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Today, Friday, January 10th from 7pm to 8:00pm EST, RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS Craig Andresen and Diane Sori discuss the California wildfires; Trump's 'Hush Money' sentencing; and the 'drama' at President Jimmy Carter's state funeral. Hope you can tune in to RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS on https://rspradio1.com Click 'LISTEN LIVE' starting at 6:50pm EST, show begins at 7pm EST.  

May former President Jimmy Carter 'Rest in Peace'...a terrible president but a truly decent, honorable, and good man. Jimmy Carter died yesterday at 100 years old...he and his beloved Roslyn are together again.

 

Op-ed:
Ineffective Bombing Raids as per an Ineffective President                                              
By: Diane Sori

“They aren’t flying B-1 bombers, bombing American cities...But they are going to be bombing American cities coming across from Mexico… All you have to do is ask the border patrol.”
- Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA)

From a purely military standpoint, bombing alone has always proven to be ineffective and a waste of time, money, and resources for the simple fact is that it has to be backed-up by 'boots on the ground'...especially in a campaign where it is difficult to find targets worth destroying...targets that actually make a difference in helping to stop the forward march of the enemy.

And the enemy known as ISIS is even more difficult to stop because they accrue sympathizers and supporters even as they savagely wipe out the indigenous populations. And to make matters worse, as all eyes remain focused on Iraq and Syria, ISIS is making inroads of another sort in Afghanistan as Taliban fighters are planning to merge forces with ISIS in support of their joint goal of establishing a strict islamic caliphate.

And many of us knew this was coming as barbarians have a way of seeking each other out as they are cut from the same moldy cloth...a cloth that is tightly wrapped with a neat bow around this White House.

So as it now becomes apparent that the war against ISIS cannot and will NOT be won from the air...as it becomes apparent that Obama's 'NO strategy' strategy is the failure we knew it would be...for he ignored facts that the generals tried to tell him...facts that while airstrikes might temporarily slowdown the effectiveness of an enemy...even an enemy like ISIS...the enemy quickly learns how to adapt to the bombings. But the thing is that Obama just does NOT care...does NOT care that now ISIS has morphed into warriors of a different sort...warriors of cowardliness who hide and fight from within civilian populations...heightening the meaning of the words 'collateral damage.'

And the undeniable fact is that only 'boots on the ground' can deny this enemy...deny ISIS...the ability to operate and the ability to kill.

And kill is all they want to do...as many as possible and in the most barbaric and inhumane of ways. And it all goes back to what seems to be a never ending saga of war between Sunni and Shia with the end result being the setting up of a strict Sunni islamic caliphate...a caliphate governed by laws laid down by a perverted madman in a vile anything but holy book over 1400 years ago..

So as Obama knowingly bombs empty warehouses and long deserted training camps, the media still pushes the Obama lie that we are effectively bombing ISIS, but truth be told we are actually bombing Khorasan...a tentacle of al-Nusra who in turn is a tentacle of al-Qaeda. And by our bombing of bombing al-Qaeda we might take-out a few in ISIS' leadership who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, but al-Qaeda itself through groups like ISIS (who has NOT broken their ties to al-Qaeda stories to the contrary), al-Nusra, and Khorasan will continue to grow even stronger. And as they do they will mount 'payback' terrorist campaigns against the West...campaigns that could have 9/11 paling in comparison.

And as Obama keeps bloviating that al-Qaeda is on the run, just remember that NOTHING could be further from the truth as al-Qaeda is the one orchestrating and pulling the strings in preparation of their takeover of the Middle East. And again Obama knows this and again he just does NOT care for if he did 'boots on the ground' would have been revisited and implemented weeks ago...if he actually wanted to take out the enemy that is.

'Boots on the ground' is key to stopping ISIS for without 'boots' ISIS will sadly most likely win for while airstrikes are well and fine...carpet bombing would be even better...the fact is you have to have people in key areas to direct the raids and to be sure the right targets are hit...as in making sure NO empty warehouses and deserted training camps are wastefully hit.

'Boots on the ground'...and hell must have indeed frozen over for even ex-President Jimmy Carter... the second worst president in American history...knows that 'boots' are the key to success against ISIS. Saying, “If we keep on working in Iraq and have some ground troops to follow up when we do our bombing, there is a possibility of success," he added that,“...we waited too long. We let the Islamic state build up its money, capability and strength and weapons while it was still in Syria.” And so like a broken clock that is right twice a day, Jimmy Carter is right on this one, and most of the American public agrees...in fact more than twice as many voters polled believe defeating ISIS will take ground troops as opposed to airstrikes alone (57-24 percent).

'Boots on the ground'...former CIA head and ex-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta also agrees that 'boots' are needed, and he too has criticized Obama’s failure to follow through with a winning strategy concerning ISIS. Citing Obama's failure to act against Syria if the country dared to cross his own put in place 'red line ’in the sand...referring to al-Assad's 'supposed' use of chemical weapons...we all know how that turned out now don't we. "And what we're doing with the Free Syrian Army is militarily unsound...this mythical Arab army that we're trying to get up to go in on the ground in Syria will need a lot of American hand-holding. And if it takes a year before we can go to Mosul, I can only imagine how strong [ISIS] will be" Panetta added. And he should know as he originally was onboard with arming the anything but 'moderate' Syrian rebels.

'Boots on the ground'...much needed to clean up the 'human garbage' that bombings leave behind...clean up the 'garbage' as in every ISIS soldier and ISIS member needs to be killed or captured...period. 'Boots on the ground' to assure that NONE escape to return again another day for these are NOT soldiers finding a 'just war' but are barbaric savages out to kill us all...out to kill us all and what does Obama do...drop a few bombs here and there forgetting what our military has always known...that if we get involved in a war we need to be prepared to win that war and that means putting 'boots on the ground.'

And we most assuredly need 'boots on the ground' in order to win against ISIS...in order to secure a lasting peace. And here's why Obama is reluctant to deploy those 'boots'...summed up simply in two words...midterm elections. The man who ran for president with promises of bringing our troops home now is vehemently opposed to redeploying said troops to theaters of war as it will than expose yet another of his foreign policy failures. NOT caring that ISIS has taken over a country where so much American blood was shed and treasure was spent, Obama now wants Iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga forces to fight this battle, as he refuses to accept the fact that these forces are NOT ready to do battle with any enemy...let alone an enemy the likes of ISIS.

And that is so sad for it was Obama himself who said before announcing to the enemy that we would be pulling out of Iraq...and giving them the time frame for which we would do so...that Iraqi forces were well-trained to keep the peace. Just another in his long list of lies...just something else Democrats are running hard and fast from for Obama's policies have now become poison to their re-election bids.

And so as Obama keeps saying out of one side of his mouth that he will NOT send 'boots' back to Iraq to fight ISIS...out of the other side of his mouth he keeps insisting that ISIS will be a threat to the homeland if NOT stopped.  But I say he cannot have it both ways for isn't it better to fight ISIS 'over there' than to have to fight them 'here' on American soil...just simple logic that escapes this president... simple logic that escapes the man who sides with the enemy every chance he gets.

Just saying and just sighing in total disgust for the truth is ISIS is already here.

Op-ed:  
"Drill Baby Drill"...or should I say "Build Baby Build"
By: Diane Sori   
 
"You stand on the brink of making a choice that will define your legacy on one of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced -- climate change..." - Former President Jimmy Carter

Well leave it to the second worst president in U.S. history to suck up to the worst president in U.S. history as last week Jimmy Carter, together with a group of nine Nobel Peace Laureates... including South Africa’s Desmond Tutu...sent a single letter through the Nobel Women's Initiative to both Obama and John 'Swiftboat' Kerry urging them to reject the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline... TransCanada’s long-delayed $5.5-billion project...on the grounds that it would add to climate change concerns and other environmental issues.

But the truth is that the pipeline would NOT negatively affect anything...for it would NOT contribute to greenhouse gasses nor would it contribute to global warning simply because there is NO such thing. (So-called global warming and global cooling are naturally occurring weather cycles that have occurred since the Earth began and will continue until the Earth is NO more.)

With the exporting of crude oil from tar sands in Canada to refineries here in America, Sarah Palin's much ballyhooed slogan "Drill Baby Drill" should be the rallying cry for building the Keystone Pipeline. The U.S. span of 1,179 miles alone would create tens of thousands of jobs and that does NOT include all the jobs created by the much needed adjunct industries. And the benefits to having access to oil from Canada... our friendly neighbor to the north...would help cut down our dependency on foreign oil...on Arab oil.

But that is obviously NOT what Obama wants for he is in the pocket of and bows down to the wishes of his muslim brethren...and their wish is for American dollars and having a choke-hold on America's energy needs.

Stonewalling a decision on the pipeline for years now, Obama is also placating and playing to the powerful leftist environmentalist groups that have turned the pipeline into a test of Obama's credibility on (non-existent) climate change. After Obama's saying that he would deal with the “threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations,” during his January State of the Union Address, these groups have positioned themselves and their wallets to make sure Obama does NOT renege on his words...to make sure the scientific truth about the LIE of climate change is kept hidden from the public.

But the truth is that the building or NOT building of the pipeline has already been decided by politics and politics alone. Obama claims that he and the State Department (which has to be involved because the pipeline crosses an international border thus needing a presidential permit and a State Department review) are delaying the pipeline permits because of a Nebraska state court case that could affect the route of the pipeline...a case that may NOT be decided until next year...a case citing that the pipeline would cut through the ecologically sensitive Sandhills and the Ogallala aquifer, the main drinking water source for the Great Plains. But the truth is Obama has again LIED to the American people, because in February he said the court's decision either way would NOT influence his final decision but come March he did his usual about face and is holding up the pipeline because of that very case...and of course about fear of losing the environmental lobbyists monies.

So it boils down to the fact that Obama himself is trying to delay the decision until after the November mid-terms to get himself and Democratic candidates off a politically dangerous precipice what with at least a half-dozen Democrat senators most likely to lose their Senate seats...so it's best to keep this hot-button issue off the table. And while Democratic incumbents from oil-rich states have quietly urged Obama to approve the pipeline, they realize that in Obama's approving the pipeline before the election it could stop the flow of money from liberal donors and fund-raisers who oppose the pipeline.

And so Obama has virtually stopped a project so wanted by 'We the People'...a project that would create tens of thousands of jobs and take thousands off the government welfare rolls. But wait...if the pipeline is built and Americans are put back to work, they would come off Obama's welfare rolls causing him to most likely lose their votes. This is the real reason why Obama does NOT want this pipeline built...it was and is all about votes...votes and control.

And what of the environmentalists who pull Obama's strings and pad his wallet... well they love to say that the oil harvested from this Hardisty, Alberta originating line is 'dirty' oil NOT understanding that all oil is 'dirty' before it's refined. And as for the environment itself, the pipeline would actually help wildlife survive the harsh northern winters because the animals would be able to gather around the heat given off by the pipe. The more that could survive the winter because of this, the more that would survive to be able to breed in the spring and thus increase the endangered populations.

And while the environmentalists also claim they fear massive leaks and breaches in the line, this too is without merit for there is NO need to fear environment damaging leaks because the pipeline will be built in sections, and if something happens to a specific section, that section would then be shut down, thus having minimal affect on the surrounding environment.

And something most do NOT realize is the fact that even if Obama does NOT sign off on the pipeline the oil sands crude will still be extracted and brought to market by other means, like by rail, and then processed and burned. And what a waste that would be for the hoped for jobs that would put Americans back to work would NEVER come, and the monies made by the Canadian side of the pipeline would NEVER have a chance of reaching American hands...would NEVER help the still stalled American economy recover

Delaying the pipeline means "the United States will continue to rely on suspect and aggressive foreign leaders for the eight to nine million barrels of oil that is imported every day," said TransCanada Corporate chief executive Russ Girling when he heard of Obama's again stalling a decision on the pipeline.

But when you have a vehemently anti-American president at the helm who's being egged on by a babbling senile has-been like Jimmy Carter what else would you expect.

Op-ed: 

From hostage taker to U.N. ambassador  

By: Diane Sori  

 

“Willfully, deliberately, insulting, and contemptuous..."  

- Senator Ted Cruz 

 

The Iran Hostage Crisis of the late 1970's was a page directly from the devil's playbook. On November 4, 1979, a crowd of about 500 students seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, and of the approximately 90 people inside the embassy at the time, 52 American diplomats and eight private citizens were taken hostage and tortured off and on for 444 days. Showing their support for anti-American cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution...a revolution to break with Iran’s past and end American interference in Iran's affairs...the hostage takers finally set their captives free on January 20, 1981, mere hours after Ronald Reagan delivered his inaugural address. And why now and NOT on Jimmy Carter's watch...it was simply because they feared retaliation from a Republican president if they did NOT. And our relations with Iran have gone downhill since then.

And now the ghosts of the hostage crisis have come back to haunt as Iranian career diplomat Hamid Aboutalebi, a member of the very muslim students group who took the hostages...a man with close ties to Iran's new president Hassan Rouhani and to Mohammad Khatami, a reformist former president....and a man who has held key postings in the past including serving as Iran's ambassador to Italy, Belgium, and Australia...has been tapped by Iran to be their next envoy to the United Nations...or what I call the U(seless) N(ations).

But there is a caveat...a big caveat...to this appointment as Hamid Aboutalbi appears to have taken an active part in the hostage taking. Claiming he did NOT take part in the torture of the hostages, but just had been "summoned" when needed to serve as a translator, Aboutalebi’s even remote connection to the hostage crisis has elicited anger...and rightly so...from former U.S. hostages.

Even though Aboutalebi played down his role during the hostage crisis, former hostage John Limbert said he has questions about Aboutalebi's stated role as a 'supposed' translator. "I'm not sure exactly what he means by 'translator'"..."For whom and where?" he said.

"It's a disgrace if the USG (U.S. government) accepts Abutalebi's visa as Iranian Ambassador to the U.N.," said former hostage Barry Rosen. Adding, "It may be a precedent but if the President and the Congress don't condemn this act by the Islamic Republic, then our captivity and suffering for 444 days at the hands of Iran was for nothing."

"He can never set foot on American soil," Rosen continued and how right he is, and I believe it is both morally and inherently wrong for him to do so. This appointment makes a mockery out of what the hostages faced for 444 long days and nights...the fear they faced...the torture they faced...and the U.S. must NEVER allow anyone who took part in hostage taking to be welcomed into this country in any capacity whatsoever.

And while Marie Harf, a State Department deputy spokeswoman, called the appointment of Aboutalebi “extremely troubling,” and while the U.S. has a veto in the United Nations Security Council by virtue of being one of the council’s five permanent members, the Obama administration knows that it has NO legal right per se to intervene for we are bound by a 1947 protocol that grants almost total immunity to the diplomats of national missions serving at the U.N. So while we severed diplomatic ties with Iran in 1980, the U.S. is still required to allow U.N. diplomats to come to New York under its host country agreement with the U.N. However, we still have the right to refuse visas to those seeking to work as diplomats in the United States.

And even if Aboutalebi receives a visa to represent Iran at the U.N., thankfully he will NOT be free to come and go as he pleases. Iranian diplomats, like the envoys of North Korea and Syria, are confined to a radius of 25 miles from Columbus Circle in Midtown Manhattan. So while this case is quite different than most others, Harf still said,“...we do take our obligations as host nation for the United Nations very seriously.”

Translation: the Obama administration and Barack HUSSEIN Obama himself will most assuredly give Aboutalebi his needed visa...first because he's an islamic brethren, and second because Iran's U.N. mission...the only diplomatic operation in the U.S...has played a role of sorts for unofficial exchanges of messages between Washington and Tehran...messages concerning nuclear issues and the release of any U.S. citizens held in Iran.

Little good this has done our ally Israel or Iranian held American Pastor Saeed Abedini.

So now some members of Congress have stepped into the fray demanding that Aboutalebi be barred from living and working in the U.S. And Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) said, "This person is an acknowledged terrorist," and added that he will introduce legislation that would require Obama to deny a visa to any UN applicant... including Aboutalebi...determined to have engaged in terrorist activity.

“It is unconscionable that, in the name of international diplomatic protocol, the United States would be forced to host a foreign national who showed a brutal disregard for the status of our diplomats when they were stationed in his country,” Cruz said.

Bottom line...as Iran remains an enemy NOT a negotiating partner with whom we have minor differences with...the Obama administration could simply deny giving Aboutalebi a visa on national security grounds. But like I said he shows NO signs of doing so. And yet another slap in the face to America has been done by this most miserable of presidents and has been done as well to the surviving hostages taken all those years ago.

And that is the saddest thing of all.

Op-ed:

January 20th...the day Iran made us a laughing stock courtesy of Barack HUSSEIN Obama

By: Diane Sori

“A bad deal, a very, very, bad deal. It’s the deal of a century for Iran; it’s a very dangerous and bad deal for peace and the international community.”
-Benjamin Netanyahu

The Iranian nuclear deal that 'supposedly' just went into effect on January 20th is anything but a disarmament deal for according to those in the Obama administration it really was only designed to buy time for additional negotiations on a final agreement to dismantle Iran's nuclear program. But if truth be told it is really a deal designed to give Iran the time needed to get the very weapon this deal was supposed to prevent them from getting.

Besides, everyone knows that any deal 'supposedly' reached with a rogue nation lasts only until that rogue nation leaves the room...if it even lasts that long.

The deal...NO the sellout of America NOT to mention Israel...that John 'Swiftboat' Kerry reached last November with the Iranian regime actually amounts to 'aiding and abetting' the enemy...to funding the enemy...as it calls for the immediate release of $4.2 billion in currently frozen Iranian assets and over the next six months having a total of $7 billion in frozen assets released to the very nation hell bent on first wiping Israel off the map and then turning their what will be new found nuclear weapons on us...the country they still call the 'Great Satan.' 

 

"We are not dismantling any centrifuges. We are not dismantling any equipment," Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif has said. And Obama mouthpiece Jay Carney, speaking on behalf of the administration agreed, saying at a recent press conference that any actual dismantling would come in a "future more comprehensive agreement" than the one brokered in November.

Like I said this deal is all about 'aiding and abetting' the enemy for we are getting what amounts to NOTHING in this deal...NOTHING...Iran and Iran alone gets what they want...and both Obama and Kerry know it...and so does Benjamin Netanyahu.

And as for those assets being released in relation to 'aiding and abetting' the enemy, the proof is plain to see for NO stipulations, NO provisions, and NO oversights as to how those dollars are to be used or NOT used was ever put in place...NOT in writing nor verbally. This means that the Iranian regime can use those released dollars any way they so choose, including to continue to finance their state sponsored support of and participation in terrorism...and Obama knows this damn well and doesn't care...he simply doesn't care. 

 

In fact, when the question of "what safeguards will be in place to make sure that money is not funneled to terror groups by Iran," was posed to Jay Carney he outright refused to answer the reporter's question. Translation of his refusal...NO safeguards at all are in place to stop Iran from funneling those released assets to terrorists...to jihadists...or to bomb building for that matter...and Iran now gets to do it all with Barack HUSSEIN Obama's stamp of approval.

Now get this happy little fact...the 'anything but a deal' that Kerry brokered...a deal that Obama wanted just so he could pat himself on the back and say that he got a deal...was NEVER actually signed by any of the parties involved...NOT one signature appears anywhere in print. And something the alphabet media is NOT reporting on...but I will...is that this six month interim deal is actually only a 'preliminary agreement,' which according to White House officials is nothing to be concerned about nor is it out of the ordinary for 'preliminary agreements' NOT being signed. But I say this maneuver sells out our country's interests (and Israel's too) because it means Iran can ignore any and all parts of the deal they so choose to ignore, as always happens when 'supposed' deals are reached with rouge nations out to kill us all...and Barack HUSSEIN Obama damn well knows this and again, just doesn't care.

And so the Obama 'smoke and mirror' show continues on unabated as only one who sides with those on the 'other' side...with those who in reality are the ones calling the shots...could claim they have an agreement in place with...interim or otherwise...when nobody has signed it...for a verbal deal...and that is what this is...is NOT worth the paper it's NOT printed on.

So as Barack HUSSEIN Obama continues to try his damnedest to make sure that Congress imposes NO new sanctions on Iran...more 'aiding and abetting' I would say...remember that a few short years ago this very man, along with former Secretary of State Hillary 'What Does It Matter' Clinton, spoke of Iran as being the world's “most active state sponsor of terrorism.” Yet now this most miserable of presidents relishes in catering to the very regime that within the six month interim period now in effect will most likely reach their objective of having a nuclear weapon simply because this unsigned 'anything but a deal' does NOT prohibit them from enriching uranium or having to dismantle anything...and that includes their heavy-water reactor that is capable of producing plutonium nuclear fuel.

And so Iran got all it wanted as it played NOT only the US but the P5+1 for fools...with Obama's and Kerry's help of course. And while it's true that the economic sanctions placed on them got Iran to the negotiating table, it got them there on their terms NOT on our terms. And this very 'anything but a deal' now in effect proves it, for if Iran was truly serious about wanting to forge new relationships with the West they would start by making changes within the Iranian society itself and they have NOT done one single thing to that affect. And while outwardly they might appear to be somewhat toning down their war mongering rhetoric their goals remain the same...to become a nuclear nation still intent on bringing on Israel's demise and then coming for us.

And while we have been dealing with Jimmy Carter's Iran for over three decades now, thanks to this 'anything but a deal' initiated by this most traitorous of presidents we will be dealing with Barack HUSSEIN Obama's nuclear armed Iran for generations to come...and just think of the ramifications of that if they do as they have always sworn to do...as in the Middle East and the world will NEVER again be the same...period.

Op-ed:

Iran and ‘Fast & Furious’…tied together in lies and deceit by our ever-loving media

By: Diane Sori

You know things are bad…real bad…when even Iran calls Barack HUSSEIN Obama out as the liar that we all know him to be.

Late Thursday night Iran quit and walked out of the ongoing nuclear disarmament talks on enforcement mechanisms currently ongoing with the P5+1 in Geneva. Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Abbas Araqchi, claimed Washington agreed that NO further or new sanctions would be placed against Iran for six months, and that Obama is now “going against the spirit of the landmark agreement reached last month by expanding its sanctions blacklist…and Tehran was weighing the 'appropriate response.’”

And Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said that any new sanctions would most assuredly kill the agreed to comprehensive deal.

Washington countered this by saying the black listings were carried out within the "framework of the existing sanctions"…the very same sanctions that brought Tehran to the negotiating table and thus did NOT constitute new measures. Continuing with their bloviations, Washington tried justifying their blacklisting of a dozen additional foreign firms and individuals (for helping Tehran evade the international oil sanctions currently in place) by saying it was done to “head off Congress” from imposing additional sanctions that would be in clear breach of the Geneva agreement.

Now let these words sink in…words directly from the Obama administration…words directly from Obama's mouth…“to head off Congress.” This most miserable of presidents and his equally miserable administration are now outwardly working against the United States Congress to stop them from doing what they know needs to be done…as in impose even tougher and more sanctions against the very country that calls America ‘The Great Satan’ and wants Israel wiped off the map.

And true to form our spineless, gutless wonders in Congress agreed late Thursday night NOT to vote on any new sanctions this year…and I bet they won’t vote on any come the New Year either.

So here we have Obama continuing to lie to ‘We the People’ about any and every thing…we have Obama now lying to the enemy…and we have Obama getting Congress to back down on doing what they know must be done…ain’t Obamaland such a happy place (sarcastically said with a deep sigh).

And coming right on the heels of this Iran nonsense is the fact that today marks three years since the murder of Brian Terry, the Border Patrol agent who was killed in a firefight on the Arizona-Mexico border in December 2010...killed in what has become forever known as the ‘Fast and Furious’ gun running scandal yet NOT a word about that from Obama, AG Eric Holder, or the rest of his merry band of miscreants.

To date NOT one single person has been fired over ‘Fast and Furious’ let alone even been called to task…shades of Benghazi isn’t it. In fact, last month a federal court threw out a case brought by Brian Terry’s family against the government saying that money already awarded to the family precludes this sort of case from proceeding.

Saying the rule of law is that if the victim's surviving family members received compensation from another government statute…in this case money Congress gives to families of federal law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty…they cannot sue the government for more. The ruling also stated that federal worker’s comp law prohibits an award in this case.

Translation…as per this administration’s warped vindictive logic, because the Terry family have been awarded the death benefits they were legally and rightfully entitled to receive, they cannot now or ever sue the government for Brian’s wrongful death. Basically saying your son’s life was worth what we oh so generously give you and NOTHING more reeks of the now normal practice of NEVER dare go up against the Obama administration…period. NEVER mind that the Obama administration was ILLEGALLY running guns to Mexican drugs cartels…NEVER mind that Obama and Holder orchestrated the operation, armed the drug runners, and then orchestrated its subsequent cover-up with lie upon lie (including Holder’s lying under oath to Congress) when the operation went sour…NEVER mind any of that for Barack HUSSEIN Obama and those who orbit around him believe they are indeed untouchable.

And the 'in-the-pocket-of-Obama’ main stream media helps them along every step of the way…helps Obama and his minions cover-up all the scandals that shadow this administration for the media has forgotten how to factually and without bias report the news. Instead they have chosen to decide what is and what isn’t news…what should be and what shouldn’t be reported…and if they deem something newsworthy for how long it should or shouldn’t be reported on.

Today's media is as much a cause of the problems in this country today as it is the problem in this country today. The media created the myth that is Barack HUSSEIN Obama choosing to ignore the facts about the man behind their created myth, and this directly resulted in rogue nations like Iran telling the US what they will or will NOT do...resulted in the cover-ups and lies spewed in the cases of Benghazi and 'Fast and Furious'...and God only knows what else they're covering-up for the worst president in US history.

Sorry Jimmy Carter but you've now been bumped down to number two.

Op-ed:
Standing strong a must when surrounded by RINOS
By: Diane Sori

And so it continues…

“Congress must do its job and raise the debt limit to pay the bills we have incurred and avoid default,” White House mouthpiece Jay Carney bloviated a few days ago.

And Jimmy Carter…now the second worst president in US history…called NOT raising the debt ceiling like Obama wants a “threat to the integrity of this government….a short-term deal to avoid default would be better than nothing,” adding but even that “just means you’ll have another crisis.”

This from the man who derailed the American economy before Ronald Reagan came in to clean up his mess.

Then in charged the House Republicans who put forth a compromise bill suggesting a temporary six-week raising of the debt ceiling…suggesting a delay in Obamacare’s tax on medical devices for two years while replacing the lost revenue by altering the way pensions are calculated…suggesting giving increased autonomy to the heads of federal agencies under the constraints of sequester spending levels…and suggesting funding increases for fire suppression.

Notice there was NO delay of the individual mandate section of ObamaCare in the Republican proposal…you know the delay Obama gave businesses…as Boehner and crew caved to Obama’s demand that ObamaCare for the most part is off the negotiation table.

But NO matter as Obama rejected this proposal as the Democrats argued it would set up another fiscal crisis right before the crucial ‘holiday’ shopping season. They can’t even say the Christmas/Hanukkah shopping season now can they…PC sellouts that they are.

By the way, what holiday shopping season as Obama’s failed economic policies have just about destroyed any hope of a successful Christmas/ Hanukkah shopping season that we might have had this year.

But wonders of wonders hell froze over a bit yesterday as ‘Prince’ Harry Reid lost some of his so-thought all encompassing control over the Senate as Senators voted down Obama’s oh so wanted ‘clean’ continuing resolution regarding raising the debt ceiling.

Score one for our side at least.

And so after talks between Obama and House Republicans collapsed on Saturday morning with Obama’s rejection of Boehner’s compromise proposal that would have reopened the government while setting up a budget negotiating process...and after Boehner said the House will present Obama with another compromise bill in a few days...the ire of we patriots throughout the land was awoken en-masse and we can’t say this loud enough, ‘Hey Boehner…NO MORE COMPROMISES PERIOD!

And with ObamaCare the ultimate bargaining chip, it’s high time Boehner puts away his crying towel and stands strong with the wishes of ‘We the People’…uses ObamaCare to our advantage…and NOT accept Obama’s nails on a blackboard bloviations that ObamaCare is off the table.

This is the bottom line…and it’s the ONLY bottom line acceptable…if Obama and the Democrats want the debt ceiling raised then ObamaCare goes…NO ifs, and, or buts…and there is NO compromise on that.

And all that nonsense spewed forth by Obama and the Democrats that if Congress does NOT raise the government’s borrowing limit by October 17th the Treasury will NOT have enough money to cover the country’s bills needs to be strongly countered…for we know that it’s an out-and-out LIE for the true reality is that all that needs to be paid is the interest on the notes due and NOTHING more.

And it’s high past time that this sinks into Boehner’s head and that he throws it back in Obama’s face…that is if he can grow a set and stop cowering in a corner.

Besides, default is NOT an option as defaulting would be in clear violation of our Constitution… the 14th Amendment Section 4, to be exact…which states,

“The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.”

And if Obama knowingly violates the Constitution…and we know he knows the 14th Amendment because he claims to have been a Constitutional attorney…or perhaps that’s yet another LIE…then that is grounds for immediate impeachment. So Obama does NOT control this game… Republicans do…that is if they can clear the cobwebs from their heads and stop cowering in the corner from fear of the race card being used against them.

And also Republicans need to stuff a sock into the mouths of the kumbaya RINOs who NOT only are doing Obama’s bidding for him…either knowingly or NOT…by attacking the true men of courage within the party for we all know that the reason the likes of John McCain and Lindsey Graham put down and ridicule the likes of Ted Cruz and side with Obama’s demands to raise the debt ceiling is because McCain, Graham, and their buddies..the ‘Old Guard’ if you will…do NOT want to give up power to those like Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Marco Rubio, and Rand Paul…the ‘New Guard’. And it’s such a sad sight to see when those whose time as party leaders has come and gone can’t step down for to them it’s better to destroy their party from within on their way out then to leave with at least a shred of dignity and honor to their names.
 
These are the men who will NOT stand strong…who continue to push for compromise…who control Boehner and are playing him like a fiddle. But the loser in the end will NOT be Boehner for if he capitulates and gives in to Obama’s demands the losers will be ‘We the People’ and our beloved America…and that is something the RINOs will own…hook…line…and sinker.

Op-ed: 

A government shutdown…much ado about nothing 

By: Diane Sori

When the US government runs out of money for the following fiscal year…losing its ability to pay its bills…it’s forced in theory to shutdown. And thanks to the Obama administration’s out of control spending...ignored was Economics 101 which teaches you cannot spend more than you take in…the US will hit the current debt ceiling of $16.7 trillion and go into default in mid-October, which likely will have already translated into a ‘supposed’ government shutdown.

And while some say even the threat of a government shutdown could do a lot of damage to the country…those in the know say NOT really because the government does NOT actually shut down.

Simply…Social Security checks will still be sent out; our troops will remain at their posts; and doctors and hospitals will get their Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. In fact, every essential government agency will remain open with furloughed federal workers eventually getting paid...and TSA officers will have continued to grope people at airport checkpoints.

All will basically be as it already is.

In reality, the only ones directly affected by a government shutdown are the grossly overpaid non-essential government workers. This means 800,000 of 2.1 million federal employees (almost 1/3 of all workers) would be furloughed temporarily, because they simply are NOT required for national security. And while Congress and the president would still be working because their compensation is financed by a resource other than annual appropriations…as in the Constitution…they would NOT be paid until the shutdown was resolved. And that is a good thing as their overinflated salaries and perks need to be cut anyway.

According to the Office of Management and Budget, staying open would be ‘any agency that provides for national security including those which conduct foreign relations essential to the national security or the safety of life and property,’ meaning those who perform emergency work involving saving lives or protecting property would continue to do so; military personnel would continue in a normal duty status and the Coast Guard would still patrol our waters; law enforcement, criminal investigations and the operation of prisons would continue; direct provision of medical care for critical patients continues; the overseeing of food and drug safety continues, and federal research laboratories (also considered essential) would remain open and operational.

Also staying open would be public safety agencies like Air Traffic Control, Border Control, and FEMA. Federal courts would remain open; the Social Security Administration would remain open as it comes under the auspices of mandatory spending, and the dreaded IRA would remain open (they have to keep bleeding ‘We the People’ dry you know). The US Postal Service and the US Treasury would still continue to operate.

Hmmmm…in other words agencies dedicated to the health, safety, and welfare of ‘We the People’ would remain open and BIG government would actually be forced to become smaller government.

NOTHING wrong about that one is there…just saying.

And I'm sure some wonder why must the government shut down. According to the Anti-deficiency Act of 1870, federal agencies and programs must cease operations if Congress and the president fail to enact funding, except in cases of emergency.

And anyway our government has shutdown before. Shutdowns usually are NOT a big deal. They happened every year when Jimmy Carter was president, averaging 11 days each. During President Reagan’s two terms, there were six shutdowns, typically just one or two days each as deals were cut and all went back to normal. The last shutdown happened during the budget battle between the Newt Gingrich Republican-controlled Congress and President Bill Clinton in late 1995. Much of the federal government was closed in November 1995 for five days, and then again for 21 days from mid-December 1995 to early January 1996. Clinton said that the combined shutdowns cost taxpayers $1.5 billion; the Congressional Research Service said it cost just under $1.4 billion, but I say money well spent as imagine how much it would have cost ‘We the People’ if the government kept spending with NO treasure to back it up.

So what would be shut down...national parks, the National Zoo, and the museums along the National Mall would close their doors; passport services would be delayed which would mean upward of 30,000+ applications by foreigners for entry visas would go unprocessed each day (NOT such a bad thing actually in light of the current immigration bru-haha); the HeadStart school program would shutdown meaning parents would actually have to be with their children instead of using school programs as babysitters (sorry but I do NOT believe 3 and 4 year olds belong in school); and small business loans and federal housing loans would NOT be processed during a shutdown.

All these being shutdown would be an inconvenience for sure, but the world will NOT stop turning if they are.

And while some say that a shutdown would cost NOT save money because putting contingency plans in place costs money, and that during a shutdown user fees and other charges are NOT collected, I say this amounts to small potatoes compared with how the Obama administration would continue spending money that we don’t have, forcing us further and further into debt.

So bring it on and shut her down for the less the government is involved in our lives the better off we'll all be. And really...can it be any worse than than what is going on now...I seriously doubt it.