Obama gives foreign cops new police powers in U.S.

A little-discussed executive order from President Obama giving foreign cops new police powers in the United States by exempting them from such drudgery as compliance with the Freedom of Information Act is raising alarm among commentators who say INTERPOL already had most of the same privileges as diplomats.

At David Horowitz's Newsreal, Michael van der Galien said the issue is Obama's expansion of President Ronald Reagan's order from 1983 that originally granted those diplomatic privileges.

Reagan's order carried certain exemptions requiring that INTERPOL operations be subject to several U.S. laws such as the Freedom of Information Act. Obama, however, removed those restrictions in his Dec. 16 amendment to Executive Order 12425.

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Two men: One a Liberal, the other a Conservative:

Two men: One a Liberal, the other a Conservative: I’ve know these two men for years, both are friends of each other and mine. In order of appearance: The Conservative, a United States Navy Veteran (Sub-Mariner), the Liberal, a United States Marine veteran (Vietnam).

MB the Conservative, sent an email to our little group of friends that stated:

“”GOOD TO JUST FIND OUT AFTER WHAT HAPPEN AT FORT HOOD


Well, boys and girls, today we are letting the fox guard the henhouse...
Tomorrow, the wolves will be herding the sheep

Obama Appoints two 'Devout Muslims' to homeland security posts. Doesn't this make you feel safer already?

Obama and Janet Napolitano Appoint Arif Alikhan, a devout Muslim as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development Source announcement: Homeland Security Press Room.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/06/obama-appointment-arif-ali-khan-asst-secretary-dhs.html


The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is proud to announce that the DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano swore-in Kareem Shora, a devout Muslim, who was born in Damascus, Syria as ADC National Executive Director as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC).http://www.adc.org/

Excuse me, but has anyone ever heard a new government official being identified as a "devout Catholic, Jew or Protestant."..?  Just wondering... Doesn't this make you feel safer already??  "Devout Muslims" being appointed to critical Homeland Security positions... That should make our homeland much safer, huh?

Wasn't it men of the "Devout Muslim Faith" that flew airplanes into some U.S. buildings not too long ago? yeah, I thought so

What IS this president thinking? This announcement was made on Aug 20, 2009. Why are we just now hearing about it???”

RT, the Liberal responded with:

Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 1:17 PM
Subject: Re: Obama Appoints


6 million Muslims in the U.S. 1 Muslim shooter at Fort Hood
Do the math.
Timothy McVeigh, a Christian veteran of the U.S. Army, killed 168 Americans. Do you hyperventilate about Christian veterans?
And the business about "devout" Muslims came not from DHS or the White House, but from the "Atlas Shrugged" blog. As far as I can tell that blog is devoted to angering or scaring right wingers.
In my opinion we need MORE Muslims in government, including Homeland Security, just like at one time we needed more Irish, Jews, Catholics and Baptists. Do I need to remind anybody that patriotic Americans come in all shapes, sizes, religions and ethnic backgrounds?

MB, responded to RT with:

Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 11:32 PM
Subject: Re: Obama Appoints


You are kidding, right? Saying McVeigh is a Christian is like saying Billy Graham is an athiest.
So where were these Muslims back in 1776? Why did it take all these years for Muslims to decide they want to be here now? I don't remember anything in my history classes in grade school or high school about Muslims settling and shaping USA. How did they come to be patriotic Americans? By knocking skyscrapers out of the sky? Making their women folk walk behind the men with their faces covered? By yelling "Death to all Americans"? Yeah, that sounds like a patriotic American.
I don't get your math. Is that like 6 million Jews in Poland and one crazy dictator in Germany?
I guess what I don't understand is why anyone who is so unhappy with the country they came from decides to come to America and immediately tries to make it like the country they came from. Where's the logic? Unless they lied and they are here to take over our "free" country to enslave us.
Seems to me we need more bloggers scaring all-wingers. Terrorist don't seem to be getting everybody's attention. Nothing more than another so-called news item.

Haven’t heard from RT since. Still friends all and BTW, my comments have been excluded. BB

Welcome to Christmas Kansas City style.  Snow and more snow; currently 15 degrees, wind chill 20 below.

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Al Franken Shuts Down Al Lieberman, John McCain Reacts

Posted by James Richardson

Thursday, December 17th at 6:26PM EST

Senator Al Franken today caused a stir among his colleagues, breaking from the Senate’s long-held standards of collegiality when the gavel-wielding Minnesota Democrat denied Senator Joe Lieberman an additional minute to finish his remarks.
>snip< In such occasions, members request unanimous consent from their colleagues for an additional moment or two. Such requests are summarily granted.
>snip< “I’ve been around here twenty-something years. This is the first time I’ve ever seen a member denied an extra minute or two to finish his remarks,” said John McCain.

“And I must say, I don’t know what’s happening here in this body, but I think it’s wrong. I tell you, I’ve never seen a member denied an extra minute or two as the chair just did.”

I know this video from the United States Senate flloor yesterday is almost 19 minutes in length but I encourage your viewing of the Senator from Minnesota Al Franken's embarrassment, assuming he can be embarrassed.  BTW - Did you know beginning January 1st some new taxes kick in? BB

Link to: Johnson County’s increasingly multilingual nature is posing challenges.

It took a little time to get this particular ball rolling but thanks to our own Kathy Brown, esq. and a Johnson County Sun reporter Mr. Loren Stanton exposes another example of how citizens pay for the non-English speaking immigrants. BB

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Written by Loren Stanton

Wednesday, 09 December 2009

>snip< Language interpretation services have become essential to police, fire, ambulance, hospital and court personnel. In fact, applicants for jobs in any of those fields often have an edge these days if they can speak a foreign language.
Spanish speakers are most frequently in need of interpretive help, but a host of other languages are encountered.

Overland Park Municipal Court dealt with individuals speaking 19 languages in 2008, including Mandarin, Samoan, Swahili, Vietnamese, Korean, Punjabi and Cantonese.

>snip< Providing these relatively new services comes at a price. Johnson County District Court pays a full-time language coordinator more than $60,000 annually in salary and benefits. The court pays another $120,000 to $140,000 a year for interpretive services the coordinator cannot personally provide.

(Please go to the above link for the entire story.  BB)

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah & Have a Great New Year

It’s that time of year when being overwhelmed by family is a good thing; leaving other things only half done isn’t.

I have been devoting less and less time to this blog lately and with the holidays, have decided to do only ‘drop in’ stuff that’s not so time consuming.

See you next year,

Billy Blogger

Why Switzerland Has The Lowest Crime Rate In The World

(Thanks to Roger 1)

Link to: Mike Huckabee

Mike Huckabee defends his decision to reduce the sentance of killer in Arkansas nine years ago of the four Washington state police officers.

(Thanks RiteOn.com)

Link to: Maurice Clemmons shot dead by police in Seattle

By Jennifer Sullivan, Mark Rahner, and Jack Broom

Seattle Times staff reporters

Maurice Clemmons, the suspect wanted in the slaying of four Lakewood police officers, was shot and killed by a Seattle police officer in South Seattle early this morning.

Clemmons, who was armed with a handgun taken from one of the officers he is accused of killing, was standing outside in the 4400 block of South Kenyon Street when he was confronted by a South Precinct patrol officer. He refused commands to stop and was shot by the officer about 2:45 a.m.