The Red Cross failing again - This time in Haiti

I have written about the Red Cross' failures before.  One of the main kickers that spurred me to put together the KTD Drive Project, what really clinched it for me was the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.  The simple fact of the matter is, the Red Cross, FEMA, and many other organizations, all too often fail to do the job they are supposed to do.

And now Haiti feels not just the Red Cross' failure but Hillary Clinton's Failure as well.


"In late 2011, the Red Cross launched a multimillion-dollar project to transform the desperately poor area, which was hit hard by the earthquake that struck Haiti the year before. The main focus of the project — called LAMIKA, an acronym in Creole for “A Better Life in My Neighborhood” — was building hundreds of permanent homes.

Today, not one home has been built in Campeche. Many residents live in shacks made of rusty sheet metal, without access to drinkable water, electricity or basic sanitation. When it rains, their homes flood and residents bail out mud and water."

Give them what they want

"BOSTON (CBS) – A young woman was kidnapped from South Boston in broad daylight Tuesday morning and forced to take out money from five different ATMs before she was taken to Stony Brook Reservation in Hyde Park and stabbed to death, the District Attorney said on Wednesday."

That link takes you to Jay's and he says it much better than I could.

This is Bull Excrement

GEICO cancels auto insurance because policy holder makes gun parts for a living!

Og's right

this is very interesting

"The firearms registry is long on philosophy and short on practical results considering the money could be more effectively used for security against terrorism as well as a host of other public safety initiatives.”



Over a billion dollars wasted, for what?

Sears evidently feels it doesn't have to actually fix

things when they are sent in for a warranty repair.

Almost 2 months ago I sent a 31CC 2 cycle line trimmer to Sear for a warranty repair.  I had only purchased the trimmer a few months ago, and ever since I purchased it I had issues with it running.  I constantly had to be partially choked to run and I was constantly having to restart it.  The pull starting cord finally broke off so I took it back to Sears for repair.  2 weeks later they called me and told me it would be $84.00 to fix.  WHAT?!  It is a WARRANTY REPAIR!.  It wasn't even 6 months old and they were trying to charge me almost what I paid for it to repair it while it was under warranty.

I asked to speak to a Supervisor and the young man I was speaking to to his credit got it worked out so there would be no charge.  However 3 more weeks passed with several phone calls from me asking where my trimmer was, I picked it up yesterday.

I just finished spending the last 2 hours trying to get the trimmer to just run.  It will run, just barely when fully choked, and that is it.  It will not run at all, as soon as you start to open the choke it dies.  I dumped out the gas, ran a little bit of B-12 Chemtool through it to clean it out thinking maybe it might be a problem with build up in the carb.  Using fresh gas/oil mix it still will not stay running.

When I sent the trimmer off for repair I specifically told them that it would not run properly and needed to be adjusted.  Evidently all they did was to repair the pull start and that was it.

This is not the first issue I have had with Sears repair.  I and my mother have Sears Lawn tractors that have been giving us fits.  My mother's especially as the extended warranty she had purchased ran out and not even 3 weeks later the battery died, and it started having a whole host of other problems.

If this is the service and reliability level Sears has fallen to, I think I will find somewhere else to purchase my lawn equipment and appliances..

And don't get me started on my clothes washer, Sears only saving grace there is I bought it used and not from them.

So in short, Sears your warranty repair services SUCK!

This will go back to Sears in the morning, and I will be trying to find a used line trimmer that will fit all the various attachments I bought for my Sears trimmer, such as the tiller, pole saw, heavy brush head etc.

Far East South East Asia

We are about to get our hind ends handed to us handily.  And the Obama Administration and the Media don't care.

Umm....Not so fast...

You really really need to look at the map, and yes it IS to scale.

Over at Texas Fred

There are a few postings you should read.

"I wonder if THIS post will Offend the Muslims?"


"Rice contradicts Libyan account, says attack was not premeditated"

"This is Islam, the so-called *Religion of Peace*"

"Sec. Clinton keeps to 2011 UN pledge to ‘shame’ and ‘pressure’ Americans who denigrate Islam" 

Be sure to check all the links.  Very Interesting and enlightening

If I failed consistently to do

my job, constantly failed to do what was required of me.  I would be fired for non performance.  That is true in the corporate world, true in private industry, true in the military.  If you can't do your job, you are replaced with someone who WILL do the job.  So why is it that the Administrative Branch of the Government thinks it can keep failing, and not get replaced?

"The White House on Friday said it will miss the legal deadline for delivering a report to Congress on the spending cuts from sequestration that are scheduled to take effect in 2013.

Spokesman Jay Carney told reporters on Air Force One that the report will be coming next week.

Under the terms of the Sequestration Transparency Act signed in August, President Obama was to tell Congress by Friday how the administration plans to implement the $109 billion in automatic cuts mandated by the Budget Control Act.

The Office of Management and Budget has repeatedly failed to make legal deadlines. It delivered its presidential budget proposals and mid-session updates late both this year and last year. 
Republicans have tried to tie the tardiness to the failure of the Senate to pass a budget resolution for the last three years."

Is the Administrative Branch under the impression that the Laws that everyone else in this country have to abide by, don't apply to them?

Just one more proof that the current administration is a complete and utter failure.

H/t Insty

Over at Ace's on tonight overnight open thread

the very top entry.  there are some links you need to check out.  I'll excerpt it here without the links, so you will need to click on over to check the links.

"Much as been made recently of Obama being better on National Security than Romney, mostly having to do with the killing of Bin Laden occurring while he was golfing currently occupying the position of President. But isn't the number one threat to our National Security our growing, out of control debt? Back in 2010, the Chairman, Joint Chiefs Of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen Thought So. So how does the President handle our number one National Security threat? Why, He Blows Off A Mandated Deadline To Detail The Defense Spending Cuts that are required for sequestration. And why exactly are we left with sequestration? Because the President's own party has failed to pass a budget in over 3 years and Obama essentially killed The Debt Deal With Boehner. The President's National Security policies seem to be Taking The Easier Path To A Worse Place. 

The most important national security problem facing our nation -- the crushing load of debt that will crowd out discretionary spending by our government -- was addressed in the context of cutting military spending. The president who has doubled our national debt in three years now claims "I will use the money we're no longer spending on war to pay down our debt and put more people back to work rebuilding roads and bridges and schools and runways, because after two wars that have cost us thousands of lives and over a trillion dollars, it's time to do some nation building right here at home." That is, defense is the bill payer for his domestic programs. He claimed "I'm still eager to reach an agreement based on the principles of my bipartisan debt commission," but he has taken no action at all to bring the Simpson-Bowles Commission's recommendations into effect -- they weren't in his budget, they weren't in his proposals during the debt limit negotiations last summer."

A brief on the failures of Green Energy

over at Wheelguns aka .357 Magnum's new place.


"It was 3 a.m. on a Wednesday when the machines suddenly ground to a halt at Hydro Aluminium in Hamburg. The rolling mill’s highly sensitive monitor stopped production so abruptly that the aluminum belts snagged. They hit the machines and destroyed a piece of the mill. The reason: The voltage off the electricity grid weakened for just a millisecond."