George too Cold to Post

George isn't used to this freezing weather, so he's hibernating in the warm blankets all day.

50th Anniversary of President Kennedy's Death

It seems that on the day Kennedy died, the old America so many of us love so also died. Kennedy was far from perfect but he loved his country and the people in it and tried to inspire and look out for them. Since that day, special interests run this country and the citizen's needs and desires are immaterial. Kennedy inspired the nation to "ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country". Now politicians all say "I'm going to give you xx, so vote for me".  What I wouldn't give to have another man like John Kennedy who would say things like "We choose to go to the moon and to do the other things..not because they are easy but because they are hard" and give our nation goals and help us to achieve them.

Obamacare Website Tech Team on the Way

Obamacare Website Tech Team on the Way

The True Cause of Mass Shootings

Shootings like this were very rare until they started prescribing SSRI drugs (Prozac, Paxil, etc) to everyone. It is a known and proven fact that for a small percentage of people, rather then calm them down these drugs turn them psychotic.
99% of the shooters in all of these murder sprees are on these drugs but the media hushes that fact up because they are in bed with Big Pharma.
In addition, psychiatric care in our country is a joke and a national disgrace. Due to abuses and to save money, all of the psychiatric hospitals were closed in the 1970s and nothing replaced them. There is nowhere for those who need long term care to go and many of them end up as the long term homeless and some become psycho shooters (usually paranoid schizophrenics). Almost every one of these shooters had been reported as dangerous and psychotic yet were on the street.
It's very sad and most people don't care until there is a shooting and then yell and holler about guns for a few days and then go back to watching tv.

Eagle..we have ways of making you talk

Eagle held as Spy by Moron Terrorists
Bird-brained terrorists in Lebanon have taken a suspected Israeli spy into custody – an eagle that was outfitted with a transmitter that allowed conservationists to study the raptor’s migratory patterns.
In the latest case of Muslim militants seeing a secret agent with wings and a beak, Iranian-backed Hezbollah forces are keeping the eagle under lock and key after it was found by hunters near the town of Ashkout, northeast of Beirut. The bird had a ring around its leg that bore the name ‘Tel Aviv University,’ written in English, as well as a receiver device attached, according to Hezbollah’s Al Manar TV station.
Israeli spymasters, who don’t typically outfit spies with such identifying markers, could not be reached for comment. But Yossi Leshem, of the Israel Ornithological Centre, told FoxNews.com the bird is innocent – and rare.
“The Israel National Parks Authority has been working on a program to protect the raptor eagles,” Leshem said. “Not so long ago, there were 65 pairs here, but now there are only nine, as most have sadly died after ingesting pesticides.”

“This latest situation, like those before, is just ridiculous.”

- Yossi Leshem, conservationist

Leshem said the marking just shows the eagle is part of Israel’s equivalent to the Audubon Society. The transmitter, sends a radio signal every 90 minutes to allow scientists to establish which flight paths the bird has flown from as far north as Siberia, to as far south as South Africa, he said.
“This latest situation, like those before, is just ridiculous,” Leshem said.
Hezbollah officially declared the bird an “enemy entity,” and his fate is now uncertain. It’s only the latest critter to be suspected of spying. Last December, Sudanese authorities “detained” a griffon vulture bearing an Israeli tag, insisting it was a spy. It was eventually cleared and is believed to have been released. Another griffon vulture was apprehended by Saudi Arabian special forces a couple of years earlier. It was subsequently released under an edict from the House of Saud’s crown prince.
In 2011, Turkey’s intelligence bizarrely took into custody a dead Merops Apiaster, aka the European Bee Eater. Found carrying an Israeli leg tag, the Turks were convinced it was an Israeli undercover agent, but in the end it turned out to be just a dead bird.  
Paranoia and brain-washing are par for the course in much of the Middle East whenever Israel is mentioned, with many people unquestioningly lapping up anything anti-Israeli, no matter how far-fetched.
In 2008, the Palestinian Authority accused Israel of releasing rats to drive people from their homes, while in 2010 the governor of South Sinai refused to rule out the possibility that a series of shark attacks on vacationers at the Red Sea resort of Sharm-el-Sheikh had been carried out by a man-eating shark deliberately released into the area by Israel’s Mossad spy agency to undermine Egypt’s tourist industry.
Strenuous efforts are now underway to try and bring about the release of the latest incarcerated raptor eagle.
“I understand the bird was injured when it was captured in Lebanon,” Leshem said. “I have been in touch with my Palestinian colleagues, who in turn have spoken to friends in Lebanon, who hope that through a third party – possibly a European intermediary – the bird can be brought back home.”

Why the 2013 Jacksonville Jaguars Stink

I am as frustrated as anybody this season. I know they blew the team up and are rebuilding, but I HATE that everyone laughs at the Jaguars and that they can't win a game.
That said, I do see hope and I can't be down on new GM Caldwell and new Head Coach Bradley.
Regarding Bradley, he's doing the best that he can with what he was given. The sad thing is that the players are really trying but this team doesn't have the talent. That said have you noticed that the rookies are all getting better every game and the team doesn't give up ?? That shows that Bradley and his coaches are doing their jobs.
Regarding GM Caldwell except for not being as active as he should have been in Free Agency due to the obvious lack of talent on this team, his draft was solid. Joeckel is a really good tackle and should be a cornerstone of the Jaguar's Offensive line for many years.
Safety Cyprian is making rookie mistakes but shows flashes of greatness. If he keeps developing he may end up being a Pro Bowl caliber safety. The jury is still out on Gratz as well as Robinson, Evens, and Harris. Ace Sanders has talent and I think he'll work out fine.
Now compare that to former GM Gene Smith's drafts: 2008 -- none left on roster, 2009 -- none left on roster, 2010 -- Alualu left, 2011 -- Gabbert, Rackley, Shorts, Prosinsky left, and 2012 -- Blackmon, Branch, Anger, and Harris left.
That's it and THAT is why the Jaguars stink !!!! The man to blame is good old Gene Smith who basically wasted 4.5 drafts (2008 he had his fingers on but previous GM Shack Harris gets the blame for that one).

Government MUST Stop Spending before we go Bankrupt

Decades ago when everyone in Congress was rational and faced reality, then compromise was very important and a good thing.
However, most people in Congress and in government today have this insane idea that our country has a no limit credit card and we can keep spending and spending and everything will be great and there will never be a day when the credit card gets declined.
The main arguments between the Republicans and Democrats is on WHAT to spend the money on, never NOT to spend money (Democrats love social programs--Republicans love the military and wars). 
Finally a few people are speaking out about this (Ron and Rand Paul and many of the Tea Party) and that having multi-TRILLION dollar deficits is unsustainable. If our country does not stop we will be in the same shape as Detroit not too far down the road and the dollar will collapse.
Think it can't happen ??  Look at what happened in Argentina a decade ago---the government went bankrupt and most Argentines lost ALL of their money !!!!
We as a country need to elect MORE people who face reality rather than people who just want to keep spending like drunken sailors.

Obama Fiddles while Washington is Shut Down

I think that this painting from http://www.jonmcnaughton.com/the-demise-of-america/ says it all.
Like Nero Obama refuses to negotiate or lead and he fiddles while Washington is shut down.

Obama in my opinion has passed James Buchanan who as President in 1856 fiddled while the country collapsed into Civil War as the worst President in American History.

Obamacare Takes Effect

The idea of exchanges where people can get individual policies across state lines and with pre-existing conditions is a good one and has been needed for a long time. I honestly think that very few people have an issue with that part of the law (Indeed many Republican proposals during the Obamacare debate included exchanges).

The problem is that people will soon be FORCED to join and pay premiums by a "gun" held by the government. That "gun" is the IRS who will be the enforcement arm of Obamacare. If you don't pay---the IRS will come after you !!!!
I don't care what the politicians on the Supreme Court say, this law is blatantly unconstitutional !! If you are young and healthy or currently working but tight on money and don't want health insurance---too bad--you're joining and paying whether you like it or not.
Think I'm exaggerating ---look it up. The penalty for those without insurance starts at $95 or 1% of your income (whichever is greater) and in 2016 it will be $695 ($2,085 for families) or 2.5% of income (whichever is greater).

The Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is a horrible law that will make health care more expensive and care go down.

Calling all MRAPS

  WTH do COPS need mraps for to catch criminals !!!

 

US police obtaining military vehicles to aid hunt for criminals

Don’t mess with Texas has assumed a whole new meaning in Dallas.
The Dallas County Sheriff’s Office traveled to Fort Hood this month to acquire its own bona fide military vehicle – the International MaxxPro MRAP tactical vehicle --  courtesy of a Department of Defense surplus program.
According to The Dallas Observer, the sheriff’s office obtained the 19-ton, diesel-operated behemoth with bullet-proof doors and tires, designed by Navistar Defense.
 “The MaxxPro MRAP is built to withstand ballistic arms fire, mine blasts, IEDs, and other emerging threats,” according to the Navistar website. “Its V-shaped hull helps deflect blasts out and away from the crew and its armoring can be customized to meet any mission requirement.”
The specific vehicle obtained by the Dallas sheriff’s office was never used overseas and claims only about 10,000 miles of use, but other similar vehicles were reportedly employed by the military in war zones, and specifically to withstand roadside IEDs, or improvised explosive devices.
The Observer writes the sheriff’s office will now use it to serve warrants on wanted men.
 “Having a tactical vehicle will not only provide warrants execution with the equipment to assist in performing their jobs, but will provide an overall safety arch," Chief Deputy Marlin Suell reportedly wrote to county commissioners in informing them of the acquisition.
The vehicle costs about $600,000, but the county obtained it solely for the cost of transporting it from Fort Hood.
The Observer also reports that Dallas County is not alone in taking advantage of the MRAP surplus program.
The Murfreesboro Post in Murfreesboro, Tenn., reports the city police department acquired its own MRAP in August, prompting City Councilman Toby Gilley to reassure concerned citizens at a council meeting that it will be used to confront, “threats from armed gunmen.”
And don’t look now, but Ohio State University also counts an MRAP among its service fleet.
The college reportedly obtained one of the armored vehicles through the same means as Murfreesboro and Dallas County in mid-September.
Said Campus Police Chief Paul Denton at the time, “We pride ourselves on being self-sufficient from local authorities. Frankly, we have to be. We are the primary responder."

Calling All MRAPs 

Tank for Teddy

0-4 !!!!
Hi, my name is JimmyPx and I'm a Jaguars fan !!!

The only good thing about this horrible season is hopefully we will be the worst team in the NFL and will have the #1 pick in the 2014 draft and will get to pick Teddy Bridgewater as our QB and dump Blaine Gabbert and Chad Henne.

Cats can now be in NSA Database Too

 Now your cat can unlock your phone and call his kitty buddies and play angry birds. As a bonus, his fingerprints will be in the NSA database along with yours.

 

iPhone 5S fingerprint reader recognizes cat’s pawprints

Everyone’s feline good about the new iPhone.
Tech-industry watchers who got advance copies of the iPhone 5s gave thumbs-up to its new fingerprint ID feature — which allows users to unlock the phone just by touching a sensor.
But a techie Web site discovered that even a cat’s paw can do the trick.
Cats have fingerprints just like humans, TechCrunch said, and blogger Darrell Etherington found he could register the paw of a colleague’s cat on a 5s.
The cat was repeatedly able to unlock the phone using that paw, but not with the other paw, he said. A video of the cat’s deed went viral Thursday.
Meanwhile, human tech junkies camped out in front of the Apple Store in Midtown — some saying they had slept in lawn chairs for weeks — to score new iPhones on Friday.
Apple fans claimed it’s worth crashing in sleeping bags to be first to snag the new iPhone 5s, which comes in the color gold and features a new fingerprint security scanner.
“I’ve been out here 14 days. The Apple Store is open 24 hours, so I use the bathroom there . . . We love this whole experience,” said Joseph Cruz, 20, of Staten Island.
His cousin Brian Ceballo, 19, a musician living in Downtown Brooklyn, said the wait was great.
“I’ve never slept so good on the floor before,” Ceballo said.
“I’m not really giving up anything . . . I’d just be home doing my music,” he said.
Numbers eight and nine in line were German tourists, who said camping out is part of their New York adventure.
“I would never do this in Berlin — that would be strange and crazy. But this is the city of the iPhone,” said Anna Prymak, 18.

iPhone 5S fingerprint reader recognizes cat’s pawprints

 

Everyone Wants to be a Gman

Armed EPA raid in Alaska sheds light on 70 fed agencies with armed divisions

The recent uproar over armed EPA agents descending on a tiny Alaska mining town is shedding light on the fact that 40 federal agencies – including nearly a dozen typically not associated with law enforcement -- have armed divisions.
The agencies employ about 120,000 full-time officers authorized to carry guns and make arrests, according to a June 2012 Justice Department report.
Though most Americans know agents within the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Federal Bureau of Prisons carry guns, agencies such as the Library of Congress and Federal Reserve Board employing armed officers might come as a surprise.
The incident that sparked the renewed interest and concern occurred in late August when a team of armed federal and state officials descended on the tiny Alaska gold mining town of Chicken, Alaska.
The Environmental Protection Agency, whose armed agents in full body armor participated, acknowledged taking part in the Alaska Environmental Crimes Task Force investigation, which it said was conducted to look for possible violations of the Clean Water Act.
However, EPA officials denied the operation was a “raid” and didn't address speculation about whether it was connected to possible human and drug trafficking.
“Imagine coming up to your diggings, only to see agents swarming over it like ants, wearing full body armor, with jackets that say "POLICE" emblazoned on them, and all packing side arms,” gold miner C.R. Hammond told the Alaska Dispatch.
The other federal agencies participating in the operation were the FBI, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Coast Guard, the National Oceanic and the Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Park Service.
The FBI, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management and Park Service are among 24 federal agencies employing more than 250 full-time armed officers with arrest authority, according the federal report, which is based on the 2008 Census of Federal Law Enforcement Officers.
The other 16 agencies have less than 250 officers and include NOAA as well as the Library of Congress, the Federal Reserve Board and the National Institutes of Health.
The number of federal department with armed personnel climbs to 73 when adding in the 33 offices of inspector general, the government watchdogs for agencies as large as the Postal Service to the Government Printing Office, whose IG has only five full-time officers.
The EPA defended its use of armed officers, after the Alaska incident.
"Environmental law enforcement, like other forms of law enforcement, always involves the potential for physical, even armed, confrontation," the agency said.
 But Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell has already ordered an investigation, saying "This level of intrusion and intimidation of Alaskans is absolutely unacceptable."
In addition, Alaska Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Republican, and Mark Begich, Democrat, have inquired about the incident.
Murkowski said purported concerns about rampant drug and human trafficking in the area sounded “wholly concocted” to her.
“This seems to have been a heavy-handed and heavy-armor approach. Why was it so confrontational? The EPA really didn’t have any good answers for this,” she told the newspaper.
This is not the first time armed EPA guards have been accused of intimidating behavior.
In May 2012, North Carolina resident Larry Keller was visited by armed EPA agents after sending an email to Al Armendariz, the regional administrator who was video-taped saying his enforcement strategy was to "crucify" executives from big oil and gas companies.
"The charter of the EPA is to protect the environment and public, not to act as a quasi federal police department," Keller said after the brief but tense exchange with agents about whether the missive might seem suspicious.
The Department of Homeland Security employs nearly half of all federal officers, through Customs and Border Protection and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the most recent statistics show. The statistics also show the number of CBP officers increased by 33 percent from 2004 to 2008. The number for ICE was 20 percent over the same period.
Meanwhile, the four largest Interior Department agencies employed fewer officers during that time, including the Park Police, which employed 547 officers in 2008, 11 percent less than four years earlier, according to the 2012 report.

Armed EPA Raid in Alaska

Ultimate Man Cave

After weeks of heavy stuff about war and peace, check out this guy's man cave ( I don't buy that this is for his infant grand daughter--that's what he tells his wife):

kentucky grandfather builds ultimate playhouse

A 12 foot by 12 foot  playhouse on top of an old corn silo on a farm in Oldham County, Ky., has been attracting hundreds of motorists who marvel and the architectural feat, WAVE3.com reported.
The playhouse was designed and built by Rusty Combs for his 20-month-old granddaughter. The one-room structure comes complete with air conditioning, running water, lighting and expansive views of “eight or nine water towers” after the leaves have fallen from tress, the report said.
Combs had long envisioned the playhouse, but never got around to implementing the designs in his mind. Then, before his granddaughter was born, he was intent on creating the “ultimate playhouse,” WAVE3.com reported.
“It started out two years ago as a two-month project,” he joked.
The ultimate playhouse first had to be inspected by a structural architect and he had to obtain building permits prior to a large crane lifting the structure on its 50-foot perch. “People pull in the drive and say this is the coolest thing they’ve ever seen,” he told the station. Perhaps the only drawback are the four, 8-foot ladders it requires to access the room.
“I hope she enjoys it for many years to come,” he told the channel. “Maybe when she’s my age.”

Putin's Letter to the Citizens of the U.S.

What's sad is that I totally agree with the President of Russia and totally DISAGREE with the President of the United States.

A potential US strike on Syria is fraught with dangerous consequences
Vladimir Putin
September 12, 2013
MOSCOW — RECENT events surrounding Syria have prompted me to speak directly to the American people and their political leaders. It is important to do so at a time of insufficient communication between our societies.

Relations between us have passed through different stages. We stood against each other during the cold war. But we were also allies once, and defeated the Nazis together. The universal international organization — the United Nations — was then established to prevent such devastation from ever happening again.

The United Nations’ founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America’s consent the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.

No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorization.

The potential strike by the United States against Syria, despite strong opposition from many countries and major political and religious leaders, including the pope, will result in more innocent victims and escalation, potentially spreading the conflict far beyond Syria’s borders. A strike would increase violence and unleash a new wave of terrorism. It could undermine multilateral efforts to resolve the Iranian nuclear problem and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and further destabilize the Middle East and North Africa. It could throw the entire system of international law and order out of balance.

Syria is not witnessing a battle for democracy, but an armed conflict between government and opposition in a multireligious country. There are few champions of democracy in Syria. But there are more than enough Qaeda fighters and extremists of all stripes battling the government. The United States State Department has designated Al Nusra Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, fighting with the opposition, as terrorist organizations. This internal conflict, fueled by foreign weapons supplied to the opposition, is one of the bloodiest in the world.

Mercenaries from Arab countries fighting there, and hundreds of militants from Western countries and even Russia, are an issue of our deep concern. Might they not return to our countries with experience acquired in Syria? After all, after fighting in Libya, extremists moved on to Mali. This threatens us all.

From the outset, Russia has advocated peaceful dialogue enabling Syrians to develop a compromise plan for their own future. We are not protecting the Syrian government, but international law. We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today’s complex and turbulent world is one of the few ways to keep international relations from sliding into chaos. The law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not. Under current international law, force is permitted only in self-defense or by the decision of the Security Council. Anything else is unacceptable under the United Nations Charter and would constitute an act of aggression.

No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces, to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists. Reports that militants are preparing another attack — this time against Israel — cannot be ignored.

It is alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States. Is it in America’s long-term interest? I doubt it. Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force, cobbling coalitions together under the slogan “you’re either with us or against us.”

But force has proved ineffective and pointless. Afghanistan is reeling, and no one can say what will happen after international forces withdraw. Libya is divided into tribes and clans. In Iraq the civil war continues, with dozens killed each day. In the United States, many draw an analogy between Iraq and Syria, and ask why their government would want to repeat recent mistakes.

No matter how targeted the strikes or how sophisticated the weapons, civilian casualties are inevitable, including the elderly and children, whom the strikes are meant to protect.

The world reacts by asking: if you cannot count on international law, then you must find other ways to ensure your security. Thus a growing number of countries seek to acquire weapons of mass destruction. This is logical: if you have the bomb, no one will touch you. We are left with talk of the need to strengthen nonproliferation, when in reality this is being eroded.

We must stop using the language of force and return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political settlement.

A new opportunity to avoid military action has emerged in the past few days. The United States, Russia and all members of the international community must take advantage of the Syrian government’s willingness to place its chemical arsenal under international control for subsequent destruction. Judging by the statements of President Obama, the United States sees this as an alternative to military action.

I welcome the president’s interest in continuing the dialogue with Russia on Syria. We must work together to keep this hope alive, as we agreed to at the Group of 8 meeting in Lough Erne in Northern Ireland in June, and steer the discussion back toward negotiations.

If we can avoid force against Syria, this will improve the atmosphere in international affairs and strengthen mutual trust. It will be our shared success and open the door to cooperation on other critical issues.

My working and personal relationship with President Obama is marked by growing trust. I appreciate this. I carefully studied his address to the nation on Tuesday. And I would rather disagree with a case he made on American exceptionalism, stating that the United States’ policy is “what makes America different. It’s what makes us exceptional.” It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation. There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. Their policies differ, too. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.

Vladimir V. Putin is the president of Russia.

Thoughts on 911 Anniversary

On this 12th anniversary of 911, I have been thinking a lot about the consequences of that horrible day and our country's reaction to it. To start, here are the Pros and Cons of our reactions to this event:

Pros:

*  Hijackers and Osama bin Laden are all dead.
*  No more planes have been hijacked since then.

Cons:

*  Osama bin Laden may be dead but Al Quida was never brought to justice and those who financed Al Quida and who were REALLY behind the attack (Saudis, Qatar, etc) were never brought to justice and will never be known.
*  Traveling by air is now more akin to being processed into a prison than traveling.
*  The Constitution, Rule of Law and Civil Liberties have been thrown out the window and replaced by a quasi police state thanks to the "Patriot Act", the "NDAA", and other onerous freedom stealing laws that are totally unconstitutional (of course our political Supreme Court will never rule justly on these laws).
*  The horrid Homeland Security department was created that at best is bureaucratic and  inefficient and at worst many fear they will become a new Gestapo.
*  The NSA and the government openly spy on everyone and don't see why this is wrong.
*  Afghanistan & Iraq were attacked and TRILLIONS of dollars were spent and thousands of lives were lost for no appreciable benefit except for those with government contracts and the defense industries. Those states are now failed states that are now more akin to Somalia.
*  911 led to an extremely aggressive U.S. government that feels like they are justified to attack any other country on a whim. See Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, Libya, and Syria.
*  The U.S. economy never recovered and the mid 2000s "bubble" caused by insane amounts of market liquidity and credit handed out like candy masked deep systemic issues in the economy that are being felt now. Good jobs are leaving for former 3rd World countries and replaced by $9/hour service jobs.



Obviously the Cons far out way the Pros and people need to face the reality that the 911 attacks had nothing to do with our freedom and liberty as U.S. leaders claim but rather it was blow back caused by a meddling U.S. foreign policy that puts our nose in every other country's business. The attack was carried out by a group that the U.S. founded and funded to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan.  After the U.S. cut them off, they continued to be funded by the Saudis, Qatar, and Pakistan and we were warned repeatedly about them by multiple allied countries. During the 1990s we were repeated warned by Al Quida attacking the World Trade Center in 1993, the 1998 attacks on U.S. embassies in Africa, and the attack on the U.S. Cole. Our special forces could have killed or captured Osama bin Laden multiple times but President Bill Clinton was more interested in chasing interns around the Oval Office than doing his job. Our intelligence agencies were more interested in turf wars than doing their jobs. The FAA and airlines were more interested in making money than safety, and most importantly of all, the American people are to blame because they were and are apathetic and do not hold their leaders accountable. They allow leaders to lie repeatedly and never hold them accountable when the truth later comes out and it was proven that they were lying. They have never held the mainstream media accountable for being mouthpieces for the government and corporations and for asking puffball questions and never asking the questions that need to be asked and answered. They have never bothered to educate themselves about what is really going on and instead of reading newspapers and engaging in debate, they drink, do drugs and watch American Idol and talk about what the Kardashians are doing.

  
    

 

What a Difference 42 Years Makes

I would love to understand how someone who publicly spoke against the Vietnam War 42 years later after he gets some money and power wants our country to get into a similar mess !!

My Opinion on Attacking Syria

When is it ever going to stop---when?
Our country is only one step above Detroit with our infrastructure desperately needing repair, massive deficits as far as the eye can see, millions of Americans out of work and those jobs that are hiring don't have a liveable wage, yet our "leaders" never saw a war that they didn't like. We don't have money for NASA, for National Parks, to hire more teachers, to pay retirees pensions, but we have BILLIONS to throw away attacking a country on the other side of the World that is absolutely NO THREAT to the U.S.

When will it end? Who elected our country as cop of the World? When are we going to start taking care of our people and stop putting our nose in other country's internal conflicts?

For those who say "attack", then I say march right down to your nearest recruiter and join up---otherwise be quiet and go visit the VA hospital and see all of the young people in wheelchairs that are the victims of our country's last "adventure" that has cost TRILLIONS of dollars and thousands of lives.

What a Stupid Waste of Money

What a horrible waste of money.

"Microsoft swallows Nokia's handset business for $7.2 billion"

 
Microsoft CEO Ballmer needs to be shown the door ASAP. No ONE wants a Microsoft phone. It and it's GUI (which they also ported to Windows 8) has been completely rejected by the market and this GUI is the main reason that Windows 8 has flopped horribly. 
But instead of Microsoft admitting that they made a mistake and actually talking to their customers and see what they want and like, Microsoft is pumping more money into this losing venture and basically taking the view of "We're Microsoft and you need to learn and like our new GUI whether you like it or not". 
The stockholders have spoken and Microsoft's shares are down 6 percent this morning on this news. If Microsoft does not change their direction soon, they will down the road join Novell as a company who at one time had a monopoly and would not change.

Don't ever break up with this guy

The ex-girlfriend of North Korean leader Kim-Jong-un was one of a dozen people reportedly executed by a firing squad last week.
The South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo reports that singer Hyon Song-wol and 11 others had been arrested on August 17 for violating North Korea's laws against pornography and was executed three days later.
The paper reported that the condemned, all members of the performing groups Unhasu Orchestra and Wangjaesan Light Music Band, were accused of making videos of themselves having sex and selling the videos, which the paper reported were available in China.
"They were executed with machine guns while the key members of the Unhasu Orchestra, Wangjaesan Light Band and Moranbong Band as well as the families of the victims looked on," a source told the paper. The source added that the victims' families appear to have all been sent to prison camps.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/08/29/kim-jong-un-ex-girlfriend-reportedly-executed-by-firing-squad/#ixzz2dNGBaybn

Bradley Manning wants to live as a woman, be called Chelsea

 

 Bradley Manning wants to live as a woman named Chelsea and begin hormone treatment as soon as possible, the soldier said a day after being sentenced to 35 years in prison for giving government secrets to WikiLeaks.

"As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me. I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible," the statement read.


Is it just me or do I suspect that this is an awesome way to get moved to the women's prison. If I had to spend the next 35 years in prison, I would much rather have a cellmate named Judy rather than Bubba.

Bradley Manning Sentencing

Nelson Mandela, who brought down apartheid, spent 27 years in jail;  but Bradley Manning, who exposed U.S. war crimes and brought about the Arab Spring, was sentenced to 35.

 For something to be a crime, harm must have been done to someone. Where is the harm ?? Is he not a whistle blower ?? He did not leak anything that needed to be classified, rather he embarrassed some powerful people. I hate to say this, but he angered the wrong people and he's not going to live long in jail--either someone will kill him in a "fight" or he'll conveniently "commit suicide". If Obama was a real President, he'd pardon this guy today but since he is behind Manning's persecution--"Not gonna Happen".

Sick People

Read this note that was left under the door of the grandmother of a 13 year old boy who suffers from autism in Canada.
It's scary that there are people out there who think this way about a poor handicapped kid.

Oh and this isn't an Internet hoax, sadly it's real:
Letter suggesting autistic boy be euthanized reported to police 

 

Egypt

 

For the life of me I don't know why our government is supporting Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. Other countries (like Israel, England, and Saudi Arabia) support the generals and we should as well.
This is what the "peaceful" and "democratic" Muslim Brotherhood did yesterday--attacked Christian churches and nuns. Of course since they are Coptic Christians and not in communion with Rome, not a peep out of the Vatican:

Islamist Mob Parades Nuns as Prisoners of war

What's even more upsetting is that it isn't just the Obama Administration. The Republicans are singing the same tune !! In fact Lindsey Graham and John McCain were just in Egypt basically backing Morsi and calling for us to cut aid off to the generals. My cynical self sadly must conclude that they are all puppets of the Military Industrial Complex that Eisenhower warned us about. They are backing Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Libya, Syria, and elsewhere so that we can have a huge war in the Middle East and for defense contractors---"War is GREAT for business" !!! I sincerely hope that I'm wrong.

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