Top July Posts

July rainbow at the foot of Mt. Ellis,
Bozeman, Montana

Along the Gradyent's top July posts poured in as follows:

1. Leading the July pack is "Barack Obama Stands with Defense Contractors." reporting the role the Obama administration and the President himself played in putting a false view forward on the sequester's impact on defense preparedness. A month after this post Obama doubled down on his protect defense expenditures at any cost theme when he told a captive audience of Marines he will "keep on working to get rid of the sequester." The Commander in Chief weirdly linked sexual assaults in the military to the spending diet. We have been reporting on the Obama administration's half truths, lies and distortions concerning the sequester all along, from that first fateful morning in February, when using a bunch of police officers, fire fighters and EMT's as live props, Obama projected, that among other horribles, our homes would be reduced to ashes, the streets would be flooded with hardened criminals and critically injured would be abandoned to die in the streets if the sequester was permitted to go forward. And this is someone you can't clown around about or mock? Right! He spews so much bull, we need to be protected from it.
2. Picking up on our back to our roots theme we put together a photo gallery from our childhood home town, "Morton Grove 4th of July Parade -- The Shriners Return."  The Shriners love playing with and displaying their conveyances, every one of them.  If you haven't already, check it out.
3. We got hoodies, we got would be burglars, and we got a dead guy too, in Montana -- "White Guy Shot Dead."  And the Helena police aren't charging the shooter.  Wonder what the racial animus is there?
4. Yuck! I have to type it again. "I Agree with Elizabeth Warren." The big banks should be broken up along functional lines, split into the safe, comfortable world of government backed commercial banks and the wild, wild west of investment banks. It worked for 70 years. So roll it back.
5. Then comes "Phony Furloughing for the Sequester." Under the sequester soldiers, sailors, aviators and marines are protected from furloughs -- always have been. But the Obama administration decried the impact on non-uniformed civilian employees, said they would be furloughed for 22 days, then 11 and then finally six, which is like temporarily losing a step increase but still getting your COLA in a protected for lifetime job. Awwwww.  
6. Stop the conduits. They are evil. "No Pipelines." Thanks to the greenie weenies' preferred transportation mode, Lac Megantic, Quebec burned to a crisp and 47 souls are lost. Warren Buffet and his BNSF train subsidiary are thankful for the anti-pipeline movement.
7. Montana is a big coal state. Obama, a genuine clown, mocks and dismisses those who want to tap this natural resource as "flatlanders." But look down Mr. President, look down. We got mountains.  "No Flatlanders Here."
8. An interesting and telling contrast -- Obama and the White House are all over the unrest in Egypt, ensconced in "The Situation Room," real time and right on top of it.  Not so in Libya, where the unrest was directed at an embassy and American personnel with tragic and fatal results.

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