THE BLACKBURN REPORT

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Sunday, July 1, 2012

Darrell Issa Calls Hezbollah "Legitimate"

Jihad Darrell announced that terrorist group Hezbollah is legitimate and has never been involved with terrorist activities, according to the Tehran Times, IRNA (the official Iranian news agency), and the Beirut Daily Star.
Oh really? I guess he forgot about that insignificant event in the early ’80s, in which Hezbollah blew at least 241 U.S. Marines to bits in Beirut – not to mention several other Americans the group murdered between 1975 and 1990, for a total of at least 261 dead Americans. This charming organization committed the torture, murder and hanging display of the body of U.S. military attach? Col. Richard Higgins’ body. These are the monsters who kidnapped CIA Chief William Buckley in the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, transferred him to Iran, and tortured and bludgeoned him to death.
They are all turning over in their bloody graves, thanks to congressional useful idiot, Darrell Issa. Talk about aid and comfort to the enemy.
Then there’s that stubborn little fact that Hezbollah, Arabic for “Warriors for Allah,” or “Party of Allah” (hint: it’s not a birthday party), is one of the three major components of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida terrorist network, according to the Wall Street Journal and countless other sources.
Jihad Darrell’s new Hezbollah buddies officially support “the use of hostages” and “suicide in jihad operations.” When the State Department released this year’s terrorist list, Hezbollah was on it – yet again. Hezbollah’s response: “We regard the hostile [act] of the American administration as proof that we are following the right path.” Hezbollah declares that, “it is the duty of all Muslims to engage in Islamic jihad if it ensures the ultimate goal, which consists in inflicting losses on the enemy.” That enemy is the West, particularly America. Maybe these were the “humanitarian” actions of Hezbollah that Jihad Darrell was quoted as praising.
“I have a great deal of sympathy for the work that Hezbollah tries to do,” he told the Beirut Daily Star. Hmmm. To which work is Jihad Darrell referring? Is it 1986 Hezbollah’s torturing to death of Ibrahim Benesti, aged 54, of Beirut, and his elderly relatives, Yehudah and Yosef, whose only crime was being Jewish? Benesti, whose family – like many Lebanese Jews – had been in Lebanon since 2,000 B.C. (before the birth of Mohammed), was a charitable and kindly candy store owner who gave free candy to children of all religions. Or maybe Jihad Darrell was referring to the “humanitarian” 1985 Hezbollah torture-murder of Isaac Tarab, 63, and Chaim Halala Cohen, 39, also guilty of being Jewish.
This man, Darrell Issa, is digusting.
More disgusting is that Issa was representing the House International Relations Committee on which he serves, leading a congressional delegation including Arab-American Congressman Nick Joe Rahall, D-Va.
And he hangs out with disgusting people. Issa partied with terrorist-in-chief Yasser Arafat, gushing over him as “a charismatic individual, despite being a very small man and very old. He gives you food off his plate if you sit next to him.”
Sickening.
Political consultant and columnist, Michael Andreen, an Issa constituent, is outraged, saying it’s time for apologist Issa to go. But he still has “a good laugh at Arafat using the na?ve junior congressman as his own personal food taster.”
Issa also hung out in Syria, the country which sanctions Hezbollah and other terrorist groups, and which allowed Hezbollah to get its explosives through security checkpoints to kill the 241 U.S. Marines.
Issa buddy Arafat provided much of the explosive weaponry and was involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, mining the perimeter of the U.S. embassy in Iran during the hostage crisis, the torture-murders of U.S. Ambassador to Sudan Cleo Noel and Charge D’Affaires George Curtis Moore (the highest ranking black in the U.S. Foreign Service at the time) – beaten so badly authorities couldn’t tell which was black and which was white.
If he sounds familiar, Jihad Darrell is the same congressman who threw a temper tantrum, screaming about profiling, when he showed up an hour late for an Air France flight, with a suspicious one-way ticket to Saudi Arabia, and was refused entry to the already boarded plane. Issa didn’t fool security, but he managed to charm others with his phoniness. Columnist Debra Saunders wrote a whole column, “Ahsan Baig’s Molehill,” lauding Issa for denouncing racial profiling lawsuits and advocating that Arabs “adjust” and make “sacrifices in wartime.” Problem is, at the same time, he was telling every other press source about his plans for new, anti-profiling legislation against airlines, to line Arabs’ and their trial lawyers’ pockets and risk our security.
Many advocate that America emulate Israel in its dealings with terrorism. That’s a great idea, with regard to Issa. Recently, Israel stripped Arab Member of the Israeli Knesset, Azmi Bashara, of his immunity from prosecution for urging the Palestinians to attack Israel and copy Hezbollah, its murders and suicide bombings. Israel is prosecuting Bashara, and we should do the same with the treasonous Issa.
Ironically, Jihad Darrell’s last name, Issa, means “Jesus” in Arabic. But, instead of turning the other cheek in 2002, voters in his 48th district should eagerly mark the ballot for his opponent.

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Issa's Fast and Furious hearings nothing but a Witch Hunt

 

President Obama asserted executive yesterday on certain Justice Department documents related to the "Fast and Furious" political witchunt by Rep. Darrell Issa and House Republicans. If the witch hunt itself isn’t absurd enough now the Fox News and GOP talking point of the day is the President himself must be directly involved in what the GOP believes was a gun running conspiracy to have people killed so that Americans will rise up against gun ownership and the Second Amendment.
Apparently Darrell Issa and the House Republicans have nothing better to do than put together this charade show trial of wasting millions of dollars in taxpayer money to make repeated attempts at embarrassing the president and contributing to his electoral defeat. The Republican Party has never sunk so low as in this moment, abusing their privilege and power and seeking to destroy Barack Obama through almost totalitarian means.

The Attorney General has already handed over roughly 7,000 documents and the additional documents Issa is demanding to review are non-subpoenable by Congress as they relate to open investigations. The documents that Issa is demanding are protected by law. So the lawmaker who is contemptuous of laws himself holds the Attorney General in contempt for upholding the law. This is a quote from one of the first documents already handed over:
"The Department of Justice says it already has handed over more than 7,000 pages of records to House investigators, and that the remaining material Issa wants could jeopardize criminal prosecutions. One of those criminal prosecutions is the investigation into the death of Agent Brian Terry." The President has to invoke executive privilege because Issa is abusing his chairmanship in the name of good theater. His demand to see documents relating to open investigations could actually get more people killed. But so what? "It'll be good theater" to hear Darrell Issa tell it.
So while we have millions of people still out of work and our infrastructure continues to fall down around us, we have a GOP who would rather spend our tax dollars on this political theatre. From day one the Republicans declared that they would do whatever it took to defeat this President. Hopefully, this political game should be enough to cost Issa and the rest of the House Republicans their jobs.


Monday, June 11, 2012

New Disturbing Questions About Romney That Won't Go Away

How many wives does Mitt Romney have?
Well we don't have the answer to that, do we?
In a book written by the inventor of Mormonism, which he called “The Book of Mormon”the author,
Joseph Smith, has God saying “Ye shall have many wives.”
now, while most people think Mormonism is just another whacky religion, like Scientology  or Islam, Mitt Romney claims to believe it's “commandments” and that their “Holy Book”, which was written by Joseph Smith, was actually written by God, by God!

So back to the question, how many wives does Mitt Romney have?
Most people believe that marriage is between two people.
A man and a woman, or a woman and a woman, or a man and a man.
The key is it's two people.
Sources say that Romney doesn’t believe this.
Sources close to Romney say he believes marriage is between a man and as many women as he can afford.
Sort of like what Newt Gingrich believes without the divorce part.
We have asked to see Romney's marriage certificate.
He produced a “photocopy” of a marriage certificate.
Does this mean the marriage certificate was altered or forged?
Draw your own conclusion.
Something else kind of troubling about the Mittster.
He has said, “Corporations are people, my friends.”
So, if he believes corporations are people, and they are his friends, does this mean he can marry a corporation?
Can he marry multiple corporations???

These are troubling questions, stay tuned.


Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Koch Brothers Purchase Wisconsin Governor's Office

The Governorship of Wisconsin has been bought and paid for, showing that, at least in this instance, money trumps people. ......MB
Walker outspent Barrett by a 7-to-1 margin, which may be a sign of things to come for the 2012 election season.
The power of Citizens United brought $30 million to the Walker campaign, most of which came from the Koch brothers Super PAC and sources outside of Wisconsin.
Tom Barrett’s funding came primarily from inside Wisconsin, and only totaled $5 million.
Scott Walker’s victory is bad news for Wisconsin unions, since Walker and the Republican Party will likely use the win to further shrink union membership and rights.
However, while Wisconsin will retain a Republican governor, exit polls showed that President Obama was still favored over Mitt RomneyMitt Romney by a 54% to 42% margin, in the November presidential race.