"Shoot a goat or a camel,

it's to save Mother Gaia!"
So, in the name of stopping global warming they're chasing critters with a helicopter and shooting them...
How much emissions from the choppers, I wonder?



"Bullshit" Is One Word, "Performance Review" Two
Found over here, further thoughts on the matter


Remember your history of the French Revolution?  The Committee for Public Safety?
Child rapists are so hated that few people can bring themselves to say a word in their 'defense'. That's what the State relies upon -- a general willingness to strip certain people of all rights under the law simply becuase they are that thoroughly detested. Through its treatment of sex offenders, the state establishes many precedents in law that can be used against other categories of people, especially in perilous time when oh-so many categories constitute a public threat.
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I no longer think the name is funny. I think it is altogether possibility that all freedom in America will be killed in the name of public safety.
Found at this gentleman's place; if you've not read his stuff before, I recommend you look around.


About those talking points from the CIA,
ABC News has obtained 12 different versions of the talking points that show they were extensively edited as they evolved from the drafts first written entirely by the CIA to the final version distributed to Congress and to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice before she appeared on five talk shows the Sunday after that attack.

White House emails reviewed by ABC News suggest the edits were made with extensive input from the State Department. The edits included requests from the State Department that references to the Al Qaeda-affiliated group Ansar al-Sharia be deleted as well references to CIA warnings about terrorist threats in Benghazi in the months preceding the attack.


Tam on the "We have to control this!" vapors of the State Department;  and the link to Huffman's thoughts on this mess.


Yeah, I've wondered about that