Rand Paul states he is glad Secretary Clinton takes responsibility and implies in a long winded statement that there was a failure of leadership. He states he believes people unable to lead should be held responsible.

Well, a has a long list, beginning with the Impeachment of Bush #43 and the can then turn his sites on Speaker Boner.

His audience back home got a good show. Rude and crude counts for him. Reading cables is not the only function of the Secretary of State. What exactly are his recommendations in the form of legislation that matters, though?

The truth of the matter is, the only persons able to continue as President of the United States of America after the end of President Obama's second term, is someone in the Executive Branch. The national security of the USA is so very different today, experience with it will carry greater brevity in the future. Passing the baton will be important, especially in four more years. The paradigm of national security has to be examined for purpose and effectiveness. Same ole', same ole isn't going to hold up anymore.

NATO cannot continue to kill innocent people in war theaters for the sake of Pre-Emption. That strategy alone will cause a greater war and far reaching consequences for international relations and stability. The West has a challenge to actually pull peoples in these regions of the world up by the bootstraps to understand their world and economies to support their own sovereignty. The USA cannot continue to invade countries at will to satisfy its' own politically demented sense of security. Wall Street is going to have to assess it's own security needs and stop crying as 'USA interests.' In many ways, Wall Street is not!

For those focused on CABLES as the breakdown of national security in relation to our State Department missions need to deal with the fact CABLES DON'T WORK. In order for them to actually get paid for DOING THEIR JOBS, they need to realize they have to ELIMINATE THE NEED FOR CABLES IN THE FIRST PLACE! Now, the APPROPRIATE questions by Senator Paul would have been, "Since the cables did not reach your attention in a way that mattered, what indeed does the USA need to do to eliminate the need for these cables and find a method to secure the State Department officers in a way that works?"

The only question the USA diplomatic corps have to do when approaching a new government, even after saving lives by stopping dictators such as Gaddafi, "What can the USA do to help promote the stability of the new government and it's authority to promote its sovereignty?" That is the only question and the USA begins to sketch out its interests from that point forward without plans to invade or kill further. 

The people of Libya are not interested in another Gaddafi. While Bush and Blair disarmed the nuclear content of Libya to secure the stability of Northern Africa, it didn't promote democracy of the people. So, the idea NATO has the right to carry out their own priorities without regards to the people and their own directives, even in seeking al Qaeda to carry them out, is a ridiculous paradigm that does not belong in the real world anymore. That paradigm only guarantees continued instability and future war. Al Qaeda will exist as a 'strategy' with peoples unable to understand their own world. Al Qaeda does not need a central authority figure, it only needs 'the idea' as a solution to the problems of the impoverished and oppressed. Al Qaeda is nothing new, it was named Islamic Jihad, the Muslim Brotherhood and the list goes on. Bin Laden globalized the idea as terrorist networks to achieve victory over financial institutions of The West, otherwise, it is all the same.

The reason so called "Terrorist Networks" exist in the first place is because they actually perform services to the people. Their government does not provide food, water, clothing, education in order to read the Quran and basic day to day needs of human beings. The networks provide charity through whatever methods they find economy, even in the cultivation and distribution of cocaine or any other substance in demand they can get their hands on. One of the more tragic expressions of this charity was the destruction of the bizarres in Syria. The West doesn't even try to solicit the support of the people, they leave them to their basic resources to struggle for their lives.

I have to say these things? The American people actually have their information about the world so polluted by hate filled politics they completely ignore their own reality in the world?

The Global Police.

Not her fault, just the way the USA deals with national security. The USA sees the globe as the place to carry out stability in the name of promoting democracy.

Sound familiar? I think it was Bush that justified his actions in Iraq not only with WMD, but, to promote democracy around the world.

Neocon's live.

..."The Arab revolutions (click here) have scrambled power dynamics and shattered security forces across the region. And instability in Mali has created an expanding safe haven for terrorists who look to extend their influence and plot further attacks of the kind we saw just last week in Algeria," she said....

Indeed, the revolutions in the Middle East has changed the dynamics of the region and indeed the policies of the USA in dealing with the new leadership is the same. Bombs, guns and war.

"W"rong.

The people of Northern Africa do not deserve war unending because Europe and the USA see Pre-emption as a real strategy to admittedly burgeoning nations. The mistake the USA is making REPEATEDLY over decades is to be shortsighted and allowing oppression. The actions of Pre-Emption are exactly that.

Pre-emption promotes the standards of oppression. Those policies make the USA a warring nation and not a benevolent one. While the events in Mali are unfortunate, the reason to enter into the idea of war without end is out of the question. We are not going to protect leadership that may or may not have the best interest of the USA in their vision for their nations. We are not going to continue to kill innocent people that understand only their daily reality.

The events of Benghazi were more than unfortunate. When a nation falls in revolution it is a new frontier and while is appears the USA has to be a part of it to guide it, that is incorrect. The USA can offer any help as far as securing the region to keep the effects of revolution from destroying national security for itself and allies, but, to expect to provide an overlay of government in the vacuum of the lack of it is not realistic or prudent.

Ambassador Stevens, on assignment by the State Department, never stopped to realize he was in more danger than there was ever intelligence. His Americana got in the way of good judgement. Americana states "Determination is enough to make the best outcomes happen." The profession of journalism frequently makes the same mistakes. There were deaths among journalists in Libya as well because they had the inflated idea they were as safe there as when embedded with the military.

A void of a profoundly stable government should never be viewed by any NATO nation as something that can be overcome by military might. It cannot. The people in these nations have made fools of The West over and over for more than a half century. The ONLY President to have a successful strategy against these dynamics were Bombs and No Fly Zones of military or militarized bases. It was the only strategy that works. The only intelligence that is needed is surveillance and military prowess to meet the surveillance needs. There is absolutely no reason to spend billions and trillions on invasions. The USA has the best outcomes when this is not the strategy sought. 

Secretary Clinton did the best she could from her position in the State Department, the deficiencies are profound and have been profound. The USA cannot build secure facilities within moments of the need. The sincerely best outcome for the security of our diplomatic corps is to look at places where USA military installations already exist in dangerous regions and continue the missions from those bases. Building new installations as was done in Baghdad is out of the question.

It is known the 'idea' of a secure diplomatic mission in countries where they are not full partners in providing a stable environment for our personnel results in elaborate plans for construction of nothing more than woefully insufficient facilities full of corruption in the way monies are spent. We don't need it.

The Republicans on the panel seeking a political benefit from their questions of Secretary Clinton is not only inappropriate, but, immoral in wasting the time they are paid for to solve problems and not politicize them. The rest of the Clinton testimony today is a waste of my time, too. She was doing the job the nation demanded of her regardless of the lack of will the USA, primarily the House, has to provide the demands of those ideologies. There is absolutely no reason to continue Ambassador Rice, either. Ideologies have a very poor outcome in the real world.

No Pre-Conditions!

...He's ruled out an end-run around the GOP. (click here) The White House said over the weekend that the president won't rely on the 14th Amendment, which arguably gives him authority to raise the debt ceiling on his own.

And his Treasury Department has nixed the idea of issuing a $1 trillion platinum coin that could be deposited with the Fed, instantly creating more money to pay the nation's bills....

Every problem the nation faces is legitimate. The GOP doesn't 'get it.'

The problems the USA faces has no right or left. Each party faces the same problems within the nation. The social priorities of each may be different simply because the GOP has sincere ideological differences in separating church and state. But, the sincere problems of the nation are legitimate and not negotiable. The people of the USA are resolved and the only reason we still have a bunch of 'Block-Em Heads' in the House is because of Gerrymandering.

The National Debt Ceiling is not negotiable. An Amendment to the USA Constitution of any kind is debatable and will not pass the Congress. It just won't. But, the current National Debt is carried by the people of the USA because the GOP used our Treasury for job bill after job bill and went into a war in Iraq for their own ideology. It is over! The GOP has to pay the bills now. They don't like it and want to say the entitlements are the problem, the budget is the problem, the President is the problem.

"W"rong. They are and have been the problem.

The House needs to OWN UP TO THEIR OWN SPENDING PROBLEMS they inherited, pass a clean debt ceiling increase and accept the anger they will receive from their partisans in their districts. It is just too bad.

The House needs to DO THEIR JOB.  The country is not a hostage.

The nation is right back to where we have always been with this House and that is Speaker Boner is not a leader and panders to the extremists. He needs to work with the Democrats and the REAL Republicans that put the nation's interests first and leave the extremists and their funding sources in the dust.

United States: Supreme Court To Hear Defense Of Marriage Act Cases (click here)

08 January 2013

The Supreme Court has granted the petition for a writ of certiorari for Windsor v. United States and Perry v. Hollingsworth,...

...In Windsor v. United States (click here), the Supreme Court is likely to determine the constitutionality of DOMA Section 3, which bars the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages in the application of all federal laws including immigration and employee benefit laws.  The issue presented is whether DOMA violates the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection....

Watch recording for case: Perry v. Hollingsworth, No. 11-17255 (click here)

...On the one hand, (click here) the Court could rule that the fundamental constitutional right to marry should be restricted by sex, protected by the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and immediately in force in all fifty US States. On the other, they could rule that this is a standard policy question to be decided by each state, whether by state courts, legislature or popular vote. Were they to rule in this way, the process would continue as it did in November, with a steady and growing number of states providing for equality, but leaving gay people in states like North Carolina waiting some time.

This court battle arose after California voted for Proposition 8 in November 2008, the same day they voted for Barack Obama for president....

The military sequester needs to be directed to BRAC

This isn't that difficult and virtually painless. There is an ongoing procedure within the military infrastructure and it needs to be expanded to international deployment as well.


Introduction to BRAC (click here)

Base realignment and closure (BRAC) is the process that DoD uses to reorganize its installation infrastructure to more efficiently and effectively support its forces, increase operational readiness, and facilitate new ways of doing business. The BRAC process enables DoD to better match existing facilities to its changing military requirements.

Congress authorized the first BRAC Round in 1988 (BRAC I). Designed to promote modernization, reduce operating costs, and eliminate excess military infrastructure, this first round focused on closing large-scale operations and redefined how DoD conducted its everyday operations....

Additionally, the needs of the State Department, where the military can address security, needs an independent study commission. There is no reason for duplicity or voids within the security needs of those deployed abroad.

The last round of BRAC was in 2005. Reconvene the commission and get the sequester over with. This is ridiculous. The USA military is costing the USA fiscal hardship and to think they can't react to it with troops deployed home is outrageous.

Military hardware manufacturers and current contracts also need to be evaluated for the continuation of their contracts in the reality of today's military. Overruns that have to be made past an understandable COST OF PRODUCTION analysis are out of the question.

We don't build it simply because it was started! If the military puts the USA into fiscal bankruptcy what good is it?

Research and development of any aircraft cannot run in the trillions. That is completely out of the question. 

The R&D of such aircraft has to go to the engineers at NASA who can best design aircraft to withstand stress and applications of national security. 

Sometimes I think NASA forgets they are part of the aeronautics of this country. I do believe its has roots there. Design and engineering of specifications to manufacture should be perfected in NASA's drawing rooms and labs. New materials that work for the benefit of the USA National Security are a place of mastery at NASA. They did have the tiles that made the Shuttle possible. 

NASA houses some of the best engineers this country has to offer; putting together a viable aircraft to protect this country is child's play to them. When the USA enlists the private sector to produce state of the art aircraft it should simply be a matter of getting BIDS on plans already carved in stone!

If NASA can assemble an aircraft to survive a flight in the tail of a comet and then disengage to return home with acquired information, it can do anything.

In the USA, and possibly Europe, "Means Testing" is the future of entitlements.

If the USA wants to wean itself off Entitlements, that's fine. It is the will of the people. There can be no abrupt program to simply stop them with people 55 or younger.

There are those that may never need Entitlements as they grow older, but, that doesn't mean the entitlements should not exist.

I believe 'means testing' is vital to the best outcome of our nation and the need for any individual to receive entitlements.

Disability can take away every dime of wealth. When our young people see investment to their best outcomes as opposed to entitlements they are also ignoring worst case scenarios that will place them in very bad outcomes.

When the global economic collapse of 2008 hit, I can only imagine the panic that struck those unable to work, but, deeply invested for their daily needs and quality of life. For the USA to consider complete dissolution of Entitlements is grossly negligent of government.

Until it is obvious the Entitlements are stable for more than two generations, I don't see why there should be any change in them EXCEPT for means testing. 

Means Testing will remove some of the burden of 'future need' and will begin to provide a realistic picture of the needs of low income earners whom have contributed to this great country, but, will never have the method to secure their sunset years in a real way.

Unions have to do their part and be partners with the USA to encourage benevolent and intact retirement plans AND safe work places where disability is a word of the past.

OPEC needs to ask its customers what they are doing to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions?

That was GREENHOUSE GAS emissions.

OPEC needs to demand a reduction in GREENHOUSE GAS emissions from its customers. Seriously. That is a REDUCTION OF GREENHOUSE GASES, not simply a change in strategy to produce the petroleum domestically while still receiving imported oil.

The people of Saudi Arabia are unhappy about their future as their oil reserves are exported at a faster and faster rate. They want a future for their children and it is not just about the heat in the desert.

Indonesian Rainforests won't hold up as carbon sinks forever if there continues to be a lack of water vapor at the Intertropical Convergence Zone. 

OPEC needs to find LEADERSHIP and not just profits.

The USA is looking for a Progressive Female Director? I've got one for you. (click title of entry for official website - thank you)

Where are the nominations for Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Picture?

Somehow, when the only available boyfriends belong to a gang or when those gang member's childhood is marred with criminal content in a drug economy, the choices for a life strategy are minimal. Somehow, becoming that doctor was too much of a postponement for him in his own definition of masculinity. 

It is an excellent picture. 

The content of the community is incredible. Under every advantage society afforded them, the people in this movie failed to achieve their dreams. At every turn, they imploded into their reality as adults.

The Democrats are correct. Those are not partisan words.

The Democrats have been carrying the dialogue OF PROBLEMS regarding the USA for over three-quarters of a CENTURY.

It is time to realize the nightmares they have been talking about have arrived.  The reality of THAT TRUTH is not enough. The Republicans are seeking to turn loose every aspect of indecency as an insult to civility as a political advantage. We cannot do that anymore. We really can't.

Reconciling the dialogue with Republican Insurgents/Extremists is not the path we all need. They need to come to their knees of reality and get over themselves. It is the only path. Heck, get rid of McConnell in 2014. We can't afford him or his type anymore for reasons of reality. It is just the way it is. We cannot afford the regressive agenda of the GOP. We really can't. Fact. Not fiction.

The Brave New World of inclusion of all the people of the USA is the only way to move forward. Oppressing reality through the oppression of the dialogue and the people is not the reality we can afford anymore.

In immigration, one of the aspects noted to be a so called 'selling point' for encouraging Republicans to sign on to legislation is to ask for back taxes. NO WAY. There needs to be a 'means test' for any 'asking' for back taxes. Back taxes is a huge hurdle to people already working within the USA economy. It is outrageous to ask the poor, after inclusion, to remain poor.

We need to get on with all this. Today. Not the next decade.

With the Third World facing problems of the infiltration of terrorists nations and the Climate Crisis having arrived, the Democrats can proudly state they never lied to the American people. They have carried the message of truth for nearly a century.

With respect to a chained - CPI for SSI: NO! A means test is necessary and a structured benefit based on that means test is FIRST required.

In introducing a Chained CPI to SSI there needs to be a means testing attached to it. A Chained CPI is too much to ask of the poor. This is the elderly and the disabled. How are they going to do to fight back from a fixed income falling in value against the cost of living? It is hideous. It is completely immoral and unrealistic.

The Democrats need to work with the Entitlement's Actuaries to find effectiveness it extending the integrity of SSI, Medicare and Medicaid. They need to apply Means Testing and a Chained CPI with Means Testing and move forward in the understandings that brings.

Tax Reform is a requirement in the USA. The longer there are loopholes,the longer there will be strategies around paying taxes.

The USA needs a poverty agenda. It needs a poverty agenda domestically and internationally. 

Domestically, we know when people are in poverty they cannot improve their quality of life or increase economic growth. That has to change. 

Internationally, the global community and all the ongoing summits need to include in their priorities changing the outcomes of programs that enforce poverty rather than destroy it. The world cannot go on forever committing vast sums of monies to Third World countries after disaster hits or in post-war reparations. Each country has to have a sustainable economy built to elevate their living standard. They need to have their sovereignty granted to them. Finally, they need to participate in real world scenarios of economic growth. Each nation needs to have a self supporting economy with only a percentage of it coming from trade with others. 

China is an example of how The West fails itself, both, in their customer base in the USA and in a self-supporting economy within China. China needs to address its' internal economy as it addresses its dual monetary policy. These changes are important, but, in the case of China it needs to ease into a new paradigm of economic growth. 

The Chinese leadership has been addressing that in recent speeches to global audiences. As its internal economic stability improves, it can scale back its exports and increase stability. China cannot continue on an export economy only. It is a huge whole in its national security. The USA can 'tool up' overnight for economic growth because of its education infrastructure. But, China does not have that ability and IN THAT is the reality it is very vulnerable from economic shifts.

The Chinese CAN address its dual monetary reality. As they bring about a growth economy within the country, they can introduce its international currency as a new hope for the people. They can begin to trade in small quantities their old currency for the new. It will provide a point of hope for the future of China as seeking to participate in a solidly real way as a global economic power. Small increments have to happen otherwise China will see an economy of money exchange as now exists in IRAN. Fear of losing their day to day coping through vast money changes to each Chinese family will cause pandemonium there. Small introductions to new currency will work and increase the sovereign strength of China.

As China seeks to stabilize and grow its infrastructure, QUALITY of their products has to be on it's agenda. There have to be reassurances their 'health' products and 'food' products meet standards to nations they are trading with, otherwise, their markets will be removed though lack of consumer base by the choices those consumers make rather than simply what is available.

Russia just needs to keep doing what it is doing. I like Medvedev. Putin has to stop taking on the mantle of the angry communist.  

Look, when the old Soviet Union under Kruschev invaded countries it didn't go over well. It didn't go over well anywhere including the invaded country. In the long run, the invasions caused huge ethnic divides as factions against the invasion looked for points of strength to oppose it. 

Medvedev left the mighty Kruschev and his war machine behind. He went to nations willing to have him in diplomacy and built alliances. Medvedev let the nation in alliance with Russia to work with its people. Come on Vladimir. Tomorrow is about stability, not war. The planet cannot handle this mess between The West and The East anymore. AND, while Russia can counter its carbon footprint with its vast wilderness, the Russia carbon footprint increases with oil exports. Hello?

Oh, one more thing. Put up a memorial to Kruschev. The USA does to its leaders regardless of how malicious they have been. Why deny responsibility? 

Vladimir. Do me a favor? When talking to Cameron, will you ask him to stop being a imperial power and talking down to the colonies. They aren't colonies anymore!

Earth is a planet with an atmosphere. Anyone looking for water vapor for the Intertropical Convergence Zone? There are scientists that believe they have found it and it is not coming back any time soon.

January 21, 2013

...Polar mesospheric (click here) clouds have been observed from all human vantage points in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres—from the surface, in aircraft, and from the International Space Station (ISS) —and tend to be most visible during the late spring and early summer. Some atmospheric scientists seek to understand their mechanisms of formation, while others have identified them as potential indicators of atmospheric changes resulting from increases in greenhouse gas concentrations....

As a point of FACT, the Intertropical Convergence Zone has't recovered since the most recent disruption of it while Australia is still burning.

We don't need politics in regard to the Climate Crisis, we need leadership and we need it now!

The USA has to go forward with the Sequester.

Four decades of Republican strategy for our National Defense is completely wrong going forward.

The Republicans have no ideas. They just don't. Their answer is to do as they have always done. They postpone and postpone and postpone GOVERNING to pander to cronies.

By Billy House and Chris Frates

Updated: January 18, 2013 | 1:34 p.m.
January 17, 2013 | 5:42 p.m.

...House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., (click here) said Republicans at a closed-door retreat in Williamsburg were weighing a short-term increase in the country’s borrowing limit, giving all sides time to work on a broader fiscal plan in March that would include substantial spending cuts.

“Sometimes you’ve got to lay down a sacrifice bunt,” said Rep. Dennis Ross of Florida about the debt ceiling increase. He said there was a realization among his House GOP colleagues that they had to be ready to deal when negotiations began....

The MILITARY SEQUESTER will require furloughs where as the DOMESTIC SEQUESTER will mean non-profits have to double their efforts to address the condition of the poor. Let the furloughs begin, because, it is not going to be the same anyway.

There is absolutely no use in moving forward in the same manner we have for decade after decade since Eisenhower for a National Defense for the USA. The USA is not going to shed blood in order to be the world police anymore.

The USA has witnessed a huge error in it's National Defense when Algeria came forward to handle the insult to it's sovereignty. There has been gross negligence of Third World countries to live in the same century The West does. As a result, countries like Iran and North Korea have put nuclear weapons before the well being of their own people. NO MORE! If that strategy continues, the USA will be in a hemisphere full of nuclear weapons. THAT IS NOT A NATIONAL DEFENSE. That is not a strategy, that is Wall Street and Republicans with no ideas.

As witnessed with Algeria, The West needs to move into a DIPLOMATIC PROMISE to move forward with the Third World rather than without them. We need to bring aid and alliance to these nations. I am quite sure Russia and China has already tried. 

The USA military's strategy in the Third World by rolling in a huge military machine to secure things back home is no longer a real solution and to ignore that is not only a mistake, it will bring war to the USA borders.

No more nukes.

Non-proliferation and MEANING IT!

Alliances of strength where the USA actually elevates the people of other nations and is appreciated for it. Rather than nation's cowering in fear and seeking weapons to level the playing field.

No more! Absolutely no more!

Since World War I the USA has sought weaponry to protect itself from war. It has fought wars in foreign lands. There is no nation on Earth that wants war. Other nations want to prosper, but, every time they begin the most minor of hope to that end they are invaded because their resources are fought over by rebels and their achievements are removed and destroyed. What could have happened in Algeria could have begun a world war in the long view.

No.

The Third World has to be addressed. Nations need their sovereignty guaranteed to them and a global peace has to be envisioned and sought. The ICONS of peace these days are Nuclear Treaties between Russia and the USA, Olympics now known to have been contaminated by Wall Street and G20, G8 and G, G, G, meetings as an expression of success toward that peace.

IT IS NOT ENOUGH.

Real measurable peace going forward is to realize there is STABILITY throughout the world with BENEVOLENT leaders. Leaders willing to live with the hopes and dreams of their people and not oppress them. In a chronic global conversation, there is no oppression anymore. In places where cell towers do not yet exist, there is profound misunderstanding of reality and the next burgeoning war when people organize with al Qaeda to overcome their ineffective and hideous government. That is exactly what has occurred in Mali. 

In Mali, a grossly impoverished people turned to the only force available to them to stop the hideous killing of their holy men by an ineffective government. The USA can't afford that anymore, as if it ever could. Those deaths directly interpreted into a rebel force moving into Algeria. Ultimately those deaths IN REAL MONEY equates to billions and billions of war planes, bombs and blood and treasure the USA can no longer afford. 

We need to turn to a far different venue of National Defense called PEACE. We need to teach the Republicans how to spell it in case they don't know how to do that. 

So, the military sequester is correct and important in reducing the hideous amount of money the USA now spends on a National Defense WITHOUT a strategy so much as the backing of Wall Street. The USA needs to pivot from it's path of disaster for it's children and to a place where it can flourish while containing damage to it's only planet.

Call me crazy, but, the ATF needs a Director. I am sure Senator Grassley would agree.

I don't know about anyone else, but, pointing a figure as Attorney General

Holder in the light of this new information and realizing there has been no 

director for this agency for a half decade or more simply because CONGRESS
would not allow it, clearly illustrates how very dysfunctional Congress has become.

And for the Wall Street Journal that wants to state this promotes the NRA position. Like, huh, what? Where does that come from? This agency is in dire need of a director. Hello?

The Body Count in the USA since the Sandy Hook tragedy is more than 1500 today (click here).


Updated January 17, 2013, 8:12 p.m. ET

By EVAN PEREZ

WASHINGTON—A former federal official (click here) who helped oversee an ill-fated effort to stem gun trafficking is under investigation for allegedly carrying on a private trade in firearms—a potential new blow to the agency that is poised to play a big role in the administration's gun-control efforts.

The official's alleged private gun trade came to light when Mexican authorities asked the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to trace the origin of firearms found at the scene of an hours long gunfight in November between members of the Mexican military and suspected drug-cartel gunmen, according to U.S. law-enforcement officials. Among those killed in the fight was a Mexican beauty queen, authorities said.

The investigation is being conducted by the inspector general of the Justice Department, which houses the ATF. In recent weeks, the internal watchdog told Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) in a letter that it is investigating the gun purchases by George Gillett, the former No. 2 official in the ATF's Phoenix office. The letter was viewed by The Wall Street Journal.

One pistol recovered near the scene professional of the November shootout in Mexico was allegedly purchased by Mr. Gillett, according to ATF records that Sen. Grassley cited in a letter to the Justice Department's inspector general....

Just as a reminder to Congress.

This was the National Mall today, 2013. You know, you been to one Obama inaugural, you been to 'em all.

National Mall, January 20, 2009

Okay, honeymoon is over. Hey, I am impressed. The NRA certainly knows were to draw the line when arming a nation against each other.

You know. If I were arming an angry 15 year old desensitized to love and affection and thinking of human beings as human beings rather than objects; I'd want him to have a military style weapon. Absolutely. You know, why leave anyone behind? The grieving. The questioning as to why. Get it over with. Carry out that Oedipus complex in an expedient way and be happy. Could not have done it better with the American society if I tried. I mean, take it from me, there is a level of humanity in that. "They shoot horses, don't they?"

Impressive. Mass burials. Before ya know it, entire communities will have no pain when it is all over.

By Matt Pearce

January 20, 2013, 9:18 p.m.

Five people killed in a weekend shooting at an Albuquerque home (click here)  included a volunteer fire chaplain and three "very young children," officials said Sunday. A 15-year-old family member was arrested and charged with the slayings.

"Multiple weapons were apparently used, including one assault rifle," Bernalillo County Sheriff Dan Houston told reporters in a televised news conference.

Deputies responded to the house on Saturday night. The victims -- which included two girls and a boy -- were each apparently shot multiple times.

In a statement late Sunday, the sheriff's office identified the victims as Greg Griego, his wife Sara, and the children: Zephania, 9; Jael, 5; and Angelina, 2, the Associated Press reported.

Sheriff's spokesman Aaron Williamson confirmed to the Los Angeles Times that the suspect is 15-year-old Nehemiah Griego, who has been arrested and charged with two counts of murder and three counts of child abuse resulting in death.

One of those killed was Greg Griego, who was identified as Nehemiah's father in a biography that has since been removed from the website of the Albuquerque Calvary Church. A church leader told KOB-TV that Griego, a pastor, had taken a leave of absence from the church last year....

I did not see one Republican President there today. We didn't have First Lady Barbara or First Lady Laura there either. It was noticed.

I hope all are well and in good spirits.

I did notice President Carter, but, I didn't see First Lady Rosalynn. She may have been there, but, I didn't see her though.

Then of course President Clinton and Secretary Clinton was there.

It was a great day. I loved it. I loved the theme and the speeches were incredible.

Today was a pitch perfect day.

I was so proud to be an American. President Obama was inaugurated on Martin Luther King, Jr. It could not be better.

It was just a great day. There isn't anything else to say. It was a great day for all Americans if they cared to realize what truly, truly great country the USA actually is. 

It was an incredible day.

A moral man in the White House.

President Obama has brought the United States of America hope. It is up to the people to stand with him to further the nation forward to the promise given to us as a birthright.

I'll be busy all day tomorrow.

Considering the expediency this was dealt with and the hundreds of lives saved, Algeria should be congratulated and THANKED.

I never thought Algeria was up to it. Their forces performed remarkably. I don't recall hearing of one military casualty. I could be wrong, but, I believe the Algerians were in control the entire time. They knew what they were doing and did it well.

Alleged hostage-taker Abdul Rahman al-Nigeri.
Updated 1 hour 18 minutes ago

Algerian special forces (click here) on Saturday moved in to end the siege in a "final assault" on the BP-owned In Amenas gas complex, in the Sahara desert, where the hostages were being held.

The sequence of events remains unclear but by the end of the operation authorities said 11 militants still at the plant were dead, along with seven foreign hostages.

Since the crisis began last week, at least 23 hostages and 32 militants have been killed.

At least five Britons, five Norwegians and 10 Japanese remain unaccounted for....

NATO could not have done anything about this in the time frame Algeria responded and there would be many more dead and missing than exists today.

Algeria needs to be concerned about the security of it's southern border and how best to minimize infiltration of terrorists again. I think they might be open to suggestions, funding and help. I could be wrong about that though.

The Petroleum Industry is stepping up the drilling in North Dakota since the earthquake was linked to the drilling.

This was from an entry on Facebook.

The petroleum industry is worried about their activity actually having consequences and they won't get their money out of it. So they are kicking their operations in North Dakota into high gear. By doing so they will increase the injection fluid quantity in the ground and cause more frequent earthquakes leading to greater seismic activity.

This activity has nothing to do with need or availability or market supply. It is pure greed. No respect for anything except the money that can be made.

I really, really mean it when I state the petroleum industry is stupid without a conscience.

I guess the reality of the floating oil disaster in the dead of winter off the Alaskan coast was too much for them. Really stupid without conscience.

As you may know, Cruz Construction started a division in North Dakota just six months ago. 

They sent every Kenworth (nine trucks) we had here in Alaska to North Dakota and several drivers.

They just bought two new Kenworth's to add to that fleet; one being a Tri Drive tractor and a new 65-ton lowboy to go with it.

They also bought two new cranes (one crawler & one rubber tired) for that division.

Dave Cruz said they have moved more rigs in the last six months in ND than Cruz Construction moved in Alaska in the last six years.

Williston is like a gold rush town; they moved one of our 40-man camps down there since there are no rooms available.

Unemployment in ND is the lowest in the nation at 3.4 percent, last checked.

See anything in the national news about how the oil industry is fueling North Dakota's economy?

Here's an astonishing read of important and verifiable information:

About six months ago, the writer was watching a news program on oil and one of the Forbes Bros. was the guest.

The host said to Forbes, "I am going to ask you a direct question and I would like a direct answer. How much oil does the U.S. have in the ground?"
Forbes did not miss a beat, he said, "more than all the Middle East put together."

The U. S.. Geological Service issued a report in April 2008 that only scientists and oil men knew was coming, but man was it big.

It was a revised report (hadn't been updated since 1995) on how much oil was in this area of the western 2/3 of North Dakota,
western South Dakota, and extreme eastern Montana.

Very shallow seismic activity. It is completely related to injection water and chemical erosion of the rock.

The depth listed on the MBMG (click here) website is 0.7 kilometers, equivalent to 0.4 miles. It was distanced as 14 miles north of Arnegard and 14 northeast of Alexander.

Ya, just got to love the idiocy. "Let's do it again, Bubba, that was fun!"

Check THIS out:

The Bakken is the largest domestic oil discovery since
Alaska 's Prudhoe Bay , and has the potential to
eliminate all American dependence on foreign oil. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates it at 503 billion barrels. Even if just 10% of the oil is recoverable ( 5 billion barrels), at $107 a barrel, we're looking at a resource base worth more than $5.3 trillion.

"When I first briefed legislators on this, you could practically see their jaws hit the floor."

They had no idea.." says Terry Johnson, the Montana Legislature's financial analyst.

"This sizable find is now the highest-producing onshore oil field found in the past 56 years," reports The Pittsburgh Post Gazette .

It's a formation known as the Williston Basin, but is more commonly referred to as the 'Bakken.'

It stretches from Northern Montana, through North Dakota and into Canada.

For years, U. S. oil exploration has been considered a dead end. 

Ya think?

Even the 'Big Oil' companies gave up searching for major oil wells decades ago.

However, a recent technological breakthrough has opened up the Bakken's massive reserves, and we now have access of up to 500 billion barrels. And because this is light, sweet oil, those billions of barrels will cost Americans just $16 PER BARREL !!!!!!

That's enough crude to fully fuel the American economy for 2041 years straight.

And if THAT didn't throw you on the floor, then this next one should - because it's from 2006 !!!

U.. S. Oil Discovery - Largest Reserve in the World

Stansberry Report Online - 4/20/2006

Hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the largest untapped oil reserve in the world.

It is more than 2 TRILLION barrels. On August 8, 2005 President Bush mandated its extraction.

In three and a half years of high oil prices none has been extracted.

With this motherload of oil, why are we still fighting over off-shore drilling?

They reported this stunning news:

We have more oil inside our borders, than all the other proven reserves on earth.

Here are the official estimates:

8 times as much oil as Saudi Arabia,

18 times as much oil as Iraq,

21 times as much oil as Kuwait,

22 times as much oil as Iran,

500 times as much oil as Yemen,

and it's all right here in the Western United States !!!

HOW can this BE? HOW can we NOT BE extracting this? Because the environmentalists and others have blocked all efforts to help America become independent of foreign oil!
Again, we are letting a small group of people dictate our lives and our economy. WHY?

James Bartis, lead researcher with the study says we have more oil in this very compact area
than the entire Middle East, more than 2 TRILLION barrels untapped. That's more than all the proven oil reserves of crude oil in the world today, reports The Denver Post .

Don't think 'OPEC' will drop its price even with this find? Think again! It's all about the competitive marketplace, it has to.

Think OPEC just might be funding the environmentalists?

Got your attention yet? Now, while you're thinking about it, do this:

Pass this along. If you don't take a little time to do this, then you should stifle yourself the next time you complain about gas prices. By doing NOTHING, you forfeit your right to complain.

Now I just wonder what would happen in this country if every one of you sent this to every one in your address book.

The biggest con job of all times was when T. Boon Pickens (click here) went to the National Clean Energy Summit and promised Wind Energy was the next greatest energy source in the country.

Then Boone turns around and says, wind and solar are just not cost effective.

Now, I ask you, does a man worth more than the USA Treasury say anything that he doesn't already know how it is going to turn out.

Con man extraordinare.

Before Mr. T. Boone "Slick" Pickens has a chance to roll his millions-billions and put himself out there for public appearance to rehab his image and say how much he loves his grandchildren; there is this.

T Boone Pickens Stock Picks for 2013 (click here)

BP Capital

Last Update: 2012-11-14

Halliburton Company

Valero Energy Corpor...

SandRidge Energy Inc

Anadarko Petroleum C

Southwestern Energy 

Arch Coal Inc

Consol Energy Inc

Transocean Ltd

National Oilwell Var

Canadian Natural Res

McMoRan Exploratio

Weatherford Interna

Apache Corporation

Occidental Petroleum.

Dawson Geophysical C

NRG Energy Inc

Calpine Corp

Laredo Petroleum Hol...

Not one wind company. Not one solar company. Halliburton is at the top of his list. Now. Who is he in bed with really?

By the way, this can be verified. Check it out at the link below !!!
http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911> ; <http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asID=1911>http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911<http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911> >

Cruz Construction:
http://www.cruzconstruct.com/ ; <http://www.cruzconstruct.com/services..php> ;
"Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference."

US energy is not based on what is possible, what is best or what will provide the best future for our children. US energy is dictated by power brokers and no one else.

"Drill, babe, drill"

"Drill here, drill now"