Hoodie-Wearing Gunmen Kill 1, Wound 5 in Bobby Rush’s Chicago District

Former Black Panther Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) made quite a fuss when he donned a “hoodie” during a speech in the U.S. House of Representatives until he was escorted out. At the time, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi D-CA “applauded his courage” for doing so. Meanwhile, back home in Rush’s district, two men wearing hooded sweatshirts, or “hoodies,” were the shooters in an incident that left one dead and five injured. In fact, during a span of six-hours Thursday night, 13 people were shot, leaving two dead in Chicago. It would seem it takes more courage to simply walk down the street in Rush’s district than it does to wear a hooded sweatshirt in the House of Representatives by way of a stunt in a bizarre tribute to a young man shot and killed in Florida during a shooting incident still under investigation. via Hoodie-Wearing Gunmen Kill 1, Wound 5 in Bobby Rush’s Chicago District.

The Hutaree Case: Next Time, They’ll Just Send In The Drones | Pro Libertate

Next time the Regime identifies a group of people as “domestic terrorists,” the result might be summary execution, or imprisonment in military custody, rather than a trial. This is one very plausible result of the dismissal of “seditious conspiracy” charges against members of Michigan’s Hutaree militia.  Thanks to the legal environment created by the NDAA, the Feds won’t have to run the risk involved in submitting the next “domestic terrorism” case to the scrutiny of a court… via Pro Libertate

Massive $17 Trillion Hole Found In Obamacare | Zerohedge

“Two years ago, when introducing then promptly enacting Obamacare, the president stated that healthcare law reform would not cost a penny over $1 trillion ($900 billion to be precise), and that it would not add ‘one dime’ to the debt. It appears that this estimate may have been slightly optimistic… by a factor of 1700%...”  go here  ZeroHedge

Free Market At Work

Reblogged from Keep It Simple Survival:

Co-worker: Think you could change out my brake pads?

Me: Sure.

Co-worker: How much you want?

Me: 12 pack (this is the guy who painted Keep It Sailing Stupid's name on her transom. I feel I still owe him for that fine work he did).

Co-worker: How 'bout a case?

Me: Deal!

That's how it's supposed to work. No middle man, no regulations, just two people agreeing to a transaction on their own terms.

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LOL! Yes!!

A Cashless Society May Be Closer Than Most People Would Ever Dare To Imagine

Reblogged from John Malcolm:

Staff Report | March 29th, 2012 | The Economic Collapse Blog

Most people think of a cashless society as something that is way off in the distant future.  Unfortunately, that is simply not the case.  The truth is that a cashless society is much closer than most people would ever dare to imagine.  To a large degree, the transition to a cashless society is being done voluntarily. 

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Concern Over National Defense Resources Preparedness Executive Order a “Distraction” | Infowars

… Supposed liberals usually only complain about abuses of executive power when so-called conservatives are in the White House. They routinely give Democrat presidents a blank check to attack the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. For them, the Constitution is a partisan football…

… presidents regardless of party affiliation have repeatedly violated the Constitution – from Abraham Lincoln to Woodrow Wilson to Bush and Obama….via Infowars

VP Joe Biden: “Trayvon case could spur gun laws debate” | CBS News + a Grey Enigma rant

RANT WARNING:  Joe Biden is an ideologue and an idiot, but he is part of a dangerous cabal that may flourish after November 2012.  Make no mistake about it, if Obama is reelected there will almost certainly be a new initiative to regulate the personal ownership, possession and carrying of firearms in this country. These people are dangerous in that they cannot conceive of why an individual should want (or be allowed) to take responsibility for their own safety.  I assume they think that the government will take care of that too.

Their recent previous efforts have back fired , i.e.:  Gun walker, fast and furious, Gabby Giffords shooting propaganda and , now, they will try to make hay on the corpse of Trayvon Martin and reputation of George Zimmerman.

I Am Detained By The Feds For Not Answering Questions | Nomad Lawyer

I was detained last night by federal authorities at San Francisco International Airport for refusing to answer questions about why I had travelled outside the United States.

The end result is that, after waiting for about half an hour and refusing to answer further questions, I was released – because U.S. citizens who have produced proof of citizenship and a written customs declaration are not obligated to answer questions.

Kagan Must Recuse Herself from Obamacare Case | National Review Online

According to Section 455(b)(3) of Title 28 of the U.S. Code, justices must disqualify themselves in cases where they have “served in governmental employment and in such capacity participated as counsel, adviser, or material witness concerning the proceeding or expressed an opinion concerning the merits of the particular case or controversy.” In United States v. Gipson, the Tenth Circuit held that judges must recuse themselves if they have “previously taken a part, albeit small, in the investigation, preparation, or prosecution of a case.”

 By Sen. Jeff Sessions – Bench Memos – National Review Online.

Israel’s Secret Staging Ground | Foreign Policy

“…The Israelis have bought an airfield,” a senior administration official told me in early February, “and the airfield is called Azerbaijan.…”  via Mark Perry | Foreign Policy.

20 Phenomenal Fringe Benefits Of Being A Liberal | Townhall

You have to give liberalism a certain amount of credit. It doesn’t work, destroys lives, and pits people against each other, but that’s not to say that there are no advantages to being a liberal. Sure, you may end up sleeping in a tent in Zuccotti Park, reading Noam Chomsky’s laughably ignorant books, or having to watch Rachel Maddow babble incoherent nonsense on MSNBC, but the fringe benefits cannot be beaten!

1) If you’re a politician, no matter how dumb you are or how poor your decision-making is, the press will still never question your intelligence.

Rasmussen Presidential Approval Index for 3/28/2012

The Seven Rules of Bureaucracy | Mises

Rules of Bureaucracy

• Rule #1: Maintain the problem at all costs! The problem is the basis of power, perks, privileges, and security.

Black Men Who Could Look Like Obama’s Son Arrested For Murder of White Mississippi State Student | Jammie Wearing Fools

I am so wearily, painfully over the race-kerfuffle over Trayvon Martin, that I simply had to point this out:

It’s funny, I have yet to see a single story about anyone holding candlelight vigils for John Sanderson. There’s no outrage from the left about a group of young black men murdering a white college student, no Congressional hearings scheduled, no civil rights hucksters leading marches.

Have MSNBC and CNN gone with wall-to-wall coverage of this case? Have they even mentioned it?

… via  Jammie Wearing Fools

 

Or how ’bout this one:

Mich. militia members cleared of charges that accused them of plotting war against government | WaPo

Remember the ‘Hutaree’? Well…

DETROIT — A federal judge dismissed the most serious charges Tuesday against seven members of a Michigan militia who were rounded up as homegrown extremists accused of plotting war against the U.S., saying their expressed hatred of law enforcement didn’t amount to conspiracy against the government….via  The Washington Post.

On the Price of Gold – a 2 minute video

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See here:  On the Price of Gold | Zero hedge

The Polite Conference Rooms Where Liberties Are Saved and Lost | Chris Hedges

…It is in conference rooms like this one, where attorneys speak in the arcane and formal language of legal statutes, that we lose or save our civil liberties. The 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force Act, the employment of the Espionage Act by the Obama White House against six suspected whistle-blowers and leakers, and the Homeland Battlefield Bill have crippled the work of investigative reporters in every major newsroom in the country.  Government sources that once provided information to counter official narratives and lies have largely severed contact with the press.  They are acutely aware that there is no longer any legal protection for those who dissent or who expose the crimes of state.  The NDAA threw in a new and dangerous component that permits the government not only to silence journalists but imprison them and deny them due process because they “substantially supported” terrorist groups or “associated forces.”via Common Dreams.

TSA Nabs Suspected Al Queda Terrorist At Chicago Airport, A toddler in a wheelchair

How Housing Affordability Can Falter Even as House Prices Decline | ZeroHedge

Hubris-soaked central Planners are incapable of understanding that their numerous policy interventions have essentially zero impact on the curve. But if you can’t believe systems don’t respond to frantic policy measures, then consider these factors:

1. Tens of millions of households are too poor to buy a home (the FDIC calculated 40% of the U.S. households have insufficient income and credit to buy a home) without massive subsidies, and with no skin in the game their purchase is basically a lease with an option to sell later for a private gain at the expense of the government.

The Death of Trayvon Martin: Is There Nothing Progressives Won’t Exploit? |Townhall

A 17-year-old kid is shot dead. Police are investigating…and progressives see an opportunity. The Trayvon Martin case, in addition to being a tragedy, is a case study in political exploitation and progressive tactics.

The shooting death of a 17-year-old is horrible, whatever the circumstances and no matter their race. But progressives seem to care about this case only because of the race of the victim. There are thousands of murders that don’t “fit the bill” for exploitation and thus are ignored by these self-appointed “justice seekers.”

What happened that night? I don’t know. But neither do any of the race hustlers, such as Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, who speak of it as if they are clairvoyant. They care deeply about Trayvon’s family… as long as there are cameras around…. via Derek Hunter – Townhall Conservative Columnists

The 4 Best Legal Arguments Against ObamaCare | Reason Magazine

Why the president’s sweeping health care overhaul should be struck down by the Supreme Court….

As Justice Clarence Thomas remarked about the majority’s reasoning in Raich, “If Congress can regulate this under the Commerce Clause, then it can regulate virtually anything—and the Federal Government is no longer one of limited and enumerated powers.”  via Reason Magazine.

7 Kitchen Essentials That Deserve To Be On Your Preparedness Shelves

Reblogged from Evil of indifference:

"Our preps are our life line. The items we choose should be able to carry us, not only through difficult times, but perhaps through impossible times as well.

There is a reason why our ancestors relied so heavily upon essential kitchen items for their day-to-day survival, and it wasn’t because they wanted to make the best baked goods in the county.

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Andrew Napolitano - From Stamp Act To ObamaCare

Reblogged from John Malcolm:

Here comes da Judge, here comes da judge...

10 Reasons Why Nothing You Do On The Internet Will EVER Be Private Again | American Dream

The Internet is rapidly being transformed into a Big Brother control grid where privacy rights are being systematically strangled to death. The control freaks that run things have become absolutely obsessed with watching, tracking, monitoring and recording virtually everything that you do on the Internet…. The following are 10 reasons why nothing you do on the Internet will ever be private again…. go here: 10 Reasons Why Nothing You Do On The Internet Will EVER Be Private Again

The FedEx Indicator | Power Line

The economy is supposedly improving, but even if we took the falling unemployment rate at face value, there are too many signs that something is wrong. There are too many anomalies. I noted a few weeks ago the anomaly of collapsing gasoline and diesel fuel consumption, which started well before the current run-up in pump prices that is causing Obama to contort himself in unnatural ways. Falling fuel consumption ahead of a price spike isn’t consistent with a growing economy.

Why I Prepare | Modern Survival Blog

By:  J Young.   As a mother of three children, I strongly believe that our generation, more than any other generation in our history, must bear the burden of passing on to younger generations the preservation of liberty and a strong belief in the values that this country was founded on.  If this country is going to survive the ever increasing assault on our freedoms and the impending economic catastrophe that is coming this way, it will do so because of the people who stood fast in their beliefs and took the necessary steps to meet life’s challenges head on.

10 Poorest Cities in America

10 Poorest Cities in America and how did it happen City, State, % of People Below the Poverty Level 1. Detroit , MI 32.5% 2. Buffalo , NY 29.9% 3. Cincinnati , OH 27.8% 4. Cleveland , OH 27.0% 5. Miami , FL 26.9% 5. St. Louis , MO 26.8% 7. El Paso , TX 26.4% 8. Milwaukee , WI 26.2% 9. Philadelphia , PA 25.1% 10. Newark , NJ 24.2%

Executive Order on “Natural Resources Defense Preparedness” | Volokh Conspiracy

And in a counterpoint of sanity we read this at Volokh, referencing Ed Morrissey at HotAir:

Some corners of the internet were abuzz this weekend over a new Executive Order signed by President Obama on Friday concerning “Natural Resources Defense Preparedness NDRP” The EO, which seeks to ensure the country has “an industrial and technological base capable of meeting national defense requirements and capable of contributing to the technological superiority of its national defense equipment in peacetime and in times of national emergency,” is the stuff of which conspiracy theories are made.

Yet there’s no there there.  The EO is simply an update of prior orders on the same subject going back decades to, among other things, account for changes in the cabinet and the like. if this is a presidential power grab — and I don’t believe it is — the power was grabbed decades ago. For more, see Ed Morrissey’s detailed assessment…

via The Volokh Conspiracy

Sheriff Arpaio requests investigation into President Obama’s 1980 registration card | KTAR.com

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has sent a letter to the Director of the U.S. Selective Service System headquarters in Arlington, Virginia requesting the agency to conduct an investigation into Barack Obama’s Selective Service registration form from 1980…via KTAR.co

Concealed carry legislation introduced by Republican Senate leaders | Human Events

A bill to protect concealed carry permit holders, sponsored by Sen. John R. Thune (R-S.D.) and Sen. David B. Vitter (R-La.), has been introduced with strong Republican support in the Senate.  “I am pleased to introduce legislation that strikes a balance between states’ rights and individuals’ Second Amendment rights outlined by the Constitution,” Thune said.

The legislation, which has drawn initial support from 28 Republican senators, is called the Respecting States’ Rights and Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, S. 2213…. see here Concealed carry legislation

Victory! Supreme Court Sides With Property Owners Over EPA

Reblogged from JunkScience.com:

Who knew the Constitution applied to EPA?

The Associated Press reports:

The Supreme Court has sided with an Idaho couple in a property rights case, ruling they can go to court to challenge an Environmental Protection Agency order that blocked construction of their new home and threatened fines of more than $30,000 a day.

Wednesday's decision is a victory for Mike and Chantell Sackett, whose property near a scenic lake has sat undisturbed since the EPA ordered a halt in work in 2007.

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My read on this is that, in large measure, the Supreme Court has kicked the can down the road on the real question of the relationship between unilateral bureaucracy actions vs. the individuals right to appeal to a court. In the face of increasing bureaucrat - ization of the country, the latter mater will no doubt rear it's head soon. GE.

What Kind Of Power Should Government Have Over Your Life? | ZeroHedge

… Really, who needs terrorists when you have a government like ours?  If it is the widespread destruction of the principles that founded our society that you fear, then the last enemy you need worry about is the Muslim boogie man.  The greatest threat to our way of life is an institution that has always operated right under our noses and acted with impunity sheltered by the very borders it is tasked to defend.  It is the only group in existence that has the resources, the military backing, and the proven intent to undermine liberty in America.  It is the supreme threat to individual freedom in the world today.  And, the worst irony of all is that it commits every one of its crimes in our name.

What is President Obama so afraid of? (NDRP Executive Order) | Sovereign Man

Quietly, and with little fanfare, President Obama signed a “National Defense Resources Preparedness” Executive Order on Friday. As the name suggests, the order intends to shore up the country’s national defense resources in advance of a national emergency.

To be fair, this is not the first time that such an order has been written. Presidents Bush (II), Clinton, Reagan, and even Eisenhower provided directives in the same spirit as President Obama’s order– providing some level of government commandeering in times of national emergency.

In the past, these orders have related to things like production capacity for defense contractors, or giving FEMA authority to resolve disputes between other departments in federally designated emergency areas.

President Obama’s order, however, takes things much, much further.

Executive Order — National Defense Resources Preparedness: Why Obama’s Latest Executive Order is Scary | Gina Miller via ScottFactor

…  This past Friday afternoon brought a new executive order from the White House.  It was titled, “National Defense Resources Preparedness.”  This order sent the blogosphere and conservative news followers into a terrified frenzy.  I even sent out an e-mail to many on my blast list with a link to the order on the White House website, because it is an alarming thing in light of the current communist administration in Washington.

FBI re-routes traffic from survival blog and accumulates user IP addresses |the woodpile report

Well this is truly frightening ….via ol remus and the woodpile report.

From August of 2011 to November of 2011, the FBI secretly redirected the web traffic of more than 10% of SurvivalBlog’s US visitors through CJIS. There, the Feebees surreptitiously collected the IP addresses of my site visitors. In all, 4,906 of 35,494 selected connections ended up going to or through the FBI servers. Furthermore, we discovered that the FBI attached a long-lived cookie that allowed them to track the sites that readers subsequently visited. I suspect that the FBI has done the same to hundreds of other web sites, says Jim Rawles in this article at Survival Blog.

Holder 1995: We Must 'Brainwash' People on Guns

Reblogged from Evil of indifference:

"Breitbart.com has uncovered video from 1995 of then-U.S. Attorney Eric Holder announcing a public campaign to "really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way."

Holder was addressing the Woman's National Democratic Club. In his remarks, broadcast by CSPAN 2, he explained that he intended to use anti-smoking campaigns as his model to "change the hearts and minds of people in Washington, DC" about guns.

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Forgerygate: Ignoring Arpaio’s report is a scandal in itself | WaTimes

Is President Obama’s birth certificate a forgery? Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., believes it is. He recently held a press conference in Phoenix to discuss the findings of a new 10-page report. Mr. Arpaio’s investigators have come to a stunning conclusion: The long-form birth certificate Mr. Obama released last year is a “computer-generated forgery.”

With the exception of The Washington Times, however, no major U.S. media outlet reported this bombshell story. The liberal press corps is desperately trying to suppress any discussion of Forgerygate — potentially one of the biggest scandals in American history. The media class is betraying its fundamental mission to pursue the truth.

Journal of The long sunspot cycle 23 predicts a significant temperature decrease in cycle 24 | ScienceDirect.com

Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics.  Relations between the length of a sunspot cycle and the average temperature in the same and the next cycle are calculated for a number of meteorological stations in Norway and in the North Atlantic region. No significant trend is found between the length of a cycle and the average temperature in the same cycle, but a significant negative trend is found between the length of a cycle and the temperature in the next cycle. This provides a tool to predict an average temperature decrease of at least View the MathML source from solar cycle 23 to solar cycle 24 for the stations and areas analyzed. We find for the Norwegian local stations investigated that 25–56% of the temperature increase the last 150 years may be attributed to the Sun. For 3 North Atlantic stations we get 63–72% solar contribution. This points to the Atlantic currents as reinforcing a solar signal.

via ScienceDirect.com

Not Even Your Backyard is Safe From . . .Them | Eric Peters

Robert Biel, 57, of Brevard County, Florida, is going to spend the next year in prison. He must have done something pretty bad, right? Beat someone up, maybe? Steal a car? Er… shoplift a six pack? No, something far worse – in the eyes of our protectors in government:

He kept a bunch of old cars in his yard.

His yard. Not someone else’s. His – you know, the land he gets to pay endless rent to the government for as a condition of the perpetuation of the fiction that he’s the owner. Except of course, he’s not – and this business about sending him to the clink for a year proves it.

What Ever Happened to “Extremism in Defense of Liberty is No Vice”? | Reason

…The prevention of such a grotesque outrage is written into the Constitution – in Article I, Section 9, which prohibits suspending the right of habeas corpus except in cases of rebellion or invasion. Nevertheless, earlier this year Congress passed, and President Obama signed, the National Defense Authorization Act, which authorizes the indefinite detention, without charge or trial, of American citizens by the U.S. military.

Taking a page out of George W. Bush’s book, Obama included a signing statement indicating that he would disregard the parts of the law he does not like, including the detention provision. But his forbearance, while welcome, does not constrain future presidents. (It does not even constrain him, for that matter; he can change his mind at any time.)… via Reason

PREPPER MUST READ: Global State of Survival & Preparedness Report | SHTF School

This is a fantastic survey.  There reportedly were 1800 self-selected respondents – visitors to the SHTF School website and, therefore, heavily biased toward the prepper / survivalist community.  That said, I find this survey result very interesting.  GREAT JOB by SHTF School! GE.

“… Over 1800 people completed our survival survey in the last two weeks. The feedback has been great and this is the first part of three in which we share the survey results with you. We started the survey with a “classic” question. How long have you been preparing / into survival? …. 

Part 1   Part 2   Part 3   Part 4

Don’t Tread on Me – a good site

Go there, read, listen, learn, plan and act.  GE.

CIA Chief: We’ll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher | Danger Room

More and more personal and household devices are connecting to the internet, from your television to your car navigation systems to your light switches. CIA Director David Petraeus cannot wait to spy on you through them.

ATK Secures .40 Caliber Ammunition Contract for 450 million rounds to DHS, ICE | MarketWatch

450,000,000 rounds of .40 caliber bullets would be a LOT of bullets for the US Army, let alone for two domestic-oriented agencies like ICE and DHS.

ATK announced that it is being awarded an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity IDIQ agreement from the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement DHS, ICE for .40 caliber ammunition. This contract features a base of 12 months, includes four option years, and will have a maximum volume of 450 million rounds…via MarketWatch.

How I Became a Hate Group | Sultan Knish

…the Southern Poverty Law Center had listed, “Sultan Knish a blog by Daniel Greenfield” as one of their Active Anti-Muslim Hate Groups, alongside such other vast organizations as “Faith Freedom”, a website for ex-Muslims, and “Casa D’Ice Signs”, the signs on a bar located on K-Mart Plaza in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania… via Sultan Knish a blog by Daniel Greenfield.