Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Michelle Obama's Africa Trip Cost More Than $432,142

I just find this to be unbelievable. Unbelievable because she spent so much but also unbelievable that our media is silent about this. I guess I should be too surprised should I ? Anyway back in the 80’s when I was a committed communist if this would have happened I’d be screaming bloody murder. Of course back in the 80’s the president had a R behind his name so I’m sure the media then would be rubbing this into the ground. My favorite newspaper ( The Startribune “Newspaper of the Twin Cities” or “Newspaper of the Democratic Party” ) has nothing about this. They just don’t have space with all the Michelle Backmann “stories” they’ve been running.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Why nothing in our local paper?

I asked the question but I'm sure the teenagers in the censoring department didn't know what I was talking about. Tinys posts always get rejected

STARTRIBUNE PLEASE REPORT ON. IF THIS PRESIDENT HAD A R BEHIND HIS NAME YOU WOULD BE.

The Fast and Furious scandal, in which the Justice Department knowingly gave Mexican criminal gangs thousands of guns, just keeps escalating. The latest development centers around whether or not Attorney General Eric Holder lied to Congress about having knowledge of the controversial gun trafficking operation. Recently released documents say Holder was briefed about the operation long before he told the Judiciary Committee he was first aware of what was going on. (Holder now claims he misunderstood the question was being asked.)

What's more, CBS News investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson -- who's been covering the scandal from the beginning -- says in an interview on the Laura Ingraham Show today that the White House and Justice Department have taken to screaming at her for reporting on the story. You can listen to the full interview below, but here are the key excerpts from Attkisson:

    In between the yelling that I received from Justice Department yesterday, the spokeswoman--who would not put anything in writing, I was asking for her explanation so there would be clarity and no confusion later over what had been said, she wouldn't put anything in writing--so we talked on the phone and she said things such as the question Holder answered was different than the one he asked. But he phrased it, he said very explicitly, 'I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.'

The weight of the presidency

William Howard Taft was one of the greatest men of the 20th century. He would be to fat today to be president or even Chief Justice of the United States.