While we were busy watching the long, drawn out debates on Obamacare, the economy, and gun control, we all missed that Congress legalized insider trading for themselves. It was easy to do, though. They only debated and voted on the bill for 30 seconds.When Obama signed the new law, the announcement was only one sentence long.
So now a Congressman can legally profit from upcoming legislation. No conflict of interest there.
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Communications
A proper survival plan includes things like water, food, and light. One important thing that should be a part of your plan is communications. During the recent events in Boston, cellular communications were inoperable for hours. There is some question as to whether they were turned off by authorities, or if the heavy traffic overloaded the system, but the end result was the same: no phone communications were happening throughout most of the Boston area.
I have portable, handheld radios in the 2 meter band. There are 9 repeaters that are within 40 miles of my house, and each of these can be reached by the radios that I have on hand. This allows me to communicate across the majority of Central Florida with a large level of redundancy. In the event that all of those repeaters are non functional, we can go direct radio to radio on any one of hundreds of frequencies. These radios can be had for as little as $40.
If hundreds of available frequencies isn’t enough, you can get a dual band radio that also works in the 70 cm band. That band is less crowded than the 2m band, and adds thousands of available channels to the possibilities.
Set up a communications plan: “If anything happens, we will contact each other on the 146.22MHz repeater at the top of the hour, and on the 145.52MHz repeater at the bottom of the hour. If both repeaters are down, we will try 433.62 MHz., additionally, we will monitor 146.52 MHz.”
The HAM license costs just $15, and no morse code test is required. Then you don’t have to worry about the cell phone repeaters.
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Waiting
I stopped trusting anything that is reported by the MSM back in 2005 during Hurricane Katrina, where I didn’t see any of the things that were being reported.
Then I stopped trusting what the government officials had to say when it came out that the violence during Katrina was actually police officers settling scores and murdering the people that they were sworn to protect.
That is why I am taking a wait and see approach.
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It isn’t the guns
A homeless man sets another man on fire in California by throwing a Molotov cocktail into the victim’s car. We have a problem in this country, and it isn’t guns. We are in the middle of what Heinlein called “the crazy years.”
Making gasoline illegal, restricting high octane gasoline, restricting container size, or requiring a background check in order to buy gasoline, wouldn’t fix this any more than the same restriction on guns will fix spree shooting.
It used to be that insane asylums and jails were for keeping dangerous people away from the rest of society. Now we use the jails to lock up people for owning the wrong plant, and we abolished the asylums.
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The end of the Republican Party
The Republican party shows its true colors: No sell out is too large or too egregious, if it means that I can get enough lefties to vote for me. Selling out, the tactic of the Republican party. Too bad the rules are rigged to prevent another party from becoming viable.
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Found in a parking lot
Here is a food receipt recently found in a parking lot by a friend, and emailed to me:
5 cases of diet Mountain Dew, 8 lobster tails, 2 Porterhouse Steaks, total grocery bill of $142. All paid with an EBT card.
About 100 million people in the United States are receiving some sort of government money. At the beginning of this year, only four of the 80-plus federal welfare
programs had work requirements; the Obama Administration has now
suspended the work requirements in two of these. After the Obama
Administration suspended the work requirement from the food stamp
program in 2009, the number of people on food stamps doubled. In fact, if you take the trillion dollars spent on welfare programs and divide it by the number of people receiving them (100 million), it comes to $100,000 spent for each person receiving aid.
Welfare pays more than an $8 an hour job in 40 out of the 50 states, and this figure doesn’t include food stamps and Medicaid. The government spends an average of $168 for each person on welfare.
Welfare now surpasses the government’s biggest traditional money pit, the Pentagon. “By 2022, there will be $2.33 in federal and state welfare spending for every $1 spent on national defense.” Our National debt, as listed by the treasury, is $6.5 trillion higher than it was when Obama took office.Our debt has been doubling about every 8-10 years for every president except Clinton. Clinton added 140% to the debt.
It gets even worse: Much of the spending and borrowing is being paid for by monetizing the debt. The Federal Reserve is busy buying US treasuries. This is called monetizing the debt.This will eventually begin to hurt the value of the dollar. The only reason that this hasn’t already begun is that so many commodities (like oil) are pegged to the dollar, because the dollar is the reserve currency. One that changes (and it will) the days of runaway inflation will arrive.
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It takes a village
In June 2012, a man named Joshua Hakken was arrested for possession of marijuana. Joshua and SharynHakken, who media outlets continue to describe as
“anti-government” due to their anarchist/libertarian postings on
firearm and homeschooling forums, had their parental rights terminated by a judge. At the time, according to investigators, the couple lost custody of the twoboys after attending an anti-government rally in Louisiana.Investigators now deny that charge.
One of the things he allegedly wrote was this:
“My name is Joshua Hakken,” he wrote. “I am a father, a
registered professional mechanical engineer and a veteran of the
USAF. I am absolutely devoted to life, liberty, the rights of the
individual and the Constitution of the United States of America.
“
After saying that he had noticed that “things here in Florida
have not added up for quite some time,” he concluded, “in these
crazy times, maintaining open communication lines for ideas,
observations and news is absolutely crucial if the ‘good guys’ are
to be successful in surviving to maintain the fight of ideas.”
Not worse than what even mainstream people like Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck are saying.
The police also claim that Joshua also showed up at a Louisiana state run foster facility with a gun and tried to gain access, and when unsuccessful, left. I find this hard to believe. If this were indeed the case, why wasn’t an arrest warrant issued then?
So Joshua and Sharyn began to activate a daring plan to recover their children. They bought a 25 foot sailboat and were
seen loading supplies onto the boat in the John’s Pass marina, located
in the Tampa area.
In the early morning hours of April 3, Joshua and Sharyn entered the home of Sharyn’s mother armed with at least one handgun, tied up Sharyn’s mother, and took the kids.
. The Hakken children were listed as the “victims” and their parents were listed as the “suspects” in an abduction. On April 4, acting on a tip, Hillsboro County Deputies found the Hakkens’ SUV in a parking garage near the John’s Pass Marina.On April 5, a witness came forward and said he spotted the boat passing under a bridge near the John’s Pass Marina, and heading out to sea. The search expanded. Police tried to locate their cell phones, but they had been turned off. Police then expanded the search to the sea, and to four states.
Rumors circulated that the family had fled to Cuba. It was then confirmed on April 9 that the Hakkens were in fact, in Havana, Cuba. At least one Florida attorney believes that the children will not be extradited. I say good for them. Taking someone’s kids for a marijuana arrest? MY hat is off to him for protecting his kids.
This is what it means when authorities say that your children are the property of the state. It takes a village…
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Swiss Guard
When I posted about the Swiss Guard the other day, it caused me to get into a discussion with a Catholic friend, who accused me of posting a fake photo and lying about the Church. This caused me to embark on a research campaign throughout the Internet, looking for evidence of the modern arms carried by the Swiss Guard. That was not easy. The Catholic Church is largely run by people who know how to keep a secret. Ever meet a Jesuit that couldn’t keep a secret?
Anyhow, during my research, I found quite a few places where people made fun of the guards because of their quaint ceremonial uniforms, and people saying that they must be incompetent. I would point out that those uniforms are CEREMONIAL, were designed by Michelangelo himself, and are meant to be seen as non threatening. Pope Paul the 6th is said to have begun a campaign of making the Guard appear less threatening, to the point where it was suggested in 1968 that the halberds, chest plates, and helmets would be eliminated. That doesn’t mean that the Guard doesn’t know its business. They have guarded the Holy See for over 500 years, and not one Pope has been killed under their watch. That is an impressive record that no other security detail in the world can come close to matching, although they came close to losing that unblemished record when Pope john Paul II was shot in 1981.
In order to be a member of the Swiss Guard, the applicant must be a Swiss citizen of Roman Catholic faith, be between 19 and 30 years old, have attended the Swiss military academy, unmarried, and at least 174 cm tall. New guards are sworn in once a year, on May 6th.
They carry modern weapons, and by all accounts appear to be a well trained, well equipped force. I may have a problem with the Church’s policies, but the training and record of the Swiss Guard is exemplary.
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Forward!!
Next time someone blathers to me about how Obama has turned the economy around, and that we have recovered:
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Restricted rights
There is an old story from back in the days when states required people to take a test in order to vote. Back in those days, it was the sheriff of the county that administered the test in the state of Georgia. the test was simple: The sheriff would hand the applicant a newspaper, and simply read the headline aloud.
Now the story goes that one day, a black man appeared at the Sheriff’s office and wanted to register to vote. The sheriff handed the man a newspaper.
It was printed in Japanese. Without missing a beat, the man said: “Well, this is easy. It says here that there ain’t no niggas gonna be allowed to vote in Georgia this year.”
This is the reason that we do not restrict rights in this country: because to restrict a right is to allow people to deny that right to others. This is why THIS post rightly pisses me off. The racism that allowed that sheriff to deny the man his voting right is just as repugnant as the attitude being used to deny gay marriage or deny gun rights. How dare you restrict a right in order to force others to live as you wish them to.