Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Ok, there are two points in this story for which the Michigan State Police

need a big legal kick in the ass.
...that department has several forensic cellphone analyzers deployed in the field. Forensic analyzers are routinely used in police investigations to recover data from computers and other digital devices. Lately, cellphones have become valuable sources of evidence for police, since one phone can include almost all of an individual's private communications (SMS, recently dialed numbers, email, Facebook and Twitter posts) as well as location data from the device's GPS unit.
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This type of forensic device is nothing new, but the ACLU's concern is that the UFED mobile units might have been used in routine traffic stops—which, the ACLU contends, would violate the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable search and seizure
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Well, no shit; there is no damned excuse for them to do this in a routine traffic stop. Period. That's the first point.

Here's the second:
According to the ACLU's letter, the organization requested usage logs from the Michigan troopers' devices, but the state police requested more than half a million dollars to pay for retrieval of the documents and records, which the ACLU claims is unreasonably high. In a statement to PM, Tiffany Brown of the Michigan State Police said: "The Michigan State Police will provide information in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). As with any FOIA request under statute, there may be a processing fee to search for, retrieve, review, examine and separate exempt materials, if any."
Hell YES that's unreasonably high; that's like them demanding $5 per sheet for copies 'to cover the expense'. It's bullshit and it's trying to deny the information without actually saying "We won't do it."

Remember I mentioned the new gas lines on this street?

This morning they started running the new house lines. Instead of trenching and so forth, they dug down to where the old line met the main, shut it off, cut it, and the new line- a yellow poly pipe- came off the roll and was pushed through the old steel line; they only had to dig other holes at corners or if some other circumstance demanded it.

And for most of the digging they had a couple of tracked backhoes that were small enough to drive through a standard gate. And had box blades to speed up the filling-in when they were done.

Because of the way the line was routed my place took longer than the house next door, but it was still one of four or five they got done today. Better living through tech.

And yeah, there've been a few times I could really have used one of those backhoes.

Two thoughts on the new DNS head

and her 'Close the loophole!' crap:
A: so gun sales are likely to spike again.
B: Get this:
Licensed dealers must perform these screenings in all venues — including gun shows — but unlicensed dealers are under no obligation to follow them anywhere. Critics of the policy discrepancy call it the "gun-show loophole."
So a citizen selling a gun to another citizen makes you a 'unlicensed dealer'; these people are going to owe a LOT of royalties to Orwell, aren't they?

Let's start with NYEffin'C:

Cop gets shot. Bystander grabs cops gun and fights robbers. NYEffin'C considered charging bystander because The agent, who is not licensed to carry a gun, could face charges, sources said. It's since been announced they won't charge him for the horrendous act of picking up the dropped gun and fighting the bad guys; that the authorities would even consider charging him- especially for that 'reason'- is just disgusting.


The gun bigots and banners are still at work; and Rep. King is apparently a fan of Lautenberg. Or just an idiot, I don't know which:
In essence, you can be accused of international or domestic terrorism by some unknown accuser and then be turned down for a firearms purchase. If the Attorney General deems it in the interest of "national security", then he doesn't need to even tell you why you were denied and you are prohibited from suing to seek answers. This law would strip you of your right to due process.
That's HR1506.


The two pieces of human waste who murdered the Fogels, including a baby, have been caught. Two more teenaged palisimians who insist they did a wonderful thing.


On the subject of Gunwalker and the fallout:
The terrible thing about this scandal for the Corrupt Powers That Be is that, in the final analysis, it is not about guns, but about power and corruption. This is not some hard-to-understand bit of firearms law arcana. The people who were entrusted -- who we pay big taxpayer bucks along with that trust -- to keep arms out of the hands of the evil bad guys facilitated the very thing they were trusted to prevent AND PEOPLE DIED. A reporter told me, months ago now, that they had been told that Gunwalker "was as bad as Watergate." I replied, "Nobody died at the Watergate Hotel." We have likely hundreds of dead from this scandal already and it is certain that more Mexicans die at the muzzles of these weapons every week if not every day.

This is not something the average American, even one politically clueless, is going to understand or take lightly once he or she learns of it. It involves simple issues of trust and common sense. And believe me, despite the best efforts of the politically-reliable media elites to ignore this story, that pestilence-ridden cat is out of the bag. Even if the administration was able to stop the reporting of this scandal now, today, it could not stop the continued threat of this awful story to its own legitimacy. For that we have the Internet to thank. Commissar Lanny Breuer does not control all the printing presses any more. The fact that the media elite is in the tank for Obama becomes increasingly irrelevant as their own media outlets become increasingly ignored by a growing public that no longer trusts them either.

A bit more on what has been caused by this idiocy:
In the two years since Barack Obama took office and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ramped up its Project Gunrunner and Operation Fast and Furious gun trafficking sting operations, drug war homicides in Mexico nearly tripled, according to an article published over the weekend by Global Research.

This revelation comes coincidentally to the publication of the transcript of an interview on Univision, made available today by independent blogger Mike Vanderboegh, one of two men responsible for uncovering the Project Gunrunner controversy.

Figures quoted by the Global Research article come from the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego. They appear in a report titled Drug Violence in Mexico: Data and Analysis Through 2010, and show that the body count has risen sharply at the same time that the Obama State Department has allowed private arms sales to Mexico exceed those to Iraq, Afghanistan and Israel. My colleague, Kurt Hofmann takes a hard look at those arms sales here
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It doesn't really matter to the dead and their families whether the idiocy we call Project Gunwalker was due to fools thinking they could somehow 'get the cartels' by this, or if it was a deliberate act to try to destroy the 2nd Amendment as the folks at Sipsey Street suspect: agents of the US Government actually assisted criminals in carrying out illegal acts, and lied about it, and literally God only knows how many people are dead because of it, how much damage done. And, as pointed out, if the guilty are allowed to get away with their coverup, the damage to this country is, well, incalculable.


An anniversary I doubt the major media gives a damn about since it involved armed Jews killing Nazis.




I'll close with what Insty describes as "You told them what works": excuses have been made for , actual encouragement given to the muslim version of the Heckler's Veto("You offend us and we'll riot and kill"), so it looks like someone took the lesson to heart.

Couple of days ago Anonymous left a comment

that amounted to
A: Advertising for the Religion of Peacetm, and
B: Telling what non-humans Jews are.
It's gone. For future reference: you want to advertise your bigoted/racist beliefs, you don't get free space here. Piss off.

Monday, April 18, 2011

The new Democrat National Committee head, to borrow from Tam

says something legal she doesn't like is a 'loophole'.
The Florida Democrat is sponsoring a soon-to-be-released proposal extending the screening requirements to all gun purchases, commercial or private. ”It is outrageous that gun buyers evade the background check system every day, even in broad daylight,” Wasserman Schultz said Monday at a gun reform rally in Miami sponsored by Mayors Against Illegal Guns …”
So if you make a personal sale/purchase of a firearm- a legal activity- it means you're 'evading' the system...

Sounds good to me. And I wonder whether she doesn't understand how this will play in the next elections, or doesn't care? She IS a (literal) National Socialist Democrat, after all.

Yeek! That is a flat nasty thought

"I always wanted to experience medieval Europe; now, if I live to be 101, I just may get the chance."

Normally April 15 is Buy A Gun day,

but since the official due day was delayed due to a Special to DC holiday, I consider it today. Things being as they are a new gun wasn't in the works, so I made my buy of a brick of .22 ammo.

Really, there's not much in the way of firearms I want. I'd like a Mk IV or V Webley, I'd love(but not likely to have) a double-rifle, and I really want a S&W K32 revolver. And that's pretty much it. Oh, I'll run across some interesting piece and think "That'd be nice to have", but no real desire to grab more boomsticks(other than the above).

Right now, I wish I had some ice cream in the freezer; a ride to Sonic or Braums may be in order.

Chevy Volt catches fire

Twice.

Does Gummint Motors provide a fire rider on the damn things?

Seems lots of places are having immigrant problems

From Marja:
The Finnish elections are over. Perussuomalaiset (now it seems to be translated as 'True Finns', well, whatever, but it does not have quite the same meaning) rose from a marginal small time party into the third largest, which may be the biggest election victory in this country ever. One thing they are highly critical about is taking immigrants - they want people who come here to work, are well educated and actually needed, and willing to become, well, true Finns if they stay permanently (okay, maybe that translation isn't so bad after all).


I haven't had time to read this whole piece, what I've gotten through so far is bloody infuriating:
Last Thursday, I reported here exclusively at PJM on a DOJ memo dated March 31, 2010, from Assistant Attorney General David Kris to Acting Deputy Attorney General Gary Grindler. The memo effectively ended the prosecution of Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) co-founder and Chairman Emeritus Omar Ahmad — in addition to the prosecution of other prominent American Muslim leaders — for helping support the Hamas terrorist organization. This decision, according to my source, was not made based on the overwhelming evidence that had been compiled over the past decade by the U.S. attorney’s office in Dallas, but was made due to potential political embarrassment for the Obama administration and out of fear of inflaming the American Muslim community.
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In all my years working for the U.S. government I have rarely seen anything as mystifying as our outreach to Muslims. Do we really need it? Sure. We need to be reaching out to the Muslim leaders who are working to prevent radicalization, not the ones who are making it happen. But that isn’t what we’re doing.

Instead we’re having countless meetings from the Cabinet level on down with groups and individuals that we know are bad guys and who we’ve repeatedly said in court are actively working to support terrorist groups overseas. We even had [FBI General Counsel] Valerie Caproni meeting regularly with these Hamas guys to get their guidance. What advice do you think they were giving her?

This is bad. Really bad. And when/if it blows up, as usual, the people actually responsible will be hiding behind 'official actions' crap to prevent being held responsible.


No, no reason to worry about this sharia stuff, not at all, nooooo.....
Women who do not wear headscarves are being threatened with violence and even death by Islamic extremists intent on imposing sharia law on parts of Britain, it was claimed today.

Other targets of the 'Talibanesque thugs', being investigated by police in the Tower Hamlets area of London, include homosexuals.

Stickers have been plastered on public walls stating: 'Gay free zone. Verily Allah is severe in punishment'
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Over the last few years I stopped worrying about what the food police said and started eating what I wanted; I like fruits and veggies, and meat, and butter and cheese. And, according to the doc, my health is fine. Then I ran across some of the stuff linked over at Advice Goddess on the subject of fat. Today there's a report from the UK on the subject that's interesting. This bit caught my eye:
'This may also show that, while it is important to eat right, not all bad foods should be avoided all of the time.

'This could change the way we view nutrition and dietary recommendations.'

Thing is, what if they're NOT 'bad foods'? Talk about 'changing the view'...


Really? This is a good example of law enforcement? Geez.

Things to do, amuse yourselves.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Just not feeling the enthusiasm today,

so just pointing to a couple of things:
Conclusion:
1. “You don’t burn the Koran, because if you do, Muslims might go on a killing spree.”

2 “You do burn the Bible, because if you don’t, Muslims might go on a killing spree.”
Which reminded me of a comment at Uncle: Of course the World Trade Center is still a hole in the ground. The Moslem world will go on a murderous spree if we deface their monument.


So who IS doing all the threatening of ATF agents? And why?

Also at Sipsey, the kind of crap people who live near the Mexican border are dealing with.



Oh boy, government idiocy at its finest. Not only is the original claim bogus, the attempts to disappear it are hilariously inept. Apparently, they’ve never heard of Google Cache at the UN. Rather than simply saying “we were wrong,” they’ve now brought even more distrust onto the UN.
50 million climate refugees who don't actually exist? Damn, that's a miscount. Or something.

I have no memory of how I discovered the stories,

but one of my favorite series was written by Leslie Charteris about a man named Simon Templar, known in the trade(his at least) as the Saint. Short stories and novels, I loved every one I read. Occasionally still pull out one of the books I have and read a story or two.

Daughter has a Kindle and says she gets more reading done with it as it's easier to haul around; I wish these books were available for Kindle, as she'd love them.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

What? Us worry?

'Cause NATO can't even handle Libya without running out of guided munitions?

'Cause we've got idiot politicians who blames the iPad for eliminating American jobs?(wonder when he'll get to the Kindle)

'Cause we're hearing crap like this from our tax-cheat Treasury Secretary?

Stuff like this makes getting these medical manuals(thanks to Insty for linking) an even better idea. Y'know, just in case

I just remembered Boru's Ghost is playing

at Full Circle bookstore tonight, 1930 to 2130.

Or, in normal terms, 7:30 to 9:30.

If you haven't heard them, they're worth taking a listen to.

Friday, April 15, 2011

This is different

Belly-dancing flappers


Know some of the ladies who dance with Aalim here in OKC; got me started looking at some of the tribal/fusion styles.

So even if it's a flat-out lie, a politically-correct 'hate crime'

still demands action. Just not action against the lying bastard who makes the false claim of a crime.

If you're going to go along with the hate-crimes idea, here's one for you:
Jameela Barnette, a radical Muslim blogger, said Wednesday she mailed Ball a box containing the plush monkey pinned with Stars of David and the letter (which addressed Ball as "Dead Man Walking") because he is "using Muslims to further his career."

"I sent it to let him know I am extremely displeased for his declaration of war on Muslims, which is what I regard those hearings as," said Barnette, a medical records consultant.
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"I knew the Jews were behind the hearings. A monkey is a representation of who the Jews are," said Barnette, in explaining why she chose the beloved children's storybook character as a symbol.
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"I will be scanning the obituaries to read the end of your saga, which should read: AIPAC purchased, treasonous scumbag politician and loyal ass-wipe to his Jew masters, succumbs to prostate cancer," she wrote.
Oh, and apparently that ban on pigs doesn't extend to using parts to express opinion:
A Georgia grandmother who says she sent state Sen. Greg Ball a Curious George monkey with a label saying it was bound for Auschwitz, cheap perfume and an anger-filled, anti-Semitic letter also laid claim Wednesday to mailing a bloody pig's foot to Rep. Peter King of Long Island.
Wonder if she'll face any prosecution?

Remember the Erik Scott murder in Las Vegas?

New information,

If you're not familiar, he has all his past posts on this matter here

Last night someone linked to this story

about the SWAT team helping take a woman who'd refused to medicate her kid; followup article ...Authorities have determined there is no emergency need for a 13-year-old girl to be on medication,; 'She did this', 'No she didn't', etc. Mess in any case.


One of the things that pisses me off about Obama is the, call it 'basic cowardice' he displays on almost everything: calling tax increases 'spending cuts', and throwing everything to a commission so he can blame problems on the commission. Like rationing health care.


Ref all the upset over that guy burning a Koran,
And as protesters vandalized a girls’ school and set fire to shops, Qurans also inadvertently went up in flames. “If they burn a shop, there is a Quran in every shop, so this is a big problem,” says Azizullah Aziz, a perfume and soap salesman in Kandahar City. “People don’t know how to protest.”
A thought occurs: maybe they just don't care, since some of them are only using the book burning as an excuse to do what they want, say, vandalize a school where girls are allowed?


What? Lies used to excuse us attacking in Libya?
That's a surprise?


And that's it. Just no interest in digging through this stuff this morning.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

About the DOJ claims they didn't know about Gunwalker,

According to Sen. Grassley, in a letter fired off to Attorney General Eric Holder last night, the ATF arranged a meeting between the gun shop owner and the U.S. Attorney's office which is part of the Justice Department. At that meeting, Sen. Grassley says the U.S. Attorney's office declined to provide written terms but assured the gun dealer there were safeguards in place to prevent further distribution of the weapons being purchased from his business.

"As we now know, those assurances provide to be untrue," Grassley wrote.
And we know the DOJ claims they didn't know about Gunwalker were lies. More accurately, these e-mails prove they were lies.

I haven't been paying attention toJoan Peterson

for quite a while; I gave up arguing with mentally-troubled people for the most part. However, it seems that she and her buttkissers & fellow travelers are throwing names and idiot statements at a number of gunbloggers.

Not getting into this; I'm tired of arguing with people like this, and damned if I'm going to the nuts' Facebook page to argue with her and the other idiots.