tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-297997872024-03-07T00:54:22.261-08:00Hey dude, where's my country?"The People are the masters of both Congress and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it!" Abraham Lincoln...
”As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
- H.L. MenckenBobkatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17388159713103123175noreply@blogger.comBlogger441125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29799787.post-86087273753250529902011-09-11T09:20:00.001-07:002011-09-11T11:48:29.998-07:00You Can Call Me Al
This is Al Sharpton:
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This is Al Sharpton on drugs:
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Please click on Mp3 thumbnail and click on the play arrow.
MP3 courtesy of the NO AGENDA podcast.Bobkatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17388159713103123175noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29799787.post-73837755827266136012011-08-23T12:14:00.000-07:002011-08-23T12:14:23.734-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://articles.cnn.com/2011-08-16/us/new.york.911.memorial_1_john-feal-responders-ground-zero?_s=PM:US">CNN</a>
When debris rained from the sky in lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001, the first responders to the terrorist attack did not turn away. They rushed to the World Trade Center buildings while the world around them crumbled.
Yet now, after all the wreckage has been cleared and the rebuilding has begun, their path is again blocked -- not by flying chunks of smoldering rubble, but by space constraints.
The first responders are not invited to this year's September 11 memorial ceremony at ground zero, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's office confirmed Monday.<br />
In a statement, Bloomberg spokesman Andrew Brent said the commemoration ceremony is for the victims' families.
"While we are again focused on accommodating victims' family members, given the space constraints, we're working to find ways to recognize and honor first responders, and other groups, at different places and times," Brent said.
In addition to the victims' families, several politicians, including two presidents, are expected to be in attendance.<br />
Bloomberg's office would not provide specifics on the ceremony's arrangements, but did note that the first responders have not been invited to the preceding nine memorial services, either.
Bobkatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17388159713103123175noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29799787.post-9282409494176780022011-08-19T13:52:00.000-07:002011-08-19T13:52:12.145-07:00The Media Fiddled While Rome BurnedIf you don't know by now why we are sliding into the abyss, look at part of this and tell me if Walter Kronkite
(yeah I know, big globalist) or Ed Murrow would act like this.
Now back to Libya where children are being killed by Obama's roving death squads.
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<a href="http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/omkara/2011/aug/6/rawsome-foods-raided-sad-day-america/">The Washington Times.</a>
For the second time in a year a California business was raided, it's owner jailed and his inventory destroyed. What was his crime? Drug dealer? Chop shop? No he operates a private, members only, food co-op. That's right he had the nerve to offer the people of Venice the ability to safely purchase organic, non-GMO milk, cheese, and other farm goods. Authorities conducted the raid with weapons drawn and disabled security cameras to seemingly hide infractions during the raid. No health issues nor complaints have ever been filed against the club, and raw milk is legal in California. The issue stems from members of the club entering into a “herdshare arrangement” in which they paid a local farmer to board and milk their dairy goats. California authorities deny the legal legitimacy of herdshare arrangements, stating that such herdshares are unlicensed dairies.
STEP BY STEP, INCH BY INCH WE ARE TURNING INTO A CORRUPT POLICE STATE. Our scarce resources are being wasted turning local law enforcement into jack booted thugs who deem it necessary to SWAT team a group of Amish farmers (google it) or hippy organic food fanatics.
When will we say NO-STOP this is AMERICA not Russia?Bobkatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17388159713103123175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29799787.post-41318584052587607092011-08-17T14:35:00.000-07:002011-08-17T14:35:31.618-07:00Demand Justice For Those That Defend America<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a haref="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-atf-guns-20110816,0,7676977.story" href="">L.A. Times.</a><br /><br />By Richard A. Serrano, Washington Bureau<br /><br />August 16, 2011<br />Reporting from Washington—<br />The ATF has promoted three key supervisors of a controversial sting operation that allowed firearms to be illegally trafficked across the U.S. border into Mexico.<br /><br />All three have been heavily criticized for pushing the program forward even as it became apparent that it was out of control. At least 2,000 guns were lost and many turned up at crime scenes in Mexico and two at the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona.<br /><br />McMahon was promoted Sunday to deputy assistant director of the ATF's Office of Professional Responsibility and Security Operations — the division that investigates misconduct by employees and other problems.<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">McMahon and his cohorts are accessorites to multiple murders. To Promote these heinous criminals makes a travesty of the U.S. Legal system. We must demand the trial and punishment of all those involved including Obama, Holder, and every ATF agent that went along with this obviious illegal activity.</span>Bobkatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17388159713103123175noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29799787.post-49868412588987401902011-07-03T23:16:00.001-07:002011-07-03T23:16:45.672-07:00Happy Birthday America<object width="480" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.history.com/flash/VideoPlayer.swf?vid=71189667301"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.history.com/flash/VideoPlayer.swf?vid=71189667301" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="480" height="340"></embed></object>Bobkatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17388159713103123175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29799787.post-7342877343559419332011-06-25T22:01:00.000-07:002011-06-25T22:01:47.181-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQJhU_7s9rlqPxxDkezSb1q9VhZafKuDS1m7IsMrPo5OPqKzFAyOKPdLn4lTzuqPnwZZdufIFPvu8CO4PhP8r_tmQdVZqRLMqrVn7LCWJwQrt4Lrb8aCUDcJmwuJwJ1mhw3M2pKw/s1600/62632499.jpg" imageanchor="1" style=""><img border="0" height="206" width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQJhU_7s9rlqPxxDkezSb1q9VhZafKuDS1m7IsMrPo5OPqKzFAyOKPdLn4lTzuqPnwZZdufIFPvu8CO4PhP8r_tmQdVZqRLMqrVn7LCWJwQrt4Lrb8aCUDcJmwuJwJ1mhw3M2pKw/s320/62632499.jpg" /></a></div> Eric Gay / Associated Press / August 13, 2009<br />
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<a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-atf-guns-20110624,0,7283758.story">By Richard A. Serrano, Washington Bureau</a><br />
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June 24, 2011<br />
Reporting from Washington—<br />
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The acting director of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is strongly resisting pressure to step down because of growing controversy over the agency's surveillance program that allowed U.S. guns to flow unchecked into Mexico, according to several federal sources in Washington.<br />
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Kenneth E. Melson, who has run the bureau for two years, is reportedly eager to testify to Congress about the extent of his and other officials' involvement in the operation, code-named Fast and Furious.<br />
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Melson does not want to be "the fall guy" for the program, under which ATF agents allowed straw purchasers to acquire more than 1,700 AK-47s and other high-powered rifles from Arizona gun dealers, the sources said. The idea was to track the guns to drug cartel leaders. But that goal proved elusive, and the guns turned up at shootings in Mexico, as well as at the slaying in Arizona of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in December.<br />
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<b>How long before this guy has an "accident"?</b>Bobkatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17388159713103123175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29799787.post-43308953259563675042011-06-25T18:58:00.000-07:002011-06-25T18:58:08.751-07:00It's Not Easy Being Green<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFlFj0G7GGL59Sfonf2L5Lvr0jE8e5xiCEVqb_Q6FkLxZvuO6Fh9Nb0VZlSU0eKvUt_OxEB8_JfLbIy2ImAVbbcTZdiZZ8IgYDdemgl_K1QJdl87XBglZMhNg2uscWjmws7Mki6Q/s1600/HillaryClinton.limo_.JPG" imageanchor="1" style=""><img border="0" height="199" width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFlFj0G7GGL59Sfonf2L5Lvr0jE8e5xiCEVqb_Q6FkLxZvuO6Fh9Nb0VZlSU0eKvUt_OxEB8_JfLbIy2ImAVbbcTZdiZZ8IgYDdemgl_K1QJdl87XBglZMhNg2uscWjmws7Mki6Q/s320/HillaryClinton.limo_.JPG" /></a></div>By Joe Eaton:<br />
<a href="http://www.iwatchnews.org/2011/05/31/4765/limousine-liberals-number-government-owned-limos-has-soared-under-obama">Limousines</a>, the very symbol of wealth and excess, are usually the domain of corporate executives and the rich. But the number of limos owned by Uncle Sam increased by 73 percent during the first two years of the Obama administration, according to an analysis of records by iWatch News.<br />
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Most of the increase was recorded in Hillary Clinton’s State Department.<br />
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Obama administration officials said most of the increase reflects an enhanced effort to protect diplomats and other government officials in a dangerous world. But a watchdog group says the abundance of limos sends the wrong message in the midst of a budget crisis. The increase in limos comes to light on the heels of an executive order from President Obama last week that charges agencies to increase the fuel efficiency of their fleets. <br />
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According to General Services Administration data , the number of limousines in the federal fleet increased from 238 in fiscal 2008, the last year of the George W. Bush administration, to 412 in 2010. Much of the 73 percent increase—111 of the 174 additional limos—took place in fiscal 2009, more than eight months of which corresponded with Obama’s first year in office. However, some of those purchases could reflect requests made by the Bush administration during an appropriations process that would have begun in the spring of 2008. <br />
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The department said it defines a limo as a vehicle that carries a VIP or “other protectee,” rather than by the type of car, but said most of its limos are Cadillac DTSs, which cost the taxpayer more than $60,000 for a 2011 base model and support the additional weight of armoring. The department said it also purchased a limited number of 7-Series BMWs for ambassadors in countries where vehicles are right-hand drive. <br />
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LET THEN EAT CAKEBobkatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17388159713103123175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29799787.post-78609074003876409922011-06-22T13:05:00.001-07:002011-06-22T13:05:40.445-07:00Keep An Eye On Senate Bill 978From <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110601/01515014500/senators-want-to-put-people-jail-embedding-youtube-videos.shtml">Techdirt.</a><br />
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Senators Want To Put People In Jail For Embedding YouTube Videos<br />
from the not-understanding-the-technology dept<br />
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Okay, this is just getting ridiculous. A few weeks back, we noted that Senators Amy Klobuchar, John Cornyn and Christopher Coons had proposed a new bill that was designed to make "streaming" infringing material a felony. At the time, the actual text of the bill wasn't available, but we assumed, naturally, that it would just extend "public performance" rights to section 506a of the Copyright Act. <br />
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Supporters of this bill claim that all it's really doing is harmonizing US copyright law's civil and criminal sections. After all, the rights afforded under copyright law in civil cases cover a list of rights: reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works or perform the work. The rules for criminal infringement only cover reproducing and distributing -- but not performing. So, supporters claim, all this does is "harmonize" copyright law and bring the criminal side into line with the civil side by adding "performance rights" to the list of things. <br />
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And it gets worse. Because rather than just (pointlessly) adding "performance" to the list, the bill tries to also define what constitutes a potential felony crime in these circumstances:<br />
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the offense consists of 10 or more public performances by electronic means, during any 180-day period, of 1 or more copyrighted works <br />
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So yeah. If you embed a YouTube video that turns out to be infringing, and more than 10 people view it because of your link... you could be facing five years in jail. This is, of course, ridiculous, and suggests (yet again) politicians who are regulating a technology they simply do not understand. Should it really be a criminal act to embed a YouTube video, even if you don't know it was infringing...? This could create a massive chilling effect to the very useful service YouTube provides in letting people embed videos.Bobkatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17388159713103123175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29799787.post-69808764653962999022011-06-22T12:50:00.000-07:002011-06-22T12:50:35.657-07:00Happy Birthday IBM<iframe width="490" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/39jtNUGgmd4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><br />IBM celebrates 100 years.<br />This video is very interesting, but more interesting are the negative comments on the video. Worth a look.Bobkatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17388159713103123175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29799787.post-36135326813665183132011-06-10T22:22:00.000-07:002011-06-10T22:22:14.940-07:00June 6th 1944-D-Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLAQux9Qv7wAf7P0dz17OzHetehhyy1E9v0SPS2mEJ0GeK4gKgS7AjSEufUXUq10usR4jHBvEDfJZh3ktVxn5wRfc2dqDK8pZubw6FOhbXu5zF5CJKfPDV1li8MzOG9W2Y2o2Y5Q/s1600/www.seattlepi.com.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:right; float:right; margin-left:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="213" width="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLAQux9Qv7wAf7P0dz17OzHetehhyy1E9v0SPS2mEJ0GeK4gKgS7AjSEufUXUq10usR4jHBvEDfJZh3ktVxn5wRfc2dqDK8pZubw6FOhbXu5zF5CJKfPDV1li8MzOG9W2Y2o2Y5Q/s320/www.seattlepi.com.jpg" /></a></div><br />
From the <a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Exhibit-marks-67th-anniversary-of-D-Day-landings-1410407.php">Seattle P.I.</a><br />
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CRICQUEVILLE-EN-BESSIN, France (AP) — World War II veterans and Sen. John Kerry are commemorating the D-Day landings in Normandy at an iconic and eroding cliff.<br />
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The visit is one of several events along the coast Monday marking 67 years since Allied forces landed on a swath of beaches in Nazi-occupied France. The June, 6, 1944, invasion and ensuing battle for Normandy helped change the course of the war.<br />
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An installation of 1,000 casts of Russian, German and American combat helmets of WWII which also represent turtles, to denounce global violence, created by French artist Rachid Khimoune, is seen on Omaha Beach in Colleville sur Mer, western France, Sunday, June 5, 2011 at the eve of the D-Day Anniversary. Photo: Vincent Michel / AP<br />
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Sorry but I'm less than impressed with these silly looking monuments to our finest.Bobkatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17388159713103123175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29799787.post-42113678928356706702011-06-10T02:40:00.000-07:002011-06-10T02:40:40.647-07:00Yea But He's No William Hung.Don't forget the Kleenex.<br />
<iframe width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/O0n0vSAqdL0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Bobkatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17388159713103123175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29799787.post-27146890178283352312011-06-08T11:06:00.000-07:002011-06-08T11:06:09.257-07:00We Are The Cyclists<iframe width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1s0XsulDXtk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Bobkatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17388159713103123175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29799787.post-29961836765602361182011-06-04T22:20:00.000-07:002011-06-04T22:20:27.852-07:00Teacher-My Homework Was Hacked.Enough has been made of Weinergate. <br />
I wonder if <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/06/01/reuters-labels-weiner-republican-headline#ixzz1O7u6lxEy">Reuters</a> has been hacked by the same people?<br />
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<a href="http://en.rian.ru/world/20110529/164302079.html">RT America</a> TV anchor detained over dancing at Jefferson Memorial.<br />
If you don't know, RT is Russia Television.<br />
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An anchor of satellite TV channel RT America's political show Adam VS The Man, Adam Kokesh was arrested on Saturday during the silent dancing flashmob at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, RT said in a statement on Sunday.<br />
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Kokesh, along with the other participants, was arrested after he had started silently dancing at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial protesting the U.S. District court's decision that imposes a ban on dancing within the memorial.Bobkatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17388159713103123175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29799787.post-58159483861985173652011-05-29T20:37:00.000-07:002011-05-29T20:37:50.783-07:00To Those That Gave Their All<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisy8AsyQ5y2iWJmCs2pFAeSDrEX4G6xrENsCUlpwFDHXTChzC1bQctTOV5TMaGT45kaonty5ggKxN-DsxR9gw9nkMEulV4_WhwEDKx6wjGjHMWNu0UtUVi_x0GGPvVnhGp3aRQZQ/s1600/Memorial-Day-in-the-Nations-Capital_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisy8AsyQ5y2iWJmCs2pFAeSDrEX4G6xrENsCUlpwFDHXTChzC1bQctTOV5TMaGT45kaonty5ggKxN-DsxR9gw9nkMEulV4_WhwEDKx6wjGjHMWNu0UtUVi_x0GGPvVnhGp3aRQZQ/s320/Memorial-Day-in-the-Nations-Capital_1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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A shrine dedicated to the POW/MIA soldiers of the Vietnam and Korean Wars sits with a backdrop of an American flag on the mall, May 25, 1998. The shrine was constructed by the Massachusetts Vigil Society for Memorial Day. UPI ms/Michael SmithBobkatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17388159713103123175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29799787.post-48758798672091123372011-05-28T23:56:00.000-07:002011-05-28T23:56:24.722-07:00Oldie But Goody<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/1JSBhI_0at0" width="480"></iframe><br />
I'm not a big fan of the music but I love the video.Bobkatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17388159713103123175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29799787.post-24546196222031465372011-05-28T12:12:00.000-07:002011-05-28T12:12:19.998-07:00Messing With TexasThe TSA is another agency that needs to be abolished.<br />
Insisting that the states have no right to restrict the pedofiles perverts groping and viewing naked body scans, the TSA threatened to impose a "No Fly Zone" on Texas.<br />
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<a href="http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/government/fraud/state/news.php?q=1306601069">House Bill 1937</a>, which was passed by the House earlier this month, would make it a misdemeanor offense for a federal security agent to “intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly [touch] the anus, sexual organ, buttocks, or breast of the other person, including touching through clothing, or touching the other person in a manner that would be offensive to a reasonable person.” <br />
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The bill in the house passed unanimously but when it reached the senate it was scheduled to pass until the representative of the TSA visited the Texas chamber and a U.S. Attorney sent them a threatning letter.<br />
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We all know what happens when Obama imposes a "No Fly Zone", bombs to follow.<br />
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REMEMBER THE ALAMO!Bobkatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17388159713103123175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29799787.post-4897052529280934582011-05-28T11:55:00.001-07:002011-05-28T11:55:58.249-07:00Ban Homeland Security- Now.Here is just another example of why Home Land Security must be abolished.<br />
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<a href="http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2011/may/28/illegal-immigration-law-impeded-governor-says/">COLUMBIA</a> -- Gov. Nikki Haley said Friday that South Carolina's two dozen illegal immigration enforcement agents were blocked by the Obama administration from enforcing the state's law banning business from hiring undocumented workers.<br />
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, part of President Barack Obama's Cabinet, told the state it could not use E-Verify documentation to enforce South Carolina's immigration law. But Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court ruling on a similar law in Arizona upheld a state's right to rely on the online system that uses Social Security numbers to screen new workers to see if they are legally in the country. <br />
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More than 200,000 businesses use E-Verify, and it is considered the most reliable source in South Carolina, where about half of the driver's licenses from other states don't pass muster. The U.S. Supreme Court found E-Verify to be the best and most efficient way for employers to verify an individual's work eligibility.Bobkatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17388159713103123175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29799787.post-76748887762446255102011-05-28T11:42:00.000-07:002011-05-28T11:42:54.485-07:00Lipstick On A Pig<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0" height="412" id="flashObj" width="486"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="videoId=958285024001&playerID=19407224001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAETmrZQ~,EVFEM4AKJdQtJLv7zbMPiBGChHKnGYSG&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="videoId=958285024001&playerID=19407224001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAETmrZQ~,EVFEM4AKJdQtJLv7zbMPiBGChHKnGYSG&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="486" height="412" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" swLiveConnect="true" allowScriptAccess="always" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object><br />
Our Boob In Chief and another one of his gaffs. Timing really is everything.Bobkatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17388159713103123175noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29799787.post-32110804050689042312011-05-27T22:06:00.000-07:002011-05-27T22:06:10.913-07:00The Final Nail In The Coffin!<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/RoMJMkBfEWU" width="480"></iframe><br />
Ron Paul-The only one that really gets it.Bobkatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17388159713103123175noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29799787.post-36323989071090430402011-05-26T11:53:00.000-07:002011-05-26T11:53:27.042-07:00From The Mouths Of Canadians<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3b56e0u0EgQ" width="480"></iframe>Bobkatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17388159713103123175noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29799787.post-61911297158428594352011-05-20T01:45:00.000-07:002011-05-20T01:45:22.469-07:00Hail Mr. TransparentOK so I'm beating a dead horse-Barack Obama promised to have the most open and transparent administration of all time. Perhaps we should call Mister Obama, Mr. Orwell. It's seems that almost everything uttered out of the man is Newspeak. Totally opposite of what he promises.<br />
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If he is not banning the <a href="http://boston.com/community/blogs/gatekeeper/2011/05/white_house_snub_makes_boston.html">Boston Herald</a> reporter from the fundraiser in Boston he is locking <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1370371/Vice-President-Joe-Bidens-staff-lock-journalist-closet-stop-talking-guests.html">reporters</a> in closets.<br />
<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/23/110523fa_fact_mayer">President Obama</a> also has a penchant for punishing whistleblowers.<br />
One case is that of former NSA senior director Thomas Drake.<br />
The Justice Department’s indictment narrows the frame around Drake’s actions, focussing almost exclusively on his handling of what it claims are five classified documents. But Drake sees his story as a larger tale of political reprisal, one that he fears the government will never allow him to air fully in court. “I’m a target,” he said. “I’ve got a bull’s-eye on my back.” He continued, “I did not tell secrets. I am facing prison for having raised an alarm, period. I went to a reporter with a few key things: fraud, waste, and abuse, and the fact that there were legal alternatives to the Bush Administration’s ‘dark side’ ”—in particular, warrantless domestic spying by the N.S.A.<br />
The indictment portrays him not as a hero but as a treacherous man who violated “the government trust.” Drake said of the prosecutors, “They can say what they want. But the F.B.I. can find something on anyone.”<br />
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When President Barack Obama took office, in 2009, he championed the cause of government transparency, and spoke admiringly of whistle-blowers, whom he described as “often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government.” But the Obama Administration has pursued leak prosecutions with a surprising relentlessness. Including the Drake case, it has been using the Espionage Act to press criminal charges in five alleged instances of national-security leaks—more such prosecutions than have occurred in all previous Administrations combined. The Drake case is one of two that Obama’s Justice Department has carried over from the Bush years.<br />
Gabriel Schoenfeld, a conservative political scientist at the Hudson Institute, who, in his book “Necessary Secrets” (2010), argues for more stringent protection of classified information, says, “Ironically, Obama has presided over the most draconian crackdown on leaks in our history—even more so than Nixon.”Bobkatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17388159713103123175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29799787.post-32109781396245286922011-05-19T13:16:00.000-07:002011-05-19T13:16:21.204-07:00The Fondas Know Traitors<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSS21SGsaJ6pYq_vpwDqrzmSkNtTV5X1EAB_9lqSYDp5i64lvlb222JRp0IylV-TObsYCCOrxcQI3-vRyTedNrg51VqyMq_efoYDfZa4l-q1UE2JOPy-XTpAOqHYsqerNSkC1TYA/s1600/r4073680906.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSS21SGsaJ6pYq_vpwDqrzmSkNtTV5X1EAB_9lqSYDp5i64lvlb222JRp0IylV-TObsYCCOrxcQI3-vRyTedNrg51VqyMq_efoYDfZa4l-q1UE2JOPy-XTpAOqHYsqerNSkC1TYA/s320/r4073680906.jpg" width="209" /></a></div><br />
It is encouraging that even the Liberals are finally scratching the veneer of Obama.<br />
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110518/ennew_afp/entertainmentfilmfestivalcannesusobamafonda_20110518154556">CANNES,</a> France (AFP) – Peter Fonda launched a four-letter attack on US President Barack Obama at the Cannes film festival on Wednesday, calling him a traitor over the handling of the aftermath of the Gulf oil spill.<br />
Fonda -- a keen environmentalist and co-producer of the film which centres on the explosion of the BP oil rig Deepwater Horizon, the ensuing spill and its consequences -- accused Washington of trying to gag reporting on the issue.<br />
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"I sent an email to President Obama saying, 'You are a f(expletive) traitor,' using those words... 'You're a traitor, you allowed foreign boots on our soil telling our military -- in this case the coastguard -- what they can and could not do, and telling us, the citizens of the United States, what we could or could not do'."<br />
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Fonda, who said he sent the email last week, appears in "The Big Fix" trying to get on to Louisiana beaches to assess the impact of the biggest oil spill in US history, only to be turned away by BP clean-up personnel.<br />
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Speaking at a press event at the American Pavilion to promote the film, Fonda denounced BP as "a bunch of Brits -- I thought we kicked them out a long time ago. They tried to get back in in 1812, but they didn't make it."<br />
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<a href="http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2011/05/west_obama_a_bl.html">Cornel West</a>, a Princeton University professor and leading black intellectual, is harshly criticizing President Obama, a candidate he once supported but now calls “a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats.”<br />
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West, a former Harvard University professor, said during an interview with the website Truthdig posted yesterday that the president has not been true to his race.<br />
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“I think my dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men,” West said. “It’s understandable. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, he’s always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white…When he meets an independent black brother, it is frightening.”Bobkatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17388159713103123175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29799787.post-28597778324209616562011-05-14T12:51:00.000-07:002011-05-14T12:51:27.775-07:00I've Got Nothing To Hide<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw9TNIjX-w5Cp6SJT_3YPDACbX53pM3_M6o2_cLCJgNMvtGFz0CrxcRFXGjFseacFzTDl8xJ9feG3mWDXHNzzAIn0bojRDMNGgMzdW8Q1lO3Zg5FSW4iN3D14c_SMDjGaOpo5vnQ/s1600/Facebook-popup.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw9TNIjX-w5Cp6SJT_3YPDACbX53pM3_M6o2_cLCJgNMvtGFz0CrxcRFXGjFseacFzTDl8xJ9feG3mWDXHNzzAIn0bojRDMNGgMzdW8Q1lO3Zg5FSW4iN3D14c_SMDjGaOpo5vnQ/s320/Facebook-popup.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">Justin Sullivan/Getty Images</span><br />
From <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/14/technology/14facebook.html?_r=1">The New York Times.</a><br />
For years, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, has extolled the virtue of transparency, and he built Facebook accordingly. The social network requires people to use their real identity in large part because Mr. Zuckerberg says he believes that people behave better — and society will be better — if they cannot cloak their words or actions in anonymity.<br />
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“Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity,” Mr. Zuckerberg has said. <br />
Now, Facebook is being taken to task for trying to conceal its own identity as it sought to coax reporters and technology experts to write critical stories about the privacy implications of a search feature, Social Circle, from its rival, Google. <br />
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Companies in Silicon Valley and elsewhere routinely approach reporters and analysts with stories about the so-called misdeeds of their competitors. But journalism and public relations experts criticized Facebook for doing so anonymously and insisting that Burson-Marsteller not reveal its identity.Bobkatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17388159713103123175noreply@blogger.com0