The family of slain U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry charged Wednesday that the top federal prosecutor in Phoenix lied to them about the guns found at the crime scene in an attempt to hide the weapons' connection to the ATF's failed Fast and Furious gun-tracking operation.
Terry was killed in December 2010, allegedly by Mexican bandits carrying at least two AK-47 semiautomatic rifles that had been purchased in Arizona as part of Fast and Furious. The operation was intended to catch drug lords using illegal weapons, but the ATF immediately lost track of 1,700 firearms.
The Terry family alleged that then-U.S. Atty. Dennis K. Burke told them last March that the two weapons came from a store in Texas and were not part of Fast and Furious.
The family made their allegations in a "notice of claim" stating that they intend to sue the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Justice Department for $25 million. They called the gun-tracking operation "abominable, reckless, nonsensical."
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Treasure hunters 'find $3 billion in platinum on sunken WW2 British ship'
The Sub Sea Research, a company based in the northeastern US state of Maine, found the British ship SS Port Nicholson on the ocean floor around 30 miles off Provincetown, Massachusetts, the Boston Globe reported.
Greg Brooks of Sub Sea Research claims a US Treasury Department ledger shows platinum bars were on board, as part of a payment from the Soviet Union to the US for war supplies.
He also says he has video footage showing the platinum bars, although none of the bounty has been raised to the surface yet.
"I'm going to get it, one way or another, even if I have to lift the ship out of the water," he said.
"There's a good possibility there are about 10 tons of gold down there, too, and maybe some industrial diamonds," he added.
CLOSE-QUARTERS MARKSMANSHIP: A SUGGESTED POI
(One characteristic aspect of Special Forces that potential future guerrillas need to recognize the importance of is the ability to take the raw material of willing recruits to the resistance and train them to be combat effective. While every American male considers themselves to be a cosmopolitan blend of Carlos Hathcock, Buffalo Bill, and Daniel Morgan, all rolled into one fine piece of American marksmanship, the reality is, the vast majority of American gun-owners are pretty lousy marksmen under combat field conditions. The ability of the future resistance cadre to develop the willing material into a capable gunfighter will be instrumental in continuing the fight over the duration.
The following article is a fundamental outline I utilize when teaching close-quarters combat marksmanship to aspiring gunfighters. It is based largely on the doctrine of the 1st Special Warfare Training Group of the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Training Center and School at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, as well as the methods used by me personally as an 18B when tasked with teaching foreign national personnel to utilize their personal weapons more efficiently.
While this particular POI focuses on close-quarters marksmanship, inside of 200 yards, in recognition of the need to “hug the enemy's belt and punch from the inside,” it is not intended to suggest that my aforementioned emphasis on being able to engage hostiles from 0-500 yards is any less valid.
It is not a set-in-stone type of POI outline. It is one SF soldier's interpretation, based on experiences in irregular warfare, of what the critical skills are to run a rifle and sidearm in combat. Use what you like, discard the rest. --J.M.)
You’re Confused America – the Michelle and Barack Obama American Malaise Duet!
Via Cousin John
First, President Obama informed us that we are lazy. Then Barack informed us that we are soft. Then the liberal savior from Chicago informed us that we have simply lost our ambition to do great things. Now, First Lady Michelle Obama is informing America that we are confused – too stupid to understand the greatness of her husband and his mighty accomplishments! In so doing, Michelle is uniting with her enlightened husband to perform an Obama rendition of an American malaise duet – sure to be a smash-hit with liberal progressives everywhere!
First, President Obama informed us that we are lazy. Then Barack informed us that we are soft. Then the liberal savior from Chicago informed us that we have simply lost our ambition to do great things. Now, First Lady Michelle Obama is informing America that we are confused – too stupid to understand the greatness of her husband and his mighty accomplishments! In so doing, Michelle is uniting with her enlightened husband to perform an Obama rendition of an American malaise duet – sure to be a smash-hit with liberal progressives everywhere!
Michelle Obama’s assertion that those who are disappointed with Barack Obama, the direction he has taken our country and the lack of positive results he has produced was made during an interview with Gayle Kings.
Gayle Kings told Michelle Obama, “Some people say they are disappointed in Barrack Obama’s presidency, that it hasn’t accomplished all they thought that it would or all that he said it would.”
General Beauregard Lee predicts an early spring
Via SHNV
Patch "interviews" Gen. Beauregard Lee, the Confederate critter who has predicted a quick end to the winter. Although it feels like spring now.
Update: Gen. Lee did NOT see his shadow this morning.
A few days before his big moment, Patch caught up with groundhog General Beauregard Lee, Georgia's official weather prognosticator, at the Yellow River Game Ranch in Lilburn.
Organizers have been busy getting his white-columned mansion, Weathering Heights, spruced up for this morning, when hundreds of visitors will turn up to see whether Beau predicts an early spring or six more weeks of winter.
The general himself was pretty relaxed, and didn't seem too bothered about the big day. After all, he's been doing this for years, and the National Weather Service has given him two commendations for his accurate predictions. He also has two honorary doctorates: "DWP, Doctor of Weather Prognostication" from the University of Georgia and "Doctor of Southern Groundology" from Georgia State University, according to the Yellow River Game Ranch.
As you know, if Beau sees his shadow when he emerges from his mansion Thursday morning, we're in for at least six more weeks of winter here in the southeast. If he doesn't, spring is just around the corner.
Patch spoke with the general about the chance of an early spring and his rival, Punxsutawney Phil. Beau's not the talkative sort, at least he wasn't on this sunny afternoon, but have a look at the video and tell us what you think.
Sorry, we weren't able to confirm rumors that Beau has a laptop and a wine cellar in his mansion. Maybe next time.
Beau is expected to make his prediction about 7:30 a.m. Thursday at the Yellow River Game Ranch. Organizers advise that visitors should get there by 7 a.m. The address is 4525 Highway 78, Lilburn.
Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize Win Leads to Formal Investigation of Award
Nobel Peace Prize officials were facing a formal inquiry over accusations they have drifted away from the prize’s original selection criteria by choosing such winners as President Barack Obama, as the nomination deadline for the 2012 awards closed Wednesday.
The investigation comes after persistent complaints by a Norwegian peace researcher that the original purpose of the prize was to diminish the role of military power in international relations.
If the Stockholm County Administrative Board, which supervises foundations in Sweden’s capital, finds that prize founder Alfred Nobel’s will is not being honored, it has the authority to suspend award decisions going back three years – though that would be unlikely and unprecedented, said Mikael Wiman, a legal expert working for the county.
Vietnam Exhibit Continues Through March 2012
On display through the end of March 2012 at the Martinsville Henry County Heritage Center and Museum in the old Henry County Courthouse in Martinsville, Virginia, which is operated by the Martisville Henry County Historical Society.
If you are a Vietnam Veteran from Martinsville, Patrick or Henry Counties, we would like to interview you about your experiences during the Vietnam era.
For more information, please call
276-403-5361.
Martinsville Henry County Historical Society
P. O. Box 432
Martinsville, VA 24114
Vietnam Exhibit Continues Through March 2012
A Nation of Dependents
Roundabout via Cousin John
The following graph demonstrates the dramatic growth of dependency on federal government benefits. Given the rapid increase in the established trend, any day now at least one person in more than half of all households in America will be receiving some type of government assistance. The current federal debt of $15.3 trillion is greater than the entire Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and is increasing by more than $1 trillion annually.
The following graph demonstrates the dramatic growth of dependency on federal government benefits. Given the rapid increase in the established trend, any day now at least one person in more than half of all households in America will be receiving some type of government assistance. The current federal debt of $15.3 trillion is greater than the entire Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and is increasing by more than $1 trillion annually.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
England's New Leisure Class
The welfare groupies.
Survival
Verbatim Post
Survival
Verbatim Post
Sir,
Please see this article published by the BBC here in the UK: Family life on benefits.
In this article Raymond (not his real name) makes a number of statements that clearly define why the benefits system here in the UK is flawed. I'll include my comments:
At the end of this article Raymond complains that the proposed cap's to limit benefits here in the UK to around £26,000 ($40,500 USD) per household would reduce his income by just over £82 ($130 USD) per week. Adding up the entertainment costs above, he could easily save 1.5 times this amount by eliminating these expenses.
Please also remember that here in the UK there is no time limit on this type of benefit being paid.
People wonder why we have an increasing Government spending deficit here in the UK.
-- Ian in Nanny State Britannia
Please see this article published by the BBC here in the UK: Family life on benefits.
In this article Raymond (not his real name) makes a number of statements that clearly define why the benefits system here in the UK is flawed. I'll include my comments:
"Raymond, a former educational software writer, has been jobless since 2001.... The market for my skills dried up 10 years ago - there's a total lack of work in my area of expertise." So why has someone with apparent I.T. skills not retrained to something he can do to earn an income?
"We get the Sky Movies package because we're stuck in the house all week - otherwise we wouldn't have any entertainment." This is the most expensive satellite television package available in the UK at £58 ($90 USD) per month, Many hard working families can not afford this, and over 100 channels are free to air over terrestrial television or via free sat packages where their existing receiver could do this for no monthly cost.
"My wife and I have mobile phones, and so do all of the teenage children. You try telling teenagers they're going to have to do without their mobiles and there'll be hell to pay." Well, someone is paying, and it's h*ll for the tax payers having to do so. What lesson does this teach his children about personal responsibility?
"I go out once a week, on a Friday night. I meet up with my mates in the pub and have three or four pints". A nice life if someone else is paying for it. Most working people are too tired to go out after a hard days work. (He could also stay in and watch his satellite television?)
"I see eight people here having to choose between eating or heating", yet aside from the discretional spending outlined above, the families weekly shopping bill includes; 24 cans of lager, 200 cigarettes and a large pouch of tobacco.
At the end of this article Raymond complains that the proposed cap's to limit benefits here in the UK to around £26,000 ($40,500 USD) per household would reduce his income by just over £82 ($130 USD) per week. Adding up the entertainment costs above, he could easily save 1.5 times this amount by eliminating these expenses.
Please also remember that here in the UK there is no time limit on this type of benefit being paid.
People wonder why we have an increasing Government spending deficit here in the UK.
-- Ian in Nanny State Britannia
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