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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Border Patrol Blimps
Customs and Border Protection is gearing up to test some new high tech border surveillance: military blimps. CBP hopes they'll help find drug smugglers and people crossing the Mexico border illegally. The Wall Street Journal reports the military will test the $1 million blimps in the next few weeks. If all goes well, it could just give them to CBP free of charge. This is part of a bigger CBP attempt to revitalize its high-tech border security plan. Last year, Homeland Security pulled the plug on the troubled SBInet, the $1 billioin virtual fence of video cameras and radars.
Close Shave
An old man walks into the barbershop for shave and a haircut, but
tells the barber he can't get all his whiskers off because his cheeks are wrinkled from age.
The barber gets a little wooden ball from a cup on the shelf and
tells him to put it inside his cheek to spread out the skin.
When he's finished, the old man tells the barber that was the
cleanest shave he's had in years. But he wanted to know what would have
happened if he had swallowed that little ball.
The barber replied, "Just bring it back in a couple of days like
everyone else does."
tells the barber he can't get all his whiskers off because his cheeks are wrinkled from age.
The barber gets a little wooden ball from a cup on the shelf and
tells him to put it inside his cheek to spread out the skin.
When he's finished, the old man tells the barber that was the
cleanest shave he's had in years. But he wanted to know what would have
happened if he had swallowed that little ball.
The barber replied, "Just bring it back in a couple of days like
everyone else does."
Janna Ryan Off-Stage By Choice As Husband Emerges As GOP Rock Star
Janna Ryan is just emerging as the wife of a vice presidential candidate, but her first few days in the role appear to show the once small-town girl prefers being the family rock – not a political rock star.
During an overflow rally last weekend in North Carolina, just hours after husband and GOP Rep. Paul Ryan was announced as Mitt Romney’s running mate, Janna politely declined to take the microphone – twice.
Such demure behavior is typical of Ryan, say people who have know the mother of three from her early days in Madill, Okla., (population 3,781) through her time on K Street as a tax attorney, then a lobbyist.
VA In Hot Water
Now Veterans Affairs is in the pressure cooker over conference spending. The VA inspector general is looking into allegations of wasteful spending at two HR conferences that cost the VA $9 million. Attendees received tens of thousands of dollars worth of swag. Members of Congress are weighing in with outrage. The training conferences in question took place in Orlando, Fla., in July and August of last year. Federal Times reports, the IG is also looking into whether federal employees improperly accepted gifts of spa treatments and concert tickets. In April, the GSA was stung by an IG report detailing lavish conference spending in Las Vegas.
Clinton COS On Ryan: ‘This Guy Is Amazing.’
Bill Bennett suggested on his radio show this morning that the Romney-Ryan campaign (or someone else) cut an ad to make famous these remarks (delivered a year ago at the University of North Carolina) about Paul Ryan by Clinton White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles:
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GIULIANI RESPONDS TO BIDEN‘S ’CHAINS’ FLAP: I’VE NEVER SEEN A VP MAKE AS MANY MISTAKES, SAY AS MANY STUPID THINGS
Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday told a group of voters in Virginia that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was “gonna’” put them all back in chains.
Unsurprisingly, the VP‘s hyperbolic rhetoric hasn’t gone over too well with the right-leaning community. Indeed, during a Tuesday broadcast of The Kudlow Report, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani had nothing but scorn for the “chains” remark.
“You know, what did he say? ‘Y’all going to be put back in chains’? That almost has racial overtones, Rudy Giuliani. What’s your take on that?” CNBC’s Larry Kudlow asked the former mayor.
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FAA Cuts Could Trigger $20B Blow To National Economy
The Federal Aviation Administration is slated to lose $1 billion from its budget if Congress does not act to prevent sequestration. Additionally, about 100,000 jobs throughout the economy would be lost annually, according to a study released by the Aerospace Industries Association.
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Racial Profiling Could Be Rampant At Airports Across America
According to a new report by the New York Times, managers at Boston's Logan Airport instruct their TSA personnel to racially profile Middle Easterners, blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities. It's part of a behavior detection program created after 9/11 – meant to use trained behavioral experts to engage passengers in security lines and try to detect any unusual behavior. But this month, 32 officers filed written complaints alleging that the program is motivated strictly by racial profiling. Not only that – management required officers to meet a certain threshold of arrests and detentions. The TSA is responding with its own investigation into the issue, but the same program at Logan Airport is a model for more than 160 other airports across the nation.
Goldman Sachs Is Gonna Skate
The Department of Justice announced on Friday that it would not be pressing charges on the Wall Street giant after a more than a yearlong investigation into the banks' trading practices during the mortgage crisis. Despite Senate testimony back in April of last year proving that executives at Goldman preyed on customers and sold off investments that they knew were bogus, the Department of Justice concluded its investigation failing short of the "burden of proof" it needed to file charges against the banksters. So once again, high crimes in the financial sector go unpunished in America's two-tier Justice System.
DHS Launches Young Immigrant Program
Beginning Wednesday, young illegal immigrants can fill out forms and pay $465 if they want to apply under a new program that would let them avoid deportation and obtain a U.S. work permit.
The change in immigration policy, an initiative of the Obama Administration, will have an immediate and visible impact in the Washington region, where as many as 50,000 people may be eligible.
"Right over here today, you are going to see 1,000 'Dreamers' waiting in line," says Gustavo Torres, the executive director of Casa de Maryland .
Paul Ryan: An Inspired Choice That Says “We Can Fix This”
In selecting U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney said the one thing Americans most desperately want to hear and believe: we can fix this. For the last several years, Americans have looked around and seen only a mess, with stubbornly high unemployment, anemic growth, rising debt, out-of-control spending and a stalemate in Washington. The steady downpour of bad news, combined with the disillusionment that Obama has failed to deliver on his promise of hope and change, have shaken our confidence and eroded our typical can-do American optimism.
That’s why the Ryan pick struck the political landscape like the lightning bolt of a sudden summer storm across an otherwise lazy August weekend. The choice has galvanized a Republican Party that was beginning to despair. Even more importantly, it said to all Americans that Mitt Romney is determined to fix our nation’s problems.
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That’s why the Ryan pick struck the political landscape like the lightning bolt of a sudden summer storm across an otherwise lazy August weekend. The choice has galvanized a Republican Party that was beginning to despair. Even more importantly, it said to all Americans that Mitt Romney is determined to fix our nation’s problems.
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Is Your Car Being Tracked By A License-Plate Scanner?
The government can now track your movements when you drive and, over time, put together a profile of how you lead your life
If you drive through Maryland, the state may be using an automated reader to photograph your license plate — and storing your movements away for future use. Maryland is not alone. ACLU offices in 38 states are looking into how the government is using license-plate readers across the country — and what it is doing with the data. The ACLU is already calling the license-plate readers “the next big thing in government tracking.”
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If you drive through Maryland, the state may be using an automated reader to photograph your license plate — and storing your movements away for future use. Maryland is not alone. ACLU offices in 38 states are looking into how the government is using license-plate readers across the country — and what it is doing with the data. The ACLU is already calling the license-plate readers “the next big thing in government tracking.”
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TRAFFIC ALERT 8-15-12
Norfolk Southern Railroad Will Close Crossing at Bethel Road for Repairs
Seaford -- As a public courtesy, the Department of Transportation (DelDOT) wants to inform area residents that Norfolk Southern Railroad will close the railroad crossing on Bethel Road between O'Neals Road and Seaford Road near Seaford for repairs to the crossing. The crossing will be closed at 7 a.m. on Monday, August 20. The crossing will reopen by 5 p.m. on Friday, August 24, pending weather.
Detour routes:
Westbound: Seaford Road to O'Neals Road and return to Bethel Road
Eastbound: O'Neals Road to Seaford Road and back to Bethel Road
DelDOT will post signs to alert motorists of the closure and the accompanying detour routes.
Seaford -- As a public courtesy, the Department of Transportation (DelDOT) wants to inform area residents that Norfolk Southern Railroad will close the railroad crossing on Bethel Road between O'Neals Road and Seaford Road near Seaford for repairs to the crossing. The crossing will be closed at 7 a.m. on Monday, August 20. The crossing will reopen by 5 p.m. on Friday, August 24, pending weather.
Detour routes:
Westbound: Seaford Road to O'Neals Road and return to Bethel Road
Eastbound: O'Neals Road to Seaford Road and back to Bethel Road
DelDOT will post signs to alert motorists of the closure and the accompanying detour routes.
OFF-DUTY COP HITS 4-YEAR-OLD GIRL WITH MOTORCYCLE THEN SHOOTS AND KILLS ANGRY DAD
Moments after his motorcycle struck a 4-year-old girl, an off-duty Chicago Police officer shot and killed the girl’s irate father after he allegedly attacked the officer, the Chicago Sun Times reports .
Fraternal Order of Police Spokesman Pat Camden identified the officer as a 43-year-old veteran of the Chicago Police. The officer was headed home on Saturday evening when the horrifying incident occurred.
As he was driving home, the officer says he saw a child unexpectedly run into the street. In order not to strike the girl directly, the cop jumped off his motorcycle, pulling it down on its side on the pavement. However, the motorcycle skidded and flipped, hitting the 4-year-old girl and her 18-year-old cousin, John Passley.
The Real Danger Of The Obama Campaign Strategy
There's a story about a young man who comes home one day and says to his father, "Dad, I know who I am and what I want to do with my life: I'm a sea captain."
The father looks at him and says, "Son, you know you're a sea captain, and I know you're a sea captain, but do sea captains know you're a sea captain?"
There's a political corollary that goes something like this: You know Barack Obama is crook and a failure and unfit to be president, and I know Barack Obama is a crook and a failure and unfit to be president, but do a majority of American voters know Barack Obama is a crook and a failure and unfit to be president?"
In other words, the big risk in this election is thinking that a majority of Americans see the presidential race as we conservatives see it, that they're as disturbed by the tone and tactics of the Obama campaign as we are. But if we take a closer look at what most Americans -- liberal and conservative -- are seeing, it should be a wake-up call to us.
First, the polling numbers are juiced beyond recognition. On August 1, a CBS/New York Times/Quinnipiac College poll used a sample that was skewed so badly it was borderline criminal. The polling sample was 36% Democrat and 27% Republican, when less than three months earlier polling data indicated that the numbers should have been 31% Democrat and 34% Republican. Obama "won" this skewed poll 51% to 45%. If the correct sample distribution instead of a 12-point swing in the Democrats' favor had been used, Romney would have received 54% of the vote in this poll.
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The father looks at him and says, "Son, you know you're a sea captain, and I know you're a sea captain, but do sea captains know you're a sea captain?"
There's a political corollary that goes something like this: You know Barack Obama is crook and a failure and unfit to be president, and I know Barack Obama is a crook and a failure and unfit to be president, but do a majority of American voters know Barack Obama is a crook and a failure and unfit to be president?"
In other words, the big risk in this election is thinking that a majority of Americans see the presidential race as we conservatives see it, that they're as disturbed by the tone and tactics of the Obama campaign as we are. But if we take a closer look at what most Americans -- liberal and conservative -- are seeing, it should be a wake-up call to us.
First, the polling numbers are juiced beyond recognition. On August 1, a CBS/New York Times/Quinnipiac College poll used a sample that was skewed so badly it was borderline criminal. The polling sample was 36% Democrat and 27% Republican, when less than three months earlier polling data indicated that the numbers should have been 31% Democrat and 34% Republican. Obama "won" this skewed poll 51% to 45%. If the correct sample distribution instead of a 12-point swing in the Democrats' favor had been used, Romney would have received 54% of the vote in this poll.
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‘THE GUY WHO KILLED MY SISTER WAS DEFENDED BY PROGRESSIVE’S LEGAL TEAM’
In what can only be described as an insurance nightmare elevated to the highest level, Fisher writes about his sister, Katie, and her 2010 death, which was the result of a car accident. The incident, which he claims had very clear and obvious fault, involved a driver running a red light and fatally hitting Katie’s vehicle. While a settlement came very quickly after her death, it wasn’t much, as the driver at fault was under-insured.
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Deconstruction Of The United States
This article was written by Marti Oakley and originally published at The PPJ Gazette
The deconstruction of the United States is nearing completion.
Plans set in motion decades ago are now beginning to become a reality. Everything we were, or thought we were, has been carefully and strategically taken apart and reassembled as part of the United Nations plantation. The UN is the headquarters for the burgeoning world government and for decades our elected officials, unelected bureaucrats and other shadowy figures that slither about the halls of what was our government, have worked tirelessly to bring about our end. We are just about there.
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The deconstruction of the United States is nearing completion.
Plans set in motion decades ago are now beginning to become a reality. Everything we were, or thought we were, has been carefully and strategically taken apart and reassembled as part of the United Nations plantation. The UN is the headquarters for the burgeoning world government and for decades our elected officials, unelected bureaucrats and other shadowy figures that slither about the halls of what was our government, have worked tirelessly to bring about our end. We are just about there.
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