Year: 2015

RT

The Pentagon has released a book of instructions on the “law of war,” detailing acceptable ways of killing the enemy. The manual also states that journalists can be labeled “unprivileged belligerents,” an obscure term that replaced “enemy combatant.”

The 1,176-page “Department of Defense Law of War Manual” explains that shooting, exploding, bombing, stabbing, or cutting the enemy are acceptable ways of getting the job done, but the use of poison or asphyxiating gases is not allowed.   Continue reading “Pentagon rewrites ‘Law of War’ declaring ‘belligerent’ journalists as legitimate targets”

Mail.com

ATLANTA (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley called for removing the Confederate battle flag that flies in front of her state’s Capitol. But she hasn’t said the Confederate veterans’ monument alongside the flag should go.

Nor has she called for moving a nearby statue of Benjamin Tillman, an unapologetic white supremacist who served as governor and U.S. senator during the early decades of Jim Crow segregation. Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley hasn’t said anything definitive this week about the 88-foot-tall Confederate monument — complete with four Confederate banners — that sits outside his office.   Continue reading “Confederate, Jim Crow tributes go well beyond battle flag”

Mail.com

BALTIMORE (AP) — A medical examiner found Freddie Gray suffered a “high-energy injury,” most likely caused when the Baltimore police van he was riding in suddenly slowed down, according to an autopsy report obtained by The Baltimore Sun.

The report says Gray’s death could not be ruled an accident and is instead a homicide because officers didn’t follow safety procedures “through acts of omission.” Police arrested Gray, 25, on April 12 and he died a week later, prompting protests and rioting. A grand jury indicted six officers on various charges; one officer faces the most serious charge of second-degree “depraved-heart” murder. They have pleaded not guilty.   Continue reading “Report: Autopsy finds ‘high-energy injury’ in Gray’s death”

KIRO TV 7 – by David Ham

Daniel Gehkle said he plans to fight a $138 ticket for holding up a sign that said, “Cops ahead – Stop at Sign and Lights.”

Gehkle used a black permanent marker to write on a plastic lid to make the sign.

“I think that the problem with my case is I interrupted their revenue for the city and they were like okay we need to stop this guy,” said Gehlke who was ticketed last Wednesday at the intersection of 14th Avenue and South Washington.

Gehlke added, “I saw an injustice so I thought I needed to come out and warn people that something was happening. I thought it was a problem.”   Continue reading “Seattle man ticketed for warning drivers about ‘speed trap’”

“I tried in all my power to avert this war. I saw it coming, and for 12 years, I worked night and day to prevent it, but I could not. The North was mad and blind; it would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came, and now it must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks, and his children seize the musket and fight our battle, unless you acknowledge our right to self-government.

We are not fighting for slavery. We are fighting for Independence, and that, or extermination, we will have….Slavery never was an essential element. It was the only means of bringing other conflicting elements to an earlier culmination. It fired the musket which was already capped and loaded. There are essential differences between the North and the South that will, however this war may end, make them two nations . . . “

          (President Jefferson Davis, July 1864)

Fox News

MARIETTA, Ga. –  A Georgia special education teacher who was accused of holding an autistic boy upside-down and lowering him head-first into a trash can while comparing him to Oscar the Grouch says she was trying to calm the boy, not hurt him.

At a school system hearing Monday near Atlanta, Mary Katherine Pursley said the second-grader was screaming and upset April 30, and she was trying to “shake out the grouchy.”   Continue reading “Teacher: Lowering boy into trash can was meant to calm him”

Scott, who owns and operates this unique store, is a stand up guy. I’ve known him for over twenty years. He even sacrificed his career teaching at Furman University when called to close his store by the creatures at Furman. His store has many neat and unique items, some of which cannot be found elsewhere.   Continue reading “Support the Dixie Heritage”

Breitbart – by Matthew Boyle

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) cast the deciding vote for Obamatrade on Tuesday as it squeeked through the U.S. Senate 60-37, and his Senate office is still outright refusing to answer whether he even knew what he was voting on.

Rubio, a Republican presidential candidate, was the deciding vote necessary for the U.S. Senate to clear the final 60-vote threshold and eventually, later this week, send to President Barack Obama’s desk the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) bill that would fast-track at least three highly secretive trade deals that Obama has been negotiating for years.   Continue reading “Marco Rubio Casts Deciding Vote For Obamatrade Without Even Reading It”

Mad World News – by Dom the Conservative

With each horrific mass shooting, liberals are chomping at the bit to immediately slam law-abiding gun owners with stricter legislation, as if those who don’t abuse their right to bear arms are to blame. However, as every new bill pushes us one step closer to the paranoid left’s ultimate goal of banning these particular weapons altogether, the inconvenient facts and statistics begin creeping up that shatter the argument that guns are the problem.   Continue reading “Map Of FBI Stats Shows Gun Ownership Per State — No. 1 Is Surprising”

Yahoo News – by Rick Newman

Alotta Signs of Sparks, Nev., typically sells about five Confederate flags per week. On Monday, however, 46 orders came in. Then South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley called for removing the stars and bars from her state’s capitol grounds. The next morning, Alotta Signs logged 200 orders for Confederate flags, most of them through Amazon (AMZN). “We don’t even have the lowest price,” says Dave Pearson, owner and president of the company. “It’s nuts.”   Continue reading “Retailers pull Confederate flags–after sales soar”

Cryptocoin News – by Eliot Maras

The second of two former U.S. government agents charged with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in bitcoin has reached a plea agreement with the prosecutors.

Carl Force, a former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent, was charged with stealing bitcoins during the investigation of the illegal Silk Road Internet drug emporium, according to Bloomberg. The investigation led to the conviction of Ross Ulbricht, the site’s founder. Force agreed to plead guilty to money laundering and extortion, according to a court filing Monday.   Continue reading “Second U.S. Agent To Plead Guilty to Bitcoin Theft”

BATR – by James Hall

The corporate culture would have you believe that it is the foremost structure of the economy. That the entrepreneur is a nuisance and is tilting at windmills. Since competition is a dirty word, the innovative venture poses no threat, but might qualify as an acquisition. Only if the business model is such that duplicating the endeavor is too time consuming or difficult will the corporatist take interest. Yet, in the end, the design of the corporate organization is more about brute force than creative invention. So why is it so difficult for the enterpriser to get their project off the ground? And what is the compelling motivation to start your own business?    Continue reading “Corporations vs. Entrepreneurship”

If my body was a car, this is the time I would be thinking about trading it in for a newer model. I’ve got bumps and dents and scratches in my finish and my paint job is getting a little dull …

But that’s not the worst of it.

My headlights are out of focus and it’s especially hard to see things up close.   Continue reading “If my body was a car”