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FBI Chief Testifies Bureau Has Gone Soft On Battling Islamic Terrorism… Not like we didn’t already know this. Via IBD: Homeland Insecurity: If there’s any doubt the FBI’s gone soft on Islamic terror and may be overlooking more Boston-style plots, witness the bureau chief’s recent Hill testimony. In a testy exchange with Republican lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee, FBI Director Robert Mueller reluctantly acknowledged FBI counterterrorism training materials have been purged of references to “jihad” and “Islam” and that counterterrorism agents have been restricted from doing undercover investigations at mosques. These outrageous policies likely contributed to the FBI missing signs of radicalization in the Muslim community — including that of the Tsarnaev brothers in Boston. The marathon bombers operated in plain sight of the FBI before killing three and wounding 260. During the hearing, Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, blasted Mueller for concluding his agency had done an “excellent” and “thorough job” protecting the public and for saying he didn’t know what more could have been done to disrupt the marathon bombing plot. Gohmert also read aloud from IBD’s recent editorial on the subject, “Obama’s Snooping Excludes Mosques, Missed Boston Bombers.” Mueller confirmed that instead of investigating the militant Boston mosque where the bomber brothers were radicalized, the FBI partnered with it for political “outreach.” Asked if he was aware the mosque was co-founded by a convicted terrorist cited by the Treasury Department as an al-Qaida fundraiser, Mueller sheepishly replied, “I was not.” [...] Mueller wasn’t always Mr. Magoo. Who put the PC blinders on him? Eric Holder. In October 2011, the attorney general quietly put in force two policies that have made the nation far more vulnerable to homegrown terrorism. For one, he set up a special review committee to curb mosque investigations, classifying the names of the reviewers, who reportedly may include outside parties. Also that month he ordered a review of all FBI counterterrorist training manuals “to identify and correct any material that may be construed as offensive to someone of the Islamic faith,” according to a directive sent to all FBI field offices. http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/071713-664111-political-correctness-blinds-fbi-to-islamic-terror.htm?p=full
Health Care Premiums Jump Almost $2,000 Since Obamacare Passed… Obama Touts $100 Rebates… Math is hard (for Obama). (CNSNews.com) – One day after 22 House Democrats joined Republicans in voting to delay Obamacare’s individual mandate, President Obama used his bully pulpit to tout the law’s benefits as well as the “savings” already resulting from the Affordable Care Act. In a speech at the White House Thursday, the president explained that because of the Affordable Care Act, insurance companies must spend at least 80 percent of every dollar paid in premiums on health care. Those that don’t meet that requirement must send their customers refunds. “Last year, millions of Americans opened letters from their insurance companies — but instead of the usual dread that comes from getting a bill — they were pleasantly surprised with a check,” Obama said. “In 2012, 13 million rebates went out, in all 50 states. Another 8.5 [million] rebates are being sent out this summer, averaging around 100 bucks each.” [...] According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, health care premiums for the average family cost $15,745 in 2012 -– an increase of $1,975 from the $13,770 they cost in 2010, the year President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law. Employees pick up some, but not all, of that cost.
NY Food Stamp Recipients Shipping Welfare-Funded Groceries To Relatives In Haiti, Dominican Republic, Jamaica… And yet you couldn’t find a single Democrat in America who will admit there is rampant fraud and abuse in our welfare system. Via NY Post: Food stamps are paying for trans-Atlantic takeout — with New Yorkers using taxpayer-funded benefits to ship food to relatives in Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Welfare recipients are buying groceries with their Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards and packing them in giant barrels for the trip overseas, The Post found. The practice is so common that hundreds of 45- to 55-gallon cardboard and plastic barrels line the walls of supermarkets in almost every Caribbean corner of the city. The feds say the moveable feasts go against the intent of the $86 billion welfare program for impoverished Americans. A spokeswoman for the US Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service said welfare benefits are reserved for households that buy and prepare food together. She said states should intervene if people are caught shipping nonperishables abroad. Michael Tanner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, called it just another example of welfare abuse. “I don’t want food-stamp police to see what people do with their rice and beans, but it’s wrong,” Tanner told The Post. “The purpose of this program is to help Americans who don’t have enough to eat. This is not intended as a form of foreign aid.”
I was in the neighborhood convenience store recently. At the check out, the lady in front of me bought three packs of cigs and two "blunt" cigars with her EBT card. When I walked outside I observed her giving the blunts to two teenage boys in exchange for cash.
Democratic Leadership Knew Of Filner Harassment Charges Two Years Ago, Supported Him For Mayor And Did Nothing In Response Perverts and harassers are acceptable if they’re Democrats. Via Voice Of San Diego: The local Democratic Party has known for a long time about sexual harassment allegations against Bob Filner, a former Democratic assemblywoman said in a Thursday interview. “I blew the whistle on this two years ago to the Democratic Party leadership,” former Assemblywoman Lori Saldaña said. Saldaña said that in summer 2011 six prominent women in local politics, business and education told her that Filner had physically or verbally harassed them. Saldaña had been exploring what turned out to be an unsuccessful bid for Congress and the conversations came in the context of the 2012 elections. Saldaña said she contacted former party Chairman Jess Durfee with the allegations and Durfee was among a group of Democratic leaders who met with Filner to discuss them that summer. She said nothing happened. “As disgraceful as Bob’s behavior has been, it’s been tolerated by our Democratic Party leadership,” she said. http://voiceofsandiego.org/2013/07/11/ex-legislator-i-warned-democratic-party-about-filner-two-years-ago/
Saldana, of course, endorsed him anyway, like a good Democratic soldier: Congressional candidate Lori Saldaña endorsed Rep. Bob Filner for mayor of San Diego on Tuesday, hours after her Democratic rival Scott Peters rebuffed the opportunity citing his friendship with three major candidates — a Democrat, a Republican and an independent. “After 20 years of Republican misrule at City Hall, it’s time for a change,” said Saldaña, a fellow former educator who served three terms in the state Assembly. “Bob Filner offers the best chance for a break from the past.”
Lew: Obama Administration Will Make No Spending Cuts Yes, let’s continue to spend. Detroit, anyone? No lessons learned. The only really significant cuts I can see so far seem to be those affecting defense and the military at a time when there are more threats than ever against us in the world. Certainly nothing has been cut in the vacation and party budget of the White House. Via Breitbart: On ABC’s This Week on Sunday, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew threatened that President Obama would veto any bill cutting domestic spending, and said Obama would not hold negotiations of any sort on the debt ceiling. “Congress can’t let us default,” Lew said. “Congress has to do its work… I certainly hope that Congress isn’t looking to create confrontations and false crises because we did see, in 2011, how bad that is for the American economy. The mere fact of negotiating over the debt limit, after 2011, would introduce this notion that somehow there’s a question about whether or not we’re going to pay our bills, whether or not we’re going to protect the full faith and credit of the United States.” Lew continued by saying that Congress might actually move in the other direction by replacing sequestration’s automatic spending cuts. He specifically cited Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and John McCain (R-AZ) as possible negotiators with the White House – he said they would be meeting with White House staff to discuss other spending options. On NBC’s Meet the Press, Lew said, “What the president said - and has written to Congress is – that they cannot fix the problems created by the across-the-board cuts– known as sequestration by cutting domestic priorities in order to fund defense. That’s unacceptable…He won’t sign that.” http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/07/28/Lew-Obama-sequestration-debt-ceiling
New Book Instructs Teachers How To Work Leftist “Social Justice” Propaganda Into Math Lessons… Academia continues to be one giant cesspool of leftist propaganda. Via EAGnews: It’s said that misery loves company. Perhaps that’s one reason a group of gloomy, radical teachers is trying so hard to poison the minds of the nation’s K-12 students with their anti-American, anti-free market ideas. They’re miserable living in “the land of the free,” and want others to share their pain. The educators are part of Rethinking Schools, an organization that’s been sneaking left-wing “social justice” lessons into America’s K-12 classrooms for nearly three decades. The group’s latest effort to indoctrinate the nation’s youth is a 286-page book aimed at teachers, titled “Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers.” The book is a mix of math lesson plans and essays from activist educators who explain how they’ve used their classrooms to advance a progressive political philosophy. Two main themes emerge from the pages of “Rethinking Mathematics.” The first is that the U.S. is a hopelessly racist country that routinely oppresses “people of color.” This message is conveyed through lessons and essays about racial profiling, environmental racism, unfair mortgage lending practices of Big Banks, the “overabundance of liquor stores” in minority communities, and slave-owning U.S. presidents. The book’s other major theme is that capitalism’s unequal distribution of wealth is the root cause of the world’s suffering. Students learn to despise free market economics in lessons about third-world sweatshops, “living wage” laws, the earnings of fast food workers and restaurant CEOs, and the “hidden” costs of meat production. All of this sounds like material from a college sociology textbook. What could it possibly have to do with mathematics? As the “Rethinking” teachers demonstrate, the math concepts of ratios, averages, percentages, bar graphs, density and geometric formulas are very useful when training kids to see the world in their preferred categories of “haves” and “have nots.” http://eagnews.org/new-book-shows-teachers-how-to-mix-traditional-math-with-social-justice-political-lessons/
Obamanomics: Number of Americans Collecting SSDI Jumps 76,000 In July, Hits Another All-Time High… Thanks to Barack Obama, SSDI has become a career choice for millions of Americans. Via IBD: More than 76,000 workers went on the federal government’s disability program in July, according to the latest data from the Social Security administration, bringing the total number of new enrollees this year to 534,038. Although that is down somewhat from the same month last year, enrollment in the Social Security Disability Insurance program remains sharply higher than it has been historically. Since 2009, an average of about 1 million workers have gone on SSDI annually — a 31% increase from the average enrollment over the previous 10 years. As a result, a record 8.9 million workers are now collecting disability benefits, which is up 15% since the recovery officially started in mid-2009. Today, there are fewer than 13 Americans working in private sector jobs for each worker on disability. That’s down from 31 workers per disabled in 1990. At the same time, the SSDI program is heading rapidly toward insolvency. At current spending and income rates, the program’s trust fund will become insolvent by 2016 — less than 2-1/2 years from now. http://news.investors.com/073013-665681-nearly-9-million-workers-now-on-disability.htm
Liberal Democrats: “Thousands of People Will Die” Because of Obamacare, So We Need Socialized Health Care… They got half it right. (CNSNews.com) – “Thousands of people will die every year,” and “costs will continue to go out of control,” because of Obamacare, according to a Democrat activist. That’s why the only solution is to nationalize health care through a single-payer system, Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and the group Public Citizen argued outside the U.S. Capitol Wednesday. “Is this realistic after the passage of the Affordable Care Act?” asked Public Citizen President Robert Weissman. “This is what we know is going to happen after the Affordable Care Act is implemented. “However well it goes, whatever hiccups it has, two things are sure to happen,” he said. “One, millions of people are going to remain uncovered. And the best-case scenario, millions of people will remain uncovered, which means thousands of people will die every year from a lack of health insurance coverage.
Liberal Seattle Seeks Ban On “Offensive” Language, Like “Citizen” And “Brown Bag”… PC run amok. Via Fox News: Government workers in the city of Seattle have been advised that the terms “citizen” and “brown bag” are potentially offensive and may no longer be used in official documents and discussions. KOMO-TV reports that the city’s Office of Civil Rights instructed city workers in a recent internal memo to avoid using the words because some may find them offensive. “Luckily, we’ve got options,” Elliott Bronstein of the Office for Civil Rights wrote in the memo obtained by the station. “For ‘citizens,’ how about ‘residents?’” In an interview with Seattle’s KIRO Radio, Bronstein said the term “brown bag” has been used historically as a way to judge skin color. “For a lot of particularly African-American community members, the phrase brown bag does bring up associations with the past when a brown bag was actually used, I understand, to determine if people’s skin color was light enough to allow admission to an event or to come into a party that was being held in a private home,” Bronstein said. According to the memo, city employees should use the terms “lunch-and-learn” or “sack lunch” instead of “brown bag.” Bronstein told KIRO Radio the word “citizen” should be avoided because many people who live in Seattle are residents, not citizens. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/08/02/seattle-officials-call-for-ban-on-potentially-offensive-language/