Year: 2014

The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Melton

While people like writer Dean Obeidallah over at The Daily Beast are calling for “political hardball” in regard to gun control, writing, “Anyone else tired of the same old bullshit we see after every gun-shooting spree?” and our congresspeople are busy introducing more anti-gun legislation every chance they get, yet another highly publicized mass shooting just occurred in Las Vegas.   Continue reading “Another Heavily Publicized Random Mass Shooting, More Calls to Rewrite the 2nd Amendment”

Battle Blue

I’m pretty sure the Department of Defense knows the differences between ammunition, cartridges, and magazines.  Evidently the paper of record doesn’t, though.   Continue reading “Magazine cartridges”

Christopher Cantwell

The good news is, two cops are dead. The bad news is, the two shooters, and what appears to be an innocent bystander are dead too. Officer Alyn Beck, 42, and Officer Igor Soldo, 32, of the Las Vegas Metro Police were gunned down inside Cici’s Pizza while eating lunch. The shooters, one male, one female, whose names have not to my knowledge been released – reportedly shouted “This is the start of a revolution” before opening fire.

My sympathies go out to the owners, employees, and innocent patrons of the Cici’s Pizza, and the innocent bystander who was shot. That’s about where my sympathies for this particular incident end.   Continue reading “Dead Men Don’t Start Revolutions”

The Organic Prepper

Sometimes, life just happens and all of your best-laid plans go awry.

We recently incurred some unexpected, major expenses in our family that have forced us to rethink our lifestyle.  No matter how carefully you plan, sometimes fate has other ideas for you and you discover that you have to reset your sail and change course to go with the winds. Thankfully, we enjoy excellent health and fortitude, so we’re embracing the detour as yet another adventure on our journey. To do this, we have chosen to accept change as neither good nor bad, just different.   Continue reading “The Austerity Diaries”

Positive News – by Thomas Alan Linzey

To protect small and family farms from industrial factory farming, over a decade ago a handful of Pennsylvania townships stood up to some of the country’s largest agribusiness corporations. Recognizing that the state and federal government, rather than protecting them from factory farms, were in fact forcing them into communities, the townships took the unprecedented step of banning corporate farming within their borders.

Thus began the journey to spark a new civil rights movement – one aimed at elevating the right of communities over the ‘rights’ of corporations to use communities for their own ends.   Continue reading “A New Civil Rights Movement Frees Our Communities from Corporate Control”

Washington Post – by Josh Hicks

The Department of Veterans Affairs said Monday that more than 57,000 former troops have waited at least 90 days for their first VA medical appointments and another 64,000 who enrolled in the department’s health system during the past decade have never visited a doctor in the network.

Additionally, about 13 percent of VA schedulers have said they were told to falsify appointment-request dates to give the impression that wait times were shorter than they really were, according to the department.   Continue reading “VA says more than 57,000 patients are waiting for first visit”

Android Police – by Liam Spradlin

A couple of months ago, we posted one of our early Google Search/Now rumors, and it was something of a long range rumor compared to others. While things like parking reminders, proper timer management, and bill pay reminders have already seen their public release, the ability to set contact-based reminders (“remind me when I’m with this person“), hasn’t come forward yet. But it will likely appear very soon with a new feature in Android called Nearby, which will allow new interactions between you and nearby people, places, and things.   Continue reading “Google Will Soon Introduce ‘Nearby’ To Let Other ‘People, Places, And Things’ Know When You’re Around”

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It Ain’t Holy Water

Mail.com

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — The Pakistani Taliban on Monday threatened more attacks after claiming responsibility for a brazen five-hour assault on the country’s busiest airport in which gunmen disguised as police guards stormed the international airport in Karachi, set off explosions and killed 18 people.

The claim further diminished prospects for a resumption of peace talks with the Pakistani Taliban that officials had hoped could bring an end to the group’s bloody, years-long campaign seeking to overthrow the country’s U.S.-allied government. The insurgency has shaken the stability of the nuclear-armed country, which borders Afghanistan, where international forces have been fighting the Afghan Taliban for more than a decade.   Continue reading “Pakistan Taliban claim deadly airport attack”

RT News

Gun-mounted flashlights may be intended to help police clarify murky situations, but they are increasingly being connected to accidental shootings, according to a new report by the Denver Post.

Following an investigation into the issue – one that proved difficult because of a lack of official record-keeping – the newspaper discovered that over the last nine years, there have been at least five shootings across the United States at the hands of police officers using gun-mounted flashlights. Two of the victims were officers.   Continue reading “Gun-mounted flashlights linked to deadly accidental police shootings”

RT News

Former White House hopeful and longtime lawmaker Ron Paul says United State President Barack Obama’s recent major foreign policy speech was a “disappointment” to anyone holding out for change from the current administration.

Responding to the president’s recent address at the US Military Academy at West Point, New York, the former congressman for Texas wrote on his website this week that Obama has refused to acknowledge any precedents concerning the impact of American interventionism, and instead plans on continuing a policy that attempts to extend Washington’s reach over the rest of the world, notwithstanding neither hypocrisy nor consequences.   Continue reading “Ron Paul on Obama’s foreign policy: ‘Disobey us and we will bomb you’”

Yahoo News – by Sam Hananel

WASHINGTON (AP) — Messages posted on Facebook and Twitter or sent in emails can be tasteless, vulgar and even disturbing.

But just when do they cross the line from free speech to threats that can be punished as a crime?

As the Internet and social networks allow people to vent their frustrations with the click of a mouse, the Supreme Court is being asked to clarify the First Amendment rights of people who use violent or threatening language on electronic media where the speaker’s intent is not always clear.   Continue reading “Free speech or illegal threats? Justices could say”

Information Liberation – by Chris

You might not realize it while traveling through the small town of Pulaski County, Indiana, population 13,124, but you’re actually in a “war zone,” at least so says Sheriff Michael Gayer in justifying the acquisition of a MRAP military vehicle.

From the Indy Star:

In a pole barn in Franklin, sharing space with a motorcycle and a boat, sat an imposing military vehicle designed for battlefields in Iraq or Afghanistan, not the streets of Johnson County.   Continue reading “Indiana Sheriff Says US A “War Zone” To Justify New MRAP Military Vehicle”