Day by Day Cartoon by Chris Muir

Monday, January 9, 2012

Louis and Marie Antoinette?

Nah - Barack and Michelle:

HalloweenGate: White House Covered Up 2009 Halloween Party Hosted by Johnny Depp & Tim Burton (With Near-Exclusive Photos)

Morgen on January 8, 2012 at 5:27 pm
As is often the case, the cover-up is worse than the crime:
A White House “Alice in Wonderland” costume ball — put on by Johnny Depp and Hollywood director Tim Burton — proved to be a Mad-as-a-Hatter idea that was never made public for fear of a political backlash during hard economic times, according to a new tell-all.
“The Obamas,” by New York Times correspondent Jodi Kantor, tells of the first Halloween party the first couple feted at the White House in 2009. It was so over the top that “Star Wars” creator George Lucas sent the original Chewbacca to mingle with invited guests.
The book reveals how any official announcement of the glittering affair — coming at a time when Tea Party activists and voters furious over the lagging economy, 10-percent unemployment rate, bank bailouts and Obama’s health-care plan were staging protests — quickly vanished down the rabbit hole.
“White House officials were so nervous about how a splashy, Hollywood-esque party would look to jobless Americans — or their representatives in Congress, who would soon vote on health care — that the event was not discussed publicly and Burton’s and Depp’s contributions went unacknowledged,” the book says.
However, the White House made certain that more humble Halloween festivities earlier that day — for thousands of Washington-area schoolkids — were well reported by the press corps.
The White House is going to spin this as “old news”, but it’s not old news if it’s never been reported. And it never was. The official White House blog post from 2009 covering this event made no mention of the Hollywood bash (and in retrospect seems a little defensive by highlighting Halloween parties hosted by previous Administrations). The official media pool report from Richard Wolf at the USA Today contained a significant amount of detail on the day’s events both inside and outside of the White House, and yet made no mention of the costume ball or the presence of Hollywood celebrities.

The only media report which mentioned Depp and Burton at all was the Chicago Sun-Times which referred to them only as “among the attendees”, in an article that is no longer even publicly available. Everyone else – including the Huffington Post, CNN, Reuters, and of course the NY Times – dutifully covered the President and First Lady handing out candy to visiting children, while reporting the evening’s festivities as a “reception for military families” and White House staffers.
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Photos at the source.

So, our dear leader wants to tax all the rich into poverty so everyone is equal - but, as George Orwell pointed out, some animals are more equal than others.

The sooner America rids herself of this Obamanation, the sooner we can start to repair all the damage the Demonrats have caused since FDR.

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Glock - The Book

 Video by the author.



You can buy the book here.

Full disclosure - I get nothing from this except good feelings.

Friday, January 6, 2012

Ann Barnhardt on the coming financial collapse

At the end, she reminds us to be prepared. Long, but very worthwhile.

Seen at her website.

Got violence? Blame the law!

Only thing is, he's blaming the wrong law.
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“As he begged for the public to cough up information about the killing of a Chicago cop, police Supt. Garry McCarthy said the shooting demonstrates the need to stop the proliferation of illegal firearms,” the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
The superintendent said Congress could close loopholes in gun laws without violating the public’s Second Amendment right to bear arms.
Of course, “loopholes,” according to McCarthy include more than just ending private sales, and if he had his way, they’d all be illegal, except for those in the hands of his crack Chi-Town “Only Ones.” But despite the admission that the essentially “gun-free” Windy City (you didn’t think the McDonald ruling would keep them from resisting change every step of the way, did you?) “is awash in guns, demonstrated by the 131 guns officers seized on New Year’s Eve,” McCarthy makes it clear exactly who he intends to protect and serve:
“The proliferation of guns here is unacceptable,” McCarthy said. “It puts our officers in danger every day. It puts us in armed confrontations every single day.”
If it’s that dangerous, what kind of mentality would demand citizens in that environment be helpless?
One intent on doing everything in his power to maintain a monopoly of violence, including playing the race card when it suits his purposes…
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The law IS the problem - the law that tries to fix systemic problems with society by preventing law-abiding folks defending themselves, blaming inanimate objects.

Update:

14 wounded in shootings across Chicago

Fourteen people were wounded in separate shootings across the city Thursday.
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I wonder how many of those shooters got their guns legally? How many were bought in private sales from FOID card holders?

How many were sold on the street after being "liberated" from the Chicago Police Department's evidence lockers?

Illinois needs concealed carry - in Chicago, especially.

Light a Candle to Stop Violence

I'm going to get behind this.

Light A Candle To Stop Violence

So the Brady Bunch are planning Candle-light vigils on January 8th to “Stop Gun Violence”. Now many have pointed out what a stupid and pointless gesture that is, also many are noting the dwindling numbers of people willing to come out in the cold with a candle for the sake of their lost cause.

I propose a display that will show we have the same goals, but our side is actually interested in results.
So on January 8th I ask everybody to post a picture of a lit candle and you carry gun. Because lit candles don’t do a whole lot but cast a meager amount of light…but a loaded gun in the hands of lawful citizens can do wonders to protect innocent lives from harm.

Also “Gun Violence” is a bogus and made-up term, so on January 8th I ask you all to light a candle to stop VIOLENCE, and show you have the means to do just that.

Do this across blogs, facebook, photo accounts, twitter, and any other means. I suspect with a little spreading of the word we can easily dwarf the anti-freedom effort, as well as make the world a safer place!

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Found through Gun Free Zone.
My contribution:
 

Pride

Found here via Hot Air.

Nancy Pee-Lousy is real proud of her lawbreaking "leader".



There's supposed to be an embedded video. If it won't run, go to the link.

Osama violates the Constitution outright, making a "recess" appointment when Congress is in session, and this evil thing is "proud".

Impeachment would be appropriate, but can CONgress be trusted with it?

Islamic indoctrination in our schools

This lady has a good presentation. I particularly like the ending statement where she says we are all Americans - no hyphens - or we are doomed.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

The other shoe drops

We all know that Osama is sweet on China. So this should not be too much of a surprise:

After Receiving Bailout, GM May Move Volt Production to China


Although it happened back in September, 2011, it appears many American taxpayers are unaware that General Motors struck a deal in Shanghai wherein the company has agreed to develop an electric vehicle (EV) platform with its longtime Chinese partner SAIC.

What else was included in this deal? GM has agreed to effectively move all future EV development to China. It could also mean that production of the vehicle itself will be moved overseas.

Indiana goes after the unions

This is what I wish Walker HAD done.

Right-to-work battle heats up


The newest ground zero for the union battle is Indiana.  If things heat up as I suspect in Indiana, they are going to make Wisconsin’s antics last year look like a Boy Scout jamboree.

The legislature in Indiana is now controlled by Republicans and the governor is a Republican by the name of Mitch Daniels.  They are determined to pass right-to-work legislation in their state, but as expected, the Democrats (backed by their unions) are having none of it.  What are these Democrats opposed to?  Losing their power.  That’s it.  The unions fuel their re-election chances, and the politicians fuel the unions’ power.  It’s a sickening cycle that costs taxpayers money and jobs.  What could Indiana GAIN if it passed right-to-work legislation?  Jobs, money, opportunity.  Take a look at some of the stats from a report on the effect of right-to-work legislation in Indiana.
  • If Indiana had adopted such a law in 1977, by 2008 per capita income would have been $2,925 higher—equating to $11,700 higher for a family of four.  Indiana’s personal income in 2008 would have been $241.9 billion, 8.4 percent more than the actual $223.2 billion.
  • Instead, Indiana has lost nearly $19 billion in annual income because of forced unionization.
  • If the legislation is enacted this year, based on data on economic growth over the past three decades, that personal income per capita in 2021 would be $968 higher, or $3,872 higher for a family of four.  Over $6 billion, therefore, could potentially be added in relatively short order to the income of the residents of the Hoosier state.
The question is not: What do the people of Indiana have to lose by passing his law?  The question here is: What do the Democrat politicians and unions of Indiana have to lose?  The answer is power.  And the unions are particularly nervous because let’s say that Indiana does succeed in becoming a right-to-work state.  Slowly the unions lose their influence and Indiana becomes a more desirable place to do business, manufacturers look to expand there, people look for jobs there … and neighboring states start to notice that suddenly they aren’t quite as competitive and the people start to demand change.
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If Walker survives the recall, I'm going to lobby him to push this all the way.

India censoring social networking sites?

I'll have to keep an eye on my Facebook page...



Social websites including Google and Facebook have been ordered by an Indian court to remove all 'anti-religious' and 'anti-social' content within six weeks.

On Saturday a Delhi Court ordered 22 social networking sites, including Yahoo and Microsoft, to wipe the objectionable and defamatory contents and file compliance reports by February 6, 2012.


Additional Civil Judge Mukesh Kumar passed the order on a suit filed by Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi seeking to restrain the websites from circulating objectionable and defamatory contents.

Serves him right!


BEIJING (AP) — The sudden death of a billionaire in southern China is causing police to ask: Was it murder by cat meat?

Long Liyuan, 49, died on Dec. 23 in wealthy Guangdong province after sharing a dish of slow boiled cat meat stew, a southern delicacy, with two men over a business lunch.
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Buy American! Boycott the cat-murderers!

Open letter to legislators

This lady was one of the plaintiffs in the McDonald case from Chicago.



Found at Uncommon Gunsense

Concealed carry report

So, I've had my CCW license for two weeks. Carried every day, all day.

I've been carrying a S&W Model 19 with 2 1/2" barrel in a Blackhawk! 00 in the waistband holster. This model has no retention strap. The instruction sheet that comes with the holster talks about the strap, and the packaging says nothing about this lack. I called their customer service, and was told that there's two models.

Unless I place the gun just so on my right hip, it has a tendency to ride up out of the holster. If I get it in exactly the proper position, all is well. It conceals well when set right, but is too easy to get wrong. It's pretty comfortable, but I definitely would get the model with the strap.

I'm going to find a similar holster for my Glock 19, with a retention strap, and see if that works better. The Glock is thinner than the Smith.

I still want to find a proper shoulder holster. I think that will work out better than the IWB if I want to ride my bike when the weather gets nicer.

GOP ad

The GOP gets no money from me - being unemployed limits my donating capacity a bit, and unless they give me a choice for President I can get behind, they won't get a penny from me if I win the lottery.

They do come out with pretty good ads, every so often:



H/t Ace of Spades

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Liar

Osama lies.

Proof:



He used a signing statement for the last defense bill that includes language possibly approving the secret arrest and detention of anyone the government feels like grabbing.

At Hot Air. Their analysis is quite interesting.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Homeland Security's list of monitored sites and terms

Homeland Security has posted a list of monitored web sites and social networking services that they are monitoring for "situational awareness".

I have a copy of the whole 23-page PDF in case the link somehow gets broken.

Remember the flap about Carnivore and such a few years back? You might want to use some of those words in your communications, so DHS doesn't feel like they are wasting their time...

Here's the appendices with the web sites and trigger words:
 

APPENDIX A

Social Media Web Sites Monitored by the NOC

This is a representative list of sites that the NOC will start to monitor in order to provide situational awareness and establish a common operating picture under this Initiative. Initial sites listed may link to other sites not listed. The NOC may also monitor those sites if they are within the scope of this Initiative.


Tool

Link
User/Passwor
d Required
General Search


Collecta
No
RSSOwl
No
Social Mention
No
Spy
No
Who's Talkin
No
Shrook RSS
reader


No
Video


Hulu
No
iReport.com
No
Live Leak
No
Magma
No
Time Tube
No
Vimeo
No
Youtube
No
MySpace Video
No

Maps


Global Incident
Map


No
Google Flu
Trends


No
Health Map
No
IBISEYE
No
Stormpulse
No
Trends Map
No

Photos


Flickr
No
Picfog
No
Twicsy
No
Twitcaps
No

Twitter/API


Twitter/API
Yes
Twitter Search


Monitter
No
Twazzup
No
Tweefind
No
Tweetgrid
No
Tweetzi
No
Twitter Search
No

Twitter Trends


Newspapers on
Twitter


No
Radio on
Twitter


No
Trendistic
No
Trendrr
No
TV on Twitter
No
Tweet Meme
No
TweetStats
No
Twellow
No
Twendz
No
Twitoaster
No
Twitscoop
No
Twitturly
No
We Follow
No

Facebook


It's Trending
No
Facebook
Yes

MySpace


Yes
MySpace
(limited search)


No

Blogs Aggs


ABCNews
Blotter


No
al Sahwa
No
AllAfrica
No
Avian Flu Diary
No
BNOnews
No
Borderfire


Borderland Beat
No
Brickhouse
Security

No
Chem.Info
No
Chemical
Facility Security
News



No
ComputerWorld
Cybercrime
Topic Center



No
Counter-
Terrorism Blog


No
Crisisblogger
No
Cryptome
No
Danger Room
No
Drudge Report
No
El Blog Del
Narco

No
Emergency
Management
Magazine



No
Foreign Policy
Passport


No
Global Security
Newswire

No
Global Terror
Alert


No
Global Voices
Network


No
Google Blog
Search

No
Guerra Contra El
Narco

No
H5N1 Blog
No
Homeland
Security Today


No
Homeland
Security Watch


No
Huffington Post
No
Hurricane
Information
Center




No
HurricaneTrack
No
InciWeb
No
Informed
Comment


No
Jihad Watch
No

Krebs on
Security

No
LA Now
No
LA Wildfires
Blog


No
Livesay Haiti
Blog


No
LongWarJournal
No
Malware
Intelligence Blog

No
MEMRI
No
MexiData.info
No
MS-13 News
and Analysis

No
Narcotrafico en
Mexico

No
National
Defense
Magazine



No
National Terror
Alert


No
NEFA
Foundation


No
Newsweek Blogs
No
Nuclear Street
No
NYTimes Lede
Blog


No
Plowshares Fund
No
Popular Science
Blogs

No
Port Strategy
No
Public
Intelligence

No
ReliefWeb
No
RigZone
No
Science Daily
No
STRATFOR
No
Technorati
No
Terror Finance
Blog

No
The Latin
Americanist

No
Threat Level
No
Threat Matrix
No
Tickle the Wire
No
Tribuna
Regional

No



APPENDIX B

Terms Used by the NOC When Monitoring Social Media Sites

This is a current list of terms that will be used by the NOC when monitoring social media sites to provide situational awareness and establish a common operating picture. As natural or manmade disasters occur, new search terms may be added. The new search terms will not use PII in searching for relevant mission-related information.


DHS & Other Agencies
Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Coast Guard (USCG)
Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
Border Patrol
Secret Service (USSS)
National Operations Center (NOC) Homeland Defense
Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agent
Task Force
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Fusion Center
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) Secure Border Initiative (SBI)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF)
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS)
Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
Air Marshal
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Guard
Red Cross
United Nations (UN)

Domestic Security
Assassination
Attack
Domestic security
Drill
Exercise
Cops
Law enforcement
Authorities

Disaster assistance
Disaster management
DNDO (Domestic Nuclear Detection Office) National preparedness
Mitigation
Prevention Response Recovery
Dirty bomb
Domestic nuclear detection Emergency management Emergency response
First responder
Homeland security
Maritime domain awareness (MDA) National preparedness initiative
Militia
Shooting Shots fired Evacuation
Deaths
Hostage
Explosion (explosive) Police
Disaster medical assistance team (DMAT)
Organized crime
Gangs
National security
State of emergency
Security Breach Threat
Standoff
SWAT Screening Lockdown
Bomb (squad or threat) Crash
Looting
Riot
Emergency Landing
Pipe bomb
Incident
Facility

HAZMAT  & Nuclear
Hazmat
Nuclear
Chemical spill
Suspicious package/device
Toxic
National laboratory
Nuclear facility
Nuclear threat
Cloud Plume Radiation
Radioactive
Leak
Biological infection (or event) Chemical
Chemical burn
Biological Epidemic Hazardous
Hazardous material incident
Industrial spill Infection Powder (white)
Gas
Spillover Anthrax Blister agent
Chemical agent
Exposure
Burn
Nerve agent
Ricin
Sarin
North Korea

Health Concern + H1N1
Outbreak
Contamination

Exposure Virus Evacuation Bacteria Recall Ebola
Food Poisoning
Foot and Mouth (FMD) H5N1
Avian
Flu
Salmonella
Small Pox
Plague
Human to human Human to Animal Influenza
Center for Disease Control (CDC)
Drug Administration (FDA) Public Health
Toxic
Agro Terror
Tuberculosis (TB) Agriculture Listeria
Symptoms
Mutation Resistant Antiviral
Wave
Pandemic Infection Water/air borne
Sick
Swine Pork Strain
Quarantine
H1N1
Vaccine
Tamiflu
Norvo Virus
Epidemic
World Health Organization (WHO) (and components)
Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
E. Coli
 
Infrastructure Security  
Infrastructure security Airport
Airplane (and derivatives) Chemical fire
CIKR (Critical Infrastructure  & Key Resources)
AMTRAK Collapse
Computer infrastructure
Communications infrastructure
Telecommunications
Critical infrastructure
National infrastructure
Metro
WMATA Subway BART
MARTA
Port Authority
NBIC (National Biosurveillance Integration
Center)
Transportation security
Grid Power Smart
Body scanner
Electric
Failure or outage
Black out
Brown out
Port Dock Bridge
Cancelled
Delays
Service disruption
Power lines

Southwest Border Violence
Drug cartel
Violence
Gang
Drug Narcotics Cocaine
Marijuana
Heroin
Border

Mexico Cartel Southwest Juarez Sinaloa Tijuana Torreon Yuma Tucson Decapitated
U.S. Consulate
Consular
El Paso
Fort Hancock
San Diego Ciudad Juarez Nogales
Sonora
Colombia
Mara salvatrucha
MS13 or MS-13
Drug war
Mexican army Methamphetamine Cartel de Golfo
Gulf Cartel
La Familia Reynosa Nuevo Leon
Narcos
Narco banners (Spanish equivalents) Los Zetas
Shootout
Execution
Gunfight Trafficking Kidnap
Calderon
Reyosa
Bust
Tamaulipas
Meth Lab
Drug trade
Illegal immigrants
Smuggling (smugglers) Matamoros
Michoacana
Guzman
Arellano-Felix Beltran-Leyva Barrio Azteca Artistic Assassins Mexicles
New Federation

Terrorism
Terrorism
Al Qaeda (all spellings)
Terror
Attack
Iraq
Afghanistan
Iran Pakistan Agro
Environmental terrorist
Eco terrorism Conventional weapon Target
Weapons grade
Dirty bomb Enriched Nuclear
Chemical weapon
Biological weapon Ammonium nitrate Improvised explosive device
IED (Improvised Explosive Device)
Abu Sayyaf
Hamas
FARC (Armed Revolutionary Forces Colombia) IRA (Irish Republican Army)
ETA (Euskadi ta Askatasuna) Basque Separatists
Hezbollah
Tamil Tigers
PLF (Palestine Liberation Front)
PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization
Car bomb
Jihad
Taliban
Weapons cache Suicide bomber Suicide attack
Suspicious substance
AQAP (AL Qaeda Arabian Peninsula) AQIM (Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb)

TTP (Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan) Yemen
Pirates Extremism Somalia
Nigeria
Radicals
Al-Shabaab
Home grown
Plot
Nationalist
Recruitment
Fundamentalism
Islamist

Weather/Disaster/Emergency
Emergency
Hurricane
Tornado Twister Tsunami
Earthquake
Tremor Flood Storm
Crest
Temblor
Extreme weather
Forest fire
Brush fire
Ice Stranded/Stuck Help
Hail
Wildfire
Tsunami Warning Center
Magnitude
Avalanche
Typhoon
Shelter-in-place
Disaster
Snow
Blizzard
Sleet
Mud slide or Mudslide
Erosion
Power outage
Brown out
Warning Watch Lightening Aid
Relief Closure Interstate Burst
Emergency Broadcast System

Cyber Security Cyber security Botnet
DDOS (dedicated denial of service) Denial of service
Malware
Virus
Trojan
Keylogger
Cyber Command
2600
Spammer
Phishing Rootkit Phreaking
Cain and abel
Brute forcing Mysql injection Cyber attack
Cyber terror
Hacker China Conficker
Worm
Scammers
Social media

Other
Breaking News