1980 is calling for their foreign policy back.??? Russia is not a threat, What the hell is Obama talking about or does he not even know. The arrogance of this bastard is suffocating and someone needs to call him out every single day.
Congress needs to do their job and impeach this empirical ass hole.
Hey America called and they want their country back.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is saying “I told you so”
following reports of a potential Russian “military invasion” in Ukraine.
AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File
Though she was mocked for it, Palin actually speculated in 2008 that
Russian President Vladimir Putin would be encouraged to invade Ukraine
after President Barack Obama’s weak response to the nation invading
Georgia.
“After the Russian Army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator
Obama’s reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence, the kind
of response that would only encourage Russia’s Putin to invade Ukraine
next,” Palin told Foreign Policy in 2008, “
As Mediaite’s Andrew Kirell points out, conservative websites and personalities are reminding people of the quote.
Palin herself took to Facebook on Friday to remind supporters of her prediction.
“Yes, I could see this one from Alaska. I’m usually not one to
Told-Ya-So, but I did, despite my accurate prediction being derided as
‘an extremely far-fetched scenario’ by the ‘high-brow’ Foreign Policy
magazine,” she wrote. “Here’s what this ‘stupid’ ‘insipid woman’
predicted back in 2008.”
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Charlie Cook of the famous Cook Report has been in the news lately.
Charlie Cook raised the possibility lately of Mrs. Clinton's physical
appearance while aging and asking if it would be detrimental to her
campaign should she run. Charlie's considered the dean of these
political analysts and so forth. He tends left like everybody in
Washington does, sort of, for the most part establishment types.
He's got a piece today in The Cook Report, and in his piece today,
he's very worried that America may have lost its nerve, that days of
malaise have set in, much like in the latter years of the Carter
administration in the seventies. In this piece he asks, "What happens
When the Nation Loses Its Bootstrap Self-Image?" And he cites some
polling data. He's a pollster, and he analyzes other polling data, and
he says that 63% are confident that better days for their kids will
materialize.
There are people that, no matter what's happening, think it's gonna
get better. I can relate to it. I've told you many times. I can't
pinpoint when, I can't tell you what the impetus is gonna be or what the
tipping point's gonna be, but I, too, believe that. It's partially my
genuine overall optimism. Folks, I really do... This may sound loony,
and I've thought this for 10 years.
I really think the day's coming where we're gonna be shocked at
people we call low-information, people we think aren't paying much
attention, people who aren't really that informed. I think that some
point they're gonna have had enough of this. Oh, 63% say it will not
be. Okay, then there's a typo. "Sixty-three percent are confident
better days..." All right. Okay. I take it back.
"Sixty-three percent are not confident of better days for their kids,
and 53% say life will be worse for the next generation." Okay, so
Charlie doesn't agree with me. I misread this. Well, I didn't misread
it. There's a typo. Despite this, it is a feeling -- I'm not gonna deny
that -- and there's faith. I'm not gonna deny that. I just think
that, at some point, people are going to say, "Enough of this!"
Obviously it's gonna require some kind of leadership to spur this.
It's just not going to happen on its own, although I even think that
might happen. But it would really facilitated if there were an
inspirational, can-do leader that popped up. Right now people are
peppered with nothing but pessimism, and we've got a Democrat Party
which wants us to believe that our better days are behind us, that this
is it and, you know, "Bunker down with us!
"We're
gonna do the best for you that we can, but days of American
exceptionalism are over." Chuck Hagel, when announcing military cuts,
said, "We're not the dominant military power anymore. It just isn't
gonna be the case." And, yeah, the new normal is 9% employed. The new
normal is 92 million, 95 million not working. I mean, people are
bombarded with this every day, and for 10 years I've been waiting for
this. Honest to God.
I don't know how else to describe it. For 10 years I've been waiting
for this national awakening, and it's done nothing but worsen. There
is nothing close to a national awakening, and I will be the first to
admit it. The closest thing to it is the Tea Party, and so to what
extent the Tea Party is gonna be successful politically in winning
elections and having a majority of like-minded people in elective
office, that's up for grabs.
We don't know that.
We know the Democrats are gonna lose a lot of seats, but we don't
know what kind of Republicans are gonna replace them. If they're
anti-Tea Party Republicans, then big whoop. If they're pro-Republican
establishment, who just think it's what it is, the government's gonna
get bigger, stay big, and we're just gonna be in charge of it now, then
big whoop.
I'll take it, getting rid of Democrats, but it could be better if Tea
Party types -- conservatives is what I mean -- end up winning. So
Charlie Cook: 63% are not confident of better days. Fifty-three percent
say life will be harder for the next generation -- and that's, sadly,
probably true. (interruption) Well, but why get out of bed? I'm talking
about attitudinally. I'm not talking what's possible. I'm talking
about the national attitude that's been impacted. (interruption)
We are a nation of sad sacks, but look at what the sad sacks are
bombarded with every day! I mean, normal food that they eat and drink
can kill 'em, and for how many years have they been hearing this stuff?
Now for five years they've been hearing what a reprobate country we've
always been -- what an unfair, unjust country and how we've gotta make
things right and balance what's been wrong for 250 years and so forth.
It's a never ending assault on people's sensibilities.
Let's add the way they're being educated, and what they're being taught from the youngest ages about this country.
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The Rodriguez family's lawyer released the video of the incident during a press conference on Tuesday.
MOORE, Oklahoma -
A lawyer for the family
of a man, who died outside the Moore Warren Movie Theater while in
police custody, has released a video of the incident.
Luis Rodriguez died earlier this month after a confrontation with police outside the theater in Moore. 2/15/2014 Related Story: Family Says Moore Police Beat Father To Death
Police say the 44-year-old Rodriguez became uncooperative when
officers questioned him about a possible domestic disturbance. Police
handcuffed the man. 2/18/2014 Related Story: Moore Police Hold News Conference Concerning In-Custody Death
Rodriguez's wife and daughter say police then started beating him. Autopsy results are pending.
The Rodriguez family's lawyer released a cellphone video of the
incident and a statement at a Tuesday news conference in Oklahoma City.
The video shows 44-year-old Luis Rodriguez on his stomach on the
ground outside the theater with five police officers restraining him.
One officer holds Rodriguez's head down and the others are on top of him
as they handcuff his hands behind his back.
Rodriguez's wife, who shot the video, is later heard screaming and
asking if Rodriguez is dead as he is placed on a stretcher. We have attached the video to this story. Warning: the video may be considered graphic to some viewers.
"He was not involved in the disturbance. However, when police came,
they focused their attention on Luis. Taking him face down onto the
pavement, pepper-spraying his mouth, nose and eyes and putting the
weight of five grown men on top of him, and then handcuffing him as he
was unconscious or already dead," said Michael Brooks-Jimenez, attorney
for the Rodriguez family.
Moore Police Chief Jerry Stillings said he stands behind his
officers' actions and said he did not see anything inappropriate on the
cell phone video as far as his officers' actions.
There is security camera footage from the Warren Theater. However, that has not yet been made available for us to see.
OSBI has taken over the investigation into the death.
Police say three officers involved in the incident are on administrative leave.
The New York Times: There have been times when the CNN host Piers Morgan didn’t
seem to like America very much — and American audiences have been more
than willing to return the favor. Three years aftertaking over for
Larry King, Mr. Morgan has seen the ratings for “Piers Morgan Live” hit
some new lows, drawing a fraction of viewers compared with competitors
at Fox News and MSNBC.
It’s
been an unhappy collision between a British television personality who
refuses to assimilate — the only football he cares about is round and
his lectures on guns were rife with contempt — and a CNN audience that
is intrinsically provincial. After all, the people who tune into a cable
news network are, by their nature, deeply interested in America.
CNN’s president, Jeffrey Zucker,
has other problems, but none bigger than Mr. Morgan and his plum 9 p.m.
time slot. Mr. Morgan said last week that he and Mr. Zucker had been
talking about the show’s failure to connect and had decided to pull the
plug, probably in March.
Crossing
an ocean for a replacement for Larry King, who had ratings problems of
his own near the end, was probably not a great idea to begin with. For a
cable news station like CNN, major stories are like oxygen. When
something important or scary happens in America, many of us have an
immediate reflex to turn on CNN. When I find Mr. Morgan telling me what
it all means, I have a similar reflex to dismiss what he is saying. It
is difficult for him to speak credibly on significant American events
because, after all, he just got here.
I
received a return call from Mr. Morgan and was prepared for an endless
argument over my assumptions. Not so. His show, he conceded, was not
performing as he had hoped and was nearing its end.
“It’s
been a painful period and lately we have taken a bath in the ratings,”
he said, adding that although there had been times when the show
connected in terms of audience, slow news days were problematic.
“Look,
I am a British guy debating American cultural issues, including guns,
which has been very polarizing, and there is no doubt that there are
many in the audience who are tired of me banging on about it,” he said.
“That’s run its course and Jeff and I have been talking for some time
about different ways of using me.”
Mr.
Morgan said that his show, along with much of the rest of CNN, had been
imprisoned by the news cycle and that he was interested in doing fewer
appearances to greater effect — big, major interviews that would be
events in themselves. Although a change has long been rumored, it was
the first time that both he, and the CNN executives I talked to,
acknowledged that his nightly show was on the way out. Plans for a
replacement at the 9 o’clock hour are still underway, but Mr. Morgan and
the network are in talks about him remaining at CNN in a different
role.
Mr.
Zucker, the former chief of NBC, inherited Mr. Morgan from Jonathan
Klein, his predecessor, but it is now his problem to fix. In the year he
has been there, CNN has introduced promising shows around the edges and
will be unveiling documentaries along the lines of the very successful
“Blackfish” to run on Thursday in the 10 p.m. hour.
But
the chronic troubles of prime-time remain. Sometime before the network
“upfront” events in April, when advertisers buy commercial time for the
fall season, Mr. Zucker needs to signal how he will fix CNN’s prime-time
problem, and that begins with Mr. Morgan, whose contract ends in
September.
Mr.
Morgan has some significant skills that do translate across platforms
and cultures. While working as a newspaper editor and television
personality in Britain, he was involved in a number of controversies,
but he developed a reputation as a talented, probing interviewer. In his
current role, he has shown an ability not only to book big guests —
former President Bill Clinton, Warren Buffett, the real Wolf of Wall
Street among them — but also to dig in once they are on set.
“I
think I can credibly do news and the ratings reflect that, but it is
not really the show that I set out to do,” he told me. “There are all
kinds of people who can do news here. I’d like to do work — interviews
with big celebrities and powerful people — that is better suited to what
I do well and fit with what Jeff is trying to do with the network.”
Old
hands in the television news business suggest that there are two things
a presenter cannot have: an accent or a beard. Mr. Morgan is clean
shaven and handsome enough, but there are tells in his speech — the way
he says the president’s name for one thing (Ob-AA-ma) — that suggest
that he is not from around here.
There are other tells as well. On Friday morning, criticizing the decision to dismiss a cricket player, he tweeted,
“I’m sure @StuartBroad8 is right and KP’s sacking will ‘improve
performance’ of the England team. Look forward to seeing this at T20
WC.” Mr. Morgan might want to lay off the steady cricket references if
he is worried about his credibility with American audiences. (His
endless trolling of his critics on Twitter did not exactly help,
either.)
People
might point to Simon Cowell as a man with an accent and a penchant for
slashing discourse that Americans loved, but Mr. Cowell is dealing with
less-than-spontaneous musical performances, not signal events in the
American news narrative. There was, of course, the counterexample of David Frost,
who did important work in news, but Mr. Frost did popular special
reports and was not a chronic presence in American living rooms.
Mr.
Morgan, who was chosen in spite of that fact that he had never done a
live show, had the misfortune of sliding into the loafers of Mr. King,
who, for all his limitations, was a decent and reliable stand-in for the
average Joe.
In
a sense, Mr. Morgan is a prisoner of two islands: Britain and
Manhattan. While I may share his feelings about the need for additional
strictures on guns, having grown up in the Midwest, I know that many
people come by their guns honestly and hold onto them dearly for sincere
reasons.
Mr.
Morgan’s approach to gun regulation was more akin to King George III,
peering down his nose at the unruly colonies and wondering how to bring
the savages to heel. He might have wanted to recall that part of the
reason the right to bear arms is codified in the Constitution is that
Britain was trying to disarm the citizenry at the time.
He regrets none of it, but clearly understands his scolding of “stupid” opponents of gun laws was not everyone’s cup of tea.
“I’m
in danger of being the guy down at the end of the bar who is always
going on about the same thing,” he said. He added that he was sure there
were plenty of people in the heartland angry “about this British guy
telling them how to lead their lives and what they should do with their
guns.”
In
the current media age, no one is expected to be a eunuch, without
values or beliefs, but Mr. Morgan’s lecturing on the evils of guns have
clanked hard against the CNN brand, which, for good or ill, is built on
the middle way.
We
don’t look for moral leadership from CNN, or from a British host on a
rampage. Guns, along with many other great and horrible things, are knit
into the fabric of this country. There are folkways peculiar to America
that Mr. Morgan is just learning, including the fact that if you want
to stick out, you first have to work on fitting in.
Kim
Hye Sook suffered unbearable pain and emotional suffering when she was
detained for 28 years in a secretive North Korean concentration camp.
Brutal executions, starvation — even mothers killing and eating their
children to ensure their own survival — were regular occurrences.
Kim — who miraculously escaped from the Bukchang prison camp back in
2003 – granted CBN News with the first American television news
interview to discuss these horrendous conditions. She now lives in South
Korea, with the details of her escape remaining classified for security
reasons. This summer, she released a memoir entitled, “A Concentration
Camp Retold in Tears.”
When she was 13-year-old, her tragic tale began. The year was 1975
and in the blink of an eye the young girl was captured alongside her
entire family. After years of suffering, she didn’t taste freedom until
she was 41-years-old. Kim explains:
“My entire family went to prison. Some were taken to the
mountains; others were put in different labor camps all because of my
grandfather’s one mistake: he escaped to South Korea during the Korean
War.”
Two women are watched by a North Korean guard (Photo Credit: AP)
Today, Kim wears dark glasses to ensure that her identity remains
concealed. While she lost seven family members in the re-education camp,
she currently has two sisters and a brother who are still imprisoned.
She described a typical day at the camp:
“I attended indoctrination classes in the morning. In the
afternoon the children were sent to push trolleys in the coal mines,
often without any safety gear.
People were dying in the mines. There were numerous mine
collapses, so many injuries, people who lost their legs, many who were
buried alive. It was horrible.
I was treated like a slave and worse. I hardly slept. It
was inhuman. But I never complained. I just followed all the rules. I
had to find a way to survive.”
Kim claims that the conditions were so terrible that she thought
about committing suicide “hundreds of thousands of times” during her
28-year detention. But because there was always someone watching her,
this simply wasn’t an option:
“Each prisoner is assigned to watch four or five other
prisoners. So if anything happens, the other prisoners would alert the
guards because they didn’t want to get into trouble themselves.”
While her descriptions of executions are absolutely horrendous,
nothing is more disturbing than her memories about those individuals who
she saw kill their children in an effort to stave off hunger. In one
instance, she recalls a mother boiling her 9-year-old daughter. In
another fit of desperation, a woman killed her 16-year-old son, chopped
him up and took him to a butcher to obtain some corn in exchange.
Kim admits that these details are difficult to share, but she bravely
proclaims, “I want the world to see these images and to hear my
testimony.” In describing the conditions in the isolated
and volatile nation, she says, “I am living proof that there are no
human rights in North Korea.” In September, she was invited to
Washington, D.C., where she testified before a congressional panel about
the conditions she faced.
Watch her story, below: