John Kerry: Another bower on the world stage

 Subservience reigns as strength takes a back seat

Taking a cue from his boss Barack Hussein Obowma, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry bows before South Korean officials before meeting with President Park Geun-hye. Kerry used the occasion to admonish North Korea, telling the lunatic regime which starves and enslaves its own people, it would be a “huge mistake” to test launch a medium-range missile, warning the United States would never accept the nation as a nuclear power.

Does anyone think they care? In February North Korea set off its third nuclear test and intensified long-range rocket launches — clearly saber-rattling aimed at the United States — which the despotic government has described as the “sworn enemy of the (North) Korean people.”

Kerry, like others in the Obama administration, has played down an assessment from the Pentagon’s intelligence agency that North Korea already has a nuclear missile capacity.

Taking anything this lightweight says seriously requires amnesia. No doubt the North Koreans remember John Kerry as blasting the U.S. military with false testimony at congressional hearings and at rallies where he joined with Jane Fonda — the thespian who previously sat astride a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun — aimed at our U.S. service personnel.

With Obama in the White House, we have no one in charge.

Feds amassing ammunition: Enough for “24-yr war”

“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” — Barack Obama, 2008

Both Breitbart News and WND are reporting on the fact that federal non-military agencies have bought two billion rounds of ammunition in the last 10 months. The Obama Administration says that federal law enforcement agents need the ammunition for “mandatory quarterly firearms qualifications and other training sessions.”

The Daily Caller has addressed the troubling issue. Investor’s Business Daily veteran foreign and national correspondent, Andrew Malcolm wrote that the Department of Homeland Security is amassing what he called “sufficient firepower to shoot every American about five times…”

Mark Levin, conservative host and legal advisor in the Reagan administration, is suspicious. He commented: “To provide some perspective, experts estimate that at the peak of the Iraq war American troops were firing around 5.5 million rounds per month. At that rate, the [Department of Homeland Security] is armed now for a 24-year Iraq war. A 24-year Iraq war! I’m going to tell you what I think is going on. I don’t think domestic insurrection. Law enforcement and national security agencies, they play out multiple scenarios. … I think they’re simulating the collapse of our financial system, the collapse of our society and the potential for widespread violence, looting, killing in the streets, because that’s what happens when an economy collapses. I suspect that just in case our fiscal situation, our monetary situation, collapses, and following it the civil society collapses, that is the rule of law, they want to be prepared. I know why the government’s arming up: It’s not because there’s going to be an insurrection; it’s because our society is unraveling.”

The Social Security’s Office of the Inspector General responded to concerns over the massive ammunition procurement in this release posted on its blog last August. In the response, the OIG referred to two previous posts that had little to do with the original concerns, but did raise questions as to why the Obama administration was using the Social Security division, most often  relegated to senior issues, to respond to citizen concerns about massive ammunition purchases by the federal government.

The Department of Homeland Security, though buying and storing vast amounts of ammunition in recent months, has been silent. But Barack Obama might have given us a glimpse into the future during this campaign speech in 2008:

“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”

Will they be armed with tanks, technology and advanced weapons? What uniforms will they wear?

The mainstream media has been conspicuously mute even as Obama warned us: “America must also balance and integrate all elements of our national power. We cannot continue to push the burden onto our military alone, nor leave dormant any aspect of the full arsenal of American capability. That’s why my administration is committed to renewing diplomacy as a tool of American power and developing a civilian national security capability.”

Gallup: Americans reject Obama’s policies

Radical agenda on gun control, taxes, the economy, federal deficit, and Middle East come up short

Juxtaposed against Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech, the results of the most recent Gallup poll are nothing for the frequently vacationing president to write home about.

On gun policies, only 42% of Americans approve of Obama’s “solutions” while 54% disapprove.

Taxes? 41% approve and 57% disapprove.

On the economy, 39% approve and 60% disapprove.

He fares no better in his handling of the strife in the Middle East, 36% approve and 55% disapprove.

And on the federal budget deficit, Obama’s numbers plummet significantly as only 31% approve and 65% disapprove.

The only area in which Obama gains the support of a majority is on national defense issues, although the poll was conducted before North Korea reportedly tested a nuclear weapon on Monday. Obama seeks to diminish America’s nuclear arsenal.

Scroll down the Gallup page for job approval ratings by party affiliation. Registered Independents represent a core of voters dissatisfied with Obama’s handling of the issues of major importance.

Check out Obama’s approval ratings in depth and compare them with those of past presidents in the Gallup Presidential Job Approval Center. Scroll over the photo of each president from Truman to Obama to view graphs.

Staying safe: Advice from Janet Napolitano

Guns out!  Scissors in!

Arizonans know committed liberal Janet Napolitano all too well. Before she was appointed by Barack Obama as Chieftain of the Department of Homeland Security, she was appointed U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona by Bill Clinton. With the assistance of name ID, Napolitano was then elected Attorney General, and finally Governor — by a slim 46% – 45% of the vote. It was a post the ambitious hobber and nobber abandoned mid-term in favor of her current Cabinet level position.

Now, the woman who warned us that “Returning veterans possess combat skills and experience that are attractive to radicalized right-wing extremists,” and refuses to call terrorism by its rightful name, is giving advice on the best method of staying safe during “active shooter situations.”

Her advice comes via an absurd video, reminiscent of the Federal Civil Defense Administration’s Duck and Cover film shown to 1950’s school children at the height of the Cold War. It gave advice on protecting themselves in the event of an atomic bomb explosion.

Napolitano’s previous advice is found in the “Run, Hide Fight” video that includes this bit of wisdom: “Sometimes bad people do bad things.”

This most recent video “Options for Consideration / Active Shooter” suggests choosing either cover or concealment, including hiding and knowing “help is on the way.” As a last resort, improvising weapons is suggested. The video actually shows a hand removing a pair of scissors from a desk drawer (1:52 seconds). This is in response to a crazed killer with a gun.

Feel better? Bet you’d feel even safer if there was an actual means of defending yourself. Scissors might not be up to the task.

Betrayal: The babes and the brass

High stake treachery is nothing new, but terrorism is 21st Century matter

Mata Hari was an exotic dancer regarded as the epitome of the seductive female spy, and considered a hot number during World War I.  She intentionally obscured her Dutch background, passing herself off as an East Indian born in a sacred temple. But her well constructed hoax, which included lovers who were high raking military officers of various nationalities, eventually crumbled.  After being found guilty of spying for Germany against the allies, she was executed for espionage by a French firing squad in 1917.

Mata comes to mind in view of Debbie Schlussel’s exposé of a pair of her modern day equivalents, the twin Khawam sisters, Jill Khawam Kelley and Natalie Khawam, spies for Lebanon and the Arab world. These babes, both married wealthy Americans, and were able to party hearty as they hosted lavish soirees with top American military brass, among them two top generals in the Middle East, David Petraeus and John Allen.

Schlussel substantiates — with links to the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal — that Kelley was seen by Muslim Mid-East nations, especially Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon, as the “go to” woman to push their agenda on top American generals.

The Khawam sisters aided the infiltration of Central Command at MacDill Air Base in Tampa by Islamic terrorists. Islamic Jihad founder and convicted Islamic terrorist, Sami Al-Arian, was an instructor on the Middle East to our top generals at MacDill.

Kelley’s sister, Natalie Khawam, was married to a top Bush administration official, Grayson Wolfe, Director of Broader Middle East Initiatives and Iraqi Reconstruction at the Export-Import Bank of the United States. She frequently accompanied him on trips to the Middle East, including to Pakistan. Before that position, Wolfe was the Bush-installed Manager of the Private Sector Development Office of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, Iraq.

This information originated last month, but is the groundwork for many as yet to be reported stories. Take the time to acquaint yourself with Debbie Schlussel’s blog posting.  Knowledge is power.

Dec. 7, 1941: “A date which will live in infamy”

 

This morning in Honolulu, more than 2,000 U.S. military service personnel, veterans and other observers gathered at Pearl Harbor to commemorate the 71st anniversary of the devastating Japanese sneak attack that killed thousands of people and launched the United States into World War II.

At 7:55 a.m., the exact time on the Sunday morning in 1941 when hundreds of Japanese planes began raining bombs and torpedoes onto Oahu’s U.S. military ships and planes, onlookers across from the sunken USS Arizona once again became respectfully silent.

More than 2,400 Americans were killed and nearly 1,180 injured when stealth Japanese fighters bombed and sank 12 naval vessels and heavily damaged nine others. There are few survivors left, with most in their 90′s. The Pearl Harbor Survivors Association disbanded December 2011.

The USS Arizona still lies beneath the harbor with its dead entombed. The ship sank in less than nine minutes after a 1,760-pound armor-piercing bomb penetrated its decks and exploded in the ship’s forward ammunition magazine. 1,177 sailors and marines onboard were killed; 337 crew members survived.

Other major installations on Oahu, such as Wheeler Field and Kaneohe Naval Air Station, also were attacked. LIFE’s photos of the attack can be seen here.

The Pearl Harbor Visitor’s Center features galleries, interactive exhibits, two movie theaters, an amphitheater and an education center.

For more history, visit the U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service site here and the Naval History and Heritage site here.

USS Arizona Commander Daniel J. Condon was among the survivors of the attack. A medical doctor, he later served as the Medical Examiner for Maricopa County. His sword & belt were salvaged from the ship. His sword is on display at the Arizona State Capital, and his sword belt is displayed at the University of Arizona Museum. Dr. Condon died in 1992.

View President Franklin Roosevelt’s famous “A date which will live in infamy” speech (Original Draft:page 1, page 2 and page 3) and declaration of war following that unprovoked attack.

Two lame duck senators, McCain aid Obama’s amnesty

Want to “get the ball rolling” on overhauling immigration system

Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) have their boxes packed in their U.S. Senate offices as they retire. Before switching off their office lights for the last time, they have nothing to lose working hand-in-glove with Obama. Señor Juan McAmnesty still has four years left on his term though he has never cared about his constituents, in any event. The pre-election lies of McCain and Kyl (ads) are notorious. Their complete disregard for Republican grassroots activists is contemptible.

Hutchison and Kyl have partnered to introduce the ACHIEVE Act, which they tout as an alternative to the failed DREAM Act.  Its ultimate goal is the same — to give the gift of legal status to children who were brought into the country illegally by their alien parents.

“We are introducing this legislation that is not dissimilar from what the president has done de facto, which is a way of righting the situation but doing it in the right way,” said Kyl, referring to Obama’s pre-election decision to halt deportations. “We have to get this ball rolling,” Kyl announced at a news conference Tuesday.

The ACHIEVE Act would legalize the illegals in three steps. First, they would receive a visa to attend school or enlist in the military. Then they could apply for a work visa once they graduated or committed to military service. The final phase would grant access to a permanent visa that, according to Kyl, would not provide a “special pathway to citizenship“.…yet.

Their actions have garnered editorial praise in this morning’s open borders Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic) and emboldened its amnesty head cheerleader Linda Valdez to call for the state legislature to repeal Arizona’s nationally copied SB1070.

The idea that this bill would in any way restrain illegal immigration is preposterous. This costly legislation encourages rather than depresses further illegal immigration.

Hutchison and Kyl said they’ve briefed their successors — Republicans Ted Cruz (TX) and Jeff Flake (AZ) – on the ACHIEVE Act, hoping the newly elected senators could help lead efforts to pass the bill in the next Congress. While in the House, Flake has long been a strident backer of amnesty provisions In this 2010 Press Release, trying to walk a fine line between the image presented to his then-CD 6 mostly conservative constituents and his allegiance to amnesty, he opined that “comprehensive immigration reform” didn’t go far enough. Look for him to be a key player in efforts to overhaul national immigration laws. Like the DREAM and STRIVE Acts before it, the ACHIEVE measure is sure to win applause from the racist La Raza.

In its simplest form, think of it as state-subsidized lawbreaking — rewarding illegal aliens for violating federal immigration laws. For one thing, the premise of children being hapless victims of the illegality of their parents is shot full of holes. There is no way to verify if Jose came here in the arms of his mother 20 years ago or crossed the border last week. This latest amnesty scheme merely encourage more illegal immigration by sending the message that the U.S. doesn’t take its own laws seriously. The DREAM Act provided younger illegals the ability to sponsor their immediate family members. While current law prohibits sponsorship of illegals living in the U.S., the legislation (which we were unable to locate) leaves open the likelihood that they could, through falsified documents or other means, sponsor their parents who are in the U.S. illegally — creating an even larger amnesty.

However, the illegals, sympathetically called “dreamers” by the liberal media, have rejected the new plan, calling it too “watered down.”

The Department of Homeland Security recently launched this website designed to advertise citizen funded welfare and entitlement benefits to both legal and illegal aliens. The insanity goes on.

No Republicans up to the job, John McCain?

During a Sunday appearance on CBS’ “Face the Nation” our guy John McCain urged the appointment of Bill Clinton to intervene in the Mideast turmoil — as Israel attempts to defend itself against militant Palestinian attacks, while aerial fighting continues between Israel and Hamas-led Gaza.

McCain said, “The United States should obviously be as heavily influential as they can,” adding that the best way to do that is to have someone like [Bill] Clinton, “a person of enormous prestige and influence,” negotiate peace there.

John McCain, who has a history of problems with Mideast facts, (as evidenced by examples here (short video), here, here and here) and Hillary Clinton have long been close associates.

Watch the “Face the Nation” segment here.

Honoring Our Veterans (Parade route included)

This day is specifically set aside to thank our veterans and their families, who have given so much to protect our many freedoms 

Today’s Veterans Day Parade begins at 11:00 a.m. The map and route are available here.

The 2-mile long parade will feature more than 100 entries, including historic military vehicles; more than 50 Veterans Service Organizations such as the Disabled American Veterans, American Legion, 12 marching units, color guards; canine and equestrian units-including the reenactment of the Buffalo Soldiers; 19 floats; and six giant helium balloons; novelty units and 12 bands.

In addition, this year’s parade is an Arizona Centennial Event — celebrating with our great state as it turns 100 years old in 2012.

Lt. Col. Ralph Peters on Petraeus: “Timing is just too perfect”

 Wreaks of Chicago-style politics

Regarding the disclosure of information relating to CIA Director David Petraeus’ extramarital affair and subsequent, abrupt resignation,  Ret. Lt. Col. Ralph Peters had this to say to FOX News’ Neil Cavuto:

“The timing is just too perfect for the Obama administration. Just as the administration claimed it was purely coincidence that our Benghazi consulate was attacked on the anniversary of September 11th. Now it’s purely coincidence that this affair — extra-marital affair — surfaces right after the election, not before, but right after, but before the intelligence chiefs go to Capitol Hill to get grilled. As an old intelligence analyst, Neil, the way I read this — I could be totally wrong, this is my interpretation — is that the administration was unhappy with Petraeus not playing ball 100% on their party-line story. I think he was getting cold feet about testifying under oath on their party-line story. And I suspect that these tough Chicago guys knew about this affair for a while, held it in their back pocket until they needed to play the card.

I don’t like conspiracy theories, I may be totally wrong, but the timing of this, again, right after the election and right before Petraeus is supposed to get grilled on Capitol Hill, it’s really smells.”

Peters is not alone in his views.

When asked if Petraeus will testify, U.S. Rep. Peter King called the retired four-star Army general an “absolutely necessary witness.”  The New York Republican is the chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security.

“As far as I’m concerned, the intelligence committee has to interview Gen. Petraeus. Whether or not he’s head of the CIA is almost irrelevant to him testifying,” King said. “He’s the only one who would have the facts that we are looking for, so he’s going to have to testify one way or the other.” King expressed skepticism about the circumstances and timing of Petraeus’ resignation.

“The main issue is: Why was the investigation launched in the first place?” King asked. “There’s more here. This story does not add up. There is something missing in the entire story. I don’t see any good explanation coming out of this. There’s no way you can defend what the White House and the administration is saying. It just doesn’t make sense, and that’s the point I’m making.”

The Daily Caller has more here.