Post Scripts

Posted by Jack

A 76-year-old woman was killed in a shootout as three thugs tried to rob her outside her South Carolina home in the early hours of Saturday. Dorothy Hendrix was shot twice, but she managed to shoot one of her assailants in the stomach before dying of her wounds.

Steven Hagood, Tereba Geer, and Bradacious Galloway have all been charged with murder. See Picture below. On the far right is Ms Hendrix.

‘She fought. She was a fighter. She shot him,’ the victim’s brother, Ronnie Lollis, told WYFF News Channel 4. Ms Hendrix, who was known as Dot to her friends, had been returning to her Anderson County home at 1am when the gang allegedly tried to rob her.

A neighbor called police after hearing the gunshots, but Ms Hendrix died outside her home while a relative held her hand.

Hagood, who she shot in the stomach, was taken to hospital where he is under guard. As well as being charged with murder, the 33-year-old has been served with a family bench warrant for unpaid child support of $80,000. He was also charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. Hendrix brother thinks they are the same three that robbed her once before. After the first robbery Hendrix purchased a handgun and obtained a permit to carry it legally.

President Obama, Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton are not expected to offer any comments on this shooting…seems there’s nothing to be gained. It’s strange that these three were actually armed with guns. I have to wonder, didn’t they know that it was illegal to carry guns to rob people? I bet they didn’t have a gun safe in their home either.

Posted by Tina

The big federal bureaucracy in the hands of central planners has been engaging in overreach that boggles the mind of freedom loving patriots all around this great nation. The latest comes from the FDA which has taken it upon itself to order a private company to end its activity…the reasons given are lame to say the least. The Weekly Standard Scrapbook fills us in on the details:

It’s difficult to think of a company doing anything as gee-whiz neat as 23andMe. The Mountain View, Calif., firm, which opened its doors to the public in 2007, provides comprehensive genetic tests to anybody with $99 to spend. Customers send in a saliva sample and about six weeks later get access to a detailed website explaining their unique genetic code along with an opportunity to connect with (usually distant) relatives who have also done business with 23andMe. For those who use it, the results are endlessly fascinating; for scientists, the company’s trove of genetic data is hugely valuable. And that’s why it’s outrageous that the Food and Drug Administration has ordered 23andMe to stop selling its kits.

What is the problem with citizens discovering their genetic heritage? They might do something rash…or force their doctor to do something rash:

As an example, the FDA speculates that false positive markers for breast cancer could lead women to “undergo prophylactic surgery, chemoprevention, intensive screening.”

As the Weekly Standard points out this notion is patently absurd since doctors would not perform such procedures without conducting their own extensive tests.

It’s more likely that the public bureaucrats can’t abide citizens having private control in these matters and certainly private business should not operate outside the control of the all powerful state.

Freedom people…it matters.

Posted by Tina

In a story that warms the heart Fox News tells of the generosity of Cattlemen in states like Montana, Wyoming and North Dakota who have come to the rescue of their neighbors:

Hope on hooves is arriving in South Dakota, one heifer at a time.

A month after a freak blizzard dumped up to 4 feet of snow in western South Dakota, killing about 14,000 cattle, 45 donated cattle from Montana designed to serve as breeding stock were sent on Friday to ranchers in The Mount Rushmore State. Another 400 cattle, including yearling and bred heifers worth as much as $75,000, have also been sent to South Dakota from neighboring Montana, Wyoming and North Dakota to help the afflicted ranchers get back on their feet ahead of the looming harsh winter.

“The support from other states has been phenomenal,” Silvia Christen, executive director of the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association, told FoxNews.com early Monday. “We have volunteers from in the state who have helped with cleanup, we have people from surrounding states who shipped heifers and about $1.5 million has been donated to the Rancher Relief Fund.”

Kudos to the people of these states who reflect the can-do, individual spirit that built America!

Posted by Tina

“When I first ran for president I said it was time for a new era of American leadership in the world, one that turned the page on a decade of war and began a new era of our engagement with the world.” – President barrack Obama

While President Obama patted himself on the back, as if Iran is our new best friend, Iran announced to the world that soon the U.S. and Iran will share a Chamber of Commerce:

Member of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture Abolfazl Hejazi:

“Iran-U.S. chamber of commerce will be launched in less than one month”.

Hejazi also said that the government has authorized the private sector to launch joint activities and that Iran was ready to establish direct flights to the United States. He stressed that establishing a direct flight line to the US is necessary for resuming trade ties. He said the planes will take off from Kish Island to land in New York and vice versa. “This is because the Island is a free trade zone and Iranian passengers who have US citizenship will not need to obtain visas to enter it.” He added that on the island, they can apply for visa to visit other parts of the country. Currently, the flight line will be established for economic purposes, he stressed. “It will enable us to export domestic products to the US and import high-tech products and raw materials from the country”

Sounds cozy, huh?

Some of us who live in the real world have to wonder what the President could possibly be thinking. Indications that Iran is America’s friend are nowhere to be found. Instead there are countless examples that show Iran’s intentions are not friendly.

Investors.com reports:

Proliferation: As we shutter our ICBM squadrons and destroy our silos, Iran and North Korea are working on technology to deliver nukes Pyongyang already has and Tehran is a few centrifuge rotations from acquiring.

As Bill Gertz of the Washington Free Beacon reports, groups of technicians from the Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group (SHIG), a unit in charge of building Iran’s liquid-fueled missiles, have made repeated trips to North Korea during the past several months, including as recently as late October, to work on a new 80-ton rocket booster being developed by the North Koreans.

That booster is believed to be the foundation for a new heavy-lift missile with intercontinental range and capable of carrying a large nuclear warhead. It would be far more capable than Pyongyang’s Taepodong or Iran’s Shahab missile series.

The booster was described by one official as a thruster for a “super ICBM” or a heavy-lift space launcher. “It is completely new from what they have done so far,” he added.

The L.A. Times reported this morning that Jamaican authorities intercepted and seized 3,300 warhead missiles while we feasted on turkey dinner:

Jamaican authorities have seized 3,300 warheads and a missile-making machine at the port of Kingston and sought help from international police in tracking the shipper, Jamaican media reported Friday.

The unauthorized arms shipment was discovered Thursday afternoon in a police and customs operation carried out at a berth of Kingston Wharves, the RJR News site reported.

A high-level investigation has been launched, and Jamaican police have asked for assistance from international law enforcement, the news service said.

Our president does read his security briefs right? That’s what we’re told.

Last summer, NBC’s World News reported another shipment:

A North Korean cargo ship was stopped near the Panama Canal and searched on suspicion of drugs, but it was carrying something sweeter — the apparent parts of a surface-to-air missile system, hidden inside containers of brown sugar.

The State Department said any shipment of arms or related material aboard the freighter would violate at least three U.N. resolutions.

The ship was on its way home from Cuba. Panamanian authorities said the captain of the ship tried to kill himself after officials boarded it Monday and began searching the containers that were supposed to contain the sugar.

Vladimir Putin is tickled pink over the deal and why not, we are apparently now allied with Russia against Israel:

MOSCOW, November 24 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday praised a last-minute agreement between Iran and the six international negotiators on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.

“The agreement is a balanced list of measures and it will certainly have a positive influence on the development of the international situation, especially in the Middle Eastern region,” Putin said in a statement as quoted by the Kremlin.

Our border with Mexico is porous. Last March the Arizona Capitol Times disputed, but also duly reported terror threats at the US Border with Mexico:

I would like to emphatically state that there is indeed ample evidence of terrorist activity coming across the border, including activity by Hezbollah. For example, on Feb. 2, former Chief of Operations for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, Michael Braun, testified before Congress about Iran’s growing influence along the southern United States Border.

Braun testified that the terrorist group, Hezbollah, has developed strong, sophisticated relationships with Mexican drug cartels. “And by developing those relations it provides them with the ability to operate far from home in our neighborhood and – as I said earlier – on our doorstep,” he replied.

At the same hearing, “Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, committee member and chairman of the Homeland Security Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, asked about Hezbollah’s relationship to criminal organizations in the Western Hemisphere and what it means for U.S. security. Braun replied with the warning that those relationships allow “these groups to operate freely in our neighborhood” and said the U.S. would regret it if the threats were not taken seriously.”

Hello…Iran is the worlds greatest sponsor of terror…not a country to be trusted.

I ask again….what exactly was it that Obama meant when he said to Dmitri Medvedev, “I’ll have more flexibility after the election” while both were attending talks on missile defense?

It could be we’re on schedule to find out that “fundamental transformation” involves the darkest of dark realities.

Posted by Tina

Charles Hurt offers us a rare Thanksgiving treat in the form of an article featuring the founder George Mason titled, “Let us all give thanks for George Mason and the Bill of Rights”. It’s an informative read and a welcome change from the contentions of modern day political events:

…Commonly referred to as the “forgotten founder,” George Mason IV had a fair amount of contempt for politics. Especially politicians. It was a dirty, grubby affair that attracted mostly dirty, grubby people.

In other words, Mason was clairvoyant.

He would certainly recognize today’s crop of sleazy hucksters peddling free lunch, free money and free health care. And when the whole fraudulent scheme collapses of its own weight, the hucksters blame it on the people who warned it would collapse.

Mason authored the Virginia Declaration of Rights. Deemed “the first and greatest charter of human liberty ever penned by man,” Mason’s list of rights inspired Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence.

Take a break from holiday preparations to take in the wonder of Mason’s ideals…we owe him thanks for The Bill of Rights.

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Posted by Jack

The USS Virginia-class submarines are the United States newest and most advanced submarine. The first Virginia slipped beneath the waves just eight years ago and only nine vessels have been completed. They take more than five years to build and run about $2.4 billion apiece. The Virginia-class submarine is a new breed of high-tech post-Cold War nuclear subs. The submarines are nearly 400 feet long and have been in service since 2003.

The ships were designed to function well in both deep sea and low-depth waters. So far, nine have entered service.

Here (right) is a drawing showing how a pump-jet propulsor replaces the conventional propeller and makes the sub much quieter and more stealthy. This design cuts back on corrosive damage. The engine room, near the sub’s stern, is the place where power from the SG9 nuclear reactor core drives the ship to nearly 32 mph when it’s submerged.

Submariners eat well – the quality of the food is designed to offset the stress and burden of living underwater for months at a time. As one sailor said, “It’s like having comfort food 24-hours a day.

The command center on the Virginia subs are much more spacious compared previous submarines. The command center doesn’t have to be directly under the deck of the ship in the Virginia-class subs because there isn’t a periscope. The monitor the Commander uses is the sub’s “periscope” – a state-of-the-art photonics system, which enables real time imaging that more than one person can see at a time.

The Virginia eliminates the traditional helmsman, planesman, chief of the watch and diving officer by combining them into two stations manned by two officers. The subs are equipped with a spherical sonar array that scans a full 360-degrees.

Pretty cool, eh?

Posted by Tina

Despite the declaration at the end of all movies with animals in them that, “no animal has been harmed in the making of this film,” a report has emerged that paints a much different and gruesome picture. John Nolte of Breitbart picks up on the story exploded today on the pages of “The Hollywood Reporter”:

Charges of improper coziness between the AHA and the entertainment business have been raised before. The arrangement by which the Film & TV Unit’s budget has been mostly financed — through what is currently a $2.4 million grant administered by two trade groups, the recently merged SAG-AFTRA actors’ union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers via its shared Industry Advancement and Cooperative Fund — long has been criticized for the inherent conflict of interest present in Hollywood bankrolling its regulator. (The IACF is endowed as part of the producers’ obligation to the actors’ union.)

This unique compact, in which a nonprofit has taken on the role of a regulator of industry in lieu of more traditional, government oversight — and therefore is not subject to public disclosure laws, allowing its work to mostly remain shrouded in secrecy — means the AHA is accountable only to Hollywood itself.

Nolte writes, “According to THR’s sources (current and former AHA employees; leaked documents and emails), this coziness has resulted in more than just looking the other way; cover ups are standing operating procedure and one AHA official alleges she was fired for attempting to protect animals from mistreatment on the set of the HBO series Luck.”

Honesty and integrity are in short supply these days…lefty organizations that are supposed to be protecting animals may be one of the lowest examples if these allegations are true.

by Jack Lee

A Chico native and recent U.S. Navy recruit, earns the Navy Hall of Fame award. It has been confirmed before a crowd of thousands, while broadcast live on the internet, the USN Division 18, an all volunteer graduating class at the the Great Lakes Naval Training Center, has made the Navy Hall of Fame. This award is for their overall outstanding physical and academic performance. No other class has achieved this honor for over twenty years.

USN’s recruit, Miles Satterfield, was a 2010 graduate of Pleasant Valley High School and was among 79 other new recruits attached to Div-18 that won this prestigious honor.

His proud parents (Gary and Cassandra) watched the graduation ceremonies on the internet from their home in Chico.

Seaman recruit Satterfield, now promoted to Seaman Apprentice, was instrumental in leading his class to score high marks in a number of critical exercises that included mock battle stations on-board a training ship and ship-board fire fighting. He also bested the required high standards for a Navy rescue swimmer during basic training. Satterfield was a highly regarded competitive swimmer while on the PV swim team.

Satterfield will soon leave the Great Lakes for nearly two years of advanced training at Pensacola, Fl. His field of study will be in high-tech electronics, specifically aircraft avionics. During this time he hopes to earn his Navy wings as an air crew member. Being certified for air crew is not easy, it requires a lot of physical ability to pass the Navy’s escape and evasion course, which involves living off the land for days without food, water or shelter while being hunted by an op-force often made up of Navy Seals.

Satterfield’s school of choice is one of the Navy’s most challenging schools. It required exceptionally high scores on the ASVAB, a standardized test used by the military to determine a recruit’s education, aptitude and overall suitability. Satterfield scored in the top 3% of his peers.

A group picture and plaque will be on permanent display at the Great Lakes Training Center noting Div-18’s high achievement award.

And now the story after the story….

Mile’s mother told me that he made a great decision to enlist in the Navy. Despite the normal parental concerns about how difficult the training would be, their son rose to the occasion and did just fine. Miles called home after the graduation and told his parents boot camp wasn’t so bad, he actually enjoyed most of it. His Mom then repeated exactly what he told her, “To make it, you listen to your RDC, then you do it exactly as you are told, it’s that simple.” Listening and doing as told… this is one of those great life lessons that sometimes gets lost on those who feel [entitled] to get by without making any sacrifice, his mom said. He also told his Mom and Dad, “In the Navy if you show up on time, you’re already late!” (Another good life lesson) If there was ever any question about what it takes to make it in this world, the Navy removed all doubt! They instilled the kind of values and work ethics our kids need these days and I can’t thank them enough for what they have done for my son. They backed up everything we’ve been saying! Satterfield told his parents, “It doesn’t matter that much what my job will be, I just want to serve my country.”

I could have stopped right there, but you know me, I always have to put my two cents worth in! Because sometimes, when this country looks like it’s falling apart, along comes a good story like this one. A story about honorable young Americans and it restores a little of our lost faith. But, perhaps more importantly, it ought to remind us of who we are, where we came from and what made us the best country in the world. Then, whenever the opportunity permits, we ought to remind our politicians… so they get it too! It’s time we embrace what is good and start fixing what isn’t…and as Mile’s Mom says, “It’s just that simple.”

Posted by Tina

Only a died in the wool Marxist would say Barack Obama is moderate in his thinking and goals…or a liar who gets his kicks playing the public.