Goodies from Ol' Remus

                                                                    Ol' Remus

1936. Migrant Arkansas family's tent home in California.

9-11 bikers rally in DC - A column stretching 55 miles long [4 lanes wide] rode out of Los Angeles California, just let that sink in for a while… That is a column of Bikers that stretches beyond horizon to horizon. That is a column, that even traveling at 60 miles per hour, would have taken more than an hour to pass any given point. That was JUST the bikers from Los Angeles California.
doriangrey1 at thewildernessofmirrors.wordpress.com
 

To think that someone who has spent years promoting grievance and polarization was going to bring us all together as president is a triumph of wishful thinking over reality.
Thomas Sowell, 2009, via jewishworldreview.com

 It seems fair to ask why NRA does not show leadership by suspending law enforcement training activities in states they recognize as repressive, and that even gun makers feel compelled to flee.
David Codrea at examiner.com

 Whether or not the Federal Reserve decides to taper in September is now irrelevant. The only option the Fed has now is to INCREASE the size of QE immediately. If it does not, interest rates on US treasury bonds will continue to rise causing an acceleration of the current deterioration of the US economy.
Greg Simon at knowmadiclife.com

  One doesn't have to sign up for law enforcement work as a Hail Mary way to avoid poverty, or the gulag . . . or the gas chamber. So, what sort of person chooses to become a law enforcer – and remains one – an occupation that, as a matter of routine, puts one in the position of rousting people who've done nothing that can be characterized as causing harm to others or their property?, says Eric Peters in this article, Profiles in Pork, at Eric Peters Autos.

Journalism: it's not just a job, it's an audition - These days, journalists don’t retire, they just join the Obama administration. According to one count, at least 15 journalists have joined the Obama administration since 2009. Here are six of the most notable journalists who have taken roles with the Obama administration, says Ben Jacobs in this article, From Rick Stengel to David Axelrod, All of the President's Journalists, at the Daily Beast.

  Captivating Photographs That Have Quirky Stories Attached, thirty-three photos, at Izismile. 

Oops - A leaked report by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that the world is not warming but actually cooling, and will continue to get colder until the middle of the century.
Ashe Schow at washingtonexaminer.com 

Guilty plea for burning grandmother alive - The suspects staked out Cullen outside a Collinsville bingo hall where one of them knew she played, then stopped her from driving away... Cullen was forced into her trunk and driven to East St. Louis, where her car was set on fire. [White victim, burned alive]
AP at kmov.com 

 A local [white] man has died and a woman is in serious condition after they were stabbed repeatedly by a [black] stranger who confronted them Friday night as they were walking in Pioneer Square after the Seattle Sounders game, police said.
Staff at komonews.com [ article and video photos]

Doing evil - Moffett field, which is a government facility and does not allow most private traffic, allowed Google's founders to use a circuitous route to base jets there... which allows them access to the heavily discounted fuel.
Karl Denninger at market-ticker.org

Economic Freedom in US Lowest Since 2000

 

Economic freedom in the United States is at its lowest point in more than a decade, according to conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation.

The United States scored 76 on The Heritage Foundation's 2013 Economic Freedom Index, the lowest score since 2000 and 10th out of the 185 nations examined.

The index, created in partnership with The Wall Street Journal, measures the impact of liberty and the free market in different countries around the world. The Index demonstrates the strong connection between prosperity and economic freedom, with metrics related to government spending, trade freedom and the rule of law.

Hong Kong received the highest rank, 89.3, followed by Singapore (88), Australia (82.6), New Zealand (81.4) and Switzerland (81). The worldwide average was 59.6.

The U.S. score has been declining for five consecutive years in terms of economic freedom. Only Ireland has posted a similar decline the past five years.

"On a worldwide basis, the advance of economic freedom has ground to a halt," the report states.

"The overall stagnation observed in worldwide levels of economic freedom has coincided with significant setbacks in countries previously regarded as leaders in economic freedom.

"In particular, the United States and Ireland, which had risen in previous years as high as fourth place in the rankings, have seen their scores drop substantially in recent years. Both suffered declines in economic freedom again this year."

More @ Money News

Florida Man To Be Disciplined For Facebook Post About Islam?

 

Palm Beach County Public Affairs staffer John Jamason is being investigated for a Facebook post about Islam. There is every chance that he could be disciplined for making a "critical" statement about Islam on 9/11. Since when is it a crime to post a statement like this on one's personal Facebook page? Where is the man's right to free speech? Apparently free speech is a secondary issue when one of Florida's leading Muslim groups is offended.

 John Jamason incited the wrath of Council on American-Islamic Relations Florida, Inc because of a Facebook post about Islam. On Friday, September 13, the group demanded that all social media posts made by Jamason be turned over to them for inspection. They asked for a public records request to the county commission asking for communication sent by Jamason from any country computer within the past 3o days. This includes social media comments or anything that would be deemed personal.

On 9/11.2013, Jamason wrote on his Facebook page," “Never forget. There is no such thing as radical Islam. All Islam is radical. There may be Muslims who don’t practice their religion, much like others. The Quran is a book that preaches hate,” the message said, according to WPTV." 

John Jamason is precisely correct. All Islam is radical. The Quran preaches nothing but hate. Everything he said is 100 percent truth and nothing that everyone truly aware with the nature of Islam has not said on social media and posted over and over again. This is free speech. But will speaking out cost Jamason his job?

More with video @ Freedom Outpost

Syrian Jihadist Slits Throat of Christian Man Refusing to Deny Christ, Then Taunts Fiancée, 'Jesus Didn't Come to Save Him'

Via Freedom Outpost

 

Ghastly attacks on Christians mocked as "Crusaders" in Syria continued unabated as Jihadists reportedly forced one man to convert to Islam at gunpoint and slit the throat of another Christian woman's fiancé and then told her, "Jesus didn't come to save him."

Residents who fled from the ancient town of Maalula in Syria told AFP that jihadists ambushed the town last week and forced a man to convert to Islam at gunpoint.

"They arrived in our town at dawn... and shouted 'We are from the Al-Nusra Front and have come to make lives miserable for the Crusaders," said one woman identified as Marie in Damascus, where many people from Maalula fled after rebels first attacked that town on Sept. 4.

One of the most renowned Christian towns in Syria, many of Maalula's approximately 5,000 residents speak Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke. Rebels want to tighten their control of the town for its strategic value as a launching point to level attacks on the highway between the capital and Homs, a key regime supply route.

On Tuesday, Marie and hundreds of others in exile in Damascus, attended the burial of three Christian pro-regime militiamen who were killed in fighting.

Adnan Nasrallah, 62, told AFP that an explosion destroyed an archway just across from his house that leads into Maalula during the fighting last week.

More @ The Christian Post

Aaron Alexis Identified As Alleged Navy Yard Shooter

Roundabout via Angry Mike

 

Aaron Alexis has been identified by police as the dead Washington Navy Yard shooter, NBC News reports.

Alexis, 34, originally of Fort Worth, Texas, recently began working at the Navy yard as a civilian contractor, the station reported. The FBI confirmed his identity in the afternoon.

Alexis was armed with an assault rifle and a handgun, two law enforcement officials tell the Washington Post. One of the sources said he also had a shotgun. All the weapons have reportedly been accounted for. His aunt, Helen Weeks, told the paper that he grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y. with his mother, Sarah, and father, Anthony.

At least 13 people were killed -- including Alexis -- and more were wounded at the Naval Sea Systems Command Headquarters building after at least one gunman opened fire after 8:20 a.m. Monday, a Defense Department official said.

More @ Huff Post

Media Silent as Muslims Ethnically Cleanse 60,000 Christians in Philippines

Via Cousin John

When thousands of Muslims become refugees, then you can’t get the media to shut up about it for weeks. Thousands of Muslim migrants invading Burma became “refugees” and the media has spent the better part of a year ranting about how evil the Buddhists are.

But when Muslim terrorists attack a Christian city creating tens of thousands of refugees, you couldn’t pay the media to cover the story, whether it’s in Syria, Egypt or closer to home in the Philippines.

Philippine troops have started to battle their way into coastal villages in the south where Muslim rebels have held scores of residents hostage in a six-day standoff, sparking fierce clashes that have killed 56 people and displaced more than 60,000, officials said Saturday.

President Benigno Aquino III said more firefights were expected but assured more than 62,000 displaced villagers being sheltered at a sports complex in Zamboanga city that the rebels’ capability to sow trouble has been degraded and the government was working to end the crisis soon.

More @ Front Page Magazine

Lifespan Calculator

Via Cousin Colby

I like this one as all the others say 76,  but this states 90, so it must be correct........:)

@ Media Nmfn

I’d like to interview a victim of crime perpetrated by an illegal alien ..........

 

.........car theft, assault, etc. Perhaps the relative of someone who was murdered or raped. Names will be kept anonymous. 

~ Peter Gemma, CFRE
http://www.peterbgemma.com/about/

Auto burglary suspect shot, owner of car jailed

 

A suspected auto burglar was in hospital in critical but stable condition after being shot by the owner of a car being burglarized in the 8400 block of Julian Robles NE, police said.

The man who shot the suspect has been charged with aggravated battery resulting in great bodily harm, and was booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center, according to Albuquerque Police spokesman Simon Drobik.

Police received a call at about 2 a.m. Sunday from a man later identified as Kyle Cordova, 26, who reported that his car was being burglarized and the suspect was still in the car.

“At some point, Mr. Cordova retrieved a handgun and shot the burglar once,” Albuquerque police spokesman Simon Drobik said in an email on Sunday.

More @ ABQ Journal

Who Is Vladimir Putin? Russia’s Formidable but Enigmatic President

 

Mike Scruggs

     Not many Americans or Western Europeans really know Russian President Vladimir Putin, but friend or foe, it is in our interest to know him well. To know him, we must first shake off some of our cold war stereotypes of Russia and Russian leaders.

     The Russian Federation replaced the old Soviet Union in 1992, after the collapse of the Communist Party. Boris Yeltsin was the first directly elected president of the new Russian Federation and served until his resignation on December 31, 1999. At that time, he named his recently appointed Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, to the office of President. Putin won the March 26, 2000 election running under the Unity Party banner with 53.4 percent of the vote against 11 other candidates. The Communist candidate came in a distant second with 29.5 percent of the vote. Putin served until March 2008, when Dmitry Medvedev was elected President, and Putin was named Prime Minister. Putin was elected again to the presidency in March 2012 and appointed Medvedev to the office of Prime Minister.

     The Russian Federation is not the Communist dominated Soviet Union, and Boris Yeltsin, Dmitry Medvedev, and Vladimir Putin are not Joe Stalins. Putin, however, is not an American. He is among the most Russian of Russians. 

     Putin will be 61 on October 7 and has served 13 years as either President or Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, the ninth most populous country in the world with 144 million people, and the largest country in the world geographically.

     Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was born in 1952 in Leningrad, now known by its original name of St. Petersburg. His parents were Vladimir Spirodonovich Putin (1911-1999) and Maria Ivanova Putina (1911-1998). His father was a Navy veteran and served in the NKVD (state security police) during World War II.  He is said to have been a dedicated communist and militant atheist. He later held some minor offices in the Communist Party. His mother, a factory worker, however, was a devout Russian Orthodox believer, who had the young Vladimir secretly christened in the Russian Orthodox Church. She regularly attended services and took her son with her despite the strong persecution of the Communist Soviet government. Her husband knew this but did not report it to Communist Party officials. Besides Putin’s paternal grandfather, Spirodon Putin, who was a cook in one of Lenin’s country residences, nothing is known of his ancestry. The Putin surname is a mystery.

     Putin attended local school number 193 near his family commune apartment in Leningrad. He did not seem particularly interested in school until the sixth grade, when he began to admire the intelligence officers in popular Soviet movies. Because of this he also took up the sport of Judo, which he practices to this day.

     In 1975, Putin graduated from the Law Department of Leningrad State University and received a Ph.D. in Economics. His Dissertation was titled “The Strategic Planning of Regional Resources Under the Formation of Market Relations.” Perhaps no subject could have been more providentially influential on his career, which would transition from Soviet Communism to increasing capitalism in 1991.

     Following graduation from the University, he became a junior officer in the KGB (Committee for State Security), the Soviet agency for internal security, intelligence, and secret police. His job mostly concerned monitoring internal security risks. The latter years of his work with the KGB were spent in East Germany, but he returned to Leningrad after the collapse of the Communist East German government. Putin speaks fluent German as well as Russian. After 16 years with the KGB he resigned and retired with the rank of Lt. Col. to pursue a political career in Leningrad. A strong reason for this change, however, was that he disagreed with the KGB plot to overthrow the reformer Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev. Putin’s reputation as a KGB bad guy is exaggerated. He identified with the reformers, and this was later viewed favorably by President Yeltsin and other reformers.  

     Putin’s years as Russian President from 1999 through 2008 were a spectacular economic success, using policies much closer to Reagan capitalism than Soviet Communism. He persuaded the Federal Assembly to pass new tax laws including a flat 13 percent income tax and reduced profits taxes. The Russian economy’s real GDP growth was 72 percent in 8 years. From 1999 to 2008, real income increased by 2.5 fold, real wages more than tripled, and poverty more than halved. Recognizing, however, the amount of control that Putin has exercised from the top, some have called his policies, “state capitalism.” Putin plans to make Russia’s oil and gas resources a major factor in making Russia into an economic superpower. According to Thomas White International analysts, Putin’s success is attributable to “good macroeconomic management, important fiscal reforms, increasing capital inflow, access to low-cost external financing, and a five-fold increase in the price of oil and gas, which constitute the majority of Russia’s exports.

     Putin’s high public approval polls, ranging as high as 81 percent and never yet below 62 percent, are principally the result of economic policies that have increased real living standards in Russia by substantial degrees.

     Putin has also pursued a consciously macho public image campaign. Putin is 5 foot seven inches tall (170.1 cm).  His weight is a state secret, but it is obvious that he is remarkably fit for a man nearing 61. He is a Judo champion, and his photo ops often exhibit his bare-chested fitness riding horses, fishing, and doing manly outdoor work. 

     Vladimir Putin and Lyudmila Putina, his wife of 30 years, announced jointly on June 13 of this year that they are having a “civilized divorce.” Not much has ever been known of Vladimir Putin’s home and family life. His daughters Marinya (28) and Yekaterina (27) have never been photographed by the press.

     Vladimir Putin is a formidable political leader and an enigmatic mystery. He should never be underestimated. His ambition is primarily to advance Russia.