Collusion

 

Collusion :)!

I tried to install, but it is not compatible with my Waterfox 18.0.

added collusion yesterday.  it's still beta and not entirely stable.  watched it build up a little network chart as i went to drudge, the blaze, breitbart, then wrsa.  looked like everything was normal as expected with a lot of links back to google.  went to brock's site and up popped an entire new constellation with about 40 or 50 stars of it's own in one neat cluster.  must be something about his links.  pretty sure this is just normal and good, but interesting, if you are exploring linkage these days.  haven't had time to check on click thrus, as i have to start packing for the trip.  you got a videographer yet or is it open policy on making video clips of the event?  feel obligated to at least make you guys think you're still being spied upon since the government is shutdown.  ha ha.

Tom

Obamacare exchange leaks data of 2,400 unsuspecting customers

Via LH

 

An employee of Minnesota’s Obamacare exchange, MNsure, sent an unencrypted file to the wrong person and left 2,400 people’s private information at the mercy of a nearby insurance agent.

One exchange staffer’s simple mistake gave insurance broker Jim Koester access to an Excel document of Social Security numbers, names, addresses and other personal data for whole a list of insurance agents. Luckily for the 2,400, Koester was cooperative — and unnerved.

“The more I thought about it, the more troubled I was,” Koester told the Minnesota Star Tribune.
“What if this had fallen into the wrong hands? It’s scary. If this is happening now, how can clients of MNsure be confident their data is safe?”

More @ The Daily Caller

Ben Carson: ‘I had my first encounter with the IRS’ after challenging Obama

 

At an event in Birmingham, Ala. Monday night, former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Ben Carson revealed that he had received a visit from the Internal Revenue Service following his much-noted remarks at a National Prayer Breakfast earlier this year.

“I had my first encounter with the IRS this year, unsurprisingly after the prayer breakfast,” Carson told an audience that at the annual Business Council of Alabama Chairman’s Dinner, according to a report from Cliff Sims of the Montgomery, Ala.-based Yellowhammer News.

Carson’s February speech February made him a conservative darling for criticizing President Barack Obama’s 2010 health-care reform law, while Obama was sitting just a few feet away.

More @ The Daily Caller

On Obamacare (and Guns), We Won't Comply

 

Americans know instinctively that when liberals start talking about deficit reduction that’s it’s just a case of the fantods, as Huckleberry Finn would say. And say what you will about old Huck, but he knew a couple of frauds when he saw them.

"Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side?," said Huck Finn's fraudulent king in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. "And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?"

It certainly is enough in DC, but the rest of the US isn't so gullible.

No matter what liberal “Wonks” like Ezra Klein say about the historically dumb healthcare “reform” known as Obamcare, Americans are uneasy about it.

And they should be.

More and more law-abiding Americans say that they have constitutional objections to the healthcare and liberty land grab by the Obama administration.

It's a land grab that has spread from mortgages to religion to healthcare to guns. But some at least-- besides Ted Cruz --are putting up resistance.

More @ Townhall

Open for Business: Gov't to Erect $98,670 Outhouse

 

The Federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently paid $98,670 for the purchase and installation of an outhouse at the Swede Park Trail Head in Alaska.

The purchase includes a single-vault Romtec 1011 "Aspen Single" prefabricated waterless toilet and its installation at the parking area for the trail head.

KJ Mushovic of the BLM tells CNSNews.com, “Almost half of it (contract expense) is for the cost of the toilet.”

The Oregon based company Romtec lists the "Aspen Single" model on its website for “as low as $9,999”, but the BLM says the price they paid likely includes shipping to Alaska.

“And the cost of all the materials that will have to be taken to the site, Mushovic said. “There will be earthwork that’ll have to be done.”

More @ CNS News

Obama sued for 'illegal' Obamacare move. 'Politics do not trump the Constitution or the rule of law'

 

Another lawsuit has been filed against the president’s health care takeover strategy – this time by a Florida company complaining that Barack Obama had no authority to simply go in and change the law once it had been approved by Congress and signed.

It was last July, according to reports, that Obama simply announced he was changing the law, which had scheduled a requirement for employers to provide adequate and affordable health insurance starting Jan. 1, 2014, or pay huge fines.

Obama, responding to complaints from businesses, simply changed the effective date of that requirement to Jan. 1, 2015, strategically after the 2014 elections.

Obamacare already has been the subject of dozens of lawsuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court last year ruled that it is a tax, and therefore constitutional, even thought he Obama administration had argued it wasn’t a tax.

There is another case now heading toward the U.S. Supreme Court, too, that could end up with critical sections being determined to be illegal.

                                                                     More @ WND

Obama admin. knew about WWII veterans’ request and rejected it

Via Horace

 

The White House and the Department of the Interior rejected a request from Rep. Steven Palazzo’s office to have World War II veterans visit the World War II memorial in Washington, the Mississippi Republican told The Daily Caller Tuesday.

Palazzo helped the veterans commit an act of civil disobedience against the Park Service Tuesday, when the heroes stormed through barricades around the closed memorial.  

The veterans were visiting the memorial as part of Honor Flight, a non-profit that provides veterans free transport to the nation’s capital to visit the memorials to the wars they fought in.

More @ The Daily Caller

The real Vietnam: Spectacular images taken by courageous AP war photographers released to remember 50 years since conflict began

Via WiscoDave

 

The Vietnam War left a deep and lasting impression on not just the soldiers who fought but the whole of America.

And the superb photojournalism by the Associated Press' Saigon bureau was largely responsible for sharing the bravery and drama of the conflict with those at home.

Half a century on from the beginning of the war, a new book entitled 'Vietnam: The Real War' showcases some 300 of the most historic AP images - from Malcolm Browne's image of the burning monk to Nick Ut's photograph of a 9-year-old running from a napalm attack to Eddie Adams' picture of the execution of a Viet Cong prisoner - that serve as a photographic record of the combat.

Writer Pete Hamill gives a moving tribute to the unbelievably brave AP photojournalists who reported from the frontline to share the harrowing truths of war, some paying the ultimate price. The AP earned six Pulitzer Prizes, including four for photography, for its Vietnam War coverage.

'Across the years of the war in Vietnam, the AP photographers saw more combat than any general,' Hamill explains in his introduction. 'This book shows how good they were... From Vietnam, photographers taught the world how to see the war.'

'Vietnam: The Real War' is published on October 1 by Abrams Books in the U.S. and Canada, and by Abrams & Chronicle Books in the UK. The book's publication will coincide with an exhibition at the Steven Kasher Gallery in Manhattan, which opens October 24 and runs through November 26.

More @ Daily Mail

Obama: “I Will Not Negotiate” (Except with all, but Americans.......)

Key to winning fight against anti-gun ObamaCare rests with House

“It is abundantly clear that Harry Reid wants a shutdown. And now he’s gotten the shutdown that the wants.” - Senator Ted Cruz, October 1, 2013

Like a bully in the school playground, Barack Obama, Democratic Leader Harry Reid, and their media cronies are demanding Republicans’ lunch money - all of it - or they are threatening to beat them to a bloody pulp.

Our answer: “Make my day!”

In a rabid speech, Obama refused to negotiate over anything concerning the anti-gun ObamaCare law, notwithstanding the fact that even USA Today begrudgingly conceded this morning that it was a “rocky rollout” -- and that none of the health “exchanges” were ready to go on time.

Harry Reid echoed Obama. “They try to send us something back, they’re spinning their wheels,” Reid sputtered back.

Refusing to come to the table, Obama and Reid are counting on their media lapdogs to blame Republicans for not being reasonable.

But, yesterday, the House did exactly the right thing: It sent the Senate a government funding bill with a one-year delay of the unpopular mandate and a suspension of the illegal Obama-granted special ObamaCare exemption for Congress. It also suspended the destructive and unpopular “medical device tax” on children’s hearing aids and heart pacemakers.

But every Obama-owned institution in Washington is putting incredible pressure on the House to cave. So they need to hear from you.

ACTION: Click here to contact your congressman and urge him to hold firm on the House position on ObamaCare. 

Goodies from Ol' Remus

Ol' Remus 

  Let’s assume a scenario where a person will be going into the wilderness with the intention of living off the land. Let’s also assume for the moment that there are no hunting or fishing regulations that we have to comply with, and let’s assume that the person has all necessary equipment, including hunting and fishing tools. What would the person need to procure each day in order to live in a sustainable manner for a prolonged period of time? Ross Gilmore answers these questions and more in this don't-miss article, Living Off The Land: Delusions and Misconceptions About Hunting and Gathering, at Woodland Trekker.

  University of Maryland - The email opens innocently enough, welcoming students back to campus. But it rapidly devolves into a liberal political screed: "This year, we learned that it is legal to hunt down and kill American children in Florida." The email closes, unsurprisingly, with an invitation to students to attend a lecture by former NAACP chairman Julian Bond, says Howard Portnoy in this article at The Examiner.

  The computer models which, for 25 years, have formed the basis for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's scaremongering now stand revealed as bogus. After needlessly driving up energy prices, carpeting the countryside with wind turbines and terrifying children about a problem that turns out to have been imaginary, Al Gore's "consensus" is about to be holed below the water-line—and those still still clinging to it are backpeddling furiously, says James Delingpole in this article, Global warming believers are feeling the heat, at The Telegraph.

Banks set to grab deposits without warning - When major banks fail, they are going to bail them out by grabbing the money that is in your bank accounts. This is going to absolutely shatter faith in the banking system... until now, the bank has been obligated to pay the money back on demand in the form of cash. Under the FDIC-BOE plan, our IOUs will be converted into 'bank equity'. The bank will get the money and we will get stock in the bank.
Michael Snyder via F, Maloof at wnd.com 

 Do you think Obama's been judged by any rational standards? Has Guantanamo closed? Is a war over? Is anyone paying any attention to Iraq? Is he seriously talking about going into Syria? We are not doing so well in the 80 wars we are in right now, what the hell does he want to go into another one for. What's going on with journalists?
Seymour Hersh, via Lisa O'Carroll at theguardian.com

Most people do not have the faintest clue as to how dire a condition retail is in, or the main reason more of them haven't yet shuttered their doors. Check out debt levels of a Rite-Aid or your typical zombie retailer when the mood strikes you. They could film Zombieland in many malls today and wouldn't need to pull a permit.
TruthInSunshine, comment at zerohedge.com