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Recently a flood of spam has appeared in comments, the spam-bots have (it appears) found a way to bypass Askismet filtering. Consequently, I’ve disabled automatic posting of comments.
NAVY Fighter Pilot’s Opinion on Drones “Drones will not … be late to briefings, start fights at happy hour, destroy clubs, attempt to seduce others’ dates, purchase huge watches, insult other Services, sing “O’Leary’s Balls,” dance on tables, yell ~ “Show us your tits!!!” or do all of the other things that we know win wars!”
REP. MIKE KELLY (R-PA): This has nothing to do with political parties. This has to do with highly targeted groups. This reconfirms everything the American public believes. This is a huge blow to the faith and trust that the American people have in their government. Is there any limit to the scope where you folks can go? Is there anything at all? Is there any way that we could ask you is there any question that you should have asked?
My goodness. How much money do you have in your wallet? Who do you get emails from? Whose sign do you put up in your front yard?This is a tax question? And you don’t think that’s intimidating? It’s sure as hell intimidating. And I don’t know that I got any answers from you today. And I don’t know that — what Mr. George said is great work — but you know what? There’s a heck of a lot more that has to come out in this. Any anybody that sat here today and listened to what you had to say, I am more concerned today than I was before, and the fact that you all can do just about anything you want to anybody?
You know, you can put anybody out of business that you want. Any time you want. I gotta tell you. You could talk about how you’re a horribly run organization, if you’re on the other side of the fence, you’re not giving that excuse. And the IRS comes in, you’re not allowed to be shoddy, you’re not allowed to be run horribly, you’re not allowed to make mistakes, you’re not allowed to do one damn thing that doesn’t come in compliance, and if you do, you’re held responsible right then. I just think the American people have seen what’s going on right now in their government. This is absolutely an overreach and this is an outrage for all Americans.
I have been posting on the unsolved triple murder of three young Jewish men (two devout) on September 11, 2011, the tenth anniversary of jihadi attack on American soil. When I first heard that the older jihad bomber, Tamerlan, knew him, it sickened me. The media called one of these Jewish victims the “bomber’s only American friend.”
Every new story omits the most crucial fact in the case as to motive. These boys were Jewish and that is why they were practically beheaded by these Muslim supremacists. Islamic Jew hatred – Jews the world over (and most assuredly Israel) know it well – for 1,400 years.
Amazing, I live in the Boston Metro area and the unending news coverage was insane after the bombing and continues every time a new wrinkle in the case is disclosed. But nothing about this. I feel like a dunce that after hearing, “only American friend” and “unsolved murder victim“ nothing clicked within my mind that something was wrong about these murders. But then, as Pamela wrote, there was nothing about the murder victims being Jewish or even the exact (and significant) date of the crime.
I’m pretty alert to such problems these days. Soap doesn’t work. Toilets don’t flush. Clothes washers don’t clean. Light bulbs don’t illuminate. Refrigerators break too soon. Paint discolors. Lawnmowers have to be hacked. It’s all caused by idiotic government regulations that are wrecking our lives one consumer product at a time, all in ways we hardly notice.
It’s like the barbarian invasions that wrecked Rome, taking away the gains we’ve made in bettering our lives. It’s the bureaucrats’ way of reminding market producers and consumers who is in charge.
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It took one quick search. The whole trend began in (wait for it) California. Regulations began in 2000, with the idea of preventing spillage. The notion spread and was picked up by the EPA, which is always looking for new and innovative ways to spread as much human misery as possible.
Thousands of abortions over the years, according to his staff hundreds of the abortions he performed were (illegal in PA) third term procedures of viable babies. He was charged with seven documented cases of children born alive and kicking but murdered by snipping the spinal cord with scissors. Three cases dismissed by the judge for lack of evidence. He was acquitted of one case where the jury had “reasonable doubt” that the child lived long enough to be murdered.
Dr. Gosnell was found guilty of first-degree murder in the deaths of three new born children. The jury will now decide if he is eligible for the death penalty.
When he dies (years from now), whither from natural causes in prison or by lethal injection by the state and he stands before his Maker, then I firmly believe he will be confronted with the manifestation of all his victims in an inescapable comprehension of the lost value of each life he took.
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. On the road to tyranny, we've gone so far that polite political action is about as useless as a miniskirt in a convent."
- Claire Wolfe, _101 Things To Do 'Til The Revolution_
Heinlein
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man.
Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded -- here and there, now and then -- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck." -- Robert A. Heinlein
I found this quote on a British Web page, from a Czech blog, I was so struck by its truth I decided to put it on the sidebar of my blog. Obama is a little man, nothing much by himself. But that is what makes him scary, we did this, we the people. Maybe we would have correctly identified a American Hitler or Stalin and rejected them, but this non-entity, this enigma could well end up doing much more damage in the end.
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"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting an inexperienced man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama Presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their President. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the Prince of the Fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their President." TWICE!!!
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Unemployment
The real unemployment rate is actually well above the official level of 9.1%, which only measures people who have applied for a job within the previous four weeks.
In other words, we do not count our fellow citizens who have given up in despair.
