An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Archive for 30 September 2011
Squashed Like The Bugs They Are…er….Were
Dead….Dead….Dead!
Two U.S.-Born Terrorists Killed in CIA-Led Drone Strike
Senior Al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki and another America-born militant were killed in Yemen early Friday morning by a CIA-led U.S. drone strike, marking the highest-profile takedown of terror leaders since the raid on Usama bin Laden’s compound.
Fox News has learned that two Predator drones hovering above al-Awlaki’s convoy fired the Hellfire missiles which killed the terror leader. According to a senior U.S. official, the operation was carried out by Joint Special Operations Command, under the direction of the CIA.
Al-Awlaki was a U.S.-born Islamic militant cleric who became a prominent figure with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the network’s most active branch. He was involved in several terror plots in the United States in recent years, using his fluent English and Internet savvy to draw recruits to carry out attacks. President Obama signed an order in early 2010 making him the first American to be placed on the “kill or capture” list.
The Yemeni government and Defense Ministry announced al-Awlaki’s death, without giving details. But American sources confirmed the CIA and U.S. military were behind the strike on al-Awlaki, whom one official described as a “big fish.”
Shucks! I’m just all torn up about this. Can’cha tell?
But, unfortunately, there are a whole lot more al-Awlakis out there. A lot of ‘em are sitting all nice and comfy in their nice American homes, creeping into our lives, little by little, undermining our Constitution, to bring about their caliphate. All the while, we sit here with our thumbs up our hinders, allowing it to happen. Our elected officials are too busy sucking up to the very ones who would see us all dead, or converted. “Mustn’t offend!” HORSE MANURE! I’M offended! I’m offended that our government can’t do it’s job of protecting our borders. I’m offended that there are people who think it’s just peachy for them to built a victory mosque just feet from where they murdered our citizens. I’m offended that those of us who oppose this take over are called racist, bigot, islmamphobic. I’m offended that any America would think it’s just fine to allow such murderous pedophile worshiping thugs into our country, and then tell us WE have to submit to THEIR wishes, while our Christian children aren’t allowed to even say God Bless you when someone sneezes, or that a teacher can’t put the national motto, “In God We Trust”, up in their classroom, yet many schools are providing prayer rooms for their cultist students.
Have we totally lost our minds?
The Hits Just Keep On Coming
And we, the taxpayers, are the punching bag!
The Solyndra Legacies
The Foundry
The Obama Administration has been knee-deep in scandal after green energy “model” Solyndra went bankrupt less than two years after receiving a $500 million loan guarantee from the federal government. Now, they are up against another controversy.
Days before a recent deadline, the Department of Energy brazenly approved two additional loans for more than $1 billion for solar energy projects in the Obama Administration’s green jobs program. The latest ill-fated ventures include a $737 million loan guarantee to Solar Reserve for a 110-megawatt solar tower on federal land in Nevada and a $337 million guarantee for Mesquite Solar 1 to develop a 150-megawatt solar plant in Arizona.
Loan guarantees like these are destined to fail, because they are either granted to companies that could not remain viable without them or because the loan was supported by political connections; or both. This round of loans includes the latter—just as it appears Solyndra was aided.
