Fuck its silent in here.......

[Wheezer]

Perry's friends from the AFA seem to be getting ambitious. It's not just the damned Department of Education, we have to end the unconstitutional practice of maintaining highways. (Why do you think the L-rd makes pavement buckle in the first place?)

[Eli]

Jeb Bush is going to be in charge of a for-profit disaster relief company because, why not?

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/09/16/jeb-bush-to-lead-for-profit-disaster-response-company/

[J. Walter Weatherman]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-texas-death-20110916,0,3367730.story

The U.S. Supreme Court stopped Texas officials Thursday evening from executing a Houston murderer who was sentenced to die after jurors were told he posed a greater danger to public safety because he is black.

The justices acted on an emergency appeal after Texas Gov. Rick Perry and state judges refused to intervene.

The high court's brief order said the "stay of execution of sentence of death ... is granted" while the justices decide whether to review the case of Duane Edward Buck.

...

The dispute dates back to 2000, when then-Texas Atty. Gen. John Cornyn acknowledged to the Supreme Court that prosecutors had violated the Constitution by relying on race-based arguments in six death penalty cases. Buck's case was one of them, and he was the only one who did not receive a new sentencing hearing.

The other cases had been pending in federal court, while Buck's was in state court. Later, after Cornyn was elected to the U.S. Senate and a new attorney general took over, state prosecutors argued that Buck's rights were not violated, and they won in the lower courts.

Last week, Perry said during a GOP presidential debate that he "never struggled" over the death penalty because "the state of Texas has a very thoughtful, very clear process in place." During Perry's 11 years in office, the state has carried out 235 executions.

The sentencing dispute arose because of an unusual provision in Texas' death penalty law. Jurors were required to consider whether a convicted murderer would pose a future danger if he were sentenced to life in prison rather than death. In a series of cases, Dr. Walter Quijano, a psychologist, testified that blacks posed a greater risk of "future dangerousness" than whites.

Buck's trial took place in 1997. During the sentencing phase, Quijano testified for the defense that Buck was not likely to be dangerous because he had no previous history of violence. But when a prosecutor asked about the "race factor," the psychologist said blacks posed more of a danger than whites. Prosecutors cited this testimony in their closing argument, and the jury voted for the death penalty.

...

[Wheezer]

Well, Romans 12:19 doesn't say anything about killing out of sheer stupidity.

[CT III]

Texas is definitely my favorite futuristic dystopian universe.

[Tinker to Evers to Chance]

Jeb Bush is going to be in charge of a for-profit disaster relief company because, why not?

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/09/16/jeb-bush-to-lead-for-profit-disaster-response-company/

And now, reading the comments with Gil^TM

Now all he has to do is create the emergency.  Hmmmm.  Maybe,  planes into towers.

If a Bush family member is running a "for profit disaster response company" you can bet your life savings, with extreme confidence of a very large gain, that they will be creating the disasters....

get ready for some profitable disasters...it seems to run in the family...where was jeb when marvin`s security needed him on 9/11?...luckily, controlled demolition made the cleanup much easier...rudy, what happened to the gold?...you didn`t accidentally melt it with thermate did ya`?...i`m sure marvin and the boys thought of that well ahead of time...right before they hedged airline stocks with it...

[J. Walter Weatherman]

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201110/leonardo-dicaprio-clint-eastwood-gq-october-2011-cover-story#slide=4

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21, because he promised to get us out of the Korean War. And over the years, I realized there was a Republican philosophy that I liked. And then they lost it. And libertarians had more of it. Because what I really believe is, let's spend a little more time leaving everybody alone. These people who are making a big deal out of gay marriage? I don't give a fuck about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We're making a big deal out of things we shouldn't be making a deal out of.... They go on and on with all this bullshit about "sanctity"—don't give me that sanctity crap! Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want.

[Wheezer]

But will it play with in Poughkeepsie?

Not even letting DiCaprio finish his thought, Eastwood interrupts:

"It's not a movie about two gay guys. It's a movie about how this guy manipulated everybody around him and managed to stay on through nine presidents. I mean, I don't give a crap if he was gay or not."

Right, why would his being a closeted homosexual shed any light on why Hoover persecuted LGBT Americans and other people on the fringes of society for decades? It's almost hard to believe that the script for J. Edgar, which his theaters on November 9, was written by screenwriter/activist Dustin Lance Black.

[Chuck to Chuck]

Gov. Christie's smart and proper veto of the "Snooki Subsidy" has caused Grover Norquist's head to spin.

See, cancellation of a tax subsidy is really a tax increase.  So, we now have Gov. Christie outside the Norquist/GOP orthodoxy on tax policy.

And this guy is the great GOP hope?

[J. Walter Weatherman]

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/elections/2011/09/27/votinghack/index.html

It could be one of the most disturbing e-voting machine hacks to date.

Voting machines used by as many as a quarter of American voters heading to the polls in 2012 can be hacked with just $10.50 in parts and an 8th grade science education, according to computer science and security experts at the Vulnerability Assessment Team at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. The experts say the newly developed hack could change voting results while leaving absolutely no trace of the manipulation behind.

"We believe these man-in-the-middle attacks are potentially possible on a wide variety of electronic voting machines," said Roger Johnston, leader of the assessment team "We think we can do similar things on pretty much every electronic voting machine."

...

The team's video demonstrates how inserting the inexpensive electronic device into the voting machine can offer a "bad guy" virtually complete control over the machine. A cheap remote control unit can enable access to the voting machine from up to half a mile away.

"The cost of the attack that you're going to see was $10.50 in retail quantities," explains Warner in the video. "If you want to use the RF [radio frequency] remote control to stop and start the attacks, that's another $15. So the total cost would be $26."

...

In what Warner describes as "probably the most relevant attack for vote tampering," the intruder would allow the voter to make his or her selections. But when the voter actually attempts to push the Vote Now button, which records the voter's final selections to the system's memory card, he says, "we will simply intercept that attempt ... change a few of the votes," and  the changed votes would then be registered in the machine.

"In order to do this," Warner explains, "we blank the screen temporarily so that the voter doesn't see that there's some revoting going on prior to the final registration of the votes."

This type of attack is particularly troubling because the manipulation would occur after the voter has approved as "correct" the on-screen summaries of his or her intended selections. Team leader Johnson says that while such an attack could be mounted on Election Day, there would be "a high probability of being detected." But he explained that the machines could also be tampered with during so-called voting machine "sleepovers" when e-voting systems are kept by poll workers at their houses, often days and weeks prior to the election or at other times when the systems are  unguarded.

"The more realistic way to insert these alien electronics is to do it while the voting machines are waiting in the polling place a week or two prior to the election," Johnston said. "Often the polling places are in elementary schools or a church basement or some place that doesn't really have a great deal of security. Or the voting machines can be tampered while they're in transit to the polling place. Or while they're in storage in the warehouse between elections," says Johnston. He notes that the Argonne team had no owner's manual or circuit diagrams for either the Diebold or Sequoia voting systems they were able to access in these attacks.

...

Watch their video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMw2dn6K1oI

Related: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ClrHPShljM

[CT III]

It could be one of the most disturbing e-voting machine hacks to date.

Voting machines used by as many as a quarter of American voters heading to the polls in 2012 can be hacked with just $10.50 in parts and an 8th grade science education, according to computer science and security experts at the Vulnerability Assessment Team at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. The experts say the newly developed hack could change voting results while leaving absolutely no trace of the manipulation behind.

...

Big deal.  There are like what, 12 Americans that currently possess both these things?

[Chuck to Chuck]

It could be one of the most disturbing e-voting machine hacks to date.

Voting machines used by as many as a quarter of American voters heading to the polls in 2012 can be hacked with just $10.50 in parts and an 8th grade science education, according to computer science and security experts at the Vulnerability Assessment Team at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. The experts say the newly developed hack could change voting results while leaving absolutely no trace of the manipulation behind.

...

Big deal.  There are like what, 12 Americans that currently possess both these things?

That's your Congressional Supercommittee.

[Wheezer]

A masterstroke from "Judson Phillips" at Tea Party Nation. The tsunami image, while seemingly confused, is chilling.

There is an absolute rule of human nature. Desperate people do stupid things. Desperate people say stupid things. The more desperate someone is, the more likely they are to do something that reveals their true intentions.

Nothing could be truer than with the Democrat Party right now.

Why are they desperate and what are the true intentions they are revealing?

They are desperate because they see the tsunami coming. As water recedes from a beach before the tidal wave, the signs are there that 2012 will be such a disaster for the Party of Treason that it may take a generation for it to recover, if it can ever recover.

Election forecasts show significant gains for the GOP in the House, expanding their margin. The GOP is poised to take control of the Senate and if trends continue, the only real question will be does the GOP get a super majority in the Senate. And the White House increasingly feels like the Titanic, inexorably sinking with nothing that can be done to stop it and no lifeboats for the socialist ideas the Obama/Pelosi/Reid axis of fiscal evil wants to impose on this nation.

The desperation to impose socialism on America against the will of the American people is now being seen from members of the Party of Treason. They speak openly of the problems of liberty.

Peter Orszag was the Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Obama Regime. In a recent interview in the left leaning The New Republic magazine, he said:

"So what to do? To solve the serious problems facing our country, we need to minimize the harm from legislative inertia by relying more on automatic policies and depoliticized commissions for certain policy decisions. In other words, radical as it sounds, we need to counter the gridlock of our political institutions by making them a bit less democratic."

Of course, there is the answer right there. Let's kill liberty. Let's take away the rights of the people to vote, to speak, to petition their government for redress of grievances.

Liberals love dictatorships. In a dictatorship, they can just push their crackpot ideas and not have to worry about the little people complaining about a few minor details like, the ideas don't work. The ideas suck.

Their model has worked so well in the past. History has the precedents of their ideas. Just look at the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and China under Mao, Eastern Europe under the Warsaw Pact, Vietnam after 1975, Cambodia and Cuba.

Seeing the handwriting on the wall, left wing North Carolina Governor and certifiable lunatic Bev Perdue said yesterday:

"You have to have more ability from Congress, I think, to work together and to get over the partisan bickering and focus on fixing things. I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that."

What Bev Perdue and the left do not want is the next election that is going sweep them out of power. This is the moment where they will be the most dangerous. Between the unelected czars and the left's last desperate gasp, as they try to push socialism down our throats one last time, we face not only the time of greatest peril but also the time of greatest opportunity.

We must find new leaders to replace these bad leaders. The people we select must have as an overriding belief in the idea that big government must be dismantled and we must take steps to ensure that never again is a socialist in the White House.

We need to remember the words our founding fathers put in the Declaration of Independence.

"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,"

We must make certain we have new leaders in 2012 to replace the bad leadership we have had. We must make certain that our new leaders are committed to liberty and the destruction of big government. Our government needs much altering. Let us alter government before it becomes destructive of these ends and requires abolition.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Maybe you've seen it already, but this is fucked up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moD2JnGTToA

Keep your eye on the officer in the white who comes into frame at the top right around 18 seconds in.

In slo-mo. The lead up to it from a different angle.

The aftermath:



And here he is again, giving a separate crowd a quick spritz of their own.

Context for both, starting at 2:40 in this video.

A job well done all around, Deputy Inspector Bologna.

I still haven't washed off the splattered milk from my shoes. We had to use milk to wash the pepper spray out the woman's eyes. I still hear her screaming in pain, I can't believe they pepper sprayed a deaf woman. Her sobbing, saying how much it hurt as we held her head spraying milk into her eyes and on her face. The last time I saw her, we had to flee from the police who were arresting everyone on 12th street. She escaped into a movie theater with the help of others because she still couldn't open her eyes. After witnessing how much pain she was in I will never forget what this man did on a physical and emotional level to many people on Saturday. He created a war zone. I don't want to think that all of the NYPD is like this because I also met some very fine members of our cities police force on Saturday. Officers who cared about people and the protesters. I looked around at the police officers who were holding the net around us right after the pepper spray was discharged and they were flabbergasted. Three policemen were in the line of fire and almost got hit. Many of them stared down with sad eyes, not able to let go off the orange barrier to help a human being. They had to do their job but I know concern was in their minds.

http://bostonreview.net/BR36.5/jeanne_mansfield_occupy_wall_street.php

The white-shirted cops are shouting at us to get off the street as they corral us onto the sidewalk. One African American man gets on the curb but refuses to be pushed up against the wall of the building; they throw him into the street, and five cops tackle him. As he's being cuffed, a white kid with a video camera asks him "What's your name?! What's your name?!" One of the blue-shirted cops thinks he's too close and gives him a little shove. A white-shirt sees this, grabs the kid and without hesitation billy-clubs him in the stomach.

At this point, the crowd of twenty or so caught in the orange fence is shouting "Shame! Shame! Who are you protecting?! YOU are the 99 percent! You're fighting your own people!" A white-shirt, now known to be NYPD Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna, comes from the left, walks straight up to the three young girls at the front of the crowd, and pepper-sprays them in the face for a few seconds, continuing as they scream "No! Why are you doing that?!" The rest of us in the crowd turn away from the spray, but it's unavoidable. My left eye burns and goes blind and tears start streaming down my face. Frank grabs my arm and shoves us through the small gap between the orange fence and the brick wall while everyone stares in shock and horror at the two girls on the ground and two more doubled over screaming as their eyes ooze. In the street I shout for water to rinse my eyes or give to the girls on the ground, but no one responds. One of the blue-shirts, tall and bald, stares in disbelief and says, "I can't believe he just fuckin' maced us." And it becomes clear that the white-shirts are a different species. We need to get out of there.

[World's #1 Astros Fan]

Maybe you've seen it already, but this is fucked up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moD2JnGTToA

Keep your eye on the officer in the white who comes into frame at the top right around 18 seconds in.

In slo-mo. The lead up to it from a different angle.

The aftermath:



And here he is again, giving a separate crowd a quick spritz of their own.

Context for both, starting at 2:40 in this video.

A job well done all around, Deputy Inspector Bologna.

I still haven't washed off the splattered milk from my shoes. We had to use milk to wash the pepper spray out the woman's eyes. I still hear her screaming in pain, I can't believe they pepper sprayed a deaf woman. Her sobbing, saying how much it hurt as we held her head spraying milk into her eyes and on her face. The last time I saw her, we had to flee from the police who were arresting everyone on 12th street. She escaped into a movie theater with the help of others because she still couldn't open her eyes. After witnessing how much pain she was in I will never forget what this man did on a physical and emotional level to many people on Saturday. He created a war zone. I don't want to think that all of the NYPD is like this because I also met some very fine members of our cities police force on Saturday. Officers who cared about people and the protesters. I looked around at the police officers who were holding the net around us right after the pepper spray was discharged and they were flabbergasted. Three policemen were in the line of fire and almost got hit. Many of them stared down with sad eyes, not able to let go off the orange barrier to help a human being. They had to do their job but I know concern was in their minds.

http://bostonreview.net/BR36.5/jeanne_mansfield_occupy_wall_street.php

The white-shirted cops are shouting at us to get off the street as they corral us onto the sidewalk. One African American man gets on the curb but refuses to be pushed up against the wall of the building; they throw him into the street, and five cops tackle him. As he's being cuffed, a white kid with a video camera asks him "What's your name?! What's your name?!" One of the blue-shirted cops thinks he's too close and gives him a little shove. A white-shirt sees this, grabs the kid and without hesitation billy-clubs him in the stomach.

At this point, the crowd of twenty or so caught in the orange fence is shouting "Shame! Shame! Who are you protecting?! YOU are the 99 percent! You're fighting your own people!" A white-shirt, now known to be NYPD Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna, comes from the left, walks straight up to the three young girls at the front of the crowd, and pepper-sprays them in the face for a few seconds, continuing as they scream "No! Why are you doing that?!" The rest of us in the crowd turn away from the spray, but it's unavoidable. My left eye burns and goes blind and tears start streaming down my face. Frank grabs my arm and shoves us through the small gap between the orange fence and the brick wall while everyone stares in shock and horror at the two girls on the ground and two more doubled over screaming as their eyes ooze. In the street I shout for water to rinse my eyes or give to the girls on the ground, but no one responds. One of the blue-shirts, tall and bald, stares in disbelief and says, "I can't believe he just fuckin' maced us." And it becomes clear that the white-shirts are a different species. We need to get out of there.

Yes.  I believe they're called "lieutenants", no?