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Malkin suggests impeachment for Obama’s ‘jihadi-coddling’
Conservative pundit Michelle Malkin on Thursday suggested that President Barack Obama could be punished with impeachment or other “constitutional provisions” for his administration’s “jihadi-coddling” in Libya.

Speaking to Fox News host Sean Hannity just two days after the president was elected to a second term, Malkin said that four Americans had died in Benghazi, Libya because Democrats had a “cynical elevation of their own political self interest above the national interest.”

“Thank goodness we’ve got watchdogs on Capitol Hill that will not rest on behalf these murdered Americans,” she explained. “And all we’re going to hear about is the whining from the Democrats about how it’s the Republicans who are politicizing national security, when it’s their bloody, dirty, corrupt M.O.”

Hannity said that he was convinced that “the president knew and that president lied to the American people” that the deaths in Libya were the result of a terrorist attack.

“Well, there are many constitutional provisions for recourse on this and I think that they have to be contemplated,” Malkin pointed out. “And this administration and this candidate and this president was forced to see signs from people reminding them that they will not forget the seven hours of hell that the murdered Americans went through before they perished in Benghazi!”

“And it’s the same thing with the Camp Bastion attack, which I’ve raised questions about on behalf of murdered Marines in that case and the lack of security, questions about rules of engagement that have been compromised by this politically-correct, jihadi-coddling administration.”

Luther Blissett wrote:

Wombaticus Rex wrote:What is the ecosystem that Rove was operating in on Tuesday night? He really thought -- nay, knew -- that he'd done his homework, I respect the shadenfreude of his Fox News meltdown but it spoke very differently to me...it wasn't a "just desserts" moment: he got the rug pulled out from under him. He had been planning the operation for 2 years and someone made the call to pull the plug. I could mix a few more metaphors, but you grok.

I am very interested in who was in a position to make that call behind Rove's back.

What do you make of the desk crew manning Fox News that night, as compared to the other networks' pulling out all their heaviest hitters and biggest stars? I'm no Fox News expert, but I had never seen either of those people before Election Day.

82_28 wrote:And where the fuck is Nordic throughout all this? Jesus Christ, bro. Come back. I can't be the only swearing lib on RI. Too much pressure and I'll have to resign too.

Etymology

The word "charity" entered the English language through the Old French word "charité" which was derived from the Latin "caritas".[1]

Originally in Latin the word caritas meant preciousness, dearness, high price. From this, in Christian theology, caritas became the standard Latin translation for the Greek word agapē, meaning an unlimited loving-kindness to all others[citation needed]. This much wider concept is the meaning of the word charity in the Christian triplet "faith, hope and charity", as used by the Douay-Rheims and the King James Version of the Bible in their translation of St Paul's Letter to the Corinthians. However the English word more generally used for this concept, both before and since (and by the "King James" Bible at other passages), is the more direct love. (See the article Charity (virtue))
St Paul's agapē was not primarily about good works and giving to the poor[dubious – discuss] (And though I feed the poor with all my goods, and though I give my body, that I be burned, and have not love [agapē], it profiteth me nothing - 1 Cor 13:3, Geneva translation, 1560), although in English the word "charity" has steadily acquired this as its primary meaning, wherein it was first used in Old French at least since the year 1200 A.D..

There are three different kinds of charity: pure, public, and foreign. Pure charity is entirely gratuitous. Public charity is charity that benefits the whole rather than the individual. Foreign charity is when the beneficiary lives in a country different from where the funds or services are being sent from.[2]

82_28 wrote:And where the fuck is Nordic throughout all this? Jesus Christ, bro. Come back. I can't be the only swearing lib on RI. Too much pressure and I'll have to resign too.

Elvis wrote:If Rove was "guaranteed" a win, I wonder if the defeat amounts to a double-cross and someone gets whacked, like Mike Connell did. I'm keeping one eye open for any plane crashes, hotel balcony leaps etc. in that arena.

Felines of confusion
IT ace says he didn’t steal Romney tax returns – and those cats aren’t his
By M.L. Nestel Friday, November 9, 2012

The election is over, but fur is still flying in the case of Mitt Romney’s pilfered tax returns.

Federal authorities have searched the home of a Tennessee IT specialist and former Obama campaign volunteer after following up on some purr-fectly adorable evidence: two photos of house cats found on a thumb drive that was mailed to Romney’s accounting firm along with a note demanding $1 million for the return of the documents.

Michael Brown, 34, told The Daily that about 30 Secret Service agents, some with guns drawn, broke down the door of his Franklin, Tenn., home, at dawn on Sept. 14, handcuffed him and his wife and grilled the couple about their knowledge of the scheme.

“They said, ‘You’re being detained. We’re here looking for Romney’s tax returns,’ ” said Brown. In early September, the FBI and Secret Service announced they were investigating the apparent theft of two decades worth of Mitt and Ann Romney’s tax returns from a server belonging to accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers. The thieves demanded the ransom in untraceable online currency.

The agents seized his computers and told Brown they had numerous pieces of evidence against him — including the digital snapshots of two cats. The note demanding $1 million, along with the flash drive containing the photos, was sent to PriceWaterHouseCoopers. Although the ransom was not paid, the tax returns were never released to the public, as threatened.

After being told of the raid at Brown’s house, Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary told The Daily it was part of an “ongoing investigation.”

According to Brown, the agents separated the couple and questioned his wife about the photos of the cats.

“They didn’t want to show anything to me. They did it to my wife. They said, ‘These are your cats,’” he said. “When she objected, they were like, ‘Yes, they are.’ ”

During the raid, an agent even snapped photos of the Brown family’s two pet cats, Baxter, a Himalayan longhair, and Jesse, an orange tabby.

But the Brown family cats were not the ones in the photographs, said Brown.

While Brown maintains his innocence, he said cats in the photos the feds are showing around belong to a family friend and a former client of his, Janine Bolin.

“My daughter did recognize one of the cats. They belonged to a friend of my wife. She has five or six kids and lives in a house in Franklin, as well,” said Brown, who once serviced Bolin’s computer. “It was a desktop computer that was having issues starting up.” As part of the service, Brown backed up her photos and documents on a thumb drive.

Federal agents seized Bolin’s computers after the felines in the photos were identified, she confirmed to The Daily. “They showed me photos and asked me if those were my cats,” she said. “I remember taking those photos. I told them that when they were there.”

So how did the flash drive — according to Brown, authorities told him it was once also connected to one of his computers — end up in the middle of an extortion plot?

The self-employed web consultant and IT expert is pleading ignorance.

“They have a flash drive that I believe belonged to me four years ago. In my line of work, I use these flash drives all the time. They get lost or they get taken.”

Bolin speculated that the flash drive may have been thrown away and recovered by someone picking through the garbage. “There are people who go around our neighborhood looking for scrap metal,” she said. “Anybody could have picked it up.”

Brown’s home also was raided by federal authorities in 2009 in a case related to the theft of data from an insurance company, but he was never charged in the matter. And while he did IT work for President Obama’s campaign in 2008, he claimed he was not active in the 2012 race.

“Somehow someone got ahold of the flash drive and used it for the stolen tax returns,” he said. “And of course they don’t care what’s on there, because they don’t care who owned it before.”

Brown, whose name was first reported by a Tennessee NBC affiliate, has since set up a website seeking donations to support his family while he waits for the investigation to play out. While he speaks of a hope that the “real” criminals will be caught, he also acknowledges that feds seem to be focused on him.

“They told me they planned on charging me with this crime.”