This proposed law sounds good, but only

if it includes serious fines and jail time for cops, bureaucrats, and politicians who violate it.

People who need to be decorating lampposts and cherry trees for a thousand, Alex

“We are steadfastly committed to keeping politics out of the effort to get every American vaccinated so that we can save lives and help our economy further recover,” White House spokesperson Kevin Munoz said. “When we see deliberate efforts to spread misinformation, we view that as an impediment to the country’s public health and will not shy away from calling that out.”
"Privacy?  Citizen, you have no privacy where public health is at risk!  Legally or not, we will listen to what you write and say!"

Cherry trees, lampposts, or out a high window over sharp rocks.  Or, if you want to feed the sea life, half a helicopter ride.

Well, hell, with crap like this coming to light

why WOULD you trust the system?
A Texas man is battling a court order that mandates he must pay tens of thousands in child support for a child whom he did not biologically father and whom he met only once.
This is utter bullshit.  And the woman should be prosecuted for fraud.  Or perjury.  Possibly both.


From the Dark and Fascist State of New Jersey.  With a side note from the People's Republic of Californicated.

New Jersey will consider allowing law enforcement officials to access the state's prescription drug monitoring database without a court order. 

The legislation, which was introduced Tuesday, is meant to combat the opioid crisis, but brings up questions of patient rights to privacy versus the government's ability to investigate so-called doctor shopping.

"Privacy?  What is this word, and why do you want people to die?"  etc.
In California, the Supreme Court ruled recently that the state Medical Board can dig through prescription drug records without a warrant or subpoena.
"Because we're saving you from yourselves, filthy peasants."

And the Democrat Follies continue

According to Dershowitz, he will support some individual Democratic candidates, but has concerns about the state of the Democratic Party.

“I will still vote my conscience and mostly I’ll vote for Democrats, but I will not be a member of a party that represents itself through a chairman like Keith Ellison and through policies like that espoused by John Kerry and Barack Obama.”
Sounds nice, but it took him eight years to decide on this?


Just another Obama dreamer, looking for another kid to rape freedom and a job.


Welcome once again to the final days of the Obama presidency, in which the whole point is to take abuse of executive power to new and, Obama homes, irreversible new heights. Screw your neighbors. Screw your own country. You've got nothing to lose at this point, and you think you've come up with a way to do it that leaves your successor helpless to reverse your abuses once you're gone. One day it's drilling in the Atlantic and the Arctic. The next it's the de facto declaration of war against one of your best allies.

Now you've decided to make official what you've long believed - that all property ultimately belongs to the state, whose primary interest in said property is to prevent said land from ever benefiting the people in any way. And if that means you're seizing 1.5 million acres on the thinnest of premises, hey, you're Barack Obama. At this point, it's what you do:
Larry Correia had a piece a year or two ago on just how badly one of Obama's earlier land thefts screwed the people of Utah; apparently that wasn't enough damage to satisfy the SCOAMF.


Speaking of screwing people,
But alas, now comes the federal government to tell the inhabitants of Alaska’s interior that, really, they should not be building fires to keep themselves warm during the winter. The New York Times reports the Environmental Protection Agency could soon declare the Alaskan cities of Fairbanks and North Pole, which have a combined population of about 100,000, in “serious” noncompliance of the Clean Air Act early next year.
...
The problem is, there’s no replacement for wood-burning stoves in Alaska’s interior. Heating oil is too expensive for a lot of people, and natural gas isn’t available. So they’ve got to burn something. The average low temperature in Fairbanks in December is 13 degrees below zero. In January, it’s 17 below. During the coldest days of winter, the high temperature averages -2 degrees, and it can get as cold as -60. This is not a place where you play games with the cold. If you don’t keep the fire lit, you die. For people of modest means, and especially for the poor, that means you burn wood in a stove—and you keep that fire lit around the clock.
Thinking about this, I ask you to reflect on the line in the previous link, ...that all property ultimately belongs to the state, whose primary interest in said property is to prevent said land from ever benefiting the people in any way.  Now think about the result of people in Alaska being give the choice of 'Move to somewhere that heating oil and gas is available/affordable, or freeze'.  Does it not strike you that this would seem like a wonderful thing to do to people by Obama & Co?  Force them out of the places that horrible humans shouldn't be 'fouling the face of mother Gaia' or something?

It wouldn't surprise me in the least that this President and EPA decided to use this to do exactly that.  You've got the enviroweenie extremists who'd love to make most of the population disappear, but they'd settle for driving them out of everywhere they can, and you have the control freaks who don't actually care a crap for The Environment, but the loves them some new way to control the peasants.


License plate readers that provided the authorities with no personal information would be pointless, because cars don't commit crimes; only people do. So one of two things seems to be true about license plate readers. Either they do not record any personal information, in which case they are worthless as a crime-fighting tool. Or they do record personal information—about tens of thousands of people who are not criminals, without any reasonable grounds for suspicion.

In short, they are either useless or they are an invasion of privacy. Which is it?


How stupid are most gun laws(and a lot of the idiots who enforce them)?  This stupid.
While this is the exact NFA violation that the provisions in the law were placed there for, a violent criminal unlawfully obtaining a deadly, concealable, and menacing weapon, in almost every jurisdiction in the USA the ATF does not pursue violent criminal violators of the NFA relative to short-barreled weapons.

Why not? Because the experienced criminal investigators know that if they complete the case and present it to the US Attorney’s Office all tied up in a bow with slam-dunk evidence of every element of the crime, the AUSA will still decline it. The US Attorneys don’t want to jail violent street criminals, they want the ATF out there chasing paperwork errors by licensees. An AUSA gets much more attorney cred for nailing some gun dealer or importer on a transposed serial number on a form (or, one of ATF’s favorites, the end purchaser putting down the wrong county of residence by mistake), than he;d ever get just locking up another ho-hum gang member (who just turned to crime because he’s a misunnerstood minority, depraved on account of he’s deprived).

I seem to have been caught by some microorganism, so no witty commentary

while my head is stuffed and running both.  So:
From the People's Republic of Seattle, as Michael Williamson puts it, "We don't spy on you. We contract that out so it's not Big Brother."


For the second time in just over a year, one East Providence police chief is in hot water for infringing on citizens’ Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. 

The Rhode Island Supreme Court has issued an order faulting Chief Christopher J. Parella for improperly denying residents licenses to carry concealed weapons and failing to abide by the court’s previous ruling.
There ought to be some criminal charge for knowingly violating the court's order that way, not to mention they should sue his ass off.


A 62-year-old SpecOps vet working with the Kurds.
The line they oversee straddles the ISIS corridor to Syria, and is a key supply route to reinforce Mosul with both men and equipment. Yet even as the long-awaited move to retake Mosul is underway, the western front has been largely unguarded by the coalition of Iraqi army, Kurdish forces, Shia militia and U.S. advisersworking together against ISIS.

“Conventional military wisdom says you encircle your enemy and defeat him," Shumock said. "For some reason, they’ve left the western side of Mosul all the way to Syria open, and, as the general told you, we see 500 vehicles moving every day, resupplying Mosul and Tal Afar. And there’s nothing we can do.”
Gee, I wonder why...


Obamacare: working as planned and screwing people so they'll plead for the .gov to do 'something more'.


Gangster government
Federal Election Commissioner Ann Ravel wished to step down until she met with President Barack Obama in early 2016, who persuaded her to stay on board through the November election in return for two favors, a senior federal government official has told The Daily Caller.

Ravel, a Democrat, told the senior government official about the arrangement in private and even showed the official pictures of her and Obama in The White House. The official told TheDC Ravel had wished to step down and move back to California before the Jan. 28 White House meeting. Obama told Ravel she could move back and do most of her work from California and that she would be supported in her effort to replace California Attorney General Kamala Harris as Attorney General if Harris were to win her Senate election.


Right now, Rolling Stone and Erdely are feeling like Gawker, and they deserve every bit of it.


And now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to blow my nose with about half a box of keenex.

Dear Director Comey:

Especially after your performance in making sure Hillary Clinton would not be prosecuted for those crimes, let us say that trust in your integrity, and your adherence to law, is severely lacking.

Stop trying to destroy parts of the Constitution you swore to uphold, and get a warrant like the law says, you bastard.

Sincerely, etc.

"But don't worry, we'd never misuse this.

We promise.  Don't you trust us?"
No, I do not.  Most of you have demonstrated you CAN'T be trusted.


Mr. Mason would not have been happy with Obama pushing his gun-grab at this university.


This isn't the only way, but yeah, a lot of the left has a serious problem with science that doesn't go with the Preferred Narrative.


Michael Williamson(on Bookface) put it Great. Give people another reason to avoid mental health care. What could possibly go wrong?
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights said it will change the rules so that mental health providers can share data with the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, part of a slate of executive actions President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced to help curtail gun violence.
Because privacy, including your medical records, doesn't exist if it's in the way of what these bastards want to do.

Among the reasons son left the Army were

lack of training, constant bullshit, and idiot ROE that seemed designed to get our troops killed.  And yeah, every bit of that crap comes from on high, as in Sodom on the Potomac.

I would say, from what I've read, it's not only the Army; training time seems to be real short everywhere, the Navy is short on ships, the Marines and Air Force seem to be in the same hole on training, and they're all headed by too many high-ranking bosses who seem far more politicians in uniform than soldiers*.  Which reminds me of the family at a funeral for their son, who had written to them before his death about the moronic ROE.  Admiral who'd been in charge of the mess was there, father asked him why the hell the troops were handcuffed this way, and was basically told "It's hard on the troops now, but it should pay off later by not overly upsetting the locals.  We're trying to win their hearts."

How that father avoided kicking the shit out of him, I do not know.


Among the reasons college costs so damn much; the bastards running things keep giving each other more money.


The mess in Baltimore over that guy who died in custody just got messier.


And while people are screaming and moaning about a lion they didn't give a damn about the day before, this is what's going through Congress:
The information they gather, including all the hacked data and any incidental information that happens to get swept up in the process, would be added to massive databases on people in the U.S. and all over the world that the FBI, CIA, and NSA are free to query at their leisure. This is how CISA would create a huge expansion of the “backdoor” search capabilities that the government uses to skirt the 4th Amendment and spy on Internet users without warrants and with virtually no oversight.

All of this information can be passed around the government and handed down to local law enforcement to be used in investigations that have nothing to do with cyber crime, without requiring them to ever pull a warrant. So CISA would give law enforcement a ton of new data with which to prosecute you for virtually any crime while simultaneously protecting the corporations that share the data from prosecution for any crimes possibly related to it.


Sounds like the Denver DA needs a kick in the ass. 


Some more of those 'little things'(i.e. 'people murdered by illegal aliens') that Gutierrez doesn't think should bother people.

And if they do bother you, he'll scream and yell and abuse.  Because that's what he does.
Wilkerson led the walkout as soon as Gutierrez began to rage at Vaughan for quoting him as saying a woman’s death at the hands an illegal alien was a “little thing.” Her son, Joshua, pictured with murderer — and “DREAMer” Hermilio Moralez below — died under torture on November 16, 2010, after giving Moralez a ride home. Moralez then tied him up and set him on fire, later bragging in court his “killing skills took over.”


Speaking of some of those wonderful people and their cultures we're supposed to welcome,
— Seventy-seven percent of reported sexual assaults in Lima, Peru, are against child victims, according to the Latin American and Caribbean Youth Network for Sexual and Reproductive Rights (REDLAC).
— A U.N. Special Rapporteur concluded that the only explanation for “the high degree of impunity for violence against women” in Guatemala was that “at least some of the violence was committed by the authorities.”
— CNN reports that 318 10-year-old girls gave birth in Mexico in 2011.
In all of Western Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand combined, there have been eight reported births to girls aged 10 or younger. Seven of the eight involved Third World immigrants.
— The REDLAC report said that girls between the ages of 10 and 15 accounted for more than 15 percent of all births in Argentina and 17 percent of all births in Uruguay.
By contrast, less than 2 percent of births in the U.S. are to girls in that age group — and most of those are Hispanics, who are seven times more likely to give birth between the ages of 10 and 14 than whites, according to a Centers for Disease Control study.




I'm using that to cover everyone

One last thing I almost forgot: yes, that WOULD be a damn good idea,

wouldn't it?
It's a fundamental misunderstanding of the problem. Why do you think Apple and Google are doing this? It's because the public is demanding it. People like me: privacy advocates. A public does not want an out-of-control surveillance state. It is the public that is asking for this. Apple and Google didn't do this because they thought they would make less money. This is a private sector response to government overreach.

Then you make another statement that somehow these companies are not credible because they collect private data. Here's the difference: Apple and Google don't have coercive power. District attorneys do, the FBI does, the NSA does, and to me it's very simple to draw a privacy balance when it comes to law enforcement and privacy: just follow the damn Constitution.
Y'know, the Constitution?  Something in your oath about upholding it, not trying to trash it at every opportunity, you bastards?

"But don't worry, citizen, your personal information will be safe

in the hands of Mother State!"
In a pigs ass it will.
No.
It's not just fairness that is at issue, it's also about privacy. I contend this is a double-whammy by the government, which always wants to control two things: your money and your life.

As local, state and the federal government get bigger and, consequently, more incompetent, they see the average citizen as more of a threat. There are two ways to control that threat: eliminate disposable income, which funds your personal freedom, including political activities. The other is to condition you into accepting a complete elimination of your personal privacy and allowing the government to know when and where you go at all times.



Wonder how many of those missiles went to 'vetted' rebel groups?  Smart Diplomacy!, consequences of.


"But the Holy Rulebook was followed, so leave us alone!" Much like "Yes, the officers raided the wrong address, and killed the family terrier and terrorized the family, but they followed Holy Procedure, so no action will be taken. So shut up and leave us alone."

A fine response to the head of the EffingBI

and his bitching that Apple is making it harder for them to paw through our stuff:
It has been correctly pointed out that this action by Apple is in direct response to the NSA snooping, and we joke about it, but be honest, we all pretty much think they’re looking at EVERYTHING, don’t we?   And despite their protestations of innocence, we think they’re doing it here, and abroad, for practically everyone, on any electronic transmission they can get access to.    It all has to go through routers somewhere, sometime, it’s all being recorded and relayed at some point.   All of it.   This ain’t magic ya know.  And now they’re outraged!  outraged!  that people might be trying to make it hard on them to peek and poke and prod.

And I’m supposed to believe being able to crack the data on an IPhone is going to stop, oh, another Boston Marathon bombing?  When they lost track of a guy because they didn’t spell his name right?   How are they going to get his phone to decrypt his data?

Nah, sorry, there’s a whole lot of government house cleaning that needs to go on at the IRS, the DOJ,  and the many flavors of DHS before I get excercised about them not being able to easily decrypt data on an IPhone.    I’m more afraid of the listed agencies than I am of Achmed and Mohammed or the guy who dresses up as Barney and keeps encrypted pictures of nude kids on his phone.

Exactly.  This, and the greater interest in encryption, is directly due to the NSA and EffingBI and DHS breaking the law and recording us.  And lying about it.  Repeatedly.

So Director Comey, clean up your own damned house.  Then MAYBE we'll be willing to listen to this crap.  Until then, piss off.

Speaking of using your integrity for toilet paper, Rep. Elijah Cummings

is a prime example.  Did everything he could to shield Holder and the ATF clowns in the Gunwalker hearings- including calling people racists- and now says that demanding the head of the IRS show up to answer questions is 'public harassment'.

Of course Cummings would rather have hearings about Target and credit cards; that doesn't involve another Obama weenie lying under oath and stonewalling.


Really, anybody surprised?  The UN has made it plain it's on the side of the Palisimians, so of course it 'returned' the rockets to them.


"What?  you wanted us to ask for permission?  Silly serf, we're the State!"

The FCC backed off(for now), but HHS is attacking

from another angle:
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is seeking a “social media analytic tool” that will give the government access to “full Twitter historical data,” according to a solicitation released on Tuesday.

The agency is seeking feedback for a “possible future acquisition to provide near real time social media analysis.” HHS said it wants to use the tool for “ongoing monitoring” of public health issues.

HHS provides a long list of requirements, including “access to real-time social media posts,” and “access to full Twitter firehose.”

The agency requires an archive that goes back at least five years of “full Twitter historical data.” The government will also need “access to multiple account log-ins,” “real-time alerting,” the “ability to construct lengthy Boolean searches,” and a function that can filter search results based on the location of a Twitter user.
Gee, I wonder what 'public health issues' they'll be most interested in monitoring?

Tab clearing

The weather weenies blew it?  No!

Progressive 'thought'.  Or the absence thereof.

Yes, even some Democrats are realizing what a pile of crap and insane regulations Obamacare is.

Further reason to despise John Effing Kerry: he'd just LOVE to have commissars ordering what research and speech about is allowed.

This is so effing sad... 23, married and a kid is an 'alternative lifestyle'.  And he's acting like an ADULT, at that age!

Because illegally sucking up your e-mails and calls isn't enough.

At this point why WOULD anybody trust the IRS?  Or want to give them more money, considering how they'd probably use it?

Can you say 'idiot Democrat'?  I knew you could.

"We need to be able to track your car(and control it, but

let's not talk about that); it's for Safety!"
Bullcrap.  It's for control.
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx wants the tech in all cars for the purpose of averting traffic accidents,the AP reports. The devices would allow cars to essentially talk to each other.
...
The Department of Transportation plans to propose the rule, which would essentially track the location of every new car, before the end of President Obama’s final term in office.
And the .gov would NEVER abuse that information, oh no...

So we'll need to find the antenna so we can disconnect their spy setup if this goes through.  Bastards.


When some farging bureaucrat states “the children belong to all of us.”, it's time to start heating up the tar and gather feathers.

Also note the lie that "...opponents of Common Core are against any academic standards". Because lying is what progressives do best.


Well,  Lt. J. Paul Vance, YES you're responsible to tell these companies if the rifles are compliant; it's part of you effing JOB, you bastard.  And your miserable little statist boss Malloy is
A: Trying to ban guns without calling it that, and
B: setting himself AND YOU up for one hell of a lawsuit.
And I hope you both choke on it.

And the Lightbringer Obama says

"I will keep spying on you and sucking up your calls, but fear not! I'll have a THIRD PARTY store all the data. Doesn't that make it all better?"
 
No, you bastard, it doesn't.


More on this mess:
Of course I'm not going to give details on the meeting, except to say that it was candid and interesting. And that it's extremely freaky that Congress has such a difficult time getting information out of the NSA that they have to ask me. I really want oversight to work better in this country. 

Surreal part of setting up this meeting: I suggested that we hold this meeting in a SCIF, because they wanted me to talk about top secret documents that had not been made public. The problem is that I, as someone without a clearance, would not be allowed into the SCIF. So we had to have the meeting in a regular room.

Y'know, if Congress actually gave a rats ass about this and had any balls, this would be easy to deal with: "The NSA budget will be cut by half each time they refuse to give us information we ask for."

But that would require giving a damn(about privacy and the Constitution, not 'How can we use this for ourselves?' They very much care about that) and having balls. And for most of them...

Attention Bill Keller:

Fuck you.
With a splintery old shovel handle.
You control-freak bastards don't have the power to tell someone "You can't have that treatment"; I know you're trying, but you don't.

I wonder if these bastards have considered that, sooner or later, they tell someone "You/Your wife/husband/sister/brother/child/spouse cannot have that treatment, it's not cost-effective enough", and someone will take it personally?  Very harshly permanently.  Bureaucrats decorating trees/lampposts/rafters is a distinct possibility.

More here:
The Orwellian ramifications of Blow’s worries over an aging population are vast. If individuals are only worthy of membership in society if they are able bodied, where does the line get drawn? If life-extending treatments become verboten, lest society be burdened with what Blow seems to believe are useless individuals, would the physically and mentally infirm also be denied life-saving treatments? While eugenics is often seen as part of the past, one cannot forget the legacy that those who championed its use carry in our modern world. The mother of what is now Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, was outspoken in her support of eugenicist policies. In her 1920 book Sanger argued that “birth control is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit [and] of preventing the birth of defectives.” Those questioning how effective Sanger’s campaign to weed out the unfit has been can look at the latest data on abortion rates for fetuses who test positive for Down Syndrome (studies place the number at over 90 percent).
'Physically and mentally infirm', where have we heard that before...  Oh yeah

"Hey, this defective will cost THIS MANY marks!  That money comes from YOU, citizen!"


'Because Democrats CARE(to screw people over at any opportunity)!'


The NSA is all butthurt that we're pissed at them.  Really?

Why You're Not Officer Friendly Anymore(Reason #237)

Equipped with handcuffs, walkie-talkies and fake badges, Manning and Engel planned to disguise themselves as federal marshals arresting the victim on a warrant, according to the charges. Once they had the businessman in their car, they planned to take him to a Northwest Side storefront they dubbed “Club Med,” which had been outfitted with restraints, an industrial sink and other equipment for carrying out the murder, prosecutors allege.

The planned torture included genital mutilation, which Engel reportedly described as like "slicing a banana split." The details come from the latest court filing in the case.

As if that weren't enough: Vice reporter Rania Khalek spoke to Angel Perez, a filmmaker who alleges he was "was beaten and sodomized with a gun by Chicago police officers until he agreed to be a drug informant" back in October 2012. The reason for the alleged intimidation? Perez was working on a book and documentary about the Jon Burge torture scandal.


Another look at the mindset of the CSGV and other Laddites.  Ain't pretty, folks.


Something else to beat the communists and socialists with: their chosen ideology has a LOUSY record on Mother Gaia.

Sten Nilsson, a Swedish forest ecologist who was kicked out of East Germany in 1986 for his efforts at collecting data on the health of its forests, said in April 1990 that many forests were “dead, completely” and described the country as “on the verge of total ecological collapse.” The environmental policy of the communist government, according to then Environment Minister Karl-Hermann Steinberg in 1990, “was not only badly designed but didn’t exist.”

Perhaps nowhere suffered more grievous environmental harm than the town of Bitterfeld. Translated as “Bitterfield” in English, its name under the communist regime would prove apt. Pronounced by Der Spiegel as Europe’s dirtiest town, Greenpeace as well as government statistics suggested it may have been the filthiest in the entire world. Home to a variety of manufacturing facilities which spewed a witch’s brew of chemical and industrial byproducts into the air and water, Bitterfeld was nothing less than an environmental horror show.I remember the time after the wall came down, when West Germans started going into East Germany and coming back, and the horror stories they brought back.  And they WERE horrible; one of the costs the West (soon to be just)Germans were looking at was what it was going to take just to start cleaning up the mess Communism had made.


Well, isn't that a surprise:
The FBI is not planning to file criminal charges involving the Internal Revenue Service's extra scrutiny of the Tea Party and other conservative groups, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing law enforcement officials.
Obama's 'Justice Department' isn't going to charge Obama's IRS officials for breaking the law.  Real surprise there...


The NSA sucking up all those phone calls and so forth hasn't stopped a single attack; anybody think they'll stop violating us?


More on socialists vs. home-schooling.  They REALLY hate it.
“The institutional Left hates homeschooling, hates it with a remarkable intensity, even though homeschooling recently has come into vogue with a certain subset of Park Slope–style progressives. Robin West of Georgetown’s law school has written admiringly of the suppression of homeschooling and regimes under which “parents who did so were criminals.” She writes that homeschoolers are dangerous precisely because of the fact that, far from being docile sheep, homeschoolers are as adults more likely to be politically engaged, which Professor West worries might “undermine, limit, or destroy state functions that interfere with family and parental rights.” For good measure, she notes that many homeschoolers were enthusiastic about George W. Bush in 2000 — quelle horreur. Many others on the left argue that homeschooling should be either banned outright or effectively regulated out of existence.”


And last, because I can't take much more of this, the level of idiocy here is just...
Edward Levine, a Kerry confidant who formerly worked on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, lambasted the anti-terror mandate in a recent analysis for the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.
Requiring Iran to cease its terror activities against the United States could harm the negotiations over its contested nuclear program, according to Levine.

“This language would mean that if, say, Hezbollah were to explode a bomb outside a U.S. firm’s office in Beirut, the sanctions would go into effect (because Iran gives financial and other support to Hezbollah) even if Iran’s nuclear activities and negotiations were completely in good faith,” Levine wrote in his analysis. “So, once again, the goalposts are being moved.”


Having the proper meds for the infection is helping.  A LOT.  Hopefully I can soon get back to the range and have something to talk about other than the bastards trying to ruin us.

No, NOBODY thought the dictatorial edicts were over;

the commies are looking forward to the next string of disasters, and everyone else is saying "Well, New York, you wanted it, so bend over."


MSNBC is all upset about 'snow-trolling';

Also, thanks to Michael Williamson on bookface, everything caused by AGW. 
Short version of list: EVERYTHING.


Class-action lawsuit against Obama over the NSA lawbreaking; this could get interesting.


Speaking of that miserable bastard President Lightbringer:
A rejuvenated al-Qaeda-affiliated force asserted control over the western Iraqi city of Fallujah on Friday, raising its flag over government buildings and declaring an Islamic state in one of the most crucial areas that U.S. troops fought to pacify before withdrawing from Iraq two years ago.
'Smart diplomacy'.  Or something.

'Future crime' my ass,

this has WAY too much potential for abuse, and I hope it goes to a higher court.


If he can show evidence/proof of this bullcrap, sue the ass off the school and her.


Hadn't seen this before: Tam points to a list of ways to spot possibly bad products, including

1.      If they want to sell you their expert help and the company website features a picture of a craptastic holster with a man’s finger on the trigger while the muzzle is still inside his holster, you should think very, very carefully before you rely on that company’s  expertise.

2.      If their ads show ridiculously fake ginormous explosions erupting behind camo clad warriors with their faces hidden by mirror-goggled helmets, and the ad copy says their product is the best because military and law enforcement use it, ask yourself whether you will be using it inside a military or law enforcement context – or, if you are a military or law enforcement buyer, ask yourself whether your team’s mission would be enhanced by making them jump like a half-tamed lions through a fake-explosion hula hoop on your training days. The product might be a good fit for your needs, but before you buy it, you should look for a more meaningful reason why you should.

Comment to a friend who was talking about the time it hit 68 below in Alaska: "68 below zero is not a temperature; it's hell with a frosting."


'Islamophobia!' my ass.


My, I'll bet this wasn't what he was expecting to get in the report:
The National Security Agency should be banned from attempting to undermine the security of the internet and stripped of its power to collect telephone records in bulk, a White House review panel recommended on Wednesday.
Not as far as this should go, but it's a start.


Proving again that 'gun control' is about control, nothing more. 
And harassment, and trying to create criminals.