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October 11, 2013 (WND) - So much for the left’s “consenting adults” rhetoric on sex. Forever the consummate conservationists, our self-described “progressive” friends at the ACLU, MSNBC and elsewhere have been ramping-up efforts to downsize from “consenting adults” to merely “consenting” – a far less cumbersome qualifier in the noble struggle for unrestrained sexual license. Tolerating “intergenerational romance” for “minor-attracted” adults is all the rage these days. Ever hear of Kaitlyn Hunt? Over the past year or so this poor, misunderstood lesbian woman’s “anti-gay persecution” has become a cause célèbre among “gay rights” activists and other left-wing purveyors of perversion....

National Park Service (NPS) rangers removed the handles from some 40 public water pumps and closed restrooms in the 184.5 mile- C&O Canal National Historical Park, but they haven’t been able to keep hikers and bikers off the popular trail known as a “cyclist’s dream.” “It’s full every day,” said Gail Hall, who runs Mountain Side Bikes at the trailhead in Cumberland, Md. “They’re bringing in their own water and utilizing the tree-lined areas [of the park] for restrooms. Some towns like Harper’s Ferry even brought in potties to accommodate them. As long as they can pedal, they don’t care.”

Republicans have lost at the ballot box and the Supreme Court, so they’ve decided to nullify President Obama another way: keep his government from working, period. The dance over the debt ceiling and the fight over the government shutdown are nothing less than impeachment on the cheap: a chance to negate the will of the majority by ostensibly placating the letter of the law. Unable to win the last two presidential elections or to persuade a Supreme Court majority that the Affordable Care Act was unconstitutional, House Republicans have arrived at a point where default and closure are the next...

As reported by WWLTV, the New Orleans Times-Picayune and the Associated Press, among other outlets, two referees who were working the St. Paul's School (Covington, La.) against Mandeville High (Mandeville, La.) football game were arrested on intimidation charges related to threats they allegedly made against a Covington police officer during the course of the game. The officer in question then reported the threat and shortly thereafter, both officials were escorted off the field by a group of three other police officers. The delay occurred in the middle of the third quarter of what eventually became a 20-3 St. Paul's victory....

Is Biden having gone into hiding during government shutdown negotiations evidence that he's shielding himself from any complicity for the purpose of protecting his 2016 presidential ambitions? Because Democrats place politics above all else they will detach themselves from critical events and go into hiding to protect their reputations for future political campaigns. Hillary did the same thing after the night of September 11, 2012 when terrorists attacked our consulate and Annex in Benghazi. She went into hiding with mysterious ailments and injuries not only to avoid responsibility for Benghazi, but to protect herself for her 2016 presidential run. Everybody...

The idea that every town must have a police SWAT team is relatively new. While just a handful of big cities had SWAT teams 30 years ago, now 80 percent of towns with populations between 25,000 and 50,000 have them. Now there is one fewer. Quietly and with no public debate, Framingham’s SWAT team has been disbanded.  Chief Steven Carl gave the order as he and the SWAT commander left the department for other jobs. Carl told me the disbanding of the SWAT team wasn’t just something he did on the way out the door. Two years ago he told...

Self-proclaimed Biblical scholar Joseph Atwill has written a book in which he claims that Jesus was fabricated by a little-known group called the Flavians. He also claims he has some sort of “smoking gun” type of “confession” from these ancient people that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that they entered into a conspiracy with the Roman government of the time to fabricate a character called Jesus as a “gentle Messiah” figure to wage psychological warfare on, and control, the masses so they would pay Caesar taxes without complaining. He is apparently going to present this evidence at a...

TORONTO, October 11, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A childhood education conference to take place next weekend at the University of Toronto will feature keynote speaker Dr. James Kincaid, a Professor of English at the University of Southern California who has been criticized as being highly sympathetic to pedophiles. The conference titled "Bodies at Play: Sexuality, Childhood and Classroom Life" is sponsored by the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies under the auspices of the University of Toronto's Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). "Kincaid's earlier work in Victorian literature and culture and in literary theory has yielded to...

Last week, Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, cried wolf once more regarding a “war on women” because House Republicans voted on Saturday to delay Obamacare for a year. She argues that “a narrow group of Republican leaders in the House are pushing to shut down the entire federal government over women’s access to birth control, cancer screenings and other basic health care.” If the only issues on the table were non-controversial services like cancer screenings and immunizations, then there would be no debate, but that’s not the reality. No, this issue is far more complicated. Seventy-two percent of Americans...

In an interview on the Today Show, Hannah Anderson described when she first learned that family friend James DiMaggio had an evil plan for her. But the teen's interview also revealed apparent inconsistencies in her story.... "The point where I realized that something was wrong is when we go to his house and my mom's car wasn't there," she said. However, in this video reviewed by News 8, Christina Anderson's Chevy Blazer is at the Boulevard home, parked next to the main house ..... "He drugged me and I was out, then I woke up in Idaho," Hannah said during...

Sources within the Department of Transportation have revealed that their plan to use National Guard resources to close federally funded Interstate Route 495, circling the nation’s capital, have been approved by unknown White House officials and will be implemented on Friday morning, October 11, in order to thwart the three day Trucker slowdown announced on the Capitol Beltway starting that date, using the federal government shutdown as justification.

Wow...read this one! Then check out the suggested web sites. Many of the emails that I have sent or forwarded that had any anti Obama in it were negated by Snopes. I thought that was odd. Check this out. Shades of Krystalnacht Snopes, Soros and the Supreme Court's Kagan.We-l-l-l-l now, I guess the time has come to check out Snopes! Ya' don't suppose it might not be a good time to take a second look at some of the stuff that got kicked in the ditch by Snopes, do ya'? We've known that it was owned by a lefty couple...

A letter from President Obama dated October 1st on the letterhead to government employees on the government shutdown. There is one problem. It was uploaded on September 13th, 2013 to the Department of Defense's website. Check out the URL from the link and you will see the date in this order: 2013/0913.

"Pop quiz - who said the following – Che Guevara or Adolf Hitler?- -“Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates. Instead, they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service.” -“The victory of Socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims!” -“Hatred is the central element of our struggle! Hatred so violent that it propels a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him a violent and cold- blooded killing machine.” -“We must do away with all newspapers. A revolution cannot be accomplished with freedom of the press.” -“Youth should learn to think and act as a...

First, the obvious; I want the Age of Obama to be over. I can't wait, I will brag later that I survived it without losing my job or my mind or most importantly, my freedom. Till then, I accept what is and try to life a good life. I am still blessed in many ways. I'm against most everything this President has done or purposed to do. I hold my breath wondering what 'Dennis The Menace' will do next just for the wicked joy of annoying me, and other people like me. Now for the less obvious; I give President...

Have the Park Rangers always been jerks or are they being threatened to be jerks or lose their jobs/pensions? I say this because it seems to me that some of them seem to be behaving over the top as if they have been spooked with their jobs/pension or their families have been threatened via NSA collected data. Just a deep feeling that has been building every time I hear a story about the behavior of Park Rangers and a "Feel the Pain Government Shutdown".... Are the Park Rangers acting over the top intentionally as an invitation to media that is...

In advance of Halloween, can you guess which historic figure the IRS's Sarah Hall Ingram was mocking as she stood before Congress today?:

SACRAMENTO, CA October 9, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – California Governor Jerry Brown has signed two bills allowing non-physicians to perform abortions and reducing health standards for abortion facilities, saying the new laws “support the health and well-being of women.” California is the fifth state to allow or not explicitly ban the practice of non-physician abortion, joining Montana, New York, Oregon, and Vermont. California Governor Jerry Brown ran for the Democratic pres California Governor Jerry Brown ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976, 1980, and 1992. The bill, A.B. 154, introduced by San Diego Democrat Toni Atkins, would authorize midwives, nurse...

Hello. If you all haven't noticed how the obomba led government shutdown is affecting your postal service hopefully I will be able to open your eyes.On a topic that I have yet to see anything written about my wife and I have noticed that the USPS is now, more than ever, losing mail, taking two to three times as long to deliver the mail and when they do deliver the mail they are tacking on a COD charge to the recipient. My wife and I run a couple of online business where we have to send lots of mail out...

...Joseph Callahan, 69, had about 100 pounds of ammonium nitrate among the frightening cache of guns, ammo and explosives cops found when they raided his home last week. ...He also told them he was making a bomb for the hard-partying Richards, who lives in Weston, Conn., a short drive from Callahan’s home in the posh Greenfield Hill section of Fairfield. ...Callahan – a former employee of gunmaker Remington Arms – was charged by Fairfield cops Monday with 112 counts of illegal possession of explosives, reckless endangerment and manufacture of bombs. Callahan told cops that explosives were only a hobby, and...

Thanks to a confluence of three events, the S-word — secession — is once again in the air. In Washington, new questions are emerging about whether the United States can function as a unified nation after a partial government shutdown was engineered by a largely regional party — one whose home territory looks eerily similar to the Confederacy. Adding to the questions about the viability of the post-Civil War union is the fact that the shutdown has been orchestrated by a Texas legislator whose state party stalwarts — including its governor — seem to support secession, to the point of...

Receieved this email, looks like another effort to discredit anti-Obamacare people that go with it. B careful, check to see that Dhimmitude is in the bill before you forward or post. Interesting that "Obama Care" exempts any Muslim believer from the government mandate to purchase health insurance, and also from the penalty tax for being uninsured; just one more example of his growing list of exemptions even though it is unlawful to "piecemeal" parts of the law that Congress has passed and he has signed into law. What does this word mean? Dhimmitude The word "Dhimmitude" is found in the...

Hypothetical question that has been rolling around in my head for a while, wondering if it would be legal or not. Lets say I own business X with 40 employees and need to hire 20 more. I want full time employees but insurance costs will be prohibitive if I do. Business Y nearby also wants to stay under the 50 employee number of full time employees and is looking to hire, or is too close the the red to take on any more full time healthcare costs being demanded now. I'm looking for the stability of a full time employee...

Link only. Dem psychotic rant, over the top. If you oppose the Obama/Reid dictatorship, you are a seditious monster trying to overthrow the country. 'Women, minorities hardest hit.' The comments are hilarious and scary at the same time. Warning: Lib language alert.

This morning I noticed that I had been logged out of my account and one of my posts about the possible RFID chipping program conyained within the Affordable Healthcare Act removed. I received no warnings or notices from the moderators (not that there was anything inflammatory about it). Just posting this as notice in the event it happened to someone else. It could have just been a computer glitch but given the timing and the subject matter it might mean someone has been on here that isn't a friend.

FULL TITLE: Chinese mother is 'dragged from her home in the middle of the night and forced to abort her baby son SIX MONTHS into pregnancy' under country's one-child policy A Chinese woman has revealed she was dragged from her home in the middle of the night and forced to have an abortion, three months before her child was due to be born. Liu Xinwen, 33, and her husband Zhou Guoqiang were left devastated after the mother-of-one was pulled from her bed and taken to hospital to be injected with an abortion-inducing drug. The forced abortion is due to China's...

I remember talk around the '94/'95 about a super database the Clinton's were maintaining. I remember specifically mention of flagging ideological journalists, community leaders, business leaders they could target with a little bit of friendly persuasion. Also includes dirt and blackmail data on the same but ideologically opposite to those that would readily support the progressive movement. Does anybody else remember this and perhaps the name of the Database project? Was it original a law enforcement database engine and algorithms that the administration stole from a company developing it? Anybody believe or suspect that this database may have matured so...

This is the full raw footage that was released by Al Hurra

During her speech at a Planned Parenthood of Central Oklahoma fundraiser on September 21, liberal feminist icon Gloria Steinem broached an uncomfortable topic for abortion proponents: the pandemic of missing girls. In 2011, that number was estimated to be 160 million. In her book, Unnatural selection: Choosing boys over girls, and the consequences of a world full of men, pro-abortion author Mara Hvistendahl, a correspondent for Science magazine, blamed ultrasound technology and abortion for the gendercide. This is simply common sense. I give Steinem points for raising the issue, particularly at a Planned Parenthood event, since it was only last...

Video Linky Here2 Parts.

10:40 am The President delivers remarks at M. Luis Construction Company M. Luis Construction Company Pooled Press ________________ 12:00 pm The President and the Vice President receive the Presidential Daily Briefing Oval Office Closed Press ________________ 12:30 pm Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney

The UN’s climate panel (IPCC) released its latest warning about "catastrophic" climate change on Sept. 27, garnering the frantic attention of all three broadcast networks that night. CBS even aired a claim about temperatures rising “more than 200 degrees."Predictably, the evening news shows on ABC, CBS and NBC Sept. 27 repeated the IPCC’s dire warnings without including any skeptics and without mentioning past failures such as their inability to accurately predict warming or sea level rise.ABC’s “World News with Diane Sawyer,” NBC “Nightly News” and CBS “Evening News” all failed to include criticism of the IPCC with the exception...

Spies & Secrets: 4 True Stories From Tom Clancy's Novels Sometimes truth may be stranger than fiction, but for best-selling author Tom Clancy, the two are often more closely paralleled. Clancy died Tuesday (Oct. 1) at the age of 66, but his thrilling, espionage and military-inspired novels helped him become one of the most well-known American authors. From a dramatic Soviet-era defection to a high-profile assassination plot, here are four true stories from Clancy's novels. • The Hunt for Red October Clancy's first novel, "The Hunt for Red October," was published in 1984. The book introduced Clancy's most famous fictional...

Have you noticed an increase in Seminar Callers, bloggers, emails and news articles? "I have a pre-existing condition" "My sister has a pre-existing condition" "I signed up in minutes" "The AHC will save me money" etc. etc. etc. It is too much of an increase not to be coordinated. I even got one from a fed friend of mine today. It makes me wonder if Federal employees have been encouraged to do this propaganda. How many are lying and how many telling the truth???? A seminar caller is a coined phrase for someone who mainly telephones conservative radio talk shows...

The reason for starting this general conversation is I am a comic fan - specifically the Marvel/DC line of superheros. I just watched FLASHPOINT. The story is how the Flash goes back in time, changes the event of his mothers death, and upon his return the earth is drastically changed. He never got the speed force and there is no Flash. Bruce Wayne is shot as a child and his father becomes a more darker Batman, dealing out death, and Bruce's mother becomes the Joker. Superman is taken into custody upon his landing on earth and kept away from the...

HitlerCare The original universal healthcare system... ".....Because resources are limited, the concept of universal healthcare requires the Government to make decisions on the distribution of healthcare that will determine the survivability of different groups in society. That is, the welfare of the collective and government priorities are placed above that of the rights of any individual. Once you have given the Government that much power, there is no natural barrier between you and the Holocaust of the Nazis. It is only a matter of degree, of how far they want to take this concept that social welfare trumps individual rights....

Streamed live on Sep 19, 2013 Taped in September 2013, this show is a look into the lives of Billy & Karen Vaughn, parents of fallen SEAL Team 6 warrior, Aaron Vaughn. The United West meet the Vaughns' back in 2011, right after the horrible loss of Extortion 17, Chinook helicopter that was shot down by the Taliban in Afghanistan. This show gets our viewers and listeners caught up with the very busy Vaughns as they battle with Congress, the Obama Administration and any others who get in their way to hold the US Government responsible for the failed ROE...

It appears runaway warming predictions may have been fantasy While the basic premise of global warming has a solid basis in fundamental physical chemistry -- that carbon-containing gases trap sunlight, turning it into heat -- a great unknown is how the Earth will respond to this heating by increasing levels of atmospheric carbon.   I. Doomsday Scenarios Flop Some researchers have claimed sensational scenarios involving "runaway warming" and dire doomsday effects, including warming-created super-hurricanes, floods, new deserts, and super-tornados.  

FULL TITLE: Woman arrested for drunk driving sues after video shows her being strip searched by four officers and tossed naked into a cell A Chicago-area woman arrested in May for drunk driving is now suing county police for what she says was an illegal, humiliating strip search by four officers that was all caught on video. Dana Holmes was nearly three times over the legal blood alcohol limit when she was pulled over and taken to county jail, where surveillance footage shows her being pulled to the ground by a female officer and three male officers. The 33-year-old was...

Who caused the shutdown of our government?

So, now we find out out, except for national security, just how worthless this big government of ours is. Soldiers are still on duty. You and I on private enterprise will go to work tomorrow, as usual. And the legions of bureaucrats will stay home, knowing that they will still get their back pay right after the latest manufactured crisis passes. And yet, We The People, are still here. Working hard, going about our lives. We will keep the Republic, Ben. Good night and good luck.

Computerworld - WASHINGTON -- The arrival of Obamacare may make it easier for some employees to quit their full-time jobs to launch tech start-ups, work as a freelance consultant or pursue some other solo career path. ....... snip

A health insurance agent called Rush to report that neither he nor his colleagues have been able to register at the Govt site so they can start registering people in the exchanges tomorrow. Glitch or intentional?

Let us hypothesize on what the dictater (misspelling on purpose) might do if he loses this one or doesnt get his way.

It’s a cold and stormy day on October 10th 1913 when the crew of the pilot vessel “Coertsen” pulls a body out of the water in the English channel. As was customary, they strip it of any personal effects that might help with identification and give it back to the water. They were identified as the belongings of Rudolf Diesel, father of the engine of the same name. Having been born in Paris in 1858, his family had to flee to England in 1870 because of the war between France and Germany. Due to the poverty they were now living...

It seems even America’s homeless population have found a way to watch cult TV drama Breaking Bad as it reaches its dramatic conclusion. Despite not having immediate access to a TV set, one apparent down-and-out became an internet star this week after a clip of him doing impressions of Walter White and the gang went viral. ‘How is a homeless guy caught up on recent Breaking Bad episodes?’ asked one bemused YouTube user as others set about finding the bearded man’s true identity. It turns out the star of the clip is in fact an actor and voice-over performer named...

Scoping out some updates on key senate races in which weak RINO candidates are vulnerable to conservative challengers, it seems that insignificant tidbits are being dredged up into headlines by Rove's cobra commandos. This is no doubt to provide cover for the Night of the Long Knives that was the cloture vote, in which conservatives like Ted Cruz were vilified by their own party. Note that B&tch McConnell and Lamar Alexander voted AGAINST we the people, and FOR Obamacare. So now McConnell's rising primary challenger, Matt Bevin, is being attacked for getting a question on Article 5 wrong (when was...

Interesting interview of Yuri Bezmenov by G Edward Griffin. I am halfway through it and it is fascinating!

The NSA has been graphing American’s social networks and plotting them as they do organized crime since at least 2010, according to the latest published Edward Snowden leak. The highly secretive intelligence agency has been mapping out American citizens’ social connections – identifying associates, determining locations, and logging who they talk to – by taking advantage of loosened rules previously meant to restrict surveillance actions. As far back as November, 2010, the agency authorized spies to conduct ‘large-scale graph analysis on very large sets of communications metadata without having to check foreignness,’ the New York Times revealed Saturday. Mapped out:...