Washington

Our spittle-flecked ANTIFA anarchists (and too too many others) are now proposing ... nay, demanding that we tear down the Washington Monument .... after all, George Washington was a slave owner at Mount Vernon. He obviously never did anything to compensate for this communal sin.

Now, this edifice is a rather imposing monument ... sooo ... may I suggest we might just rename it? Possibly just scratch out and replace the last name on all the plaques there with “Floyd?”

Another possibility: Just rededicate and redecorate it in honor of former President Bill Clinton’s penis?

But in order to make this virtue singling complete, we will need also to rename Washington, DC (Swampville?) and Washington State (West Gates? ... capital, Chaz?)

Culture of Corrumpion

Today's unemployment numbers were a shock! Estimates were for 150,00 to 200,000 new jobs to be created ... the actual reported number was 38,000 ... quite a miss ... see: New York Times Article. Still the unemployment rate fell from 5.0% to 4.8% ... a big drop considering the paltry new jobs being created. This was because the US workforce participation shrank by an almost unprecedented 500,000 after months of steady gains ... very suspicious.These mostly poor "statistics" could not have been better news for Hellery Clinton for a number of reasons:

1) They should keep the Federal Reserve Bank from raising interest rates this or next month or maybe not until December ... auguring well for the incumbent party in an election year

2) Like what was hinted at on CNBC this morning, if the true employment numbers were actually higher, they can be put in the bank and pulled out this coming November ... right before the presidential election

3) The Obummer administration can still brag about this (phony) low unemployment rate caused by this suspiciously large workforce shrinkage

Am I suggesting that the Bureau of Labor Statistics has become politicized and fiddles its reporting to help Democrats? Yes I am. And it is at least the third time that I think this has happened there in the last four years ... see: my Parboiled blog entry and the hyperlinks contained therein for the sad details. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, once a proud purveyor of the best data available, now seems to be engaging in subterfuge ... making up data to suit the political needs of its Washington bosses. And, it also seems that the stock market is beginning to discount these shenanigans ... for it is not down nearly as much as one might expect given today's dismal unemployment report. Perhaps Wall Street is rooting for Hellery?

If, as I suspect, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been corrupted by this Obummer administration ... can we then add it to this administration's culture of corrupted ... the corrupt IRS (remember the Tea Party denials), the corrupted Justice Department (remember Fast and Furious), the corrupted State Department (remember Benghazi), the corrupted EPA (remember the killing of the coal industry), the corrupted Secret Service, the corrupted Department of Education (remember Common Core), the emasculated Defense Department, the corrupted Veterans Administration, the corrupted NOAA (remember climate change data "adjustments"), the corrupted Health and Human Services Department (remember Obamacare), the corrupt Energy Department (remember Solyndra, etc), among many others?

Acolytes

Today President Obama is nominating three acolytes to fill three vitally important posts in his administration … John Kerry to State, Chuck Hagel to Defense, and John Brennan to head the CIA.  They are soon to replace, in this order, three much more independently-minded people … Hillary Clinton (in questionable health),  a burned-out Leon Panetta, and former General David Petraeus (who fell on his sword … possibly an unfortunate analogy) … see: Earthlink News. 

Two of these nominees are long-time legislators (Hagel and Kerry) and such people usually don't translate well to administrative posts (I’ll comment more on this at some later date), but, to me, this CIA nomination is even more unfortunate in that Brennan has always appeared to me to put politics and his career ahead of his patriotic duties.  I first noted this in January, two years ago, when he botched the crotch bomber incident … see Head(s) Should Roll

Since then, Brennan, who is currently Obama’s assistant for counter-terrorism and homeland security, has appeared to be involved in numerous unsavory security leaks (such as those surrounding the killing of Osama Bin Laden) and national security screw-ups (e,gs,, the Benghazi fiasco/cover-up and the loss of a high-tech drone to Iran … see: Cyber Warfare).  Yes, but one could also argue he has also been in the forefront of the use of drones to take out much of al Qaeda’s leadership in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere… but he has also approved the selling of drones to Pakistan (see: Are We F...ing Crazy?) and giving F-16 fighter jets to Egypt … both silly bone-headed moves.

Putting Brennan in to head up the CIA makes me very uneasy in that he seems more politically active and willing to massage Obama's ego than is advisable in this post.  He (like Obama's two other neophyte acolytes) really does not seem to be up to the job.

Afterward: See also: Breitbart Story and His Remarks about Jihad and The Left Dislikes Him Too