Bloomberg Fails in Nevada: The People Defeat his Lobby

New York City's Mayor Michael Bloomberg hates guns.  Simple as that.  He runs the anti-gun organization Mayors Against Illegal Guns, MAIG, and he spends a lot of his own and his City's money on campaigningagainst 2nd Amendment rights.

Recently, he sent 10 of his lobbyists to Nevada to convince the Legislature to pass an anti-gun bill that limits private party transfers.  Many of these lobbyists had New York City ".gov" email addresses when they registered in Nevada.  Imagine the hubris:  A NY mayor uses public money to campaign in another state. 

The bill was vetoed by Governor Brian Sandoval yesterday, after an overwhelming negative response by Nevadans.  The volume of calls was so large they had to set up a separate vote phone line to handle it.

Mark Steyn at Heritage 2007: Prophecy Coming True?

Steyn talks about his book "America Alone" at the Heritage Foundation in 2007.  The prophecy is scary and the intervening 6 years show he was mostly right.

See here:  Mark-steyns-speech-to-the-heritage-foundation/

And for more fun, here is Pat Condell telling it straight-up:  Why can't the Jews and Arabs just get along?

Scandals: Judge Janine on Eric Holder and NSA

The Judge is warning us all again:  Judge Janine comments on loss of freedom

She has a great point toward the end.  Why does NSA have to know about all of my phone calls?  Isn't it true that I shouldn't care what they know as long as I am innocent?   The trouble with this re4asoniong is that  at some time in the future, if someone, anyone, makes an allegation against me, the NSA can go back and look at all my calls, email, Facebook, etc.  And sure as shootin' they will devise out of all of that data some small reason to make me a suspect in something.

This is not the way a free country is supposed to work.

And now Judge Janine on Eric Holder:  Time for Holder to be Indicted

Aw heck, one more Janine for good measure:  Judge Janine at NRA ILA Houston 

Verizon Scandal: NSA's PRISM Tapping Internet Data

Just what we need, a new scandal.

NSA and FBI have been collecting metadata on ALL Verizon phone users for several months, and maybe years.  But they are also collecting your communications from "Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple.”

See here:  Washington Post: Investigations/us-intelligence-mining-data-from-nine-us-internet-companies-in-broad-secret-program

See here:  Washington Post: World/national-security/verizon-providing-all-call-records-to-us-under-court-order 

See here:   Blaze: bombshell-report-govt-also-tapping-servers-of-top-internet-companies-to-collect-americans-emails-photos-messages/

And President Obama can't say he didn't know:  "An internal presentation of 41 briefing slides on PRISM, dated April 2013 and intended for senior analysts in the NSA’s Signals Intelligence Directorate, described the new tool as the most prolific contributor to the President’s Daily Brief, which cited PRISM data in 1,477 articles last year."According to the slides and other supporting materials obtained by The Post, “NSA reporting increasingly relies on PRISM” as its leading source of raw material, accounting for nearly 1 in 7 intelligence reports."

"That is a remarkable figure in an agency that measures annual intake in the trillions of communications. It is all the more striking because the NSA, whose lawful mission is foreign intelligence, is reaching deep inside the machinery of American companies that host hundreds of millions of American-held accounts on American soil."

"Firsthand experience with these systems, and horror at their capabilities, is what drove a career intelligence officer to provide PowerPoint slides about PRISM and supporting materials to The Washington Post in order to expose what he believes to be a gross intrusion on privacy. “They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type,” the officer said."

The Constitution seems to mean nothing to this government.  When the common sense of ordinary people says that the government is over-reaching, then it is over-reaching.  It is obvious to me that the government can't see the Constitutional forest for the eaves-dropping trees.

DHS Buying Lots of Ammo - So?

For several months, people across the US have been talking about why DHS and its sister agencies are contracting to buy billions of rounds of ammunition.  Conspiracy theories say that it is a plot to keep ammo away from citizens.

My investigation shows that the large amounts are subject to inaccurate statements of the facts.  The best explanation is here:  Running-the-numbers-on-dhs-ammo-purchases/

Today an interesting new development in the House:  House-lawmakers-want-to-know-why-dhs-needs-all-that-ammo

Over-reactions all around I say.  And probably more than a little mismanagement of inventory by several agencies.

1983 Reunion at Columbia - But No Obama

I guess no one expected teh President to go to his 30th reunion at Columbia.  After all, he was only there for two years.  Or was he?  No one seems very certain.  The college says he was registered and graduated.  But his classmates can't seem to remember him.  Ever.

Wayne Allen Root has an interesting commentary about his reunion experience last weekend.  See here:  Barack-obama-the-ghost-of-columbia-university

Wayne asked all the classmates he talked to if they ever met Obama at Columbia.  No one said yes.  There were about 85 people registered for the reunion from the Class of 1983.  See here:  Columbia Reunion Who's Coming?


Now, here is a little counterpoint from Snopes.com:   http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/columbia.asp
Although I have to assert that the "proof" offered is mighty thin.

This is all quite disturbing to me.  And as Wayne says, something smells.   So, true or not?  Partly true?  Went there but never went to class? 

All I know is that if even half of what is alleged here is true, then the stink is justified. 

Benghazi: Did Al-Qaeda Lethal Injection Kill Chris Stevens?

Today, when Susan Rice has just been appointed as National Security Adviser despite her poor qualifications, comes a new allegation about Ambassador Stevens death.  An Al Qaeda weapons expert says that Al Qaeda administered a lethal injection before he was taken by Libyans or teh terrorists to a local hospital, where he died.

See here:  al-qaeda-weapons-expert-chris-stevens-died-from-lethal-injection-in-benghazi