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From Newsmax, Obuma's Africa Trip Could Cost $100 Million:

(Lets cut that $100 Mil in half and make it a one-way trip for the Obuma Family)

[POS]President Barack Obama's trip to Africa later this month could be one of the most expensive of his tenure, costing the government as much as $100 million.

According to a confidential internal planning document obtained by The Washington Post, hundreds of Secret Service agents will be dispatched to secure facilities in Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania, which the first family will visit from June 26 to July 3.

A Navy aircraft carrier or amphibious ship, with a fully staffed medical trauma center, will be stationed offshore in case of an emergency.

In addition, military cargo planes will airlift in 56 support vehicles, including 14 limousines and three trucks carrying bulletproof glass to cover the windows of the hotels where the Obamas will stay. And fighter jets will fly in shifts to provide around the clock coverage over the president's airspace.

The president and first lady Michelle Obama also had planned to take a Tanzanian safari during the trip, which would have required a special counterassault team to carry sniper rifles in the event of a threat from wild animals, the Post reported, citing the document. But the safari was canceled in favor of a trip to Robben Island off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, where Nelson Mandela was held as a political prisoner, officials told the newspaper. (Hee.. Hee)

The Post noted that when it first asked White House officials about the safari last week, they said no final decision had been made, adding that a White House official said Thursday that the cancellation was not related to the newspaper's inquiries.

Former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush also traveled to Africa multiple times. A report from the Government Accountability Office, according to the Post, showed that Clinton's 1998 trip to six African nations cost the federal government at least $42.7 million.

Obama's overseas travels — he will visit Northern Ireland and Germany next week — come as government agencies, including the Secret Service, face spending cuts mandated by the sequester.

The Secret Service reportedly has had to cut $84 million, and this spring the agency canceled public tours of the White House in order to save $74,000 a week in overtime.

In total, the Obamas' Africa trip could cost $60 million to $100 million, a person familiar with planning for the journey told the Post.

"The infrastructure that accompanies the president's travels is beyond our control," Ben Rhodes, Obama's deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, told the newspaper. "The security requirements are not White House-driven. They are Secret-Service-driven."

Some sacrifices by the First Family have been made, so no whining from the "little people"... no Obuma family safari. How.. er.. sad.  

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White House Cancels Safari After Sniper Team Uproar

June 14, 2013
by Robert Farago

I'm African American. Well half. I've travelled to my homeland and I went on safari. I am not, however, the President of the United States. While my trip cost a bomb (in the British sense of the term) it did not run to $100m. And now, neither will the President's. After the Washington Post unearthed secret documents detailing the costs and logistics of the CIC's sojourn to his birthplace ancestral homeland the "We Can't Afford to Show Children Around the White House Because of the Sequester Which Was Our Idea But It's the Republicans' Fault" Administration's cutting back on the extras. Specifically, the safari part of the program. Apparently, the revelation that the Prez was going to take a sniper team to deal with lions and such had something to do with it. Check it . . .

The president and first lady had also planned to take a Tanzanian safari as part of the trip, which would have required the president's special counterassault team to carry sniper rifles with high-caliber rounds that could neutralize cheetahs, lions or other animals if they became a threat, according to the planning document.

But officials said Thursday that the safari had been canceled in favor of a trip to Robben Island off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, where Nelson Mandela was held as a political prisoner.

When The Post first asked White House officials about the safari last week, they said no final decision had been made. A White House official said Thursday that the cancellation was not related to The Post's inquiries.

"We do not have a limitless supply of assets to support presidential missions, and we prioritized a visit to Robben Island over a two-hour safari in Tanzania," said spokesman Josh Earnest. "Unfortunately, we couldn't do both."

Internal administration documents circulated in April show that the Obama family was scheduled to go to both Robben Island and the safari park, according to a person familiar with the plans.
I wonder if they budgeted for countermeasures against Africa's most dangerous animal: the mosquito.[/b]

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Worst! President! Ever!
Obamacare Is Forcing Walmart to Hire Only Temps

Friday, June 14, 2013

What we already knew:

** Barack Obama is the worst jobs president since the Great Depression.
** Poverty is at its highest rate since 1960′s.
** America is experiencing its worst economic recovery ever.
** There are more Americans on food stamps than entire population of Spain.
** A record number of Americans are seeking jobs.
** Obama's trillion dollar stimulus failed.
** Under Obama's leadership we had four straight years of trillion dollar deficits.
** 8.8 million Americans are on disability.
** After four-and-a-half years Obama is likely the worst economic president ever

And, now this...
With unemployment at record highs Obamacare is forcing Walmart stores to only hire part-time workers.

Forbes report:
Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) opponents warned it would happen, but now there's mounting proof that full-time employees are being replaced with part-timers, at least in the retail industry where Walmart is focused on keeping the majority of workers to part-time hours only.

A new hiring policy uncovered by Reuters shows that nearly half of its stores are only hiring part-time employees, thus avoiding the mandate to provide health care or pay a fine.

A Reuters survey of 52 stores run by the largest U.S. private employer in the past month, including one in every U.S. state, showed that 27 were hiring only temps, 20 were hiring a combination of regular full, part-time and temp jobs, and five were not hiring at all.

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IRS Won't Say Why Agents Are Training With AR-15's

Friday, June 14, 2013

Earlier this week Congressman Jeff Duncan disclosed that he witnessed IRS agents training with powerful, semi-automatic rifles when he toured a Maryland Federal Law Enforcement Training Center on May 23.

Local WHNS asked the IRS about their high-powered weapons this week.
The IRS said they do not disclose their training operations. Rep. Duncan says high-powered weapons training should not be in their budget.

FOX Carolina reported:

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Vote For Morris For Mayor To Avoid A Cat-astrophe

(If he won, you know he would be purr-fect)

Via NY Post:
MEXICO CITY — This mayoral hopeful in Mexico promises to eat, sleep most of the day and donate his leftover litter to fill potholes.

Morris, a black-and-white kitten with orange eyes, is running for mayor of Xalapa in eastern Mexico with the campaign slogan "Tired of Voting for Rats? Vote for a Cat." And he is attracting tens of thousands of politician-weary, two-legged supporters on social media.

"He sleeps almost all day and does nothing, and that fits the profile of a politician," said 35-year-old office worker Sergio Camacho, who adopted the 10-month-old feline last year.

Put forth as candidate by Camacho and a group of friends after they became disillusioned with the empty promises of politicians, Morris' candidacy has resonated across Mexico, where citizens frustrated with human candidates are nominating their pets and farm animals to run in July 7 elections being held in 14 states.

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Just in case you want more POS Obama in your life...
AT&T is loading iPhones with emergency alerts from Barack Obama...
That you can't switch off.


Engadget reported:
http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/15/att-wireless-emergency-alerts-iphone-4s-5/

AT&T has begun rolling out Wireless Emergency Alerts updates for iPhone 4S and 5, so you won't be the last folks to know if the entire northern hemisphere is about to be covered in ice à la Day After Tomorrow.

You'll receive a notification from the carrier when your update is ready, but only if you're using iOS 6.1 or higher.

Once installed, AMBER and Emergency alerts are automatically sent to your phone unless you switch them off via Settings. However, should you be tired of POS Obama, just know that there's no way to switch off Presidential alerts.

(So now POS Barack can track your calls and send you messages, too.  Unlucky you...  at&t is simply doing what they've been mandated to do, and the other wireless carriers will follow.

I don't understand why everyone has their panties in a wad over this - late last year, Obama strong-armed major advertisers (via the FCC) to ensuring at LEAST one black is in EVERY TV COMMERCIAL.  This was in full swing by December 2012.

Think I'm kidding?  Have you really SEEN TV commercials lately?  There are more Hispanics in this country than blacks, but if a visitor watched many current TV ads now, they would have the impression that blacks are the predominant race in the U.S.
What a Hoot!)

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Pic of the DAy

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Cartoon of the Day

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Gunmen in Pakistan bomb female students' bus then attack hospital

Militants in Pakistan have bombed a bus carrying female students before attacking the hospital where survivors and relatives of the victims had gathered.

(This is a very, very SICK WORLD)

Via Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/10122549/Gunmen-in-Pakistan-bomb-female-students-bus-then-attack-hospital.html

Militants in Pakistan have bombed a bus carrying female students before attacking the hospital where survivors and relatives of the victims had gathered.

At least 23 people were killed in the twin attacks – including 12 women on the bus, travelling to a university in Quetta, capital of the troubled Baluchistan province. Eleven others died when a bomb exploded in the emergency ward of the city's Bolan Medical Complex where the wounded were taken.

The attack in resource-rich Baluchistan was Pakistan's most lethal since the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif took office last week and followed earlier explosions in a nearby town that killed a policeman and destroyed a historic building.

The gunmen remain holed up in the hospital building, with some attackers on the roof and others in the corridors. Some reports suggested that patients had been taken hostage. The hospital has been cordoned off by security forces, said Abdul Wasey, spokesman for Pakistan's paramilitary Frontier Corps.

"A bomb exploded in the emergency ward killing 11 people and wounding 17 others," he said.

"Militants are also hiding in different wards and firing is continuing. We are trying to clear the premises. We have launched an operation and an exchange of fire is still continuing between security forces and the militants."

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("Big Sis: What I mean to say, I think people have gotten the idea that there's an Orwellian state out there that somehow we're operating in.  Well it's true.) 

Via Politicker:

Homeland Security Secretary Janet "Big Sis" Napolitano weighed [211 lbs] in on the NSA intelligence leaks on Friday, telling NY1 that fears over government surveillance were overblown.

"I think people have gotten the idea that there's an Orwellian state out there that somehow we're operating in. That's far from the case," she told Errol Louis during an appearance on Road to City Hall.

Despite civil liberties advocates' fears that monitoring efforts have gone too far, "there are lots of protections built into the system," Ms. Napolitano said, pointing to a privacy office embedded in her own department that is "constantly reviewing our policies and procedures." She further stressed the court review system. "No one should believe that we are simply going willy-nilly and using any kind of data that we can gather," she said.

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Egyptian Politician:
Jooos Slaughter Christians
And Use Their Blood To Make Matzos

(The creepiest part of this video is the clown smiling
ear to ear as he talks about Jews slicing a
Christian child's throat)

Via MEMRI:
http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/3873.htm

Following are excerpts from a TV show with Khaled Al-Zaafrani, founder of the Egyptian Justice and Progress Party, which aired on Al-Hafez TV on May 12, 2013.

Khaled Al-Zaafrani: It is the Jews who have instigated wars in the world. They instigated World War I, as well as World War II, and they will keep on instigating wars. The Jews cannot live without wars, conspiracies, deceit, and deception. We can rest assured that the Jews will not seek or uphold peace.

It s well known that during the Passover, they make matzos called the "Blood of Zion." They take a Christian child, slit his throat and slaughter him. Then they take his blood and make their [matzos]. This is a very important rite for the Jews, which they never forgo.

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Recorded evidence of this is kept in the Egyptian national archives. This happens to this day.

Passover was near, and the Jews of Damascus could not find a Christian. There was a Christian priest, who would give them medical treatment. He was of Italian and French nationality, and his job was to treat people. He used to treat the Jews, but since they couldn't find any other Christian, they summoned him to treat them... Their confessions are well documented.

They placed the priest in a tub, slaughtered him, smashed his bones with a pestle, took his blood, and made the "matzos of Zion."
Interviewer: Are these matzos eaten?

Khaled Al-Zaafrani: Of course. They slice it and fight over who gets to eat Christian blood.