham, Maryland. According to a court filing, Oseni was given a Citibank MasterCard for the “purchase of office supplies for her business unit.”

• As the Story Changes- Jay Carny came up with another timeline for the IRS Scandal. Obama's hired spinner Carney said WH Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler was informed by the Treasury Department’s General Counsel’s office April 24 that the Inspector General for Tax Administration was completing a report that found that IRS employees improperly scrutinized political organizations seeking tax exempt status by searching their applications for words including “Tea Party” and “patriot.”
  
  The previous week, on April 16, Ruemmler had learned more generally that there were a number of Inspector General reports being finalized and an IRS investigation was among those investigations, Carney said.
  
  Carney’s comments today are at odds with what he told reporters last week, when he said the White House counsel “only found out about the review being conducted and coming to conclusion by the inspector general.”

The War on The Media:

• And Sharyl Attkisson Too? Sharyl Attkisson, the Emmy-award winning CBS News investigative reporter, says that her personal and work computers have been compromised and are under investigation.
  
  "I can confirm that an intrusion of my computers has been under some investigation on my end for some months but I'm not prepared to make an allegation against a specific entity today as I've been patient and methodical about this matter," Attkisson told POLITICO on Tuesday. "I need to check with my attorney and CBS to get their recommendations on info we make public."

• Carney the Laughing Stock: The White House Press Corps/Jay Carney daily briefing has become nothing but contentious. At one point today,  Carney took tough questions on a series of issues that could damage the White House politically, the press secretary aligned himself with White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer, who over the weekend accused Republicans of engaging in “partisan fishing expeditions “You know, we could go down the list of questions — we could say, what about the president's birth certificate?" Carney responded. “Was that legitimate?”
  

• Carney Gets Slammed-Witness this conversation between Jay Carney and  Hans Nichols of Bloomberg News:
  

  JAY CARNEY: What is it that you're trying [to do]?
  HANS NICHOLS: I'm trying to figure out how people in this building knew what they knew and when they knew it. And we seem --
  CARNEY: Let's step back.
  NICHOLS: You just dinged us for not asking precise questions. Here I am asking precise questions and you’re acting like I’m petulant.
  CARNEY: Well, I'm just trying to figure out what it is that we provided you. I can't believe anybody would call you petulant. But we provided you --
  NICHOLS: Or you forthcoming.

That's just what happened during the past 24 hours. Scandal upon scandal it seems as if things are building....it also seems that the administration is cracking at the seams. All of the above, on top of Fast and Furious, Obamacare falling apart and of course that doesn't even include the rumor from Drudge that there is a fourth scandal, the one the Administration fears most of all--just waiting to burst out.

Today may very well have been Obama's worst day so far in this Scandalpalooza, but based on the past 24 hours...it may get much, much worse.

Gov. Cuomo Threatens To FIRE Sheriffs Who Complain About NY Gun Law

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is getting the hang of his new job. He has been picking up tips from fellow progressives Barack Obama and Mommy Bloomberg, the most important tip of all is if somebody criticizes your decisions, don't listen just make sure they shut the hell up!

With his new SAFE Act (A.K.A. oppressive gun control law)  this governor has been able to kill two birds with one stone, not only attacking the Second Amendment of the Constitution, but also the First.

Opposition to the SAFE act has been growing in the state ever since it was rushed through the legislature early this year.  And many Sheriffs have spoken out against the law.

 In January, the New York State Sheriffs' Association wrote Cuomo with an analysis of the new law, and suggested tweaks. So the leadership of the Association were invited to Albany to (they thought) discuss their suggestions.  The group included Sheriffs' Association Executive Director Peter Kehoe and Chemung County Sheriff Christopher Moss.

"We didn't get a response (to the analysis) from him, but we could tell after the budget was passed that none of those recommendations were taken into consideration," Moss said. "When we got there, we never got to the contents of the letter."

Instead, Cuomo pushed the sheriffs to stop publicly speaking out against the act, Moss said.

"The governor was of the opinion that the sheriffs around the state should not be interjecting their personal opinions in reference to the law," Moss said, adding that Cuomo said sheriffs can't do that and enforce the law.

One person briefed on the meeting said Cuomo threatened to remove sheriffs from office, a little-used power afforded the state's chief executive under the state constitution. Moss would not confirm this. He did say the meeting was heated at times, but overall he described it as "cordial." 

Kehoe did not return calls, and Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi declined to comment. An administration official, speaking anonymously because he was not authorized to discuss a private meeting, "strongly" denied Cuomo had threatened to remove any sheriff.

Of course Azzopardi isn't going to say "Yeah my progressive boss strong-armed the Sheriffs to shut up or he would make them swim with the fishes."

Perhaps in response,  the Sheriffs' Association as well as several elected sheriffs filed an amicus curiae brief  last week supporting a federal challenge to the SAFE Act.

"We're not really protesting the law; we're protesting the methodology in which the law was forced upon the people without input of the people," said Livingston County Sheriff John York, a Republican who chairs the group's executive committee.

Erie County Sheriff Tim Howard has said he "won't enforce" the act.

The bill was unveiled on Jan. 14 and passed through a "message of necessity" that waived a three-day waiting period.  In other words neither the legislators nor the Governor wanted any input from law enforcement or the people.

In the amicus brief, the sheriffs wrote: "Law enforcement's work is made more difficult attempting to enforce unclear laws that harm, rather than promote, public safety. The laws appear willfully blind to legitimate safety interests, and instead are tailored to impact, and negatively impact, law-abiding firearm owners."

The SAFE Act is named after Cuomo's vision for the NY lifestyle of the future (Silly Anti-Freedom Environment) and is additional proof that this leader doesn't care what the voters think...he knows better than any of us.

Newsbusted: Pets To Be Taxed Under Obamacare

Well, Nancy Pelosi DID say we needed to pass Obamacare to see what's in it, but who would even suspect this? According to a new scientific study reports that owning a pet may cut the risk of heart disease.  In a new exclusive report by Newsbusted anchor Jodie Miller (see video below) we learn that upon reading the report, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has declared pets a health aid and will tax their ownership to help close the Obamacare budget gap.

Other news items covered in the latest installment of Newsbusted the weekly faux news feature from Newsbusters.org (embedded below) include; Nancy Pelosi on the bail out of Obamacare; will NYC allow non-citizens to vote?; the return of the Twinkie; and much, much, more.

Please make sure you watch the video below because something bad always happens to the people who don't. Last week interim IRS Director Miller forgot to press play and we all know how bad things turned out for him. So if you don't want to have a crappy week at work, you BETTER press play.

Oh and if you cannot see the video player below please click here

In the 1970s Newsweek AND Time Magazines Blamed Tornadoes On Global COOLING

Last night Senator Sheldon Whitehouse blamed the horrible Oklahoma tornadoes on Global Warming and chastise the GOP for not believing in the global warming hoax.

“So, you may have a question for me,” Whitehouse said. “Why do you care? Why do you, Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, care if we Republicans run off the climate cliff like a bunch of proverbial lemmings and disgrace ourselves? I’ll tell you why. We’re stuck in this together. We are stuck in this together. When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn’t just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms. It hits Oregon with acidified seas, it hits Montana with dying forests. So, like it or not, we’re in this together.”

You gotta love these progressives they change their claims more often than I change my underwear as long as it brings about global redistribution of income. Back in 1975  “the most devastating outbreak of tornadoes ever recorded”, killed “more than 300 people”, this according to Newsweek was among “the ominous signs that the Earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically”.

 But that article was published on April 28, 1975, when Newsweek listed the US tornado disaster of 1974 as one of the harbingers of disastrous global cooling, heralding the approach of a new ice age.

its getting cold by Jeffrey Dunetz

On the other side of NY City and a year earlier the dean of newsweeklies, Time Magazine wrote about the coming ice age on June 24, 1974 the magazine reported:

Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds — the so-called circumpolar vortex—that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world. Indeed it is the widening of this cap of cold air that is the immediate cause of Africa's drought. By blocking moisture-bearing equatorial winds and preventing them from bringing rainfall to the parched sub-Sahara region, as well as other drought-ridden areas stretching all the way from Central America to the Middle East and India, the polar winds have in effect caused the Sahara and other deserts to reach farther to the south. Paradoxically, the same vortex has created quite different weather quirks in the U.S. and other temperate zones. As the winds swirl around the globe, their southerly portions undulate like the bottom of a skirt. Cold air is pulled down across the Western U.S. and warm air is swept up to the Northeast. The collision of air masses of widely differing temperatures and humidity can create violent storms—the Midwest's recent rash of disastrous tornadoes, for example.

Today a day after the horrible storm and with more storms predicted for this afternoon, more people like Senator Whitehouse will crawl out from under a rock to announce it's all due to global warming. On the bright side I suppose its better than blaming George Bush. However the truth is Ice Age or Heat Wave, tornadoes or not it is sadly just a part of natures ebbs and flows. The earth is more crowded than ever before- as a horrible side effect there are more people in the way of these natural events. By blaming these tornadoes on supposed global warming, these proponents of the man-made heatwave theory are no different than the ancient ​Mesopotamians who saw lighting come from the sky and attributed it to the stone idol in their living rooms.

BBC: Global Warming Stopped 15 Years Ago (But It's Gonna Start Again---They Pinky Swear!)

The good news is the earth hasn't gotten warmer for 15 years. The bad news is (according to the climate change hoaxers) It's going to start getting warmer again, one day --they promise-- cross their hearts hope to die stick a needle in their eye, this time they really mean it!

Writing in Nature Geoscience, researchers say the 15-year hiatus will reduce predicted warming in the coming decades. But (even though they can't explain why it stopped "getting warm") long-term, the expected temperature rises will not alter significantly.


The most extreme projections are looking less likely than before” according Dr Alexander Otto University of Oxford.  Which means those of us who live in New York and expect it to be under water can put away the scuba gear.


According to these researchers:

The slowdown in the expected rate of global warming has been studied for several years now. Earlier this year, the UK Met Office lowered their five-year temperature forecast.

But this new paper gives the clearest picture yet of how any slowdown is likely to affect temperatures in both the short-term and long-term.

An international team of researchers looked at how the last decade would impact long-term, equilibrium climate sensitivity and the shorter term climate response.Transient nature

Climate sensitivity looks to see what would happen if we doubled concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere and let the Earth's oceans and ice sheets respond to it over several thousand years.

Transient climate response is much shorter term calculation again based on a doubling of CO2.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported in 2007 that the short-term temperature rise would most likely be 1-3C (1.8-5.4F).

But in this new analysis, by only including the temperatures from the last decade, the projected range would be 0.9-2.0C. 

The report suggests that warming in the near term will be less than forecast

"The hottest of the models in the medium-term, they are actually looking less likely or inconsistent with the data from the last decade alone," said Dr Alexander Otto from the University of Oxford.

"The most extreme projections are looking less likely than before."

The authors calculate that over the coming decades global average temperatures will warm about 20% more slowly than expected.

This is my favorite part:

"We would expect a single decade to jump around a bit but the overall trend is independent of it, and people should be exactly as concerned as before about what climate change is doing," said Dr Otto.

Is there any succour in these findings for climate sceptics who say the slowdown over the past 14 years means the global warming is not real?

"None. No comfort whatsoever," he said.

 This folks is what happens when you create computer models to prove what you want them to prove.  The Global Warming Hoaxers finally looked out the window and realize that it hasn't gotten warmer since Monica Lewinsky was ruining a good Cuban cigar. They have no real idea why it stopped, but they promise it will start again soon!  They Swear! No Really, they mean it!

The problem is they are they are using man-made models and "man" even scientists do not know everything about the way this world works.

In 1975, when I took Earth Science as a freshman in college we learned that the earth was long overdue for another ice age.  It took 20 years for me to realize they weren't talking about the series of animated children's movies.

These same global warming scientists cannot explain why it was warmer in the medieval period, centuries before the industrial revolution, than it is today.

The answer is easy,  Earth has natural cycles of warmth and cold.  Some scientists even believe that when the cycles become short and we fluctuate between short periods warm and cold it means that an ice age is approaching.

According to data from Ice cores, ocean sediment cores, the geologic record, and studies of ancient plant and animal populations there is regular pattern of Ice Ages which last about 100,000 years, separated by a 12,000 year interglacial period.

Right Now we are nearing the end of the Interglacial Period meaning that if you don't have a good winter coat may be time to buy one. But even more important is that the Hoaxers may have it backwards because some scientists believe the CO2 isn't causing the warming instead the natural cyclic increase in global temperature is causing global CO2 to rise.


The only thing we can prove today is that temperatures are NOT going up--the climate change theorists don't know why but are sure it is going to begin getting hotter again soon. They can't explain why it stops but they know the computer programs they created indicate that the stop is temporary (because they say it's so). Something is wrong with warming models that predict warming in a cooling world.
Allow me to suggest that these scientists put away the computers and look at their windows, because there is nothing to indicate the warming trend will re-start, or that it won't start getting cold real fast. After all despite their screams The Arctic Ice Cap has been GROWING.

There is an old proverb my Mother of blessed memory, used to say "Man plans and God laughs." Such is with these global warming hoaxers, they create brilliant computer models but they don't have all the data to make them accurate, so they make them say what they want them to say.

Somewhere up there, the creator of this world may be having a good chuckle.