From the Trenches World Report

Forbes – by M. Northrop Buechner

Since President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, he has changed it five times. Most notably, he suspended the employer mandate last summer. This is widely known, but almost no one seems to have grasped its significance.

The Constitution authorizes the President to propose and veto legislation. It does not authorize him to change existing laws. The changes Mr. Obama ordered in Obamacare, therefore, are unconstitutional. This means that he does not accept some of the limitations that the Constitution places on his actions. We cannot know at this point what limitations, if any, he does accept.   Continue reading “Obama’s Disdain For The Constitution Means We Risk Losing Our Republic”

Yahoo News – by Philip Pullella | Reuters

ROME (Reuters) – Proponents of a female priesthood say frescoes in the newly restored Catacombs of Priscilla prove there were women priests in early Christianity. The Vatican says such assertions are sensationalist “fairy tales”.

The catacombs, on Rome’s Via Salaria, have been fully reopened after a five-year project that included laser technology to clean some of the ancient frescoes and a new museum to house restored marble fragments of sarcophagi.   Continue reading “Restored Rome catacomb frescoes add to debate on women priests”

Daily Mail – by SADIE WHITELOCKS

A New York woman has told how she got a piece of platinum jewelry inserted in her eye to set herself apart from the crowd.

Lucy Luckayanko visited Dr Emil Chynn at Park Avenue Laser Vision to get a ‘cute’ heart-shaped sequin, measuring 3.5mm, placed on the white of her of right eye ball.   Continue reading “A permanent twinkle in the eye! Woman gets platinum jewelry implanted in her optic membrane for $3,000 to make herself ‘unique’”

CenturyLink – by TAMI ABDOLLAH

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Transportation Security Administration officer who was killed in a gunman’s attack at Los Angeles International Airport died two to five minutes after he was shot, coroner’s officials said Wednesday.

The detail comes after The Associated Press reported Friday that agencies are investigating whether paramedics could have come to TSA Officer Gerardo Hernandez’s aid sooner after the Nov. 1 shooting.   Continue reading “Coroner: TSA officer died minutes after being shot”

Huffington Post

Well, this is one way to welcome Bill de Blasio to the New York City mayoral office.

The slightly terrifying street art homage to the newly elected mayor comes courtesy of Hanksy, the pun-happy graffitist who likes to combine wordplay with caricature portraits of celebrities, and artist Alex Pardee. This particular design riffs off the horror of Buffalo Bill (yup, of “Silence of the Lambs” fame) and is giving us all kinds of feelings.   Continue reading “You Know You’re The Mayor Of New York City When Street Artists Do This”

CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – More than a dozen people have been charged in connection with a food stamp fraud investigation, according to authorities.

Grocery stores in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan were raided Wednesday as part of a joint investigation between Homeland Security, the New York State Attorney General’s Office and the New York State Department of Health.   Continue reading “Authorities: 16 Charged In NYC Food Stamp Fraud Scheme”

2012 The Big Picture

Thank you to ThePeople’sVoice FB:

This to me is very significant. Evergreen Air is the CIA company that has been laying chemtrails all over the Valley of the Sun here in Arizona, and no doubt other places, as well.

For an airline to shut down so suddenly—less than a month’s notice, effective Nov. 29th—is unheard of, isn’t it? And they won’t return calls from the press?   Continue reading “Evergreen Air Shuts Down Suddenly: CIA Chemtrail Contractor Goes Under”

Continue reading “ABC NEWS West Coast Evacuation Due To Fukishima Radiation Possible!”

Huffington Post

NEW YORK (AP) — Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is awash in animal-related protests over its floats, with controversies involving the unlikely pairing of rocker Joan Jett and Shamu the killer whale.

Activists plan to line the route of next week’s parade to protest a SeaWorld float over accusations in a new documentary that the theme parks treat whales badly. And ranchers succeeded in getting Jett pulled off the South Dakota tourism float after they questioned why the vegetarian and animal-rights ally was representing their beef-loving state.   Continue reading “Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Protested By Animal-Rights Activists”

Max Velocity Tactical

The ‘SAS Windproof Smock;’ is an excellent piece of equipment. The ‘smock’ concept does not seen to have penetrated the US military world as thoroughly as it should. There have been many times that I have wished I had my smock with me.

The SAS windproof was made of tightly woven cotton material, making it windproof.  It is used as an outer layer, and it really helps to keep the windchill out and it also keeps showers out. The smock concept is best utilized in colder weather while using a battle belt. It is really best as an ‘old school’ method using battle belt and patrol pack/ruck. You can wear a plate carrier  (PC) with it or not. In fact, we often (as in the photo below) used to wear the smock over our body armor.   Continue reading “The Windproof Smock Concept”

Max Velocity Tactical

I recently wrote my post ‘Taking Down the Tacticool Transition Dogma‘. Those of you who have read it will know that it involved an excursion into the world of the ‘preparedsociety’ forum.

When I first wrote ‘Contact‘ and was getting into this game, before I had my own blog, I frequented a few forums with mixed results. It was due in large part to a lot of effort blogging on forums that I initially got the word out about ‘Contact‘. One of the forums that I found fairly decent was ‘American Preppers Network‘. Continue reading “Commentary on the Prepper/Forum/Tacti-cool problem”