Arise, thread, and walk again.
http://mediamatters.org/research/201...
Wayne Shelby Simmons, 62, of Annapolis, Maryland, a former occasional on-air commentator who appeared on a cable news network, was arrested today after being indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of major fraud against the United States, wire fraud, and making false statements to the government.
According to the indictment, Simmons falsely claimed he worked as an "Outside Paramilitary Special Operations Officer" for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1973 to 2000, and used that false claim in an attempt to obtain government security clearances and work as a defense contractor, including at one point successfully getting deployed overseas as an intelligence advisor to senior military personnel. According to the indictment, Simmons also falsely claimed on national security forms that his prior arrests and criminal convictions were directly related to his supposed intelligence work for the CIA, and that he had previously held a top secret security clearance. The indictment also alleges that Simmons defrauded an individual victim out of approximately $125,000 in connection with a bogus real estate investment. [Justice.gov, 10/15/15]
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Trey Gowdy Reveals The Latest Benghazi Casualty: Trey Gowdy
See, what makes this so ha-ha funny is that Gowdy didn't so much work "behind closed doors" to stay above "the fray," as much as he repeatedly leaked the committee's goings-on to Politico. And what makes this so boo-hoo sad is that his Republican colleagues keep selling him out as leading what amounts to a partisan witch hunt.
More proof that Ramirez is just a weirdly idiotic human being.
I didn't realize that like 6000 people died at Benghazi. No wonder Republicans are so pissed off about... wait, what's that? 4 people died? Oh.
More proof that Ramirez is just a weirdly idiotic human being.
I didn't realize that like 6000 people died at Benghazi. No wonder Republicans are so pissed off about... wait, what's that? 4 people died? Oh.
Wondering when he is going to paint the 241 beams for Reagan's adventure into Beirut
I didn't realize that like 6000 people died at Benghazi. No wonder Republicans are so pissed off about... wait, what's that? 4 people died? Oh.
There were at most 150 militants who attacked the US compound. How did that result in 6,000 people dying?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...
Older article but worth reading.
Which brings me to Beirut. If you read only one Benghazi piece this week (aside from mine of course!), read this one by Jane Mayer of The New Yorker, which she called “Ronald Reagan’s Benghazi.” It was October 1983, and Mayer was a young Wall Street Journal reporter based in Beirut. Early on the morning of October 23, a blast went off in the U.S. Marine barracks compound. By the time Mayer arrived on the scene, “the Marine barracks were flattened. From beneath the dusty, smoking slabs of collapsed concrete, piteous American voices could be heard, begging for help.” The U.S. death toll was 241 that day.A few contextual facts for you. The gate at the barracks through which the terrorist drove his truck was open. He drove through some barbed wire, but that was it. The guards were unarmed. Additionally, this happened a mere six months after militants had bombed the embassy in Beirut, killing 63 people, 17 of them Americans.
People is St. Reagan did it then it was because he was tricking them russkies into something.
Demosthenes wrote:I didn't realize that like 6000 people died at Benghazi. No wonder Republicans are so pissed off about... wait, what's that? 4 people died? Oh.
There were at most 150 militants who attacked the US compound. How did that result in 6,000 people dying?
There's 2 beams for the almost 3,000 people that died in the 9/11 attack. I'm thinking Demo's joke requires you to assume they'd be using the same beam/victim ratio.
OG_slinger wrote:Demosthenes wrote:I didn't realize that like 6000 people died at Benghazi. No wonder Republicans are so pissed off about... wait, what's that? 4 people died? Oh.
There were at most 150 militants who attacked the US compound. How did that result in 6,000 people dying?
There's 2 beams for the almost 3,000 people that died in the 9/11 attack. I'm thinking Demo's joke requires you to assume they'd be using the same beam/victim ratio.
Ah, stupid me!
Here I just figured it was the standard American exceptionalism calculation of the value of life: only American lives matter.
I assumed it was for two towers not a statistical representation of the number of dead.
I assumed it was for two towers not a statistical representation of the number of dead.
So there had to have been four towers at the Benghazi compound!
Here I just figured it was the standard American exceptionalism calculation of the value of life: only American lives matter.
It's that too.
I assumed it was for two towers not a statistical representation of the number of dead.
It is in reality, but that's not where Ramirez operates from.
Is Ramirez saying that Benghazi is a bigger deal than 9/11 or is he pointing out the disproportionate response from the GOP? It's been a long time since I paid attention to political cartoons...
Is Ramirez saying that Benghazi is a bigger deal than 9/11 or is he pointing out the disproportionate response from the GOP? It's been a long time since I paid attention to political cartoons...
Who knows what's going on in his head? I've already been forced to think like a 4channer this morning, don't make me think like a far right nutball comic artist.
More proof that Ramirez is just a weirdly idiotic human being.
I didn't realize that like 6000 people died at Benghazi. No wonder Republicans are so pissed off about... wait, what's that? 4 people died? Oh.
If I wasn't already familiar with Ramirez's previous work, I could see that being a commentary on how disproportionate the GOP response to Benghazi has been.
Edit: And, now that the thread has refreshed, I see that shoptroll has brought up that point already.
Is Ramirez saying that Benghazi is a bigger deal than 9/11 or is he pointing out the disproportionate response from the GOP? It's been a long time since I paid attention to political cartoons...
Ramirez is pretty far on the conservative side... so it's unlikely that he's calling the GOP out for anything. It's likely a bigger deal to him than 9/11 for the same reason that GOP politicians keep saying all this sh*t is for... it lets him take potshots at Hillary and Obama all day long.
I just woke up and realized how much time the Republican Party has spent on Benghazi trying to "uncover" the "facts" vs the investigation and review of 9/11. In fact many of those responsible for the generally accepted "incompetence" theory were not subject to Hillary Clinton style scrutiny but rather promoted.
This image illustrates the focus on Benghazi pretty well:
Source: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/20...
Yeah, they're pretty lefty, but numbers are numbers.
I'm watching Clinton's opening statement right now. She is killing it.
Those fools have given her a wonderful, unopposed platform to demonstrate why she should be president.
I will have to find that and watch it when I have the time within the next few days.
Washington Post asks Why is Clinton Speaking So Slowly?
The top answer: Because there are Republicans in the room.
Watching Gowdy try to weasel a statement like "this is not a prosecution" and salvage the shattered veneer of legitimacy makes it very clear that it is the Committee on trial here and not Clinton.
My favorite part was the Congresscritter who kept trying to pin this I-don't-know-what-culture-something-something on Clinton.
"We have emails between two staff!"
"Those weren't my staffers."
I was really on the fence about voting for Clinton (I still have reservations) but man she gained lots of respect from me today.
I had honestly just tuned in to watch the Republican bluster.
Still not a fan of her support for the Iraq War charliefoxtrot, but have to admit that her culpability in it is not anywhere near as great as the GOP's.
I'm watching Clinton's opening statement right now. She is killing it.
Those fools have given her a wonderful, unopposed platform to demonstrate why she should be president.
I can't be the only one cynical enough to think the people who want an establishment candidate to win, the people who donate to both political parties, the 0.1% are very happy to give Hillary just such a platform.
Better Hillary than Bernie right?
I've had the hearings running in the background quite a bit today and am frankly pretty surprised at how poorly the Republican reps are coming off. One of them just read a fantasy letter he imagined someone would write. Seriously?
A moment in the midst of Cummings challenging Gowdy:
A moment in the midst of Cummings challenging Gowdy:
Ladies is pimps too, gon' brush your shoulders off
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