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Hilary, lifelong liar, leftist.
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Deaf Man with Frozen Deer He Rescued from Lake [feedly]
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Deaf Man with Frozen Deer He Rescued from Lake
// Neatorama
Vimeo user cj uploaded a video from a deaf family friend who encountered a young deer that had fallen into a frozen lake. After pulling the deer out, he pulled out a camera to tell the story -while the deer stood by!
Redditor ceejface (cj) provided a translation of the sign language.
I was driving along when I see this deer struggling to survive. I felt obligated to help her, so I pulled over, trekked through the woods, and crawled out onto the ice. I used a rope to pull her out. I am so glad she is safe. Now we need to find her mom.
[pets deer] I will call her Miss Ice River. She must be so cold. I am so happy that she survived. Farewell.
That was followed by a discussion on the difference between one-handed and two-handed sign language, as the guy had to use one hand to hold the camera. -via Uproxx
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Astronaut dials the wrong number from space, surprises Earthling [feedly]
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Astronaut dials the wrong number from space, surprises Earthling
// The Verge
Picture this: it's Christmas Eve, and for some reason you weren't able to reunite with your family. Maybe you had to work, maybe your flight was canceled. You've been waiting for them to call you so you can talk to them all on speaker phone, so when the phone rings you rush to answer it. Giddy with anticipation, you expect to hear a Christmas cacophony — but instead you hear the voice of a lone man. He asks, "Hello, is this planet Earth?"
Great, a prank call. Who even makes those anymore? What's next, a question about Prince Albert?
Hi, can I please speak to I.P. Freely?
But when your disappointment wears off, it's replaced with surprise — the man calling you is Tim Peake, one of the astronauts aboard the International Space Station, and he just made a simple mistake on a cosmic scale.
Last night, this actually happened — Peake calling the wrong number, that is. While random citizens contacting the station via radio isn't necessarily new, a misplaced call coming from the other side is a bit more rare.
And yet, this wasn't even Peake's first phone mishap on the station, even though he's only been there less than a month. Earlier this week he attempted to call his parents in the UK, but they had left the house during his downtime. Peake had to leave a voicemail:
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Thursday, December 24, 2015
Fwd: Fw: A Little Christmas Present from Your US Air Force
Subject: Fwd: A Little Christmas Present from Your US Air Force
Please take the time to watch. If you have already viewed, set down and watching again.
A Little Christmas Present from Your US Air Force
National Air and Space Museum's "Milestones of Flight" gallery, and
swelling to 120 musicians, The U.S. Air Force Band exhilarated museum
visitors with its first-ever flash mob. The four-minute performance
featured an original arrangement of "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring/Joy to
the World," led by the band's commander and conductor, Col. Larry H.
Lang.
Unsuspecting museum visitors including tourists and
school groups were astonished as instrumentalists streamed into the
gallery from behind airplanes and space capsules, and vocalists burst
into song from the Museum's second floor balcony.Merry Christmas!(sound on)
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Watchdog names Clinton most corrupt politician of 2015 [feedly]
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Watchdog names Clinton most corrupt politician of 2015
// Personal Liberty Digest™
As corrupt public officials go, Hillary Clinton is in a league of her own. That's according to a Washington ethics watchdog that just named the Democratic presidential front-runner as the top ethics violator of 2015.
The nonpartisan Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) placed Clinton at the top of its worst ethics violators of 2015 list after finding "overwhelming evidence" she abused her official position as secretary of state.
FACT is calling for various federal investigations into Clinton's unethical behavior, much of which has been uncovered by the ongoing scandal surrounding her State Department emails.
"Those emails remained hidden from the public until earlier this year when it was discovered that Secretary Clinton conducted government business on her private email server and a judge ultimately ordered that she turn over and the State Department release the emails," FACT noted in a statement.
FACT believes that some of those recently released communications raise questions about whether Clinton gave special State Department access to a private mining company with ties to her son-in-law,
The watchdog says Clinton has displayed similarly corrupt behavior on the campaign trail.
The group has asked the IRS to investigate whether Clinton violated State Department rules when her family foundation made payments of nearly $350,000 to her failed 2008 campaign to rent Clinton's email list after she failed to secure the Democratic nomination. At the time of the transactions, Clinton's State Department position prohibited her from doing certain types of fundraising on behalf of the campaign.
FACT is also requesting the Federal Elections Commission investigate the current Clinton campaign after it received an email list of 4 million potential supporters from a pro-Hillary super PAC. The list, according to FACT, constitutes an in-kind donation, which federal election laws prohibit candidates from accepting directly from PACs.
Clinton's political corruption could also ensnare top Senate Democrats if FACT is successful in getting the Senate Select Committee to launch an additional investigation into whether Clinton campaign aides conducted political business in official Senate offices where campaign activities are prohibited.
"Elected officials are sent to Washington to follow and uphold the law and so they need to be held to the highest standard of ethics. Even the appearance of impropriety can quickly erode public trust, and Mrs. Clinton is in a league of her own," said Matthew Whitaker, FACT's executive director, in a statement.
While Clinton is by far FACT's most corrupt official of 2015, seven other politicians also made the list for activities that violated the public trust in the past year. They include: Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.); Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.); Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.); failed Senate candidate Joe Sestak, a Pennsylvania Democrat; Rep. Frank Guinta (R-N.H.); Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.); and Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-N.C.).
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DHS official: Obama’s terror watch list gun ban makes no sense [feedly]
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DHS official: Obama's terror watch list gun ban makes no sense
// Personal Liberty Digest™
Testifying during a House Oversight Committee hearing, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for International Affairs Alan Bersin told lawmakers that government probably shouldn't use the terror watch list for anything beyond its intended purpose.
President Barack Obama has been calling for using inclusion on the terror watch list to deny gun rights and is likely to enact an executive order doing so in coming weeks.
"People can't get on planes, but those same people who we don't allow to fly could go into a store right now in the United States and buy a firearm and there's nothing that we can do to stop them," Obama said in an interview this month. "That's a law that needs to be changed."
But many congressional Republicans, along with civil liberties advocates have expressed concerns over the plan, noting that people can be placed on the list without due process or even knowing why.
"My concern is there has been a lot of talk recently about using the watch list for purposes other than what they were intended, for instance determining whether or not Americans are able to exercise their rights under the Second Amendment," Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas) told Bersin during the recent hearing.
"I believe it would be apples and oranges," Bersin said, to use the terror watch list for anything beyond keeping people with suspected terror ties from traveling by air.
He also noted that "less than 0.1 percent" of people on the list are Americans.
And many Americans who have been placed on the list over the years were placed on it by mistake.
The DHS official's remarks suggest that the Obama administration's push to use the terror watch list to clamp down on gun ownership is part of a multi-step process that ends with the addition of millions of American liberty advocates to the list.
As Bob Livingston recently noted:
Now the Obama (no)Justice Department has created a new domestic terrorism czar and whole department to battle the newest greatest threat — behind nonexistent global warming — to America: the white Christian male gun-owning liberty lover. The new department is the evolution of a Department of a Homeland Security program begun in 2009 targeting liberty-loving Americans. That program morphed into a training program in 2013 that instructed local law enforcement to devote extra scrutiny to Christians who believe the Bible is God's word, Christian "fundamentalists" (whatever those are), Americans who believe the country was founded on godly principles and those who believe the Constitution stands as the law of the land. In training materials, DHS has lumped Christians and Constitutionalists in with a group it calls the sovereign citizen movement, the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi skinheads, and identified them as requiring special surveillance by law enforcement.
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Disney theme parks ban toy guns and install metal detectors [feedly]
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Disney theme parks ban toy guns and install metal detectors
// The Verge
Disney is quietly banning toy guns, such as "toy blasters," from its theme parks, as it also installs metal detectors to improve security.
According to reports from The Wrap and Variety, Disney updated its park rules on Thursday to ban any "objects that appear to be weapons" from its California and Florida parks, and will discontinue the sales of such objects. The rules were also updated to forbid costumes on any guests 14 years old or older, and to generally ban masks from the parks. Disney has also reportedly installed metal detectors at security checks in its parks, as have Universal Studios and SeaWorld parks.
Threats of gun violence in the United States have increasingly led to similar policies for public events. Many theaters have banned costumes for customers seeing the latest Star Wars installment, which premieres widely today.
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Congress snuck a surveillance bill into the federal budget last night [feedly]
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Congress snuck a surveillance bill into the federal budget last night
// The Verge
After more than a year of stalemate, Congress has used an unconventional procedural measure to bring a controversial cybersurveillance bill to the floor. Late last night, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) announced a 2,000-page omnibus budget bill, a last-minute compromise necessary to prevent a government shutdown. But while the bulk of the bill concerns taxes and spending, it contains a surprise 1,729 pages in: the full text of the controversial Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015, which passed the Senate in October.
CISA has been widely criticized since it was first introduced to congress in 2014, with Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) calling it "a surveillance bill by another name." The bill would make it easier for private sector companies to share user information with the government and other companies, removing privacy and liability protections in the name of better cybersecurity. But critics like Wyden say removing those protections would turn internet backbone companies into de facto surveillance organs, with no incentive to protect users' privacy.
"A disingenuous attempt to quietly expand the US government's surveillance programs."
In many ways, the bill currently facing the House is even more invasive than previous versions, stripping out crucial provisions that prevented direct information-sharing with the NSA and mandated that data be anonymized before being widely distributed. "It's clear now that this bill was never intended to prevent cyber attacks," said Evan Greer, campaign director of Fight for the Future, which has campaigned vigorously against the bill. "It's a disingenuous attempt to quietly expand the US government's surveillance programs." At the same time, a number of industry groups have applauded the bill, including the Financial Services Roundtable and Retail Industry Leaders Association.
Last night's proposal means CISA is more likely than ever to become law. While the bill is controversial in technology circles, it's far less controversial among legislators than the larger spending issues hammered out in the new budget proposal. The chance of another government shutdown has only increased the sense of urgency, and many observers expect the bill to pass some time this week, with little to no attention paid to the cybersecurity provisions.
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| FAA Announces Small UAS Registration Rule Press Release – For Immediate ReleaseDecember 14, 2015 Registration will be free for the first 30 days!WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today announced a streamlined and user-friendly web-based aircraft registration process for owners of small unmanned aircraft (UAS) weighing more than 0.55 pounds (250 grams) and less than 55 pounds (approx. 25 kilograms) including payloads such as on-board cameras. The Registration Task Force delivered recommendations to FAA Administrator Michael Huerta and Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx on November 21. The rule incorporates many of the task force recommendations. "Make no mistake: unmanned aircraft enthusiast are aviators, and with that title comes a great deal of responsibility," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. "Registration gives us an opportunity to work with these users to operate their unmanned aircraft safely. I'm excited to welcome these new aviators into the culture of safety and responsibility that defines American innovation." Registration is a statutory requirement that applies to all aircraft. Under this rule, any owner of a small UAS who has previously operated an unmanned aircraft exclusively as a model aircraft prior to December 21, 2015, must register no later than February 19, 2016. Owners of any other UAS purchased for use as a model aircraft after December 21, 2015 must register before the first flight outdoors. Owners may use either the paper-based process or the new streamlined, web-based system. Owners using the new streamlined web-based system must be at least 13 years old to register. Owners may register through a web-based system at: www.faa.gov/uas/registration Registrants will need to provide their name, home address and e-mail address. Upon completion of the registration process, the web application will generate a Certificate of Aircraft Registration/Proof of Ownership that will include a unique identification number for the UAS owner, which must be marked on the aircraft. Owners using the model aircraft for hobby or recreation will only have to register once and may use the same identification number for all of their model UAS. The registration is valid for three years. The normal registration fee is $5, but in an effort to encourage as many people as possible to register quickly, the FAA is waiving this fee for the first 30 days (from Dec. 21, 2015 to Jan 20, 2016). "We expect hundreds of thousands of model unmanned aircraft will be purchased this holiday season," said FAA Administrator Huerta. "Registration gives us the opportunity to educate these new airspace users before they fly so they know the airspace rules and understand they are accountable to the public for flying responsibly." The online registration system does not yet support registration of small UAS used for any purpose other than hobby or recreation – for example, using an unmanned aircraft in connection with a business. The FAA is developing enhancements that will allow such online registrations by spring of 2016. The full rule can be viewed here: www.faa.gov/news/updates/media/20151213_IFR.pdf For questions regarding this notice, contact Ken Kelley, AFS-850 by email at Ken.R.Kelley@faa.gov or by telephone at (775) 858-7700 Ex 258. This notice is being sent to you because you selected "General Information" in your preferences on FAASafety.gov. If you wish to adjust your selections, log into https://www.faasafety.gov/Users/pub/preferences.aspx where you can update your preferences. | |
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Obama’s administration is leading the jihadi invasion [feedly]
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Obama's administration is leading the jihadi invasion
// Personal Liberty Digest™
If you agree with GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump that the Obama administration's refugee resettlement policies are leaving the U.S. vulnerable to a terror attack, these recent developments are bad news.
Top Obama officials say they plan to resettle more than 100,000 refugees from Syria and elsewhere in the Middle East to the United States over the course of the next year. And the administration is forging ahead with the plan despite repeated admissions that there's no way for government officials to thoroughly vet or keep track of all the new guests to the country from terror strongholds.
If you didn't think the plan could get any worse, think again.
A top Department of Homeland Security official just admitted to members of Congress that the agency has already let refugees from terror hotbeds into the United States — and it doesn't know many.
"How many Syrian refugees have entered the U.S. in the last year" Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) asked Kelli Ann Burriesci, a deputy assistant secretary in DHS's office of policy, during a recent hearing.
"Sorry, I didn't bring any of the refugee numbers with me," she responded.
Lawmakers had requested that the DHS's top official, Jeh Johnson, brief lawmakers on the issue. But the DHS opted to send Burriesci instead, saying she was the expert on issues pertaining to the refugee resettlements.
She was also asked, "How many visa waiver program overstays are there currently in the U.S.?"
Burriesci told lawmakers that she didn't have that information either.
"We're talking about the refugee issue and the Visa Waiver Program issue and you can't give us numbers on either program?" a frustrated Jordan asked.
She couldn't.
That gives you an idea of how little the Obama administration is concerned with keeping Americans safe as it continues to refuse to budge on its refugee resettlement policies.
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) underscored how serious the problem is, noting that the last time Congress received accurate information about the number of people in the U.S. on expired visas was more than two decades ago.
"If we're looking at visa overstays, and sitting here debating a visa waiver program, and yet, the very instance of visa overstays and the potential terrorist threat that accompanies that, you're tracking that, yet the last information Congress got was 1994," Meadows said. "Do you not see a problem with that?"
Not only does DHS not know how many refugees are in the country to date, the agency refuses to take even the simplest steps to make sure that ISIS sympathizers aren't being relocated to U.S. cities.
Last year, Johnson refused to allow DHS officials and immigration agents to review visa applicants' social media accounts for signs of terror ties because he feared the move would be bad for "public relations."
John Cohen, a former under-secretary at DHS for intelligence and analysis, recently explained on ABC: "Immigration, security, law enforcement officials recognized at the time that it was important to more extensively review public social media postings because they offered potential insights into whether somebody was an extremist or potentially connected to a terrorist organization or a supporter of the movement."
But Johnson and other Obama officials refused to budge on the issue.
If they had bothered to look, recent news out of Europe hints at what U.S. security officials may have found.
In Norway, security officials overburdened by the number of refugees their nation has agreed to take on are conducting the very kind of investigations U.S. officials have refused to take on by searching asylum seekers' phones and social media accounts.
The Norwegian Nettavisen newspaper reports that the investigations have uncovered "photos and videos of executions and brutal punishments, such as images of people holding up severed heads or hands" and "found flags, symbols and characters that can be linked to … ISIS, as well as other terrorist groups."
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DRM claims a victim in the Internet of Things as Phillips Hue blocks competing smart light bulbs [feedly]
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DRM claims a victim in the Internet of Things as Phillips Hue blocks competing smart light bulbs
// pocketnow.com
Connected devices are everywhere in our lives these days, as your smartphone talks to your speakers, your car, your watch, your thermostat, and probably half a dozen other gadgets you use on a regular basis. When everything works together, that's great, but not all companies are so good at playing nicely with each other, and just as has been the case with far too many consumer electronics, DRM-related tech is showing ...
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Buy a $30 Chromecast, Get $20 in Google Play Credit [feedly]
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Buy a $30 Chromecast, Get $20 in Google Play Credit
// Lifehacker
If you still haven't gotten yourself a Chromecast (or six), Google is currently giving away $20 in Google Play credit to new owners, and you can get in on the action for as little as $30 today, courtesy of Best Buy and Walmart.
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Sunday, December 13, 2015
New York attorney general solicits help from the public in broadband probe [feedly]
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New York attorney general solicits help from the public in broadband probe
// Reuters: Technology News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman invited the public on Sunday to test the speed of their Internet and submit the results online as part of an ongoing probe into whether large providers may be short-changing customers with slower-than-advertised speeds.
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Saturday, December 12, 2015
Highlights of the proposed UN climate accord that has been adopted.
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Obama regime set to strip away another right [feedly]
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Obama regime set to strip away another right
// Personal Liberty Digest™
Another salvo has been fired by the Obama regime against the Bill of Rights.
Not content to constrain its assault to the 2nd, 4th, 5th and 10th Amendments, the regime took dead aim at the 1st. Last Friday, Attorney General Loretta Lynch vowed to take "aggressive action" against anyone who used "anti-Muslim" rhetoric that "edges toward violence."
Curious how no "aggressive action" is being considered against anyone using anti-white or anti-conservative rhetoric edging toward violence. It's been available in spades for some time, but even more abundantly in the wake of the Colorado Planned Parenthood shooting and in the immediate aftermath of the San Bernardino massacre (at least before we learned of the Islam connection and while the progressives were still hoping it was "white conservative Christians" who shot up a Christmas party).
It's also curious how Lynch didn't promise "aggressive action" against Muslim bomb-makers. It would seem that, in the wake of a premeditated terror attack by a Muslim couple with ties to terrorists and a bomb factory in their home that Lynch would focus her efforts on finding whom Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were conspiring with to attack more Americans.
Lynch is delving into dangerous territory. What constitutes "aggressive action" and edging "toward violence" is highly subjective. It's the type of speech the 1st Amendment is supposed to protect.
It's also based on a false premise. There is no evidence of increased aggressiveness toward Muslims in the wake of the terror attack.
There is, however, a renewed effort by the regime to confiscate guns.
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A Chicago coverup [feedly]
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A Chicago coverup
// Personal Liberty Digest™
After more than a year of coverup, dissembling, foot-dragging, hemming and hawing, evidence-tampering by the Chicago political establishment and a big payoff, Cook County prosecutor Anita Alvarez finally charged Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke with murder for gunning down 17-year-old Laquan McDonald on Oct. 20, 2014.
McDonald was high on PCP and carrying a knife while walking down a Chicago street when he was confronted by police. But he wasn't acting violently, and he made no threatening gestures toward Van Dyke or any other officer when Van Dyke unloaded on him.
The shooting — which occurred as a grand jury was hearing testimony on the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; as video of Eric Garner being choked to death by a New York police officer was going viral; and, more importantly, as Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel was heading into a contested re-election campaign — created a lot of problems that needed to be swept under the rug. So Chicago officials pulled out the big brooms.
First, police dash cam video of the shooting was squirreled away under the cover of "ongoing police investigation." In the face of media Freedom of Information Act requests, Emanuel turned to the courts to block its release. And then there's the case of the missing 86 minutes of surveillance video from a nearby Burger King — video that was confiscated by police and apparently erased.
In April, the city, recognizing Emanuel's tenuous position, as well as that of the police superintendent, considering the highly charged atmosphere surrounding police brutality cases (some of them amped up by President Barack Obama and then-Attorney Criminal Eric Holder), agreed to pay off McDonald's family to the tune of $5 million with the stipulation that the dash cam video remain concealed.
Once a judge ordered the dash cam video released and Emanuel and company ran out of options, Van Dyke was finally charged with murder. But for more than a year, a man who fired as many as 16 rounds — and was reloading fire more when another officer stopped him — into a teenager who was walking away from him was allowed to continue "policing" Chicago streets.
The New York Times notes that at the time, "Mayor Emanuel was fighting for re-election in a tight race. Superintendent McCarthy wanted to keep his job. Ms. Alvarez needed the good will of the police union for her coming re-election campaign and probably wished to shield the police officers who bring her cases and testify in court."
All of this highlights the corrupt nature of the police state and the American system in which prosecutors and police officers work hand in hand to select whom to prosecute and whom not to, and Chicago is probably the worst.
Of course, McCarthy is out of his mind and should have long ago retired to abuse seniors in some Florida gated community. He once claimed that a federal appeals court ruling striking down Illinois' ban on concealed carry would lead to Chicago police officers gunning down legal gun owners in the streets, so he apparently already suspected his officers were out of control. But McCarthy is little more than a thug himself. And the Chicago "justice" system is a farce.
Under Emanuel and McCarthy, Chicago police ran a CIA-style "black site" — an "off-the-books interrogation compound" — in which suspects (including children as young as 15) were "disappeared," tortured and denied access to attorneys for hours.
The Times laughably called for those responsible for the McDonald death cover-up to resign. But they won't. Emanuel fired McCarthy Tuesday in an attempt to save his own hide, so there is little likelihood anyone else will face any repercussions.
As for Van Dyke, police are only rarely convicted in abuse cases, and the political establishment will use payoffs and intimidation to overcome any potential fallout from the case.
And neither Obama nor his Department of Justice will have any interest in "pursuing justice," as they did in the Brown case. As Obama's former chief of staff and longtime player in Chicago criminal politics, Emanuel knows where Obama's skeletons are buried.
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German Engineering Tested in the Most German Way Possible [feedly]
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German Engineering Tested in the Most German Way Possible
// Neatorama
The Germans are rightfully known for their masterful engineering capabilities. This 1986 video by the national army demonstrates this. It's in German, but you can follow what's going on even without a knowledge of the language.
The soldiers are deeply concerned that they will spill their beer while going into battle against Soviet invaders. Therefore, engineers developed gun mount stabilizers that are capable of holding glasses of beer perfectly still, even while traversing rough terrain. Panzer vor!
-via Twisted Sifter and Peta Pixel
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Wednesday, November 25, 2015
If you owe the IRS, Congress wants to confiscate your passport [ well I guess most of the members of the Senate and Congress will be staying home for awhile.]
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If you owe the IRS, Congress wants to confiscate your passport
// Personal Liberty Digest™
The GOP-led Congress wants to hand the IRS the keys to your freedom.
The highway funding bill now making its way past lawmakers includes a provision that would allow the government to yank your passport if you owe the IRS more than $50,000.
As part of the 864-page H.R. 22, the Transportation Funding Act of 2015, the House Ways and Means Committee has inserted language that, if left intact, will allow the State Department to deny or revoke the passports of "seriously delinquent" taxpayers.
That means that, should you find yourself in litigation with the IRS over a big, disputed tax bill, you could be banned from leaving the country. Worse, because those who work overseas are subject to U.S. taxes on everything they earn, a revoked passport could fundamentally trap them in a very, very small world.
"This provision creates a tax-collection mechanism that is frankly far too draconian," the American Citizens Abroad (ACA) nonprofit wrote to lawmakers earlier this month.
The law "puts disproportionate pressure on the taxpayer and risks mistakes and unforeseeable consequences, which would be life-changing for the individual. It discriminates against Americans abroad who, unlike Americans living in the U.S., are overwhelmingly reliant upon their U.S. passports in their everyday lives."
The measure appears to be a blind stab at raising revenue.
"You may wonder what past-due taxes and passports have to do with funding transportation infrastructure," CNN Money's Jeanne Sahadi writes. "The answer is pretty much nothing, except that the measure is estimated to raise nearly $400 million over a decade."
The language would target those who have had a tax lien placed against them by the IRS and would take effect on Jan. 1 of 2016. The ACA is asking lawmakers to withhold the passport language from H.R. 22 until they have held hearings.
This is not the first time Congress has attempted to link passports with taxes, and it's an idea that apparently appeals to lawmakers from either party. Although the GOP-controlled Congress would squarely be to blame if the current language becomes a part of the law, a 2012 highway funding bill sponsored by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) sought the same power. The passport-taxes link in that bill was struck before Congress approved the funding package.
"A $50,000 tax debt is easy to amass today," Rob W. Wood wrote for Forbes in February. "In addition, tax liens are pretty standard. The IRS files tax liens routinely when you owe taxes. It's the IRS way of putting creditors on notice so the IRS eventually gets paid. In that sense, the you-can't-travel idea seems extreme. Some commentators noted that a far smaller sum of unpaid child support can trigger similar passport action. Others attack the proposal as potentially unconstitutional."
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Sunday, November 22, 2015
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Obama, ISIS and you [feedly]
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Obama, ISIS and you
// Personal Liberty Digest™
Last Thursday, President Barack Obama fixed a global audience with either grim determination or intestinal discomfort and declared the islamofascist terrorist cabal known as ISIS had been "contained." The announcement put him at odds with ISIS itself, which replied to Obama's profession of progress by launching the worst attack on the city of Paris since the Nazis marched down the Champs-Élysées.
The complete annihilation of a man's greatest foreign policy "achievement" at the hands of a group that he has repeatedly dismissed as "jayvee" might drive an ordinary man to at least re-evaluate his goals, if not his rhetoric. But our man Barry put "ordinary" in the rearview mirror somewhere between Bill Ayers' living room and the back nine at Congressional Country Club. Obama responded to the blood-soaked repudiation of virtually every statement he has ever made about ISIS by bringing down the rhetorical hammer — on you.
Much as he has loudly blamed the wave of violent crime that has gripped Democrat-owned American cities on white people who own firearms and/or "racism," Obama blames ISIS's refusal to abide by his commands on you, you bigoted xenophobe. Actually, he claimed during an event in the Philippines that growing resistance to his program to fill American cities with unvetted Syrian "refugees" is the real cause of all this ISIS misbehavior.
"I cannot think of a more potent recruitment tool for ISIL than some of the rhetoric that's coming out of here during the course of this debate," Obama said.
See, you racist "islamophobe?" If we would simply throw open our doors to every Tariq, Daesh and Hassan, then the whole world would instantly transform into one happy halal party. And who could argue with him? Certainly not the people of Paris, who … nevermind.
In fact, Obama doesn't even want to discuss the fact that his obituary for ISIS was as premature as any of the promises he made about Obamacare. He has moved on to more pressing matters, such as acting like a spoiled 9-year-old. During a press conference with President Benigno Aquino III, Obama responded to millions of Americans' concerns over the immediate influx of dozens, if not hundreds, of thousands of the same people who produced the masterminds of the Paris attacks by mocking them:
Apparently, they're scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States of America as part of our tradition of compassion. First, they were worried about the press being too tough on them during debates. Now they're worried about 3-year-old orphans. That doesn't sound very tough to me.
Take that, you conservative pansies! So what if somewhere in the neighborhood of 75 percent of the "refugees" who are making Europe such a hoedown are neither grief-stricken widows nor Arabic Tiny Tim Cratchits, but men between the ages of jihadi and jihadi? What's important is that Republicans are big ol' meanies who hate women and children almost as much as Planned Parenthood hates giving up that sweet dead baby parts swag. And quit picking on the CNBC kids, you bullies!
And don't think Obama's letting you get away with denying anyone the chance to take up residence in the cozy confines of the nation ISIS has sworn to burn to the ground. Wednesday afternoon, Obama promised to veto Republican-sponsored legislation that would add an FBI background check to the entry requirements for Syrian refugees. While the bill would neither halt immigration nor even impose any religious requirements, Obama called the measures "unnecessary and impractical." And God Allah knows that anyone who would willingly attack his own citizens with IRS goons is an expert on unnecessary and impractical. If you need further proof, ask refugee Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
In what has become a wearily familiar pattern for Obama's seven-year foreign policy face-plant, ISIS took less than 24 hours to debunk Obama's pronunciations. Even as we learned that one of the suicide bombers in Wednesday's raid in Saint-Denis, France, was one of the "widows" about whom Obama is so worried, ISIS supporters were stabbing a schoolteacher in Marseilles. Within hours of Obama's juvenile dig at Americans, ISIS released a new video, this one promising attacks on Times Square. As Obama accused Americans of child abuse, footage surfaced of ISIS training kiddies in the fine art of waging jihad against the crusader infidels.
Of course, Obama's minions have slavishly fallen in line behind their dear leader. Secretary of State John Kerry, whose haplessness has generally been relegated to a supporting role in the Obama circus, declared on Tuesday that the islamofascists who lit up the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris had a "rationale" for their barbarism. Kerry tried to draw a distinction between the animals who murder people over pictures of their "prophet" and animals who murder people over general refusal to worship their prophet. I know I'm always humbled when the guy who married Sen. John Heinz's widow reminds me to see things from the islamofascist point of view.
Meanwhile, sheep have been bleating from farther back in the herd. The left has resurrected the rubric that blames islamofascism on President George W. Bush and the war in Iraq. In doing so, they've managed to sidestep at least a half-century filled with fun guys from like Abu Nidal, Yasser Arafat and Ayatollah Khomeini. But that's only when they're not parroting the claim that ISIS is somehow the bastard child of so-called "global warming" — and you.
–Ben Crystal
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This bill could change the Fed forever
// Personal Liberty Digest™
Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen isn't very happy about a bill that gained approval in the House Thursday. That's mainly because the legislation would force the central bank to open its books to the Government Accountability Office for a one-time audit.
The bill, authored by Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.), is aimed at changing the way the Fed operates and making U.S. monetary policy more predictable via transparency. It passed on a 241-185 vote that fell largely along party lines.
Huizenga and supporters of his legislation argue that the bill "will help consumers and investors make better decisions in the present and create more sound expectations about the future" by creating a set of clear rules for Fed officials.
If it became law, the legislation would limit Fed power by requiring the central bank to adopt a clear mathematical rule to determine its benchmark for interest rates. That would eliminate the kind of market uncertainty that Americans are currently dealing with because investors have no idea when the central bank plans to hike rates after years of quantitative easing.
The bill also includes a plan to curb the Fed's emergency lending powers. That would make it much harder for central bankers to engage in corporate cronyism such as when they propped up struggling financial institutions during the last economic crisis.
Lastly, Huizenga's bill would hold Fed officials to account for their past and future financial decisions. Within a year of the bill's enactment, the Fed would be required to allow the Government Accountability Office to conduct a full audit of its monetary policy. And going forward, Fed officials would be required to conduct a cost-benefit analysis before creating new financial rules.
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) said the bill is long past due.
"The Fed is not using a transparent monetary policy. And so because of this, greater transparency, greater accountability is necessary. Otherwise, we may soon awake to discover that our central bankers have morphed into our central planners," he said.
Meanwhile, the usual suspects are claiming Fed accountability would hurt the economy.
"The bill would severely impair the Federal Reserve's ability to carry out its congressional mandate and would be a grave mistake, detrimental to the economy and the American people," Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen wrote in a letter to lawmakers.
President Barack Obama has threatened to veto any legislation that would make the central bank more transparent.
"The Federal Reserve is an independent entity designed to be free from political pressures, and its independence is key to its credibility and its ability to act in the long-term interest of the Nation's economic health," his administration said.
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Thursday, November 19, 2015
Fwd: damn mooslims.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons so many are opposing the admission of Syrian refugees
Minnesota Muslims Demand Pork-Free Halal Food From Minnesota Welfare Food Bank
Above: Somali "refugees" on lifetime welfare demand their free food adhere to Islamic Law
by Jason DeWitt
Whoever said "beggars can't be choosers" never met Somali Muslim refugees in Minnesota.
These Muslim imports in Minneapolis are now demanding a tax-funded "halal" non-pork food shelf at a free food pantry for the poor.
As if it's not bad enough that nearly all the "American" Muslims who have joined ISIS have been Somalis from Minneapolis, their relatives here are demanding that Americans adhere to the same Sharia Laws the Islamic State fighters are trying to impose throughout the Middle East.
A group of first-generation Somali Americans says they need help in developing a food shelf that specializes in healthy foods that do not contain pork or pork byproducts. "It's about human rights also, basic human rights to get the proper food and also healthy food," said Imam Hassan Mohamud.
"Human rights"? Seriously? Their arrogance and self-entitlement has to be unprecedented for a group on the public dole.
Tens of thousands of Somalis settled in Minneapolis/St. Paul after Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and later Barack Obama imported them and funded massive "refugee" centers there. Welfare, schools, hospitals and social services have been crushed by the burden of immigrants who lack the most basic skills to live in a modern society.
This is hardly the first demands Somalis have made on the good people of Minneapolis. When the influx of Somali thugs naturally resulted in a massive increase in crime a decade ago, Somalis demanded a $48 million Sharia-compliant "youth center" to keep Somali gangs "out of trouble."
We have read for several years now how Muslim cab drivers in Minneapolis and several airports have kicked out blind passengers with guide dogs (dogs are "unclean" in Islam), or customers transporting alcohol. They came here, taking advantage of American generosity, and returned it by enforcing their own brand of Sharia Law upon us.
Liberals in Minnesota have bent over backwards for them, setting up foot-washing basins in their airport and even at a university, in response to their demands.
But as with most appeasement, these refugees keep making more demands. Now it is for "halal" products (meat slaughtered with Islamic prayers and a ban on pork).
The Imam leading this protest actually claimed that there were beans with pork in it and this was a "literacy" issue that required more government funding and special halal-compliant beans. But one commenter on the article from Minneapolis wrote:
As someone who made use of the foodshelf recently, I can tell you that most of the food doesn't contain pork. I hear what they are saying about a literacy issue, but can't the food shelf people just point out the cans of pork and beans? Besides, the food shelf is based on donations!
This is not about Muslims "making do" or getting help on what to eat. The Koran demands that Muslim make any country they live in adapt to them and Sharia Law. The last thing they plan to do is assimilate.
One blogger added:
How long until they demand separate entrances to the food pantry for men and women and separate entrances for Muslims who don't want to see any Christmas or holiday food or decorations?
The state of Maine has also been crushed by Somalis that Obama has forced upon them. The Governor of Maine, Paul LePage has valiantly been trying to cut off cash aid to Somalis– nearly all of whom are on welfare – since Obama has purposely dumped thousands of them in Lewiston and Portland.
America got Black Hawk Down and 18 dead Americans. Somalis got 90,000+ "asylum" slots in America, free housing, Sharia-compliant facilities, and a lifetime of welfare. How do you say "chumps" in Somali?
Each refugee already has access to the following:
Temporary assistance for Needy Families
Medicaid Food Stamps
Supplemental "Security" Income
Social Security Disability Insurance
Administrative Developmental Disabilities (ADD)
Child Care and Development Fund
Independent Living Program
Low Income Housing Energy Assistance
Post secondary Education Grants
Refugee Assistance Program
Title IV Foster Care
Title XX Social Services Block Grant Fund
And from our lovely State Department...$2200 per month for every man, woman and child.
How much is the SSI check you receive every month......the SSI fund you paid INTO all of your working life?
IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG HERE?????