Obama Secret Service Agent: “It’s Worse Than People Know…

Mac Slavo
November 6, 2013

You may have your suspicions about what’s going on behind closed doors at the White House.
But according to one of President Obama’s former body guards it’s much worse than we can even imagine.

Dan Bongino has protected numerous Presidents over his career, including President Obama. He has been within ear-shot of many a discussion in the Oval Office, but up until this administration has stayed out of the lime light. Apparently, however, the activities of this administration are so abhorrent that he could no longer keep quiet.

Bongino is so upset with what he witnessed that he is now running for Congress because he feels it’s the only way to take America back from the sycophants who have made every effort to enrich themselves with money and power at the expense of the American people.

How bad is it?

    We’re in a lot of trouble.

    The President sees government – and I think it’s because of his lack of experience and maybe community organizing in the past – as this shiny new toy.

    For all the disagreements I had with Clinton, Carter and Bush there were always limits… there was that line you just didn’t cross… We cross it seemingly every day. We’re lost in the scandals…

    The Jamie Dimon shakedown at Chase… the HHS scandal.. Kathleen Sebelius shaking down the health care industry for money… the IRS… it’s to the point where these scandals in and of themselves would be huge back-breaking scandals [but] are just lost in the scandal fog of this administration…

    It’s worse than people know… and I’m not trying to scare you either.

This is coming from someone who has stood next to Presidents for his entire career.

The implications are absolutely terrifying, especially considering how bad the publicly known scandals already are. Can you imagine what’s happening outside the view of Americans?

This is not about Republican or Democrat, it’s about liberty, pure and simple, and this administration has done more to damage our individual rights than any that has come before it.

Bongino expresses this succinctly when discussing the NSA scandal and the administration’s use of the information acquired by government snoops all over the country.

    You give the government information and it will be abused. It is not a matter of if it’ll be abused, it’s only a matter of when…

    When the line between the personal self and the public self… when that line is determined by the government that keeps your information in a trove for release any time they need it, how are you free?

    ..the bottom line is, having worked inside the government, it will be abused. It is only a matter of time.


    We are all doing something wrong. The catch is not “if” we’re doing something wrong. It is “are your private wrongs impacting on my civil liberties?” If not, the government has no business in your life… it’s a red herring…

    If you’re not doing something wrong? The question is only whether your private wrongs that have no effect on anyone else become exposed for the government’s benefit.

    …It’s only a matter of time before someone slaps an email on your desk from fifteen years ago… and says ‘look what we got against you.’

    Remember, when the key is held by someone else liberty means absolutely nothing. That personal and private self are being evaporated.

Make no mistake. They – and that especially includes this administration and/or agents acting under their directives and initiatives – will use everything they can against you when it suits them.

The prerogative has always been to destroy anything or anyone who threatens the establishment. We’ve seen it time and again with this, as well as past, White House administrations and Congressional membership.

Now, more than ever before, they will start targeting those who speak out against them and jeopardize their agenda.

The article and video Interview here:

Terry McAuliffe

Turkey Siezes Chemicals at Syrian Border

Ankara (AFP) - Turkish authorities have seized a large quantity of chemicals from a convoy trying to illegally enter the country from Syria, which "could be transformed into weapons", the army said Sunday.

The convoy of three vehicles refused to stop as it attempted to illegally cross the border on Saturday near the southeastern town Turkish town of Reyhanli, the army said in a statement.
Para-military police were forced to shoot out the tyres of the vehicles to stop them, and three drivers jumped out and fled in the direction of Syria.

One of them was arrested, the army said without specifying his nationality.
The haul of sulphur and another unidentified substance will be examined by a team of army specialists, the statement said.

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) reported on Thursday that Syria's entire declared stock of chemical weapons has been placed under seal.
This included 1,000 tonnes of chemical agents, which can be used to make weapons, and 290 tonnes of chemical weapons.

A UN Security Council resolution stating that the arsenal must be destroyed by mid-2014, was agreed by the United States and Russia to avert military strikes on Syria after deadly chemical weapons attacks near Damascus in August.

The West blamed those attacks, which killed hundreds of people, on President Bashar al-Assad's regime, which denied all responsibility, instead blaming the attack on rebels.
Once a close ally of Syria, Turkey has cut off ties with the regime in Damascus since Assad's deadly crackdown on popular dissent began in March 2011 and has become one of the most fervent supporters of the Syrian rebellion.

Virginia Democrat Calls For Forcing Doctors To Accept Medicare And Medicaid Patients

You would think that when your party is digging a hole that is getting harder and harder to get out of, you wouldn't want that hole get deeper faster.  But here is Kathleen Murphy, Democrat running for the House of Delegates against Barbara Comstock, telling a forum in Great Falls that she believes it should law to force doctors to accept Medicare and Medicaid patients.  Forced by government decree, mind you.

*edited for verbiage

For the entire article



I use to see a physician here in Britain for a long time the as usual the liberals  pushed through one law too many....  He left the profession.   Given the shortage of doctors in the US now, that is only expected to get worse, one can only imagine what these 'law makers' are thinking.

Do Our Educators Really Promote Diversity?

Very interesting article--with new data--about the political affiliations of the American professorate. Unfortunately, it's not online. It appears in The American Enterprise, September, 2002. A brief summary is here.

But you, you lucky readers of the Door, get more because it so happens that Mrs. Newmark subscribes to this publication. The article employed student volunteers to match faculty lists against local voter registration records. Some qualifications: 1) no mention is made of who the student volunteers were and what biases they may have had, 2) no explanation is provided for how the universities in the article were selected, and 3) the article admits that some professors couldn't be matched, some were not registered for a party that could be classified as "left" or "right," and some professors apparently weren't registered for any party.

Bearing these qualifications in mind, and noting that L represents a "left" party (Democrat, Green, or Working Families Party) and R represents a "right" party (Republican or Libertarian), here's data on the party registrations in economics departments:

Brown 5 L; 1 R
Cornell 10 L; 3 R
Davidson 3 L; 0 R
Harvard 15 L; 1 R
Penn State 8 L; 4 R
Pomona 5 L; 2 R
Stanford 21 L; 7 R
Syracuse 15 L; 1 R
Berkeley 20 L; 3 R
Maryland 8 L; 4 R
Total 110 L; 26 R

But take heart, conservatives! In every case except Davidson, the fraction of Rs in economics departments was higher than for the campus as a whole. Also note that the economics departments of two mainstream state universities, Penn State and Maryland, had a higher fraction of Rs than some of those so-called leading schools. Finally, the article does not report departmental figures for Williams College but notes that out of a total faculty of 200+, only four admitted to being registered Republicans. Diversity?

Reprinted from:
http://newmarksdoor.typepad.com/mainblog/2002/08/very_interestin.html


This is admittedly an old study but I am almost certain that today's students will have their ears bent even more profusely than few learners of yore....   Which begs the question....  If the country is more left leaning on issues of real importance to the state of our society....  are those who are now voting, truly informed?

In Sandy's Wake, Flood Zones And Insurance Rates Re-Examined

When Sandy blew into East Coast communities a year ago, it was flooding that did the most damage.

That's in part because the average sea level has risen over the past century — about a foot along the mid-Atlantic coast. That made it easier for the storm to push the ocean onto the land.

And scientists say there will be many more Sandy-style storms — that is, torrential rain and wind that create heavy coastal flooding — and they'll be more frequent than in the past. But preparing people for that means changing the way they live, and that's proving politically difficult.

Sandy, in fact, wasn't such a powerful hurricane — "only" a Category 1 as it approached the shore. But a few coincidences made it freakish. Sandy hit the coastline right at high tide. It hit straight on, at a 90-degree angle. And the storm covered an enormous area.

All that happening at once is pretty unusual. But William Sweet, an oceanographer with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, says there's one thing that will be part of every new Atlantic coast storm — a higher sea level.

"Sea level is changing and it is going to keep changing regardless of who or what is causing it," Sweet says. "And the impacts are going to become more and more frequent and severe and we're going to have to deal with it."

Sweet and his NOAA colleagues agree with the majority of ocean scientists — that if climate continues to warm, average sea level will continue to rise by as much as 2 feet more by 2050. That's because a warmer ocean expands in volume. Also, landlocked snow and ice will melt into the ocean. Sea level rise is higher on average along the Eastern Seaboard than most parts of the world because of wind and ocean circulation patterns in the Atlantic.

And a rising ocean means that in the future, garden-variety storms will create the kind of flooding that big storms did in the past. NOAA says the type of storm you see only once a century or so now could hit every few decades by 2050 — and every few years if sea level rises as much as some computer models predict.
"Storms of lesser magnitude and storm surges that weren't as high as Sandy will have more and more importance in terms of the way that we live our lives," Sweet says.

One thing certain to change is the way people insure property against flooding. The federal National Flood Insurance Program requires most businesses and homeowners in high-risk flood zones to buy flood insurance. The Federal Emergency Management Agency administers the program and is now remapping those flood zones. And the new zones are a lot bigger.

Robert Moore, who studies flood policy for the Natural Resources Defense Council, says New York City formerly had about 35,000 buildings sitting in flood zones. That number has now doubled. "The new maps that were made in the wake of Hurricane Sandy show a much larger flood plain that encompasses about 67,000 buildings," Moore says. The increase is due to changes in sea level up to now, and to changes in the built environment that shift the way runoff moves.

FEMA, in fact, expects that the increase in flood risk areas and the number of people who live in them will continue. And that's without factoring in computer model predictions about the rise of sea levels in the future.

So, clearly more people are going to have to buy flood insurance. And insurance will cost more. That's because of a 2012 law that radically changes the flood insurance program. The law eliminates subsidies that have kept the premium rates for such policies artificially low for decades. Moore says that in some places, one-third of flood insurance policyholders have been getting subsidies.

"We've been subsidizing people to live in some of the riskiest parts of the country," Moore says, "and that is one of the reasons the national flood insurance program is so deeply in debt." Once FEMA pays off damages from Sandy, the agency will be $25 billion in the red.

Charging more for flood insurance would help mitigate that loss. But it's also a bitter pill for many. "There's a lot of pushback," Moore says. "People obviously have a little bit of sticker shock."

There's been so much sticker shock that the law passed last year (known as the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act, after its main congressional sponsors) is already in jeopardy.

This week, several members of Congress are proposing a bill to delay the insurance reforms called for in the Biggert-Waters act for as much as four years. Two other bills that would soften effects of the increased cost are in play as well.
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez calls FEMA's new flood maps and insurance rates "a man-made disaster."

"Many homeowners will be forced to pay premiums that are several times higher than the current rate they pay," Menendez says.

Now, raising premiums was exactly what last year's law was expected to do. So apparently the new debate will be: How do politicians bail out FEMA without raising the rates of the people who vote them in — or out — of office?

  *emphasis and underline added

Reprinted from:
http://www.npr.org/2013/10/30/241690144/in-sandys-wake-fema-re-examines-flood-insurance-rates


This is a perfect example of the unintended consequences of government interference in the lives of people and the ultimate damages and indeed dependence created.   People should have had to live with the decision that they made when they bought property in known flood plains and coastal areas.  The government...  I ALL AREAS should not be subsidizing peoples bad choices and as the last line of the article indicates, we have an ever growing population who votes for those who continually promise them a piece of someone else’s prosperity.....


P.S.  A question about minimum wage:

If monopsony power exists to the extent that economists such as Krugman suggests when imploring the government to enact and raise minimum wages, why doesn't he, either on his own, or through contacts with well-to-do entrepreneurs, set up business to compete with those greedy profit sucking capitalists (Read - Robber Barons).  If the profit exists then they should easily be able to steal those underpaid workers away, giving them a better wage and at the same time knock a greedy monopolist off their throne....? (hint: when the government stays out of the market, this is exactly what happens)

"Closed legs don’t get fed." - thoughts?

Soon the tables will be reversed since there are so many female bosses.

http://www.ebony.com/love-sex/confessions-im-sleeping-my-way-to-the-top-405#axzz2jRfJd4bT

When I was younger, my grandmother would have a game night at our house with her girlfriends.  I remember sneaking to listen in on their conversations and soak up all the juicy stories.  I barely remember some of the things I heard back then, but one thing I heard has always stuck with me and has proven to be the best advice I’ve ever received.  That sage piece of advice?

"Closed legs don’t get fed."

When the recession started and layoffs hit my company, losing my job sent my life into a tailspin.  All I did was job hunt and pray that things would get better. Boy, did they ever.  After months of searching and eating PB&J for every meal, I found my dream job at a company I had been dying to work for.  The position wasn’t high up and the pay was nothing extravagant, but I had a job that I loved and I was grateful.  My first week in the office was uneventful and typical, that is until I spotted this Adonis a few feet away.  His name was Casey, he was tall, the color of caramel with a gun show and broad back that made it necessary for you to carry extra panties in your purse.  His smile could melt the coldest heart and as I watched him talk to my new coworker about the business trip he just returned from I knew I had to have this man.  There was just one small problem, Casey was my new boss.

Figures I would have the hots for a man that signs checks, including mine.  I was all set to admire from afar until Casey began subtly flirting with me; light touches on the hand and lower back, invites to lunch and “meetings” in his office where we just joked around.  Then one day, like a scene out of a cheesy romantic comedy, he pulled me in his office, pushed me against the wall and kissed me.  It was so disappointing.  I thought there would be sparks, passion and stars.  Instead, I felt blah and ready for it to be over.  But after our kiss I noticed that Casey was putting me on big projects, allowing me to leave early and such so I figured maybe I could pretend to be hot for him as long as I kept getting what I wanted. 

Before long, Casey and I were in bed (and on his desk) and I went from an assistant to a coordinator two months later.  The sex wasn’t horrible, but it wasn’t mind blowing. However, the perks of being the boss’ woman were too good to pass up.  Within 10 months of me being there, I was promoted twice and now I was managing a team at my dream company, doing my dream job.  Score!!  One day I overheard some of my coworkers talking about me and saying how disgusted they were that I was getting promoted only because I was sleeping with Casey.  They said they would never “sleep their way to the top” and would much rather get promoted based on their hard work in the boardroom, not bedroom.  Fools!  To me, that mentality is exactly why they are where they are.  Like granny said “Closed legs don’t get fed,” and in the corporate world it’s all about who you know, not necessarily what you know.  If I can get ahead in my career being arm candy for the boss, you bet I will and with a smile on my face.  I may have gotten promoted in the bedroom, but I know my stuff and it’s proven in the boardroom day after day and other people in management have complimented me on my work.  Obviously, I’m doing something right.

To be honest, Casey is a great guy who is fun to be around and I do care about him. Do I see us getting married or anything?  No.  It’s not even a topic we’ve discussed nearly two years later.  Right now I think we’re just two people giving each other what they need.  For him, it’s steady sex with a beautiful woman and a chance to flex his ego and “boss” status.  For me, it’s a way to further my career and have a little fun along the way.  I know what people at work say and I know what someone reading this might say.  But at the end of the day, I go to bed peaceful every night comfortable with my actions.  My legs may be open, but I’m getting fed and very well.  Granny would be proud. 

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Belgium considering controversial new euthanasia law for children

Should children have the right to ask for their own deaths?

In Belgium, where euthanasia is now legal for people over the age of 18, the government is considering extending it to children - something that no other country has done. The same bill would offer the right to die to adults with early dementia.

Advocates argue that euthanasia for children, with the consent of their parents, is necessary to give families an option in a desperately painful situation. But opponents have questioned whether children can reasonably decide to end their own lives.

Belgium is already a euthanasia pioneer; it legalized the practice for adults in 2002. In the last decade, the number of reported cases per year has risen from 235 deaths in 2003 to 1,432 in 2012, the last year for which statistics are available. Doctors typically give patients a powerful sedative before injecting another drug to stop their heart.

Only a few countries have legalized euthanasia or anything approaching it. In the Netherlands, euthanasia is legal under specific circumstances and for children over the age of 12 with parental consent (there is an understanding that infants, too, can be euthanized, and that doctors will not be prosecuted if they act appropriately). Elsewhere in Europe, euthanasia is only legal in Luxembourg. Assisted suicide, where doctors help a patient to die but do not actively kill them, is allowed in Switzerland.

In the U.S., the state of Oregon also grants assisted suicide requests for residents aged 18 or over with a terminal illness.

In Belgium, the ruling Socialist party has proposed the bill expanding the right of euthanasia. The Christian Democratic Flemish party vowed to oppose the legislation and to challenge it in the European Court of Human Rights if it passes. A final decision must be approved by Parliament and could take months.

In the meantime, the Senate has heard testimony on both sides of the issue.

"It is strange that minors are considered legally incompetent in key areas, such as getting married, but might (be able) to decide to die," Catholic Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard testified.

Leonard said alternatives like palliative sedation make euthanasia unnecessary - and relieves doctors of the burden of having to kill patients. In palliative sedation, patients are sedated and life-sustaining support is withdrawn so they starve to death; the process can take days.

But the debate has extended to medical ethicists and professionals far from Belgium. Charles Foster, who teaches medical law and ethics at Oxford University, believes children couldn't possibly have the capacity to make an informed decision about euthanasia since even adults struggle with the concept.

"It often happens that when people get into the circumstances they had so feared earlier, they manage to cling on all the more," he said. "Children, like everyone else, may not be able to anticipate how much they will value their lives if they were not killed."

There are others, though, who argue that because Belgium has already approved euthanasia for adults, it is unjust to deny it to children.

"The principle of euthanasia for children sounds shocking at first, but it's motivated by compassion and protection," said John Harris, a professor of bioethics at the University of Manchester. "It's unfair to provide euthanasia differentially to some citizens and not to others (children) if the need is equal."

And Dr. Gerlant van Berlaer, a pediatric oncologist at the Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussels hospital, says the changes would legalize what is already happening informally. He said cases of euthanasia in children are rare and estimates about 10 to 100 cases in Belgium every year might qualify.

"Children have different ways of asking for things but they face the same questions as adults when they're terminally sick," van Berlaer said. "Sometimes it's a sister who tells us her brother doesn't want to go back to the hospital and is asking for a solution," he said. "Today if these families find themselves (in that situation), we're not able to help them, except in dark and questionable ways."

The change in the law regarding people with dementia is also controversial.

People now can make a written declaration they wish to be euthanized if their health deteriorates, but the request is only valid for five years and they must be in an irreversible coma. The new proposal would abolish the time limit and the requirement the patient be in a coma, making it possible for someone who is diagnosed with Alzheimer's to be put to death years later in the future.

In the Netherlands, guidelines allow doctors to euthanize dementia patients on this basis if they believe the person is experiencing "unbearable suffering," but few are done in practice.

Dr. Patrick Cras, a neurologist at the University of Antwerp, said people with dementia often change their minds about wanting to die.

"They may turn into different people and may not have the same feelings about wanting to die as when they were fully competent," he said. "I don't see myself killing another person if he or she isn't really aware of exactly what's happening simply on the basis of a previous written request (to have euthanasia). I haven't fully made up my mind but I think this is going too far."

Penney Lewis, a professor and medical law expert at King's College London, agreed that carrying out euthanasia requests on people with dementia once they start to worsen could be legally questionable.

"But if you don't let people make decisions that will be respected in the future, including euthanasia, what you do is encourage people to take their own life while they have the capacity or to seek euthanasia much earlier," she said.

In the past year, several cases of Belgians who weren't terminally ill but were euthanized - including a pair of 43-year-old deaf twins who were going blind and a patient in a botched sex change operation - have raised concerns the country is becoming too willing to euthanize its citizens. The newest proposals have raised eyebrows even further.

"People elsewhere in Europe are focused on assisted dying for the terminally ill and they are running away from what's happening in Belgium," Lewis said. "If the Belgian statutes go ahead, this will be a key boundary that is crossed."

Google Mystery Barge.

If you are falling for the "Party Barge" or the "VIP Demonstration" barge you are severely lacking in cognitive sufficiency.

1.) It has very small windows. The purpose of having a party BARGE is to enjoy the scenery from every place on the boat which is why real party barges have giant WINDOWS.

2.) It's supposed to be glitzy and glamorous. It's VERY difficult to turn shipping containers with their limited height and width in to anything considered close to glamorous.

3.) Since it's modular, why build it on a barge to begin with if the intention is to reconstruct it anywhere in the country? Why bother with the regulations and permit processes?

4.) Why didn't Google just BUY one of any party barges or for that matter A FLEET OF YACHTS. Oh yeah, you wouldn't be able to reconstruct the barge at the Four Seasons.

5.) Why would you even want to re-construct that ugly POS at an exclusive resort where executive would be entertained?

6.) Why did work stop during the Government shutdown?

Pure and simple, the barge was going to be moved to international waters, beyond the reach of American law and used for surveillance. It will be funny to see Google try and continue the charade and make a real party barge out of it. Meanwhile, they will have to start over on their construction in some Banana Republic.

Your Privacy Is Not Violated If They Don't Get Caught...

The chair of the House Intelligence Committee – Mike Rogers – said yesterday in an NSA spying hearing which he led that there is no right to privacy in America.

Constitutional expert Stephen I. Vladeck – Professor of Law and the Associate Dean for Scholarship at American University Washington College of Law – disagreed.

Here’s the exchange:

Rogers: I would argue the fact that we haven’t had any complaints come forward with any specificity arguing that their privacy has been violated, clearly indicates, in ten years, clearly indicates that something must be doing right. Somebody must be doing something exactly right.
Vladeck: But who would be complaining?
Rogers: Somebody who’s privacy was violated. You can’t have your privacy violated if you don’t know your privacy is violated.
Vladeck: I disagree with that. If a tree falls in the forest, it makes a noise whether you’re there to see it or not.
Rogers: Well that’s a new interesting standard in the law. We’re going to have this conversation… but we’re going to have wine, because that’s going to get a lot more interesting…