What Fvcking Vultures....

Sorry for not posting sooner, had a lot of work drama last week, and that derailed me.

I got a text right before I went to bed last night, not even 12 hours after the tragedy in my home state, and I got a text from some democratic hack schilling for money hoping to ride on the emotions from the recent shooting to get money to defeat my local congresscritter in November.  What douchebags!

Republican Mike Collins has blood on his hands. The deaths in Barrow County are a direct result of his support for weapons of war. He's hiding behind the 2nd Amendment. 

He must be defeated. He is our number one target in Georgia. Help send a message NOW.

Donate to defeat him.

Donate to restrict weapon sales.

Donate for common sense gun reform. 

Donate to remove guns from the hands of violent, white, male killers. We need Red Flag Laws in Georgia, and Mike Collins stands in the way!

     Several quick observations....the jerkoff kid was 14 years old, too young to legally own the weapon he used, and from the picture I saw it was a shotgun, not an AR pattern rifle. but I digress, also red flag laws wouldn't worked in this case anyway, again, the kid legally wouldn't own the weapon he used so red flag laws wouldn't have worked. and I don't like "Red Flag Laws" because it strips due process away and there is no penalties for filing a false report.  Also a final point, you notice the "Violent White male criminals"   ok so I suppose the "violent Black male criminals" in deep blue cities get a pass I suppose....

    Got another one again tonight...and I responded to this one also, and I blocked both numbers...tools.

     The cartoon that is in the post is the one I used in both responses to both texts and a rebuttal. If history is any indication,  I'll get another tonight and I'll respond the same way. 

Spammers...

fucking spammers.......Jeez, they are super busy.....

   Instead of writing a post I wanted to write, I  Spent the last 3 hours scrubbing comments off my blog..And they targeted my older posts...Nothing like deleting over 1000 comments and apparently I inadvertently deleted some legitimate comments, I hope I didn't wack some posts by accident...May the fleas of a thousand camels infest their crotch and give them VD....Scourge of mankind....

Mainstream Media kisses Obama's Posterior

I am vary busy right now so I can't do a rant myself, but I ran across this one from Neal Boortz and shamelessly ripped it off.  The pictures are compliments of my folder of political pics.

Right now the media owes 0bama and the Democrats.  Considering the scope of the 0bamacare roll-out cluster&#@k the media simply had to report on it or all semblance of credibility would be lost.  Now it’s payback time.  Now it’s time for the media to pay 0bama and the Democrats back for this insurrection, and they’re coming around big time.
            How?  Just how is the media paying 0bama back for their offensive 0bamacare reporting?  How do we know the media is back on track promoting the Democrat big-government mantra?  Look at the reporting on income equality --- and there you have it.
            Virtually everywhere you turn you’ll see stories in newspapers, on television and on radio about the scourge of income inequality.  Toss in the mindless Hollywood crowd and academia – professor-types generally unprepared to earn a living in the private sector – and you have one of the most intensive efforts to carry the Democrat’s message I’ve seen in decades.

            And why have the Democrats turned to this income inequality message?  Why do millionaire Democrat Senators and Congressmen stand in the well of the Senate and the House to piss and moan about how bad inequality is?  Come on now, this isn’t all that hard.  They are doing this for two reasons:  First, it gets the conversation away from the disaster that is 0bamacare.  Secondly, it works; and it works very, very well.
            Now we know the Democrats plan for this year’s mid-term elections, and we know just how the media is going to do what it has done for decades – help the Democrats add up the votes.   The dumb masses are going to be told that the reason they don’t have as much money as they might like is because evil rich people – who vote Republican – are taking all the money for themselves.  They will be told that the only way they’re ever going to have more money is if they elect more Democrats so that the Democrats can beat down these evil, greedy Republicans in congress and take more of that money away from the rich – money that was stolen from “working class” Americans – and give it to the poor.  One way to do this will be to raise the minimum wage.  These rich bastards are keeping that money for themselves when they should be paying it to their workers – and if you just elect enough Democrats they’ll put a stop to this greedy behavior.

            Again … let’s get back to education.  If it weren’t for the hideous quality of our state schools, this line of economic Bolshoi would never work.  Democrats absolutely depend on the economic ignorance of their voters to maintain power.  Right now you should be saying “Ah ha!  Of course!  THAT’S why Democrats are so dedicated to government education!”  See how easy this is to figure out when a little logic is applied?
            Here’s how easy this is.  There’s an economic pie out there.  A big pizza.  Some people have a bigger slice of that pizza than others.  The people with the smaller slices want more pizza.  That’s understandable.  Who doesn’t want more pizza?  Here’s where it gets so hard for the dumb masses.  Just how do you get more pizza?  Well … you could take pizza away from the people with the bigger slices and give it to the people with the smaller slices.  That way you get rid of all this pizza slice inequality.  One of the problems there might be that those people with the bigger slices might not work as hard to be able to afford their pizza if they’re just going to have it taken away from them.  Maybe they should just sit on their butts and wait for someone to take pizza away from someone else to give to them!
            But consider this!  What would happen if you just baked a bigger pizza?  If you had a bigger pizza then everyone could get a bigger slice!  What’s more, you could get a bigger slice without asking the government to take pizza away from someone else!
            The pizza, of course, is our economy.  If you want the poor to have more money you can either seize and redistribute income, or you can build a bigger economy.   The fact is that Democrats just suck at building a bigger, more prosperous economy.  They sick at the local level – most (if not all) cities in bankruptcy are Democrat-run.  They suck at the state level – states with the strongest economic growth by and large do not have Democrat legislatures and governors.  And they suck at the federal level.  0bama has been a complete and unmitigated disaster when it comes to economic growth.  Even with the growth in our population there are fewer people in this country with jobs right now than there were when 0bama took office.  I guess that’s the price we pay when we elect an anti-capitalist to be our Dear Ruler.

            But … these facts are lost on the dumb masses, and the media is going to make sure they don’t learn all that much between now and the election.  Sure, there are some outlets – Fox News, for instance – and talk show hosts who might try to spread the painful truth, but the Democrats and their media myrmidons will simply brand them as racists and brush them aside.
            In the meantime the voters are going to continue to be savaged by 0bamacare.  They’re going to face increases in their health insurance premiums for the government’s “one size fits all” medical insurance policies, and then they’ll pay their $5000 (or more)deductibles.  The outrage is going to grow, but the media will work to calm things down by hammering the income inequality line. Yeah … the dumb masses voters will love this income inequality campaign.  They’ll sit back in their government-educated stupor and vote for the politicians who tell them that they’re going to take money away from those hated rich people and give it to them.
            The media will make it so.

"Common Sense Gun Control laws" According to a Liberal Elitist

     I figured I would continue my "Hitler and 2nd amendment stuff" again as I seemed to be on a roll with it.  A few days ago there was an article published by a retired lieutenant Colonel, that talked disparagingly of the 2nd amendment.  Here is the link if you can hold your stomach.  I guess he swore a different oath than I did....to defend the U.S. Constitution....AM  talked more in detail with his rebuttal than I did,  You can go over for a look and see how this went.  Well worth the read, you will have to scroll down a bit to find it.

    Here is a part of the his OP-ED piece...I wanted to reach for a garbage can to retch as I read this drivel by the closed minded elitist.  My Responses will be in BLACK

    " Guns are tools. I use these tools in my job. But like all tools one must be trained and educated in their use. Weapons are there for the "well regulated militia." Their use, therefore, must be in defense of the nation. Shooting and killing somebody because they were not "upset enough" over the loss of a college football team should not be possible in our great nation. How about blaming the person, not the object...What a novel concept.I guess individual responsibility is an unusual concept for you leftist... Which is why I am adding the following "Gun Plank" to the Bateman-Pierce platform. Here are some suggestions:
1. The only guns permitted will be the following:

• a. Smoothbore or Rifled muzzle-loading blackpowder muskets. No 7-11 in history has ever been held up with one of these.   What is with liberal elitist and this fascination with black powder rifles , they think they are on to something when they use this as a rebuttal.  First off, the 2nd amendment is NOT about hunting....it is our defence against tyranny when the time comes.  If they want to continue along this like of thought with technology...fine, the first amendment can only be distrabuted via handbills and hand loaded printing press only, no electronic media ...That is what was around when the 10 amendments were ratified....and watch them self destruct because they really like the 1st amendment.  They forget that the bill of rights are rights given to us by our creator, and they are natural rights and they are codified so the government will be there to ensure those rights.  These rights are NOT granted to us by the government, we already HAVE them.
• b. Double-barrel breech-loading shotguns. Hunting with these is valid.  Hunting is a viable pastime and many weapons are used from shotguns to rifles to bow and arrows.  The 2nd amendment ain't about hunting, and I appreciate your indulgence in letting me and the other commoners keep my double barrel shotgun....Not 
• c. Bolt-action rifles with a magazine capacity no greater than five rounds. Like I said, hunting is valid. But if you cannot bring down a defenseless deer in under five rounds, then you have no fking reason to be holding a killing tool in the first place.   Again you miss the point...the 2nd amendment ain't about hunting, it is about our natural God given gift of self defense to protect our freedom from bad people, and overblown blowhard liberal elitist and others that might want to take what is mine and my family from our property to our lives. 

2. We will pry your gun from your cold, dead, fingers. That is because I am willing to wait until you die, hopefully of natural causes. Guns, except for the three approved categories, cannot be inherited. When you die your weapons must be turned into the local police department, which will then destroy them. (Weapons of historical significance will be de-milled, but may be preserved.)  Tyranny will not wait, and when you and your ilk come for our guns, you can have them, expended of ammo of course.   Again the condescending attitude and belief....You will "allow"...Yeah right....And by the way, You will die before I do, either of natural causes, rope burns or lead poisoning..My weapons are heirloom items, they will be passed to my son and hopefully to his sons...in due time.
3. Police departments are no longer allowed to sell or auction weapons used in crimes after the cases have been closed. (That will piss off some cops, since they really need this money. But you know what they need more? Less violence and death. By continuing the process of weapon recirculation, they are only making their jobs -- or the jobs of some other cops -- harder.)  Again, the lawful gun owner is being blamed by the crime rate, you sure it ain't other reasons like the destruction of the nuclear family, the lack of morals, the glorification of the drug and its associated lifestyle in the world? And the myriad of policies enacted by your democratic handlers to push their agenda?  Before 1968, you could order a gun through the Sears Roebuck catalog and have it shipped to your house.  The average cops excluding Police Chiefs(who have their job due to political patronage and parrot whatever the mayor wants to keep their jobs) have no problem with the average law-abiding gun-owner. 
4. We will submit a new tax on ammunition. In the first two years it will be 400 percent of the current retail cost of that type of ammunition. (Exemptions for the ammo used by the approved weapons.) Thereafter it will increase by 20 percent per year.  The average liberal answer is to tax anything, You want to really piss off a bunch of gun owners, try to push through a punitive tax on ammo, that will guarantee either the democrats losing an election or the push-back against overreaching government will turn violent.
5. We will initiate a nationwide "buy-back" program, effective immediately, with the payouts coming from the DoD budget. This buy-back program will start purchasing weapons at 200 percent of their face value the first year, 150 percent the second year, 100 percent the third year. Thereafter there will be a 10 year pause, at which point the guns can be sold to the government at 10 percent of their value for the next 50 years.  Again what is with you liberal elitist going after the DoD budget? What you can't touch the myriad of social programs that your  democratic handlers require to keep their base content and and voting?  I am sure the average soldier will not appreciate watching his pay and other things being stripped in the budget to fund such a thing and disgruntled soldiers can cause many problems for the regime.
6. The major gun manufactures of the United States, less those who create weapons for the federal government and the armed forces, will be bought out by the United States of America, for our own damned good.  Again with the big government elitist dreams of nationalizing entire industry.  So in the end the only people that will have weapons are the rulers, and the average citizen will be little more than a wage slave to support and serve their betters in the government.

..That is tyranny and the 2nd American civil war will have started.  In the end we will win, and there is a lot more of us than of y'all

These opinions are those of the author and do not reflect the United States government, the United States Department of Defense, the United States Army, or any other official body. As for the NRA, they can sit on it. (Sorry, I grew up with Happy Days. "Sit on it" means something to those of my generation.) R_Bateman_LTC@hotmail.com.

  Well Lt Colonel Bateman, I am from a slightly younger generation and we have a word for you.....And this is my opinion, and  is from the heart....Really....it is....

  

  
    

The Direction of the country....

I took my son to "Camp Grandma"and on the way back I had to make a pit stop on I-75 near Calhoun at a Pilot gas station.  Well I saw this on the wall and had to take a picture of it.
                            

   And it was going here....

    I was impressed, somebody took the time to write on a clean wall that is free of graffiti to make a statement,  No It wasn't me...I didn't have a sharpie on me or I would have added to it.   the discontent the average person has is at a high pitch and I believe that it will get worse.  I am hearing that a bunch of veterans are planning on marching on the WWII memorial and the Vietnam memorial around October 13 here is the Linkie.  What I have heard what prompted this besides the shameful way the WWII vets were treated, was the Vietnam Vets told to leave the "Open Air" Vietnam memorial by the Park service.   It will be interesting to see what Obungler will do but I am concerned if he will use this as an excuse for drastic action because of the partial government shutdown and the media will cover him and the cops like they did when Mariam Carey was shot by the Keystone Cops The Capital Police.  Because the DHS views veterans as "extremist" they probably will overreact or am I just got my tinfoil hat on too tight?

We have won...?

My Apologies for not posting anything for several days.   I have been very busy and finding time to post was difficult...unless I want to cut myself of sleep for a couple of hours.

    I saw the campaigner in chief President Obama meltdown where he berated the senate for not going along with the gun grab...you know when the rat bastards communist assholes danced on the bodies of the innocents to push a major wet dream of the liberal elitist...the belief that they the betters know what is best for the great unwashed...but we the citizens or the "hoi palloi" as they refer to us when they are amongst themselves and talk disparaging about the clingers to guns or the bible.  that we are unworthy of them and by their benevolent grace that they are here to lead us to the socialist promised land if we would just do what they want us to.

    

The latest dancing on the bodies of the innocents happened after the shooting of Sandy Hook where a person killed his mom, took her guns and used them to shoot 26 people in an elementary school.  The rat bastards liberals democrats who believe in the mantra " never let a crisis go to waste" immediately jumped on the gun control bandwagon to push an agenda that floundered the first time because of the "fast and Furious" gun runners into Mexico where the government let guns walk to Mexico to bolster the spurious claim that most of the weapons used in the drug wars come from the United States to support an assault on the 2nd amendment.  The funny thing is that the laws being proposed would not have prevented the shooting because the slime that did the shooting got his weapons illegally.  This would have affected the law abiding gun owners, since we obey the law, criminals by definition disobey the law...that is why they are called "Criminals."

     The rat bastard commie's democrats overreached on this proposal.  They were primed had the talking points ready for a sympathetic media and the talking heads and ready for a tragedy to hit so they were hoping to overwhelm the opposition before we had a chance to mount a defense.  They were mostly unsuccessful, several states did screw over their citizens, notably New York, and Colorado.  We have had several gun companies pull out of there for greener pastures in other states due to the political climate in those "blue" states.  I swear that Obama and crew is hoping to force a fight with the gun owners to further an agenda that Saul Alensky had stated to fundamentally change the United States you would have to kill 10% of the population and a bunch of gun owners would fit the bill nicely.
    

Now President Obama in support of his latest agenda trotted out a bunch of people like meat shields for example Congresswomen Gifford whose husband tried to purchase an AR-15 like what they tried to ban others from buying. who was shot by a demented Democratic supporter that is conveniently glossed over by the media that is overwhelmingly democrats.  He also flew a bunch of parents of the murdered children to try to influence the senate to support the gun grab that was proposed by senator Dianne Feinstein. 

All this latest issue did was polarized the American electorate, the attitude among most of the gun owners are:

This is not the time to let off, we gotta remind the congress who they work for.  A congressman main priority is to get re-elected.  We have to remain vigilant and know that the liberal shitbirds will immediately crap over any new tragedy to push an agenda.

Gunning for America

GUNNING FOR AMERICA

Under Socialism, you don’t have to pass a law, you just have to use your economic control to make the companies enforce the law.

Growing government control over banks and investment companies, directly and indirectly, allows those institutions to be used to target firearms manufacturers.

Cerberus was bullied into dropping the Freedom Group which includes Remington and Bushmaster. Now Rahm Emanuel is demanding that TD Bank and Bank of America end their lines of credit to firearms manufacturers unless they come out in support of Obama’s war on the Bill of Rights.

The Party that claims to be upset at corporate influence over politics is trying to forcibly create a corporate lobby in favor of abrogating the Bill of Rights by exploiting their leverage over banks and the leverage of banks over private companies

"For the Children"

    I saw the executive orders that "Dear Leader" wants implimented.   Several are up for legislative challenges.   I was expecting more though from the hype that was being pushed by the communist rat bastards  democrats about repealing the 2nd amendment.  It is all feel good crap that wouldn't have prevented Sandy Hook.  Now New York went much farther, I am glad that I live in a southern state where the 2nd amendment is more prized.  I do feel bad for the people in New York, they got screwed royally by the very legislature that was elected to represent their interest.  As I understand it, they didn't really get a chance to read it before voting on it. kinda like obamacare  I guess they got the representatives that they wanted. I saw the photo-op that dear leader did with the children and it reminded me of other people through out history that liked to use children as a backdrop for political activities.     Remember it is "For the Children".   Every time I hear that I want to projective vomit on the dumb on of a bitch individual  that uses that phrase.

    

It didn't matter......

WHEN

Looking back thru the past 4 years, many "Whens" pop up. Read them all to better understand where we are going as a country.
WHEN - he refused to disclose who donated money to his election campaign, as other candidates had done, people said it didn't matter.
WHEN - he received endorsements from people like Louis Farrakhan, Muramar Kaddafi and Hugo Chavez, people said it didn't matter.
WHEN - it was pointed out that he was a total newcomer and had absolutely no experience at anything except community organizing, people said it didn't matter.
WHEN - he chose friends and acquaintances such as Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn who were revolutionary radicals, people said it didn't matter.
WHEN - his voting record in the Illinois Senate and in the U.S. Senate came into question, people said it didn't matter.
WHEN - he refused to wear a flag lapel pin and did so only after a public outcry, people said it didn't matter.
WHEN - people started treating him as a Messiah and children in schools were taught to sing his praises, people said it didn't matter.
WHEN - he stood with his hands over his groin area for the playing of the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance, people said it didn't matter.
WHEN - he surrounded himself in the White House with advisors who were pro-gun control, pro-abortion, pro-homosexual marriage and wanting to curtail freedom of speech to silence the opposition, people said it didn't matter.
WHEN - he said he favors sex education in kindergarten, including homosexual indoctrination, people said it didn't matter.
WHEN - his personal background was either scrubbed or hidden and nothing could be found about him, people said it didn't matter.
WHEN - the place of his birth was called into question, and he refused to produce a birth certificate, people said it didn't matter.
WHEN - he had an association in Chicago with Tony Rezco - a man of questionable character and who is now in prison and had helped Obama to a sweet deal on the purchase of his home - people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - it became known that George Soros, a multi-billionaire Marxist, spent a ton of money to get him elected, people said it didn't matter.
WHEN - he started appointing White House Czars that were radicals, revolutionaries, and even avowed Marxist /Communists, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he stood before the Nation and told us that his intentions were to "fundamentally transform this Nation" into something else, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - it became known that he had trained ACORN workers in Chicago and served as an attorney for ACORN, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he appointed cabinet members and several advisers who were tax cheats and socialists, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he appointed a Science Czar, John Holdren, who believes in forced abortions, mass sterilizations and seizing babies from teen mothers, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he appointed Cass Sunstein as Regulatory Czar who believes in "Explicit Consent," harvesting human organs without family consent and allowing animals to be represented in court, while banning all hunting, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he appointed Kevin Jennings, a homosexual and organizer of a group called Gay, Lesbian, Straight, Education Network as Safe School Czar and it became known that he had a history of bad advice to teenagers, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he appointed Mark Lloyd as Diversity Czar who believes in curtailing free speech, taking from one and giving to another to spread the wealth, who supports Hugo Chavez, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - Valerie Jarrett, an avowed Socialist, was selected as Obama's Senior White House Advisor, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, , said Mao Tse Tung was her favorite philosopher and the person she turned to most for inspiration, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he appointed Carol Browner, a well known socialist as Global Warming Czar working on Cap and Trade as the nation's largest tax, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he appointed Van Jones, an ex-con and avowed Communist as Green Energy Czar, who since had to resign when this was made known, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - Tom Daschle, Obama's pick for Health and Human Services Secretary could not be confirmed because he was a tax cheat, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - as President of the United States, he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he traveled around the world criticizing America and never once talking of her greatness, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - his actions concerning the Middle East seemed to support the Palestinians overIsrael , our long time ally, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he took American tax dollars to resettle thousands of Palestinians from Gaza to theUnited States, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he upset the Europeans by removing plans for a missile defense system against the Russians, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he played politics in Afghanistan by not sending troops early-on when the Field Commanders said they were necessary to win, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he started spending us into a debt that was so big we could not pay it off, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he took a huge spending bill under the guise of stimulus and used it to pay off organizations, unions, and individuals that got him elected, people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he took over insurance companies, car companies, banks, etc., people said it didn't matter.

WHEN - he took away student loans from the banks and put it through the government, people said it didn't matter.
WHEN - he designed plans to take over the health care system and put it under government control, people said it didn't matter.
WHEN - he claimed he was a Christian during the election and tapes were later made public that showed Obama speaking to a Muslim group and stating' that he was raised a Muslim, was educated as a Muslim, and is still a Muslim, people said it didn't matter.
WHEN - he set into motion a plan to take over the control of all energy in the United Statesthrough Cap and Trade, people said it didn't matter.
WHEN - he finally completed his transformation of America into a Socialist State, people woke up--- but it was too late. Add these up one by one and you get a phenomenal score that points to the fact that Barrack Hussein Obama is determined to turn America into a Marxist-Socialist society. All of the items in the preceding paragraphs have been put into place. All can be documented very easily. Before you disavow this do an Internet search. The last paragraph alone is not yet cast in stone.

You and I will write that paragraph, will it read as above or will it be a more happy ending for most of America?
Don't just belittle the opposition. Search for the truth. We all need to pull together or watch the demise of a free democratic society. Pray for Americans to seek the truth and take action for it will keep us FREE. Our biggest enemy is not China, Russia, North Korea or Iran. Our biggest enemy is a contingent of politicians in Washington, DC . The government will not help,
so we need to do it ourselves.
Question....will you delete this, or pass it on to others who don't know about Obama's actions and plans for the USA, so that they may know how to vote in November, 2012 and the ensuing years?
It's your decision.

I believe it does matter. How about you?

WHEN - November 2012 comes, it will matter who you vote for!

AND WHEN

Camaro owner catches dealership mechanics abusing his car.

I am a car guy, my friends call me a gearhead, I don't mind at all.  I view cars as the ultimate expression of freedom, you can go where you want, when you want and you don't have to rely on somebody else from a train or bus operator to a bureaucrat asking " your papers please".   Once you are in your car...it is your world, your personality, you listen to what you want, the car reflects your personality and your personal space.   I am a hardcore Ford fanatic, always was.  I do like the new cars from GM and Chrysler the new Camaro and Challenger and Charger are pretty sharp.   When I saw this on Yahoo news, this confirms the stereotype that we gearheads believe does happen in dealerships and car repair places nationwide.  


This is from Yahoo News

When you own a sports car, you inevitably get a little paranoid about how it's treated when in the care of strangers. One South Carolina man was worried enough that when he took his 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS in for service at a Chevy dealer, he hid a voice recorder in the car. He was right to be worried: The recorder caught mechanics doing burnouts and discussing how to make the owner pay for a ruined clutch the car didn't have before coming in. Now the Internet Justice League has taken the wheel.William Clark says he took his Camaro to Best Chevrolet-Kia in Easley, S.C. for a clunking noise in the car's six-speed manual transmission. After a previous visit to a different dealer, his Camaro had died shortly after Clark retrieved it; while he suspected the staff at that dealership of joyriding, he had no proof at the time.

This time, the voice recorder hidden in the door pocket catches employees doing several burnouts and hard launches in the Camaro; Clark later says the techs drove it harder in 20 minutes than he had in three years. Once back in the shop, the mechanics realize the Camaro's clutch has been fried, and come up with a plan to blame the damage on Clark, saying to "write it up as him buying a (expletive) clutch," while saying another part failed under warranty so that General Motors would pay for its replacement.

Clark says he's taken his evidence to the dealer and Chevrolet customer service; the dealer offered to reassess the damage or take the Camaro as a trade-in on another car, but refused Clark's demand to buy the car back. Clark says Chevrolet customer service washed it hands of the problem, saying it was an issue between him and the dealer. As of the last update, the car's smoked clutch remains untouched.
Unfortunately for Clark, there's few other steps he can take that don't end in court. Dealers are regulated by states; Clark can file a complaint with South Carolina officials, but even with an audio recording the assessment of damage isn't so clear-cut as if the mechanics had wrecked it on a test drive. Instead, other Camaro owners have taken up the cause, posting Clark's video to the dealership's Facebook page and otherwise making noise about the problem.
You can hear the entire exchange, including the profanity, here. A lawyer for Best Chevrolet, in a request to Yahoo Autos to take down this story, told us in an email that the audio was "misleadingly edited." Clark has said the dealership has threatened to sue him over the audio, but has also spoken with him about buying the Camaro back. The dealership may soon learn that in the Internet era, one burnt clutch can create quite the stink.

UPDATE: General Motors says in a statement that if the recording is valid it does not condone the behavior described, and that it is "actively working closely with the dealer to resolve this situation to the customer's satisfaction."

Dishonorable Disclosures

When I was in the service, I was part of the branch that was "always out front".  We did and saw things that most people never saw or will see.  When I was in, one of the things I had besides a security clearance was a 75 year non-disclosure...basically I cannot tell or talk about what I did while I was in.  Any discussions had the possibility of leaking some kind of information that could compromise something.  So we just never talk about it.  I have been out for 21 years and people ask what I did, I make some comment about " I did a lot of things" or I just worked in the mail room or something.(which I did for 90 days).  The point is that we just don't talk about it.  I have been appalled by the leaks that I have seen, the release of the OBL hit right after it happened.  Nothing like putting a bulls eye on somebody or their family.  Remember these people don"t have the same belief in the sanctity of human life like we do.  they would think nothing about taking out the families of Seal Team Six as a form of jihad.  We used to have leaders that respected operation security...these clown are more concerned about getting reelected than doing the right thing.  They are elitist, the people that are at risk are the people from "flyover country".  The ones that didn't get into the right schools... Didn't become part of the apparachik, the cultural elitist, the ones that know what is best for the rest of the dumb masses.
     The people that will have to deal with the fallout from these leaks will not be going to the houses of the Hollywood celebrities for fundraisers, they will not be getting their name in the newspaper for some policy decision,  they will be the ones that stand guard over this country, walking the perimeters at night, going into all the dark places that they go and protect this country like their parents and grandparents have done before them. 

Weather Channel Anchor says that she was fired over Military service.

I hope that she can prove every thing that she had said...Sticking it to Reservist and Guardsman is deplorable.  
Saw this on Fox

Weather Channel Anchor Says She Was Fired Over Military Service

Jun 7, 2012

By Todd Starnes
A former anchor at The Weather Channel is suing the network after she said she was fired over a dispute involving her military service.
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Nicole Mitchell, an Air Force Reserve Officer and a member of the “Hurricane Hunters” team, has accused The Weather Channel and NBC of discrimination and violating her rights under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994.
Mitchell said she began to experience harassment about her military service just after The Weather Channel was purchased by NBC, Bain Capital and the Blackstone Group, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court.
Court papers allege NBC bosses made explicit complaints about her military service schedule and created a “hostile working environment” for the anchor.
Mitchell, who holds the rank of captain, was an on-air meteorologist for The Weather Channel from 2004 until 2011 – when her contract was not renewed. She is a highly decorated officer who flies aboard a “Hurricane Hunter” and her military expertise was especially noted during the network’s hurricane coverage.
But after the network was purchased by NBC/Universal, Mitchell said network executives ordered her to get clearance before agreeing to any military assignments.
“I was told in an email, ‘before you agree to military duty, you need to clear it through us first,’” Mitchell told Fox News Radio. “If you don’t show up for orders, you could be court-martialed.”
The Weather Channel released a statement to Fox News Radio declining to comment on the specifics of the case.
Spokesman David Blumenthal said the network “is committed to creating a work atmosphere free of discrimination and in compliance with The Uniformed Services Employment Reemployment rights Act of 1994.”
Blumenthal said some of Mitchell’s allegations were inaccurate, but declined to provide specific examples.
“We disagree with many of the assertions in the plaintiff’s press statements and intend to vigorously defend the matter in the arbitration process,” he said.
Lance LoRusso, Mitchell’s attorney, called The Weather Channel and NBC’s behavior “deplorable.”
“It is not a matter of providing lip service and saying you support the military,” he told Fox News Radio. “You cannot interfere with their service. You cannot provide harassment or a hostile environment to them and if you do – you are subject to sanctions.”
An incident involving a missed hair appointment seems to be where Mitchell’s career at The Weather Channel.
LoRusso said his client received a telephone call ordering her to appear for a Sunday hair consultation.
“They said quite clearly, ‘this is non-negotiable, no excuses,’” LoRusso said.
But Mitchell did have an excuse – she was on weekend military duty – and Mitchell had given the network advance notice of her responsibilities.
“She was told that was not a good answer,” he recounted. “They gave her a hard time, but she stuck to her guns.”
It wasn’t long before she was transferred from a Monday-Friday, 7 a.m. – 10 a.m. anchor shift on “Your Weather Today” to a Monday-Friday, 10 p.m.-2a.m. shift.
And LoRusso believes she Mitchell was removed from her star role because she’s a weekend warrior.
“Here we truly believe that the scheduling and the fact that her Reserve duty was up against a schedule of NBC and The Weather Channel – was a motivating factor in their decision,” he said. “That is illegal.”
Mitchell joined the Air National Guard when she was 17-years-old – and the network was well aware of her military commitments when she was hired, LoRusso said.
“It’s not a matter of courtesy,” he said. “It’s a matter of obligation. Our military cannot function as a volunteer force if the individual employers can control when our service members can appear and when they shouldn’t.”
LoRusso noted the irony of NBC’s sponsorship of a pro-military campaign called, ‘Got Your 6’ – vowing to support service members.
“Well, you should start in house,” he said.

Occupy Protest cost taxpayers 30 million

Got this off Weaselzippers

Occupy Protests Cost Taxpayers Almost $30 Million…And the Tea Party Protest cost Zero.  One is by adolescent know it all jerks and the other is with law abiding citizens.

Costliest temper tantrum ever?
Via Big Government:

A tally based on press reports nationwide puts the total at nearly $30 million:

• Occupy Asheville – $170,000
• Occupy Atlanta – $652,000
• Occupy Austin – $800,000
• Occupy Bellingham – $51,000
• Occupy Boston – $1,025,000 plus $50,000 to repair park
• Occupy Charlotte – $447,000
• Occupy Chicago – $49,000
• Occupy Cincinnati – $128,000
• Occupy DC – $1,640,000
• Occupy Denver – $782,689
• Occupy DesMoines – $7,800
• Occupy Eugene – $130,000
• Occupy Fresno – $110,000
• Occupy Hartford – $45,000
• Occupy Irvine – $23,000
• Occupy LA – $4,700,000
• Occupy Lansing – $20,000
• Occupy Long Beach – $40,000
• Occupy Minnesota – $400,000
• Occupy Nashville – $4,500
• Occupy New Haven – $145,000
• Occupy New Orleans – $50,000
• Occupy New York – $7,000,000
• Occupy Oakland – $3,000,000
• Occupy OKC — $85,000
• Occupy Olympia – $252,000
• Occupy Palm Desert – $88,786
• Occupy Philadelphia – $1,000,000
• Occupy Phoenix – $204,162
• Occupy Portland – $1,290,000 + $130,000 to repair damaged parks
• Occupy Providence – $9,000
• Occupy Raleigh – $60, 000
• Occupy Richmond – $33,691
• Occupy Sacramento – $300,000
• Occupy San Diego – $2,400,000
• Occupy San Francisco – $950,000 plus $50,000 to restore park
• Occupy Santa Cruz – $40,000
• Occupy St. Louis – $2,200
• Occupy Seattle – $625,999
• Occupy Tucson – $170,000

Total: $29,110,827

          Tea Party Protest...$0.00   We even paid for the permits and portapotties and cleaned up afterwards.

I’m just curious as to why there isn’t an “occupy Compton” or “occupy south central” or “occupy Arkansas/Mississippi/Kentucky” .. could it be people in those areas have low tolerance for spoilt rich white kid bullshit?  I am just tired of all the coverage these idiots gets from the fawning media

     These occupooper morons have done nothing for the country nor contribute to it. So, in all truthfulness, the bastards have no right to say anything.The Unions continue to support them.
Screw the leftist assholes from akkkedemia who wish they were alive in the 60s,
the poor old faggots from the 60s who can’t accept that they’re old,
the poor lil rich kids who just learned the barney cartoons telling them they’re “special” lied to them; their college degrees in useless shit (“I have a master’s in expressive dance and I can’t find a job”) won’t even get them a management position at Burger King! and the rest of the leftist/anarchist/communist douchenozzles.  And Nancy Pelosi says "god bless them"
I wish most of them got their wish and had to live under communism or anarchism… their life expectancy rates would be less than 30 minutes  Where their rights would be "which ear do you want the bullet" and due process is when they ask "Which family member do you want to get billed for the bullet?"

800 million proposed by Obungler for "Arab Spring"

This falls into the category "YGTBSM".  lessee give money  we don't have to people that don't like us.  How much of that proposed millions will be used to load up Swiss bank accounts and send more explosives to terrorist organizations that are hostile to us and Israel.   This is almost as lame as "cash for clunkers" and the great Porkulus, slush fund for democrats, payoff for political cronies.  Stumulus 1.   I will be sending a snail mail letter to my congresscritters in both houses.  they may blow me off but it will be on paper, the old fashioned way.  it gets their attention more than phone calls or e-mail will.     Damm this is asinine and stupid, not to mention extremely naive.  The results of Arab Spring is a middle east that is more theologically islamic and less secular than before.  We have the muslim brotherhood and other groups making huge inroads in their electorial process.  We as a nation borrow .40 cents on the dollar and we want to give them 800 million of our hard earned tax dollars?   I am having a hard time grasping the thought processes of such a proposal.

    this article was compliments of Reuters

Copies of President Obama's Fiscal Year 2013 budget are seen stacked on the floor of the House Budget Committee room on Capitol Hill in Washington February 13, 2012.

Credit: Reuters/Larry Downing

By Susan Cornwell

WASHINGTON | Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:39pm EST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House announced plans on Monday to help "Arab Spring" countries swept by revolutions with more than $800 million in economic aid, while maintaining U.S. military aid to Egypt.In his annual budget message to Congress, President Barack Obama asked that military aid to Egypt be kept at the level of recent years -- $1.3 billion -- despite a crisis triggered by an Egyptian probe targeting American democracy activists.
The proposals are part of Obama's budget request for fiscal year 2013, which begins October 1. His requests need the approval of Congress, where some lawmakers want to cut overseas spending to address U.S. budget shortfalls and are particularly angry at Egypt.
Obama proposed $51.6 billion in funding for the U.S. State Department and foreign aid overall, when $8.2 billion in assistance to war zones is included. The "core budget" for the category would increase by 1.6 percent, officials said.
Most of the economic aid for the Arab Spring countries -- $770 million -- would go to establish a new "Middle East and North Africa Incentive Fund," the president said in his budget plan.
Analysts said it was difficult to tell how much of the proposal was actually new money.
"As presented it's very difficult to determine if the Arab spring fund is new wine in new bottles or old wine in new bottles," said John Norris, a former U.S. foreign aid worker now at the Center for American Progress.
The Middle East and North Africa Incentive fund "will provide incentives for long-term economic, political, and trade reforms to countries in transition -- and to countries prepared to make reforms proactively," the White House budget document said.
The proposal said this approach "expands our bilateral economic support in countries such as Tunisia and Yemen, where transitions are already underway."
It would also build on other programs for the area, including up to $2 billion in regional Overseas Private Investment Corporation financing, up to $1 billion in debt swaps for Egypt, and approximately $500 million in existing funds re-allocated to respond to the region last year, the budget document said.
It did not say how the Middle East and North Africa Incentive Fund would be divided between countries, or give any other details of the plan.
Egypt has long been among the top recipients of U.S. aid, getting about $1.6 billion annually, mostly in military assistance. In fiscal 2012, $250 million of aid approved for Egypt was economic; $1.3 billion was military and there was a $60 million "enterprise fund" approved by Congress.
No U.S. assistance is moving to Egypt at the moment, U.S. lawmakers and their aides said last week. Some legislators favor cutting off aid to Egypt entirely if it does not drop accusations against American democracy activists and lift a travel ban on them.
Obama continued the practice of putting proposed foreign assistance for war zones in a separate account. This account, known as the "Overseas Contingency Operations," includes $8.2 billion for the State Department and foreign aid.
It includes $3.3 billion for Afghanistan, $1 billion for Pakistan, and $4 billion for Iraq, where U.S. troops have left the country but the State Department has picked up some of their functions such as police training.

EU takes next step in making airlines pay for carbon emissions

The global warming, excuse me global cooling...wait it is now "climate change" crowd loves that the EU is taking more steps to push the carbon tax , you know..the tax on the air we breath out, the thing that Al Gore pushed as a way to fight emissions.....wonder how much he gets cut of the action?  You know with these global warming...global cooling...or is it climate change...the name changes but it is just a hustle or an income stream for the governmental enity that is responsible for this.  The funny thing is that the only people that takes this crap seriously is the western based world...the rest of them tell the activist to pound sand or what ever the local equivelant is.    The airlines will just pass the cost to the comsumer.    Another tax to support junk science.




Despite fierce international opposition, the European Commission has taken the next step to make airlines pay for carbon emissions, Reuters reported.
On Monday, the Commission partly activated its registry to centralize carbon allowance accounts currently held under national registries, pending full activation, which will not take place before June, the story said.
Under European Union law, all airlines using airports in the EU are required to come into the EU’s carbon trading scheme.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and China are among those to have stated fierce objections to the EU law forcing airlines landing or taking off from the European Union to pay for carbon emitted, the story said.
Initially, airlines will get free allowances to cover some 85% of their emissions and their bill will only be calculated after their carbon output has been tabulated at the end of the year, said Reuters.
As of Monday, aircraft operators can open accounts in the central EU registry and will then become eligible for free allowances. At the end of February, they will receive a first of roughly 181 million aviation carbon permits to be handed out in 2012, the story said.

Guess I am dumb....

Nothing like Newsweek showing that they are carrying the water, drinking the koolaid and being a shill for the DNC and Obungler.   What happened to objectivity when doing a news article?   Then the lamestream media wonders why they are losing readership and influance to internet news and bloggers?   I guess when you insult your readers intelligence on a regular basis, they get tired of it and leave.    Maybe you can appeal to Obungler or George Soros for a bailout?


     H/T to Irish

Caatholic University is accused of being mean to muslim students....

Am I missing something here.....?  lessee...a PRIVATE CATHOLIC University is being accused of violating the civil rights of wannabe suicide bombers muslim students that are attending a PRIVATE NOT PUBLIC CATHOLIC University?   Couple of questions:  Why are a bunch of "I die in the name of allah"  muslim students doing in a private catholic university and they want special rights.  I am sure if a Catholic or a Christian student went to a islamic school....besides the fact that they wouldn't let him/her in because of the infidel thing, a Catholic students would have to expect islamic or arabic influances with no expectation of Christian artifacts would be allowed or a study group because as all infidels know..that islam is over sensitive and everything is sacred and holy to the explode are us   islamic students.  I am highly irritated that we are expected to be tolerant of them and respect their culture and it is not reciprocated.    The double standards is galling.

The Washington, D.C. Office of Human Rights confirmed that it is investigating allegations that Catholic University violated the human rights of Muslim students by not allowing them to form a Muslim student group and by not providing them rooms without Christian symbols for their daily prayers.
The investigation alleges that Muslim students “must perform their prayers surrounded by symbols of Catholicism – e.g., a wooden crucifix, paintings of Jesus, pictures of priests and theologians which many Muslim students find inappropriate.”
A spokesperson for the Office of Human Rights told Fox News they had received a 60-page complaint against the private university. The investigation, they said, could take as long a six months.
    
The complaint was filed by John Banzhaf, an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. Banzhaf has been involved in previous litigation against the school involving the same-sex residence halls. He also alleged in his complaint involving Muslim students that women at the university were being discriminated against. You can read more on those allegations by clicking here.
Banzhaf said some Muslim students were particularly offended because they had to meditate in the school’s chapels “and at the cathedral that looms over the entire campus – the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.”
“It shouldn’t be too difficult somewhere on the campus for the university to set aside a small room where Muslims can pray without having to stare up and be looked down upon by a cross of Jesus,” he told Fox News.
A spokesman for Catholic University released a statement to Fox News indicating they had not seen any legal filings — but would respond once they do.
“Our faithfulness to our Catholic tradition has also made us a welcome home to students of other religions,” said  Victor Nakas, associate vice president for public affairs. “No students have registered complaints about the exercise of their religions on our campus.”
In a 2010 interview with National Public Radio, university president John Garvey acknowledged that they don’t set aside prayer rooms for Muslim students.
“We make classrooms available, or our chapels are places where they can pray,” he told NPR. “We don’t offer Halal meat, although there are always meals that conform to Halal regulations, that allow students to do what they want.”
Banzhaf said that it is technically not illegal for Catholic University to refuse to provide rooms devoid of religious icons.

“It may not be illegal, but it suggests they are acting improperly and probably with malice,” he said. “They do have to pray five times a day, they have to look around for empty classrooms and to be sitting there trying to do Muslim prayers with a big cross looking down or a picture of Jesus or a picture of the Pope  is not very conductive to their religion.”
As for the creation of a Muslim student group, Banzhaf said the university has an association of Jewish students – so why not a Muslim group?
“I think they are entitled as a matter of law to be able to form a Muslim student association and to have the same privileges as associations,” he said. “I think that most of them would much prefer to have a place to pray – that they are not surrounded by various Catholic symbols – a place that is more conductive to their religious beliefs than being surrounded by pictures of Popes.”
Garvey, in his 2010 interview with NPR, addressed that issue.
“It’s just not something that we view as an activity that we want to sponsor because we’re a Catholic institution rather than Muslim,” he said.
Patrick Reilly, the president of the Cardinal Newman Society, an organization that promotes Catholic identity among Catholic schools, seemed stunned by the complaint.
“I don’t know what the attorney wants them to do – if he wants them to actually move the Basilica or if the Muslim students can find someplace where they don’t have to look at it,” he told Fox News.
Catholic University, he said, is a Catholic institution.
“One wouldn’t expect a Jewish institution to be responsible for providing liturgical opportunities for other faiths and I wouldn’t expect a Catholic institution to do that,” he said.
“This attorney is really turning civil rights on its head,” he said. “He’s using the law for his own discrimination against the Catholic institution and essentially saying Catholic University cannot operate according to Catholic principles.”


     Read all the bullshit here

Terrorist......as far as obungler and crew is concerned.

a Fast and furious update from PJmedia.

PJM’s Bob Owens has long speculated that the primary reason for Operation Fast and Furious was to perpetuate the lie that 90 percent of illegal firearms in Mexico were from the United States.
Owens’ assertion was buoyed on Wednesday by internal ATF emails obtained by Townhall.com. One email reads:

Can you see if these guns were all purchased from the same FfL and at one time. We are looking at anecdotal cases to support a demand letter on long gun multiple sales. Thanks Mark R. Chait Assistant Director Field Operations.

This would seem to be a “smoking gun” for Owens’ assertion that this operation was never about crime and always about an “under the table” effort to institute the gun control Obama knew he could never push through Congress.
Additionally, Obama has just issued an executive order which requires gun dealers in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California to report multiple long gun (rifle or shotgun) purchases to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in order to combat illegal firearms trafficking along the Mexican border.
The National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action fired back at President Obama’s order. Chris Cox, executive director of the NRA-ILA, said they will be filing a lawsuit against the new order the first time ATF tries to enforce it. He noted that criminals generally don’t fill out forms:

$40 billion transnational criminal enterprises don’t fill out paperwork and are not deterred by paperwork violations. This is a blatant effort by the Obama administration and ATF to divert focus of Congress and the general public from their gross incompetence in the Fast and Furious scandal. This scheme will unjustly burden law-abiding retailers in border states. It will not affect drug cartels and it won’t prevent violence along our borders. ATF and the administration lack the statutory authority to do this and the NRA will file suit as soon as ATF sends the first demand letters.

Obama’s order is awash in hypocrisy per the details of the Gunwalker scandal. It was the ATF which ordered gun dealers to make multiple sales of military-style and .50 caliber sniper rifles to known and suspected straw purchasers in the Operation Fast and Furious debacle, in which more than 2,500 weapons were allowed to walk across the border by the ATF. The dealers were already reporting multiple long gun sales and the ATF told them to make the sales anyway.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform who has been investigating the mess form the beginning, said the executive order was about politics:

This political maneuver seems designed to protect the careers of political appointees at the Justice Department and not public safety. It’s disconcerting that Justice Department officials who may have known about or tried to cover-up gunwalking in Operation Fast and Furious are continuing attempts to distract attention from clear wrongdoing. In Operation Fast and Furious, gun dealers didn’t need this regulation as they voluntarily provided ATF agents with information about suspected straw purchasers. In return for this voluntary cooperation, the Justice Department betrayed them by offering false assurances that they would closely monitor sales of weapons that dealers otherwise did not want to make.

Sen. Charles Grassley, (R-IA), ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, was equally outraged by the executive order:

We’ve learned from our investigation of Fast and Furious that reporting multiple long gun sales would do nothing to stop the flow of firearms to known straw purchasers because many Federal Firearms Dealers are already voluntarily reporting suspicious transactions. In fact, in just the documents we’ve obtained, we are aware of 150 multiple long gun sales associated with the ATF’s Fast and Furious case, and despite the fact that nearly all of these sales were reported in real time by cooperating gun dealers, the ATF watched the guns be transported from known straw purchasers to third parties and then let the guns walk away, often across the border. This makes it pretty clear that the problem isn’t lack of burdensome reporting requirements. The administration’s continued overreach with regulations continues, and is a distraction from its reckless policy to allow guns to walk into Mexico.

Two U.S. law enforcement agents are dead because of this operation, and a reported 150 Mexican citizens are as well. Additionally, the guns are now showing up in U.S. crimes.

Differences of 2 speeches....

 I got this from a good friend of mine, I have seen this kicked around the web, but it bears repeating....



George is proud to be an American citizen. He gets it.

Obama is proud to be a world citizen. He doesn't get it.

 

This is not surprising to me. Obama's use of so many personal pronouns in his speeches is indicative of his huge ego. Listen to his next speech and record the number of times he uses I and my.     George W. Bush speech after capture of Saddam: The success of yesterday's mission is a tribute to our men and women now serving in Iraq.   The operation was based on the superb work of intelligence analysts who found the dictator's footprints in a vast country.   The operation was carried out with skill and precision by a brave fighting force.   Our servicemen and women and our coalition allies have faced many dangers in the hunt for members of the fallen regime, and in their effort to bring hope and freedom to the Iraqi people.   Their work continues, and so do the risks.   Today, on behalf of the nation, I thank the members of our Armed Forces and I congratulate 'em.    Barack Obama speech after killing of bin Laden:  And so shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda, even as we continued our broader efforts to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat his network.  Then, last August, after years of painstaking work by our intelligence community,  I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden.   It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to ground.   I met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan.   And finally, last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action, and I authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice.  Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.   The Strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government - Thomas Jefferson