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‘GUILTY KNOWLEDGE’? Letter asks if Boehner was briefed on Benghazi ops

In a book set for release next week by the publishing house Knopf, Gates writes that Biden is “a man of integrity,” but also a political figure who has been “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”

Gates, a Republican, also slammed the National Security Council under Obama’s watch. The Republican cited what he called the “controlling nature” of the White House, writing that Obama’s national security team “took micromanagement and operational meddling to a new level.”

White House defends Biden against Gates criticism – Businessweek

18 year old killed in family home by police

Keith Vidal’s family says they called police for help when their son was having a schizophrenic episode. But what happened on Sunday was something they never expected.

The 18-year-old from Boiling Springs Lake, North Carolina, was tased by two police officers and then shot and killed by a third officer from a neighboring town, according to CNN affiliate WWAY.

Vidal’s father, Mark Wilsey, told CNN affiliate WECT that his son had been holding an electric, six-inch screwdriver and threatening his mother, his father, Mark Wilsey, told CNN affiliate WECT. The family says the two officers from Boiling Lakes Spring Police Department had the situation under control until an officer from Southport arrived.

The family told WECT that the two officers had their son on the ground after he was tased, when the third officer said, “We don’t have time for this.” The family says that’s when the officer shot their son.

Detective Byron Vassey is on paid administrative leave in connection with his involvement in the incident, according to WECT. The State Bureau of Investigation is investigating this case.

18 year old killed in family home by police – CNN iReport

January 8, 2014 at 9:26 am

 

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2.4 billion Hiroshima bombs is “not much” – but 0.0001 mole fraction CO2 is catastrophic.

WASHINGTON – Former Defence Secretary Robert Gates asserts in a new memoir that President Barack Obama grew frustrated with U.S. policy in Afghanistan

That would actually be Barack Obama’s policy.

and that Vice-President Joe Biden has been wrong on nearly every foreign policy and national security issue.

Biden is almost as stupid as his boss.

In memoir, Gates says Obama grew frustrated over Afghan war, calls Biden consistently wrong

He also accuses members of Congress of inquisition-like treatment of administration officials.

So Congress should have trusted the clueless, incompetent people in the White House?

Ojmjakon, Russia averaged -36ºF in December. Washington Post says that was hot.

Europe and Russia were much hotter than average.

Can global warming be real if it’s cold in the U.S.? Um… yes!

They also said that satellite data showed December as 2nd hottest on record

Early data suggests that December 2013 was tied for the 2nd-hottest December on record since 1979, the beginning of satellite measurements

RSS was 11th warmest since 1979 (close to the median) and UAH was seventh warmest.

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Climate experts say that global warming makes it cold.  On January 7, 1912 – Illinois minimum temperatures averaged -28ºF.

Must have been a lot of global warming that month.

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Obama sent thousands of Americans to die in Afghanistan, in what he called “the right war” – which he never believed could be won.

In a new memoir, former defense secretary Robert Gates unleashes harsh judgments about President Obama’s leadership and his commitment to the Afghanistan war, writing that by early 2010 he had concluded the president “doesn’t believe in his own strategy, and doesn’t consider the war to be his. For him, it’s all about getting out.”

Leveling one of the more serious charges that a defense secretary could make against a commander in chief sending forces into combat, Gates asserts that Obama had more than doubts about the course he had charted in Afghanistan. The president was “skeptical if not outright convinced it would fail,” Gates writes in “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War.”

Robert Gates, former defense secretary, offers harsh critique of Obama’s leadership in ‘Duty’ – The Washington Post