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Aaron Rodgers; What a Treat to Watch!

Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers

This man's performing at a sustained level rarely, if ever, seen before in the history of the NFL.  His reactions, his accuracy, his execution of plays, are all simply phenomenal.

Perhaps this pace is indeed unsustainable.  But, in the interim, watch along and appreciate what's happening.  You will not witness such near perfection often, if ever again.

enjoy,

Jeff

Fools on Parade

Nice preparation there, Totenberg. And this fool's still employed on television?

Let us remember...No one died in Watergate.

It appears the Democrat Party-funded national news organizations cannot be bothered with the details of this story.

Holder Lied, Agents Died?

 Posted 07/26/2011 06:41 PM ET

Scandal: As hearings reveal the attorney general to be either a charlatan or a boob, word comes of possible FBI complicity in letting guns "walk" into Mexico, ordered by an administration pushing gun control.

If there was any doubt that Project Gunrunner and its offshoot, Operation Fast and Furious, had little to do with stopping gun-trafficking into Mexico and a lot to do with creating an atmosphere for more gun control, it ended with the revelation by Fox News that two convicted felons were allowed to buy and move more than 300 guns into Mexico, something the FBI should have caught but didn't.

Under current federal law, people with felony convictions are not permitted to buy weapons, and those with felony arrests are typically flagged while the FBI conducts a thorough background check through its National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).

According to court records reviewed by Fox News, two of the 20 defendants indicted in the Fast and Furious investigation — and, yes, there have been indictments — have felony convictions. Jacob Wayne Chambers and Sean Christopher Stewart obtained more than 360 weapons despite criminal records that should have prevented them from buying even one gun.

When asked about the breakdown, Stephen Fischer, a spokesman for the NICS System, said the FBI had no comment. We are not surprised. Since day one, you could here crickets chirp every time the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives or the Department of Justice was asked about an operation that got two U.S. agents killed.

We suspect the FBI was ordered to look the other way just as ATF agents were told to every time they had a chance to interdict weapons going to Mexico, allegedly the whole purpose of the operation. That order could only have come from Attorney General Eric Holder.

"Allowing loads of weapons that we knew to be destined for criminals — this was the plan," ATF agent John Dodson testified before Rep. Darrell Issa's House Government Oversight Committee. "It was so mandated." Agent Olindo James Casa said that "on several occasions I personally requested to interdict or seize firearms, but I was always ordered to stand down and not to seize the firearms."

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One ATF agent who talked to Fox News said that NICS officials called the ATF in Phoenix whenever their suspects tried to buy a gun. Instead of stopping the transactions, the green light was usually given to allow the transaction to proceed it.

Both President Obama and Attorney General Holder have disavowed any knowledge of the ATF's actions, though we have documented how Holder boasted of the program to Mexican officials and a deputy attorney general said things were done as "the president has directed us."

Rep. Issa is certain that the Fast and Furious operation was known by most top officials at the Justice Department and that Holder either knew and misled Congress or was so out of the loop he was guilty of incompetent mismanagement. Issa's not sure which is worse: "He knew and he's lied to Congress, or he didn't know, and he's so detached that he wasn't doing his job."

Border Patrol Agent Agent Brian Terry and Immigration Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata were killed in separate incidents where weapons allowed to "walk" into Mexico were recovered. "Brian Terry's loss was preventable," says Issa. So was Jaime Zapata's.

Now the FBI may have been coerced into being an accessory. "It is unconscionable and goes beyond just being a terribly ill-conceived investigation to bordering, if not crossing, into criminal activity," says Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., a former federal prosecutor and member of Issa's committee.

The lies, the intimidation of witnesses, the administration denials — all are part of a cover-up strongly reminiscent of Watergate except for one thing: Nobody died at Watergate.

Expedient Justice Was Once Commonplace

There's a history lesson here.  Note how long it took from the assassination attempt, the arrest, the trial and the sentencing, all of which finally culminated with a death penalty.  Keep such brevity in mind when reviewing today's legal matters at hand.  In contrast, today's judicial system has been deliberately crafted into a veritable gravy train consuming valuable time and resources to simply justify burdensome costs in support of a parasitic legal process gone mad.

Abstract: Contains files released by the FBI related to the assassination attempt of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Miami at Bayside Park, Florida.

From the Department of Justice Website: "On February 15, 1933, Guiseppe Zangara attempted to assassinate Franklin Delano Roosevelt while the then President-elect was giving a speech in Miami, Florida. The United States Secret Service was responsible for the primary investigation and the FBI's role was mainly administrative in nature."

Zangara, an Italian anarchist, had lived in New Jersey since 1924, and had only been in Miami for a couple of months. According to the papers, "he was in Miami because it was warm and he was out of work, and that he had lost $200 on the dog races." It is said that he wanted to kill kings and presidents of wealthy governments since he was 17.

By chance, Zangara heard that FDR would be in Miami to give a speech. Three days before the shooting, Zangara purchased a 38 caliber pistol at a Miami Avenue pawn shop. As Roosevelt finished a short speech at Bayside Park, Zangara fired five rounds from 25 feet. Roosevelt was completely untouched by the gunfire due to Zangara losing his footing atop an uneven chair, and a bystander striking his arm. One bullet struck Chicago's Mayor Anton Cermak who was shaking hands with Roosevelt at the time. Four others were wounded, including Mrs. Joseph Gill, wife of the President of Florida Power and Light.

An example of swift justice, Zangara pled guilty five days later and was sentenced to 80 years in Raiford Prison. At his sentencing he said of the President-elect, "I decide to kill him and make him suffer.  I want to make it 50-50. Since my stomach hurt I want to make even with capitalists by kill the President.  My stomach hurt long time."

Anton Cermak subsequently died from his wounds two weeks later, and Zangara was immediately tried for his murder. Zangara was sentenced to the electric chair and executed on March 20 at Raiford.  Unrepentent, Zangara was cursing and railing against capitalists as he was put to death.

Although Zangara said he acted alone, some evidence and theories linked him with organized groups responsible for additional terrorist acts. Others claim that Zangara's true target was Mayor Cermak, who had alleged ties with organized crime.

The time frame?  A little more than one month.  How's that for expediency?  Oh, if only our judicial system were that efficient today!

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