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February 28, 2015 05:28 AM Forum: Politics

Emails: Hillary Knew Benghazi Was Terrorists

Posted By Dave Snope

You know the old adage ... How do you know if Clinton and Obama are lying? When they open their mouth.

Despite this evidence that her top staffers were informed from the start that a terrorist attack was underway and that an al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group had claimed credit for it, Secretary Clinton issued an official statement claiming the assault may have been in “response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet.”
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I have previously recounted that this official Clinton statement was issued shortly after 10 p.m. — minutes after President Obama and Secretary Clinton spoke briefly on the telephone about events in Benghazi, according to Clinton’s congressional testimony. The White House initially denied that Obama had spoken with Clinton or other top cabinet officials that night. The president’s version of events changed after Secretary Clinton’s testimony.
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Hicks added that he was clear in his briefing and other communications with his superiors that the Benghazi operation was a terrorist attack. Indeed, at the time he briefed Clinton, the pressing concern was that Ambassador Stevens might then be being held at a hospital that was under the control of terrorists. An hour later, at 9 p.m., Hicks learned from the Libyan prime minister that Stevens had been killed.



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March 3, 2015 05:31 PM Forum: Politics

Nidal Hasan Sentenced To Death

Posted By Dave Snope


FORT HOOD, Texas — Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist convicted in the November 2009 shooting rampage that left 13 dead and 31 wounded, was sentenced to death Wednesday by a military jury.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2013/08/28/military-jury-sentences-fort-hood-killer-hasan/2712803/

March 11, 2015 09:54 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Billionaire Forcing Costly Green Mandate on NY

Posted By Dave Snope

Or, another example of how the green mandates that the president pushes so hard are really dominated by crony capitalism and political corruption. The taxpayer and the lower income people are screwed in every one of these green projects. Just like every one of Obama's (failed and not-failed) green energy initiatives. This pal of Bill and Hillary Clinton gets ultra-rich on the public dime, the green companies get tax breaks, the lobbyists get richer, the politicians get richer campaign donations, and government organizations get perpetually larger, consume more funding, and get more powerful. The poor consumer needs more government aid because his fuel costs go up, and the government aid organizations get richer and more powerful. Everybody wins except the little people and joe taxpayer.

Billionaire John Catsimatidis is working to slip a biofuel mandate that would add $150 million to New Yorkers’ heat expenses into the state budget just as a company he owns completes construction of the largest biofuel plant in the region. The New York Post reports that Catsimatidis’ lobbyists are putting the pressure on State senators to slip a provision that would require all heating oil sold in New York to contain “2 percent or more of soybean oil and/or spent vegetable oils.” Catsimatidis is building a biofuel-processing plant in Brooklyn that will be the largest plant in the Northeast, according to the report.

- See more at: http://freebeacon.com/issues/billionaire-trying-to-force-costly-green-mandate-on-new-york/#sthash.V8LAoT6b.dpuf

March 19, 2015 10:55 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

For First Time Since 69, No Tornadoes In March

Posted By Dave Snope

An extreme lack of extreme weather:

The US tornado count for March 2015? Zero. That’s right, so far this month there have been no tornadoes reported in the U.S. — this is only the second time this has happened since 1950, according to Weather Channel meteorologist Greg Forbes. “We are in uncharted territory with respect to lack of severe weather,” Greg Carbin, a meteorologist at NOAA, said in a statement. “This has never happened in the record of [Storm Prediction Center] watches dating back to 1970.” –Michael Bastasch, Daily Caller, 18 March 2015

http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/18/for-the-first-time-since-1969-no-tornadoes-were-reported-in-march/

March 22, 2015 04:44 PM Forum: Off Topic Discussions

Ravens Offensive Lineman, Publishes Math Paper

Posted By Dave Snope

John Urschel is an offensive lineman for the NFL Baltimore Ravens whose Twitter handle is @MathMeetsFball. He has bachelor's and master's degrees in math, both with a 4.0 grade-point average.

"In this paper, we develop a cascadic multigrid algorithm for fast computation of the Fiedler vector of a graph Laplacian, namely, the eigenvector corresponding to the second smallest eigenvalue."


http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/20/394340722/john-urschel-ravens-offensive-lineman-publishes-math-paper?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20150321

March 28, 2015 03:41 AM Forum: Politics

Rahm Clueless Who Airports Are Named After

Posted By Dave Snope

Thinking about airport with the name of the man he says he loves, Obama.

"We have to, in some way, whether it’s President Obama or in the other case, Dr. Brazier, acknowledge people who have done significant things. We have an airport, two of them, named after, you know, Midway Airport, O’Hare Airport,” Emanuel said. “These are people who have been transformative in the city of Chicago. But we have airports named after battleships.”

In 1942, LtCdr Edward Henry "Butch" O'Hare became the first naval ace of WWII when he destroyed 8 bombers headed for his carrier, USS Lexington, in the Pacific. He was the first sailor to receive the Medal of Honor during WWII. The MoH citation reads in part:


"For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in aerial combat, at grave risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty, as section leader and pilot of Fighting Squadron 3 on 20 February 1942. Having lost the assistance of his teammates, Lt. O'Hare interposed his plane between his ship and an advancing enemy formation of 9 attacking twin-engine heavy bombers. Without hesitation, alone and unaided, he repeatedly attacked this enemy formation, at close range in the face of intense combined machinegun and cannon fire. Despite this concentrated opposition, Lt. O'Hare, by his gallant and courageous action, his extremely skillful marksmanship in making the most of every shot of his limited amount of ammunition, shot down 5 enemy bombers and severely damaged a sixth before they reached the bomb release point. As a result of his gallant action--one of the most daring, if not the most daring, single action in the history of combat aviation--he undoubtedly saved his carrier from serious damage."



http://www.blackfive.net/main/2015/03/honoring-battles-honoring-the-fallen-something-mayor-emanuel-does-not-understand.html

March 31, 2015 11:25 PM Forum: Politics

Supercut Of MSNBC Stupid Political Questions

Posted By Dave Snope

Take a journey through ClownSpace and have some good laughs:

https://youtu.be/FwKHEpolG6s

October 26, 2007 06:41 PM Forum: Astro-Physics

El Capitan - AP3600 GTO

Posted By Dave Snope

That's going to send the scope buggy makers scurrying off to their drawing boards .... or off to hide.

October 24, 2008 03:39 PM Forum: Politics

Palin's Cronyism

Posted By Dave Snope

Wow! It's amazing that one of the very few politicians in American that has busted cronyism, the existing corrupt good-old-boys network that was running Alaska, and in her own political party, still gets attacked for cronyism. I guess we better start attacking the other 99% of politicians first, before we get to her? There's a million of 'em. It'd be fun to start with Pelosi nominating and campaigning to get impeached judge Alcee Hastings to Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. You know, the Pelosi that was going to end the "culture of corruption"? She owed Alcee a favor. Not THAT'S real cronyism.

October 29, 2008 09:41 PM Forum: Politics

Kindhearts

Posted By Dave Snope

Nothing random about them, and not sure what followup you require, and the link is contained within. Contact the DOJ for followup. The mainstream media won't followup, they coverup, so that leaves us on our own.

It'd be a lot easier if I could post an article with a list of Obama's friends that are not anti-semites or terrorists. But I'd have nothing to post, and Obama has never offered any names, other than that "he has hundreds of friends".

On second thought, Obama has said that mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is a close and admired friend and let him speak at the DNC. He's not a terrorist. But Kwame is off to jail. And friend Tony Rezko isn't an antisemite, wait, he's off to jail too.

Oh wait, I know, there is Frank Marshall Davis, whom Obama fondly regards as a mentor on politics and values. He is neither of the above so here have found one. He was a proud member of the Communist Party, not that big a deal. But wait, he was a perverted pedophile who wrote fondly about it in his autobiography:

One chapter concerns the seduction by Mr Davis and his first wife of a 13-year-old girl called Anne. Mr Davis wrote that it was the girl who had suggested he had sex with her. “I’m not one to go in for Lolitas. Usually I’d rather not bed a babe under 20.

“But there are exceptions. I didn’t want to disappoint the trusting child. At her still-impressionistic age, a rejection might be traumatic, could even cripple her sexually for life.”

He then described how he and his wife would have sex with the girl.