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It would appear that the BGI Narrative Weavers are still singing from the same sheet of music. Going through media reports it appears that familiar actors and entities have quickly inserted themselves into the confrontation, deliberately driving a local issue national. (Sound familiar?) Enter stage left, another familiar group: the Soros front group NY-based ColorofChange, co-founded by Van Jones. ColorofChange were instrumental in leveraging the Trayvon Martin shooting to end the Stop-and-Frisk policing policy. The organization’s new Executive Director, Rashad Robinson, is an experienced Narrative weaver . Before moving to ColorOfChange in 2011, he was the Senior Director of Programs...

One resident, Benet Embry, a black man, posted on Facebook about the events leading up to the police call. “Look, I LIVE in this community and this ENTIRE incident is NOT racial at all,” Embry wrote. “A few THUGS spoiled a COMMUNITY event by fighting, jumping over fences into a PRIVATE pool, harassing and damaging property. Not EVERYTHING is about RACE. WE have other issues that NEED our attention other flights of made up make believe causes.” In another post he is critical of media coverage of the incident. “I’ve never seen such irresponsible reporting and miss management of media...

Dhimmi literally means “protected person,” and the term was originally applied to non-Muslims who capitulated willingly to Islamic expansionism between 638 and 1683, and who lived in Muslim countries as craven second-class citizens. A bit like the French in World War Two. But with the latest maniac squad gun massacre in Paris this week, it’s hard to argue that our Islamic overlords are looking out for our best interests. Which rather makes the cloying obsequiousness doled out by the BBC and the fetid excuse-making from the Guardian in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attack a little tricky to understand,...

Imagine if Republicans had responded to the push for Obamacare in 2009 by embracing the need for “comprehensive health care reform” while acceding to all Democrat premises concerning the foundations of health care policy. Ponder for a moment where we would be politically if Republicans had spent the past five years promoting Obamacare and targeting the GOP's own members with millions of dollars’ worth of ads beckoning conservatives to support Obama’s signature legislation. Well, that is exactly what Republicans have done with the immigration debate. ...snip It’s time for Republicans to stop running the ball in their own end-zone for...

A Stockton couple is worried that they may face a bill of more than $70,000 for a hospital stay that was initially covered by insurance. Their health plan, Anthem Blue Cross, sent them a letter last month telling them that their insurance coverage has been canceled retroactively, back to the first day of the year -- and that they may be responsible for paying bills for medical care during that time. We called Anthem Blue Cross, and they said, ‘Well, we can cancel people whenever we want. We can do whatever we want,’” Xanttopulos said. A spokesman for Covered California...

Just when I thought the George Zimmerman “trial” couldn’t sink any lower, the prosecutorial limbo dancers of the State of Florida magnificently lowered their own bar in the final moments of their cable-news celebrity. In real justice systems, the state decides what crime has been committed and charges somebody with it. In the Zimmerman trial, the state’s “theory of the case” is that it has no theory of the case: might be murder, might be manslaughter, might be aggravated assault, might be a zillion other things, but it’s something. If you’re a juror, feel free to convict George Zimmerman of...

All of President Barack Obama's employees may not be treated equally in the White House, as recently released financial records show that female employees earn significantly less than their male counterparts. Using the 2011 annual report of White House staff salaries that was submitted to Congress, an $11,000 difference is clear between the median female employee salary and the median male employee salary.

Denninger links to a Youtube by the Tennessee College Republican Committee entitled The Debt Generation. Take a look.

In an outreach effort to Congress on Thursday, Secretary Geithner wrote a pleading letter to raise the debt ceiling. In recent years, raising the debt ceiling has been somewhat clockwork for lawmakers in Washington. However this time around, newly elected members of the 112th Congress may not see such a process as business as usual. ... Of course one stance that could be taken on the issue is to simply vote against raising the debt ceiling. Such a position ... would be "deeply irresponsible" according to Geithner and would result in major consequences

I just got off the horn with the Ruling Elite. We had an emergency conference call and to tell you the truth, they ain’t happy. You little people are not responding the way you are supposed to. A significant portion of you are not getting more optimistic because they tell you to. Instead of just reading the headline on Bloomberg that durable goods orders skyrocketed in June, you actually read the details that said durable goods orders plunged. It is getting difficult for the ruling elite to keep the masses sedated and dumbed down. These damn bloggers, with their facts...

~snip~ The report reads, "the incident appears as if it was either the product of gas migration through the cement sheath as it was setting or that the act of displacing the riser to seawater reduced the hydrostatic head enough that it caused the well to start flowing though cement that was not yet hard. With casing in the ground, these two possible explanations seem by far the most likely, although its impossible at this point not to rule out some other cause or contributing factor such as a blowout preventer or a CASING INTEGRITY ISSUE."

Time to cut the crap - like Congressfolk and their staff trading on inside information, or NYFRB board members and similar buying Goldman Stock and similar abuses. Therefore, I propose the following bill: The Anti-Corruption Federal Employee Act Of 2010 Congress finds that insider trading on congressional bills that are pending, purchases and sales of securities based on material non-public information learned as a function of federal employment, and other forms of self-dealing are corrosive to public confidence and both direct and indirect violations of the duty owed by Federal Employees. Therefore: * No Federal Employee of the legislative, judicial...

EVER NOTICE HOW THE BEHAVIOUR OF DEMOCRATS MATCHES THE WARNING SIGNS THAT YOU ARE IN AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP? TEN SIGNS YOU ARE IN AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP 1. Jealousy & Possessiveness – Democrat becomes jealous over your family, friends, co-workers. Tries to isolate you. Always asks where you’ve been and with whom in an accusatory manner. (Tea Party attacks.) 2. Control – Democrat is overly demanding of your time and must be the center of your attention. Democrat controls finances and the activities you partake in. Becomes angry if you show signs of independence or strength. (Tax you if you work...

The freedom snatching socialists have gone too far so here’s the plan: STEP 1: All Americans for a government that abides by the Constitution change their local laws to allow the keeping of chickens by any taxpaying American. STEP 2: Once taxpayers are allowed to keep chickens, we amend the law to allow all taxpayers to keep hogs. (After all, we wouldn’t want to discriminate now, would we?) STEP 3: Hogs proliferate from sea to shining sea. STEP 4: Government workers begin to disappear. STEP 5: Missing government workers are replaced with new government workers. STEP 6: The new government...

As they hear arguments in a case to against Chicago's nearly 30-year-old handgun ban, the U.S. Supreme Court appears willing to say that the Constitution's right to possess guns limits state and local regulation of firearms. ~snip "We have the right for health and safety to pass reasonable laws dealing with the protection and health of the people of the city of Chicago," Daley said. "This is the first time; once you start doing this, you'll start breaking down local laws, county and even state laws – unlawful use of a weapon," Mayor Daley said.

We're back in downtown Seattle, again wondering how it's turned into a playground for roving bands of marauders. The videotape of the beating of a 15-year-old girl in the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel released this week has set heads shaking throughout the city, and made unwelcome national news. Just like the attack two weeks ago that left a Metro bus driver unconscious, and a 14-year-old boy charged with assault. ~snip Police have suggested that teenage beat-downs are common. And they seem to be business as usual for the girls' parents, who told police that their daughters had been fighting for...

The 15-year-old victim of a beating that took place at the Westlake transit tunnel last month said she pleaded with Seattle police officers to help her get away from a group of people who eventually attacked and robbed her, court documents said. As surveillance video from the incident revealed that transit security officers stood by while the girl was beaten, more details about what led up to the attack were found in court papers by KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reporter Jeff Dubois Thursday morning. In the court documents, the victim said Seattle police officers did not help her when she...

King County Metro Transit will change its security policy in the Downtown Transit Tunnel after a surveillance video showed a 15-year-old girl beaten in front of three security guards who didn't intervene to help her, an agency official said Wednesday. In the meantime, county officials have called for a full review of tunnel security practices. A law enforcement officer, however, says Metro should go further and revisit a decision that greatly reduced the number of commissioned police officers working in the tunnel and replaced them with private security guards. Metro contracts with Olympic Security Services, a private firm in Tukwila,...

-snip Obama, in turning to his Republican predecessor, George W. Bush, and Democratic predecessor, Bill Clinton, has borrowed a page from the Bush playbook in the aftermath of a South Asian tsunami that claimed a massive toll in 2004: Bush tapped Clinton and the president's father, former President George H.W. Bush, to spearhead fundraising. -snip No need to click on the link at the LA SLIMES, this was the important news: OBAMA HAS BORROWED A PAGE FROM THE BUSH PLAYBOOK LA Times admits that the only way Obama is effective is when he copies former President Bush.

-snip Mueller told me that the Internet is not just a conduit for commerce, but also for crime and terrorism, and the bad guys are checking your doorknobs every day. Information is power, and fiber optic cable is a weapon. Terrorists, in particular, love the new Google Earth application. Only recently, Mueller busted an American-Egyptian phishing ring, arresting 50, which cleaned out $50 million from 5,000 US accounts.