Now that I'm back

BALTIMORE, Maryland August 23, 2013- The news starts again. Having battled several personal setbacks, the time away is over...There is entirely too much to report and comment on to limit this to a single topic or single-subject headline...The Islamic Terrorist disguised as an army major, the man who shot and killed 13 American Soldiers and wounded dozens of others in the worst shooting rampage and mass murder in army history, has been convicted by a military jury of all counts at his trial in Texas.  Permitted to defend himself - and by all accounts doing quite the pathetic job of it - Nidal asked few questions, made few objections and called no witnesses.  He admitted to being the shooter in his opening statement.  His pre-trial efforts consisted mostly of trying, unsuccessfully, to convince the court to allow him to keep his beard.  He was denied.  

Clumsy and Despicable

BALTIMORE, Maryland August 11, 2013- A lot of folk have heard the elitist nonsense about it being inappropriate to criticize someone as special as obama for the various corruptions inundating his regime in this, his second four years (of planned descent into a marxist imbroglio).  Somehow these elitist commentators still believe obama is some sort of secular saviour come to pull the cowboys and riffraff that populate much of America, along with the low information (out of touch, don't care) crowd that lives in the rest of the country, into their vision of a leftist utopia. 

Leftist Utopia?  

But even this pathetic group is hard-pressed to make excuses in these days of the Benghazi boil over, the IRS and now FEC conflagrations, and the shocking revelations of wholesale internal spying, including "look-ins" and "listen-ins" of non-probable-cause domestic phone and email communications.  It was, after all, the far left that led the ding dongs against President Bush when he revealed a NRS and CIA program that monitored calls originating overseas from numbers that had pre-existing ties to known terrorists.  Bush's program looked safe and happy compared to obama's pot luck pick-a-number hoe-down.   Even the Far Left Anti-American contingent is having a difficult time trying to excuse his idiotic flim-flams and unapologetic anti-American scheming.  In Benghazi, for instance, he was out-maneuvered by some third rate rural islamic terrorist from the wilds of the Libyan outback.  The guy led the attack that butchered four Americans, then met with reporters in some tenth-rate cafe to brag about it. That would be, as they say, right out in the open.  We can launch drone attacks in Afghanistan but cannot nab a self-identifying terrorist meeting western reporters in the open for broadcasts on the evening news. About one year later, with their hands tied and everything fully out of control, top functionary Eric "the red" Holder (a great attorney general, we were told recently) has the guy indicted.  That's right, indicted.  Here, in the USA.  Did Eric the Red think he would turn himself in?  

In the meantime, other functionaries told media people over at the DNC that the USA could not have put military assets on the ground for at least 24 hours after word of the attack came.  This, from the land where Charleston is a gulf port.  Perhaps a drive there when you're up at da Vineyard? I'll come along.  

Just for the record, there was a full military contingent on the tarmac at Tripoli about to take off when - and this is almost unimaginable even for this bunch of leftist dimwits - the militarily astute V. Jarret told them to "Stand Down."  Upstairs there at the Whitehouse, obama phoned Hilary to hash out the details of the video-caused-it excuse for those fun-loving folk in the low information crowd.  And, word is, that lone phone call was obama's contribution to those all out efforts to save Ambassador Stevens and the other three dead Americans.
When that lie fell apart, it became necessary to dispatch thugs to the CIA to threaten, and then actually administer monthly polygraphs to the many eyewitnesses who had a mind to fill the nation in on the adventures of barack in time of military crises.  

It's Flaherty!

BALTIMORE, Maryland August 3, 2013- Not many weeks ago Credible and Incisive reported that the Orioles were facing a very important decision about their young infielder, Ryan Flaherty.  Flaherty was the Orioles' regular second baseman during most of the first half of this season while perennial All Star, Brian Roberts, recovered again from injuries.  Roberts had been injured most of the last three seasons.  Before last season the Orioles took Flaherty in the Rule 5 draft.  This "draft" allows big league teams to select minor league players from other teams who are not on that team's 40-man roster and have been in the minor leagues for a certain number of seasons without seeing big league action.  T.J. McFarland, on this year's team, is another Rule 5 Player.  The tough thing about Rule 5 picks is the requirement that they remain on the selecting team's big league roster the entire season or else they have to be offered back to the team that lost them for the waiver price of $25,000.  Flaherty is the son of an NCAA Division III baseball coach and the Orioles had no intention of offering him back.  But for much of the first half of 2012 he remained on the bench.  Then, in the amazing second half, he began getting more and more starts at second base.  The reason was his tendency to hit the occasional home run.  His fielding was adequate but his batting average was not.  When the Birds failed to trade for a second baseman in the offseason, save for Alexi Casilla, a utility player, it was thought that the thinking was that Roberts was finally ready to retake his position.  But after just a game or two in the starting line-up, Roberts injured his groin muscle and it required surgery.  Once again, Flaherty was the choice.  This time around his fielding was sensational.  And he continued to hit the occasional home run.  But once again his average was anemic, until about one month before Roberts returned.  Then, suddenly, his average rapidly improved and his homers became more than occasional.  The Orioles suddenly looked like they had a budding star on their hands.  After three years of waiting and hoping Roberts would return, the Orioles suddenly had a decision on their hands.

Well, Roberts has returned and stayed healthy for the first time in three years.  His average is not what it used to be but his fielding and every other great attribute about him has been on display at Camden Yards.  Not on display has been Flaherty.  Until last week, he sat.  Then he got some four starts - including one at first base and one at shortstop - and coupled them with solid hitting.  Once again his name is on people's minds.  There are two reasons he has re-emerged.  First, Roberts was scuffling at the same time the Birds were.  Second, Roberts went on Paternity leave.  More and more it looks like Flaherty is in the Orioles plans again.  Roberts, who at age 35 is far and away the oldest Oriole, will need more than a few days off to keep him from running down.  And Flaherty seems to have the perfect attitude to ride out the wait.

Late breaking

LINTHICUM, Maryland August 5, 2013-  Today, Alex Rodriguez was suspended through next season, a penalty that will last over 200 games.  It is likely to end his career.  For an athlete who started his career as a consensus Hall-of-Famer, it is the saddest ending possible.  What's worse, Rodriguez could actually be in the Yankee's line-up tonight in Chicago if he elects to file an appeal of his penalty.  Such an appeal would clear the way for him to play about five games pending his appeal hearing.  Rodriquez has not played this season due to a variety of injuries.  He last played in the playoffs last season and looked terrible.  Oriole pitching ate him alive, and in game four he was pinch hit for after striking out several times.  He did not play in the decisive Game 5 of that series. Things have gone downhill from there...obama's decision to close 21 US embassies for an entire week has drawn criticism and skepticism world-wide.  Almost every critic sees it as a desperate ploy by the White House to divert attention from the several scandals that have reached the boiling point.  Foremost among those is the Benghazi affair, where late reports continue to insist that the White House has pulled out all of the stops to keep CIA agents and others in the foreign service from talking about the sordid affair that saw four Americans, including our ambassador to Libya, tortured and killed by Islamic Terrorists at the American Consulate in that embattled City.  More and more rumors have it that the ambassador was spearheading a ramped-up obama effort to supply Syrian Rebels with arms in their battle with the Assad regime.  Both the governing regime and the rebels are thought to be Anti-American.  I guess it should be said that I was writing about the Syrian Regime...

obama's desperate coverup

BALTIMORE, Maryland August 2, 2013- Newsmax and other media sources are reporting tonight that the CIA is taking draconian steps to keep those agents and others with information about the Benghazi Massacre from speaking publicly.  Fox News is reporting that five CIA employees are being forced to sign new nondisclosure agreements even after they signed other nondisclosure notes earlier.  CNN says some top CIA operatives are being subjected to frequent, even monthly polygraph tests in the agency's low brow efforts to stifle those with anti-regime evidence from speaking to those reporters willing to print truthful articles about the obama administration's marginally legal cover-up of the sordid mishandling that led to four American deaths. Newsmax is currently headlining a comprehensive story on these late developments. It is believed that one or more of the dead Americans, including possibly the American Ambassador to Libya, were tortured before their deaths.  Many people have spoken of desperate pleas for military assistance as the well-coordinated attack grew in its viciousness.  Others have told of military forces literally on the tarmac and set to leave to relieve hard-pressed American defenders whose extremely low numbers were totally the fault of obama and Hilary Clinton refusing requests to increase security at the American consulate and annex building in Benghazi.  Those forces on the tarmac were ordered on several occasions to "stand down" by some American in Washington yet to be identified.  Many have said that only obama himself is authorized to give such an order.  Other sources have said that despite the desperate pleas for help, the only thing that obama did that evening was call Clinton to coordinate the cover-up story that the attack was caused by a video made by a California man that had yet to be viewed by anyone in the Middle East.  al Qada and other related Islamic militant groups had poured into Benghazi after the death of Libyan strongman Mo Qadafi. American sources had reported the increase in al Qada's strength to both the State Department and Pentagon, but obama and Clinton declined requests for a security build-up because it would have been directly contrary to Obama's campaign boast that he had cut off al Qada's head and rendered it weak when he allowed American forces to confront and kill al Qada leader Osama bin Laden.