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Posts Made By: Dave Snope

October 2, 2011 07:38 PM Forum: Politics

Information Dominance Over The Battlespace

Posted By Dave Snope
I have heard that the FBI would rather monitor the jihadi web content and track the perps, rather than shut them down. They have complained about citizen actions to disrupt jihadi web sites.

Most of these jihadi websites are hosted by U.S. based ISPs. They keep moving them around as they get shut down. The ISPs are blissfully ignorant, collecting payments until regular citizens complain and request action. YouTube has over 100,000 jihadi videos that violate their terms of service and many that violate U.S. law. But they are too concerned with policing politically incorrect offenses speech and "right wing" views.

Realistically, all the government could do is to crack down on the ISPs and fine them for hosting enemy propaganda. But they are usually legally immune, for they know not what they host.

October 2, 2011 08:00 PM Forum: Politics

Information Dominance Over The Battlespace

Posted By Dave Snope
BTW, the CyberCommand is responsible for much bigger issues than jihadi websites. They've got to make sure that, in the event of war, we still have an internet, still have military networks, still have network security, still have a banking system, still have a stock market, still have military and civilian communications, and that the enemy doesn't. That's civilization as we know it, which is a little bit more important than some effeminate punks with wispy beards hiding in their mother's basement sending out quotes from the Koran calling for jihad.

October 5, 2011 06:49 PM Forum: Politics

AG Holder Lied Under Oath

Posted By Dave Snope

Scandal: A major-league pitcher was indicted for lying to Congress about steroid use. Administration memos show Eric Holder lied about what he knew about Fast and Furious and when he knew it. What's the difference?

Somewhere, Scooter Libby must be scratching his head. He was indicted and convicted simply because his recall of when a meeting occurred differed from others. He didn't lie about a gun-running operation that led to the deaths of two American agents and at least 200 Mexicans.

But Attorney General Eric Holder did, according to memos obtained by CBS News and Fox News.

They show Holder lied to Congress on May 2, 2011, when he was asked about when he knew about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' Fast and Furious gun-running operation. He told House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa he was "not sure of the exact date, but I probably learned about Fast and Furious over the last few weeks."

Holder learned of the operation as early as July 2010 in a memo from the director of the National Drug Intelligence Center informing him of an operation run by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force out of the Phoenix ATF office, under which "straw purchasers are responsible for the purchase of 1,500 firearms that were then supplied to Mexican drug cartels."

On Oct. 18, 2010, one of Holder's chief deputies, Lanny Breuer, chief of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, told Holder in a memo that prosecutors were ready to issue indictments of a few gun traffickers involved in Fast and Furious.

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/587002/201110041859/Indict-Holder.htm

October 10, 2011 04:11 PM Forum: Politics

The Next U.S. Citizen To Get The Predator Treatmen

Posted By Dave Snope
Professor Yoo comments on the issue after it was revealed on Sunday that the Obama administration has written a secret memo justifying the killing of U.S. citizens who are terrorists. Which begs the question: if it is U.S. law, why is it Top Secret?

Let’s give partial credit where it is due. Apparently the Obama administration argues that al-Awlaki was a legitimate target because he is a member of an enemy engaged in hostile conduct against the United States. At least Obama has figured out that the war on terrorism is in fact a war, and that it is not limited just to Afghanistan. We should be thankful that Obama officials have quietly put aside the arguments they made during the Bush years that any terrorist outside the Afghani battlefield was a criminal suspect who deserved his day in federal court. By my lights, I would rather the Obama folks be hypocrites in favor of protecting the national security than principled fools (which they are free to be in the faculty lounges both before and after their time in government).

But the administration’s former worldview of terrorism still infects their decisions, to the country’s detriment. According to the reports, the Obama administration believes that force could only be used against al-Awlaki because arrest was impractical and al-Awlaki posed an imminent threat of harm to the United States. This is plainly wrong. It may make for good policy, especially toward American citizens who make the mistake of joining the enemy, but there is no legal reason why a nation at war must try to apprehend an enemy instead of shooting at him first. Every member of the enemy armed forces and leadership is a legitimate target in wartime, regardless of whether they can be caught or whether they pose an imminent threat. In fact, the Obama administration continues to confuse war with crime — the idea that you must try to arrest first and can only use force against an imminent attack is the standard that applies to the police, not the military.

October 11, 2011 05:24 PM Forum: Politics

I walk alone.

Posted By Dave Snope
Meanwhile, Scott Wilson of the Obama-friendly Washington Post writes:

This president endures with little joy the small talk and back-slapping of retail politics, rarely spends more than a few minutes on a rope line, refuses to coddle even his biggest donors. His relationship with Democrats on Capitol Hill is frosty, to be generous. Personal lobbying on behalf of legislation? He prefers to leave that to Vice President Biden, an old-school political charmer.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obama-the-loner-president/2011/10/03/gIQAHFcSTL_story.html

And Chris Cilizza, also at the WaPo, yesterday wrote:

Obama the loner
The Obama go-it-alone approach to politics paid huge dividends during the 2008 campaign as it allowed him to paint himself as the consummate outsider in an election where people were craving just that.

But, Obama’s loner tendencies have served him far less well as president and now, as he turns to his bid for a second term, threaten to leave him isolated with little political cover from his own side.

Obama is doing what he can to remedy that problem with a base-intensive strategy of late designed to remind Democratic voters — and elected officials — why they like him.

The question for Obama is whether the problem is fixable. The level of distrust is significant and long-held. And the timing couldn’t be worse.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/obama-the-loner/2011/10/10/gIQAF2u8ZL_blog.html

October 19, 2011 08:14 PM Forum: Politics

Proof Democrats in tank for Public Unions

Posted By Dave Snope
Or is he just a corrupt liar? It's one or the other. That was my reaction when I saw on the news a few minutes ago the video of Harry saying "Private sector jobs are doing just fine".

I don't know the exact number, but that last I heard the private sector had lost 6.5 million jobs with salaries down in most areas, while the public sector had lost around 250,000 jobs with salaries up.

Harry Reid just keeps proving that he's a corrupt, out of touch, cynical political operative.

What's the difference between this clown and a member of the former Soviet Politburo telling the starving people about the great wonders of communist food production?

October 21, 2011 04:41 AM Forum: Politics

Drug use in America effects everyone

Posted By Dave Snope
LOL!

October 21, 2011 04:49 AM Forum: Politics

Steve Jobs - Closet Republican

Posted By Dave Snope
Ouch! That's going to cause major cognitive dissonance for the i-this and i-that crowd.

October 23, 2011 06:36 PM Forum: Politics

Occupy movement explained in under a minute

Posted By Dave Snope
David Cotterell said:

that we shouldnt have 47 million people in this country who need government help to feed themselves, and we shouldnt have 15 million families who owe more on their mortgage than the value of their home, okay, I'll be that spokesman.

Nobody has to play dumb when they have Grayson doing for them. He sounds like a beauty contestant questionee. It's just the kind of thinking that pushed the world into financial crisis.

I assume that he means the "one party is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wall Street" is the R party. Which makes one wonder if Grayson has ever looked at Obama's actions and Obama's circle of advisors. Or campaign contributions.

Maybe Grayson can explain the big communist party presence at OWS. Maybe he can explain the extensive anti-semitic behavior and rhetoric. Maybe he can explain why OWS is such a big drug party. The primary principle of OWS is anti-capitalism. Maybe he can explain where that movement would ultimately lead the world. Naaah, he'd rather put lipstick on this pig.

Can't believe anybody watches Bill Maher's hate show.

October 23, 2011 08:20 PM Forum: Politics

Occupy movement explained in under a minute

Posted By Dave Snope
Apparently this protestor's sign explains it. It's over my head and I'm not playing dumb, so I hope somewhat can explain it. That's Boehner's picture in the middle.

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