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TriggerFinger Infodancer Atom Toolkit 2014-11-26T19:01:16Z IRS Scandal Coverage aab71845-6986-355c-8bc6-8e1b8c97f313 2014-11-16T20:31:22Z 2014-11-28T10:29:25Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger

 Ex-CNBC anchor told to shut up about Obamacare flaws 9da5c769-b9d0-30b4-89dd-96fc4f12f606 2014-11-16T04:14:07Z 2014-11-28T09:29:25Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger

 An artificial emergency 475ff767-b359-342d-8008-2c2ceb6840c9 2014-11-26T19:01:16Z 2014-11-27T09:29:25Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger
It was the second time in recent months that Ohio law enforcement officers responded to 911 calls by concerned citizens, and then shot and killed people holding airguns with three seconds of arriving on scene, allowing them no time to process and respond to officer commands. Neither John Crawford nor Tamir Rice had committed a crime. They're no less dead because of it.

Bearing Arms has shooting video from the Ohio 12-year-old with airgun incident. It looks like police didn't give themselves time to do anything BUT shoot the person.

It used to be that the goal of a police officer going into a situation like that was to resolve it peacefully. Inspector General identifies 2,500 potential links to Obama's White House f8b4d0cc-a36c-38e5-9451-4596ca325121 2014-11-26T05:42:16Z 2014-11-26T17:29:25Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger
In a shocking revelation, the Treasury Inspector General has identified some 2,500 documents that "potentially" show taxpayer information held by the Internal Revenue Service being shared with President Obama's White House.

What does "potential" mean in this case? We don't know much more than what the Inspector General's office told Cause of Action:

My client wants to know if you would consent to a motion pushing back (in part) TIGTA's response date by two weeks to December 15, 2014. The agency has located 2,500 potentially responsive documents and anticipates being able to finish processing 2,000 of these pages by the December 1 date. It needs the additional two weeks to deal with the last 500 pages to determine if they are responsive and make any necessary withholdings. We would therefore like to ask the court to permit the agency to issue a response (including production) on December 1 as to any documents it has completed processing by that date, and do the same as to the remaining documents by December 15. I note that the court's remand was for a "determin[ation]," which the D.C. Circuit has recently explained can precede actual production by "days or a few weeks," but we would prefer to simply agree on a date for turning over any of the remaining 500 documents that may be responsive.

The original FOIA request was for documents sharing taxpayer information with the White House. I don't think we can fairly assume that all 2500 potentially responsive documents actually are responsive; for all we know, the people handling the FOIA response simply searched for emails between IRS addresses and White House addresses. But even so, that's 2,500 potential felonies; it's hard to believe that, given what we know was going on with Lerner and her department, that none of those thousands of documents contain anything improper.

Between this and the Inspector General's recent discovery of 25,000 missing Lerner emails from backup tapes that IRS Commissioner Koskinen repeatedly claimed under oath could not possibly contain any Lerner emails, we may be about to see things heating up quite a bit in DC. Is it possible to de-politicize the IRS? 795d641a-e77a-3d43-bf86-3207232aa3ea 2014-11-24T20:41:12Z 2014-11-26T16:29:25Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger The Daily Caller has found a man with a plan to depoliticize the IRS.

Frankly, I'm not convinced the IRS can be depoliticized, and I don't think changing the IRS Commissioner is going to matter a whit. The problem is that the bureaucrats are more than willing to put their thumb on the scale, and the only solution to that is cutting off the thumbs. Figuratively. Home Depot may need to do background checks on nail guns... 2f84883f-827e-39ea-8b32-96bcf98e1670 2014-11-26T03:08:19Z 2014-11-26T15:29:25Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger ... along with anyone who transfers (sells, rents, loans) flare guns in Washington State, all thanks to I-594. Or maybe not.

Part of the point of passing complex laws governing normal behavior with firearms is to put people in legal jeopardy for innocent actions, and make gun owning a legally hazardous thing to do. Renewable energy sources not feasible a376366f-40ea-307a-a27c-6680f4a2732d 2014-11-24T02:15:14Z 2014-11-26T14:29:25Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger
Two highly qualified Google engineers who have spent years studying and trying to improve renewable energy technology have stated quite bluntly that renewables will never permit the human race to cut CO2 emissions to the levels demanded by climate activists. Whatever the future holds, it is not a renewables-powered civilisation: such a thing is impossible.

Read the whole thing to understand the problem, and the solution.

Note too that there is no reason we shouldn't pursue improvements in energy efficiency. Making efficient use of a limited resource is reasonable. How Ironic... f9fd90a2-e5e5-38d0-8163-99fa53ce04a7 2014-11-24T01:53:07Z 2014-11-26T13:29:25Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger It turns out that the Reverand Al Sharpton's organization is a 501(c)4 "social welfare" group. You know, the one that's been in the news recently for owing millions of dollars in unpaid taxes. Anyone think Al is non-political? Anyone think the IRS has been scrutinizing his group's activities the way conservative groups were scrutinized? I doubt it. Wicked Lasers changing management 5633b76e-f126-3ef7-bbe2-b38fe99936b3 2014-11-24T00:55:07Z 2014-11-26T12:29:25Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger They will no longer be shipping their powerful lasers to the US in 2015, presumably due to liability issues. If you have ever wanted a powerful laser, this is your last chance to get one. Huge trove of Fast and Furious documents released 72b708f3-fb28-31cf-b029-1b26aa37785c 2014-11-24T00:52:43Z 2014-11-26T11:29:25Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger
A total of 10,112 documents, comprised of approximately 42,000 pages, were disclosed to Judicial Watch in the new production. The documents are being posted and most are now available on the Judicial Watch Internet site at http://www.judicialwatch.org/fast-furious-documents-released/.

They are requesting help in crowdsourcing the analysis. Judge may hold DC in contempt of court for restrictive carry licensing 115534bd-cba9-37bf-9735-9106ce2686e5 2014-11-23T18:50:22Z 2014-11-26T10:29:25Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger
A federal judge is weighing a request to hold the District in contempt of court for enacting new gun laws that are so restrictive as to be out of compliance with his order to allow for concealed carry in the city.

During a hearing Thursday, U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Scullin Jr. asked the city and the plaintiffs fighting the regulations for additional filings on whether the city should be considered in contempt of his order that officials develop a licensing scheme "consistent with constitutional standards enabling people to exercise their Second Amendment right to bear arms."

The 2nd Amendment applies to everyone, not just those "under a specific threat". We'll see if a judge agrees. The attorney in this case is Alan Gura, who argued and won the Heller case that brought the 2nd Amendment to DC roughly 6 years ago, and has won other gun-rights cases since.

If Gura wins this case, which seems likely to me, it will likely require shall-issue concealed-carry licensing in all 50 states and federal territories. Other requirements, like training, may remain in place, though I wouldn't be surprised if the court rules that training must actually be available at reasonable time and cost. (Currently, there are no approved instructors). Rule of Law 3a7f88ee-6d9a-3632-9169-9014fb65b19e 2014-11-23T13:12:54Z 2014-11-26T09:29:25Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger
See, your libertarian tendencies, while very real, are frequently superfluous when it's your ox being gored. That's not an accusation, far from it, it's the most human of tendencies. As a conservative, however, my philosophy is rooted in the belief that what makes the US system work is the adherence to the rule of law in all cases. The civil rights movement came about to force southern culture and social mores to conform with the law. You like to claim that gay marriage is a new civil rights movement, but it's not. The civil rights movement was a force to uphold the law, the gay marriage movement seeks to overturn by fiat laws that it doesn't like. It's OK that you don't like the law, and it's fine that you seek to change it. There are democratic methods (referendums) and legislative methods (laws) to do that. What isn't fine is to impose your will on everyone else just because they disagree with you. There are processes to be followed, when those processes are shortcutted, the entire system of rule of law is undermined. This is a perfect contrast. You can't be enthusiastic about fiat rulings when they benefit you and aghast when they harm you. That attitude is what will destroy the entire system. Adherence to the rule of law is the only thing standing between us and anarchy, and anarchy always evolves into totalitarianism. You're on the right track with regards to your political philosophy, but you really need to think it through. I'll leave you with one final thought. All of this should be important to you, personally, because you are a black lesbian. If blind pursuit of short term goals achieves them at the cost of destroying the larger societal structure, and we fall into totalitarianism, what then? Can you name one totalitarian regime in history that has been kind to minorities or homosexuals? I can't think of any. Can you?

Read the whole thing. Vote Fraud in Colorado 92332d0a-311d-39af-86dd-cd679f6be196 2014-11-23T13:08:12Z 2014-11-25T13:42:35Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger
Remember when it was concerning that Joe Salazar's representative basically gave her blessing for an undercover James O'Keefe and his friends to commit voter fraud? This is why. Today, our sources tell us that allegedly a Denver Police Officer ballot with a signature cure turned up in Adams County. The only problem? The officer is saying he did not vote. Our source up north is further saying that many showing up on the cured list have moved away. What is going on in Adams County?

This is why Democrats put in mail-in voting in Colorado as soon as they were in power there; voting by mail makes vote fraud trivial. It doesn't mean you can win all elections, but it's a huge thumb you can put on the scale if you don't mind cheating. If Obama doesn't like your plan, he will pick a new one for you 746d5170-1982-3d4a-82e8-1d73b80a04a2 2014-11-22T15:58:06Z 2014-11-25T09:16:24Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger
"Here's a Friday Obamacare news-dump for you: In a 300-page regulatory proposal released late this afternoon, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it is considering changing Obamacare's auto-renewal rules so that, within the health law's exchanges, instead of being automatically renewed into your current health plan, you'd be moved into the lowest cost plan from the same service tier. . . . It's not just auto-reenrollment. It's auto-reassignment. Basically, if you like your plan, but don't go out of your way to intentionally re-enroll, the kind and wise folks at HHS or state health exchanges might just pick a new plan—perhaps with different doctors, clinics, cost structures, and benefit options—for you. And if you want to switch back? Good luck once open enrollment is closed. There's always next year. A hassle? Maybe. But have faith: They know what's best."

Yet another surprise released on Friday, along with all the other document dumps. Flying Stingrays 40714629-0989-38d5-a458-6e90524b2122 2014-11-22T14:39:12Z 2014-11-24T18:16:24Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger We've heard about ground-based Stingray devices that collect cell phone information by pretending to be a cell tower. Police have been using those devices, and hiding their use from the general public and even from judges in specific criminal cases. Now, though, the program is being stepped up: DoJ is refusing to confirm or deny (which means confirmed, of course) that there is a program to mount Stingray devices on light aircraft in flight over major metropolitan areas. Obamacare was designed to do what Obama promised it wouldn't do ab8f61d2-3516-3ce4-86f0-5f8025299247 2014-11-22T14:34:36Z 2014-11-24T17:16:24Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger
At a town hall meeting where he campaigned for health care legislation in 2009, President Barack Obama pledged to voters that he did not want any tax on health insurance plans he perceived as wastefully generous to ever impact average Americans. But in recent comments by one of the men who helped draft the legislation, MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, that is not only precisely what will happen -- but that was the intention of the tax.

More Gruber fallout. A tax on global warming deniers f6a919b4-05cd-39ff-a028-fb006a9940c9 2014-11-22T13:46:09Z 2014-11-24T16:16:24Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley made national news last year when he fought to pass and signed a tax bill that levied a tax on Marylanders, businesses and churches for the amount of "impervious surface" they have on their property.

 Though the O'Malley administration calls it a "fee," it is commonly called the "rain tax" throughout the state. It is wildly unpopular and the promise to fight to repeal the tax was a large factor in Maryland electing Republican Larry Hogan governor this month.

 Now Prince George's County is offering a way for churches to avoid paying the tax, which is estimated to be an average of $744 per year for them — preach "green" to their parishioners.

 So far 30 pastors have agreed to begin "'green' ministries to maintain the improvements at their churches, and to preach environmentally focused sermons to educate their congregations" to avoid being hit with the tax, The Washington Post reports.

In other words, the Left will tax you... unless you agree to proselytize for their causes, in which case they will forgive the tax.

I don't see how this can possibly pass First Amendment muster, because it is the definition of viewpoint discrimination. It's also pretty much exactly what the IRS was doing to Tea Party groups, except enshrined in legislation rather than in secret policies. Those of you voting Democrat because those blue-haired Republicans want to censor your hip tunes, it's time to wake up and smell the Earl Grey. Yeah, about the IRS finding those 30,000 missing Lerner emails... 6becfcd1-c9d3-35d9-ba80-d0847bccc7ed 2014-11-22T12:02:28Z 2014-11-24T15:16:24Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger ... let's just bear in mind that it wasn't the IRS who found the emails. If it was up to the IRS, we still wouldn't have any of them. The Inspector General found the emails by searching backup tapes that the IRS refused to search. The Inspector General is also an executive branch agency run by the President and his appointees.

We may never know what has been sanitized from those backup tapes. China, other nations can shut down power grid at will aa47171e-6f9d-3e6d-9682-dd31441ec9e0 2014-11-22T11:02:13Z 2014-11-24T14:16:24Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger
"Rogers said he believed China along with 'one or two' other countries had the capability to successfully launch a cyber-attack that could shut down the electric grid in parts of the United States," the report noted. "U.S. adversaries are performing electronic 'reconnaissance,' on a regular basis so that they can be in a position to attack the industrial control systems that run everything from chemical facilities to water treatment plants."

This is what we get when the NSA is more interested in evesdroping on our own population than protecting us from foreign nations. Jay Leno backs out of SHOT show speech 7daa7f23-d068-3b45-9e40-5a76140373f8 2014-11-22T10:59:27Z 2014-11-24T13:16:24Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger
Jay Leno was supposed to be the headliner at the NSSF's State of the Industry Dinner at the SHOT Show. Under intense pressure from the gun prohibitionists, he cancelled his appearance.

This is a sad example of a man caving to pressure from the left to SHUT UP rather than give a talk at a gun industry event.

I can't agree that it's all a plan to destroy the gun culture, though. It's not. It's a plan to destroy any possibility that any opposition to the progressive left has validity or popularity.

The response is the same, though. We need to borrow a page from the people who are winning in GamerGate: we aren't going to sit down, we aren't going to shut up, and we are going to punch back -- politically -- twice as hard. Obama issues executive amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants 63ba7e3b-0052-3844-8e3a-0e72690b0ede 2014-11-21T22:10:47Z 2014-11-24T12:16:24Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger I'm not going to say much about this, other than to note that it happened as it was expected to happen:

President Obama announced an expansive new set of executive actions in a prime-time address Thursday that the White House says will give legal status and work permits to 5 million immigrants in the United States illegally.

At first glance, it's a relatively limited amount of overreach. He's not trying to offer citizenship, just temporary deferral of deportation (with an exception for criminals). It's Obama refusing to faithfully execute the laws, but not Obama purporting to grant a benefit that the law does not provide, at least so far as I can tell. That doesn't mean it's not a harmful action, though.

For example, it means people can stay in the country and keep voting illegally (if they were already, of course), but it doesn't transform those votes into legal votes. It might encourage people who think they are now legal residents to think they are now legal voters, though. And the people who take advantage of this will get legal id which they can present when voting, which means the voter rolls have to be cleaned more thoroughly to make sure that non-citizens with valid ID are prevented from voting.

I do wonder if many of the low-income immigrants might not prefer to stay in the shadows, though. If they come out, they make themselves targets for potential deportation later, and -- as they are temporarily legal workers -- they must now be paid minimum wage, benefits or penalties under Obamacare, payroll taxes, income taxes... in other words, illegal immigrants can no longer rely on competing for jobs based on low wages to make up for other disadvantages (ie, poor english, etc).

In many cases, jobs that went to illegals before because those jobs were not economical under the minimum wage will now go to illegal illegals rather than Obama illegals because the jobs still aren't worth the minimum wage. I doubt the availability of government benefits will be viewed as worth the imposition of government taxes by those not used to paying them.

To the extent that this measure is taken advantage of by former illegals, competition for legal, minimum wage jobs will increase.

One point of personal concern to me:

A second hammer blow will be dealt by the president's unilateral increase in foreign worker programs for large corporations, including technology corporations. Currently, two-thirds of all new jobs in the IT industry are being filled by foreign workers — and yet the president wants to dramatically surge foreign worker admissions even further. This at a time when the Census Bureau tells us more than 11 million Americanswith science, technology, engineering and math degrees don't have jobs in those fields.

I have seen this personally. These visas are extremely damaging to the tech industry in the United States. Large companies that can sponsor these visas will rejoice at the availability of foreign temporary workers, effectively indentured, who cannot effectively negotiate for salary and benefits like an American worker can. And these workers do make enough to be a net tax positive.

These visas are not supposed to be issued when Americans are available who can fill the positions, but that requirement is a joke. Ben Carson is definitely running for President 8cfe7ad7-be3d-313f-8cf1-23006b27214f 2014-11-26T03:17:51Z 2014-11-24T11:16:24Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger He's trying to walk back statements he made about guns that suggested he might favor a ban on semi-automatic firearms in urban areas. I appreciate that he's making the effort to walk them back, but disappointed that he has to walk them back in the first place. That said, whoever he has perched on his shoulder encouraging him to run for president has finally gotten the wording right:

Carson said that "under no circumstances" would he "allow a bureaucrat to remove any law-abiding citizen's rights for any kind of weapon that they want to protect themselves."

If he were in a position of national leadership, Carson said he would seek to allow people to possess any kind of weapon they can legally buy, including "automatic weapons and semi-automatic weapons."

I hope that these statements are the result of someone close to him having a series of deep, philosophical discussions on the issue, and not a pollster feeding words into his mouth. I am not reassured by the fact that this article appears in the Bloomberg news service. If anyone might be willing and able to fund a stealth Republican gun control candidate for President, Bloomberg is at the top of the list.

With that in mind, I'll be following what Carson does in the leadup to 2016 with interest.

UPDATE: Looks like Carson may have misstepped again while commenting on Ferguson. The Lois Lerner Curve 498ad7a6-a2ba-3f78-830f-b015298634ae 2014-11-21T11:21:19Z 2014-11-24T10:16:24Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger
I call this the Lois Lerner Curve. With few laws policing corruption, there's a lot of it. Then, as law enforcement increases, corruption declines, down to point zero on the curve. Thereafter, however, additional laws result in more corruption, because citizens and bureaucrats alike become lost in the complexity and enforcement is unevenly applied.

The Lerner Curve is a specific example of this quote being applied:

"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."

It has already become practically impossible for an ordinary man to participate in politics without breaking laws. An ordinary citizen is practically limited to donating money to organizations or candidates with the money to hire specialized campaign finance lawyers. God forbid an ordinary, unapproved man or woman try to run for office; look what happened to Christine O'Donnel, for example. Checking your privilege f5bf1fda-2fe7-3372-a5c9-2b0c1d5c05e1 2014-11-20T16:39:03Z 2014-11-24T09:16:24Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger
In a Victimocracy, suffering is the exclusive privilege of the elites. No one else is allowed to suffer except them. No one else has ever been oppressed, has felt pain, been insulted, abused, degraded, enslaved and ground down into the dirt except the very people who are grinding you into the dirt now.

This rings a bell. In a discussion on another website, I remember arguing that the accomplishments of non-minority individuals were worthy of respect, even though those people -- myself included -- did not have to overcome horrible barriers and discrimination and racism. Hard work, intellectual effort, and long hours were involved in learning to be a professional software engineer. I am proud of that, and my career accomplishments. I can be proud of that without putting down someone else's accomplishments, and it's certainly not the same as "playing a game on easy mode", as John Scalzi once put it.

Being told to "check my privilege" and that nothing I have accomplished in my life is worth being proud of because I'm not a minority is racist.

And yes, people have told me those exact things. Schoolhouse Rock 5f605616-2d86-3d06-945e-c68acc5b9094 2014-11-23T15:51:53Z 2014-11-23T15:52:04Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger

The top comment when I wrote this post was "It's not funny when it happens in real life." Full Disclosure on the IRS scandal 64896208-b1da-3f20-ad36-26e906be1383 2014-11-14T04:54:19Z 2014-11-22T11:16:24Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger

I didn't catch any new news here, but it's a decent 15 minute summary of what's going on. 30,000 missing Lerner emails recovered 6269c6cf-39da-3e77-a555-ab3fdea60278 2014-11-21T20:42:33Z 2014-11-21T20:43:10Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger
Up to 30,000 missing emails sent by former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner have been recovered by the IRS inspector general, five months after they were deemed lost forever.

The U.S. Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) informed congressional staffers from several committees on Friday that the emails were found among hundreds of "disaster recovery tapes" that were used to back up the IRS email system.

The fact that these Lerner emails were so easily recovered after the IRS fought the effort to retrieve them is practically proof of a cover up effort... if there is anyone left on the planet who wasn't already convinced.

There are supposedly 250 million emails -- obviously not all from Lerner -- that are still being searched. Some relevant emails from those working with her may also be recovered.

So far, I haven't seen any information about what's actually in the new batch of emails, but their existence alone is sufficient to condemn the IRS's document production effort, since the IRS did not even bother to search these backup tapes. Obama Admin paid cash for Bergdahl release 9719b9ad-be6b-31bf-b15a-c06d3b7a7f9e 2014-11-20T21:02:22Z 2014-11-21T16:16:24Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger
The Obama administration made a ransom payment to an Afghan "con man" earlier this year in an unsuccessful attempt to secure the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, according to aWashington Times report. Best-selling author Brad Thor predicted there was likely money exchanged as part of the deal in a previous op-ed on TheBlaze.

And they didn't even get him released -- the money paid for Bergdahl just disappeared. It was the release of the Top 5 Gitmmo detainees that secured the release of a single American deserter and likely traitor. Gruber says Obama personally requested obfuscatory language 1dacb2d9-ce52-3db7-9148-433a9d2c713b 2014-11-20T16:59:14Z 2014-11-21T15:16:24Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger Smoking gun. And in another video, Gruber says that 5 million people will lose their plan under Obamacare. So Obama knew that "if you like your plan, you can keep your plan" was a lie. Obamacare was designed to fail 10ec9c9e-5d52-3c00-ada5-ba03592f69f5 2014-11-20T16:32:46Z 2014-11-21T14:16:24Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger
So, as a result, I am required by law, under harsh financial penalties, to purchase a product that is not available to me. Had President Obama required that I buy 2 pounds of rocks from Mars, the result would not have been any more unfair.

The free market is better able to handle things than government experts, because no expert can possibly know as much about the life of every citizen in the nation as every citizen in the nation knows about their own life.

In this case, it's resulting in a business owner struggling to get his number of full-time employees under 30 -- in a workforce of over 350 people. All because he doesn't have to pay penalties on part-time workers. NSA whistleblower claims 2009 inflection point in surveillance 0f0f6ef3-5909-3da7-8068-0f3915c44617 2014-11-20T16:05:43Z 2014-11-21T13:16:24Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger If this report is accurate, it suggests that the NSA's mission changed from focused anti-terrorism to bulk surveillance of all Americans in 2009, the year Obama took office as president. The timing is suggestive.

That person, who has retired and spoke to the AP under condition of anonymity, said "he knows of no evidence the program was used for anything other than hunting for terrorism plots in the US. But he said he and others made the case that the collection of American records in bulk crossed a line that had been sacrosanct."

The NSA has been active for a long time. There were active programs during the Clinton administration to evesdrop on cell phones (ECHELON) and sabotage encryption (Clipper chip). I've long been opposed to those programs, while understanding that they are valuable intelligence tools when properly directed. But I can readily believe that the expansion of the NSA's mission into bulk collection and analysis of data is a relatively recent thing. Smoking Gun proof that Obama Admin targeted Attkisson for Fast and Furious reporting c0d09a9e-5856-38b8-8d44-e30d0157ebd6 2014-11-21T12:13:54Z 2014-11-21T12:23:51Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger
One of the documents provides smoking gun proof that the Obama White House and the Eric Holder Justice Department colluded to get CBS News to block reporter Sharyl Attkisson. Attkisson was one of the few mainstream media reporters who paid any attention to the deadly gun-running scandal.

In an email dated October 4, 2011, Attorney General Holder's top press aide, Tracy Schmaler, called Attkisson "out of control." Schmaler told White House Deputy Press Secretary Eric Schultz that he intended to call CBS news anchor Bob Schieffer to get the network to stop Attkisson.

This validates Attkisson's claims that CBS didn't want to air her reports. There is also details on an effort to target Issa, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee investigating the scandal, with leaks to another reporter. Shutting off the water to the NSA f2530188-e9ba-34a2-bdd7-96957c6b2859 2014-11-20T14:21:38Z 2014-11-21T12:16:24Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger
A bill is moving forward in the Utah State Legislature that aims to eventually shut down water to the National Security Agency's (NSA) new massive data storage facility at Bluffdale, just south of Salt Lake City.

Refuse to cooperate in any way you can. Mary wins or Mary wins, if you believe the media cd479942-7899-3afa-9df9-635fb7dd1eb8 2014-11-20T13:39:44Z 2014-11-21T11:16:24Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger Turns out the New York Times messed up their reporting about the Keystone pipeline vote, and published their story on the vote hours before the vote was actually cast. That's an understandable mistake... on a single-proprietor blog without editorial staff who are supposed to review, verify facts, and approve news stories before they are published. But in this case it's even more interesting, because the draft story published had quotes praising Landrieu, the Louisiana Senator facing a runoff election in the near future that may well hinge on the results of the Keystone vote.

Both versions of the story -- where the Keystone pipeline was approved, and where it failed -- had sections praising Landrieu for her efforts. In different words, of course. But it's clear that, according to the Times, Landrieu is worth praising... win or lose.

The actual vote failed to overcome a filibuster, 59-41. What happens in Landrieu's runoff election remains to be seen. Background checks coming in Oregon, Florida 55b0b11c-2853-396e-af45-30141103ba77 2014-11-19T23:23:39Z 2014-11-20T09:16:24Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger In Oregon they are going to try legislation, while in Florida, a ballot initiative appears to be in the works. Meanwhile, in Washington State, a museum has to return exhibits because of the background check measure that passed, and a generous gun owner has to collect his own loaner firearms. NSA-approved bill to stop NSA spying fails in the Senate bad9829c-992d-3d86-9ba8-29f8eac76653 2014-11-18T20:48:38Z 2014-11-19T10:16:24Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger It failed by 2 votes... which is actually a victory, I think. Remember that the so-called USA Freedom act is basically the followup to the PATRIOT Act (with similarly misleading names). It was supported by the director of the NSA and Diane Feinstein herself, who has previously opposed reform efforts.

Holding a vote on the act in the lame duck Senate was an attempt to prevent Republicans from taking credit for rolling back the Democratic administration's surveillance overreach. With support from the people who would normally attempt to block such a bill, it's clear that real improvements will need new legislation that has not been co-opted by the people in charge of creating the problem in the first place.

She even admits it:

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a longtime opponent of intelligence reform, made a surprising change of vote and pleaded with her colleagues to support the bill. She remains a defender of the program, pointing out that there were only 288 queries for metadata in 2013.

However, Feinstein felt if the bill didn't pass, it could lead to the program being thrown out altogether.

"If we didn't pass the House bill, there were members that wanted to end the whole program," said Feinstein. "I do not want to end the program. I'm prepared to make the compromise, which is that the metadata will be kept by the telecoms."

So, in other words, Miss Feinstein, your minions at the NSA have spent billions to create a system to evesdrop on the whole internet, This system has scored, at most, a single "assist" in stopping terrorist attacks. Not even a single one with full credit. And you've only queried this system -- which, again, cost billions and continues to cost billions -- 288 times last year.

It sounds to me, Miss Feinstein, like the system doesn't work for it's intended purpose. Lame ducks in DC 51654d01-73bc-37cf-a5af-fdcdeccba375 2014-11-18T16:53:57Z 2014-11-19T09:16:24Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger
"Democrats relinquishing the Senate have outlined an ambitious agenda for the lame-duck session," reports the Boston Globe. The Democrats are "likely to have bold plans for the lame duck," says NBC News. Lots and lots of business is evidently being packed into the brief window between the Nov. 4 election and Jan. 3, when the next Congress is sworn-in. That's too bad. Lame-duck sessions, absent national emergency, are actually a very bad idea.

If I had my way, we would pass an amendment to the Constitution indicating that Congress may perform no official acts between the election and the seating of the next Congress. I'd have to consider variations on this theme to deal with emergencies (should a two-thirds vote be allowed? Should only those who lost their seats be barred from acting?), but when the present Congress is desperately looking for ways to advance their agenda before the new Congress is seated, that's a problem. Barack Obama on the President's immigration power 67c986f5-8bc1-3bfd-a77f-925f1ab83f54 2014-11-17T21:40:13Z 2014-11-18T15:16:24Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger Patterico has collected a list of cases where Obama's past words conflict with his anticipated future actions on immigration.

The bottom line is, Obama was all in favor of separation of powers when he thought he could get Congress to pass amnesty. Now, he's willing to say fuck all that and be the dictator. The rule of law is not something that you respect only when you get what you want; sometimes you have to respect it when it prevents you getting what you want.

Personally, I'm all for immigration, so long as it is legal immigration by people who want to become Americans and leave their previous culture mostly behind them. As a nation, we have the right to decide who we will allow to become one of us; that power is assigned in the Constitution to Congress, not the president. Reminder: the IRS did not find Lerner's emails because it didn't look fe78f43b-9460-343e-ac85-c029f49ab00c 2014-11-17T17:18:17Z 2014-11-18T14:16:24Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger
IRS attorneys conceded that they had failed to search the agency's servers for missing emails because they decided that "the servers would not result in the recovery of any information." They admitted they had failed to search the agency's disaster recovery tapes because they had "no reason to believe that the tapes are a potential source of recovering" the missing emails. And they conceded that they had not searched the government-wide back-up system because they had "no reason to believe such a system…even exists."

And they are getting away with it. The establishment Republicans in power in the House and the Senate want to run against the IRS while letting Obama crush his enemies with it -- because all three branches of government share a common enemy in the Tea Party. Even the agriculture department has undercover agents 0b04233b-f511-354d-b819-69b401f2f123 2014-11-16T17:46:57Z 2014-11-17T14:16:24Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger
The federal government has significantly expanded undercover operations in recent years, with officers from at least 40 agencies posing as business people, welfare recipients, political protesters and even doctors or ministers to ferret out wrongdoing, records and interviews show.

My rule of thumb is pretty simple: when you need to use an undercover agent to fight crime, the crime you are trying to fight is probably a victimless crime. And with a very small number of exceptions, victimless crimes should not be crimes at all. Department of Justice admits misleading judge 24f443b2-1c3b-3454-bc9b-bfff8f350b09 2014-11-15T03:20:39Z 2014-11-17T13:16:24Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published a remarkable letter (PDF) this morning in which the Department of Justice admits its lawyer misled a judge during oral arguments last month over the legality of National Security Letters, or NSLs.

It might have been an honest mistake. And it might not have been. Registration leads to confiscation 38f05241-e5dd-3bb4-9e58-8eb2cfa7bce2 2014-11-15T03:16:39Z 2014-11-17T12:16:24Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger This time, it's in New York. When a gun owner dies, the police go out to his home and take the guns there without informing the occupants that the guns can be reclaimed later. Reason looks at Network Neutrality fe1ce67f-8c02-3fb4-80ce-0acd9b27ea8a 2014-11-15T03:11:58Z 2014-11-17T11:16:24Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger
President Barack Obama recently came out in favor of both "net neutrality" and the FCC changing the way that Internet service providers, or ISPs, are regulated. Shortly thereafter, Sen. Ted Cruz opined "'Net Neutrality' is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government." Obama's and Cruz's statements fed into the popular misconception that the proposed FCC reclassification is the same thing as net neutrality. It's not. The policies are distinct, though both are bad ideas.

I am opposed to net neutrality for several reasons:
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2) I don't want the government to slow down progress more than it already has
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"As they plan for how to cope with a United States that increasingly acts as if nuclear war is unthinkable, they are thinking through how they might physically employ a nuclear weapon to demonstrate their willingness to escalate to the nuclear level," wrote Murdock.

Obama appears to be imposing unilateral disarmament for us while encouraging Iran to test one of theirs already... because as soon as they actually test one, there's no way we can really go in and take it away from them. Cricket caught blocking STARTTLS? adcd8df6-03b4-3263-b2f9-bbaaec766756 2014-11-14T04:06:53Z 2014-11-17T09:16:24Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger STARTTLS is a command within the SMTP protocol that indicates the desire to initiate an encrypted connection. Cricket is allegedly blocking customers from using that protocol, even with SMTP servers that support it -- including SMTP servers that don't belong to Cricket. That would force customers to use either plain SSL (which may be similarly interfered with) or send email "in the clear" so Cricket's network administrators can snoop on it.

I'll point out here that what's likely going on is not selectively disabling STARTTLS (which would take a fair bit of network wizardry to accomplish; rewriting connections dynamically is tricky) but probably simply intercepting the SMTP connection itself with one of Cricket's servers, which has been an established anti-spam practice for a while on some networks. If Cricket's server doesn't support STARTTLS (deliberately or not), well, you get the observed result.

Note that this scenario is actually worse than the original scenario. Cricket is not just forcing email to be send into the clear, it is redirecting email users are intending to send to a remote server into one of it's own servers, and possibly collecting authentication information meant for the remote server in the process.

If you are going to intercept outbound SMTP to servers you don't own, you should be returning error codes and not advertising AUTH support. The Democrat party has abandoned democracy 51fa713b-df20-3d1c-aca1-86422459f39c 2014-11-14T04:35:57Z 2014-11-14T16:21:59Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger
"The dirty secret is the American voter doesn't actually care about the uninsured," Gruber said. "The dirty secret is: You can't really get a law passed by saying, 'We're helping the uninsured.' You have to make it about cost control to get it passed. Because that's what the American public cares about. So they had to make this law not just about the uninsured, but about cost control. That was a challenge," he added.

Yes, I know we are a constitutional republic, and not a pure democracy. But the democratic principle is supposed to be that the representatives we elect do what the people want them to do, within the Constitution, and with the application of their judgment and expert knowledge of the situation (knowledge that the general public often does not have).

They aren't suppose to deceive people into passing legislation with lies, though. They are supposed to make their case honestly to the people, and face the will of the voters if the voters disagree. Reid to move USA Freedom Act to a vote b7063938-fbda-39e4-9ffd-2065c44a8249 2014-11-14T03:53:20Z 2014-11-14T15:21:59Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger
Yesterday evening, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) took action to move the USA Freedom Act toward a debate and a vote. That's a big turnaround from September, when Senate sources said passing the act "wasn't a top priority." With Reid's support, a vote could come as early as next week.

The real question here is why. And the answer is pretty obvious: Reid wants to make sure that the Republicans can't take control of the surveillance apparatus the Democrats have been using to keep themselves in power, should the Republicans win the presidency in 2016. And if he moves now, in the lame duck Congress, he can make sure that a bill he supports with whatever hidden language he wants gets passed, take credit for shutting down the surveillance state with voters, and simultaneously prevent Republicans from running on the issue. Family of Ebola victim to profit from his death f95cee67-97f1-3341-894b-2d58192bac0f 2014-11-13T14:49:26Z 2014-11-14T14:21:59Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger Patterico has the sickening details. Explosives found near bridge at US border with Mexico f032e1ee-eafc-3684-bca4-03baef462ee5 2014-11-13T14:19:01Z 2014-11-14T13:21:59Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger
Two explosives were found near an Arizona bridge approximately 30 miles from the U.S. border with Mexico, according to a leaked report exclusively obtained by Breitbart Texas. The items were made from water gel commercial explosives and were ammonium nitrate based, according to the leaked official report from the Joint Intelligence Operations Center (JIOC).

But Obama tells us our border has never been more secure. Hillary confidant may be Pakistan agent 30692831-8d23-370c-917f-e8fb5c83a94b 2014-11-13T13:25:27Z 2014-11-14T12:21:59Z TriggerFinger TriggerFinger
A former high-ranking diplomat and Clinton ally at the center of an FBI counterintelligence probe was a registered foreign agent for the Pakistani government up until just days before she was appointed to run the U.S. State Department's Pakistan aid team.

The Washington Post reported last week that the State Department's aid coordinator for Pakistan, Robin Raphel, is the subject of a counterintelligence investigation and has had her security clearance revoked.

That's going to leave a mark on Hillary's chances in 2016.


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Photos and Description of this 6 bedroom holiday home in Santa Gertrudis - Sa tanca
Large 850 m2 of built area house with 6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms and 2 WC.
Large typical Ibicencan-styled house located in a 20,000 m2 lot, surrounded by beautiful meadows and pine trees.
The house consists of 4 double bedrooms, 3 bathrooms and 1 WC, a large fully fitted kitchen integrated in a spacious dining area, 2 living rooms with access to the pool and a second building with 2 double bedrooms with bathroom and another WC.
Near the kitchen area, you can find a large table and a barbecue for you to spend charming nights enjoying of magnificent dinners.
The plot has a large garden, a small pine forest, tennis court and a pool
This accommodation is perfect for an incredible holiday with your family and friends, surrounded by nature; at the same time, it is closely connected to beaches and coves, and a few minutes away by car from famous clubs such as Usuaia, Space or trendy restaurants like Lío Amalur or Sa Masía d´en Sort. The house is located between the town of Ibiza and Santa Gertrudis, so you can easily shop every day in the fashionable stores from Ibiza, take a walk across the harbour, stroll around the historic town or have dinner in some of the nicest restaurants from the city. On the contrary, if you prefer to walk, have dinner and calmly look at stores, you can visit Santa Gertrudis town, 10 minutes away by car, where you can find mostly everything Most people in town are pedestrian, so this place is appropriate to go out with your children and take a snack in some of the terraces or shop in the different stores.
The house is located in a strategic part of the island that connects you with other locations just a few minutes by car , and allows you to enjoy the tranquillity of the countryside, away from car traffic and annoying noise. You can enjoy of a stress-free vacation without giving up the fashionable life of Ibiza.
- Suitability:
- children welcome
- smoking allowed
- wheelchair accessible
About SA TANCA
My name is Angela. I love living in the countryside and I have created a space for a small orchard. In the back of the plot, there is a small construction for hens a peacock and two goats. You do not have to worry because they are out of sight and cause no problem.
I have a 7-year-old daughter and I love seeing her grow up surrounded by this nature.
All of our family loves the ocean, so whenever we can, we go sailing.
SA TANCA purchased this house in 2007
Why SA TANCA chose Santa Gertrudis
This property allows us to access everything and live at the countryside at the same time. This was our priority because when we purchase it, my youngest daughter was two months old, and we knew the importance of being close to everything, such as schools, supermarkets, drugstores, etc.
What makes this house unique
I love the privacy here. This house is designed to avoid the possibility of disrupting your intimacy.
Now you can enjoy the countryside and the smell of pine trees without giving up to shop, buy ice cream or go to the movies.
Every moment of your day will be different, either if you go swimming or calmly read a book in one of the cozy rooms.
The house is decorated in a warm and pleasant way.
This is a one storey house, so the access is very comfortable.

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Servings: 6 to 8
- 3 anchovy fillets rolled with capers
- 2 garlic cloves, coarsely chopped
- 3 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 1 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1/3 cup mayonnaise
- 1 large red onion (about 1 pound), peeled
- 2 pounds red-skinned baby potatoes
- 3 tablespoons freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- Romaine lettuce leaves
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Puree anchovies and garlic in small processor, scraping down sides of bowl occasionally. Add 2 tablespoons oil and next 4 ingredients; process until smooth. Add mayonnaise and pulse just to blend. Season dressing with salt and pepper.
Prepare barbecue (medium heat). Cut onion into 1-inch cubes; thread onto metal skewers. Brush onion cubes with remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil; sprinkle with salt and pepper. Grill until lightly charred and soft, turning occasionally for even grilling, about 12 minutes. Cool. Remove onion cubes from skewers and place in large bowl. DO AHEAD Can be prepared 2 hours ahead. Let stand at room temperature.
Place potatoes in large pot. Add enough water to cover by 1 inch. Bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium-high and boil until potatoes are just tender, about 15 minutes. Drain; cool.
Cut potatoes into wedges. Add potatoes and cheese to bowl with onion cubes. Pour dressing over potatoes; toss to coat. Season salad to taste with salt and pepper. DO AHEAD Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate.
Line large plate with romaine lettuce leaves. Spoon potato salad into center of lettuce and serve.
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Sexton missed his first penalty kick at goal for the 2009, 2011 and 2012 winners in the swirling wind but soon rectified the mistake by slotting his second attempt.
Exeter's Ulsterman Gareth Steenson did likewise in missing his first chance of levelling the scores, he also missed penalty No 2 but his third, just before half-time at a packed RDS, tied the game at 3-3.
Sexton stroked his second successful kick soon after the restart and it looked like the Irish kingpins would drive home the advantage.
But it was the never-say-die Chiefs, led by Irishman Tom Hayes, who were displaying the most threat and attacking verve and when Steenson scored his second penalty of the match a massive shock looked achievable.
Sexton won an enthralling cup-tie though, after replacement prop Ben Moon's moment of offside madness gifted the Ireland No 10 his match-winning three-pointer, with eight minutes to go.
Leinster blindside Kevin McLaughlin was then penalised for not rolling away from at a ruck to give the Premiership side a sniff of a draw but, with Steenson off, Argentina replacement Ignacio Mieres was wayward from 48 metres with the last kick of the game.The relief around the RDS was palpable. With Clermont and Scarlets also in Pool 5, the champions desperately needed to hang on for four points from this game.
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The apt announced here, is on the Atlantic A., 11th Floor, Station 6, with full view of the Copacabana beach, near the beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema.
Excellent apt room and every room modern and renovated with all brand new furniture, cattail race, equipped with double bed, sofa bed, sofa bed, wardrobe, air-cooled, ceiling fan, table with chairs, LCD TV 32 Pol., bathroom with luxury shower, hot tub and shower, kitchen with fridge and stove with oven.
All our apartments are in Posto 6 which is the noblest point of Copacabana.
Best location for our beaches are divided in 6 Posts in 6 km.
Leme (Tour 1) the Fort of Copacabana (Posto 6) the beach has a complete vision in 'Half Moon' fantastic, it is so named and sung with the Princess of the Sea
From the apt window you can have this view.
The 7 Tour is the Arpoador Beach and Station 8 to Famous Ipanema Beach.
The building in Copacabana you have buses at the door for Highway, Airport and all the sights.
Points recommended rental:
Bus 511 - Circular that goes to Urca, where it leaves the cable car to Sugar Loaf.
Bus 512 - Circular that comes da Urca.
Bus 803 - Circular that goes to the Cosme Velho where it leaves the cable car to the Christ Redeemer.
Bus 804 - Circular that comes from Cosme Velho
Many buses and the metro go to Downtown, Santa Tereza, Barra da Tijuca and several nearby neighborhoods or suburbs.
Ipanema Subway (Praça General Osório) and Copacabana (Rua Sá Ferreira)
Praça General Osório has in the bus that goes by Orla Ipanema, Leblon, Niemeyer, Sao Conrado, Gavea Rock, Barra da Tijuca which is the part of the City + young.
In the same square on Sunday happens most fair Crafts Hippie Fair that runs over 40 from 10:00 to 20:00.


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2010 (Senior): Was the emotional and vocal leader for the Rams, starting all 31 matches and appearing in all but one set...Tallied 301 total kills, an average of 2.76 per set, which was good for second on the team...Led the Rams in the category 11 times, including a career-high 19 at Florida (Sept. 4)...Overall, totaled double-digit kills totals 17 times, including three straight games from in the Campus USA Credit Union Invitational (Sept. 3-4), where she earned MVP honors...Ranked fourth on the team with a .242 hitting percentage...Placed third with 22 service aces...Led the Rams in aces eight times, including a season-high four vs. Furman (Aug. 28)...Averaged 2.25 digs per set, second on the squad, paced by 20 vs. TCU (Oct. 14)...Ranked third on the team with 360.5 total points on the season...Recorded five double-doubles (kills and digs) in 2010, adding to her 11 prior to her senior year.
2009 (Junior): Appeared in 30 matches, 109 sets, for Colorado State, missing the Oct. 30 match vs. Wyoming with an injury...Ranked ninth in the Mountain West and second on the team behind Danielle Minch in both kills per set (2.67) and points per set (3.29)...Ranked second on the team behind all-region libero Katelin Batten, averaging 2.36 digs per set...Led the CSU squad with 22 service aces, an average of 0.20 per set...Recorded double-figure kills in 16 matches, establishing a career high vs. Northern Colorado (Sept. 30) with 16 kills...Led the Rams in kills in five matches...Recorded multiple service aces in four matches--vs. Ohio State (Sept. 4), vs. Northern Colorado (Sept. 30), at Wyoming (Oct. 2), and at New Mexico (Oct. 24)...Recorded double-doubles (kills and digs) in seven matches in 2009, including the Rams' victory over No. 6 Washington in the second round of the NCAA tournament (Dec. 4)...Earned all-tournament honors in each of CSU's three tournaments, including MVP honors at the Hilton Classic hosted by CSU (Sept. 3-5).
2008 (Sophomore): Played in 92 sets with a career high of 173 kills...Her 26 service aces marked the second-most on the team...Posted seven aces against Air Force (Nov. 1), which tied for the third-most in a single match in school history...Posted a career-high 14 kills against Arizona on Oct. 4...Tallied a career-high 191 digs during the season, which ranked third on the team...Tallied seven matches with 10 or more kills and posted nine matches with 10 or more digs.
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High School: Led Valencia High School to the league championship and CIF championship in 2006...Was a three-time team MVP...Earned the Loara Tournament MVP and the Diamond Ranch Tournament MVP in 2006...Twice received first-team all-league honors and once captured conference MVP honors...Holds the school record for most kills in a season (340) and most kills in a four-year career (770) while ranking second all-time in blocks for a four-year career...A three-sport athlete and three-sport letterwinner...Helped lead Valencia to the basketball league championship in 2004.
Personal: Born on Dec. 17, 1988, in Orange, Calif. ...Daughter of Danny and Lisa Davisson...Has two brothers...Full name is Jacqueline Renee Davisson...Is a health & exercise science major at CSU.
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Late last month, Max was assigned to Franklin and was partnered with Officer Adam Donnelly.
"The addition of a K9 unit to the Franklin Police Department is a very positive move," Goldstein said. "Most criminals would rather submit to arrest than to risk being taken down or bitten by a police K9. Having a K9 present helps lessen aggression levels, keeping situations from escalating and protecting our officers from harm."
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- Publisher: Devolver Digital
- Genre: Action Shooter First-Person
- Release Date: Nov 24, 2009
- ESRB: Mature
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|Deathmatch Marathon Winner
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|Deathmatch Master
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|Frag 25 players with a knife while having no more than 10 health left.
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|Perform 4 frags with each being no more than 10 seconds apart from the previous frag in at least 4 player deathmatch.
|Frag a total of 100 players.
|Game Master
|Complete the game.
|Frag the same player 5 times in a row in at least 4 player deathmatch.
|I am invincible
|Complete the game in single player without firing a single bullet or shell.
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|Metropolis King
|Complete Metropolis level in single player on serious difficulty without loading.
|Frag the same player 10 times during a single round in at least 4 player deathmatch.
|Perfect Kill
|Kill all enemies in Karnak in single player.
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|Perform 100 rocket jumps.
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|Frag all players in a single frag combo.
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|Complete any level in single player.
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|Complete a co-op game on serious difficulty and extra enemy strength on 400%.
|Serious Fragger
|Frag a total of 1000 players.
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Can't get my camera to talk to my lap top -- will try to post a picture tomorrow after I figure out what's wrong.
I have what appears to be a marlo flip Barbie, only her hair style is a mirror image of what it should be -- the part is on the wrong side, and the spit curl is going in the wrong direction. Is this a different doll, a variation, a foreign market doll, or ????
As an aside, I just spent a good hour dressing this doll in the Underliners outfit, with the plan of putting her up for sale in a booth I have in an antique store. I am never, ever, ever, dressing a doll in that oufit again. I had to get my crochet hook out to get the garter straps out from under the teddy, and it took me a good half hour to inch the stockings up her legs. (For now, she's sitting on my work bench -- I didn't realize her hair style was reversed until I had her dressed and I started looking at Marlo Flips on eBay to get a sense for the current value. I won't be sending her off to sale until I get a solid ID on her!)
I will post pictures as soon as I can. She's a very pretty girl in beautiful shape. :-)
I have what I believe to be an antique French bisque doll The only marking is on the back of her head. She has a cloth body,soft and silky maybe linen, from where she connects to the head and shoulder down to her waist. Its as If she were wearing thong underware The leather of her legs comes up to meet where the underware would ride. Waist level at the waist on sides and at the back. Bikini level in front. My mother had this doll prior to me. She had clothes made for it so clothes are no help in identification. The cloth body appears to be old. The leather of the arms and legs designed to allow extra motion at the elbows, hips and knees. Ive tried to find answers on 99.9 % of the sites on the internet. Im sure the answer in on the .1% where I haven't looked. She has glass eyes that are brown. Her mouth is open and I can see 4 teeth. Her eyelashes and eyebrows are painted on finely feathered. Her eyelids are a bit tinted. She has a dimple in her chin. She has a deeper crease on each side of her nose than I would expect No blimishes that I can see. Her cheeks have a nice blush and her lips are clearly visible. She is starting to get a double chin. She has a tiny red dot on the inside of the eyes as. tear ducts. She has blond hair, unknown if real, that has been pulled thru a cloth type scalp covering. There are two indentations going up from the front holes of the shoulderplate. She not what I would call beautiful but is distinct. No earings or any other embelishments. HELP. Who is this unidentified doll
Can someone help me or tell me how to identify the manufacure of this doll.
How do I post more than one photo at a time.
And I got busy last night. Look at her now. :-)
(I forgot to take a before picture, but she was Ye Usual #5 Ponytail project head -- matted hair hanging in dreds, greasy face, needed her makeup touched up.)
Earrings are off a Liv doll. She has just a trace of green ear but not enough that I would want to try to remove it. The Liv earrings are doll safe (chromed plastic), do not have barbs, and are just glitzy enough to draw attention away from the green ear. Otherwise, everything's vintage. (I don't think the necklace is a Mattel necklace, but it is vintage.)
She's off to the antique store now for resale. :-) (With full disclosure of the work done on her, because I am honest! *grin*)
This isn't mine, but I got one that looks just like her the last time I went out looking. Was hoping someone could tell me who she is, since her face is pretty distinctive and she's 12 inches tall and not 10 like the Blocks, etc.


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a futuristic anime set in a desert environment. And no mechas please. If anyone knows of any lemme know
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a futuristic anime set in a desert environment. And no mechas please. If anyone knows of any lemme know
Sunabozu (Desert Punk) looks like it's exactly what you're looking for. It's a gun action anime set in a post apocalyptic future.
Anime OP: http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=anxPxKc8tGc (no, it's not a live action film, they actually dressed the guy up just for the opening)
Yep, that's exactly what I thought of, too...by the way that's some pretty obscure and specific criteria you have there...but of course, leave it to anime to have just the thing...
thank youu just started watching it and I think its pretty good =], if anyone knows of something in the same genre but more serious that would be amazing. I know its a really strange request but I figure if there's any way of finding what I'm looking for this is the way to do it :D
Trigun? Set on a desert planet. Still not very serious at the start, but gets more so as it goes.
Has a few armored dudes, but I can not rememeber mecha in the general sense of the term.
lol actually trigun is what made me want to search for something like this, I absolutely love that anime. :]
Oops, well Trigun is a very good way to start. Hmmm, Ever see Venus Wars? very serious, desolate landscape, but not a TV series, only a movie.
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A Day With Daniel Bachman
Written by Sunny Eckerle
After what seemed like an endless winter, longer and colder than usual, the final weekend of May offered a much needed warmth. With a 24-pack of High Life in the trunk and the windows down, we headed west. Soft hills rose into the Shenandoah Mountains. Cell service waned and eventually dropped out. Our landmark dependent directions became our only guide. "Over the bridge and right at the yellow mail box." We wound down a one-lane dirt path, climbing higher into the hills.
And so we arrived at Forest Floor Studios, just shy of Shenandoah National Park. It's easy to see why Daniel Bachman, the 24 year-old Virginia native, has chosen to record here. Previous releases from the finger-picking visionary were born at Forest Floor, as is his latest and last album on Tompkins Square, Jesus I'm a Sinner.
The one room studio is unexpectedly well stocked. It's absolutely off the beaten path, yet no less legitimate for it. Surrounded by only the wind brushing through the leaves, the faint trickling of a stream, and the singing of the local bird residents, it's a fitting backdrop for the scratch and twang of Daniel's homey and rural finger-style creations.
Daniels latest LP, released October 2013
Daniel Bachman on the steps of Forrest Floor Studios
Hellos are exchanged with Daniel, beers are opened, and we're introduced to Forrest Marquisee, the producer at Forest Floor Studios. Inside the small studio, Daniel gets to work, starting where he and Forrest left off the day before. Much of the recording is finished when we arrive on Saturday, Daniel having been at the studio for a few days already. After only one false start, Daniel records the final track for the album with the front door open, the sounds from outside creeping through the screen door.
Our remaining time is spent outside, learning about the studio, Rappahannock County, and Daniel's home state of Virginia. We head to the stream not 50 feet from the studio, and stand barefoot in it as Daniel tells us all about where we are, often pointing one way or another to a landmark that correlates to one of his songs. He knows this place well, his casual explanations clearly well worn from time and use. He enjoys sharing his love for his home, which he does most successfully through his music. Sun Over Old Rag, Seven Pines, 218 to Caledon - all song titles of his as well as references to the Old Dominion.
Walking up the hill to Forrest's home
Forrest gives us a tour of the area including a botany lesson, complete with tastings. We all pluck a bud of honeysuckle and carefully pull out the stemen for a small taste of sweetness. We're invited into Forrest's home, just up the hill, to see his father's guitar workshop and even try our hand at a few of the fully handmade instruments.
As the morning warms into afternoon, rainclouds begin to creep across the sky and signal our time to move on. Forest Floor Studio is only the first stop of the day. In a semi-frantic rush, we help Daniel grab the last of his equipment, round up the unopened beers from the porch of the studio, and hop into Daniel's timeworn Volvo to start our trek back east, just as the rain starts to fall. The old car has served him well. This year alone, he's spent 9 months on the road. This car has carried him across the country and back for many other years of touring and now, it carries us back east.
Daniel's Volvo
As we wind down the narrow lane that brought us in, the mountains give way to a flatter landscape. The brief rain has left the spring greenery damp and warm, the humidity creeping in the open windows.
Eventually, the car swings around a wide bend somewhere near Culpepper, and Daniel points out Mount Pony, a small, nondescript hill just off the highway. He tells us that, what to any passerby would appear as nothing more than a lump on the land, is actually a secret mountain fortress. "The inside is hollow. The Federal Reserve used to keep gold in there, back in the sixties and seventies." He points out a strange structure nearer the road we pass as the old guard hut.
The depth in which Daniel knows this land and these places is only reinforced as the day goes on. Few people have as visceral and strong a connection to where they grew up as he does. He's moved away before, having lived in Philadelphia for a time, but it's clear he's never really left this place, in mind or spirit. The music he creates mirrors this region in its loose style, its extreme but unassuming beauty, its charming imperfectness. Today we've been introduced to his muse and given a deep understanding of the roots of what he creates.


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Subscribers to these lists are receiving e-mails with information about Polish events, including church, cultural, patriotic, and entertainment events in Baltimore and Holy Rosary parish. Some information is also sent from our parish.
In addition, there are many events in the area organized by Polish Embassy in Washington, DC, Polish Library, the Kosciuszko Foundation or other organizations.
Please, see below how to subscribe to these lists.


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As of 2a.m. the City is notifying residents that all non-emergency personnel should stay off of Lakeshore Drive, including the flood gates, levees, and roadways. Lakeshore Drive is currently closed to the public. Any civilian in violation of this order is subject to arre...
NEW ORLEANS, LA--Today Mayor Mitch Landrieu and City officials will provide an update on the City's storm preparations in advance of Tropical Storm Isaac.
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As of 10 a.m., the City is notifying residents that parking their cars on the Industrial Canal levee is prohibited. Any vehicles parked on the levee will be towed.
NEW ORLEANS, LA — Today, as of 4:30 p.m., the City continues to prep...
NEW ORLEANS, LA--Today Mayor Mitch Landrieu and City officials will provide a general update on the City's lastest efforts related to Hurricane Isaac.
NEW ORLEANS, LA - Today, the CIty of New Orleans activated its Joint Information Center (JIC) at City Hall's Office of Homeland Security to serve as central point of contact for memebers of the media coveriing Tropical Storm Isaac.
NEW ORLEANS, LA— Today, Mayor Mitch Landrieu urged residents to brace for severe weather conditions as Tropical Storm Isaac moved toward an expected Tuesday afternoon landfall as a strong Category 1 or Category 2 hurricane acc...
NEW ORLEANS, LA— At 11:00 p.m. Monday, August 27, the City of New Orleans provided an update on the City's readiness in advance of Tropical Storm Isaac potential landfall in southeast Louisiana on Tuesday.
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