Kerfuffles

But I know he did - I read it on a bumper sticker: “Bush Lied, People Died.“

If Bush didn’t lie - who did? JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER … that’s who!

The news is out all over town. Bush never lied about the intelligence he received after the Attack on America. It was West Virginie’s good Senator John D. Rockefeller the Fourth, chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, who LIED!

Senator Rockefeller lied through his teeth when he said that the Bush administration “repeatedly presented intelligence as fact when it was unsubstantiated, contradicted or even nonexistent.”

Bush told the truth; Rockefeller lied. “‘Bush Lied’? If Only It Were That Simple,” by Fred Hiatt of the Washington Post proves it.

The 100% phony “Bush lied” story was concocted by Rockefeller to distract from his own prewar incompetence and failure to lead. The intelligence upon which the brand new President Bush and his administration relied was horrifically false. After eight years of the Clinton administration’s stewardship of the CIA and Senator Rockefeller’s overseeing of the Select Committee on Intelligence, we were doomed.

So … what else was left for Senator Rockefeller to do but to cover his sorry rear? He came up with the bumper sticker slogan - “Bush Lied” and the rest is a sad chapter of rewriten history, as many Americans believed Rockefeller’s outrageous subterfuge. Read the story at WaPo and weep. Then be man enough to scrape that lying bumper sticker off of your car. Here’s a new bumper sticker for ya: “ROCKEFELLER LED - 3000 DEAD!”

‘Bush Lied’? If Only It Were That Simple, Fred Hiatt’s Washington Post Exposé of Rockefeller’s LIES.

If Bill Clinton was the “First Black President,” what will Barack Obama be when he is elected?

South Dakota native and former Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern gave us the answer when he joined Barack Obama campaigning in Sioux Falls. Senator McGovern declared “Obama Is a Second ‘Lincoln’.”

During good Senator McGovern’s 1972 Democratic presidential campaign a young Hillary Clinton worked her heart out as a political organizer in South Texas for him. He described Bill and Hillary Clinton as “my treasured friends all these years,” and the former Senator became an ardent supporter of her presidential bid. However, when the going got tough for Hillary, and she lost the state of North Carolina, Senator McGovern flip-flopped for his “treasured friend.” He is now a big supporter of Obama. As McGovern spoke to a crowd of 7,000, and with his words placed Obama upon the same pedestal that Abraham Lincoln has occupied all of these last many scores of years, Republicans were chortling in their sleeves.

While George McGovern was describing Barack Obama as “a second Abraham Lincoln,” Republicans were seeing Obama as a second George McGovern, an antiwar liberal about to be blown away in a wartime general election by a strong national defense candidate. Years ago it was Richard Nixon, the hawk, who defeated peacenik George McGovern with electoral college totals of 520 to 17, in the second biggest landslide in American history. Like the Democrats’ Al Gore after him, George McGovern did not even win his home state.

Barack Obama - “America’s Second George McGovern.”

Obama - A Second Lincoln

If Americans were really serious about reforming immigration they would stop blaming the illegal immigrants and put the onus where it belongs – on WASHINGTON.

If Americans were truly serious, they would elect a 100% brand new United States Congress and a new President who would drive a bulldozer through both the Immigration and Naturalization Service (I.N.S.) and the Department of Homeland Security (D.H.S.). While our soldiers are bleeding and dying in foreign lands to protect the homeland against terrorists who want nothing more than to enter the United States and do their dastardly deeds, high level administrators of those two aforementioned agencies have been accepting bribes to allow any illegal with $50,000 to become embedded in American society and obtain legal status and citizenship.

Take the case of just one high level government employee, Robert T. Schofield, 57, who recently pled guilty in a Virginia court to taking more than $600,000 in bribes, yet was originally charged with accepting more than $8.1 million in return for fraudulent green cards. Of the more than 200 illegal immigrants who received U.S. citizenship from Schofield, fewer than a dozen have been located. What are all the others up to at this very moment in time?

When we get smart enough to replace of 100% of the United States Congress, let’s consider keeping Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) who in July 2006, sent a letter to the Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) of D.H.S. regarding the arrest of Mr. Schofield, demanding to know how “a man with this history was in a supervisory position in [USCIS], where he could exploit his position of trust to sell U.S. citizenship to the highest bidder?” (CitizensForEthics.org)

Those who want to claim that Robert T. Schofield was just ONE bad apple in the INS-DHS barrel of apples, are themselves sandy-headed ostriches. Mr. Schofield flaunted much of his chicanery in the open. In fact, it was his outrageous brazenness, not his criminality, that finally forced law enforcement to take action. Schofield had supervisors who could not have been ignorant of his modus operandi. American taxpayers need to ask themselves why. Why did those charged with overseeing the activities of Mr. Schofield’s supervisors look the other way and why was he promoted and further rewarded by his superiors, even after his criminalities and indiscretions were found out?

Common sense tells one that Robert T. Schofield is but the tip of the iceberg. It is an understatement to declare that “it’s nothing new.” The New York Times wrote about the corruption rife at I.N.S. in 1994: In Immigration Labyrinth, Corruption Comes Easily by STEPHEN ENGELBERG.

Up and down the East Coast, the word quickly spread through immigrant communities. Come to the Northern Virginia offices of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Bring cash. Buy the right to live or work in the United States.

Smooth-talking middlemen took care of the details, bribing immigration service employees with gold jewelry, free vacations and cash-filled envelopes passed hand to hand in the aisles of a nearby department store. Ghanaians, Lebanese and Salvadorans, among others, flocked to what quickly became a multicultural bazaar. Most came from the Washington area, but others drove hundreds of miles and scribbled phony local addresses.

… “We let it happen,” one employee involved in the case said in a recent interview. “There was no supervision to tighten down on us, and we let it go real wild.”

Altogether, the I.N.S. said, they had fraudulently given more than 4,000 people permission to work and sold legal residency to 1,000 more immigrants who did not qualify.

In the cases of abuse described in 1994, the senior managers of I.N.S. claimed to be largely unaware of any abuse, insisting that only a small minority of the agency’s employees succumb to temptation, and that those who did take bribes were “entry-level employees — some earning barely more than the minimum wage.” That is not what Mr. Schofield was, nor his superiors who were complicit in his treachery.

For ten years the government had investigated numerous allegations that Schofield was on the take. In 1991, Schofield, as an I.N.S. special agent, botched investigation of an Asian brothel in Washington by engaging in an ‘inappropriate relationship’ with an informant. When he was demoted for ‘conduct unbecoming a government employee,’ he absconded to the Far East where he used his two government issued credit cards to support himself. How Schofield managed to legally return to Washington and whether he repaid American taxpayers for the $36,000 credit card fraud is clouded by bureaucratic murkiness, but return he did. He rose in the ranks, and when the new Department of Homeland Security took over I.N.S. functions in 2003, Robert T. Schofield surfaced as a supervisor tasked by higher ups with protecting the Homeland.

So let’s hear no more of elaborate regulatory schemes to be administered by these same congressmen, senators, presidential candidates and Robert T. Schofields. Schofield miscreants continue their betrayals in these government agencies; “civil servants” who are more interested in lining their pockets than in protecting their own homeland. It is shameful to say the least, when other, better Americans are putting their lives on the line to protect us from the evildoers.

“Immigration Official Pleads Guilty” - WaPo December 2006

Last night I suffered through the debate of the presidential candidates of the Party of Appeasement (Democrats). Obviously they know little of history and none has ever read of the fierce battles between Christians and Norsemen during Europe’s Middle Ages. Not one has ever heard of the Dane-geld or read the simple poetry of Britian’s Rudyard Kipling.

“The Dane-geld” by Rudyard Kipling

… “We invaded you last night —
we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away.”

And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you’ve only to pay ‘em the Dane-geld
And then you’ll get rid of the Dane!

It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say: —
“Though we know we should defeat you,
we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away.”

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say:–

“We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
Nor matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!”

The slave trade that forever stained America’s psyche began in Europe with the followers of Mohamed. It was the knowledge that they were following anti-Christian mores, which brought Americans to their senses about the matter, not to mention the realization that white Christians were its victims as well as black Africans. When Thomas Jefferson wrote in the original draft of the Declaration of Independence a condemnation of America’s slave trade, which comment was later deleted, he condemned “the Christian King of Great Britain” for practicing “this piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers.” The “infidel powers” to whom Jefferson alluded were none other than the Muslim Barbary pirates.

How many know that perhaps 1.5 million Europeans and Americans were enslaved in Islamic North Africa between 1530 and 1780? We dimly recall that Miguel de Cervantes was briefly in the galleys. But what of the people of the town of Baltimore in Ireland, all carried off by “corsair” raiders in a single night? (“Jefferson Versus the Muslim Pirates” by Christopher Hitchens)

Jefferson’s new nation found itself immediately at war with North Africa’s Islamic potentates who occupied the lands that are today Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia. No longer under the protection of the British Royal Navy, the Founding Fathers had to decide how to secure free navigation of the seas for the new United States of America.

In March of 1785, Jefferson and John Adams were in London to meet Ambassador Abd Al-Rahman of Tripoli and inquire of him why it was that Barbary states felt a right to impede American ships, pirating their cargo and enslaving their crews and passengers. America’s two most illustrious Founding Fathers were told by the “Mussulman” Ambassador: “it was written in the Koran, that all Nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon whoever they could find and to make Slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Mussulman who should be slain in battle was sure to go to Paradise.”

In 1801, when Thomas Jefferson became president, he refused to accede to the Barbary pirates of Tripoli’s demands for an immediate payment of $225,000 and an annual payment of $25,000. This refusal brought about the first “war” the U.S. would fight as a country. The first line of the Marine hymn, “from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli,” references the 600-mile march across the Libyan Desert of a group of Navy men and others to capture the port city of Derna, Tripoli. It took a concerted effort by England, France, Spain, and the United States to end over 400 years of Muslim piracy on the Barbary Coast. (“Happy Birthday Marines” by Edna Barney)

It seems that it was our beloved Democrat Thomas Jefferson who first decided to make war upon the Muslim Barbaries instead of appeasing them. President George W. Bush is struggling to follow in Jefferson’s mighty footsteps as the ancient battle continues. Give thanks for Jefferson and say a prayer for George W.

“TJ and the Barbaries” by Kerfuffles
“Jefferson’s War on Terror” by Edna Barney

What kind of people would claim to “Support Our Troops” while at the same time describing the Commanding Officer of those troops as “General Betray US?” The kind of people who would do that are “Liberal Democrats.”

What kind of “Americans” would portray one of America’s finest military men as worse than Benedict Arnold? What kind of people would describe a military leader who has devoted his life in service to his nation as a “Sniveling Liar?” (”General Petraeus is a military man constantly at war with the facts.”) The “so-called” Americans who do that are “Liberal Democrats.”

What kind of citizens are so wanton with hubris as to claim to know more about war strategy than an experienced Army General? (”General Petraeus will not admit what everyone knows: Iraq is mired in an unwinnable religious civil war. General Petraeus has actually said American troops will need to stay in Iraq for as long as ten years.“)

The kind of people who think they know more than anyone else in the country about what is best for our country are “Liberal Democrats.”

Check it out for yourself at The Baltimore Sun.

Scooter Libby is a scapegoat for a crime that was never committed. However, politically someone was required to be convicted to justify the millions of taxpayers’s dollars that were spent to fund the years of investigation of Patrick Fitzgerald to try and find who committed the crime that didn’t happen - the outing of a covert CIA agent who was not covert.

This example of judicial injustice and prosecutorial misbehavior is why the right to pardon was permitted to the President. President Bush can show his true stripes by pardoning his faithful public servant. Or will the President be intimidated by those who already hate him beyond belief, and not do the right thing? Bill Clinton used his presidental pardons on the likes of Mark Rich. Scooter Libby is a saint in comparison to Mark Rich.

How clever of the CIA to divert America’s attention from its own real failing to keep citizens safe from Islamic terrorists, by fomenting the scandal created by the Plame-Wilsons.

“The Plame-Wilsons and Jacques Chirac, and A Shadowy Agency Amok, and Joseph Wilson, Truth-Teller?, and Ambassador of Whoppers tell the tales of the renegade C.I.A. that was so preoccupied with plotting against its own government, that it had neither time, resources nor ambition to find the intelligence that could have saved us from September 11th and the previous attacks upon America.” Our CIA Has Done US Wrong! ~~Kerfuffles. (Image from iHillary.)

“So far we’ve been very successful in preventing another attack on our soil.” ~~President George W. Bush

From THE WHITE HOUSE, Office of the Press Secretary comes this message today, May 11, 2006, 12:03 P.M. EDT, from President George W. Bush on the NSA SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM:

THE PRESIDENT: After September the 11th, I vowed to the American people that our government would do everything within the law to protect them against another terrorist attack. As part of this effort, I authorized the National Security Agency to intercept the international communications of people with known links to al Qaeda and related terrorist organizations. In other words, if al Qaeda or their associates are making calls into the United States or out of the United State s, we want to know what they’re saying.

Today there are new claims about other ways we are tracking down al Qaeda to prevent attacks on America. I want to make some important points about what the government is doing and what the government is not doing.

First, our international activities strictly target al Qaeda and their known affiliates. Al Qaeda is our enemy, and we want to know their plans. Second, the government does not listen to domestic phone calls without court approval. Third, the intelligence activities I authorized are lawful and have been briefed to appropriate members of Congress, both Republican and Democrat. Fourth, the privacy of ordinary Americans is fiercely protected in all our activities.

We’re not mining or trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans. Our efforts are focused on links to al Qaeda and their known affiliates. So far we’ve been very successful in preventing another attack on our soil.

As a general matter, every time sensitive intelligence is leaked, it hurts our ability to defeat this enemy. Our most important job is to protect the American people from another attack, and we will do so within the laws of our country.

Thank you.

Linked at Stop the ACLU.

AMA Poll - Sex, Intoxication and Women on Spring Break

In the months leading up to spring break for colleges, students are bombarded by promotions on campus advertising cheap or free alcohol with “fun” in foreign lands. Below are some actual quotations from one Spring Break promoter.

• Spring Break: “your yearly intake of alcoholic consumption could happen in one small week.”
• What to Tell Parents: “its an educational trip”.
• Safe Water? ~“don’t worry about the water because you will be drinking beer.”

And here is a pronouncement from the American Medical Association that will rankle the ladies of NOW and other Women’s Rights advocates.

“Scientific evidence shows women process alcohol differently putting them at greater risks for heart problems, reproductive disorders and liver disease,” said J. Edward Hill MD, president of the AMA. “These survey results are extremely disturbing because it brings up an entirely new set of issues including increased risk of sexually transmitted diseases, blackouts and violence.”

The good news is that some responsible college women are realizing the dangers to their health and safety resulting from embracing the hedonism encouraged by the alcohol industry and spring break tour operators. Alternative spring break trips are becoming popular, such as doing community service. The University of Nebraska, Lehigh University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison are all offering service trips to help others without alcohol as the focal point. Hopefully more colleges and universities will see the wisdom of doing the same.

Dr. Hill said “Spring break is broken. What was a traditional time to relax and take a break from college studies has turned into a dangerous binge-fest.” Now I truly realize what a dinosaur I am, as when I was in college, spring break was known as “Easter Break” and it was a time to go home and celebrate the holiday with your family.

Today’s “The Washington Post” published “Study Warns Women About Spring Break” and included this this graphic. This come just in time for International Women’s Day, which is today, according to Beth at MVRWC. Tracked at “PBS Watch”.

If President Bush’s right hand man, Karl Rove, gets the ole “heave-hove” from the special prosecutor, the man to take Rove’s stead is Scott Ott. Who is Scott Ott? Well, he is the genius who has advised the president to announce the Do-Not-Wiretap List. That is cleverer than Karl has ever been.

Ott is telling the president to announce the creation of a new website which will allow Americans to voluntarily exclude their phone numbers and email addresses from NSA wiretap lists. The new National Do Not Wiretap Registry (DoNotWiretap.gov) will be patterned on the “oh so successful” DoNotCall.gov model of allowing citizens to opt-out of harassment by telephone solicitors and junk calls. Scott Ott writes:

“If you’re concerned that your civil rights might be violated simply because some al Qaeda member has your information in his cellphone or computer, then go to DoNotWiretap.gov, enter your contact phone number, email address, and names of terrorists who might have you on speed dial and we’ll let the National Security Administration know that you don’t want them eavesdropping on you.”

End of story, New York Times and all the Dems who had already authorized the NSA to do just what it has been doing all along.

Ms. Valerie SpyPlame-Wilson wasn’t the only Washington secret agent involved in the WMD intrigue of the Bush administration. With all the glamour and fame that seems to attend Langley’s safely ensconced local spy rings, even Senators are trying to enter the fray, perhaps, hoping to appear on the cover of “Vanity Fair” à la fair Spy-Plame.

“While Democrats in Washington are berating the White House for having prewar intelligence wrong, a high-profile U.S. senator, member of the Select Committee on Intelligence, who has a name more internationally recognizable than Richard Cheney’s, tells two putative allies (Saudi Arabia and Jordan) and an enemy who is allied with Saddam Hussein (Syria) that the United States was going to war with Iraq.”

“U.S. SENATOR JAY ROCKEFELLER: ‘I took a trip by myself in January of 2002 to Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria, and I told each of the heads of state that it was my view that George Bush had already made up his mind to go to war against Iraq — that that was a predetermined set course which had taken shape shortly after 9/11.’“William J. Bennett, “National Review Online”

Kerfuffles would like to know why it is that the American spies we know, always seem to work for the other side? Don Surber asks “What Did Dems Know & When Did They Forget It?” The GOP has the answers with a new video: Republican National Committee. Meanwhile, there seems to be a rumored message from Lady Spy Plame to a certain patrician West Virginny Senator: “Leave the spying to the pros, Bubba!”