Lee Stranahan has two you should look at.
First about Shirley Sherrod and Unintended Consequences:
"By the way, the USDA had no way of knowing this at the time but Andrew didn’t have a drip-drip-drip planned. His focus was on the NAACP crowd’s reaction, not Shirley Sherrod. The irony is that Breitbart didn’t know about Pigford until after the Sherrod story went nuts."
Next Lee talks about the Akin debacle and the Left's hypocrisy as it pertains to Republicans and certain subjects.
"As the institutional left and their media have gone into feeding frenzy mode over the “legitimate rape” comment by Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin, they have banked on two things. First, that conservatives will have standards and that many will call Akin out. This has come to pass as the GOP establishment, right wing blogs and conservative pundits have all lambasted Akin. The second thing the left is counting on, however, is that nobody will call out the left;s own hypocrisy. This has turned out to also be a very safe bet. The result is the spectacle of a bipartisan attack on Akin over a comment he made. To reiterate, this was over words."
CLick the two separate links above to read them for yourselves.
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Friday, August 24, 2012
Family Research Council Shooting
The suspect who I shall not name plead not guilty to attempted murder. Why isn't he charged with a hate crime or a terroristic crime? If he had attacked some other organizations he would be. As Bob Owens points out.
"It is hard to believe that a man that carried in so much ammunition with him, and which had two separate known organizations targeted for murder for their political beliefs and their support of a Christian-owned family restaurant, is not being charged with domestic terrorism or anti-Christian hate crimes.
Is there any doubt at all he would have faced such charges if he had attacked a mosque, CAIR, or leftwing outfits like Media Matters or the Tides Foundation?
This is a selective non-prosecution by the Obama Department of Justice, where left wing criminals simply are not prosecuted."
Click the above to RTWT
"It is hard to believe that a man that carried in so much ammunition with him, and which had two separate known organizations targeted for murder for their political beliefs and their support of a Christian-owned family restaurant, is not being charged with domestic terrorism or anti-Christian hate crimes.
Is there any doubt at all he would have faced such charges if he had attacked a mosque, CAIR, or leftwing outfits like Media Matters or the Tides Foundation?
This is a selective non-prosecution by the Obama Department of Justice, where left wing criminals simply are not prosecuted."
Click the above to RTWT
New York City Shooting
Bob Owens has some points to ponder.
"From piecing together the various media accounts, we know that Johnson was most likely armed with a M1911 .45 ACP pistol, which has a 7 or 8 round magazine. He shot his victim 2-3 times, leaving 5-6 bullets. At least one was found in the magazine, and we have to assume one in the chamber as well.
That means he fired 3-4 bullets, tops, at police.
There were at least three hits on Johnson confirmed by a witness, which suggests the majority of the wounded were hit by the 11-12 additional rounds let loose by the NYPD that missed Johnson."
The Comment I left there is:
"When I was in law enforcement we were only required to qualify twice a year. 50 rounds set distances, and you only had to score 175 out of 300 to qualify. 175 points out of 300. And over 40% of the other officers had to shoot 2 or 3 times to pass. I was shooting on average 300 plus rounds a month trying to maintain proficiency. Most officers only shot at quals and no other times. My departments training budget was $15.00 per officer per month, and we were not paid for training. If we were lucky they’d actually buy a box of ammo and a couple of targets. Anything else was on our time and our dime. So it doesn’t surprise me if the majority if not all of the wounded bystanders were shot by officers and not the perp."
With more and more emphasis in training being on "High Speed" tactics and less on marksmanship, is this any surprise?
"From piecing together the various media accounts, we know that Johnson was most likely armed with a M1911 .45 ACP pistol, which has a 7 or 8 round magazine. He shot his victim 2-3 times, leaving 5-6 bullets. At least one was found in the magazine, and we have to assume one in the chamber as well.
That means he fired 3-4 bullets, tops, at police.
There were at least three hits on Johnson confirmed by a witness, which suggests the majority of the wounded were hit by the 11-12 additional rounds let loose by the NYPD that missed Johnson."
The Comment I left there is:
"When I was in law enforcement we were only required to qualify twice a year. 50 rounds set distances, and you only had to score 175 out of 300 to qualify. 175 points out of 300. And over 40% of the other officers had to shoot 2 or 3 times to pass. I was shooting on average 300 plus rounds a month trying to maintain proficiency. Most officers only shot at quals and no other times. My departments training budget was $15.00 per officer per month, and we were not paid for training. If we were lucky they’d actually buy a box of ammo and a couple of targets. Anything else was on our time and our dime. So it doesn’t surprise me if the majority if not all of the wounded bystanders were shot by officers and not the perp."
With more and more emphasis in training being on "High Speed" tactics and less on marksmanship, is this any surprise?
Over Regulation kills business
In these troubled financial times, you would think that local governments would be doing everything they could to encourage businesses and smoothing the way for entrepreneurs to invest in local communities.
That is, unless you live in Chattanooga.
"How many regulations are necessary to dictate how a licensed, responsible adult should operate an oversized tricycle? If those regulations come from the nanny-state tyrants responsible for drafting the City of Chattanooga’s pedicab ordinance, the answer is 11 pages’ worth.
When longtime Chattanooga-area resident Christian “Thor” Thoreson and his partner Christina Holmes decided to launch Buzz Chattanooga Pedicabs in February 2011, the business seemed tailor-made for the downtown area."
The simple willing ignorance of city officials just boggles the mind.
And an additional story on the situation.
"The Chattanooga Times Free Press published an editorial obituary for a pedicab company killed by regulations this week.
Buzz Chattanooga was supposed to schlep people around the Scenic City in the backs of oversized tricycles. Christian “Thor” Thoreson and his partner Christina Holmes hoped the company would appeal to official hoping to boost tourism and minimize drunk driving and congestion. They jumped through a bunch of hoops to get the business off the ground."
With unemployment reaching a true level in excess of 13% including people who have stopped looking for work, to put so many impediments in the way of a business which if allowed to prosper could have revitalized your own downtown area, thereby increasing your own tax revenues, AND getting more people working and paying taxes. It should be a Win-Win situation. But the city of Chattanooga killed it.
Great Job!!!!
That is, unless you live in Chattanooga.
"How many regulations are necessary to dictate how a licensed, responsible adult should operate an oversized tricycle? If those regulations come from the nanny-state tyrants responsible for drafting the City of Chattanooga’s pedicab ordinance, the answer is 11 pages’ worth.
When longtime Chattanooga-area resident Christian “Thor” Thoreson and his partner Christina Holmes decided to launch Buzz Chattanooga Pedicabs in February 2011, the business seemed tailor-made for the downtown area."
The simple willing ignorance of city officials just boggles the mind.
And an additional story on the situation.
"The Chattanooga Times Free Press published an editorial obituary for a pedicab company killed by regulations this week.
Buzz Chattanooga was supposed to schlep people around the Scenic City in the backs of oversized tricycles. Christian “Thor” Thoreson and his partner Christina Holmes hoped the company would appeal to official hoping to boost tourism and minimize drunk driving and congestion. They jumped through a bunch of hoops to get the business off the ground."
With unemployment reaching a true level in excess of 13% including people who have stopped looking for work, to put so many impediments in the way of a business which if allowed to prosper could have revitalized your own downtown area, thereby increasing your own tax revenues, AND getting more people working and paying taxes. It should be a Win-Win situation. But the city of Chattanooga killed it.
Great Job!!!!
You are more likely to be shot in your own backyard
by Law Enforcement, than by a criminal.
From This Ain't Hell I found the following story:
"SPRING VALLEY — As a Spring Valley woman recovered from a gunshot wound Tuesday in a hospital, her family is demanding answers from the sheriff’s deputy who accidentally fired the bullet.
Sheriff’s officials said Jennifer Orey, 36, was shot during a surprise encounter with a deputy in her back yard Sunday night. The bullet first grazed her chest, then went through her arm and ricocheted off her pinky finger."
Sacramento County Sheriff's Deputies were searching for "A man in a ski mask", and instead found a home owner checking her own property after hearing nosies. One of them shoots her, no verbal warnings, just BANG! And the Deputies excuse? “I’m sorry, you startled me”. You shot an innocent woman because she startled you? You were in "HER" back yard without her permission, without notifying her the homeowner you were on her property and you shot her. I have a few issues with this story.
#1: why were you in her back yard? As a former LEO, unless we had the subject in sight we could not enter ANYONE'S property without the permission of property owner or tenant. These two deputies were responding to a call of a man in a ski mask. They did not see the subject they were looking for, therefore they had no legal authority to enter her property. Which they did through an "Open Gate", which they thought was suspicious. Uhhh, No. My former Departments policy was you did NOT enter someone's property UNLESS you had actually sighted your subject. Just because a gate is open is not in and of itself suspicious. They should have noted it and attempted to contact the resident before entering the yard. In Missouri if you entered someone's property without permission and without being in pursuit of a subject "YOU" the officer were guilty of Trespassing.
#2: Why was the Deputy's finger on the trigger of an unholstered weapon? The report was a subject in a ski mask. According to the news story there was no mention made of a weapon. So why was his finger on the trigger, in a yard he had no permission to be in?
#3: Where was the Deputy's flashlight? It was nighttime, how does anyone expect to identify anyone, either a subject you are looking for or an innocent citizen? I carried 2 flashlights, my AA battery Minimag and my 2 D cell Maglight, ALWAYS. And these days more and more officers have weapons lights mounted to prevent occurrences such as this.
These are just the beginnings of the questions I have.
From This Ain't Hell I found the following story:
"SPRING VALLEY — As a Spring Valley woman recovered from a gunshot wound Tuesday in a hospital, her family is demanding answers from the sheriff’s deputy who accidentally fired the bullet.
Sheriff’s officials said Jennifer Orey, 36, was shot during a surprise encounter with a deputy in her back yard Sunday night. The bullet first grazed her chest, then went through her arm and ricocheted off her pinky finger."
Sacramento County Sheriff's Deputies were searching for "A man in a ski mask", and instead found a home owner checking her own property after hearing nosies. One of them shoots her, no verbal warnings, just BANG! And the Deputies excuse? “I’m sorry, you startled me”. You shot an innocent woman because she startled you? You were in "HER" back yard without her permission, without notifying her the homeowner you were on her property and you shot her. I have a few issues with this story.
#1: why were you in her back yard? As a former LEO, unless we had the subject in sight we could not enter ANYONE'S property without the permission of property owner or tenant. These two deputies were responding to a call of a man in a ski mask. They did not see the subject they were looking for, therefore they had no legal authority to enter her property. Which they did through an "Open Gate", which they thought was suspicious. Uhhh, No. My former Departments policy was you did NOT enter someone's property UNLESS you had actually sighted your subject. Just because a gate is open is not in and of itself suspicious. They should have noted it and attempted to contact the resident before entering the yard. In Missouri if you entered someone's property without permission and without being in pursuit of a subject "YOU" the officer were guilty of Trespassing.
#2: Why was the Deputy's finger on the trigger of an unholstered weapon? The report was a subject in a ski mask. According to the news story there was no mention made of a weapon. So why was his finger on the trigger, in a yard he had no permission to be in?
#3: Where was the Deputy's flashlight? It was nighttime, how does anyone expect to identify anyone, either a subject you are looking for or an innocent citizen? I carried 2 flashlights, my AA battery Minimag and my 2 D cell Maglight, ALWAYS. And these days more and more officers have weapons lights mounted to prevent occurrences such as this.
These are just the beginnings of the questions I have.
Julia at Mininerd has a post up about jealousy
in particularly jealousy of people of other peoples good thinking and initiative.
"WOW, I just met the people who care about Romney’s tax rate! Well, I didn’t just meet them, because I’ve worked with them for years, but I didn’t know people were actually falling for that narrative! I knew from a previous conversation that these people were very pro-union (they won’t shop at Wal-Mart, and apparently their male relatives would “kill them” if they ever crossed a picket line), but I overheard a conversation today on the way to the printer that had me twitching."
"WOW, I just met the people who care about Romney’s tax rate! Well, I didn’t just meet them, because I’ve worked with them for years, but I didn’t know people were actually falling for that narrative! I knew from a previous conversation that these people were very pro-union (they won’t shop at Wal-Mart, and apparently their male relatives would “kill them” if they ever crossed a picket line), but I overheard a conversation today on the way to the printer that had me twitching."
Violations ala Brandon Raub
Silicon Graybeard had a post that lead me to the following story.
"At this point – July 1933 – the National Socialist Party had not fully consolidated its power, and many Germans publicly speculated "that the Nazi regime itself had orchestrated the fire to stir fears of a Bolshevik uprising and thereby gain popular support for the suspension of civil liberties," observes Erik Larson in his recent book In the Garden of Beasts. "The upcoming trial was the talk of Berlin."
Martha noticed that "contrary to what news reports had led her to expect, the building seemed intact," Larson relates. "The towers still stood and the facades appeared unmarked."
"Oh, I thought it was burned down!" she commented to the agitated protocol secretary who was conducting the tour. "It looks all right to me. Tell me what happened."
In reply to Martha's request, the protocol officer grabbed the young woman by the arm and hissed: "Young lady, you must learn to be seen and not heard. This isn’t America and you can’t say all the things you think." People who challenged the government’s official version of events by asking impertinent questions faced the prospect of "protective custody." In Berlin circa 1933, this was called schutzhaft. In the contemporary American Reich this procedure is called "emergency custody."
Click and go RTWT
"At this point – July 1933 – the National Socialist Party had not fully consolidated its power, and many Germans publicly speculated "that the Nazi regime itself had orchestrated the fire to stir fears of a Bolshevik uprising and thereby gain popular support for the suspension of civil liberties," observes Erik Larson in his recent book In the Garden of Beasts. "The upcoming trial was the talk of Berlin."
Martha noticed that "contrary to what news reports had led her to expect, the building seemed intact," Larson relates. "The towers still stood and the facades appeared unmarked."
"Oh, I thought it was burned down!" she commented to the agitated protocol secretary who was conducting the tour. "It looks all right to me. Tell me what happened."
In reply to Martha's request, the protocol officer grabbed the young woman by the arm and hissed: "Young lady, you must learn to be seen and not heard. This isn’t America and you can’t say all the things you think." People who challenged the government’s official version of events by asking impertinent questions faced the prospect of "protective custody." In Berlin circa 1933, this was called schutzhaft. In the contemporary American Reich this procedure is called "emergency custody."
Click and go RTWT
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Anderson Cooper schools Debbie Wasserman Schultz
"This is a MUST WATCH! And it is brutal. In his “Keeping them Honest” segment tonight, Anderson Cooper completely exposed Debbie Wasserman Schultz over her lies about Romney’s position on abortion. From beginning to end, Cooper refuses to let DWS dodge the issue, holding her to account for taking reporting LA Times out of context to raise money against Romney."
Click the above and watch the whole video
Click the above and watch the whole video
Denied boarding for being Brown and wearing a shirt
"My wife and I had arrived at the airport to fly home to Phoenix after attending my wife’s grandfather’s funeral, via a layover in Atlanta on Delta #1176. We had cleared the security checkpoint without incident, but while waiting at the gate, a Delta supervisor informed me my shirt (this one here, designed by Cory Doctorow) had made numerous passengers and employees “very uncomfortable.”
Click the above link to RTWT
Click the above link to RTWT
Paul Ryan, Who Is He??? - another from inbox
: Paul Ryan, Who Is He???.
Well, early last Saturday morning we learned that Congressman Paul Ryan, Republican from Wisconsin, is to be Mitt Romney's pick for the next Vice President of The United States.
What are we to think of this selection? He's not a graduate of Columbia University. He's not a graduate of Harvard. He wasn't selected as the President of the Harvard Law Review. He didn't get a special free quota scholarship ride to any prestigious university and, instead, had to work his way through Miami University of Ohio. For God's sake the man drove the Oscar Mayer Wiener Truck one summer and waited tables another!
One morning when Paul Ryan was sixteen years old he went in to wake his father up and found him dead of a heart attack. He didn't write two books about that experience. Instead, he assumed the role of adult at an early age, never having the luxury to pursue youthful drug use and the art of socialist revolution.
Instead, Paul Ryan and his mother took his grandmother, suffering from Alzheimer's, into the household and served as the primary care provider for his grandma. His grandma wasn't the Vice President of the Bank of Hawaii so she could offer nothing in return, except the element of "need".
Once Paul Ryan got his BA in Economics from Miami University of Ohio he was hired as a staff economist in Wisconsin Senator Kastin's office. The job must have not paid well because young Ryan moonlighted as a waiter and fitness trainer. No one offered him a "token honor" position at the University of Chicago and a $200,000 dollar a year salary.
When a still young Paul Ryan returned to Wisconsin to run for Congress he didn't demonize his opponent and dig up dirt to shovel against him. He waited until the standing Congressman vacated the office before seeking the office. In Janesville, Wisconsin they don't have a big political machine to promote you, to criminalize your opponent; instead Paul Ryan had to go door to door and sit at kitchen tables and listen to his future constituents.
After getting elected to Congress Paul Ryan didn't triumphantly march into Washington, buy himself a Georgetown townhouse and proceed over to K Street to rub elbows with lobbyists. He bunked in his Congressional office and used the house gym for showers and a fresh change of clothes.
Paul Ryan then married and took his bride back to Janesville. He lives on the same street he lived on as a kid and shares the neighborhood with eight other members of the Ryan clan. He hunts with the local Janesville hunt club and attends PTA meetings and other civic functions.
For those who can't make those public functions, Paul Ryan bought an old bread truck, converted it into a "mobile constituent office" and drives around to meet with those who need his help and attention.
No, I don't know if we can vote for a guy like this. He doesn't have a regal pedigree; he's Irish for God's sake! No one awarded him a Nobel Peace Prize two months after getting elected. No one threw flowers or got "chills down their leg" as a he took his seat in Congress.
What is most despicable about Paul Ryan is that he has had the nerve to write the House Budget for three years in a row. He's is brazen and heartless in advocating in that budget for a $5 trillion dollar reduction in federal spending over the next ten years! The House passed his budget three years in a row and three years in a row the Democratically controlled Senate has let it die in the upper house, without ever proposing a budget of their own. What is wrong with this guy? If Congress were to cut $5 trillion dollars from the budget where would the President get the money to give $500 million dollars to a bankrupt Solyndra? Or $200 million dollars for bankrupt Energy 1? Or $11 billion dollars to illegal aliens filing INIT, non-resident tax returns to claim $11 billion big ones in child tax credits, even for their children living in Mexico?
I don't know. Paul Ryan seems heartless to me. He keeps wanting to cut government waste, he keeps wanting to put a halt to those big GSA conventions in Vegas and, worse, he keeps trying to make people look at that $16.7 trillion dollar deficit! The guy's no fun at all!
Who wants a numbers cruncher? Who wants someone spoiling the party by showing folks the bill? Nothing will spoil a party quicker than sending the host the bill before the party's over.
Party Hearty folks! At least until November.
A Glass of Wine - From my inbox
To my friends who enjoy a glass of wine.. .
And those who don't and are always
seen with a bottle of water in their hand.
As Ben Franklin said:
In wine there is wisdom,
In beer there is freedom,
In water there is bacteria.
In a number of carefully controlled trials,
Scientists have demonstrated that if we drink
1 litre of water each day,
At the end of the year we would have absorbed
More than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli, (E. Coli) - bacteria
Found in feces.
In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop.
However,
We do NOT run that risk when drinking wine & beer
(or tequila, rum, whiskey or other liquor)
Because alcohol has to go through a purification process
Of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting.
Remember:
Water = Poop,
Wine = Health.
Therefore, it's better to drink
wine and talk stupid,
Than to drink water and be
full of shit.
There is no need to thank me for this valuable
information: I'm doing it as a public service!
------ End of Forwarded Message
How low is the Mississippi River?
I don't want to violate their copyright on the photos, but I will post a link to the story.
The Mississippi: how low can it go?
The Mississippi: how low can it go?
Prayers needed
most definitely needed. and due to the circumstances, we might want to kick in a little $$. Chris Byrne at The Anarchangel had a tumor removed. The biopsy showed it was cancerous but they believe they got all of it. That is the good news. Click the link below to read the rest. And if Chris needs some financial help please keep him in mind come payday.
"Whoever's writing this script...
please call my office, I'd like to make some changes "
"Whoever's writing this script...
please call my office, I'd like to make some changes "
3 over at Peter's Blog
that you really need to read.
The first is about the Sociopaths currently in the employ of the US Government.
"Of sociopaths, security, politics and government"
The second is about an emergency kit for your vehicle.
Emergency Preparation, Part 9: The Vehicle Emergency Kit
And the third is about the labor shortage in the California farming areas.
The real reason for the California farm labor shortage
The first is about the Sociopaths currently in the employ of the US Government.
"Of sociopaths, security, politics and government"
The second is about an emergency kit for your vehicle.
Emergency Preparation, Part 9: The Vehicle Emergency Kit
And the third is about the labor shortage in the California farming areas.
The real reason for the California farm labor shortage
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