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Never mind, that one has been done to death.

That first photo looks exactly like it was cobbled together out of pegboard.

I don’t understand the issue here. Would it have been better if the article wasn’t posted at all? Why do people want the poster to add a comment?

Apparently it came from Fox News.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/01/daughters-of-american-revolution-removes-all-references-to-god-jesus-christ-from-official-literature-video/

Deinstitutionalization opened the doors of all these facilities and allowed the inmates to flood into our cities. More than half of the mass shootings in the last few years were done by people who were known to be howling madmen. All of them should have been safely locked away without access to dangerous weapons, yet they were wandering the streets, free to destroy other people’s lives. Build new secure facilities and lock up the crazies within. I don’t care how much it costs. The alternative is to remove all dangerous objects from everywhere in the country so homicidal maniacs can’t get hold of them. And I for one am not interested in using blunt kindergarten scissors to cut paper.

Thanks for the link. I didn’t know about this guy.

“I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.”

- Ronald Reagan

Name on thing you disagree with in his speech.

Here are a few:

Tragically our government engages in preemptive war, otherwise known as aggression, with no complaints from the American people.

I doubt that Ron Paul can name one war in America's history that has been conducted without complaints from the American people. This is a typical statement of hyperbole from him.

Why can’t people understand that war always destroys wealth and liberty?

This is similar to the statement that "violence never solves anything," and it is just as wrong. In modern times, most implementation of war creates liberty, especially for those who are freed from tyranny.

Ron Paul makes a lot of sense most of the time, and like most conservatives, I agree with 90% of what he says. But then he makes statements like this one and we all roll our eyes:

What a wonderful world it would be if everyone accepted the simple moral premise of rejecting all acts of aggression.

Apparently he thinks that America should withdraw our troops from every corner of the globe, and things will be fine. We can sit behind our own borders and watch the rest of the world burn. We can forsake our friends, abandon our allies, and become mere observers as the planet degenerates into chaos. What Ron Paul fails to consider, over and over, is that not everyone is ready to reject acts of aggression. There are people in this world whose mentality and morality is still stuck in the 7th century AD. They are willing to employ rape and murder and decapitation to forward their agenda of enrichment or religious fascism or political superiority. For those reasons, modern countries need to maintain a defensive military capability. And when Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait or the Taliban attacks the World Trade Center, the civilized nations of the world need to bring their troops together and put an end to it. And that's exactly what happened.

It is impossible to reason with someone who is unreasonable. If a rabid dog is biting people, you don't run inside and shut the door, hoping he will bite everyone else but not you. You and your neighbors draw your weapons and you put him down, to protect yourselves and your families. Maybe someday there will be no rabies and all dogs will be friendly. But today is not that day.

Good luck in your retirement, Dr. Paul.

This is excellent! There is so much prepper information available, and it’s all different. What one person forgets to include, the next guy remembers.

Wow, there are some really great ideas here. Let me add some thoughts to help in my own way.

It’s not helpful for us to throw rocks at the Republican Party, because we are the Republican Party. If the party is going against conservative principles, and I believe it is, we need to overthrow the leadership and point it back in the right direction. Throwing support to the Libertarians or the Constitution Party or any other third party is a sure recipe for continued losses. As I understand it, the first step in the process is to volunteer to be a Precinct Committeeman. That is the “grass roots” level of party membership, the folks who get together and decide who’s going to be on the ballot for local Republican-supported positions. If the RNC wants to run a RINO for some office, the Precinct Committemen can outvote them and put in a true conservative. The organization and leadership of the county and state Republican party members are a mystery to me, but I’m sure it’s possible to find out how those are put together and run conservative candidates for those positions. I would bet that the state party leaders have something to do with selecting RNC leadership positions, so that’s the next step. It doesn’t help us to stand over here in the corner and complain about “those guys over there.” Let’s make the RNC something we can be proud of.

I’ve heard from a friend who went to some meetings with his local Congressional Representative that the House Republicans are very disillusioned with Boehner and would like to see him step down as Speaker of the House. So we may see a positive development there. I don’t know that McConnell is all that bad. Last I heard, he was still standing up to Harry Reid and vowing that Republican Senators would be part of the legislative process or there would be no process at all.

I agree with you about Marco Rubio. He is a true conservative and his background is impeccable. The worst thing I ever read about him was something about what his brother in law did once, if I recall correctly. The MSM really struggled to come up with that, and it was all they had. Drudge had a headline about him travelling to Iowa the day after the election, so he’s in people’s thoughts. Something else I was thinking about rising stars: if Allen West does lose his election, he would make an excellent RNC chairman.

I really don’t like to see people playing the race card, but at some point the Republicans may need to think about doing that in self defense. We don’t really think about race when we think about Republicans, because we’re all Americans. That opens the door for the lefties to say that the Tea Party is mostly old white guys. So we may need to form some subgroups for women and blacks and Latinos and whatever “diversity” indicators we can come up with. Then when the lefties come up with their statements that we have no “people of color” with us, the Black Republicans can issue a strongly-worded statement of indignation about the insensitivity and ignorance of Democrats.

The GOP.com website is an absolute disaster from the standpoint of campaigning. Right there on the first page they should have a group of links to stories about how Obama and the Democrats have failed to govern the country with any kind of competence. Instead, it looks like a website for people who are curious about what is a Republican and where can I go to find out? The RNC must have sent me 30-40 mailings in the last four years asking for money. It was a complete waste. They should stop all those mailings and start buying billboard space, saying things with very few words like like “Obama lost 50,000 jobs in December. RNC.ORG” And then have the same exact wording right on the front page of their website, with links to documented news stories and interviews with the affected workers. And this needs to start TODAY, not in 2015! The MSM isn’t going to talk about Obama’s failures, and lefties won’t listen to right wing talk radio, but the billboards will get their attention and maybe get us some media time too.

And no offense, but we need to communicate our ideas in plain language, not with acronyms and code words like COIN and SOF. But you are right on the money about attacks and ridicule and scorn. We are horrible at that. Instead of saying “Here’s how Republicans could do it better,” we should be saying “Look at what the Democrats have done now to screw up the country even more, those incompetent, fumble-fingered idiots.”

Good discussion, great ideas, excellent topic. Now let’s get together and make it happen!

“massive fraud....organized massive fraud on many levels...that is the explanation because I truly believe this was Mitt’s win...”

I agree completely. There were articles about buses going from one polling place to another, about poll watchers forcibly ejected from polling places, about voting machines that voted Obama no matter what choice you picked, and there are probably many more examples of fraud to be found. I believe that if we were more diligent about monitoring and reporting the election process, we could expose the Chicago-style political machinations that keep allowing the bad guys to win.

I find it very difficult to believe that the Obamaphone lady is a stronger incentive to vote than Benghazigate. It’s too much of a temptation to accuse the winning side of being made up of idiots. The left used that excuse when George Bush won both elections, and I refuse to use it for this one. Something stinks to high heaven here, and we need to develop procedures and techniques to ensure that we’re not defeated by voter fraud ever again.

I don’t visit hotair.com any more, because they require registration in order to comment, but they won’t open their registration. It’s no fun if you can’t join the conversation.

As for the “porn” label, that’s not a big thing. Search for “gun porn” and you’ll see high resolution images of guns. Search for “war porn” and you’ll see Taliban body parts flying. The word has a little different meaning when not used by itself.

Currently there are no “documents,” blurred out or otherwise, on that page. The main part of the page has a countdown timer and a Twitter window. There are some social media links, an email contact link and some Google ads at the bottom. Here’s the registration information:

Registrant:
Domains By Proxy, LLC
DomainsByProxy.com
14747 N Northsight Blvd Suite 111, PMB 309
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States

There’s not even anything surprising in the source code for the page. Presumably, in a little more than two hours, the owner is going to upload a new page so people can see the surprise. Some amateur detectives think they’ve discovered what the surprise will be:

http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/18/octsuprise-com-is-just-one-big-rick-roll-say-farkers/

“Other than being cheaper, How is a small drone any different in it’s privacy invasion than a helicopter or a light plane at high altitude or for that matter a satellite?”

It’s not any different. The only difference is the amount of high-pitched whining from all the Chicken Littles out there who think the sky is falling. Every time someone mounts a video camera in a public place, the whining starts all over again. It almost seems like the ACLU has a full-time presence here.

I think this has been spreading for quite some time. There’s a group called the “English Defence League” which has been doing the same kind of thing in England.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Defence_League

http://englishdefenceleague.org/

I love this quote from a US rabbi speaking to the EDL in 2010:

“History will be recorded that on this day, read by our children for eternity, one group lit the spark to liberate us from the oppressors of our two governments and the leftist, fifth column, quisling press, and that it was the EDL which started the liberation of England from evil.”

There are other “Defence League” type groups in several European countries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Opposition_to_Islam_in_Europe

It’s hard to tell if there’s a similar group in the US. Maybe this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Islamization_of_America

Or if you’re not prepared to go to that much trouble, try this. Start Windows Explorer. Right click on the C: drive and select “Properties.” Click the “Disk Cleanup” button and do what it says. That should take off all kinds of temporary and other files that aren’t needed and free up some space.

Different information from across the pond...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2221046/BREAKING-NEWS-Gunman-shoots-7-people-Wisconsin-mall.html

LOL, and brought to you by our City delivery boy!

Loved that episode.

It was a great comment though!

The leftie blogs are riding this story as hard as they can, but there's not much to it. I guess if your Presidential candidate is losing the debates and the polls, you need to build any small story up to larger proportions.

This article needs “[Barf Alert]” in the title.

Agreed, and I wouldn’t call it “bullying” either. It sounds like two feuding families that are each trying to score some points against the other.

@AnnCoulter
“Right-wingers: Remember tonight and always trust me on presidential candidates.”

Right on, Ann. You nailed it.

Listening to the video now, but this smells wrong to me. Any worker at any nuclear power plant can bring safety concerns directly to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and retaliation from the company is strictly forbidden. That is written right into the Code of Federal Regulations, and every worker is educated on it. So far it sounds like a whiny old lady complaining about labor union misconduct. That would have nothing to do with nuclear power as an industry.

If Romney wins and turns the economy around, people won’t hear about it. We could have 0% unemployment, but the MSM would concentrate on stories about a poor, black, disabled, gay, autistic female starving artist from inner city Detroit unable to work or pay medical bills because the entitlements don’t cover some weird STD. It’s always something.

I like this. It energizes the people who never think about preparedness. It makes sense, and I think whoever thought it up should get a big raise.

Maybe I’m not awake yet, but I don’t get the joke. Where’s Clint Eastwood and who is Kal Penn?

Nice!

The Screen Actors Guild would be a good target for elimination.

Well this was pretty easy to find. I’m surprised that the author didn’t cite this report from a Massachusetts Second Amendment group. It puts his article in a whole different light.

“The Romney Record”
A GOAL Special Report

Mitt Romney’s Record as MA Governor
Second Amendment - Legislation

The Romney Record

A Look at Governor Mitt Romney’s Record as Governor of Massachusetts as it Relates to the Gun Owners and Sportsmen of Our State

Prepared by: Gun Owners’ Action League (GOAL) - February 2007

Mitt Romney was Governor of Massachusetts from January 2, 2003 – January 4, 2007

General Comments

In the first months of the Romney administration the Governor isolated himself to all but a handful of close advisors most of whom came from the business community. This caused the Governor to make some rather serious political missteps that could have been avoided through better communications. However, relations dramatically improved and in the end, GOAL had more access to this administration than any other since the days of Governor Ed King in 1979.

The two major events that eventually led to this improved relationship were the raid on the Inland Fisheries & Game Fund in 2003 and a botched press conference/bill signing in 2004. Both situations are outlined in this report.

While at the time these events greatly angered GOAL members, the result was much improved access to the Governor’s office and his staff. During the following years, senior level Romney staffers met on a monthly basis with GOAL’s Executive Director to discuss and work on any issues relevant to GOAL’s members. This should not be taken as an indication that GOAL “controlled” the corner office, but rather that a very good working relationship was developed that benefited both parties.

Legislation: During the Romney Administration, no anti-Second Amendment or anti-sportsmen legislation made its way to the Governor’s desk.

Governor Romney did sign five pro-Second Amendment/pro-sportsmen bills into law. His administration also worked with Gun Owners’ Action League and the Democratic leadership of the Massachusetts House and Senate to remove any anti-Second Amendment language from the Gang Violence bill passed in 2006. A summary of this legislation follows.

Budgetary: In the Governor’s first year, he made a political error when he submitted a budget that did away with the Inland Fisheries & Game Fund. (More of this is explained below.) Fortunately, after this matter was resolved, GOAL was able to establish better communications with the Governor’s office. In working with the legislature and the Governor we were able to restore the Fund and increase the money released from it to better manage the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. Over the next three years, GOAL was also successful in getting some “capital revenue” released to acquire land for the Division.

Regulations: During his administration, the Executive Office of Public Safety passed a new regulation providing free replacement of firearm licenses to those who had them stolen or lost. (A resident license fee in Massachusetts at that time was $100 every 6 years.) Prior to this new regulation a citizen would have to repeat the entire application process and pay the whole fee to acquire a replacement license.

Policy: His administration conducted a review of the state’s Environmental Police agency (Game Wardens). One major concern was to keep in place the hiring requirement that officers needed to have some environmental education background not strictly law enforcement. This was a policy that GOAL worked to support.

Fees: In 2003 Governor Romney filed budgetary language to raise firearm license fees from $25 to $75. That year the legislature actually raised them to $100 in the General Appropriations bill (Section 34 of Chapter 140 of the Acts of 2003). At that time a resident license was good for 4 years. In 2004 a law was passed increasing the license term to 6 years.

In 2005, Governor Romney waived the administrative fees for the Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Fund. The state currently charges these fees that were as much as 36% a year. Gun Owners’ Action League worked with environmental organizations to urge the Governor to temporarily waive the fees until permanent legislation could be passed to do away with the fees all together.

Appointments: One of the agencies that GOAL watches very closely is the Division of Fisheries and Wildlife. This agency is run by a strong seven-person board. The appointments to this board are spread out over several years so that drastic changes cannot be made to it in any given year. During his administration, Governor Romney made five appointments to this board. All of the individuals appointed to the board were supported by GOAL.

Proclamations: During his administration, Governor Romney issued a proclamation declaring May 7, 2005 as “The Right to Bear Arms Day”. The proclamation was issued on this date to coincide with GOAL’s Annual Banquet.

Read the rest: http://www.goal.org/newspages/romney.html

The author missed Romneys recent NRA interview. They asked very specific questions and he gave the right answers. Of course, he’s a politician .....

When Mitt wins, I wonder where there will be more crying: here, or at DU?

“It’s unfair of them to resist sensible regulation to save lives.”

That’s ridiculous. This technology wouldn’t save a single life.

Ruger has a manufacturing plant in Prescott, Arizona. It’s nice, in a “right to work” state. Other manufacturers could move here and leave their labor unions back east.

Jeff Flake and Wil Cardon ran a horrible negative mud-slinging series of ads about who sucked more. In the end I’m glad Flake won. Trent Franks won easily against his opponent, which is great because good people like him are my argument against term limits. Sheriff Joe Arpaio ran unopposed by any Republican and should win easily (again). My polling place was similarly deserted, which made my vote count that much more. I signed up to be a poll worker so I should be able to watch for skullduggery in November.

“Yeah, given the alleged GOP-e and TEA agreement.”

What is this supposed to mean?

Shooting near Cards-Raiders game called ‘fan-based’

As the Arizona Cardinals celebrated their first win of the season Friday night in Glendale, a football fan was fighting or his life in the hospital after another fan shot him following an argument, police said.

Police called the incident “fan-based” without elaborating.

The shooter called 911 at about 9:30 p.m. — about an hour before the Cardinals-Oakland Raiders game ended — and told an operator he accidentally another man in a parking lot near a hotel that’s north of the stadium, a police statement said.

Police spokeswoman Tracey Breeden said it appeared both men were there for the game, but investigators did not know if they actually attended.

“The caller did not attempt to flee the area and remained at the scene near the victim,” police said. “Glendale officers that were working security in the area were able to quickly arrive on scene while the caller was still on the phone with 911. The potential suspect was immediately taken into custody without incident.”

The man suspected in the shooting was later released and no further arrests were made. The gunshot victim was treated by Glendale firefighters on scene and taken to a local hospital. Authorities initially reported he had a life-threatening injury. They said he’s now in stable condition expect him to live.

“At this time, the names of both involved parties are not being released, and charges are potentially pending on both involved parties,” police said.

Police said investigators determined the men were in a “verbal altercation” in the parking lot “which ultimately resulted in one party sustaining a single gunshot wound.”

“The incident appears to be fan-based,” police said without elaborating. “Discussing details of the investigation at this point could negatively impact the case and compromise the investigation.”

No further details, including the 911 call, will not be released at this time. The investigation is ongoing.

Read more:
http://www.azcentral.com/community/glendale/articles/20120818PNI0818-met-arizona-cardinals-raiders-shooting-fans-brk.html#ixzz23uzLKqns

Their helicopter is hovering near the stadium taking video now. They are saying the victim has life threatening injuries. A possibly related fact is that the Cardinals played the Raiders in a pre-season game tonight. The TV commentator is talking about how Raiders fans can be somewhat scary.

Judging by some of the comments, the detector should be set up so it can easily attach to a tinfoil hat.

The phrase “the mother’s boyfriend” shows up in way too many cases of shaken baby syndrome and homicide of children. I place a lot of the blame on the woman for being a bad judge of character and trusting her kids to someone she doesn’t really know.

Back when I used to waste my time arguing with lefties, I told them that gay marriage would open the door for other kinds of marriage. After all, if all they want is for a person’s “sexual preference” to be recognized as legitimate, then any sexual preference would ultimately be acceptable. Their outrage was almost explosive. But when I suggested that instead of two men, why not have a marriage among three men, their outrage turned to acceptance. And there should be a third guy in that cartoon running to catch the bouquet - Mr. Bestiality. All “sexual preferences” welcome, just come and get your certificate.

Luckily the gay marriage issue gets put to the vote sometimes, and the voters are good at rejecting it. But by the time our kids grow up after being indoctrinated into the gay agenda in the schools, that may be a different story.

This is a bit puzzling, because the story came from a blog on the Phoenix New Times, a horrible left-wing free paper fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2012/07/kyrsten_sinema_naleo.php

And Kyrsten Sinema is the most left-wing member of the Arizona Legislature. Whenever the local leftie TV stations want a comment on some Republican law that’s pending, they interview Kyrsten. So you would think that the New Times would try to pin the Latino identification on Republicans in some way. But apparently that worthless rag has something against her:

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2012-01-12/news/sinema-dilemma-can-kyrsten-sinema-win-in-district-9/

The only thing I can figure is, just like US Democrats are seen as far right by Europeans, Kyrsten is seen as far right by the fringe left-wingers.

Arizona does not have a state militia. There was an attempt to form one during the last legislative session, and it was cruising to an easy victory, but it was torpedoed at the last minute by the Speaker of the House, who refused to bring it up for a vote. Now that SCOTUS has torpedoed most of Senate Bill 1070 and Obama’s immigration department has refused to abide by the rest of it, there will be even more pressure to pass the militia bill. More information is here: http://azsdf.org/

There is a ballot measure in the works that allows state voters to reject federal actions. Signatures are still being counted. I would call this a guaranteed victory if it shows up on the ballot in November. We have had enough of the feds screwing around with our state. More information is here: http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Arizona_Federal_Action_Rejection_Initiative_(2012)

Sure, you can pick up a telephone and use it under normal conditions. But what happens if everyone wants to use the phone at the same time? What happens if the phone company’s local office is destroyed or loses power? What happens if the streets are blocked off and you can’t drive and tell someone? Local infrastructure can be destroyed or disrupted, but there’s no way to destroy the radio spectrum from DC to daylight. That’s where amateur radio operators come through.

Not odd as in sinister evil plot, but odd as in the Free Republic website screwed up the link. If you look at the original link I posted, it has a dash/hyphen at the end that the FR software didn't include as part of the link. Here's how it should have looked:

href=http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/07/06/executive-order-assignment-national-security-and-emergency-preparedness-

I don't know why the White House web guys want to try to use the entire long title of the article as the URL. They could have abbreviated it like normal people do.

It’s still on the website:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/07/06/executive-order-assignment-national-security-and-emergency-preparedness-

“Interoperability” in this case means the capability of stations in one radio service to talk to stations in another radio service like, say, private land mobile service operators talking to the military. There’s a document called the National Interoperability Field Operations Guide (NIFOG) that has lots of interesting information on this topic, including frequencies and CTCSS tones. NIFOG is located here:

http://www.dhs.gov/files/publications/gc_1297699887997.shtm

It’s probably not time to start slitting our wrists quite yet. This doesn’t sound like the government is going to knock down our doors and take away our radios.

I disagree, but I respect your right to post your opinion. Here are the possible outcomes as I see them:

1.) SCOTUS says Obamacare is unconstitutional. Obama gets to whine and play the underdog because the big bad conservative justices are picking on him. Winner: Obama. He gets a second term.

2.) SCOTUS lets Obamacare stand but only if it’s seen as a tax. Now Obama has to try to explain why he’s raising everyone’s taxes when he said he wouldn’t. Winner: Romney. Obama schedules two moving vans to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on January 20.

If you don’t pay for a health care account with a health care provider, then you pay a fine to the IRS that’s collected along with your taxes. But it’s not really a fine because SCOTUS has defined it as a tax.

I forgot to post a link to the decision. It’s a 193-page PDF document.

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-393c3a2.pdf

I just read pages 11-15 of the Roberts opinion and my head is spinning. Here’s how it finishes up on page 15:

“Indeed, amicus’s earlier observation that the Code requires assessable penalties to be assessed and collected “in the same manner as taxes” makes little sense if assessable penalties are themselves taxes. In light of the Code’s consistent distinction between the terms “tax” and “assessable penalty,” we must accept the Government’s interpretation: §6201(a) instructs the Secretary that his authority to assess taxes includes the authority to assess penalties, but it does not equate assessable penalties to taxes for other purposes.

The Affordable Care Act does not require that the penalty for failing to comply with the individual mandate be treated as a tax for purposes of the Anti-Injunction Act. The Anti-Injunction Act therefore does not apply to this suit, and we may proceed to the merits.”

So as I (almost) understand it, because of the way the act was worded, to where it didn’t specifically call the penalty a tax, it’s a penalty from the standpoint of the Anti-Injunction Act, but it’s a tax in the eyes of the Constitution because the interstate commerce explanation would make it unconstitutional. So by the definition of SCOTUS, the only way Obamacare is constitutional is if the penalty part of it is operated as a tax.

THAT means that Obama raised taxes on everyone when he promised to only raise taxes on “fat cats.” His spinmeisters are backpedaling furiously, because once Romney starts hammering this point home, Obama’s going to lose a LOT of voters.

I think you’re right about that as far as it goes. They mentioned it in the “executive summary” as follows (page 2):

“CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS delivered the opinion of the Court with respect to Part II, concluding that the Anti-Injunction Act does notbar this suit.
The Anti-Injunction Act provides that “no suit for the purpose of restraining the assessment or collection of any tax shall be maintained in any court by any person,” 26 U. S. C. §7421(a), so that thosesubject to a tax must first pay it and then sue for a refund. The present challenge seeks to restrain the collection of the shared responsibility payment from those who do not comply with the individualmandate. But Congress did not intend the payment to be treated asa “tax” for purposes of the Anti-Injunction Act. The Affordable Care Act describes the payment as a “penalty,” not a “tax.” That label cannot control whether the payment is a tax for purposes of the Constitution, but it does determine the application of the Anti-Injunction Act. The Anti-Injunction Act therefore does not bar this suit. Pp. 11–15.”