Posts Made By: Mel Maki

Jim Brown said:

Can you wish happy birthday to a dead guy? I hope so. Milton Friedman was born 100 years ago today. He was a great American mind.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444226904577558882802335216.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/07/31/milton_friedmans_centenary_114960.html

Herbert York said:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443589304577635113013597198.html?mod=e2tw

Herbert York said:

.... shinny object they are showing you. Just bury your head - everything will be fine

http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/EW5IdwltaAc?rel=0

Rod Kaufman said:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/25/world/meast/clinton-interview/index.html?hpt=hp_c1
Notable commentary for the impact a nuclear Iran would have, the potential for terrorist acquisition, and the difference between it and Iraq.

Rod Kaufman said:

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-missile-defense-test-20121025,0,3560891.story
Er, ah, I want 100% next time...

Dave Snope said:

Had a laser on the target, but no help came.

Politics before lives. People died, Obama lied. How can anybody vote for these shameful people?

Former Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods was part of a small team who was at the CIA annex about a mile from the U.S. consulate where Ambassador Chris Stevens and his team came under attack. When he and others heard the shots fired, they informed their higher-ups at the annex to tell them what they were hearing and requested permission to go to the consulate and help out. They were told to "stand down," according to sources familiar with the exchange. Soon after, they were again told to "stand down."

Woods and at least two others ignored those orders and made their way to the consulate which at that point was on fire. Shots were exchanged. The rescue team from the CIA annex evacuated those who remained at the consulate and Sean Smith, who had been killed in the initial attack. They could not find the ambassador and returned to the CIA annex at about midnight.

At that point, they called again for military support and help because they were taking fire at the CIA safe house, or annex. The request was denied. There were no communications problems at the annex, according those present at the compound. The team was in constant radio contact with their headquarters. In fact, at least one member of the team was on the roof of the annex manning a heavy machine gun when mortars were fired at the CIA compound. The security officer had a laser on the target that was firing and repeatedly requested back-up support from a Spectre gunship, which is commonly used by U.S. Special Operations forces to provide support to Special Operations teams on the ground involved in intense firefights. The fighting at the CIA annex went on for more than four hours -- enough time for any planes based in Sigonella Air base, just 480 miles away, to arrive. Fox News has also learned that two separate Tier One Special operations forces were told to wait, among them Delta Force operators.


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/26/cia-operators-were-denied-request-for-help-during-benghazi-attack-sources-say/#ixzz2AQgHGydB

Dave Snope said:

Mark Steyn lays into Biden for his latest buffoonery:

At the photo-op staged for the returning caskets, Obama et al. seem to have been too focused on their campaign needs to observe even the minimal courtesies. Charles Woods says that at the ceremony Joe Biden strolled over to him and by way of condolence said in a “loud and boisterous� voice, “Did your son always have balls the size of cue balls?� One assumes charitably that the vice president is acknowledging in his own inept and blundering way the remarkable courage of a man called upon to die for his country on some worthless sod halfway across the planet. But the near-parodic locker-room coarseness is grotesque both in its inaptness and in its lack of basic human feeling for a bereaved family forced to grieve in public and as crowd-scene extras to the political bigshot. Just about the only formal responsibility a vice president has is to attend funerals without embarrassing his country. And this preening buffoon of pseudo-blue-collar faux-machismo couldn’t even manage that.

He also does a nice job explaining the incredible shrinking president:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/331806/incredible-shrinking-president-mark-steyn#

Rod Kaufman said:

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/world/55194916-68/cia-team-libyan-officers.html.csp?page=1
I assume Romney gets intelligence briefings along with our president. And that's probably the reason he didn't pursue the issue...

Tony Aguire said:

http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/13/15141771-poll-if-government-careens-off-fiscal-cliff-gop-to-shoulder-blame?lite&ocid=msnhp&pos=1


Dear Republicans, get your party in order, or it will be gone. Obstructionist policies, hateful rhetoric, inflammatory lies, and fear mongering are not working in your favor anymore...time to get a grip and be "reborn".