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Doah!
By Epictetus
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
Friday, March 7, 2014
Army Sex Assault Prosecutor Suspended Over Alleged Assault
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/
ver-alleged-assault-n46491
Doah!
By Epictetus
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Doah!
By Epictetus
Hollywood Continues to Flee California at Alarming Rate
http://variety.com/2014/film/
elsewhere-to-save-money-
California is chasing away business with high taxes and over regulation.
Even movie making.
One of the ironies is that at this point even Canada has more flexible rules
on the use of full-automatic firearms in movie productions than California.
Which is why so many action-adventure movies are being filmed in Vancouver
nowadays. Like they say, alien planets on TV and in the movies used to look
like southern California, now they look like British Columbia.
Change seems unlikely, since the Leftists in control of the state government
in Sacramento are arrogant and can't imagine that the movie industry would
ever leave sunny California. That would be like the auto industry leaving
Detroit , wouldn't it?
By Epictetus
elsewhere-to-save-money-
California is chasing away business with high taxes and over regulation.
Even movie making.
One of the ironies is that at this point even Canada has more flexible rules
on the use of full-automatic firearms in movie productions than California.
Which is why so many action-adventure movies are being filmed in Vancouver
nowadays. Like they say, alien planets on TV and in the movies used to look
like southern California, now they look like British Columbia.
Change seems unlikely, since the Leftists in control of the state government
in Sacramento are arrogant and can't imagine that the movie industry would
ever leave sunny California. That would be like the auto industry leaving
Detroit , wouldn't it?
By Epictetus
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Flashback: Senator Obama pushed bill that helped destroy more than 15,000 TONS of ammunition, 400,000 small arms and 1,000 anti-aircraft missiles in Ukraine
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
ed-destruction-15-000-TONS-
-missiles-Ukraine.html
Well it seemed like a good idea at the time. The truth was the Ukraine
lacked the money to maintain any of that left over Soviet military equipment
and munitions. So, if most of it had not been sold off or demilitarized, it
would likely have just moldered into ruin while sitting in storage. That and
stolen. The newly independent Ukraine's armed forces would have to be
re-built from the ground up along Western European lines, if it was to be
able to join NATO as many in the country wanted. In the meantime, the USA
and the EU would guarantee Ukraine's security. Doah!
By Epictetus
ed-destruction-15-000-TONS-
-missiles-Ukraine.html
"As a U.S. senator, Barack Obama won $48 million in federal funding to help
Ukraine destroy thousands of tons of guns and ammunition - weapons which are
now unavailable to the Ukrainian army as it faces down Russian President
Vladimir Putin during his invasion of Crimea."
Well it seemed like a good idea at the time. The truth was the Ukraine
lacked the money to maintain any of that left over Soviet military equipment
and munitions. So, if most of it had not been sold off or demilitarized, it
would likely have just moldered into ruin while sitting in storage. That and
stolen. The newly independent Ukraine's armed forces would have to be
re-built from the ground up along Western European lines, if it was to be
able to join NATO as many in the country wanted. In the meantime, the USA
and the EU would guarantee Ukraine's security. Doah!
By Epictetus
Harvard tops the list of world's 100 best universities while American schools take up nearly half the list
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
-best-universities-American-
U.S. universities remain atop the list of the world's rankings of the most
reputable institutions of higher education, according to the recently
released 2014 World Reputation Rankings.
Harvard University in Boston tops the Times Higher Education Reputation
Rankings, with Massachusetts Institute of Technology taking the number two
spot.
Stanford University in California was ranked third in the world, according
to the rankings.
By Epictetus
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U.S. universities remain atop the list of the world's rankings of the most
reputable institutions of higher education, according to the recently
released 2014 World Reputation Rankings.
Harvard University in Boston tops the Times Higher Education Reputation
Rankings, with Massachusetts Institute of Technology taking the number two
spot.
Stanford University in California was ranked third in the world, according
to the rankings.
By Epictetus
Michael Gove says teach children respect by enrolling them in cadets
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
ld-character-says-Gove-
ng-respect-coping-pressure.
Interesting article. Highlights the Cadet program in the UK. Their
equivalent of the Junior ROTC program in the US.
By Epictetus
ld-character-says-Gove-
ng-respect-coping-pressure.
Interesting article. Highlights the Cadet program in the UK. Their
equivalent of the Junior ROTC program in the US.
By Epictetus
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Judge denies teen's attempt to sue parents for money
http://www.today.com/moms/judge-denies-teens-attempt-sue-parents-money-2D79321954
A judge who is afraid of setting a dangerous precedent?! This is something
new!
Most judges these days are Liberals intent on transforming society with
their rulings. This would have been the perfect opportunity to have any and
all parents declared incompetent to rear children. After all , we all KNOW
that we are heading toward eventual government control of the upbringing of
children. The is what initiatives like school meals three times a day and
pre-kindergarten schooling are all about: because, in the view of the
Leftists, parents are not competent to feed, clothe, educate, discipline and
properly socialize their children.
By Epictetus
A judge who is afraid of setting a dangerous precedent?! This is something
new!
Most judges these days are Liberals intent on transforming society with
their rulings. This would have been the perfect opportunity to have any and
all parents declared incompetent to rear children. After all , we all KNOW
that we are heading toward eventual government control of the upbringing of
children. The is what initiatives like school meals three times a day and
pre-kindergarten schooling are all about: because, in the view of the
Leftists, parents are not competent to feed, clothe, educate, discipline and
properly socialize their children.
"It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they
imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are not serious
or being seriously undertaken."
- Margaret Thatcher, "Statecraft", P. 325
By Epictetus
New Yorkers Bought $1 Bil in Florida Property Since De Blasio Win
http://www.frontpagemag.com/
rida-property-since-de-blasio-
By Epictetus
rida-property-since-de-blasio-
"Considering that a small number of wealthy people pay most of New York
City's taxes, it shouldn't be a problem if they leave. It worked out fine
for Motor City, it'll work out great for the Big Apple."
By Epictetus
Why even the most isolationist and unconcerned Fudd should care about the Ukraine -- Poof! There goes the Russian ammo supply.
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/
Hmmmm....Yeah, that is the just the kind of "symbolism over substance" move the Obama Administration might make. Just like their Leftie fellow travelers in the Clinton Administration did, when they banned the importation of inexpensive Chinese made ammo in the '90's over "human rights violations". The only people in the USA affected by another such embargo would be the "'bitter clingers", right?
Well, we can only wait and see how this plays out.
By Epictetus
Hmmmm....Yeah, that is the just the kind of "symbolism over substance" move the Obama Administration might make. Just like their Leftie fellow travelers in the Clinton Administration did, when they banned the importation of inexpensive Chinese made ammo in the '90's over "human rights violations". The only people in the USA affected by another such embargo would be the "'bitter clingers", right?
Well, we can only wait and see how this plays out.
By Epictetus
Russia Threatens To Abandon The U.S. Dollar And Start Dumping U.S. Debt
http://
Good point. Economic sanctions by the West could hurt Russia, but there is also a lot that Russia could do to retaliate against the West. Well ultimately the side who will win a war of sanctions won't necessarily be the one who can inflict the most punishment, so much as the one who can endure the most punishment.
By Epictetus
Good point. Economic sanctions by the West could hurt Russia, but there is also a lot that Russia could do to retaliate against the West. Well ultimately the side who will win a war of sanctions won't necessarily be the one who can inflict the most punishment, so much as the one who can endure the most punishment.
By Epictetus
New Jersey bill is outright gun ban on .22-caliber rifles and leads to confiscation
http://www.washingtontimes.
gun-ban-on-22-caliber-/?utm_
The gun control advocates are never satisfied; they DO want to ban as many guns as they can. To them, private ownership of firearms is nothing but a dangerous nuisance. Therefore, it doesn't really matter whether or not the guns they want to ban are prone to criminal misuse, they'll use any excuse
to outlaw them regardless.
By Epictetus
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"The Association of New Jersey Rifle and Pistol Clubs gave the draft
legislation to top firearms experts in the country to determine what guns
would fall under the expanded ban."
"They discovered that the bill would affect tube-fed, semi-automatic rifles
because the magazine cannot be separated from the gun."
"Thus, the experts found that at least 43 common rifles would suddenly be
considered a prohibited "assault firearm," such as the .22 caliber Marlin
Model 60, Remington Nylon 66 and Winchester 190."
"Just having one such gun would turn a law-abiding owner into a felon
overnight."
The gun control advocates are never satisfied; they DO want to ban as many guns as they can. To them, private ownership of firearms is nothing but a dangerous nuisance. Therefore, it doesn't really matter whether or not the guns they want to ban are prone to criminal misuse, they'll use any excuse
to outlaw them regardless.
By Epictetus
Illegals Run California Gun Factory
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/
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From Reuters:
So were they doing jobs Americans won't do or were they usurping a
prerogative of the federal government?
By Epictetus
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From Reuters:
"Two Mexican nationals were indicted on Thursday on charges of running an
outlaw weapons-supply shop in northern California that assembled and sold
unmarked, illegal firearms and accessories, including machine-guns and
silencers."
" A federal grand jury in Sacramento indicted brothers Luis Cortez-Garcia,
44, and Emiliano Cortez-Garcia, 37, on one count each of unlawful
manufacturing and sales of firearms, conspiracy to unlawfully manufacture
and sell firearms and multiple counts related to making and selling illegal
assault rifles, U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner said in a statement."
"The conduct alleged in this case involves the systematic evasion of
federal firearms laws, for profit, in a manner that created a real threat to
public safety," Wagner said.
" Additionally, both brothers were charged with being illegal immigrants in
possession of firearms."
So were they doing jobs Americans won't do or were they usurping a
prerogative of the federal government?
By Epictetus
Putin's Crimea Adventure Has the Russian Economy in Freefall
So who’s right? Will the West make Russia suffer for its aggression by imposing crippling economic sanctions on it or is Putin right and its lost the backbone to stand in his way?“There’s only one reason why Putin would have played a gambit this risky, and that’s if he believed the West would not respond. He could have believed that only because of Obama’s “reset” policy of appeasement over the past several years — a policy that offered Russia unilateral concessions in the hopes of winning Russian trust and generosity. It’s not only Putin who now stands exposed before a slack-jawed world. Obama does too.”
By Epictetus
Florida man stopped for a DUI while driving to a bar told officers he was trying to drive it off after his wife told him he drinks too much
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
ing-bar-told-officers-trying-
He had to drive; he was too drunk to walk.
By Epictetus
ing-bar-told-officers-trying-
He had to drive; he was too drunk to walk.
By Epictetus
Brit Shuhel Mahboob Ali who sought child incest fantasy jailed for 10 years
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
-underage-girl-pregnant-live-
ars-jail.html
He looks like a Brit right out of central casting, doesn't he? Small wonder
Nigel Farage says he didn't hear any English spoken on his train trip.
By Epictetus
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ars-jail.html
He looks like a Brit right out of central casting, doesn't he? Small wonder
Nigel Farage says he didn't hear any English spoken on his train trip.
By Epictetus
Nigel Farage feels awkward when he doesn't hear English on the train
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
tic-push-Euro-election-
America isn't the only country being transformed.
By Epictetus
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America isn't the only country being transformed.
By Epictetus
Obamacare - Impossible to Cancel Plans
http://patriotpost.us/posts/
Obama-care: you can check out, but you can never leave.
By Epictetus
Obama-care: you can check out, but you can never leave.
By Epictetus
Fundamentally Devastating America
By Epictetus
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Gay, lesbian troops perform in drag at Kadena Air Base fundraiser
http://www.stripes.com/news/
-base-fundraiser-1.270747
Getting ready to take on those Russian homophobes no doubt.
By Epictetus
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Getting ready to take on those Russian homophobes no doubt.
By Epictetus
Analysts-Black Sea port in Ukraine still key to Russia's naval interests
“Russia’s incursion into the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine has drawn attention to its naval base in Sevastopol and its Black Sea Fleet, a modest force of aging ships that military analysts say Russia is trying to modernize.”
Putin
wants to get control of Sevastopol and all the other former Soviet Navy
bases on the Crimea peninsula. Seizing the Crimea to protect all the
ethnic Russians living there from becoming oppressed by the new Ukraine
regime gives him a ready made justification for expanding Russian power projection. Putin will join
the ranks of Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great , Catherine the Great,
Joseph Stalin and all the other Russian rulers who expanded the Russian
Empire.
By Epictetus
De Blasio's anti-rich policies are driving wealthy people out of NYC
http://nypost.com/2014/03/02/
hy-people-out-of-nyc/
Looks like NYC is on track to return to the crime-ridden hell-hole it was
back in the 1970's and '80's. Probably worse this time around. It probably
will turn into an even bigger version of Detroit, should Mayor De Blasio's
Leftist redistributionist polices succeed in driving out the financial
industry. The whole country is broke now and there will be no money to bail
NYC out.
By Epictetus
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"The sneering suggestion that everyone with money is somehow guilty of
something is not a surprise coming from a man who spent his honeymoon on an
illegal trip to Castro's Cuba. What is a surprise is his lack of
appreciation for the impact of wealth on city revenues and the importance of
philanthropy to the arts and education."
"As Bloomberg often noted, about 5,000 very wealthy families paid 30 percent
of the city's income tax. Losing even a few of them means significantly less
money for filling potholes and hiring cops."
"Billions in philanthropy support the arts, ranging from local dance groups
to the flagship institutions that define New York as a world-class city.
Nearly half of the Metropolitan Opera's operating fund comes from donations,
which last year reached $143 million."
"The biggest change in the Bloomberg era was an explosion of charitable
dollars to help fund the charter-school movement, and that seems to
infuriate de Blasio. One reason might be that it threatens his political
base. Charters teach 70,000 kids, and if they keep expanding and succeeding,
they will be an existential threat to the unions that back him."
Looks like NYC is on track to return to the crime-ridden hell-hole it was
back in the 1970's and '80's. Probably worse this time around. It probably
will turn into an even bigger version of Detroit, should Mayor De Blasio's
Leftist redistributionist polices succeed in driving out the financial
industry. The whole country is broke now and there will be no money to bail
NYC out.
By Epictetus
Richest Man In Ukraine Is Blond Muslim Tatar
By Epictetus
The 'Invisible War:' Armed Border Bandits Targeting Illegal Immigrants
http://www.breitbart.com/
order-Bandits-Targeting-
By Epictetus
order-Bandits-Targeting-
"Sylvia Longmire, Breitbart Texas' contributing editor and border security
expert alleged that deadly ambushes along the Mexican border are not
uncommon. "This is a great example of the 'invisible border war' that's
happening right under our noses," she said. "We never hear about it in the
mainstream media. These confrontations between armed 'border bandits' and
drug smugglers, or unarmed illegal immigrants, happen all the time on both
sides of the border... These incredibly violent incidents are happening here
in the United States, and not just in California like in this story. It
happens in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, but the bandits are rarely
caught."
By Epictetus
Crimean Officials Claim to Secure Peninsula
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/
&_r=1
By Epictetus
&_r=1
"SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine - The prime minister of Crimea, the autonomous
Ukrainian republic seized by Russian military forces, said on Tuesday that
most Ukrainian military units on the peninsula had surrendered and pledged
allegiance to his pro-Russian government, and that local officials were
working to speed up a referendum on independence."
By Epictetus
The Lessons Of Ukraine - Dick Morris TV: Lunch Alert!
http://www.dickmorris.com/the-
?utm_source=dmreports&utm_
Dick Morris' take on the Ukraine crisis. Enjoy!
Saul Alinsky, one of President Obama's exemplars, said it best:
Regardless of that, I don't believe President Obama really cares if Russia
runs roughshod over the Ukraine. I also think he is correct in presuming
that most of the American people don't care about what happens to Ukraine.
So long as what happens there doesn't interfere with his domestic
transformational agenda he could give fig about how crisis plays out.
President Obama DOES realize that he must PRETEND to care about what a
happens in Ukraine, lest our allies and trading partners become panicky in
ways that would likely depress financial markets. Other than that, I don't
imagine that he cares if some of the talking heads on TV think his lack of
definitive action makes him look weak or not. Ultimately those same talking
heads in the main stream news media will give him cover whenever he needs
really it. Not mention that before too long the country's attentions will be
diverted the media to the next soap opera event and then fate of Ukraine
will be forgotten like that of South Ossetia.
By Epictetus
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Dick Morris' take on the Ukraine crisis. Enjoy!
Saul Alinsky, one of President Obama's exemplars, said it best:
"No one can negotiate without the power to compel negotiation."
(Saul Alinsky Rules for Radicals 1971 p. 119.)
Regardless of that, I don't believe President Obama really cares if Russia
runs roughshod over the Ukraine. I also think he is correct in presuming
that most of the American people don't care about what happens to Ukraine.
So long as what happens there doesn't interfere with his domestic
transformational agenda he could give fig about how crisis plays out.
President Obama DOES realize that he must PRETEND to care about what a
happens in Ukraine, lest our allies and trading partners become panicky in
ways that would likely depress financial markets. Other than that, I don't
imagine that he cares if some of the talking heads on TV think his lack of
definitive action makes him look weak or not. Ultimately those same talking
heads in the main stream news media will give him cover whenever he needs
really it. Not mention that before too long the country's attentions will be
diverted the media to the next soap opera event and then fate of Ukraine
will be forgotten like that of South Ossetia.
By Epictetus
Monday, March 3, 2014
Shocking pictures show people in Crimea taking SELFIES with Russian masked gunmen as Ukraine teeters on the brink of war
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
mea-taking-SELFIES-Russian-
Interesting. No doubt the people posing for "self-skis" are ethnic Russians.
Over 60% of the people living in Crimea are ethnic Russian. A leftover from
when Ukraine was a republic in the Soviet Union and the Crimea was home to
the Soviet Navy's Black Sea Fleet, of course.
By Epictetus
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Interesting. No doubt the people posing for "self-skis" are ethnic Russians.
Over 60% of the people living in Crimea are ethnic Russian. A leftover from
when Ukraine was a republic in the Soviet Union and the Crimea was home to
the Soviet Navy's Black Sea Fleet, of course.
By Epictetus
DWARD LUCAS ANALYSIS: Blood-soaked Crimea, crucible of war for centuries
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/
d-soaked-Crimea-crucible-war-
By Epictetus
d-soaked-Crimea-crucible-war-
"Back in the days when British schools taught history and poetry properly,
every child knew about the Charge of the Light Brigade. The epitome of
military foolishness, when the flower of the British cavalry attacked
Russia's artillery batteries in the Battle of Balaclava in 1854."
"The blundering diplomacy which caused that war is less well known. Alfred,
Lord Tennyson, whose poem immortalized the fiasco, would have struggled to
versify the complex Anglo-French attempts to shore up the Ottoman empire,
amid an obscure squabble about religious privileges in the Holy Land.
"The Crimea, setting for that most infamous calamity, is a peninsula with a
blood-soaked and tragic history. Long contested by the great powers, it has
been the crucible of many wars. Now it threatens to be the flashpoint for
another one."
"Putin's Russia has seized Crimea under our noses. The dismemberment of
Ukraine is under way."
Edward Lucas
By Epictetus
Surrender or Face 'Storm,' Russia Reportedly Tells Ukraine
http://www.nbcnews.com/
ia-reportedly-tells-ukraine-
Looks like a Second Crimean War is upon us.
By Epictetus
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Looks like a Second Crimean War is upon us.
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!" he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismayed?
Not tho' the soldiers knew
Someone had blundered:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
By Epictetus
Does Russia Want Alaska Back
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/03/does_russia_want_alaska_back.html
Well
now Alaska is worth something again. Technology has advanced to the
point where one can harvest the abundant oil and mineral resources in
Alaska without getting killed. Not to mention the rich fisheries off the
Alaskan coast. So no doubt many in Russia today are looking covetously
at Alaska. Well the Russians will just have to wait until our Leftist
ruling elites weaken the country much more before they will have a
realistic chance at an Alaskan Reconquista.
By Epictetus
The answer is yes. Just like Mexico wants
California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas back and the Muslims want
Spain and southern Russia back. But those are all vain hopes at this
point in time and ignore the reasons why they lost those lands in the
first place.
In
the case of Alaska, Russia was eager to sell it to the USA, because by
1867 it had become a money pit for the Czar’s government. For some 60
years previous, Russia had been making a mint from its Alaska colony by
harvesting sea otter pelts to sell to wealthy Chinese for to use as trim
on their silk robes. When the market for sea otter fur fell out, Alaska
was no longer self-sustaining and as such Russia couldn’t afford to
defend it. The Czars government decided it was better to sell it off
before some rapacious naval power took it away from them. No doubt the
ass-kicking the Russian Navy took from the French and British Navies
during the Crimean War (1853-56) influenced their decision process.
By Epictetus
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