Detonation in OV

Anyone hear the "BOOM" last night around say 23:30?  Sounded like something detonated?  Just curious...

Sen. Dodd, D-Conn., slashed aviation security funding for pet constituency | Washington Examiner

Well now, is isn't this interesting?



Sen. Dodd, D-Conn., slashed aviation security funding for pet constituency | Washington Examiner

Sen. Dodd, D-Conn., slashed aviation security funding for pet constituency

By: Mark Hemingway
Commentary Staff Writer
12/28/09 12:24 PM EST

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn. arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009, for a series of votes.

Now that our attention is focused on airline security measures thanks to the failed airline attack on Christmas Day, it's worth mentioning that one senator took money away from aviation security to line the pockets of a constituency that supported his presidential campaign in a big way.

Back in July, Senator Chris Dodd, D-Conn., proposed an amendment reducing aviation security appropriations by $4.5 million in favor of firefighter grants -- a notoriously inneffective program. In fact, the money was specifically "for screening operations and the amount for explosives detection systems." The amendment was also sponsored by Sen. Lieberman, D-Conn., and Sen. Carper, D-Del., but Dodd deserves to be singled out here because the firefighters union is a pet constituency of his. In 2007 he campaigned all through Iowa with the firefighters union. It was one of the few distinguishable features of Dodd's ill-fated presidential bid.

The text of the amendment is below:

(Purpose: To provide additional funds for FIRE grants under section 33 of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974)

On page 77, between lines 16 and 17, insert the following:

SEC. X (a) The amount appropriated under the heading "firefighter assistance grants'' under the heading "Federal Emergency Management Agency'' under by title III for necessary expenses for programs authorized by the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 is increased by $10,000,000 for necessary expenses to carry out the programs authorized under section 33 of that Act (15 U.S.C. 2229).

(b) The total amount of appropriations under the heading "Aviation Security'' under the heading "Transportation Security Administration'' under title II, the amount for screening operations and the amount for explosives detection systems under the first proviso under that heading, and the amount for the purchase and installation of explosives detection systems under the second proviso under that heading are reduced by $4,500,000.

(c) From the unobligated balances of amounts appropriated before the date of enactment of this Act for the appropriations account under the heading "state and local programs'' under the heading "Federal Emergency Management Agency'' for "Trucking Industry Security Grants'', $5,500,000 are rescinded.

-- Beltway Confidential

Just think....

The same people who are "Giving" you National Health Care are also providing National Security aboard our commercial airplanes!

We are in great shape as a country!

While they celebrated, we were attacked, AGAIN!

Who is minding the "store"?

Keep your hands in your lap and don't get up during the last hour of flight so we can all go to Allah like good sheeple!

Maybe we should focus more attention on those who have demonstrated ill will towards America? Grandma's, babies, and blond haired Dutch guys named Sven seem to have quite a track record.

Wonder why....

..the founding fathers and thinkers of the time were so concerned about this?

"The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them."

--Zacharia Johnson, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788   

From the Daily Mail

Slight of Hand

More words from Big John K.

 

As busy as most of us stay, sometimes I get only a brief chance to look over my shoulder like I did last night; and, I don't like what I see.

 

An Army major is allowed to openly challenge the authority of the United States, present slide shows at seminars during which he declares the jihadists' love of death and, ultimately, kills 13 servicemen and women at point blank range.  The US Army and the FBI are shown standing there with their collective fingers in their ears since each of them were privy to emails the man traded with a radical Muslim cleric.  Is this disgusting situation one of chance?  Are our law enforcement people that incompetent?  Or, is the intelligence community being told to stand down to the point where a jihadist like Major Hasan is allowed to carry through with his dreams of 40 virgins?

 

Yesterday, we learn that a young man's father, chairman of the largest commercial bank in Nigeria, walks into a US embassy and declares that his son may have been converted to radical Islam.  OK, what did our intelligence community do with this information?  Effectively, absolutely nothing.  This young man walks onto a flight with explosive gel strapped to his leg and nearly causes another airline disaster, coming close to his dreams of 40 virgins.  Chance, incompetence or is our intelligence community being disabled at critical decision points?

 

Today, thousands of Iranian protestors are carrying forward their riots against the mullahs in the streets of Tehran, taking beatings and risking death.  Seems like a tailor-made situation for the many American boys and girls who we train to exploit opportunities like these riots to bring down unfriendly governments.  What's been done by our government thus far to throw gasoline on this open flame of domestic, Iranian discontent?  Seemingly, absolutely nothing.  We appear to be stuck on a path to allowing Israel to bomb Tehran's nuclear processing facilities back to the stone age with all the world-wrecking economic consequences that move will entail, like super tankers being sunk in the Straits of Hormuz and gas at the pump priced at $10.00 per USG.  Chance, incompetence, or is our intelligence community being prevented from interceding in Iran?

 

Are we being deliberately distracted from 10% unemployment and a wrecked housing and auto sector to allow the failures of the current administration to go less-noticed, a "poll shaping tactic" if you will; or, is the stage being set for one of the boldest moves contemplated by the Obama administration, much bolder than taking over GM or the entire health care apparatus?  I refer to Obama's speech from July 2, 2008 during which he first floated his idea of a domestic security force, one "just as powerful, just as well equipped as the US military." 

 

If Obama needs a huge domestic catastrophe to launch such a domestic security force, we seem to be building toward that conclusion, one security breach at a time.  What will be the catalyst?   Gasoline riots?  A massive airliner attack on another skyscraper(s)?  A full assault on a shopping mall with hundreds of casualties from automatic weapons fire?  Pick your poison, ladies and gentlemen, because it feels to me like General-for-Life Obama is heading right down that path.

Merry Christmas

When officers will have to lead!

This is a re-post from a different site, however my angle on it is that this sort of crazyness will come down to the junior and midgrade officers "executing" the plan.  When does an officer execute their oath to defend the Constitution against domestic enemy's?

The U.S. Army War College warned in 2008 November warned in a monograph [click on Policypointers’ pdf link to see the report] titled “Known Unknowns: Unconventional ‘Strategic Shocks’ in Defense Strategy Development” of crash-induced unrest:

The military must be prepared, the document warned, for a “violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States,” which could be provoked by “unforeseen economic collapse,” “purposeful domestic resistance,” “pervasive public health emergencies” or “loss of functioning political and legal order.” The “widespread civil violence,” the document said, “would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security.” “An American government and defense establishment lulled into complacency by a long-secure domestic order would be forced to rapidly divest some or most external security commitments in order to address rapidly expanding human insecurity at home,” it went on. “Under the most extreme circumstances, this might include use of military force against hostile groups inside the United States. Further, DoD [the Department of Defense] would be, by necessity, an essential enabling hub for the continuity of political authority in a multi-state or nationwide civil conflict or disturbance,” the document read.

When was the last time Congress met on Christmas Eve?

1963

The last time the Senate met on Christmas Eve, it was for the purpose of authorizing $3.6 billion of military and economic aid at the request of President Lyndon Johnson..

Senate is working hard since the Obama administration has come into power with 7 Saturday sessions since the inauguration?  Why?
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/five_column_table/Saturday_Sessions_of_the_Senate.htm

The G.W. administration only had 9 over the course of 8 years which we all know covered the worst terrorist attack on the US population in American History and of course armed conflict in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the world!

Interesting...

A big gun saved her life!

A letter for Santa

Time Warner Cable goes out of Business

Ok a headline in the future.... However if TW does in fact drop FOX I hope that a large majority of the football and idol fans drop their cable subscription!! The power of capitalism!

The Time has Come

Benjamin Franklin aptly noted, "They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."

A quick read from the Patriot Post!

Meth Lab Explodes in OV

Well who knows what exploded however we did learn some streets were blocked off!

Hey yall, we heard a BOOM last night around 8PM. Locals report it was south of OV avenue in the Beaumont/Kingston street area? Comments?

Nutz

Founding Fathers

"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Washington, 1796

Wall Street Journal

A friend of mine was recently featured in a Wall Street Journal article concerning Christmas gifts for spouses, in particular, female spouses. Here is a quick snippet from the article.

"It's simple, really. Sometimes men aren't listening to their wives. But just as often, women aren't clear about their desires. They want men to pick up on their subtle clues, rather than telling them outright what they'd like. As one woman I know explains, "It means we are special to them if they detect what we want without us telling them."

I feel for ya buddy! If the ladies want to be subtle, use a bat! Otherwise you will get what you get. Also, encourage Victoria's Secret and Anne Taylor to provide free whiskey shots for all purchases over $50! Just imagine the "stimulation" this would create!

Don't loose too much sleep over it though, I got my wife nose hair clippers for Christmas one year and she still loves me!

God Bless our Founding Fathers

"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, 1785

For those of us who miss winter weather...

98% OF AMERICANS SAY 'OH SHIT' BEFORE
GOING IN THE DITCH ON A SLIPPERY ROAD.


THE OTHER 2% ARE FROM MICHIGAN AND THEY SAY, "HOLD MY BEER AND WATCH THIS

...and are from Michigan!

Bang Bang in the "View"

Don't forget to check out the "Shootings" map at the bottom of the page!

By Cindy Clayton
The Virginian-Pilot
© December 14, 2009

NORFOLK

Police are investigating two shootings this morning that sent three people to the hospital.

The first shooting happened just after midnight in the 800 block of Johnson Ave. during an attempted robbery, said Chris Amos, police spokesman.

The man who was shot was taken to Sentara Norfolk General with injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening, Amos said. No suspect description was available in that case, but the man was thought to be driving a dark-colored sport utility vehicle.

About 5:45 a.m., police were called to the 600 block of E. Ocean View Ave. on a report of a shooting, Amos said.

A woman there had been shot during an argument with a man, Amos said. After the shooting, the woman and her son chased the man, took the gun and called for help.

The woman was taken to a hospital with injuries that weren’t considered serious and the man was treated for minor injuries, Amos said.

The man is facing a malicious wounding charge, Amos said.

Profound words from the "Dictonary" Guy

"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States." --Noah Webster

Lt Col Allen West, Congressional Candidate

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Take Back America!

A comment from the blogs...
"Yeeee Ha!! Now this is what I'm talking about!!!! I need to research this guy. Lt Col Allen West and Sarah Palin. Watch out ya'll, we gettin ready to whip a--!!! Anyone notice: NO TELEPROMPTER!!!!!"

MIT Wins DARPA Network Challenge

Awesome!

IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 5, 2009

MIT RED BALLOON TEAM WINS DARPA NETWORK CHALLENGE

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced that the MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team won the $40,000 cash prize in the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that required participants to locate 10 large, red balloons at undisclosed locations across the United States. The MIT team received the prize for being the first to identify the locations of all 10 balloons.
“The Challenge has captured the imagination of people around the world, is rich with scientific intrigue, and, we hope, is part of a growing 'renaissance of wonder' throughout the nation," said DARPA director,
Dr. Regina E. Dugan. “DARPA salutes the MIT team for successfully completing this complex task less than 9 hours after balloon launch.”
DARPA announced the Network Challenge to mark the 40th anniversary of the ARPANet, pre-cursor to today’s Internet, to explore how broad-scope problems can be tackled using social networking tools. The Challenge explores basic research issues such as mobilization, collaboration, and trust in diverse social networking constructs and could serve to fuel innovation across a wide spectrum of applications.
DARPA plans to meet with teams to review the approaches and strategies used to build networks, collect information, and participate in the Challenge.
DARPA is the central research and development organization for the Department of Defense (DoD). The Agency manages and directs research and development projects for DoD and pursues research and technology where the risk and payoff are both very high and where success may provide dramatic advances in support of military missions.
“We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.”
-- E. Merrill Root

All Hail Repeal Day

The 21st Amendment

Ratified December 5, 1933

Section 1. The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

Section 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use there in of intoxicating liquors, in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited.

Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.

The Liver is EVIL it must be punished!

This is just plane crazy!

Day Fourteen and Counting

December 04, 2009 08:45 ET

Bozell Defends Networks’ Silence on ClimateGate:
“Maybe They Just Don’t Know”

Alexandria, VA – For the fourteenth straight day, the three broadcast networks have failed to report on the great and growing ClimateGate scandal on their weekday morning or evening news programs. How to explain this?

No Place like home for the Holidays!

Why we have it!

You Will Pay more taxes on April 15th

Ok, some one prove to me that this is wrong...
Earlier this year, those of us that work, got a slight pay increase. In my case it was like $25 a pay check.
Supposedly Uncle Sugar and the Obama Administration wanted to kick start the economy and in the 2nd stimulus package, there was a small line of law giving Joe Blow the worker a slight pay increase.
Now to my understanding, this was done by manipulating your personal with holdings, you know that pesky W-4 form you are supposed to fill out when you get hired! So in all actuality, the government is not giving you a tax break per se, they are letting you have more of your money upfront before you have to pay taxes on that same money in the spring. So, if you are a smart conservative type and manage your money well, Uncle Sam pulled a fast one on you! You should expect a slightly higher tax bill come April 15th even though you thought ahead and did what was the right thing to do.

Here it comes!

Federal Gun Control!
By Jim Kouri

Drawing reasonable conclusions from what Holder publicly said, Deeds points out that:

* Holder wants a national, permanent gun registration system administered by law enforcement. A registration of honest citizens that have cleared the federal background check for gun purchases with those records permanently retained by and shared among law enforcement.

* Holder wants new federal authority to prohibit any person on the federal watch list (reported to be 400,000 names) from buying guns and supports confiscating guns from those on the list who posses them.

General Holder testified: "The position of the Administration is that there should be a basis for law enforcement to share information about gun purchases."

"... [It's not] inconsistent to allow law enforcement agencies to share that kind of information, for that information to be retained and then to be shared by law enforcement." "It seems incongruous to me that we would bar certain people from flying on airplanes because they are on the terrorist watch list and yet we would still allow them to posses weapons," said Holder.

Even More Reason to Love the South!

...and jeeps as well!

For some reason I can see this in my future!

Liberal Education

A teacher in New York asked her 6th grade class how many of them were Obama fans. Not really knowing what an Obama fan was, but wanting to be liked by the teacher, all the kids raised their hands except for Little Johnny.

The teacher asked Little Johnny why he decided to be different... again.
Little Johnny said, 'Because I'm not a Obama fan.'

The teacher said, 'Why aren't you an Obama fan?'

Little Johnny said, 'Because I'm a Republican.'

The teacher asked why was he a Republican and little Johnny answered, 'Well, my Mom's a Republican and my Dad's a Republican, so I'm a Republican.'

The teacher asks, 'If your Mom was a moron and your Dad was an idiot, what would that make you?'

With a big smile, Little Johnny replied, 'That would make me an Obama fan!'

Repeal the Laws of Physics!

We are from the government and we are here to help!

Well anyway this did not post well. The juxt of the issue was that some Obama "suits" went to Detroit, met with some engineers and told them to do some crazy stuff with new cars. The engineers told the "suits" that the laws of physics would have to change to enable the "suits" request. The "suits" said they were from the government and they could get an executive order or work with congress to change the laws of physics!

Salt Lick!

Yes some of you will get a funny look in their eye when I mention "Salt Lick", especially my friends in VA Beach and Pungo. Anyhow we are here in Texas and went to the "Salt Lick" BBQ joint in Driftwood, Texas.
A good joint if you are into BBQ, the sauce that they gave us was a gravy honey mustard flavor that was ooh so good over the sausage! Very Tastey! I think this place was on the Food Chanel so if you are in Austin, TX take a quick drive out into the Hill Country.

November Nor'easter

Once again, we survived another storm and feel very fortunate. It's hard to believe that we live across the street from the Chesapeake Bay and had NO flooding, NO wind damage, AND we never lost power (okay, for 3-4 minutes at one point Thursday night).

Yesterday, we had to drive to my office so I could get some items before my trip to TX. It was quite the adventure and I'm glad we took the jeep. What is typically a 15 minute, easy drive turned into an off-road adventure, or so it seemed.

To see the pictures we took, go to our online album. To see pictures that other people around HR took, go to the Wavy website.

Ida Update

Nor'easter 2009

Tropical Nor'Easter "Ida"

Full-screenStation 44014
NDBC
Location: 36.611N 74.836W
Conditions as of:
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:50:00 UTC
Winds: ENE (60°) at 31.1 kt gusting to 36.9 kt
Significant Wave Height: 17.4 ft
Dominant Wave Period: 10 sec
Mean Wave Direction: NE (51°)
Atmospheric Pressure: 29.91 in and falling
Air Temperature: 61.2 F
Water Temperature: 61.0 F

Will try to get some storm pics tomorrow!

Alaa Akbar..... BOOM!

Radical Muslims 1 Obama 0
Another good rant from Big John....

I don't know what you think about recent events, but it seems to me that we now have hard evidence that our military leaders have become extremely politicized. Here we are on Veterans Day, just a week after Fort Hood's massacre of 13 individuals, and we have to listen to repeated video footage of the Army Chief-of-Staff, General Casey, say that "if we lose our diversity, that would be more tragic than the incident at Fort Hood." It seems to me that the first person that needs to be retired ASAP is General Casey.

After he goes, how about retiring everybody in the FBI, CIA and Army who knew that Hassan had sent emails to known Al Qaeda radicals? How about we throw in all the Army doctors who heard Hassan's 2007 "Power-point" presentation in which he said that Muslims cherish death more than Christians love life. In the same presentation, Hassan said that Muslim warriors should pour hot oil down the throats of infidels. Did any of those doctors walk out of that meeting and go report this nut? Nope, not one. Just for grins and giggles, how about we retire everybody to whom Hassan gave his official business card with the initials "S.O.A." Yep, you guessed it. S.O.A. stands for "Soldier of Allah."

I guess that if the Red Chinese navy began sailing up the Mississippi River, our military will call the American Chinese Association to ask "how or if we should respond without offending any of our Chinese brothers."

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This ain't the American military of "Black Jack Pershing" who had a unique way of dealing with Muslim insurgents in the Philippines. Google that incident for an indication of how we should be dealing with Muslim terrorists. These guys are ready to fly jet airliners into tall buildings, shoot unsuspecting recruiters, shout "Allah Akbar" while unloading clips of ammo at Fort hood soldiers and are plotting incredible attacks as we send emails condemning the "PC" infection in our military.

Dear Admiral Mullen:
I would like to protect myself and the sailors, and their families I am responsible for while on Base. Unfortunately, base police is usually minutes away when seconds count. As an officer and a cleared professional, will you authorize me to carry a government issued weapon while on base discharging my duties. It could be real easy. those officers interested in obtaining a weapon may get one issued when going through the gate check and return it to the gate when they leave?!

Another "Hate" Crime?

For some reason I don't think this will be a hate crime... However if the tables were reversed?

Prof busted in Columbia gal 'punch'

From the NY Post

By PERRY CHIARAMONTE, BETH STEBNER and JEREMY OLSHAN

Last Updated: 1:17 PM, November 10, 2009

Posted: 2:57 AM, November 10, 2009

"....The professor, who is black, had been engaged in a fiery discussion about "white privilege" with Davis, who is white, and another male regular, who is also white, Friday night at 10:30 when fists started flying, patrons said.

McIntyre, who is known as "Mac" at the bar, shoved Davis, and when the other patron and a bar employee tried to break it up, the prof slugged Davis in the face, witnesses said.

"The punch was so loud, the kitchen workers in the back heard it over all the noise," bar back Richie Velez, 28, told The Post. "I was on my way over when he punched Camille and she fell on top of me."

Chicago Mayor Blames Guns for Ft. Hood Shooting!

Quick call out the national guard and the border patrol....GUNS are killing people! Get this right cuz it is coming from the mayor of one of the largest cities in America! GUNS are killing people. It is not whack jobs who use guns, illegal aliens who use guns, Radical Islamist, dope dealers, run of the mill criminals who are killing people. It is the guns fault!

So much for Global Warming

For the nation as a whole, it was the third coolest October on record. The month was marked by an active weather pattern that reinforced unseasonably cold air behind a series of cold fronts. Temperatures were below normal in eight of the nation's nine climate regions, and of the nine, five were much below normal. Only the Southeast climate region had near normal temperatures for October.

How would you like to own stock with this company?

Motors Liquidation Company
Which is owned by NGMCO, Inc

See if you can google search for this company?? Not a whole lot out there?? Weird, I thought my tax dollars when to help "save" GM?

The stuff you find on Youtube?!

The Enemy Within?

Hey, did you know the Ft. Hood Shooter was on the Presidents Homeland Security Transition Team?

Neither did I however check out the name on Pg 29 of this document!

http://www.gwumc.edu/hspi/old/PTTF_ProceedingsReport_05.19.09.pdf

God Bless America!

Something to Ponder

The recent events at Ft. Hood are unfortunate.

While watching FOX news the reporter commented that the name of the shooter was now known, however they did not want to release the name because it may lead to unnecessary speculation. My wife and I looked at each other and almost in unison agreed that the shooters name was not going to be "John Smith" or any other anglo saxon combination. Shame on FOX for not delivering the news/information fair and balanced. My wife jumped on the computer and found the name of the shooter in about 25 seconds. Enshala!

Here is an interesting idea, why not allow officers and senior enlisted carry issued sidearms while on post? You would greatly increase the size and dispersion of security forces on board military installations and may reduce the chances that a lone gunman opening up on unarmed soldiers and sailors with the knowldge that lots of other will be packing.

Nutz' first gig at catering

So, I volunteered my time to cook/cater an event for a friend for a fund raiser.

Was a bit of a Spanish theme with Chicken and Rice. I had fun, and all the guests thought the food rocked. Maybe I am in the wrong career field?

Australia must join Muslim Asia or perish - Taliban

AN official Taliban publication warns Australia that it will have to assimilate into a dominant Asia or face the prospect of being overpowered and forced to take population overspill from Asia.

The Taliban are cooooks!

Conservative and PROUD of it!

12 Billion!

Cheaper then Government medicine and much more effective!

Bullets are speeding faster out of gun shops in U.S.
A SHORTAGE OF AMMUNITION
Demand is up despite drop in crime rate

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By David A. Fahrenthold and Fredrick Kunkle
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

In a year of job losses, foreclosures and bag lunches, Americans have spent record-breaking amounts of money on guns and ammunition. The most obvious sign of their demand: empty ammunition shelves.

At points during the past year, bullets have been selling faster than factories could make them.

Gun owners have bought about 12 billion rounds of ammunition in the past year, industry officials estimate. That's up from 7 billion to 10 billion in a normal year.

Read more

At Least...

Our community thinks like the rest of the state!

Election Day

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Go do your civic duties and vote today!
Every election is important and your vote does count!

Why Pack heat here in Norfolk?

A friend of mine told me of this story yesterday (it actually happened to him). I heard it from the mouth of the person, it is not "hear say."

Mark and his wife went to the car rental place on Norview Ave. and N. Military Hwy. (Budget I think). His wife drove him there and waited out in their car until he came out with the keys to the rental. She was following him home, but got caught at a red light. Mark pulled into the parking lot of the Golden Coral at 6103 N. Military Hwy to wait for his wife.

While waiting, a car pulled up beside him, and a young man asked him if he (Mark) could give him some money. Mark kindly told him "No... not today." The youth then said something like ...then how about I come over there and get it myself...

Mike, a fellow CCW holder, lifted his 380 auto to the window and said "If you do it will be the last move you ever make." The youth smartly sped away in a cloud of dust. Smart move I'd say! [PVC: VCDL VP Jim Snyder noted when when he saw this email: "I hope he called the police and reported the incident"]

Thanks for all you and VCDL do to support our 2nd Amendment rights here in VA!

Cigar Report Rocky Patel "1961"

So there I was dress up and ready to rock on Halloween. I had my princess fairy and my "Wicked" witch on each arm....

Ok, I was really in the rear with the other guys drink beers and pushing strollers loaded with more beers, the perfect time to smoke a fatty while monitoring the looting being conducted by the princess fairy and her gaggle of new friends.

Tonight's selection was another fine cigar from the Cigar Dave Officers Club Program, a Rocky Patel "1961"

Anyhow this was a good burn!
Excellent flavor, all through the smoke to include light up and endgame. Sometimes you know who the last little bit can be like smoking oak leaves. This was a good one that you wanted to burn all the way down to your finger tips.

Went well with the Yungeling I was sipping on, however the 6-7 bottles consumed may have had a little influence on my sensory system.

I would get another RP 1961 if I was out shopping for cigars, in the mean time I have quite a few to puff on in the old humidor!

The fun never ends at Greenies!

OV is a blast! Car fires, murders, car chases, house fires! Come to OV, eat some shrimp at Greenies on the deck and have some fun..Don't forget to pack some heat and bring a camera... You never know what might happen!

Gotta Love the "View"

This picture of a high-speed car chase was taken in front of our house. Our house would be in the bottom left corner (off screen).

The lefts continued attack on Christmas

A Michigan man has filed a federal lawsuit claiming his constitutional rights were violated when he was ordered to remove a Nativity scene from the median of a public road — a creche that his family has displayed at the location for 63 years.

All because of an out of state organization does not like it! Where is the community support?

Tell the Macomb County Road Commission they are crazy to support this!

Send the Freedom from Religion Foundation a piece of your mind!

Now this is interesting?

FY 2010 Defense Bill

"Ending the Department of Defense's pay-for-performance personnel system, the National Security Personnel System or NSPS, restoring employees to the federal General Schedule pay system"

Gov't take over of the internet

We are in a "State of Emergency" and this is how the Fed is going to grab control of the internet and boot FOXNEWS and the likes of Rush! Say bye bye to twitter and facebook as well.

"Experts have for years pointed to the potential problem of Internet access during a severe pandemic, which would be a unique kind of emergency. It would be global, affecting many areas at once, and would last for weeks or months, unlike a disaster such as a hurricane or earthquake."

"The Department of Homeland Security is responsible for ensuring that critical telecommunications infrastructure is protected."

BLOCKING WEBSITES

"Private Internet providers might need government authorization to block popular websites, it said, or to reduce residential transmission speeds to make way for commerce."

The thing to ponder now, how does the internet handle all of the "normal" business traffic?

National Emergency?

So what exactly does this mean?

Time to Start stocking up

The 100-watt incandescent light bulb will be banned in the U.S. starting Jan. 1, 2012, under energy legislation signed by President Bush. The law bans 75-, 60- and 40-watt bulbs by 2014.

What would Thomas Edison think?

I think I would rather pay 68 cents for a 100watt bulb then 16 dollars for mercury filled "environmentally friendly" POS!

Read what happened in Germany in July

Quotes from GW

"I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery." --George Washington

This we will defend!

Any military officer worth their salt should have had a conversation amoungst their peers concerning this. When do you call a bullshit order a bullshit order and stand your ground? Pulling the trigger on the American people could end up very badly for federal troops and the government leadership. - Nutz

Our oath is to the Constitution, not to the politicians, and not to any political party. In the long-standing tradition of the U.S. military, we are apolitical. We don’t care if unlawful orders come from a Democrat or a Republican, or if the violation is bi-partisan. We will not obey unconstitutional (and thus unlawful) and immoral orders, such as orders to disarm the American people or to place them under martial law. We won’t “just follow orders.” Our motto: “Not on Our Watch!” or to put it even more succinctly, in the words of 101st Airborne Commander General Anthony McAuliffe at the Battle of the Bulge, “NUTS!”

There is at this time a debate within the ranks of the military regarding their oath. Some mistakenly believe they must follow any order the President issues. But many others do understand that their loyalty is to the Constitution and to the people, and understand what that means.

Fitting for the times?

"There is no way to rule innocent men. The only power 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."
— Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged."

You know my neighbor Scotty was reading this 1000 page book a while back... He said it was pretty good. Maybe I should add it to my pile of "to reads"

Road trip with Mules!

Nutz and Crackerz were recently out in western Virginia on a road trip down a country road for several miles, not saying a word.
An earlier discussion had led to an argument and neither of them wanted to concede their position.
As they passed a barnyard of mules, goats, and pigs, the Crackerz asked sarcastically, 'Relatives of yours?'
'Yep,'Nutz replied, 'in-laws.'

The Fall of the Almighty Dollar

I guess we can thank the Anointed one for this!

"The dollar slumped to a 14-month low against the euro on Wednesday, pushing the price of gold to a record high and crude oil futures above 75 dollars for the first time in a year."

So when you see prices at the pump, remember, the president controls the monetary system, well at least has a large vote by appointing the Fed Chairman. A crappy dollar means more dollars are needed to buy the same amount of oil!

And as the libs pointed out Bush controlled oil prices to help republicans so that must mean Obama now controls oil prices and he is sticking it to the poor in the form of fuel tax.. Which is at 18.5 cents per gallon.

So an average 10 gallon tank of gas is costing you a $1.85 in taxes! Multiply that by 2.28 cars per house hold and 1 ten gallon tank per car per week = $4.21 or $219.33 annually in fuel taxes per family. Assuming that there are 100 million family's in the US, total revenue from personal vehicle fuel taxes would be just shy of $22 Billion annually!

Taking a swag at the cost per mile to build a highway in the US say $2million per mile averaging of course, the Government could build 11,000 miles of new interstate in 1 year on federal fuel taxes alone. That is roughly 4 new interstates from New York to California roughly 2700 miles!

Interesting.. Anyhow I hope you like purchasing your gas in Swiss Franc!

Send a Fax to your Congressman the Nerd way

Send a fax, kill some trees, keep the Axe Men in Washgington state employed!
1. What is my senators fax number they are published here!
2. Ok quick type out a quick letter to your congressman.

Dear Senator Webb:
I am a constituent of your here in the Common Wealth of Virginia. I think new health care bill is a waste of our tax dollars. Please oppose the Baucus legislation.

PS. If the government is having issues getting the new bill on line, please send to my address via US Mail ( I hear they are hurting for business) and my 2yr old will scan to PDF and post directly to the web in about 20 minutes!

Sincerely,
NUTZ

2. Save your word file some place you can find it like on the desk top.
3. Go to faxzero.com and follow the onscreen directions
4. You will get a quick email back from faxzero confirming the fax you are sending. Be sure to open the email and click on the link.

That is it, your fax has been sent!

Media Hypocracy 102

Rush and the NFL...

A bummer that Rush Limbaugh is getting such a bad rap for wanting to purchase an NFL team. More power to him if he has the cash! It is very hypocritical of the media to give Rush a hard time when the NFL and the media welcomes back the likes of Michael Vick a convicted felon and the multitude of other players who have done hard time for a crime.

You go Rush!

Listen to him live on WNIS 790AM here in the Tidewater

Brady Center speaks.....

Why does the Brady Center want to leave the innocent unprotected?

"It is a case that calls out for common sense," Brady Center attorney Daniel Vice said then. "It's ridiculous to bring a gun to a child's soccer game."

So, the Brady center must think it is also ridiculous to bring a gun to child's classroom or a center of higher learning or a National Forrest?

So, all of you police officers, leave your bullet launchers at home, it is ridiculous to bring a gun where children are present, especially you police officers at Virginia Tech, and Columbine HS Colorado, The Amish School in PA, and the school at Winnenden Germany and many others!

"Children were sitting at their tables, with pencils still in their hands, their heads fallen over on the table," said regional police director Ralf Michelfelder, describing the grisly scene that his officers found. "Most of them had shots in their head — it must have all happened in seconds."

NUTZ: Too bad the police were minutes away when seconds counted to stop this needless act of violence. Why does the Brady Center want to prevent people from being able to protect themselves from criminals?

Still not convinced, the Brady Center should also be complicent in the recent murder of two Virginia Tech students in The Jefferson National Forrest.

Friday, August 28th 2009,

Virginia Tech students David Lee Metzler, Heidi Lynn Child found slain at Jefferson National Forest

Jul 30, 2009

Washington, DC - A federal court today permanently vacated a last-minute Bush Administration rule allowing the carrying of loaded, concealed firearms in national parks and wildlife refuges. Responding to lawsuits filed by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and parks groups, the court had previously issued a temporary injunction staying enforcement of the Bush rule, finding that the rule was “astoundingly flawed” and issued in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act.

I am sure Mike Peters of Mother Goose and Grimm would like to redue his strip from August 31st 2009

Is your Kid safe today?

Founder's Quote

"If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them." --Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772


How about that health care bill? Kiss you health savings account good bye!

The loss of the Almighty Dollar?

Is this part of the plan for the "new" global currency?

So when does anarchy run rampant?

*Obama's First Seven Months' Accomplishments*

1. Offended the Queen of England.
2. Bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia.
3. Praised the Marxist Daniel Ortega.
4. Kissed Socialist Hugo Chavez on the cheek.
5. Endorsed the Socialist Evo Morales of Bolivia.
6. Sided with Hugo Chavez and Communist Fidel Castro against
Honduras.
7. Announced we would meet with Iranians with no pre-conditions
while they're building their nuclear weapons.
8. Gave away billions to AIG also without pre-conditions.
9. Expanded the bailouts.
10. Insulted everyone who has ever loved a Special Olympian.
11. Doubled our national debt.
12. Announced the termination of our new missile defense system the
day after North Korea launched an ICBM.
13. Released information on U.S. intelligence gathering despite
urgings of his own CIA director and the prior four CIA directors.
14. Accepted without comment that five of his cabinet members
cheated on their taxes and two other nominees withdrew after they
couldn't take the heat.
15. Appointed a Homeland Security Chief who identified military
veterans and abortion opponents as "dangers to the nation."
16. Ordered that the word "terrorism" no longer be used and instead
refers to such acts as "man made disasters."
17. Circled the globe to publicly apologize for America's world
leadership..
18. Told the Mexican president that the violence in their country
was because of us.
19. Politicized the census by moving it into the White House from
the Department of Commerce.
20. Appointed as Attorney General the man who orchestrated the
forced removal and expulsion to Cuba of a 9-year-old whose mother
died trying to bring him to freedom in the United States.
21. Salutes as heroes three Navy SEALS who took down three
terrorists who threatened one American life and the next day
announces members of the Bush administration may stand trial for
"torturing" three 9/11 terrorists by pouring water up their noses.
22. Low altitude photo shoot of Air Force One over New York City
that frightened thousands of New Yorkers.
23. Sent his National Defense Advisor to Europe to assure them that
the US will no longer treat Israel in a special manner and they
might be on their own with the Muslims.
24. Praised Jimmy Carter's trip to Gaza where he sided with
terrorist Hamas against Israel.
25. Nationalized General Motors and Chrysler while turning
shareholder control over to the unions and freezing out retired
investors who owned their bonds. Committed unlimited taxpayer
billions in the process.
26. Passed a huge energy tax in the House that will make American
industry even less competitive while costing homeowners thousands
per year.
27. Announced nationalized health care "reform" that will strip
seniors of their Medicare, cut pay of physicians, increase taxes yet
another $1 trillion, and put everyone on rationed care with
government bureaucrats deciding who gets care and who doesn't. (See
cartoon.)

Daschle says, "Health care reform will not be pain free.
Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with
age instead of treating them," while former Colorado Governor Dick
Lamm says seniors have "a duty to die."

If this does not sufficiently raise your ire, just remember that the
President, Senators and Congressmen have their own special gold
plated health care plan which is guaranteed the remainder of their
lives and they are */not subject to this new law if they pass it/.*

Please use the power of the Internet to get this message out. Talk
it up at the grassroots level. We have an election coming up in one
year and two months where we can reverse the dangerous direction of
the Obama administration and its allies. In the interim, we can
make their lives miserable. Lets do it!

If you disagree, don't do anything.

--
The Second Amendment is in place in case the
politicians ignore the others.

A little humor to lighten the mood!

A cowboy from Texas attends a social function where Barack Obama is trying to gather more support for his Health Plan.

Once he discovers the cowboy is from President Bush's home area, he starts to belittle him by talking in a southern drawl and single syllable words.

As he was doing that, he kept swatting at some flies that were buzzing around his head. The cowboy says, "Y'all havin' some problem with them circle flies?"

Obama stopped talking and said, "Well, yes, if that's what they're
called, but I've never heard of circle flies."

"Well Sir," the cowboy replies, "circle flies hang around ranches.
They're called circle flies because they're almost always found circling around the back end of a horse."

"Oh," Obama replies as he goes back to rambling. But, a moment later he stops and bluntly asks, "Are you calling me a horse's ass?"

 "No, Sir," the cowboy replies, "I have too much respect for the citizens of this country to call their President a horse's ass."

"That's a good thing," Obama responds and begins rambling on once more.

After a long pause, the cowboy, in his best Texas drawl says, "Hard to fool them flies, though."

The New Battle Hymn of the Republic

Fox News Scorching Rivals

Bette Midler sees Civil war starting by asking Reasonable Questions in Unreasonable Times

Bette Midler Warns Glenn Beck Could Set Off a Rwanda-Like Civil War in U.S.
from NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias by Jeff Poor

It's just what the primetime cable news lineup needed - another hour-long program tilted toward left-of-center politics with character assassination on conservatives.

CNN Headline News debuted its "The Joy Behar Show" on Sept. 29, which included appearances by lefty comedian Jeanane Garofalo, CNN's Jack Cafferty and actress Bette Midler. Garofalo doubled down on her low regard for conservative 9/12 and tea party protesters, labeling them as racists. Cafferty went after President Barack Obama for his disregard of the carbon footprint his lobbying efforts in Copenhagen for Chicago to host the 2016 Summer Olympics.

However, actress-turned-Vegas entertainer Bette Midler went straight after former CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck. She was prodded by host Joy Behar, who mentioned Beck as someone who is encouraging a breakdown in so-called "political discourse."

"Someone like Glenn Beck has made gazillions of dollars because he's out there being sort of hateful in many ways," Behar said. "He calls himself a clown and a comedian. Do you think it's funny?"

Midler confirmed what one would probably expect - she's not a fan of Beck at all.

"I don't think he's funny even a little bit," Midler said. "I've never had a laugh from Glenn Beck. In fact, I find him terrifying. I find him terrifying. He's like an old school demagogue, and it's really frightening."

What did Midler compare Beck to? She likened the popular Fox News host to the instigators of the Rwandan civil war, which was the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide where an estimated 800,000 to 1 million lost their lives.

"If you look around at the rest of the world and what this kind of behavior has done, like in Rwanda, where the demagogues got on the radio and fomented all that hate between the Tutsis and the Hutus and the devastation that happened from that, I mean, it's terrifying," Midler said.

According to Midler, that's a possibility in the United States.

"And that could happen, you know, you could turn on a dime," Midler warned. "That could happen here."

Behar reminded Midler the United States is a society that has free speech. However, according to Midler Beck isn't exercising free speech. He exercising hate speech she maintained.

"I don't think hate speech is so free," Midler said. "I'm not for censorship. But I also feel like, be a human being."

Behar explained basic civics to Midler - that what she deems "hate speech" is constitutionally protected. Midler blamed the education system for that sort of rhetoric.

"I think that the people who are educated to be civil are civil," Midler continued. "That's all there is to it. And people who are not educated in any way, who are just a little on the barbaric side, what can you do? But that's the fault of the education system, I think, and the way they're brought

How can politicians be so mean to the Environment?

J.R. Tolbert of the Environmental Virginia was quite happy in his recent letter to the editor of the Virginian-pilot concerning the recent legislation supported by Virginia Senators Webb and Warner.

Supposedly our Senators voted to prohibit offshore oil drilling and exploration along the Virginia coast. So we will have to continue to import oil from far off distant lands from countries that care less about their environment then we Americans do.

The Tankers which bring us the oil will spew tons of burned hydrocarbons into the air. Fish, whales, plankton and untold numbers of marine life will be killed by the tanker directly or from its wastes. All because there is the perception that drilling for oil off the coast of the United States MAY cause harm to the environment. What we are doing now is very harmful to the environment. Plus it is hard on our pocketbook. Why do people like "Environment Virginia" and our elected politicians want to hurt our environment and our pocketbooks?


"Clean beaches Sometimes little-heralded, arcane votes in Congress affect people’s lives and livelihoods more than the ones that are easier to report. Just such a vote occurred on Sept. 24 in the U.S. Senate. Sens. Jim Webb and Mark Warner helped save our beaches and ocean from offshore drilling damage. They defeated an effort by Big Oil and its allies to fast-track a hastily drawn Bush-era drilling plan that would have opened millions of acres of Virginia’s ocean for offshore drilling starting next year. Beachgoers, recreational fishermen, commercial fishermen, hotels, restaurants and tourism businesses all along our shores can thank Warner and Webb for keeping our coast clean and ocean healthy by defeating this measure. J.R. Tolbert Environment Virginia Richmond"

Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling

Too bad it's not in U.S. waters.

From the WSJ


You read that headline correctly. Unfortunately, the Obama Administration is financing oil exploration off Brazil.

The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil's Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. Brazil's planning minister confirmed that White House National Security Adviser James Jones met this month with Brazilian officials to talk about the loan.

The U.S. Export-Import Bank tells us it has issued a "preliminary commitment" letter to Petrobras in the amount of $2 billion and has discussed with Brazil the possibility of increasing that amount. Ex-Im Bank says it has not decided whether the money will come in the form of a direct loan or loan guarantees. Either way, this corporate foreign aid may strike some readers as odd, given that the U.S. Treasury seems desperate for cash and Petrobras is one of the largest corporations in the Americas.

But look on the bright side. If President Obama has embraced offshore drilling in Brazil, why not in the old U.S.A.? The land of the sorta free and the home of the heavily indebted has enormous offshore oil deposits, and last year ahead of the November elections, with gasoline at $4 a gallon, Congress let a ban on offshore drilling expire.

The Bush Administration's five-year plan (2007-2012) to open the outer continental shelf to oil exploration included new lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico. But in 2007 environmentalists went to court to block drilling in Alaska and in April a federal court ruled in their favor. In May, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said his department was unsure whether that ruling applied only to Alaska or all offshore drilling. So it asked an appeals court for clarification. Late last month the court said the earlier decision applied only to Alaska, opening the way for the sale of leases in the Gulf. Mr. Salazar now says the sales will go forward on August 19.

This is progress, however slow. But it still doesn't allow the U.S. to explore in Alaska or along the East and West Coasts, which could be our equivalent of the Tupi oil fields, which are set to make Brazil a leading oil exporter. Americans are right to wonder why Mr. Obama is underwriting in Brazil what he won't allow at home.

Another Rant from Big John!

Yep, this series of events came and went in the Obama administration without so much as a whisper by the media, even by Fox News network, which is showing increasing signs of pressure from the Obama administration. As I wrote just this past Sunday, our government has had the information about the second Iranian nuclear processing facility since the Bush administration; but, the Obama clan chose to release the facts to the American people a day after Ahmadinejad spoke at the UN. Why do you think that press release was timed like that?

Was the release timed so that there would not be a ground swell of anger in the US? Would it have made this administration look even sillier than they do now, negotiating with folks who say they want to slit your throat and burn your body?

Obama could have released the information on the second processing facility at any time. He also could have reacted to the rebellion against the mullahs in Iran just months ago. He elected not to get involved, saying that we didn't want to be seen getting involved in Iranian internal affairs. Yep, we wouldn't want to spoil the chances of getting the mullahs over to the White House for Bar-b-q and sweet tea, would we? Let me see, over the years, we captured high ranking members of the Iranian special forces in Iraq along with weapons caches literally stamped "Made in Iran." Our military commanders confirmed that Iranian-made IED's were blowing-up men and women in our military. As an after thought, Obama could have released the information about the second Iranian nuclear processing facility during the youthful revolt, but he chose not to. Why? Oh yeah, it would have made him look pretty silly, wouldn't it?

Finally, it would appear that the stage has been set for an Israeli raid on Tehran with the inevitable skyrocketing of oil prices which are bound to throw the economy into deep recession / depression. If you're a committed Marxist / Socialist, chaos is a good thing. The Israeli strike will produce a number of behind-the-lines attacks by radical Muslims in cities across America. Did we just uncover four serious plots? Obama will address the people in his best tele-prompted manner and announce that, for the good of the country, he is instituting his idea for a "National Civilian Security Force" until "normalcy" returns. If you've forgotten that speech, google Obama, 2 July 2008, speech on National Civilian Security Force. Who better to get this force kicked-off than the thousands of members of ACORN and the SEIU. Now there's a nucleus of fighting men and women for you! ACORN members with RPG's?

With Obama already seizing the automakers, banks and trying to get health care directly under his control, he will announce a number of economic policy "imperatives" after the economic chaos caused by the high oil prices that puts everything but local landscaping companies directly under government control. No, come to think of it, the SEIU will want to unionize all those folks, so that segment of the economy will be socialized as well.

We're screwed!