Don't Know Much About History (Ongoing...)

The NY Times reminds us that for many, history began on January 20, 2009. This is from a profile of an immigration activist turned Obama official (#FoxHenhouse):

Now, as Mr. Obama is in Latin America this week as the first president in decades with a chance to get an overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws through Congress...

What, Bush and McCain never had a chance with their push for comprehensive reform? Now they tell us.

To be fair, the Times does note that Obama's contribution has been to threaten to bring his polarizing touch to the process. Her list of accomplishments includes this:

[Ms. Muñoz] has helped draft a bill that the president threatened to introduce if talks on Capitol Hill faltered.

Don't call his bluff!

 

Comments

[Danube of Thought]

I hate this man.

[narciso]

The La Raza activist, I found a disturbing little sidelight with Perez's lobbying group,

[narciso]

Let me try that one again:

[Jack is Back! (On his iPad)]

Test at 35,000ft.

[Jack is Back! (On his iPad)]

JOMER horse entered in Derby. Name is. Frac Daddy and loves Guinness.

Not kidding.

[Jane -]

Here is the link to vote for Janet.

[narciso]

People have to know their category, a frock has to be a frock.

[Threadkiller]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/05/03/180555617/a-black-jockey-at-the-kentucky-derby-once-again

Who cares.

Now, if he was gay...

[MarkO]

More history about which the Times knows nothing.

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2013/05/damning-proof-of-dereliction-of-duty.html

[narciso]

Well David Kirkpatrick has been legendarily wrong on this score,

[Clarice]

posting on both threads--don't want sanford fans to miss out on his good bit of luck.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/05/figures-democrat-colbert-busch-was-busted-heres-her-mugshot/

[anonamom]

Just got Janet above 18%!
(It's cold and gray here for the eighth consecutive day.)

[Clarice]

Benghazi spreadsheet timeline.http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/05/the_complete_benghazi_timeline_in_spreadsheet_format.html

[narciso]

I was musing last night, Clarice, that it seems coincidential, that three long time Cuban agents
Myers, at State, Montes at DIA, and Velaszquez at AID were all part of the same program at John Hopkins SAIS, in the early to mid 80s.

[Captain Hate]

Here is the link to vote for Janet.

Thanks for the link; I voted for the first photo where it looked like Mooch had taken Cialis.

[Sue]

Let's go JOMers. #2 is coming on strong trying to overtake Janet. Hit refresh and vote as many times as you can. They encourage it. It's the Chicago way.

[Clarice]

narciso.. yes. I think we talked about that. There certainly was a recruiter there..and don't forget the spy (and his wife from D.C. ). He was also there.

[Porchlight]

Happy Derby Day! Can't catch up today but it is 40 years since the magnificent Secretariat won the Kentucky Derby in 1973, first of his Triple Crown victories.

Here he is in his Winners' Circle glory:

Lord, what a horse.

[MarkO]

Yet more history not known by the NYT.

http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2013/05/04/benghazi-impeachment-suddenly-not-so-far-fetched/

[Jim Miller]

That "in decades" phrase is a neat way to avoid naming the president who signed the last big immigrants amnesty bill, isn't it?

(It's poor writing, of course, since it is vague when it could be specific. But politics almost always trumps clear writing at our newspaper of record.)

[Jane -]

Janet is over 19% now.

[lyle]

I voted thrice for Janet. If I die soon I shall vote thrice again!

[Jane -]

Anyone predict that the new Benghazi information will penetrate the lamestream media?

Clarice, what is tomorrow's Pieces about?

[Jane -]

It just occurred to me that timing is everything. If the Gosnell jury can hold out until Wednesday, the media may happily report on the outcome to avoid talking about Benghazi.

[Rick Ballard]

Impeachment would be counter productive. A you-tube looping "At the end of the day, what difference does it make?", first with the tired bitch SOS face, then voice-over the time line items leading up to Steven's death with a final voice over (toss in some reverb bass) of the President and his POS SOS meeting the coffins might make a significant difference.

I really wish I knew how to do it.

[Agent J]

I voted twice and number one had 19.45...This is new for me,posted from a tablet.

[Captain Hate]

Rick, make sure you include Powell in the meet the coffins moment. I don't want to deprive him of his Norma Desmond moment.

[Rick Ballard]

Now 20.01%. I feel like Skinner's pigeon - vote-reload-page-upX6-vote.

Where's my corn?

[Captain Hate]

Speaking of Norma Desmond: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/347205/rubios-folly

[Jim Rhoads f/k/a vnjagvet]

Jane's over 20% now. Keep voting.

[Jane -]

Janet is too!

[gmax]

Whoever could have seen this one coming? Here:

Jason Collins, the pro basketball player who outed himself as gay this week, will appear alongside First Lady Michelle Obama at a New York fundraiser, according to a source familiar with the event.

Collins will appear with Obama at the May 29 Democratic National Committee LGBT gala, the source said.

[sailor]

For what are all of you voting? Janet's posts on Michelle's unattractive outfits? What does Janet get if she wins?

[Captain Hate]

But politics almost always trumps clear writing at our newspaper of record.

Not to mention integrity...

Lord, what a horse.

Despite the MFM's willingness to force feed us Jason Collins, individual sports entities like Michael Jordan or even Secretariat attract attention without any media buzz.

[Rick Ballard]

Now 20.52%

CH,

It's really a chance to put her away. Her own words, documented proof of the lies and sworn testimony. Get it up on Zuckerberg's propaganda machine and beat her senseless with the progs own social disease media.

[Clarice]

Jane it's about the meda's ignoring Benghazi and Obama's chutzpah in Mexico.

[Clarice]

Rick, that's the utube I dream of--the shtick with the coffins was he shizzle, wasn't it? I think Hillary's in the psychotic range by now. Bill and Chelsea aren't even photographed with her any more.

[maryrose]

sailor:
Don't know what janet will win but she's at over 20% on the first picture where Moochelle looks like a beached whale! I voted twice . It is easy. Vote,refresh, vote again.Go Janet
Jimmyk: You have raised a very fine young lady. The Wounded Warrior Project will greatly benefit from her thoughtfulness and generosity. Please send my congratulations to her on her Bat Mitzvah Day!
clarice and Jane:
I am trying not to get too over the top wrt the Benghazi hearings. I do hope for some concrete answers.
I viewed the timeline that clarice provided. It is informative and ugly. Imagine refusing requests for help Multiple times. No heads have rolled over this fiasco. Disgusting dereliction of duty. I am at a loss for words...

[maryrose]

Just once I want a Clinton to be held accountable. I also dream that Hil gets hammered{not in her usual way} but with the media forced to admit that she continues to be what Safire so rightly called her"an accomplished liar"

[maryrose]

Hil's going to need all those lawyers Bill lined up for her. I wonder if this will be her Monica Lewinsky/Paula Jones moment?

[anonamom]

21%--I did that!

[anonamom]

I'm also getting a life lesson in how effective "voter fraud" can be.
Vote early, vote often.

[Clarice]

I hope it's her kicked off the public stage for good moment. She's not smart. She's nasty. She lies about everything. It would do us a world of good to have her out of US politics.

[richatgmu]

I voted for Janet. Odd that the Almost Heroes of Atgeld Gardens can't seem to find a competent photographer. Those were all awful pictures.

Anyone predict that the new Benghazi information will penetrate the lamestream media?

I guess I'm in the minority but I'm doubtful that this will become a big issue or dominate news coverage. Hillary's! political career was already over and we still have more than 3 years for the fruits of the Obama Administration's foreign policy to ripen-Europe bleeding out, the psychotic North Korea, crazy Iran, the Arab Winter, and the vanishing redlines in the Syrian mountains-such brilliance is not the stuff of winning political campaigns. But, maybe we can all be distracted with 7.4% unemployment (the new 7 fat years are just around the corner) and gay marriage.

[maryrose]

Clarice I agree completely. Her 15 minutes are up...

[richatgmu]

jimmyk-

Mazel Tov!

[Jane -]

Can't wait Clarice,

[Jane -]

Not one cemetery in MA will agree to bury suspect #1. My friend Larry said he would bury it in his back yard for the right price assuming he could get some dead pigs to go in with the body.

[Rick Ballard]

Rich,

Benghazi will fit right in with F&F, Pigfraud, unemployment, SkyDragon payoffs and BOzocare for the '14 cycle. The costs and failures of BOzocare will hurt the progs the worst but dragging Hillary and BOzo through their own manure pile counts as a nice plus.

[38% of the Vote.]

Michelle Horror Janet Show.
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[Carol Herman]

Too bad for Obama, but Israel caused a small "road accident" in Syria; without even entering Syrian air space. Instead, very early Friday morning; at 4AM, about 16 Israeli planes shot overhead, in Lebanon. Causing a huge uproar at sea; as Russian and American ships had to decide if "Lebanon was being invaded," or not. I'm sure Putin and Obama were awakened. And, both men knew Israel was smart enough that all her pilots were back home, and in bed.

While this small little road accident became the top of the news.

Obama's a lame duck! This makes most Americans happy. It's like asking for "less government," and now knowing Obama can't do much to Bibi. Or Israel. And? I bet'cha Obama learned a lesson about maintaining threats when you lay out red lines.

Journalists are also sad. Because Israel didn't start a new war. Assad is not going to attack Israel with any retaliation. And, this will leave the news business in the doldrums.

[richatgmu]

Rick-

I think you are right, but with the media sucking the air out of anything that might make the new sun king and his court look bad, I'm not sure. I am a but surprised that Obama is going around rallying Mexico to get a US immigration bill passed in Congress (maybe someone can go into his office with a box of crayons and scratch paper and diagram the process for him and show him "I'm just a Bill" from the ole' Schoolhouse Rock for his briefing book).

[Ignatz]

Some choice in South Carolina.

It is immensely rewarding however to now listen to leftists explain that messy divorces, irrational behavior and, in Ms Colbert-Busch's case, arrest and incarceration for same are really no one's business and not really any indication regarding fitness for office.
Spin cycle on high.

[Mike]

Hey, is Michelle Obama Flip Wilson doing Geraldine?

[Mike]

Or is Michelle doing her impression of Flip's Geraldine?

[richatgmu]

I am in utter disbelief that the people of Charleston couldn't nominate 2 decent candidates for that special election. Talk about tacky.

[richatgmu]

Here is an opinion piece that Tom can put in the hopper, it is even from the New York Times...Where Have All the Jobs Gone?, by Jared Bernstein, the co author of the employment after stimulus graph that shows the yawning gap of democrat fairy tales and reality.

[Ignatz]

Man, there must be a lot of votes cast over at MOTUS. Each one I cast only upped Janet's margin by .01%.
This vote fraud stuff is pretty hard. I'm gonna need some walking around money if she wants any more sketchy votes out of me.

[Clarice]

Jared makes my Sunday column, too. What a winner!

[Rick Ballard]

"I'm gonna need some walking around money if she wants any more sketchy votes out of me."

Sorry, buddy, you're a producer. You wanna meet the EPA inspector first or would you prefer the OSHA inspection team?

Or would you rather keep voting?

Janet's Ward Heeler

[Clarice]

From the NYT:
Israeli Airstrike in Syria Targeted Missiles From Iran, U.S. Officials Say
By MICHAEL R. GORDON and JODI RUDOREN
Published: May 4, 2013
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WASHINGTON — The airstrike that Israeli warplanes carried out in Syria was directed at a shipment of advanced surface-to-surface missiles from Iran that Israel believed was intended for Hezbollah, the militant Lebanese organization, American officials said Saturday.

Twice in four months Israel has sought to disrupt the pipeline of weapons to Hezbollah.
It was the second time in four months that Israel had carried out an attack in foreign territory intended to disrupt the pipeline of weapons from Iran to Hezbollah, and the raid was a vivid example of how regional adversaries are looking after their own interests as Syria becomes more chaotic.

Must kill those pigs to write this..they have to keep putting the Israeli obit back in the drawer.

[Rick Ballard]

Clarice,

Bibi acting while Gutsy Call is still trying to shake the red line off his Etch A Sketch must be even more galling.

Where is R2P hiding?

[Jim Eagle]

There will be the longest widest plane of glass in the world before Israel is an obit, Clarice. And as far as I am concerned it would be about 50 years to late.

[narciso]

Rudoren in particular, just a hack for the Palestinians,

[Clarice]

RB HAHAHA

[pagar]

While the US military attacks the Christians in the ranks:

http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/215903.php

" Pentagon Brass Crush Career Of Decorated Army Officer Who Taught About Radical Islam"

And the USAF-

http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/air-force-recruits-chaplains-from-muslim-bhood-front-group/

IMO the US military is being destroyed from within.

[richatgmu]

Awesome Clarice. Sort made my teeth grind a bit.

One of the easter eggs buried in Obamacare is that the part time rules blow back on those who have arranged his affairs such that he could work part time for the express purpose of going school but working part time at the firm becomes impossible because of the Obamacare part time rules, even if it is for a good cause. So Bernstein can complain about education and the workforce but he doesn't have to bother navigating the waters of both Obamacare at a private company and a university bureaucracy.

[Jim Eagle]

For some reason I can't post a picture of our JOMer entry in the Derby - Frac Daddy. If someone could would appreciate it. I have big time Apple problems on my MacBook and Safari - have been using FireFox for 2 days now but still........

[narciso]

Well this is a pic from earlier;

http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/e59b27dc-938f-56b6-b400-ded13d28b70f.html

[Ralph L]

Lord, what a horse.
And look at those plaid trousers! You can tell it's the 70's.

[DoT on iPad]

"It's really a chance to put her away."

No one wishes it were so more than I, but I'd put its likelihood at about 5%. of the 140 million or so who will vote in 2016, how many will actually know anything about Benghazi? How many will give a damn?

[Captain Hate]

Some choice in South Carolina.

It is immensely rewarding however to now listen to leftists explain that messy divorces, irrational behavior and, in Ms Colbert-Busch's case, arrest and incarceration for same are really no one's business and not really any indication regarding fitness for office.

I wish they'd both lose. And the dimwits of that state get to set the trend in presidential races with a primary right after Iowa and New Hampshire. It's kind of a minor miracle that the JEF didn't happen sooner.

[Jim Eagle]

DoT,

I will share your pessimism only if we can do it at the Mezzanine bar at Army Navy Club in DC or the One Shot Bar in Charleston. But I believe in 4 years it all catches up and she is thin cut baloney.

[sailor]

I would so hope re Hillary, Clarice, but I don't think that will happen. Too many LIVs out there and also the Repubs will not press "too much" during the hearings. Therefore, Benghazi will go the way of F&F, I am afraid. I love you, maryrose, for being so optimistic. And, also DoT, I completely agree.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Frac Daddy...

[Clarice]

From Lucianne:

The deputy speaker of Britain's House of Commons, Nigel Evans, was arrested Saturday on suspicion of rape and sexual assault, a source familiar with the arrest has told CNN.

If this keeps up there won't be anyone in the BBC HQ or the House of Commons.

[centralcal]

Way behind on these threads, but I have stopped whatever I was doing every 1-1/2 hours or so to go vote for Janet - 10 times in rapid succession.

To answer sailor - she gets a cyber trophy for winning. No big deal and modest, humble Janet doesn't even care if she wins or places.

So, dang it, I care on her behalf! lol.

[Mike]

It will take boots on the ground to take out Iran's nuclear installations, and that ain't going to happen either.

[centralcal]

Clarice: This is said in all good humor, but also truthfully - Please, if you must give a peak reveal of your Sunday column to Jane, could you do it behind the scenes via email?

Why?

Well, not only do I look forward to Sunday morning to see what you have written, I have also created my own little private "trivial pursuit" game. My very first morning click, coffee cup in hand, is Lucianne, where I try to guess which of her headlines are to Clarice's Pieces. And, yep, I am keeping score (all on the up and up).

If I know beforehand your subject matter, well, the game is kinda ruined. IYKWIM.

[Clarice]

I don't see that, Mike. No matter how far underground those isntallations are, the people inside still need watr, food, energy and air.

[Rick Ballard]

22% now.

There's still a little over eight hours to go, don't falter.

[Bruce]

I don't see Benghazi taking down Obama, or even Hillary! They were successful at pushing it beyond the election, and now their common refrain seems to be "who cares?" or "it was so long ago", ignoring that it was so long ago because of the cover up starting at the very top and involving so much of the Administration.

There has always been a lot suspicious there, and pretty obvious that Hillary! signed off, at least implicitly, on the force draw down there in August or so. The threats that they were being told about didn't fit the narrative, and so were filtered out and ignored. And, it has always been quite suspicious that nothing was done, despite what appears to have been military activations throughout the region.

What wasn't clear at the time was why weren't any of those forces deployed. And, it turns out that there were several that were close enough to maybe have had an effect, and were on stand by, thanks to standard orders for this sort of thing. Turns out, apparently, the missing ingredient was the Presidential authorization to move American forces across a national border. Which means that President Obama knew what was going on, and then did nothing (going to bed early for that grueling flight out west for fund raising the next day). His inaction was in implicit denial of authorization for any such aid, and, thus, was the proximate cause for no aid being rendered (except by contractors on their own initiative from Tripoli).

What is finally coming out though is that the misdirection and cover up started almost immediately, probably within hours of the last fire fight, and covered the White House in particular, but also State, CIA, and maybe even Defense. They knew almost immediately that this was a terrorist strike, by al Qaeda associates, but all that information was excised in the revisions of the information being released to the American public, making it clear that there was a concerted effort to lie to the American people - which they believed they had to do, given that they were in the midst of a close reelection campaign.

Finally, the thing that I think will be interesting to ultimately find out is why the FBI, etc. were not allowed over there much more quickly. Whose idea was that? Was the delay in hoping that any evidence in the compound would disappear? Or, just procrastination, delaying that part of the investigation until hopefully after the election?

[Clarice]

You're so sweet, cc. How can I refuse your request?

[sailor]

Yes, Bruce, I think the government both delayed and tried to cover up. Sadly, I think this will all "come to naught." Nobody will take the fall and nobody will be prosecuted. Sad, but true.

[centralcal]

Well, just so you know, I deliberately stopped reading some of your comments up thread where I thought you might have answered Jane's query. But, your comments are usually full of info, so then I was afraid I might miss something really newsy (which I had). And I just had to read 'em.

So, anyway - next weekend, if Jane is game and okay with this, tell her privately!

Of course, here in JOMland we are a Republic - so others can certainly vote me down. I promise not to pout or raise the topic again. ::grin::

[henry]

cc, if Janet wins, I'll back you on the trivial pursuit request. Now to vote for the umpteenth time. ;)

[Gus]

Imagine all the fund raising if Jason Collins had been shot by a Tea Partier at Sandy Hook.

Baron Von Marx Obama would have his first hard on since Reggie Love left town.

[Janet]

Oh my goodness! As Jane would say...You guys Rock! 22.48%

Too funny. All for a cyber trophy. Hah! Maybe we can put the trophy here...all my entries were from you guys anyway...posting here or linking to MOTUS.

[Extraneus]

That Jared Bernstein piece is a keeper.

The only viable response is a return to an idea that once animated domestic policy making: full employment, the notion that everyone who wants to work should be able to find a job, and if the market isn’t up to the task, then the government must fill the gap.

I don't ask for much, and I'm not a mean guy, but I would like to live long enough to see people like this lynched on TV.

[henry]

Gee Ext, it doesn't have to be on TV... Utube is fine these days. ;)

[Pops]

I have yet to hear a single immigration REFORM coming out of the immigration reform debate.

[Pops]

Is it true that Obama is flying victims of the Boston Marathon bombing to DC on Air Force One to lobby for the State Dept to stop letter terrorists into the country?

[Extraneus]

William Boyland Jr. Indicted Yet Again

Assemblyman William Boyland Jr. just can’t catch a break.

Mr. Boyland, who was previously charged with soliciting bribes to pay his legal bills in an unrelated corruption trial, was indicted again last March for wire fraud charges stemming from alleged abuse of per diem requests. And he was just charged yet again today.

“Boyland engaged in a scheme to defraud New York State by steering public funds to a Brooklyn based non-profit organization (‘Non-Profit A’) and then directing that a portion of those public funds be used to pay for community events promoting Boyland and on goods such as t-shirts imprinted with the slogan ‘Team Boyland’ which were distributed at those events,” a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s office this evening declared.

.

[Gus]

If Barry and Mooch had a son, he'd look like William Boyland jr.

[richatgmu]

Great graphic Ex. Must be something in the water that does that to those nice fellows in New York.

[richatgmu]

Ex-

Notice how the world ends in his piece with the end of the Carter administration. I'm not all that smart or well read but I'm pretty sure most dems would trade the 4 years of Carter for the first 4 of Reagan.

[Threadkiller]

If Barry and Yaphet Kotto had a kid...

[centralcal]

Okay, I just did my 10 rapid fire votes for JOM (aka Janet) at MOTUS.

I hope the rest of JOMland is voting too.

[richatgmu]

Quiet tonight in JOMland. TCFAB (or maybe a half dozen). Later all-the semester is almost over-exams and crying about how crappy a student I am!

[Gus]

I voted for Janet a bunch of times. I remember when the media swooned about the hags "toned arms". Her ass is 2 ax handles across, and then some.