Biggest blankouts of the Obama administration

Posted by $ jbrenner 11 years, 9 months ago to Politics
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No one with even a double digit IQ could believe the idiocy about the Youtube video as being to blame for inciting the Benghazi fiasco, but then there was yesterday's Jay Carney White House briefing call Benghazi a "Fox story". The blood is crossing over my blood-brain barrier and just making me want to explode!


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  • Posted by Notperfect 11 years, 9 months ago
    Carney's puppeteer cannot remember what and where his strings should be placed. Wonder when will he really cough up a hairball.
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  • Posted by ObjectiveAnalyst 11 years, 9 months ago
    I keep hearing that the investigations have been beaten to death... that all we can, or should do now, is insure that something like this never happens again. How can that happen if we don't find out who was responsible and remove them from office? Doesn't an example need to be made? Why isn't that made clear by the media interviewer when faced with the typical sycophant obstructionist, spewing nonsense like "what difference at this point does it make?".
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  • Posted by $ blarman 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Certificates and such are just the government's way of controlling who is allowed to engage in certain professions.

    I don't have any problem with a business-oriented certification like a CPA or PNP, an industry certification like the plethora of technical ones, or a professional certification, but governmental regulation of who can conduct business smacks of authoritarianism.
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  • Posted by teri-amborn 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    About 2% of folks actually THINK. About 10% think that the are thinkers. The remainder watch TV. No wonder Jay Carney gets away with murder.
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  • Posted by jcabello 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Whose assessment? Carney's? He's not an analyst, he is just a communicator and says what he is told. He may make up some things on the spot, but when he speaks of "we" he must have been instructed to lie.
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  • Posted by NealS 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Robbie, that's a shame. Wisconsin must have changed since I left there in 1953. It used to be extremely conservative but back then we didn't know what that was. I'm glad to be out of California too now, but Washington State is a great place except for it's current western politics. About half of our voters think like current day Wisconsinites. We're going to tear down some real good schools now to make room to build new ones to handle the forecasted student increases, instead of just doing some cost effective add-ons. Our recent governors, mostly Gregoire, almost doubled our State employees.
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  • Posted by $ 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Do you happen to know any Dwight Sanderses within Atlantis yet? Flyers like Bobhummel are as close as I have seen, but I have not seen those who can build the airplanes yet.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 9 months ago
    Those who want to believe, will. Those that can see the truth, will. Those who don't want to know the truth watch reality TV shows.
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  • Posted by $ 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Indeed, that is the reason, Robbie. Sorry. As an educator myself, I thought maybe I could get away with bashing educators like myself.
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  • Posted by $ 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Indeed, private institutions like my non-tenure-granting, non-union Florida Tech must perform. As it is, we are the fastest growing private university amongst the 150 Tier 1 universities in the US.
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  • Posted by Bobhummel 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Awesome. A nuke ET CPO. My son is A Weaps on SSN759. On deployment in westPac. NPS is a really difficult school. Sort of like understanding how Galt's motor works. Congrats on the transition to grid power systems. I was on on cv41 (flying Phantoms) cv63 (flying tomcats) for numerous deployments and on CVN68 for a reserve air wing work up in 1990 flying tomcats.
    Cheers.
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  • Posted by khalling 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I take exception to that. Both of my parents were teachers (elementary and high school). They were respected by their students and shared a passion for curiosity and delighting in explaining things to children/teens. OF course, they did not major in education. You did ,however, have to get a teaching certificate which I find to be bogus. It's nonsense to expect an engineer to have to get some certificate to come in and teach HS algebra. It is reasonable to monitor classroom performance. We have all had great teachers. They may not have been in a classroom-but maybe they should have been. My beef is more with administrations' policies and unions. Most private institutions have to perform or their enrollment will decrease.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I don't think that Jay lies very well, or effectively. It only works because the lapdog media doesn't bother to probe anything that doesn't fit their world view, which is decidedly leftist/socialist.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I feel for you. I spent yesterday at the Wisconsin state Rep Party convention. Our state Treasurer position has basically had all power/authority moved to the legislature, executive or just eliminated. Of the two candidates, one promised to go after federal money and bring it to the state, and the other made the case for eliminating the office. The vote on endorsement went only 50.8% to the candidate to eliminate the office - not surpassing the 60% level needed to garner an endorsement. It was very disheartening to see just how many are swayed by what they might get instead of good government and smaller government. And these were R's - not very conservative, and certainly not very libertarian.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 11 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Ouch. My daughter is an education major (math). She's pretty smart. And my youngest is a business major - also pretty smart. But then, I'm an engineer, so maybe that's the reason(?) ;-)
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