Monday, October 7, 2013
Goodies From Ol' Remus
Just in - The IPCC is 95% sure humans are responsible for the global warming that isn't happening.
Ol' Remus at woodpilereport.com
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Michelle Obama announced that she is unable to Tweet
on her own without the aid of all of her sixteen assistants; many of
whom take home six figure salaries. There are more directors,
associate directors and deputy associate directors on Michelle Obama’s
staff than there were in George Washington’s entire administration.
Daniel Greenfield at sultanknish.blogspot.com.au
Daniel Greenfield at sultanknish.blogspot.com.au
Note - Camille Johnston, her Director Communications, is salaried at $102,000. Michelle Obama has a staff of twenty-two with $1,591,200 in annual salaries.
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Gavin McInnes at takimag.com
Demographics - If you take the cities of New York, Chicago, Washington DC
and Detroit out of the statistics on murder and gun violence in the
United States, then the United States has one of the lowest murder
rates in the world, and a very low crime rate involving the use of
firearms.
wintersoldier2008.typepad.com
wintersoldier2008.typepad.com
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The DC shooting
An unarmed 34-year-old woman with a history of post-partum depression drives to Washington, D.C. from Stamford, Connecticut this past week with her 18-month-old daughter, allegedly hits a police checkpoint barrier with her car, freaks out, accelerates to get away, is chased by the cops, stopped by them and then is shot and killed. The next day Congress gave the D.C. cops a standing ovation. Really? Has the threshold for the use of deadly force been lowered to mothers freaking out in their car?
Susan Boskey at activistpost.com
In their desire to hide the security reinforcements by making them unobtursive, in a place they really don't belong, they suceeded so well I don't think the woman saw them. After bouncing off them I'm sure she panicked, like a rabbit stuck on a wire fence. That ignited the frenzy.
Crusader Rabbit, comment at zerohedge.com
The Capitol Hill cops ... after terrorizing downtown DC, shutting Congress with a fusillade of rounds, engaging in a wild twenty-vehicle chase, crashing a couple of cars, injuring one of their own, managed to shoot and kill a disturbed unarmed African-American single mother apparently AFTER her car had come to a halt and presented no danger. [apparently the airbag never deployed]The White House is a place that attracts many unstable people. [so true]
Anonymous Secret Service official via Edmund Mahony at courant.com
DiploMad at thediplomad.blogspot.com
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Who would contemplate sending minions into what amounts to a solid
lead wall, moving at a thousand feet per second? Apparently, the
fools at the United Nations and their hangers-on and enablers, who
mistakenly believe they won't be the poor slobs sent out there to the
downrange side of 80 or 100 million American shooters, grimly
determined to preserve their political independence, individual
freedom, and their guns, says L. Smith in this article, America's Secretest Weapon, at Jews For The Preservation of Firearms Ownership.
When Wall Street wises up to our true fiscal condition, it will dump
long-term bonds like hot potatoes. This will lead interest rates to
jump and make people and banks very reluctant to hold money earning no
return. In trying to swap their money for goods and services, the
public will drive up prices. As prices start to rise and fingers start
pointing at the Fed for fueling the inflation, QE will be brought to an
abrupt halt. At that point, Congress will have to come up with an extra
6 percent of GDP on a permanent basis either via huge tax hikes or huge
spending cuts, says Laurence Kotlikoff in this article, Is Hyperinflation Just Around The Corner?, at Forbes.
Gun owners are actually among the most law-abiding and patriotic people
in the entire nation, but that doesn’t really fit with the radical
gun control agenda of the progressive elite. In order to move their
agenda forward, they must make gun owners look bad, and they will go
to ridiculous extremes in order to achieve that goal, says Michael
Snyder in this article, Why Are They Trying So Hard To Demonize Gun Owners?, at The American Dream.
Economy and DC - They will delay taking action until there is no possible alternative BUT
to act. And by the time that happens, rest assured, their tactics will
be Draconian. Capital controls. Gun controls. Wage and price controls.
Steep penalties for minor infractions and victimless crimes. Suspension
of Habeas Corpus. Confiscation of private pensions and retirement
accounts. Huge tax increases. Dual currency systems.
Simon Black at sovereignman.com
Simon Black at sovereignman.com
The Last Peaceful Defensive Stand
Via LH
“We
are not going to ask for impeachment,” Earl Conlon told US News. “We
are coming whether they like it or not. We’re not asking for
impeachment, we’re asking for the arrest of everyone in government who
has violated their oath of office.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/truckers-aim-for-arrests-in-congress/#bMzk7Tod1ADqX23x.99
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/truckers-aim-for-arrests-in-congress/#bMzk7Tod1ADqX23x.99
@ Ride For The Constitution
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Truckers aim for 'arrests' in Congress
“We are not going to ask for impeachment,” Earl Conlon told US News. “We are coming whether they like it or not. We’re not asking for impeachment, we’re asking for the arrest of everyone in government who has violated their oath of office.”
More @ WND
Obama to Allow Amnesty Rally on National Mall After Kicking Veterans Out
Last week, Barack Obama did a disgraceful thing in barricading the World War II Memorial and then later forcing Vietnam Veterans from the Vietnam Memorial. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid then attempted to blame the Republicans for the barricades. Now, on the very same Mall that those Memorials reside on, the Obama administration has decided to hold a massive rally for comprehensive immigration reform on Tuesday.
According to Charlie Spiering at the Washington Examiner:
More @ Freedom Outpost
Why Terry McAuliffe Can’t Be Trusted on Abortion...Especially in One of America's Most Pro-Life States
What do you get from Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe when you ask him about his view on abortion? A weather report.
Leaders in the pro-life movement held a conference call Wednesday regarding Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe’s ambiguous abortion agenda a month out from the election.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the pro-life organization Susan B. Anthony List, was adamant about exposing McAuliffe’s confusing stance.
“Women need to know, every Virginian needs to know […] There are inconsistencies. He has stated he will reopen clinics that have closed from regulations, has stated he would oppose any restriction against abortion. He also said he follows Virginia’s abortion laws, but Virginia has some of the most pro-life legislation in the country. If he supports that, he has changed his position. Which is it? Is he for it or against it?”
More @ Townhall
5 Examples of How the Government Thinks it Owns Everything
The federal government has been no-holds-barred trying to make the shutdown as inconvenient as possible, even if it means closing what isn’t theirs. Here are a few examples of the federal government’s entitlement issues.
1. Mount Vernon (attempted)
The National Park Service blocked Mt. Vernon parking lots last week. The barricades were removed after the “misunderstanding" of ownership was cleared, according to Mt. Vernon Media Director Melissa Wood.
It appears the police also stepped in to wreak havoc:
More @ Townhall
ATF tries to block Fast and Furious whistle-blower from publishing book
The ATF agent who blew the whistle on Operation Fast and Furious has been denied permission to write a book on the botched anti-gun trafficking sting "because it would have a negative impact on morale," according to the very agency responsible for the scandal.
After first trying to stop the operation internally, ATF Agent John Dodson went to Congress and eventually the media following the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December 2010. Two guns found at the murder scene were sold through the ATF operation.
Dodson's book, titled "The Unarmed Truth," provides the first inside account of how the federal government permitted and helped sell some 2,000 guns to Mexican drug cartels, despite evidence the guns killed innocent people.
Dodson, who is working with publisher Simon & Schuster, submitted his manuscript to the department for review, per federal rules. However, it was denied.
More with video @ Fox
Muslim Immigration and National Security America’s Deadly Dilemma
Mike Scruggs
In August 2004, a
Maryland Transportation Authority Police officer observed that a woman
dressed in Muslim garb was videotaping the support structures of the
heavily trafficked 4.3-mile Chesapeake Bay Bridge. The officer conducted a routine
traffic stop that led to an FBI raid several days later on the Annandale,
Virginia, residence of a Muslim Brotherhood (MB) member with suspected
connections to the Hamas terrorist organization. FBI agents discovered
the home had a secret sub-basement that housed the archives of the Muslim
Brotherhood in North America. The archives documented what the FBI had
long suspected. Nearly all the Muslim-American groups in the United
States were Muslim Brotherhood front organizations. The documents confirmed
that the MB and its front organizations’ central objectives were to
implement Islamic Law (Sharia) in the United States and further the
global dominance of Islam.
The documents captured included an “Explanatory
Memorandum” on MB goals and strategies to destroy America from within.
This included an immigration and infiltration plan and process called
“Civilization Jihad.” These goals and strategies had been officially
approved by the MB at their Shura Council and Organizational Conference
in 1987.
A key paragraph of the Explanatory Memorandum
explains:
“The process of settlement is a ‘Civilization Jihadist Process’…The
Ikhwan (Brotherhood) must understand that their work in America is a
kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying Western civilization
from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands
and the hands of the believers (Muslims) so that it is eliminated, and
Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”
In other words, in order to destroy America
from within, the Brotherhood intends to deceive American leaders and
the American people into believing a counterfactual understanding of
Islam and the nature of the Muslim Brotherhood. Indeed, the MB has
been highly successful in portraying Islam as a religion of “peace
and tolerance,” whereas its real nature as expressed in the Koran,
the teachings of Muhammad, and 1,400 years of history is coercion, violence,
deception, fanatical vengeance, and holy war against all who resist
it. In recent history, several decades of multiculturalist propaganda
and political correctness have paved the way for almost willful negligence
of the facts among Western leaders. Unfortunately, the MB found Presidents
Clinton and G. W. Bush extraordinarily vulnerable to their propaganda
and counterfactual mythology of Islam.
President Obama is, of course, in an altogether
different class, his actions having clearly demonstrated his pro-Brotherhood,
pro-Islam, and anti-Christian worldview. In 2011, his Director of National
Intelligence, James Clapper, plainly expressed his view that the MB
is “largely secular,” and “has eschewed violence and has decried
Al Qaeda as a perversion of Islam.” He further proclaimed that the
MB in Egypt “…have pursued social ends, a betterment of the
political order in Egypt…but there is no overarching agenda, particularly
in pursuit of violence, at least internationally.” This is as astonishing
a contradiction to truth as ever stated by a high-ranking American intelligence
officer. Former USAF Lt. Gen. Clapper is apparently serving in
the post of Obama “Yes-man” rather than a valuable intelligence
gatherer and advisor. Unfortunately, we are seeing the same lack of
professional backbone over a wide range of issues among many high-ranking
General and Flag officers.
Furthermore, the Obama Administration has allowed probable Brotherhood
members to sift through FBI and other intelligence and law enforcement
agency reports and eliminate language that is prejudicial toward Muslims.
Thus intelligence at all levels is influenced by both MB penetration
and the use of language editing to control information and association.
One politically correct aspect of this Obama language control is that
“Islam” and “terrorist” cannot be connected. Thus our intelligence
is contaminated by internal MB penetration and language control. How
can we know and defeat an enemy we dare not even name?
This raises the extremely important question
of whether Congress and the American people can trust our own intelligence
assessment of the situation in Syria, Iran, or anywhere else.
During the 2012 Republican Presidential primaries,
Herman Cain first stated that he would not appoint a Muslim to his Cabinet.
Then after much criticism by the press, he stated that he would
appoint a Muslim who promised to support the Constitution. But Cain’s
reversal raises the “Taqiyya” doctrine question. Under the Taqiyya
concept in Islamic Law (Sharia), a Muslim is allowed to lie, deceive,
or dissimulate in order to advance or defend Islam. It is similar to
the Marxist doctrine that whatever advances Communism is the truth.
The Taqiyya doctrine makes any Muslim pledge to support the Constitution
unreliable in itself. American national security should require far
higher standards to prevent terrorism that could cause devastating loss
of life.
In 2009, there were 115,000 Permanent Resident
(Green) cards given to Muslim immigrants. Not a single question was
asked of any of them about their religion. But Islam is a religion that
also contains considerable violent and subversive political ideology.
Americans face a great dilemma that could
easily destroy us. We cannot allow ourselves to be blindsided by easy
answers about immigrant religious freedom. National security must
be a primary consideration of immigration policy. Immigrant religious
freedom cannot risk our freedom or threaten our culture. Nor can we
allow lobbyist campaign money, cheap-labor greed, or sentimentality
to displace American workers and drive down their wages or to put our
national security and the lives of thousands or even millions at risk.
We have foolishly put our civilization and
the very future of freedom at risk.
It will take leaders with extraordinary wisdom and courage to undo
our extreme jeopardy.
Disability, USA
There is a Senate hearing scheduled tomorrow on a subject of some importance to millions of Americans, but with the government shutdown it's not clear that the Senate Committee on Government Affairs will be able to pay for a stenographer to record the event. The hearing involves the Federal Disability Insurance Program, which could become the first government benefits program to run out of money. When it began back in the 1950s it was envisioned as a small program to assist people who were unable to work because of illness or injury.
Today, it serves nearly 12 million people -- up 20 percent in the last six years -- and has a budget of $135 billion. That's more than the government spent last year on the Department of Homeland Security, the Justice Department, and the Labor Department combined. It's been called a "secret welfare system" with it's own "disability industrial complex," a system ravaged by waste and fraud. A lot of people want to know what's going on. Especially Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma.
More @ CBS
Issa: ‘There’s a reason to fear’ Obama agencies
Republican
California Rep. Darrell Issa, the GOP’s top government watchdog, warns
that we have entered a time to “love my country, fear my government.”“Right now, there’s a reason to fear the IRS and other agencies, including the EPA, who are loaded with people who feel empowered to bend the rules against those they disagree with,” the California Republican explained.
Issa has been investigating the Internal Revenue Service since Lois Lerner’s May 2013 admission that the agency treated conservative groups differently, and his Sept. 17 committee report details the committee’s progress and findings to date.
More with video @ The Daily Caller
New Air Force cargo planes fly straight into mothballs
The Pentagon is sending $50 million cargo planes straight from the assembly line to mothballs because it has no use for them, yet it still hasn’t stopped ordering the aircraft, according to a report.
A dozen nearly new Italian-built C-27J Spartans have been shipped to an Air Force facility in Arizona dubbed “the boneyard,” and five more currently under construction are likely headed for the same fate, according to an investigation by the Dayton Daily News. The Air Force has spent $567 million on 21 of the planes since 2007, according to purchasing officials at Dayton’s Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Of those, 16 have been delivered – with almost all sent directly to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, where some 4,400 aircraft and 13 aerospace vehicles, with a total value of more than $35 billion, sit unused.
More @ Fox
Spite House: Amber Alerts Shut Off, Let's Move Still Up and Running
The official Amber Alert page is www.amberalert.gov.
The Amber Alert is a national program that alerts the public when a child has been abducted. The Department of Justice broadcasts specific information about missing children so the public can be on the look out for the child and/or the abductor.If you type www.amberalert.gov in your browser, you will find that the website redirects to an error message stating that the government shutdown has stopped the program. I am not linking it here because it redirects to an error message.
More @ Breitbart
NC PATCON & Islands of Freedom
I was fortunate enough to attend Brock & Co.’s North Carolina Patriot Convention this past weekend. The speakers were incredible (John Ainsworth – definitely check him out), I was able to meet up with a few friends, and made plenty of new ones. Although a full write-up will appear in the November issue of III Magazine, I’d like to tackle some peripheral points for now.
More @ Guerrilla America
Defensive pistol sight options
Via Oleg Volk
Defensive pistols don’t shoot explosive shells, so close doesn’t count. Precise hits on vitals of opponents are required for effect, so pistol sights have evolved in many different directions. It’s impossible to cover all of them in one article, but we’ll look at the most common examples.
The most obvious direction is represented by target pistols: black front and rear for maximum contrast. As such designs go, the Soviet TT33 was decent — the front sight blade was narrow enough to let light around it, and it was possible to get a good sight picture quickly.
Defensive pistols don’t shoot explosive shells, so close doesn’t count. Precise hits on vitals of opponents are required for effect, so pistol sights have evolved in many different directions. It’s impossible to cover all of them in one article, but we’ll look at the most common examples.
The most obvious direction is represented by target pistols: black front and rear for maximum contrast. As such designs go, the Soviet TT33 was decent — the front sight blade was narrow enough to let light around it, and it was possible to get a good sight picture quickly.
More @ All Outdoor
Mike Lee: He and Ted Cruz faced ‘demeaning…all-out attack’ from GOP colleagues [AUDIO]
Senate Republicans furiously attacked Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Utah Sen. Mike Lee behind closed doors and leaked details of an off-record meeting to the media to harm the two senators, according to Lee.
Lee divulged some of the details of a closed-door meeting on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show on Friday, since he said much of it had been leaked to the media by his own colleagues.
“[N]ormally, I don’t comment at all on closed-door meetings between Republican senators,” Lee said. “It’s a pretty strict rule we follow. But one exception I’ll make is circumstances like this, where contents of the meeting were leaked deliberately by several of my colleagues and leaked in a very one-sided way. I’m happy to tell you about it here.”
More @ The Daily Caller
I have a few things on my mind and as as I have taken Liberty and Lead down, I have no outlet.
Brother, we are so very close to absolute chaos in the streets that I am finding it most fantastic the lack of understanding and preparing by the average person. I have some acquaintances who are very intelligent and Liberty minded, but who seem to completely disregard the data and warnings that we are on the very edge of societal and financial ruin.
When in conversation about the communist bastards who are taking what is left of the Republic and raping it, they still speak of revitalizing the Republican party and of political strategy to "take back the country". The very idea that there is any course left except violence to save the concept of Liberty comes from the puppet masters who are the architects of all which these "Fox-tards" hate. The entire "Left and Right" has been created to let the slaves believe that they have a voice, some "representation" in what happens in Washington.
The fact is, THERE IS NO REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT IN THIS CURRENTLY UNITED STATES.
We are fiddling while Rome burns. We are watching WWE in the capital. All of the posturing, all of the circus is a distraction while the real brokers of power do whatever the hell they want with our very lives. We labor a lifetime to try and achieve what exactly? We own nothing. Anything in our possession can be removed by force from us at any time. Property rights are no more. So, we labor for the pleasure of the men behind the curtain. We exist to provide them a means of our own enslavement.
We stand on the blade of a knife. Those of us fully awakened are sickened and numbed by where we find ourselves. What do we do?
I for one am of the opinion that it is time to hold the people who enslave us to account. It is time to pick the daisies.
My friend TL Davis once told me that "There is nothing left to do except shoot the bastards, but I am too much of a gentleman to put it in such simple terms". Indeed.
-55six
NC PATCON AAR One
How does one explain a thousand important moments and interactions, many of which involve the intimate building of trust, allies and friends, to an audience who was not able to attend? Many of those moments were personal, between just two people, or a small group, the nature of which is not for general public consumption. Other moments simply would hold little value in being described without the context surrounding the weekend.
Like the Idaho PatCon, this weekend at Brock's event in North Carolina is simply unable to be described in a single post. I'll begin slow with a few observations.
First, Holly and I are grateful and thankful to Brock and his daughter Dixie for inviting us to stay in the guestroom of their wonderful and historic home.
More @ III Percent Patriots