Post Scripts

Posted by Tina

Count the big unions in among those who don’t appreciate the reality of the “Affordable Care Act”…according to Forbes it’s creating a “nightmare scenario” for the union members. Hmmm, could this be a sterling (costly) example of “be careful what you wish for”?

Yes indeed it could! Business has a bottom line to attend to and Obamacare’s arm twisting regulations are forcing them to reconsider worker hours. This spells bad news for the working men and women who are letting their union bosses know that they aren’t happy. So the union leaders have sent a letter to the leadership of the Democrat Party which reads in part:

“When you and the President sought our support for the Affordable Care Act you pledged that if we liked the health plans we have now, we could keep them. Sadly, that promise is under threat…We have been strong supporters of the notion that all Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care. We have also been strong supporters of you. In campaign after campaign we have put boots on the ground, gone door-to-door to get out the vote, run phone banks and raised money to secure this vision. Now this vision has come back to haunt us.”

The Forbes article is extensive on the union position…read it!

I don’t expect this wrinkle to change union support for Democrats but a disgruntled support group doesn’t bode well overall for the sustainability of the very unpopular Obamacare or the Democrats in 2014.

This very bad law needs to be scrapped. American’s need solutions for healthcare that actually work! The left is ever active…if we want smart, workable solutions our representatives in Congress need to hear from everyone who sees the train wreck coming around the bend.

Posted by Tina

As you read the following please keep in the back of your mind that Barack Obama initially won the presidency, and Democrats the House and Senate, on the premise that GWB was a war mongering failure (left Afghanistan and didn’t get Bin Laden), who wasted resources in Iraq (A stable country as GWB left office), and his Vice Presidential choice,Joe Biden, was a genius at foreign policy…as opposed to McCain (Who actually has military and foreign policy experience that Obama did not have) and Sarah Palin (Who had more foreign policy experience than the Democrat choice for President). The media was all in for Obama then and it continues to be to this day.

Yes, as a candidate, the President made a big deal out of the need to go back into Afghanistan and “finish the job” that George Bush abandoned in order to “invade Iraq”. He got a lot of mileage for his election from the press out of making Bush appear to be an incompetent boob.

Well, who is the big boob now?

Egypt is in an uncertain state with heavy international implications if it falls to the influence of extremists. Al Qaeda has established itself  with strong bases forming around the Suez Canal. Benghazi remains an open wound that has not been adequately addressed. Afghanistan remains a dangerous, corrupt nation…a hopeless mess. Terrorists have spread operations around the world. Millions of dollars (And countless lives) have been wasted both on a war that gained us nothing and on projects and equipment that won’t be finished or will never be used. The President is pulling our troops out of Afghanistan earlier than his own timetable of a year from now. And wonder of wonders, the early withdrawal and failure is accompanied by the news that in addition to an unfinished dam, a $34 million military operations facility has been built in Southwestern Afghanistan that will never be used:

The U.S. military has erected a 64,000-square-foot headquarters building on the dusty moonscape of southwestern Afghanistan that comes with all the tools to wage a modern war. A vast operations center with tiered seating. A briefing theater. Spacious offices. Fancy chairs. Powerful air conditioning.

Everything, that is, except troops.

The windowless, two-story structure, which is larger than a football field, was completed this year at a cost of $34 million. But the military has no plans to ever use it. Commanders in the area, who insisted three years ago that they did not need the building, now are in the process of withdrawing forces and see no reason to move into the new facility.

Both Hillary and Obama continue to be shielded personally in the media after presiding over the worst foreign (and economic) policies we’ve seen in decades! Our foreign policy has been a disaster. More information is available here, here, here, and here.

It isn’t that this administration has made mistakes…every administration makes mistakes. It is that the administration has been an almost complete failure and does not learn from mistakes!

The American people would know just how bad this administration has been if the media covered the presidency of Barack Obama as it should, unfortunately the main stream media continues to be, for the most part, totally in the tank for the President and for the possible future candidate they have already begun to support.

Citizens, we are on our own.

Posted by Tina

California just took another hit. If I didn’t know better I’d think the extremists in the Democrat Party were bailing for the west coast because it’s the only place in America that will accept them. Read it and weep:

Janet Napolitano, the U.S. secretary of Homeland Security and former governor of Arizona, is being named as the next president of the University of California system, in an unusual choice that brings a national-level politician to a position usually held by an academic, The Times has learned. Her appointment also means the 10-campus system will be headed by a woman for the first time in its 145-year history.

Napolitano’s nomination by a committee of UC regents came after a secretive process that insiders said focused on her early as a high-profile, although untraditional, candidate who has led large public agencies and shown a strong interest in improving education.

UC officials believe that her Cabinet experiences — which include helping to lead responses to hurricanes and tornadoes and overseeing some anti-terrorism measures — will help UC administer its federal energy and nuclear weapons labs and aid its federally funded research in medicine and other areas.

Crap!

Posted by Tina

USA Today:

SANFORD, Fla.–George Zimmerman, the man accused of murdering Trayvon Martin, was found not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter on Saturday.

The verdict is the culmination of a case that captured the nation’s attention and will undoubtedly be imprinted in America’s history. The not guilty verdict means the jury of six women found that Zimmerman justifiably used deadly force and reasonably believed that such force was “necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm” to himself — Florida’s definition of self-defense.

Fill in the blanks guys; I have dishes to do.

by Jack

I stopped at a yard sale on my way to workout at In-Motion and really got more than I expected.  I saw they were doing a pretty good business so I figured, eh, why not? I’m a bargain hunter. This was being advertised as a fund raiser for something called “Afri-peace.” Okay, that got me, what’s Afri-peace? I soon found out.

There were several teenage girls (volunteers) wearing customized pink Afri-Peace tee shirts with big peace symbols on them and they had peace symbol earrings to match…cute. But, for a conservative like me, this is never a good sign, those peace symbols might as well been hammer and sickles. I suddenly had the feeling I was at the wrong yard sale. But, me being me, well, I just had to ask some questions. A lady explained they were sending these gentle young high school girls to Ethiopia for a summer as a sort of peace outreach mission. Their first thought was to volunteer at an AIDS clinic, but they were chagrined to find the government of Ethiopia prohibits Westerners from meddling in such things. So at the moment they weren’t really sure what they would be doing, except that they would be caring young American’s, interacting with their sometimes starving young counterparts, including the resit of Ethiopian society, the rapists, the terrorists and who knows who…and showing them all some love. Then presumably they wrap up their trip at the end of summer, have a little Cumbyah sing-along and jet back to the USA. Then they can enter college as the fledgling little Marxists with a strong desire to spend billions of your tax dollars on African dictatorships while denouncing US Imperialism under the tutelage of experienced leftists.

I asked this Afri-Peace lady if this was a safe thing to be doing? I wanted to say smart, but I said safe. She could see the look of concern in my face and I could see the look of resentment at being asked by a guy wearing an ARMY tee shirt. She responded with absolute confidence that it was going to be very safe and that the kids would be fine.

That confident answer made me more concerned for their safety!

I’ve been around some pretty scary places in my life and there’s no way you can make such a statement unless you are a blithering idiot or a naive liberal, but then I repeat myself.

Going to poverty stricken, terrorist occupied, American hating, rebel infested, dictator run Ethiopia is anything but safe for kids from Chico high school, unless they were doing their peace mission from the confines of an M1 Abrams tank, in an armored column…and this peace group would most certainly not have any of that!

This spokes lady said she was recently in Turkey when rioting broke out and how it was really nothing. A media exaggeration. They were never concerned about their safety and she felt the news media played it up for more than it was. She said she felt very safe. I’m thinking…this is the person who is assuring everyone it’s safe to travel the back roads of Ethiopia? And Turkey is not Ethiopia!

Their last Afric-peace goodwill field trip was to Rwanda, right after the genocide. Rwanda, you know…as in Hotel Rwanda? Murder, genocide, rape, pillage…that Rwanda? Good grief…amazing they got back in one piece!

I browsed about the yard sale a bit more, but I just had to ask some more questions… this time my target was a young girl with braces on her teeth working the checkout. So I said, “What kind of government do they have in Ethiopia?”

“Umm, I’m not exactly sure, but it’s one of the few that Europeans haven’t taken over.” She said.

Ah, there it was! I knew it! Trash talking her ancestors, how liberal of her. Well, at least she wasn’t complaining about US Imperialism..yet, but give her time. Somebody special in her life had been filling her squishy little brain with liberal BS again…what a shame.

European colonial rule in Africa peaked in the late 1800’s and Europe’s influence has been declining ever since. Off subject, but my Dad happened to be in Ethiopia during WWII when Haile Selassie ruled as the last Emperor. He liked the guy, but that was during WWII. Things were more stable then… than they are now. For the last couple of decades Ethiopia has gone through a spate of dictatorships and the last nasty dictator was eulogized by Obama in 2012. He died suddenly in office amid a scandal…no wonder B.O. knew him. (Birds of a feather)

For the last decade or two Ethiopia has been in serious turmoil thanks to skirmishes along its border, AIDS inside it’s border, Eritrean military and Al Qaeda operatives acting badly and they’ve been unsettled by Uganda’s genocide campaign and refugees. So when I’m told… the kids will be just fine because their guide or somebody said so… I have trouble believing it.

I’m wondering right now, why do they have to fly so far to get into trouble? Why not just put the kids on a bus to Tijuana for the summer? They could be ambassadors against beheadings, an then do an outreach with love and goodness to reform the Narco-terrorists chopping up the locals.

Question….how far would you (as a parent) have to read into the following State Dept. Warnings for Ethiopia before you say these words, “Ain’t no way my kid is going to that place!”

“U.S. citizens are strongly advised to review their personal safety and security posture, to remain vigilant, and to be cautious when frequenting prominent public places and landmarks. While Ethiopia is generally stable, domestic insurgent groups, extremists from Somalia, and the heavy military presence along the border with Eritrea pose risks to safety and security.

U.S. citizens should strongly consider the risk of attending or being near large public gatherings, or venues where westerners gather on a routine or predictable basis, and which have no visible security presence. Such gatherings or venues can provide vulnerable targets for extremist or terrorist groups. U.S. citizens should avoid, if possible, using public transportation, including mini-buses, and should vary their travel times and routes to the extent possible. You are advised to avoid unattended baggage or packages left in any location, including in taxis.

There are periodic attacks on civilians as well as security forces in the Somali region of Ethiopia. In 2011, Kenyan and Ethiopian forces initiated an offensive against al-Shabab in Somalia, together with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) which has been in Mogadishu since 2007, resulting in an increase in the threat level in Ethiopia and neighboring countries.” (There’s more, but I doubt you got beyond the first line.)

I’m wondering if this “flower power-feel the love man” mission to Africa warrants a call to Child Protective Services or to Mental Health first? The adults in this misadventure are clearly crazy people and as parents they are placing these kids in harms way, if only to assuage their own liberal white guilt.

Your advice would be appreciated.

PS Too bad there isn’t a summer camp where soon-to-be-adult kids can learn the virtues of what it means to be a patriotic American, who understands the Constitution, our history and actually appreciates our heritage and wants to preserve what made us great?

Posted by Tina

A Federal career Army Corps of Engineers program manager was the “mastermind” of what is being called a contractor “shakedown” of “historic proportions”…now he’s going to jail:

He was a career federal bureaucrat with a dark side, inflating government contracts by millions of dollars and then shaking down contractors for the proceeds. The money funded a lavish and sordid lifestyle — a real estate empire in Northern Virginia, leased BMWs, Neiman Marcus shopping sprees, and mistresses in three states and the Philippines.

On Thursday, a federal judge sentenced Kerry F. Khan, the mastermind of a contracting scam of “historic proportions,” to nearly two decades behind bars. It was even more than prosecutors had requested because of the “staggering” scope of the scheme. U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan said he also wanted to deter other would-be criminals in the billion-dollar world of federal contracting.

“You made history for the wrong reasons,” Sullivan told Khan, 55, a former Army Corps of Engineers program manager and the ringleader of a network of corrupt public officials and government contractors who stole more than $30 million through inflated billings and fake invoices.

U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. has called it the largest bribery and bid-rigging scheme in federal contracting history.

It’s government that has the power! The power to propose and accept bribes, the power to diligently oversee, or not, the power to reject offers of bribes and refuse to accept bids from…the power to waste our hard earned dollars and spend some of it on themselves!

At least we actually caught and prosecuted this guy. Makes me wonder, “who’s toes did he stepped on?”

Thanks to RHT for this news…

A new Android app asks users to expose the home addresses of gun owners they deem “potentially unsafe” — and share that information with the world.

The Gun Geo Marker app, released to Google’s Play app store on July 7, invites users to mark the homes and businesses of “suspected unsafe gun owners … to help others in the area learn about their geography of risk from gun accidents or violence. “The app bills itself as merely a tool to collect information, but it was hit with a firestorm of negative reviews and comments from people worried that it could do more harm than good.

 ”This is dangerous and invasive,” wrote Levi Russell in a review of the app. “Dangerous because it allows criminals to determine where they might steal firearms….you are an accomplice to any firearm theft that will occur due to the existence of this app.”

“Major violation of privacy,” wrote Danielle Sigman in another review, one of more than 700 one-star reviews of the app. “Could cause a lot of safety issues for non-gun owners.”

Brett Stalbaum, the developer of Gun Geo Marker and a lecturer with the Visual Arts department of the University of California, San Diego, said he had received threats over the app.

“The gun rights community has been busy making personal threats (we remain unconcerned), as well as spamming the Gun Geo Marker database with false markers,” he exclusively told FoxNews.com. “Though these fake markers are not useful for identifying dangerous guns and owners, they are certainly representative of the highly paranoid reaction we have come to expect from any attempt to improve gun safety in the United States.

“This kind of reaction — automatically lining up on the wrong side of reasonable measures to improve the safe use and ownership of guns — aids and abets the crisis of child shooting deaths,” he said.

In January, a similar outcry arose after a New York newspaper published the home addresses of area residents with permits to own guns. After threats were called into their offices and the home addresses of editors posted online, The Journal News took down the data.

Whether an app or online, publishing the addresses of gun owners is a risky proposition, experts warn.

“This makes those who don’t have guns an easier target for criminals. It’s a safety issue,” John Lott, gun expert and author of the book “More Guns, Less Crime,“ told FoxNews.com.

“I’ve debated a lot of gun control advocates over the years, and I’ve never met someone who has been willing to put up a sign in front of their house indicating that their home is a gun-free zone,” he said.

Google tells FoxNews.com they do not comment on individual apps, but said to refer to their Google Play developer program policies for apps that are not allowed.

The policy says Google Play does not allow content that contains violence or hate speech, bullying or illegal activities, among others. Gun Geo Marker is not available on the iPhone.

“As a gun owner myself, I want to see our rights preserved, and thwarting the will of 90 percent of the American people who want common sense, constitutional measures to improve gun safety is mathematically unwise,” Stalbaum said.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/07/11/gun-geo-marker-app-tries-to-locate-homes-businesses-gun-owners/#ixzz2Ynj3ZQSm

In 1913….

Posted by Tina

PJ Media reported today that a special unit in the Department of Justice was dispatched to Florida to offer organizational aid and support for protests against George Zimmerman. The purpose of this special unit, The Community Relations Service, is to provide “impartial mediation practices and conflict resolution”. According to the information received by Judicial Watch through a Freedom of Information request, there was nothing “impartial” about the units activities in Sanford Florida:

March 25 – 27, 2012, CRS spent $674.14 upon being “deployed to Sanford, FL to work marches, demonstrations, and rallies related to the shooting and death of an African-American teen by a neighborhood watch captain.”

March 25 – 28, 2012, CRS spent $1,142.84 “in Sanford, FL to work marches, demonstrations, and rallies related to the shooting and death of an African-American teen by a neighborhood watch captain.”

March 30 – April 1, 2012, CRS spent $892.55 in Sanford, FL “to provide support for protest deployment in Florida.”

March 30 – April 1, 2012, CRS spent an additional $751.60 in Sanford, FL “to provide technical assistance to the City of Sanford, event organizers, and law enforcement agencies for the march and rally on March 31.”

April 3 – 12, 2012, CRS spent $1,307.40 in Sanford, FL “to provide technical assistance, conciliation, and onsite mediation during demonstrations planned in Sanford.”

April 11-12, 2012, CRS spent $552.35 in Sanford, FL “to provide technical assistance for the preparation of possible marches and rallies related to the fatal shooting of a 17 year old African American male.” – expenses for employees to travel, eat, sleep?

In strongly urge you to read the remainder of the PJ Media article which cites local news articles that offer additional damning information.

This document and related activities noted in news stories demonstrate a clear pattern of organizational intervention to force the trial of George Zimmerman. Given what we know about this case the trial should never have taken place and the protests should never have been organized. Mr. Zimmerman and his family have been the victims of grave injustice. The trust of the American people in their judicial system has been gravely damaged. This intervention by Eric Holders office is outrageous and should be investigated thoroughly!

What do you think will happen?   I’ll put your comments up here on page one.

1. I think Zimmerman will be found not guilty and that many people will think the DA overcharged him from the start because of pressure from the black community.
Following a not guilty verdict some people may use this as an excuse to break into a liquor store or two, but I don’t think it will be as bad as the Rodney
King riots, despite all the hype.  (Said with fingers crossed)  Jack L.

2. Authorities in the area are asking protesters to use their voices rather than violence. However, The Blaze posted a number of twitter messages (xxx rated) that suggest some of these illiterates are racists that will not accept a not guilty verdict. Whether this is just tough gangsta talk is yet to be seen. Given the nature of mobs and mob mentality I fear for the people in the area because its hard to imagine a guilty verdict.

My hope is that Zimmerman’s nightmare recedes and quietly disappears without incident…realizing of course that “hope” is a very low level of confidence.  Tina G