Clearing it Up

Had a missive from someone I've known for 30 years, asking me a very good question that has never occurred to me before.

Why, he wanted to know did I INSIST on signing correspondence with the word "LOVE", even to male friends ? Didn't I suspect it "bothered" some people???

My answer was---and IS---that it just never rocked my boat one way or the other.

The quality of my Life has always been about giving. And, sometimes, many of us have little to give but our blind affection. That IS the best kind of affectiion, I mean. Blind, non-importuning. One-way.

C.S. Lewis separated "LOVES" into four categories. Agape, the highest Spiritual emotion. Eros, the physical / romantic and conjugal. Philos, the intellectualy appreciation (I Love a Gershwin Tune, How About You ?) And, Storge, affection, magnetism, personal acceptance and agreeable amiability.

I suppose some childhood lonliness and eagerness for close friendship and a sense of belonging is at the root of my predilection towar "Love" or "Luv" as a complimentary close in letters. It is no more than a form of giving of self in my realm.

If it maked someone uncomfortable, that's not "on me".

Once upon a time, old Buck Duke of American Tobacco Co., spit largely on a conference table in front of some ad men from New York.

"You may not like it, but you;ll NEVER forget it", He said. "Now git me something such as that to put on raddy-Oh !"

Maybe that's my very sincere, subliminal ploy.

F & F Fallout ABOUNDS !

Don't you really LOVE it when a rotten, criminal, murderous scandal ripens?

Somehow, as soon as Congressman Darrel Issa supoenaed Atty. Gen. Eric Holder (and others) things started to pop.

CBS now has come up with a new story on one Jean Baptiste Kingery, who was allowed tosmuggle thopusands of grenades into Mexico for the frub cartels and never was prosecuted. Details and Video are HERE !

Then, there is a video on www.Breitbart.com of Janet Napolitano (Big Sis), the Homeland Security Dominatrix, telling a long tale about how she is "tracing" arms and explosives in Mexico. That was in 2009.

The dates about the other new revelations would be hilarious if they were not so murderous.

The president of the Unites States apparently says he knew about the "Fast and Furious" illegal gunwalking plat long before his attorney general, Overseer of the conspiracy, admits HE knew of his ATF's extra-legal practices.

And, weirdest of all, Holder used an alleged "plot" by Iran to kill the Saudi ambassador as a "Hot Breaking" wag-the-dog story to deflect F&F heat from his arse, while the White House admitted President Obama knew about the "plot" last June.

And THIS led to the first face-to-face meeting of US and Iran representatives in years...if not decades !

Why ? Could somebody be....uh...stretching a fact here or there?

It wouldn't be the first time.

Inchoate Occupation

TV talkinghead: "So, you are "OCCUPYING" the statue of Andrew Jackson on Horseback !"

Occupier: "I am ?"

TVT: "Yeah...that's him you're sitting on..."

OCK: "Oh...Is he SOMEBODY ???"

TVT: "Yeah, he was an Inidan killer, a president, and the first rabble-rousing Democrat-with-a-capital-D..."

OCK: Izzat so ?! Y' don' SAY !"

TVT: "Why are you here?"

OCK: "Whutcha mean ?"

TVT: " I mean what do you want ?"

OCK: "Nuthin..."

TVT: "Well what are you protesting?"

OCK: "I own no..."

TVT: "Say again..??"

OCK: "Say whut ?"

TVT: "What are you...I mean, why are you OCCUPYING"this place ? The Reason !???

OCK: "Oh...Hell, man...I dunno...They ain;t tole us yet... Uh..we hate Jews...Hey, man...I gotta go pee ?"

Cut and end of interview. And we have not even learned who paid him to "occupy".

Inside Injustice

A fresh new look at the "Department of Injustice" by a former career U.S. lawyer, Christian Adams, reveals more than just that the Attorney General can't get his stories straight.

In THIS video interview, the attorney / author also reports that the entire section at DoJ tasked with enforcing U.S. election laws is festooned with OIbama posters and the windows blacked out with Obama bumper stickers.





There is a gem....a juicy dead civeaway in this video.





The now-free and private attorney divulges that the reason the DoJ would NOT press for conviction of union thugs who intimidate Ohio voters, physicall and vocally was :





"If we go public, Fox News Channel will make a big deal of it..." He cites email and saved written orders to that effect in his book "INjustice".

This chilling sentence validates what many of us have long suspected. The Obamacrats KNOW and feel scure that their bungvhole buddies at the NYSlimes, WaPo, AssPress and the alphabet network are not going to report ANYTHING negative about this administration. Just Fox News Channel reports ALL the news!

Well...that was true until just this week.

Both CBS and the LATimes have broken ranks and are FURIOIUSLY digging into AG Eric Holder's behavior and that of his "enforcement" minions.

If a special counsel is ever appointed, this running sore scandal will dwarf Watergate.

Good, innocent people dies as a result of these clowns' sinister spree.

Closer and Curiouser

A tip of ourt Borsalino and a clink of our Armagnac snifter to Richard Serrano of the LATimes Washington Bureau who has uncovered email traffic between Arizona and the White House about the "Fast and Furious" gun-running-and tracking debacle that caused the death of former Marine and actibe border guard Brian Terry.

The story, that broke Friday is , in its entirety, available HERE.

So, contrary tothe administration's wished and beliefs, the shuffling around of the head of the BATF director within the Justice Department and the firing of Dennis Burke, the Aerizona US Attorney only served to inflame investigatpors.

Those investigators, in addition to the respected Serrano, who may be 2011's Bib Woodwrd, include Congressman Darrel Issa and Senator Chuck Grassley, who brushed aside an urgent phone call from USAG Eric Holder this week.

They will encounter him face-to-face for a showdown next week.

No more bl;acked out pages in answer to subpoenas will be accepted, Issa warned.

Stay tuned.

See Darrel Issa, Live, Stinging Eric

Just AFTER he shuffled and jived his personnel around, US Attorney General Eric Holder tried to make a conference call to Oversight committee investigating Congressman Darrel Issa in California.

Issa "declined" the call. He will meet with Holder when he gets back to the Beltway next week. Issa says he and Senator Chuck Grassley are sick of being "gamed" with blank and black pages in response to their subpooenas.

"This investigation is not over. We need facts. We have confidential third party testimony" Issa said. He added that that testimony involves people "higher up" who have not testified under oiath regarding the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and its smuggling of guns to Mexican drug cartels that led to the death of an American Border guard, Brian Terry.

CLICK HERE for a live video of Congressman Issa.

It's good news that Issa and Grassley are not falling for the terpsichore of the DoJ. This Fast and Furious scandal is murkier and more deadly than anything in the previous century and revelations from it will serve to strengthen the U.S.A. and its borders in the long run.

CYA or Shell game ?

So, Ken Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in the US Department of Justice has been plucked from the line of fire andmoved to a job in "Forensics" elsewhere in the DoJ.

And, Arizona US attorney Dennis Burke has been sacked as has lesser operator Emory Hurley.

These are the only people whose careers have been adversely affected by Congressman Darrel Issa and Senator Chuck Greassley investigating the BATF illegal "Fast & Furious" gun smuggling operatrion which led to at least one murder of a US Border enforcement official.

Several BATF and DoJ men have been promoted and given raises to keep them happy.

This is the meager response by AG Eric Holder to testimony that BATF personnel acquired at least 2000 (maybe 5000) automatic firearms with "stimulus-apprpriated" money and smuggled them into Mexico to "trace criminals".

The arms ended up scattered all over the southwestern Unitd States, were found in many vehicles owned and operated by undocumented Mexican infiltrators and at the scene of Brian Terry's murder.

Issa's comittee has also received information that a similar operation was carried out between the Tampa Bay area and Central American countries in the Gulf area.

Surely these CYA ahell-game moves will not end this unravelling scandal. No one lost their life in either "Iran-Contra" or Watergate.

And we haven't had a special prosecutor for "Fast and Furious" yet.

Congressman Issa says it is at least "Felony Stupid".

Do NOT miss the cogent comment from a great newdpaper HERE!

It is a fair, unbiased call for more action by "the Obama administration.

F & F The Movie

Thanks to Sean Hannity and Fox News, we now have a completely understandable scenario in living color of the true nature of the bloody expanse of the "Fast and Furious" scandal.

Many other butcheries of our American values have stolen airtime and print media attention from the Doj / BATF wrongdoing in recent daya.

But Congressman Darrell Issa and Senator Chuck Grassley have continued theoir relentless pressure on Attporney General Eric Holde r.

The New Yourk Times just last week launched a personal attack on Issa in a hit piece penned by an ignorant and arrogant fiction writer laced with many misstatements and highlighted by intenmt to defame Issa.

Now, sit back and see the whole story---you just CLICK THIS VIDEO.

Then, stay tuned to this Blog. Because, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, AP and PUBLIC TV will NOT cover this story until someone is impeached.
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HOLDER: EVASIONS & PROMOTIONS

Neither decrepitude nor wilting health shall detour us from following the criminal profligacy of those who used the cloak of U.S. law enforcement to cover death and destruction in the wake of "Fast and Furious" gun rinning along our southern border.

The BIG SHOW of a debt-ceiling hoist and printing of funny money by the Federal Reserve system cannot blot oput the bloody scar left on all of us by the ATF-led keystone cops romp that caused at least one U.S. Border guard's death.

The crew of ATF smallbrains who last appeared before Congress to do their Sergeant Schultz act of "I Know NUTTING...NUTTING.." has all been "promoted" to higher salaries to reward....WHAT ?

Tuesday, Congressman Daniel Issa and Senator Chuck Grassley shared with the media a letter they addressedto Atty. Gen. Eric Holder asking him for the third time to answer their questions put to him a month ago.

They also aked him why he was requesting from them a transcript of secret testimony by ATF. acting director Melson in light of the fact that the Inspector General's Office in the DoJ is supposed to be directing an independent investogation. Why is the IG not requesting the transcript ?

That storyline is expanded HERE .

Sonner, maybe, rather than later, we will find out if the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Justice has been compromised--(read "subverted) .

That would add another impeachable offense to the growing list.

They----and "they" are legion and powerful---cannot run and hide forever. There is an election coming up in 14 months.

Issa Cutting to the Bone

Depot received two requests for any news on the "Fast and Furious / Gunwealker scandal. Commenters said they got news nowhere else.

Therefore, I report the latest.

Representative Darrell Issa's Oversight Committee in the House will interrogate several Department of Justice and BATF officials Tuesday, July 26 who have heretofore been muzzled and out of subpoena "reach".

C-Span will doubtless carry the hearings, but the time and outlet is not yet publiched. Check the C-Span schedule online.

These officials will answer questions about the smuggled firearms found at US Border guard Brian Terry;s murder site and also timeline the efforts made to silence them and, possibly, shred in-house communications regarding the scandal.

Meanwhile, the StateDepartment's coming under increasing scrutiny for allegedly supporting the "gunwalking" of thousands of automatic weapons into the hands of powerul, wealthy CentralAmerican drug cartels.

Most shocking news this week is a lengthy expose' story in the liberal LATimes wherein a family is asking the DoJ and BATF to divulge where guns came from that killed their son in Mexico where he served as a US agent. Read that story HERE.

All in all, an exciting week upcoming in the scandal that will bring down some powerful people when the protective leftwing media is suitably chagrined or choking on its venal complicity.

Eric The Red ! Read & Weep !

I still get an email every now and then asking me to vote in the USATODAY poll about the second amendment. The results of the poll are always enlightening and exhilarating.

Since U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder keeps opining that the second amendment does NOT guarantee citizens the right to "bear arms", the nationsl newspaper keeps the poll alive.,

You can look at the results HERE

It is almost irrelevant and meaningless to vote. Nearly nine million have voted Yes in arrogant slapdown to A G Holder. That is 97% of the vote. Two percent vote "No", agreeing with Holder, and one percent vote "unsure".

It is Holder's DoJ bureau, the ATF gang, that cannot get its story straight about why they PROMOTED the flow of automatic weapons to Mexican drug cartels, and why these arms have been linked to the murder of US border agent Brian Terry and others, and have turned up in routine traffic stops on Arizona highways.

Does AG Holder believe Mexican citizens have the right to bear arms which he denies belong to Americans constitutionally ?

Or is someone promoting a bloodbath that will "convince" terrorized Americans to join Holder's Draconian crusade against gujn ownership?

Maybe after they raise the debt ceiling Congressm,an Darrell Issa and Senator Chuck Grassley can press...painfully, we pray...their probe of ATF and DoJ..

After all, it is a matter of public record that the money used to buy and "walk" the guns illegally into Mexico ($10 million) was earmarked for the ATF / DoJ in THE STIMULUS legislation which brought few, if any, jobs.

Should we just lay it all to these idiots being trapped in Washington, D.C ???

Did He LIE ? Allen West Says "Gitouttahere !!!

Two rather startling developments unfolded in the DoJ scandal wherein the ATF dissemination of illegal automatic arms apparently caused the death of U.S. Borderatrolman Brian Terry...and possibly others.

On the heels of acting ATF director Ken Melson spilling his guts in a secret interview with Congressman Darrell Issa and Senator Chuck Grassley, a Salem, Oregon investigative reporter has uncovered evidence that Attorney General Eric Holder either misled or lied to Issa.

You can read the whole reprt HERE.

Later Sunday, the DAILY CALLER.COM quoted Congressman Allen West of Fortr Lauderdale, FL as saying that if the White House does not immediately replace A.G. Eric Holder we should take that as tacit approval by the chief executive of the entire "Gungate" scandal dubbed "Operation Fast and Furious" by the Department of Justice.

Sooner or later, however distasteful it may be, some unit of the statist lamestream media MUST cover this story.

We would remind them that no one was murdered in either the Watergate of Iran-Contra scandals over which they slavered for years like rabid wolves.

Remember the words....

Somebody "high-up" in the present administration in Washington was quoted by the Associated Press as saying:

"We are working tirelessly behind the scenes and under the radar to strengthan gun control in this country..."

Actually, I retreat to my old newsgathering days here, and cannot attribute thsi quote because if you do not have a recording....or even THEN, if you do not have PERMISSION, you cannot quote some people.

But I read it and I saw the video. If you have it, send it to Cato's Depot by way of com,ment or email: amailto:allenbill13@gmail.com.

Well, today, June 7, 2011, two things were reported that have bearing on this.

First it has been revealed in Florida that BATF officers in that state "gun-walked" illegal arms to Honduras.

Then, the intrepid team of REAL journalists at Channel 15 in Phoenix reported that a routine traffic stop in Arizona flushed out 43 illegal aurtomatic weapons, ALL identified as weapons from the "Fast and Furious" operation of buying and disseminating arms under auspices of agents charged by statute with HALTING illegal arm,s sales.

A very well-known and respected financial broker and Blogger has some startling conclusions and commentys about this.

CHECK HER HERE

The pot is now boiling. A congressman close to developments of the scandal is appearing on Lou Dobbs' show as I type.

Send out for copious amounts of popcorn !

Hit Th' Dirt, Evvahbuddy !!!

So, a dispatch today (7-6-11) reports that the man in Mexico the BATF used taxpayers' money to ship illgeal arms to was an FBI stool-pigeon-dope dealer !

Not only that, but the acting director of the BATF, one Kenneth Melson has reportedly told an Inspector Genertal and both Congressman Darrel Issa and Senatot Chuck Grassley that forces within the Department of Justice are "obstructing the investigation into "fast and Furious" by hiding information and proffering "fal;se denials" to the lawmakers.

HERE IS THE LATEST.

Things will begin to move now that Issa and Grassley have information that FBI information and Drug Enforcemen Administration officials may have been silenced by DoJ "Higher-Ups".

And, remember, a DoJ Inspectopr General is not beholden to anyone but sitting justives, and ordinarily cannot be bullied or stopped fropm probing.

I believe: (1) No one is powerful enough to keep the lid on this murderous scandal much longer, and (2) happenings will be too (Pun Intended) Fast and Furious for this non-influiential Blog to keep up with it.

But we WERE there i the beginning, eh?

The situation is "fluid" and fast moving now.

CLICK HER for a copy of Darrell Issa's crisp letter to A.G. Eric Holder , late breaking today.

ATF Quagmire Widening--Not Drying up !

An ABC network affiliate, Channel 15 inPhoenix will NOT allow the Justice Department / ATF scandal die away!

Instead, a team from the station has uncovered at least TWO instances in Glendale, Arizona and two in Phoenix where weapons "straw-walked" illegally from gun dealerts into Mexico have been used in criminal attacks. See the original story HERE.

ATF agents have testified that at least 1800 AK47 and other automatic firearms ar "out there" in Mexico, and now, in the American southwest.

Congressman Darrel Issa will probably delve fuirther into the scandal after the Fourth of July recess.

This latest facet of the scandal, which began when some of these illegal weapons were found atthe murder scene of U.S. Border Agent Brian Terry in Arizona last December.

Minority democrats on Issa's oversight committee issued a "whitewash"
report last week which mentiond neither the illegality of ATF chaperoning of sales and smuggilg of illegal arms into Mexoco or the death of agent Terry.

These new revelations from the intrepid TV news team make the democrat report seem sad, silly and laughable.

Acting ATF director Ken Melson has been urged to resign, but he has refused and has signalled Congressman Issa he wants to testify.

There is, obviously, more coming soon.

Baaaaad Move, Bozos !

It must be getting VERY uncomfortable in the ATF and the Justice Department, since the White House had to play "Ignorant" about the bureau's guns-to-Mexico deal blew up

Despite a warming from Congressman Darrell Issa to the DoJ and the BATF NOT to retaliate against agents and whistleblowers cooperating with Issa'sOversight Committee investigation, the retaliation has begun, according to the NATIONAL EXAMINER HERE.

They're playing "chicken" with Issa ?! Baaaad move, Bozos.

Agents and witnesses are spilling ATF secrets everywhere. The suckup media is being shamed into covering the scandal. Somebody must PAY ! So instead of the acting ATF director and the deputy director and DoJ bureaucrats, the courageous, corruption fighting agents are reportedly being terminated.

This cannot stay suppressed. Check TV and the Internet.

Sorry, Bub, It Won't Work !

If the Obama administration thinks it can satiate the lust of Darrell Issa's congressional oversight committee ---OR the American people--for the TRUTH by throwing Ken Melson under the sagging OBus, it is mistaken.

Melson is the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. He has been "acting" in two adminstrations and is believed to be on the skids, a fall guy for a gunrunning scheme carried out by the BATF, which is tasked by statute with halting all "gunrunning".

The scheme is suspected of costing the life of a U.S. Border guard, Brian Terry, in Arizona last December, and suspected in many more needless costly raids from Mexico, where the BATF allegedly "walked" thousdands of illegally aquired and moved weapons.

On Tuesday, Issa's spokesman, Frederick Hill told The Daily Caller Congressmam Issa has just begun, and that Melson's impending resignation will not halt the investigation which will reveal much higher-placed administration "architects" of the deadly ruse gone amok. Check and read THIS LINK.

More hearings are in store, and now that the White House has acknow;ledged the "problem" and one head is under the axe, the mass media will be feeding soon.

As we have noted befre here, no one was murdered in Nixon's Burglary or in Ollie North's quest for aid to the Nicaraguan Conta cause.

GunRunDeathGate Profile Bulges

While the AssPress blushes, the international press is pressing the story of Border agent Brian Terry's death by fire from weapons obstensibly smuggled into Mexico by the BATF, the Justice department agency tasked with PREVENTING gunruynning.

Hearings last Monday and Wednesday in Rep. Darrell Issa's oversight committee, and statements collected by Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley have established that a cover-up has been mounted within DOJ since two weapons used to kill Terry were identified as having been helped over the border in a scheme named Operation Fast and Furious.

The international attentuion brought about a White House Statement Saturday to the effect that the president "knew nothing" about the BATF smuggling of guns and "did not authorize it". See WH spokesman Carney's statement HERE.

These things take time to really mature you know. But once the president's mouthpiece is involved, that toothpaste is out of the tube.

No one was murdered in Watergate or Iran-Contra...Much less a law enforcer.

Stay tuned.

With Friends Like These.....

"They all came and ate my barbecue and then went and voted for the other feller..."

So quoth Marvin Griffin when my old frienf Carl Sanders defeated him in a long ago Georgia election.

Not unusual, altogether in the Peach State's electorate. Buit very rare in the chief magistrate of the Unioted States.

Our president made his first great foreign affairs faux pas when he gave Queen Elizabeth II a stack of stale CDs. Just a few days ago, he made an awkward blunder toasting her at Buckingham Palace where he and Michelle were her guests.

He was well fed and well boozed and cheered by all of the United Kingdon, even cooly by Prime Minister David Cameron a very successful Conservative. Our president was allegedly "cementing" the "special relationship" between the UK and the USA.

But now, we see this same president siding with...nay, VOTING with-- Marxist Brit-hater Hugo Chavez of Venezuela in the OAS against Cameronm and Her Magesty in the matter of the Falkland Islands. See The Telegraph story by Nile Gardiner HERE .

The UK owns the Falkland Islands which lie far off the eastern coast of Argentina. An invaion was mounted in the 1980's by the Argentines. Margaret Thatcher's government sent them home swiftly after a bloody few days.

Now, Argentina is marshalling all the little despots like Chavez to demand Britain capitulate and "discuss" the Falklands.

It's a slap in the face and a kick in the head for the US administration, headed byB.H.O and Hillary Clinton, to snuggle up to Chavez and the mischief makers in this farce.

But, it IS typical of the contrarian drift of the burrowing, steaming
Hate-America-Hate-Britain hyprocricy. BHO's first betrayal of this deep aversion was to trash and return a very valuable oval office bust of Sir Winstin Churchill in nasty gesture.

As any Fool can Plainly See, QEII and Cameron have no faithfil friend in this instance.

Does anyone, for that matter ?

It's MY Dead horse....

There are not many readers of this space who do not remember the Watergate hearings and the Tran-Contra drama on Capitol Hioll.

The consequence of the former was the resignation of a president. The latter brought about a slew of resignations and some serious reformation of loose-cannon diplomacy within the non-State Department executive "security" personnel.

Neither of these scandals were about U.S. government agents causing the death of other government agents.

But we have another blockbuster scandal on the near horizon about just such grisly stuff. It has been thickening for months. Now it is in full cry and fruition, with subpoenas flying and hearings beginning next Monday, June 13.

And the hearings, which will be lengthy, are happening for the same reason that the Watergate hearings were held...AND the Iran-Contra hearings were held:

Stonewalling. Obstruction of Justice.

Congressman Darrel Issa and Senator Chuck Grassley have been trying to find out whether guns and ammunition illegally introduced into Mexico by the ATF to trace drug cartels brought about the death of a U.S. Border patrol officer last winter.. AND if the same arms and ammo brought down an enforcement helicopter two wweeks ago. Such rifles have been traced from the killing. Now its down to bullets.

Issa has announced his Oversight committee will issue "many" supboenas in upcoming weeks and, maybe months. A great many "whistleblowers" and internal informants have reportedly been uncovered by Issa's investigators.

The reason I am sketching it in this space is because the alphabet television outles and the left wing suppressors of truth news are not likely to bring it to anyone's attention.

There are plenty of details from The Hill RIGHT HERE .

Thank God for Brian Lamb and C-Span, we might have a seat at the hearings. If not, return to this space. It;s my favorite deceased nag and I am not finished beating on it.