Here’s our Friday roll-up of the most ridiculous stories from around the world that are threats to your liberty, risks to your prosperity… and on occasion, inspiring poetic justice.
Black Lives Matter Organization Bought $6 million California Mansion
After the killing of George Floyd in 2020, the Black Lives Matter organization raked in an mountain of donations.
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We had a quick two day jaunt to NYC to see a concert this week. NYC at Christmas time is usually entertaining, with all the over the top decorations and throngs of shoppers in this mecca of materialism. We drove to the Hamilton Train Station, but by 10:00 am the parking garage was full. We had to go back to lovely Trenton and catch a NJT train there into Penn Station. Nothing like immediately being swarmed upon by a grifter selling a sob story about just being released from the hospital, blah, blah, blah. His well rehearsed show didn’t work on me. I told him to beat it and proceeded to position himself for the next sucker.
The train ride was uneventful and on time. We departed Penn Station and got a cab. The 15 block ride resulted in at least 5 near accidents, dozens of honked horns, and a feeling of relief when we arrived in one piece. After dropping our bags off at the hotel – no room ready, we proceeded to find a place for lunch and then see the usual Christmas sites. NYC survives strictly on tourism and Wall Street criminal banks. Every block has at least six restaurants or bars. How they survive, with what must be huge rents, is beyond me. The truth is, most don’t survive and are replaced every year or so.
Continue reading “A LOCKED DOWN MERRY TRUMP CHRISTMAS IN NYC”
The hypocrisy of the Obama administration and their left wing lunatic minions is breathtaking to behold. They call Trump a demagogue for suggesting that we keep illegals from pouring over our border and swamping our social safety net system by building a wall. But they think it makes total sense to build up the wall around the White House to keep the riff raff out.
Tear down that wall Mr. Obama. Give the citizens of this country free access to your house like you give them free access to my taxes. You fancy yourself as a modern day Lincoln. Americans could enter the White House during his presidency with ease.
The U.S. Secret Service plans to raise the height of the White House security fence by 5 feet and add a new concrete foundation to reduce the risk of fence-jumpers, according to a copy of an agency report obtained by the News4 I-Team.
The agency, along with the National Park Service, said it intends to begin building a “taller, stronger” fence to protect the White House grounds by 2018.
Details of the plan were included in an audio recording of a briefing made by federal officials, which was released to the I-Team Wednesday. The same briefing is expected to be presented May 5 at a meeting of the National Capital Planning Commission, which must first approve any changes to White House fencing.
“The current fence simply is not adequate for a modern era. We’ve said that before. It is becoming more and more acutely clear that that is in fact the case,” Secret Service official Tom Dougherty said in the briefing to federal officials.
“(The fence) is entirely scale-able, depending upon the circumstances. And we have now a society that tends to want to jump over the fence and onto the 18 acres,” Daugherty said in the briefing.
Continue reading “GOOD IDEA FOR THE WHITE HOUSE BUT NOT THE SOUTHERN BORDER”
The total lock down of Philadelphia began yesterday. The socialist, left wing, rockstar pope arrives in the U.S. today, causing mass gridlock, lost economic productivity, and another opportunity for our Orwellian police surveillance state to flex its muscles and treat its citizens like cattle and sheep. It started with the lock down of Boston a couple years ago as the all-powerful State took a giant shit on the Fourth Amendment as they hunted down two teenage utensil bomb terrorists. The DHS thugs have continued to militarize Barney Fife police forces around the country. Every man, woman and child is treated like a terrorist when going to a god damn baseball or football game. As reported by Marketwatch, the pope will inconvenience millions in three large US cities over the next six days.
Pope Francis’ historical six-day visit to the U.S. will bring some of the tightest security in Washington, D.C., New York and Philadelphia this week. Pope Francis, 78, will arrive from Cuba at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Tuesday, Sept. 22. He’ll then meet with President Barack Obama, be honored in a parade on the National Mall in Washington that’s expected to draw more than 200,000 people, hold mass and address a joint session of Congress. The pope will then travel to New York by plane,where he’ll address the United Nations, parade through Central Park and hold mass at Madison Square Garden. He will then fly from JFK airport to Philadelphia. On Sunday morning, he’ll visit a prison and later that afternoon will lead a mass that is expected to draw as many as one million people. He’ll head back to Rome on Sunday. Sept. 27.
The Secret Service, who can’t keep idiots from jumping the White House fence and getting in to see Obama, are in charge of keeping the pope safe from the thousands of terrorists roaming the streets of the US who want to kill him. This is really an inconvenience for the top notch secret service agents because it cuts into their time banging whores and allowing planes to land on the White House lawn. Of course, we’ve already had the “terrorist plot foiled” bullshit story released to the media to prove they are keeping us safe. They are now scrapping the the bottom of the barrel with 15 year olds posting on facebook.
The stunning failure of the Secret Service is a new government nadir.
On a July night in 1976 a Washington taxi driver named Chester Plummer became the first person killed on the White House grounds. Wielding a length of pipe, Plummer refused to surrender after scaling the fence and was shot in the chest by a Secret Service officer on the north lawn. “That’s what guns are for,” as an old Gerald Ford hand reminded us the other day.
Whatever resolution the agents of the Secret Service used to call upon to protect the lives of the President and his family has apparently long since departed this once-elite corps. This month’s astonishing breach of the White House, supposedly one of the world’s most secure complexes, has exposed a culture of incompetence and duplicity. Government failures are legion, but rarely are they so dangerous.
The core mission of the Secret Service is to prevent an attack on the chief executive’s person and that includes defending the White House. Yet this crude intrusion would be implausible in an airport thriller. The guy waltzed in the front door.
Two weeks ago Omar Gonzales eluded the Secret Service’s perimeter cameras and a plainclothes surveillance detail, hopped the fence, and crossed 70 yards to the mansion before a rapid response team was deployed. He then entered without tripping an alarm or encountering a deadbolt on either the outer storm door or the interior ornamental historic door. Mr. Gonzales overpowered a female guard in the foyer and roamed through the ground floor before being tackled, eventually, to the East Room floor.
Had Mr. Gonzales hung a left and ran up a flight of stairs, he might have penetrated President Obama’s private living quarters. He was armed with a serrated Spyderco knife though he could have easily been carrying a small arsenal or wearing a suicide vest. The only other lucky break the service (and the nation) caught was that Mr. Obama and his daughters had departed via helicopter only moments before.
Mr. Gonzales was not on the Secret Service radar though two months ago Virginia police found a sawed-off shotgun, 800 rounds of ammunition, a machete and a map with the White House circled in his car. Nor after he was found lurking with a hatchet along the south fence.
These details leaked over the weekend. The Secret Service originally blamed the inadequacy of the 49-year-old fence and added in a statement that Mr. Gonzalez “was physically apprehended after entering the White House North Portico doors.” This is technically true in the sense that the British Redcoats who captured the White House in 1814, ransacked the silver and set the building on fire also came in through doors.
Secret Service director Julia Pierson had no explanation for such dissembling at a House hearing on Tuesday, much less for the cascade of failures before and after the crisis. “It’s clear that our security plan was not properly executed,” she said, in what would be the understatement of the decade if there weren’t so many other instances in which this Administration has tried to justify its incompetence.
Ms. Pierson lamented “the difficulty in trying to operate a critical federal agency in times of fiscal constraint,” but the truth is that the Secret Service budget of $1.7 billion for 2014 has doubled in real terms since 1998. In the four decades since the Ford Presidency, the U.S. has invested billions of dollars (the totals are classified) in fortifying the White House and Old Executive Office Building, and Pennsylvania Avenue has been closed to traffic in front of the White House for half as long. Yet the Secret Service was no more prepared for this most unsophisticated of infiltrators than for the 16 other people who have come over the fence in the last five years.
The larger danger is that these embarrassments advertise security vulnerabilities in Vegas-strip neon. The more they happen, the more likely more dangerous individuals or organizations will try again, and a team with tactical training or advanced weapons could do great damage against an evidently hapless Naked Gun 2½ patrol.
On Monday the Administration expressed “full confidence” in Ms. Pierson, and perhaps even a threat to Mr. Obama’s personal safety is not enough to disabuse his excessive faith in government. Yet she got the job in March 2013 after her predecessor was canned when agents engaged the less-than-secret services of Cartagena hookers while doing advance work for a Presidential visit to Colombia.
The latest episode marks a new nadir in the decline of government, and the start of rebuilding professionalism is accountability. That should include firing Ms. Pierson and anyone else who lies to the public. The Secret Service also ought to respond to White House invaders with lethal force. The next Omar Gonzales or Chester Plummer may be a terrorist strapped to a bomb.
I wonder if the Secret Service’s new software will detect the sarcasm and contempt for the government in the title to this article. The government is a vast bureaucracy inhabited by controlling, paranoid, sociopathic dullards. These weak minded people care not for the U.S. Constitution or the citizens they are supposed to serve. Their sole purpose is control and power over our lives. They do not trust us. They have used 9/11 as the perfect opportunity to steal hundreds of billions of our tax dollars to set up a vast spying apparatus in the name of safety and security. Big Brother is watching and recording everything you do. Know your enemy.
I love DHS and the Secret Service. (sarc)
Via Nextgov
Secret Service agents watch as President Barack Obama leaves on Air Force One in 2013. // Matthew Holst/AP
The Secret Service is purchasing software to watch users of social networks in real time, according to contract documents.
In a work order posted on Monday, the agency details information the tool will collect — ranging from emotions of Internet users to old Twitter messages.
Its capabilities will include “sentiment analysis,” “influencer identification,” “access to historical Twitter data,” “ability to detect sarcasm,” and “heat maps” or graphics showing user trends by color intensity, agency officials said.
The automated technology will “synthesize large sets of social media data” and “identify statistical pattern analysis” among other objectives, officials said.
The tool also will have the “functionality to send notifications to users,” they said.
A couple of years ago, the Homeland Security Department, the agency’s parent, got in trouble with lawmakers and civil liberties groups for a social media program that would work, in part, by having employees create fake usernames and profiles to spy on other users.
A House Homeland Security Committee panel called DHS officials into a hearing after reports the department tasked analysts with collecting data that reflected negatively on the government, such as content about the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to a Michigan jail. The Electronic Privacy Information Center has sued DHS for more information on the program.
Employees within the Secret Service’s Office of Government and Public Affairs will be using the new system, agency officials said.
Here is a full list of the software’s required functions: