Like Airplanes?

http://www.airchallenge.com/video/offical-trailer-2013

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Support Syrian Rebels? Watch This Video

http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZqJfFrkzf8I

 

 

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A Must Read Letter to the NAACP…Wow!

http://www.news-press.com/assets/pdf/A4208683718.PDF

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Voter Fraud Exposed in a Big Way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILJDudUpct0

You need to watch this video (thanks Peggy for finding it).  This exposes flaws in our system that has lead to voter fraud.  Democrats would like to keep those flaws and make them even worse with motor-voter laws.  Democrats don’t oversight because they benifit from illegal votes.  The non-citizens are told they to support because democrats support open immigration and many lavish benefits for them.  The Republican’s by comparison have little to offer.

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Detroit, a Stunning Example of Liberalism

Posted with comments by Jack

“Washington Post columnist George Will took on proponents of federal assistance for Detroit, which declared bankruptcy earlier this month.  They’re asking for about $2.5 billion dollars for what could be a very temporary bailout.”   From “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” on ABC. 

According to Will, the city isn’t undergoing a fiscal crisis, but is facing a much more serious cultural one, which is the source of its woes.

detroitchief“We can’t solve the problems because the problems are cultural.   You have a city, 139 square miles. You can graze cattle in vast portions of it. Dangerous herds of feral dogs roam in there. You have 3 percent of fourth graders reading at the national standards. Forty-seven percent of Detroit residents are functionally illiterate. Seventy-nine percent of Detroit children are born to unmarried mothers. They don’t have a fiscal problem, Steve. They have a cultural collapse.”   Detroit’s crime rate is the highest it’s been in 20 years.  Detroit’s total of 411 homicides in 2012, up from 377 the previous year, includes 386 criminal homicides and 25 “justifiable homicides” that included three shootings by police, according to numbers released by the city.   Detroit’s Mayor Bing ( shown left) said, “We’ve lost respect for life.” 

Detroit’s Police Chief Logan seemed to support gun ownership when he said, “These aren’t the average citizens we are talking about,” Logan said. “Many of these people are involved in nefarious walks of life, and there’s a difference between a law-abiding citizen who shoots a gun and a criminal or a thug who’s out there using one.”

The Nation magazine editor, far left Katrina vanden Heuvel, objected to Will’s analysis, arguing Detroit was more a victim of deindustrialization. ( Detroit’s citizens were having serious trouble even during the good years of the auto industryThere was too much corruption and too little personal responsibility by the voters.  )

I find that really insulting to the people of Detroit. I think there’s a serious discussion about the future of cities in a time of deindustrialization. But in many ways, Detroit has been a victim of market forces, and I think what Steve [Ratner] said is so critical. Retirees and workers should not bear this. And it should not be about greedy public unions and fiscal responsibility.” problemchild  (It’s not Ms vanden Heuvel and it never has been- it’s all about democrat politics and a dangerous society that chased away the good people and broke everything they touched.)

Will referenced an op-ed in the July 20 New York Times by Steve Rattner, President Barack Obama’s former so-called auto bailout czar. In it, Rattner insists on aiding the Motor City, however, he did cite self-governance as one of the areas where Detroit residents are responsible.

“What Steve said in his op-ed was ‘the people of Detroit are no more to blame than the victims of Hurricane Sandy, because apart from voting,’ you said,” Will added. “Well, what did they vote for? For 60 years, they voted for incompetents, malcontents and in some cases, criminals.” (How is pouring billions of taxpayer dollars into Detroit’s empty coffers going to fix that? The voters are responsible. You vote stupid – you get what you deserve. And for decades the voters of Detroit supported incompetent and corrupt politicians because they wanted something for nothing.   America would be better served if Detroit was left as an example of what happens when liberals give away other people’s wealth. )

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Isn’t This Odd?

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Email and Your Right to Privacy

Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA, codified at 18 U.S.C. §§ 2510-2522) was enacted by the United States Congress to extend government restrictions on wire taps from telephone calls to include transmissions of electronic data by computer. Specifically, ECPA was an amendment to Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (the Wiretap Statute), which was primarily designed to prevent unauthorized government access to private electronic communications.

The ECPA also added new provisions prohibiting access to stored electronic communications, i.e., the Stored Communications Act,18 U.S.C. §§ 2701-12. The ECPA also included so-called pen/trap provisions that permit the tracing of telephone communications. §§ 3121-27. The ECPA has been amended by the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) (1994), the USA PATRIOT Act (2001), the USA PATRIOT reauthorization acts (2006), and the FISA Amendments Act (2008)

For definitions as may be relevant to the ECPA please refer to 18 U.S.C.A. § 2510(12)

SIMPLY PUT, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS PROHIBITED BY THE CONSTITUTION AND FURTHER, BY FEDERAL LAW, FROM CASTING A BROAD NET THAT VIOLATES YOUR RIGHT PRIVACY UNDER THE PRETEXT OF DETECTING CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.   It is clearly illegal as referenced above, however for unknown reasons the White Press releases and the Attorney General, Eric holder, have emphatically and repeatedly stated they have a right to inspect electronic communication under the pretext of national security and they deny that ECPA is applicable to them and they have ordered federal agencies to proceed.

Case Law: On Dec. 14, 2010, a 6th Circuit made a landmark pronouncement as part of the 98-page opinion: E-mail stored with commercial Internet service providers (ISP) has the same Fourth Amendment protection and expectation of privacy as phone calls and letters.

That section of the decision stemmed from government investigators’ actions in secretly subpoenaing NuVox, the ISP that stored Warshak’s e-mail. The subpoena gave the government access to 27,000 of Warshak’s e-mails without his knowledge or a search warrant.

“[T]he Fourth Amendment must keep pace with the inexorable march of technological progress, or its guarantees will wither and perish,” wrote Judge Danny Boggs.

United States v. Warshak is the first opinion to flat-out say e-mail may be private and constitutionally privileged, says Theodore Claypoole, a member at Womble Carlyle. “Up until now, no courts have made that bold of a statement.”

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS INSTRUCTING FEDERAL AGENCIES TO SPY ON US CITIZENS WITHOUT PROBABLE CAUSE – THIS IS ILLEGAL AND IT MUST STOP!   THEY (HOLDER AND OBAMA) ARE LYING TO THE PUBLIC ABOUT CASE LAW AND FEDERAL LAW AS IT PERTAINS TO ECPA AND WITH REGARD TO THE 4TH AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.  

THIS IS AN AGGREGIOUS AND IMPEACHABLE OFFENSE AND A GROSS ABUSE OF POWER WHICH MUST NOT STAND. 

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NSA Probing Your Email

Thanks to Toby for this heads up….

nsa43The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet companies divulge users’ stored passwords, according to two industry sources familiar with these orders, which represent an escalation in surveillance techniques that has not previously been disclosed.

If the government is able to determine a person’s password, which is typically stored in encrypted form, the credential could be used to log in to an account to peruse confidential correspondence or even impersonate the user. Obtaining it also would aid in deciphering encrypted devices in situations where passwords are reused.

“I’ve certainly seen them ask for passwords,” said one Internet industry source who spoke on condition of anonymity. “We push back.”

A second person who has worked at a large Silicon Valley company confirmed that it received legal requests from the federal government for stored passwords. Companies “really heavily scrutinize” these requests, the person said. “There’s a lot of ‘over my dead body.'”

Some of the government orders demand not only a user’s password but also the encryption algorithm and the so-called salt, according to a person familiar with the requests. A salt is a random string of letters or numbers used to make it more difficult to reverse the encryption process and determine the original password. Other orders demand the secret question codes often associated with user accounts.

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Must Read Book…This Town

Mark Leibovich toyed with several titles for his new book on self-interest, self-importance and self-perpetuation in the nation’s capital. “Suck-Up City” was one. “The Club” was another. Finally, he settled on “This Town,” a nod, he explains, to the “faux disgust” with which people here refer to their natural habitat.

It’s not bad, but the longer I roamed around “This Town,” the more I thought Leibovich should have borrowed Newsweek’s memorable post-Sept. 11, 2001, cover line: “Why They Hate Us.” His tour through Washington only feeds the worst suspicions anyone can have about the place — a land driven by insecurity, hypocrisy and cable hits, where friendships are transactional, blind-copying is rampant and acts of public service appear largely accidental.

Only two things keep you turning pages between gulps of Pepto: First, in Leibovich’s hands, this state of affairs is not just depressing, it’s also kind of funny. Second, you want to know whether the author thinks anyone in Washington — anyone at all? — is worthy of redemption.

(Are you in This Town? Read the unauthorized index here.)

Leibovich, chief national correspondent for the New York Times Magazine and a former reporter at The Washington Post (where we overlapped briefly but never met), is a master of the political profile, with his subjects revealing themselves in the most unflattering light. That talent becomes something of a crutch in “This Town,” which offers more a collection of profiles and scenes than a rich narrative. Still, his characters reveal essential archetypes of Washington power.

First, there is longtime NBC news reporter Andrea Mitchell — a conflict of interest in human form. Married to former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, Mitchell has specialized in covering administrations and campaigns that “overlapped considerably with her social and personal habitat,” as Leibovich puts it.

There are those weekend getaways at George Shultz’s home. And dinner with Tipper and Al. And that surprise 50th-birthday party for Condi. And what do you do when you’re reporting on the 2008 financial crisis and many people are pointing at your husband as a chief culprit? NBC tossed up a fig leaf: allowing Mitchell to cover the politics of dealing with the financial crisis, but not the conditions that gave rise to it. Such hair-splitting becomes inevitable, Leibovich writes, because Mitchell trying to avoid conflicts of interest is “like an owl trying to avoid trees.”

Next up is superlawyer Bob Barnett — if he doesn’t represent you, you must not be worth representing. He negotiated Hillary Clinton’s $8 million book advance (not to mention the $10 million he reeled in for Bill), plus eight-figure deals for Sarah Palin in book, speaking and television gigs. “The degree to which so many elite D.C. players stream to a single superlawyer cash redemption center is striking,” Leibovich notes, “even by the parochial standards of the ant colony.”

Yet, for all his antique cuff links, Barnett longs for the very thing he delivers for his clients: a reputation upgrade. “He hates being called an ‘agent,’ ” Leibovich explains, “with its hired-gun connotations.” Barnett’s desire to be considered a Washington wise man is evident in his desperate quest to join President Obama’s presidential debate prep team. When he finally broke in, before Obama’s last debate with Mitt Romney, he prefaced one of his suggestions to the president by explaining the “conventional wisdom” on an issue. Obama cracked, “Bob, you ARE the conventional wisdom.”  CONT- http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/review-of-mark-leibovichs-this-town/2013/07/03/5d882b8c-de9f-11e2-b94a-452948b95ca8_story.html

“This Town” by Mark Leibovich reviewed, 7/3/13
‘This Town’: Who comes off worst in Mark Leibovich’s takedown of insider Washington?, 7/3/13

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Poll Shows Americans Favor Voter ID

Posted by Tina

A new poll that shows Americans overwhelmingly favor voter ID laws contains some surprising results. Breitbart reports:

A McClatchy poll released Thursday shows that 83% of those polled believe laws requiring voters to “show identification in order to vote” is a “good thing.” Only 13% see it as a “bad thing.”

Moreover, a full 72% of Democrats see voter ID as a “good thing.”

In fact, 65% of those who see themselves as “very liberal” favor voter ID laws.

The media coverage of this issue, though, would have you believe the complete opposite is true as they fabricate a reality that claims Mississippi is still burning thanks to a GOP pushing for unpopular laws intended to disenfranchise blacks.

The antique media has also attempted to bury voter ID laws and smear the Tea Party for support of voter ID. The antique media is dying and this is why they are dying…83% of the people want voter ID laws to protect their own vote. Could it be any simpler?

According to beforeitsnews.com, Mexico’s voter requirement is very strict:

…to register to vote in Mexico a voter must provide a photo, a signature and a thumbprint. The Mexican voter-registration card includes holographic security, a magnetic code and a serial number. Before voting, voters have to show the card and have the thumbprints matched by a scanner.

And our Democrats are pitchin’ fits over a simple ID card? Democrats are, more and more, out of touch with the average American citizen and it is time for them to go!

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