Get your passports ready

May 29, 2009

On June 1, 2009, the borders officially become borders and a passport or equivalent documentation is required to enter the US from Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean or Bermuda due to The Western Hemispheres Travel Initiative.

US PASSPORT

US PASSPORT CARD — valid only for land/sea travel

ENHANCED DRIVER’S LICENSE: Michigan, New York, Vermont, Washington, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec isssue “enhanced licenses” which serve as proof of identity and citizenship and can be used by sea and land.

TRUSTED TRAVELER PROGRAM CARDS: Which require an interview and fingerprinting.

FAST card provides expedited travel to pre-approved commercial truck drivers through dedicated border crossing lanes into Canada and Mexico.

NEXUS card (US/CANADA) provides access to dedicated border crossing lanes, expedited marine reporting and access to NEXUS kiosks at designated Canadian airports.

SENTRI card (US/MEXICO) provides access to dedicated border crossing lanes.

The $328,835 photo

May 8, 2009

So the report has finally been released…on a Friday…just as planned. And just as expected Louis Caldera resigned. [letter]

How many people have gotten fired or resigned because of barry since the beginning of his run for the presidency. I remember a 70 y/o Hispanic politician, Fernando C de Baca, Chairman of the GOP, Bernalillo County and leader of his community for decades – who was forced to resign because he spoke the truth about his community. He was crucified and called a racist and forced to resign because the Transcender of Race! the man who promised to Unite! and bring about Change! couldn’t look past it for what it was: the truth.

And who won barry the presidency? Hillary fans and Hispanics.

Anyway this is what CNN reports as the conclusion of the “report”.

In the report, the White House said Caldera, who had been traveling with President Obama when the flyover plans were initially discussed, did not remember a conversation in which his deputy, George Mulligan, informed him of the flyover.

Caldera did not open an e-mail about final plans for the flyover until after it had happened, the report said, noting Caldera had been suffering from severe muscle spasms and had left the officer early on several days.

Although recommendations by several parties involved in the flyover had been made that White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and Deputy Chief of Staff Jim Messina be informed of the plans, the report said, that job was left to Caldera, who did not pass the information along.

So we are to believe from this that Air Force One can go up in the air – over New York skies – and no one but a deputy knows about it? And Caldera was traveling with barry that means barry knew about ordered it.

All this is is a scapegoat to save Gibbs and Messina and barry.

You really think that the FAA would allow low flying planes – Air Force One to be exact – to fly over New York without knowing 100% that it was cleared with the president? Never happen. They lived through it and had to know the panic it would cause folks on the ground and maybe even the air traffic controllers who were working on Sept 11, 2001.

Why isn’t anyone asking why barry didn’t know about it? Why the POTUS wasn’t aware of what they originally called a classified mission…then a training session…then a government sanctioned photo shoot? Who is the head of the government? Whose plane was it?

And what was the real reason for secrecy? Then and now?

Here’s the $328,835 photo.

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Nothing that couldn’t be photoshopped.

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POTUS doesn’t know about low-flying planes in NYC??

White House Dir Military Office, Louis Caldera re: Air Force 1 flyover
Mayor Bloomberg, NYPD, FAA, Pentagon re: Air Force 1 flyover
Sen Schumer re: Air Force 1 flyover (video)
barry’s 24 words re: Air Force 1 flyover

Videos: Air Force 1 footage + fleeing observers

(4-27) Robert Gibbs re: Air Force 1 flyover
(4-28) Robert Gibbs re: Air Force 1 flyover
(4-29) Rudy Guiliani re: Air Force 1 flyover
(5-6) Robert Gibbs re: Air Force 1 flyover

(5-8) Louis Caldera resignation letter
(5-8) The $328,835 photo

Louis Caldera resignation letter

May 8, 2009

Surprise. Air Force One flyover under the busser Louis Caldera’s resignation letter to barry. This guy strikes me as someone who will reveal the truth in the not so distant future.

From AP

Dear Mr. President:

I have concluded that the controversy surrounding the Presidential Airlift Group’s aerial photo shoot over New York City has made it impossible for me to effectively lead the White House Military Office. Moreover, it has become a distraction to the important work you are doing as president. After much reflection, I believe it is incumbent on me to tender my resignation and step down as director of the White House Military Office.

Accordingly, I hereby resign effective May 22, 2009. As of today, I will no longer be directing the affairs of the White House Military Office and will no longer be involved in the work of the office. I will use the next two weeks to complete the necessary out-processing.

Thank you for the opportunity to serve in your administration. It has been an honor to serve at your pleasure, Mr. President, and a distinct privilege to work with the talented men and women of the White House Military Office.

I wish you every success as you continue to lead our nation in these difficult times. You and your family will continue to be in our prayers.

Sincerely,

Louis E. Caldera

It’s been an honor to serve at your pleasure?

How long before someone refuses to resign because they refuse to lie for barry?

Background if needed, including Caldera’s apology – barry never made one to the citizens of NY & NJ. Just a secondhand report he was ‘furious”.

POTUS doesn’t know about low-flying planes in NYC??

White House Dir Military Office, Louis Caldera re: Air Force 1 flyover
Mayor Bloomberg, NYPD, FAA, Pentagon re: Air Force 1 flyover
Sen Schumer re: Air Force 1 flyover (video)
barry’s 24 words re: Air Force 1 flyover

Videos: Air Force 1 footage + fleeing observers

(4-27) Robert Gibbs re: Air Force 1 flyover
(4-28) Robert Gibbs re: Air Force 1 flyover
(4-29) Rudy Guiliani re: Air Force 1 flyover
(5-6) Robert Gibbs re: Air Force 1 flyover

(5-8) The $328,835 photo

What really happened on Air Force One flyover?

Another missing post.

May 6, 2009

It’s amazing how quickly outrage passes with the press and this White House. barry never actually makes a statement, the press doesn’t make him nor do they force Robert Gibbs to comment. And when they try – Gibbs says he doesn’t know and that he’ll check on it so when he calls back it’s not on the press briefing written record. How long are the American people going to let this go on? And why are the Reps saying anything?

In regards to barry-ordered Air Force One photo op – why else would it have been done? The outrage has passed and Gibbs isn’t commenting. This is all he had to say today. Sarcasm present as always. For a guy who doesn’t know anything, who will check and get back to folks – he has plenty of time to watch TV.

WH Transcript

Q A quick follow on something else. There was a report this morning suggesting that the White House doesn’t want to release the photos from the Air Force jet fly — over Manhattan. Why wouldn’t you release those photos? And what’s the status of the President’s review of what went wrong here at the White House?

MR. GIBBS: We anticipate the review will be done this week. I’ve watched CNN — I didn’t notice a lack of archival material from that flight. I can –

Q No, from inside the plane, from — the photos they took, we haven’t seen those.

MR. GIBBS: I don’t know where those are.

May 6th

Q You took Mark’s question yesterday on the status of the video flyover. What’s the status?

MR. GIBBS: The President — I’m sorry — the report I believe will be concluded at some point this week. We’ll release its findings and release a photo————————-

POTUS doesn’t know about low-flying planes in NYC??

White House Dir Military Office, Louis Caldera re: Air Force 1 flyover
Mayor Bloomberg, NYPD, FAA, Pentagon re: Air Force 1 flyover
Sen Schumer re: Air Force 1 flyover (video)
barry’s 24 words re: Air Force 1 flyover

Videos: Air Force 1 footage + fleeing observers

(4-27) Robert Gibbs re: Air Force 1 flyover
(4-28) Robert Gibbs re: Air Force 1 flyover
(4-29) Rudy Guiliani re: Air Force 1 flyover
(5-6) Robert Gibbs re: Air Force 1 flyover

(5-8) Louis Caldera resignation letter

(5-8) The $328,835 photo

Joe Bidengaffer: “I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places now”

April 30, 2009

VP Joe Biden is back and it’s for the same thing as always: his mouth. On the Today Show, Matt Lauer asked whether he would advise his own family against flying to Mexico and Biden answered as expected:

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BIDEN: I would tell members of my family — and I have —I wouldn’t go anywhere in confined places now. It’s not just going into Mexico. If you’re any place in a confined aircraft, and one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft. That’s me. I would not be at this point - if they had another way of transportation - suggesting they ride the subway.

109 cases 11 states. More states reported. Patient Zero found in Mexico - 5 y/o boy alive and well.

Here are the responses to Biden’s statements.

Within 2 hours they had a statement out from the VP’s office about Biden’s comment. Compare that to the 6 hours for Gibbs to say he knew nothing about the dive bombing of NYC by Air Force One. 7 hours for Louis Caldera to release an apology and over 24 hours for barry to say 24 words with not a word addressed to the traumatized New Yorkers/Jerseyans.

This is conclusive proof they knew exactly what was going on with the “mission” and stalled for as long as they could to gauge the fallout. They were saved by Arlen Specter and the H1N1 flu.

BIDEN SPOKESWOMAN:

On the Today Show this morning, the Vice President was asked what he would tell a family member. That advice he’s giving family members is the same advice the administration is giving to all Americans.

They should avoid all unnecessary air travel to and from Mexico. If they are sick they should avoid airplanes and other confined spaces.

Acting head of the CDC, DR RICHARD BESSER:

There’s no one action that’s going to stop this, there’s no silver bullet.

CDC’s DR ANNE SHUCHAT:

This is a time when we don’t want the worried well flooding the emergency rooms. At no time in our nation’s history have we been more prepared to face this kind of challenge.

If you’re ill, you shouldn’t get on an airplane or any public transport to travel. If you’re sick, stay home. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve said that this week.

Homeland Security Director: JANET NAPOLITANO:

If they’re feeling sick they should stay off public transit or confined spaces because that indeed is the advice we have been given.

JAMES MAY, president of the Air Transport Association, which represents airlines, sent Biden a letter expressing “extreme disappointment at your suggestion that people should avoid air travel.”

American Airlines spokesman TIM SMITH:

To suggest that people not fly at this stage of things is a broad brush stroke bordering on fearmongering.

Source: MSNBC

Videos: Air Force 1 footage + fleeing observers

April 28, 2009

Here are a couple of videos documenting the flyover.

Air Force 1 with F-16 fighter jet companion

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Brian Williams news report with Mike Taibbi, Robert Gibbs, Mayor Bloomberg, Sen Schumer

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Gibbs laughs, puts his hands up and lies:

I don’t know.

If the White House aka barry didn’t know they would have put out an immediate statement or Gibbs would have at least been prepared.

Mayor Bloomberg, who found out about it on his Blackberry - just like thousands of other New Yorkers.

I’m annoyed — furious is a better word — that I wasn’t told.

Sen Schumer:

It really borders on being cruel or very, very stupid.

If full video press conference link below.

Cellphone video of New Yorkers fleeing. Listen to the panic in their voices and realize all barry had to say was 24 words. And not a single one of them was to these folks and the others who were terrorized because barry needed a photo op.

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POTUS doesn’t know about low-flying planes in NYC??
White House Dir Military Office, Louis Caldera re: Air Force 1 flyover
Sen Schumer re: Air Force 1 flyover (video)
barry’s 24 words re: Air Force 1 flyover
Videos: Air Force 1 footage + fleeing observers
(4-27) Robert Gibbs re: Air Force 1 flyover
(4-28) Robert Gibbs re: Air Force 1 flyover
(4-29) Rudy Guiliani re: Air Force 1 flyover

WH: Louis Caldera re: Air Force 1 over NYC

April 28, 2009

As of 2200, this is the only White House comment I can find on that outrageously cruel stunt yesterday. If it was a photo op - barry knew about it. If it was Air Force 1 - barry knew about it. If it was a “classifed mission” - he sure the hell had better of known about it.

White House website

Louis Caldera, Director White House Military Office, on Air Force One flight over New York

Last week, I approved a mission over New York. I take responsibility for that decision. While federal authorities took the proper steps to notify state and local authorities in New York and New Jersey, it’s clear that the mission created confusion and disruption. I apologize and take responsibility for any distress that flight caused.

That’s it folks.

NYC residents: I’m sorry. It was wrong. Stand up and say so. Demand an answer directly from barry and don’t stop till you get it. You deserve to know why from the man responsible.

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POTUS doesn’t know about low-flying planes in NYC??
White House Dir Military Office, Louis Caldera re: Air Force 1 flyover
Sen Schumer re: Air Force 1 flyover (video)
barry’s 24 words re: Air Force 1 flyover

POTUS doesn’t know about low-flying planes in NYC??

April 28, 2009

Then we’ve got a lot more problems than the economy and swine flu.

For the President of the United States, barry sure doesn’t know what’s happening. Now he wants us to believe he knew nothing about the flyovers in New York because it was a “classified mission”?

A classified mission and he knew nothing about it?

If that is true, it’s more frightening than him knowing and lying about it.

What other “classified missions” are taking place without his knowledge?

It’s one thing with the AIG budgets that were a done deal - but a plane flying that low and unexpectedly in New York City? He knew nothing?

Then how come no word came to him - no alert about what was happening?

If he knew nothing about it, he would have made an immediate statement. As is, he waited, like usual, to assess the fall out and then pretend he knew nothing.

Folks, this man is the President and you don’t mind that he says he doesn’t know about any of these things? That he doesn’t know about “classified missions”?

Do you really feel comfortable knowing that American airplanes - no matter Air Force One or otherwise - can fly over New York without the president’s ok?

What is the biggest fear of the citizens of New York?

What is the most traumatic scene - video, photo - for them?

What do many of them still see in their heads?

An airplane low in the skies heading at them.

And that’s what they saw yesterday, which I am sure for some - maybe even more than some - brought back those horrible day/nightmares. Something some - maybe more than some - had thought they had gotten past.

What if someone had panicked and jumped out the window?

What is the widowed spouse of a man murdered on 9-11 telling a their 8 y/o about mom’s reaction yesterday?

How many New Yorkers were unable to sleep last night? Unable to get out of bed this morning?

How many started drinking or using drugs again after that sight?

Overly dramatic statements, you say?

Just one New Yorker is too many and in absolute surety there is at least one.

And it happened on barry’s watch.

And he says he knew nothing about an alleged “classified mission”.

And people are giving hims a pass.

Again.

This is not ok folks. Most especially if he did not know about it - which I 100% doubt. But since he is saying that - he’s “furious” - he needs to be scrutinized. The issue has to be raised as to why he, the President, is not aware of what is happening below him. Why he doesn’t know low-flying planes are circling New York City.

The press love affair has got to stop. He needs to finally get that the buck stops with him and they need to be the ones to make sure of it. He needs to be held accountable.

What he allowed to happen yesterday was beyond ignorant - it was cruel and inhuman.

Would that have ever happened - classified or not - if Hillary Clinton were president?

Absolutely never.

Just go back over the things barry has done in the last three weeks and ask yourself if any single one of them would have happened with Hillary Clinton as president.

If I was a New Yorker, not only would I be pist, I would be frightened about the president’s underling’s ignorance and lack of awareness. And I would be frightened of the president’s “judgment” in either hiring them or okaying (yes he did) their actions.

And the folks in the New York area who approved it?

Does it seem reasonable to you that having lived through 9-11 and the aftermath firsthand - maybe even saw those planes fly live into the towers and witnessed the bodies flying 100 stories to the ground - that they would allow the planes to fly that low for anyone other than the president? Or at least without the 100% assurance that the order was approved by the president?

Absolutely not on this planet.

Can you tell if this is a photo from 9-11 or yesterday?

And if you were standing on the ground looking up?

And if you were standing on the ground looking up, having stood in the same spot on 9-11?

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POTUS doesn’t know about low-flying planes in NYC??
White House Dir Military Office, Louis Caldera re: Air Force 1 flyover
Sen Schumer re: Air Force 1 flyover (video)
barry’s 24 words re: Air Force 1 flyover

UPDATE 2: Rendell's new defense (#111 & 115)

December 7, 2008
CNN Late Edition

Rendell, like barry and the lipstick, doesn't know when to just say: Ok, I meant what I said, how I said it, and I lied trying to cover it up - done. He was talking with Wolf Blitzer about his (12-2) open mic comment that Gov Napolitano, who is unmarried at present, was perfect for the Homeland Security job because she had no family and thus no life. (12-3) he used Template #102. (12-4) #120 and today a combo #111 & #115. All he needed was a full mea culpa (#121) and move on.

RENDELL: What I said about Janet is true. I think she's the gold standard for governors. She works hard, she's dedicated, she's focused. Campbell Brown, who I love, as a person and respect as anewsperson, couldn't have been more wrong. She said that it was somehow sexist or a comment on single women. Let me tell you—If Janet Napolitano was Jim Napolitano and had no family, I would have said the exact same thing.

Fine, if that were true, then why the evolving statements of guilt? That should have been his immediate no further questions needed statement followed by a public apology directly to GovNapolitano - not the nebulous "if...anybody out there". He learned something - he used Alma's first and last name and he said "newsperson". Haha. Endless entertainment.

RENDELL: Wolf, we've gotten really far off field in the way we cover news if that statement which is absolutely 100 percent true is construed as something. I would have said it about man or woman in similar position. It was meant to comment on how tough the job is and how great a choice Janet is.

Fine, then why didn't he just say that. What he said he said in a good ol' boy way. What do these men's wives and daughter say to them? And what do people say to these men's wives and daughters?

Alleged national security threat?

December 3, 2008

Alma Campbell Brown made a point of pointing out Gov Rendell's open mic comments -- he said Gov Napolitano would be perfect for Homeland Security because she has no family and thus no life.

I think what Debbie Schlussel said is much more disgusting. A women who reportedly speaks Hebrew, Arabic, French, and Russian breathes English words like a tween gossiper in need of a BFF.

From SCHLUSSEL's 10-21 blog:

Just more of the same, except for one thing: she's [Gov Napolitano] apparently a semi-closeted lesbian. And, unless she comes out completely in the open, it's sort of a national security issue. Don't ask, don't tell really isn't an option when her suspected homosexuality can be used against her, since she continues to deny it. Janet, I think the Women's Sports Foundation haircut and Dinah Shore Classic comfortable shoes kinda gave it away. (Gee, this really is a remake of Clinton-Camelot: Clinton had two ineffective lesbian lawyers, Janet Reno and Donna Shalala, and this is the first of likely several for Obama.

It's so offensive I don't want to waste words on: "apparently" "semi-closeted" & "suspected", which equates to WTHC. And even if she were and even of it mattered so what. It's not a national security threat.

You want reprehensible closet homosexuality look to former GOP Rep Mark Foley, the supposed internet predator crusader, who sent graphic IM's to teenage pages and then said he wasn't a pedophile because they were post-pubertal and that it was just a "momentary lapse of judgment" - for which he has shown absolutely no remorse. Momentary - when he did it for months until he was caught. Interject what was momentary.

Or how about the ex-Governor of New Jersey Jim McGreevy, who was forced to come clean because he was about to be sued by Golan Cipel for sexual harassment? Cipel was McGreevy's adulterous gay lover before and during the time he served as McGreevy's official homeland security advisor. An Israeli national. A non-US citizen. A case Shlussel must absolutely be familiar with.

Threat to national security? Blackmail and criminal behavior?

But they're men and don't have to be torn down to prove they're qualified for a job - especially in politics. And when they coming slithering back out like Foley and Edwards there's a discussion as to whether they can make a comeback. Spitzer's out there writing a column somewhere. And his wife?

Would there even be a discussion of a "comeback" if it were an adulterous female governor - lesbian or otherwise - or a female US Representative who sent graphic sexual IM's to teenage pages?

Sexist quote of the day: "For that job, you have to have no life."

December 2, 2008

At the governor's meeting today Gov Rendell was caught by an open mic commenting on Gov Napolitano being appointed to Secretary of Homeland Security. To be fair, his tone was matter-of-fact - not malicious.

RENDELL: Janet's perfect for that job. Because for that job, you have to have no life. Janet has no family. Perfect. She can devote, literally, 19-20 hours a day to it

A woman is perfect for a job if she has no family because then she no life.

Having or not having a family has nothing to do with it. Gov Napolitano has a life, which she has chosen to devote to public service. And she, like Gov Palin, went to work even through "female issues". Gov Palin worked up to her delivery and returned to work three days after giving birth to her fifth child. And Gov Napolitano as Arizona Attorney General spoke at the 2000 Democratic National Convention just three weeks after having a mastectomy.

How many male politicians have done that?

Are expected to do that?

And has anyone done a study on what exactly male politicians do when they get off work? How much they actually contribute to the household other than financially? I'm sure the women who stand next to them at the scandal podium would have plenty to say.

video courtesy of speakmymind01
A little theatrical outrage. There's absolutely no conviction in her words. None. Where was Alma's outrage when outright misogyny happened all around her every single day every single segment? She has only gotten into acknowledging it since barry sewed up the win. It's laughable. Just like Nanci Pelosi warning foreign leaders about sexism and Howard Dean saying he didn't realize how bad it was.

Heard anything since the good doctor's admission? Anything he is going to do change things?

Or has he been too busy handling barry's birth certificate lawsuit?