Thursday, July 07, 2011
I like Texas,
and this is one of the reasons why: Humberto Leal has assumed ambient temperature, despite Mexico screaming and threatening and Obama pleading and demanding.
As to Mexico demanding and threatening, 'Screw you'. Your President told the truth about how illegal immigrants are treated in Mexico(thrown in jail, thrown out of the country, etc.) and then demanded that we WELCOME illegal aliens and give them lots of benefits; now you want a rapist/murderer to be given clemency because he didn't talk to the ambassador or staff? How many American citizens have been thrown into jail in Mexico on bullshit charges? And only got out when they managed to pull enough money together to buy their way out? Last I heard, Mexico is still the only country where our State Department actually recommended bribing the cop if you're arrested for pretty much anything, because the Mexican justice system is so corrupt and inefficient you're usually screwed if you get involved in it.
So I'll shed no tears for this piece of garbage.
After his execution, relatives of Leal who had gathered in Guadalupe, Mexico, burned a T-shirt with an image of the American flag in protest. Leal's uncle Alberto Rodriguez criticized the U.S. justice system and the Mexican government and said, "There is a God who makes us all pay."
Well, your sorry bastard just paid, and let's remember what for:
Leal was sentenced to death for the 1994 murder of 16-year-old Adria Sauceda, whose brutalized nude body was found hours after he left a San Antonio street party with her. She was bludgeoned with a piece of 30- to 40-pound chunk of asphalt.
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There was evidence Sauceda had been bitten, strangled and raped. A large stick that had a screw protruding from it was left in her body.
I'm fucking sick of people- Mexican or Indian or whatever- excusing what one of theirs does simply because he's one of them. In 1977 three Girl Scouts were raped and murdered at a camp here in Oklahoma. A suspect, who happened to be Indian, was developed. One of the OSBI agents involved wrote that one thing that made hunting him more difficult was the attitude of a bunch of Indians in southeast OK: "They're white girls, so why should I care if he did it?" Right now we have murderers who escaped back to Mexico that the Mexican government KNOWS where they are, but will not extradite them(from what I've heard won't jail them or anything either) because "Some of your states execute murderers." Which I have the nasty feeling boils down to "So he killed some anglo, we don't care." Maybe not, but I fear it does.
As to Mexico demanding and threatening, 'Screw you'. Your President told the truth about how illegal immigrants are treated in Mexico(thrown in jail, thrown out of the country, etc.) and then demanded that we WELCOME illegal aliens and give them lots of benefits; now you want a rapist/murderer to be given clemency because he didn't talk to the ambassador or staff? How many American citizens have been thrown into jail in Mexico on bullshit charges? And only got out when they managed to pull enough money together to buy their way out? Last I heard, Mexico is still the only country where our State Department actually recommended bribing the cop if you're arrested for pretty much anything, because the Mexican justice system is so corrupt and inefficient you're usually screwed if you get involved in it.
So I'll shed no tears for this piece of garbage.
After his execution, relatives of Leal who had gathered in Guadalupe, Mexico, burned a T-shirt with an image of the American flag in protest. Leal's uncle Alberto Rodriguez criticized the U.S. justice system and the Mexican government and said, "There is a God who makes us all pay."
Well, your sorry bastard just paid, and let's remember what for:
Leal was sentenced to death for the 1994 murder of 16-year-old Adria Sauceda, whose brutalized nude body was found hours after he left a San Antonio street party with her. She was bludgeoned with a piece of 30- to 40-pound chunk of asphalt.
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There was evidence Sauceda had been bitten, strangled and raped. A large stick that had a screw protruding from it was left in her body.
I'm fucking sick of people- Mexican or Indian or whatever- excusing what one of theirs does simply because he's one of them. In 1977 three Girl Scouts were raped and murdered at a camp here in Oklahoma. A suspect, who happened to be Indian, was developed. One of the OSBI agents involved wrote that one thing that made hunting him more difficult was the attitude of a bunch of Indians in southeast OK: "They're white girls, so why should I care if he did it?" Right now we have murderers who escaped back to Mexico that the Mexican government KNOWS where they are, but will not extradite them(from what I've heard won't jail them or anything either) because "Some of your states execute murderers." Which I have the nasty feeling boils down to "So he killed some anglo, we don't care." Maybe not, but I fear it does.
For some reason I didn't make note of it earlier on the Melson testimony,
did you notice all the agencies involved in Gunwalker? FBI and DEA and the IRS as well as DoJ and BATFE. Which means there are a bunch of assorted agency bigshots sweating like hell at the thought of being subpoenaed to testify under oath about 'Just what did you know about this and when did you know it?' Especially since Melson decided to point to lots of people and documents.
Which does make me wonder: how many (primarily)Democrat politicians in DC knew something about this? With Obama having promised the Brady people that he was working on 'something under the radar', just how much did he tell them, for that matter? Helmke just dropped out; could it be that he knew something and, if called upon, doesn't want it connected to his favorite gun bigot groups? Is one reason Schumer and Feinstein and so forth are busy trying to push for more laws and money and authority for BATFE now partly because they knew something about Gunwalker? And really don't want that to come out?
No, I have no information at all about this; I'm just wondering. There's so many people Obama might want to pay off, as it were, with information about Gunwalker that the question came to mind.
Unrelated, Yes, I can type fairly well again. My last graceful episode involved getting one end of a piece of steel rod- small diameter, thank God- stuck in my forearm. Which hurt like hell, and involved sitting for hours in the ER, which led to the comments about morphine not working. Several days and a bunch of antibiotics later there's no sign of infection and the soreness/stiffness is way down, but it'll still be a few days before I can hit the range(right-handed, at least) or ride the bike; the idea of working throttle & front brake is NOT attractive right now.
Which does make me wonder: how many (primarily)Democrat politicians in DC knew something about this? With Obama having promised the Brady people that he was working on 'something under the radar', just how much did he tell them, for that matter? Helmke just dropped out; could it be that he knew something and, if called upon, doesn't want it connected to his favorite gun bigot groups? Is one reason Schumer and Feinstein and so forth are busy trying to push for more laws and money and authority for BATFE now partly because they knew something about Gunwalker? And really don't want that to come out?
No, I have no information at all about this; I'm just wondering. There's so many people Obama might want to pay off, as it were, with information about Gunwalker that the question came to mind.
Unrelated, Yes, I can type fairly well again. My last graceful episode involved getting one end of a piece of steel rod- small diameter, thank God- stuck in my forearm. Which hurt like hell, and involved sitting for hours in the ER, which led to the comments about morphine not working. Several days and a bunch of antibiotics later there's no sign of infection and the soreness/stiffness is way down, but it'll still be a few days before I can hit the range(right-handed, at least) or ride the bike; the idea of working throttle & front brake is NOT attractive right now.
Even for an arrogant politician, this level of dumb
is just amazing. Threatening a news station with a 'cease & desist' letter? Especially at a time like this? Damn.
Laddite: a new word
From a joint staff report on Gunwalker
Link to full report here:
"The Department’s leadership allowed the ATF to implement this flawed strategy, fully aware of what was taking place on the ground. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona encouraged and supported every single facet of Fast and Furious. Main Justice was involved in providing support and approving various aspects of the Operation, including wiretap applications that would necessarily include painstakingly detailed descriptions of what ATF knew about the straw buyers it was monitoring."
And never forget that DoJ flatly lied to Congress:
Agent describes a supervisor: "Whenever he would get a trace report back . . . he was jovial, if not, not giddy, but just delighted about that, hey, 20 of our guns were recovered with 350 pounds of dope in Mexico last night. And it was exciting." Supervisors saying, if want an omelette, you have to break some eggs.
A DoJ letter: "At the outset, the allegation described in your January 27 letter – that ATF “sanctioned” or otherwise knowingly allowed the sale of assault weapons to a straw purchaser who then transported them into Mexico – is false." Another: "It remains our understanding that ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious did not knowingly permit straw buyers to take guns into Mexico."
A flat, no bullshit lie, put on paper and signed off on by DoJ.
"The Department’s leadership allowed the ATF to implement this flawed strategy, fully aware of what was taking place on the ground. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona encouraged and supported every single facet of Fast and Furious. Main Justice was involved in providing support and approving various aspects of the Operation, including wiretap applications that would necessarily include painstakingly detailed descriptions of what ATF knew about the straw buyers it was monitoring."
And never forget that DoJ flatly lied to Congress:
Agent describes a supervisor: "Whenever he would get a trace report back . . . he was jovial, if not, not giddy, but just delighted about that, hey, 20 of our guns were recovered with 350 pounds of dope in Mexico last night. And it was exciting." Supervisors saying, if want an omelette, you have to break some eggs.
A DoJ letter: "At the outset, the allegation described in your January 27 letter – that ATF “sanctioned” or otherwise knowingly allowed the sale of assault weapons to a straw purchaser who then transported them into Mexico – is false." Another: "It remains our understanding that ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious did not knowingly permit straw buyers to take guns into Mexico."
A flat, no bullshit lie, put on paper and signed off on by DoJ.
If I were an Israeli, or a Jew ANYWHERE,
this is a fine illustration of why I wouldn't trust the UN for ANYTHING:
Richard Falk of the UN Human Rights Council puts this on his blog:
And when called on it plays "I didn't do it/it wasn't me/it doesn't mean what it says/you can't prove a thing!" and yanks it.
Falk, you're either a liar or so effing stupid you should be in a padded room. I think it's the former.
This from his followup denial/apology:
To be clear, I oppose any denigration of a people based on ethnicity, race, religion, stage of development, and believe in the human dignity of all people in their individual and collective identity. Beyond this, if we are to have a sustainable human future we must also make peace with nature, and treat animals with as much respect as possible. This is both a sacred imperative of my idea of a spiritual life, but also an integral aspect of species survival on an increasingly crowded, overheated, and endangered planet.
Richard Falk of the UN Human Rights Council puts this on his blog:
And when called on it plays "I didn't do it/it wasn't me/it doesn't mean what it says/you can't prove a thing!" and yanks it.
Falk, you're either a liar or so effing stupid you should be in a padded room. I think it's the former.
This from his followup denial/apology:
To be clear, I oppose any denigration of a people based on ethnicity, race, religion, stage of development, and believe in the human dignity of all people in their individual and collective identity. Beyond this, if we are to have a sustainable human future we must also make peace with nature, and treat animals with as much respect as possible. This is both a sacred imperative of my idea of a spiritual life, but also an integral aspect of species survival on an increasingly crowded, overheated, and endangered planet.
From the letter to Holder:
We have very real indications from several sources that some of the gun trafficking "higher-ups" that the ATF sought to identify were already known to other agencies and may even have been paid as informants. The Acting Director said that ATF was kept in the dark about certain activities of other agencies, including DEA and FBI. Mr.Melson said that he learned from ATF agents in the field that information obtained by these agencies could have had a material impact on the Fast and Furious investigation as far back as late 2009 or early 2010. After learning about the possible role of DEA and FBI, he testified that he reported this information in April 2011 to the Acting Inspector General and directly to then-Acting Deputy Attorney General James Cole on June 16, 2011.
And, just to add to the mess,
Virginia O’Brien, Special Agent in Charge at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Tampa Field Division, ran a gun-running investigation that was walking guns to Honduras using the techniques and tactics identical to Fast and Furious, it was reported to these correspondents this evening via private correspondence from a proven credible source.
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SAC O’Brien was previously the Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Field Division, was later promoted to the Deputy Assistant Director of ATF, but then stepped down to the position in Tampa. Whether the allegations of our source refer to the ongoing Operation Castaway remains at this hour unclear, but our source is certain that O'Brien has allowed the "walking" of straw-purchased firearms to Honduras using the same failed strategy as the Phoenix Field Division's Operation Fast and Furious. That Operation Castaway involved arms smuggling to Honduras is also certain.
"This is confirmed as accurate," the correspondence continued. "There are emails in existence where O’Brien has advised those involved that Tampa does not have to report their walked guns because Tampa FD is not a part of Southwest Border or Project Gunrunner."
"From a first person source she is sh*tting herself trying to cover it up," the report stated.
Oh, this is just friggin' wonderful, isn't it? Honduras? Why?
First, and this is important to understand: the Tampa operation proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that "Project Gunwalker" was a national strategy, not a Phoenix aberration. The "major media" has been slow to understand this. They have ignored the fact that the Houston Field Division had to have played a supervisory role in known straw buying incidents in Dallas and Columbus NM as they are in their area of operations, not Phoenix's. Original reporting on this subject from Texas has been pitiful.
Second, Honduras is where the action is.
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Honduran officials report that Mexican drug traffickers are expanding their activities in the country and forming links with local bosses in four different provinces, fuelling concerns that organized crime is overwhelming the region.
According to Prensa Latina, Security Minister Oscar Alvarez said that the Sinaloa Cartel and the Zetas have been detected in Ocotepeque, Copan, Colon and Atlantida. The four northern states form much of the Atlantic coastline in Honduras, as well as a large chunk of the border with Guatemala. The Mexicans, Alvarez said, move freely throughout these regions, but rather than seeking to take over areas, the foreign gangs are working through already existing networks of local bosses to increase their presence and expand their operations.
Oh, and about the Mexican Gun Lie:
As InSight has reported, Guatemala's military stockpiles have been filtered illegally to the Zetas criminal gang. On top of this, according to a 2008 U.S. diplomatic cable first obtained by WikiLeaks and recently released by McClatchy, the Honduran military has “lost” several U.S.-supplied military weapons in recent years.
The cable, avaliable below, cites a Defense Intelligence Agency report entitled “Honduras: Military Weapons Fuel Black Arms Market,” which noted that the serial numbers on light anti-tank weapons recovered in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and San Andres Island, Colombia, matched the numbers on guns that had previously been sold to Honduras. In addition to the guns, U.S. authorities seized a number of M433 grenades from criminal groups in Mexico, which were also traced back to the Honduran army.
Such revelations, when paired with recent allegations of high-level government links to drug trafficking in Honduras, present a dim forecast for anti-arms trafficking efforts in Central America. They also add fuel to an already heated debate over the cartels' main source of arms. While testifying to the U.S. Senate on March 30, General Douglas Fraser, the head of the U.S. Southern Command, implied that corrupt military officers in Central America bear most of the responsibility for arming Mexican drug traffickers.
"Over 50 percent of the military-type weapons that are flowing throughout the region have a large source between Central American stockpiles, if you will, left over from wars and conflicts in the past," said Fraser.
And now we know that a lot of the AR's and AK clones that actually did come from the US were aided in getting to Mexico by ATF.
And, just to add to the mess,
Virginia O’Brien, Special Agent in Charge at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Tampa Field Division, ran a gun-running investigation that was walking guns to Honduras using the techniques and tactics identical to Fast and Furious, it was reported to these correspondents this evening via private correspondence from a proven credible source.
...
SAC O’Brien was previously the Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Field Division, was later promoted to the Deputy Assistant Director of ATF, but then stepped down to the position in Tampa. Whether the allegations of our source refer to the ongoing Operation Castaway remains at this hour unclear, but our source is certain that O'Brien has allowed the "walking" of straw-purchased firearms to Honduras using the same failed strategy as the Phoenix Field Division's Operation Fast and Furious. That Operation Castaway involved arms smuggling to Honduras is also certain.
"This is confirmed as accurate," the correspondence continued. "There are emails in existence where O’Brien has advised those involved that Tampa does not have to report their walked guns because Tampa FD is not a part of Southwest Border or Project Gunrunner."
"From a first person source she is sh*tting herself trying to cover it up," the report stated.
Oh, this is just friggin' wonderful, isn't it? Honduras? Why?
First, and this is important to understand: the Tampa operation proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that "Project Gunwalker" was a national strategy, not a Phoenix aberration. The "major media" has been slow to understand this. They have ignored the fact that the Houston Field Division had to have played a supervisory role in known straw buying incidents in Dallas and Columbus NM as they are in their area of operations, not Phoenix's. Original reporting on this subject from Texas has been pitiful.
Second, Honduras is where the action is.
...
Honduran officials report that Mexican drug traffickers are expanding their activities in the country and forming links with local bosses in four different provinces, fuelling concerns that organized crime is overwhelming the region.
According to Prensa Latina, Security Minister Oscar Alvarez said that the Sinaloa Cartel and the Zetas have been detected in Ocotepeque, Copan, Colon and Atlantida. The four northern states form much of the Atlantic coastline in Honduras, as well as a large chunk of the border with Guatemala. The Mexicans, Alvarez said, move freely throughout these regions, but rather than seeking to take over areas, the foreign gangs are working through already existing networks of local bosses to increase their presence and expand their operations.
Oh, and about the Mexican Gun Lie:
As InSight has reported, Guatemala's military stockpiles have been filtered illegally to the Zetas criminal gang. On top of this, according to a 2008 U.S. diplomatic cable first obtained by WikiLeaks and recently released by McClatchy, the Honduran military has “lost” several U.S.-supplied military weapons in recent years.
The cable, avaliable below, cites a Defense Intelligence Agency report entitled “Honduras: Military Weapons Fuel Black Arms Market,” which noted that the serial numbers on light anti-tank weapons recovered in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and San Andres Island, Colombia, matched the numbers on guns that had previously been sold to Honduras. In addition to the guns, U.S. authorities seized a number of M433 grenades from criminal groups in Mexico, which were also traced back to the Honduran army.
Such revelations, when paired with recent allegations of high-level government links to drug trafficking in Honduras, present a dim forecast for anti-arms trafficking efforts in Central America. They also add fuel to an already heated debate over the cartels' main source of arms. While testifying to the U.S. Senate on March 30, General Douglas Fraser, the head of the U.S. Southern Command, implied that corrupt military officers in Central America bear most of the responsibility for arming Mexican drug traffickers.
"Over 50 percent of the military-type weapons that are flowing throughout the region have a large source between Central American stockpiles, if you will, left over from wars and conflicts in the past," said Fraser.
And now we know that a lot of the AR's and AK clones that actually did come from the US were aided in getting to Mexico by ATF.
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Remember the name 'Srebrenica'?
I had read bits of the history, which demonstrated(again) what a useless pile of shit it is to depend on UN 'peacekeepers'(even when they're not pushing children and women into prostitution rings); I hadn't realized quite what a bunch of useless bastards so many of them are:
Any chance for resistance was lost when Holland’s defense minister phoned the U.N. chief in Bosnia to protest the thought of using NATO air power to deter the Serbs.(note: this was while Dutch troops were under threat) The Dutch troops had also stripped the usual complement of TOW missiles from their armored personnel carriers before deploying, in deference to U.N. policy to avoid “provocation.” And according to at least one eyewitness, Dutch troops pushed the displaced Muslim civilians outside the gates of the United Nations military encampment as the Serbs arrived. Dutch troops watched as Serb soldiers loaded Srebrenica’s women and very young children onto buses for transport back to Muslim territory. And they watched as Bosnian Muslim men and boys were separated and taken off in trucks as captive prisoners of war. Or so we thought.
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For their crimes, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and Serb military commander Ratko Mladic were indicted in the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague(speaking of useless bastards). The peace accord negotiated in Dayton, Ohio in 1995 brought an uneasy end to the fighting in Bosnia, but the ultimate author of ethnic strife in Yugoslavia, federation president Slobodan Milosevic, was allowed to play a starring role at the peace conference in exchange for calling a halt to the war he started. And even then, the NATO forces that enforced the Dayton peace claimed to have no obligation under the Fourth Geneva Convention to search for war crimes suspects, for fear this would unsettle the locals. There were even reports that some NATO forces chose to inform the Serb authorities of their movements in the wreckage of Bosnian territory to allow the wanted men to stay out of plain sight.
Let us not forget, either, that one reason there weren't enough troops to actually accomplish much(as if the EU-to-be and UN would have allowed that) is that the Europeans didn't want the expense or difficulty of dealing with it, they wanted US to do it for them. There was a cartoon at the time from, as I recall, a Brit or German cartoonist disgusted with the mess showing some guy reading the paper about some current massacre and saying "This is terrible! Why don't the Americans do something?"
Lesson from history: if your national leaders invite the UN in to take care of things and save you, get all the weapons and ammo and supplies you can, because you're going to need them.
Any chance for resistance was lost when Holland’s defense minister phoned the U.N. chief in Bosnia to protest the thought of using NATO air power to deter the Serbs.(note: this was while Dutch troops were under threat) The Dutch troops had also stripped the usual complement of TOW missiles from their armored personnel carriers before deploying, in deference to U.N. policy to avoid “provocation.” And according to at least one eyewitness, Dutch troops pushed the displaced Muslim civilians outside the gates of the United Nations military encampment as the Serbs arrived. Dutch troops watched as Serb soldiers loaded Srebrenica’s women and very young children onto buses for transport back to Muslim territory. And they watched as Bosnian Muslim men and boys were separated and taken off in trucks as captive prisoners of war. Or so we thought.
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For their crimes, Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and Serb military commander Ratko Mladic were indicted in the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague(speaking of useless bastards). The peace accord negotiated in Dayton, Ohio in 1995 brought an uneasy end to the fighting in Bosnia, but the ultimate author of ethnic strife in Yugoslavia, federation president Slobodan Milosevic, was allowed to play a starring role at the peace conference in exchange for calling a halt to the war he started. And even then, the NATO forces that enforced the Dayton peace claimed to have no obligation under the Fourth Geneva Convention to search for war crimes suspects, for fear this would unsettle the locals. There were even reports that some NATO forces chose to inform the Serb authorities of their movements in the wreckage of Bosnian territory to allow the wanted men to stay out of plain sight.
Let us not forget, either, that one reason there weren't enough troops to actually accomplish much(as if the EU-to-be and UN would have allowed that) is that the Europeans didn't want the expense or difficulty of dealing with it, they wanted US to do it for them. There was a cartoon at the time from, as I recall, a Brit or German cartoonist disgusted with the mess showing some guy reading the paper about some current massacre and saying "This is terrible! Why don't the Americans do something?"
Lesson from history: if your national leaders invite the UN in to take care of things and save you, get all the weapons and ammo and supplies you can, because you're going to need them.
The City of Chicago, the City Council and the district court
just took a big, serious kick in the ass:
That is, the City Council violated the Second Amendment when it made this law; its very existence stands as a fixed harm to every Chicagoan’s Second Amendment right to maintain proficiency in firearm use by training at a range. This kind of constitutional harm is not measured by whether a particular person’s gasoline or mass‐transit bill is higher because he must travel to a firing range in the suburbs rather than one in the city, as the district court seemed to think.
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This reasoning assumes that the harm to a constitutional right is measured by the extent to which it can be exercised in another jurisdiction. That’s a profoundly mistaken assumption. In the First Amendment context, the Supreme Court long ago made it clear that “ ‘one is not to have the exercise of his liberty of expression in appropriate places abridged on the plea that it may be exercised in some other place.’ ”
In plain language: you can't screw someone out of their rights in THIS city because "They can go OUTSIDE the city and exercise that right". Richard the Turd, Mayor Rahm and Mayors Against Guns must be soiling themselves: this court has just stated that the 2nd Amendment has the same importance as the 1st. Wheee!
Note: Sebastian found a copy of Mayor Rahm's "Ok, we'll allow some ranges' ordinance; it's the kind of garbage we expected from him and this city.
That is, the City Council violated the Second Amendment when it made this law; its very existence stands as a fixed harm to every Chicagoan’s Second Amendment right to maintain proficiency in firearm use by training at a range. This kind of constitutional harm is not measured by whether a particular person’s gasoline or mass‐transit bill is higher because he must travel to a firing range in the suburbs rather than one in the city, as the district court seemed to think.
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This reasoning assumes that the harm to a constitutional right is measured by the extent to which it can be exercised in another jurisdiction. That’s a profoundly mistaken assumption. In the First Amendment context, the Supreme Court long ago made it clear that “ ‘one is not to have the exercise of his liberty of expression in appropriate places abridged on the plea that it may be exercised in some other place.’ ”
In plain language: you can't screw someone out of their rights in THIS city because "They can go OUTSIDE the city and exercise that right". Richard the Turd, Mayor Rahm and Mayors Against Guns must be soiling themselves: this court has just stated that the 2nd Amendment has the same importance as the 1st. Wheee!
Note: Sebastian found a copy of Mayor Rahm's "Ok, we'll allow some ranges' ordinance; it's the kind of garbage we expected from him and this city.
Oh man, if this pans out...
A big step toward Mobile Infantry
Considering joint damage is a big problem for infantry, this could be a big help. It'll need longer/better battery life, but damn!
Considering joint damage is a big problem for infantry, this could be a big help. It'll need longer/better battery life, but damn!
Oh, the weasel's in the henhouse now!
"On Monday, July 4, ATF Acting Director Kenneth Melson testified before investigators for the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee about Operation Fast and Furious," a Committee press release reports.
What? I thought he was to testify in the 14th?
He appeared with his personal counsel, Richard Cullen of McGuire Woods LLP. His interview had originally been scheduled through the Justice Department to occur on July 13 in the presence of DOJ and ATF counsel. As you know, however, under our agreement Department witnesses who choose to attend a voluntary interview with their own lawyer are free to exercise that right rather than participate with counsel representing the Department's interests.
After being made aware of that provision of our agreement, Acting Director Melson chose to exercise that right and appeared with his own lawyer. We are disappointed that no one had previously informed him of that provision of the agreement. Instead, Justice Department officials sought to limit and control his communications with Congress. This is yet another example of why direct communications with Congress are so important and are protected by law.
Oh, boy. So Melson went off the reservation and talked to the committee. WITHOUT DoJ or ATF lawyers being there. On bleepin' JULY 4th, no less. And notice that 'disappointed' line; another "We know what you did, don't think we don't. And we don't like it" moment.
I don't doubt he's playing "I didn't know about everything!" game:
According to Mr. Melson, it was not until after the public controversy that he personally reviewed hundreds of documents relating to the case, including wiretap applications and Reports of Investigation (ROIs). By his account, he was sick to his stomach when he obtained those documents and learned the full story.
That's either an admission of not knowing what his agency was doing(bad management or 'if you don't tell me, I can say I didn't know') or claiming "My subordinates kept a lot of this from me!" Either way, not good.
I keep thinking of the reported reaction Melson had to Agent Terry's family testifying; he's said to have looked sick. Makes me think either some crap he hadn't been told slapping him in the face, or actually having to face the consequences of the operation for the first time and not liking it. Maybe the man has a conscience. We'll see, and we'll see what comes next.
Added: in no way do I believe he didn't know what was going on. I think it's possible that having to face the family of one of the victims of this idiocy may have shocked his moral sense back into action(somewhat); add to that facing the fact that Obama & Holder wanted him to fall on his sword and take the primary blame for this... I could be wrong: he could be just one more corrupt former lawman who's trying to keep his ass out of a cell, and/or safe from being sued.
What? I thought he was to testify in the 14th?
He appeared with his personal counsel, Richard Cullen of McGuire Woods LLP. His interview had originally been scheduled through the Justice Department to occur on July 13 in the presence of DOJ and ATF counsel. As you know, however, under our agreement Department witnesses who choose to attend a voluntary interview with their own lawyer are free to exercise that right rather than participate with counsel representing the Department's interests.
After being made aware of that provision of our agreement, Acting Director Melson chose to exercise that right and appeared with his own lawyer. We are disappointed that no one had previously informed him of that provision of the agreement. Instead, Justice Department officials sought to limit and control his communications with Congress. This is yet another example of why direct communications with Congress are so important and are protected by law.
Oh, boy. So Melson went off the reservation and talked to the committee. WITHOUT DoJ or ATF lawyers being there. On bleepin' JULY 4th, no less. And notice that 'disappointed' line; another "We know what you did, don't think we don't. And we don't like it" moment.
I don't doubt he's playing "I didn't know about everything!" game:
According to Mr. Melson, it was not until after the public controversy that he personally reviewed hundreds of documents relating to the case, including wiretap applications and Reports of Investigation (ROIs). By his account, he was sick to his stomach when he obtained those documents and learned the full story.
That's either an admission of not knowing what his agency was doing(bad management or 'if you don't tell me, I can say I didn't know') or claiming "My subordinates kept a lot of this from me!" Either way, not good.
I keep thinking of the reported reaction Melson had to Agent Terry's family testifying; he's said to have looked sick. Makes me think either some crap he hadn't been told slapping him in the face, or actually having to face the consequences of the operation for the first time and not liking it. Maybe the man has a conscience. We'll see, and we'll see what comes next.
Added: in no way do I believe he didn't know what was going on. I think it's possible that having to face the family of one of the victims of this idiocy may have shocked his moral sense back into action(somewhat); add to that facing the fact that Obama & Holder wanted him to fall on his sword and take the primary blame for this... I could be wrong: he could be just one more corrupt former lawman who's trying to keep his ass out of a cell, and/or safe from being sued.
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
First, some 'public servants' really don't like it
when they have to obey the law, do they?
Second, the gun bigots sometimes surprise me. Even knowing what intolerant jerks many of them are.
Something from WWII history:
"The general impression from the German reports is that they were on the right track and that their thinking and developments paralleled ours to a surprising extent. The fact that they did not achieve their chain reaction is primarily due to their lack of sufficient amounts of heavy water.
"In one of the reports a vivid description is given of the German efforts in this respect. The heavy water factories in Norway were designed for a capacity of 3-4 tons a year and were successfully operating during part of 1942 and 1943. This capacity would have been sufficient for the construction of a pile (reactor). However, the production was interrupted by sabotage and finally the main factory was destroyed by a bombing attack. Toward the end of 1944 plans were made to initiate production of heavy water in Germany and to use enriched uranium in order to reduce the material requirements.
"It is also fairly clear that the total German effort was on a very considerably smaller scale than the American effort. This may be due to the strained German economy or to the less favorable attitude of their government. The fact remains that an independent group of scientists, of much smaller size than ours, operating under much more adverse conditions achieved so much.
Obama's appointees tend to be just as big a jerk as he is.
And that's about it tonight. I can now turn my hand to the proper position but typing still doesn't work weel with the one hand.
Gulf Breeze City Council today unanimously OK'd allowing the city attorney to rescind and amend ordinances on its book that may conflict with a new state gun law.
And, as usual, those ‘in charge’ whine and cry that they’re being held to the same laws the ‘little people’
Translation: "We can't pass the laws we want, because if we do we can actually get in legal trouble for doing it! It's not FAIR!!!"Any appointed or elected government official or department head who enacts or enforces a law that conflicts with the state law will personally face fines up to $100,000 and lawsuits
"I've never seen a more broadly and poorly worded law," Dannheisser said. That is worrisome, he said.
The broad nature of the law paves the way to a whole cottage industry of lawyers seeking to sue city and county officials who may not realize they have laws that may in some way be construed as regulating the use of guns, Dannheisser said.
Second, the gun bigots sometimes surprise me. Even knowing what intolerant jerks many of them are.
Something from WWII history:
"The general impression from the German reports is that they were on the right track and that their thinking and developments paralleled ours to a surprising extent. The fact that they did not achieve their chain reaction is primarily due to their lack of sufficient amounts of heavy water.
"In one of the reports a vivid description is given of the German efforts in this respect. The heavy water factories in Norway were designed for a capacity of 3-4 tons a year and were successfully operating during part of 1942 and 1943. This capacity would have been sufficient for the construction of a pile (reactor). However, the production was interrupted by sabotage and finally the main factory was destroyed by a bombing attack. Toward the end of 1944 plans were made to initiate production of heavy water in Germany and to use enriched uranium in order to reduce the material requirements.
"It is also fairly clear that the total German effort was on a very considerably smaller scale than the American effort. This may be due to the strained German economy or to the less favorable attitude of their government. The fact remains that an independent group of scientists, of much smaller size than ours, operating under much more adverse conditions achieved so much.
Obama's appointees tend to be just as big a jerk as he is.
And that's about it tonight. I can now turn my hand to the proper position but typing still doesn't work weel with the one hand.
More Gunwalker news
But Grassley said he does not want anyone to resign just yet until Congress has gotten to the bottom of the whole issue.
“I’m not asking for anybody’s resignation at this point because somebody resigns and then they want you to believe that’s the end of it,” he said. “There are too many people involved in it for me to be satisfied with one resignation.”
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Already, Grassley said, he has seen emails pointing to a crucial meeting on Oct. 26, 2009. Senior Justice Department officials, the directors of the ATF, CIA, and Drug Enforcement Agency; U.S. attorneys for all the Southwest border states; the director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force; and the chairman of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee were all present, he said.
“We believe it goes very high up into the Justice Department. But until we get the documents we requested, we can’t say for sure who knew what, when and why this very bad policy was put in place.”
Note that list: there is NO DAMNED WAY Holder did not know about this, which- again- means he lied to Congress.
While the investigation continues into the U.S. operation that helped send thousands of guns south of the border, Mexican lawmakers say they'll press for extradition and prosecution in Mexico of American officials who authorized and ran the operation.
"I obviously feel violated. I feel my country's sovereignty was violated," Mexico Sen. Rene Arce Islas told Fox News. "They should be tried in the United States and the Mexican government should also demand that they also be tried in Mexico since the incidents took place here. There should be trials in both places."
Unless Obama figures some major benefit to him and his plans, this won't happen; but it's still pressure on the guilty.
However, this bit is full of crap:
"It confirms what many Mexicans already believe. That there is this conspiracy from the U.S. to sell guns to Mexico, and that conspiracy has to do with this idea that America is trying to control Mexico or protect the arms industry," said Ana Maria Salazar, a respected Mexican political analyst and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Drug Enforcement Policy under President Bill Clinton.
'Trying to control Mexico'? 'protect the arms industry'? Even coming from a Bill Clinton disciple this is disgusting.
“I’m not asking for anybody’s resignation at this point because somebody resigns and then they want you to believe that’s the end of it,” he said. “There are too many people involved in it for me to be satisfied with one resignation.”
...
Already, Grassley said, he has seen emails pointing to a crucial meeting on Oct. 26, 2009. Senior Justice Department officials, the directors of the ATF, CIA, and Drug Enforcement Agency; U.S. attorneys for all the Southwest border states; the director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force; and the chairman of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee were all present, he said.
“We believe it goes very high up into the Justice Department. But until we get the documents we requested, we can’t say for sure who knew what, when and why this very bad policy was put in place.”
Note that list: there is NO DAMNED WAY Holder did not know about this, which- again- means he lied to Congress.
While the investigation continues into the U.S. operation that helped send thousands of guns south of the border, Mexican lawmakers say they'll press for extradition and prosecution in Mexico of American officials who authorized and ran the operation.
"I obviously feel violated. I feel my country's sovereignty was violated," Mexico Sen. Rene Arce Islas told Fox News. "They should be tried in the United States and the Mexican government should also demand that they also be tried in Mexico since the incidents took place here. There should be trials in both places."
Unless Obama figures some major benefit to him and his plans, this won't happen; but it's still pressure on the guilty.
However, this bit is full of crap:
"It confirms what many Mexicans already believe. That there is this conspiracy from the U.S. to sell guns to Mexico, and that conspiracy has to do with this idea that America is trying to control Mexico or protect the arms industry," said Ana Maria Salazar, a respected Mexican political analyst and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Drug Enforcement Policy under President Bill Clinton.
'Trying to control Mexico'? 'protect the arms industry'? Even coming from a Bill Clinton disciple this is disgusting.
More on TSA and that tyrant wannabe Pistole
Now, thanks to TSA Chief John Pistole’s determination to “take the TSA to the next level,” there will soon be no place safe from the TSA’s groping searches. Only this time, the “ritualized humiliation” is being meted out by the serpentine-labeled Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) task forces, comprised of federal air marshals, surface transportation security inspectors, transportation security officers, behavior detection officers and explosive detection canine teams. At a cost of $30 million in 2009, VIPR relies on 25 teams of agents, in addition to assistance from local law enforcement agencies as well as immigration agents. And as a sign of where things are headed, Pistole, himself a former FBI agent, wants to turn the TSA into a “national-security, counterterrorism organization, fully integrated into U.S. government efforts.” To accomplish this, Pistole has requested funding for an additional 12 teams for fiscal year 2012, bringing VIPR’s operating budget close to $110 million.
VIPR is the first major step in the government’s effort to secure so-called “soft” targets such as malls, stadiums, bridges, etc. In fact, some security experts predict that checkpoints and screening stations will eventually be established at all soft targets, such as department stores, restaurants, and schools. Given the virtually limitless number of potential soft targets vulnerable to terrorist attack, subjection to intrusive pat-downs and full-body imaging will become an integral component of everyday life in the United States. As Jim Harper of the Cato Institute observed, “The natural illogic of VIPR stings is that terrorism can strike anywhere, so VIPR teams should search anywhere.”
...
These raids, conducted at taxpayer expense on average Americans going about their normal, day-to-day business, run the gamut from the ridiculous to the abusive. In Santa Fe, TSA agents were assigned to conduct searches at a high school prom. At the port of Brownsville, in Texas, VIPR units searched all private and commercial vehicles entering and exiting the port. Although the TSA admitted the search was not conducted in response to any specific threat, VIPR agents nonetheless engaged in “thorough” inspections of each and every vehicle. In a training exercise in Atlanta, VIPR teams allegedly arrested a man after discovering a small amount of marijuana in his semi-trailer. In San Diego, a VIPR investigation at a trolley station resulted in the deportation of three teenagers apprehended on their way to school.
...
The question that must be asked, of course, is who exactly is the TSA trying to target and intimidate? Not would-be terrorists, given that scattershot pat-down stings are unlikely to apprehend or deter terrorists. In light of the fact that average citizens are the ones receiving the brunt of the TSA’s efforts, it stands to reason that we’ve become public enemy number one. We are all suspects. And how does the TSA deal with perceived threats? Its motto, posted at the TSA’s air marshal training center headquarters in the wake of 9/11, is particularly telling: “Dominate. Intimidate. Control.”
Can't type well enough to properly comment on this; go read it all, and then call/write your congresscritters.
Found at Sipsey
VIPR is the first major step in the government’s effort to secure so-called “soft” targets such as malls, stadiums, bridges, etc. In fact, some security experts predict that checkpoints and screening stations will eventually be established at all soft targets, such as department stores, restaurants, and schools. Given the virtually limitless number of potential soft targets vulnerable to terrorist attack, subjection to intrusive pat-downs and full-body imaging will become an integral component of everyday life in the United States. As Jim Harper of the Cato Institute observed, “The natural illogic of VIPR stings is that terrorism can strike anywhere, so VIPR teams should search anywhere.”
...
These raids, conducted at taxpayer expense on average Americans going about their normal, day-to-day business, run the gamut from the ridiculous to the abusive. In Santa Fe, TSA agents were assigned to conduct searches at a high school prom. At the port of Brownsville, in Texas, VIPR units searched all private and commercial vehicles entering and exiting the port. Although the TSA admitted the search was not conducted in response to any specific threat, VIPR agents nonetheless engaged in “thorough” inspections of each and every vehicle. In a training exercise in Atlanta, VIPR teams allegedly arrested a man after discovering a small amount of marijuana in his semi-trailer. In San Diego, a VIPR investigation at a trolley station resulted in the deportation of three teenagers apprehended on their way to school.
...
The question that must be asked, of course, is who exactly is the TSA trying to target and intimidate? Not would-be terrorists, given that scattershot pat-down stings are unlikely to apprehend or deter terrorists. In light of the fact that average citizens are the ones receiving the brunt of the TSA’s efforts, it stands to reason that we’ve become public enemy number one. We are all suspects. And how does the TSA deal with perceived threats? Its motto, posted at the TSA’s air marshal training center headquarters in the wake of 9/11, is particularly telling: “Dominate. Intimidate. Control.”
Can't type well enough to properly comment on this; go read it all, and then call/write your congresscritters.
Found at Sipsey
About that 'study' that Independance Day is a 'rignt-wing' holiday:
Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Fuck you. Freedomfuck you with the flying fuckeagle of freedom. Fuck you for your stupidity. Fuck you for trying to marginalize this most glorious of days in our nation’s history. Fuck you for trying to make me feel bad or reticent about celebrating our freedom. And moundfuck you forever for trying to imply that the greatness unleashed on the 4th of July and the Declaration of Independence are things to hide under a blanket and be ashamed of.
Thinking our rights are entitled by our Creator to be free and pursue life, liberty, and happiness are partisan? Enjoy being on the anti-entitlement side and historyfuck you with a fucksoaked quillpen.
Believing the governors must receive their authorization and consent from the governed is a bad thing and worthy of the same scorn you heap upon a person wanting lower taxes? CrossingFuck you across the Delaware.
Believing all men are created equal should be subected to a David Brock web-based hissy fit? Ask this guy and then fuck you with your shame and idiocy.
And that's not all of it.
Still not typing well, but
a few things to point to:
'Code enforcement' as weapon
Sen. Leahy is a multiple-level dirtbag
Things you need gathered before you die
Yeah,considering how so many of them act...
(thanks to Rodger)
While Obama is trying to pretend to be like Reagan,
The Dutch are on a roll
Added: What I wish to highlight here is the horrible spectacle of mainstream minds raising the alarm over the increasingly violent intrusions of the government into our lives, even as their underlying ideologies move them inexorably towards that end-of-road. To judge by the reaction around the blogosphere, both Left and Right are aghast and angry over Guerena’s death — but I will show how, in fact, both “sides” are, at root, complicit in it.
And that's it for now
'Code enforcement' as weapon
Sen. Leahy is a multiple-level dirtbag
Things you need gathered before you die
Yeah,considering how so many of them act...
(thanks to Rodger)While Obama is trying to pretend to be like Reagan,
The Dutch are on a roll
Added: What I wish to highlight here is the horrible spectacle of mainstream minds raising the alarm over the increasingly violent intrusions of the government into our lives, even as their underlying ideologies move them inexorably towards that end-of-road. To judge by the reaction around the blogosphere, both Left and Right are aghast and angry over Guerena’s death — but I will show how, in fact, both “sides” are, at root, complicit in it.
And that's it for now
Monday, July 04, 2011
One thing I will note about yesterday's adventures:
it seems morphine doesn't do a damn thing for pain. For me, at least. I don't think the doc really believed me; fuck him, I had the first-hand information. And did most of the typing I did today with one hand
And, since it's still the 4th, an inspiring pic stolen from Theo:
I shall now manage a shower, closely followed by collapse. 'Night, all
And, since it's still the 4th, an inspiring pic stolen from Theo:
I shall now manage a shower, closely followed by collapse. 'Night, all
Sunday, July 03, 2011
First, Rev. Wright, 'controversial' isn't a bad word;
second, I do not call you controversial: I call you a racist liar. And, as noted, never forget that our President sat in the pews nodding and cheering for twenty freakin' years. And then claimed "Oh, I never heard him say any of those things!"
Of course, he's got the major media giving him cover for all this. I imagine Wright has called the Founders all a bunch of slavers, which would be another lie. But it's a PC lie, the kind our 'journalists' like to promote.
Ah, the Green Party, now saving people from unsafe dildos and such.
Apparently that noose isn't tightening fast enough:
A defiant Moammar Gadhafi threatened Friday to carry out attacks in Europe unless NATO halts its campaign of airstrikes against his regime in Libya.
Gadhafi delivered the warning Friday in an address by telephone to thousands of supporters who gathered in Tripoli's Green Square. He vowed to stay on and warned the NATO-led alliance to stop its air war or face "catastrophe."
Gadhafi said that unless strikes stop, "we can decide to treat you in a similar way." He says that "if we decide, we can also move it (the fight) to Europe."
Y'know, we didn't hear much out of this guy for some years there, I wonder... oh yeah, because he was afraid that if he did anything Bush would actually kill him.
Some of the implications of Obama sucking up to the Muslim Brotherhood; this man is either a flat effing fool, or really wants to destroy this nation.
So it's bad enough up there some student was willing to put his life on the line to do this:
But part of the motivation may come from fears of student revolution. Last week someone put a piece of graffito on the wall of a Pyongyang College which called the Dear Leader “a dictator who starved people to death."
For North Korea, this is more or less the equivalent of setting the White House on fire with a Molotov.
Heard anything about the idiocy in the park? Glenn Beck was apparently thought he could take his family to a public park to see a show and the NYC clowns could act like civilized beings. He was wrong, they called him a liar, but their denials don't really seem to hold up.
Well, the flotilla dirtbags tried it, and it's begun. Though I have news for them: if Israeli commandos stormed the ships 'with guns blazing' they'd be having burials at sea because there wouldn't be enough space for all the bodies.
And now I'll leave you. I hope to be hobbling around well enough to mark the birthday by making a lot of noise and holes in targets, and I have some ammo to put together.
Of course, he's got the major media giving him cover for all this. I imagine Wright has called the Founders all a bunch of slavers, which would be another lie. But it's a PC lie, the kind our 'journalists' like to promote.
Ah, the Green Party, now saving people from unsafe dildos and such.
Apparently that noose isn't tightening fast enough:
A defiant Moammar Gadhafi threatened Friday to carry out attacks in Europe unless NATO halts its campaign of airstrikes against his regime in Libya.
Gadhafi delivered the warning Friday in an address by telephone to thousands of supporters who gathered in Tripoli's Green Square. He vowed to stay on and warned the NATO-led alliance to stop its air war or face "catastrophe."
Gadhafi said that unless strikes stop, "we can decide to treat you in a similar way." He says that "if we decide, we can also move it (the fight) to Europe."
Y'know, we didn't hear much out of this guy for some years there, I wonder... oh yeah, because he was afraid that if he did anything Bush would actually kill him.
Some of the implications of Obama sucking up to the Muslim Brotherhood; this man is either a flat effing fool, or really wants to destroy this nation.
So it's bad enough up there some student was willing to put his life on the line to do this:
But part of the motivation may come from fears of student revolution. Last week someone put a piece of graffito on the wall of a Pyongyang College which called the Dear Leader “a dictator who starved people to death."
For North Korea, this is more or less the equivalent of setting the White House on fire with a Molotov.
Heard anything about the idiocy in the park? Glenn Beck was apparently thought he could take his family to a public park to see a show and the NYC clowns could act like civilized beings. He was wrong, they called him a liar, but their denials don't really seem to hold up.
Well, the flotilla dirtbags tried it, and it's begun. Though I have news for them: if Israeli commandos stormed the ships 'with guns blazing' they'd be having burials at sea because there wouldn't be enough space for all the bodies.
And now I'll leave you. I hope to be hobbling around well enough to mark the birthday by making a lot of noise and holes in targets, and I have some ammo to put together.
About that 'graceful' post
a couple of days ago:
Over the years I have gone rappelling(in not the best of circumstances), rock climbing, hiked through bad places, ridden motorcycles and driven four-wheel vehicles(sometimes in ways, it's amazing I'm alive), been in the SCA and hit people with sticks, all kinds of things. In all that time, the two worst injuries I've suffered from such:
Getting knocked off a bicycle by a speed bump, and
A few days ago, I fell off a sidewalk.
"?" you're thinking. Raised walk, left foot slipped off and somehow managed to do something to my leg. Yesterday, I noticed a ginormous bruise of downright appalling color that wasn't there the day before; it apparently took five freakin' days for it to finally reveal itself. Which, at least, gives hope that that's all it is, and a few more days will take care of the matter.
Yeah, it's a nice excuse to put the leg up, but damn...
Over the years I have gone rappelling(in not the best of circumstances), rock climbing, hiked through bad places, ridden motorcycles and driven four-wheel vehicles(sometimes in ways, it's amazing I'm alive), been in the SCA and hit people with sticks, all kinds of things. In all that time, the two worst injuries I've suffered from such:
Getting knocked off a bicycle by a speed bump, and
A few days ago, I fell off a sidewalk.
"?" you're thinking. Raised walk, left foot slipped off and somehow managed to do something to my leg. Yesterday, I noticed a ginormous bruise of downright appalling color that wasn't there the day before; it apparently took five freakin' days for it to finally reveal itself. Which, at least, gives hope that that's all it is, and a few more days will take care of the matter.
Yeah, it's a nice excuse to put the leg up, but damn...
One more reason to tell the Israelis "If they try to break
the blockade and refuse to turn back, just sink the damn ships" AND to tell the EU to collectively go to hell:
"The Europeans," explained MP Schroeder, "supported the Palestinian Authority with the aim of becoming its main sponsor, and through this, challenge the U.S. and present themselves as the future global power. Therefore, the Al-Aksa Intifada should be understood as a proxy war between Europe and the United States."
"It is an open secret within the European Parliament that EU aid to the Palestinian Authority has not been spent correctly," MP Schroeder said during a recent address in New York. "The European Parliament does not intend to verify whether European taxpayers' money could have been used to finance anti-Semitic murderous attacks. Unfortunately, this fits well with European policy in this area."
Well, isn't that just freakin' wonderful? "We can attack the US without doing it openly, and get some Jews killed at the same time! We love this plan!"
In her Ben Gurion University address, MP Schroeder argued, "The primary goal of the EU is the internationalization of the conflict in order to underline the need for its own mediating role," warning that renewed European calls for a multinational force in the region - heard most recently by the head of the largest political bloc in the parliament - combined with heightened levels of anti-Semitism in Europe and the Arab world, could spell disaster for Jews everywhere. "The Palestinians are playing the ugly role of being the cannon fodder for Europe's hidden war against the U.S.," she adds.
Just wonderful who we have as 'allies', isn't it?
"The Europeans," explained MP Schroeder, "supported the Palestinian Authority with the aim of becoming its main sponsor, and through this, challenge the U.S. and present themselves as the future global power. Therefore, the Al-Aksa Intifada should be understood as a proxy war between Europe and the United States."
"It is an open secret within the European Parliament that EU aid to the Palestinian Authority has not been spent correctly," MP Schroeder said during a recent address in New York. "The European Parliament does not intend to verify whether European taxpayers' money could have been used to finance anti-Semitic murderous attacks. Unfortunately, this fits well with European policy in this area."
Well, isn't that just freakin' wonderful? "We can attack the US without doing it openly, and get some Jews killed at the same time! We love this plan!"
In her Ben Gurion University address, MP Schroeder argued, "The primary goal of the EU is the internationalization of the conflict in order to underline the need for its own mediating role," warning that renewed European calls for a multinational force in the region - heard most recently by the head of the largest political bloc in the parliament - combined with heightened levels of anti-Semitism in Europe and the Arab world, could spell disaster for Jews everywhere. "The Palestinians are playing the ugly role of being the cannon fodder for Europe's hidden war against the U.S.," she adds.
Just wonderful who we have as 'allies', isn't it?
A blog to recommend
Captain Tightpants, go take a look. I think he's the kind of cop we need more of.
Saturday, July 02, 2011
I don't have the background to state an opinion
on this; I do have to wonder of the lighter weight is worth giving up a MG. From what son's told me, the tradeoff of the weight is that you CAN put a lot more fire downrange when needed. And change the barrel fairly quickly when needed.
There's a reason it's called the Stupid Party,
and some branches are downright retarded.
Also, please note this: The president of the AZ police union also called up every Republican candidate and elected official in the state telling them ‘you’re fucked’ if you don’t condemn Brian Miller.” The proper response to this would be "Fuck you; I don't like being threatened, and I'm going to spread this far and wide."
Also, please note this: The president of the AZ police union also called up every Republican candidate and elected official in the state telling them ‘you’re fucked’ if you don’t condemn Brian Miller.” The proper response to this would be "Fuck you; I don't like being threatened, and I'm going to spread this far and wide."
Apparently the current mayor of Chicago isn't as stupid
and arrogant as the last. Or maybe just not stupid.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel will introduce an ordinance next week to allow gun ranges to operate in Chicago.
To obtain a gun permit in Chicago, residents must now travel to a suburban gun range to complete a mandated firearms training course.
The city is currently facing a federal lawsuit saying the city’s ban of gun ranges in the city has created a burden for those seeking a Chicago gun permit.
If you don't remember, the previous mayor, Richard the Turd, when faced with the fact that he couldn't ban gun ownership, tried to make it as difficult and expensive as possible for the peasants to have arms, and this was one part of that: "You have to go to a range for training, but no ranges are allowed for the peasants in the city of Chicago." Apparently Emanuel, while an anti-gun dirtbag, isn't wanting to explain to the people why they're paying for another big lawsuit the city will lose.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel will introduce an ordinance next week to allow gun ranges to operate in Chicago.
To obtain a gun permit in Chicago, residents must now travel to a suburban gun range to complete a mandated firearms training course.
The city is currently facing a federal lawsuit saying the city’s ban of gun ranges in the city has created a burden for those seeking a Chicago gun permit.
If you don't remember, the previous mayor, Richard the Turd, when faced with the fact that he couldn't ban gun ownership, tried to make it as difficult and expensive as possible for the peasants to have arms, and this was one part of that: "You have to go to a range for training, but no ranges are allowed for the peasants in the city of Chicago." Apparently Emanuel, while an anti-gun dirtbag, isn't wanting to explain to the people why they're paying for another big lawsuit the city will lose.
Link to the Murrah Building Bombing hearing
the other day in the Trentadue case(thank you, Anony, why I didn't check there I have no idea). The opening pretty much covers it, and causes my bullshit meter to just about knock the peg out:
In a response filed yesterday to a federal judge’s order May 11, an FBI official offered no denials about the existence of video images captured by more than 20 surveillance cameras operating prior to 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, in the vicinity of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. Instead, he explained that officials at the bureau merely cannot find the tapes and raised the possibility that they “might have been misfiled and thus could be located somewhere other than in the OKBOMB file (though it would be impossible to know where).”
One of the things I remember from the KTOK reports was that the FBI official said they'd done an 'electronic' search, but it's possible the tapes(if they exist) are in a warehouse full of evidence and it could take a year-and-a-half to look for them...
What The HELL?
What was, until 9/11, the worst terrorist attack in the US in history, videotapes that may or may not show the whole thing and they expect us to believe THEY DON'T KNOW IF THEY EXIST? OR WHERE THEY ARE?
I'm a firm believer in that adage "Do not look for treason or treachery where incompetence or stupidity will explain"; I cannot apply that here, because neither incompetence or stupidity of this level is believable.
This comes across, to me, as "We don't want to actually lie to the judge(with some of the documents already on record it WOULD be a lie) and say there were none, so we'll play dumb and say "Duh, we don't know, Your Honor, maybe we should look further? It'll only take a year(or two, or three, or...)."
If this IS the unbelievable, this level of incompetence should get some of those Special Agents fired. AND their supervisors. There is flatly no excuse whatever for failing to keep track of such evidence. And if it's not incompetence, then the FBI doesn't want those tapes to be seen and has lied to the judge and said "Beats me, no idea if they're around."
As Quint said, it's enough to piss off the Good Humor man.
And I do wonder why the story isn't on the KTOK website; hell, the repeated it at least half-a-dozen times yesterday.
In a response filed yesterday to a federal judge’s order May 11, an FBI official offered no denials about the existence of video images captured by more than 20 surveillance cameras operating prior to 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, in the vicinity of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. Instead, he explained that officials at the bureau merely cannot find the tapes and raised the possibility that they “might have been misfiled and thus could be located somewhere other than in the OKBOMB file (though it would be impossible to know where).”
One of the things I remember from the KTOK reports was that the FBI official said they'd done an 'electronic' search, but it's possible the tapes(if they exist) are in a warehouse full of evidence and it could take a year-and-a-half to look for them...
What The HELL?
What was, until 9/11, the worst terrorist attack in the US in history, videotapes that may or may not show the whole thing and they expect us to believe THEY DON'T KNOW IF THEY EXIST? OR WHERE THEY ARE?
I'm a firm believer in that adage "Do not look for treason or treachery where incompetence or stupidity will explain"; I cannot apply that here, because neither incompetence or stupidity of this level is believable.
This comes across, to me, as "We don't want to actually lie to the judge(with some of the documents already on record it WOULD be a lie) and say there were none, so we'll play dumb and say "Duh, we don't know, Your Honor, maybe we should look further? It'll only take a year(or two, or three, or...)."
If this IS the unbelievable, this level of incompetence should get some of those Special Agents fired. AND their supervisors. There is flatly no excuse whatever for failing to keep track of such evidence. And if it's not incompetence, then the FBI doesn't want those tapes to be seen and has lied to the judge and said "Beats me, no idea if they're around."
As Quint said, it's enough to piss off the Good Humor man.
And I do wonder why the story isn't on the KTOK website; hell, the repeated it at least half-a-dozen times yesterday.
The Superintendent of Chicago Police:
Even worse than we thought:
It should be noted how counterfeit and disingenuous McCarthy is. This is a man who has spent his entire professional life in an extremely aggressive, no-holds-barred crusade to put as many black men as possible in prison. He has vigorously advocated the wholesale arrests of black men for the smallest of infractions or violations with not a care as to how such actions could hamstring or effect their futures. He has publicly castigated (and humiliated in some cases) other police executives when they failed to pursue this crusade with the same zeal that he had.
This man is one of the architects of the “Stop, Question and Frisk” policy that the ACLU, the New York attorney general, newspapers, and civil rights activists have condemned as racist. For him to now climb up on stage and tell a black audience that he cares about them and that the problems in their neighborhoods are the fault of “gun laws” and some mystical governmental action is bizarre.
Garry knows what the real problem is but he is shamelessly prostituting himself in an effort to get a high approval rating and establish his liberal bona fides.
More here and here. From the second link:
So Gary was back up to his old tricks again. He involved himself in another car stop, this one involved the arrest of a relative in Manhattan for DWI. When a cop on the midnight tour of the Manhattan North Task Force pulled the relative over, the relative telephoned McCarthy but the cop refused to speak to him. Interestingly enough almost identical to his daughter Kyla's incident. Instead, after consulting with his Sergeant and Lieutenant, the cop arrested the relative of McCarthy. McCarthy was not happy. He began calling the borough commander, Assistant Chief Raymond Diaz, to have the cop, Sergeant and Lieutenant transferred. Behind-the-scenes negotiations with a union trustee ultimately produced a back-door apology.
It should be noted how counterfeit and disingenuous McCarthy is. This is a man who has spent his entire professional life in an extremely aggressive, no-holds-barred crusade to put as many black men as possible in prison. He has vigorously advocated the wholesale arrests of black men for the smallest of infractions or violations with not a care as to how such actions could hamstring or effect their futures. He has publicly castigated (and humiliated in some cases) other police executives when they failed to pursue this crusade with the same zeal that he had.
This man is one of the architects of the “Stop, Question and Frisk” policy that the ACLU, the New York attorney general, newspapers, and civil rights activists have condemned as racist. For him to now climb up on stage and tell a black audience that he cares about them and that the problems in their neighborhoods are the fault of “gun laws” and some mystical governmental action is bizarre.
Garry knows what the real problem is but he is shamelessly prostituting himself in an effort to get a high approval rating and establish his liberal bona fides.
More here and here. From the second link:
So Gary was back up to his old tricks again. He involved himself in another car stop, this one involved the arrest of a relative in Manhattan for DWI. When a cop on the midnight tour of the Manhattan North Task Force pulled the relative over, the relative telephoned McCarthy but the cop refused to speak to him. Interestingly enough almost identical to his daughter Kyla's incident. Instead, after consulting with his Sergeant and Lieutenant, the cop arrested the relative of McCarthy. McCarthy was not happy. He began calling the borough commander, Assistant Chief Raymond Diaz, to have the cop, Sergeant and Lieutenant transferred. Behind-the-scenes negotiations with a union trustee ultimately produced a back-door apology.
The Trailer guy points out that Cummings and the VPC
& Co. really DO want to ban all arms from private ownership; they're just willing to go 'round at angles and play word games to do it. For instance, "We don't want to ban your 'standard' rifle. Unless we can define it to be a 'medium' or 'intermediate' sniper rifle, in which case it's gone. Along with your ammuntion and that telescopic sight and anything else we can steal."
...Such litigation could impose tort liability, including punitive damages, for manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, importers, retailers, and any others who participate in bringing to the civilian market any sniper rifle (in any caliber) or associated gear (such as ammunition or optics) that is used to kill or injure a human being or to damage property.
Which is the equivalent of Ford and the Ford dealer who sold a car being held liable for a drunk driver. Which they'd probably also love to do.
and
Which means Grandpa's .30-30 Winchester would no longer have ammo. Along with every other rifle or handgun legal for hunting deer, I would imagine.
...Such litigation could impose tort liability, including punitive damages, for manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, importers, retailers, and any others who participate in bringing to the civilian market any sniper rifle (in any caliber) or associated gear (such as ammunition or optics) that is used to kill or injure a human being or to damage property.
Which is the equivalent of Ford and the Ford dealer who sold a car being held liable for a drunk driver. Which they'd probably also love to do.
and
The existing ban on armor-piercing ammunition should be updated and expanded to cover all AP and API ammunition. This would most effectively be accomplished through the promulgation of a performance standard in which ammunition is tested for its ability to penetrate bullet-resistant vests, ballistic glass, and armor,ee as opposed to the existing standard based on the bullet's content.Guess what? Most "bullet-resistant vests" are designed to stop PISTOL rounds. Not rifle rounds. You're 30 cal of any sort would be categorized as AP ammo.
Which means Grandpa's .30-30 Winchester would no longer have ammo. Along with every other rifle or handgun legal for hunting deer, I would imagine.
Friday, July 01, 2011
So, I have a question:
If the flotilla is so full of non-violent protesters with NO violent intentions,
A second Greek Coast Guard boat with more heavily armed forces arrived. There were more discussions between the Greeks and the captain of our boat, and in the end the decision was made to return to shore.
why did the Greek CG bring in a second 'more heavily armed' boat? Maybe they know something?
A second Greek Coast Guard boat with more heavily armed forces arrived. There were more discussions between the Greeks and the captain of our boat, and in the end the decision was made to return to shore.
why did the Greek CG bring in a second 'more heavily armed' boat? Maybe they know something?
I heard a story on the latest Trentadue hearing Updated
and was going to write about it, but there's a problem: I can't find the story. Update: here it is; oddly- since they reported it several times on the air- there's no link I can find at the KTOK site
KTOK radio had it earlier, but there's not story or link I can find on their web
site. And I can't find it elsewhere.
As I recall, Trentadue had sued the FBI to be given access to security camera videos that should show the scene before the bombing. If I'm remembering what I heard correctly, the FBI today told the judge that
"We can't find any such videos", followed by
"If there are any, they must be in storage with a lot of other evidence; and it'll take us a year and a half to look to see if there is such."
Assuming I can find the new story, I'll add it to this.
Ok, here's the part that causes my 'Bullshit' meter to peg out:
In a response filed yesterday to a federal judge’s order May 11, an FBI official offered no denials about the existence of video images captured by more than 20 surveillance cameras operating prior to 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, in the vicinity of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. Instead, he explained that officials at the bureau merely cannot find the tapes and raised the possibility that they “might have been misfiled and thus could be located somewhere other than in the OKBOMB file (though it would be impossible to know where).”
Really? You Absolutely Effing Expect us to believe that? What was, until 9/11, the worst terrorist attack in the US in our history and you supposedly CAN'T FIND THE VIDEOTAPE EVIDENCE? THEY MAY EXIST, BUT YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY ARE? We're actually supposed to believe that?
I am a firm believer in that adage "Do not blame treachery or treason where stupidity or incompetence explains it", but this is WAY outside the limits.
KTOK radio had it earlier, but there's not story or link I can find on their web
site. And I can't find it elsewhere.As I recall, Trentadue had sued the FBI to be given access to security camera videos that should show the scene before the bombing. If I'm remembering what I heard correctly, the FBI today told the judge that
"We can't find any such videos", followed by
"If there are any, they must be in storage with a lot of other evidence; and it'll take us a year and a half to look to see if there is such."
Assuming I can find the new story, I'll add it to this.
Ok, here's the part that causes my 'Bullshit' meter to peg out:
In a response filed yesterday to a federal judge’s order May 11, an FBI official offered no denials about the existence of video images captured by more than 20 surveillance cameras operating prior to 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, in the vicinity of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. Instead, he explained that officials at the bureau merely cannot find the tapes and raised the possibility that they “might have been misfiled and thus could be located somewhere other than in the OKBOMB file (though it would be impossible to know where).”
Really? You Absolutely Effing Expect us to believe that? What was, until 9/11, the worst terrorist attack in the US in our history and you supposedly CAN'T FIND THE VIDEOTAPE EVIDENCE? THEY MAY EXIST, BUT YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY ARE? We're actually supposed to believe that?
I am a firm believer in that adage "Do not blame treachery or treason where stupidity or incompetence explains it", but this is WAY outside the limits.
I simply have no words to express my contempt
for these sorry excuses for lawmen.
I don't want to excerpt from this, go read it. Breakables/RCOB warning in effect.
If these clowns aren't at LEAST fired, then this agency has given up any reason to expect the citizens to respect that agency.
Found at Robb's place. I'm not sure whether to thank him or not, as this has ruined my digestion.
I don't want to excerpt from this, go read it. Breakables/RCOB warning in effect.
If these clowns aren't at LEAST fired, then this agency has given up any reason to expect the citizens to respect that agency.
Found at Robb's place. I'm not sure whether to thank him or not, as this has ruined my digestion.
From India: You can't refuse an arms license to someone
by saying 'there might be a law & order problem'. Some real interesting stuff, but I'll pull two bits out. First, what happens when owning arms is a 'privilege':
Revenue authorities or police officials cannot refuse to issue arms licence by citing the likelihood of law and order problem as all citizens of the country are entitled to possess weapons, under licence, for self-defence unless their antecedents or propensities do not entitle them for the privilege, the Madras High Court has ruled.
...
He pointed out that the Arms Act, 1959 was enacted to lessen the rigours of the colonial Arms Act, 1878 which made it difficult for law abiding citizens to possess firearms for self-defence whereas terrorists, dacoits and other anti-social or anti-national elements were using not only civilian weapons but also bombs, hand-grenades, Bren-guns, Sten-guns, rifles and revolvers of military type.
So the judge recognizes the fact that the bad guys do not obey the law; that's a Good Thing. real interesting part is what follows:
The The 1959 Act was also intended to recognise the right of the State to requisition the services of every citizen during national emergencies. “The licensees and permit holders of fire arms, Shikaris (hunters), target shooters and rifle-men in general (in appropriate age groups) will be of great service to the country in emergencies, if the Government can properly mobilise and utilise them,” the Act read.
Damn. That sounds kind of like 'the Militia will be called up in time of emergency', doesn't it?
God knows they could have used it in Mumbai a couple of years ago. Or just a lot more honest citizens with arms in that city
Found thanks to Uncle
Revenue authorities or police officials cannot refuse to issue arms licence by citing the likelihood of law and order problem as all citizens of the country are entitled to possess weapons, under licence, for self-defence unless their antecedents or propensities do not entitle them for the privilege, the Madras High Court has ruled.
...
He pointed out that the Arms Act, 1959 was enacted to lessen the rigours of the colonial Arms Act, 1878 which made it difficult for law abiding citizens to possess firearms for self-defence whereas terrorists, dacoits and other anti-social or anti-national elements were using not only civilian weapons but also bombs, hand-grenades, Bren-guns, Sten-guns, rifles and revolvers of military type.
So the judge recognizes the fact that the bad guys do not obey the law; that's a Good Thing. real interesting part is what follows:
The The 1959 Act was also intended to recognise the right of the State to requisition the services of every citizen during national emergencies. “The licensees and permit holders of fire arms, Shikaris (hunters), target shooters and rifle-men in general (in appropriate age groups) will be of great service to the country in emergencies, if the Government can properly mobilise and utilise them,” the Act read.
Damn. That sounds kind of like 'the Militia will be called up in time of emergency', doesn't it?
God knows they could have used it in Mumbai a couple of years ago. Or just a lot more honest citizens with arms in that city
Found thanks to Uncle
To borrow from Tam,
So we need to crack down on the flow of guns being illegally smuggled into Mexico by increasing the power and funding of the federal agency that was, as it turns out, aiding and abetting most of the actual illegal smuggling in the first place.
I guess you need a law degree from the University of Maryland for that to make even the slightest shred of sense, because from here it sounds like the opposite of a solution, if not outright crazy talk.
I guess you need a law degree from the University of Maryland for that to make even the slightest shred of sense, because from here it sounds like the opposite of a solution, if not outright crazy talk.
I admit to being unfamiliar with some of the tech matters,
but I would think the effing NAVY would be a bit careful about the chips it buys...
Wired reports the chips weren't only low-quality fakes, they had been made with a "back-door" and could have been remotely shut down at any time.
If left undiscovered the result could have rendered useless U.S. missiles and killed the signal from aircraft that tells everyone whether it's friend or foe.
Wired reports the chips weren't only low-quality fakes, they had been made with a "back-door" and could have been remotely shut down at any time.
If left undiscovered the result could have rendered useless U.S. missiles and killed the signal from aircraft that tells everyone whether it's friend or foe.
Hey, why blame the people actually responsible for Gunwalker
when you can spin it to try and demand MORE personal disarmament laws!
Like the way Bloomberg's Mayors Against Gun Ownership claims lies are truth; because the truth won't help them get what they want.
Like the way Bloomberg's Mayors Against Gun Ownership claims lies are truth; because the truth won't help them get what they want.
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