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John Woo, a lawyer, wrote memos on interrogation, detention and presidential powers from 2001 to 2003.  U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White ruled (or more correctky failed to dismiss) that convicted terorist Jose Padilla’s lawsuit against Woo. The term that comes to my mind is “bullshit”. Hee is hoping the Justice Department appeals this decision.

President Obama first demanded the resignation of Inspector General Gerald Walpin. Walpin reminded the President that he is not a political appointee and would not resign. Thus President Obama fired him.

What makes this a story is that Walpin had the nerve to investigate a major supporter of the President, Kevin Johnson for fraud in his program St. HOPE. St. HOPE received money from the AmeriCorps program and was found to have used these funds for such things as having Johnson’s car washed. St. HOPE agreed to repay about half of the $850,000 it recieved from AmeriCorps.

This being the age of Obama, when can ot question or accuse one of his followers. Flogging or tar and feathering doesn’t look too good in public so firing a person with such audcity is the next big thing. No worries, I’m sure the President will spin this to look good for him and the mainstream media will play along.

First, in the internet age online privacy is pretty much an illusion. The main safety net is trust and I tend to trust people online about as far as I can throw them. This is my leadin to President Obama’s cyberdefense plan. Privacy advocates will be watching closely for any infringement on what they say to be against personal privacy. All good and well, and the President has even attempted to booster his standing amongst privacy advocates by saying things such as:

“will not — I repeat, will not — include monitoring private sector networks or Internet traffic.”

Which pretty much puts a big dent into any cyberdefense initiative. Private sector networks and inthe internet is the big hole that people, which I use to include other countries, use to launch attacks against computer networks. If you can’t plug or at least monitor this hole then your cyberdefense plan makes for a great PR statement but isn’t going to work in the real world.

Cyberdefense / security is a big issue, and needs to be addressed. Addressing it in a way that will actually provide a reasonable measure of defense while statisfying privacy advocates is what they call the devil in the details.

Very interesting post over at Political Math on how President Obama’s stimulus plan projections are fairing to the real world results. I suggest reading the entire article but the author sums it up this way:

“Their predictions were not just kinda wrong. They were horrifically, disasterously wrong. If President Obama is going to use statistics and charts to push nearly $800 billion in spending, I think we should be able to expect his numbers to at least kinda match the reality that comes out of his policies.”

I wonder how the President and his people will spin this.

backscatter712 on the www.democraticunderground.com site. backscatter712 has decided, like many liberals do, to censor what others may see or hear. All of course helping Jonah Goldberg prove the point he made in Liberal Fascism.

I will add that others have denouced his attempts, like they rightly should. Kudos to them.

So says President Obama. I wonder how he reached that conclusion. Most likely it is President Obama kissing Muslim ass. President Obama also had this to say:

“have to educate ourselves more effectively on Islam.”

Darn right we do. I would suggest the book America Alone by Mark Steyn as an educational starting point.

Well now that settles everything! Then again can you image any judge being nominated for the Supreme Court saying they wouldn’t follow the law? I guess if they were a complete idiot they might so we don’t have to worry about any of the liberal actors out there making it to the Supreme Court.

What needs to be questioned is her understanding of the law and how she would apply it as a justice. Looking at past opinions of her we can expect racial-based rulings. No worries though, she’ll follow the law.

We could also ask what laws she would follow? US Laws? The Consitution? The laws of other countries? Devil in the details andI fear this devil will make it to the Supreme Court.

And provides support to the old axiom:

“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.”

Everyone is free to voice their support, or non-support of others, especially politicians. In the past Leary has voiced his non-support for President Bush, best said by his statement:

“Basically I’d do the exact opposite of everything that Bush has done.”

Now he has President Obama. To say Leary is a supporter or President Obama is like saying Red Sox fans don’t like Yankee fans, it is given. This is easliy supported by Leary’s statement about President Obama:

“I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our Presidents and that he can do no wrong in my book.”

Now what is it Leary likes about President Obama? The ever increasing deficit? Had that with President Bush. Expansion of federal programs? President Bush did that too. President Obama’s policy on Iraq and terrorists in Gitmo? Following President Bush’s playback on those too.

Thank you Denis Leary for removing all doubt.