Busy....Busy...Busy and some trailer news.

I have been busier than a one legged man in a butt kicking contest.  I will have some breathing room.
  I was headed to my gmail to post some news we got on the trailer situation for my sons troop and I ran across the article that is featured below the letter I cut and pasted.  First off is the email we got from the scoutmaster:
    

Dear Troop 162,

GREAT NEWS!!!!!!

Sheriff Keith McBrayer phoned me today and had some fantastic news, the foundation he chairs
has elected to fund the replacement of our stolen trailer!

We were in the process of getting quotes and bids to order a new trailer as this news arrived!

The grant is such that the contents should be covered as well.  The monies we have raised should go to insuring and maintaining the new trailer going forward.

Scouts, please plan on wearing your complete class A's when the check is presented to the troop.

According to Sheriff McBrayer the funds will arrive in about a month.  We will order our new trailer
This week as to have it by camp.

Thank you all for all your hard work this past weekend and Thank You Sheriff McBrayer!

Yours in Scouting!
*ScoutMaster*

    *Name removed for privacy*...I don't put peoples name on my blog..unless they are public figures or they are "ok" with it.......I'm weird.....so deal with it.

Saving Barack Obama

We have written a couple of times about street artists, especially in Southern California, who are conducting a guerrilla campaign against the Obama administration. That campaign has escalated, as this is well beyond street art: a nicely produced parody movie poster titled “Saving Barack Obama.” It mimics this famous poster for “Saving Private Ryan.”

Here is the Obama poster, installed–I am not sure how you achieve this–at a bus stop:

Note the identical font and the teleprompters. The text says, “A Steven Spielberg ploy,” and at the bottom, “the mission is a fraud.” According to the Free Beacon, the posters “have appeared on bus stops and benches throughout Los Angeles, including just outside Melrose Avenue, the main entrance to Paramount Pictures.”
The posters are intended to protest against a travesty:

Obama will be honored at the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation, a Holocaust museum founded by the Hollywood director [Steven Spielberg] after he made Schindler’s List.

The Shoah Foundation is honoring Obama, an anti-Israel president who sits by as Iran develops its nuclear technology? Sad but true.

Obama will receive the institute’s highest honor, the Ambassador for Humanity Award, for his “global efforts to protect human rights, his commitment to education and expanding educational technology, and his work advancing opportunities for all people.”

This is BS on a level with that slung by the committee that awarded Obama the Nobel Peace Prize.

“President Obama’s commitment to democracy and human rights has long been felt,” Spielberg said.

Especially by the Iranians, the Egyptians, the Syrians, the Libyans, the Iraqis and the Ukrainians. What a crock!
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid will be on hand to help honor Obama. Apparently the only dose of reality will be supplied by the anonymous makers of the “Saving Barack Obama” poster.

                      

 The Pic came out of my folder of cartoons and other things that I use to either insult liberals, and other crybabies.

North Korea doctoring photo's

I had seen the same thing with the Soviet Union back in the day, image is everything where the news is controlled and disseminated to serve a purpose.  We almost have the same thing here where the fawning media covering the Obungler administration.  I do see cracks in the facade though.  The rule of any totalitarian regime is control of the media.


I pulled this off the Atlantic wire

North Korea Doctored a Photo of Kim Jong-il's Funeral for No Reason

Korean Central News Agency, via The New York Times

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The North Korean state news agency has been caught manipulating photos from the memorial service of Kim Jong-il, but in such a minor and pointless way that it underscores the paranoid insanity of totalitarian regimes.
The picture above is one that was distributed by the official state news agency (and passed along to other outlets by the European Pressphoto Agency) taken high above Pyongyang as Kim's funeral procession makes its way past the crowd. Here's another shot, taken from the same vantage point, a split second earlier by Japanese agency Kyodo News and distributed by the Associated Press.

(Photo: Kyodo News via AP)
Notice the difference? Probably not at first, but check out the six men (one operating a TV camera) lingering off to the side in the lower left corner. Here's a comparison, put together by The New York Times: 

As the Associated Press noticed first, the six men were digitally removed, using a quick and crude Photoshop technique. It calls to mind Stalin's frequent practice of removing banished enemies from old photographs, only in a more mundane and clumsy way . The men weren't doing anything wrong. They weren't standing out or drawing attention to themselves in any way. There is no state secret being revealed by their presence. But someone, somewhere decided they didn't belong in the picture, so they were erased from history by the "clone" tool. (Check out the NYT Lens blog for a deeper analysis of the changes.)
Like the overly emotional crowds captured on television at the memorial, no one really knows if this change was mandated from on high or done routinely, out of the ongoing understanding that this behavior is what is expected of you in an authoritarian culture. There was no reason at all to do it other than to keep up appearances, but appearances are always vitally important to dictators. In fact, it's the organizing principle of North Korean society — looking like a strong, well-run nation to outside observers supersedes the actual building of a strong, well-run nation. Getting caught in a such silly lie is just another reminder that when dealing with a totalitarian state, the truth is almost never what it seems

The newest country in the world

A Hat Tip To Bush

 Posted 07/11/2011 06:58 PM ET

Kiir dons a 2006 gift from Bush. AP View Enlarged Image

Freedom: As South Sudan joyfully celebrated its independence from Sudan, President Obama hailed it as the fruit of partnership, togetherness, hope and unity. South Sudanese, however, hailed President Bush.
Proudly wearing the black cowboy hat given to him by President Bush, South Sudan's new president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, couldn't have made a stronger statement about who made his country's independence possible after 50 years of warfare.
"It was George Bush and the Christian fundamentalists who heard the cry of South Sudan," affirmed a South Sudanese man quoted by the Los Angeles Times.
But to hear the White House — in its official recognition of the new republic, as well as on the White House blog and in an op-ed published earlier this year, President Bush had nothing to do with this.
"Today is a reminder that after the darkness of war, the light of a new dawn is possible," wrote Obama, as if such events just .. . happen.
Fact is, these events didn't just happen.
In 2005, President Bush put South Sudan at the top of the U.S. foreign policy agenda. Knocking heads, he forced the murderous Islamofascist government of Sudan to negotiate with the South Sudan rebels, including their right to secede. That hard work led to today's result — and with it, the first chance South Sudan has ever had to break free of its oppression.
Obama made sure to thank the African Union, civil society groups and even Sudan itself. But recognition of President Bush was relegated to nothing more than a nameless "U.S. leadership" that "played a part." Christian groups that made it their cause were also ignored.
Weird, given that the New York Times reported crowds in the new capital, Juba, cheered Bush, and a man held a sign reading: "Thank you, President Bush."
Those are magnificent affirmations of President Bush's freedom agenda succeeding further.
If Obama can't give credit to Bush for this accomplishment, it's a sorry statement about his own leadership. The South Sudanese know differently — and thanked the real liberator of their new country.