Sunday, May 31, 2015

Oh Sure, They Just Turned All The Machines Off, Right?

Who the fuck are you trying to kid?
As sure as I'm sitting here that shit is still going full blast whether they have the authorization or not.

NSA bulk collection of phone data stops; Senate stalls as deadline passes

 

After 14 years and hundreds of millions of records of Americans’ telephone calls, the National Security Agency stopped bulk collection of phone data Sunday, officials said, as legal authority for the once-secret program expired.
The move came as the Senate stalled on efforts to reform the agency’s authority. The portion of the 2006 Patriot Act amendments that the NSA has argued allows collection of telephone calling data and other records expired at midnight in Washington.
Late afternoon Sunday, intelligence officials said they had started shutting down the system for scooping up and recording phone call data, which was put in place after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The NSA collects what it calls metadata — records that include the numbers called from a phone and the length of calls, but not the content of the conversations.
Officials said they planned to shut down the program entirely at midnight, although their actions, which are classified, can’t readily be verified.

That tells you all you should need to know right there.

 

III%er needs help bad!! Updated, Alleged Perp Identified!

Copied Verbatim from Angel,

III%er needs help bad!!!
Beanburner, of Burnt Beans and BS, is needing our help and prayers. His son was the victim of a vicious hit-and-run (intentional, NOT accidental) in Clayton NM early Saturday morning. The perp was chased to the NM-TX border where he evaded the cops and could be hiding in my neck of the woods. Possibly Dumas, Dalhart or Amarillo.

Late 90s to mid 2000s white or light colored Chevy pickup with heavy front-end damage and a broken grill. And a sorry son-of-a-bitch driving it. I know most of y'all aren't around here, but prayers work from anywhere.

http://burntbeansandbs.blogspot.com/2015/05/this-is-copy-of-post-from-my-facebook.html

If you live in the area keep an eye out for this douchebag and if you do see him, call the cops and tell them he is a wild eyed sumbitch yelling that they won't take him alive no matter what.

Update;

They have identified the alleged perpetrator.



CLAYTON, N.M. -- The Clayon Police Department has nearly concluded its investigation into the hit and run incident that occurred early Saturday morning, but are searching for the man they believe was driving the white pickup involved.
READ MORE: Clayton police search for driver, pickup involved in hit and run
As a result of the investigation, Clayton officers were able to obtain an arrest warrant for 56-year-old Leland J. Cruz of Clayton. Cruz is currently being charged with attempted murder, leaving the scene of an accident with great bodily harm and reckless driving.
Anyone with information regarding the location of Cruz is asked to contact your local law enforcement agency or Clayton/Union County Crime Stoppersat (575) 374-9667. In an earlier release, police said they are searching for a white Chevy pickup with front end damage.
A cash reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of the suspect. See the attached photo for a picture of Leland Cruz.

Thanks to Angel for the update.
 

Saturday, May 30, 2015

Proof That The Rule Of Law Is Dead In This Country, I Present Exhibit A

If this does not convince you that the entire Justice system is rigged then you need to get examined for being self delusional.

The ENTIRE 250 prosecutor strong Orange County District Attorney's Office has been disqualified by a Superior Court Judge from prosecuting a major Death Penalty case because of misconduct .

Stop and take a minute to grasp that fact.

It's not just the Prosecutors, it's also the Police conduct that brought this about.

Systemic corruption that has been going on for years.

You’re All Out

A defense attorney uncovers a brazen scheme to manipulate evidence, and prosecutors and police finally get caught.



Prosecutorial and police misconduct are often dismissed as just a few bad apples doing a few bad apple-ish things. But what happens when it’s entrenched and systemic and goes unchecked for years? That looks to be the case in Orange County, California, where the situation got so completely out of hand this spring that Superior Court Judge Thomas Goethals issued an order disqualifying the entire Orange County District Attorney’s Office (that’s all 250 prosecutors) from continuing to prosecute a major death penalty case.


After literally years of alleged misconduct involving jailhouse informants, as well as prosecutors’ repeated failures to turn over exculpatory material, Judge Goethals determined in March that the office can simply no longer work on the case of mass murderer Scott Dekraai, who pleaded guilty last year to killing his ex-wife and seven others at a beauty salon in 2011.

Snipped, the story goes on to explain that the following scenario has been going on for decades.

One issue in the Dekraai case is whether deputies deliberately placed him near a prized informant to elicit illegal confessions. While preparing for the penalty phase of the trial, Santa Ana assistant public defender Scott Sanders, who is defending Dekraai, discovered that a jailhouse informant who had produced damning evidence about his client had done the same thing in another case Sanders was handling. After further investigation, Sanders claimed that a branch of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department called “special handling” would deliberately place jailhouse snitches in cells next to high-value inmates awaiting trials, with instructions to collect confessions, a practice that is unconstitutional.

Together with his law clerks, Sanders spent a year unearthing and then reconstructing a tranche of 60,000 pages of records indicating that the county sheriff’s office routinely used and coordinated with those informants to get around the constitutional prohibition on eliciting incriminating statements from defendants who had lawyered up and should not have been interrogated. The sheriff’s department has admitted that mistakes were made. The DA’s office claims there was nothing coordinated or systemic going on. But Judge Goethals disagreed, finding that the new revelations called into question the integrity of the entire Orange County District Attorney’s office.

This is just one case but the evidence seems pretty damning that this blatant End Around on the Constitutionally protected rights of thousands may well have been the norm.

So you have to ask yourself at this point,
do you  not see as plain as the nose on your face that there is no justice left in this country?
Unless you have big money or powerful connections, the deck is stacked against you from the get go.

Lawyers are scumbags and if you want to argue the point I can give you 250 examples without breaking a sweat.

The Police are scumbags too, I don't even want to hear different from anyone.

This has been going on for years and years and years and you can bet your last penny that every cop in that department knew what was going on and NOT ONE said a God Damned word about it.

The absolute reality here is that the entire justice system in Southern California is corrupt.
From the Beat Cop to the Chief of Police and the lowest Law clerk to the District Attorney himself.

Top to bottom, rotten to the core and  caught red handed at it.

" Mistakes were made".


That is the weakest Non Denial imaginable.

You can expect the appeals to start arriving by the truck load Monday morning and continue until every single conviction on cases like this get retried.

I can't possibly imagine how these two departments will survive unscathed.

Friday, May 29, 2015

A New Search Engine That Protects Privacy, Blocks MSM News Sites, Corporate Propagandists, Favors Alternative News And Won't Give Dick To The NSA

This looks very interesting and I am definitely going to check this out strenuously.

Health Ranger launches world's first search engine that favors New Media while banning corporate and government propaganda: GoodGopher.com


(NaturalNews) The official beta launch announcement is here! The world's first privacy-protecting search engine that bans corporate propaganda and government disinformation is now ready for webmasters to submit their sites for indexing. The name of the new search engine? Good Gopher! (www.GoodGopher.com)

GoodGopher is the first and only search engine in the world that intentionally favors New Media / Independent Media / Alternative Media websites like Breitbart.com, The Intercept (Glenn Greenwald), Tom Woods (www.TomWoods.com) and TruthStreamMedia (www.TruthStreamMedia.com). GoodGopher will also selectively spider selected international news sites that have a reputation for fearless reporting on world events, such as RT (Russia Today), Der Spiegel and Al Jazeera.

Fake news sources like MSNBC are banned from the engine, as are all other websites pushing corporate propaganda or government disinfo. Sorry, National Geographic. Peddle your Monsanto mockingbird propaganda somewhere else...

In essence, all the websites which have been blackballed by Google News for reporting the truth are favored and highlighted on GoodGopher.com.

New Media webmasters are invited to submit their sites now to GoodGopher.com. Site crawling and indexing begins immediately.

GoodGopher will be available as a public search engine after a few weeks of crawling. Watch GoodGopher.com or NaturalNews.com for an announcement of search availability.

If you have a Blog or evn if you don't and just have a favorite site, you can enter the  URL at


_____________________           GoodGopher.com         ______________________________

and they will start their Web Crawlers looking at it for computing it's ranking in their Search Results for when it opens to the public.

This is a very welcome development in that this is what Google could have done if they had the moral integrity they say they do.

You all are going to LOVE this next part!
 
In an era where 70% of the advertising revenue for mainstream media comes from drug companies -- yes, Big Pharma "owns" mainstream media -- GoodGopher bans all pharmaceutical ads. We refuse to take money from corporations that are poisoning our children with psychiatric drugs while using children as human guinea pigs in unethical medical experiments.

We also ban ads from the Clinton Foundation and other criminal enterprises attempting to occupy the highest levels of American government. (Obviously, GoodGopher also bans all advertising from Monsanto, DuPont, ExxonMobil, Goldman Sachs and basically any organization that has funneled substantial funds to the Clinton Crime Family Foundation.)

My emphasis.

Now we're talking.

I already submitted this place and Antidote To Tyranny and I'm thinking they need to get swamped with III% sites, eh?


Go ahead, do your part here.



Cross posted at Antidote To Tyranny, of course!



Tuesday, May 26, 2015

A Small Revolutionary Change In Ball Bearing Design Could Save Billions Of Dollars A Year

A Japanese firm, Coo Space, has eliminated the need for a cage inside ball bearings with a small groove that keeps the balls separated and eliminates the sliding friction that cages have so that the bearings do not need grease anymore and spin freely with a reduction in friction reportedly up to 90%!.

Article Summary
The humble ball bearing is a key component of nearly every device with moving parts, taking advantage of the vastly reduced friction you can achieve when rolling a ball between two surfaces as opposed to sliding them across one another. Now, a Japanese company has come up with a simple design that removes a key component from a typical bearing – the cage that keeps the balls separated as they roll around. Coo Space's Autonomous Decentralised Bearings don't need to be greased, and according to their inventor, this fact alone can reduce their friction by up to 90 percent compared with standard bearings.

My bold.

This simple change could save Billions of dollars a year in automotive applications alone by reducing the rolling friction in wheel bearings that would result in better fuel mileage.

When I first started working out of High School I went to work in the construction industry working around heavy equipment and the majority of my job was walking around with a grease gun in my hand pumping grease into bearings all day.
I would literally be covered in grease by the end of the day so I am intimately familiar with several different types of bearings and bushings.

Anyone who has ever had a wheel bearing on their boat or travel trailer seize up and weld its self to the spindle should be rejoicing right about now too. I have had to cut a few of those off in my day.
The implications of this new bearing design and the reduced operating costs for just about anything with moving parts can not be overstated. The Big Oil companies will be gnashing their teeth though. Grease sales will plummet.

This video is a bit hard to understand as Japanese does not lend its self too well to translation into English but pay attention to the small groove they are talking about and watch how much longer this new bearing spins compared to the ones in use today.(2:45 mark)
( There is no sound for about a minute and a half)




Go read the rest at Gizmag.

US Govt proposes to classify cybersecurity or hacking tools as weapons of war

What's the old saying?
The government hates competition?

Our government hacks the shit out of other countries computer systems and sends out computer viri on a regular basis.

This could be disasterous for Anti Virus businesses unless they design some kind of loophole for them.

Typical governmental operating procedure, overkill because no one has any fucking common sense or can see any potential long term effects anymore.

You know how they say that peoples attention spans have gotten way shorter than they used to be?
That is who is running our government too.


US Govt proposes to classify cybersecurity or hacking tools as weapons of war


By Manish Singh
Published 3 days ago


Until now only when someone possessed a chemical, biological or nuclear weapon, it was considered to be a weapon of mass destruction in the eyes of the law. But we could have an interesting -- and equally controversial -- addition to this list soon. The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), an agency of the United States Department of Commerce that deals with issues involving national security and high technology has proposed tighter export rules for computer security tools -- first brought up in the Wassenaar Arrangement (WA) at the Plenary meeting in December 2013. This proposal could potentially revise an international agreement aimed at controlling weapons technology as well as hinder the work of security researchers.

At the meeting, a group of 41 like-minded states discussed ways to bring cybersecurity tools under the umbrella of law, just as any other global arms trade. This includes guidelines on export rules for licensing technology and software as it crosses an international border. Currently, these tools are controlled based on their cryptographic functionality. While BIS is yet to clarify things, the new proposed rule could disallow encryption license exceptions.

The new proposal is irking security researchers, who find exporting controls on vulnerability research a regulation of the flow of information. You see, these folks need to use tools and scripts that intrude into a protected system. If the proposal becomes a law, it will force these researchers to find a new mechanism to beat the bad guys.

As per the agreement, the new definition of ‘intrusion software’ refers to a tool which is capable of extraction or/and modification of data or information from a computer or network-enabled device. The modification also includes tweaking of the standard execution path of a program. In addition, the tool could also be designed to avoid detection by “monitoring tools” (software or hardware devices such as antivirus products that monitor system behaviors or processes running on a device). Tools including hypervisors, debuggers and others that are used for reverse engineering software won’t be considered as “intrusion software”.

My emphasis.

Yet another example of governments pissing down their legs and seeing every problem as a nail sticking up when they have $600 hammers laying around all over the place.


Link originally found at Blacklisted News.

Monday, May 25, 2015

Memorial Day

Let us not forget the men and women today who gave everything they had in defense of what this country used to be, the land of the free and the home of the brave.

We still have half of that equation anyways.
Let us pick up our burdens and carry on their fight, God willing, to finish what they started.


Eliminating tyranny in the world.

Foreign and Domestic.




Image courtesy of Grizz.

Cross posted at Antidote To Tyranny

Sunday, May 24, 2015

Police destroy pressure cooker in unattended car near Capitol and arrest suspect

This just in my Email;

A U.S. Capitol Police spokeswoman says a bomb squad has safely destroyed a pressure cooker found in a “suspicious” vehicle left unattended near the Capitol building and that the vehicle's owner has been arrested.
Sgt. Kimberly A. Schneider told The Associated Press by email that officers on patrol spotted the parked, unoccupied vehicle Sunday on a street on the National Mall west of the Capitol and that a bomb squad “disrupted the items of concern in the vehicle including the pressure cooker,” producing a loud bang about 7:45 p.m.
She says an odor of gasoline was detected beforehand.
She says the vehicle owner, Israel Shimeles of Alexandria, Virginia, was arrested and charged with “operating after revocation” and was at Capitol Police headquarters. She earlier said that the driver had been arrested.
This story will be updated.

Juan Pablo Montoya Wins Indy 500

Good for him.

I actually met him once a long time ago over in Portland when he was first starting out. He was pretty young and didn't say too much, I was bullshitting with a crew guy right at the end of the  cross bridge that goes into the pits and he was standing there like he didn't quite know what to do. Not very tall I remember but a nice enough kid, I remember the crew guy introducing us and I shook his hand and he had quite the brilliant smile. I am trying to remember that the crew guy told me that Juan Pablo didn't even have a place to stay in Portland and was bunking in someones trailer. Damn that was a long time ago now.

Good on him, it was quite the race there at the end.
 Crazy bastards going tire to tire at 200 miles an hour, I was right on the edge of my seat.

I don't know what the heck is wrong with me lately, I don't remember seeing one single mention of the 500 coming up this year.

Not one.
I woke up and there wasn't too much left of the race, they had just starting cleaning up the debris from the last wreck.

There was a time that I followed the Indy circuit pretty closely and you risked physical violence if you bothered me while the race was on. This of course gave my younger brother a good excuse to mess with me and he started making a point every year to call me right in the middle of the race.

I have met some of the biggest names in racing over in Portland when they used to come here every year.
Two all time favorites are AJ Foyt and Arie Lyundyk. AJ because he is so fucking ornery and Arie because the guy is just a cool dude.Very nice guy but he takes no shit, the only driver in history who was filmed on national television flipping off another driver.

It took me five years to get Mario Andretti's autograph, the little dude was always swarmed by people or hiding in the trailer.
I finally found him one day with a gaggle of people he was trying to get away from and I literally trapped him between the front of a car hauler and the crowd he was trying to get away from so he had no where to go.

I met Rick Mears once, he wasn't in a good mood that day but he was still civil.
No telling what was up, you never know what has been going on.
The first time I got to meet AJ was after he had gotten in a horrible wreck earlier in the season and the poor guy had two broken legs.

I sat and talked to him for about ten minutes.

A true American that guy.

I have met several more of these legends and it will always mean a great deal to me to have been  able to sit and talk to them without the media hype and to find out that they are just regular guys who have a serious need for speed.

My congratulation to Juan Pablo Montoya and just so you know, I thought of Zoomie right off the bat and was wondering if he got to see the race in person.
It's on my bucket list.

Maybe someday.........

Saturday, May 23, 2015

Signal-3, Issue #1 Has Arrived, Thank You Sparks31!

If you didn't bother to order the first edition then you are missing out on some damn good information .



Mr. Sparks starts out with some old time methods of communication by field phones, wired together like in WWII and even a way to eavesdrop on phone lines using barbed wire!!

I seem to recall someone who might be interested in that little bit of trivia.

There is also mention of ways to communicate when the grid goes down, phone systems that require no power to operate that can still be obtained and recommendations for the equipment to purchase.

I will be the first to admit that quite a bit of this went right past me as I have never been a comms kind of guy and lists of frequencies make my eyes glaze over.
That being said, there is a great deal of very useful information crammed into the 43 pages of this pamphlet sized publication!
It can and should be saved and used because it has some good reference materials in it and once you do get some kind of radio equipment there are those lists of frequencies I mentioned that will be very handy to have in a format small enough to throw in any bag or pack without having to worry about space or weight.

Some of the older phone info I am familiar with as I have in the past run into some phone system information from a pal that retired from the phone company and have played around with older phones and the networks they connect to.

Land line phone systems were actually quite simple affairs for those who remember them.

Land line phones as they are called now, are getting increasingly scarce due to the explosion of cell phone technology but the infrastructure is still there, just waiting to be put to good use.


My hat is off to Mr. Sparks for putting together a very useful collection of options to look into with this publication. His review of the Termin-8r hand held radio is also helpful to anyone looking into a modern set for group communications.

I see a yearly subscription is 27 dollars, a pretty good deal for the priceless information this could prove to be in the future.

I urge you to swing by and check out his place and if you are the least bit interested in OPSEC communications then I can't recommend this guy enough.
He also has classes you can attend to get serious information and hands on training in electronic comms and field craft.

Friday, May 22, 2015

You GO Granny!

This cracks my ass up.



Elderly Woman Shoots Robot, Holds L.A. Deputies at Bay for 22 Hours

 

An elderly woman in California shot a police robot and held authorities at bay for 22 hours after she called them to a mobile home and pulled a gun on them, sheriff's deputies said.
Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies said they finally took her into custody early Friday in a "peaceful resolution." They said she would be charged with assault with a deadly weapon against a firefighter.
On Thursday morning, the woman called authorities and said she was having a medical emergency and needed help at a mobile home in the unincorporated town of Topanga. 

When deputies and paramedics showed up, the woman — who wasn't identified but who sheriff's deputies told NBC Los Angeles is 70 years old — pulled a handgun, authorities said. The initial responders retreated and called for backup, and the surrounding areas of the mobile home park were evacuated.

Then things got weird.
As Angelenos watched on live television, deputies threw in a "flash bang" stun grenade, to no apparent effect. They also sent in a robot to check on the woman.
She shot it.


 HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!

Damage to the robot wasn't made public.

You can't make this shit up.

They finally talked her down without shooting her dead by some miracle but I am still chuckling over this one.


 

Thursday, May 21, 2015

As I Predicted In 2009, Wall St. Investors Amassing Ridiculous Amounts Of Foreclosed Real Estate


I saw this coming not long after the Housing Bubble started to pop and then the Recession hit . I'm actually surprised it took those scumbag investors this long.

All those foreclosed houses didn't just disappear.

It's not just that they have been collecting scads of houses on the cheap though, now they are actively buying houses, so they can rent them out.




Wall Street’s Hot New Financial Product: Your Rent Check

 

Source: Mother Jones

Over the last two years, private equity firms and hedge funds have amassed an unprecedented real estate empire, snapping up Spanish revivals in Phoenix, adobes in Los Angeles, Queen Anne Victorians in Atlanta, and brick-faced bungalows in Chicago. In total, Wall Street investors have bought more than 200,000 cheap, mostly foreclosed houses in some of the cities hardest hit by the economic meltdown. But they’re not simply flipping these houses. Instead, they’ve started bundling some of them into a new kind of financial product that could blow up the housing market all over again.

No company has bought more houses than the Blackstone Group, one of the world’s largest private equity firms. (Its many investments include Hilton Hotels, the Weather Channel, and SeaWorld. Among its institutional investors are Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan Chase.) Through its subsidiary, Invitation Homes, Blackstone has picked up houses through local brokers, at foreclosure auctions, and in bulk purchases. Last April, it bought 1,400 houses in Atlanta in a single day. In Phoenix, some neighborhoods have a Blackstone-owned home on just about every block. As of November, Blackstone had acquired 40,000 houses, most of them foreclosures, worth $7.5 billion. Today, it is the largest owner of single-family rental homes in the nation. 

In case this hasn't quite sunk in, let me explain a little something here.

The Housing Bubble was created because the government told the lenders to loosen up the requirements  to buying a house.
They did so and then some.
Pretty soon everyone and their dog was suddenly qualified to buy a house they couldn't possibly afford,
Fraud was absolutely rampant on the parts of the Banking industry to the point some had hired people just to sign off on the loans without even reading them.

All those rotten to the core mortgages got bundled up and sold world wide to investors.
Retirement funds, governments, all kinds of people bought these worthless instruments that were advertised as Grade A by the banking industry.
This caused the world wide financial melt down that we are still in the middle of and bankrupted several countries in the process.

Pretty soon reality hit and all those people who had bough houses they couldn't afford got foreclosed on. I'll give you one guess who was buying those mortgages.

Remember now, the Bankers made out like bandits on all this and only a small handful of people were ever prosecuted and went to jail over it.

Now those same people have killed the world economy, been caught red handed fixing the price of interest rates used by other banks  and investors. (LIBOR anyone?) They are now buying real estate to the tune of billions of dollars and are going to be your fucking landlords.
Because no one can afford to buy a house anymore, rentals have gotten scarce and the rents have skyrocketed.


If you followed all that then you will see that the thieving bastards made money at the beginning of this nightmare and  are going to continue to make money off of that scam well into the future, most likely until the world economy shuts down completely.

Every single moment of while this has been going on, our government has repeatedly refused to prosecute any of these financial institutions, Too Big To Fail ring a bell?
Then when the truth came out and the entire world had been had by these people they gently slapped their wrists for the symbolic visual of it and then sat back and watched it happen some more. In some cases, our government has actually enabled the whole scam.
It has sat by and watched the largest transfer of wealth in the history of man and not only has done nothing to stop it, it has had a revolving door policy letting the people responsible for it come and go between the financial institutions it is supposed to be overseeing and cushy insider government jobs in the very agencies charged with the oversight.

We are fucked six ways from Sunday and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it.




 



Wednesday, May 20, 2015

That's Quite The Grocery Getter Ya Got There Kid

153 miles an hour in a station wagon.

Seriously.




Around 3:00 AM Tuesday morning, Michigan State Police spotted a driver doing 79 mph in a 70 mph zone on I-75 near the Detroit suburb of Woodhaven and initiated a pursuit.

Seconds later the 2005 Dodge Magnum station wagon had accelerated to 153 mph, according to the police car’s moving radar system.

After travelling about 10 miles down the highway, the car exited and pulled into a parking lot behind a building where police apprehended him and charged him with reckless driving, WWJ-TV reports.

The 2005 Magnum was available with a 350 hp V8 engine, but came from the factory with a speed restrictor set at 130 mph and could reportedly reach just 143 mph without it, suggesting the car in this situation had been modified.

Police say the 21-year-old had a clean record and didn’t offer any explanation for his actions, but he now faces up to six points on his license and a maximum of 93 days in jail.

Monday, May 18, 2015

Obama to limit military-style equipment provided to local police departments by the federal government

I am one foot out the door but saw this breaking news alert in my Email so I will throw it up as is and come back to it when I get home.


Here is the link.



Los Angeles Times | May 18, 2015 | 4:14 AM

In a surprise announcement coming nine months after police in riot gear dispelled racially charged protests, President Barack Obama is banning the federal government from providing some military-style equipment to local departments and putting stricter controls on other weapons and gear distributed to law enforcement.

The Noose Tightens Just A Little Bit More

If you are an informed and aware individual who values Liberty and is horrified at what a Police State our country has become then you might want to go read what I put up at my other Blog, Antidote To Tyranny, about how far down the rabbit hole we have come and see what our government wants us to consider the new normal when it comes to the Customs and Border Patrol Division of their siege army.

I don't post over there very often but I am thinking that is going to change here in the not too distant future and I may well be tapering off here to do it. So Bookmark the joint and if you have a Blog maybe think about adding me to the Blogroll!

I will most certainly reciprocate, just let me know about it.

Sunday, May 17, 2015

Something For The Feminists

I can see the heads exploding now.


I found this at an Estate Sale twenty some years ago and it is one of my most prized posessions.

Trust me when I say this thing doesn't see the light of day very often.

Please feel free to share it with every Ball Breaker you know.

If I Occasionally Foam At The Mouth It's OK, I've Had My Shots

It's true, I have and here's the proof.




I found them while I was throwing out some of the crap I have been packing around for 25 years or more.


Many moons ago I went fishing in one of the local lakes in one of those cheapie inflatable rafts for a whole day by myself.

I took some lunch, a cooler full of beer, a bottle of whiskey and a tackle box.
It all fit in that little two man raft perfectly.


I rowed that little sucker way the hell from where I launched it and just sat there drinking and casting a spinner,letting the little breeze push me around the lake all damn day and well past dusk.
As a matter of fact, it got fucking dark. I was lit up good though and dreading the long row back to the beach.

I figured I'd throw the spinner out a couple more times then suck it up and start the long pull back.
I was just going to give it up when I cast out and started to reel back and it felt like I had something.
In all seriousness, I hadn't had a bite all day but actually catching fish was secondary to my plans anyways.

It was so dark out in the middle of that lake that I couldn't even see the end of my pole and of course I was too stupid to bring a flashlight.
I reeled and reeled and when I thought I must be getting close to the end of the line, I put my left hand out, grabbed the line and then pulled the pole way up straight with the other, bringing the line to me at the same time.

All of a sudden I felt something warm and fuzzy when I was expecting something cold wet and slimy.

Before I could comprehend just what in the hell I had on, the little warm fuzzy thing fucking bit me!!

It didn't actually break the skin but by then I was about shitting my pants trying to see what the hell I had on my line and get the damn thing into the raft so I could trap it, whatever the fuck it was. I was flailing around kicking empty beer cans and falling over the cooler while trying to stay somewhat away from whatever it was and not fall into the fucking lake at the same time.

I finally dug my lighter out of my pocket and "Flicked my Bic" so I could see what the fuck was going on, half fucking drunk on my ass in a tiny little raft out in the middle of a very dark lake with no flashlight,no life jacket on and with something that had very sharp teeth and didn't like me at that particular moment. ( I know, I know, no life jacket. I have told you I was a bit crazy, no?)

It was a little bat and it was all wrapped up in my line so it wasn't going anywhere anytime soon.

I had been casting a small spinner bait and the little dude must have thought it was big juicy bug so it went after it and caught it in mid cast.
It wasn't even wet! To this day I remember that little fact and still have no explanation for it because when I finally got it in the boat, it was wrapped two or three times around with line.

let me tell you, visions of foam dripping out of my mouth and howling at the moon went whizzing through my head and I flat fucking hauled ass getting that raft back to the beach a quarter mile away!

I was winded like a motherfucker by the time I got back but the adrenaline was flowing freely because of the fear coursing through me . That was a long row with plenty of time for my imagination to run wild, let me tell ya.
Normally it would have taken me a good half an hour to get all my shit out of the raft and everything stowed away in the back of my truck.
Not that night.

I picked that fucking raft up with the cooler,oars, tackle box ,fishing pole, and that fucking bat all at once and heaved it clear over the tailgate.

I checked real quick that the bat was still there and then hauled ass back to the bar across the street from my house to call the emergency room.
This was when cell phones were still a bit of a luxury item.

Notice my priorities back then?


When I jumped out of my truck I ran to the back to see if the bat was still there because I was in such a rush I didn't think to secure the little fucker better.

Oh, Hell No.

Long gone somewhere between the lake and the bar ten minutes away, it must have chewed through the fishing line.

Fuck me.

Got a beer ordered and called the emergency room to tell them what happened. They told me to get my ass in there ASAP and bring the bat if I have it so they could give me the first in a series of shots and test the bat.

Umm, about that, I says......

I'm sure you remember the horror stories of old where they had to give Rabies shots into your stomach?
I did and my balls were suddenly hiding in a place that you would think would be physically impossible.

When I finally get there, they assure me that they don't do that anymore but they want to know who is going to pay for this shot and have you been drinking?

Ahhh, yeah.
A friend dropped me off I says.


This was 1992 or abouts and they then informed me that the one shot cost $750!!!


Fuck me, I ain't got that kind of money.

I dug in my wallet and got the 800 number for my insurance and promptly got a hold of someone as clueless as I was and who didn't have any idea if they covered Rabies shots or not. I suppose it's not something they run into every day anyway and by now it is ten at night so there wasn't anyone around who would know.

I finally told the nurse that I would pay it if they billed me and that mollified the wench enough so off I go to get a nice big shot of Rabies Anti Toxin right in my ass cheek. It wasn't a little bottle like those in the picture either, that fucker was a big as a shot glass and the syringe had a God Damn harpoon on the end of it!


I was then informed that this incident had to be reported to the County and that I was to report to the Public Heath Extension within a week for the next round or very bad things would happen.

One shot a week, for six weeks.

Thankfully the County paid for it but I had to show up on time every week for six weeks to get my shots.They were pretty serious about it too. That's where I got the little bottles from.

My insurance wound up paying half the first one two months later but the hospital made me pay for it all at once, a weeks pay plus some vacation pay thrown it to make it all.

I was a fucked duck for a couple of weeks after that.

For the next entire year the cocksuckers at work called me Batman after I told them what happened.

So now you know, I have had my shots.

I still get this urge to howl at the Full Moon once in a while though.
Nothing to worry about I'm sure......

Saturday, May 16, 2015

Rule# 5

Dayuuuuuuum what a cutie.





Found here from a link in the comments over at Irish's place.

Our Current Political System


.GIF swiped fair and square right out from under Chief Nose Wetter's cold, wet nose over at This Ain't Holy Water.

You really should be checking his site out, he comes up with some good stuff.

Friday, May 15, 2015

Tsarnaev Gets Death Penalty

Good.

Tsarnaev Jury Reaches Decision In Penalty Phase Of Boston Bombing Case


I don't think I have to articulate what my thoughts are on this if you have been around here long. The quicker the better.

BOSTON — The jury has come to a decision: A sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev -- death by execution or life in prison -- is expected at 3 p.m. today. After more than two days of deliberations, the federal jury will delivered its verdict, closing one of the most painful chapters in Boston's history.

The judgment comes from the same group of seven women and five men who found Tsarnaev guilty on all 30 counts related to the April 15, 2013, bomb attacks and four-day manhunt. The jury found him responsible for killing four people, seriously maiming 17 and injuring hundreds more.

Lucille Has Been Silenced Forever

Damn, another one.

B.B. King passed away last night.

It's a sad day again.

The man was a legend before I was even born.

I certainly don't have the words that would do him any kind of justice and wouldn't try to pretend I had.

All I can say is God rest his soul and play some of his music that entertained millions of people spanning multiple generations.

This is from a documentary and B.B. is playing for the prisoners in Sing Sing Prison on Thanksgiving day.




Future generations will have no idea what we have lost today.

Thursday, May 14, 2015

I Has A Sad

I just received word that a dear lady that I have known my entire life has passed on.

She was the neighbor lady that lived across the street from My Grandmother and was 100 years old last Christmas time.

My Grandparents bought the house that they lived in from her and her Husband way back in the fifties and they lived across the street from each other for over fifty years.
Her husband died back in the sixties and she lived there alone until well into her late eighties when her son and his wife moved in to help take care of her. My Grandfather died in seventy three and my Grandmother also lived in her house until well into her eighties alone.

Those two were quite the pair.

My Dad and her son were best friends and went into the Navy together in the mid fifties, another son had gotten killed when the boys were out drinking and raising hell in a car wreck on Dead Man's Corner. Missed the turn at a high rate of speed.

My Grandmother never had a washer and dryer , didn't have hot water in the kitchen later on for years and absolutely refused to let anyone come in and fix it.Frugal to the bitter end even when there wasn't a reason to be. Stubborn as only an Irish woman can be too.
I lived with her for several years and she is the reason why I finished High School. The poor woman about worried herself to death over me and I gave her good reason to because I was a wild little bastard back in the day.


They added onto the small house they bought as they could to make room for four kids and as time went by all the additions started leaning away from the original structure and settling so bad the doors wouldn't move as they had become load bearing devices.She had an oil stove that burned diesel but also had a small wood stove she burned paper trash in and was still chopping wood and cutting kindling well into her eighties. My Granny was wayyyy Old School and will be 101 here in late June if she hangs on.

The last straw was when we found out that there was a hole in her bedroom closet floor big enough that you could hide a body in that she had almost fallen into several times.



Her four kids, my Father,Aunts and Uncle got together and purchased a new Double Wide and had the old house torn down and burned.


Those two women were a fixture in that little out of town neighborhood for decades.
They had a little signal going on in the mornings when they got up later in life that was pretty clever.

When one of them got up in the mornings, they would open the curtains in the kitchen to let the other one know that they were up and everything was OK that morning.
If the curtains didn't get opened up by a certain time then that meant something wasn't right.
Someone was sick or something and that meant a phone call was in order to find out what the problem was.

Daphne's husband had built a huge shop that I am jealous of to this day and the neighbors would ask to borrow it on occasion.

She didn't like letting people use it because of the liability but there was another neighbor that she would let use it I believe that was just to give her something to complain about.

When Grandma had to drive to town to pay bills, she couldn't just mail them because there was no mail boxes out front, she had a PO Box, she would let Daphne know and those two old birds would go running around and always wind up at Burger King for a Whopper.

That used to crack my ass up.
Daphne used to send me five dollars in a card for my birthday until I was almost fifty years old.

Rest In Peace my dear lady.

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Dethguild: Twenty Rules To live By As America Goes To Hell

I stumbled on this outfit some time ago and it is one of those Blogs that I should really pay more attention to.
There are some intelligent people over there and sometimes they really drive one home.

This is not a seriously mind jarring piece but more of an acknowledgement that yes, this country is swirling the drain, more people should wake the fuck up and realize that for a fact and start acting accordingly, because we aren't in Kansas anymore Toto.

After sitting down with a few adult beverages, they came up with a not so tongue in cheek list of things that we as a people should really take to heart.

Here are some I snagged that I believe should be paid particular attention to.

You should go read the rest
because this is only the very beginning of what appears to me to be a pretty good list of things to keep in the back of your mind as we wend our way through the long slow collapse of our society that is currently underway and as we try to go about our daily lives.
1: Be as self sufficient as possible without endangering folks or making life unnecessarily miserable.
2: Avoid crowds. Crowds are magnets for all manner of trouble.

(Why I hate living in the city!)

9: A person can know a lot – but can’t master everything. They’ll need tribe to cover the gaps.
10: Do not bring a knife to a gun fight.
11: Never shoot a threat in the face when you can shoot it in the back. From 500 yards away.
12: In a life or death struggle, never employ half measures.
13: There is no shame in fleeing danger.

Should be common sense, no?

I'm not positive but I think they quit making that, or so it appears, it always seems to be in short supply lately.

One should never forget, this is the new normal.

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

A Typical Morning Around Here

Fucking cats, I can't even drink my coffee in peace before they swarm me.


The one right in front is my cat, Baby.

She has.......issues. I got her when she was so small she literally could sit in the palm of my hand.
I think she is about 5 or six years old and when she is in the house, she waits until I sit down and then launches from the floor into my lap. Loves to do that when I am taking a nap too, the little fucker.

"PET ME NOW!!"


She is definitely my cat and she looooooooves me. If I let her, she will lay on my chest for hours but everything has to be on her terms.
If you try to pet her in any other location in the house she freaks the fuck out and bites your ass.
Issues I tells ya, it stems from my drinking days when she was young and as stubborn as a Missouri Mule.
Her favorite thing was to get on the counters and the table looking for goodies. This is a Big No No with me. Cats do not belong on the counters. As we went round and round and round for months with this issue I started giving the little fucker flying lessons finally when she wouldn't get down. She damn well knew better but would look me right in the eyes and do it anyway.
A couple of shots off the wall finally got her attention but she has been real touchy about anyone getting too close to her without it being on her terms ever since. I can understand that and feel bad about it but it is a text book example of having to learn things the hard way. She finally got the message though.

The one on my feet down there is Bitsy.
She used to be my Parents cat.
She is seventeen fucking years old!

No front claws, grumpy just like an old lady and thinks my legs are her personal heating units.

She will wait for me to sit down too and then jumps from the edge of the couch onto the foot rest. She cracks my ass up because she bitches at me until my legs are in just the right spot that she wants them in and then climbs over them and starts snoozing.

I almost got one of the new cats in the picture too, but she booked when I picked the phone up.

There are four of these shedding machines in the house and three, four or six more outside. I lost count.
Only one of those ever comes inside. He is the only dude cat we have, there is a neighbor cat that lives here now but I don't count him.

I think there are four cats that neighbors have either moved away and abandoned or don't feed them like my wife does.

One day last Summer I stepped out back to have a smoke and counted thirteen motherfucking cats in my small backyard.

This doesn't include the family of five Raccoons that my wife leaves cat food out for.

Apparently she neglected to mention that she was Ely May Clampett reincarnated when we got married.

Her and her fucking critters make me crazy so I just ignore them as much as I can.

These two in the picture though, will not be ignored.

So now you see what I get to do when I wake up and the same thing repeats its self when I get home from work and sit down.

I am pussy whipped.





Angel At Lunch, The Early Years


No, you may not have my dessert.

Sunday, May 10, 2015

Who The Fuck Are You?

I went a little overboard yesterday but I think it will be worth it.

My Brother's Girl Friend's father passed away back in 2001 from Alzheimers and she has been waging a one women war on that shit ever since.

She doesn't fuck around either.
She has been the driving force behind an annual charity auction every year for the past 13 years raising money for research into finding a cure for this most hideous disease.
My Brother and her spend months getting this put together with a group of volunteers and bust their asses all day long while this is going on, it's pretty much a twenty hour day for them.

There is a local tavern I used to hang out in where the owners basically turn the place over to her to do this once a year and this was the twelfth year there.

Mind you, this is a tavern, in a smallish town that pretty much caters to the locals and has for many, many years.

Businesses and individuals donate goods and services, they have food and things like Jello Shots, pledge drives and raffle items that all get added in to the final tally.

This year was a banner year and it went from about 4:30 in the afternoon to Midnight.

There was a ton of stuff this year and as usual, every once in a while something would come up that everybody wanted and the bidding wars would take off.


The people of this town have known each other going back generations in some cases and in others they have been friends and neighbors their whole lives, it's a pretty tight knit little community and I miss not living there anymore even though I was one of the most persistent Town Drunks and still have quite the bad reputation for being a crazy asshole.

Anyways, now that I have been sober a few years they have pretty much let bygones be bygones and it's all good.


That little tavern and those local people raised almost THIRTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS in one day at this auction.

That is beyond impressive, it's astounding for a working class area.

To date, including yesterday, this woman has raised almost $180,000 for this research.

My wife tends to get pretty enthusiastic and we always end up spending way more money than I am comfortable with and I have to admit I am right there next to her but we both have a good time and it's for a good cause.

Now, what can this story possibly have to do with the title of this post you ask?

One of the items that went on the auction block was a pair of concert ticket that were donated by a radio station, to go see these guys.



Me, my brother and a bunch of friends got to see The Who way the hell back in the early 80's on their "Final Tour"
Of course that wasn't their last tour obviously but I will guarantee you that this one will be.

I was talking to him about that one a bit and he remembers a whole lot more of it than I do.
We had awesome seats just right of the end of the stage and right next to the speaker stack where Pete Townsend spent most of the night.

My brother told me that we were so close that he could smell the joint that Pete sparked up at one point.

One reason he remembers it better is that he is four years younger than I am and I was about 22 or 23 at the time.

I was also way fucked up that night, drunk, stoned and fried on Acid.

The other reason he remembers more of it is because I also spent a good portion of the concert arguing and fighting with the punk assed Security force motherfuckers because I started getting rowdy and I was on the end of the aisle and three rows up, right next to where the tunnel went back to the lobby and right where all the cocksuckers were hanging out trying to catch people smoking dope all night. That was their big thing back in the day, even then, the smoke was so thick you could cut it with a knife anyway.

It actually got so bad at one point the fuckers were going to drag me out by force and put me in lock up until the cops could take over.

The Acid finally kicked in hard enough that I mellowed out and just started enjoying the show in a big way but they left four of their biggest players right below to me to keep my silly ass in line. Of course me being me, I still fucked with them most of the night off and on anyway.

It was quite the night.


I have mellowed considerably in my old age , don't do drugs or drink anymore so this one should be one I remember hopefully.

Daltry's voice isn't what it used to be and Entwhistle is dead now but I'm sure it will still be worth going to.

One thing is for damn sure, the concert T shirt I get this time is going to be a keeper because this will indeed, be their Final Tour.

Saturday, May 9, 2015

Caturday


A pair of Welding gloves, eye protection and some long nosed needle nose pliers would fix that stupid fucking cat right up.

Just make sure the ass is pointing away from ya when it snaps loose!

World Health Organization Says Liberia Is Free Of Ebola

And I say they are full of shit.

The World Health Organization declared Liberia free of Ebola on Saturday, making it the first of the three hardest-hit West African countries to bring a formal end to the epidemic.

“The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Liberia is over,” the W.H.O. said in a statement. The president of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, planned to attend ceremonies later in the morning to commemorate the dead and celebrate survivors.

As of Saturday, two maximum incubation periods of the virus, a total of 42 days, had passed since the burial of the last person confirmed to have had Ebola in Liberia, fulfilling the official criteria for concluding that human-to-human transmission of the virus has ended. According to the W.H.O., there were more than 3,000 confirmed Ebola cases in Liberia, and a further 7,400 suspected or probable cases, with more than 4,700 deaths estimated to have occurred since the outbreak was declared there in March of 2014. Among the dead were 189 health care workers.

Anyone remember seeing the story about the doctor who they claimed was Ebola free only to find the shit was hibernating in his fucking eyeball?

(CNN)American doctor Ian Crozier was treated for Ebola in Atlanta last year and declared free of the virus in his blood. But he had no way of knowing it still lurked in his eye.

At the time, his eyes were the least of his worries.

"There were lots of things sort of higher on the food chain," he told CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360." "I was struggling to learn to walk again."

But not long after, mild burning and light sensitivity afflicted his eyes.

Less than two months later, he was back at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta; testing showed the virus was still living in his eye.

So the people at the WHO are doing the same thing as our government does to us constantly.
They create some artificial set of parameters and the instant the numbers fall into this artificial construct then they crank up the propaganda machine.
Unemployment numbers and Cost of Living are two that immediately come to mind.
Hell, even if they don't fall where the bastards want they will twist them unmercifully and outright lie to make them look the way they want.
My point here is that to start jumping up and down and waving your arms in some kind of victory dance because they say that Ebola has been contained would be more of a celebration of your gullibility.

That virus is still all over the damn place over there, thousands of people are probably carrying it around with them, they are just asymptomatic at this time.

You watch though, they will have enough of the perpetually clueless convinced that everything is hunky dory over there and that everything can go back to what passes for normal over there.

Yeah, you sonsabitches just stay over there and don't be trying to get on an airplane and head straight over here unless you plan on stopping by the Whitehouse for a tour first thing you get here.

Friday, May 8, 2015

Hey Zoomie, Christmas Is Coming...

This little fucker is bad assed!






Courtesy of Ernie's House of Whoop Ass

I have been cruising by his place off and on for over a decade now.
Guns girls and  weird shit, it's a huge time sink!

(NSFW)

Thursday, May 7, 2015

Federal judge rules the NSA does not have the authority to mass collect phone info.

I am on my way out the door so this is quick and dirty.

NSA lacks authority to collect data on all U.S. phone calls, federal court rules

Los Angeles Times | May 7, 2015 | 7:20 AM
The National Security Agency does not have legal authority to collect and store data on all U.S. telephone calls, ?a federal appeals court ruled today.

The decision, the first by an appellate court on the government's sweeping data-collection program, says the Patriot Act does not give the NSA the authority it claims to collect so-called metadata on calls by people who are not specific targets of investigations.

No Time For It Right Now

Have some boobs.






Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Coming Soon To a State Near You, ISIS Claims To Have Over 70 Trained Soldiers With Orders Inside Several States.

There is going to be a very large can of Whoop Ass opened up here sooner rather than later if these assholes start killing large amounts of Americans inside our own country.

I first saw this over at Sam Kerodin's place but he got it from The Gateway Pundit.

There, the original sources are linked to in case you want to go look them up.

After the two alleged Jihadi's got ventilated down in Texas at the Draw Mohammed event sponsored by Pam Gellar, ISIS has now marked her for death and claims anyone helping her, protecting her or even being in the vicinity of her is a target also.
Going even further, they claim to have over 70 trained fighters already staged in 15 states here in the U.S., with twenty already having targets and orders.

I am going to paste the message these cretins sent but first I want to run some numbers real quick.

They claim to have seventy one fighters here.
There are 320 million Americans here who own 500 Million firearms.

I wonder if these guys have really thought this plan through?

I am going to bet they pull some shit here, that's what they do but logistics is what wins wars and these assclowns aren't even in the same geologic time period compared to what we can bring to the table.

Nonetheless, they have thrown down the gauntlet according to what I am reading here.

Bismillah Ar Rahman Ar Raheem

“The New Era”

To our brothers and sisters fighting for the Sake of Allah, we make dua for you and ask Allah to guide your bullets, terrify your enemies, and establish you in the Land. As our noble brother in the Phillipines said in his bayah, “This is the Golden Era, everyone who believes… is running for Shaheed”.

The attack by the Islamic State in America is only the beginning of our efforts to establish a wiliyah in the heart of our enemy. Our aim was the khanzeer Pamela Geller and to show her that we don’t care what land she hides in or what sky shields her; we will send all our Lions to achieve her slaughter. This will heal the hearts of our brothers and disperse the ones behind her. To those who protect her: this will be your only warning of housing this woman and her circus show. Everyone who houses her events, gives her a platform to spill her filth are legitimate targets. We have been watching closely who was present at this event and the shooter of our brothers. We knew that the target was protected. Our intention was to show how easy we give our lives for the Sake of Allah.

We have 71 trained soldiers in 15 different states ready at our word to attack any target we desire. Out of the 71 trained soldiers 23 have signed up for missions like Sunday, We are increasing in number bithnillah. Of the 15 states, 5 we will name… Virginia, Maryland, Illinois, California, and Michigan. The disbelievers who shot our brothers think that you killed someone untrained, nay, they gave you their bodies in plain view because we were watching.

The next six months will be interesting, To our Amir Al Mu’mineen make dua for us and continue your reign, May Allah enoble your face.

May Allah send His peace and blessings upon our Prophet Muhummad and all those who follow until the last Day.

Abu Ibrahim Al Ameriki

Read more at The Gateway Pundit.

I have no doubt that these people are serious, none.
However, unlike some other countries on this rock spinning through space, we have the very real capability of turning large chunks of Real Estate into large chunks of radioactive glass.

Of course we will have to wait until Barack Obama is out of office to really go after these goat fuckers but if they do successfully launch a series of attacks here in the Continental United States I will guarantee you two things, the next President of the United States will not be a Democrat and we will be hunting Jihadi's like nothing this world has ever seen before.

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Fox News Gets It Right For Once, "Note to jihadists, in America, we shoot back"

Fuckin' A right we do.

Before I go one step farther with this I want to emphasize the same thing the article points out towards the bottom and that nobody has heard one word about this from the Whitehouse,even after Bobby Freakin' Jindal of all people, pointedly asked Obama to denounce Radical Islam.

Nada fucking word comrade.

Sometimes silence speaks volumes.

Now, as Paul Harvey used to say, the rest of the story....


Todd's American Dispatch

Muhammad cartoon contest: Note to jihadists, in America, we shoot back


 Todd Starnes

 



Oh there is more and some puke from the New York Times opened his yap only to get bitch slapped hard and then some other puke over in Britain opened his and got some too.
The retort to that NYT fluffer is priceless, you have to go read that shit.

It was a thing of beauty.

Fucking apologists and professional political cock holsters jump in shaking their fingers and find that there are those of us who have had enough of their shit, just like those two wannabe Jihadi's made a fatal mistake thinking that there are nothing but defenseless sheep in this country like some other parts of the world.

I have another thing these people might want to keep in mind the next time they plan on doing something retarded like this.

There are some places in this country where there are more guns than people and the people who own those guns know how to use them .

You might get lucky and you might get dead.

Those two got dead and rightly so in my opinion.





Monday, May 4, 2015

Deleting Your Google Search History

You can download and peruse what Google has collected about you over the years in a Zip file then open it up and watch in horror as everything you have ever searched for comes rushing back onto the screen right in front of your eyes. Or, you can delete that sucker forever going all the way back to your first Google search or as they put it, "To the beginning of time".

Or you can do both.

I had done this once a few years ago and then went into their preferences page and turned off the history function so according to what they tell you to your face, they do not collect and save anything after that point. (cough, cough)


Here’s How to Download and Delete What Google Search Knows About You

 


Daniel HowleyTechnology ReporterApril 23, 2015


 

Have you ever wondered what Google Search really knows about you? Well, now you can check, as Google has added a new feature that lets you view and download your entire search history.
Yep. Everything.
The feature, which was spotted by the unofficial Google Operating System Blog — though VentureBeat points out that the function was made available in January — gives you access to everything from what you searched for to the links you clicked on from those searches. It also shows you the addresses you’ve searched for.
I was even able to see the list of images I clicked on while searching for pictures of cats eating spaghetti. Now imagine what you’ve looked for. Oh, and clearing your browser history won’t delete this data.
But there’s no reason to panic, because in addition to being able to download your search history, you can clear it.

First, here’s how to download your history:

 

You click on that link right there and you go follow the very easy directions that nice fellow researched and published! 

 


One warning before you run over there and just blindly go deleting it without looking, there may very well be something in there that you want to save first, this is why downloading it first is a good idea.

The reason I say that is because not only does Google save your search history, those bastards have got their fingers in all kinds of pies that you might not think of right away, like images.
I found some very old family pictures from one of my Grandmothers side that were sent to me by her cousin that Google had stored and I did not remember doing.

I looked and didn't see a copy on this computer so I am guessing that they were saved on a computer that died and I no longer own but were also on some Google Drive thingy I didn't remember either.

Seriously, I don't want to step on anyone's toe's here, all I am doing is passing on the information that it is possible to do such a thing and giving you a map to find those directions.

You can bet your ass I deleted MY history though.........

I stumbled on this over at SurvivalBlog while cruising around.

Sunday, May 3, 2015

Utah Police Hail Man With CCW For Protecting Woman, Shooting Attempted Car Jacker

One less scumbag in the world today thanks to this guy who they haven't named yet.

The Perp had multiple Felony warrants out and had already beat up another woman earlier and took her rig, he was trying to get away by stealing another one.

Ooops.

He fucked with the wrong guy.

Police: Man shoots, kills would-be carjacker outside store.

 

OREM, Utah (AP) — A shopper with a concealed weapons permit shot and killed a man who was trying to carjack a woman Saturday outside a Utah grocery store, officers said.
The 31-year-old male shooter was in Macey's parking lot in Orem, 45 miles south of Salt Lake City, when he heard a woman's screams as she was being pulled from her SUV by the suspect, investigators said.
The man told police he went to assist the woman, and the 27-year-old male suspect lunged at him in an attempt to grab his gun.
The man fired one round at the suspect, hitting him in the chest. The suspect later died at a hospital.
No other injuries were reported.

Snip


Police Capt. Ned Jackson said it appears the suspect was unarmed at the time, but several felony warrants had been issued for his arrest.
Jackson didn't think the shooter would face charges but said the investigation is ongoing.
The shooter had stopped at the store to buy food before going out for target shooting.

The suspect allegedly assaulted a woman earlier Saturday and drove to the Macey's parking lot in a stolen pickup. Once there, he exited the truck and tried to carjack the woman at about 11:20 a.m., police said.

He's a good thug now.


 



Saturday, May 2, 2015

Hartford Connecticut PD Audit Can't Account For 200,000 Rounds Of Ammunition

That, is a lot of ammo .

Read this article and see if it passes the sniff test to you because something stinks to High Heaven when I read it.

Snippets of this should be enough for you to go to the link above and finish reading the original article because you couldn't make this up and there is some bullshit going on even though they are trying to say everything is under control now.

The audit, conducted by Hartford's chief auditor, H. Patrick Campbell, at the request of Police Chief James Rovella, found that the range administrator — identified by Hartford police as Officer Louis Crabtree — purchased an average of 485,000 rounds per year over the past six years, more than 1,000 rounds each for the force of about 400 officers.


But the auditor found that the department would not need more than 240,000 rounds a year, and was actually using about 180,000 rounds. What about the other 200,000-plus rounds? There were no records of ammunition purchased, held in storage or distributed to police officers. Where is it? Documentation "was not adequate to ensure that all ammunition ... was used for HPD purposes and not misappropriated."

snip
Officer Crabtree was dealing with a vendor in Greenfield, Mass., who kept only paper records on a notepad. They don't sell bullets in Connecticut?

Mr. Campbell found that over a 10-month period in 2014, Mr. Crabtree purchased 94,500 rounds of .45-caliber and 9mm ammunition, at a cost of more than $33,000 — even though in 2012 Hartford switched to .40-caliber handguns. According to the audit, Mr. Crabtree acknowledged the purchase of the .45-caliber and 9mm rounds, but said that he did so with the purpose of trading for .40-caliber rounds, which he claimed were in short supply.



It appears that Officer Crabtree has since retired and if by some strange happenstance they find evidence of wrong doing then the State's Attorney will be notified.



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