Water-boarding would work too, but ... you know

Clinton Culture                    Bolton: Benghazi Panel Needs to Question Hillary Clinton for 'Hours and Hours' “ Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton needs to provide "hours and hours" of private depositions if any House select committee is effective in uncovering what happened in the 2012 Benghazi deaths that killed four Americans, former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton said on Saturday. "The public hearings that get so much attention are the last things that should happen," Bolton, who served in the George W. Bush White House, told Jeanine Pirro on her Fox News program. "We need former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton giving hours and hours of depositions before they put her back out in public testimony. That's the way to find out what happened. "You can't get effective investigations done with members of Congress alternating — asking questions for five minutes — of somebody who's articulate and knows how to dodge questions," Bolton added. "What needs to happen are extensive, hour-after-hour depositions." Bolton per usual quickly cuts to the quick.  ”

Double Down Jeopardy

Double Jeopardy Clause is a clause in the U.S. Constitution that forbids a person from being tried twice for the same offence. This clause was added through the U.S. Constitution Fifth Amendment. The principle behind the adoption of the clause is to prevent state and federal governments from imposing more than one punishment for the same offense. This clause thus provides a procedural defense as a right for any act of being tried twice for the same offence. This clause prohibits state and federal governments from re-prosecuting for the same offense, a defendant who has already been acquitted or convicted. [State v. Detco, Inc., 66 Wis. 2d 95 (Wis. 1974)] In April, 1992,  jurors issued their ruling on a controversial case involving the 1991 beating of Rodney King by four LAPD officers. One of the officers was found guilty of excessive force; the other officers were cleared of all charges. The reading of the verdicts was broadcast live, and triggered violence in parts of Los Angeles for three days. More than fifty people were killed, some four thousand injured, twelve thousand were arrested and property damage exceeded one ... . After the acquittals and the riots, the United States Department of Justice sought indictments for violations of King's civil rights. On August 4, the grand jury returned indictments against the three officers for '...willfully and intentionally using unreasonable force...' and against Sergeant Koon for '...willfully permitting and failing to take action to stop the unlawful assault...' on King."  The jury found Officer Laurence Powell and Sergeant Stacey Koon guilty, and they were subsequently sentenced to 32 months in prison, while Timothy Wind and Theodore Briseno were acquitted of all charges.  There were no riots. Why the Hell Not? I'm sure there were earlier instances where constitutional double jeopardy protection was first sacrificed for raw political purposes, but this is the one I remember.  This is the one that left my jaw hanging.  This is the one that made me realize that we had no constitutional protection that could not be overcome by an aggressive government, which meant no constitutional rights at all.  This is the one that convinced me that our government had declared war on anyone, and anything that stood in its way.  This was the time for a million man riot. A pivotal moment in history. Alas.

Gun Grabbers Lurkin' Here Boss

Police State         TEXT KNOCK KNOCK WHO'S THERE? EVERYONE ON THE FLOOR EVERYONE ON THE FLOOR ...

Spy Plane Explanation Begs a Question

What I See                                 “ Am I the only one thinking what I'm thinking? Whose spy plane?? I have no apologies for my wariness in this political climate.  Lost in the  Free Republic archives are my documentation of mysterious loss of satellites in the latter Clinton years.   The White House approved a request  from (huge Clinton donor) Loral  Space to  allow the Chinese to "borrow" our missile guidances system for  their early (peaceful) satellite launches.  All prior attempts had ended in disaster because of faulty guidance software.  Loral supervisors were present to install the system immediately prior to blast off, to insure that the PRC had no chance to steal it.  The rocket launched and immediately tumbled to earth.  By the time the Loral engineers arrived at the site, guess what?  The  nose cone was missing.  About a year or so later, we read reports about how at least two (as I remember) American satellites gone mysteriously missing.  Given that six years later a Chinese General threatened to nuke America's west coast, I considered them  a PRC  message to Garcia.   And this?  A PRC stealth technology advance? ”

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The 1950's - Another Time, Another Place

Another Time, Another Place My best friend in high school, Wally Ruzek, just sent me this "Lost in the Fifties- Another Time, Another Place" video.  It particularly resonates because Wally was from Long Island, me from Chicago, so we sort of  assimilated together into the preppy Towson HS culture.  Wally looked like Wally Cleaver, and he had the biggest collection of 45's I ever saw.  Having come from New York many of them were songs I, and certainly few in Maryland, had ever heard of.  Like the Dubs. The Five Satin's "In the Still of the Night," remains to this day one of my favorite tunes.  I want to say I don't want to live in the past, but I am very comfortable there, and feel very fortunate to have come of age while Ike was president; a time when accidentally brushing against the softness of a girl's breast would make your head spin. Today, stuff like this is more than I can handle.

Red Fox

Catharsis “ Red Fox Sniffing In the morning we will very often find a red fox standing on our front  lawn, or see him/her  strolling zippety-doo-dah casual down the middle of the street.  A cool thing. In our early days here, we would often awake in the pre-dawn hour to the blood curdling sound of a rabbit screaming whilst being ripped apart by a fox.  Or so imagination dictated.   Some people, alarmed, called animal control who would then be obligated to dutifully spend a few days trapping them and, we told our children, drive them to the eastern shore where they would be ever so happy. Ahem. In the aftermath, the rabbit population would explode, and nobody could grow vegetables, or even leafy plants.  Finally, I looked up fox sounds on this new thing called the internet, and was able to report at the next Brie and Chardonnay tasting that  what we were hearing were sounds of hungry fox cubs.  Much buzzing. Come the foxes, rabbit problem solved.  It's a cycle. We all expect that some New York transplant will soon report our red fox, and it will disappear.  It's a cycle.  I'm cool with it.  ” Best Ever

Mystery Viet Nam Memorial

Somewhere in Colorado Once the military.com site opens, it takes a few seconds for the video to automatically start. This is from some dirt bikers along the continental divide near Gunnison, Colorado, where I'm not sure, who stumble upon a Vietnam memorial in the woods. Whoever did it, put a lot of money into it. Spooky, to say the least. Interesting, I never was aware of it's existence. Who ever caused it to be there is a true patriot. As usual the government is non committal at best over it.....some vets must be aware of it as I saw numerous 7.62x51 and 30.06 rounds on one of the ledges between the stones.  Hope you can open this and view it at full screen quite interesting to say the least as to the location and how  did it get there. My Vietnamese is very rusty, not to say it was very good to start with.  http://www.military.com/video/operations-and-strategy/vietnam-war (This is what is referenced in the note.) Google Map Loc    Aside:  I lost who sent this, but it was prefaced with something like "I almost jumped out of my skin when I saw this."   Me too.   iPAD

origins and exploitation of rage, separatism and victimology;

Oh My

Subject: PLEASE read this and WATCH THE VIDEO! (and Fwd!) http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2014/04/27/microclimates-of-totalitarianism/2/ Bill Whittle explains: How Marxism was divorced from economics and married to the culture; How "Critical Theory" came about; The real agenda behind "political correctness"; The origins and exploitation of rage, separatism and victimology; All this and more in 13 minutes of video! I implore you to watch the video and to spread it around! By the way, I found this PJMedia piece and the video through a link from the Comments page of Jack Cashill's article in today's American Thinker: http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/05/the_suffocating_neopuritanism_of_progressive_america.html ''Alexandra Pelosi’s HBO documentary Fall to Grace tracks the evolution of New Jersey’s disgraced, self-dubbed “gay-American,” former governor, Jim McGreevey. In one passing scene, McGreevey enters a church ostensibly more welcoming than the judgmental Catholic Church of his childhood. The message board on the church front reads -- and this is a close paraphrase -- “Lord help us overcome the sins of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia.” Had the message board been bigger, the good pastor might have added nativism, Islamophobia, and xenophobia. In a postmodern world that prides itself on “non-judgmentalism,” these have emerged as the seven new deadly sins, and God help the man, woman, or child who commits one. Unlike the Catholic Church McGreevey abandoned, his newfound Neo-Puritanism is unforgiving. It shows sinners little mercy and offers them no path to absolution. Indeed, like Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne, the sinner is publicly branded with her sin.'' Cheers,  ST From my  iPAD, via skoonj

crash

Oh My

My 2T hard drive with all mm backup data has seemingly crashed, and with it all my dreams for a wonderful world. I am chopping wood, whistling Dixie, and pissing in the wind until this dark cloud passes.

I think yur a trouble maker mister ...

The high court refused to review an appellate-level decision that says the president and U.S. military can arrest and indefinitely detain individuals seen “as a threat to national security anyone viewed as a troublemaker.”

‘WHITE PRIVILEGE’

Check your privilege at the door whitey     MEET THE POSTER CHILD FOR ‘WHITE PRIVILEGE’ – THEN HAVE YOUR MIND BLOWN “ “There is a phrase that floats around college campuses, Princeton being no exception, that threatens to strike down opinions without regard for their merits, but rather solely on the basis of the person that voiced them. “Check your privilege,” the saying goes, and I have been reprimanded by it several times this year.” He’s 20, he’s white, and he’s a freshman at Princeton University. According to the ethnic and feminist studies college students and professors who frequently and vehemently complain that this country is steeped in racism and sexism and is only fair and just and equal for white, heterosexual males – he is the poster child for so-called “White Privilege.” His name is Tal Fortgang, and just eight months into his Ivy League experience, he’s been told on numerous occasions to “check his privilege” – a phrase that has taken social media social justice campaigning by storm. It is meant to remind white, heterosexual males that they have it so good because they’re white, heterosexual males. They haven’t faced tough times, they don’t know what it’s like to be judged by the color of their skin. Oh, but they do. [Full] Can anyone add anything that's been left unsaid about all this?   I don't think so.  After six years of Obama my mind's done been blown away.  What?  You're a masocist?  Okay. Meet the Poster Child for ‘White Privilege’ – Then Have Your Mind Blown Adventures in Gender-Neutral Bathrooms ‘Man Up,’ ‘Don’t Be A Pussy’ Labeled Offensive Language at Duke University Officials Deny Legalized Pot Played Role In Colo. College Applications Surge Catholic University’s Drag Show Includes Transvestite Dressed As Satan Raised By Commies, Now He Teaches Capitalism To American College Students Pro-Life Group at Yale University Denied Campus Resources Harvard, Dartmouth See Number of Applications Plunge Students Tell Campus Police to Arrest ‘Dangerous’ Condi Rice During Visit Michigan Student Radicals: Affirmative Action Ruling Shows Nation Still Racist Thanks, thoR! ”

Chef and Farmer

Chef and Farmer “ Vivian Howard originally made a name for herself in the Manhattan restaurant world and with her own gourmet delivery service. Acclaim and potential investors poured in, but it was the offer from her own parents that called to her the loudest. They would help her build a restaurant — but with one catch. She had to open it back home in Eastern North Carolina, a place to which she swore she would never return. And so The Chef & the Farmer, located in Kinston, North Carolina, was born. Six years in, Vivian and her restaurant have won numerous accolades, including her selection as a James Beard semi-finalist, but the challenges continue. As the series opens, Vivian and Ben are juggling the restaurant, raising twins and anxiously building their own home — right next door to her parents. Note that I've posted this in the "Idyll" rather than "Food" file. Perhaps my pleasure with this PBS series is due to my family's love for Nags Head and indeed the entire East North Carolina region.  At one point we loved all of North Carolina and pondered a retired life there, but our last trip to the Raleigh region showed it had become a traffic choked hell, akin to Virginia Beach.  And then they started electing Democrats.  I avoided "A Chef's Life" for a long time because, duh, the genre has exploded, and most are the same.  But this  has a sweetness to it that I cannot get enough of.  I adore these peole and would like to be their neighbors, and spend time every day at the arster bar.  More and more I'm hankering to  head south.  This one could happen,  because seeing the kids would only require a 6 hour drive each way. For them, LOL. ”

Oh My

Clayton Lockett, a four-time felon sentenced to death for shooting 19-year-old Stephanie Neiman with a sawed-off shotgun and watching as two accomplices buried her alive in rural Kay County in 1999 after Neiman and a friend arrived at a home the men were robbing, suffered for 10 minutes when his lethal cocktail was buggered by ironic deus ex machina . Boo-Hoo.

Sterling Stuff

Sterling

It's really simple.  Private conversations between Sterling and his mistress, in which she lead him into areas she knew his views would bring outrage were surreptitiously taped.  The tape was released.  One of the mistress's other boyfriends is Magic Johnson, a part owner of the LA Dodgers.  Now we hear that all this can be made right if the Clippers are sold to a group fronted by Magic Johnson.  What are the odds that Johnson and his group conspired to get the team by staging this outrage.  It's not like this was a big secret.  Everyone has known for years Sterling was like that.  He's been sued and fined for his slumlord activities.  It was just a case of working through his mistress to stage a coup, on behalf of Magic Johnson.  Just look at who benefits.


Skoonj

CORN PORN

OSO!

We're buying who what?

Obama keeps topping himself

"As we're leaving, the Afghan military, they're looking for helicopters," Hoekstra explained. "They want about 90 attack helicopters. All right. You say, 'Hey, great! They're going to be buying 90 helicopters, that's going to be putting a lot of Americans to work.'

"Wrong. We're buying Russian helicopters for the Afghan military, and the interesting thing about helicopters is that they're high-maintenance. So, not only are we buying about a billion dollars' worth of Russian helicopters, but we're also providing the Russian military industrial complex, the people that build these helicopters, we're providing them with maintenance contracts that are multiple numbers of this one billion," he said Monday.

I am not making this up.  cuzzin ricky

Hollandaise Tunnel

FOOD                                  Don't look at me; I'm hideous My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, mayo and lettuce on white bread for chrissake.  I like to cook, but that doesn't make me a food snob.  When I am cooking gourmet however, especially for a live audience in the other room, and don't have something, I use the Cooks Thesaurus.  If  something's too hard, or the chances of blowing the whole thing (see Hollandaise) are high,  I take the expedient option every time.  That's what this is about. The bossy nagger and hubby were in D.C. last August for a Justin Bieber concert, and stopped by for breakfast on Sunday (by invitation). When I asked, she said their favorite is Eggs Benedict.  I used Knorr.  She laughed out loud. Said it looked hideous, and tasted even more terrible than hideous. And de-linked me when she got home.  Now, however, she's acting like an adult again; being constructive and all.   best evar...I'm stunned http://www.food.com/recipe/easy-hollandaise-sauce-121586 Wow. I just had grilled cheese on white bread, with a slice of deli pickle and topped w/that Hollandaise!  To die for.  Oafish and snobby behavior, forgotten.

ARCHER

Here's happiness.  You know how you really like a television series, and think you've seen all the episodes?  And then you watch them all over and discover that, somehow, you skipped over an entire 13 episode season!  And it's like you just found  $20 in an old coat?  That just happened  to me with Archer!,  my new best series of all time (Netflix.)  It's comedy genius.  Thank you, that person who mentioned it in an ago comment.

Fitbit dry hump

Fitbit Dry-humping fitbit's Heartbleed PSA If you walk in place, lifting just your heels, while swinging arms vigorously, fitbit gives you full credit.  I'm not trying to cheat (senseless, that), but I hurt me knee a few days ago and really aggravated it yesterday.  I swing a  5# bar bell in each hand and, believe me, it's a workout.  You're welcome. PS: cuzzin ricky brings this about Heartbleed (fkm).

What Goes Around ...

Ex-Cons Squatting in Soldier’s Home Defiantly Stay Put — But Their Tune Rapidly Changes After Outraged Bikers, Veterans Promise a Little Visit

SOROS-BROCK WRITE CBS NEWS

Dickens Cider

Dickens Cider

SIX PAK

SIX PACK Blah-blah Blah-blah Blah-blah Blah-blah Blah-blah Blah-blah

3 primary challengers means he wins

Time to put him in the blender

We now know what John Boehner really thinks of his Republican colleagues, and those Americans who gave him a chance to be Speaker in 2010.

On the issues front, Boehner, who faces three primary opponents, revealed that out of all the problems facing the nation, the one that he is willing to go to the wall to achieve is immigration reform.   [...]
By revealing his fealty to the giant corporate and elitist interests ... Boehner made clear what most had suspected for a long while.  The man who was at best a reluctant warrior in the battle to reduce the size and scope of government is willing to risk power for his drinking buddy’s corporate interests. [Boehner's Disdain Spells Trouble]

There's a hole in your bucket dear Liza

Police State         There's a hole in your bucket dear Liza, dear Liza  TEXT We get messages from the gas company telling us that we used too much power at such and such time,  and offer tips on how to cut back  In real time.  Let's be gentle and accept that the gas company's smart meters are nothing more than a labor saving device that throw a million meter readers out of a job but don't result in lower rates, but there is nothing sinister about them.  There is no getting around it though, the gas company, and therefore any government agency that have a notion, can know about your habits. They already have access to your driving habits, and you pay for the privilege (OnStar tracking,  manufacturer installed event data recorders (EDR), cell phones.)  If you watched the BBC series SPOOKS you've seen M-I5 access London's vast network of CCTV cams and search for people via face recognition.  In real time. Futuristic?  If you use Chrome or have Firefox's Google image source plug in, you can find all events of a single picture in a heartbeat.  How much fun is that?  Way.  But like the man said, we will give government the tools to enslave us, and thank them for it each step of the way. But here's what, for me, is the kiss of death.  Liza dear, we noticed that you wore torn panties on your date with Leo.  Your father and I were so embarrassed; it's  a reflection on how we raised you. Think back, boy and girls, about your first clumsy sexual encounter at the drive-in, or under the porch.  Or your honeymoon. Or taking cigarette money from mom's purse.  Or any moment at all.   Google's smart contact lens system with a CAMERA built in means that, in the future, all of it can be posted to Facebook. There is no going back. I think Earth inhabitants have reached this stage before, multiple times in its 4 billion year history.  It's about time.

We have met the enemy

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I did this post over the weekend but couldn't be bothered to push more buttons so now it's stale but the message is clear With the news this week that more than 600,000 Washington residents have acquired new health care plans through the state exchange, U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers said it’s unlikely the Affordable Care Act will be repealed. “We need to look at reforming the exchanges,” the Eastern Washington Republican said Thursday.

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POT & KETTLE

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Update: Rep. Michael Grimm (R NY) to be indicted after long investigation I don't care what he's accused of, or even if he's guilty.  The timing here is just too-too cute. In the run-up to the 2006 elections, when Dems retook the House by charging that the GOP was the Party of Corruption, Tom Delay was indicted (it took three different Grand Juries), and in October Federal agents raided the homes of Rep. Curt Weldon's (R PA) daughter,  and one of his closest political supporters in an investigation into whether the veteran Republican congressman (he lost his seat) used his influence to benefit himself and his daughter's lobbying firm.  They won.  Pelosi was made Speaker.  You know the rest.  It's what they do. Do I have to recount the depth of D-Party corruption; or its members who have failed to be indicted by the Obama DOJ?  Including the Attorney General? Fkm.

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Who’s in charge here!!

Who’s in charge here!!  (sorry, no humor in this one)  Metzger   “ Some time back (and this kind of list comes out somewhere about every year or so), I saw a list of crimes, accusations, and arrests involving the 535 members of Congress.   It’s never an accurate representation of the misdeeds of any particular congress because the statistics have been gathered over a number of years. The numbers and varieties of crimes, however, are staggering when considered in light of the fact that Congress and the Executive Branch are supposed to be our leaders, the ones who crank out gazillions of new laws and regulations for the rest of us to be confused and stifled by.  Just a partial list of the crimes and misdemeanors includes fraud, spousal abuse, public intoxication, DUI, tax evasion, delinquent payments, bounced checks, insider trading, assault, drug possession, contempt, swearing to false official documents, abuse of power, mismanagement of public funds, lewd and lascivious behavior, sexual harassment, money laundering, perjury, arms trafficking, bribery, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, consorting with prostitutes, and even shoplifting. Add to that the fact that members of Congress cannot be charged with certain crimes while in office.  For example, Harry Reid frequently and deliberately spreads rumors, disinformation, and lies about political opponents, as he did when he said Mitt Romney hadn’t paid taxes in over 10 years.  Harry loves to toss around tidbits of unfounded gossip, tantamount to slander and libel, as he is doing about the Koch brothers and Bundy.  The problem is that he can do it with impunity while in office. I used to be proud that the US was undeniably and unquestionably the best place in the world to live for security, opportunity, and personal liberty.  Well, it just ain’t that way any more.  Yesterday while out pulling weeds in my back yard I managed to twist my ankle, so I spent a lot of time indoors listening to the news.  In one day, just ONE DAY, I heard mention or discussion or updates on the following: TSA excessive searches and corruption HHS disinformation and ineptitude (mostly over the ACA) IRS employees failing to pay income taxes Scholarship athletes trying to form unions Students prohibited from passing out copies of the Constitution on college campuses BLM bullying and land grabs Government gun running (mostly the Fast & Furious scandal) Various security agencies spying on private citizens Selective enforcement of existing laws Complete surrender in the illegal alien situation Leniency releases of prisoners on drug convictions STILL no arrests or prosecutions in the Benghazi fiasco Iran elected to the UN Commission on the Status of Women Putin gob-smacking US influence Iran still enriching uranium The current administration hasn’t produced a budget in 6 years The current administration’s foreign policy is speak softly and carry a linguini Veterans dying while administrators play peekaboo with appointment schedules The US could be energy independent except for politics (Keystone and ANWR) The US AttyGen says states do not have to enforce laws they don’t like And the list goes on and on and on.  And that was just ONE DAY’s worth of news.  We’ve reached a point at which life is imitating art, and the “art” is porno, rap, and pulp fiction.  The fish stinks from the head down, and when the people in the White House are spendthrift wastrels, race-baiters, hypocrites, and lawbreakers, the people eventually figure that if the gubmint can behave like thugs and arbitrarily select which of its own rules and statutes it will follow, they can do likewise. No way any of my direct descendants will ever experience the freedom, the good fortune, and the faith in government that I had for the first 50 or so years of my life.  The past 25 years of it have been characterized by partisan politics, selfish public servants, monstrous mismanagement, and dangerous decline.  And I don’t see it getting any better soon, because by the time Soetoro leaves office, we’ll be so deep in old, stale, borrowed kimchee that we’ll never be able to work our way out and be competitive in world economics as we were back in the 50s and 60s. Rome, Britain . . . move over; the American Empire is about to join you on the road to ignominy. Ron Metzger ”

Census Survey Revisions

WHAT GUMMINT DOES          Census Survey Revisions Mask Health Law Effects SAT scoring revised to mask lowered scores CDC changes AIDS scoring to mask increase Obama changes immigration law to aid voter enrollment "Stroke of the pen. Law of the Land. Kinda cool." - Paul Begala WASHINGTON — The Census Bureau, the authoritative source of health insurance data for more than three decades, is changing its annual survey so thoroughly that it will be difficult to measure the effects of President Obama’s health care law in the next report, due this fall, census officials said.