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Detroit attack: US border guards knew alleged terrorist was on flight

Officials from the Transport Security Administration discovered Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab’s name on the Customs and Border Protection database after he boarded his Northwest flight in Amsterdam and were waiting to question him upon landing in Detroit, according to senior law enforcement officials. The disclosure appears to show US intelligence was close to uncovering the terrorist plot, despite the barrage of criticism it has come under since Abdulmutallab, 23, failed to detonate a bomb aboard a Northwest airliner on Christmas Day. [I wonder if perhaps the FLIGHT CREW would have liked to have known they had this guy on board as they were flying over the expansive Atlantic ocean?…ed]

National security adviser: Airline bomber report to ‘shock’

White House national security adviser James Jones says Americans will feel “a certain shock” when they read an account being released Thursday of the missed clues that could have prevented the alleged Christmas Day bomber from ever boarding the plane. President Obama “is legitimately and correctly alarmed that things that were available, bits of information that were available, patterns of behavior that were available, were not acted on,” Jones said in an interview Wednesday with USA TODAY. “That’s two strikes,” Obama’s top White House aide on defense and foreign policy issues said, referring to the foiled bombing of the Detroit-bound airliner and the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, in November. In that case, too, officials failed to act when red flags were raised about an Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Hasan. He has been charged with killing 13 people. [Nothing coming from the Obama administration spin meisters will “shock” anyone who has been paying attention to what this “president” is deliberately doing to this country. This “account” is nothing more than an attempt to cover Obama’s ass and create another “crisis” that will cost Americans more of their liberties…ed]

The Butt Bomb

In the wake of the failed bombing attempt by Nigerian Al Qaeda operative Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, airport security experts are wringing their hands over how to stop the next underwear bomber. X-ray machines don’t detect the type of explosive, known as PETN, that Abdulmutallab carried. Only a careful pat-down around Abdulmutallab’s crotch, where the explosive had been sewn into his undies, would have detected his deadly cargo. (SNIP) Even a pat-down thorough enough to simulate foreplay, however, won’t protect us completely—not from a threat that sounds even more absurd than an underwear bomb and that is also more alarming: the butt bomb. The concept is simple. Rather than sew explosives into his underwear, a terrorist might actually plant a bomb, which can weigh as little as a pound, inside his anal cavity. [Perhaps the TSA can have Barney Frank head up the new Department of Anal Cavity Searches for Muslim Airline Passengers?…ed]

NCTC director Michael Leiter remained on ski slopes after Christmas Day airline bombing attempt

The top official in charge of analyzing terror threats did not cut short his ski vacation after the underwear bomber nearly blew up an airliner on Christmas Day, the Daily News has learned. Michael Leiter, director of the National Counterterrorism Center since 2007, decided not to return to his agency’s “bat cave” nerve center in McLean, Va., until several days after Christmas, two U.S. officials said. “People have been grumbling that he didn’t let a little terrorism interrupt his vacation,” said one of the sources. [Yeah, so? Obama stayed in Hawaii, golfing, going to the zoo and picking up some shaved ice with the family while all this was going on. It took him FOUR DAYS to even comment on the near catastrophe and he didn’t even get back to Washington DC until three days ago…ed]

Fla. police: Man threatening Jews taken off flight

An airline passenger who yelled “I want to kill all the Jews” on a Detroit-bound plane was arrested on disorderly conduct and other charges, but authorities said Thursday the incident didn’t appear terrorism-related. Mansor Mohammad Asad, 43, of Toledo, Ohio, was arrested Wednesday night after a taxiing Northwest Airlines flight returned to a gate at Miami International Airport, Miami-Dade police said. After a confrontation with officers, Asad was charged with threats against a public servant, disorderly conduct and resisting an officer without violence. [Sounds like a hate crime to me. After all if someone were to say “I want to kill all the homosexuals” or “I want to kill all the muslims” in the middle of a mall they would most certainly be facing “hate crime” charges…ed]

Danger Explosive Transported to Ireland After Failed Security Test in Slovakia

A quantity of danger explosives was brought into Ireland as result of failed security test in Slovakia. During the live security tests on Saturday, Slovak authorities planted eight special items, including the plastic explosives, in the luggage of unsuspecting passengers as they prepared to board international flights at Bratislava and Poprad airports. Seven items were detected by airport security, but the eighth one – 90g of research development explosive (RDX) – was lost and unwittingly transported to Dublin by 49-year-old Slovakian man in his luggage. [This stupidity easily sounds like something this country’s TSA clowns would get caught up in…ed]

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Fake ZIP codes reported on stimulus Web site

Fourteen Virginia ZIP codes reported to receive $9.5 million in federal stimulus money can’t be found in the state. Recovery.gov, the federal Web site that reports how the stimulus money is used, lists funding and jobs created by ZIP code. The data is taken from reports filed by the stimulus recipients. Out of hundreds of ZIP codes listed for Virginia, seven don’t exist and seven are in other states.
Watchdog reporters found similar errors in other states. Nearly $650,000 was reported as going to six incorrect New Mexico ZIP codes, while in West Virginia, four reported ZIP codes aren’t real, and three are in Virginia. [I don’t know why but I can’t help but wonder if all of the “stimulus” millions “going” to phony congressional districts and now non existent zip codes are somehow winding up in the bank accounts of Democrat politicians up for reelection this year…ed]

Top Democrats head for the exits

The grim outlook for Democrats in the 2010 midterm elections just got a little worse. Four top Democrats — including veteran Sens. Chris Dodd and Byron Dorgan — all prepared to pull the plug on their campaigns in a 24-hour period that began Tuesday, and in the process, offered an unnerving glimpse at the perilous election year ahead. With Dorgan’s stunning retirement announcement Tuesday evening, Democrats are now facing their bleakest election outlook in years — and the very real possibility the party will lose its 60-40 Senate supermajority after the November elections. On the House side, the prospect of a 20 to 30 seat loss is already looking increasingly likely. [The ‘Rats are scrambling for the exit doors as the Obamatanic begins to take on massive amounts of water…ed]

TrimTabs suggests government manipulated stocks

The unusual circumstances that led the U.S. market to rally powerfully in 2009 might be explained by secret government moves to buy stocks, according to Charles Biderman, the founder and chief executive of TrimTabs, a research firm that tracks liquidity flows in the market. “We cannot identify the source of the new money that pushed stock prices up so far so fast,” Biderman said in a statement Tuesday. The source of approximately $600 billion net new cash necessary to lift the market’s overall capitalization by $6 trillion last year could not be identified by TrimTabs, Biderman said. The money, he said, didn’t come from traditional players such as companies, retail investors, foreign investors, hedge funds or pension funds. [Big conspiracy theory or dead on the money?…ed]

What the Dems Know: Universal Voter Registration

Many are puzzled that Democrats persist in ramming unpopular and destructive legislation down our collective throats with no apparent concern for their plummeting poll numbers. A widespread belief is that the Democrats are committing political suicide and will be swept from one or both houses of Congress with unprecedented electoral losses next November. But since Democrat politicians rarely do things that will not ultimately benefit themselves, this column asked two weeks ago, “What do they know that we don’t?” We may have found out. It’s called universal voter registration. The Wall Street Journal’s John Fund described the Democrat plan recently at a David Horowitz Freedom Center forum. Watch the video here. [The Democrooks don’t care what we think because, very soon, they think they won’t have to…ed]

The Obamas: Conspicuous Sacrifice vs. Conspicuous Consumption

A recurring theme of the Obama White House is “sacrifice.” The president has repeatedly stressed the need for us to tighten our belts. He has informed us, “We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times …” During the campaign, his wife told us that we have to compromise and sacrifice for one another in order to get things done. Shortly after the election, the president said that “[e]verybody’s going to have to give. Everybody’s going to have to have some skin in the game.” (SNIP) Michelle attended a luncheon for the homeless wearing a pair of $540 Lanvin sneakers. On a trip to Russia, she was seen sporting what was thought to be a $5,950 VBH alligator manila clutch. The White House protested that she was actually carrying the $875 VBH patent leather clutch. This is perhaps another example of self-sacrifice. She has ordered a pair of thigh-high leather boots from Robert Clergerie, a famous French designer. Had Governor Sarah Palin made any of these purchases, she would have been criticized on the front pages of the major newspapers. Their treatment of Michelle Obama is considerably kinder. She is seen as a fashion icon. [We’re movin’ on up to the WhiteHouse..to a deluxe mansion in the sky! Movin’ on up to the WhiteHouse..we finally got our piece of the pie!…ed]

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State Department Using ‘Diversity Visas’ to Encourage Immigration to U.S. from Terror-Ridden Yemen

The State Department has awarded 1,011 special “diversity visas” allowing Yemeni nationals to immigrate to the United States since 2000, the year 17 U.S. sailors were killed when the USS Cole was attacked by terrorists in the Yemeni port of Aden. The “diversity visas” are designed to encourage immigration from countries that do not otherwise send significant numbers of immigrants to the United States. [Say WHAT?? Since WHEN does this country need to import people from all over the world, including places full of people who have been taught to hate the U.S. from birth?…ed]

HIV positive Dutchmen to arrive in New York, definitively ending U.S.’s HIV travel, immigration ban

America’s ban of incoming travelers with HIV ends definitively today with the arrival of the country’s first two international visitors with HIV. Clemens Ruland and Hugo Bausch are able to travel from The Netherlands to New York for the first time since the ban went into effect in 1987, The Huffington Post reports. The HIV Travel and Immigration Ban was created during a time when HIV, the disease that causes AIDS, was thought to be either airborne or transmittable by physical contact. It restricted infected foreigners from travelling to the U.S. and from living in the country. [I suppose this would be Obama’s way of assuaging the homosexual lobby hoping to be able to pull them to the polls come November. What other reason could this insidious man have for signing an executive order barring HIV positive foreigners from entering our country with it’s horrible, expensive healthcare system?…ed]

DeMint: Unions are already hurting Border Patrol — TSA next?

Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., makes the case on Redstate that unionization of Transportation Security Administration employees would be damaging to national security. He answers with some detail the counterargument that unionization has worked fine for Customs and Border Protection, so why not the TSA as well? DeMint writes: [DeMint is spot on. There is absolutely no reason for government workers to be unionized. We all know that unions are very good at protecting useless employees and the last place we need dead wood are government agencies who’s responsibilities involve the safety of Americans…ed]

CAIR Condemns U.S. Airport Anti-terrorism Measures

The Council on American Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, began 2010 by complaining about new security measures being enforced at U.S. airports by Transportation Security Administration security officers. The CAIR leadership released a statement that claims the TSA’s airport security directives amount to the profiling of Muslims. Washington-based CAIR officials claim that the new guidelines, under which anyone traveling from or through 13 Muslim-majority nations will be required to go through enhanced screening techniques before boarding flights, will disproportionately target American Muslims who have family or spiritual ties to the Islamic world and therefore amount to religious and ethnic profiling.
“Under these new guidelines, almost every American Muslim who travels to see family or friends or goes on pilgrimage to Mecca will automatically be singled out for special security checks—that’s profiling,” said CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad. [These idiots go on to say that increased scrutiny of the ONE group of people responsible for the VAST amount of terrorist bombings, murders and mayhem for decades, muslims, will do nothing to improve airline security. Sure stupid…ed]

Obama sends reinforcements to al Qaeda

It’s beginning to look like Yemen is the new Afghanistan – a failed Muslim state turned into an al Qaeda safe haven. The Christmas Day bombing plot was hatched there. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton declared yesterday that instability in Yemen poses a “global threat.” The United States is conducting air strikes against jihadist militants. In a recent Fox News online poll, 60 percent of respondents agreed that this country should “organize an offensive in Yemen in response to Al Qaeda threats.” Help is on the way from America, but unfortunately they are terrorist reinforcements. [More insanity direct from your terrorist friendly Obama administration…ed]

Freed Guantánamo inmates are heading for Yemen to join al-Qaeda fight

At least a dozen former Guantánamo Bay inmates have rejoined al-Qaeda to fight in Yemen, The Times has learnt, amid growing concern over the ability of the country’s Government to accept almost 100 more former inmates from the detention centre. The Obama Administration promised to close the Guantánamo facility by January 22, a deadline that it will be unable to meet. The 91 Yemeni prisoners in Guantánamo make up the largest national contingent among the 198 being held. Six prisoners were returned to Yemen last month. After the Christmas Day bomb plot in Detroit, US officials are increasingly concerned that the country is becoming a hot-bed of terrorism. Eleven of the former inmates known to have rejoined al-Qaeda in Yemen were born in Saudi Arabia. The organisation merged its Saudi and Yemeni offshoots last year. [Does anyone out there really believe the Obama administration gives a rat’s ass about the safety and security of the American people?…ed]

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Partisan Trends: Number of Democrats Falls to New Low, Down Six Points Since Election 2008

In December, the number of Americans identifying themselves as Democrats fell to the lowest level recorded in more than seven years of monthly tracking by Rasmussen Reports. Currently, 35.5% of American adults view themselves as Democrats. That’s down from 36.0 a month ago and from 37.8% in October. Prior to December, the lowest total ever recorded for Democrats was 35.9%, a figure that was reached twice in 2005. See the History of Party Trends from January 2004 to the present. The number of Republicans inched up by a point in December to 34.0%. That’s the highest total for Republicans since December 2007, just before the 2008 presidential campaign season began. [Is this because the number of illegal aliens heading back home has increased so dramatically or are people finally waking up to the fact that Democrats Obama, Pelosi and Reid are running this country into the side of a mountain at 600mph?…ed]

Romanian defector takes sides in Ohio race

A former top Romanian spy who defected to the United States in the 1970s has issued a politically charged endorsement in the closely watched race for Ohio’s 16th congressional district. Ion Pacepa (puh-CHEP-uh) said Monday that he is backing Republican Paul Schiffer in the 2010 election because he believes Democrats are turning America into a socialist dictatorship like the one he escaped. [I guess this man would know socialism and dictatorships when he sees them…ed]

Getting back to the right

Americans choose leaders to make decisions for us. But sometimes, the way to lead is by following. For conservatives to regain power in 2010, they need to do what voters want. As Ronald Reagan said, “Trust the people.” Begin with spending. According to Consumer Reports magazine, two-thirds of Americans planned to reduce their spending on holiday gifts in 2009. After all, unemployment was up and employee pay wasn’t. If only our federal government would follow suit. Instead, President Barack Obama declared in December his administration would keep trying to “spend our way out of this recession.” Mr. Obama wants to throw more federal funding at infrastructure and give new tax breaks to certain homeowners: “cash for caulkers.” [The ball is in the GOP’s court all the way up to November. Let’s see what they can do with it now that the country is seething mad at the over reaching Democrats in complete control of the federal government…ed]

With shoe on other foot, a Democrat cries foul

When Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill was trying to unseat incumbent Jim Talent in 2006, she frequently bashed President George W. Bush for being incompetent on terrorism. As she told NBC’s Tim Russert, “This is not an administration that’s ready to protect us.” McCaskill argued throughout her campaign that Bush had made the nation more vulnerable to terrorism by invading Iraq, and she harped on the devastation of Hurricane Katrina as proof that Bush had left the nation susceptible to attack. (SNIP) But that was a long time ago, politically speaking — before McCaskill became one of the first senators to endorse Barack Obama, before she voted to extend the same domestic wiretapping she once deplored, before she joined her fellow Democrats in congratulating the Iraqis on their new framework for national elections, before Obama committed 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan and before he became responsible for keeping Americans safe from terrorism. [This uber partisan hack wouldn’t be in office if it wasn’t for the city of St. Louis and ACORN. Let’s hope Missouri wakes up and makes this Obama gobbling idiot a quick one termer…ed]

Staff walks out on party-switcher Griffith

Rep. Parker Griffith’s (Ala.) staff has resigned en masse after his recent decision to switch parties and become a Republican. In a sternly worded statement, Griffith Chief of Staff Sharon Wheeler announced the exit of herself, along with legislative director Megan Swearingen, senior legislative assistant Brian Greer, legislative assistant Will Crain, press secretary Sean Magers, legislative correspondent Arinze Ifekauche, legislative correspondent Chase Chesser, staff assistant Mary Lou Hughston, congressional fellows Anjali Shah Kastorf and Leslee Oden and intern Andrew Menefee. Griffith’s political consulting team has already parted ways with him since he announced over the holiday break that he would switch parties. [Good. Saves him the trouble of firing their disloyal asses…ed]

TSA: Man who caused breach at NJ airport soon left

A man who caused a security breach at Newark Liberty International Airport, causing major delays and grounding flights for six hours, left about 20 minutes after he walked the wrong way through a security checkpoint, the Transportation Security Administration said Monday. Someone picking up a passenger told an officer guarding the exit that he thought he saw a man enter through the doors Sunday, TSA spokeswoman Ann Davis said. TSA reviewed surveillance video before sweeping the airport, she said. The video confirmed the man had entered through the exit, and officials made passengers leave the terminal and be rescreened. [Sounds like another possible “dry run” to me but why in the hell does a civilian have to point out to airport security personnel that somebody breached a restricted zone?…ed]

Nigeria slams ‘discriminatory’ flight checks

Nigeria has criticised new security measures for passengers flying to and from the United States as unfair and said they amounted to discrimination against 150 million people. The US government has announced that travellers from 14 countries, including Nigeria, are to be subjected to extra checks including body pat-downs, after a young Nigerian was accused of trying to blow up a US jet on Christmas Day. But Nigeria Information Minister Dora Akunyili said that Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, did not have a history of terrorism and such a move could not be justified. [It sure didn’t take long for those wacky Nigerians to pull a page right outta the Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, aclu “Scream Discrimination” handbook did it?…ed]

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Low favorables: Dems rip Rasmussen

Democrats are turning their fire on Scott Rasmussen, the prolific independent pollster whose surveys on elections, President Obama’s popularity and a host of other issues are surfacing in the media with increasing frequency. The pointed attacks reflect a hardening conventional wisdom among prominent liberal bloggers and many Democrats that Rasmussen Reports polls are, at best, the result of a flawed polling model and, at worst, designed to undermine Democratic politicians and the party’s national agenda….

Dem recruits continue to head for exits

Democrats have lost yet another touted recruit, this time in Kansas. State Sen. Laura Kelly (D) just announced her withdrawal from the race to face Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-Kan.). She becomes the fifth formidable recruit to bow out in recent weeks. “I have been forced to make a decision between honoring the pledge I made to the people in my Senate district and my firm conviction that the people of the 2nd congressional district deserve a truly independent voice in Congress,” Kelly said in a statement. “This has been a very hard decision, but it is the right one”….

White House: Justice Dept. made decision to hold Detroit bomber in civilian justice system

Top Obama counterterrorism adviser John Brennan says the Justice Department made the decision to handle the case of Detroit terror bomb suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in the criminal justice system. Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” Brennan was asked why the Obama administration did not choose to treat Abdulmutallab as an enemy combatant. “He was arrested on U.S. soil,” Brennan answered. “The Department of Justice makes that determination about what is the best tool to use.” Pressed about reports Abdulmutallab stopped talking to investigators after he was given a lawyer and read his Miranda rights, Brennan said, “We have an array of tools that we will use” in the case….

U.S. officials investigating how Abdulmutallab boarded Flight 253 as more missed red flags surface

Shortly before Thanksgiving, a concerned Nigerian banker warned the local U.S. Embassy about his missing son’s ties to Yemeni radicals and a possible terrorist threat. It wasn’t until Christmas that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab resurfaced – in seat 19A of a Detroit-bound airliner, his underwear loaded with enough explosives to kill all 289 people aboard. The 35 days between were rife with missed clues, missteps and miscommunication as authorities – in a 9/11 repeat – failed to connect the terrorist dots surrounding the Al Qaeda-trained bomber….

Are planned airport scanners just a scam?

The explosive device smuggled in the clothing of the Detroit bomb suspect would not have been detected by body-scanners set to be introduced in British airports, an expert on the technology warned last night. The claim severely undermines Gordon Brown’s focus on hi-tech scanners for airline passengers as part of his review into airport security after the attempted attack on Flight 253 on Christmas Day. The Independent on Sunday has also heard authoritative claims that officials at the Department for Transport (DfT) and the Home Office have already tested the scanners and were not persuaded that they would work comprehensively against terrorist threats to aviation….

Soft on terror? Not this president

THERE IS, it seems evident, more than enough blame to go around in the botched handling of the botched Christmas bombing. Not for some Republicans. With former vice president Richard B. Cheney in the lead, they have embarked on an ugly course to use the incident to inflict maximum political damage on President Obama. That’s bad enough, but their scurrilous line of attack is even worse. The claim that the incident shows the president’s fecklessness in the war on terror is unfounded — no matter how often it is repeated. These critics have set up a straw Obama, a weak and naive leader who allegedly takes terrorism lightly, thinks that playing nicely with terrorists will make them stop, and fails to understand the threat that the United States faces from violent extremists….

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