An Era of Charlatans: the Mid-Point

The Fahrenheit 451 of Guns

Because of a retroactive Executive Order, for something you bought legally, you will become a criminal for not turning it in— for not doing something.  That is now the case in New YorkThings are going crazy around the world, and we’re disarming our citizens?

Oh, how the oil/power/tech companies, in league with the govt., will shut down anyone that dares sell more efficient, less invasive tech.  G.E. moved some operations from the U.S. to China just to shut down one inventor in China.  The people who believe they are all-powerful are ruthless.

Tesla’s near-free engergy inventions were regarded as dangerous because they threatened to put power Cos. out of business.  Those research documents, along with others, were taken upon his death.

2013.01.31

NYT hacked.  Again?
Reuters, Beijing: the newspaper says its computers were “persistently” attacked by Chinese hackers for months after it ran a story on China’s premier, Wen Jiabao, though sensitive materials related to the Oct. report, which was more about his family’s accumulated wealth of $2.7+ bn., were not accessed.

Reuters: defiant Iran plans to speed up nuclear fuel work by installing and operating advanced uranium enrichment machines.  Diplomats say they’re prepped.

AP: Latvia takes big step to joining euro.

Reuters: U.N. rights inquiry calls on Israel to halt settlement expansion and remove all half-million Jewish settlers from occupied West Bank.

Reuters, Karachi: motorcycle gunman kills three Pakistani Sunni leaders in latest apparent tit-for-tat hit.

Reuters: Russia’s 2012 pol. crackdown worst since Soviet era, say rights group Human Rights Watch.

From “clear to total whiteout in … seconds”: Detroit freeway pileup kills two children, one adult.

Reuters: teen wounded in GA school shooting.

Applebee’s waitress in 10%/18 story, Chelsea Welch, was fired for posting the receipt online, and surprised that they did over a complaint filed by Alois Bell.  “My heart is really broken,” said pastor Bell, who scribbled out some writing over an auto-tip judgment, given more than eight people were seated at the table.  “I’ve brought embarrassment to my church and ministry.”

Venessa Williams admits to lip-synching at the 1996 SuperBowl.

AP: body of landscaper Arthur Douglas Harmon, 70, found in bushes.  Harmon is the suspect in the Phoenix shooting Wednesday.  Harmon filed suit last April against Fusion Contact Centers LLC for the remainder of his $47K contract payment, plus $20K in damages.  Fusion hired him to refurbish office cubicles at two call centers in CA, but he claimed Fusion hung him out to dry by telling him to remove and store 206 “worthless” work stations after a mix-up that the cubicles ‘could not be refurbished,’ asking him to repay much of the $30K he was paid.

Yesterday morning, he went to the law office building that held the settlement conference, shot Steve Singer, 48, and Mark Hummels (of Osborn Maledon), 43, at the end of a mediation session.  Harmon also non-fatally shot a 32-yr.-old woman, and shot at someone who tried to follow him for his license plate no.  SWAT teams, two armored vehicles, and a megaphone for a short time surrounded his house, but it appears shot himself near a parking lot, where his van remained.  Singer died within hours, and Hummels survived his critical wounds.

GrindTV: four-time X Games medalist Caleb Moore, 25, succumbs to injuries sustained in a snowmobile competition crash last week in Aspen.  Moore, from Krum, Texas, was knocked unconscious in the accident where his mobile landed on him after a face-first landing.  After coming to he began feeling worse; he was diagnosed with a concussion.  The local hospital stay was short as doctors found internal bleeding around his heart.  After surgery for a heart contusion, he was reported to have suffered a brain complication due to the heart injury.  On the day of the crash he told the New York Times the day of the crash that among his injuries were a broken ankle, pelvis, back, tailbone, collarbone, and wrist, along with ten concussions.

For the Dr. Phil Show, Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, 22, says he fell in love with Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o and said all his energy went into pretending to be Lennay Kekua.  The first part aired today.

2013.01.30

The kind of Senate we have: Kerry confirmed new SoS, 94-3.

USGS: mag.-6.7 quake hits central Chile.

China: video captures 3,000-ft. sinkhole swallowing building, sending onlookers scrambling and knocking out power to thousands.

AP: Israeli airstrike hits truck convoy in Syria.

Reuters: Egyptian authorities scale back a curfew imposed by Islamist Pres. Mohamed Mursi as he ‘seeks an end to bloodshed.’

AP: Zimbabwe’s finance ministry said it has just $217 left after paying the nation’s civil servants and govt. employees in earlier this month.

CSM: South Korea catches up to N. Korea on space race, with first successful rocket launch from its own soil.  Sounds like adding pressure more than taking it off.  Take-off.

China is so polluted that a prominent millionaire is reportedly selling fresh air in a can; pristine Tibet, post-indust. Taiwan, revolutionary Yan’an.

230 died in a Brazilian nightclub Jan 27 due to pyrotechnics, performance(s) with firey displays, a medium fire safety risk, plus fire extinguishers that didn’t work.  Well over capacity—should be under 700; was est. 1,200-1,300.

U.S.

Hadiya Pendleton, 15, the honors student that performed at Obama inauguration was gunned down days after her WDC trip; no arrests yet.

Gunman targets people at Phoenix office building: three wounded; one critical.  Sgt. Tommy Thompson said police do not believe the shooting was a random act.

Taco Bell announced Monday that it’s pulling the commercial where a VO states that bringing a vegetable tray to a football party is “like punting on fourth-and-1.”

Jim Nabors, 82, a.k.a. “Gomer Pyle,” weds his male partner of 38 yrs. in Seattle.

Ashley Judd and race car driver Dario Franchitti split after 11 yrs. of marriage.

44 yrs./no sick days: Deborah Ford is retiring fm. the USPS— sick-leave balance of 4,508 hrs.

For first time in 3-4 years, U.S. exports and inventory growth decline; W.H. points fingers for shrinking economy; cuts blamed.

2012 Freshman Norms report survey: drinking among College freshmen hits record low… of 33%.

AP: Ex-IL Gov. George Ryan released from half-way house prison after serving +5 yrs. for corruption.

ABC News: Thomas Boone Pickens IV, 21, grandson of oil tycoon T. Boone, dies of undisclosed cause.

McCain: Failure to act on immigration could turn red states blue.  In what universe is he living in?

Man claiming to be a pastor leaves waiter a ‘gratuity’ note: “I give God 10%. Why do you get 18%?”  It’s not charity, you cheapska— the employees rely on tips for pay.

TheBlaze: Caleb Yee, 17, spent well over a year filming with MTV’s True Life, being told by the show’s director to paraphrase certain lines.  He didn’t know that he would be maligned as an ‘anti-govt. right-winger,’ as the title of the ep. was changed from “I Distrust the Government” to “I Hate the Government”.  Not only was he not notified of the title change, but his talk of unity to cutting down debt was… cut, and all of his criticism of the Obama admin. was accentuated, exaggerated.  MTV refused to respond to TheBlaze.

2013.01.29

New Google maps reveal secret prison camps in North Korea; details of department stores, train stations, and… outlines of gulags.

Reuters, Cairo: army warns of unrest pushing Egypt to the brink.

Reuters: North Korea’s Kim Jong-un dashes early hope, but U.S. still seeks change.

AP: Like a thick fog, China’s air pollution problem forces airlines to cancel flights; Beijing prompted to temporarily shut factories and curtail fleets of govt. cars.

Reuters: a dozen bodies found in a well in northern Mexico.
They were members of a band named Poderoso Kombo Kolombia.  Wearing jeans and logo T-shirts for the band, one of them have been identified as a Colombian national.  Out of all eighteen members abducted, one survivor reported on the multiple murders before fleeing back to Mexico.  As the story goes, their armed men captors asked them if they belonged to an organized crime gang, and those that refused to answer were shot.

Presumably there could be more bodies so we will extend the search as far as conditions allow it, said Nuevo Leon spokesman Jorge Domene, at a press conference.  The twelve bodies found so far were relocated to a University Hostpital morgue in Monterey on Monday.

NE manhole blasts Sun. were due to power transformer explosion, according to Omaha Public Power District, investigating what might have prompted the fire, extinguished within a few hours.

Obit

Romani artist Ceija Stojka, 79, died in a Vienna hospital Monday, her publisher told the Austria Press Agency on Tuesday.  Born in Austria, she survived internment in the Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen and Revensbrueck concentration camps, out of just six surviving in her family of two-hundred.  Stojka wrote one of the first Romani autobiographical accounts of the Nazi persecution, with We Live in Seclusion: The Memories of a Romani (1988), and spent decades working on telling the stories of her peoples through the arts.

2013.01.28

Amnesty being ‘debated,’ passed.  Illegal immigration is already overwhelming the system, and John McCain repeats the ‘coming out of the shadows’ nonsense—you can see them in the news, throwing bottles at cops and speeding drunk.  The ignorant lawmakers lump dreamers with those that actively break laws after crossing the border.

Indian Rapists Spared the Death Penalty.

2013.01.26

One Salon.com writer, even after having a child: “not all life is equal.”  Back to the Progressive euthanasia?

Reuters, Egypt: 32+ people dead following court’s controversial decision & sentence in soccer stadium disaster.

Reuters, Amman: Syrian militias target civilians in Homs, opposition says; +20 killed in Homs.

David Cameron on a United States of Europe: I don’t want a country called Europe.

Topless protesters take on elite Davos forum.

Tom Harkin (D-IA), 73, considered one of the most ‘liberal’ Senators, to not seek a 6th term.

Fmr. NYC mayor Ed Koch, 88, released from hospital seven days after admission; swolen ankles, fluid in lungs— doctors reduce the solution to reducing salt intake.

Sarah Palin quits Fox News; $1 mn./yr.

Old photo, marked by newspaper “not to be published”, of a teenage Diana Spencer, sells Thu to a real estate investor for $18,306.

Disoriented dolphin in NY canal dies.

Upside down.
Thousands march, “We must act,” “Stop the NRA” rally against guns: one politician says its not about taking away Second Amendment rights.  Uh, yeah, it is.  You don’t know what a right is, do you?  James Agenbroad, 78, of Garrett Park, MD seems to understand less, carrying a cardboard sign that reads, “Repeal the 2nd Amendment”, saying it’s the only way to stop mass killings, as the U.S. Supreme court will just strike down any other restrictions on guns.  “You can repeal it,” he said to someone for the AP.  “We repealed prohibition.”  This is prohibition, you id—

Hacktivism.
Anonymous assumed control over the homepage of a fedl. judicial agency this morning.  In a manifesto left on a defaced page, the group demanded reform to the American justice system and what they said are threats to the free flow of information.  What set this essay apart from their former manifestos, was that the group also cited the recent suicide of Aaron Swartz.

Obit

Adele Coryell Hall, 81, wife of the Kansas City-based greeting cards company Hallmark chair Donald Joyce Hall, died Saturday at a home in Hawaii.  Spokesman Steve Doyal said Hall had just finished breakfast with her husband and “was working on email when she suddenly felt light-headed and collapsed.”

Born in 1931, in Lincoln, Nebraska, Hall had been married to her husband for nearly 60 years, Hallmark company said.  She was active in many Kansas City organizations, including the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.  At a time widely considered “First Lady” of Kansas City, the first female president to serve under Heart of America United Way, she was named Kansas Citian of the Year in 1990—the first woman to hold the title.  She held leadership positions of several boards, including the Points of Light Foundation, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the United Negro College, and was a board chairman of Children’s Mercy Hospital.

Apart from hosting million-dollar fundraisers, she actually worked at hospital(s) and spent time with the children.  She was tireless working toward those interests in any capacity needed—as visionary board chairman, said Doyal.  Energetic champion and catalyst for change, hard-working committee member, dedicated fund-raiser or hands on volunteer.

Hall is survived by her husband, two sons, and several grandchildren.

2013.01.25

Contagious norovirus sweeps world; CDC says bug from Australia has hit U.S.

Reuters: violence flares on 2nd anniversary of Egyptian uprising, as protesters clash w. police across Egypt.

Reuters: Iraq troops kill 4+ in clashes w. Sunni protesters in Falluja Fri. in escalating unrest against Shi’ite PM Nuri al-Maliki.

Reuters: Russian forces kill 3 militants in N. Caucasus shootout, where the govt. is fighting an Islamist insurgency.

AP: Gaza teens graduate fm. Hamas mil. school.

CSM: after threatening the U.S., North Korea turns its ire on ally South Korea.

AP: 63-yr.-old municipal legislator who opposed a construction project that’d destroy a forest just outside Moscow in intensive after being stabbed repeatedly by an unidentified assailant.

Reuters: Russian parliament backs ban on “homosexual propaganda.”

Reuters: stepping back from pledges to deliver greater transparency, NOC told Reuters this week that Libya will not reveal the details of its oil sales this year.

Reuters, Italy: Monte Paschi bank scandal threatens to hurt both center-left frontrunners in elections.

The $24 taxed option of meter reading: no longer an option in several states.
Neighborville, IL: Jenna arrested for refusing to let a smart meter be installed on/in her house.  A sergeant came, and lock(s)/chain(s) were cut; she stood and interfered with a police officer enforcing something that was somehow a part of city law.  Stand up against this.

Technology is moving so rapidly that you will not be able to understand today’s tech. until five to ten years from now.  Siri/Iris voice interpretation exists commercially, with an easier patent; that s/w does not compare to the voice and conversation reading tech. that exists, outside of the mainstream.  We are at a dangerous threshold where we need to be careful; make it the battle against the misuse of technology, not the battle against technology altogether.

Facebook’s new search engine is not just a search engine; it is a means to collect data, like Google.  At Google, there’s an effort and a goal by Google AI to create artificial intelligence.  The government has your emails, and has assembled supercomputers to deal with all the data… but doesn’t quite know what to do with it.  No privacy + no transparency leads to abuse.

Diane Feinstein leading a charge (and I remember her circling things in a catalogue—which items to ban), and the media try to excuse the ‘legislative process’ of gradual weapons bans by saying how overreaching it is.  That’s the bull made for all of the other laws that passed.  Joe Biden says, get a shotgun, if you want to defend yourself— yeah, they’re targeting those as well.  Nevertheless, and especially as a more extreme measure is used, the ‘softer’ result makes us all worse off than before.

U.S. security chief Janet Napolitano warns of cyber attack whose impact could match that of “Superstorm” Sandy— imminent threat.  Versus the on-going old and tired yet still executed, the imminent threat of government invading every aspect of your life.  So two threats.  Plus the incompetence of Napolitano.

Affordable Care Act allows health insurers to charge smokers buying individual policies up to 50% higher premiums starting next Jan. 1.  For a 55-yr.-old smoker the penalty could reach nearly $4,250/year.  Nearly 1/5 adults smoke.

We come to the point where we’re forced to raise the debt ceiling again; this time it may lower the nation’s credit rating.  There is the possible attempt of Congress to abolish the debt ceiling; this would send the U.S., the world into a tail spin.

There’s no one more waffling than John Kerry, the new secretary of state.
Against Vietnam war, war in Cambodia; but Libya?  The language changes.  Well, that happened after several years…

Ent.:

Virtual castle: Tom Brady, Gisele Bundchen finish completed moat for only $20 mn.

First clip of Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs in jOBS, and one line that’s going to be legendary one day, says one writer.  Josh Gad, as Steve Wozniak, “No one wants to buy a computer.”  And Kutcher/Jobs’ replies, “How does somebody know what they want if they've never even seen it?”  Wozniak says the ‘memorable’ scene never happened—that their views were the other way round; Jobs was slower to get it.

The film, one that covers the major events in Jobs’ life 1971-onward, and written by Matthew Whitely, directed by Joshua Michael Stern, is set for release Apr. 19, the day Apple Computer, Inc.’s founding turns 37 years old.  Dermot Mulroney, Lukas Haas and J.K. Simmons also co-star.

Movie: the Composed Artist That Holds Never Gives Into Fame & Fortune

Searching for Sugar Man: the story of Sixto Rodriguez, a man that relies solely on hard, practical work, not his singing/songwriting talents.  Locations: Detroit, MI; Cape Town, S. Africa.  Albums: Cold Fact; Back to Reality.  Last recording: 1971.

It wasn’t until he was found, near Detroit, that a band was put together for him, for a concert in 1998, and a few other venues.  But he gave all the money away to friends and family, and went back to honest work.

2013.01.24

Reuters: N. Korea said Thu it would carry out further rocket launches and a nuclear test that would target the U.S.

AP: Germans, Britons, those from the Netherlands warned to leave Benghazi.
The countries say there’s a specific and imminent threat against Westerners.

Reuters: U.N. to consider validity of China’s claim over disputed islands in the East China Sea— that they are part of its territory.

Reuters: Canadian police are in Algeria looking for evidence that Canadian citizens were involved in last week’s attack and hostage-taking at a desert gas plant, a government official said Thu.  ~70 people died when Algerian troops stormed the plant and ended the siege Sunday.

AP: couple, two former members, Luis and Maria Garcia of Irvine, CA, sued Church of Scientology for fraud Wed., claiming the church and its affiliates deceived members into donating millions of dollars to misrepresented causes.

Obit

Linda Pugach, 75, who was blinded in 1959 when her lover hired hit men to throw lye in her face —and became a media sensation after later marrying him— has died, her husband said today.

2013.01.23

Reuters: main Islamist party boycotts poll as Jordanians vote.

AP: brother of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri condemns Mali operation.

Reuters: Venezuelan VP Nicolas Maduro says he and another senior leader are the target of an assassination plot by unidentified groups that entered the country, as Chávez recovers from cancer in Cuba.

Reuters: Mexican court ends jail ordeal for Frenchwoman Florence Cassez, 38, serving a 60-year sentence.  Police made Cassez, after arrest, take part in a staged scene of officers freeing kidnapped victims; they have subsequently admitted wrongdoing.

‘With all due respect.’
Taking all the heat, blame, and venting Secretary of State Clinton gets angry, slamming criticizism over Benghazi, Sen. Ron Johnson’s questions.  Update: those trained in counter-intelligence identify the ego-up/ego-down methods used to stall the entire hearing; Clinton was trained in those four months leading up to this hearing.

Pentagon chief Leon Panetta overturns the 1994 rule banning women from smaller ground-fighting units.

Children indoctrinated into a fear of guns; may grow up defenseless.
Bubble guns, paper guns— Melody Valentin says school officials searched and scolded her in front of her classmates.  Groupon pulls gun deals.

Voice of Charlie Brown arrested for stalking.
Peter Robbins was caught at a Tijuana border crossing after a warrant is issued, and faces five felony counts.

Warmer in Siberia.
In January Oymyakon, Russia, the world’s coldest permanently inhabited settlement, where average temperatures are -58°F, the 500 residents have to worry about glasses freezing to their faces, and the ink in their pens freezing.

2013.01.22

Snow storm expected by later today.  Update: not much happened in ME.

Reuters: two blasts, suicide attack kill 17 in Baghdad.

AP: Chinese workers strike over 2-min. toilet breaks, fines for being late; 300 police break up 1,000 people.

AP: Lone Star College has gone into lockdown amid reports of a shooter on campus; two shot in crossfire.

Instances of food fraud are up 60% since last year; food filler also used in fruit juices and spices, not just olive oil.

Property taxes: so high that non-rich farmers have to sell their farms just to pay them.

Grounded Boeing 787 Dreamliners: [battery] chargers tested.

TV

Frack Nation on Access channel @9 p.m.: combatting lies about fracking.  Nat. gas jobs may keep this country from going into a depression.

2013.01.21

Labor participation drop under Obama admin. to numbers not seen since the Reagan admin.

Unions drop members for more illegal immigrant votes for Ds for union money… members doubly out of a job.

Inauguration coverage: George Stephanopoulos still can’t tell Bill Russell from Morgan Freeman, and Chris Matthews again makes an Abraham Lincoln/Gettysburg address comparison—maybe the sixth, seventh time he’s made the Lincoln comparison.

2013.01.20

Cardinals (Baseball) Hall of Famer Stan Musial, 92, dies.

2013.01.19

Minimal Mormon missionary age reduced from 21; 19 for women; 18 for men.

2013.01.18

NYT: Regulators around the globe ground Boeing 787s due to failure of new battery type.

ME Gov. urges use of bonds to pay back hospitals in proposal—$484 mn. owed, $205 mn. in bonds.

Waterville man, Dean Camacho, 27, dies overnight from Wed. Palermo Jeep-tractor trailer collision injuries; passenger of Jeep, driven by Christian Arsenault, 23, of China.

2013.01.17

Tiananmen Square: footage that captured the world; “tank man” was persistent on stopping a tank in China.  Only the oppressors were against him.  The still-unidentified man that spoke for human rights stopped tanks.

Terrorist attack in Algeria w. possible al-Qaeda link(s): hostages killed at a Nat. gas plant.  Conflicting reports.

Cancer centers: pancreatic cancer high, overall cancer deaths in U.S. down 20%.

A man posts on Facebook that he will Molotov cocktail Scott Walker, and executes plans; police caught on, and caught him.  A “lefty” attacking a “righty,” where there just might be a labor union edge, you probably won’t hear this story much anywhere in the press outside online services.  You have to be kind’a dumb to post your attack on Facebook, so… it’s difficult to tell where he’s from.  A Milwaukee man, Kvon R. Smith, 20.  IHatetheMedia.com: he’s a “mostly peaceful leftwing activist.”  Yeah, it’s normal for people to not only violently threaten others, but to actually show up as well.  There were bottles in his… backpack.  JournalSentinel (online): About noon, Smith posted the following: In memory of MLK Jr. Inshallah. Happy birthday.  Inshallah is an Arabic phrase meaning, “God Willing.”.

23 Executive Orders: a Progressive time bomb

As predicted, Doctors are now forced to act as deputies or ‘snitches’ that will rat out gun owners.  You know it’s bad when a news media that sensationalize everything have to say ‘it’s not as bad as it sounds.’  Especially after calling anyone who said this would happen ‘crazy.’

Among the U.S. President’s moves on ‘curbing gun violence’ (as if the govt. can help at all), not only will studies with conflicts of interest be used, such as the Missouri state study that labeled all Tea partiers and Ron Paul supporters, but the moves also bypass doctor-patient confidentiality.  The parents may not know the status of their child’s health, but the govt. is now supposed to know.  And for ‘health’ reasons, to know about the guns in the household, as well as prosecute, all the way up to a felony those who lie about their status.  This will result in fewer people seeing their doctor, and fewer parents taking their children to the doctor.

Hilary Clinton was responsible for HIPAA, a name and a legal privacy rule for minor doctor-patient confidentiality… and having an origin of this admin. structure makes it something that could and apparently will be bypassed.

What will have to happen if this (or as this) continues: it will be illegal for doctors to quit (in refusal to comply).

An executive order in New York, and it does not apply to police officers.
To make it illegal to follow the law, retroactively, owners that bought ten-round magazines in New York have a year to comply with regulations that ban anything more than seven rounds— that you would be breaking the law by not doing something.

If Justice Roberts can say the crux of the Affordable Care act is constitutional by calling it “a tax,” then the door is open for the government to do just about anything property-wise to its people, and justify the action as “a tax.”

How the govt. is curbing the Second Amendment: if anyone in your house is a criminal, then your guns can be confiscated.  A full background check will have to be made bef. what you legally own can be returned.  And that could take forever.  As bad as Dredd is, some of it may become a reality because people just accept it.

Rehypothecation (look it up)

The Germans own 1,500 tons of gold, held at the Federal Reserve of New York (est. 6,720 tons at the NY Fed).  They know the game, and ask for a fraction of it back.  The response: it will take seven years.  With all the selling and reselling (and fin. troubles at home), it is like Mr. Popper in It’s a Wonderful Life, saying everybody owns it, why bother with you.

TV

Lance Armstrong on OWN: Oprah Winfrey interviews the man that says ‘everybody in the sports industry has been doing it.’  He was caught using blood enhancers.

Dan Rather on Adult Swim’s Newsreaders (TV-14-DLS), premieres midnight.

Big Bang Theory characters fight the Two and a Half Men title on the other (Men) set, during the CBS show; tonight, re-runs.

The technology tipping point: within three decades, technology is moving so rapidly (an exponential rate), that regulations cannot keep up.  3-D rendering without glasses— in 2004.  IBM has recently said that computers will feature capabilities of all five senses.  Virtual girlfriends that beat the dating game.  The singularity, a technological utopia: where people no longer matter.  Utopias usually end in nightmares.  Nightmares, tonight @5 o’clock on GBtv.

Obit

Pauline Phillips, 94, dies Wednesday of Alzheimer’s, according to her daughter, Jeanne, who took over for her mother for the advice column “Dear Abby.”  On Thursday, Jeanne was quoted saying, I have lost my mother, my mentor and my best friend.  My mother leaves very big high heels to fill with a legacy of compassion, commitment and positive social change.  I will honor her memory every day by continuing this legacy.

2013.01.16

Obama signs executive orders: doctors are to be forced to report if guns are in a patient’s house.

A shill for the left, Jon Stewart compares NRA ad to “a Joaquin Phoenix-style joke.”  Yeah, that’s funny in how… it doesn’t make sense.

2013.01.12

Twas just about forcibly off from communicating w. the outside world.  And now I am just about forced off from using the PC: blackout.  What f**kin’ life I have.  It’s going to be a horrible year, isn’t it?

Gov. LePage (Maine) to suspend municipal sharing, $215 mn. fm. the state budget to local, none/less to PBS.  There’s all this money in ‘reserves,’ and they never give it back.

2013.01.11

Cashless kiosks @Wal-mart, cashless ordering at Starbucks— SDRs and currency blends “trending.”  Dollar, Euro, Peso & Yen.  The IMF currency… and the Beast.

In the U.K., hospital deaths in rationing, 30% of elderly deaths are due to euthanasia.  In New York, Bloomberg’s already ‘in control of the hospitals’: we’re just gonna cut down on pain meds.  Addictive when abused, the introduction of the insanity that is all or nothing.  ‘Death is painful,’ so just pull the plug.

Strict gun control in Jamaica—has that stopped gun violence.  No.  There are instead bigger, more powerful gangs.  Jan. 1: a woman was killed in crossfire.

“Killing humans is just like popping bubbles; it’s no big deal.”  Yeah, promote those kinds of people, not law-abiding citizens.

Obit

Activist and Reddit co-founder Aaron Schwartz, 26, was pronounced dead Friday from self-inflicted wounds.  Arrested in 2011 for stealing thousands of articles from MIT computers, he was awaiting trial when he died.  He helped in the development of RSS (feeds).

2013.01.10

Gun Control or People Control?  They’re both people control!

2013.01.04

TheBlaze: ex-burglars confirm that newspaper’s gun owner map is ‘exceptionally stupid.’  “Having a list of who has a gun is like gold—why rob that house when you can hit the one next door, where there are no guns?”

Boston Mayor says VP ‘guaranteed’ him Obama will pass major gun control reform by end of January; “He said, ‘Tommy, I guarantee you, we’ll get it done by the end of January.’”

Nancy Pelosi defends doctoring of photo (adding Congresswomen).

John Boehner reelected speaker of the House despite dissenting votes.

December unemployment rises to 7.8%, Nov. numbers revised higher.

CurrentTV sold to Al Jazeera.

Ann Coulter, in response to gun owner mapping: publish abortion-getters names.

Police Chief lifts ban on officers eating at Denny’s after detective was told to leave her gun in the car.

Dadoit Butsitsi, 25, loses Maine state Supreme Court appeal on Fifth Amendment grounds; was indicted, convicted by grand jury for fatally shooting Serge Mulongo, 24 in Feb. 2010.

Ancient manuscripts found in Taliban-controlled Afghan caves, shed light on 1,000-yr.-old Jewish community.

2013.01.03

“Spread your legs, you’re going to be frisked”: an extra-creepy Joe Biden shows for today’s swearing-in ceremonies, stroking women’s faces.

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