tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13210007967751976652024-03-13T00:49:19.253-05:00Bergheim Follies"We have met the enemy, and he is us." - PogoCenTexTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026518638421849111noreply@blogger.comBlogger3476125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321000796775197665.post-19635338877435303732016-07-19T05:00:00.000-05:002016-07-19T05:00:20.417-05:00Adiós y Vaya con DiosI started this blog over six years ago - January 16, 2010, to be precise. At the time I was commuting between my job in Laredo (Texas, of course) and my home near Bergheim (also in the Great State of Texas). I needed something to help me pass the time and stay out of trouble while I was away from the family, so Bergheim Follies was born. <br />
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Fast forward to today. I'm retired and back living at home. The kids are out of the house. In spite of - or maybe because of - being retired it seems I have more things to do than when I was working, and less time to do them. This blog has become a time-sink where I lose 2 or 3 hours a day sitting on my increasingly fatter ass in front of the computer. Given the state of the world today - and the state of our nation - it's also become much less enjoyable. <br />
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Bottom line - I'm pulling the plug. I've got things I want to do, and things I <i>need</i> to do. Shutting this down means I have one less excuse to avoid them. Thanks to all of you who have dropped by this little corner of the interweb. I've made some good friends through this blog; some digital, and some in meatspace. It's been an honor and a pleasure having you spend some of your precious time here.<br />
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I'll leave you with the following toast. I mean that last part. If you ever wander down around Bergheim let me know. I'll buy you a beer.<br />
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<i>Adiós y Vaya con Dios</i>...<br />
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CenTexTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026518638421849111noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321000796775197665.post-53888911601834522522016-07-18T05:00:00.000-05:002016-07-18T05:00:22.010-05:00You've Got To Be KiddingAlternate Title: Don't You Have Some Real Problems To Address? <br />
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At first I thought this headline was a joke.<br />
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Sadly, it is not.<br />
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<a href="http://heatst.com/politics/government-considers-first-pokemon-go-regulations/" target="_blank">Government Considers First Pokemon Go Regulations</a><br />
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Pokemon Go players have certainly had their fair share of run-ins with the law this week — mostly on the wrong side of it. Two men sustained serious injuries and are facing possible charges after falling down a cliff in California chasing Pokemon. Two teens were arrested in Toledo after jumping fence into the Toledo Zoo following the digital creatures. And in LA, police are chasing after Pokemon Go players who wander on to random neighbors’ lawns.</blockquote>
Okay, stupid people do stupid things. Nothing new about that. But apparently some of the idiots we have elected to office think they must do something to protect us from ourselves.<br />
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... the app itself is now the target of lawmakers, who want to regulate the game, claiming that the app poses a significant risk to public safety, and the fun must end.<br />
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One New York Assemblyman is considering drafting some sort of restriction on the game, claiming that Pokemon Go, which involves battling digital creatures, could have “tragic real-world consequences...”<br />
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Senator Al Franken is also looking into Pokemon Go. The former SNL star and Minnesota Democrat has written a letter to Niantic, the company responsible for programming the augmented reality portion of the app, asking them how much information they’re collecting from users, and what they plan to do with that information.<br />
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If his questions go unanswered, Franken could call for Congressional hearings on the subject...</blockquote>
That's what we get for electing a joke to the senate. (You know the old saying: "That's the problem with political jokes. They keep getting elected.")<br />
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Democrats think congressional hearings are a bad thing when it comes to hillary, and Benghazi, or hillary and classified information, or hillary in general, but they're a good thing when it comes to imaginary creatures on your cell phone. Sigh...<br />
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The scary thing is that the move to legislate a game - a friggin' video game! - is occurring at multiple levels of government, and in multiple locations.<br />
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I am firmly in the "less government is better government" camp. This is just the latest reason why.<br />
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CenTexTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026518638421849111noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321000796775197665.post-45146594149795339642016-07-17T14:20:00.004-05:002016-07-17T14:20:57.809-05:00Sunday Funnies 2016.08.17The choices for our next president are:<br />
(A) disappointing;<br />
(B) discouraging;<br />
(C) depressing;<br />
(D) all of the above.<br />
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During a lady's medical examination, the doctor says: "Your heart, lungs, pulse and blood pressure are all fine. Now let me see the part that gets you ladies into all kinds of trouble."<br />
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The lady starts taking off her underwear but is interrupted by the doctor.<br />
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"No! No! Don't remove your clothes...........just stick out your tongue!"<br />
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A woman goes to a psychiatrist because she's worried about her husband’s temper. <br />
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The doctor asks: “What’s the problem? <br />
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The woman says: “Doctor, I don’t know what to do. Every day my husband seems to lose his temper for no reason. It scares me.” <br />
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The doctor says: “I have a cure for that. When it seems that your husband is getting angry, just take a glass of water and start swishing it in your mouth. Just swish and swish and swish, but don’t swallow it until he either leaves the room or calms down.” <br />
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Two weeks later the woman comes back to the doctor looking fresh and reborn. She says, “Doctor that was a brilliant idea! Every time my husband started losing it, I swished with water. I swished and swished, and he calmed right down! How does a glass of water do that?” <br />
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The doctor says: “The water itself does nothing. It’s keeping your mouth shut that does the trick.<br />
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My wife says I’m unsophisticated and uncultured. To prove her wrong, I bought tickets to an event of taste and refinement.<br />
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It starts with “b” and rhymes with “wallet.”<br />
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Old people like to give good advice as consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.<br />
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A little silver-haired lady calls her neighbor and says, "Please come over here and help me. I have a killer jigsaw puzzle, and I can't figure out how to get started." <br />
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Her neighbor asks, "What is it supposed to be when it's finished?" <br />
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The little silver haired lady says, "According to the picture on the box, it's a rooster." <br />
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Her neighbor decides to go over and help with the puzzle. <br />
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She lets him in and shows him where she has the puzzle spread all over the table. <br />
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He studies the pieces for a moment, then looks at the box, then turns to her and says, <br />
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"First of all, no matter what we do, we're not going to be able to assemble these pieces into anything resembling a rooster." <br />
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He takes her hand and says, "Secondly, I want you to relax. Let's have a nice cup of tea, and then," he said with a deep sigh ............ <br />
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"Let's put all the Corn Flakes back in the box."<br />
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The teacher asked the class to use the word “fascinate” in a sentence.<br />
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Molly put up her hand and said, “My family went to my granddad's farm, and we all saw his pet sheep. It was fascinating."<br />
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The teacher said, “That was good, but I wanted you to use the word ‘fascinate,’ not 'fascinating'.”<br />
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Sally raised her hand. She said, “My family went to see Rock City and I was fascinated.”<br />
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The teacher said, “Well, that was good Sally, but I wanted you to use the word ‘fascinate’.”<br />
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Little Johnny raised his hand, but the teacher hesitated because she had been burned by Little Johnny before. She finally decided there was no way he could damage the word “fascinate,” so she called on him.<br />
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Johnny said, “My aunt Leslie has a sweater with ten buttons, but her tits are so big she can only fasten eight!”<br />
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The teacher sat down and cried.CenTexTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026518638421849111noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321000796775197665.post-26573802225220814542016-07-16T05:00:00.000-05:002016-07-17T16:05:43.262-05:00 Thank YouThanks to our elected 'leaders,' who are charged with the responsibility of protecting us. As the following article shows, they have failed miserably.<br />
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<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-attack-in-nice-shouldnt-have-been-a-surprise/2016/07/15/1c599b14-4a94-11e6-acbc-4d4870a079da_story.html" target="_blank">The attack in Nice shouldn’t have been a surprise</a><br />
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If Thursday’s terrorist attack in Nice, France, was shocking, it shouldn’t be — because we were warned.<br />
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The attack seems to have been ripped out of the al-Qaeda playbook.<br />
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In 2010, two American terrorists,Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, published a series of articles in the al-Qaeda magazine Inspire on what they called “Open Source Jihad.” They described it as “a resource manual” for carrying out terrorist attacks against the West that allowed Islamic radicals “to train at home instead of risking dangerous travel abroad.” All that is needed, they said, “is the willingness to give one’s life for Allah.”<br />
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One of those articles, published in the fall 2010 issue under the name of a terrorist trainer identified as Yahya Ibrahim, was called “The Ultimate Mowing Machine.” It described what ultimately happened in Nice in precise detail.<br />
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“Here is one idea of how an individual Muslim may [wage individual jihad]. It is a simple idea and there is not much involved in its preparation,” the article said. “The idea is to use a pickup truck as a mowing machine, not to mow grass but mow down the enemies of Allah.” <br />
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“Pick your location and timing carefully,” it continued. “Go for the most [crowded] locations. Narrower spots are also better because it gives less chance for the people to run away. . . . To achieve maximum carnage, you need to pick up as much speed as you can while still retaining good control of your vehicle in order to . . . be able to strike as many people as possible in your first run. Keep in mind that as soon as people realize what you are up to, they would scatter and run in every direction looking for cover. They would look for areas where the vehicle cannot reach them. Therefore, it is important to study your path of operation beforehand.”<br />
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The article further advised that “The ideal location is a place where there are a maximum number of pedestrians and the least number of vehicles. In fact if you can get through to ‘pedestrian only’ locations that exist in some downtown (city center) areas, that would be fabulous. There are some places that are closed down for vehicles at certain times due to the swarms of people.”<br />
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“If you have access to firearms, carry them with you so that you may use them to finish off your work if your vehicle gets grounded during the attack,” it concluded, adding “This idea could be implemented in countries like Israel, the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, [and] France.”<br />
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This is what happened last night. The driver, identified as 31-year-old Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, took a truck, found a crowded location in the city center reserved for pedestrians, where thousands were gathered for a fireworks display. He picked up as much speed as possible and drove for more than a mile down the promenade, mowing people down. The driver then got out and started shooting people, before he was shot by police. At least 84 people were killed and dozens more injured.<br />
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So how do we stop them? The answer is not gun control. France has some of the strictest gun-control laws in the world, yet that did not stop Bouhlel in Nice from obtaining the weapons he used. And most of those killed in France were not shot; they were run over. The terrorists have plenty of ideas for how to kill us that don’t involve guns.<br />
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The answer is to take away their caliphate — to win the fight over there, so we do not have to face them over here. <b>When the Islamic State was “decimated” after the 2007 surge in Iraq, its members were not carrying out terrorist attacks across the world. They had, according to CIA Director John Brennan, only about “700 or so” adherents left. They were focused on survival, not external operations. Their current campaign of violence only started after President Obama withdrew all U.S. forces from Iraq, took our boot off their necks and allowed them to establish a haven in Syria</b> — which they then turned into a Grand Central Terminal of jihad, bringing in tens of thousands of foreign fighters from more than 100 countries across the world. They then used their Syrian haven as a base from which to reconquer large swaths of Iraq, declare their radical Islamic caliphate and spread their deadly tentacles across the globe. And we think it is a coincidence that since then, they have carried out 126 attacks in 23 countries outside of Iraq and Syria that have killed more than 1,700 people. (emphasis added)</blockquote>
Thank you, barack hussein obama.<br />
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When will the carnage stop? When the terrorists are defeated again. Until then, expect more attacks like the one in Nice.</blockquote>
Step Number One - don't let these savages into our country, <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/07/341549/" target="_blank">as Newt Gingrich has suggested</a>.<br />
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Step Number Two - cut off their financial means of support, along with their access to social media. You can't tell me that (1) we are unable to 'follow the dollars;' and (2) we are unable to hack into or otherwise disrupt the host servers of their websites. Hell, just about any 18-year-old could do either. Why haven't we?<br />
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Step Number Three - <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/02/confirmed-117-gitmo-detainees-returned-terrorism-far-18-released-detainees/" target="_blank">stop releasing captured terrorists from Gitmo</a>.<br />
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Step Number Four - track 'em down and kill 'em all.<br />
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There - that's not so hard, is it?<br />
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<br />CenTexTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026518638421849111noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321000796775197665.post-4914257248153085962016-07-15T05:00:00.000-05:002016-07-15T05:00:07.756-05:00And So It BeginsHillary got away with “extremely careless” behavior that would have resulted in criminal charges for anyone else. Her defense? She 'didn't intend to' violate regulations regarding the transmission and storage of classified material. (<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/437479/fbi-rewrites-federal-law-let-hillary-hook" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/07/05/fbi-boss-outrageous-double-standard-in-letting-hillary-skate/" target="_blank">here</a>)<br />
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Absurd? Without a doubt. Effective? Most certainly. After all, she got away with it.<br />
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Not only does this allow a dangerously unqualified person to quite possibly become the next President of the United States, <a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2016/07/07/lawyer-on-the-birth-of-hillary-defense-many-people-have-been-punished-for-doing-much-less-n2189307" target="_blank">it sets a dangerous precedent for other cases involving national security</a>.<br />
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“I intend to use the Hillary defense,” said Sean M. Bigley, a lawyer whose firm handles dozens of cases a year involving national security clearances. “I really question how any agency can say someone is a security risk if the president of the United States did something similar.”<br />
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He added, “We’ve had people lose 20-year careers for doing less than what she did.”<br />
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Mark F. Riley, a former military intelligence officer who became a lawyer defending those accused of national security violations, said he, too, would invoke the Clinton recommendation.<br />
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“I’m going to use it every chance I get, particularly in oral arguments. I’m going to bring it up over and over and over,” Riley said, adding that he thinks Clinton and her team engaged in “an egregious, egregious security violation.”<br />
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“Any other person would have had their security clearance revoked,” he said.<br />
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Kel McClanahan, another national security lawyer, said the FBI had not pursued an important line of inquiry: whether Clinton violated the law merely by setting up private servers and diverting government records. Someone who “conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates or destroys” government records can face a fine and up to three years in prison. The Justice Department has sent defendants to prison for such a crime, McClanahan said.</blockquote>
Oh, great. Not only is there a strong possibility that classified information was stolen from hillary's unlawful and unsecured email server, but now the 'hillary loophole' will be used to help foil prosecution in other instances of compromised national security. And yet this creature continues to be a viable candidate for president... and somewhere around half of Americans support her.<br />
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When will we wake up from this national nightmare? <br />
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In related news, <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/07/13/nypd-officials-plead-not-guilty-to-corruption-charges/" target="_blank">the 'Hillary Defense' is already being invoked in sleazy criminal cases</a>.<br />
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A lawyer for one of the NYPD cops accused of doing favors for bribes — including mile-high sex with this hooker on a free trip to Las Vegas — said his client’s behavior was no worse than Hillary Clinton’s.<br />
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“It’s similar to what the FBI said about Hillary Clinton, and why she wasn’t charged,” said John Meringolo, a lawyer for James Grant, who pleaded not guilty in Manhattan federal court Wednesday.<br />
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Meringolo described his client’s alleged actions — swapping police favors for expensive gifts like the wild trip with prostitute Gabi Grecko — as mere violations of police conduct.</blockquote>
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Here's some more examples of the 'Hillary Defense' in action.<br />
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CenTexTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026518638421849111noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321000796775197665.post-16631586911993126062016-07-14T05:00:00.000-05:002016-07-14T05:00:21.006-05:00Wordless Thursday - 2016.07.14I always seem to be a day late and a dollar short when it comes to Wordless Wednesday. Oh well, rules are made to be broken.<br />
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CenTexTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026518638421849111noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321000796775197665.post-8935153421541475102016-07-13T05:00:00.000-05:002016-07-13T05:00:08.603-05:00A Chip Off The Old BlockMy 22-year-old son sent me this joke.<br />
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The second surgeon says, "I like operating on accountants. When you open them up, everything is in numerical order".</div>
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The third surgeon says, "I like operating on electricians. When you open them up, everything is color coded".</div>
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The fourth surgeon continues, "Because they're heartless, gutless, spineless, and the ass and head are interchangeable".</div>
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The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.<br />
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Speaking of heartless, gutless, spineless, and ass-headed politicians:<br />
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CenTexTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026518638421849111noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321000796775197665.post-56431487638475667382016-07-12T05:00:00.000-05:002016-07-12T05:00:16.928-05:00PrioritiesThis should not come as a surprise to observers of the obama administration. They feel no obligation to the public or the nation they took an oath to serve.<br />
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<a href="http://freebeacon.com/uncategorized/state-department-defends-kerry-leaving-nato-summit-see-hamilton/" target="_blank">Kerry Leaves NATO Summit Early To See ‘Hamilton’</a><br />
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Secretary of State John Kerry is facing criticism after departing a major NATO summit early in order to watch a showing of the hit Broadway play Hamilton...<br />
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Kerry had been attending a major summit of NATO powers in Warsaw, Poland this weekend, but departed early from the powwow, dubbed by a U.S. official as “one of the most important political events of the year,” so he could attend a final showing of the musical...<br />
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Kerry’s early departure drew criticism from some foreign policy observers and prompted the State Department to admit that the secretary had left early for the showing, as well as a wedding ceremony.<br />
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Many celebrities attended the showing, prompting criticism from at least one former U.S. official.<br />
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“Priorities … John Kerry left the NATO summit early so he could hang out w/Jane Fonda, JLO, & Charlie Rose,” tweeted Michael Doran, a former senior director of the White House’s National Security Council.<br />
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Kerry also posed for pictures with fans during the play, according to photos posted on Twitter.</blockquote>
At least, unlike his predecessor, an American ambassador and three other state department employees haven't been killed on his watch.<br />
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CenTexTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026518638421849111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321000796775197665.post-13555524907581765312016-07-11T05:00:00.000-05:002016-07-11T07:16:06.624-05:00Here We Go AgainBy now everyone should be aware of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/09/us/dallas-police-shooting.html?_r=0" target="_blank">what happened in Dallas last Thursday</a>.<br />
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Dallas Shooting Suspect, Micah Johnson, ‘Upset at White People’<br />
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A military veteran who said his goal was to kill white police officers opened fire Thursday night in downtown Dallas, leaving five officers dead and seven wounded...</blockquote>
Shortly thereafter, similar incidents followed.<br />
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<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cops-tennessee-shooter-targeted-white-victims-similar-to-dallas-ambush/" target="_blank">Tennessee shooter targeted white victims, similar to Dallas ambush</a><br />
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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has released the name of the suspect behind Thursday morning's random shooting in Bristol, TN that claimed the life of an area newspaper carrier and injured three others, including a local police officer.<br />
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The TBI says 37-year-old Lakeem Keon Scott was armed with at least two weapons, an automatic-style rifle, a pistol and a large amount of ammunition...<br />
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Preliminary findings indicate Scott may have targeted people and officers after being troubled by recent events involving African-Americans and law enforcement officers in other parts of the country.</blockquote>
<a href="https://gma.yahoo.com/missouri-police-officer-shot-during-traffic-stop-suspect-190803761--abc-news-topstories.html" target="_blank">Missouri Cop 'Fighting For His Life' After Being Shot in Traffic Stop</a><br />
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A police officer is "fighting for his life" after he was shot during a traffic stop this morning in Ballwin, Missouri...<br />
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The incident, which was caught on police dashcam, happened around 11 a.m. local time on Friday when an officer pulled over a vehicle for speeding...<br />
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After speaking with the driver, the officer went to his car to do paperwork ... the driver exited his vehicle, approached the officer's car, fired three shots, returned to his vehicle and fled. <br />
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The suspect, Antonio Taylor, a 31-year-old black man who was paroled in 2015 after serving time on a federal weapons charge, was charged with assault of a police officer, armed criminal action and a felon in possession of a firearm...</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.kens5.com/news/local/possible-shots-fired-outside-sapd-headquarters/268563250" target="_blank">Gunfire strikes San Antonio Police headquarters</a><br />
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Multiple gunshots were fired at the San Antonio Police headquarters building Saturday night... There were no reports of injuries.<br />
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Bullet marks were found on the exterior wall of the building, and shell casings were discovered in a nearby alley...<br />
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This incident comes as police departments nationwide are on edge following the shooting of 12 police officers in Dallas.</blockquote>
I'm a data guy. My first professional career involved numbers, algorithms, and analytics. My second career relied heavily on data collection and analysis. So when I view the events of the past few days (the Dallas shootings and related aftermath), I get frustrated when so many use emotions in place of analysis and logic.<br />
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<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/police-shootings/" target="_blank">Here's some numbers to chew on</a>.<br />
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Last year (2015) 990 people were shot and killed by police in this country. Approximately 50% were white, 26% were black, and the remainder were hispanic or 'other.' 9% were unarmed. 74% were shot while some sort of attack was in progress.<br />
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This year (2016) 512 people have been shot and killed by police to date. That's pretty much on track with last year's numbers. Approximately 47% were white, 24% were black, and the remainder were hispanic or 'other.' 7% were unarmed. Data was not provided regarding whether or not an attack was in progress.<br />
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<a href="https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/07/08/sheriff-david-clarke-blasts-obama-for-dallas-police-massacre-his-irresponsible-rhetoric-fuels-this-sort-of-thing/" target="_blank">Another piece of data was cited by Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke</a> (who, BTW, is black).<br />
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"Forty percent of law enforcement officers in the country that are killed in the line of duty are killed by black men," Clarke said, pointing out that blacks only represent about fifteen percent of the population.</blockquote>
The data indicate that there is no epidemic of police shooting blacks. The numbers have remained steady.<br />
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What has changed is the use of social media to share and encourage emotional and illogical responses to these incidents. We also have grandstanding politicians and their enablers in the press who are busy spinning these tragedies to advance their narrative. For example, in a Facebook post last week <a href="http://www.lifezette.com/polizette/anti-police-rhetoric-turns-deadly/" target="_blank">obama had this to say</a>.<br />
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"What's clear is that these fatal shootings are not isolated incidents. They are symptomatic of the broader challenges within our criminal justice system, the racial disparities that appear across the system year after year, and the resulting lack of trust that exists between law enforcement and too many of the communities they serve."</blockquote>
I guess barry can't be troubled to examine the facts.<br />
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He's not alone. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/07/opinion/alton-sterling-and-when-black-lives-stop-mattering.html" target="_blank">Here's what some SJW had to say in the New York Times</a>.<br />
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... this brand of tragedy has become routine… Law enforcement, militarized and indifferent to black lives, is the problem.</blockquote>
Of course, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/08/politics/hillary-clinton-joe-biden/" target="_blank">hillary had to chime in as well</a>.<br />
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Speaking to a largely African-American audience at the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, (hillary said)... it was important to acknowledge the "implicit bias" in society and some police departments.</blockquote>
(Side note: hillary desperately needs the black vote to help her get elected, so it's not surprising that she's pandering to them. But some conspiracy theorists think there might be another, more sinister explanation.)<br />
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I don't doubt that some of the shootings may not have been justified. But there are a myriad of factors in play here - training, mental and emotional composure of the officers involved, experience, actions of the suspects, and yes, possibly even some racial bias. But to tag all shootings as racially motivated, and to paint all cops as indifferent or even hostile to blacks, is not only false and misleading, it is grossly irresponsible. It leads to incidents like the Dallas shootings, and other similar events.<br />
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There have also been reports of individual black people and police officers coming together and helping bridge the gap between both sides. Here's one example.<br />
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Color me foolishly naive and optimistic, but I hope that the events of the past few days will open eyes on both sides. Regardless of my fetish for data, I realize that perception is important. And right now, rightly or wrongly, blacks perceive that cops represent a threat to them, and are responding accordingly. We have to hope that the police have a better grip on their emotions and don't push back, leading to a vicious cycle of tragedy upon tragedy. We also have to hope that calmer heads will prevail on the other side, and that, over time, a calm and reasonable dialogue will emerge.<br />
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Like I said, color me foolishly naive and optimistic...<br />
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A couple are sitting in their living room, sipping wine. Out of the blue, the wife says, “I love you.”<br />
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“Is that you or the wine talking?” asks the husband.<br />
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“It’s me,” says the wife. “Talking to the wine.”<br />
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I was standing in front of the bathroom mirror one evening admiring my reflection, when I posed this question to my wife of 30 years: “Will you still love me when I’m old, fat, and balding?”<br />
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She answered, “I do.”<br />
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After 12 years in prison, a man finally breaks out. <br />
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When he gets home, filthy and exhausted, his wife says, “Where have you been? You escaped eight hours ago!”<br />
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A man says to a friend, “My wife is on a three-week diet.”<br />
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“Oh, yeah? How much has she lost so far?” asks his pal.<br />
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He replies, “Two weeks.”<br />
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My ex and I had a very amicable divorce. I know this because when I wrote on my Facebook account “I’m getting a divorce,” she was the first one to click "Like".<br />
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When I asked a friend the secret to his 52 years of marriage, he replied, "We never go to sleep angry."<br />
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"That’s a great philosophy," I noted.<br />
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"Yes. And the longest we’ve been awake so far is five days."<br />
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While a woman is keeping vigil beside her husband’s deathbed, he says to her, "Before I die, I have something to confess to you."<br />
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"Shh, not now," she replies.<br />
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"But I need to tell you: I cheated on you," he admits.<br />
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"Yes, I know," she replies.<br />
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"Shh," she counters. "Just lie back and let the poison work."<br />
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As I was stepping into the shower after an afternoon of yard work, my wife walked into the bathroom. "What do you think the neighbors would say if I cut the grass dressed like this?" I asked.<br />
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Giving me a casual glance, she replied, "They’d say I married you for your money."<br />
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CenTexTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026518638421849111noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321000796775197665.post-68742203664366361472016-07-09T05:00:00.000-05:002016-07-09T05:00:27.729-05:00Saturday Morning CartoonsIf you're around my age, you remember Saturday morning cartoons. Not the crap they have today, but the good stuff - Bugs Bunny, Sylvester and Tweety, the Road Runner, and all the rest.<br />
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Well, we don't have that any more. But here's something for your viewing pleasure that should make you feel just as good as watching the vintage Warner Bros cartoons.<br />
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<a href="http://www.burnpit.us/2016/07/isis-convoy-absolutely-obliterated-retreat-fallujah" target="_blank">More good stuff here</a>.<br />
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CenTexTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026518638421849111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321000796775197665.post-83834265156794024922016-07-08T05:00:00.000-05:002016-07-08T05:00:19.233-05:00How Low Can You GoThere are some truly sick people out there. Too bad there isn't some way to determine who is fit to be a parent beforehand.<br />
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<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/police-mom-infant-beat-man-daytona-beach-40342771" target="_blank"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Mom Used Infant to Beat up Man in Daytona Beach</span></a></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Officers responded shortly before 4:30 p.m. Monday to a beach in Daytona Beach. Marris says responders found Tatyana Allen had battered her boyfriend, also the baby's father, with the child.</span></div>
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Witnesses told beach investigators that they saw Allen walk up to her boyfriend, the baby's father, and punch him several times in the face. Allen then grabbed her baby as a weapon and swung him "like a bat" at her boyfriend, the report states.<br />
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Allen dropped the baby facedown in the sand and the boyfriend picked up the baby, the report states.<br />
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The caller said Allen smacked the baby, which was covered in sand.<br />
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Witnesses said "Allen was extremely rough with the baby," investigating officers wrote in their report.<br />
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As Allen walked up the steps to the boardwalk, the baby's head also struck a railing, the report states.</blockquote>
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Somehow I doubt if she'll ever be nominated for Mother of the Year.<br />
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The more I think about it, the more I think sterilization might be an apt punishment for people like this.<br />
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Her actions are bad enough. But the next story will sicken and disgust you.<br />
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</a> <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/father-and-partner-charged-with-allegedly-abusing-10month-old-girl-near-mudgee-nsw-20160706-gq0ars.html" target="_blank">Father and partner charged with allegedly abusing 10-month old girl</a><br />
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A father has been charged with sexually assaulting his baby daughter and offering her up to his boyfriend, who then gloated about it over Skype.<br />
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The two men, both aged 50, were arrested in Ivanhoe, Victoria (Australia) on Tuesday. They were extradited to Sydney on Wednesday night to face charges that Child Abuse police said were so horrific they were lost for words.<br />
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It's understood the men, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, are in a relationship and live together in Melbourne.<br />
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One of the men fathered the little girl, who was born in 2014 and now lives with her mother in a small town in central western NSW.<br />
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It's alleged the men travelled to the town on April 19, 2015 and looked after the baby girl for three hours while her mother was at a training course.<br />
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Unbeknownst to her, the men allegedly sexually abused the 10-month old baby over those three hours and allegedly took photos of her that they later uploaded to their computers.</blockquote>
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There was a time when I would advocate for a long, lingering, and painful death for disgusting creatures like these. But as I've grown older I think it makes more sense to just calmly dispose of them in the most efficient way possible and move on. Either way, though, they deserve to die - soon.<br />
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<a href="http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/child-abuse/basics/symptoms/con-20033789" target="_blank">Here are some warning signs of possible child abuse</a>.<br />
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A child who's being abused may feel guilty, ashamed or confused. He or she may be afraid to tell anyone about the abuse, especially if the abuser is a parent, other relative or family friend. In fact, the child may have an apparent fear of parents, adult caregivers or family friends. That's why it's vital to watch for red flags, such as:<br />
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<li>An apparent lack of supervision</li>
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<li>Reluctance to leave school activities, as if he or she doesn't want to go home</li>
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Child abuse ends only when someone is concerned enough and courageous enough to speak out. Below are a couple of links to organizations that help victims of child abuse. I hope you never have cause to use them, but just in case...<br />
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<a href="http://www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/our-story">http://www.nationalchildrensalliance.org/our-story</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.childwelfare.gov/organizations/?CWIGFunctionsaction=rols:main.dspROL&rolType=custom&rs_id=5">https://www.childwelfare.gov/organizations/?CWIGFunctionsaction=rols:main.dspROL&rolType=custom&rs_id=5</a> <br />
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CenTexTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026518638421849111noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321000796775197665.post-19467214760106410522016-07-07T05:00:00.000-05:002016-07-07T05:00:14.017-05:00Wordless Thursday - Hillary And The FBI VersionI remember when the FBI was one of the premier law enforcement agencies in the world. Now its motto - Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity - is a joke.<br />
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CenTexTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026518638421849111noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321000796775197665.post-35768656665378425732016-07-06T05:00:00.000-05:002016-07-06T05:00:23.388-05:00Surprise Surprise SurpriseRemember Gomer Pyle?<br />
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I was reminded of his "Surprise Surprise Surprise" shtick when I heard the news that hillary beat the rap in her email case.<br />
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<a href="https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b.-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clintons-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system" target="_blank">Statement by FBI Director James B. Comey on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System </a><br />
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Our investigation looked at whether there is evidence classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on that personal system, in violation of a federal statute making it a felony to mishandle classified information either intentionally or in a grossly negligent way...</blockquote>
Notice there is no mention of intent when discussing the federal statute. Mishandling classified information is a violation - period.<br />
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Yet later on Comey states:<br />
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Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues <b>intended to violate</b> laws governing the handling of classified information... (emphasis added)</blockquote>
"intended to violate" - so hillary gets a pass based on her intentions. I guess the next time I break a law I can just say I didn't intend to. If it's good enough for hillary, it should be good enough for you and me. Right?<br />
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Yeah, sure...<br />
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There is evidence to support a conclusion that <b>any reasonable person</b> in Secretary Clinton’s position, or in the position of those government employees with whom she was corresponding about these matters, <b>should have known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation</b> (e-mail chains concerning matters that were classified at the Top Secret/Special Access Program level when they were sent and received). (emphasis added)</blockquote>
Wait a minute! Did Comey just say that hillary is not a reasonable person? That's just about the only thing in this load of BS that passes the smell test.<br />
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In addition to this highly sensitive information, we also found information that was properly classified as Secret by the U.S. Intelligence Community at the time it was discussed on e-mail...<br />
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None of these e-mails should have been on any kind of unclassified system, but their presence is especially concerning because all of these e-mails were housed on unclassified personal servers not even supported by full-time security staff, like those found at Departments and Agencies of the U.S. Government—or even with a commercial service like Gmail.</blockquote>
Classified information stored and transmitted on personal private e-mail servers less secure than Gmail - sure sounds like a violation of the 'mishandling' federal statute to me. But then again, I'm not the FBI Director.<br />
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It's enough to make me wish that <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-j-edgar-hoover/2011/11/07/gIQASLlo5M_story.html" target="_blank">J. Edgar Hoover</a> was back in charge - feathered boa and all...<br />
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<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/437479/fbi-rewrites-federal-law-let-hillary-hook" target="_blank">FBI Rewrites Federal Law to Let Hillary Off the Hook</a><br />
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There is no way of getting around this: According to Director James Comey (disclosure: a former colleague and longtime friend of mine), Hillary Clinton checked every box required for a felony violation of Section 793(f) of the federal penal code (Title 18): With lawful access to highly classified information she acted with gross negligence in removing and causing it to be removed it from its proper place of custody, and she transmitted it and caused it to be transmitted to others not authorized to have it, in patent violation of her trust. Director Comey even conceded that former Secretary Clinton was “extremely careless” and strongly suggested that her recklessness very likely led to communications (her own and those she corresponded with) being intercepted by foreign intelligence services. <br />
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Yet, Director Comey recommended against prosecution of the law violations he clearly found on the ground that there was no intent to harm the United States.<br />
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<b>In essence, in order to give Mrs. Clinton a pass, the FBI rewrote the statute, inserting an intent element that Congress did not require</b>... (emphasis added)</blockquote>
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It seems to me that this is what the FBI has done today. It has told the public that because Mrs. Clinton did not have intent to harm the United States we should not prosecute her on a felony that does not require proof of intent to harm the United States. Meanwhile, although there may have been profound harm to national security caused by her grossly negligent mishandling of classified information, we’ve decided she shouldn’t be prosecuted for grossly negligent mishandling of classified information.</blockquote>
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First, if hillary and her clown posse can't handle simple things like email and fax systems, how on earth can she serve as leader of the free world?<br />
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Second, if, as she claims, she never sent classified info over her private server, and never used the official State Dept. system, how in God's name did she do her job as Secretary of State?<br />
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Bottom line - whatever shred of respect or allegiance I might have once had towards our federal government is now a thing of the past. It has gone from a minor annoyance to an out-of-control threat to freedom and the rule of law. <br />
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A pox on all three of its branches.<br />
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And a huge pox on hillary rodham clinton and her enablers.<br />
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CenTexTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026518638421849111noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321000796775197665.post-23786930831977478022016-07-05T05:00:00.000-05:002016-07-05T05:00:23.112-05:00One More Reason To Love AmericaYesterday we celebrated our country's independence. Many of us chose to have a beer or two (or more...) as part of that celebration. But not many of us know <a href="http://nypost.com/2016/07/02/how-beer-has-shaped-our-bellies-and-americas-soul/" target="_blank">the role beer has played in shaping America</a>.<br />
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The Mayflower took off from England on Sept. 16, 1620, bound for the area that is now New York City, on the journey that would lead to the founding of the United States of America.<br />
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Filled with just over 100 Pilgrims and their supplies, the vessel was blown north. As a rough voyage brought them closer to Plymouth Harbor, the Pilgrims decided to disembark and make a new life there.<br />
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One essential factor in their decision to land where they did?<br />
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They had run out of beer.</blockquote>
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“We came to this resolution,” wrote future Plymouth governor William Bradford, “to go presently ashore to take a better view . . . or we could not now take much time for further search or consideration, our victuals being spent, especially our beer.”<br />
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One of the settlers’ first projects in the new world was the attempted establishment of a brewhouse. Little was accomplished at first, as fewer than half the Mayflower’s passengers survived year one and the grains they had brought from England either failed to grow or produced crops “not worth gathering.”<br />
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They were forced to drink water instead of beer — a significant and strange adjustment from their usual routine — but by the late 1620s, they had learned how to grow barley on American soil and adjusted their planting schedule accordingly.</blockquote>
I abhor drinking water. Fish do nasty things in it. <br />
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The first shipload of hops arrived in 1628, and by 1630, beer brewing and consumption was a force in the colonies.</blockquote>
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By the time of the Revolutionary War, the colonists viewed beer as a necessity for their fighting men, with each soldier receiving “1 quart . . . beer or cider” per day.</blockquote>
When I was in the military, we also viewed beer as a necessity. But the brass didn't share that viewpoint. <br />
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Independence was won, but the war took a dire toll on the young nation’s brewing industry, which the founders realized would need to be rapidly revived to help boost the country’s economy and morale.<br />
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“It is to be hoped, that the Gentlemen of the Town,” said founding father — and, later, beer namesake — Samuel Adams, “will endeavor to bring our own beer into fashion again . . . so that we may no longer be beholden to Foreigners for a Credible Liquor.”<br />
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For all their legendary disagreements, the founding fathers supported the industry’s revival. Thomas Jefferson ... became a brewer in retirement. Benjamin Franklin — who is rumored to have once said, “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy” — spoke of its importance, as did others.</blockquote>
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By 1911, the US had overtaken Germany to become the largest beer producing nation in the world, with an output of 63 million barrels. Prohibition halted this growth, as some brewers found alternate revenue sources — Anheuser-Busch sold ice cream, and “Schiltz, Miller and Pabst turned to cheese, chocolate and other confections” — while many others closed for good.</blockquote>
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While the beers, the people who make them and the way we prefer to drink them have changed, America’s love affair with beer is as passionate today as it was when the first settlers arrived here on the Mayflower.<br />
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“Take a glance at the drinking habits of the early colonial period or the Industrial Revolution,” Huckelbridge writes, “and one simple and undeniable fact emerges: America is a nation of beer drinkers. We always have been, to varying degrees, and we most likely always will be.”</blockquote>
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CenTexTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026518638421849111noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321000796775197665.post-60040183372419379732016-07-04T05:00:00.000-05:002016-07-04T05:00:05.833-05:00 Independence Day 2016Today we are celebrating 240 years of America's independence.<br />
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Today, however, I truly believe we are also in the midst of another, albeit more subtle, insidious, and undeclared war of independence.<br />
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Like the original, today we are fighting for our independence from an oppressive and overbearing government that no longer listens to its citizens, but cares only about expanding its powers.<br />
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In 1776 our forefathers weren't standing around waiting for someone else to do something. Now it is time once again to stand up and proclaim our independence from a government that presumes to know better than we what is best for us.<br />
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Speak out. Make your voice heard. Take back your independence. Live free and enjoy the blessings of Liberty for yourself and your posterity.<br />
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CenTexTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026518638421849111noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321000796775197665.post-40292763988262178302016-07-03T05:00:00.000-05:002016-07-03T05:00:10.178-05:00Sunday Funnies 2016.07.03July 4th Weekend - yay America!!!<br />
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The Fourth of July weekend was approaching, and Miss Pelham, the nursery school teacher, took the opportunity to tell her class about patriotism. 'We live in a great country,' she announced. 'One of the things we should be happy is that, in this country, we are all free.'<br />
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Trevor, who was a little boy in her class, came walking up to her from the back of the room. He stood with his hands on his hips and said loudly, 'I'm not free. I'm four.'<br />
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Message from Her Majesty The Queen<br />
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To the citizens of the United States of America from Her Sovereign Majesty Queen<br />
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In light of your failure in recent years to nominate competent candidates for President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately.<br />
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Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states, commonwealths, and territories (except Kansas, which she does not fancy).<br />
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Her Majesty will appoint a Governor for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed. <br />
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To aid in the transition to a British Crown dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:<br />
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1. Look up aluminium, and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it.<br />
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2. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as 'colour', 'favour', 'labour' and 'neighbour.' Likewise, you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters, and the suffix '-ize' will be replaced by the suffix '-ise'. Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels.<br />
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3. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 pm with proper cups, with saucers, and never mugs, with high quality biscuits (cookies) and cakes; plus strawberries (with cream) when in season.<br />
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God Save the Queen!<br />
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Q: If you crossed a vegetable with our first president, what would you get?<br />
A: George Squashington<br />
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Q: If you crossed a rooster with the first signer of the Declaration of Independence, what would you get?<br />
A: John Hancock-a-doodle-doo<br />
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Q: If you crossed a Patriot with a curly-haired dog, what would you get?<br />
A: Yankee Poodle<br />
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Q: If you crossed the American national bird with Snoopy, what would you get?<br />
A: A bald beagle.<br />
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Q: What protest did dogs hold in 1773?<br />
A: The Boston Flea Party<br />
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Q: What did one flag say to the other flag?<br />
A: Nothing. It just waved.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Q: How come there's no Knock Knock joke about America?</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">A: Because freedom rings.</span></b><br />
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CenTexTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026518638421849111noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321000796775197665.post-66511628214755614612016-07-02T05:00:00.000-05:002016-07-02T05:00:01.189-05:00 First Brexit, Then TexitIn the wake of the Brexit vote, resulting in the future withdrawal of Great Britain from the European Union, <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/6960/6-reasons-why-texit-sounds-good-me-john-nolte" target="_blank">the issue of Texas exiting the United States - Texit - is once again making waves</a>.<br />
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Huzzah for Great Britain, a sovereign nation that saved its own sovereignty by the skin of its own teeth; a nation that, with the ongoing flood of illegal immigrants, was just a year or two away from losing the #Brexit vote, and with it their country forever. Power to the people!</blockquote>
If they can do it, why can't we Texans?<br />
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Just a few years ago, the idea of seceding from my beloved United States of America sounded preposterous, unthinkable, ridiculous, the stuff of tinfoil hats...<br />
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But in just a few years, so much has changed, and I don't think that change is within me. In just a few years, right here in my beloved U.S. of A., through the federal government, some state governments, and most especially the mainstream media and Supreme Court, what was once unthinkable is not only thinkable and a real threat, but in some cases actual reality.<br />
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Real Freedom is sovereignty, self-determination… the right of man to choose his or her own leaders and by extension the laws they live under. The primary job of a righteous government is to protect our freedoms -- the freedom for me to swing my fist in any way I please and to protect your right not to get hit by that fist. During the Obama-era, there has been a sea change in this thinking, and to say that it has been aided and abetted by an increasingly corrupt news media would be the understatement of all time.</blockquote>
Stop and think. Can you name one area ... one topic ... one issue ... <i>one damn thing</i> where we have more freedom now than we did eight years ago?<br />
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I didn't think so. <br />
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If you believe that I can do as I damn well please until it gets in the way of you doing what you damn well please, then you are an American. If you do not believe in imposing your morals and values on me, then you are an American.</blockquote>
And there aren't many of us left.<br />
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Despite persistent rumors to the contrary, it is technically illegal for Texas to secede. Neither the Texas Constitution, nor the Ordinance of the Convention of Texas (aka the Terms of Annexation) provides for the secession of Texas. However, one might argue for a "Texit Laboratory." <br />
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For the good of humanity, why not try an experiment where an American state is allowed to decouple itself completely from the federal government. Maybe we'll discover that despite its many flaws, the Left is correct and we are in fact better off with a centralized federal government.<br />
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But maybe we'll discover that without all the federal red tape and oversight and mandates that a smaller sovereignty is more dynamic and prosperous and free; that poverty and crime and unemployment will decrease, that the air and water will be cleaner, that people will be happier and freer.<br />
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And anyone who doesn't like #Texit is free to leave and move to America.</blockquote>
Sounds pretty damn good to me!<br />
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CenTexTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026518638421849111noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321000796775197665.post-72700258123749861732016-07-01T05:00:00.001-05:002016-07-01T05:00:20.220-05:00Birthdays Of NoteYesterday was our daughter's 20th birthday. She's growing up much too fast.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.aei.org/publication/happy-215th-birthday-june-30-to-frederic-bastiat/" target="_blank">Yesterday was also the 215th anniversary of the birth of the great French classical liberal economist Frédéric Bastiat</a> (liberal in the good old-fashioned sense - that is, what today we would call libertarian.<br /><br />Bastiat was one of the first economic theorists in the libertarian vein, who warned of the evils of big government and over-regulation. His definition of "legal plunder" - aka crony capitalism - is a classic example.<br />
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Legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on. All these plans as a whole—with their common aim of legal plunder—constitute socialism.<br /><br />But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. <b>See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. </b>(emphasis added)</blockquote>
Here's a few more Bastiat quotes.<br />
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“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”<br /><br />“Everyone wants to live at the expense of the State. They forget that the State lives at the expense of everyone.”</blockquote>
Sound familiar? Too bad nobody reads the works of dead white males anymore.<br />
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Here's two more that are particularly relevant as we near Independence Day.<br />
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<br />CenTexTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026518638421849111noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321000796775197665.post-86828679261394194872016-06-30T05:00:00.000-05:002016-06-30T09:04:16.372-05:00Dress CodeI'm still busier than a one-armed paper hanger in an ass-kicking contest (or whatever that saying is), but I did want to vent about a couple of things in the recently released House Select Committee on Benghazi report. <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/house-republicans-report-sheds-new-light-benghazi-attack-n600121" target="_blank">There's plenty in there to get upset about</a>, especially since the end result of all the bungling, incompetence, and CYA crap was four dead Americans. But what really caught my eye were two things.<br />
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First, there appears to have been a tug of war between State and Defense over how the 'rescue forces' should dress.<br />
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The report highlights the military's failure to carry out Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's order to deploy forces to Benghazi and the lengthy delay that prevented the military assets from arriving at the embassy in Tripoli until 2 p.m. the day after the Benghazi attack. </blockquote>
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"What was disturbing from the evidence the Committee found was that at the time of the final lethal attack at the Annex, no asset ordered deployed by the Secretary had even left the ground," the report states. </blockquote>
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Previous accounts blamed the "tyranny of time and distance" plus the failure to have airplanes ready for the significant delay in moving military assets. <b>But the report states conflicting orders from State Department and Pentagon officials over whether Marines should wear military uniforms or civilian attire also played a role.</b> (emphasis added)<br />
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In a newly revealed two-hour secure video conference on the night of the attacks led by White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and attended by Clinton and others, State Department officials raised concerns about the diplomatic sensitivities of the attire to be worn by assets launched.</blockquote>
Really? People are dying and the Foggy Bottom boys (and girls) are worried "diplomatic sensitivities"? Let's put <i>them</i> in a position where they're getting shot at and see if they care what the rescue team is wearing.<br />
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According to one commander, the report states, as forces prepared to deploy, <b>"during the course of three hours, he and his Marines changed in and out of their uniforms four times."</b> (emphasis added)</blockquote>
GMAFB.<br />
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Another thing which raised my hackles was this tidbit.<br />
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The report also finds that then-Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral James Winnefeld, did not participate in the secure call because "he had left to return to his residence to host a dinner party for foreign dignitaries." He received one update during the dinner on the attacks. </blockquote>
If true, and if there isn't a damn good reason behind his failure to participate, then his military career needs to come to a schreeching halt. I wasn't there, I don't know all the details, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, but it just sounds wrong.<br />
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Of course, barry and hillary screwed the pooch seven ways from Sunday on this one, but it sure looks like there's plenty of other blame to go around. Regardless of how much ineptness is at the top of the food chain, people need to figure out some way to do their job - or find another one.<br />
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I'm so disgusted by everyone involved I need to stop typing now before I blow a gasket...CenTexTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026518638421849111noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321000796775197665.post-24620027340992791702016-06-29T05:00:00.000-05:002016-06-29T05:00:20.531-05:00Wordless Wednesday - 2016.06.29It's the dog days of summer...<br />
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CenTexTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026518638421849111noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321000796775197665.post-59024467311826002802016-06-28T05:00:00.000-05:002016-06-28T05:00:16.834-05:00Offensive Post - Follow UpFollowing up on yesterday's post regarding the perpetually offended class - and especially those spineless wimps who think they need a 'safe space - here's some advice. Man up, put on your big boy undies, and grow a pair.<br />
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CenTexTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026518638421849111noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321000796775197665.post-89452359063782044162016-06-27T05:00:00.000-05:002016-06-27T05:00:10.520-05:00Offensive PostI'm going to be busy for the next several days. Expect lots of pictures and very few words.<br />
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This first batch is dedicated to all the whiny little twerps out there who are perpetually offended by ... something ... I have no idea what.<br />
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To all you who take offense at this - bite me! <br />
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<br />CenTexTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026518638421849111noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321000796775197665.post-78884132210054679062016-06-26T05:00:00.000-05:002016-06-26T05:00:25.844-05:00Sunday Funnies 2016.06.26<br />
It officially became summer this week (Monday, June 20 was the Summer Solstice).<br />
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I was lounging by the pool the other day when I noticed that my sun screen was better than what the old lady next to me was using. But I didn't say anything.<br />
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I didn't want to rub it in.<br />
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X Factor: The original Roman sun cream.<br />
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I applied for a job at a sun cream factory. I wasn't hired, but I'm going to reapply.<br />
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Two psychics meet on the street. One says “it sure is hot this summer”. <br />
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The other says, “Yes, it reminds me of the summer of 2019″.<br />
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“With school out, teens are looking for jobs, things like lifeguards. But L.A. public pools do not have lifeguards. We have life coaches. If they see you struggling in the water, they say, ‘Are you happy with the decisions you’re making?’ Then they give you a pamphlet for a yoga studio.” – Craig Ferguson<br />
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When summer comes, a lot of parents pack up their troubles. Then they send them off to summer camp.<br />
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The NBA finals are over. But the players still can't go on vacation.<br />
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They’ll get called for traveling.<br />
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Several slices of bread went on summer vacation. They didn't do anything special. They just loafed around.<br />
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Charles: Why did Humpty Dumpty have a great fall?<br />
Ray: Why?<br />
Charles: To make up for his miserable summer.<br />
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CenTexTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026518638421849111noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1321000796775197665.post-67396905750011869492016-06-25T05:00:00.000-05:002016-06-25T05:00:03.419-05:00Under The RadarMost of yesterday's news was focused on the Brexit vote - <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/25/world/europe/overwhelmed-by-brexit-here-are-the-basics.html?_r=0" target="_blank">Britain's decision to leave the European Union</a>.<br />
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The stunning vote, 52 percent to 48 percent, plunged world financial markets into turmoil, the political consequences for the prime minister of Britain were swift, and the people around the globe reacted with shock and confusion. </blockquote>
FWIW, I heartily applaud the outcome. Anytime a populace can shed one layer of corrupt and inept politicians, along with the accompanying regulatory and bureaucratic overkill, indifference, and incompetence, well, that's a good thing. <br />
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It also shows that the 'silent majority' is alive and well, and is 'mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.' That may have implications for our own election come November.<br />
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But while Brexit hogged most of the headlines and airtime, several other noteworthy stories snuck under the radar. Just in case you missed them:<br />
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<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/06/23/senate-poised-vote-susan-collins-gun-compromise/86288040/" target="_blank">Senate gun compromise survives first test vote</a><br />
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The Senate voted Thursday to allow further consideration of bipartisan legislation banning gun sales to people on the terrorism "no-fly" list.<br />
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Senate Republicans could have killed the measure, but several sided with Democrats in allowing it to go forward.</blockquote>
No doubt the crybabies and spoiled brats who participated in the House sit-in protesting lack of action are pleased.<br />
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The premise - that someone who is considered too dangerous to board a commercial flight should be denied the right to buy a firearm - is hard to argue with. But, as always, the devil is in the details.<br />
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<a href="http://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2016/06/24/no-fly-no-buy-guns-john-winters" target="_blank">No Fly, No Buy? No Way</a><br />
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The problem with No Fly-No Buy is the foundation upon which the law would be based. The No Fly List is riddled with problems, from its secrecy (a violation of the Privacy Act), to its over-inclusiveness – the late Sen. Edward Kennedy was on the list at one point. The liberal lion even spoke out against the list, worried that the rights of non-senators could very easily be violated.</blockquote>
IMO Teddy should have been labeled a terrorist. After all, <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=8212665" target="_blank">he killed Mary Jo Kopechne and then tried to cover up his culpability</a>. But that doesn't negate the fact that the list is basically a form of 'guilty until proven innocent,' which is a gross perversion of our country's legal foundation.<br />
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In a delicious bit of irony, a muslim terrorist group spoke out against the proposed gun control legislation.<br />
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<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/22/cair-blasts-terrorist-firearms-prevention-act-mand/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS" target="_blank">CAIR blasts Terrorist Firearms Prevention Act: ‘Mandela himself’ was on watch list</a><br />
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has issued a statement blasting legislation proposed Tuesday that would keep suspected terrorists from purchasing firearms, saying it lacks due process and unfairly targets Muslims.<br />
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“We oppose the Terrorist Firearms Prevention Act of 2016 because it appears to limit the ban on firearms purchases to American Muslims..."</blockquote>
Funny, that's not how I read the bill. I guess CAIR, like most of us, is having a difficult time distinguishing terrorists and muslims.<br />
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But they do have a point regarding the secrecy and appeals process. And, as they point out, in addition to Teddy Kennedy, another famous person was on the list.<br />
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“Nelson Mandela, then former South African president, Nobel Prize winner and anti-Apartheid leader was on a U.S. terrorism watch list until 2008,” the group said. “Mandela himself needed special State Department clearance to visit the United States in 2008".</blockquote>
It seems like a simple process. Fix the list first, then worry about 'No Fly, No Buy.' But I guess that's too complicated for liberals. So here's a proposal they might understand.<br />
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Just to be clear, here's my position.<br />
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In other news, <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/clinton-failed-hand-over-key-email-state-department-211910818--election.html" target="_blank">Clinton failed to hand over key email to State Department.</a><br />
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Former Secretary Hillary Clinton failed to turn over a copy of a key message involving problems caused by her use of a private homebrew email server, the State Department confirmed Thursday. The disclosure makes it unclear what other work-related emails may have been deleted by the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.</blockquote>
Speaking of Hillary:<br />
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<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clintons-state-dept-calendar-missing-scores-of-entries/2016/06/24/d8bdb2aa-39e0-11e6-af02-1df55f0c77ff_story.html" target="_blank">Clinton’s State Dept. calendar missing scores of entries</a><br />
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An Associated Press review of the official calendar Hillary Clinton kept as secretary of state identified at least 75 meetings with longtime political donors, Clinton Foundation contributors and corporate and other outside interests that were not recorded or omitted the names of those she met.<br />
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The fuller details of those meetings were included in files the State Department turned over to the AP after it sued the government in federal court.</blockquote>
Expect nothing but yawns from the left and the media on those stories. After all, Hillary can do no wrong in their eyes.<br />
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While hillary does the political version of rope-a-dope, her partner in crime continues to treat the U.S. Constitution as an afterthought.<br />
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<a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/2016/06/23/obama-im-still-not-enforcing-immigration-law-no-matter-what-court-says" target="_blank">Obama: I'm Still Not Enforcing Immigration Law, No Matter What The Court Says</a><br />
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President Barack Obama said Thursday that despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s tie vote, which essentially blocks his immigration plan, the millions of illegal immigrants that he sought to make legal with his executive action will remain a low priority for deportation by his administration.<br />
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“Enforcement priorities developed by my administration are not affected by this ruling.”</blockquote>
Translation: “I am above the law. I can do whatever I want, and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop me.”<br />
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Asshole…<br />
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Meanwhile, in Baltimore:<br />
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/23/us/baltimore-goodson-verdict-freddie-gray?sr=nl_5things_gray" target="_blank">Freddie Gray verdict: Baltimore officer who drove van not guilty on all charges</a><br />
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Baltimore police officer Caesar Goodson, who drove the van in which Freddie Gray was fatally injured, was found not guilty Thursday on all charges, including the most serious count of second-degree depraved-heart murder.<br />
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… the state has failed to secure a single conviction following three high-profile trials.</blockquote>
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Four other officers await trial, but legal experts are now questioning whether those cases will hold up.<br />
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"It does not bode well for prosecution," CNN legal analyst Danny Cevallos said. </blockquote>
I'm sure the Black Lives Matter clowns are beside themselves over that, but frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.<br />
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Remember, folks, a magician distracts you with one hand while tricking you with the other. So keep asking yourself "What are they <i>really</i> up to?"CenTexTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04026518638421849111noreply@blogger.com2