Interesting Items
Alex Gimarc
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Monday, August 10, 2009
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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repealed, and coordinated efforts to intimidate, beat, threaten, and actually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] 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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MARCH on DC Sept 12 info
http://www.oilforimmigration.org/facts/?p=2694
Tea Party Commercial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkFFwyyjZC8
Tea Party protest Aug 22
http://icarizona.blogspot.com/2009/07/dontgoamerican-liberty-alliance-tea.html
Aug 28 – Calif to Washington DC with 35 pick-up points.
Join the Car-avan. Become a real patriot
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www.teapartyexpress.org
(with before and after)
Labor Day Tea Party ???
First Monday in Sept
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March on Washington Washington DC
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Nov 4, 2009 - National Strike
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