Not Your Job

Nobody should know or care how media members feel about a speech.  Report what was said in the speech and let your readers/listeners/viewers decide if they are "horrified" by it or not. Why is this so hard?

Liar

"I opted for convenience to use my personal email account which was allowed by the State Department because I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal emails instead of two," Clinton said.

In 2010 when it was suggested that she might want to move to a secure email: “Let’s get a separate address or device”.

Trump v. Women .... Really?

According to Donald Trump, if abortions are banned, there needs to be "some form of punishment" for women who still have them.

That statement really set off a firestorm.  But what is so controversial about it? What other law in this country doesn't have some sort of punishment associated with it? You know.. besides entering the country illegally.

If alcohol were banned, there would be a punishment associated with possessing it. If green shirts were banned, there would be an associated punishment.  Without the punishment, there is no ban.

This is a completely fabricated controversy.



P.S.
I have really missed the boat on this election cycle during the past year.

Election Day

Why does the Green party even exist? Am I really expected to  support a candidate if they can’t put any more effort into their campaign than this?

That is the official campaign website. The page was created on February 20^th and there has not been a single update since then. And when they created the page, they provided no information about their candidate. The entire campaign appears to be 5 pictures (though that one of him picking up a turtle makes a strong case).

I would wish Brandon Parmer good luck, but I am starting to question whether he even knows he is a candidate for governor of Texas.

Political smells

A new study claims that liberals and conservatives smell differently and people are subconsciously attracted to the smells of people with similar political beliefs. Obviously, this study wasn't necessary as we all know that one group smells like scotch and cigars while the other smells like patchouli and B.O. And you know this is true because I don't have to identify which is which.

Terrorists Be Trainin'

Terrorists train constantly. And they are so proud of their training that they like to promote themselves doing it.

These People Lead our Country

Senator Brian Schatz (D, Hawaii): did you have carnal relations with that sheep?
“…most distasteful in view of the fact that the sheep was under 18 years old.”

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  August 8th, 2013 at 05:01 PM  |  49

No, I never thought that I’d have the opportunity to write that out, either.  But apparently this is the world that we live in, now:

Hawaii senator Brian Schatz involved in simulated sheep rape rituals

U.S. Senator Brian Schatz once led a fraternity that got into trouble with the law and animal welfare groups for threatening to sodomize a sheep.

One of the fraternity brothers involved in the incident claimed at the time that no actual sheep were sodomized in said ritual; and in truth I will be willing enough to accept a denial on Senator Brian Schatz’s (D, Hawaii) part. An explicit denial. As in, While I admit that there was in fact an official investigation along these lines, I have in fact never in my life [expletive deleted]ed a sheep.

And then we can all put this unfortunate incident behind us.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

PS: As near as I can tell: yes, Senator Brian Schatz (D, Hawaii) would have participated in a ritual where he would have had to decide whether joining his fraternity was worth [expletive deleted]ing a sheep.

PPS I’m sorry! This HAPPPENED! I can’t not write about this! I’m only flesh and blood!

PPPS: The subtitle is, of course, a classical reference.

Selective Patriotism

Some celebrities want to protect NSA leaker Edward Snowden from punishment for his leaks and/or espionage. They have signed a petition asking for Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa to grant Snowden asylum as a way of shielding him from President Barack Obama and the U.S. legal system. The crux of their plea reads:

"In Snowden’s case, what he has revealed are actions by the NSA that violate the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protections against 'unreasonable searches and seizures.'"

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the petition contains 23,000 signatures so far, including such recognizable names as Oliver Stone, John Cusack, Roseanne Barr and Danny Glover. Yes, Danny Glover… that champion of constitutional amendments. The same Danny Glover who earlier this year said, "I don’t own a gun and definitely not only gun control, we should abolish guns, the personal guns. That’s how far I’m willing to go."

Apparently Danny Glover wants the president of Ecuador to help preserve the 4^thAmendment when he can’t be bothered to defend the 2^nd Amendment. Why should one be held sacred while the other is ignored or discarded? Isn’t he getting too old for this? 

Scared Yet?

Lights out: House plan would protect nation's electricity from solar flare, nuclear bomb

BY: PAUL BEDARD JUNE 17, 2013

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Amid growing fears of a massive electromagnetic pulse hit from either a solar flare or a terrorist nuclear bomb, House Republicans on Tuesday will unveil a plan to save the nation's electric grid from an attack that could mean lights out for 300 million Americans.

Dubbed the Secure High-voltage Infrastructure for Electricity from Lethal Damage Act, the legislation would push the federal government to install grid-saving devices such as surge protectors to protect against an attack.

"It is critical that we protect our major transformers from cascading destruction. The Shield Act encourages industry to develop standards necessary to protect our electric infrastructure against both natural and man-made EMP events," said Rep. Trent Franks, the Arizona Republican who is offering up the bipartisan bill.

Electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, has come into focus because of fears the sun is pushing out unusually big solar flares that can disrupt the electric grid. Defense officials are also worried about a terrorist attack, possibly in the form of a small nuclear bomb exploded overhead.

Any EMP attack could be damaging, said Gaffney. He cited a new Lloyds of London report that determined that the area from Washington, D.C., to New York could be without electricity for up to two years in a major solar flare-up."This is serious stuff," said former Pentagon official Frank Gaffney, who heads the Center for Security Policy. But, he added, there is a growing bipartisan consensus to protect the electric grid.

The legislation will be introduced Tuesday by Franks and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich at a meeting of the House EMP Caucus. Officials said that the legislation, provided in advance to Secrets, will include information from a recent EMP commission report that "contemporary U.S. society is not structured, nor does it have the means, to provide for the needs of nearly 300 million Americans without electricity.''

Gaffney told Secrets that there are some 300 huge electric transformers around the nation that control the grid and that have to be protected. "You are basically talking about surge protectors, of a somewhat exotic kind, but it is a means of interrupting the pulse," he said.

Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner's "Washington Secrets" columnist, can be contacted at pbedard@washingtonexaminer.com

http://washingtonexaminer.com/lights-out-house-plan-would-protect-nations-electricity-from-solar-flare-nuclear-bomb/article/2532038

Do you really think politics will help us avoid this inevitable two-year power outage?

Communism?

According to Chuck Todd, NBC’s chief White House correspondent, the Obama Administration’s seizure of reporters’ emails and phone records is evidence that “they want to criminalize journalism.”

I see.  Sort of like China, North Korea, Venezuela, etc.

The president might want to read this.

Jacked Worth Visit

lunaticoutpost.com

There is always some interesting posters on there.  I just read about people recommending snorting coconut oil to have more vivid dreams.






I'm on my way to Kroger to get some coconut oil.

Chechen President: American upbringing to blame for terrorism

The Chechen president says that American upbringing is to blame for the Boston Marathon bombings.

Riiiight.  Because there is no violence in Chechnya.

Kim Jong Un hates hippies

A North Korean war room photo showing possible areas of attack on the US mainland surprisingly showed Austin as a target. Rick Perry says that Austin is on North Korea’s hit list because of its economy.  If that’s the case, why not go ahead and target the larger Houston?  The Turkish Minister recently called Houston “the heart of the US economy.”

Rick Perry can talk all he wants, but I think it’s obvious that Kim just hates patchouli. And I agree with him... but just this once.

Guns & Ammo

The Department of Homeland Security is set to purchase a further 21.6 million rounds of ammunition to add to the 1.6 billion bullets it has already obtained over the course of the last 10 months alone, figures which have stoked concerns that the federal agency is preparing for civil unrest.

Which brings us to another article that I read a couple of days ago.

Conflicted

While I’m not too keen on the United States government killing its citizens via unmanned drones, I have less of a problem with it when those people are damn dirty terrorists. I am even less concerned when they are in Yemen.

Though, I must admit I am kind of confused about a president who is against enhanced interrogations such as (horror!) making prisoners stand for long periods, sleep deprivation, playing music at full volume or having to sit uncomfortably in favor of just indiscriminately killing those would-be prisoners.  However, I am not going to protest too much.

I think this policy may have found its most effective use when 16-year-old terrorist Abdulrahman al-Awlaki was killed…while eating at an outdoor restaurant. Talk about psychological warfare. Hopefully anyone trying to choke down their falafel while that was going down will think twice about becoming a jihadist.

Bad Decisions

President Obama blames America's current economic woes on "bad decisions"...

... like electing him president?