Interesting Items Alex Gimarc <[email protected]<http://us.mc553.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]&subject=Interesting Items 8/10>> Monday, August 10, 2009
- Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy - In this issue: 1. Thuggery 2. Enemies dB 3. Airspeed 4. Jets 5. Roadless 6. Springtime 1. Thuggery. Well the health care debate heated up nicely last week with the democrats deciding to turn out the union thugs to the town hall meetings with congresscritters. The goal of these leftist brownshirts is as always – intimidation, muscle, threats and an occasional severe beating. They don’t want to win or even hear the argument. They simply want you to sit down and shut up. SEIU goons beat up a 38 year old black conservative in a parking lot after a town hall meeting with Russ Carnahan (D, MO). The guy was handing out Don’t Tread on Me flags. He was sent to the hospital. All four of the goons were wearing SEIU t-shirts. All four were captured on video during the act. One ran away. The remaining three were arrested. The victim spent a couple days in the hospital. Another episode of physical violence took place at a town hall meeting in Tampa, where an elderly couple trying to attend a democrat congress critter town hall meeting was shoved around and roughed up a bit. Video of that action is also available on You Tube. Meanwhile, we have WH and democrat leadership, who have been taken aback with the vehemence of citizen backlash against the health care takeover, taking a page out of the Sean Connery character in the Untouchables movie. Thursday they sent the word out to hit back twice as hard. Thursday John Sweeney, head of the AFL/CIO mobilized his membership to start turning out to the town hall meetings and start confronting the protesters. As both St. Louis and Tampa were SEIU goons, it also appears that Andy Stern, head of the SEIU has also turned out his goons. Note that there was no physical violence until the union goons started showing up. I expect some more violence and for that violence to escalate. The unions and democrat party operatives that are participating in this need to be very, very careful, for the RICO law has not yet been repealed, and coordinated efforts to intimidate, beat, threaten, and actually hurt protestors can be described as a criminal enterprise. While I do not expect the Holder (In)Justice Department to prosecute this vigorously, someday, sometime, somehow, it will be prosecuted and the unions and democrats orchestrating this will spend a long time in jail. The other reason the unions need to be very careful is that when they self-identify as the shock troops, the muscle, the brownshirts of tyranny, it will not be a long time until governments at all levels remove all the legal protections they now enjoy. Should this continue, and the democrats choose to double down with threats, intimidation, muscle and similar actions, someone is going to get badly hurt – and it won’t be the union thugs doing all the damage. When that happens, I fully expect a draconian gun control law to get passed by the current congress and the fight will truly be on. 2. Enemies dB. The Obama administration, in an effort to start collecting information about political opposition is requesting supporters to forward anything that appears to be misinformation, disinformation, inaccuracies, and other things that misrepresent the health care legislation to a WH e-mail address: [email protected]<http://us.mc553.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[email protected]> Byron York did an analysis of the potential problems with such an effort and points out that this can quite easily be used to build a database (dB) of dissidents, opponents of Obama and the democrats. York notes that the WH is not covered by the Privacy Act, which means that they can legally keep all inbound traffic. The WH is also not covered by the Freedom of Information Act, which means that they cannot be forced to release any of this information. And finally they also covered by the Presidential Records Act, which will require them to keep everything received. Put all this together, and under existing law, the dissidents’ database will be both secret and permanent. Nicely done, eh? At weeks’ end, some talk show hosts suggested self identifying and sending everything you have to the e-mail address listed above. I would not suggest doing that. Why make their job any easier? On the other hand, we all get a lot of junk mail and I couldn’t think of a better home for all of it. The only thing to be careful of would be to make sure you don’t run afoul of federal anti-spam legislation. 3. Airspeed. One of the suspected causes of the Airbus 330 crash off Brazil a couple months ago was an airspeed sensor problem. The A330 is an incredibly smart aircraft with a very intelligent avionics and flight controls suite. There have been problems with airspeed sensors over the last several years, with the resulting action of the aircraft to think it is going slower than it is actually going, an pitching nose down in an attempt to speed up. If the sensor(s) commanding the pitch down are giving faulty information, and the aircraft is close to or at its maximum recommended airspeed, you very quickly get into a situation where you are in danger of an overspeed and an in-flight structural failure or breakup. NYT and other news organizations floated a story Friday that Airbus has stated replacing sensors manufactured by Thales with those manufactured by Goodrich. These sensors have been installed in other Airbus models than simply the A330. We will hope this maintenance fix improves safety of the avionics system. 4. Jets. Congressional leadership is once again at war with the Pentagon over transportation of congress critters. This fight involves the attempt by House leadership to force the Pentagon to purchase eight more jets – a combination of Business jets and a pair of specially outfitted Boeing 737s – at a cost of $550 million. This money comes straight out of the Pentagon budge6t for equipping, training and executing armed combat. Note that the very same people – the Obama administration and democrat congresscritters – who excoriated business leaders for traveling to Washington DC on private jets, and have done their level best to destroy the business jet industry here in the US, are spending over half a billion dollars to get business jets for themselves. The hypocrisy is stunning – but not unexpected. 5. Roadless. The Ninth Circus reinstated the last minute Clinton Roadless Forest rule last week. The opinion overturned a 2005 Bush administration restatement of the Clinton rule. The opinion was pure environmentalist drivel. The following is excerpted from the Durango Herald News, Thurs: In its 38-page decision, the appeals court said the 2005 Bush rule "had the effect of permanently repealing uniform, nationwide, substantive protections that were afforded to inventoried roadless areas" in national forests, replacing them with a system the Forest Service "had rejected as inadequate a few years earlier." The court said the 2001 rule offered greater protection to remote forests than the 2005 rule, adding that the 2001 rule has "immeasurable benefits from a conservationist standpoint." The Obama administration has put a one year halt on all logging sales and new road construction in the National Forests. We have gone from a time when the National Forests were intended to be multi-use resources to a time when they are viewed by the greens and democrats in congress and in the administration as brand new wilderness areas. This opinion is not the last one on the topic, as there is another similar case moving through the Tenth Circuit. This is an absolute mess, and the best solution to it would be to move all federal lands other than military reservations and the national parks back to the ownership and control of the many states. I could even make an argument about the national parks. 6. Springtime. I am a long time Mel Brooks fan. The first Mel Brooks movie I saw was Blazing Saddles in a theater in Dallas and roared when people got up and walked out during the campfire scene. The most recent Mel Brooks movie is a remake of The Producers, basically taking the long-running Broadway show back to film. It is a superb flick. One of the things that make it fun is that it absolutely excoriates Nazis; holding them up to ridicule and laughter. It is about 64 years since the fall of the Third Reich, and this sort of humor is widely accepted. Some day, some time and somehow someone is going to do a similar thing to our friends in Radical Islam. I do not think they will take it as well as the Germans have. But they will richly deserve everything that comes their way. More later - - AG "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776. 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