Here is a progressive socialist who is more interested in living the high-life than he is resolving the troubles of a near-bankrupt and troubled city. Now, he wants a reward for being a telegenic Hispanic with some dodgy political credentials.
The thought of some public organization, non-profit, or educational institution giving this democrat cretin a job is abhorrent to me. I tried to think of anything positive to say about this man. Nada. He is an unrepentant philanderer who should give back part of his made-up name, Villaraigosa, and return to being plain old Tony Villar, Mexican activist.
Report: Mayor Villaraigosa ‘Didn’t Save Any Money,’ Casting ‘Really Wide Net’ For Jobs
Is the highest-paid mayor in the United States broke? With just over a month left in his second and final term, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will leave office in June reportedly without a place to live or a car of his own to drive, according to a report published Thursday. Jill Stewart, L.A. Weekly’s managing editor, told KNX 1070 NEWSRADIO that Villaraigosa faces an uncertain political – and financial – future when he steps down June 30.
In order to maintain his current lifestyle, which includes frequent cross-country travel, a mayoral mansion at the taxpayer-supported Getty House, an Los Angeles Police Department security detail for his personal SUV, courtside seats to Lakers games, and several other perks, associates estimate Villaraigosa’s next gig would need to pay about $750,000 a year, according to Stewart.
“His friends are so concerned because he’s lived so flamboyantly and spent basically so much of other people’s money on a very, very costly lifestyle,” Stewart said, adding that Villaraigosa has lived “far better than Gov. Jerry Brown and far more flamboyantly than actual multi-millionaire mayor Richard Riordan.”
The report, entitled Antonio Villaraigosa’s Quest for Wall Street, Washington and Wealth, also cites mayoral associates and City Hall insiders in estimating Villaraigosa earns a salary of $232,735 a year, more than any of his mayoral counterparts nationwide. And now, according to Stewart, Villaraigosa is broke.
“He didn’t save any money…we got his required economic interest reports where you see all their stocks and bonds and property,” Stewart said. “Nada.” Outside of a rental property in Moreno Valley which brings in about $600 a month, Stewart said that Villarigosa has no major assets despite having been paid over $1.6 million during his time as mayor. Public pension information for Villaraigosa was not available, L.A. Weekly reported.
It’s still unclear where Villaraigosa will land: while staffers have been mum on the mayor’s job search, he is reportedly considering a number of possibilities after denying in February any interest in a Cabinet position in the Obama Administration.
According to L.A. Weekly, Villaraigosa may also have to wait until 2018 to make a bid for Governor of California, with Brown expected to run for reelection in 2014.
His fellow socialists in California will probably throw him an interim lifeline. I wouldn’t be surprised if the California Governor or legislature appointed him to a few of those $100,000+ jobs on advisory panels where you are free to pursue your own personal and political interests while milking the public tit. Perhaps he can become one of those highly-paid lobbyists who represent the special interests who are bleeding California dry.
Tony, (His real name is Tony Villar), if you are reading this – might I suggest a job with your buddies who support illegal alien citizenship. You could be paid partly by Mexico and partly by those scam lawyers who are fleecing their own people. Perhaps your compadre, Charlie Sheen, can loan you a few hundred thousand bucks to tide you over.
Of course, he is unqualified for most jobs – at least those jobs that would require him to show up on time, stay at work, and produce a meaningful result.
The primary reasons Americans must look at Mosques – especially those established or funded by foreign governments – can be summarized thusly:
In spite of all protestation that Islam is a religion of peace, history and experience has told us Islam was founded by a warlord, to promote the primacy of the religion over all others, at the point of a sword if need be.
In spite of all protestations that Islam is tolerant of other points of view or religions, history and experience has told us that Islam demands obedience to the faith and divides people into believers and non-believers. With heavy sanctions or penalties on non-believers, and the possibility to death for those who convert from Islam to another faith.
There is no such thing as a separation of church and state in a theocracy. Everything, be it the actions of the government or the actions of an individual, is governed by Sharia law – sometimes as interpreted by corrupt religious leaders to promote their own agendas.
Foreign governments, such as those in Saudi Arabia, fund and found foreign Mosques to spread a virulent form of Islam, known as Wahhabism. It is believed that many wealthy Saudi royals have made a Faustian deal with the terrorists to fund their activities as long as they do not attempt to overthrow the Kingdom and its corrupt rulers.
Many Mosques have served as centers for terrorist fundraising, radicalization, and support centers for terrorist attacks.
Mosques are tax-exempt facilities that often do not welcome curious Americans as do other churches.
The United States Constitution is not a suicide pact which conveys special privileges to our cultural enemies.
So this story is deeply disturbing …
Maryland Blessed With $100 Million Turkish Mega-Mosque
On May 15, 2013, the Turkish Prime Minister, Erdogan, an anti-Semite, attended a ceremony a stone’s throw from our nation’s capital celebrating what he claims “will likely become the largest and most striking example of Islamic architecture in the Western Hemisphere.” Next year, when completed, the Turkish American Culture and Civilization Center, in Lanham, Maryland “US of A,” a project of the Islamist Turkish government, will be the grandest Islamic site in the Western Hemisphere. Allah Akbar!
Last week’s Islamist celebration ceremony was attended by Maryland Governor, Martin O’Malley who welcomed guests representing the “Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA),” the “Islamic Society of North America” and several other U.S. Muslim Brotherhood affiliates. Rumor has it that Governor O’Malley is considering a Presidential run in 2016.
Many Americans are unaware of an escalation of Turkish government programs to grow Islamist influence in North America. Not surprising, since any real reporting on the growth of Islamic cultural influence in America is commonly ignored by our liberal press. After all, why should progressive ideologues give a hoot about Islamist leadership in the United States? To them, mainstream Islamic leaders like INCA President Naeem Baig should be embraced regardless of ties to terror and Baig’s public comments like: “work in America is kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within” are out of context Islamaphobic misunderstandings.
Whether here or abroad Islamic cultural centers are not a model of civic multicultural charity. They only serve Muslims. Welcoming these stealth jihadists’ compounds financed by leaders that condemn both Israel and America, in my opinion, is at a minimum aiding seditious behavior.
Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan considers Islamic criticism akin to “a crime against humanity.” He has also publicly railed against Israel as a “fascist regime” and a “terrorist state, “but considers Hamas a “resistance group. “ It has been reported by Islamist-Watch.org that Erdogan’s AKP Party “desires to re-establish the Caliphate and unify the Middle East—and later the world—under Turkish Islamist rule and hegemony.”
Yeah, not a big deal. It is just another innocuous fancy Muslim cultural center. Nothing to be concerned about. Jihad and desires for a Global caliphate are not real. It is only a conspiracy theory.
Presently, the Turkish Fethullah Gulen School network, the “largest charter school network in America” is under investigation by the FBI. The Gulen School ideology has been a powerful force aiding in the conversion of Turkey’s former secular society into an Islamist dominated state. In other words, we have Jihadi Elementary, Intermediate and High Schools currently operating with US tax payer subsidies all over our country. The founder of this Turkish education and cultural abomination just happens to reside in Pennsylvania.
Since Prime Minister Erdogan took over Turkey in 2003, the peaceful culture of Islam has worked very hard to establish itself as a true purveyor of tolerance. According to the Clarion Project:
“College admissions have been changed to favor religious students, the military has been gutted of its secular generals (with one in five generals currently in prison on dubious charges) and women have been routed out of top government jobs. Honor killings in Turkey increased 1,400 percent between 2002 and 2009. Persecution of artists and journalists has become commonplace as opponents are charged with vague crimes like “denigrating Islam” and “denigrating the state.”
It would appear that our former Muslim allies in Turkey might not be so tolerant after all.
Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan is aggressively pursuing his pro-Islamist agenda within our borders and not much is being done to prevent foreign Islamists from strengthening their subversive activities. Our federal government is once again asleep at the wheel while future anti-American pro-Sharia influences work to radicalize Muslim youth. I wonder what historic calamity awaits America. Regardless, I am sure it will result in more unconstitutional infringement and privacy loss. After all, when it comes to terrorism, Washington rarely learns life’s lessons. To quote future Presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton “What difference does it make?”
Political correctness, multi-culturalism, and moral equivalency have allowed the progressives to welcome subversives and illegal aliens to enter and remain in America without the safeguards available to citizens of other countries. It appears that our pro-Muslim president cares little about the fact that 80% of all world terrorism is conducted by Muslims – preferring to attack white supremacist groups over criminal alien or domestic gangs.
I look upon state-sponsored building – many tax exempt – as a clear and present danger that poses problems for America as they can be used for overthrowing our government. Sometimes by simply purchasing corrupt politicians as is the apparent modus operandi of Saudi Arabia.
Be alert to the danger from within – as it is often more potent than the danger from without.
Hands covered in fresh blood, standing in the street holding the knife and a cleaver he used to behead a British soldier, this terrorist asks a local to film his Islamic rant. Luckily, those about him were not similarly attacked. He was subdued and shot by arriving police – after the execution of an innocent soldier.
Look at the potential victims just standing there in shock. Unarmed, unable to defend themselves, and completely helpless to stop this terrorist.
In the wake of a terrorist’s public beheading of a British soldier by a Islamic jihadist, perhaps it is time to consider arming the British public to defend against the Muslim hordes that are emigrating to Europe – not to escape religious oppression at home, but to bring religious oppression with them into their new homeland.
Scores of supporters of the English Defence League threw bottles at police and chanted anti-Muslim slogans in Woolwich hours after the murder of one man and the shooting of his two suspected assailants. About 100 men, including some wearing balaclavas printed with "EDL", engaged in running battles with police for less than an hour.
A police commander said officers cited section 60 of the Public Order Act, which allowed them to stop and search individuals within a specific area without evidence of a crime being committed. EDL leader Tommy Robinson said: "They're chopping our soldiers' heads off. This is Islam. That's what we've seen today. They've cut off one of our army's heads off on the streets of London.
"Our next generation are being taught through schools that Islam is a religion of peace. It's not. It never has been. What you saw today is Islam. Everyone's had enough. There has to be a reaction, for the government to listen, for the police to listen, to understand how angry this British public are."Source: Anti-Muslim reprisals after Woolwich attack | UK news | The Guardian
Bottom line …
Self-defense begins at home. The Brits are essentially helpless when it comes to defending themselves against the Muslims in their country. Muslims who have rioted over what one may suggest are silly things like comic books and other perceived insults to Islam. Some police authorities will not even travel within Muslim areas as they fear for their lives. And, like the terrorist IRA, the citizens bear the brunt of political activists among them.
Watch the enemy publicly condemn the heinous act, while privately celebrating another defense of Islam.
Is this the future of America when we are disarmed by the socialist democrats and overrun with ethnic gangs?
It appears that elected and appointed politicians and high-ranking government officials do not understand that their duties to “protect and serve” their constituents demands that they prioritize available funding. Placing public safety needs (fire, police, emergency medical assistance, sanitation, infrastructure maintenance) above everything else, including the support of unionized cubicle workers, and even education. Truth-be-told, there is enough money to fund essential services and those corrupt officials like the Los Angeles County Sheriff who threatens to let dangerous criminals out of jail to force tax increases, should be fired or re-called if they can’t do their jobs.
I find the following story to be extremely disturbing on two levels. First, the fact that her township cannot correctly prioritize their public safety needs, and second, that there was no recommendation that the woman adequately arm herself (and take self-defense lessons if necessary) BEFORE the necessity to use such a weapon arose.
911 Dispatcher Tells Woman About To Be Sexually Assaulted There Are No Cops To Help Her Due To Budget Cuts
An Oregon woman was told by a 911 dispatcher that authorities wouldn’t be able be able to help her as her ex-boyfriend broke into her place because of budget cuts. Oregon Public Radio reports that an unidentified woman called 911 during a weekend in August 2012 while Michael Bellah was breaking into her place. Her call was forwarded to Oregon State Police because of lay-offs at the Josephine County Sheriff’s Office only allows the department to be open Monday through Friday.
“Uh, I don’t have anybody to send out there,” the 911 dispatcher told the woman. “You know, obviously, if he comes inside the residence and assaults you, can you ask him to go away? Do you know if he’s intoxicated or anything?” The woman told the dispatcher that Bellah previously attacked her and left her hospitalized a few weeks prior to the latest incident. The dispatcher stayed on the phone with the woman for more than 10 minutes before the sexual assault took place.
“Once again it’s unfortunate you guys don’t have any law enforcement out there,” the dispatcher said, according to Oregon Public Radio. The woman responded: “Yeah, it doesn’t matter, if he gets in the house I’m done.” Police say Bellah choked the woman and sexually assaulted her. He was arrested by Oregon State Police following the incident.
“There isn’t a day that goes by that we don’t have another victim,” Josephine County Sheriff Gil Gilberson told Oregon Public Radio. “If you don’t pay the bill, you don’t get the service.”
The sheriff’s department had to cut 23 deputies and the entire major crimes unit after it lost a multi-million dollar federal subsidy, according to Oregon Public Radio. There are now only six deputies left.
The sheriff’s department even put out a press release warning domestic violence victims to “consider relocating to an area with adequate law enforcement services.”
I bet no politician was in favor of cutting back the debt service for public employee pensions, firing or laying off cubicle workers and other non-essential personnel before reducing public safety. Closing and combing schools or taking other precipitous action before compromising public safety.
Since this victim was previously attacked, one might assume that she is one of those liberals who would prefer to die screaming at the hands of a merciless attacker rather than pick up a socially-unacceptable firearm.
The sheriff’s office should have put out a press release about the incompetence of their over-paid leadership and urging everyone to defend themselves; perhaps even offering a program to help potential victims purchase a weapon, learn how to use it correctly, and defend themselves when the authorities could not be present.
But, then again, that would require individual responsibility and not socialist collectivist groupthink.
Democrat cockroaches scurrying away when the light of day falls upon their nefarious actions …
For those who do not remember exactly how corrupt both Senators are, one must remember that Chuck Schumer’s letter to a number of financial regulatory agencies precipitated a modern bank run on IndyMac bank which ultimately resulted in its failure. And, former comic Al Franken was involved in a fraudulent election scheme which saw him improperly elected to office on the thinnest of vote margins.
Illegitimate Senator Al Franken
Convicted felons and ACORN-driven voters handed the wacky “Saturday Night Live” guy a slim win in the 2008 election in Minnesota. Allegations of voter fraud are stonewalled by county prosecutors and ignored by liberal local mainstream media. Why are we not at all surprised at all the tomfoolery?
Talk about making a difference: At least 341 convicted felons quite possibly voted illegally in 2008 in Minneapolis and St. Paul alone, says an 18-month study of Minnesota voting in the ’08 election. Besides this frontal assault on election laws, untold thousands of ACORN-recruited, one-time, rent-a-voters cast ballots in that same election, most for the first time ever, to decide a race for the United States Senate.
Taken together, a vast majority likely voted for “Saturday Night Live” comedian Al Franken, the Democrat, over incumbent Senator Norm Coleman, a Republican, in their razor-thin race that took five months in courts to decide. The forever-tainted result still rankles local Republicans. But alleged illegalities and proven ACORN voter-rigging do not seem to faze “see-no-evil” local media.
In the end, Al Franken “won” a contested election for the U.S. Senate seat by just 312 disputed votes. Do the math. <Source>
How Chuck Schumer Caused the Second Largest Bank Failure in US History
Federal officials aren’t supposed to cause bank runs. In fact, much of the New Deal bank regulatory apparatus was set up for the purpose of eliminating such panics. When FDR was hit with a massive set of bank runs shortly after taking office, he gave an address in order to calm terrified depositors, assuring them that the banks would reopen shortly, and that everything would be fine. But Chuck Schumer is no FDR. He doesn’t stop bank runs; he starts them. Or, at least, has started one. The collapse of IndyMac bank, the second largest bank failure in American history, began with a letter from the office of Senator Charles Schumer on June 27. He questioned the viability of the bank. When a senior senator who is in a number of influential posts regarding oversight of bank regulators directly attacks the confidence of a depository institution, it matters. Not surprisingly, the director of the Office of Thrift Supervision concluded that the collapse of the bank immediately following the Senator’s comments was not a coincidence. Director Reich concluded that Senator Schumer had ‘given the bank a heart attack’. <Source>
The democrat plea for the IRS to take actions on the political activities of tax-exempt organizations …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 12, 2012 -- SENATE DEMOCRATS URGE IRS TO IMPOSE STRICT CAP ON POLITICAL SPENDING BY NONPROFIT GROUPS—VOW LEGISLATION IF AGENCY DOESN’T ACT
Senators Seek To End Tax Code Abuse By Political Groups Masquerading As ‘Social Welfare Organizations’
In Letter to IRS, Lawmakers Say Firm Limit Should Be Set on Percentage of Nonprofits’ Spending That Can Be Devoted To Political Activities Reforms Also Urged To Prevent Political Donors From Claiming Tax Deduction For Their Contributions
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A group of seven Senate Democrats urged the Internal Revenue Service on Monday to impose a strict cap on the amount of political spending by tax-exempt, nonprofit groups.
The senators said the lack of clarity in the IRS rules has allowed political groups to improperly claim 501(c)4 status and may even be allowing donors to these groups to wrongly claim tax deductions for their contributions. The senators promised legislation if the IRS failed to act to fix these problems.
“We urge the IRS to take these steps immediately to prevent abuse of the tax code by political groups focused on federal election activities. But if the IRS is unable to issue administrative guidance in this area then we plan to introduce legislation to accomplish these important changes,” the senators wrote.
The letter was signed by Senators Charles E. Schumer, Michael Bennet, Sheldon Whitehouse, Jeff Merkley, Tom Udall, Jeanne Shaheen and Al Franken. It follows an earlier letter, sent to the IRS by the same of group of senators last month, that also urged the IRS to better enforce rules pertaining to 501(c)4 organizations.
Federal law defines 501(c)4 groups as groups engaged exclusively in “social welfare” activities. The IRS, however, has allowed these 501(c)4 groups to venture into political activities as long as civic and charitable work remains their “primary purpose.” This loophole has caused a number of organizations heavily engaged in political work to organize themselves as 501(c)4 groups in order to gain tax-exempt status and shield their donors from the disclosure requirements that apply to more traditional political organizations.
The senators said the IRS should close this loophole by imposing a strict, percentage-based cap on the amount of a nonprofit group’s spending that can go towards political activities. Legal experts have proposed a cutoff of 49 percent to ensure that political activities never command more than half of a group’s total spending. But the senators said even this threshold would be too high and would permit more political work than any nonprofit group should be able to perform.
The senators also said that 501(c)4 groups should have to disclose upfront—on all written and online solicitations that get sent to potential donors—how much of their activities are political. The senators said this would make it clear to potential donors how much of a tax deduction, if any, they could claim on their tax returns. Currently, no such information is required to be disclosed and tax experts have expressed concern that many corporations contributing funds to these political groups may be counting those donations as a business expenses eligible for a full tax deduction.
A copy of the senators’ letter to IRS Commissioner Douglas H. Shulman appears below.
Hon. Douglas H. Shulman. Commissioner Internal Revenue Service Room 3000 IR 1111 Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Dear Commissioner Shulman:
We write to ask the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) to immediately change the administrative framework for enforcement of the tax code as it applies to groups designated as “social welfare” organizations. These groups receive tax and other advantages under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code (hereinafter, “IRC” or the “Code”), but some of them also are engaged in a substantial amount of political campaign activity. As you know, we sent a letter last month expressing concerns about the 501(c)(4) issue; an investigation this week by the New York Times has uncovered new, specific problems on how c)4)s conduct business. We wanted to address those new concerns in this letter.
IRS regulations have long maintained that political campaign activity by a 501(c)(4) entity must not be the “primary purpose” of the organization. These regulations are intended to implement the statute, which requires that such organizations be operated exclusively for the public welfare. But we think the existing IRS regulations run afoul of the law since they only require social welfare activities to be the 'primary purpose' of a nonprofit when the Code says this must be its 'exclusive' purpose. In recent years, this daylight between the law and the IRS regulations has been exploited by groups devoted chiefly to political election activities who operate behind a facade of charity work.
A related concern, raised in a March 7th New York Times article, concerns whether certain nonprofits may be soliciting corporate contributions that are then treated by the company as a business expense eligible for a tax deduction. The Times wrote: “Under current law, there is little to no way to tell whether contributions are being deducted, especially because many of the most political companies are privately held.” This potential abuse distorts the objectives of vital revenue mechanisms and undermines the faith that we ask citizens to place in their electoral system.
We propose that the IRS make three administrative changes to curtail these questionable practices and bring IRS tax regulations back into alignment with the letter and spirit intended by those who crafted the Code:
· First, we urge the IRS to adopt a bright line test in applying its “primary purpose” regulation that is consistent with the Code’s 501(c)(4) exclusivity language. The IRS currently only requires that the purpose of these non-profits be “primarily” related to social welfare activities, without defining what “primarily” means. This standard should be spelled out more fully by the IRS. Some have suggested 51 percent as an appropriate threshold for establishing that a nonprofit is adhering to its mission, but even this number would seem to allow for more political election activity than should be permitted under the law. In the absence of clarity in the administration of section 501(c)(4), organizations are tempted to abuse its vagueness, or worse, to organize under section 501(c)(4) so that they may avail themselves of its advantages even though they are not legitimate social welfare organizations. If the IRS does not adopt a bright line test, or if it adopts one that is inconsistent with the Code’s exclusivity language, then we plan to pursue legislation codifying such a test.
· Second, such organizations should be further obligated to document in their 990 IRS form the exact percentage of their undertakings dedicated to “social welfare.” Organizations should be required to “show their math” to demonstrate that political election activities and other statutorily limited or prohibited activities do not violate the “primary purpose” regulation.
· Third, 501(c)(4) organizations should be required to state forthrightly to potential donors what percentage of a donation, if any, may be taken as a business expense deduction. As the New York Times reported in its March 7tharticle, some of these organizations do not currently inform donors whether a contribution is tax deductible as a business expense at all.
The IRS should already possess the authority to issue immediate guidance on this matter. We urge the IRS to take these steps immediately to prevent abuse of the tax code by political groups focused on federal election activities. But if the IRS is unable to issue administrative guidance in this area then we plan to introduce legislation to accomplish these important changes.
Sincerely,
Senators Charles E. Schumer, Michael Bennet, Sheldon Whitehouse, Jeff Merkley, Tom Udall, Jeanne Shaheen and Al Franken
You might even say that the IRS was sympathetic to the demands of the above listed seven democrat Senators who threatened the IRS with legislation if they did not take action. Thus, it is possible that a self-fulfilling prophesy was created whereby the democrats in the IRS responded to other democrats in the Congress and the Administration – believing that they had the necessary legal cover for their actions.
It appears that the goal of the IRS program was to cripple conservative and religious fundraising by organizations that promoted messages against President Obama and Obamacare by denying donors a tax deduction for their contribution.
And while this does not mitigate any illegality that may be found within the IRS, it does point to a broader pattern of political corruption among democrats who need to be sanctioned for their actions in the 2014 congressional election cycle; perhaps waiting until as late as the 2018 congressional cycle to remove corrupt, ideological and socialist Senators from office.
This is what happens when the politically correct socialist government decides to disarm law-abiding citizens and enlarges the victim pool …
Blood on his hands, hatred in his eyes: 2.30pm on a suburban high street, Islamic fanatics wielding meat cleavers butcher a British soldier, taking their war on the West to a new level of horror
Two men repeatedly stab and try to behead off-duty soldier in SE London
They shouted 'Allah Akbar' attack and told witnesses to film them
Charged at police officers with rusty revolver, knives and meat cleavers
Killing took place 200 yards from barracks and close to primary school
Both men placed under arrest after being treated for gunshot wounds
PM: Killing is 'sickening' and Britain will 'never buckle' in face of terror
Clutching a bloodied meat cleaver after executing a soldier on a crowded street, he delivers a chilling message of hate.
‘You people will never be safe,’ he declares in a clear south London accent. ‘An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.’
Are you going to allow corrupt politicians to disarm law-abiding citizens to allow criminals and crazies to run amok among unarmed citizens. With no one able to stop the carnage? Are you that effin’ crazy?
It appears the the socialist/communist democrats and their republican enablers like Arnold Schwarzenegger have screwed all California gun owners …
California Certifies Microstamping brought to us by our new city attorney Mike Feuer and signed by Arnold. Implemented by Kamala Harris
Last Friday the California Dept. of Justice suddenly announced that the technology to microstamp firearms is now unencumbered by patents. As a result, a law passed in 2007 becomes effective immediately.
Every newly introduced model of semiautomatic handgun in the state now must have a microstamped firing pin that, theoretically, would accurately and reliably engrave a firearm's identification information on each cartridge casing fired from the pistol. The law was signed by Gov. Schwarzenegger in 2007 but never implemented because the technology was, and remains, patented. NSSF, NRA, Calguns and CRPA are exploring legal options to challenge the erroneous and politically motivated certification, which is in essence a gun ban since manufacturers cannot comply with the law due to the extra cost of at least $200 it will add to the price of each firearm. Even the patent holder has acknowledged his concept functions unreliably and requires further study, and should not be legislatively mandated at this time.
The flawed and unreliable nature of this technology has been noted in independent peer-reviewed studies, including one by the National Research Council and another in the professional journal of the Association of Firearms and Tool Mark Examiners. As a crime-solving tool, microstamping is suspect because it does not reliably and legibly imprint the information on the casing, and the shallow marks on the firing pin wear through normal usage. Also, microstamping can be easily circumvented by criminals by filing down the imprinted code using common household tools or swapped out for unmarked pins.
Even law enforcement is against this technology for the fear that some of their microstamped shell casings fired at a range might be picked up and salted at a crime scene. In fact all of us should worry.
AB711 Lead Ban
The California Assembly on Thursday, on a largely party-line 44-21 vote, passed legislation that would make California the first state to ban completely the use of traditional lead ammunition in hunting. Previously, traditional ammunition was banned only in California Condor range areas. The bill, AB711, sponsored by Democratic Assemblyman Anthony Rendon of Lakewood now goes to the state Senate.
AB711 could create a de facto ban on hunting, due to possible federal prohibition of alternative ammunition made of other materials, which is under consideration by the ATF. Even though the science used to justify the legislation is flawed, if the law passes the Senate and is signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown, the ban would be phased in over two years and become fully effective in July 2016.
Locate your state senator here and tell them that you oppose this legislation. If enacted, the impact would be a substantial loss of business for retailers that sell ammunition and hunting-related accessories and equipment. There is some $500 million in tax revenue generated by sportsmen in California.
As a result, hunting license and tag revenue is most likely going to reduce, this in turn means that the demand for hunter education classes is likely to reduce, which also in turn means that Federal funding from the Pittman Robertson act will also diminish. The net result will be a rapid decline in funds to the Department of Fish & Wildlife. The outcome of diminishing revenue could result in layoffs of Wardens and biologists, which affords the wildlife less protection. How could the DFW enforce this with reduced numbers?
One is likely to see a greater migration of existing hunters to hunt out of State, and an increase in poaching in State, all of which are negative results from this poorly thought out Bill.
Since this includes lead used in fishing tackle the ramifications extend into that arena which swells the ranks of the disgruntled and affected sportsmen in California. The time is now to act, step one of the three step process has already taken place, don't wait for the next step.
Bottom line …
Once again, the people who do nothing about the illegal alien hordes crossing our borders, or even worse, the criminal gangs that roam California at will, are once again attempting to disarm law-abiding Americans any making us prey to criminal gangs and government tyranny.
Unless we can curb the corrupt politicians and their socialist agenda, we are doomed – as the America we know and love will become a totalitarian worker’s paradise like Russia, China, Cuba, and North Korea.
How is it that President Barack Obama appears to be above all of the scandals and lacking in any degree of culpability?
To the untrained observer, Barack Obama appears to have plausible deniability when it comes to the recent scandals. That is, Obama himself, did not have to give explicit orders to achieve desired objectives. Like the military, where a commander’s wishes are interpreted as commands, Obama merely has to suggest – even in an indirect, oblique way, a course of action to have his minions take up the cause. Which is the basis for any loosely-coupled conspiracy – where there is no appearance of joint meetings or collusion, but everybody seems to know the leader’s desired objective and required results.
In many cases, Barack Obama, in the course of campaigning, has demonized certain groups, and occasionally, certain individuals. So it would be natural for Obama’s fellow travelers to pursue those organizations and individuals with whatever programs and powers they may have at their disposal.
Enter the Judas Goat, the person who leads the lambs to slaughter. It is well recognized that certain people associated with Barack Obama has a great deal of referential power. That is, there words and deeds are assumed by others to have the direction and blessing of the anointed one himself. Valarie Jarrett, David Axelrod, and a few others come to mind.
Consider, for a moment, the current IRS scandal. It appears that non-profit organizations were seen as fundraising threats to the Obama campaign and thus were demonized as being nefarious organizations, hiding their donors, and possibly engaging in nefarious acts. That might be the trigger point to convince high-level IRS officials to create specific programs and interventions to delay or deny the non-profit status of the organization – and, in some cases, dry up significant donor-funding. Certainly President Obama may not have given the orders, but he and his minions did set the tone.
Did Barack Obama commit the impeachable crime of using the IRS for political purposes à la former President Nixon?
Article 2 – Section 1 … He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposes not authorized by law, and to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.
We do not know what we do not know …
At this point in time, we know that certain crimes have been committed by IRS officials and employees.
Leaking confidential tax information to the media for political purposes.
Denying or delaying non-profit tax status to certain organizations for the purposes of impeding fundraising.
Executing selective audits of individuals based on their constitutionally protected political activities.
Lying to Congress or Federal investigators.
Interfering in the election process by interfering in fundraising that would allow an organization to promulgate constitutionally-protected free speech under the First Amendment.
What we don’t know are the names of key individuals involved in prohibited IRS activities. We do know a portion of the Inspector General’s report has been classified – but it remains to be seen if this information should or can be classified for the sole purpose of avoiding criminal and civil prosecution or embarrassing disclosure in the media.
We also know that the Internal Revenue Service may have carried out an internal investigation of political targeting prior to the Inspector General’s report and those who responded to Congressional inquiries may have mislead or lied to Congress, a criminal act if the person is testifying under oath and penalty of perjury.
The curious case of Lois Learner …
Lois Lerner, the IRS official who first disclosed the agency’s improper targeting of conservative groups by staging a planted question at a tax conference, appears to have screwed the pooch. While it was her Constitutional right to exert her Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination, you cannot offer testimony that proclaims your innocence and then invoke the Fifth Amendment. It is my understanding that the Fifth Amendment protects those who have a reasonable cause to believe they have committed a prosecutable criminal act – not that they simply do not want to answer questions about their activities. So while the lawyers and constitutional scholars debate whether or not Lerner waived her right to exert the Fifth Amendment, the congressional inquiry will proceed.
Since the Inspector General’s report did not reveal evidence of criminal wrongdoing, something is wrong with Lerner’s assertion of the Fifth Amendment. Either she knows potentially criminal acts were committed or she wants to avoid incriminating others with her testimony. She can’t have it both ways.
One only hopes that Darryl Issa, the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, will not back down in pursuing the answers to benefit the American public.
Bottom line …
This scandal is in its infancy and is more likely to resonate with the informed public more than the Benghazi scandal or the Administration’s attempt to abridge the Constitutional rights of a free press. If there are any unindicted co-conspirators in the IRS scandal, surely they will reside in the mainstream media which appears to be unwilling to carry the story with the full impact given to presidential scandals when the party in power was Republican.
The old saying that a fish rots from the head down appears to be applicable in this situation.
According to this media report, it appears that additional whistleblowers are seeking legal counsel before providing information that will shake the confidence of the American public in the Obama Administration and may put Hillary Clinton at significant risk of authorizing or allowing the State Department to provide stinger missiles to al Qaeda. But the real question is: is the report true and correct?
More whistleblowers will emerge shortly in the escalating Benghazi scandal, according to two former U.S. diplomats who spoke with PJ Media Monday afternoon. These whistleblowers, colleagues of the former diplomats, are currently securing legal counsel because they work in areas not fully protected by the Whistleblower law.
The former diplomats inform PJM the new revelations concentrate in two areas — what Ambassador Chris Stevens was actually doing in Benghazi and the pressure put on General Carter Ham, then in command of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and therefore responsible for Libya, not to act to protect jeopardized U.S. personnel.
Stevens’ mission in Benghazi, they will say, was to buy back Stinger missiles from al-Qaeda groups issued to them by the State Department, not by the CIA. Such a mission would usually be a CIA effort, but the intelligence agency had opposed the idea because of the high risk involved in arming “insurgents” with powerful weapons that endanger civilian aircraft.
Hillary Clinton still wanted to proceed because, in part, as one of the diplomats said, she wanted “to overthrow Gaddafi on the cheap.”
This left Stevens in the position of having to clean up the scandalous enterprise when it became clear that the “insurgents” actually were al-Qaeda – indeed, in the view of one of the diplomats, the same group that attacked the consulate and ended up killing Stevens.
Regarding General Ham, military contacts of the diplomats tell them that AFRICOM had Special Ops “assets in place that could have come to the aid of the Benghazi consulate immediately (not in six hours).” Ham was told by the White House not to send the aid to the trapped men, but Ham decided to disobey and did so anyway, whereupon the White House “called his deputy and had the deputy threaten to relieve Ham of his command.”
PJ Media recognizes this is largely hearsay, but the two diplomats sounded quite credible. One of them was in a position of responsibility in a dangerous area of Iraq in 2004.
PJ Media is a media company and operator of an eponymous conservative opinion and commentary website. The organization was formerly known as 'Pajamas Media'. Founded in 2004 by a network primarily, but not exclusively, made up of conservatives and libertarians led by writer Roger L. Simon it was originally intended as a forum to present blogs "with the intention of... aggregating blogs to increase corporate advertising and creating our own professional news service. <Source>
Roger Lichtenberg Simon (born November 22, 1943) is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is currently CEO of PJ Media (formerly known as Pajamas Media). He is the author of ten novels, including the Moses Wine detective series, and six screenplays. He has served as president of the West Coast branch of PEN, a member of the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of America, and was on the faculty of the American Film Institute and the Sundance Institute. <Source>
While there is the possibility that this information is inaccurate or downright wrong, somebody has taken the time and effort to spin this story. For what purpose remains unknown.
Bottom line …
If this information is true, Hillary Clinton may have either exceeded her authority as the head of the State Department or she was authorized to execute the plan by, her immediate superior, the President of the United States.
There is also the possibility that this might be the CIA’s way of removing both President Obama and Hillary Clinton from the political scene in a political coup to redress the damage the Obama Administration has done to America with his inept foreign policy.
Or, to consider other scenarios, this is yet another false lead to distract the American public from the real truth surrounding the Benghazi attack on the anniversary of 9/11 which left four dead Americans. Discrediting conservatives in the process.
We know that Obama Administration attempted a crude and inept cover-up about a spontaneous protest over a little-seen anti-Islam video that was rarely seen. Unfortunately for the Administration, this was a lie that was known to be a lie – and was repeated by President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and others. We also know that a high-ranking General and an Admiral were relived of their command over this affair.
On Oct. 18, defense secretary Leon Panetta and the Army announced that Pres. Obama "had nominated Gen. David M. Rodriguez to succeed Gen. Carter F. Ham as the commander of U.S. Africa Command." Gen. Ham retired after nearly four decades of distinguished military service. He is a few years short of the mandatory retirement age of 64, fueling speculations that the general was fired.
On Monday, Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, released the following statement to the Washington Times:
The speculation that General Carter Ham is departing Africa Command (AFRICOM) due to events in Benghazi, Libya on 11 September 2012 is absolutely false. General Ham's departure is part of routine succession planning that has been on going since July.
The information I heard today was that General Ham as head of Africom received the same e-mails the White House received requesting help/support as the attack was taking place. General Ham immediately had a rapid response unit ready and communicated to the Pentagon that he had a unit ready.
General Ham then received the order to stand down. His response was to screw it, he was going to help anyhow. Within 30 seconds to a minute after making the move to respond, his second in command apprehended General Ham and told him that he was now relieved of his command. The story continues that now General Rodriguez would take General Ham’s place as the head of Africom. <Source>
The Navy on Monday officially disciplined the admiral who had commanded a carrier strike group until being abruptly removed from the position last fall while the vessels patrolled the North Arabian Sea. Rear Adm. Charles M. Gaouette, who led Carrier Strike Group Three, which included the U.S.S. John C. Stennis, had been accused of using profanity in a public setting and making at least two racially insensitive comments, officials familiar with the investigation said. He was cleared of any criminal violations under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the laws governing the behavior of armed services personnel. But a set of administrative penalties will effectively end his career. <Source>
It boggles the mind that a Rear Admiral in charge of a carrier strike group would be relieved of command for swearing in a public setting or making two racially insensitive comments. One must look beyond this crap to the Admirals duties on the night of the 9/11 Benghazi terrorist attack.
It is now up to Congress to ferret out the truth – in a bi-partisan manner. Any Member of Congress that attempts to shield the President or members of his Administration should be investigated and prosecuted for obstruction of justice.
If this story is true and if al Qaeda uses these alleged stinger missiles to down a civilian aircraft, and it can be proven, the potential for impeachment for treason and other high crimes and misdemeanors becomes a realistic possibility.\
The real bottom line is that you cannot trust the Obama Administration to tell the truth on any matter dealing with national security, politics or anything else.
By definition, most politicians are cheating, lying scumbags whose self-interest and political agenda supersede the truth and service to their constituents. But when politicians attempt to promote a political agenda by spinning science, it tends to piss me off no end. Especially if they are using the death and destruction of an American community to make their specious point.
And, here is the moronic claims of Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) … (my comments in blue italic)
Democratic senator uses Okla. tornado for anti-GOP rant over global warming
While many Americans were tuned into news coverage of the massive damage from tornadoes ravaging the state of Oklahoma, Rhode Island Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse took to the Senate floor to rail against his Republican colleagues for denying the theory of anthropogenic global warming. (Anthropogenic global warming is a hypothesis, a theory – not proven fact supportable by direct observation. All of the projected outcomes exist only as the output of inadequate computer models using flawed assumptions and highly-manipulated data. With most models unable to account for the conditions of the last eighteen years and the continuing rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Not to mention that one of those global carbon dioxide measurements is made next to an active volcano spewing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.)
Whitehouse spent 15 minutes chastising GOP senators and justified his remarks by alluding to states that seek federal assistance in the wake of natural disasters.
“So, you may have a question for me,” Whitehouse said. “Why do you care? Why do you, Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, care if we Republicans run off the climate cliff like a bunch of proverbial lemmings and disgrace ourselves? I’ll tell you why. We’re stuck in this together. We are stuck in this together.(Yes, we are stuck in this together, and unfortunately many of the emerging economies such as Russia, China, and India do not and will not adhere to any proposed global warming solution that directly affects their economic interests. Even assuming mankind can influence the planetary forces of nature, which is highly doubtful, only the United States will disadvantage their economy and citizens to pursue an unattainable result. Which is not only economic insanity, it is economic suicide. As for lemmings, they will follow the lead lemming off the cliff. Unfortunately, the lead lemming is an uninformed democrat with a political agenda that does not bode well for America or her citizens.)
When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover.(Amazingly, Sheldon does not seem to understand that the tremendous costs of dealing with disasters come from idiotic political decisions. Lax building codes because developers bought-off politicians. Increased death and destruction because developers bought-off politicians to allow increased population density. Poor location of populations in areas known for climatological disasters. What rational explanation can you give for allowing New Orleans to re-build, knowing that some of their land is under sea level and will require massive, government-built and maintained dikes to hold back the storm surge. Yes, it is built to withstand a theoretical 100-year storm surge, but what if a “black swan” event occurs and swamps the levees? You can’t win and you can’t protect all people against all things found in nature. The most corrupt part of the process is the corrupt self-serving politician who was to blame in the first place – the one who exploits death and disaster to push his own or his party’s political agenda. Mutual disaster assistance is a way of life, a neighborly thing, and not something to be used as an excuse to allow some neighbors to impose their political will on other neighbors.)
And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn’t just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms. It hits Oregon with acidified seas, it hits Montana with dying forests. So, like it or not, we’re in this together.” (Speaking of polluters, does Sheldon know that cap-and-trade is a taxation scheme that allows gross polluters to continue polluting by buying government-sanctioned indulgences. That the local pollution will continue to affect the local population – even though the polluter has bought a few acres of foreign rain-forest. At the cap-and-trade core, a socialist inter-governmental wealth re-distribution scheme. As for those dreaded deniers – they deny, not science, but the corrupt politicians trying to spin science as a rationale for pursuing their own toxic political agenda which is based on self-interest and purchasing political power by using special interests for campaign funding and voter support.)
Whitehouse went on to condemn the current Republican position on global warming, citing economic, environmental and diplomatic damages.
“You drag America with you to your fate,” he continued. “So, I want this future: I want a Republican Party that has returned to its senses and is strong and a worthy adversary in a strong America that has done right by its people and the world. That’s what I want. I don’t want this future. I don’t want a Republican Party disgraced, that let its extremists run off the cliff, and an America suffering from grave economic and environmental and diplomatic damage because we failed, because we didn’t wake up and do our duty to our people, and because we didn’t lead the world. I do not want that future. But that’s where we’re headed. So I will keep reaching out and calling out, ever hopeful that you will wake up before it is too late.” (I, too, hope you will wake up and understand that scientists only theorize about what is happening, they do not not with the certitude that is required to put forth public policy – especially one that leads to centrally-planned and executed socialism and communism. Where we are subjugated by a political elite, allegedly enlightened and with an ethical approach to governing. Something which does not exist and cannot exist when you consider politics and human nature. If the republicans cede to the democrats, they will be selling out their nation and their constituents for a worker’s paradise which only exists in Russia, China, Cuba, and North Korea – if you know what I mean!)
Like all democrat ideologues, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has his head up his corrupt, self-serving ass. It is not science he speaks about, it is politics and his socialist agenda. I am for less air, water, and land pollution. And you don’t get there by allowing polluters to pollute the local air, water, and land by buying government-sanctioned indulgences.
As for the science, scientists has a diametrically opposed position in the 1970’s when they proclaimed that global cooling was at hand and that we needed to pursue the very same public policies that are being offered today, lest the planet and its population die a slow and agonizing death.
Politicians and political parties are so corrupt that many climate activists are unwilling to sign-on to their prescriptions. These are no deniers, but well-credentialed scientists from respected institutions. Why do they not speak with a louder voice. Simple, they fear for their jobs, project funding, and demonization of the mainstream media that does not understand that science is one of controlled skepticism and continual discovery.
We don’t know why some large storms turn deadly and some don’t. But we do know that underground basements with electric sump pumps will be flooded when the water flows downward and when the power goes out. That is a fact – now let some politician rail about the building codes that were eased or modified for additional profit.
Meanwhile, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, in my opinion, is a democrat demagogue and asswipe. And, even though he has apologised for his remarks, he is still a lying scumbag.
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