OK... if the IRS is going to share your financial information along with your medical records while the NSA is tracking your phone records and the local authority are monitoring your vehicle 's proximity and direction ... {breathe} all the while the precedent has been set to bring a successful prosecution of a defendant who had not committed a crime but had planned one AND despite that it has been fairly well established that if you can be deemed a threat to National security a Drone strike can & has been authorized to elimenate you w/ extremely prejudice...
how much is the tea in Shangra La costing the tourist from Walawala Kansas?
ops... sorry lost my train of thought there...
So- the IRS is gonna manage your financial records PLUS your Insurance coverage right? If You have a dependent that requires special needs and therapy and You decide you have need to move to a new residence will YOUR financial information also indicate to a potential loan officer that
You are carrying a higher Medical coverage and therefore represent a higher risk ? Will it indicate why You are precisely doing that? Will it prevent you from moving into a houses that are not outfitted for persons w/ handicaps? Will it reject your loan based on the locality that you have selected to move your family to because that area may not be deemed accessible? Or Maaybe you are not the type of p[erson they want to see move into that type of community?
Is that what the President is considering "Your On Your Own Economics"?
Wait ... so what if you get aggravated during some point of that mess? What if you start ranting like a fucking Madman & start screaming things like
" I Am Fucking VET!"
"You Can't Treat Me Like THIS!"
" You Oughta be Pumped full of 50 Cal Asshole!"
& Homeland Security in coordination w/ NSA red flag you... (Back in 09 that is what the DHS was spewing to the local PD's "BOLO (Be on the lookout) for Vets they can be radicalized by Anti Government Miltia groups")
NSA Starts reading the family email threads between you and your liberallies and Progs siblings calling you a racist asshole because you think home loans ought go to people who can... you know... pay them off at some point OVER persons whom do not appear to have positive income flow.
-National Security tears out a 12 page report single space in type-font 10
"Oh Yeah this guy ain't right- he is one of those dangerous Tea Party folks." ( Badass VEEP Joey B and Senile Mitchell McConnell told the media- these dirt bags were all dangerous terrorists)
NSA calls the local five O (PD) into the investigation. They got pictures of you driving up and down the local avenues and boulevards. They establish your favorite haunts from the Seven 11 to the Gin joint on the turnpike - Establishing how you seldom fully Stop at the intersection of Gray and Cromwell Despite the obscured Stop sign behind the overgrown American elm tree branches.
They also note the fact you are frequently passing the house of a bitter ex wife's grand aunt of a second cousin of a family friend who knows your Loan Officer at the Mortgage company Who in turn just soo happens to posses the name and number of the IRS Agent that has provided your info regarding financial and medical status.Related this information back to the NSA they track the Location of your cell phone to determine you are spending huge amounts of time in the lu according to the blueprint of your homes construction Cross referencing that info with the itemized account info from your municipalities water bill reported to EPA they are determining you are using excessive amounts of water on a nightly basis. Adding to this when they access your credit card information and discover you are also regularly in contact with a South Korean Deli Owner who's father was captured & killed by the North during water boarding interrogation.
Still "Your On Your Own Economy" Right?
Well let me tell you the shit gets hot and heavy after that... Suddenly your name is rocketing up the "charts" and "graphs" and "BOLOs" and "CopaFeel" & "No fly's" Lists Until finally, the Be All & End All of lists. The "Terminate w/ Extreme Prejudice" list for The President of the United States himself (AKA POTUS); reviewed every Tuesday with immortal like attention to detail; promptly just after brunch @ 11:00 am and just before the Tee time at 11:35 am. The final nail in your coffin arrives when researching your high school records the file receives it Coup De Gras piece of information . . . You apparently wrote a short fictional story detailing the assignation of a politician who because of her abdication of responsibility her lecherous husband contracted Ebola via his well photographed penis. ( it actually was a much more intriguing and cutting edge in the 80's when it was first written. It received a a flourished B+ due to the abmissal popularity of the first lady at the time.)
Anyway ... It Is still an YOYO economy
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Liberation of Death Camp Detroit & the Art of Grift
It has been decades in the making. Rife contiguous failed leaderships, corrupt machine party politics, the desperate fleeing of capital in bodies, minds and ventures - all essential ingredients to making the stew called the American Ghetto. Like other failing desperate cities it has fresh new expensive playgrounds in a sad attempt to lure families back into the rotting carcass of the once famed "Motor City". But families do not turn to ruins to seek gains in prosperity and better times, they seek higher grounds. Places where family is a cherished word where children are viewed not as mistakes or accidents but treasures and promise. Families prefer streets that are not war zones for rival gangs and cops who speed through refusing to enter the crumbling canyons of abandoned buildings.
Motown was once the city of the future. Destined to advance the charging full bore American Dream but what it has become is a mangled wretched signpost on the avenue of Broken Dreams.
Detroit residents shuttered when in 2008 Chevrolet and Chrysler staggered by the enormous weight of a mix bad money management, poor labor negotiations & an economy that just discovered abruptly the fallacy of ever rising real estate pricing. It was Hell or high water. And the federal government extended a life line 1st through Bush Jr than a temporary hostile take over from Barack Obama. That was going to save the whole works -except, it did not.
More rational minds recognized the likely reality- Chevrolet & Chrysler needed to get lean and That was not gonna be in a tax morbidly obese city such as Detroit. They were gonna need the flexibility the Union higher ups like to call scabs, in places as close as Virginia and as far off as Outer Mongolia. Talk about Competition! That fact also was not going to prevent a media industry from pumping up the illusion for the Commander in Grift either. The Campaign of 2012 was quite clear "Chevrolet was alive'... and by virtue so was the heart of Detroit. But policy that reflected " Das Capital - a Workers Paradise" mentality made sure that manufacturing had to get out of the land of ever rising wages and benefits. By the 1970's they were eager to head across the oceans to cut those expenses and still maintain a market in the emerging new middle classes of Asia. & even now in the ever darkening pit, the true believers blame capitalism for their misery, completely unaware as they stare at the last vestiges of shimmering light in the skyline through cyclone fencing, barbed wire and concrete barricades.
& yet on the same day that Detroit faces its bitterest pill to date, for ill fitted faith in hustlers and charlatans the POTUS is speaking "off the cuff" to the systematic inequality of & bigotry for the Afro American Male under the ruse of an unjust trial for the killing of Trayvon Martin. Look no further for the empathy in his words Detroit, You are just collateral damage. Your plight needs to be pushed to the back pages of the Corporate media agitprop IE The NY Times & Washington Post. But you are not alone- the residents of Chicago and several California cities are there to commiserate with .
To date the city has witnessed to departure of more than a quarter million people. The only poor souls left are the ones too poor to leave. Theirs is the quiet desperation of the soft bigotry of lowered expectations. All this began to crumble long before the current POTUS came on the scene But He grifted a nation and it's citizens with flowery rhetoric of social justice. Today Detroit residents can come to understand how it is that equality in misery is no path towards a world that is desirable for any.
Motown was once the city of the future. Destined to advance the charging full bore American Dream but what it has become is a mangled wretched signpost on the avenue of Broken Dreams.
More rational minds recognized the likely reality- Chevrolet & Chrysler needed to get lean and That was not gonna be in a tax morbidly obese city such as Detroit. They were gonna need the flexibility the Union higher ups like to call scabs, in places as close as Virginia and as far off as Outer Mongolia. Talk about Competition! That fact also was not going to prevent a media industry from pumping up the illusion for the Commander in Grift either. The Campaign of 2012 was quite clear "Chevrolet was alive'... and by virtue so was the heart of Detroit. But policy that reflected " Das Capital - a Workers Paradise" mentality made sure that manufacturing had to get out of the land of ever rising wages and benefits. By the 1970's they were eager to head across the oceans to cut those expenses and still maintain a market in the emerging new middle classes of Asia. & even now in the ever darkening pit, the true believers blame capitalism for their misery, completely unaware as they stare at the last vestiges of shimmering light in the skyline through cyclone fencing, barbed wire and concrete barricades.
& yet on the same day that Detroit faces its bitterest pill to date, for ill fitted faith in hustlers and charlatans the POTUS is speaking "off the cuff" to the systematic inequality of & bigotry for the Afro American Male under the ruse of an unjust trial for the killing of Trayvon Martin. Look no further for the empathy in his words Detroit, You are just collateral damage. Your plight needs to be pushed to the back pages of the Corporate media agitprop IE The NY Times & Washington Post. But you are not alone- the residents of Chicago and several California cities are there to commiserate with .
Friday, July 19, 2013
What if it were in reverse...
Too much time and effort has been dedicated to an obviously sad and stupid tragedy that cost a young man his life . I just wanted to point out to folks that state- if things were reversed - If Trayvon Martin had killed Zimmerman in self defense 1) the national media attention would have never materialized ( the Zimmerman case did not become national until the Racist Al Sharpton & his National Action Network flamed the flames) 2) it would probably resemble the The Roderick Scott Case in NY
The fact that executive branch is weighing in on this case & the National Media hanging on it w/ baited breath is to show how willingly people get conned. POTUS & AG Holder have a big time desire to distract from their current dilema's. Obama is looking at a big fail for his signature issue The affordable care act. While Holder is caught trying to suppress a vigorous effort to get to bottom of several issues.- From spying on reporters to investigating the IRS targeting of political opposition. They are Grifters by and large.
The fact that executive branch is weighing in on this case & the National Media hanging on it w/ baited breath is to show how willingly people get conned. POTUS & AG Holder have a big time desire to distract from their current dilema's. Obama is looking at a big fail for his signature issue The affordable care act. While Holder is caught trying to suppress a vigorous effort to get to bottom of several issues.- From spying on reporters to investigating the IRS targeting of political opposition. They are Grifters by and large.
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
EEH... Not
McClatchsky's reporting "Secret" Insider Threat program -http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/06/20/194513/obamas-crackdown-views-leaks-as.html#.UdyqECd5mc0
essentially to be on the look out for your fellow employees possible leaking classified info. Better make sure y'all not piss off anyone in the office lest you have file opened on you. Make sure not to bitch too loudly about your divorce settlement or else they think you may be turned-
Aint it funny ? When a group of Congress people ask the IG's @ State & DoD about background vetting of employees - the Hue & Cry of McCarthyism goes up- But POTUS thinks turning some 5 million Federal Employees into insta rats is A - Okay.
I recall a group who used to ask Children to fink out their parents- believe the adults typically were rounded up forthright, tried, & swiftly found guilty - Congrads on your new position in the Gulags Comrades.
Eh ... & yet we should not been concerned when A Major in the Army is openly encouraging Jihad to Fellow soldiers .
Welcome to Amerika folks!
essentially to be on the look out for your fellow employees possible leaking classified info. Better make sure y'all not piss off anyone in the office lest you have file opened on you. Make sure not to bitch too loudly about your divorce settlement or else they think you may be turned-
Aint it funny ? When a group of Congress people ask the IG's @ State & DoD about background vetting of employees - the Hue & Cry of McCarthyism goes up- But POTUS thinks turning some 5 million Federal Employees into insta rats is A - Okay.
I recall a group who used to ask Children to fink out their parents- believe the adults typically were rounded up forthright, tried, & swiftly found guilty - Congrads on your new position in the Gulags Comrades.
Eh ... & yet we should not been concerned when A Major in the Army is openly encouraging Jihad to Fellow soldiers .
Welcome to Amerika folks!
Monday, July 8, 2013
May You Live in Interesting Times
Happy Post Independence Day! Time shrug off any rust you may have gathered over the Holiday & get back into fighting form this effort is usually a full Monday recuperation process for those fortunate enough to have business that takes off on the holidays.
There are thousands of issues that have crossed the road since I last made an attempt to post here. There is no way to address most of them w/out substantial back story- so I'll pass on that.
A NEW YORK STATE OF GROIN
Elliott Spitzer AKA Client#9 AKA failed CNN Host has thrown his hat into the campaign forum in a run to be the City Comptroller. While completely unrelated aside from Party affiliation & general Scum Baggery" Anthony Weiner is in the lead to win the Dem nomination for Mayor! Who's next , Shelly Silver Attorney General? Pee Wee Herman for Commish?
Sodom and Gomoraha are spinning in their respective graves-... Few things will make people look back in the final usurpation term of Nanny Bloomberg fondly but these buffoons sure seems to be aiming for just such a goal - Talk about Low Balling It!
It's Deja Vue All Over Again
The Scandalache of the Obama Administration is setting off a great many flashbacks for anyone willing to view history and politics in an honest way. The second term of the current POTUS is reflecting images of Tricky Dick
There are thousands of issues that have crossed the road since I last made an attempt to post here. There is no way to address most of them w/out substantial back story- so I'll pass on that.
A NEW YORK STATE OF GROIN
Elliott Spitzer AKA Client#9 AKA failed CNN Host has thrown his hat into the campaign forum in a run to be the City Comptroller. While completely unrelated aside from Party affiliation & general Scum Baggery" Anthony Weiner is in the lead to win the Dem nomination for Mayor! Who's next , Shelly Silver Attorney General? Pee Wee Herman for Commish?
Sodom and Gomoraha are spinning in their respective graves-... Few things will make people look back in the final usurpation term of Nanny Bloomberg fondly but these buffoons sure seems to be aiming for just such a goal - Talk about Low Balling It!
It's Deja Vue All Over Again
The Scandalache of the Obama Administration is setting off a great many flashbacks for anyone willing to view history and politics in an honest way. The second term of the current POTUS is reflecting images of Tricky Dick
Thursday, February 14, 2013
It's All Over but for the Hard Work ( via Twitter)
SOTU2013
In the past I have poured over the transcripts of The State of the Union speeches broadcasted the earlier night and broken down topic by topic ( I began during Bush's Second term and followed through) I realized the futility immediately. But alas it is a service needs to be practiced if only to point out how brazenly our political class twists, bends & contorts the details of the truth & the subserviant media's meme we are presented on such a regular basis.
I have found in the past that the one best analysis of these has come out from the Cato Institute
The Cato Institute response to the 2013 State of the Union
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nCH1E29jjw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Fagetabouit!
-h/t NYPost
Go figure this one out ... The case of Maksim Gelman's apprehension and arrest. 1st off let's set this up with full back story shall we?
Gelman was /is a piece of fecal matter who by the good grace of God was brought to the U.S. by his parents at the age of 5. His mother raised in him alone as the Father returned to his native country, the Ukraine* ( see commentary Less Fathers than Guns) Gelman attended schools in Brooklyn but managed to make himself such an annoyance to his peers, he made no friends or acquaintances that spoke highly of him throughout his childhood.
Gelman was an aggressive malcontent who being unable to establish any meaningful relationships fashioned himself as a graffiti artist & a crack cocaine user/dealer. This of course fueled his growing rage.
Between Febuary11 &12th 2011 Gelman went on a killing spree beginning with his mother's male acquaintance, the mother of the girl & the girl herself that he had an unrequited obsession with, & a person he mowed down in a vehicular homicide. Four other victims were attacked by Gelman before he was taken into custody & that is where our interest lays.
Our focus is on the last victim of Gelman's rampage, Joseph Lozito. He was attacked on a no#3 subway car heading uptown. In this same car was NYPD officers Tamara Taylor and Terance Howell, as they and the rest of the entire NYPD force where in the middle of a citywide manhunt for Gelman.
Gelman entered the traincar and headed straight the operators booth in which Howell and Taylor were. He demanded acces to the booth claiming that he was a cop! Officer Howell refused to open the booth door. Howell, in a grand jury testimony admitted he was frightened that Gelman may have had a gun and he and Officer Taylor remained in the booth for that reason.
Gelman then turned away and targeted Lozito stating "you are going to die!" stabbing the victim in the face with a kitchen knife. Lozito lunged at his attacker tackling him to the floor all the while Gelman stabbed repeatedly at the back of Lozito's head. Lozito had wrestled with Gelman to knock the knife away from his attacker. Only after Gelman was disarmed did Officer Howell step out of the booth to offer any assistance and then arrested the psycho.
Given all that, Lozito is in court leveling a suit against the City. What's the city's position? An NYPD legal representative states as such..."the police had no “special duty” to protect him or any individual on the train that day there’s a long-standing legal precedent requiring cops to put the public safety of all ahead of any one individual’s rights."
Yup you read that right- The Police department that doesn't want you carrying concealed firearms to provide your own protection & has taken an sworn oath, ."..to serve and protect its citizens" is not under any actual obligation to live up to the promise!
Here are some the precedent cases to support the city's argument
Castle Rock v. Gonzales, which found police employees had “qualified immunity” (legal land language that purports to shield individuals from personal responsibility) and thus could not be sued, after three kids were killed by the husband of a woman who’d three weeks prior gotten a restraining order that stipulated that he be at least 100 yards from her and their three daughters except during specified visitation time. This, despite four calls made by the woman to police, after the kids were snatched-up, including one in which she informed them of the location of the husband and their children.
Warren v. District of Columbia, in which two women heard their roommate being attacked downstairs by intruders called the police several times and were assured that officers were on the way. After their roommate’s screams stopped 30 minutes later they assumed the police were present and went downstairs, only to themselves be held captive, raped, robbed, beaten, forced to commit sexual acts upon each other, and made to submit to the sexual demands of their attackers, for the next 14-hours. The “officials” in legal land claimed that official police personnel and the government employing them owe no duty to victims of criminal acts and thus are not liable for a failure to provide adequate police protection.
Balistreri v. Pacifica Police Department, in which legal land “authorities” stated that police had no constitutional duty to protect people from crime, after a woman, who’d filed numerous complaints and had gotten restraining order, was continually harassed and had her property vandalized by her ex-husband.
DeShaney v. Winnebago County, which found that those who purport the right to steal money from others in the area to protect kids were not culpable after releasing a boy, into his father’s custody despite repeated evidence of abuse, including one bout that left him “profoundly retarded” and likely to spend the rest of his life institutionalized.
Lozito video by wearechange.org
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZKVSNjlSp0&feature=youtu.be&a
Up Next- The New Push for a Carbon Tax
- h/t Wattsupwiththat.com
Proof that no bad idea ever escapes the mind of the political elites seeking to separate you from your property
The Carbon tax is set to make another round in the Congressional halls and back rooms - complete with"rebates" to
Spank those evil Dino fuel providers who are going to need to necessarily raise their pricing thanks to the
massive regulatory fees the congress critters are prepared to pass.
Doesn't it ever fail to boggle the mind how completely off kilter and detached from reality the subject is? We can
not even determine a direct causation of warming that has ceased occurring over a decade ago. But by all means
Lets re organize the whole human civilization to attempt to counteract undetermined climate shifts that could very
well be in reality, a brief warming in a much larger millennial ice age! Blah - of all the debates that exist in the
modern era this one is completely "fubared" by the political anglings of all sides.
Because I can NEVER EVER Pass Up an Oportunity
H/t RealClearScience.com
I loath the former financial advisor of Enron not because he reaches the wrong conclusions based on the data but
b/c he whores his results to fit the narrative he wishes to tell.
Hypocrisy of the Unscientific Krugman
Dr. Alex B. Berezow is the editor of RealClearScience. He holds a Ph.D. in microbiology and is co-author ofScience Left Behind. Follow him on Twitter @AlexBerezow.
,
Feasting on Famine
James Pethoukokis nails the point that in all the regurgitated mumblings of the imperial president In the state of the union- he never bother to even mention the DNA of our economy- Entrepreneurship
Missing In Action: Obama's Entrepreneurship Agenda
James Pethokoukis |
February 13, 2013, 9:58 am
Where does President Obama think economic growth and job creation come from? In his State of the Union speech, he said “the true engine of America’s economic growth” was ”a rising, thriving middle class.” But that’s political rhetoric substituting for economic analysis. Ask most economists, even those working in the Obama White House, and they’ll tell you that innovation-driven productivity is the true engine of prosperity and rising living standards.
And where does Obama think innovation-driven productivity comes from? Judging from his speech, Obama apparently sees government at the prime catalyst and planner – whether its government creating manufacturing hubs or government mandating new rules to spur more energy efficiency or government offering tax credits to spur investment in favored sectors.
And the free enterprise system? Well, entrepreneurs only got a couple of brief shoutouts, once in relation to high-skill immigration. Here’s the other: “Now these initiatives in manufacturing, energy, infrastructure, housing, all these things will help entrepreneurs and small-business owners expand and create new jobs.”
Certainly entrepreneurs could use some help. Consider:
1. Had small business come out of the recession maintaining just the rate of start-ups generated in 2007, according to McKinsey, the US economy would today have almost 2.5 million more jobs than it does.
2. There were fewer new firms formed in 2010 and 2011 than during the Great Recession.
3. The rate of startup jobs during 2010 and 2011, years that were technically in full recovery, were the lowest on record, according to economist Tim Kane of the Hudson Institute.
Continued at the link
American Culture- Less Fathers than Guns
Commentary
It is unfortunate that in such subject these days it is nessecary to place down preliminary qualifiers as to prevent persons of certain political leanings from over reading into subtext or twisting it into a pretzel to conflate what is actually being said to mean something aimed at injuring.
1) it is not my goal here to belittle single parent households- I was raised in one myself and I raised my son alone as well.
2) in this commentary generalizations will be made and for the sake of clarity and indeed, brevity, I am not going to add qualifiers to each time I mention a group of persons, classifications and/Or factions.
To start it is essential to take into account that despite declining overall crime rates and rising percentages of single parent families Poverty is the key cohesive factor between the two. Of those families 84% are led by single moms.
What can be wrought from the rise in single parent families is that poverty is almost a foregone conclusion Approximately 60 % of the children being raised in single parent households, 66 million, upwards of 16 million kids are growing up @/below poverty levels. Factors that tie in with poverty are typically subpar housing, crowded schools, lack of development in social and moral directions, and the higher likelihood of being involved in criminal behavior. Studies indicate that the longer a child is in poverty the less likely they will be capable of developing skills and ethics to reverse their situation.
Some hard statical data-
60% of the incarcerated population and 70% of Juvenile offenders grew up in single parent households
63% of youth suicides are of children from single parent households
85% of behavioral disorders are found to be from single parent households
71% of all high school drop outs are children of single parent families
87% of children raised in single parent families were likely to select
To raise their own children in the similar circumstances
If we were going to honestly address the majority of gun crime in this country - we would need to directly engage the fact that the ever growing population of single parented males are 3 times more likely to become involved in gang related criminal activities which accounts the vast majority of homicides by firearms. Until we cross that uncomfortable rubicon, no amount of political rhetoric or restrictive law is going to change the dynamics for the better.
In the past I have poured over the transcripts of The State of the Union speeches broadcasted the earlier night and broken down topic by topic ( I began during Bush's Second term and followed through) I realized the futility immediately. But alas it is a service needs to be practiced if only to point out how brazenly our political class twists, bends & contorts the details of the truth & the subserviant media's meme we are presented on such a regular basis.
I have found in the past that the one best analysis of these has come out from the Cato Institute
The Cato Institute response to the 2013 State of the Union
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nCH1E29jjw&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Fagetabouit!
-h/t NYPost
Go figure this one out ... The case of Maksim Gelman's apprehension and arrest. 1st off let's set this up with full back story shall we?
Gelman was /is a piece of fecal matter who by the good grace of God was brought to the U.S. by his parents at the age of 5. His mother raised in him alone as the Father returned to his native country, the Ukraine* ( see commentary Less Fathers than Guns) Gelman attended schools in Brooklyn but managed to make himself such an annoyance to his peers, he made no friends or acquaintances that spoke highly of him throughout his childhood.
Gelman was an aggressive malcontent who being unable to establish any meaningful relationships fashioned himself as a graffiti artist & a crack cocaine user/dealer. This of course fueled his growing rage.
Between Febuary11 &12th 2011 Gelman went on a killing spree beginning with his mother's male acquaintance, the mother of the girl & the girl herself that he had an unrequited obsession with, & a person he mowed down in a vehicular homicide. Four other victims were attacked by Gelman before he was taken into custody & that is where our interest lays.
Our focus is on the last victim of Gelman's rampage, Joseph Lozito. He was attacked on a no#3 subway car heading uptown. In this same car was NYPD officers Tamara Taylor and Terance Howell, as they and the rest of the entire NYPD force where in the middle of a citywide manhunt for Gelman.
Gelman entered the traincar and headed straight the operators booth in which Howell and Taylor were. He demanded acces to the booth claiming that he was a cop! Officer Howell refused to open the booth door. Howell, in a grand jury testimony admitted he was frightened that Gelman may have had a gun and he and Officer Taylor remained in the booth for that reason.
Gelman then turned away and targeted Lozito stating "you are going to die!" stabbing the victim in the face with a kitchen knife. Lozito lunged at his attacker tackling him to the floor all the while Gelman stabbed repeatedly at the back of Lozito's head. Lozito had wrestled with Gelman to knock the knife away from his attacker. Only after Gelman was disarmed did Officer Howell step out of the booth to offer any assistance and then arrested the psycho.
Given all that, Lozito is in court leveling a suit against the City. What's the city's position? An NYPD legal representative states as such..."the police had no “special duty” to protect him or any individual on the train that day there’s a long-standing legal precedent requiring cops to put the public safety of all ahead of any one individual’s rights."
Yup you read that right- The Police department that doesn't want you carrying concealed firearms to provide your own protection & has taken an sworn oath, ."..to serve and protect its citizens" is not under any actual obligation to live up to the promise!
Here are some the precedent cases to support the city's argument
Castle Rock v. Gonzales, which found police employees had “qualified immunity” (legal land language that purports to shield individuals from personal responsibility) and thus could not be sued, after three kids were killed by the husband of a woman who’d three weeks prior gotten a restraining order that stipulated that he be at least 100 yards from her and their three daughters except during specified visitation time. This, despite four calls made by the woman to police, after the kids were snatched-up, including one in which she informed them of the location of the husband and their children.
Warren v. District of Columbia, in which two women heard their roommate being attacked downstairs by intruders called the police several times and were assured that officers were on the way. After their roommate’s screams stopped 30 minutes later they assumed the police were present and went downstairs, only to themselves be held captive, raped, robbed, beaten, forced to commit sexual acts upon each other, and made to submit to the sexual demands of their attackers, for the next 14-hours. The “officials” in legal land claimed that official police personnel and the government employing them owe no duty to victims of criminal acts and thus are not liable for a failure to provide adequate police protection.
Balistreri v. Pacifica Police Department, in which legal land “authorities” stated that police had no constitutional duty to protect people from crime, after a woman, who’d filed numerous complaints and had gotten restraining order, was continually harassed and had her property vandalized by her ex-husband.
DeShaney v. Winnebago County, which found that those who purport the right to steal money from others in the area to protect kids were not culpable after releasing a boy, into his father’s custody despite repeated evidence of abuse, including one bout that left him “profoundly retarded” and likely to spend the rest of his life institutionalized.
Lozito video by wearechange.org
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZKVSNjlSp0&feature=youtu.be&a
Up Next- The New Push for a Carbon Tax
- h/t Wattsupwiththat.com
Proof that no bad idea ever escapes the mind of the political elites seeking to separate you from your property
The Carbon tax is set to make another round in the Congressional halls and back rooms - complete with"rebates" to
Spank those evil Dino fuel providers who are going to need to necessarily raise their pricing thanks to the
massive regulatory fees the congress critters are prepared to pass.
Doesn't it ever fail to boggle the mind how completely off kilter and detached from reality the subject is? We can
not even determine a direct causation of warming that has ceased occurring over a decade ago. But by all means
Lets re organize the whole human civilization to attempt to counteract undetermined climate shifts that could very
well be in reality, a brief warming in a much larger millennial ice age! Blah - of all the debates that exist in the
modern era this one is completely "fubared" by the political anglings of all sides.
Because I can NEVER EVER Pass Up an Oportunity
H/t RealClearScience.com
I loath the former financial advisor of Enron not because he reaches the wrong conclusions based on the data but
b/c he whores his results to fit the narrative he wishes to tell.
Hypocrisy of the Unscientific Krugman
Dr. Alex B. Berezow is the editor of RealClearScience. He holds a Ph.D. in microbiology and is co-author ofScience Left Behind. Follow him on Twitter @AlexBerezow.
,
Feasting on Famine
James Pethoukokis nails the point that in all the regurgitated mumblings of the imperial president In the state of the union- he never bother to even mention the DNA of our economy- Entrepreneurship
Missing In Action: Obama's Entrepreneurship Agenda
James Pethokoukis |
February 13, 2013, 9:58 am
Where does President Obama think economic growth and job creation come from? In his State of the Union speech, he said “the true engine of America’s economic growth” was ”a rising, thriving middle class.” But that’s political rhetoric substituting for economic analysis. Ask most economists, even those working in the Obama White House, and they’ll tell you that innovation-driven productivity is the true engine of prosperity and rising living standards.
And where does Obama think innovation-driven productivity comes from? Judging from his speech, Obama apparently sees government at the prime catalyst and planner – whether its government creating manufacturing hubs or government mandating new rules to spur more energy efficiency or government offering tax credits to spur investment in favored sectors.
And the free enterprise system? Well, entrepreneurs only got a couple of brief shoutouts, once in relation to high-skill immigration. Here’s the other: “Now these initiatives in manufacturing, energy, infrastructure, housing, all these things will help entrepreneurs and small-business owners expand and create new jobs.”
Certainly entrepreneurs could use some help. Consider:
1. Had small business come out of the recession maintaining just the rate of start-ups generated in 2007, according to McKinsey, the US economy would today have almost 2.5 million more jobs than it does.
2. There were fewer new firms formed in 2010 and 2011 than during the Great Recession.
3. The rate of startup jobs during 2010 and 2011, years that were technically in full recovery, were the lowest on record, according to economist Tim Kane of the Hudson Institute.
Continued at the link
American Culture- Less Fathers than Guns
Commentary
It is unfortunate that in such subject these days it is nessecary to place down preliminary qualifiers as to prevent persons of certain political leanings from over reading into subtext or twisting it into a pretzel to conflate what is actually being said to mean something aimed at injuring.
1) it is not my goal here to belittle single parent households- I was raised in one myself and I raised my son alone as well.
2) in this commentary generalizations will be made and for the sake of clarity and indeed, brevity, I am not going to add qualifiers to each time I mention a group of persons, classifications and/Or factions.
To start it is essential to take into account that despite declining overall crime rates and rising percentages of single parent families Poverty is the key cohesive factor between the two. Of those families 84% are led by single moms.
What can be wrought from the rise in single parent families is that poverty is almost a foregone conclusion Approximately 60 % of the children being raised in single parent households, 66 million, upwards of 16 million kids are growing up @/below poverty levels. Factors that tie in with poverty are typically subpar housing, crowded schools, lack of development in social and moral directions, and the higher likelihood of being involved in criminal behavior. Studies indicate that the longer a child is in poverty the less likely they will be capable of developing skills and ethics to reverse their situation.
Some hard statical data-
60% of the incarcerated population and 70% of Juvenile offenders grew up in single parent households
63% of youth suicides are of children from single parent households
85% of behavioral disorders are found to be from single parent households
71% of all high school drop outs are children of single parent families
87% of children raised in single parent families were likely to select
To raise their own children in the similar circumstances
If we were going to honestly address the majority of gun crime in this country - we would need to directly engage the fact that the ever growing population of single parented males are 3 times more likely to become involved in gang related criminal activities which accounts the vast majority of homicides by firearms. Until we cross that uncomfortable rubicon, no amount of political rhetoric or restrictive law is going to change the dynamics for the better.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
This, That, & The Other Thing
False Flag Operation
I did not see too much on this report out of Oakland CA Pro-Taliban Matthew Aaron Llaneza, 28, of San Jose was arrested for planning & then attempting to detonate a "planted" vehicle bomb ( Courtesy of the FBI )
Sweet! Maybe, just maybe, some people on the left can truly begin to realize and understand why the Tea Party and Conservatives are getting extremely worried about Drones Surveillance, Wireless Taps, and Gun Control/Confiscation. After the horrific shooting in an Aurora Co. Movie theater The Media essentially rushed begin stalking Conservatives to blame it on. Branco's cartoon at Legal Insurrection
Speaking of Gun Control
My personal irony meter has ticked up in the past several weeks as there has been an all push by the majority of media to address the need for tougher Gun Control laws. Several News organizations have now sought to publish maps, lists and names of registered firearms holders in their papers, stating that afterall it is a matter of public record and should be made readily available for the people.
The curious questions creep up in my mind why they did not find such diligence in reporting the Fast & Furious Gun walking program that supplied thousands of arms and ammunition to Narco drug lords in Mexico. Did they not spur multiple massacres of Mexican and U.S. Persons that number in the hundreds? The overall majority of the Media News Organizations could not muster even a solid investigative piece on it, yet they are compelled to harass legal registered gun owners who have not harmed anyone with their firearms, by attempting to shame them in a listing of of their names and address' I would go as far as declaring a modern day equivalent to scarlet lettering accept that the Gun Owners have not in any way shape or deed broken the law at all! ( please note I could further the argument by introducing the 9/11 Benghazi Massacre flawed coverage to this)
North Korea
The North Korean Regime has completed another underground nuclear test that registered a magnitude 5.1 by the U.S. Geological Survey. Higher than the previous two nuclear tests North Korea has preformed in the past. North Korea confirmed said test and has now escalated it's already aggressive posture to the Western powers particularly the U.S. And it's allie South Korea
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324880504578299441066567284.html
The inside game we need to bare in mind on this subject is that much if not all of North Korea's nuclear program is being funded by The Nihilistic council of 12 Mullahs of Iran. Then consider the potential of intercontinental ballistic missiles in the hands of both of these dangerously unstable nations. There is an extremely dangerous policy in cutting defense budgets in the wake of such events but that is our policy. . . To fund unsustainable social programs over national defense obligations.
My only question is this... After a nuclear device goes off state side either delivered by missile, automotive vehicle, or a in a suitcase, will the poor of the area afflicted need more EBT cards or radiation treatment?
Paul Krugman Says
Cringe-worthy
Courtesy of Ann Althouse's fine blog
From-"Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex," by Mary Roach
"... where, during the 1970s, an estimated one hundred vengeful Thai wives, spurred by media coverage of a prominent 1973 case, sliced off the penises of their adulterous husbands as they slept. When a suitably equipped microsurgeon was on hand to reattach the errant appendage, the men were able to resume philandering within a matter of months. Though probably with reduced success: The penises, though operative, were shorter, numb, and often only partway erectable. The most serious complication, in the Thai attacks, was infection. Two of the wives flushed the penises down the toilet, forcing their husbands to grope for their lost manhood inside the septic tank. (Incredibly, both were found, cleaned, cleaned some more, and reattached.) More commonly, the women would hurl the penis out the window. In the cases described in 'Surgical Management of an Epidemic of Penile Amputations in Siam,' all the recovered penises were 'grossly contaminated.' Better that than eaten by livestock. Many rural Thai homes are elevated on pilings, with the family’s pigs, chickens, and ducks tending to mill about seeking shade in the space underneath. It is not, oddly, the pigs, but rather the ducks, that the castrated Thai must worry about. The paper does not provide the exact number of penises eaten by ducks, but the author says there have been enough over the years to prompt the coining of a popular saying: 'I better get home or the ducks will have something to eat.'"
I did not see too much on this report out of Oakland CA Pro-Taliban Matthew Aaron Llaneza, 28, of San Jose was arrested for planning & then attempting to detonate a "planted" vehicle bomb ( Courtesy of the FBI )
Sweet! Maybe, just maybe, some people on the left can truly begin to realize and understand why the Tea Party and Conservatives are getting extremely worried about Drones Surveillance, Wireless Taps, and Gun Control/Confiscation. After the horrific shooting in an Aurora Co. Movie theater The Media essentially rushed begin stalking Conservatives to blame it on. Branco's cartoon at Legal Insurrection
Speaking of Gun Control
My personal irony meter has ticked up in the past several weeks as there has been an all push by the majority of media to address the need for tougher Gun Control laws. Several News organizations have now sought to publish maps, lists and names of registered firearms holders in their papers, stating that afterall it is a matter of public record and should be made readily available for the people.
The curious questions creep up in my mind why they did not find such diligence in reporting the Fast & Furious Gun walking program that supplied thousands of arms and ammunition to Narco drug lords in Mexico. Did they not spur multiple massacres of Mexican and U.S. Persons that number in the hundreds? The overall majority of the Media News Organizations could not muster even a solid investigative piece on it, yet they are compelled to harass legal registered gun owners who have not harmed anyone with their firearms, by attempting to shame them in a listing of of their names and address' I would go as far as declaring a modern day equivalent to scarlet lettering accept that the Gun Owners have not in any way shape or deed broken the law at all! ( please note I could further the argument by introducing the 9/11 Benghazi Massacre flawed coverage to this)
North Korea
The North Korean Regime has completed another underground nuclear test that registered a magnitude 5.1 by the U.S. Geological Survey. Higher than the previous two nuclear tests North Korea has preformed in the past. North Korea confirmed said test and has now escalated it's already aggressive posture to the Western powers particularly the U.S. And it's allie South Korea
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324880504578299441066567284.html
The inside game we need to bare in mind on this subject is that much if not all of North Korea's nuclear program is being funded by The Nihilistic council of 12 Mullahs of Iran. Then consider the potential of intercontinental ballistic missiles in the hands of both of these dangerously unstable nations. There is an extremely dangerous policy in cutting defense budgets in the wake of such events but that is our policy. . . To fund unsustainable social programs over national defense obligations.
My only question is this... After a nuclear device goes off state side either delivered by missile, automotive vehicle, or a in a suitcase, will the poor of the area afflicted need more EBT cards or radiation treatment?
Paul Krugman Says
Courtesy of the Marklevinshow.com
"Eventually we do have a problem. That the population is getting older, health care costs are rising…there is this question of how we’re going to pay for the programs. The year 2025, the year 2030, something is going to have to give…. …. We’re going to need more revenue…Surely it will require some sort of middle class taxes as well.. We won’t be able to pay for the kind of government the society will want without some increase in taxes… on the middle class, maybe a value added tax…And we’re also going to have to make decisions about health care, doc pay for health care that has no demonstrated medical benefits . So the snarky version…which I shouldn’t even say because it will get me in trouble is death panels and sales taxes is how we do this."The former Enron accounting advisor admits in the long run the U.S. will need to resort to "death panels & Sales taxes" in determining who receives life sustaining health care and who doesn't - the targets of such will be the aged at first but history has told us where this monstrous thinking progress' to far too often. It begins with the aged and the terminal, it advances to mentally impaired or disabled then includes the physically handicapped not even to mention a policy that advances the pre birth screenings to abort the "defective" along with the plain old "a baby will ruin my social lifestyle" elected abortions. & just in case you are unaware of what a VAT tax is :
Definition of 'Value-Added Tax - VAT'
A type of consumption tax that is placed on a product whenever value is added at a stage of production and at final sale. Value-added tax (VAT) is most often used in the European Union. The amount of value-added tax that the user pays is the cost of the product, less any of the costs of materials used in the product that have already been taxed.Investopedia explains 'Value-Added Tax - VAT'
For example when a televisionis built by a company in Europe the manufacturer is charged a value-added tax on all of the supplies they purchase for producing the television. Once the television reaches the shelf, the consumer who purchases it must pay the value-added tax that applies to him or her.
Cringe-worthy
Courtesy of Ann Althouse's fine blog
From-"Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex," by Mary Roach
"... where, during the 1970s, an estimated one hundred vengeful Thai wives, spurred by media coverage of a prominent 1973 case, sliced off the penises of their adulterous husbands as they slept. When a suitably equipped microsurgeon was on hand to reattach the errant appendage, the men were able to resume philandering within a matter of months. Though probably with reduced success: The penises, though operative, were shorter, numb, and often only partway erectable. The most serious complication, in the Thai attacks, was infection. Two of the wives flushed the penises down the toilet, forcing their husbands to grope for their lost manhood inside the septic tank. (Incredibly, both were found, cleaned, cleaned some more, and reattached.) More commonly, the women would hurl the penis out the window. In the cases described in 'Surgical Management of an Epidemic of Penile Amputations in Siam,' all the recovered penises were 'grossly contaminated.' Better that than eaten by livestock. Many rural Thai homes are elevated on pilings, with the family’s pigs, chickens, and ducks tending to mill about seeking shade in the space underneath. It is not, oddly, the pigs, but rather the ducks, that the castrated Thai must worry about. The paper does not provide the exact number of penises eaten by ducks, but the author says there have been enough over the years to prompt the coining of a popular saying: 'I better get home or the ducks will have something to eat.'"
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