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October may be Domestic Violence Awareness Month, according to the official gender feminist schedule, but since when has doing anything according to a gender feminist mandate been a good thing?

A hunter in Pennsylvania ended up getting some pictures of a mangy bear, and all of a sudden Bigfoot seekers (think "snipe hunting" but bigger) are asking if this is proof of the existence of a juvenile Sasquatch (a juvenile Sasquatch is just like a regular Sasquatch except it puts "kick me" signs on the backs of the other Sasquatches).

Something besides that struck me as funny, however. After all the years of bogus and doctored photographs from mainstream media sources, the AP decided to put the following disclaimer on the "bigfoot" picture: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CANNOT AUTHENTICATE THE CONTENT OF THESE IMAGES.

Too bad the AP and Reuters didn't feel the necessity to put an authenticity disclaimer on any of these photos. I wonder why.

Today's "Stupid tax du jour" is brought to you by the Iowa Department in Oversight of Taxes (IDIOT), better known as the Iowa Department of Revenue.

The state is now taxing pumpkins — unless a form is filled out by the consumer and submitted to the government by the pumpkin seller stating that the pumpkin will be used for food purposes — with one copy placed in IDIOT's "in" box, three in their "out," and two in the file marked "Inane."

Due to the "if used for food it's tax-free" provision, the number of pumpkin pies in Iowa is expected to triple this season — as is the consumption of automobile sandwiches, inheritence soup and propane-sicles.

How's small business reacting to the pumpkin tax?

"I don't mind paying taxes, but let's get real here, people," said Bob Kautz, owner of the Buffalo Pumpkin Patch in Buffalo, about eight miles west of Davenport.

Kautz, who has owned his farm for seven years, was particularly dismayed with the notion of requiring customers to fill out a form verifying that they planned to eat the pumpkins they were buying.

"It's another crazy, crazy, stupid thing," he said.

Kautz said he will estimate how many pumpkins were bought for non-food purposes, and then will send the tax on that amount to the revenue department.

"It gets unfeasible for people to have small businesses," he said.

Danny Carroll, who owns Carroll's Pumpkin Farm in Grinnell with his wife, said he will have to pay the sales tax out of profits.

"Essentially, they just reduced our income by 6 percent," he said. "It's too bad, but it's not surprising."

As that great American economist Bill Clinton would advise, "Just raise your price!"

If we continue to create our tax schemes around the ideas of liberal economists in government, there will be plenty of jobs — as long as you want to be a liberal economist in government, red tape manufacturer, or chicken broth ladeler in the unemployment line.

Mitt Romney said that if the Clintons are in the White House, Hillary will be an intern. The most disappointed person in the country right now has to be Bill Clinton. Oh well, if all else fails, at least there will be pizza.

Here's part of what Romney said to Sean Hannity:

…the greatest drawback beyond the direction she’d take us is that she’s never run anything. She’s never had the occasion of being in the private sector, running a business, or, for that matter, running a state or a city. She hasn’t run anything, and the government of the United States is not a place for a president to be an intern. You need to have experience actually leading and running things.

Look for this "comparing Hillary to an intern" thing to be an ongoing theme among GOP candidates. It's semi-veiled, multi-level fun at its finest.

The USA Today blog asks of Mitt Romney, "Was 'intern' a loaded word to throw at Sen. Clinton?" Isn't a more appropriate question this: wasn't Clinton a loaded president to throw at an intern?

Mitt Romney said that if the Clintons are in the White House, Hillary will be an intern. The most disappointed person in the country right now has to be Bill Clinton. Oh well, if all else fails, at least there will be pizza.

Here's part of what Romney said to Sean Hannity:

…the greatest drawback beyond the direction she’d take us is that she’s never run anything. She’s never had the occasion of being in the private sector, running a business, or, for that matter, running a state or a city. She hasn’t run anything, and the government of the United States is not a place for a president to be an intern. You need to have experience actually leading and running things.

Look for this "comparing Hillary to an intern" thing to be an ongoing theme among GOP candidates. It's semi-veiled, multi-level fun at its finest.

The USA Today blog asks of Mitt Romney, "Was 'intern' a loaded word to throw at Sen. Clinton?" Oh, I don't know — wasn't Clinton a loaded president to throw at an intern?

Forget about health care and the war. How about more money for adult education, particularly for plakard prufreeding klasses:

In the "letters to the editor" section at WorldNetDaily today, there's this gem:

You need to change the banner for columnist Doug Powers to "OUT OF LEFT FIELD." He gets more liberal with every article. A few months ago, he was critical of us who study Bible prophecy, and now he wants us to abandon our beliefs and vote for a pro-abortion presidential candidate. His reason – to keep Hillary out of office.

He says the reason is that we Christians and conservatives need to fight for what we want. Once the primary is over, the fight is over. If the Republican Party won't listen to us before the primary, who in their right mind would think they would listen to us after the general election?

First of all, in the "prophecy" column, I wasn't critical of those who study Bible prophecy, I was critical of those who play on faith by constantly trumpeting reasons that Jesus is coming back before dinnertime in order to perpetually pump book and video sales. Judging from the promotional behavior of these authors, most of them seem incredibly convinced that Jesus is coming back soon, just not before their next book hits the shelves.

Secondly, the column yesterday wasn't about who to vote for, it was about the counterproductive ultimate outcome inherent in fleeing to start a third party.

There are Republicans in the field I wouldn't vote for as well. I'll push for the pro-life candidate (my "pro life" position is fairly well documented here and here and here) — provided that person is also socially and fiscally conservative and a stickler for national security. The latter is the big one. We need a president who will take the initiative to create an atmosphere that makes it more difficult for thousands or even millions of Americans to die in a terrorist attack. What's more "pro life" than that?

Once the terrorists are dead and the borders are secure, then we can have a nice chat about many of the other issues, but judging by some of the letters sent to me, I get the feeling that there are some Republican voters out there who would only be concerned about somebody who blew themselves up in a crowded shopping mall if the bomber was pregnant.

I also heard dozens and dozens of different ideas on what constitutes the "perfect candidate," and in the absence of that, a third party should be created. This is the kind of politically narcissistic approach with which elections are lost and parties fragmented to the point of irrelevance.

During the one term of George H.W. Bush, the 41st president drifted from pro-choice to being supportive of pro-life legislation, but he lost many of us with his "no new taxes" broken pledge (and he lost the votes of pro-choice Republicans — yes, there are some). Ross Perot came about in a third party and soaked up some of the disgruntled vote. As a result we ended up with eight years of Bill Clinton — pro abortion and pro high taxes.

Haste for immediate satisfaction on all accounts is often our worst enemy.

Now if you don't mind, I have to make a tofu pizza, strap on the Birkenstocks and go house shopping in Berkeley.

(The following article is based on a report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police.)

Within the Department of Homeland Security, the Transportation Security Administration’s mission is to protect the nation’s transportation network.

Since its inception in 2001, TSA has developed and implemented a variety of programs and procedures to secure commercial aviation. Recently, the Government Accountability Office examined the progress DHS and TSA have made in securing the nation’s commercial aviation system, and challenges that have impeded the Department’s efforts to implement its mission and management functions.

In August 2007, GAO reported that DHS had made moderate progress in securing the commercial aviation system, but that more work remains. Specifically, DHS generally achieved 17 of the 24 performance expectations that GAO identified in the area of aviation security but had generally not achieved 7 of them.

DHS and TSA have made progress in many areas related to securing commercial aviation. For example, to meet congressional mandates to screen airline passengers and 100 percent of checked baggage, TSA initially hired and deployed a federal workforce of over 50,000 passenger and checked baggage screeners and installed equipment at the nation’s more than 400 commercial airports to provide the capability to screen all checked baggage using explosive detection systems.

TSA has since turned its attention to, among other things, strengthening passenger prescreening; more efficiently allocating, deploying, and managing the transportation security officer (TSO) — formerly known as screener — workforce; strengthening screening procedures; developing and deploying more effective and efficient screening technologies; and improving domestic air cargo security.

While these efforts have helped strengthen the security of the commercial aviation system, DHS and TSA still face a number of key challenges in further securing this system.

For example, TSA has faced difficulties in developing and implementing its advanced passenger prescreening system, known as Secure Flight, and has not yet completed development efforts.

In addition, DHS’s efforts to enhance perimeter security at airports may not be sufficient to provide for effective security. TSA has also initiated efforts to evaluate the effectiveness of security-related technologies, such as biometric identification systems, but has not developed a plan for implementing new technologies to meet the security needs of individual airports.

TSA has also not yet effectively deployed checkpoint technologies to address key existing vulnerabilities, and has not yet developed and implemented technologies needed to screen air cargo. GAO also reported that a number of issues have impeded DHS’s efforts in implementing its mission and management functions, including not always implementing effective strategic planning or fully adopting and applying a risk management approach with respect to commercial aviation security.

Further, while TSA has initiated efforts to develop security standards for surface transportation modes, these efforts have been limited to passenger and freight rail, and have not addressed commercial vehicles or highway infrastructure, including bridges and tunnels.

Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he’s a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). Kouri also serves as political advisor for Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty.

He’s former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed “Crack City” by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He’s also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He’s a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com and PHXnews.com. He’s also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he’s syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. He’s appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. His book Assume The Position is available at Amazon.Com. Kouri’s own website is located at http://jimkouri.us

A short news clip of Bill Clinton being confronted by some "9/11 truthers" at a speech came out a few days ago, but a full clip was made by the group who did the interrupting. The funniest part, in my opinion, is near the beginning, just after Clinton is introduced. Crank up the volume and try to figure out which porno movie they stole that music from.

I can't help but admire the skill with which Clinton can spin a negative yarn into a positive sales pitch for Hillary. You have to admit, the guy's good. I couldn't help but think of Alec Baldwin's sales manager character in the film Glengarry Glen Ross. If you could see the inside of Bill Clinton's head, this is what you'd see, and it applies both to both sexual and political sales:

John Edwards is like a bank robber who's not afraid to take off his ski mask, look directly into the security camera, and let everybody know exactly who he is and what he's about. I like that in a Democrat — because it makes them lose:

John Edwards says if he's elected president, he'll institute a New Deal-like suite of programs to fight poverty and stem growing wealth disparity. To do it, he said, he'll ask many Americans to make sacrifices, like paying higher taxes.

Edwards, a former Democratic senator from North Carolina, says the federal government should underwrite universal pre-kindergarten, create matching savings accounts for low-income people, mandate a minimum wage of $9.50 and provide a million new Section 8 housing vouchers for the poor. He also pledged to start a government-funded public higher education program called "College for Everyone."

He'll solve "growing wealth disparity" alright — we'll all be poor. In addition, "College for Everyone" will also go by the name "Making a college education even more worthless."

If all else fails, Edwards will unveil his tried and true "National slip-n-fall care" plan.

If John Edwards had any chance of winning the presidency, this kind of talk should disturb us. Instead though we can just read it and poke fun at him, as the last guy to be this honest about his intention goes by the name of Walter Mondale.

For now, frankly, Edwards' biggest campaign problem isn't his leftist political views, it's that he continues to allow himself to be photographed like this:

Today's column at WorldNetDaily began back when I saw an interview with Dr. James Dobson in a story about how the "religious right" is discussing the creation of a third party if the Republicans continue to drift away from conservative principles, and therefore, their former base.

Though I share in this frustration, taking a chunk of the base to a third party could have counterproductive, and maybe even disastrous, consequences. What needs to happen is for the Republican Party to be taken back.

Read about it in "Fight for the religious right to GOParty."

For the sixth (6th) month in a row Fathers 4 Justice and the National Coalition of Free Men, Los Angeles conducted a rally-picnic in the Van Nuys/Sherman Oaks Park. Each event has been unique and today was no exception.After a brutal week of wild fires, smoke filled skies and very unhealthy air quality, the clear, sunny, warm weather made today a great day to be outdoors. Seeing blue sky again, instead of an orange haze, seemed to make everyone appreciative that the wildfires had abated and that the beautiful days of autumn were again in the air.As set up for our rally-picnic began in the cool hours of early morning, it was decided that the location of the signs on the tents would be rearranged so people who routinely drive a given route past the park would get a different message to view. One sign I purposefully picked to be visible along Hazeltine Ave. was, “A FATHER’S LOVE IS IRREPLACEABLE.” About and hour or two into our official start up time, a woman from across the street on Hazeltine Ave. came by and requested information about our organizations. She conveyed to us that her son sees our monthly set ups and it makes him sad, because he thinks of his Daddy and misses him. I expressed my sincere compassion for her son, his Dad and her, and told her it was our wish (and goal), that children should not be absent from involvement in any fit parents life. I expressed to her that we were working hard to restore an honoring of Fathers as well as Mothers to societies mindset. She appeared appreciative of our work and after a good half hour of conversation with various members of our team, wished us well.

Time is tight this weekend and I'll be back at regular commentary on Monday, but this last second lateral-fest in Division III college football yesterday during the Trinity/Millsaps game is worth another look. You'd have to go to a hillbilly singles bar in the Ozarks to see more backwards passes:

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Terrorist Screening Center (TSC) maintains a consolidated watch list of known or appropriately suspected terrorists and sends records from the list to agencies to support terrorism-related screening.

To accomplish the objectives, the US Congress reviewed documentation obtained from and interviewed officials at TSC, the FBI, the National Counterterrorism Center, the Department of Homeland Security, and other agencies that perform terrorism-related screening.

The FBI and the intelligence community use standards of reasonableness to evaluate individuals for nomination to the consolidated terrorist watch list. In general, individuals who are reasonably suspected of having possible links to terrorism — in addition to individuals with known links — are to be nominated.

As such, being on the list does not automatically prohibit, for example, the issuance of a visa or entry into the United States. Rather, when an individual on the list is encountered, agency officials are to assess the threat the person poses to determine what action to take, if any. As of May 2007, the consolidated watch list contained approximately 755,000 records. From December 2003 through May 2007, screening and law enforcement agencies encountered individuals who were positively matched to watch list records approximately 53,000 times.

Many individuals were matched multiple times. The outcomes of these encounters reflect an array of actions, such as arrests; denials of entry into the United States; and, most often, questioning and release.

Within the federal community, there is general agreement that the watch list has helped to combat terrorism by providing screening and law enforcement agencies with information to help them respond appropriately during encounters, as well as helping law enforcement and intelligence agencies track individuals on the watch list and collect information about them for use in conducting investigations and in assessing threats.

Regarding potential vulnerabilities, TSC sends records daily from the watch list to screening agencies. However, some records are not sent, partly because screening against them may not be needed to support the respective agency’s mission or may not be possible due to the requirements of computer programs used to check individuals against watch list records.

Also, some subjects of watch list records have passed undetected through agency screening processes and were not identified, for example, until after they had boarded and flew on an aircraft or were processed at a port of entry and admitted into the United States.

TSC and other federal agencies have ongoing initiatives to help reduce these potential vulnerabilities, including efforts to improve computerized name-matching programs and the quality of watch list data. Although the federal government has made progress in promoting effective terrorism-related screening, additional screening opportunities remain untapped –within the federal sector, as well as within critical infrastructure components of the private sector.

This situation exists partly because the government lacks an up-to-date strategy and implementation plan for optimizing use of the terrorist watch list. Also lacking are clear lines of authority and responsibility.

An up-to-date strategy and implementation plan, supported by a clearly defined leadership or governance structure, would provide a platform to establish governmentwide screening priorities, assess progress toward policy goals and intended outcomes, consider factors related to privacy and civil liberties, ensure that any needed changes are implemented, and respond to issues that hinder effectiveness.

Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he’s a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). Kouri also serves as political advisor for Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty.

He’s former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed “Crack City” by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He’s also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He’s a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com and PHXnews.com. He’s also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he’s syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. He’s appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. His book Assume The Position is available at Amazon.Com. Kouri’s own website is located at http://jimkouri.us

There's Atheist news coming out our ever-evolving ears this morning.

First, unbeknownst to me, the Atheist movement in America has been looking for its own version of the Christian fish symbol. The obvious answer would be to just have that fish crawling out of the water onto the beach, but instead they found their symbol just above the number "2" on their computer keyboard.

Here it is:

"Yes, it's the new Chevy Atheist! Prove to everybody on the highway that a big pile of bolts, scrap metal and wiring just happened to evolve into a car in style with the Chevy Atheist! (price doesn't include tax, title and no destination)"

And for the people in story #2 this morning, we need to alter the "A" symbol slightly so it's followed by "-hole."

From ABC News:

A 14-year-old girl and her outspoken atheist father filed a federal lawsuit Friday challenging a new Illinois law requiring a brief period of prayer or reflective silence at the start of every school day.

If you do a little research on the Atheist movement, something that is constantly trumpeted is "free thought." We're free to believe in God, or free not to. It's just that if you do, they think you're an idiot. What kind of respect for "free thought" is that?

Whenever you read about an Atheist in the news, what's it for? Almost every time it'll be because they're trying to get somebody to stop doing something, and in the above example, to stop people from even thinking something. "Free thought" my Darwinian ass.

Even silence is considered an imposition of religious dogma in schools? It's not really about religion though as much as it is about control, and it has a cult-like feel to it. Oddly enough, the quest of the radical Atheist has become everything they claim to stand against: a religion practiced in public.

Radical Atheists, Michael Newdow for example — who I once referred to for various reasons as "human herpes" and offended somebody vigorously opposed to making jokes about sexually transmitted infections (no, seriously), left to their own devices, would evolve the country into a police state. In other words, they're not at all bothered by the fact that you're worshipping a god in school — provided that god is them.

So let's see… you can't pray in school. You can't be silent in school because you might be praying. You can't even say the Pledge of Allegiance or salute the flag — a flag that represents the reason we're free to have thought (which the last time I checked was a main ingredient in this "free thought" Atheists claim to laud).

Radical Atheism's "free thought" has become a sociological version of Henry Ford's "you can have any color you want as long as it's black."

By the way, I heard that a band of radical Atheists once petitioned CBS to get them to change the title of the show "Touched by an Angel" to "Groped by a Figment of Your Imagination." I never could confirm that, but hey, it sounds like something Newdow & Company might try.

Does that title get you? Do you know what these things are and what’s happening to cause such terms to fit together?

I guess that there are probably a lot of people out there who think they are educated, and well informed. Though if I put those four words down in a list and asked people to explain them, very few would give even vague allusions of what’s the message.

A little background is in order to bring everyone up to spin.

Watson, while being the appellation of the man companion of Sherlock Holmes, in recent papers and events we are referring to the noble prize winning scientist Watson, who with Crick ‘discovered’ the helix nature of DNA. Now the reason I say discovered is that in the world there are those that claim that Watson stole the thing from a woman.

Here is what he said September 30 1999 at Harvard:
“Let’s just start with the Pauling thing. There’s a myth which is, you know, that Francis and I basically stole the structure from the people at King’s. I was shown Rosalind Franklin’s x-ray photograph and, Whooo! that was a helix, and a month later we had the structure, and Wilkins should never have shown me the thing.
I didn’t go into the drawer and steal it, it was shown to me, and I was told the dimensions, a repeat of 34 angstroms, so, you know, I knew roughtly what it meant and, uh, but it was that the Franklin photograph was the key event. It was, psychologically, it mobilised us…”
James Watson, Center for Genomic Research Inauguration.

While lots of people want to say he stole it and still do, they do not understand that any person who would have x-rayed DNA would have gotten that image that Rosalind did. The work she did, while important, was only using a standard tool on a selected molecule. What she didn’t do, was all the work that stems from the implications of the information she collected. Which is all that that image was, just information not creative output, which was not stolen, but shared.

To set this straight, lets put it this way. Each day the newspaper prints stock information, and people look at that information, many don’t. Now someone looks at this information and has a knack and uses it to trade very successfully. Should all the people that read the newspaper get the same outcome? They all saw the data? The data about the world is not owned, but the implications and explanations of that data IS something that doesn’t automatically ensue from that.

Now you know who he is. Recently he said some things to the open world that the open world seems no longer to have the sensibilities to listen. I will not get into the detail of what he said, since it’s actually irrelevant if what he said is truthful, or not. Because the way the situation unfolded in action by everyone, including many still writing about it now, and not least the institute basically firing him.

The reason its irrelevant is that it’s the speech that you dislike that needs protection. Not the speech you like. The hallmark of a well developed free society is the ability to be HEARD through the ability to say whatever comes to mind. The restrictions have to do with actual harm, not perceived harm, which if faked, would be gain by fraud the other way around.

Watson was in effect silenced, and will soon be vilified, since he is old, white, and his statements pertained to race. His mistake was that he didn’t read the party memo that said only the words of the party and the ideas of the party are allowed. And so he didn’t know that these things, said honestly, for the benefit of positive change, were verboten.

Watson is a giant. Whether its deserved or not, and a whole bunch of other points that might be made, or not, again isn’t relevant. The fact that a good number of people know him by his work for any reason kind of puts him out there and up there. So there is going to be some serious after effects from this. While the left will probably chalk it up as another victory in molding the world to how they see it should be, the ripples will spread, and what will happen is that whatever is studied near these VERBOTEN subjects will be guaranteed to be written to confirm whatever the party says it should say.

And that leads me to the other name that is next to his, and the deeper issue that is happening here, the transformation of factual and merit based science into a tool of state and ideology. Its happened before, and I will guess that most of the useful idiots plowing into this situation have no idea of that history in any detail, and without revision. I would even guess, no I know, that a lot of them actually think that they are fighting against the system that they are emulating, and don’t know. Though I am pretty sure that the fellow travelers and others know exactly what is going on.

Lysenko was the last name of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko, and a special form of repressive political and social campaign. He was a Stalinist and a geneticist, which is makes this link between the two even more salient. Though to fair the effect is the same but their stories are quite different, in the lysenko story, lysenko was both a liar and a despot promoting a non science. While Watson is telling the truth as most scientists in the field now, that different groups test to different levels, and that no one is working on methods of improving things tailored to the different levels. While the science has established quite well the levels, our problems are in how to handle the information, and what we decide to do with it.

Since Lysenko was promoting a non existent science based in the ideas of Ivan Vladimierocich Michurin, a kind of Lamarckian thing (Lamarck was the guy that thought that children would inherit changes from their parents that their parents experienced).

Now both the protestors to Watson, and Lysenko worked their magic for the same exact reason. To suppress any information that may run counter to their ideology. The kicker is that the ideology that they are following today, at its heart, is the same ideology that the communists followed for the same reason. Communist Soviet Unions socialist ideology and new man could only be possible if heredity had only a limited effect. That individual difference, in single people or in large groups, is how human development goes forward, and so, just like in communist Russia, the ideologies will not allow something that would imply the natural granting of some comparative advantage. Which is why so many feminist groups and philosophy departments are writing about genetics.

Now the outcome of all this is similar but different… as different as the two meanings of the word retire, but as similar as the reason why the same word fits both. Watson was retired… but so were many geneticists in Stalin’s camps and other methods. Both were murdered in the way that each system makes legal, and so the effect will be the same.

Genetics quickly became labeled as Fascist Science. Does that sound familiar? Genetics was decided to be a false science, and those in the field either were killed or left the field completely (a few took the risk to continue working). This situation didn’t change until the 1960s. the result was serious long term damage to communist biology that they still have not caught up in.

The effect of letting ideology cherry pick the ‘truth’ is a sure way to such systems. Most know that some sciences and our schools in many ways have been gutted of their ability to educate. The next part of our story will show that too.

It can’t be stressed enough that things are moving towards a dark age. Where science is controlled by the party or current high religion.. Progress is pretty much stunted with its concurrent results and problems…people don’t know what is right or wrong, don’t know how to behave. Can’t hear an argument that they don’t want to hear. Has had their educational information atomized so they have no coherent mental images of things or situations. To quote Adorno, they are “forced retarded”.

Recent news and brouhaha will inform you about the Horowitz situation. Mr. Horowitz has taken up a task that a large number of people who have not formed their own opinion of the world from real facts (but have and believe that what they have been told is factual, and that there is some sort of standard that the fact givers employers hold so that they couldn’t say it if it wasn’t fact, secured it in mind).

There are plenty of videos on line covering the situation and a large number of commentaries, but one thing is clear. The concept of a nuanced view or argument is dead on campus. They believe up is down, down is up, and so forth. in a nutshell, in several stops on his circuit, he was protested out from speaking. Our colleges will allow a visiting person who claims to be an enemy of their country come and talk it up, but a person who is also invited to talk, is shouted off the stage, and has to leave. With one person at the end chanting this is democracy. If he meant mob rule, then maybe he is right. However, I wonder how a college student can sit there and chime democracy when he lives in a republic, and when the communists also claim to be having democratic rule too.

Though again, this sort of thing has happened before. Particularly it happened during that states conversion from a free voting democracy, to a socialist state. Though this socialism wasn’t the socialism that said it was striving for communism (which did the same things to a lot more people), this one was striving for a socialism in which the state and the companies would team up, and provide for the volks.

The National Socialist Party came to power in Germany because of the work of a bunch of people who acted very similarly to the crowd that attacked Horrowitz and denied his right to be heard by those interested in hearing him. Which leads me to the last word in the title. Sturmabteilung This term is the name for the Nazi parties brown shirts. They were there from the start and their job was to disrupt opposition, and secure their own events from similar counter moves. So at a rally that was for the opposition, they would shout them down, they would give speeches instead of asking questions. Basically the same tactics that the group used to silence Horrowitz were originally developed a long time ago.

It seems that the same people who are teaching them that ideological truth is right is also handing them the tactics of the National Socialist party for repression of party enemies. Their techniques before Hitler came to office were exactly the same. Small fights, events to get arrested which disturbs the events more, and so on. After Hitler came to power the brown shirts got worse (till they were ended).

Each event and surprise thing that gets around or abused freedom of access causes our leaders to be farther and farther away from us. Makes them harder to meet with and harder for them to understand the issues and things… the disconnect ends up causing lots of misery and bad policy.

It’s a bit scary to see such events happen now out in the open and be considered normal. Whats scarier is that the people who are so against fascists, and such, are practicing the same ideological core, and they are using the actions of the two most repressive and manipulative totalitarian regimes of the last century.

Its obvious that they don’t know what a representative democracy is. nor do they know what real rights are vs socialist made up ones. They don’t know that they are the fascists, and communists, not the other side, mainly because they don’t actually know what a fascist or communist is. that education is conveniently missing.

Ultimately though, this will not lead to good. You can read articles by doctors who say that more tact was required, but tact is a form of social self censorship, and it has little place at the pinnacles of science and social policy because lives are at stake, and these choices and things ultimately change the way we live, progress, and even whether our family lines continue on or die out (while sitting in the middle of great wealth and abundance).

Both situations were horribly repressive… one led to the inability of a nation to compete in a branch of science that now is critical to future progress… the other, in the form present at the colleges, is well on the way to ignorantly creating the very thing that they are yelling and screaming against. The sociopathic fellow travelers and socialists are probably smiling fatly at the irony and sweetness of it. to march the masses enthusiastically to their own imprisonment while they cheer freedom and tales of the land of woebegone they are heading to.

As a former redhead, the following story piqued my interest while also providing an explanation as to why my knuckles drag on the ground when I walk.

From Fox News:

Like bringing to life a naked mannequin, scientists are using genetic and physical evidence found in fossils to clothe the skeletal remains of our closest hominid relatives, the Neanderthals.

More and more, they seem familiar.

Bones from two Neanderthals yielded valuable genetic information that adds red hair, light skin and perhaps some freckling to our extinct relatives.

The results, detailed online Thursday by the journal Science, suggest that at least 1 percent of Neanderthals were redheads.

Using the aforementioned methods, scientists have created a model of the redhead Neanderthal:

Anthropologists were shocked to discover Neanderthals carried prop bags

A Chinese national who lives in Connecticut has been indicted by a San Diego federal grand jury for conspiring to purchase and export military-grade accelerometers used in “smart bombs” and missiles from the United States to the People’s Republic of China.

Qing Li, 36, of Stamford, Conn., is charged with attempting to buy and export piezoresistive accelerometers for what her co-conspirator described as a “special” scientific agency in China. The charges are the result of a seven-month undercover investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS). ICE and DCIS agents arrested Li at New York’s JFK International Airport Oct. 14 as she was checking in to board a flight to China

The piezoresistive accelerometer measures massive shocks and has many military applications, including use in “smart” bombs and missile development. The accelerometer is designated as a defense article on the United States Munitions List and cannot be exported from the United States without the written permission of the United States Department of State. The United States maintains an arms embargo against China, and the State Department’s policy is to deny permission for the export of defense articles to China.

“The controlled military sensors that were the focus of this technology procurement plot are extremely sensitive devices used in the development of missiles and artillery and the calibration of large-scale nuclear and chemical explosions,” said Kenneth L. Wainstein, Assistant Attorney General for National Security. “I applaud the agents who infiltrated this foreign procurement network and prevented these items from being illegally exported to China.”

“Accelerometers are a designated defense article frequently used in missiles, ‘smart bombs’ and other major weapons systems and in the wrong hands, could prove catastrophic,” said Julie L. Myers, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for ICE. “These devices are simply not for export to China or anywhere else without explicit permission from the U.S. Government. Stopping the illicit export of weapons technology is paramount to the national security of our country and the public safety of all.”

“This investigation and prosecution demonstrate the firm commitment we in federal law enforcement have to prevent the illegal exportation of items on the United States Munitions List,” said United States Attorney Karen P. Hewitt. “This plot was foiled and the defendant was apprehended because of the tireless efforts and hard work of agents from ICE and DCIS.”

According to court papers, from April 2007 to October 2007, Li and her co-conspirator used e-mail messages and telephone calls to negotiate the illegal export transaction with an undercover ICE agent in San Diego, who repeatedly stressed the illegality of the transaction. Li and her co-conspirator urged the undercover agent to deliver the accelerometers directly to China, advising the undercover agent that if the accelerometers tested properly, large orders would follow. According to court papers, during a three-way telephone call, when the undercover agent advised Li and her co-conspirator that the accelerometers are used to measure massive explosions, and even nuclear explosions, Li’s co-conspirator stated that “our client knows exactly what this thing is used for.”

“This investigation signifies the aggressive pursuit by the DCIS, in cooperation with our other federal law enforcement partners, to identify and pursue prosecution of those who illegally export or steal our sensitive military technology,” said Rick W. Gwin, Special Agent in Charge for the DCIS Western Field Office.

Li, a legal permanent resident of the United States, is currently in federal custody in New York. She is scheduled to appear Oct. 22 before United States Magistrate Judge Steven Gold in the Eastern District of New York to determine whether she will be returned to San Diego to answer to the indictment. The conspiracy charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he’s a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). Kouri also serves as political advisor for Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty.

He’s former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed “Crack City” by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He’s also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He’s a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com and PHXnews.com. He’s also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he’s syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. He’s appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. His book Assume The Position is available at Amazon.Com. Kouri’s own website is located at http://jimkouri.us

David Horowitz has a peculiar talent: He can make a good point without having to say a word.

Attempting to speak at Emory University on "Islamofascism Awareness Week," Horowitz was confronted by followers of Islam and assorted leftists who were so determined to prove to the world that they are sick and tired of being stereotyped as opponents of the right to free speech. They did this by booing until Horowitz couldn't continue with his speech.

I love the smell of paradox in the morning.

Photos and video from the counter-demonstration of tolerance, peace and respect can be seen here.

It's time again to get another childish and sophomoric giggle from unintentional innuendo in a Hillary Clinton interview. Take some Dramamine though before digging further into this syrupy stack of fablecakes.

If you thought Bill Clinton only got wood for other women, you were wrong:

Hillary Rodham Clinton says husband Bill often brings her romantic gifts: a giant wooden giraffe from an African trip, for example, and a Chanel watch that reminded him of teeth.

"Oh he's so romantic," the former first lady said in an interview for the November issue of Essence magazine. "He's always bringing me back things from his trips."

Jewelry, perfume, the jack…

The watch had a bracelet made of white cubes. "I had dental surgery, and he said it reminded him of teeth," she said.

"Your dentist and I were both half a world apart filling cavities. I couldn't help but think of you darling…"

The New York senator, now a presidential candidate, said she is satisfied with the decisions she has made in her marriage.

"Now obviously we've had challenges as everybody in the world knows," she said. "But I never doubted that it was a marriage worth investing in even in the midst of those challenges, and I'm really happy that I made that decision."

"But if in late 2008 I'm not 'President-elect Hillary Clinton,' I'm outta here!"

In 1998, news unfolded about her husband's affair with Monica Lewinsky.

While sticking it out might not be for everyone, Mrs. Clinton said women should support each other in the choices they make in their marriages.

Sticking it out was where the whole problem started, Hillary.

Witnessing Bill and Hillary speaking lovingly of each other is like running through the women's shower at the Malibu Country Club: You're not exactly sure what you saw but you're damn certain it's fake.

And by "enemies," I'm of course referring to some U.S. journalists:

U.S. Army combat units headed for Iraq have been advised to be sensitive to Iraqis, in order to avoid making anymore enemies than they already have over there. So one unit headed there, the 1/35 Armor (1st battalion of the 35th armored regiment) will change its call sign from "Conqueror" to "Iron Knight." It was felt that the word "Conqueror" might be misinterpreted by Iraqis.

Actually, it's not the Iraqis that officers worry about in situations like this, it's U.S. journalists who, on a slow news day, might round up a few English speaking Iraqis and get them to complain about the American tank battalion that refers to themselves as "Conqueror." Oh, the horror. Especially when this stuff reaches Congress, and the incident is brought up when the army asks for money.

Pursuant to this politically correct trend, the call signs of the pilots in the movie "Top Gun" will have to be altered. The next time you see the film, "Viper" will be known as "Tinky Winky," "Maverick" is being changed to "Nerfball," "Iceman" will be "Iceperson," "Cougar" becomes "Purring Kitty" and "Hollywood" will remain "Hollywood" just so any enemies of America watching the movie will feel as if they're among friends.

Laura Bush was on a "breast cancer awareness tour" in the middle east recently.

The good news is that the First Lady is shining a light around the world on this horrible disease — the bad news is that in nations under Islamic law, any doctor performing a breast cancer procedure will have his hands cut off and the patient will be stoned to death. Unfortunately, to some, this is considered a "cure."

Below is one photo op Laura had in the UAE:

"Say 'cheese'!"

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In Georgia, a high school student wrote a deliciously satirical column in the school paper that sent the principle running around in a panic, ala Ed Rooney from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

Justin Jones has now learned his most important lesson yet: Public school administrators have little understanding of, nor tolerance for, those who engage in satire — especially if it's in the school paper:

Copies of Smoke Signals, the East Coweta High School newspaper , were impounded after student Justin Jones burlesqued Jonathon Swift’s 18th-century essay “A Modest Proposal” and managing editor Caitlyn VanOrden criticized the East Coweta Princess beauty pageant.

Jonathon Swift had lampooned complaints about the drag on the economy by poor Irish families. He wrote: “A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled.”

Justin titled his piece “Another modest proposal” and suggested that the euthanasia of low-IQ students could alleviate the world’s woes. Principal Derek Pitts impounded 500 undistributed copies of Smoke Signals and told the staff that he wanted more positive and uplifting stories.

Here's the entire piece. Check out what made the principle's sphincter slam shut faster than the front door of an atheist with a Jehovah's Witness walking up his driveway.

Young Justin is in the midst of discovering that the reason so many public school administrators are taking offense to his column is that, if Justin's satire were reality, a great number of public school administrators would have to be euthanized.

The lamestream media told you:

Correcting decades of negligence, the U.S. House wisely voted to recognize the Turkish slaughter of helpless Armenians starting in 1915 as a genocide, infuriating the Turkish government.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Helpless in their attempts to cut off funding and strand American troops battling radical Islamist murderers and jihadis in Iraq, Democrats have crafted an extremely clever plan to outrage the Turkish government, and get them to refuse U.S. access to their land, sea and air bases. By some estimates, 70% of all U.S. support to Iraq goes through Turkey. Lamestream reports failed to mention this angle in covering the 90-year-old terminology debate.

In other news, a new study by Dave Kopel and co-authors has found that disarmament of the Armenians by the Turks lead to the massive slaughters, and those Armenians who retained arms were able to resist the attacks.

Senate Majority Leader and oh so charitable and generous politician Harry Reid said that the California fires are in part due to global warming. What caused fires hundreds of years ago is anybody's guess. What's more concerning is what caused Harry Reid.

Reid's claim is of course ridiculous, but I do think that climate change is the reason Harry Reid is in office. The political climate in this country is in a sorry state, and it's causing us to lose our minds and send people to Washington who, left to their own devices, couldn't manage a 7-11 without screwing up the accounting and stealing half the stuff in the store.

Harry Reid is one of those people. The man is such a colossal worm that the only thing he'd make a fine addition to is a fisherman's tackle box.

Fires have existed since the beginning of time. The only thing "climate change" is to blame for is people like Harry Reid.

(This article is based on a report received by the National Association of Chiefs of Police.)

Two South American men have pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide material support to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, a designated foreign terrorist organization, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Assistant Secretary Julie Myers, Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and Assistant Attorney General Kenneth L. Wainstein of the National Security Division announced at a press conference.

Julio Cesar Lopez (Lopez), 62, of Caracas, Venezuela, and Luis Alfredo Daza Morales (Daza), 47, of Bogota, Colombia, pleaded guilty last week in Miami before US District Judge Joan A. Lenard to conspiracy to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization.

The men were arrested after working with U.S. government undercover informants who, as part of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sting operation, posed as FARC operatives seeking illicit travel to Miami to launder FARC money from the United States to Colombia for the purchase of FARC weapons and drugs.

Lopez admitted that between Nov. 10, 2005, and Jan. 3, 2006, he offered to act as a financial advisor for the FARC. Lopez engineered schemes to launder up to $1 million of FARC money per day through contributions to a charitable organization and shell businesses in the United States. He also offered means of obtaining weapons abroad in exchange for publicly-held stock shares bought in the United States.

To demonstrate his ability to launder money effectively, Lopez facilitated a $50,000 money transfer in Miami with cash payout in Bogota for the informants he believed were working on behalf of the FARC. As part of the scheme, Lopez directed an informant in the United States to deliver the bulk of the $50,000 to his money courier in Miami and to make two $9,000 deposits into a private bank account. Through a substitute debt-payment scheme involving international businesses, Lopez arranged for that money, minus his commissions, to be made available to the informant’s FARC associates in Colombia.

While Lopez developed schemes to launder FARC money, Daza admitted that between Sept. 27, 2005, and Jan. 3, 2006, he conspired to help smuggle individuals he believed to be FARC operatives to the United States by providing clandestine passage through Bogota’s El Dorado International Airport. Claiming to be a veteran of Colombia’s Department of Administrative Security (DAS), a Colombian law enforcement agency, Daza sought to arrange an entire team of DAS airport immigration officials to facilitate the travelers’ passage through the El Dorado International Airport, a service he claimed to have provided in the past.

Daza also researched whether the travelers’ false passports or names had been flagged by Interpol. He picked the informants’ travel dates and instructed them on which immigration checkpoint to use and where to wait in the terminal in order to avoid airport surveillance. Furthermore, he outlined a contingency plan in the event the travelers were stopped by legitimate law enforcement authorities on the way through the airport.

“These defendants admitted to helping persons, whom they thought were FARC terrorists, enter the United States to engage in money laundering and terrorist financing activities,” said Assistant Attorney General Fisher. “We remain vigilant in our prosecution of such crimes, which make the citizens of both the United States and Colombia more vulnerable to terrorism.”

“This case illustrates the sophisticated tactics that terrorist supporters will use to garner U.S. resources to finance their terrorist causes,” said ICE Assistant Secretary Julie L. Myers. “ICE is proud to have worked so successfully with the Department of Justice in this case to protect against the threat presented by terrorist smuggling and terrorist financing.”

Lopez and Daza were among two of 10 individuals indicted by a Miami federal grand jury on terrorism, alien smuggling, and money laundering charges on Jan. 3, 2006. Pursuant to U.S. provisional arrest warrants, Lopez and Daza were arrested in February 2006 in Bogota and extradited to South Florida on July 22, 2007, and March 19, 2007, respectively. Trial for the remaining eight defendants is scheduled to begin Jan. 22, 2008.

Lopez and Daza each face up to 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Sentencing before Judge Lenard is scheduled for Jan. 4, 2008.

Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he’s a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). Kouri also serves as political advisor for Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty.

He’s former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed “Crack City” by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He’s also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He’s a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com and PHXnews.com. He’s also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he’s syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. He’s appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. His book Assume The Position is available at Amazon.Com. Kouri’s own website is located at http://jimkouri.us

Early this afternoon I saw a Google map of southern California including the areas that are on fire right now. Here's a satellite picture as well.

Seeing it from ground level on television doesn't demonstrate the sheer size of the areas that are in trouble.

If any of my regulars readers are in that general area, keep us posted. I know Christine is in the vicinity, and so far has been fortunate. She has some good first-hand information about the fires at her blog and has even offered to take some people in.

The lamestream media told you:

The recent Republican presidential debate saw candidates vying to appear as the most conservative of the lot. In various combination the crowded field of white males offered to eliminate IRS, close the borders, make tax cuts permanent, pass a fair tax, eliminate pork-barrel earmarks, stop social-security-tax increases, and institute portable health care plans, among numerous other promises.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

A debate is an event where people debate each other. The lamestream media has repeatedly and incorrectly labeled as “debates” the Republican (and prior Democrat) candidate auditions, also known as showcases or dog-and-pony shows. No debate took place during the prime time TV broadcasts falsely labeled debates.

“The promoters call them ‘debates,’ so we do too, so that’s accurate,” one newsman was overheard saying.

Reporters also failed to note that the policies promoted by the auditioners are not within presidential power to enact, a job strictly reserved to Congress. Congress could not be reached for comment on whether it might vote for any of the promises the showcasers promised.

Though the candidates differed little on “major fiscal policy issues,” they were not asked significant questions about their positions, such as, “What is the purpose of government,” or, “What are the limits on government power, has government exceeded those limits, and how would you address that if you’re elected?” Additional unasked questions can be found in The Liberty Poll.

According to the Founding Fathers, the only legitimate purpose of government is to protect our freedom, and discharge those duties specifically delegated in the olden Constitution, nothing more. Both parties have flatly rejected this as a matter of policy for decades, but no arrests have been made. Yet. Large segments of the public still seem to think the Founders had a pretty good idea.

The lamestream media told you:

The Minutemen, worthy of saturation coverage when they first began observing the borders for undocumented workers slipping into the country, must have evaporated, because there have been virtually no news reports about them for nearly a year.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

The Minutemen, in the latest of numerous ongoing campaigns, issued a status report, which is widely distributed across the web and by email to all interested parties.

“As of Sunday, the end of our first week (of this campaign), we had 146 volunteers that had signed in and pulled at least one shift. These volunteers came from all over this great nation. The following states are being represented in AZ on the border with the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps.: AZ(93), NY(3), VT(1), MA(1), ID(2), IL(1), MS(1), OK(1), IN(2), CA(4), TX(7), WA(7), AL(6), FL(6), OR(1), UT(1), NV(3), CO (4), KS(2).

“We have also been effective in supporting our United States Border Patrol. As of Sunday afternoon, Minutemen Civil Defense Corps volunteers had sighted 104 illegal aliens and the border patrol apprehended 46 of them. This comes out to 44%, which is up from years past. The Border Patrol agents have been great. Their response times have also been great.”

MCDC is the original Minuteman organization, headed by Chris Simcox. Several splinter groups have also set up operations and are making similar reports, to total silence from the “news” media.

First off, to answer your question, yes, I'm going for the world record for the most overt volume of innuendo in one blog title.

Secondly, if you donated money to Larry Craig's campaign, your hard-earned cash is being almost literally flushed down the drain to defend the porcelain skinned senator:

Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) has used $23,000 in campaign funds to pay the top Washington ethics lawyer, Stan Brand, who is fighting his case before the Senate ethics committee, according to Craig’s latest filing with the Federal Election Commission.

We should rest easy in the knowledge that the pillars of integrity in the senate, who, figuratively speaking, spend their lives in stalls tapping in code, will sort out all these ethics problems.

This incident is so famous that if you ever find yourself at the Minneapolis/St. Paul Int'l Airport, I highly recommend the self-guided "Legacy of Larry" tour: