“Transparent” Government??? Obama Has Issued 19 Secret Directives

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A one-digit correction to President Obama’s directive on hostage policy Wednesday had the effect of disclosing the existence of a previously unknown — and still-secret — Obama order on national security.

The hostage policy was originally released Wednesday as a presidential policy directive numbered PPD-29. When the White House corrected that number to PPD-30, it meant Obama had issued a secret directive as PPD-29 sometime in the past 17 months . . .

So what is PPD-29? No one’s talking. A spokesman for the National Security Council declined to comment of the existence of classified PPDs Wednesday.

“The only reason we know about it is the sequential numbering of the directives, and realizing they skipped a few,” said Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists, which tracks the directives.

PPD-29 isn’t the first to be tacitly acknowledged only by a missing number. Of the 30 PPDs issued by Obama, 19 have not been released. And for 11 of those, the White House has not disclosed even the subject of the order. (Read more from “Obama Has Issued 19 Secret Directives” HERE)

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What Is RINO Boehner’s Definition of a Conservative Agenda?

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Speaker Boehner is doling out new punishments to conservatives. The Hill reports Boehner has defended his “tough love” actions saying, “We are in the majority. Part of being in the majority is advancing an agenda — a conservative agenda.”

Conservative agenda? This has to make one wonder what Boehner’s version of a “conservative agenda” really is.

With this article is a graphical review of the Republican-dominated House of Representatives’ accomplishments from this “conservative agenda” Boehner defends.

Those are only the accomplishments achieved during the past 6 months. There are 18 more months left of this “conservative agenda.”

Everything is backwards with GOP leadership, when Republicans dissent from the Obama agenda that Boehner is trying to rubber stamp, that is when the screws come out. Almost as if a transsexual party we have a transpolitical party, voters elected the Republican Party and what they got was a bunch of politicians that self-identify as Democrats that punish Republicans for not supporting the Obama agenda.

Now go back to The Hill article to see the hubris of the Washington Establishment on full display.

Here are some favorite quotes:

“The fact is we’ve got more than 200 rank-and-file members who are royally pissed off at those guys for voting to turn the House floor over to Nancy Pelosi,” said a senior GOP leadership aide.

See accomplishments listed above. Who is running the House floor again?

Also, what the GOP Establishment is not fessing up to is that the Obamatrade rule that governed its floor consideration contained several self-executing provisions that were intended to pass legislation without the majority of Republicans being forced to affirmatively vote for the provisions. Plain and simple: cowardice.

Here is another quote from a GOP Leadership aide:

“Taxpayer-funded travel is a privilege and not a right.”

Just to be clear, your tax dollars are being used as leverage to buy votes for liberal accomplishments to advance Boehner’s “conservative agenda.” Members are being denied those taxpayer funds to take critical national security-related trips because they disagree with….Obama’s agenda!

Apparently it’s now fair game to oust conservatives from positions of influence, hence Congressman Mark Meadows (R- NC) getting removed from his subcommittee and threats against freshman Congressmen Ken Buck (R-CO) of being pushed out as freshmen class president.

So now that the ground rules have been established that it is fine and dandy to target positions of influence, liberal Republicans won’t mind if conservatives fight fire with fire. It’s time for House conservatives to wake up to the reality of the war leadership has waged against them and decide their course of action. Will it be to sit by while more of this so-called “conservative agenda” is forced down the throats of voters? Or will it be to fight back even harder, regardless of the consequences? (“What Is Boehner’s Definition of a Conservative Agenda?”, originally posted HERE)

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FBI Rounding up Islamic State Suspects

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The FBI has been rounding up more potential “lone wolf” terrorists, Congressional leaders and the Justice Department say, in response to the perception of a mounting threat of domestic attacks inspired by the Islamic State.

Since the thwarted attack on a “Draw Muhammad” conference in Garland, Texas, on May 3, the Justice Department has announced the arrests of 10 individuals it says were inspired by and supporting the Islamic State. The lawmakers say there have been more arrests that have not yet been announced.

They say the FBI has shifted its approach toward arrests rather than keeping suspects under surveillance, and is also targeting individuals thought to be planning attacks in the U.S., unlike the bureau’s past focus on volunteers preparing to join ISIS’s fight abroad.

“Lately, we have seen an uptick in the number of arrests of ISIL followers who were planning violent acts in our homeland,” said John Carlin, the assistant attorney general for national security. “ISIL, differing from some other foreign terrorist organizations, has demonstrated that they see value in mobilizing sympathizers anywhere in the world.”

The spate of arrests comes in response to what Congressional leaders and the Justice Department say is a mounting threat that radicalized Americans will attempt low-tech, lone wolf attacks in the near future. Lawmakers see the changes as necessary because the Islamic State uses social media so effectively to radicalize Americans and because the group is getting better at using encryption to shield its communications with new recruits. (Read more from “FBI Rounding up Islamic State Suspects” HERE)

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GOP Senator Pat Toomey Trying to Revive Failed Gun Control Legislation

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In a not totally unexpected move, Senators Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) are exploring ways to reintroduce and pass legislation similar to their bill that was rejected by the Senate by 54 to 46 (60 votes were needed for passage) back in 2013. That rejected bill— which was described as a “compromise” measure — would have expanded background checks to include sales made at guns shows and online in addition to the already-required checks for buyers purchasing firearms made from licensed commercial gun dealers.

The senators’ attempt to revive their 2013 bill is not unexpected in the wake of the recent tragic shooting in Charleston because their original legislation was created as a response to the December 2012 shooting spree by a lone gunman that killed 20 school children and six adults at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. After such highly publicized mass shootings occur, gun control advocates routinely capitalize on the natural horror resulting from such tragic events to pin the blame on the weapons, themselves, rather than on the unbalanced individuals who wielded them.

Before the Sandy Hook shootings, the same reaction resulted from the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, and the Fort Hood shooting in 2009. Lost amidst all the grief and emotions is the realization that each of these shootings occurred among a group of unarmed, defenseless people, who might have defended themselves had the personal possession of firearms not been so heavily restricted.

Once again, while emotions over the Charleston shooting still run high, Manchin and Toomey are dusting off their repertoire. However, they are proceeding with caution.

Toomey told the Washington Post he was trying to figure out if there was “something that could get the support of the 60 votes that we would need in the Senate.” Elizabeth Anderson, a spokesperson for Toomey, said that it would be erroneous to describe the senator’s efforts as “revisiting” his 2013 bill, but he “is open to exploring” legislative options. (Read more from “Senators Manchin and Toomey Consider Reviving Failed Gun Control Legislation” HERE)

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ISIS-Linked Group Said to Issue Leaflets Threatening Christians in Jerusalem

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Leaflets threatening Christians and signed by an organization referring to itself as the “Islamic State in Palestine” were distributed in East Jerusalem Thursday, Israel’s Channel 10 news reported.

The flyers, which displayed an image of the black flag associated with the Islamic State terrorist group, warned Christian residents of the city that “vengeance” will be exacted upon them, the TV report stated . . .

There have been intermittent reports of attempts by IS-affiliated groups to organize in Jerusalem and elsewhere in Israel, and a trickle of cases of Israeli Arabs journeying to join IS forces elsewhere in the region or being arrested en route to do so.

Earlier this week, an Israeli Arab family from Sakhnin, in the north, contacted authorities for help in locating their son and his family, who they said they believe are trying to enter Syria to join the Islamic State . . .

The cell members were arrested by operatives of the Shin Bet security service and stand accused of launching an unsuccessful attack against IDF soldiers and conspiring to kidnap and kill civilians and military personnel in the West Bank. (Read more from “IS-Linked Group Said to Issue Leaflets Threatening Christians in Jerusalem” HERE)

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Investor: Markets ‘Extremely Overheated,’ Especially in Junk Bonds

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Carl Icahn warned investors on Wednesday that he believes the market is “extremely overheated—especially high-yield bonds.” ( Tweet This)

“I think the public is walking into a trap again as they did in 2007,” the activist investor told CNBC’s “Fast Money Halftime Report.” “I think it’s almost the duty of well-respected investors, like myself I hope, to warn people, to tell people, that really you are making errors.”

Icahn compared the current market situation to the prerecession days, when mortgage-backed securities were being widely sold. “It’s almost deja vu,” he said. Many companies are selling at huge multiples and reporting earnings that are “sort of fudged” due to various accounting methods, he said.

“I do think you are going to have a dramatic pullback, certain things may happen,” he said. To remedy this, Icahn would like to see the government and regulators look at the way earnings and guidance are reported by companies. (Read more from “Investor: Markets ‘Extremely Overheated,’ Especially in Junk Bonds” HERE)

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The Horrifying Reason That Your Eyes Go Red in the Pool

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According to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it’s not the chlorine in a swimming pool that makes your eyes red and itchy after a swim – it’s the pee. You may want to think twice about not wearing goggles before swimming in that public pool . . .

There is a common misconception that chlorine immediately gets rid of all the nasties that people swimming in a pool may have. Associate director of the CDC’s Healthy Water program Dr. Michael Beach explains to Women’s Health that “Chlorine binds with all the things it’s trying to kill from your bodies, and it forms these chemical irritants. That’s what’s stinging your eyes. It’s the chlorine binding to the urine and sweat” . . .

Speaking frankly of diarrhea, disease outbreaks from public swimming pools are on the rise, according to Beach’s research. Those that swim while experiencing diarrhea are putting others at risk. They don’t actually have to poop in the pool, but any germs on their body could potentially spread to other people in the same water. This is why the CDC strongly recommends that swimmers shower before jumping into the pool. (Read more from “The Horrifying Reason That Your Eyes Go Red in the Pool” HERE)

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Pope’s New Inquisition: You Can’t Make Guns and Call Yourself a Christian

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Pope Francis has to be one of the most Marxist popes the Roman Catholic Church has seen in recent decades. Over the weekend he had the audacity to claim that those who are engaged in gunmaking cannot call themselves Christians.

At a youth rally in Turin, Italy, the pope said, “”It makes me think of … people, managers, businessmen who call themselves Christian and they manufacture weapons,” he said, according to Reuters. “That leads to a bit a distrust, doesn’t it?” . . .

This is the same guy who rides in a bulletproof car. He’s also the same hypocrite whose Vatican danced around with the idea of homosexuality while conducting sodomite orgies, embraced anti-Christ Islam, recognized the terror state of Palestine, pushed for a new world order and even toyed with the idea of evolution.

Furthermore, let’s just ask the glaring question before the entire world… how does man, dressed in the finest of linens, housed in a 1,100 room palace and served hand and foot by servants exemplify the Lord Jesus Christ? How exactly does that work? Not to mention that the palace he lives in was built on the backs of the poor throughout Europe with a bunch of hocus pocus nonsense advanced the papacy and John Tetzel. And why? It was all for the sake of the love of money.

While Francis made several other comments, including those built upon previous comments about World War I and World War II, the reality is that there is a supreme difference between those who manufacture weapons for the protection of the innocent and those who build them for the destruction of the innocent. (Read more from “Pope’s New Inquisition: You Can’t Make Guns and Call Yourself a Christian” HERE)

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Peanut Butter and Jelly Deemed Racist

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Oh the times we live in where food can be deemed racist. In a move Oprah would be proud of, Principal Verenice Gutierrez, of the Harvey Scott K-8 School in Portland, has labeled peanut butter and jelly sandwiches as racist.

Apparently, in a move distinguished by the superintendant of the school, an effort was made to, “improve education for students of color.”

Tell me, how does the lunch selection improve the implementation of education?

This is so far beyond politically correct it’s dumfounding. Gutierrez has determined that the fact that the PB&J is on bread, it leads to cultural sensitivity . . .

The principal states that certain students that belong to minorities, take for example, “Somali or Hispanic students,” may not have culturally eaten bread, but instead used things like torta, or pitas. (Read more from “Peanut Butter and Jelly Deemed Racist” HERE)

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Foes of Gay Marriage Say Speaking out Can Make Them a Target; Obama Also the Target of Heckling at LGBT Event

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By Shelia M. Poole and Craig Schneider. Alveda King is certain of two things: She’ll always oppose same-sex marriage, and people will always get mad when she says so.

How could the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. oppose gay marriage? they demand to know. At times the social media jabs, angry emails or tense phone calls are threatening, she said, although recent Twitter comments were merely critical.

Tennis great Martina Navratilova, who married partner Julia Lemigova in 2014, tweeted:

“@AlvedaCKing really tired of you guys telling me and my family we are ‘wrong’ in about every way imaginable. Shame on you.”

In an unexpected turnabout, many opponents of gay marriage will not speak publicly in 2015 because of the backlash that will follow: the charges of bigotry, intolerance or worse. Not too many years ago, it was the proponents of same-sex marriage who were publicly condemned — by some of the very folks who won’t speak out today. (Read more from “Foes of Gay Marriage Say Speaking out Can Make Them a Target” HERE)

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Obama, Who Opposed Gay Marriage When Elected, Takes Credit for LGBT Progress

By Daniel Halper. Speaking at an LGBT event tonight at the White House, President Obama took credit for liberal LGBT progress since he took office six-and-a-half years ago.

Obama said, according to a White House transcript: “Together, we ended ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’ (Applause.) We passed a historic hate crimes bill named in part after Matthew Shepard. (Applause.) We lifted the HIV entry ban, and this summer, we’re going to be updating our national HIV/AIDS strategy which will focus on eliminating disparities that gay and bisexual men and transgender women face. (Applause.) We strengthened the Violence Against Women Act to protect LGBT victims. (Applause.) Hospitals that accept Medicare and Medicaid are now required to treat LGBT patients the same as everybody else. (Applause.) The pillar of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act was struck down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional. (Applause.) Just yesterday, we announced that insurance companies that cover federal workers will no longer be able to prohibit gender transition services. (Applause.)”

He added, “When I became President, same-sex marriage was legal in only two states. Today, it’s legal in 37 states — (applause) — and the District of Columbia. A decade ago, politicians ran against LGBT rights. Today, they’re running towards them. (Applause.) Because they’ve learned what the rest of the country knows — that marriage equality is about our civil rights, and our firm belief that every citizen should be treated equally under the law.” (Read more from this story HERE)

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Obama Heckled at LGBT Event

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