++In the midst of domestic terror attacks,strange statements about Burgdahl, and bribery in Virginia, there is one good piece of news from Brainwrap. Brainwrap aka Charles Gaba is slowly re-emerging on the ACA scene because he is interested in the increased enrollments in Obamacare. HHS has decided for whatever reason not to update the numbers regularly. Today, Brainwrap announced that Massachusetts has almost a 100% insured citizenry. Actually 99% have health insurance.
++I thought we were almost over the Sgt.Burgdahl controversy until he comes home. But no. The House Armed Services Committee had a late night closed session yesterday where they saw the "sign of life" video, which members weren't convinced showed his life was in danger. They are upset that some 90 Obama administration figures knew about the swap while the House didn't. So the House has called Chuck Hagel to testify. The scuttlebutt is that it was Chuck Hagel's decision and ipso facto Obama didn't have anything to do with it but he claims credit.
++( FACT INTERRUPTION: THE SWAP WENT EFFORTLESSLY, NO ONE WAS INJURED. )
++DOD made it clear--despite Ollie North's claims--that no one paid any money for Burgdahl's release.
++Senator Diane Feinstein got her pound of flash and said that there has been a hearing in the Senate and in the House and "Enough is enough." I hope her pound of flesh was the release of the CIA Torture and rendition report.
++Dick Durbin said that the swap for Burgdahl has only been finalized the day before and hence President Obama couldn't have notified Congress in time. Senator Levin said that the administration had notified Congress since the end of December that these Taliban members would be traded.
++A "doctor of symbols and rituals", a Dawn Perlmutter says that Sgt.Bergdahl was acting out Dancing with Wolves by his idealization of the noble savage and she suggests that he probably had relationships with Taliban men as part of his initiation.
++The National Review suggests that Bergdahl is being prepared by the military doctors in Landstuhl for talking points when he arrives in the United States. That the doctors are protecting him from criticism and that he really doesn't need much recuperation after being held prisoner for five years and put in a cage for weeks. DOD doesn't have the guts to try him for desertion or worse because this is all to protect President Obama.
++Michael Gerson, whose boss paid ransom for prisoners held captive by the Phillipppine jihadists, criticized President Obama for the deal, saying it mirrored Israeli swaps. But at least the Israelis continued their war against their enemies.
++Torture fan Marc Thiessen suggests that you can't declare a war over even if you leave the battlefield. He suggests President Obama will surrender to the Taliban.
++Underlying the palpable fear of the Right is that President Obama might close Gitmo. The House yesterday denied the Pentagon any funds to facilitate the transfer of prisoners from Gitmo.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Friday, June 6, 2014
Dinner
++Jennifer Rubin slips back into her regular disguise of hyping a GOP presidential candidate. This time she makes the case that Gov.Perry of Texas will restore America's place in the world.
++Reince Preibus has a lot of explaining to do. 500,000 signs saying Impeach Obama for not getting Sgt.Burgdahl home from captivity were found behind the RNC in dumpsters. He claims he knows nothing about them.
++Newsmax has Ronald Reagan's speech on D-Day for your enjoyment. If you want a youthful sounding President Obama speak eloquently, check out his speech today which may have surpassed the Gipper. Contrary to rightwing blogs, the President received a sustained and rousing standing ovation.
++President Obama did speak to Vladimir Putin. The French put out a Vine video, which makes Obama tower over Putin, who seemed to crawl backwards in fright. The State Department said they spoke for ten to fifteen minutes. An unhappy looking Angela Merkel also met with Putin and urged him to negotiate a ceasefire in the Ukraine. Putin also met with the new Ukrainian President and said he was sending a representative to his inauguration.
++A Cliven Bundy style sovereign citizen shot up a Georgia Courthouse and had bombs in his car before he was slain.
++The Right has gone ballistic over Eric Holder reconstituting the domestic terrorism unit. Alex Jones has camped out on RT television to talk about concentration camps being erected for dissidents. The motivation behind the DOJ decision was the mounting evidence supplied by the Southern Poverty Law Center about the rise of extreme right violent groups.
++Senator Diane Feinstein is grumpy over Obama not telling her about the release of Bergdahl so she says that the Army sergeant wasn't "close to death". A military source leaked that Bergdahl may have left his camp to search to arrange a local ceasefire with the Taliban. Interesting idea.
++Anthony Scalia was a big hit today. He was mentioned 13 times in the Federal Judge's opinion overturning Wisconsin's anti-same sex law. I guess that makes 20 states now and counting.
++Indeed,a couple filed a case against North Dakota for its prohibition of same sex marriage, leaving no state challenged.
++Paul Krugman noticed the same thing I have about the GOP's response to President Obama's epochal climate change decision on carbon emissions. Crickets. I'm sure they will recharge next week.
++The Texas GOP passed a resolution against the EPA,for therapy to change The Gay,a special prosecutor for Benghazi,and against Common Core.
++Ohio Republican legislators are trying to outlaw IUDs as a contraceptive arguing they are a form of abortion.
++If you want to know about the Senate race in Mississippi,there is no one better at analysis of the strange Southern mind than Ed Kilgore at the Washington Monthly. This is a beyond strange race between a tea bagger and good ole' boy Thad Cochran.
++John Podesta said that climate-deniers will be toast in 2016.
++Al Sharpton's show has a series of ads Democrats are running against Republicans early to prevent them from escaping the box of the extreme right policies they have voted for and endorsed in the past. The idea is to prevent them presenting themselves as moderate in the general election. The ads were quite effective.
++Reince Preibus has a lot of explaining to do. 500,000 signs saying Impeach Obama for not getting Sgt.Burgdahl home from captivity were found behind the RNC in dumpsters. He claims he knows nothing about them.
++Newsmax has Ronald Reagan's speech on D-Day for your enjoyment. If you want a youthful sounding President Obama speak eloquently, check out his speech today which may have surpassed the Gipper. Contrary to rightwing blogs, the President received a sustained and rousing standing ovation.
++President Obama did speak to Vladimir Putin. The French put out a Vine video, which makes Obama tower over Putin, who seemed to crawl backwards in fright. The State Department said they spoke for ten to fifteen minutes. An unhappy looking Angela Merkel also met with Putin and urged him to negotiate a ceasefire in the Ukraine. Putin also met with the new Ukrainian President and said he was sending a representative to his inauguration.
++A Cliven Bundy style sovereign citizen shot up a Georgia Courthouse and had bombs in his car before he was slain.
++The Right has gone ballistic over Eric Holder reconstituting the domestic terrorism unit. Alex Jones has camped out on RT television to talk about concentration camps being erected for dissidents. The motivation behind the DOJ decision was the mounting evidence supplied by the Southern Poverty Law Center about the rise of extreme right violent groups.
++Senator Diane Feinstein is grumpy over Obama not telling her about the release of Bergdahl so she says that the Army sergeant wasn't "close to death". A military source leaked that Bergdahl may have left his camp to search to arrange a local ceasefire with the Taliban. Interesting idea.
++Anthony Scalia was a big hit today. He was mentioned 13 times in the Federal Judge's opinion overturning Wisconsin's anti-same sex law. I guess that makes 20 states now and counting.
++Indeed,a couple filed a case against North Dakota for its prohibition of same sex marriage, leaving no state challenged.
++Paul Krugman noticed the same thing I have about the GOP's response to President Obama's epochal climate change decision on carbon emissions. Crickets. I'm sure they will recharge next week.
++The Texas GOP passed a resolution against the EPA,for therapy to change The Gay,a special prosecutor for Benghazi,and against Common Core.
++Ohio Republican legislators are trying to outlaw IUDs as a contraceptive arguing they are a form of abortion.
++If you want to know about the Senate race in Mississippi,there is no one better at analysis of the strange Southern mind than Ed Kilgore at the Washington Monthly. This is a beyond strange race between a tea bagger and good ole' boy Thad Cochran.
++John Podesta said that climate-deniers will be toast in 2016.
++Al Sharpton's show has a series of ads Democrats are running against Republicans early to prevent them from escaping the box of the extreme right policies they have voted for and endorsed in the past. The idea is to prevent them presenting themselves as moderate in the general election. The ads were quite effective.
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