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It appears that, with the lack of any real news to report on, America’s mindless media are contentedly shoveling and re-shoveling their “torture” stories as if each newly revised angle taken were somehow unique, actually worth discussing, or slightly more credible than the previous day’s dose of manipulative outrage stirring crap. I suspect that the American media operates under the belief that if they carry the same headline story for a sufficient number of consecutive days, the brain-dead political hacks in Washington D.C. will begin to see their thrashing and moaning as an expression of public outrage. Then again, I may have that backwards, and it might be that the motivation for all the tripe comes from Washington and the media is simply the tool being used to convince us that we are outraged. Either way, I remain far from being outraged even if I am sick of hearing about how completely shameful this is all supposed to be. It’s enough to make me wish we would be invaded by mutant cannibals simply to give the media something different to wax hysterical about.

The top-secret torture memo released at the behest of President Obama details the practice of inflicting discomfort on individuals captured in the process of this nation’s entirely justifiable war on worldwide terrorism. Some of those individuals played a role in the terrorist attacks of 9-11; some were in positions of leadership for terrorist organizations planning future strikes against the American people, and some were captured in the process of carrying out attacks against American soldiers and civilian personnel around the globe. None of them are what we would consider Eagle Scout material; for the most part they are radical Islamic zealots eager to sacrifice themselves for the chance to bring death and destruction on innocent people who do not share their views with equal zeal. The one common bond they all share is the burning desire to give up their life in the effort to smash and destroy the United States of America and it’s entire population, and a large percentage of them were actively involved in ongoing plans to wreck havoc, death and mayhem on American citizens at the time of their capture. By extracting information relevant to those ongoing plans for terrorist action countless American lives have been protected. Given the circumstances, the discomfort of the prisoners subjected to the interrogation techniques described in what the news media now describes as the “torture” memo is entirely justifiable regardless of how shameful some might view it, and those who are most vocal about how terrible it appears should stop babbling for the few seconds necessary to consider the alternative. How terrible would the wrath of the American people be if those planned attacks were simply ignored and thousands died because the information could not be extracted with excellent care and great compassion?

I am always amazed at the incredible depth of American stupidity. Just about the time I think we have reached the limit of our extreme foolishness some one strikes off in a new direction and deeper we go. I am astounded by the fact that so many seem to honestly believe that the ten techniques described in Obama’s release constitute “torture” in any real sense of the word. I can’t help but wonder what these clueless and naive individuals would think if they discovered that most of those “torture” techniques are routinely employed by the staff of every jail, prison, mental institution, juvenile hall, and even some nursing homes existing in America. Virtually anywhere in this country where one individual has been given the authority to control the daily activities of individuals, who for whatever reason, have no, or little recourse could be similarly peeled open to expose such tortures. Should we consider it “torture” when the inmates of city jails around the U.S. receive only two scant nastily prepared meals a day, or they are deprived of sleep by guards so inconsiderate as to leave the lights on 24 hours a day, seven days a week? How many prisoners in the U.S. have sat for months or years in five by eight foot solitary confinement cells, no clothes, no reading materials, lights blazing away, a windowless solid door, a lidless toilet, no toilet paper, a plate of steel for a bed, one blanket and never-ending time. Where is all the liberal outrage and shame mongering over this? It’s certainly not a rare occurrence and I would even go so far as to guarantee with absolute certainty that every politician in Washington represents an area in which this is practiced. I would also guarantee with absolute certainty that not only is it routinely practiced in the area they represent, but that they know all about it and have known for years. When you consider the full truth of the matter it sort of mitigates some of the hysteria expressed in their outrage.

With the captured terrorists, the infliction of extreme discomfort is undertaken for the purpose of extracting information. In America’s state and federal prison system the infliction of extreme discomfort is undertaken for a variety of reasons such as vengeance, retaliation, and sadism, to provide entertainment or to bolster the injured egos of the small and pathetic. Which is worse? How is it that we can ignore the routine practice of inflicting extreme discomfort when it is only vaguely justified, and yet when it is undertaken for a very definite purpose, such a saving American lives, we get all tied up in hysterical knots? If, by reading this you have gotten the impression that the purpose of this writing is to condemn both then you have missed the point because I could care less about the ill-treatment of criminally depraved maniacs no matter what motivated them to action. However, the duplicitous actions of the highly vocal finger-pointing, shame mongering cretins screaming about the inhumane treatment of vicious Middle-Eastern killers when they are fully aware that American prisoners are suffering far worse for far less justification is something that all of us should actively consider.

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Barack Hussein Obama, in his never-ending quest to make former President Bush appear like the biggest monster since Dr. Mengele, released a collection of secret Justice Department documents providing guidance to the CIA on how far it could go to extract information from terrorism suspects. These documents are currently being portrayed by the liberal media as the most detailed account to date of the shockingly horrible “tortures” employed by the CIA against Al Qaeda terrorists in secret prisons around the world. The entire list of these ten despicable torture techniques follows below, and after carefully reading both the documents released as well as the news accounts describing those documents, the only response I can muster is “So what.” I am not particularly upset by any of the techniques described and can truthfully say that if anything about this upsets me then it is the fact that, despite all the liberal caterwauling, the CIA was given the opportunity to squeeze those terrorist scumbags for all they were worth and these are the worst “torture” techniques they could come up with. Other than the mild form of water boarding practiced, there is nothing in the list below that was not routinely practiced on American military recruits back when drill instructors were still allowed to shape worthless hunks of human flesh into American soldiers capable of surviving the combat situations they might encounter around the globe. I would swear that the last four items on the list were taken directly from my own mother’s creative techniques for responsible parenting, and while she was not strong enough to “wall” any of her three sons, my dad had that technique down to a fine art even if he did neglect the part about selecting flexible walls. He used my oldest brother to begin the expansion our dining room one afternoon and that old lathe and plaster wall didn’t flex a bit when my brother’s 250 pound body failed to bounce and the plaster came tumbling down. Oddly enough, I don’t remember thinking that torture techniques were being used right in front of me at the time, but then again, my views on torture tend to be somewhat more extreme than mere physical discomfort.

Water Boarding – Everybody knows what water boarding is by now but the practice as it was used in these instances was fairly mild (I could say it was sort of a “watered down” version), this was limited to twenty minute sessions.

Stress Positions – Forcing the individual to sit on the floor with legs straight out and arms extended in front with palms up for extended periods

Walling – The individual is physically bounced off a flexible wall made of plywood, neck protection is provided

Sleep Deprivation – Keeping the individual awake for prolonged periods via noise, lights and so on.

Cramped Confinement – Confinement in a dark box that is just large enough to allow the individual to sit down.

Insects – See above and add a bug such as a caterpillar or cockroach

Wall Standing – Forcing the individual to stand facing a wall, similar to being put in a corner

Facial Slap – The standard smack upside the head with an open hand

Attention Grasp – Grasping the individual’s shoulders with both hands in a quick manner so as to get their attention

Facial Hold – Grasping the individuals head with both hands to fix their focus on the interrogator

Barack Hussein Obama may think that by exposing these practices he has ended a “dark and painful chapter in our history,” but in my opinion the man is either entirely naive or expertly divisive and I tend to lean toward the latter a lot more than the former. It is becoming more and more apparent as time goes on that Barack Hussein Obama is a clueless jackass and his only hope for re-election in 2012 hinges on his ability to continuously smear every possible or potential opponent between now and then.

If he really wanted to witness water boarding as a form of torture he should have asked the Mexican president to have the federal cops in Tijuana demonstrate their water boarding technique. They us a bottle of carbonated soda thoroughly shaken and inserted directly into the nostril as a method for expand the mind of their interrogation subjects, and when they are in a real hurry, they do it while the poor soul has a pair of jumper cables hooked to his balls and a maniac cranks wildly on the generator. The federal cops in Tijuana know that if a little bit is good then a lot must be better so they aren’t too concerned with “sessions” and are happy to keep this sort of party going on for hours and hours and hours.

Going by the list that was disclosed, it is safe to say that the CIA did not practice torture on terrorists. They may have made them feel extremely uncomfortable but they didn’t actually torture them. Torture is having wooden wedges hammered up under your fingernails or toenails until they pop off. Torture is having the skin flayed off of your body before being rolled in salt. Torture is having your foot cooked to a black crisp by some nut holding a propane torch to it, or having your head slowly smashed in a large vise. Being forced to stand in corner facing a wall for a few hours is not torture and neither is getting smacked upside the head by a open hand. You might not like it happening to you but it is far from being torture, and any claim that such actions are torture is well beyond the normally acceptable level of stupidity.

Personally I think that listening to Obama lie on public television is torture but it is slightly less torturous than having to listen to Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid and I would gladly allow myself to be subjected to CIA water boarding rather than sitting though a couple of hours of Barbara Boxer. What the CIA did to terrorists while they were interrogating them is not shocking, surprising or shameful to anyone other than a self-serving liberal twit with a serious axe to grind and I hope they get over it soon because I am sick of listening to their whining.

Honestly, if Obama wants transperency why doesn’t he start by releasing a copy of his Kenyan birth certificate?

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Alan Keyes may have been the most promising candidate on the early Republican ticket during the prolonged 2008 presidential campaign season. Unfortunately, the American news media never gave him the same level of credibility that they extended to others, and by excluding him from many of the important debates they successfully managed to pull the rug out from underneath him and he finished seventh in the primaries held on November 4, 2008. I personally thought a lot of him as a candidate, and stated as much on these pages back on January 16th, 2008.

Alan Keyes is an extremely well educated individual. He attended Cornell University and received his PhD in government affairs from Harvard University in 1979. Keyes and his family were staunch supporters of the war in Vietnam, where his father served two tours of duty. Alan Keyes was appointed Ambassador to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations under President Ronald Reagan, and served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 1985 to 1987.

When it comes down to the sort of no-nonsense, common-sense type of politics that we would all like to see but rarely witness coming out of Washington D.C. these days, Alan Keyes is a breath of fresh air. The man does not pull his punches and he is certainly not afraid to say what many American citizens have been thinking about Obama “the anointed one.”

Clearly this man has more spunk in his little finger than a dozen McCains, Fred Thompsons or Ron Pauls.

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What the supporters of the DREAM Act don’t tell you is that the misguided legislation would award amnesty to virtually any illegal alien under the age of 35 who first entered the United States before the age of 16, has been in the country for at least the last five years, and has earned a high school diploma or GED in the United States. Furthermore, the illegal aliens only have to submit a petition in which they claim to meet these requirements. There is no provision in the DREAM Act that requires the aliens to provide proof that the claims are true, and once an illegal alien submits this required petition, the only way the alien can be denied amnesty is if DHS proves that the claims are false.

With a national unemployment rate approaching 10%, and over 12 million Americans are scrambling for jobs, the positions being filled by the nearly 8 million illegal aliens criminally trespassing in our nation are desperately needed by U.S. workers. Those are not positions that no American citizen wants and the work is not something that no American will do. American workers are desperate, their families are suffering and people are having a tough time putting food on the table.

Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives recently condemned the enforcement operations of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents as being “un-American,” but she apparently believes that it is her patriotic duty, as Speaker of the House, to force amnesty down the throats of the unwilling American people, overly burden them with the taxes to pay for entitlements given to parasitic foreigners and turn the U.S.A. into the sort of third-world narco state that Mexico is quickly becoming.

If Obama and the rest of the Democratic politicians in this country won’t fulfill their sworn duty to defend the nation, and to protect the American people, then they should all be held to account and it doesn’t make on iota of difference to me if that accounting comes from peaceful political action or some other more violent means.

American citizens are being slaughtered every day by criminals that have snuck into this country and whose illegal presence is being ignored by Washington politicians. Is it un-American to consider the growing population of illegal aliens in this country a travesty? Is it un-American to expect the Washington politicians to conduct themselves in a way that benefits the American people first? Is it un-American to expect our government be run according to the U.S. Constitution and that our politicians further the good work of our founding fathers? If that is so then I guess I have to admit to being un-American and unlikely to change.

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Reuter’s news service in London reported today that President Barack Obama’s half-brother, Samson Obama, denied a visa to re-enter Britain because, on an earlier visit he sexually assaulted a group of teenage girls and attempted to give the authorities a false identity at the time of his arrest.

When the Kenyan native, who manages a mobile phone shop near Nairobi, was picked up in November 2008 for the sex attack, he falsely claimed to be named Henry Aloo. His use of a false identity was quickly discovered by the police who then fingerprinted him and threw him out of the country. His picture, along with his fingerprints and other information were stored in the British biometric database after his departure.

In January, 2009, Samson Obama again tried to enter Britain while traveling to the United States with the intention of attending his brother’s inauguration as the U.S. President. However, when the British immigration officials ran his passport information through the database the alarms went off and the president’s brother was matched to the November sex attack and the attempted use of false identification. Subsequently, Samson Obama was denied entry into Britain, and he was detained until he could be placed on a connecting flight to the United States where the sexual predator was welcomed with open arms.

An unknown spokesman for the UK Border Agency stated, “We will oppose the entry of individuals to the UK where we believe their presence is not conducive to the public good.”

The Reuter’s article continues with the unproven claim that President Obama was born in Hawaii to a white American mother and a Kenyan father. Samson Obama is one of President Obama’s 11 siblings by his father who had children by an assortment of different women. The claim that Barack Obama was born in Hawaii has never been conclusively validated and there is more evidence supporting the belief that he was, in fact, born in Kenya than there is to warrant the belief that he was born in Hawaii. Inasmuch as the Democratic administration has taken steps to seal and destroy all birth related information and documents located in Hawaii as well as in Kenya, the truth of Barack Obama’s actual birthplace will not be proven anytime soon.

The United Kingdom’s border controls are among the most stringent in the world. All visa applicants entering the country are fingerprinted and checked against multiple computerized watch lists. The British implementation of this hi-tech biometric system has enabled them to detect more than 5,600 attempts to use false identities since it was first put into place in December 2007. It obviously works well with sex perverts as well.

The United States immigration authorities should implement a similar system at all U.S. points of entry to keep out the criminal riffraff, the sexual predators, miscellaneous crooks, terrorists and con men roaming the planet. However, if we did implement such a system here, it would have to be tweaked to allow the Democratic politicians back into the country when they tried to return from tax-payer subsidized overseas junkets.

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The current front place position for the most censored news story of the year seems to be leaning towards U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama’s submissive act of obeisance in the form of a deep and prolonged bow before King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, Head of the House of Saud, and Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques. This fairly disturbing incident took place on April 2, 2009 as Barack Obama met King Abdullah at the G-20 summit meeting in London attended by the leaders of the world’s largest economies.

It is not surprising that the American news media, which has been running interference for Obama since his inauguration, failed to give this story the attention it deserved. There are around 10,000 daily newspapers being published in the U.S. every day, and while 99.9% of them remind us daily what an outstanding genius our new president is, there were maybe three that mentioned the fact that Obama debased himself and the American people with his servile gesture before the Saudi King, and even in those three cases the report was buried in the editorial section as if it might be more a matter of opinion than the obvious truth which it is.

To be absolutely fair in this matter, I should mention that, shortly after the video recording of the incident was aired on YouTube, one anonymous White House aide stated that it never happened. A few days following that anonymous denial, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs tried to suggest that while it appeared to be a bow, it was actually the result of a height disparity between the two men, and what appeared to be a bow was merely the U.S. President as “he bent over with both, to shake — with both hands to shake his hand.” When it was pointed out to the Press Secretary that Obama shook the King’s hand with only one hand and that clearly took place after he straightened back up, the Press Secretary evaded the issue entirely and quickly changed the subject.

I’ve watched the video a few times and I have included it below so the anyone who wants to see it can do so at their convenience. After watching it I can honestly say that I have little doubt that Obama bowed before King Abdullah. It is not an abbreviated bow by any means, it is a deep and prolonged bow and it wouldn’t appear any more servile if Obama had crawled up to the King on his belly and licked his shoes.

The Obama legion of defense quickly rallied behind their nearly black messiah waving pictures of George W. Bush holding hands with Abdullah while they toured the Bush Ranch in Crawford, Texas back in April 2005, an event I should note that provided coast to coast headlines for weeks if not months following. I can only shake my head and wonder how one cancels out the other. If George W. Bush swapped spit with the King of Saudi Arabia on public television does that make Obama’s Step-N-Fectchit kowtowing bow a meaningless gesture? As an American citizen unfortunate enough to have been represented by the former and equally unfortunate enough to be currently represented by the latter, I can only say that I find both repugnantly disgusting. If there is anything even remotely beneficial in my mind about these two embarrassing events it is that I didn’t vote for the current embarrassment so I can squeeze some small amount of solace from that fact.

The simple fact of the matter is that George W. Bush is no longer in office. He is the former U.S. President. Barack Hussein Obama is currently the U.S. President and Commander in Chief of the most powerful nation on the planet. I certainly don’t expect him to start behaving like a decent or experienced administrator, after all he is a socialist and he was voted into office solely on the basis of his celebrity status. However, when he is abroad, visiting other nations, and attending important events that are recorded for public viewing, he should make some attempt at conducting himself in a manner that will not abase the American people he purports to represent.

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