A story on the Daily Caller, a national conservative website, says Kyle Wood, a full-time volunteer for Lee, reported that he answered his door Wednesday morning and a man wrapped a ligature around his neck, slammed his head into the doorway, smashed his face into a mirror and kidney-punched him.
via Madison.com.
I wrote a little about this here.
No mention of either of these stories in the MSM.
Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said today that he would like to see gun owners in Illinois have to report when their weapons are stolen, lost or sold – steps he said would lower the number of firearms in the hands of criminals. …
“We keep trying to pass comprehensive gun legislation,” he added. “And my recommendation is to really start small. The fact is that if there was a requirement to report the loss, transfer or theft of a firearm in the state of Illinois, that would significantly limit the number of firearms in the city of Chicago.”
via Chicago Tribune.
Media simply reports what the man says as gospel and doesn’t ask any questions.
Please tell us Mr. McCarthy how part one, a “requirement to report the loss, transfer or theft of a firearm” leads to part two, and “significantly limit the number of firearms in the city of Chicago?”
Person A has a gun. Person A goes on vacation and while gone Gang-Banger B breaks into Person A’s house and steals Person A’s gun. Person A reports to the police that the gun has been stolen.
First, Person A is going to file a report b/c guns are expensive and he or she is going to want to make the insurance claim that the gun was stolen.
Second, Person A is going to file a report b/c they don’t want the police knocking at their door when the gun is used in a crime.
But just in case that’s not enough… let’s just say we do create a new law to force Person A to notify the police that the gun was stolen. Now just exactly what is the police going to do with that information to keep the stolen firearm out of the city of Chicago?
I would really like to know. Where is the nexus between knowledge of a stolen gun and action that keeps that gun out of the city?
Can someone please explain?
Johnson’s first point was that the US political system is in desperate need of transparency. Whether Obama or Romney is elected next month, he told the audience, we will still have “a heightened police state in the US.” And Obama and Romney are guaranteed to continue American military interventions abroad, he added.
via RT.
Indeed. Obama and Romney are more alike than different when you consider the other ideas being bantered about. Such as:
However, [Johnson] saw taxing marijuana as one alternative to outlawing it. “I have drank alcohol,” he said, “and I have smoked marijuana. … I can tell you that in no category is marijuana more dangerous than alcohol – yet we are arresting 1.8 million people a year on drug-related crimes.” He claimed that fully half of the US court and prison budget every year goes to drug-related offenses, and asked, rhetorically, “to what end?”
I would love a presidential candidate to come forward and tell the American people directly that the war on drugs has been an epic failure.
Johnson repeated throughout the debate that thanks to American wars abroad, the US has unnecessarily made millions of enemies around the world. The use of the military, he said, is to defend the country, not invade other nations.
I would love a presidential candidate to come forward and tell the American people directly that our foreign policy of intervening in everyone else’s affairs has been an epic failure.
“The biggest threat to our national security is that we’re bankrupt,” he told the audience….
I would love a presidential candidate to come forward and tell the American people directly that our debt is a national security issue.
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Kudos to Gary Johnson. Such a shame that the GOP and Dem and MSM just ignore you.
A year-long investigation by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has found that scores of known radical Islamists made hundreds of visits to the Obama White House, meeting with top administration officials.
This is a problem.
A real mo fo problem.
No word yet from the Ministry of Truth.
[Republican] Voters are getting letters that look like they are from local elections offices, questioning their citizenship. But Local 6 has learned the letters are fake, and they are going out across Central Florida and other parts of the state.
Officials said the voters who have received the letters thus far are white, registered Republicans who consistently vote in elections.
“This is a major concern,” said Seminole County Supervisor of Elections Mike Ertel, who received a letter from a voter mailed from Seattle with no return address. “You should not expect a letter from your elections office saying, ‘You’re not registered to vote, please don’t go to the polls.’ That’s ridiculous.”
The supervisor of elections in Collier County said some residents there have also received hoax letters.
Inside the letter is the resident’s supervisor of election’s name, the resident’s name and address, and a warning that doubts the voter’s citizenship, saying the resident is not eligible to vote unless a letter is returned in an enclosed form within 15 days.
via WKMG Orlando.
This surprises no one.
Think about this for just one second. The bogus letters are sent to “white, registered Republicans who consistently vote in elections.” Who has access to that information? Sure, it’s available at the local board of elections but not easy to pull together into a mail-merge. This is a sophisticated effort by someone who has a copy of the electronic voter database. That’s not easy to come by.
Very creepy. But this (I guess) is the lengths some people will go to to win an election. And if the fraud doesn’t work, they just beat some people up and put them in the hospital. People in the hospital don’t vote right?
State Senator Neal Kedzie says his son was attacked while trying to stop someone from stealing his Romney/Ryan yard sign.
Whitewater Police tell NBC15 News this is an active investigation.
Here is the statement released by Senator Neal Kedzie:
Early on Friday morning, October 19th, my son Sean was awakened by noises outside his residence in Whitewater. As he went to see what the commotion was about, he noticed an individual removing a Romney/Ryan yard sign from his property. He yelled to the person that they were taking something not theirs and to return it immediately.
The individual returned the sign, however, a second person confronted and attacked Sean without warning.
Sean was wrestled to the ground by both persons, held down by a constricting chokehold, and struck repeatedly about the face and head.
He nearly passed out from the chokehold and suffered contusions to his face and eyes.
Fortunately, an alert neighbor heard the commotion, scared the individuals away, and called the police.
My wife and I were awakened by a telephone call from Sean’s roommate that Sean had been taken by ambulance to Fort Atkinson Memorial Hospital.
They say if you resort to violence
then you’ve already lost.
— Sean Connery as Capt. John Connor, Rising Sun
Given the continued threats of violence should Obama not win it’s safe to say our fair nation is losing its soul. The media has given a voice to those believe they can govern through raw power and fear.
Something is very very wrong here. A lack of proper education, poor social values, a biased and weak willed media system, and a general lack of civility can sink the country. We’re very very close.
Scary times.
The Obama re-election campaign has accepted at least one foreign donation in violation of the law — and does nothing to check on the provenance of millions of dollars in other contributions, a watchdog group alleges.
Chris Walker, a British citizen who lives outside London, told The Post he was able to make two $5 donations to President Obama’s campaign this month through its Web site while a similar attempt to give Mitt Romney cash was rejected. It is illegal to knowingly solicit or accept money from foreign citizens.
via NYPOST.com.
This is kinda like Al Gore walking out of the Buddhist temple with a suitcase full of cash and not asking any questions.
We need an investigation into this.
A 12-year-old girl is being hailed a hero for shooting a home intruder after she hid with a gun in the closet.
Kendra St Clair, from Oklahoma, was home alone when she heard someone break in.
She called her mother and asked what she should do, and her terrified mom told her to get the gun and hide in the closet and stay there until she thought the coast was clear.
But when she emerged from her hiding space and went to the back door, she saw the intruder was still trying to break in and ran back into the closet. …
‘When I was back there (in the closet) on the phone with 911, I heard the bathroom light turn on that was leading to the closet. And when I saw the door handle turn, I shot him.
via Daily Mail Online.
I wrote before about how guns are great equalizer for self defense; especially for women. Self defense is one of the basket of rights we inherit from our creator. It does not come from the government; it cannot be taken away.
All rational people would hate to think of what would have happened — how differently this situation could have turned out — if this little girl did not have that shotgun.
Shame on those who would take it away from her.
Five weeks after an assault on the US consulate in Benghazi left Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans dead, the reaction from Washington has been anything but fruitful. No elected official has yet to reveal with certainty who led the attack, and both the White House and the US State Department have at times offered entirely different explanations for the assumed motives of the assailants. …
Mr. Obama stated, “… I wasn’t confused about the fact that we have to hunt down whoever did it and bring them to justice. As I said during the debate, nobody is more interested in figuring this out than I am.”Even if Mr. Obama’s insistence regarding his investment in the attack is genuine, journalists with both the New York Times and Reuters may have already done a better job than all of the government agencies combined. At the same time Pres. Obama endorsed a thorough investigation into the attack, articles published by major media outlets had already accomplished as much.
On Thursday, the Times published an interview alleged to have recently occurred between one of their reporters and Ahmed Abu Khattala, described to the paper by both witnesses and Libyan authorities as a ring-leader of the September 11, 2012 assault.
When Pres. Obama told Stewart that he is still very serious about hunting down any persons with a part in the attack, the Times had already conducted a sit-down with the suspected terrorist at a “crowded luxury hotel” in Benghazi, where the paper described Khattala as nonplussed and anything but concerned about repercussions from the White House. The Libyan national Army assumingly in cahoots with the Obama administration was a “chicken,” Khattala said, and US politicians were “playing with the emotions of the American people” and “using the consulate attack just to gather votes for their elections.”
“Suspect in Libya Attack, in Plain Sight, Scoffs at U.S.,” the Times headline reads.
via RT.
This situation reminds me of when O.J. Simpson went out looking for the real killer. He checked several golf courses throughout Florida and couldn’t find anything.
The real question is why this story has not been picked-up by the MSM, a/k/a the Ministry of Truth? No word of this on NBC, CBS, even Fox. What gives?
The president is clear not really all that focused on bringing this guy to justice. That’s pretty sad.
Spain’s government is drafting a law that bans the photographing and filming of members of the police. The Interior Ministry assures they are not cracking down on freedom of expression, but protecting the lives of law enforcement officers. …
The new Citizen Safety Law will prohibit “the capture, reproduction and editing of images, sounds or information of members of the security or armed forces in the line of duty,” said the director general of the police, Ignacio Cosido. He added that this new bill seeks to “find a balance between the protection of citizens’ rights and those of security forces.”
The dissemination of images and videos over social networks like Facebook will also be punishable under the legislation.
via RT.
“Oh it could never happen here.” That’s what the Spanish used to think. Now look at them.
Note the language of the law. It’s the Citizen Safety Law. Bullshit! It has nothing to do with the safety of citizens. It about making sure that people do not record the unlawful acts of their own government.
In case you don’t know, Spain is going through a tough time right now because for years and years they spend more money than the had. They go too far into debt and now they have to pay the bills. The austerity measures are not very popular. So people have been taking to the streets. The government don’t like that.
Keep this in mind as we start having to pay down our own debt. Something is going to have to give… People are going to take to the streets. There may very well be some violent confrontations between people and police. Those confrontations need to be public. Not limited to what the government, a/k/a The Ministry of Truth, tells us what happened.
It can happen there… it can happen here. Prepare yourself.
This (sadly) is not a spoof:
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