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!