FBI Director is “Clueless in DC” about IRS Investigations

from GatewayPundit:

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) destroyed FBI Director Robert Mueller on the IRS targeting scandal and investigation today.

FBI Director Mueller has no idea who’s running the program, how many people are assigned to the investigation, where the investigation stands, and if any Tea Party groups have been interviewed. He was clueless.

This was another embarrassment for the Obama Administration. They’re obviously in no hurry to dig into this massive scandal. Via America Live:

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/06/rep-jim-jordan-destroys-fbi-director-mueller-on-irs-targeting-scandal-video/

11 Year Old Wows with National Anthem at NBA Game, and then Gets Racial Attacks Online

The National Anthem at Game 3 of NBA Finals:

The story of the attacks afterwards:

 

It Is Flag Day: God Bless America

Government Employee Seminar: Learning to Say “I’m Sorry”

From today’s INBOX:

So we just learned that we paid for government workers to go to a seminar to
learn how to say “I’m sorry”.

One of the first things you learn in public
relations courses…many jobs in high tech sales, is that when people/customers
are screaming at you, one of the best tactics to calm the situation, is to
apologize…profusely.

It appears our government is gearing up to handle
a lot of angry people.

I’m sorry, you’re too old for a
pacemaker

I’m sorry, we have to withhold your tax return because you
didn’t pay your insurance premium

I’m sorry,your opinions on your blog
are too radical and may jeopardize social order, so we had to shut you
down

I’m sorry, but there are too many white people in this position so
we had to hire a dark skinned person

I’m sorry….this is crazy!

So You Say You Can’t Afford ObamaCare

from FreeRepublic:

Don’t Tell Me You Can’t Afford the ObamaCare Fee

Posted on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 5:55:51 PM by MNDude

We can see from your Amazon orders and credit card records that you’ve spent a lot on DVD’s and eating out.

Your Google searches suggest that you’re planning to go on vacation to Las Vegas.

Why do you have so many phone calls to Zales Jewelery? We hope you’re not planning of buying something expensive.

Also, from the emails you sent to your mother, we’re finding proof that you’ll have to refund us $1000 on falsely claimed deductions that you claimed on your last tax return.

Have a Nice Day! Your Friendly IRS Agent

PS. Did you know that your husband spends a lot of time online searching for hot Asian women?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3030548/posts

They Are Telling Us That The MetaData Mining Is Just “Phone Numbers”, and Not Content

But when you “Connect the Dots”…………………..

From ZeroHedge:

What [government officials] are trying to say is that disclosure of metadata—the details about phone calls, without the actual voice—isn’t a big deal, not something for Americans to get upset about if the government knows. Let’s take a closer look at what they are saying:

• They know you rang a phone sex service at 2:24 am and spoke for 18 minutes. But they don’t know what you talked about.

• They know you called the suicide prevention hotline from the Golden Gate Bridge. But the topic of the call remains a secret.

• They know you spoke with an HIV testing service, then your doctor, then your health insurance company in the same hour. But they don’t know what was discussed.

• They know you received a call from the local NRA office while it was having a campaign against gun legislation, and then called your senators and congressional representatives immediately after. But the content of those calls remains safe from government intrusion.

• They know you called a gynecologist, spoke for a half hour, and then called the local Planned Parenthood’s number later that day. But nobody knows what you spoke about.

For the full article: http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-06-12/%E2%80%9Cmetadata%E2%80%9D-can-tell-government-more-about-you-content-your-phonecalls

High School Valedictorian Ditches his Speech & Recites Lord’s Prayer, After Prayer Was Banned from Graduation

from WeaselZippers:

So awesome.

Via Washington Times:

A South Carolina valedictorian garnered wild applause after he ripped up his pre-approved speech and delivered the Lord’s prayer at his high school graduation on Saturday.

The act was apparently in protest of the Pickens County School District’s decision to no longer include prayer at graduation ceremonies, Christian News reported. Officials said the decision was made after the district was barraged with complaints by atheist groups.

But that didn’t stop Roy Costner IV of Liberty High School. He ripped up his graduation speech for all to see, before he started talking about his Christian upbringing, Christian News reported.

“Those that we look up to, they have helped carve and mold us into the young adults that we are today,” he said. “I’m so glad that both of my parents led me to the Lord at a young age.”

“And I think most of you will understand when I say…” he paused. “Our Father, who art in Heaven, hallowed be Thy name…”

The auditorium began to erupt with applause and cheers.

“Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil,” he continued. “For Thine is the Kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.”

Pickens County School District spokesman John Eby said that no disciplinary action will be taken against Mr. Costner.

see the video at http://weaselzippers.us/2013/06/05/south-carolina-valedictorian-rips-up-speech-recites-lords-prayer-to-protest-atheist-group-bullying-school-into-nixing-prayer-at-graduation/

The White House, The Economy, and Why We Should Be Concerned

from Forbes:

I always took comfort in the idea that who’s elected president didn’t really affect our direction  much — that America was simply too sprawling, de-centralized and muscular for us to be moved very far one way or the other by the policies of a president and his administration. But I’m starting to conclude that idea was wrong, at least during a period of profound  economic restructuring like the one we’re living through right now.

To try to understand how presidents think through their economic policy and how a given administration would know if something truly extraordinary and world-changing was hitting the nation’s economy, I spoke at length with Keith Hennessey.

Hennessey served in the George W. Bush Administration as Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the U.S. National Economic Council. Today, he is a Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and lectures at Stanford’s Business and Law Schools. He also is the proprietor of KeithHennessey.com, quite possibly the finest, most insightful blog on government finance there is.

For full article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/economaney/2013/05/28/why-whos-president-matters-so-much-for-our-economic-future-and-why-you-should-be-worried-about-it/?partner=yahootix

On This Memorial Day: “I Drive Your Truck”

Read the background AFTER YOU DRY YOUR EYES:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/349125/i-drive-your-truck-lee-habeeb

 

First They Came For……….. Kirsten Powers’ Anger at the Media over DOJ’s Trampling on Freedom of Press

From Kirsten Powers @ Daily Beast:

It’s instructive to go back to the dawn of Hope and Change. It was 2009, and the
new administration decided it was appropriate to use the prestige of the White
House to viciously attack a news organization—Fox News—and the journalists who
work there. Remember, President Obama had barely been in office and had enjoyed
the most laudatory press of any new president in modern history. Yet even one
outlet that allowed dissent or criticism of the president was one too many. This should have been a red flag
to everyone, regardless of what they thought of Fox
News. The math was simple: if the administration would abuse its power to try
and intimidate one media outlet, what made anyone think they weren’t next?

For Ms. Powers’ full column:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/21/how-hope-and-change-gave-way-to-spying-on-the-press.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Farticles+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Latest+Articles%29

Update: Latest reports show that the DOJ not only spied into James Rosen’s email accounts and phone records, as well as those of FOX News, including their phone lines at the White House, State Department, and Capitol Hill, but they also pried into the records of James Rosen’s parents in Staten island NY. Where is the outrage in the MSM?