It is Starting to Look a Lot Like 1979 Again! – HotAir  “I’m having the strangest sense of deja vu over the last eighteen months or so, and the attacks on two diplomatic missions in the Middle East over the last 24 hours has only intensified it.  Once again we have an American government that either tacitly or actively undermined an ally in the region in favor of supposedly democratic Islamist radicals, and once again we have an American government that gets taken by surprise when the government that results either fails to protect our embassies and consulates or arguably participated in an attack on them. Once again, the response to those attacks have been more mea culpa than mighty, and once again the weakness of the response puts our other diplomatic missions at risk.”

U.S. Debt Downgrades Are a Foregone Conclusion: David Stockman – Yahoo  “‘It is a foregone conclusion that our credit ratings are going to be downgraded much much further because we cannot cope politically with the fiscal cliff that is looming,’ says Stockman … He says the country would be better off in the long run if it jumped right off the so-called cliff. ‘We are living way beyond our means,’ he says. ‘No one deserves these tax cuts. No one.’ He argues that if America makes some hard choices and sacrifices now, it will lead to greater economic prosperity a few years down the road.”

ALERT: Charities Deceive Donors Unaware Money Goes to a Telemarketer – Bloomberg  Much worse than you think!  “Many of the biggest-name charities in the U.S. have signed similarly one-sided contracts with telemarketers during the past decade. The American Cancer Society, the largest health charity in the U.S., enlisted InfoCision from 1999 to 2011 to raise money.  In fiscal 2010, InfoCision gathered $5.3 million for the society. Hundreds of thousands of volunteers took part, but none of that money — not one penny — went to fund cancer research or help patients, according to the society’s filing with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and the state of Maine.”

Follow-Up: White House Admits Obama Skips Most Intelligence Briefings – Newsmax  “Obama has been to less than 44 percent of the vital meetings, the White House admits, with his attendance reaching a low spot towards the end of 2011 and the start of this year. … At one point he was attending fewer than two meetings out of five.”

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