INAUGURATION HYPOCRISY

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Posted on 20th January 2013 by Administrator in Economy |Politics |Social Issues

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  1. KaD says:

    Exactly.

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    20th January 2013 at 10:24 pm

  2. Makati1 says:

    Here in the 3rd world Philippines, even the President packs a gun. It is allowed because he is also the Commander in Chief of the military and is therefore an officer. You will see armed guards at every mall, bank, office tower, residential tower, and major store in the city, usually toting modified shotguns or holstered pistols, including metal detectors at the upscale malls. But, it is not invasive. The guards are always polite and even open the doors and welcome you and thank you when you leave. But in a city of between 15 and 20 million people, such precautions are necessary. They are coming to the Us soon, if they are not already there.

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    20th January 2013 at 10:28 pm

  3. Anonymous says:

    Makati1
    I’ll be in Makati a month from now, I always carry a knife. Will I have a problem getting into the malls and the office buildings? I would rather not travel around the country without my knife.

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    20th January 2013 at 11:07 pm

  4. ASIG says:

    Anonymous — above was me

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    20th January 2013 at 11:10 pm

  5. SSS says:

    You can probably double the number of “gun” signs in this pic from the people inside those trailing vehicles. And they’re all carrying fully automatic weapons.

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    20th January 2013 at 12:10 am

  6. ecliptix543 says:

    SSS – At least double. Plus suppressors. And satellite tracking. And rooftop snipers. And plainclothes mixed in the crowd. And nearby helicopters. And the cops. And the FBI. And probably some NSA guys monitoring every single EM emission from the crowd within miles around.

    I’m so glad they’re all safe and happy. I’ve got the TSA and the local Keystone Fuckwit Brigade standing between me and certain annihilation by those evil, nefarious turrists…

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    20th January 2013 at 12:28 am

  7. SSS says:

    Clip

    Everything you mentioned is true. The rooftop snipers around the White House make it a point to be seen when the president is in town.

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    20th January 2013 at 1:09 am

  8. Makati1 says:

    I doubt that a knife will be a problem unless it is a sheathed one with a blade longer than 5″. Pocket knives and pockets full of change do not set off anything. They are mainly looking for guns. They may lightly touch your shirt back if you are wearing a loose fitting shirt, again looking for a hidden pistol.

    I have been here 5 years with zero problems. If you are smart enough to stay out of the poorer areas after dark, you should be safe. But that is true in any Us city also. Common sense is all you need. Don’t wear flashy jewelry or Rolex watches or expensive clothes on the street. I wear jeans, Tee and sneakers, no jewelry/watch. I go out with only my condo key, cell phone, a copy of my passport page and less than $250 cash. (Peso 10,000.) If you are going to need more, take your debit/credit card. Put them in your front pockets, not in a wallet. Remember, common sense. P.S. Also, if you are accosted by a beggar of ANY age, ignore them. Yes it is hard if he /she is about 6 and looks sad, but you will be mobbed by many more that see it and want theirs. This is what is coming to the Us. Be prepared.

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    20th January 2013 at 4:50 am

  9. John A says:

    According to these articles written recently, Obama did not sign gun control executive gun orders at all! Also go to the last link that lists the recent executive orders signed by the president. Please read the following commentaries and decide for yourself.

    TEA PARTY ARTICLE:

    “Obama Playing America For a Fool on Second Amendment

    Obama Lied About Signing Gun Control Executive Orders

    (Dr. Jerome R. Corsi) – Obama has played the American people for a fool once again, this time on his move to impinge on Second Amendment rights to own weapons.

    Despite all the fanfare and hoopla we heard from the mainstream media that Obama signed “23 executive orders” imposing new gun control measures, the entire event – including high-fives to the underage children the White House exploited as background props for the nationally televised event – the entire show was nothing more than a public relations gimmick.

    What Obama truly signed were 23 presidential memoranda and proclamations that have no binding effect of law whatsoever.

    Last week, New York Magazine pointed out just how meaningless were proclamations that accomplished nothing more than to:

    1. Direct federal law enforcement to trace all guns taken in federal custody in the course of a criminal investigation;

    2. Direct the Department of Justice to ensure all applicable information from federal agencies is made available for background checks; and

    3. Direct the Department of Health to “conduct or sponsor research into the causes of gun violence and the ways to prevent it.”

    http://www.teaparty.org/obama-playing-america-for-a-fool-on-second-amendment-18901/

    SLATE ARTICLE:

    Seven Reporters Who Falsely Claimed that “Obama Signed 23 Executive Orders” on Guns

    “We know what happened this week, right? President Obama announced that he was taking 23 executive actions on various issues connected to gun massacres — mental health, law enforcement, gun data — and asking Congress to consider a few reform bills.

    What Obama didn’t do was “sign 23 executive orders.” But depending on how you followed the news, you probably thought he did.”

    http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/01/18/seven_reporters_who_falsely_claimed_that_obama_signed_23_executive_orders.html

    Do you see any gun control executive orders here??

    http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/executive-orders

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    20th January 2013 at 7:22 am

  10. sangell says:

    A morbidly obese mannikin placed in a remote controlled hoveround loaded with explosives looks like a way to defeat presidential security. The typical suicide vest carries about 10kgs of PETN and shrapnel. A Hoveround could carrying a 100kgs of explosive with the hoveround itself becoming shrapnel.

    If the mannikin were realistic enough, complete with a 64 ounce Big Gulp ( full of gasoline?) in the cup holder it might ‘freeze’ the Secret Service just long enough for the hoveround/bomb to burst out of the crowd, approach the target and detonate. Radio control might not work but a wire spool that fed back to the controller would defeat jamming. What Secret Service agent is going to want to run up to a fat man or woman in a hoveround and blow their head off.

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    20th January 2013 at 8:40 am

  11. Administrator says:

    sangell

    You just made the list.

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    20th January 2013 at 8:49 am

  12. flash says:

    Celebrating a real national hero..Happy Birhtday Stonewall

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ3BXovXFYA

    stonewall_jackson_2.jpeg

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    20th January 2013 at 9:07 am

  13. John A says:

    Sangell,

    I know you’re just trying to be amusing with the above comment, but please do not post comments like that again. Thanks for all of your insightful comments over the past several months. I have enjoyed reading them and have learned a great deal from them.

    John A
    .

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    20th January 2013 at 9:58 am

  14. Administrator says:

    Sangell

    I can delete your comment if you want me to.

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    20th January 2013 at 10:15 am

  15. sangell says:

    Speculating on how something might be done is free speech. I did not advocate committing any crime merely suggested how a crime might be committed. We should not live in fear of Federal agents monitoring our communications or throwing us in some concentration camp for ‘thought crimes’. If we’ve gotten to that point, I suppose Martin Scorcese and Robert DeNiro should have been arrested for making the movie ‘Taxi Driver’ which was the self admitted motivation behind John Hinkley’s attack on Ronald Reagan.

    It is silly to pretend our political leaders are not at risk. In my lifetime John Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Martin Luther King, George Wallace, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan have all been the victims of assassination attempts. Toss in George H.W. Bush too though Saddam Hussein wasn’t able to implement his plan. I believe FDR was also going to be targeted in the plot that ended up assassinating the mayor of Chicago.

    Given that history and the extraordinary security cordon sanitaire thrown around our presidents as a result, it stands to reason that future attempts will need to be more imaginative than simply walking up to a political leader and shooting them. Speculating on how that might be done is not a crime. I’m sure the Secret Service has many people working on that problem everyday.

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    20th January 2013 at 10:41 am

  16. flash says:

    No-Bang-for-the-Bucks.jpg

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    20th January 2013 at 11:16 am

  17. SSS says:

    flash

    Thomas Jackson was West Point Class of 1846. Heh.

    But just to make you feel better, Jackson’s Shenandoah campaign was off-the-charts remarkable. It’s still a classic for those who study land warfare and Civil War buffs. I put Jackson in my Top Five of U.S. generals ever to have taken the field of battle.

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    20th January 2013 at 3:05 pm

  18. Hotrod says:

    Flash,

    Can’t agree with you on this one. Stonewall was leading poor, dumb southern farm boys to the slaughter to maintain an economy that had 1000 families controlling 95% of the wealth. The value of the rich bastards slave holdings was more than their real estate in 1860.

    He was an impressive tactician, I’ll give you that much.

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    20th January 2013 at 3:37 pm

  19. ThePessimisticChemist says:

    Jackson’s troop movements are damn near legendary, and to be quite honest I’m still not sure how his men managed to move those distances and still fight a battle at the end of the day.

    @Hotrod –

    Both the South and the North were fighting to keep the rich rich and the poor poor. The only difference is that the Northern rich stayed rich while everyone else just got more poor.

    Oh, and we set a dangerous precedent for the complete removal of state’s rights at the whim of the Federal Government.

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    20th January 2013 at 3:47 pm

  20. Anonymous says:

    SSS says:

    flash

    Thomas Jackson was West Point Class of 1846. Heh.

    And he never finished high school, but graduated seventeen in his WP class…pretty good for a dumb farm boy from the hills of WV.

    Hotrod , my ancestors where hardly poor or dumb ,yet none were plantation owners and neither was Stonewall, who grew up dirt poor and worked his way though school to later lead his country against a tyrannical Federal government.

    So please don’t take offense when I say go fuck yourself in the neck with a rusty fork…

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    20th January 2013 at 4:08 pm

  21. flash says:

    The above post wasted on the maroon Hotrod was mine.

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    20th January 2013 at 4:09 pm

  22. ragdouche says:

    John A: sangell can say whatever he wants to here. Only Admin can bust his balls. Go back to freerepublic where you belong. The old ragman would have told you to go fuck yourself, but I’ll save that for hotrod.

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    20th January 2013 at 7:09 pm

  23. LLPOH says:

    Hiya, rag!

    Sangell, will not tell you what to post. But will tell you that a poster here got a visit from the lawdogs for posting a helluva lot less than you just did. No kidding.

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    20th January 2013 at 7:13 pm

  24. SSS says:

    “Can’t agree with you (flash) on this one. Stonewall was leading poor, dumb southern farm boys to the slaughter”
    —-Hotrod

    You gotta fight with what you have, Hotrod, not with what you want. One of the cold, cruel principles of war. But you did redeem yourself by granting that Jackson was an “impressive tactician.” Oh my, was he ever.

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    20th January 2013 at 8:21 pm

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