OT: Military Officer Refuses Order from Obama

[SDEngineer]

[quote=Casca]Thanks for your legal opinion SD. It doesn’t help his case much that there is a FOIA response floating around from Occidental that says he took money from the Fulbright Foundation as an Indonesian foreign student. No conspiracy theory here, just one hell of a lot of smoke. That leads some of us to suspect fire. You go ahead and go back to sleep.[/quote]

Citation and source?

Hard to vet information when I’m not provided any relevent facts.

Meanwhile, you can go ahead and replace tinfoil cap. Make sure it’s not on too tight.

BTW, mountains and molehills look very similar – as long as you’re not paying much attention to the perspective.

Edited to add:

Hmm, snopes seems to address this as well.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/occidental.asp

It appears, unless you can actually produce the FOIA response in question (a link to it would be sufficient), that this is solely based on yet another spammail attempting to appear to be a legitimate news story (though the tagline on the supposed AP story which appears to have given rise to this should be a clue, since it’s dated April 1, 2009).

[CricketOnTheHearth]

The citizenship part is a red herring. To me the main event is the hypocrisy.

Can you imagine if a reservist had refused deployment orders on the grounds that Bush is AWOL from the TX National Guard? The osik would have been hitting the fan by the ton! Fox news commentators would have been bouncing off the ceiling tiles about “failure to respect the office” and “disobeying a lawful order” and “treason” etc etc. But about this? Crickets….

History is clear that partisans demand unquestioning “respect for the office” of President only when it is their President.

[CricketOnTheHearth]

The citizenship part is a red herring. To me the main event is the hypocrisy.

Can you imagine if a reservist had refused deployment orders on the grounds that Bush is AWOL from the TX National Guard? The osik would have been hitting the fan by the ton! Fox news commentators would have been bouncing off the ceiling tiles about “failure to respect the office” and “disobeying a lawful order” and “treason” etc etc. But about this? Crickets….

History is clear that partisans demand unquestioning “respect for the office” of President only when it is their President.

[CricketOnTheHearth]

The citizenship part is a red herring. To me the main event is the hypocrisy.

Can you imagine if a reservist had refused deployment orders on the grounds that Bush is AWOL from the TX National Guard? The osik would have been hitting the fan by the ton! Fox news commentators would have been bouncing off the ceiling tiles about “failure to respect the office” and “disobeying a lawful order” and “treason” etc etc. But about this? Crickets….

History is clear that partisans demand unquestioning “respect for the office” of President only when it is their President.

[CricketOnTheHearth]

The citizenship part is a red herring. To me the main event is the hypocrisy.

Can you imagine if a reservist had refused deployment orders on the grounds that Bush is AWOL from the TX National Guard? The osik would have been hitting the fan by the ton! Fox news commentators would have been bouncing off the ceiling tiles about “failure to respect the office” and “disobeying a lawful order” and “treason” etc etc. But about this? Crickets….

History is clear that partisans demand unquestioning “respect for the office” of President only when it is their President.

[CricketOnTheHearth]

The citizenship part is a red herring. To me the main event is the hypocrisy.

Can you imagine if a reservist had refused deployment orders on the grounds that Bush is AWOL from the TX National Guard? The osik would have been hitting the fan by the ton! Fox news commentators would have been bouncing off the ceiling tiles about “failure to respect the office” and “disobeying a lawful order” and “treason” etc etc. But about this? Crickets….

History is clear that partisans demand unquestioning “respect for the office” of President only when it is their President.

[partypup]

[quote=IONEGARM]I thought the moon landing being faked was the #1 stupidest conspiracy theory.

But really this just takes the cake.[/quote]

That’s funny, because until last week I thought the allegation of market manipulation by big banks was the conspiracy theory that took the cake. And look what we found out:

“Last Wednesday, one publication stated that the software enables Goldman Sachs to assist the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets (popularly called the Plunge Protection Team). Supposedly, this software reviews trading orders on the exchanges BEFORE they were committed. In the split-second before the orders are committed, Goldman Sachs’ program can enter trades to take advantage of the change in the market before other traders learn of these developments.”

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=7004

And we aren’t talking about conspiracy theories from fringe sites. Even Bloomberg has caught on to the significance of this bombshell.

“Goldman Sachs Loses Grip on Its Doomsday Machine: Jonathan Weil ”

“It wasn’t just Goldman that faced imminent harm if Aleynikov were to be released, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Facciponti told a federal magistrate judge at his July 4 bail hearing in New York. The 34-year-old prosecutor also dropped this bombshell: The bank has raised the possibility that there is a danger that somebody who knew how to use this program could use it to manipulate markets in unfair ways.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=aFeyqdzYcizc

Goldman has essentially been cheating the markets and making EVERY trade as if it were an inside trade. And how long has this been going on? Guess only the conspiracy theorists can tell us that 😉

Maybe it’s about time for you to invest in some tin foil. Truth is about to become stranger than fiction as more secrets are revealed. Oh yeah, that tends to happen when empires crumble…LOL.

[partypup]

[quote=IONEGARM]I thought the moon landing being faked was the #1 stupidest conspiracy theory.

But really this just takes the cake.[/quote]

That’s funny, because until last week I thought the allegation of market manipulation by big banks was the conspiracy theory that took the cake. And look what we found out:

“Last Wednesday, one publication stated that the software enables Goldman Sachs to assist the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets (popularly called the Plunge Protection Team). Supposedly, this software reviews trading orders on the exchanges BEFORE they were committed. In the split-second before the orders are committed, Goldman Sachs’ program can enter trades to take advantage of the change in the market before other traders learn of these developments.”

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=7004

And we aren’t talking about conspiracy theories from fringe sites. Even Bloomberg has caught on to the significance of this bombshell.

“Goldman Sachs Loses Grip on Its Doomsday Machine: Jonathan Weil ”

“It wasn’t just Goldman that faced imminent harm if Aleynikov were to be released, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Facciponti told a federal magistrate judge at his July 4 bail hearing in New York. The 34-year-old prosecutor also dropped this bombshell: The bank has raised the possibility that there is a danger that somebody who knew how to use this program could use it to manipulate markets in unfair ways.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=aFeyqdzYcizc

Goldman has essentially been cheating the markets and making EVERY trade as if it were an inside trade. And how long has this been going on? Guess only the conspiracy theorists can tell us that 😉

Maybe it’s about time for you to invest in some tin foil. Truth is about to become stranger than fiction as more secrets are revealed. Oh yeah, that tends to happen when empires crumble…LOL.

[partypup]

[quote=IONEGARM]I thought the moon landing being faked was the #1 stupidest conspiracy theory.

But really this just takes the cake.[/quote]

That’s funny, because until last week I thought the allegation of market manipulation by big banks was the conspiracy theory that took the cake. And look what we found out:

“Last Wednesday, one publication stated that the software enables Goldman Sachs to assist the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets (popularly called the Plunge Protection Team). Supposedly, this software reviews trading orders on the exchanges BEFORE they were committed. In the split-second before the orders are committed, Goldman Sachs’ program can enter trades to take advantage of the change in the market before other traders learn of these developments.”

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=7004

And we aren’t talking about conspiracy theories from fringe sites. Even Bloomberg has caught on to the significance of this bombshell.

“Goldman Sachs Loses Grip on Its Doomsday Machine: Jonathan Weil ”

“It wasn’t just Goldman that faced imminent harm if Aleynikov were to be released, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Facciponti told a federal magistrate judge at his July 4 bail hearing in New York. The 34-year-old prosecutor also dropped this bombshell: The bank has raised the possibility that there is a danger that somebody who knew how to use this program could use it to manipulate markets in unfair ways.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=aFeyqdzYcizc

Goldman has essentially been cheating the markets and making EVERY trade as if it were an inside trade. And how long has this been going on? Guess only the conspiracy theorists can tell us that 😉

Maybe it’s about time for you to invest in some tin foil. Truth is about to become stranger than fiction as more secrets are revealed. Oh yeah, that tends to happen when empires crumble…LOL.

[partypup]

[quote=IONEGARM]I thought the moon landing being faked was the #1 stupidest conspiracy theory.

But really this just takes the cake.[/quote]

That’s funny, because until last week I thought the allegation of market manipulation by big banks was the conspiracy theory that took the cake. And look what we found out:

“Last Wednesday, one publication stated that the software enables Goldman Sachs to assist the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets (popularly called the Plunge Protection Team). Supposedly, this software reviews trading orders on the exchanges BEFORE they were committed. In the split-second before the orders are committed, Goldman Sachs’ program can enter trades to take advantage of the change in the market before other traders learn of these developments.”

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=7004

And we aren’t talking about conspiracy theories from fringe sites. Even Bloomberg has caught on to the significance of this bombshell.

“Goldman Sachs Loses Grip on Its Doomsday Machine: Jonathan Weil ”

“It wasn’t just Goldman that faced imminent harm if Aleynikov were to be released, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Facciponti told a federal magistrate judge at his July 4 bail hearing in New York. The 34-year-old prosecutor also dropped this bombshell: The bank has raised the possibility that there is a danger that somebody who knew how to use this program could use it to manipulate markets in unfair ways.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=aFeyqdzYcizc

Goldman has essentially been cheating the markets and making EVERY trade as if it were an inside trade. And how long has this been going on? Guess only the conspiracy theorists can tell us that 😉

Maybe it’s about time for you to invest in some tin foil. Truth is about to become stranger than fiction as more secrets are revealed. Oh yeah, that tends to happen when empires crumble…LOL.

[partypup]

[quote=IONEGARM]I thought the moon landing being faked was the #1 stupidest conspiracy theory.

But really this just takes the cake.[/quote]

That’s funny, because until last week I thought the allegation of market manipulation by big banks was the conspiracy theory that took the cake. And look what we found out:

“Last Wednesday, one publication stated that the software enables Goldman Sachs to assist the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets (popularly called the Plunge Protection Team). Supposedly, this software reviews trading orders on the exchanges BEFORE they were committed. In the split-second before the orders are committed, Goldman Sachs’ program can enter trades to take advantage of the change in the market before other traders learn of these developments.”

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=7004

And we aren’t talking about conspiracy theories from fringe sites. Even Bloomberg has caught on to the significance of this bombshell.

“Goldman Sachs Loses Grip on Its Doomsday Machine: Jonathan Weil ”

“It wasn’t just Goldman that faced imminent harm if Aleynikov were to be released, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Facciponti told a federal magistrate judge at his July 4 bail hearing in New York. The 34-year-old prosecutor also dropped this bombshell: The bank has raised the possibility that there is a danger that somebody who knew how to use this program could use it to manipulate markets in unfair ways.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=aFeyqdzYcizc

Goldman has essentially been cheating the markets and making EVERY trade as if it were an inside trade. And how long has this been going on? Guess only the conspiracy theorists can tell us that 😉

Maybe it’s about time for you to invest in some tin foil. Truth is about to become stranger than fiction as more secrets are revealed. Oh yeah, that tends to happen when empires crumble…LOL.

[IONEGARM]

[quote=partypup]
That’s funny, because until last week I thought the allegation of market manipulation by big banks was the conspiracy theory that took the cake.
…
Maybe it’s about time for you to invest in some tin foil. Truth is about to become stranger than fiction as more secrets are revealed. Oh yeah, that tends to happen when empires crumble…LOL.[/quote]

Its not news that people who are market makers can front run orders..

And that still has nothing to do with the hairbrained, obviously false allegations people come up with so that they don’t have to admit to themselves that Obama is their president. They dont want it to be true so it isnt. If it wasnt this it’d be something else. Wacky people are just like that.

[IONEGARM]

[quote=partypup]
That’s funny, because until last week I thought the allegation of market manipulation by big banks was the conspiracy theory that took the cake.
…
Maybe it’s about time for you to invest in some tin foil. Truth is about to become stranger than fiction as more secrets are revealed. Oh yeah, that tends to happen when empires crumble…LOL.[/quote]

Its not news that people who are market makers can front run orders..

And that still has nothing to do with the hairbrained, obviously false allegations people come up with so that they don’t have to admit to themselves that Obama is their president. They dont want it to be true so it isnt. If it wasnt this it’d be something else. Wacky people are just like that.

[IONEGARM]

[quote=partypup]
That’s funny, because until last week I thought the allegation of market manipulation by big banks was the conspiracy theory that took the cake.
…
Maybe it’s about time for you to invest in some tin foil. Truth is about to become stranger than fiction as more secrets are revealed. Oh yeah, that tends to happen when empires crumble…LOL.[/quote]

Its not news that people who are market makers can front run orders..

And that still has nothing to do with the hairbrained, obviously false allegations people come up with so that they don’t have to admit to themselves that Obama is their president. They dont want it to be true so it isnt. If it wasnt this it’d be something else. Wacky people are just like that.

[IONEGARM]

[quote=partypup]
That’s funny, because until last week I thought the allegation of market manipulation by big banks was the conspiracy theory that took the cake.
…
Maybe it’s about time for you to invest in some tin foil. Truth is about to become stranger than fiction as more secrets are revealed. Oh yeah, that tends to happen when empires crumble…LOL.[/quote]

Its not news that people who are market makers can front run orders..

And that still has nothing to do with the hairbrained, obviously false allegations people come up with so that they don’t have to admit to themselves that Obama is their president. They dont want it to be true so it isnt. If it wasnt this it’d be something else. Wacky people are just like that.

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