ObamaCare Fines Despite Following The Law

PA family physician is facing 'ObamaCare' fines despite following the law

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TJOC: When are all of the our Senators going to come to their senses and over-ride Mr. Reid?

Nullification & States Rights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUD1eOQf6Do

Nullification of unconstitutional acts of the Legislative, Executive, or Judicial Branches  of the federal government is  required by Article VI, clause 3, U.S. Constitution.

TJOC: Some thoughts to ponder.

? Our Rights ?

Where do  Rights come from?  God?  The Constitution? The supreme Court?  Or the “government”?   I’ll show you.  It is important that you understand.  (videos in two parts totaling 22 minutes)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMpXBckyDac

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN29tAiNV7o

TJOC: Taken from Publius Huldah at Wordpress.com/ I absolutely like this site. If it's not on your reading list - it should be!

The American Media

Ever since Watergate in the 1970s, you can count on the left-wing media to attack Republican administrations relentlessly. But when Democrats are in power, it's an entirely different story.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed for the "fourth estate" so the media can monitor the three branches of government and, hopefully, help keep them in check. But in an opinion piece posted on FOX News' website this week, the Media Research Center's Dan Gainor accuses many in the "mainstream" media of not doing their job:

"(T)he situation at VA hospitals and the IRS scandal are surely two of the worst in the scandal-ridden Obama White House. In both cases, government bureaucrats took deliberate actions against American citizens.

When our veterans were pushed aside and their medical problems hidden from Congress, journalists at the three major broadcast networks took their time reporting it. It was almost two weeks before the networks' news divisions noticed that as many as 40 veterans died while on secret waiting lists."

Gainor adds that ABC, CBS and NBC devoted just 110 minutes to the VA scandal in an entire month! It took those same networks just four and a half days to spend that much time reporting about the bogus "Bridgegate" scandal surrounding New Jersey governor Chris Christie -- a Republican.

The American media has a constitutionally protected duty to serve We, the People as a government watchdog. But few of them are actually living up to that responsibility. That's why it's up to grassroots Americans, like you and me, to serve as a strong, clear voice for our veterans! 

Go here now to sign the national "Support Our Veterans" petition:


TJOC: Show you support for the media to report truethfully on all sides of a story - right or left!

As Predicted

“As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.  On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and a complete narcissistic moron.”

H.L. Mencken, The Baltimore Evening Sun,  July 26, 1920.

TJOC: We have been given Berry Sotelo, aka Barrack Obama, mka "the Asshole in Chief", by those that know better.  Though it has taken the help of the lowly "Fourth Estate" to look the other way and to further the lies of the left by attacking those that believe in the US Constitution. Plus making up a few of their own.

Sitting Idly By

Written by Steve Bowers on June 25, 2014 

This cartoon stands alone without any assisting verbiage. If you aren’t appalled at this Administration’s utter failure at everything excepting spawning a scandal-a-week you need your head examined. Before it is removed while the President sits idly by.

The shameful story of the aftermath of our abandonment of Iraq was as predictable as it is sad. I just hope the rumors of mass be-headings are just the media attempting to improve their ratings. (It’s the sort of thing they would do.) But we all know that these sort of atrocities are just what our terrorist (I hope the use of the word doesn’t offend your president too deeply) enemies have promised and seem to revel in. Strangely, they draw authority for such acts from their holy book. And since this is still a free republic (where even the logically enfeebled get to vote) and a place where ideas can freely compete for supremacy, I feel a little comparison of fundamental ideas is needed. Let’s compare the world view held by people who claim their thinking is informed and shaped by Islam and those whose thinking is shaped by that ancient and  all time best seller, the Bible. As you can probably guess, my opinion is already set as to which is better.

The reason I think it is appropriate at this time for such a compare/contrast session is because your president said early on that “the future cannot belong to those who insult the Prophet of Islam.” (Sounds as if his opinion is/was already set, also, doesn’t it?) I don’t know what he meant when he said “insult” but, we are seeing what the “future” he spoke about is starting to look like. 

The trouble with people like Obama is they do not recognize “evil” except in the bland and vague sense they use when they refer to those who disagree with them. Evil exists. It is powerful and persuasive. There is a great unseen war always in progress between it and Good. How can you hope to be victorious against evil when you don’t even know what it is. This goes much deeper, but  this is the stuff of theologians and I’m seriously out of my depth. Besides all you ever need to know about evil is available in plain lay language in the Bible. As Twain said, “It’s not those parts of the Bible I don’t understand that trouble me, but those that I do.” Or as WC Fields once said when asked why he was  reading the Bible, “What am I doing? Looking for loopholes. Looking for loopholes.”

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TJOC: Enough said - no editing by me needed.

Second Thoughts

TJOC: That should have been implemented - for all elected positions.

Another Look at the Truth

AND believe that CO2 causes "global warming" because, it can be measured and we can tax anything we can measure - and I have a college degree in (name of your liberal arts degree here).

TJOC: and yes I (TJOC) say - "I do want fries with my burger." and "LEARN SOME SCIENCE!" (Another take from Wired Right)

Punish Your Enemy, Crush the Poor?

EPA's New CO2 Rule Turns Christian Ethics Upside Down
 

BY E. CALVIN BEISNER, CP OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR
(Originally Published in the Christian Post on June 13, 2014)

 

June 16, 2014–Jesus taught that we're to love our enemies and look after the poor. But a new rule from the Obama Administration seems to fly in the face of both mandates.

By now practically everyone in America must know that the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) new proposed rule on carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants will cost a lot and achieve next to nothing.

Cost? About $50 billion a year in lost production to the U.S. economy, accompanied by electricity rates that-in fulfillment of then-candidate Barack Obama's campaign promise-will "necessarily skyrocket," in turn driving up the prices of everything we make with electricity (which is just about everything).
Achievement? Insofar as reducing global warming-the purported rationale-so little as to be indiscernible. Ever.

So why in the world would EPA propose the rule? To read the complete article

Well, if you believe EPA, it's because reducing CO2 emissions-which will be achieved mainly by shutting down coal-fired power plants-will have the happy side benefit of reducing other emissions that (unlike CO2, which is good for plants and everything that eats them or eats what eats them) really are harmful.

To read the full article "Punish Your Enemy & Crush the Poor" 

Men are deep thinkers!

I mowed the lawn today, and after doing so I sat down and had a cold beer. The day was really quite beautiful, and the drink facilitated some deep thinking. My wife walked by and asked me what I was doing and I said 'nothing'. The reason I said that instead of saying 'just thinking' is because she would have said 'about what'.  At that point I would have to explain that men are deep thinkers about various topics which would lead to other questions. Finally I thought about an age old question: Is giving birth more painful than getting kicked in the nuts?  Women always maintain that giving birth is way more painful than a guy getting kicked in the nuts.  Well, after another beer, and some heavy deductive thinking, I have come up with the answer to that question.   Getting kicked in the nuts is more painful than having a baby; and here is the reason for my conclusion:   

A year or so after giving birth, a woman will often say, "It might be nice to have another child."   

On the other hand, you never hear a guy say, "You know, I think I would like another kick in the nuts." I rest my case.  

Time for another beer.

TJOC: Stolen from "Wired Right."

A Plan Like No Other

The Obama Administration is Rapidly Unraveling into a State of Chaos. Is this their Plan?

By Rob Janicki

Photos edited by Liz Nelson

Extreme circumstances require extreme actions. That's the cover that radical liberals have always used as a tactic to expedite their totalitarian ambitions for control of our government.

The ongoing case with Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is something out of nowhere, even in Obama's world of inept, incompetent and corrupt governance.

What was the Obama administration thinking about in cutting such a bad deal, or any deal for that matter, with the Taliban terrorists over what now is most certainly an Army deserter, who has gone over to the side of the Taliban terrorists?

What happened with the long standing American policy of never negotiating with terrorists?  Why has the idea of never leaving behind an American soldier on the field of battle, trumped the policy of no negotiations with terrorists?

By the way, America has left many American military personnel behind on the battlefield and unaccounted for since the Korean War.  So Obama's claim is specious at best, if not a down right lie.  Obama's claim notwithstanding, there are hundreds of American military personnel, if not more, who remain unaccounted for around the world and are suspected of having been imprisoned in North Korea and Vietnam, since they were not identified as having been killed in combat.

This situation is not going away anytime soon and, as more information is revealed, it will only grow into a scandal that may well overshadow the Benghazi and IRS scandals.

If the Obama administration thinks they can survive this latest scandal as a means to put the other two prominent scandals on the back burner, they may want to rethink that tactic.  It seems that the Obama administration may have grossly mistaken the Bergdahl case as an opportunity to cover all the other failures of the Obama administration.  Or, the Obama administration believes they can control the chaos for even more nefarious ends.  Think about that.

What Obama has done in releasing the five Taliban leaders is a clear violation of law according to every constitutional scholar, despite an "Oops!" excuse from the White House.

Obama's latest violation of the Constitution is simply part of an overall plan to degrade and diminish the role of the rule of law in our constitutional republic.  The end justifies the means for Obama, just as it was written and practiced by Karl Marx and is practiced by every Marxist adherent since then.

By the way, radical Islamists coincidentally practice the same philosophy of lying to achieve the greater end of advancing Islam around the world to convert or subjugated all of mankind.  Before a problem can be addressed, it must be acknowledged to be a problem.

Politicians don't want to publicly admit that Obama is a Marxist socialist, but their refusal to acknowledge the truth of the matter doesn't change the fact that what Obama has been doing since day one, encompasses every Marxist socialist tactic to overwhelm and functionally overthrow our constitutional republic.

Politicians are merely dancing around the political margins of each and every illegal act that Obama has used to continue leveraging increasing power to assume complete control over America and all Americans.

Will politicians ever confront Obama or will they merely protect their own little fiefdoms and continue to go along to get along?

Are we about to see some kind of civil unrest fomented by the radical liberals in the Obama administration and then framed as a national emergency, followed by a declaration of martial law?  Just asking, since we seem to be headed toward some kind of cataclysmic social political event from an imperial presidency that hasn't hesitated to regularly run rough shod over the Constitution at every opportunity.

TJOC: Thank you Mr. Rob Janicki. Another EXCELLENT commentary. This was originally published at Capitalist Preservation.

TJOC: Yes, it's poor me, I deserve for you to work you ass off so I can sit on mine and make it even fatter!

5 Lessons In The Heroic Act That Stopped The Seattle School Shooter

By Doug Giles / 8 June 2014 (with minor editing, by me)

Last Thursday, another loon (like Elliot Rodger) opened fire with a shotgun on students at Seattle Pacific University, killing one and wounding three others.

It could have been a veritable bloodbath as the culprit, Aaron Ybarra, intended, according to law enforcement, to “unleash hell” on the campus; but a quick thinking, non-wussified young man rose to the occasion and peppered sprayed this SOB when he was reloading and brought him down to Chinatown.

I’ve got two words for that brave move by that fine young squire: Ya and Hoo.

Check it out via the Daily Mail:

A 26-year-old gunman has opened fire at a small, Christian university in Seattle – killing one student and wounding three more with shotgun blasts.

And police say he could have killed others if it wasn't for the actions of one heroic student who pepper sprayed the gunman and tackled him to the ground.

Students at Seattle Pacific University say Jon Meis saved countless lives when he sprang into action as the shooter stopped to reload his weapon Thursday afternoon.

Meis, a 26-year-old engineering student, is engaged to be married and has ‘everything to live for’ friends said. But he risked his life and ended the murderous rampage.

‘I’m proud of the selfless actions that my roommate, Jon Meis, showed today taking down the shooter. He is a hero,’ tweeted Matt Garcia.

Classmate Briana Clarke told the Seattle Times that Meis, who was on duty as a hall monitor, sprayed the attacker in the face, grabbed him around the neck and then wrestled him to the ground.

Yep, instead of rolling up in the fetal position and wetting his big victim diaper, Jon Meis did what normal young men used to do, namely, kick the bad guy’s butt by any means possible. 

Someone buy that man a beer, or what ever he drinks.

Now, for all the criticism of “alpha males” and how men nowadays need to be more like Michael Jackson and less like Leonidas, I bet the kids and faculty at SPU, and their respective relatives, are sure as shizzle glad this Meis hombre tapped his primal, protective impulses when the crap was hitting the fan and saved the day.

Gentlemen, should you ever find yourself in a sticky situation in close proximity to an active shooter, as Mr. Meis did, put this in the back of your noggin; it might save a few lives:

1. Obviously, get out of the shooter’s line of sight. I know … duh. Stay safe, assess the situation and try to maneuver from behind.

2. Be willing to sacrifice self to save others. That’s what Meis did and it worked. Jon had no guarantees he was going to come out of that altercation alive, but he ponied up anyway and it worked, saving God-knows how many lives. 

In that kind of crap storm, calling the cops only allows el Douche the time to reload and keep mowing down the innocent. Aggressive action is the cure for the active shooter. Take the bastard out. Bull rush him. Yes, you might die but you also might save a lot of innocent lives. That’s the gamble of the hero.

3. Have a weapon at your disposal. Granted, a gun in the hand of a good guy would have really helped, but Meir used what he had and the pepper spray worked effectively on the perpetrator. 

If for some reason you don’t have a deterrent on you, get creative and use what you have at hand like a laptop, or a heavy book bag or a frickin’ chair. Or if you’re eating Chinese food ram some chopsticks into the dipstick’s eardrum and pierce his empty head.

4. If you have the good fortune that your first strike worked and you’ve incapacitated the moron, don’t stop and admire your lucky strike. Do what King David did to Goliath and cut his head off. Or, if that’s too much, choke him out.

5. Don’t be greedy with your heroic act — invite others to join the melee as Jon did and dog pile the dude. Have fun. The more the merrier.

I’m convinced many of these massacres could have ended with a lot less casualties if we all did a little mental prep and a little physical training, because I am convinced that these losers aren't the Rambo’s they think themselves to be.

Great job, Jon Meis. If someone could get me his address I’d love to send him a box of my world-class Safari Cigars.

TJOC: Since this article was published, Jon Meis' Wedding Registery has been filled with over $5,000 in donations by those whom appreciate his courage. Way to go! As said in the old days, before the general population of man became a bunch of pansies, "No Guts, No Glory!" Jon, YOU deserve some serious glory - definitely more than just 15-minutes of fame.


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Defending the Indefensible

The National Climate Assessment Cherry Picks to Validate Models

by E. Calvin Beisner

It’s become almost common knowledge that global climate computer models used to project future temperatures based on assumptions about greenhouse gas emissions miss the mark. So common that much of the American public even knows it.   But the National Climate Assessment released May 6, 2014, uses them anyway to predict future climate changes and their impact for the United States.   How does it defend that? By claiming that the models “do a good job at reproducing the broad features of the present climate and changes in climate, including the significant warming that has occurred over the last 50 years” (p. 809, FAQ-R).

There are three big problems.   

First, the claim was that the models “do a good job at reproducing the broad features of the present climate and changes in climate, including the significant warming that has occurred over the last 50 years.” But the graphic shows only 25 years, 1980–2005.   

Second, as Dr. Roy Spencer, Principal Research Scientist in climatology at the University of Alabama, puts it, global climate models … are known to have essentially zero skill for regional (e.g. U.S.) predictions.” This means the moderately good fit between observed and modeled temperatures in the NCA’s graphic is likely to be mere coincidence. This is all the more likely since the globe as a whole was warming from 1980 through 1997 (excluding the anomalous 1998, extra warm because of an exceptionally strong El Niño).   

Third, although not explicitly stated, the claim is that global climate models “do a good job.” But the graphic shows only North America. Global surface is 21 times North American. If the whole globe is warming, it’s likely that particular regions are warming; but the reverse isn’t true. Showing, then, that North America was warming (and only for half the period in question) doesn’t imply that the models’ predictions of warming for the whole world are reliable.   So how do the models do for the whole world? Not well, as this graphic by Dr. John Christy, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science and Director of the Earth System Science Center at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, shows.  

In short, to justify its claim that the models “do a good job” for the world over a 50-year period, the National Climate Assessment depicts data for less than a twentieth of the world over a half the time. In other words, it cherry picks both chronologically and geographically.   As if that weren’t bad enough, it then uses the global climate models, which have “essentially zero skill for regional (e.g. U.S.) predictions,” to predict climate not just for the United States as a whole (for which they have “essentially zero skill”) but for nine sub-regions (for which therefore they have even less skill). Result: Its predictions are not credible. 

TJOC: Excellent article. See more at www.masterresource.org

No Need to Say More Than This

TJOC: Stolen from "Wired Right"

Bogus Poll Touts Widespread Support for Obama’s CO2 Cuts

June 5, 2014, by E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D., Founder and National Spokesman for the
Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation
The headline couldn’t have been more celebratory: “A huge majority of Americans support regulating carbon from power plants. And they’re even willing to pay for it.”

Uh-huh.

Here’s the key question: “What if that significantly lowered greenhouse gases but raised your monthly energy expenses by 20 dollars a month - in that case do you think the government should or should not limit the release of greenhouse gases?”
 
Note that figure: $20/month, equals $240 per year. But the real cost on electricity bills alone is likely to be multiples higher. There's no mention of reduced number of jobs or higher prices of everything we make with electricity (which is practically everything).

Note also the neat psychological trick. First you pose three questions to which positive answers are likely (granted the MSM’s constant drumbeat about global warming and its false claim that 97% of climate scientists agree) and lead naturally to a positive answer to the fourth. But if the poll had begun with “Would you be willing to pay an extra $20 per month for energy as a consequence of the government’s requiring significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions?” more would likely have said “No” and then have tailored their answers to the other questions to fit with that answer. (Nobody likes to admit he's just contradicted himself.)

Way back when I was a teenager, I used to go door to door, and sometimes make phone calls, for the Field Poll, a highly professional organization at the time, and I learned a few of the tricks of the trade. This WaPo/ABC  poll is worthless except as a club in the hands of supporters of Obama’s policy. It doesn’t tell respondents that the impact on future temperatures of achieving the 30% reduction in existing power plant CO2 emissions will be indiscernible. It doesn’t tell them about the offsetting benefits of rising CO2—increased plant (including crop) growth.

Can you imagine how responses might have differed had the poll begun with something like this?
 

Scientists estimate that CO2 added to the atmosphere has made plants all over the earth grow more, and that this includes adding about $3.2 trillion worth of crop production from 1950 to 2011 and is projected to add about $9.8 trillion to crop production from now to 2050. With that in mind, would you be willing to pay an extra $20 per month for energy as a consequence of the government’s requiring significantly lower CO2 emissions from existing power plants, knowing that achieving that reduction would have no discernible impact on future global temperature?
 

Now, I admit, that question is prejudicially worded in the direction opposite WaPo/ABC’s. But that’s just the point. If you load the dice in a poll, you can get whatever results you please.

The likelihood of a scientifically valid poll on this question by WaPo and ABC News is about zero. A truly professional polling organization like Gallup might do a better job—especially (possibly only) if it were blind to who was paying for the poll.

Substituting popular vote for rational argument as a way of settling scientific, and even political, arguments is just one part of the widespread abandonment of reason—reason based in the rational Creator who made us rational beings in His image and called us to exercise godly dominion over His rational earth (Genesis 1:27–28).

Learn more about that trend toward irrationalism and its key role in the environmental movement in Dr. Vishal Mangalwadi’s scintillating lecture “Logos vs. Mysticism: Environmentalism’s Flight from Reason.

TJOC: If you want to get a full understanding of the bogus issue of "CO2 caused global warming," visit the blog of Adrian Vance called "The Two Minute Conservative" and peruse his commentary.

Bergdahl - A Most Disturbing Story

11 Things You "Need to Know" about Obama's Exchange of the 'Last American POW" for 5 Guantanimo Terrorists

Reports are flying around the president’s unilateral transfer of “the last American POW” in the Afghan War for 5 dangerous Gitmo prisoners.

Here are 11 stories that will give you a sense of the controversy and questions swirling around this news:

1. President Obama Almost Certainly Broke the Law

President Obama did not consult Congress when making the transfer of 5 Taliban commanders at Gitmo for Bowe Bergdahl.

The Washington Post raises questions about whether the president violated the law regarding terrorism policy:

Congressional Republicans and others focused on a series of concerns that are likely to reverberate in coming days: whether the deal breached U.S. policy forbidding negotiations with terrorists, whether sufficient safeguards were in place to ensure that the released Taliban prisoners do no further harm to the United States and whether Congress was informed about the prisoner trade, as required by law.

2. The 5 Taliban Commanders Released Were Among the Most Dangerous at Gitmo

Numerous publications note that these detained terrorists were among the worst at the facility. The Daily Beast gets to the point:

The five Guantanamo detainees released by the Obama administration in exchange for America’s last prisoner of war in Afghanistan, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, are bad guys. They are top Taliban commanders the group has tried to free for more than a decade.

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According to a 2008 Pentagon dossier on Guantanamo Bay inmates, all five men released were considered to be a high risk to launch attacks against the United States and its allies if they were liberated.

3. Soldiers Who Served with Bergdahl are Making Claims He Was a Deserter

CNN’s Jake Tapper reports that soldiers who served with Bergdahl are calling him a “deserter,” not a “hero”:

“I was pissed off then and I am even more so now with everything going on,” said former Sgt. Matt Vierkant, a member of Bergdahl’s platoon when he went missing on June 30, 2009. “Bowe Bergdahl deserted during a time of war and his fellow Americans lost their lives searching for him.”

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Vierkant said Bergdahl needs to not only acknowledge his actions publicly but face a military trial for desertion under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

4. Soldiers Who Served with Bergdahl Signed Non-Disclosure Agreements Not to Reveal What Happened

Again, from CNN’s Jake Tapper:

Many of Bergdahl’s fellow troops — from the seven or so who knew him best in his squad, to the larger group that comprised the 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division — told CNN that they signed nondisclosure agreements agreeing to never share any information about Bergdahl’s disappearance and the efforts to recapture him.

.Some were willing to dismiss that document in hopes that the truth would come out about a soldier who they now fear is being hailed as a hero, while the men who lost their lives looking for him are ignored.

5. Bergdahl Reportedly Split Camp with Just a Few Survival Items

Jibing with what was reported earlier on IJReview, Bergdahl seemingly plannedleaving his platoon carefully:

According to first-hand accounts from soldiers in his platoon, Bergdahl, while on guard duty, shed his weapons and walked off the observation post with nothing more than a compass, a knife, water, a digital camera, and a diary.

6. Soldier Who Claims to Have Served with Bergdahl Says He Mailed His Valuables Back Mid-Tour

As reported by IJReview contributor Soopermexican, a soldier claims Bergdahl mailed back his valuables mid-tour.  Going by the moniker of @CodyFNFootball, he claims about Bergdahl:

“Why would someone pack all of there [sic] belongings and send them home in the middle of a 12 month deployment? Hmmmm.”

In addition, the soldier claims that Bergdahl bought an AK-47, a highly unusual choice for a U.S. soldier.

7. Six U.S. Soldiers Killed in Manhunt to Find the AWOL Soldier

As reported via Gateway Pundit:

PFC Matthew Michael Martinek, Staff Sgt. Kurt Robert Curtiss, SSG Clayton Bowen, PFC Morris Walker, SSG Michael Murphrey, 2LT Darryn Andrews, were all KIA from our unit who died looking for Bergdahl. Many others from various units were wounded or killed while actively looking for Bergdahl.

7. Bergdahl Reportedly Made Anti-American Statements

According to a Rolling Stone article written by the late writer Michael Hastings, Bergdahl complained about fellow soldiers and had anti-American things to say.

“I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of US soldier is just the lie of fools,” he concluded. “I am sorry for everything. The horror that is America is disgusting.”

8. The Highly Unusual Behavior of Bowe Bergdahl

Also corresponding with the story reported earlier here, Bergdahl dreamed about joining the French foreign legion, had an interest in fighting warlords in Darfur in Sudan, and also said he had a desire to become a mercenary.

9. Father Praises Allah; Has Pro-Islamic Tweets on Timeline

Regardless of what one thinks about Islam, it is quite a coincidence that Bowe’s father Robert Bergdahl’s Twitter account has pro-Islamic statements, along with tweets critical of Gitmo detainment.

At the press conference with President Obama announcing his son’s release,Robert Bergdahl said “Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Rahim” —which means “In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Compassionate.”

10. Robert Bergdahl Deletes Extremely Suspicious Tweet

As reported by IJReview contributor Soopermexican earlier, this is what Robert Bergdahl by all appearances deleted from his timeline:

11. CIA Station Chief in Kabul is “Outed” by the White House One Week Before Transfer

If numerous military members knew something was awry with the story about Bergdahl’s apparent capture by the Taliban, what would the CIA station chief in Kabul know? As the Washington Post reported:

The CIA’s top officer in Kabul was exposed Saturday by the White House when his name was inadvertently included on a list provided to news organizations of senior U.S. officials participating in President Obama’s surprise visit with U.S. troops.

.The White House recognized the mistake and quickly issued a revised list that did not include the individual, who had been identified on the initial release as the “Chief of Station” in Kabul, a designation used by the CIA for its highest-ranking spy in a country.

It is debatable that this uneven exchange serves the U.S.’ long-term national security interests, since it encourages our enemies around the world to take more American military members hostage.

Such reports also throw into question the claim that Bergdahl was a “hero” who was “captured on the battlefield,” and there are issues surrounding this exchange that are far from settled.

TJOC: Anyone reviewing these stories, with an open mind, should come away with some serious questions regarding all that's being said.