KICKIN' AND SCREAMIN'...........

Take a couple seconds and take this USA Today Poll on the Second Amendment.

Remember when Barack HUSSEIN Obama (mmm, mmm, mmm) promised to hold accountable those responsible for what happened with the panty-bomber?

In the words of Emily Litella, “never mind!”

A White House report on the foiled Christmas Day attempted airliner bombing provided only the sketchiest of details about what may have been the most politically sensitive of its findings: how the White House itself was repeatedly warned about the prospect of an attack on the U.S. homeland by Al Qaeda operatives in Yemen.

There was, U.S. intelligence officials emphasize, no “smoking gun” or “tactical” piece of intelligence that would have alerted the White House that Al Qaeda was plotting to blow up a U.S.-bound civilian aircraft during the holiday season.

This is probably how Obama’s strategists are looking into it:

 
And their eco-terrorist pals are doing this:

Progressive mouthpiece James Carville, appearing on the Tony Kornheiser show earlier today, discussed his views on airport security. According to the post, he was quoted as saying “let me buy a card, then go and measure my penis, and let me get on the airplane.”

People like Carville are known for their big fat mouths, not for any other body parts. I suspect that the reason the TSA would decline Mr. Carville’s suggestion is because they simply do not have the resources to purchase and equip their high quality employees with microscopes. 

I read an interesting commentary of a concept floated at Huffing & Puffington Post on Dec 29^th. It involves moving your money out of the big, bailed out, Wall Street banks and depositing it into local banks. That sounds like a pretty good concept, right?

According to James Joyner in a post on his Outside the Beltway blog, it may not be such a good idea, and definitely not right for everyone. True it does involve a symbolic bank run; really it’s more like a withdrawal tax. He cites a post by Felix Samon which claims that “moving banks is hard and people are lazy.”

Dr. Joyner states that local banks are hurting just like their big brothers on Wall Street. I am reasonably certain that a massive infusion of cash, withdrawn from the big banks and deposited into local banks, holds the potential to ease some, if not all of the pain felt by local financial institutions.

The daunting task of finding a local bank or credit union that offers online banking, convenient hours, and other services at competitive rates may prove too complex for some people. I’m not ready to assume that my fellow citizens are either too lazy, or too incompetent to close one bank account and open another.

I opened a couple of accounts with Citibank when they offered better rates on money market accounts and CDs. After Citi’s fall from the pinnacle of the financial services world, they lowered the rates they paid me for letting them loan out my money. That was understandable, but then they started charging me monthly fees for allowing them to use my money.

Using bing, it took all of a couple of minutes of my time to find a locally owned bank in my metropolitan area of 1.7 million people that did not find it necessary to steal money from the taxpayer to cover their bad loans and poor business decisions.

After presenting all of the documentation the government requires of its citizens to prove they are here legally (hmm… fodder for a later post), it took another 15 minutes to open an account and establish my online banking access.

Once that was done, I logged onto my Citibank account and affected the transfer of my money from the big, bailed out bank, to the locally owned bank that did not need to accept a bailout at taxpayer expense.

It may be seen as only a symbolic gesture to some, but I like the thought of keeping my money in my local area. I earn my money locally. I save my money locally. I spend my money locally when possible.

Move your money or not — the choice is yours.

There ya go boys and girls. Those nice pink folks at the EU are going to allow OUR guys to search banks here in the UK if needed.
Umm … shouldn’t that be decided by the Brits and not ppl outside it’s own borders? Altho personally I think the CIA should be free to do pretty much what they wanna do where terrorism is concerned. Yeah I know. Leaves me open to serious and honest questions about where I’m willing to put myself vs freedoms and rights etc. So maybe I’m a tad OTT. Anyway, I just thought it was weird that Brussels could decide that. Maybe not in todays world.

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Brussels gives CIA the power to search UK bank records

David Leppard
The Times

THE CIA is to be given broad access to the bank records of millions of Britons under a European Union plan to fight terrorism.
The Brussels agreement, which will come into force in two months’ time, requires the 27 EU member states to grant requests for banking information made by the United States under its terrorist finance tracking programme.
In a little noticed information note released last week, the EU said it had agreed that Europeans would be compelled to release the information to the CIA “as a matter of urgency”. The records will be kept in a US database for five years before being deleted.
Critics say the system is “lopsided” because there is no reciprocal arrangement under which the UK authorities can easily access the bank accounts of US citizens in America.

They also say the plan to sift through cross-border and domestic EU bank accounts gives US intelligence more scope to consult our bank accounts than is granted to law enforcement agencies in the UK or the rest of Europe.

In Britain and most of Europe a judge must authorise a specific search after receiving a sworn statement from a police officer.
This weekend civil liberties groups and privacy campaigners said the surveillance programme, introduced as an emergency measure in 2001, was being imposed on Britain without a proper debate.
Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, said: “The massive scope for transferring personal information from Europe to the United States is extremely worrying, especially in the absence of public debate or parliamentary scrutiny either at EU or domestic level.
“No one is saying that allies should not co-operate, but where is the privacy protection? Where are the judicial safeguards in such a sweeping scheme?
“This looks like yet another example of lopsided post-9/11 compromise and of the ease with which temporary emergency measures are foisted on us permanently.”
US counter-terrorism officials say the data-mining programme aims to trace the transactions of people suspected of having ties to Al-Qaeda.
They say it helped to thwart a plot by an Islamist terror cell in Britain to blow up seven aircraft flying from London to the United States in 2006.
The terrorist finance tracking programme mines thousands of transactions by sifting through records from the nerve centre of the global banking industry, a Belgian co-operative known as Swift. This routes about £3 billion between banks and other financial institutions each day.
According to the EU information note, the United States can request “general data sets” under the scheme based on broad categories including “relevant message types, geography and perceived terrorism threats”.
The scheme is run out of the CIA’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia. The covert spying operation remained secret until 2006.

Yeah well, ok. Then I guess I’m a Nazi and I have lots of company, cos there’s nothing the left says that I believe. Oh wait, I can believe they want what they say they do. Seems like it’s automatic. Don’t agree with some stand they take and instead of debating the point, they slap labels on ppl.
This is a VERY long editorial from Norway with regard to the recent vote on minarets in Switzerland. The rest is at the link. Way to long to post here.

Why the Swiss Were Right to Prohibit Construction of Minarets

Pajamas Media
By Hege Storhaug

Islam, unlike Christianity, has a political dimension that the West must reject

The European media are crowded with editorials condemning the Swiss for voting to prohibit the construction of any more minarets in their country. Here in Norway, the newspaper Dagsavisen went furthest of all, devoting its entire front page on Monday to a comparison of the entire nation of Switzerland with Nazi brownshirts. The front-page illustration did not admit to misinterpretation: the Swiss were Nazis, period.

Virtually all of the media went on autopilot in their abuse of the Swiss. What is at issue is the supposedly “sacred” freedom of religion, which has become an icon especially among left-wing intellectuals and the European niceness industry as a whole. But hold it for one second: As far as I’ve noticed, no major commentator or intellectual who has blasted Switzerland for this plebiscite has taken into account Islam’s political content. Can anyone in my own country of Norway, for example, point to a single — I repeat, a single – Muslim congregation within our borders that is secular? That is, a single congregation that rejects sharia and Islam’s political ambitions?

In any event, thanks to the Swiss minaret vote, Islam and Christianity are yet again being brought together in a forced marriage. A minaret, we keep being told, is just like a church spire. Nothing new there: When it comes to Islam, the editorialists, columnists, and talking heads simply can’t or won’t face reality. These “decent” people are appalled by the Swiss people’s rejection of minarets — period. Yes, I’ll be the first to admit that the case is a disagreeable one — but if so, it’s because Islam is itself disagreeable. To put it bluntly, a mosque with minarets is not the equivalent of a church with a spire. Why? Because Europe’s churches have no political agenda, and because they aren’t obsessed with the painstaking study of ancient “divine” laws that are consistently placed above secular law.

It is precisely this disagreeable aspect of Islam, in contrast with Christianity, that I think we would profit by discussing openly and honestly. Because if I could be sure that a Muslim congregation (with or without its own minaret, even though the minaret adds an extra dose of religio-political power) was founded on the same freedom-based values as, say, the Norwegian state church, and that any “struggle” involving that community was limited to arguments about things like same-sex marriage and whether Muhammed was born of a virgin, they could build as many minarets in my neighborhood as they wanted – because in that case Islam would not represent a challenge to Norwegian liberty and democracy. But unfortunately Islam does represent a challenge. Therefore I pose this challenge to the elite of my country: Of the over 100 Muslim congregations in Norway, name one that will forever fight tooth and nail against sharia and for a secular Norway. If such a faith community exists, it’s doing a very good job of keeping itself hidden.

You’ll find the rest of this HERE

Oh boy. I’ve seen that district (NO, not as a client) and had forgotten all about it. Many years ago while on tour our booking agent took us thru the district. For an American, it was an eye opener cos I never knew such places existed. There these girls were, behind large picture like windows, house after house. No, we didn’t go in any of em.
So anyway, getting back to this … I wonder if by chance after their meeting is over, we’ll suddenly hear about some scandal of some sort.
Be fun if it happened and I’ll be truthful, I hope it does. Their holier then thou preaching and making climate change a moral issue would be fun to deflate. I guess you can tell I am not too fond of those folks.

Copenhagen mayor pleads with climate change delegates not to use prostitutes… as sex workers offer their service free

By Daily Mail Reporter
Sunday Mail

Copenhagen’s Lord Mayor has written to all 500 climate change delegates pleading with them to abstain from using services of the city’s ‘unsustainable’ prostitutes.

Ritt Bjerregaard, who is hosting her own climate conference for mayors, said: ‘As mayor I have a duty over which image of Copenhagen will be shown during the summit and I think it’s deplorable that you can buy a woman for sex.’

A sex workers organisation has responded by urging its members to offer free sex to anyone attending the meeting .

The city council contacted 160 hotels asking them not to arrange prostitutes for guests attending the conference.
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Copenhagen’s Ritt Bjerregaard said: ‘I think it¿s deplorable that you can buy a woman for sex’

Together with the anti-trafficking organisation, The Nest International, and tourism group Wonderful Copenhagen, it issued postcards featuring the slogan, ‘Be sustainable – don’t buy sex’, which been distributed to hotels.

A sex workers interest organisation, SIO, has hit out at claims that sex tourism increases during high-level summits.

SIO spokeswoman Susanne Møller said: ‘It’s completely discriminatory. Ritt Bjerregaard is abusing her position when she uses her power to prevent us from carrying out our legal work.

‘I don’t understand how she can be allowed to contact people in this way – we have to defend ourselves.’

The group has now decided to offer a free service to people who present one of the council’s anti-prostitution postcards, along with their official summit ID during the two-week conference.

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Explanation: Andromeda is the nearest major galaxy to our own Milky Way Galaxy. Our Galaxy is thought to look much like Andromeda. Together these two galaxies dominate the Local Group of galaxies. The diffuse light from Andromeda is caused by the hundreds of billions of stars that compose it. The several distinct stars that surround Andromeda’s image are actually stars in our Galaxy that are well in front of the background object. Andromeda is frequently referred to as M31 since it is the 31st object on Messier’s list of diffuse sky objects. M31 is so distant it takes about two million years for light to reach us from there. Although visible without aid, the above image of M31 is a digital mosaic of 20 frames taken with a small telescope. Much about M31 remains unknown, including how it acquired its unusual double-peaked center

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Under normal circumstances I would say, “Un-freakin’-believable,” but these are hardly normal times – and the following occurred in the UK, where everything but normalcy, it seems, rules the day.

Woman who dropped memory stick at airport admits terror charges

‘Mini-encyclopaedia of weapons-making’ fell from burka during interview at Liverpool John Lennon airport

* Helen Carter
* guardian.co.uk, Monday 2 November 2009 15.17 GMT

A woman who accidentally dropped a computer memory stick containing “a mini-encyclopaedia of weapons-making” from beneath her burka while she was being interviewed at an airport admitted two terror charges today when she appeared in court.

Houria Chahed Chentouf, 41, a mother of six from Manchester, entered the guilty pleas at Manchester crown court to charges under the Terrorism Act 2000 of possessing an article which gave rise to suspicions that “the possession was for a purpose connected with the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism”.

The court heard she accidentally dropped a memory stick containing the documents when she was being questioned at Liverpool John Lennon airport on October 16 last year after arriving on a flight from Amsterdam. The memory stick, which had been concealed in her clothing, contained more than 7,000 files including an explosives manual for “The Brothers of the Mujahadeen”. The device had been tied to an inner sleeve of her burka, but fell out as she reached down to scratch her leg, prosecutor Simon Denison told the court. The following day she was arrested at her home in Longsight.

A search of the rented property unearthed a handwritten note in which she said she and her children would be “bombs for the sake of this religion”. Another document contained information about the military use of electronics, the court heard.

Evidence was also uncovered from internet chatroom sites which indicated her support for those seeking martyrdom. Chentouf, who is a Moroccan national, has previously lived in The Hague, Netherlands, for more than 20 years.

Now, here’s the part that, no matter how many times I see these soft-cock sentences handed down by soft-cock justice systems (such as what passes for a justice system in places like the UK) – leaves me beyond bemused and totally befuddled.

How long of a sentence do you think this piece of North African muslim offal received? Go on – take a guess before you click to find out.
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Watch for Joe Biden.
 

Pastor shoots, wounds intruder at Detroit church.

DETROIT – A retired police officer-turned-pastor shot and wounded a man who broke into his Detroit church, police said Monday.

Lawrence Adams went to Westside Bible Church on Sunday evening and found the intruder inside the building, said Detroit police Sgt. Eren Stephens. The man began swinging an object at the retired police lieutenant, who pulled out a handgun and shot him in the abdomen, he said.

“The pastor identified himself as a retired policeman. The guy kept swinging,” Adams’ wife, Iris, told The Associated Press Monday. The pastor, who was not injured, was licensed to carry the handgun, police said.

Now, before anybody starts crying and saying that’s “not Christian”, you better read the Gospells first.   You’ll find out that the Apostles were usually armed when they traveled with Jesus.  Peter was armed when the soldiers came for Jesus; he cut off a soldiers ear.   One of Jesus’s last commands to his disciples was to sell their coat and buy a sword.    2000 years ago, the most deadly weapon a man could carry was a sword.

This from the book:  “In the President’s Secret Service: Behind the Scenes With Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect

Ronald Reagan received Secret Service protection for the first time when he ran unsuccessfully for the GOP presidential nomination in 1976. One day as he was preparing to drive from his Los Angeles home to his ranch near Santa Barbara, an agent noticed that he was wearing a gun and asked what it was for.

“Well, just in case you guys can’t do the job, I can help out,” Reagan replied.

Years later, he confided to an agent that on his first presidential trip to the Soviet Union in May 1988, he had carried a gun in his briefcase.

Found this at Newsmax.com

Though town halls are American as apple pie and one of the great examples of direct democracy, Democratic congressmen are thinking of trashing the concept, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Democrats have been holding town hall meetings in an effort to build support for healthcare-reform legislation, but opponents have been attending the events and voicing their opposition.

As a result, Democrats are reconsidering the town hall format for alternatives such as audio conferences and invitation-only small-group meetings.

Read the full story in the Wall Street Journal.

I think this is great and I sincerely hope they do it.  I also hope Republicans will continue to hold open town hall meetings.  By next year sufficient numbers of people in America will be able to see the closed door secrecy of the Democrats and vote their butts out of office.

I’ve looked at quite a few of the video’s of the town hall meetings where citizens are protesting Obamacare.   Nancy Pisslosi says people are showing up with swastika’s.   This is the only readily recognisable symbol I’ve seen any American Citizen wearing.

That’s the symbol of the United States Air Force of which I proudly wear and stand behind.   I wonder if Nancy has someting against the USAF?

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

Doesn’t this sound like the Czars of Obama?

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance

The above statement was taken from the Declaration of Independence and was one of the grievances our Forefathers had agains the King of England.