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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

3 Barbs on the Harpoon of Corruption

Haha dramatic titleeeee. Anyway, sorry I haven't been posting on here I have had a very busy couple of days, but I'm back on it! But what this post is about:

I have been listening for a few days and there are 3 things that seem to not get much attention these days, or at least not enough, that happen to be going on in the government. One is the movement of actions/announcements, either forward or backward, for political gain regardless of national security issues or accountability issues associated with that action/announcement. The second is the blatant disregard for the development of the people of this nation and its economy that this president has seemed to acquire more and more as the election comes. The third and last is the complete disregard for ethics that has been shown by this administration when it comes to cleaning its own house. If you can't already tell, this is going to be a long one people haha, I'll try to leave it under 2 paragraphs for each one.

I will start off with this first post about the actions/announcements, the other 2 will be in subsequent posts probably done by the end of today as well. The 3 things that are at the forefront of this issue are the handling of Solyndra, the handing of the announcement that Bin Laden had been killed, and the announcement of America's decision regarding the oil pipeline from Canada. Each represents a different scenario in which the administration of this country had the choice between using information for its proper use, or using it for political gain.

Which do you think they chose?

Solyndra: Solyndra (for anyone who doesn't know, very brief background) Solyndra was a solar company that was given over 500 million dollars from the government in order to develop as part of the "America goes green!" BS (not that going green is bad, but its bs) that we hear all the time (see below).  This company was financially unstable and unmanageable. EVEN BUSH TURNED THEM AWAY! Anyway, long story short the company goes belly up (not before getting another 75 million from private investors that of course was paid back instead of the government money), and when it had to announce massive layoffs before the 2010 midterm elections.......guess who told them to put it off until after? Too bad that didn't have any impact.

This type of mild corruption has to do with the issue of transparency. It is not a blatant display of corruption because, to be fair to Obama, the fact that the company went belly up was essentially not his fault. However, his attempt that delaying the announcement of its failure for political gain is something I take issue with. Never mind the fact that Solyndra's primary investor is a Democratic party donor......but that's another story.

See below for articles:

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/solyndra/index.html?inline=nyt-org

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/us/politics/solyndra-was-asked-to-delay-layoff-news-till-after-midterms-memo-says.html

As far as Bin Laden's death went. A former Navy SEAL commander named Chuck Pfarrer is releasing a new book entitled "SEAL Target Geronimo, The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama bin Laden" that is his take, after interviewing participants/observers/etc., on how the mission was really carried out. But I'm not going to talk about that because until I read the book myself I will be skeptical. However.......it makes common sense that the handing of the mission was used improperly for political gain.

Let's look at the scenario here:
Navy SEALs get the "Go-ahead" to take him out
They take him out
They report they have taken him out
They gather intel/evidence & leave
The announcement is made immediately after that bin Laden has been killed.

Now lets think about this for a second. The #1 wanted man in modern history since probably post-1980, if not post-WW2 has just been killed. His home compound has been raided and invaluable information has been gathered by the SEALs. We should immediately announce "WE GOT 'IM!" right? WRONG.

Almost all of the intelligence gathered at the site was instantaneously useless when we announced to the whole world that we had taken out the head of Al-Qaeda. As soon as the announcement was made, do you think his #2,3,4,5,6,7,etc. all decided to stay where they were? NO! They all moved. Realistically, all of them could have moved 5 buildings down the street from wherever they happened to currently be, and we wouldn't find them. The intelligence gathered wasn't even categorized and filed away before it was rendered useless! Sure, we killed bin Laden.....but we did very little to hurt Al-Qaeda except from a marketing standpoint.

Point is, the announcement of his killing should ONLY have been authorized by the military (even though I'm sure the whole president being the commander in chief situation lets him supersede their advice......but that's a story for another day) when THEY decided it was correct to do so. It should have been determined what, if any, intel gathered was time-sensitive and if so, how long it needed to be contained for. But......oh well, at least Obama got to announce he killed Osama!!!! except he was golfing at the time.......what a P.O.S., I'm sorry but at least pretend to act like you care about the lives you're endangering when you put the most lethal fighting force on Earth into close quarters conflict.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/chuck-pfarrer-white-house-accounts-made-seal-team-sixs-actions-look-sloppy-and-criminal/

Last but not least....and I've written too much for 10 AM, this is going to sound like a joke probably, but I am very serious......the oil pipeline. This one won't last too long. Long story short (see below):

 Canada is all like "HEY GUYS WE HAVE OIL, WANT SOME?"

 and we're all "NAH DAWG WE GOT OPEC FOR THAT, DON'T BRING THE PIPELINE TO NEBRASKA OR THE LEFT FOOTED DWARFED PUSSYWILLOW WILL DIE (joke, environmental issues are stopping it)"

Canada's all like "well psssssht, okay then we'll sell it to China"

then we get all "AW CMON MAN! WE JUST WANTED TO LEAVE YOU HANGING UNTIL THE ELECTION! LET US PUSH THE DECISION OFF 'TIL THEN!"

Canada's all like "no.......HI CHINA!"

long story short canada has oil, they want to sell it to us by using a pipeline, we say no because something in nebraska that matters more than our energy independence will die. like the left footed dwarfed pussywillow. obama attempting to release america's decision on the matter after the 2012 elections so:

 a "NO!"  with him elected can be him championing enviroissues
a "yes" with him elected can be him championing energy independence
a NO without him elected can be his opponent hurting our energy independence
or a yes without him elected can be his opponent hurting the pussywillow.

anyway it's brilliant political savvy, but quite stupid, obvious, and a mild form of corruption to me. I apologize for my lack of caring/punctuation on this last part, my hands hurt this has been being written for over an hour, bear with me! Here is the article about the pipeline.

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9R1DA080.htm

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