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Syrian rebels beheaded a Christian man and fed his body to dogs, according to a nun who says the West is ignoring atrocities committed by Islamic extremists.

The nun said taxi driver Andrei Arbashe, 38, was kidnapped after his brother was heard complaining that fighters against the ruling regime behaved like bandits.

She said his headless corpse was found by the side of the road, surrounded by hungry dogs. He had recently married and was soon to be a father.

Sister Agnes-Mariam de la Croix said: ‘His only crime was his brother criticised the rebels, accused them of acting like bandits, which is what they are.’

Maybe Obama should do universal background checks on these guys before we give them weapons, huh? Nah, that’s just for Tea Partiers.

For the record, the slogan below was created for situations EXACTLY like that which exists in Syria today.

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A Story About A Timber Wolf Chasing A Guy On A Motorcycle

Here’s one of the pictures he took:

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The cyclist saw the wolf start chasing him, outran it, stopped, turned around and drove back toward the wolf. Sheesh.

Banff Park, Canada.

There are more images.

How close did it get to you?
It was coming at me. It probably got to within a couple meters, easy, maybe a meter. If I’d have slowed down I would have definitely hit it, so I just opened it up, got a bit of power and got around it. I’ve had dogs run out at me on bikes before and you sort of get a feel for the distance the speed you’re going, but it was pretty tight.

But after you’d gotten some distance between you, that’s when you pulled around for a closer look?
I stopped the bike, pulled my gloves off, took my camera out, did a u-turn and came back, and that’s when I managed to get the pictures. When [the wolf] heard me coming, it jumped back over a [roadside] barrier and it started running. I sped up a little bit, it got in nice and close and I was driving with my right hand and clicking pictures with my left. When I first came back around, it came in really close; probably a bit too close. It would have been a real bad time to run out of gas. Even over the motor, I could hear it. I could hear its feet on the road.”

The rest of the story

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“Military to Allow Women in Special Forces”

So… Are they planning to reduce the levels of physical training?

Women could begin training as Army Rangers and Navy Seals by 2016, according to details of a Pentagon plan released to NBC News.

To qualify for the Army Rangers or Navy Seals, both women and men will reportedly have to pass the same physical tests and meet the same requirements.”

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Not surprisingly from NBC Bay area.

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CBS’ Sharyl Atkisson: “I Think I Know Who Hacked Into My Computers”

But she says she can’t say right now.

It’s quite interesting that she dropped this little bombshell on Fox news rather than on CBS where she works.

There were just signs of unusual happenings for many months, odd behavior like the computers just turning themselves on at night and then turning themselves back off again. I was basically able to verify and obtain information from my sources on the suspicious activity and I reported it to CBS News in January because of course it included CBS equipment and systems.”

Whoever was in my work computer, the only thing I was working on were work-related things with CBS were big stories I guess during the time period in questions were I guess Benghazi and ‘Fast and Furious.’ The intruders did have access to personal information including passwords to my financial accounts and so on, but didn’t tamper with those, so they weren’t interested in stealing my identity or doing things to my finances. So people can decide on their own what they might have been trying to do in there.”

Read more here

Odds are high that this was done at the behest of the White House.

People truly don’t trust the executive branch. For good reason.

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‘Police’ Magazine: “Who Are the Oath Keepers?”

This is really a pretty well written, fair article. It’s well placed as well. Many police officers don’t know about the Oathkeepers organization. This does an excellent job of describing its founder, what they stand for, and the political flak they have been taking.

I think the Oathkeepers are the good guys. I also think that every effort to make their existence and their goals more well known is a good thing.

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Painted as radicals and racists by some, this organization of law enforcement officers and military vets says its only purpose is to uphold the Constitution.

It started with Katrina. The sight of U.S. military troops, law enforcement officers, and armed government contractors seizing firearms from citizens in the aftermath of that terrible storm shocked the conscience of Yale constitutional law scholar Stewart Rhodes. That these actions were later recognized as wrong by the U.S. Supreme Court did little to assuage Rhodes’ concerns. The fact remained that an illegal precedent had taken place, and could well occur again; indeed, it appeared that that the seeds sown in Louisiana might not only take root, but germinate elsewhere, as well.

After witnessing what he saw as an unconstitutional outrage in the wake of Katrina, Rhodes founded the Oath Keepers, an organization for peace officers and soldiers who adhere strictly to the letter of the Constitution and swear not to obey any orders that they believe to be unconstitutional.”

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James O’Keefe Finds And Confronts Associate Attorney General Richard (Dick) Head

O’Keefe, as you may know, runs Project Veritas. He has been engaging in citizen journalism and has uncovered several ugly parts of government. As a result he and his crew have been harassed by government agencies. He wants to know why.

The fact that the Associate Attorney General’s parents gave him such an unfortunate name adds a veneer of ridiculosity to the whole thing.

Head starts out OK but winds up going all bureaucrat.

It’s actually a pretty effective ad for O’Keefe’s new book.

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Remember Jared Marcum? Looks Like He’s Going To Jail.

Maybe this will help:

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Back in April the fourteen year old was not only suspended for wearing the above shirt to school in Kentucky, he was Arrested as well.

Now he is going to jail as well. For a year.

The 14-year-old Kentucky student arrested and suspended from school over a t-shirt now faces the possibility of a year in jail.

Originally arrested for wearing a National Rifle Association shirt to school, Jared Marcum was charged Friday with obstructing an officer and faces up to a year in jail and a $500 fine.

‘[Marcum] has no background of anything criminal at all, until now,’ Allen Lardieri, Marcum’s father told WOWK TV. ‘It just seems like nobody wants to admit they’re wrong.’

The charge of obstruction comes from Marcum refusing to stop talking, hindering the arresting officer’s ability to do his job, according to the police report. Nowhere in the report did it mention Marcum making any threats or doing anything other than talking, the station reported.”

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“Stunning Image of Sunset during the $100,000,000.00 Safari…”

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Well, If You Don’t Have A Second Amendment…

“Hairy” leggings help Chinese girls fend off perverts

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This word you keep using – “transparent” – I don’t think it means what you think it means.

You know that NSA surveillance program that none of us ever heard of at the start of the month? Sure, you know, the one that Snowden revealed to the world and then ran off to communist China in order to avoid being disappeared. Yeah, that top secret program. Obama says it is a transparent program.

President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview Monday, and called them transparent — even though they are authorized in secret.

“It is transparent,” Obama told PBS’ Charlie Rose in an interview broadcast Monday. “That’s why we set up the FISA court,” he added, referring to the secret court set up by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that authorizes two recently disclosed programs: one that gathers U.S. phone records and another that is designed to track the use of U.S.-based Internet servers by foreigners with possible links to terrorism.

He added that he’s named representatives to a privacy and civil liberties oversight board to help in the debate over just how far government data gathering should be allowed to go — a discussion that is complicated by the secrecy surrounding the FISA court, with hearings held at undisclosed locations and with only government lawyers present. The orders that result are all highly classified.

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
SECRECY IS TRANSPARENT

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Iranian moderates are a wish, not a reality

In fairness, I would say that there are millions of moderates in Iran. Just not in the government.

Imagine what it would be like to live in a nation in which the government, against the will of the people, watched them, targeted them for political sins and did… whatever… um. Yeah. That doesn’t take much imagination, now does it?

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Bailing out of the Democratic Party in LA

Louisiana State Sen. Elbert Guillory, formerly a Democrat, recently has left the Democrat plantation.

“You see, at the heart of liberalism, is the idea that only a great and powerful big Government can be the benefactor of social justice for all Americans. But the left is only concerned with one thing: control. And they disguise this control as charity.”

“But most importantly, it is the idea that the individual must be free to pursue his or her own happiness, free from Government dependence, and free from Government control. Because to be truly free, is to be reliant on no one, other than the author of our destiny.”

Take the time to watch. It is inspirational.

This is hope and change I can get on board with.

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Obama: “I am not Dick Cheney”

Damned right you aren’t. You just support expansion of his surveillance policies.

“Some people say, ‘Well, you know, Obama was this raving liberal before. Now he’s, you know, Dick Cheney.’

Dick Cheney sometimes says, ‘Yeah, you know? He took it all lock, stock, and barrel,’” the president told interviewer Charlie Rose in the exchange recorded Sunday, according to excerpts of the transcript published by BuzzFeed. “My concern has always been not that we shouldn’t do intelligence gathering to prevent terrorism, but rather are we setting up a system of checks and balances?”

In an interview that’s been heavily promoted by the White House and Obama aides, the president acknowledged that a program which collects massive amounts of data on telephone calls made in or through the U.S. could theoretically be used to invade individuals’ privacy, even potentially yielding conclusions about callers’ health conditions.

I confess I gave the Bush Administration a pass on its surveillance programs and that was a mistake. I did it because 9-11 was still a close memory and, frankly, I didn’t feel like the government hated me in those days. I have learned my lesson. Once the government is given a power, that power will grow and expand far beyond your expectations. The only way to prevent that from happening is to not give it the power in the first place.

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I never thought I would see this Day.

I love my job and God knows how much I appreciate it. My job gives me satisfaction in many ways but knowing that I’m helping people do business and provide for their families is the major draw for me. I know that my customers depend on me being there for them every day. Yes, I realize that I’m being paid to do that but I’ve always been guided by knowing that if I make my customer my first concern, pay becomes less of a concern. When you think about the job you don’t typically have to worry about the pay, as long as you aren’t the Boss.

I’m in a tiny little cubicle with a computer screen in my face and sporting a telephone headset for my crown, all day long. I’m in at least an hour before I have to be and as late as I can be. I order lunch from the lunch counter in our break room and I eat it at my desk as I TCB all day every day. I could not consider having a radio on my desk like I did at my old job, listening to Bill Bennett, Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck all day. Due to strict company internet policy, there is no surfing the stories at Drudge. There is no way I could ever log in to the Revo to publish something. To do that would be to kiss my job goodbye.

So…

More below the fold…

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TTAG: “Felons And Gun Ownership”

Robert Farago over at The Truth About Guns makes a case against prohibiting convicted felons from owning guns. As you know on BATFE’s form 4473, which must be filled out when you buy a gun, there is a question which asks if you have ever been convicted of a felony. The rule is if you answer yes it automatically prohibits you from completing the purchase.

Farago says that is wrong. His article includes a video which also points out that felonies are not all alike. Some are violent and some are not. Regardless, Farago argues that government does not have the authority to remove a natural, God-given right:

Felons should not have their gun rights revoked. In fact, I don’t believe they can have their gun rights revoked. Like free speech, the right to armed self-defense is a natural right; it exists with or without government regulation. Don’t get me wrong: I’m OK with laws that punish the misuse of a natural right. It’s perfectly acceptable for the government to make it a crime to murder someone with a gun. Or a knife. Or a car. Or a pencil. But it’s not OK to give the government the power to cancel a natural right.”

I have heard and seen a lot in my life but this is the first time I have seen anyone make this case. Anyone else?

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Gitmo Detainees Publicly Identified

I think the detainees at Gitmo should be tried in front of military tribunals or released from detention. I have always been torn on the issue, because of my predilection toward individual liberty and my understanding and acceptance of the need for a means of holding individuals who are a threat. While detaining someone who is an active threat should always be legal, I think that their liberty shouldn’t be allowed to be taken “indefinitely”.

When a man commits a crime he should be punished for that crime. If the evidence doesn’t exist to try the individual, he should be released. Likewise, if the evidence is tainted.

The founding principles of this nation establish, nay, reinforce & codify the idea that all men are created equal. As such, we should hold anyone in our custody to the same standard. I am not comfortable with the idea of our government, a government-run-amok – or any other – having the ability to detain anyone it pleases, without a writ of habeus corpus and a structured system of dealing justice within the law. We should not be comfortable trading the liberty of an individual, for the security of individuals, without a proper system of checks-and-balances.

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — The Obama administration Monday lifted a veil of secrecy surrounding the status of the detainees at Guantánamo, for the first time publicly naming the four dozen captives it defined as indefinite detainees — men too dangerous to transfer but who cannot be tried in a court of law.

The names had been a closely guarded secret since a multi-agency task force sifted through the files of the Guantánamo detainees in 2009 trying to achieve President Barack Obama’s executive order to close the detention center. In January 2010, the task force revealed that it classified 48 Guantánamo captives as too dangerous to transfer but ineligible for trial because of a lack of evidence, or because the evidence was too tainted.

They became so-called “indefinite detainees,” a form of war prisoner held under Congress’ 2001 “Authorization for Use of Military Force.”

The Defense Department released the list to The Miami Herald, which, with the assistance of Yale Law School students, had sued for it in federal court in Washington, D.C. The Pentagon also sent the list to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees on Monday, a Defense Department official said.

According to the list, the men designated for indefinite detention are 26 Yemenis, 12 Afghans, 3 Saudis, 2 Kuwaitis, 2 Libyans, a Kenyan, a Moroccan and a Somali.

Full story here…

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There is no limit to the weirdness of the gun grabbers

White House photo…

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Bo Snerdly On Obama’s Gangster Government

For the two of you who may not know Bo Snerdley is actually James Golden. He is Rush Limbaugh’s call screener and sometimes ‘Official Obama Criticizer’.

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“I have nothing to hide from the government.”

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I guess Senator Graham missed the whole scandal in which the IRS targeted conservatives, huh?

Graham isn’t the first to make this argument: If you have nothing to hide, you have no reason to be bothered if you are surveilled. Of course you don’t really know if you have nothing to hide, do you?

There are literally tens of thousands of federal laws and a virtually infinite number of federal rules. Are you certain you are violating none of them? Of course not. In fact, you can probably rest assured that you are, in fact, in violation of various laws and rules everyday of your life.

Here is an excerpt from the Amazon description of Harvey Silverglate’s book, Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior.

Got that? Prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior. They may not want to get you now, but when they do, they need only peruse their database of your emails and online postings until they find enough crimes comitted without your knowledge to send you up the river.

So, yeah, you definitely have something to hide. You need to hide from the evidence that you, like everyone else, have stepped into the federal government’s booby traps and are, therefore, eligible for arrest if and when it should arise that your arrest would fit their agenda.

What is their agenda? It could be vengeance, political gain, to pressure you to testify against a “bigger fish,” monetary gain or simply to advance their own careers. It doesn’t much matter. The point is that the Central Bureaucracy can pretty much choose their targets first and figure out what to indict them on at their leisure.

Yeah, we all have much to hide.

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President Rand Paul (?)

The New Republic has an article by that title – minus the question mark. It’s a refreshing look at the Senator from Kentucky, the son that Ron Paul named after Ayn Rand.

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Here are a couple of excerpts:

It was the first time in recent memory that the Iowa GOP Lincoln Day Dinner sold out nearly two weeks in advance, and it was on the strength of its headliner, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, who, in turn, was invited on the strength of his 13-hour filibuster against the Obama administration’s use of drones. During the happy hour at a small Cedar Rapids hotel, local donors stood in line to have their pictures taken with Paul, almost completely ignoring their own congressmen, Representative Steve King and Senator Chuck Grassley. They had come to see Paul, and he got a standing ovation before he even started talking.

Paul began in stand-up mode, describing a recent trip to New York in which he had driven by the Federal Reserve—the crowd booed on cue—to find it blocked by police cars. “We go up to the police, and we ask what’s going on, and they say the Federal Reserve has been robbed. And we said, really?!” Paul said, his voice nearly cracking in mock disbelief. “They said, ‘Yeah, but we caught the thieves. They got in front of the safe, they had the big safe open, but they were perplexed. They were flummoxed. They didn’t know what to do with minus sixteen trillion dollars!’ ”

And, more tellingly:

In the Senate, Paul gained a reputation as an eccentric. Staffers often saw him wandering alone into the cafeteria, buying his own coffee, getting his own lunch—which, they noted, was not very senatorial.”

He doesn’t seem to be impressed by the grandeur of the Senate of the United States. That is refreshing.

He and his views are not far from those of his father but he’s a much better salesman – and he’s the right age. Ron Paul is a bit long in the tooth for the Presidency. The article tells us that he has a surprising amount of support in Washington. He has been cultivating relationships with the power brokers. They also make a big point of saying he should never be underestimated. Those who do are continually surprised.

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Supremes: ‘Anyone Can Vote Whether They’re Legal Or Not… As Many Times As They Want’

Chicago’s city limits now extend to the ends of America.

From the Associated Press:

Court: Ariz. citizenship proof law illegal

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states cannot on their own require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal registration system designed to make signing up easier.

The justices voted 7-2 to throw out Arizona’s voter-approved requirement that prospective voters document their U.S. citizenship in order to use a registration form produced under the federal “Motor Voter” voter registration law.

Federal law “precludes Arizona from requiring a federal form applicant to submit information beyond that required by the form itself,” Justice Antonia Scalia wrote for the court’s majority.”

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Wired: “Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform”

Things are getting creepier and creepier.

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The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system.

Buried in the more than 800 pages of the bipartisan legislation (.pdf) is language mandating the creation of the innocuously-named “photo tool,” a massive federal database administered by the Department of Homeland Security and containing names, ages, Social Security numbers and photographs of everyone in the country with a driver’s license or other state-issued photo ID.

Employers would be obliged to look up every new hire in the database to verify that they match their photo.”

More at Wired.com

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Well, so much for the right to privacy, huh?

Remember the Central Bureaucracy in Washington that listens to your phone calls, uses the apparatus of the state to target political enemies for intimidation and harassment, that calls reporters criminals for asking questions, that provides weapons to Mexican gun lords and that lies and tells us a terrorist attack was just an progressively negative movie review? Yeah, they are going to be sharing your medical files.

A new rule issued late Friday requires state, federal and local agencies as well as health insurers to swap the protected personal health information of anybody seeking to join the new health care program that will be enforced by the Internal Revenue Service.

Personal health information, or PHI, is highly protected under federal law, but the latest ruling from the Department of Health and Human Services allows agencies to trade the information to verify that Obamacare applicants are getting the minimum amount of health insurance coverage they need from the health “exchanges.”

The ruling, explained on pages 72-73 of the book-thick guidance, does not mention any requirement that applicants first OK the release of their PHI. HHS already allows some exchange of PHI without an individual’s pre-approval, especially when for a “government program providing public benefits.” Officials said the swapping of information is simply meant to help figure the best insurance coverge of Obamacare users.

Since the right-to-privacy formerly found in the Constitution (specifically for medical information) is now obviously defunct and since Roe v. Wade requires the right to privacy as its foundation, can we assume that Supreme Court ruling is now defunct as well?

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“Lindsey Graham: ‘If We Pander To Hispanics Now, They’ll Love Us And We can Elect Jeb Bush In 2016′”

How much more out of touch could this dimwit be?

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I found this headline here. The story comes from The Hill.

If we don’t pass immigration reform, if we don’t get it off the table in a reasonable, practical way, it doesn’t matter who we run in 2016,” he said. “We’re in a demographic death spiral as a party.

The only way we can get back in the good graces of the Hispanic community, in my view is pass comprehensive immigration reform.”

Graham said a candidate like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush could win the White House in 2016 if Republicans back immigration reform.”

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