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Moral models at the, uh, CIA

Posted on November 15, 2012 | Comments Off on Moral models at the, uh, CIA

“A lady said to me yesterday wasn’t it terrible that the Director of Central Intelligence should provide such a poor moral model for the CIA?

“’Wouldn’t you think,’ I said, “that an agency whose business is to spy, steal, cheat, lie and probably kill dozens of people each month would be somewhat less than shocked at something like marital infidelity.

“That how curious it was that an agency like the FBI should find the time to investigate threatening emails? How passingly strange it is that the FBI should authorize any kind of investigation of its rival the CIA unless it was a big deal?’”   —-Richard Fernandez

Well, it’s a big deal for some people. Barry and Hillary, for certain. Probably the FBI, as well.

But most Americans? I doubt it. If they couldn’t be bothered to vote last week, and more than seven million of them couldn’t, then why would they get exercised about whatever it is that’s really going on behind the Petraeus-Allen-Broadwell-Kelly sexual smoke screen? Especially when the Democrat media is still struggling to keep Benghazi buried and, so far, most of the Republicans in Congress are cooperating.

With the notable exceptions, at least in words, of Lindsay Graham and John McCain.

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Katrina-on-the-Hudson

Posted on November 13, 2012 | Comments Off on Katrina-on-the-Hudson

I must say I have missed hearing about the likes of dictator-lovin’ Sean Penn paddling into Staten Island in a canoe. Guess all those (mainly) white people freezing and starving in the dark isn’t a big enough concern for the manchild of Hollyweird.

It’s probably also the lack of guaranteed Democrat media hysterical coverage, which Istapundit puts the best possible face on:

“That, I suspect, is because Sandy happened in an area that reporters know. Media folks found it easy to believe stories about New Orleans that they wouldn’t believe about their own area. New Orleans is full of black people and southerners, two groups underrepresented in the national media. Manhattan, on the other hand, is familiar turf. Count on the press to give its own milieu a fairer shake.”

Well, fairer in some ways. They do seem to have “forgotten” this time to blame FEMA’s usual stupidity on the president who appointed its director. But of course. This president is a Democrat. And half-black to boot. Two media no-nos in one.

UPDATE:  A roundup of the Democrat FEMA’s screwups with Sandy.

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White men were not alone in voting for Romney

Posted on November 12, 2012 | Comments Off on White men were not alone in voting for Romney

Never mind the usual Democrat media blather about how the Elephants can only win national elections by becoming Democrats and white men should be ashamed, ashamed….

“Don’t accept the isolating, poisonous, drip-drip demonization of white men. Yes, they voted for Romney 62 to 35 percent… However, a majority of white women voted for Romney, too. Fifty-six percent of white women voted for Romney; 42 percent voted for Obama. End of gender gap. We’re back to a racial divide.”

Not entirely racial, of course, but close enough. As an angry Mexican-American mother told me on Mr. B.’s playground back in 2008 when I made the mistake of criticizing Barry’s victory to her: “At least we won’t have another white man as president.”

Remains to be seen what all this animosity will mean in the long run, other than continued high unemployment as Barry piles on the business regulations and pursues higher taxes on “the rich” who his backers undoubtedly perceive as mainly white men.

Meanwhile, whether they realize it or not, it’s mostly blacks and Hispanics who are the victims of Democrat economic politics because they’re mainly the ones who are unemployed. Parlous times ahead, especially for them.

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The ladies compartment

Posted on November 11, 2012 | Comments Off on The ladies compartment

In addition to the lurch to Sharia law via Commissar Barry’s Islamist pals in the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt is not a nice place for women in other ways.

Not only do they not provide free contraceptives and legal abortion (single American women who voted for Barry take especial note) but all women can expect to be groped in public.

Hence the ladies compartment on the Cairo subways.

“In general,” writes Israeli blogger Lisa Goldman, “sexual harassment in Egypt is annoying and a bit oppressive, but not nearly as bad as I had expected – and certainly no worse than the harassment I experienced while traveling in India…”

From what I’ve heard over the years from women journalists traveling on the Mexico City subways they could use a ladies compartment there, too. But I don’t think Mexico’s machismo culture is likely to permit any.

If America is supposedly so sexist, as Commissar Barry and Boob Biden (war on women, etc.) and the Left constantly tell us via their media and political propaganda, how come being molested on public transportation isn’t a problem here?

Via Lisa Goldman.

(With the, uh, possible exception of L.A.)

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General Betray US

Posted on November 10, 2012 | Comments Off on General Betray US

The resignation of CIA director David Petraeus, a retired Army four-star general, has the makings of a true Watergate repeat, with the proviso that no one died in Watergate.

Presumably Petraeus could, if he wished, if his loyalties are not entirely to the political figure of the moment, explain everything that happened in Benghazi, from the consulate’s reason for existence to the murders of Ambassador Stevens and the others.

But will he? “Betray US” was not invented by the Left, in their full-page ads in the New York Times, but by some of Petraeus’s fellow serving officers long before he won his stars. They felt that he was not a true leader, in that he did not look after his troops, that he put himself first, that he was a political soldier always.

At the time President Bush appointed him to save the bacon in Iraq, I  hoped they were wrong, the few of them I knew, merely bitter over old slights or differences of opinion. And the general did perform memorably well in the Surge.

Now we’ll surely see the truth of his character. There would seem to be nothing preventing him from testifying to Congress. He himself has publicized the fault (infidelity) that might have prevented him from being candid, if others wished to use it to blackmail him into silence.

Now we’ll see whether the general really is a true leader of more than a winning moment in an otherwise lost campaign, a campaign lost by the man who would seem to have the most to lose in the Benghazi affair, President Obama.

UPDATE:  PJMedia’s Michael Ledeen raises some obvious and not-so-obvious questions. For instance: “Don’t you love counterintelligence?  You start with the theory that he was blackmailed out of office, and you quickly move to a theory that he was blackmailed into remaining in office.  That’s why ‘wilderness of mirrors’ is such a good description…”

MORE:  Michael Yon, who knows and has worked with both Petraeus and his mistress, Paula Broadwell (herself a former Army officer) offers his positive thoughts about them here.

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Flight Level 390, R.I.P.

Posted on November 9, 2012 | Comments Off on Flight Level 390, R.I.P.

I have no idea why the good airbus pilot Captain Dave is no longer in the blogging business. Whether he took his lyrical airline blog down or someone else forced him to. Either way it’s gone and we’ll all be a lot poorer without it. Adios, Dave. Keep the wings level.

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Seven million missing white voters

Posted on November 9, 2012 | Comments Off on Seven million missing white voters

I’m ignoring the usual post-election Democrat media blather about how in order for the Elephants to win national elections they have to join the Jackasses in being more accepting/rewarding of illegal Latino immigration and willing to provide more discriminatory advantages for African Americans.

Well, hell, it turns out the recent unpleasantness was not a case of almost a 100 million white voters being overwhelmed by a mere 30 million black and Hispanic ones, but millions too many white voters inexplicably not showing up to vote.

“…if our assumption about the total number of votes cast is correct, almost 7 million fewer whites voted in 2012 than in 2008.”

Obviously they didn’t like Barry or they’d have been out to help him win. And they also didn’t like Mittens. I didn’t care much for his no-balls campaign myself, though I know he knows how to turn around our stagnant economy (it ain’t rocket science, folks, whatever the Jackasses contend) and, frankly, I would have voted for a dead dog over Barry.

I do know the advantages of ignoring American politics and media whenever possible whatever their manufactured controversy/crisis du jour, but come on. Four more years of the dishonest and incompetent commissar and his spendthrift queen? Wasn’t it worth coming out to vote against them?

Via Instapundit.

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