Police officials said they received a report about 6:30 p.m. of smoke coming from a Nissan Pathfinder parked on 45th Street just west of Seventh Avenue. The authorities found a smoking package in the vehicle. A bomb squad was sent to the scene.
The police were searching for a suspect.
A New York City firefighter who told Reuters he arrived early on the scene said that the vehicle was smoking and that he saw “a flash” from the back of the it. “We put two and two together” and the evacuation was ordered, he said.
And the general thought would probably be "I'd damn well hope so!" But get this, early in the article:
Reports said the vehicle contained a package that did not explode, and late Saturday night it was not clear whether the package was a bomb. A federal official said the incident was not considered it a terrorist threat and that the New York Police Department had told the Department of Homeland Security to stand down.
Now, maybe I'm just getting too picky about inspecting wording, but 'not considered a terrorist threat' could be interpreted as "Well, it was a dud bomb but that's not a threat, you see, it's a bomb that didn't properly go off." Which would fit right into Napolitano & Co., and the administration hesitating to call ANYTHING a terrorist act. And I imagine the NYPD telling DHS to 'stand down' would be a sight to see; possibly make the pissing matches between FBI and BATFE look a bit mild in comparison.
Any doubt that if the car had exploded(whether that was the intention or not) it WOULD have been called a terrorist act?
Saturday, May 01, 2010
The Jews in the Attic test
I explained to the others in my little band of activists that I looked at all laws that restricted freedom with a view to the impact it would have in a worst case scenario of our government run amok. Will this law make it difficult or impossible to protect innocent life from a government intent on their imprisonment or death? Although I pretty much made everything up on the spot I told them I called this test my "Jews In The Attic Test". Furthermore I told them that if it fails this test no further discussion is really needed, the law must be opposed in the most vigorous manner possible.
Some laws that fail the test and why:
 | Government mandated ID cards and the authority to demand them at any time. The oppressed class will be unable to masquerade as a member of the neutral or oppressor classes. |
| Searches without probable cause. Imagine you are attempting to smuggle your "Jews in the attic" to a safer hiding place. If the police at the roadblock can search all vehicles then you and your precious cargo are headed to the "work camps". |
| Government monopoly on medical care. This is a bit surprising -- isn't it? If it is illegal for you to pay someone for anonymous health care then how can your "Jews in the attic" receive health care? |
| Firearm or firearm owner registration. The registration information can be used to confiscate the firearms used to protect innocent life -- as it was under the 1938 Weapons Control Act in Nazi Germany. |
| Elimination or severe restriction of anonymous financial transactions. The purchase of food and other supplies for your "Jews in the attic" would show up in the records as being excessive compared to what your needs were. Just as power consumption records are used today to catch home marijuana growers. |
I continue to use this test to this day and advocate it's widespread use by others.
Mr. Huffman put this together some time ago; it's still a very good test of any law.Question is, if the personal disarmament laws in Chicago
are so wonderful, where are all those people getting the guns they turned in?
Oh, it's that everyone else in the country isn't disarmed, THAT'S why criminals in Chicago have them. Right. Sure.
Hanging around with mobsters must've warped Daley's mind even more than it already was.
Oh, it's that everyone else in the country isn't disarmed, THAT'S why criminals in Chicago have them. Right. Sure.
Hanging around with mobsters must've warped Daley's mind even more than it already was.
Also from Uncle, in the heading of "Jerks who should not be wearing a badge"
if this is their normal attitude
After getting off the phone he went back to Officer Overcash and asked him if he could please give him his badge number and name. That is where the video is recorded. You can see my client approach calmly and request his badge and name. Without hesitation Officer Overcash immediately puts my client in cuffs, and ultimately charges him with resisting without violence and disorderly intoxication.
Officer Overcash, you need to either get your attitude adjusted on a major level, or be fired.
After getting off the phone he went back to Officer Overcash and asked him if he could please give him his badge number and name. That is where the video is recorded. You can see my client approach calmly and request his badge and name. Without hesitation Officer Overcash immediately puts my client in cuffs, and ultimately charges him with resisting without violence and disorderly intoxication.
Officer Overcash, you need to either get your attitude adjusted on a major level, or be fired.
New Point Knives: for those who can't be trusted with a point*
Kitchen knives without points, because you people can't be trusted with pointy ones.
Ignore the fact that you could slice somebody open, or cut a throat with them; nevermind that a few minutes with a grinder would point them; and COMPLETELY DISREGARD the fact that a kitchen knife with no point can be a first-class pain in the ass for some cooking chores. None of that matters, because these are 'safer'. Oh, they allow you to have a teeny little point, they'll trust you that much, but a real POINT? Forget it.
Perhaps in time the long pointed kitchen knife will be relegated to the history books... says Dr. Beckett; to which I say "Screw you, doc. I use the points on my kitchen knives, thank you very much.
Formerly Great Britain: where the next bright idea will probably be a button-tipped bayonet so as not to cause horrible injuries to the enemy.
Found at Uncle's place
*Which, from the endorsements, would be everybody
Ignore the fact that you could slice somebody open, or cut a throat with them; nevermind that a few minutes with a grinder would point them; and COMPLETELY DISREGARD the fact that a kitchen knife with no point can be a first-class pain in the ass for some cooking chores. None of that matters, because these are 'safer'. Oh, they allow you to have a teeny little point, they'll trust you that much, but a real POINT? Forget it.
Perhaps in time the long pointed kitchen knife will be relegated to the history books... says Dr. Beckett; to which I say "Screw you, doc. I use the points on my kitchen knives, thank you very much.
Formerly Great Britain: where the next bright idea will probably be a button-tipped bayonet so as not to cause horrible injuries to the enemy.
Found at Uncle's place
*Which, from the endorsements, would be everybody
I could have started this with the Dodd story, but I thought
he deserved mention all on his corrupt own. So I'll open this with Since the clowns in DC don't want to enforce the borders, this kind of thing happens and causes states to say "Screw you, DC, we'll do something ourselves."
Considering this is drug smugglers out of Mexico from the sound of it, they might actually have real AK47's; what was that crap about 'guns being smuggled INTO Mexico from the US'?
Be interesting if it turns out the National Inquirer is doing the reporting the professional major media won't do. But then, as Insty says, When was the last time they got one of these things right? . . . .
Free Speech wins one against sharia, but it took a threatened lawsuit to get the bus weenies to honor their contract.
On April 13 our ads began running on Miami buses. On Friday, April 16, after CAIR complained, Miami-Dade Transit pulled our ads. The reason? Karla Damian, a spokesperson for Transit, said they might be “offensive to Islam.”
It was an outrageous denial of our free speech rights, and a stunning capitulation to Sharia. Even worse, it was a blatantly inconsistent application of Miami-Dade Transit’s policies: CAIR and other Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups ran campaigns on buses across the country last year, including Miami, inviting people to convert to Islam and claiming that Abraham, Moses, and Jesus were Muslim prophets. Miami-Dade Transit allowed the CAIR bus ads, despite how offensive they were to Jews and Christians.
In December 2008, the Miami Herald ran a glowing piece on the CAIR bus ad campaign, which ran in Miami-Dade and Broward counties for eight weeks. No one took offense, despite the Islamic supremacist nature of the ads. No one breathed a word of protest.
It was important to counterbalance this offensive appropriation of the founding figures of Judaism and Christianity and outright deception with a healthy message. But although Miami-Dade Transit had no trouble with CAIR’s offensive message, they found our defense of religious freedom unacceptable.
'Citizen Gore', hehehehe...
Famed in American legend is the origin of the Gore legend. Raised in a humble Georgetown penthouse, he was left the deed to a supposedly worthless abandoned Tennessee Senate seat. Instead it housed the famed 1992 Clinton lode. For 50 years thereafter, there was no American issue on which he took no stand, no microphone by which he would pass. He urge America to one war, and later condemned America's participation in another. Oh, wait. That was the same war.
In politics, always a bridesmaid, never a bride.
From Theo, we find eight nasty ways to die in the jungle. They do leave out anaconda and python, but these are definitely nasty ways to go.
I've heard of troubles with neighbors, but damn...
Giovannini told police that after being struck, he looked and observed his neighbor, later identified as Robert Wood, 41, entering his home. The victim then noticed an arrow protruding from his back and yelled for his girlfriend to call police and an ambulance arrived immediately.
Gee, a bill put together by a bunch of nanny-state jackasses to control the auto companies and so forth.... what could possible be/go wrong?
Damn, it's raining again.
Ah, the mind of(to quote Kim) Richard 'The Turd' Daley: if he can't get what he wants, he'll ask the international nannies to force us to give it to him.
Friday, April 30, 2010: Fearful that America’s Supreme Court will soon strike down Chicago’s handgun ban, frustrated by the Illinois legislature’s rejection of his anti-gun agenda, and repudiated by American courts and legislatures over his plan to sue federally licensed manufacturers and dealers of firearms for third-party crimes, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley (D) is showing contempt for his own country’s and state’s institutions, by seeking a foreign entity to enforce his anti-gun agenda against the American people. This week, Daley called for “redress against the gun industry” in the World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands. Forgetting or not caring who his constituents are, Daley blurted “This is coming from international mayors. They’re saying, ‘We’re tired of your guns, America.’”
Attention Daley, you statist bastard: WE'RE tired of your corruption, your desire to control our lives and you; so fuck off. You think we like the idea of 'international mayors' telling us how to live? What we can own? Fuck you twice, you miserable little dirtbag. Your little friends want to call in the National Guard to try and control crime in the city your family has run for decades, and this is what you want to do?
Ah, the sun is out, and I've got some stuff I need to pick up. So you're on your own for a while.
Pinal County sheriff’s Lt. Tamatha Villar says the deputy suffered a superficial wound to his abdomen after being shot with an AK-47 assault rifle Friday afternoon.
Villar says the deputy was doing smuggling interdiction work and found bales of marijuana in the desert. He then encountered five suspected illegal immigrants, two armed with rifles, and was shot.
At last check, the suspects were shooting at police helicopters in hot pursuit. More from CNN:
Pinal County is located between Phoenix and Tuscon and has been described as a key transit point for illegal immigrants. Sheriff Paul Babeu told CNN that an estimated 80 percent of illegal immigrants eventually pass through his county along the way to other locations.
Considering this is drug smugglers out of Mexico from the sound of it, they might actually have real AK47's; what was that crap about 'guns being smuggled INTO Mexico from the US'?
Be interesting if it turns out the National Inquirer is doing the reporting the professional major media won't do. But then, as Insty says, When was the last time they got one of these things right? . . . .
Free Speech wins one against sharia, but it took a threatened lawsuit to get the bus weenies to honor their contract.
On April 13 our ads began running on Miami buses. On Friday, April 16, after CAIR complained, Miami-Dade Transit pulled our ads. The reason? Karla Damian, a spokesperson for Transit, said they might be “offensive to Islam.”
It was an outrageous denial of our free speech rights, and a stunning capitulation to Sharia. Even worse, it was a blatantly inconsistent application of Miami-Dade Transit’s policies: CAIR and other Muslim Brotherhood-linked groups ran campaigns on buses across the country last year, including Miami, inviting people to convert to Islam and claiming that Abraham, Moses, and Jesus were Muslim prophets. Miami-Dade Transit allowed the CAIR bus ads, despite how offensive they were to Jews and Christians.
In December 2008, the Miami Herald ran a glowing piece on the CAIR bus ad campaign, which ran in Miami-Dade and Broward counties for eight weeks. No one took offense, despite the Islamic supremacist nature of the ads. No one breathed a word of protest.
It was important to counterbalance this offensive appropriation of the founding figures of Judaism and Christianity and outright deception with a healthy message. But although Miami-Dade Transit had no trouble with CAIR’s offensive message, they found our defense of religious freedom unacceptable.
'Citizen Gore', hehehehe...
In politics, always a bridesmaid, never a bride.
From Theo, we find eight nasty ways to die in the jungle. They do leave out anaconda and python, but these are definitely nasty ways to go.
I've heard of troubles with neighbors, but damn...
Giovannini told police that after being struck, he looked and observed his neighbor, later identified as Robert Wood, 41, entering his home. The victim then noticed an arrow protruding from his back and yelled for his girlfriend to call police and an ambulance arrived immediately.
Gee, a bill put together by a bunch of nanny-state jackasses to control the auto companies and so forth.... what could possible be/go wrong?
Damn, it's raining again.
Ah, the mind of(to quote Kim) Richard 'The Turd' Daley: if he can't get what he wants, he'll ask the international nannies to force us to give it to him.
Friday, April 30, 2010: Fearful that America’s Supreme Court will soon strike down Chicago’s handgun ban, frustrated by the Illinois legislature’s rejection of his anti-gun agenda, and repudiated by American courts and legislatures over his plan to sue federally licensed manufacturers and dealers of firearms for third-party crimes, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley (D) is showing contempt for his own country’s and state’s institutions, by seeking a foreign entity to enforce his anti-gun agenda against the American people. This week, Daley called for “redress against the gun industry” in the World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands. Forgetting or not caring who his constituents are, Daley blurted “This is coming from international mayors. They’re saying, ‘We’re tired of your guns, America.’”
Attention Daley, you statist bastard: WE'RE tired of your corruption, your desire to control our lives and you; so fuck off. You think we like the idea of 'international mayors' telling us how to live? What we can own? Fuck you twice, you miserable little dirtbag. Your little friends want to call in the National Guard to try and control crime in the city your family has run for decades, and this is what you want to do?
Ah, the sun is out, and I've got some stuff I need to pick up. So you're on your own for a while.
Sen. Chris Dodd(Corrupt National Socialist Democrat-CN*)
really is a slimy little bastard.
Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Conn) is at the center of negotiations shaping a bill that he promises will add transparency to the complicated, furtive world of financial derivatives, but he cannot remember how much he paid for his house on 10 waterfront acres in Ireland. No wonder confidence in government’s competence continues to erode.
Dodd’s office told me early last year that he paid $127,000 in 2002 for his co-owner’s 2/3 interest in a house on 10 waterfront acres on the island of Inishnee in a tony region of western Ireland. The next month he told reporters at The Hartford Courant that since he’d also paid off his co-owner’s portion of their joint mortgage on the property, he really paid about $50,000 more than what he’d said.
A month after that revision, Dodd told Newsweek that he’d paid $207,000 for the 2/3 interest in the property that he’d purchased with a Kansas City real estate developer William Kessinger in 1994. The 5 term senator provided no details on what sort of Jethro Bodine ciphering he did to get that number.
None of those figures matches the amount Dodd reported to Irish authorities when he purchased Kessinger’s interest in the property.
And on and on, including
That lucrative 2002 transaction came the year after Dodd wangled a full presidential pardon from Bill Clinton on his last day in office for Dodd’s friend and Kessinger’s business partner, New York boulevardier and convicted inside trader Edward Downe. Downe had introduced Dodd and Kessinger, and served as a witness on the deed conveying Kessinger’s 2/3 interest to Dodd for far less than its value. In the 1980s, Downe subsidized and c0-owned a Washington condominium with Dodd until the investigation of Downe’s insider trading began to get hot.
But we're supposed to trust this Friend of Angelo to regulate the financial world. Uh huh. Talk about a rabid fox in the henhouse.
*Talk about repeating yourself...
Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Conn) is at the center of negotiations shaping a bill that he promises will add transparency to the complicated, furtive world of financial derivatives, but he cannot remember how much he paid for his house on 10 waterfront acres in Ireland. No wonder confidence in government’s competence continues to erode.
Dodd’s office told me early last year that he paid $127,000 in 2002 for his co-owner’s 2/3 interest in a house on 10 waterfront acres on the island of Inishnee in a tony region of western Ireland. The next month he told reporters at The Hartford Courant that since he’d also paid off his co-owner’s portion of their joint mortgage on the property, he really paid about $50,000 more than what he’d said.
A month after that revision, Dodd told Newsweek that he’d paid $207,000 for the 2/3 interest in the property that he’d purchased with a Kansas City real estate developer William Kessinger in 1994. The 5 term senator provided no details on what sort of Jethro Bodine ciphering he did to get that number.
None of those figures matches the amount Dodd reported to Irish authorities when he purchased Kessinger’s interest in the property.
And on and on, including
That lucrative 2002 transaction came the year after Dodd wangled a full presidential pardon from Bill Clinton on his last day in office for Dodd’s friend and Kessinger’s business partner, New York boulevardier and convicted inside trader Edward Downe. Downe had introduced Dodd and Kessinger, and served as a witness on the deed conveying Kessinger’s 2/3 interest to Dodd for far less than its value. In the 1980s, Downe subsidized and c0-owned a Washington condominium with Dodd until the investigation of Downe’s insider trading began to get hot.
But we're supposed to trust this Friend of Angelo to regulate the financial world. Uh huh. Talk about a rabid fox in the henhouse.
*Talk about repeating yourself...
May 1: Victims of Communism Day
May Day began as a holiday for socialists and labor union activists, not just communists. But over time, the date was taken over by the Soviet Union and other communist regimes and used as a propaganda tool to prop up their regimes. I suggest that we instead use it as a day to commemorate those regimes’ millions of victims. The authoritative Black Book of Communism estimates the total at 80 to 100 million dead, greater than that caused by all other twentieth century tyrannies combined. We appropriately have a Holocaust Memorial Day. It is equally appropriate to commemorate the victims of the twentieth century’s other great totalitarian tyranny. And May Day is the most fitting day to do so. I suggest that May Day be turned into Victims of Communism Day....
The main alternative to May 1 is November 7, the anniversary of the communist coup in Russia. However, choosing that date might be interpreted as focusing exclusively on the Soviet Union, while ignoring the equally horrendous communist mass murders in China, Camobodia, and elsewhere. So May 1 is the best choice.
Friday, April 30, 2010
Well, well, this could get really interesting for Hockeystick Mann
In papers sent to UVA April 23, Cuccinelli’s office commands the university to produce a sweeping swath of documents relating to Mann’s receipt of nearly half a million dollars in state grant-funded climate research conducted while Mann— now director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State— was at UVA between 1999 and 2005.
If Cuccinelli succeeds in finding a smoking gun like the purloined emails that led to the international scandal dubbed Climategate, Cuccinelli could seek the return of all the research money, legal fees, and trebled damages.
“Since it’s public money, there’s enough controversy to look in to the possible manipulation of data,” says Dr. Charles Battig, president of the nonprofit Piedmont Chapter Virginia Scientists and Engineers for Energy and Environment, a group that doubts the underpinnings of climate change theory.
I'd wondered when something like this might happen, and it's about time.
“Mike is an outstanding and extremely reputable climate scientist,” says UVA climate faculty member Howie Epstein. “And I don’t really know what they’re looking for or expecting to find.”
Well, considering what came out in the CRU e-mails,
Among the documents Cuccinelli demands are any and all emailed or written correspondence between or relating to Mann and more than 40 climate scientists, documents supporting any of five applications for the $484,875 in grants, and evidence of any documents that no longer exist along with proof of why, when, and how they were destroyed or disappeared.
I'd imagine they're looking for more of the same. And, Mr. Epstein, he's not nearly as 'reputable' as he used to be.
One former UVA climate scientist now working with Michaels worries about politicizing— or, in his words, creating a “witch hunt”— what he believes should be an academic debate.
“I didn’t like it when the politicians came after Pat Michaels,” says Chip Knappenberger. “I don’t like it that the politicians are coming after Mike Mann.”
Got news for you: this got politicized a LONG time ago, when people like Mann were trying to destroy the careers and lives of anyone who doubted their theory and got a lot of politicians involved; and when Mann and others and a bunch of the politicians were using Mann & Co. work to try to control our lives. So deal with it.
If Cuccinelli succeeds in finding a smoking gun like the purloined emails that led to the international scandal dubbed Climategate, Cuccinelli could seek the return of all the research money, legal fees, and trebled damages.
“Since it’s public money, there’s enough controversy to look in to the possible manipulation of data,” says Dr. Charles Battig, president of the nonprofit Piedmont Chapter Virginia Scientists and Engineers for Energy and Environment, a group that doubts the underpinnings of climate change theory.
I'd wondered when something like this might happen, and it's about time.
“Mike is an outstanding and extremely reputable climate scientist,” says UVA climate faculty member Howie Epstein. “And I don’t really know what they’re looking for or expecting to find.”
Well, considering what came out in the CRU e-mails,
Among the documents Cuccinelli demands are any and all emailed or written correspondence between or relating to Mann and more than 40 climate scientists, documents supporting any of five applications for the $484,875 in grants, and evidence of any documents that no longer exist along with proof of why, when, and how they were destroyed or disappeared.
I'd imagine they're looking for more of the same. And, Mr. Epstein, he's not nearly as 'reputable' as he used to be.
One former UVA climate scientist now working with Michaels worries about politicizing— or, in his words, creating a “witch hunt”— what he believes should be an academic debate.
“I didn’t like it when the politicians came after Pat Michaels,” says Chip Knappenberger. “I don’t like it that the politicians are coming after Mike Mann.”
Got news for you: this got politicized a LONG time ago, when people like Mann were trying to destroy the careers and lives of anyone who doubted their theory and got a lot of politicians involved; and when Mann and others and a bunch of the politicians were using Mann & Co. work to try to control our lives. So deal with it.
Well, we have one more celebutard to put up with
Latina pop star Shakira condemned Arizona's new law targeting illegal immigration, saying it promotes discrimination and robs Latinos of human dignity.
Visiting Phoenix City Hall on Thursday, the Colombian-born entertainer told more than 100 members of the media: "I'm in opposition to this law because it is a violation of human and civil rights. It goes against all human dignity, against the principles of most Americans I know.
"As a person and Latina(gee, who knew latinas were not persons?) who believes in equal opportunities and who believes that this country has values that I have always admired and defended," she added, "I'm worried about the impact that implementation of this law will have on hard working Latinos."
Well, dumbass, we're worried about the impact of illegal aliens on this country. So go sing and shimmy, and stay the hell out of our politics. Which you admit you don't know crap about.
Visiting Phoenix City Hall on Thursday, the Colombian-born entertainer told more than 100 members of the media: "I'm in opposition to this law because it is a violation of human and civil rights. It goes against all human dignity, against the principles of most Americans I know.
"As a person and Latina(gee, who knew latinas were not persons?) who believes in equal opportunities and who believes that this country has values that I have always admired and defended," she added, "I'm worried about the impact that implementation of this law will have on hard working Latinos."
Well, dumbass, we're worried about the impact of illegal aliens on this country. So go sing and shimmy, and stay the hell out of our politics. Which you admit you don't know crap about.
Two things: first, 'attempted attack' my ass
A lecture given by Israel’s Deputy Ambassador to Britain Talya Lador-Fresher at the University of Manchester deteriorated Wednesday into violence when pro-Palestinian protesters stormed at the diplomat in an attempted attack.
The protesters were waiting for Lador-Fresher outside the lecture hall, but this did not deter her from entering as planned. Immediately upon her exit, the protesters lunged at the diplomat, prompting security guards to whisk her back into the hall. Following a consultation on the site, it was decided to escort her out of the premises in a police car.
Second, any police department worth shit would have dealt properly with this:
The deputy ambassador was removed from the hall and into the police vehicle. However, this did not block the protesters, who surrounded the car and climbed on the hood, trying to break the windshield.
They're climbing on a friggin' police car and trying to break the windshield to attack a woman inside; the proper response is either A: police dragging the assholes to jail or B: driving over those in the way, braking to throw the others off, then taking the lady to her destination while other officers arrest the assholes and take them to jail.
Israeli Ambassador to Britain Ron Prosor praised his deputy for her determination and fighting spirit and emphasized that the embassy expects a sweeping denunciation of the event from the local authorities and universities in Britain.
Ooooh, a 'sweeping denunciation', that'll REALLY warn the BTMs, won't it?
The protesters were waiting for Lador-Fresher outside the lecture hall, but this did not deter her from entering as planned. Immediately upon her exit, the protesters lunged at the diplomat, prompting security guards to whisk her back into the hall. Following a consultation on the site, it was decided to escort her out of the premises in a police car.
Second, any police department worth shit would have dealt properly with this:
The deputy ambassador was removed from the hall and into the police vehicle. However, this did not block the protesters, who surrounded the car and climbed on the hood, trying to break the windshield.
They're climbing on a friggin' police car and trying to break the windshield to attack a woman inside; the proper response is either A: police dragging the assholes to jail or B: driving over those in the way, braking to throw the others off, then taking the lady to her destination while other officers arrest the assholes and take them to jail.
Israeli Ambassador to Britain Ron Prosor praised his deputy for her determination and fighting spirit and emphasized that the embassy expects a sweeping denunciation of the event from the local authorities and universities in Britain.
Ooooh, a 'sweeping denunciation', that'll REALLY warn the BTMs, won't it?
Liars, liars, pants and panties on fire
On Monday the American Spectator reported that a damning health care report generated by actuaries at the Health and Human Services (HHS) Department was given to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius more than a week before the health care vote. Sebelius and the Obama Administration reportedly hid the report from the public until a month after democrats rammed their nationalized health care bill through Congress.
...
Sebelius and the Obama Buttmonkeys all insist 'No!'. But
Our sources stand by the facts that prior to final passage of the health care reform bill on Sunday, March 21, the Office of the Actuary had provided senior leaders inside HHS with data that indicated the then-bill would increase the cost of health care and impose higher costs on Americans. And that data was not provided to anyone publicly until after the legislation was passed.
That the report was issued after the bill’s passage is not in dispute. What is in dispute is who had data and when were those estimates initially available.
Bunch of damned liars who want total control over our lives. And our kids, and grandkids, and...
...
Sebelius and the Obama Buttmonkeys all insist 'No!'. But
Our sources stand by the facts that prior to final passage of the health care reform bill on Sunday, March 21, the Office of the Actuary had provided senior leaders inside HHS with data that indicated the then-bill would increase the cost of health care and impose higher costs on Americans. And that data was not provided to anyone publicly until after the legislation was passed.
That the report was issued after the bill’s passage is not in dispute. What is in dispute is who had data and when were those estimates initially available.
Bunch of damned liars who want total control over our lives. And our kids, and grandkids, and...
Thursday, April 29, 2010
We cannot fail to keep pointing out: Al Gore, you're a miserable little
hypocrite.
Never forget, this bastard and all the enviroweenie buttmonkeys lecture us about using too much energy, too much land, too much of everything.
There are no published estimates of how much carbon it will take to heat the lagoon-shaped pool or cool the six-car garage at The House Gisele’s Assets Built. However, I’ve made a rough estimate using another leader in the green movement’s mansion in Tennessee. Al Gore’s place is actually about 10 percent smaller than the Bradys’ house. Even so, in 2008 Gore used as much power each month as the average American family uses in a year.
Never forget, this bastard and all the enviroweenie buttmonkeys lecture us about using too much energy, too much land, too much of everything.
There are no published estimates of how much carbon it will take to heat the lagoon-shaped pool or cool the six-car garage at The House Gisele’s Assets Built. However, I’ve made a rough estimate using another leader in the green movement’s mansion in Tennessee. Al Gore’s place is actually about 10 percent smaller than the Bradys’ house. Even so, in 2008 Gore used as much power each month as the average American family uses in a year.
Is there ANY excuse for the United Nations anymore?
"Without fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which stoning is enshrined in law and lashings are required for women judged "immodest."
It appears the Quincy Police Department is full of crap
C'mon, guys, when you know there are cameras all over, why make such an idiot statement?
Thoughts on Cowardly Central in particular and Hollywood in general
The liberal Hollywood elite—who bravely compared President Bush to Hitler—will submit.
In fact, a prominent Hollywood producer said to me: “Parker and Stone should have known better.”
Thus, the victims become the aggressors.
It's like cutting off a man's leg and blaming him for limping.
Producers will insist on alternative antagonists: Neo-Nazis, right-wing militias, Evangelical Christians, Tea Party members, multinational corporations, the Pope, and oh yes, the frightening Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh.
Comedy Central should have run the episode. And every network and cable station should have broadcast the episode at the very same time.
The American airwaves should have been wall to wall with this episode.
Such defiance is the only way to fight radical Islam.
But cowardice and appeasement have won the day.
Welcome to Dhimmi Hollywood.
Where the future bodes well for 7th century Islam.
From the sound of this, the feds case didn't impress the judge too much
A federal judge challenged prosecutors Wednesday to show that nine members of a Michigan militia accused of plotting war against the government had done more than just talk and should remain locked up.
U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts heard nearly 10 hours of testimony and arguments over two days. She did not make a decision about whether the nine will remain in custody, saying only that a ruling would come soon.
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An undercover agent infiltrated the group and secretly made recordings that have been played in court. While there is talk about killing police, it's not specific. In one conversation, there are many people talking over each other and laughing.
Roberts pressed that point more than once as Assistant U.S. Attorney Ronald Waterstreet argued in favor of keeping the nine in jail. The judge suggested she didn't hear or read in the transcripts any indication that violence was imminent.
"Mere presence where a crime may be planned is not a crime. ... How does this add up to seditious conspiracy?" Roberts said.
Waterstreet said the government is not required to show all its evidence at this early stage of the case(The judge must have loved being basically told "You don't get to see all our stuff"). He referred to the words of militia leader David Stone, 44, of Clayton, Mich., who was recorded by the undercover agent while they drove to Kentucky earlier this year.
"It's now time to strike and take our nation back so that we may be free again from tyranny. Time is up," Waterstreet said, quoting a transcript.
Later, putting the transcript aside, the prosecutor said: "The theme is the brotherhood is the enemy - all law enforcement."
Now, the obvious question that comes to mind is "What is the context of that remark? What was the course of the conversation?" Very damned important in determining what that statement means. Of course, we don't have that; I'd be very interested to see the rest of the transcript of that conversation. I wonder if the judge got to read it?
As to the 'talk about killing police', over at Tam's there was a discussion in comments about the People's Republic of MarylandStasiState Police clown who got himself in the news; some of the talk noted that in some places, jumping out of an unmarked car in plain clothes with a drawn gun could get you shot or run over; want to bet prosecutor Waterstreet would consider that evidence of 'planning to kill cops' if someone in the discussion was charged with something?
I repeat: the Hutaree members may be first-class assholes and dangerous, or they may not; it's the job of the government to prove that they broke the law, and if this stuff so far is what their evidence is comprised of, their case sucks. And if this is the level of evidence, the feds may have screwed a bunch of people over for the sake of a bunch of headlines over a lousy or nonexistent case. And if the latter, anyone want to bet whether some of the feds involved were making political points too?
U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts heard nearly 10 hours of testimony and arguments over two days. She did not make a decision about whether the nine will remain in custody, saying only that a ruling would come soon.
...
An undercover agent infiltrated the group and secretly made recordings that have been played in court. While there is talk about killing police, it's not specific. In one conversation, there are many people talking over each other and laughing.
Roberts pressed that point more than once as Assistant U.S. Attorney Ronald Waterstreet argued in favor of keeping the nine in jail. The judge suggested she didn't hear or read in the transcripts any indication that violence was imminent.
"Mere presence where a crime may be planned is not a crime. ... How does this add up to seditious conspiracy?" Roberts said.
Waterstreet said the government is not required to show all its evidence at this early stage of the case(The judge must have loved being basically told "You don't get to see all our stuff"). He referred to the words of militia leader David Stone, 44, of Clayton, Mich., who was recorded by the undercover agent while they drove to Kentucky earlier this year.
"It's now time to strike and take our nation back so that we may be free again from tyranny. Time is up," Waterstreet said, quoting a transcript.
Later, putting the transcript aside, the prosecutor said: "The theme is the brotherhood is the enemy - all law enforcement."
Now, the obvious question that comes to mind is "What is the context of that remark? What was the course of the conversation?" Very damned important in determining what that statement means. Of course, we don't have that; I'd be very interested to see the rest of the transcript of that conversation. I wonder if the judge got to read it?
As to the 'talk about killing police', over at Tam's there was a discussion in comments about the People's Republic of Maryland
I repeat: the Hutaree members may be first-class assholes and dangerous, or they may not; it's the job of the government to prove that they broke the law, and if this stuff so far is what their evidence is comprised of, their case sucks. And if this is the level of evidence, the feds may have screwed a bunch of people over for the sake of a bunch of headlines over a lousy or nonexistent case. And if the latter, anyone want to bet whether some of the feds involved were making political points too?
Let's start this morning with Obama proving again how thin-skinned he is
Apparently those people quietly demonstrating and singing subversive songs like God Bless America were just so threatening...
Since Mexico is still whining about and threatening Arizona for daring to enforce the law, let's note one of the conditions illegal aliens in Mexico face:
Amnesty International called the abuse of migrants in Mexico a major human rights crisis Wednesday, and accused some officials of turning a blind eye or even participating in the kidnapping, rape and murder of migrants.
The group's report comes at a sensitive time for Mexico, which is protesting the passage of a law in Arizona that criminalizes undocumented migrants.
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Central American migrants are frequently pulled off trains, kidnapped en masse, held at gang hideouts and forced to call relatives in the U.S. to pay off the kidnappers. Such kidnappings affect thousands of migrants each year in Mexico, the report says.
Many are beaten, raped or killed in the process.
You'll notice the wording from the AI clowns, 'migrants' instead of 'illegal aliens'. But once again we are brought face-to-face with the fact that Mexico
A: Has very strict enforcement of borders and immigration laws and
B: Has lots of illegals being badly mistreated
while they're bitching, whining and blaming us for their problems.
Sen. Arlen Specter(Backstabbing Turncoat) is playing "I was justified and it was just wonderful of me to turn Democrat." Specter, you betrayed people and turned your coat just because you want to stay in that seat more than you care about anything else; which means you should have been thrown out of it a LONG time ago.
New law makes illegal aliens want to leave state; this is supposed to be a bad thing?
Arizona’s sweeping immigration bill allows police to arrest illegal immigrant day laborers seeking work on the street or anyone trying to hire them. It won’t take effect until summer but it is already having an effect on the state’s underground economy.
“Nobody wants to pick us up,” Julio Loyola Diaz says in Spanish as he and dozens of other men wait under the shade of palo verde trees and lean against a low brick wall outside the east Phoenix home improvement store.
Many day laborers like Diaz say they will leave Arizona because of the law, which also makes it a state crime to be in the U.S. illegally and directs police to question people about their immigration status if there is reason to suspect they are illegal immigrants.
Obama said he did not “begrudge” wealth that is “fairly earned.” But in a departure from his prepared remarks, he added, “I think at some point you have made enough money.”
Well, well, I wonder if Dear Leader has told George Soros that he has enough money? And how many millions did Obama make last year? Was that 'enough'?
And, closing with lawyers and politicians in uniform and political correctness at all costs.
Since Mexico is still whining about and threatening Arizona for daring to enforce the law, let's note one of the conditions illegal aliens in Mexico face:
Amnesty International called the abuse of migrants in Mexico a major human rights crisis Wednesday, and accused some officials of turning a blind eye or even participating in the kidnapping, rape and murder of migrants.
The group's report comes at a sensitive time for Mexico, which is protesting the passage of a law in Arizona that criminalizes undocumented migrants.
...
Central American migrants are frequently pulled off trains, kidnapped en masse, held at gang hideouts and forced to call relatives in the U.S. to pay off the kidnappers. Such kidnappings affect thousands of migrants each year in Mexico, the report says.
Many are beaten, raped or killed in the process.
You'll notice the wording from the AI clowns, 'migrants' instead of 'illegal aliens'. But once again we are brought face-to-face with the fact that Mexico
A: Has very strict enforcement of borders and immigration laws and
B: Has lots of illegals being badly mistreated
while they're bitching, whining and blaming us for their problems.
Sen. Arlen Specter(Backstabbing Turncoat) is playing "I was justified and it was just wonderful of me to turn Democrat." Specter, you betrayed people and turned your coat just because you want to stay in that seat more than you care about anything else; which means you should have been thrown out of it a LONG time ago.
New law makes illegal aliens want to leave state; this is supposed to be a bad thing?
Arizona’s sweeping immigration bill allows police to arrest illegal immigrant day laborers seeking work on the street or anyone trying to hire them. It won’t take effect until summer but it is already having an effect on the state’s underground economy.
“Nobody wants to pick us up,” Julio Loyola Diaz says in Spanish as he and dozens of other men wait under the shade of palo verde trees and lean against a low brick wall outside the east Phoenix home improvement store.
Many day laborers like Diaz say they will leave Arizona because of the law, which also makes it a state crime to be in the U.S. illegally and directs police to question people about their immigration status if there is reason to suspect they are illegal immigrants.
Obama said he did not “begrudge” wealth that is “fairly earned.” But in a departure from his prepared remarks, he added, “I think at some point you have made enough money.”
Well, well, I wonder if Dear Leader has told George Soros that he has enough money? And how many millions did Obama make last year? Was that 'enough'?
And, closing with lawyers and politicians in uniform and political correctness at all costs.
I hadn't heard the details of the murder of Border Patrolman Rosas
before now. This was a prepared ambush, and anybody who thinks they didn't plan to kill him from the first it too stupid to be out without a keeper to prevent them running into traffic.
But trying to enforce our border is 'racist'. Yeah.
But trying to enforce our border is 'racist'. Yeah.
Sometimes Glenn Beck is a real drama queen, BUT
he also does find a lot of stuff and pass it on. I'd suggest reading this, and then calling your congresscritters and yelling. Loudly.
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