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It's a nearly universal reaction. you're driving down the road and see a policeman so you slow down. But in san Antonio, you just might be braking for the polite man. When he bought his bike two years, Gary Grimes didn't realize how it would change his life...and others. "When I came up behind a vehicle I noticed they'd be looking in their rear view mirrors quite a bit," said Grimes. "I realized they thought I was a cop because I have the same Hondo White wings motorcycle that SAPD uses." So he had these decals that say "polite" made...

SAN DIEGO -- The San Diego County Sheriff's Department Tuesday responded to 10News' report about a new sonic weapon known as a Long Range Acoustic Device, or LRAD The device was originally made to be used for war, and it emits high-pitched sounds as a form crowd control. On Monday, members of the American Civil Liberties Union spoke with 10News, and they expressed outrage that local law enforcement had the device and that they had brought it to recent town hall meetings in case things got out of hand.

According to reliable sources, Obama administration officials are on their way to Poland and the Czech Republic to deliver very bad news. The administration intends to cancel completely the missile defense sites that had been promised to these governments by the previous administration. This represents a complete capitulation to Russia's Vladimir Putin, who had demanded that the proposed deployments be halted as a price for improved relations. Ironically, the Obama administration, which is appeasing Russia in the hopes that Moscow will help put pressure on Iran, has made this mammoth concession just a few days after Moscow declared that it...

.Compare health-care legislation taking shape in the House and Senate as President Barack Obama pushes to overhaul the system. Details are still being negotiated and any final health care bill would have to meld proposals from the House and Senate.

As ACORN grapples with a scandal that in recent days has led the Census Bureau to sever ties and the Senate to block housing funding , other groups with similar stated goals are left to wonder how the fallout might affect them. But the group is on its heels after conservative activists posing as a prostitute and her pimp released hidden-camera videos .... The Senate voted 83-7 Monday to block Housing and Urban Development Department from giving grants to ACORN. ....Housing and Urban Development Department ... provides funding to 25 groups that, like ACORN, have a national profile and similar...

http://crosshairs.archangelsandwitticism.com/2009/09/16/is-there-a-doctor-in-the-house.aspx In retrospect the only truth that was uttered that night in those hallowed halls of Congress was when Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) shouted at your president, "You lie!"

Jimmy Carter: The Biggest Loser The pacifist pansy Jimmy "Peanut" Carter stood by and let 53 Americans be held hostage in Iran for 444 days while he stood by and did nothing. The day after he left office and the day Reagan assumed the White House the hostages were set free. Many refer to him as the worst President of all time. Just when you thought his stock could not sink any lower it hit a new bottom. He recently stated in an interview with NBC's Brian Williams that much of the criticism towards President Barack Obama "is based on...

The race from race: Dems rebut Carter By: Alex Isenstadt September 16, 2009 06:07 PM EST Jimmy Carter is 84 years old and three decades removed from the White House, but he still has the power to make Democrats run. Away from him, that is. From the White House to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Democrats raced to distance themselves from the former president’s claim that racism was behind Rep. Joe Wilson’s “You lie” outburst and other attacks on President Barack Obama. “Listen, he’s the former president, and he’s entitled to his point of view,” said Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin...

Hao Ting, who owns a petroleum-equipment business in Beijing, recalls the investment sales pitch from her private banker in Hong Kong at Singapore's DBS Bank: "The world is made for wealthy people. The more wealth you have, the easier it is to make money." Today she's out $10 million and owes the bank another $12 million. Hao and the bank are now suing each other in Hong Kong, with the bank saying it followed "local regulatory guidelines."

Patients will be able to register with a GP anywhere in the country in a radical move to abolish restrictive catchment areas, Andy Burnham, the Health Secretary, will announce. GP practices often run very tight boundaries and refuse to take patients who live even 100 yards too far away or on the wrong side of the road and people who move house are forced to change their surgery. But within the next year patients will be able to choose to remain with a favoured doctor when they move house or register with one near work or school if they choose....

Check out the You Tube video from Rep Issa on the CzArmy: Rep Issa: Show Us Your Czarmy, President Obama

A proud democrat around March 28, 1968. Senator Byrd said Dr. King ran like a "scared rabbit". Sheets Byrd

Washington, Sep 15 - If Rep. Joe Wilson is finding parliamentary procedure to be a bit of a nuisance in the wake of his “you lie” attack on President Barack Obama, he has his Republican forbearers to thank. On June 26, 1985, Rep. Robert Walker – a Pennsylvania Republican who beat the drum for decorum throughout his 20 years in the House – took issue with Rep. James Traficant for saying that then-President Ronald Reagan had deceived the senior citizens of the United States. “Is it not a violation of the rules of the House to question the motives of the...

European Union leaders said they're considering a visa ban for leaders of the June military coup in Honduras. The EU countries are considering the legality of barring officials of Honduras's de facto government from traveling to the European Union following the ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, the EUObserver reported Wednesday. Spain already already barred Honduran officials from entering its territories. "Until a peaceful settlement is found, the EU will stand ready to take further restrictive measures including targeting those members of the de facto government who are seen to be blocking progress on a negotiated solution," ministers said in...

A documentary film chronicling a Camp Pendleton squad convicted in the 2006 kidnapping and killing of an Iraqi man debuts in New York this week and will be screened in Oceanside next month. "Article 32" was produced primarily by Don Sikorski, who began working on the project two years ago, after the seven Marines and a Navy medical corpsman were prosecuted for the killing of Hashim Ibrahim Awad, a retired Iraqi policeman and father of 11. The 65-minute film tells the story of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment Kilo Company squad initially charged with capital murder. After several plea...

I can’t do better than Karl’s summary so I’m going to steal it: “A Soros hack, an SEIU thug, someone who pleaded to lying to the FBI, and a Kennedy.” All that’s missing are a few pimps and prostitutes for “technical expertise.” Hardest-hitting internal investigation evah:

The 7 conditions (Warning signs) that foster & fuel fascism are: Instability of capitalist relationships or markets The existence of considerable declassed social elements The stripping of rights and wealth focused upon a specific segment of the population, specifically the middle class and intellectuals within urban areas as this is the group with the means, intelligence and ability to stop fascism if given the opportunity. Discontent among the rural lower middle class (clerks, secretaries, white collar labor). Consistent discontent among the general middle and lower middle classes against the oppressing upper-classes (haves vs have-nots). Hate: Pronounced, perpetuated and accepted public...

Asked for the first time today about the infamous ACORN footage, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs called the conduct of some of the organization's employees "indefensible." "The administration takes accountability extremely seriously," he said. The U.S. Census Bureau's decision to sever ties to the group reflects that, he added, with their view that the group "could not meet the bureau's goal of achieving a fair and accurate count in 2010." Gibbs would not say, however, whether President Obama would, as the leader of the Democratic Party, urge the DNC and other campaign committees to sever ties to the group...

I finally got some of my images gathered, resized, and tweaked. Many of them are posted at our local tea party web site at http://www.chattanoogateaparty.com/resources/photo-gallery/washington-dc-september-12-2009/. Here's a few of them... The crowd... A true patriot... Joe was quite popular... No left turn... Some of my local cohorts with our banner... Who is John Galt... And my personal favorite... The march and rally was an amazing event. Just amazing! So many friendly people, all with a common cause!

Today, The Montana Standard launches a new weekly columnist for its editorial page Byron York will serve as a conservative voice every Tuesday... York, a staunch conservative, presents his arguments in a thoughtful, measured fashion, rather than resorting to cheap personal attacks on President Obama and others in the Democratic Party that seem to be the hallmark of the GOP these days, said Standard Editor Gerry O'Brien.