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Classy: Libs Start "Virgin Mary Should've Been Aborted" Facebook Page, Garners Over 3,000 "Likes"

(These same people would scream bloody murder over a Facebook page denigrating the "prophet" Mohammed)

Via Life News:
http://www.lifenews.com/2013/08/04/facebook-group-claims-virgin-mary-should-have-aborted/

A group of concerned Christians are calling on Facebook to remove a page that promotes the notion that the Virgin Mary of the Bible should have received an abortion. Titled "Virgin Mary Should've Aborted," the administrator of the page claims to "explain what really happened in the biblical times, since the bible is full of lies."

With just over 3,000 'Likes,' Celene Schartner of Australia says the page not only demeans what Christians believe, but it is slanderous and hateful. It diminishes the right to life of every unborn infant in its mother's womb by its very title and statement.

"Many Christians worldwide are so distressed at the attempts to diminish Christian values and the slanderous attacks on the Bible," said Schartner. "If people don't believe that's their choice, but they need to learn respect for the choices of others."

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GOP Warns NBC & CNN: Stop Promoting Hillary Clinton
or Face Consequences

The GOP sent letters to CNN and NBC today warning them to cancel their pro-Hillary movies before the election or face a possible boycott.

Chairman Priebus said if the networks go ahead with their Hillary projects the Republican Party would boycott their presidential debates.

After the outrageous stunt CNN's Candy Crowley pulled in the 2012 debate the GOP should have already boycotted CNN from hosting future events.
But the Republican elites don't want to ruffle too many feathers.

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The GOP reported:
Today Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus sent a letter to Robert Greenblatt, Chairman of NBC Entertainment, and Jeff Zucker, President of CNN Worldwide, calling on their networks to cancel their attempts to influence Americans' political decisions. Both networks are airing programs promoting former Secretary Hillary Clinton ahead of her likely candidacy for president in 2016. NBC has announced plans to air a miniseries, while CNN is producing a documentary. If the productions are not canceled prior to the start of the RNC's Summer Meeting, Chairman Priebus will seek a binding vote of the RNC to prevent the committee from partnering with these networks in 2016 primary debates or sanctioning debates they sponsor.

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FOX Analyst Cadell: John Boehner Is 'Purposely Suppressing Anything About Benghazi' (Video)
Pat Cadell: John Boehner is "Purposely Suppressing Anything About Benghazi"
Pat Cadell accused Speaker John Boehner today of "purposely suppressing anything about Benghazi."

Cadell was on America Live on Monday:"We have John Boehner who has purposely been suppressing anything on Benghazi because he knew what we found out this week and he approved it. These CIA teams on the ground which were sending weapons from Libya through Turkey to Syrian rebels without Congressional approval. Remember, no one has still been arrested in this. We have a president who has suppressed the truth. We have John Brennan who left the White House and went to the CIA... They are polygraphing every member who was on the ground there keeping them from telling Congress the truth. And, Congress won't act in its own defense!"

Via Mediaite:

Back in January, Speaker Boehner admitted to Laura Ingraham that he heard about the gun running to Turkey but that "most of what I know about this came from a classified source."

Kerry Picket wrote more about this at Breitbart.com:

Dozens of CIA operatives were involved in an arms smuggling operation on the ground in Benghazi, Libya during the deadly attack on the U.S. compound last September, reports CNN and the U.K. Telegraph. According to these outlets, the spy agency has gone out of its way to keep the information from the public through intimidation of CIA personnel.  
Four Americans were killed, including U.S. ambassador Christopher Stevens that evening in Benghazi almost one year ago.

In light of this new information, either the Congress' "Gang of Eight" knew about the operation and misled the public about what they knew, or the Obama administration may have been conducting an unauthorized gun-running operation. Fox News reported in October of 2012 about a Libyan ship, reportedly containing weapons for Syrian Rebels that may have been tied into the attack against the consulate and the CIA annex:

Through shipping records, Fox News has confirmed that the Libyan-flagged vessel Al Entisar, which means "The Victory," was received in the Turkish port of Iskenderun -- 35 miles from the Syrian border -- on Sept. 6, just five days before Ambassador Chris Stevens, information management officer Sean Smith and former Navy Seals Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were killed during an extended assault by more than 100 Islamist militants.

On the night of Sept. 11, in what would become his last known public meeting, Stevens met with the Turkish Consul General Ali Sait Akin, and escorted him out of the consulate front gate one hour before the assault began at approximately 9:35 p.m. local time.

Although what was discussed at the meeting is not public, a source told Fox News that Stevens was in Benghazi to negotiate a weapons transfer, an effort to get SA-7 missiles out of the hands of Libya-based extremists. And although the negotiation said to have taken place may have had nothing to do with the attack on the consulate later that night or the Libyan mystery ship, it could explain why Stevens was travelling in such a volatile region on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

According to section 503's Presidential Approval and Reporting of Covert Actions in the 1947 National Security Act, the President may not authorize covert CIA actions without informing the intelligence committees of Congress.

Legislation implemented in 1980 gave the president the authority to limit advance notification of especially sensitive covert actions to eight Members of Congress--the "Gang of Eight": the chairmen and ranking minority Members of the two congressional intelligence committees, the Speaker and minority leader of the House, and Senate majority and minority leaders. These members are: House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD), Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA).

By law, such a covert weapons operation in Benghazi should have been known by all eight members. The disastrous results from the events of September 11, 2012 have not made it easy to get answers from these lawmakers regarding this point.

Many remember when Pelosi, a "Gang of Eight" member, found herself at odds with the Democratic base in 2009 and ridiculed by Republicans, when it was revealed she was actually briefed in 2002 by the Bush White House about the administration's tactic to water-board terrorism suspects during interrogations. Pelosi denied this fact previously.

Radio host Laura Ingraham asked Boehner on January 24 about Senator Rand Paul's questioning to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He asked if the secretary was aware of U.S. involvement in the procuring of weapons that were transferred, bought or sold to Turkey out of Libya. Clinton, seemingly confused, told Paul "nobody [had] ever raised" the issue with her before.

Boehner replied to Ingraham, "I'm somewhat familiar with the chatter about this and the fact that these arms were moving towards Turkey, but most of what I know about this came from a classified source and I really can't elaborate on it."

Boehner has refuses to appoint a House Select Committee to investigate the Benghazi attacks and previously refused to support a joint Select Committee to do the same late last year.

Four members of the "Gang of Eight" have told Breitbart News over the past six months they knew nothing about any CIA operation in Benghazi involving the smuggling of Libyan weapons into Turkey that may have been shipped to Syrian rebels, some of whom were affiliated to al-Qaeda groups.

"I get to see all of that stuff. I have seen nothing that would allow me to conclude that the U.S. government was in any way shape or form involved in gun running in Libya. I looked at it all," said Congressman Rogers, Chairman of the House Select Intelligence Committee to Breitbart News in June.

"If it's there, I have not seen it. I think I would have found it. I think there were some other things that were happening and people got confused, but the United States government was not running guns (from the annex)."

Senator Chambliss, ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, when asked in February if he knew anything about the gunrunning issue Senator Paul asked Clinton about a month earlier replied to Breitbart News, "I'm not familiar with that."

Senator Feinstein, Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told Breitbart News in March she "didn't know what" Senator Paul was talking about in regards to his questioning of Clinton and the Secretary's knowledge about the gunrunning issue in Benghazi.

Ranking member of the House Intel Committee Rep. Ruppersberger claimed to Breitbart News in May he "didn't know anything" about U.S. weapons smuggling or if Ambassador Stevens was involved in the operation in anyway, saying, "I don't know what you're talking about."

Ruppersberger, added, "If I was [privy to such information], I couldn't talk to you about it. But I have heard no information about what you're talking about, as far as what [Ambassador Chris Stevens] was there for. I haven't had briefings on it."

Ruppersberger also said he knew "nothing about" any U.S. operation to smuggle weapons to Syrian rebels, explaining the secretive "Gang of Eight" briefings from the White House do not go into much detail sometimes.

"I've heard nothing about it. When [Stevens] was there. I don't know. We don't get to that minutia sometimes. Gang of 8, we get the most sensitive information, that even our own committees can't [get.]

When asked if the White House would have had to inform the eight members of such an operation in order for it to be legal Ruppersberger responded, "No. The checks and balances is they give us information--very sensitive information. The check and balance issue,  they don't have to tell us everything or we'd be sitting having Gang of Eight briefings all day long. That's the answer. I don't know."

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Moonbat Actor Matt Damon Frets:
Obuma Being Bullied, "Manhood" Challenged

(Birds of a feather... don't be mean to Obuma or Matt Damon will get a case of the sads)

Via News Republic:

Sorta-Actor MATT DAMON fears U.S. President BARACK OBAMA has been bullied into making unpopular decisions and struggles to fight back because of his lack of military background. The American leader swept to power on a wave of hope and goodwill in 2008, but the shine has since come off his presidency amid disagreements over a national healthcare plan and the 'spying' scandal exposed by whistleblower Edward Snowden. However, Damon, who has been a vocal supporter of the Democrat politician for years, insists Obama is not to blame for the controversies and is trying to prove his "manhood" by taking tough action.

The Good WIll Hunting star tells the Guardian Weekend magazine, "It just seems to have taken this weird, Orwellian turn. It's surreal. I don't know where we are now... I think it's tough for guys who weren't in the military. One, their manhood is kind of challenged on some level, I imagine, and they allow themselves to get bullied. And two, they're just politically afraid of either looking soft or looking incompetent, so they overcompensate."

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In an interview with the Guardian published Saturday, Damon revealed that he had just moved to Los Angeles from New York, but that he didn't "have a choice" when it came to putting his four daughters into private schools.  The multi-millionaire did say that it was "a major moral dilemma" and then made the bizarre excuse that the public schools aren't "progressive" enough.

(This would probably mark the first time anyone has ever complained that America's public schools, especially in Los Angeles, aren't left-wing enough )

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Documents: Eric Holder Has Billed Taxpayers For More Than
$4 Million
In Travel In Less Than 4 Years

(And Holder could not care less)

Via Daily Mail:
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's travel expenses exceeded $4 million for 213 separate trips during President Obama's first term in office, according to documents obtained through the Freedom Of Information Act.

The expenses, incurred between March 2009 and August 2012, were all borne by taxpayers – including those covering several personal trips. Holder typically travels on a government-owned Gulfstream V jet, whose retail cost is more than $53.5 million. The U.S. government owns at least five such aircraft.

Judicial Watch released the documents Monday, showing that the attorney general billed his agency more than $113,000 in travel expenses for four trips he made, while in office, to speak to liberal advocacy groups.

Holder's very first taxpayer-funded trip was to an April 2009 'US/Mexico Arms Trafficking Strategy Meeting.'

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Syrian Rebels Seize Control of Key Air Base In Aleppo After
Foreign Suicide Bombers Attack With Massive 3 Ton Bomb
Packed Into Armored Vehicle

(Multiple videos of the attack can be seen here:
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BEIRUT, Lebanon (NYT) — Rebel fighters on Monday swept into a sprawling government air base in northern Syria where isolated government troops had fought off their attacks for nearly a year, and by early Tuesday controlled almost all the base, seizing several tanks and other munitions and taking soldiers prisoner, rebel and opposition groups said.

The victory, said by the groups to have been led by two foreign men in an armored vehicle who carried out a suicide attack to breach the defenses of the Minakh air base, was bound to boost the morale of an insurgency that has faltered in recent months with rebels fighting among themselves and losing long-held ground to the army.

Such gains have sometimes been reversed within days, as the government strikes back from the air. But if it holds, the rebels' seizure of the Minakh base in Aleppo Province will challenge the government's assertion that it is rolling to victory and demonstrate the complexity of the Syrian battlefield, which neither side has been able to control and where momentum shifts from place to place and week to week.

Even as the battle at Minakh was raging, the government was celebrating its own victory in the central city of Homs, where the defense minister toured the shattered Khalidiyeh neighborhood, long held by insurgents, and posed in front of the Khalid bin al-Waleed mosque — a 13th-century landmark that had been a rebel rallying point and was heavily damaged in the fighting.

Yet to the south, a large rebel force armed with tanks and rocket launchers pushed deeper into an area that has long been a relatively quiet government stronghold, the coastal mountains of Latakia Province, sending civilians fleeing.

The dueling victories show the de facto splitting of Syria into zones of government and rebel control. The government appears committed and strong in the corridor leading from Damascus north through Homs to its coastal stronghold. But in the north it has lost the ability to maneuver through most roads and rural areas and struggles to hold on to isolated military outposts.

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"We Are Imperfect Muslims, Trying To Establish The
Perfect Religion Of All-Mighty Allah As Supreme On The Land"

What was the purpose behind the shooting at Fort Hood by Nidal Hassan?

Here is a snippet from the "sanity board" report of Hasan, which reveals his purpose-to impose Sharia Law and do away with American democracy.

The note, written on the side of the report, appears to be quoting Hasan, "We Are Imperfect Muslims, Trying To Establish The Perfect Religion Of All-Mighty Allah As Supreme On The Land".

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American Couple Arrested In Qatar For Starving Their Daughter

(CAIR could not be reached for comment)

LOS ANGELES — A married couple from Los Angeles has been jailed in the Middle East on a charge of starving their 8-year-old daughter to death, according to a nonprofit legal group that has taken their case and is trying to draw publicity to what it claims is an unjust arrest.

Matt and Grace Huang were arrested shortly in Qatar after their daughter, Gloria, died on Jan. 15, said Alex Simpson, associate director of the nonprofit California Innocence Project. The Huangs adopted the child at age four from Ghana.

The couple's two other children, also adopted from Africa, have been banned from leaving the country and are being cared for by their grandmother, who is living with them there.

The Qatar Embassy did not return a call or email seeking comment Monday.

According to the California Innocence Project, the Huangs moved to Qatar in 2012 so Matt Huang could work as an engineer on two major infrastructure projects associated with improvements for the 2022 World Cup.

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U.S. Spending $772 Million For Purchase Of Aircraft
Afghans Can Not Use Or Maintain

(Think how many White House Tours that would be able to support)

Via Fox News:

The chief watchdog for Afghanistan reconstruction warned in a recent audit that the Pentagon is moving forward with a $772 million purchase of aircraft that the Afghan army "cannot operate or maintain."

The latest quarterly report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction cited the aircraft purchases among its top concerns. The IG's office had earlier issued a report in June detailing how "the Afghans lack the capacity — in both personnel numbers and expertise — to operate and maintain" existing and planned fleets.

The findings are likely to contribute to the budget debate on Capitol Hill over the funding. The bulk of the purchase is a $554 million contract for 30 Mi-17 helicopters from Russian firm Rosoboronexport.

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Obama Ignored Syrian Christians Requests
For Weapons To Defend Themselves

(So he will give weapons to Islamist rebels but not Christians? 
Just a tad screwed up)

Via Telegraph:

Towns and villages in Syria that have been home to Christians for hundreds of years are being steadily emptied by sectarian violence and targeted kidnappings.

Tens of thousands Syriac Christians – members of the oldest Christian community in the world – have fled their ancestral provinces of Deir al-Zour and Hasakah in northeastern Syria, residents have said.

"It breaks my heart to think how our long history is being uprooted," said Ishow Goriye, the head of a Syriac Christian political Hasakah.

Mr Goriye, told The Daily Telegraph how, over the past two years he has watched as Christian families from Hasakah pack their possessions on the rooftops of their vehicles and flee their homes "with little plan to come back".

Conflict in the area, desperate economic conditions, lawlessness, and persecution by rebel groups born from the perception that Christians support the regime, remain the main reasons for why Christian families are fleeing the area.

The growing presence of radical jihadist groups, including al-Qaeda, has also seen Christians targeted.

"It began as kidnapping for money, but then they started telling me I should worship Allah," a male Christian resident of Hasakah who was kidnapped by jihadists said.

"I was with five others. We were tied and blindfolded and pushed down on our knees. One of the kidnappers leant so close to my face I could feel his breath. He hissed: 'Why don't you become a Muslim? Then you can be free'."

Another Christian in Hasakah said he knew of "five forced conversions" in recent weeks.


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Bassam Ishak, a Christian member of the main opposition bloc the Syrian National Coalition, who comes from Hasakah, said he and his colleagues had tried "several times" to approach western officials asking for weapons for Christian groups to defend their areas.

"The West wants to arm the seculars or 'West friendly' people, well we, the Syriac Christians those people. We want arms to protect our communities," he said. "We spoke to western diplomats asking for help, and everyone ignored us".