Good Ole’ Nazi Amerika – TSA Thugs Destroy a Teen’s $10,000 Insulin Pump And Then Grope Her Too

Every time I think we have reached a new low in what the thugs from the Transportation Security Administration are capable of, they utterly defy the impossible and commit a new outrage against Liberty.  We have covered a seeming plethora of acts inflicted against citizens by the TSA, that if you or I committed in our private lives, we would be deservedly sitting in jail or a civil court for.

We have already brought you stories of TSA outrages, like the time when agents grabbed the genitals of a US Congressman, and then had the temerity to accuse him of committing assault!  Thugs from the TSA also molested a 6 year-old child, after accusing her of being a gun smuggler.  We have also cataloged for you an entire series of cases where the TSA has engaged in deviance, waste, fraud, and general abuse.

Now, we have an even worse tale of misconduct by the TSA.  I know you’re probably thinking, “Uncle Andy, how does it get worse than smacking a Congressman’s genitals or accusing a six year-old of being a gun smuggler?”  The TSA couldn’t have done anything worse than that, could they?

Like the snake oil salesman on a bad infomercial, all I have to say to that query is ”but wait, there’s more!”

The new outrage committed by the TSA involves them destroying the insulin pump of a 16 year-old girl.  Yes, you read that correctly.  TSA thugs at the Salt Lake City airport destroyed the $10,000 insulin pump belonging to 16 year-old Savannah Barry, by insisting she go through the full body imaging center, even though she had a note from her physician stating she should not be forced to enter the scanning station.  You can watch video of an interview with Ms. Barry up above, and you can read the story here from the Denver ABC affiliate.

The amusing aspect of all this is that it was Ms. Barry’s sugary juice drinks which set the fatheaded rocket scientists at the TSA into a frenzy.  The geniuses with cloth badges sewn upon their shirts didn’t know what to do in the face of dangers posed by the dreaded Capri Sun drink pouches.  I guess the Taliban is a fan of extreme Fruit Punch.  That’s why you should just stick to drinking Victory Gin.

Not only did the TSA goons shove Ms. Barry through the full body imaging scanner, destroying her insulin pump, but then the government hireling monsters added insult to injury by giving her a pat down anyway.  After pushing this child through the scanner, there was no probable cause or reasonable suspicion to justify a sweaty, disgusting pervert in a TSA uniform sliding his or her hands all up and down the body of this young lady.

If you or I waltzed up to Ms. Barry and placed our hands all up and down her without cause, we’d end up in jail, and deservedly so.  So why can these high school dropouts from the TSA do that very thing?  The TSA, and government in general, are utterly out of control.

The other troubling aspect of this story is the fact that aside from the local ABC Denver affiliate, no news agency was covering this story.  Nobody but bloggers and message boards are talking about this.  Google the story if you don’t believe me.  If you don’t think the government-media complex is in  an unholy cabal against you, the citizen, then you truly are a sheeple.  You deserve to have your property destroyed and find yourself groped by the TSA, for your stupidity alone, if you are so naive as to believe that the state and the media are not both snugly in bed with each other.  Blind obedience to the state is sheer folly.

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Two Federal Prosecutors Admonished For Killing Senator Ted Stevens

Two overpaid, conniving, disgusting, scum sucking vermin federal prosecutors are getting a combined 45 day suspension for professional misconduct in the case of former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens.  The prosecutorial misconduct committed by Joseph Bottini and James Goeke set off a cascading series of events, that while unforseen, led directly to the death of Senator Stevens.

This story dates back several years, starting with an investigation by the Injustice Department, accusing Senator Stevens of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal gifts from wealthy Republican donors.  Events culminated a week before the 2008 election, when a jury convicted Senator Stevens of several felony charges that he lied about the gifts.  The row cost Stevens his Senate seat, as he lost it in the election only a few days later.

A few months later in April 2009, the case and conviction were tossed out by a judge after the Justice Department admitted misconduct by two of its prosecutors.  At the heart of this misconduct by Bottini and Goeske was the fact they purposefully withheld important information exonerating Senator Stevens from his defense team.

From the story:

The government’s star witness in the Stevens prosecution, Bill Allen, testified that he oversaw extensive renovations at Stevens’ home and sent his employees to work on it. Allen is the millionaire founder of VECO Corp., an Alaska company that provided support for oil producers. Stevens’ defense was that the senator and his wife understood that VECO’s costs for its employees’ work on the renovation were included in the bills the senator received.

The OPR said in a report that Bottini failed to provide Stevens’ lawyers with information from Allen that was inconsistent with Allen’s later interviews and trial testimony.

In addition, the report also said Bottini failed to disclose information in an FBI interview summary and an Internal Revenue Service interview memo regarding Stevens’ willingness to pay bills that VECO might have provided. Bottini also was found to have failed to disclose information from a construction supervisor who said he thought that VECO’s costs would be added to the invoices sent to Stevens for payment.

The report found that Goeke failed to disclose the information about the construction supervisor.

By the way, the US government, ie you, have spent $1.8 million defending the actions of these two reprobates, Bottini and Goeke.  You can read that story here.

Senator Ted Stevens was subsequently killed in an Alaskan plane crash in August 2010.  It is certain that had Senator Stevens not been pursued by prosecutors wrongly, he would have never lost his seat in 2008, let alone been convicted.  It is arguable that had Senator Stevens still been a legislator, he would not have been on that aircraft which crashed in 2010.

So there you have it, friends.  The federal government, and these two prosecutors, Bottini and Goeske, played a role in the death of Senator Ted Stevens.  Of course, no one purposefully meant for the Senator to be harmed.  The misconduct by the federal prosecutors did indeed set into motion a cascading series of unforseen events which played out in a manner such that Ted Stevens ended up on that fateful airplane journey two Summers ago.

For helping to cause the death of a US Senator, after first ruining his life and tarnishing his good name, Joseph Bottini and James Goeke were issued a combined suspension of 45 days.  That hardly seems fair, does it?  Why aren’t they being fired?  Why aren’t they being prosecuted themselves?  This so-called punishment does not even rise to the level of a slap on the wrist.  If you or I, as private citizens, lied and helped to wrongly convict someone else of felony charges, we would be in jail, and deservedly so.  We would also be held civilly liable, and rightly so.  Why aren’t these two federal prosecutors being held to account?

The answer to that is simple: government is a three card monty.  Its as fixed as the pea shell game in Atlantic City featured in an episode of Boardwalk Empire.  You, the citizen and taxpayer, are the easy mark for government.  They make the rules and fiddle the tune, and you dance to it, rigged rules and all, or else.  Our system of law is only a few steps removed from Stalinist show trials.

What you need to be concerned about is, if the Justice Department will screw a sitting United States Senator, and railroad him with a rigged trial tainted by hidden evidence which was purposefully withheld, what are they going to do to you, an ordinary schmuck with no power? 

Fascist New York Senate Legislation Would Ban Anonymous Online Posting

Pending legislation in the New York State Reich Chancellery would ban online comments posted anonymously.  Thankfully, the legislation is not expected to pass.   Even if such a law did pass, it would likely be struck down as unconstitutional.

The law states:

“A web site administrator upon request shall remove any comments posted on his or her web site by an anonymous poster unless such anonymous poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post and confirms that his or her IP address, legal name, and home address are accurate. All web site administrators shall have a contact number or e-mail address posted for such removal requests, clearly visible in any sections where comments are posted.”

You can read more about the story here.

The reasoning behind this absurd law is that it would cut down on cruel or abusive internet speech, and discourage so-called cyberbullying.  Whether the law would or could achieve these two objectives is highly debatable.  People could easily lie about their name and phone number, use an IP address away from home, and employ an alternate e-mail.  Potentially, cyberbullying and inflammatory internet speech can still get posted by you under the surname John Smith, at 123 Anywhere Drive, who can be reached at JohnSmith@mail. 

Even if this flawed legislation would have succeeded at ending bad speech on the internet, it is still to be opposed.  This proposed law is blatantly unconstitutional.  What part of the First Amendment assurance that “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech…” does the New York Senate not comprehend?

The First Amendment was not written to protect speech pertaining to the weather or what you’re having for dinner.  It was written to protect controversial, heated, passionate, emotional forms of expression.  Moreover, it even protects anonymous speech.  I saw no asterisk in the First Amendment stating that speech could be censored if it was submitted under a pen name or anonymously. 

The Founding Fathers wrote pamphlets anonymously or under assumed names all the time.  Ever heard of Common Sense?  Thomas Paine published that anonymously.  Ever heard of the Federalist Papers?  Those were written by someone named Publius.  In fact, Publius, was really a triumvirate of Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. 

If pamphlets and political speech written anonymously were acceptable to the Founding Fathers, why are we to believe they got it wrong, while our own reprobate politicians of today have it right?  The Founders were geniuses, plain and simple.  Politicians of today are fatheads not fit to pour piss from a boot with instructions written under the heel.

The man responsible for this legislation, Thomas F. O’Mara, fits that description perfectly.  You can find the contact information for this swine on the New York State Senate website here.  Contact Mr. O’Mara, and inform him that there is such a thing in this country as the First Amendment.  Tell him to mind his own business, and get to work on matters of importance.

Fascist Ohio Smoking Ban Upheld by Tyrant Kangaroo Courts

Where did the poohbah justices of the Ohio Supreme Court attend law school?  A correspondence course?

The self-important tyrants of Ohio’s highest court have upheld the state’s smoking ban, passed in 2006 by a misguided, conviluted ballot initiative.  Smoking was barred in all indoor business establishments, including bars, bowling alleys, night clubs, and private entities like the American Legion.  Bar owners can be fined up to $5,000 for smoking violation complaints submitted by telephone.  The complaints can be made anonymously.  You can read more about the story here.

This is a pure garbage law all the way around. The state has no moral authority to tell consenting adults what they may not do upon private property.

The essence of Liberty, natural law, and our entire system rests on the principle of self-ownership. We all own ourselves. Unless you disagree with the notion of self-ownership, what is and is not moral becomes very easy to understand. Crimes like murder and rape are immoral because they violate that individual’s right to self-ownership.

Its the job of government (ie we, the People) to protect citizens from hazardous acts committed by other people.What government does not have the right and duty to do is to force citizens to protect themselves. You can risk your own life, but not the life of someone else.

And if you wish to harm yourself voluntarily by deciding to work or patronage an establishment where smoking is present, then such is your right. It is none of the government’s beeswax.

The smoking ban law is also fatally flawed because it enables government thugs to levy fines against business establishments without due process. Some random schmuck can call a telephone number and anonymously submit tips about smoking violations, resulting in fines being levied against property owners. This is inherently unjust.

If one is accused of a crime, one is given the semblance of a fair trial. Business owners slapped with fines for alleged smoking ban violations have no such luxury. One also has the right to face his or her accuser in court.

This smoking ban law is government at its worst, which is really saying something in light of all the evils and mischief unleashed in our lives by the state. Its pure tyranny for the state to deprive someone of his property without due process. The Minutemen on Lexington Green had less to complain about. Its all spelled out very clearly in the 5th Amendment that we all are entitled to due process. Neither the state, nor the ignorant tyranny of the majority, has the unrestrained authority to simply do whatever it likes to you. This principle dates all the way back to 1215 and Magna Carta.

And you sheeple would rather discard your natural liberties to the state because you find smoking gross. What a country I live in. What’s next then, I wonder? What else do we find gross enough that we shall empower the state to deprive someone else of his Liberty or property for doing? If the state can act against you on public health grounds for smoking, then why can’t it do the same in terms of food or sugary beverages?

A Brief Primer on Some Truths of Economics

I’ve been encountering a great deal of ignorance lately on the matter of economics.  It certainly can be complicated.  And while I’m no Adam Smith, I would like to think I have something of a grasp on the subject.  So lets sort through a few myths and truths, shall we?

“Uncle Andy!  Tax cuts cause deficits!  Look at all the spending George Bush did!  Look at the deficit!  His tax cuts caused that!”

That is not true at all.  That line of illogic is a myth.  Tax cuts do not and cannot cause deficits.  Only spending does that.

Austerity measures do not create deficits.  Only overspending does that.  You know why Greece is in trouble, along with Spain and Italy and Ireland soon to follow?  Because their debt to GDP ratio is hovering at about 120%.  In other words, the amount of money Greece owes is 120% more than its gross domestic product for an entire year.  The US is currently sitting at a little over 100% debt to GDP.  The reason Greece can’t borrow any more is that its costs for doing so are getting too high – just like a deadbeat who maxes out his credit cards, and is seeking to borrow more.  The bank will charge him more interest.  At some point, the bank will refuse to loan him any more money at all.  America is Greece within a decade if we continue on this path.

 

Austerity is painful.  I would liken it to the hangover after a night of too much partying.  Hangovers and austerity are painful.  It leads to privation.  Government workers lose jobs.  People lose services and benefits.  People get hurt.  Austerity stinks.

 

In some cases though, it is the responsible, adult, proper, needed thing to do.  Its time the West takes it medicine and deals with the hangover it created for itself by too many decades of unsustainable promises and entitlements.  There simply is not enough money to go around to fulfill the empty promises made to far too many people over the years.

 

The true liars in the debate are the Keynesians who oppose austerity.  Keynesians are adherents to famed early 20th century economist John Maynard Keynes.  Leading proponents of this illogic can be found all over the world of economics today, in people like Robert “Third” Reich, and Obergrueppenfuehrer Paul Krugman.  Its bad company to be in, I assure you.

 

The Keynesians will tell you that what we need is even more red ink, more stimulus, more big spending by the central government, more inflation, more printing money, and higher deficits.  This is insanity.  Its treason actually. If spending by the central government spurs economic activity, then how did we ever have a recession to begin with?  between Bush and Owebama, they’ve added $11 TRILLION to the deficit in a mere 11 years.  That is basically a whole additional year of GDP added to the economy.

 

And what do we have to show for it?  Nothing.  Zilch.  If red ink spurred economic growth, then we would be in a new golden age in America with all the deficits we have.  Sadly, such is not the case.

Read’em and weep; the chart above is from the US Treasury.  Notice that tax receipts to the government actually rose during the Bush administration while his tax cuts were in place.  In other words, lower tax rates lead to more revenue for the government.  I know that may seem mystifying to most of you, but it is true all the same.

Think for a moment; if your taxes were lower, you personally would have more money to go out and spend on goods and services, correct?  So if you go buy or invest more because of that extra money you had, thanks to a lower tax rate, businesses benefit from that.  Their profits are higher and they can hire more people, who also will be able to spend more money on goods and services because they have a job now.  All this was made possible because of lower tax rates.

The fact that Congress chose to spend far more money than we take in is no fault of the tax cuts.  That is a wholly separate and different issue altogether.  We’ve been borrowing 42 cents of every dollar we’ve been spending over the past decade.  To cover that, we’d have to raise taxes 42% – something nobody, not even Owebama or even fascist Nancy Pelosi, seriously contemplates.  The answer is austerity.

Now think back to our discussion last week about the film industry in Ohio, and how it has been thriving because of tax cuts.  The principles I have been discussing are in action.  Ohio offered tax incentives to the film industry to produce movies here.  Hollywood came to the Buckeye State, spent money, created jobs, and actually increased tax receipts going to the government.  The tax cuts for Hollywood proved to be a winning recipe for everyone involved.  Tax cuts work.

Lets say lawmakers in Columbus decided to now go on a spending spree, and pissed a bunch of money they didn’t have up against the wall on some silly project.  Lawmakers are prone to doing that sort of thing.  Such irresponsible misconduct by the legislature would create a budget deficit.  Critics might be so ignorant as to point to tax cuts, like those given to the film industry, as the cause of the deficits.

This is some pretty ridiculous illogic.  Tax cuts, as we have proven, don’t create deficits.  They actually increase the amount of revenue government collects from citizens engaging in commerce.  It was the spending that caused the deficit!  If government has X dollars in its budget, and chooses to spend more than that amount, then the deficit was created by the decision to engage in excessive spending.  The original amount of money in the budget did not cause the deficit.

“The greedy oil companies are price gouging us!”

 

Gasoline prices are influenced by several things.  Firstly, the price of a barrel of oil is set at the market.  Oil prices today not only are influenced by supply and demand now, but projected issues of supply and demand months into the future.  A barrel of oil pumped out of the ground and sold today, won’t end up in your gasoline tank for at least several weeks.  Oil pries also fluctuate whenever there is political turmoil in supplier countries.

 

Oil companies have no control over the price of a barrel of oil.  The market sets that.  Get a clue.  We’re reaping the bitter fruits of relying so much upon oil from the other side of the world.  Whenever anyone sneezes ominously in the Middle East, oil prices spike.  If we had a secure source of oil, that would not be the case.

 

Another reason gas prices are high is because of our borrowing, $5 TRILLION of which has occurred under HUSSEIN Owebama.  Its a simple matter of economics.  The Federal Reserve and Owebama have pumped trillions of red ink paper dollars into the economy.  The demand for dollars worldwide as a currency has remained flat, and perhaps even ebbed.  So what happens when demand for something is low, and its supply is high?  Its value decreasess.  Dollars are worth less.  So it takes more dollars to purchase things, like gas and food.  The lying thug government doesn’t include gas and food in its fake inflation data though.

 

“But Uncle Andy!  Profits by the oil companies are obscene!”

 

 

The above map depicts gas taxes nationwide last year.  Government makes about 48 cents on a gallon of gas.  Exxon makes about 7 cents.  Exxon’s huge array of billions in profits is made by the volume of gallons of gasoline it sells.  Think about your own fuel consumption.  You probably buy at least 15 gallons of gas a week.  Multiply that by 52 weeks in a year.  At 7 cents a gallon, that adds up.  Consider there are probably 150 million drivers in America, and billions more worldwide, then that 7 cents a gallon adds up.

 

Why do you want to punish Exxon anyway?  Exxon, like all corporations, is simply a confederation of people.  Its workers, customers, and investors.  Yes, the CEO at Exxon and many other corporations is probably a greedy, overpaid, reprobate.  But there are plenty of oil platform workers, accountants, secretaries, janitors, scientists, and other common, everyday people like yourself at Exxon, who are not awful human beings.

 

As I said at the onset, what is a corporation?  It is a band of people – workers, investors, and customers.  If you slam a corporation with new taxes and costly regulations, the people you are actually hurting probably do not work in the boardroom.  It is the common people who suffer with fewer raises in pay, or perhaps even layoffs.

 

Other people you’re harming are investors.  Most of you are so ignorant and envious, you probably like the fact “fat cats” who invest in mean-spirited Big Oil are being taxed.  Do you have a 401k or a 403b?  Do you know anyone enrolled in a public retirement system, like a teacher or a police officer?  Then it is almost a certainty that somewhere inside that portfolio is a mutual fund that has some stock in an oil company.  It is a fact.  So by smacking around Exxon with more taxes, you’re actually injuring a pension fund or retirement plan for someone like yourself or a public worker liberals claim to love so much.

 

I know life is tough.  Times are tough.  Some people, who are often rude, nasty, insufferable little cusses, have more than you do.  It doesn’t seem fair, does it?  We’re all better off taking our chances under the current system than to further Socialize our society so that we all have an equal share alright – of a whole lot of nothing.

 

Economics is more science than art.  Things happen for a reason.  Despite what you’re told, the fact that someone has two more nickels than you do is likely not the result of a grand conspiracy.  There is probably a perfectly valid, sensible reason for the inequity.  That doesn’t make the truth any easier to swallow, but it stands as the truth all the same.

The Founders Wanted “Internal Improvements” Via Federal Dollars – So Deal With It, Tea Partiers

Way back in September of last year, I brought you a story covering a visit to Cincinnati by President Barack Obama regarding construction of a new Brent Spence Bridge.  I still remember it like it was yesterday.  It was one of those perfect early Autumn days we get in Ohio: mild warmth with just a hint of chill and leaves wofting in the air and baby blue skies replete with a wispy garnish of faint clouds.

Obama spoke in front of where the new Interstate 75 bridge spanning the Ohio River to connect us with Kentucky, was supposed to be constructed, presumably wholly or partly with federal dollars.  This would create good jobs for years to come, spur the local economy in a swing State like Ohio, and help to rebuild our fledgling infrastructure.  It was hoped this project would serve as the ideal example for what good government ought to be.

Here we sit nearly a year later, with absolutely no progress made on the bridge.  The federal dollars are nowhere to be found.  The State dollars are also unable to locate with a search warrant.  The competing interests commercially, locally, and between the two States cannot even actually agree on where to put the bridge.  Like America as a whole, we’re like a huge, dimwitted animal, stuck up to our knees in mud and not sure what to do about it.

Meanwhile, the clock continues to tick.  The Brent Spence Bridge is 50 years old.  It was never designed to handle the load it currently does, day in and day out.  It is THE vital artery for commerce north and south here in the Midwest.  Interstate 75 will take you from the southernmost tip of Florida and all the way up to Detroit and beyond, and all stops in between.  A key point in this avenue of commerce is the Ohio River in Cincinnati.  Yes, obviously it is possible for truckers and motorists to convey themselves and their cargo over the Ohio River at other points besides the Brent Spence Bridge.  Vehicles can utilize the circle freeway around the city, or use side streets or alternate routes to cross the river in town at one of three other points on the side streets.  But that takes time and gasoline, both of which cost considerable money, and it simply transfers the wear and tear from the current bridge onto those alternate spans over the river.

I won’t be so melodramatic as to suggest the Brent Spence Bridge will simply keel over one day and fall into the Ohio River, like we saw a few years back with the tragedy in Minneapolis.  There is no evidence whatever the current bridge is currently at risk for such a calamity.  It is dishonest to even utter such a thing.  What will happen, and has happened, is that costly and time-consuming maintenance work will have to continue on the bridge, delaying motorists and siphoning off valuable public resources.  At some point, just like with an aging automobile that is killing its owner in repair bills, its time to suck it up and buy a new car.  The solution is to replace the bridge, now.

Ohio Governor John Kasich suggested this week that tolls be used to pay for the new bridge.  I’m all for consumer taxes and people paying for what they use, but this bridge is something altogether different on a variety of levels.  His heart is certainly in the right place.  he understands how important this bridge is, and the jobs and economic aid it would bring.  There are better ways than a problematic toll booth to pay for this project though.  It has too many problems just waiting to happen.

Firstly, with so many alternate routes over the Ohio River, it is possible for motorists to skirt the toll booth.  It would take considerably longer than anticipated to collect enough money to pay off the bridge via tolls.  And how much will it cost to administer the toll operation?  It will require a brigade of workers to collect the tolls, equipment to purchase and service, signage, oversight, and a great deal of altogether expensive, excessive, unwarranted, annoying red tape.  It is literally a boondoggle waiting to happen.  The whole situation is ripe for graft, corruption, dishonesty, malfeasance, and examples of everything critics contend is wrong with projects administered by government.  It would be a costly farce, and you know it.

A combination of federal and State dollars should be used for the project.  As I wrote last year:

There is no greater example of interstate commerce than a vital national roadway which spans a huge waterway between two of the sovereign States.  As my friends in the Tea Party, who confess a reverent admiration for our Constitution, must acknowledge, the United States Constitution lists the regulation of interstate commerce amongst the few actual powers delegated to the central government.

Moreover, as my friends in the Tea Party who have a reverent admiration for the Founding Fathers must also acknowledge, the likes of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson would be fully in favour of federal funding being used for a project like an Interstate 75 bridge between Ohio and Kentucky.  Washington and Hamilton referred to these useful public works projects as “internal improvements.” 

They envisioned a republic bound together by commerce and common interest.  What better way to bind us than with eased routes of trades through canals, highways, and bridges funded by federal dollars that would shorten the distance between citizens engaging in commerce upon our vast continent.

This viewpoint of federal funding for improvements carried on into the 19th century as well.  Henry Clay’s “American System” called for sound infrastructure, and good protectionist tariffs.  These canals and highways would be subsidized by the federal government.

Federal involvement in legitimate public works is an idea that dates back to the infancy of our republic.  And before the Tea Partiers pop a blood vessel in protest, just because the central government has a role to play in public works does not in any way excuse the graft, corruption, incompetence, and other shenanigans which often accompany projects undertaken with federal dollars in the modern era.

The answer is not to altogether scuttle federal funding of needed projects like the Brent Spence Bridge.  There is too much needed public good that will come from such a project to simply stand back and let our infrastructure fall apart.  The solution is to involve federal dollars in properly bidded and supervised projects, and take vigilant care that the funds are used properly.  Surely we are clever enough as a people to make that happen.

The federal dollars are ours to begin with, after all. Where did the federal money come from that we fritter away on all manner of nonsense in this country, pray tell?  It came from you and I.  I’m sick of the gangsters in the federal government robbing us citizens at gunpoint, and then dangling the funds in front of us.  The politicians wave federal dollars in front of our eyes.  Instead of thinking about the fact that money was OURS by right and should have never been taken in the first place, you stand there licking your lips ravenously, waiting for table scraps like a street urchin in a Charles Dickens novel.

Politicians are constantly trying to bribe you for votes with your own money.  Why am I having to making a fervent plea to get my money back from the federal government for a project we need locally?  Its disgusting.  Its my money.  Give it back.

This project should have already been paid for when we were on the Keynesian spending spree in early 2009 with Obama’s stimulus legislation.  At most, this bridge would have cost $2 billion.  Obama spent $830 billion.  Surely there were 2 billions in the 830 billions spent for this project.

Our path in this matter is clear and ought to be the course of action we demand from the politicians: build the new Brent Spence Bridge and other needed infrastructure, and find the funding for it by reducing spending elsewhere or obtaining new revenues from sources other than massive personal income tax hikes.  Quit the squabbling.  Secure our infrastructure.  Create the jobs.  Pay the bills.  And police the use of our dollars when undertaking these projects.  It’s not really that hard.

 Get your mind right.

Tyrone Woodfork Victim, Bob Strait, Passes Away

It is my sad duty to inform you that Mr. Robert Strait, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has passed away as a direct result of injuries he sustained in a violent criminal attack two months ago.

This lousy dirtbag is the killer of Mr. Strait and his wife, Tyrone Woodfork.  You may not have ever heard of Tyrone Woodfork or what he did to the Straits.  Don’t feel badly or ignorant if you haven’t heard of Tyrone.  The racebaiting media establishment has done its best nationally to bury this story.  Scumbags and miscreants with journalism degrees were too busy propagandizing 5 year-old pictures of Trayvon Martin to have covered the Strait murder case.

Why did the media refuse to cover the awful crimes committed by Tyrone Woodfork?  The answer to that is simple, given the propaganda, and deceitful antics of the media we saw in its coverage of the Trayvon Martin case.  There is a template and a narrative the media has in America on the subject of race.  Namely, America is a racist place filled with hateful white bigots who victimize blacks constantly, as they have been doing since Jamestown.  Whenever an incident occurs in America that might possibly reinforce this narrative, the media pounces on it. 

Yet when an incident occurs like the case of Tyrone Woodfork, when it is blacks who are misbehaving in a racially motivated fashion, the media says nothing.  Not even the state propaganda in Nazi Germany was as dishonest as reporters in the United States today.  Shame on the media.

RIP Bob Strait.  The Nazis and all the Waffen SS couldn’t kill this man.  But a worthless waste of skin named Tyrone Woodfork did, and brutally.  And the racebaiting media won’t discuss it.

You can read more about the life of Bob Strait here.

You can read about the Tyrone Woodfork story here.

The story from The Examiner:

On May 4, 2012 Jeff Strait, a son of Bob Strait, informed friends and family that at 11am Bob passed away.

Warning, the following content may be graphic.

In March, Bob and Nancy Strait were the victims of a home invasion. They were held at gun point with a BB gun and beaten. Nancy Strait was sexually assaulted, and was murdered. Bob was shot in the face with that BB gun and was in critical condition. The suspects then stole a television and the couples car. Tyrone Woodfork, who is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday was caught shortly after leaving the Straits home, driving that stolen vehicle. Two other suspects were captured on camera after they sold the television at a gas station for $250. Police are still searching for them, as well as 2-3 more suspects who may have been involved, including the suspect who they believe raped and killed Nancy Strait.

The story of Bob and Nancy Strait has failed to make national headlines, although several local stations have picked it up. But what is it about this case that is making the national media not give it a second thought? Some say ratings, others say it doesn’t fit hate crime criteria. Others say stories like the Trayvon Martin case are looked at as more important to the national media because they help ratings.

Bob Strait was a WWII veteran. Because of this a number of national and local non-profit organizations and veterans service groups have taken up causes for the Strait family. One such organization is the Veteran Awareness Coalition. The organization is dedicated to assisting veterans with post war issues, such as PTSD. The organization also has an online radio station as the disc jockeys have been helping to spread the word of these causes. The organization said on Monday that all donations this week, until Friday at 11pm will go to Strait family.

Media Ignores Another Black Mob That Beat White People

It is really becoming ridiculous, the perfidy of the media and the waddling bacon in law enforcement when it comes to racially motivated hate crimes committed by blacks upon whites.  We’ve been reporting on many incidents nationwide in which black citizens have beaten white citizens in racially motivated attacks, which go uncovered by the lamestream media.  Why?

We now have another such case from Norfolk, Virginia.  A mob of blacks beat a white couple.  One of the victims worked for a newspaper in Norfolk.  Her own newspaper didn’t even bother to report the crime.  Why?  The story, not that you’ll find anything out about it elsewhere, is posted below. 

Why is the first report about this story that didn’t get posted by a blogger or message board, come from a newspaper in the United Kingdom, the Daily Mail?  Why are no newspapers or TV stations in Norfolk, Virginia, talking about this story?  Why?

Answer: the liberal media are racists.  Its true.  Liberals are paternalistic towards black Americans, which is a form of racism actually far more sinister than the Jim Crow of old.  Liberals refuse to hold black citizens accountable for their misdeeds in terms of race.

Why?  The media holds whites accountable, and reports it widely when they misbehave in a racially motivated fashion.  So why won’t the media do the same for blacks?  Because the liberal media looks down on blacks.  They view black Americans as unequals.  Liberals think blacks cannot help themselves but to misbehave in a racially motivated fashion, like an aging terrier who can’t help himself but to have an accident on the carpet because he couldn’t get to the door in time.

Black people are my equal.  We were all created equal.  If I misbehave, I should be held to account.  Likewise, if black citizens misbehave, then they should also be held to account for it.  You know full well that if a white mob had yanked a black couple from a vehicle and beat the daylights out of them, it would be a huge news story.  Why doesn’t the media see us all as equals?

The poster child for Affirmative Action, Norfolk Police Chief Sharon Chamberlain, who is a loser, fascist oinker that refuses to release the 911 tapes, and stupidly believes the attacks were not racially motivated.

Call the piggies and thugs at the Norfolk Police Department to demand they come clean on this case and release the 911 tapes.  Your local law enforcement is more of a threat to your Liberty than any so-called “terrorist” in Afghanistan.  Contact the piggies with pensions in Norfolk and ask them what they’re hiding.

Chief’s Office

Norfolk Police Department

100 Brooke Avenue

Norfolk, VA 23510

Ph: 757-664-3277

Email: police@norfolk.gov

The story:

 

A 16-year-old male has been arrested after a gang of black youths armed with rocks violently beat a white couple in an unprovoked attack.

 

Reporters Marjon Rostami and Dave Forster were waiting at a red light at the intersection of Brambleton Avenue and Church Street in Norfolk, Virginia, on April 14 when they were set upon by the 30-strong mob.

 

But the couple’s ordeal was not reported by their employer, the Virginian-Pilot, for two weeks, sparking outrage among some readers who claim the newspaper buried the story for political reasons.

The arrested teen, whose name has not being released because of his age, has been charged with throwing a missile at a vehicle, as well as two counts of simple assault by mob, destruction of property and participation in a riot.

Rostami and Forster were driving back from a concert on the night of the attack when a teenager, who was part of a larger group, threw a rock at their stationary vehicle after reportedly witnessing Rostami lock her car door. 

Forster got out of the car to confront the assailant, which is when ‘wave after wave of young men surged forward to take turns punching and kicking their victim,’ according to a column by Michelle Washington, which was the Virginian-Pilot’s first report of the incident.

‘[Rostami] tried to pull him back into his car. Attackers came after her, pulling her hair, punching her head and causing a bloody scratch to the surface of her eye,’ Washington’s column continued.

‘Neither suffered grave injuries, but both were out of work for a week. Forster’s torso ached from blows to his ribs, and he retained a thumb-sized bump on his head. Rostami fears to be alone in her home,’ she added.

The couple said that there were around 100 youths in the vicinity and 30 in close proximity to their car during the assault.

A day after the unprovoked attack, Forster scoured the internet to see if the incident had been reported, according to Washington’s column.

But he was shocked by one Twitter post. ‘I feel for the white man who got beat up at the light,’ one person wrote. ‘I don’t,’ added another. ‘(do it for trayvon martin)’.

But the Norfolk Police Department said there is no evidence to suggest the attack was a hate crime.

‘At no time in our investigation or in the statements taken from the victims did it appear that this assault was racially motivated,’ Norfolk Police Chief Sharon Chamberlin said at a press conference yesterday.

She added that only a ‘handful’ of people carried out the attack.

The Virginian-Pilot yesterday defended their coverage of the disturbing incident in a front-page editorial.

‘We did not cover up anything. What would we gain by protecting some thugs who beat up two of our reporters? The accusation is ludicrous,’ editor Denis Finley wrote.

‘Based on the facts, this story did not cross the bar to be published because as a general rule, The Pilot doesn’t publish stories about simple assaults,’ he added.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2139543/Sixteen-year-old-arrested-mob-attack-white-couple.html#ixzz1uNAiHNHD

Ohio’s Film Industry: Tax Cuts Leading to Economic Growth

While it is certainly not Hollywood or Baliwood, the film industry is growing in Ohio.  Blockbuster movies are being filmed here more and more thanks to generous tax cuts and other incentives.  These economic policies are absurdly dubbed “corporate welfare” by critics.  Now we have a report vindicating tax cuts for the film industry in Ohio, and further illustrating how reduced tax rates actually increase revenue heading into government coffers.

The Big Lie has always been that tax cuts cause deficits for government at all levels, thus leading to “painful” budget reductions and austerity measures.  Tax cuts cannot and will not ever cause a budget shortfall.  Only excessive spending can cause budget woes.  If government spends more than it takes in, whether tax rates are 1% or 100%, there will be budget problems.  Government needs to live within its means, like the rest of us do.

Lower tax rates increase revenue to the government.  That is an irrefutable fact.  Only a Keynesian as foolish as Paul Krugman could disagree.  The chart below tells the whole tale, boys and girls.  Look at the spike in tax revenues going to the United States federal government in the first years of this century while President George W. Bush was in office.  The US government collected the most taxes it ever has during the Bush years, with his tax cuts in place.

“But Uncle Andy!  How can that be!  Bush caused deficits with his tax cuts!”

No, the Bush tax cuts did not cause any deficits.  Tax receipts for the US Treasury skyrocketed under Bush.  What caused the deficits was treasonous federal spending.  As I just told you a moment ago, tax cuts don’t cause deficits.  They can’t.  only spending can do that.

Lower tax rates increase tax revenues for the government.  I know that may sound strange to you, and runs contrary to the media brainwashing you’ve received on the subject, but it’s true all the same.  The story below about the grand success and economic growth enjoyed in Ohio because of its tax breaks for the film industry help to explain how lower tax rates lead to more revenue for government.

By giving out tax credits and tax breaks, what Ohio did was lure Hollywood moviemakers here for production.  This spurred economic growth.  The cast and crew of the film had to find hotel rooms, hire locals for extras, purchase supplies, eat meals, drink at bars, purchase gasoline, rent vehicles, and consume many other goods and services during the movie shoot.  Without the tax cut to lure the film production here, its unlikely all these people from Hollywood would have visited Cincinnati or Akron on their own, and consumed those services.

What happened to all those transactions in which the Hollywood moviemakers visiting Ohio purchased hotel rooms and dinners?  They were taxed.  Local and State sales taxes were levied upon those purchases.  For the employees of the business establishments which sold the moviemakers all these goods and services, the presence of Hollywood in Ohio meant a paycheck.  That paycheck, made possible because of spending by Hollywood moviemakers, was also taxed by the federal, State, and local government.  Whatever was left of the paycheck for those employees was then spent in the community on other goods and services, which were also taxed, and created more jobs for other citizens, whose paychecks were also taxed.

Without the initial tax break luring Hollywood moviemakers to Ohio, none of the subsequent, taxed, cascading economic activity would have been possible.  Tax cuts work.  Its been proven time and time again, and we’re seeing it in Ohio now.  For every dollar in tax cuts given to Hollywood moviemakers operating in Ohio, the State gained $1.20 in revenue.

More tax revenue via lower rates is a win-win for everyone.  Government needs revenue.  I like it when government is well-funded.  It means good roads, clean water, infrastructure, and public services.  Government has an important role to play in our lives.  The role of government, while important, is finite, limited, and should remained confined in its proper place, and strictly monitored to make certain that it stays there.

The story:

Ohio’s film industry has created more than 9,000 temporary jobs and 1,143 full-time equivalent jobs since 2009, according to a report released this week.

The study by the Center for Economic Development at Cleveland State University found Ohio’s economy makes $1.20 for every dollar film companies receive in state tax breaks.

The study also found that businesses such as hotels and restaurants experienced increases in business during and after film production in their area.

Since 2009, the Ohio Motion Picture Tax Credit has offered $40 million against the corporation franchise or income tax for movies shot in Ohio — $30 million in the 2010 and 2011 and $10 million each for this year and the fiscal year beginning in July.

Sen. Tom Patton, R-Strongsville, and Rep. Mike Dovilla, R-Berea, said Wednesday they plan to introduce companion bills that would raise the tax credit cap to $20 million a year in 2013 and 2014.

Patton said the additional $10 million each year would come from the general revenue fund.

Twenty-seven productions have taken advantage of the credit — 16 projects shot in northeast Ohio.

Locally, the George Clooney political thriller The Ides of March was filmed around southwest Ohio and spent five days shooting on the campus of Miami University, which was even named in the film.

The five day production has an estimated impact of $240,000 on the community said Diana Durr, executive director of the Oxford Convention and Visitor’s Bureau.

Neither Miami nor the city of Oxford were paid for the filming, but both were acknowledged in the film’s credits.

“It was good that both were named in the film and it was a revenue for the city,” Durr said. “There were no problems while the filming was conducted here. The crew was a delight to work with.”

Durr said some of the crew stayed in Oxford during the shoot, while others, including Clooney himself, traveled back and forth from Cincinnati.

Durr said the only other film to be shot on Miami’s campus was the 1991 drama “Little Man Tate.” She said so far there have been no other inquiries about shooting in Oxford or on Miami’s campus.

Ohio competes with 37 other states that have film industry tax credits. Neighboring Pennsylvania caps its incentive program at $60 million and earns $4.02 for every dollar, according to the Cleveland State study.

Michigan drastically reduced its film incentive last year and placed a $25 million cap on the program to avoid a budget deficit.

Film industry advocates say Ohio stole away business from Michigan including “The Avengers,” which filmed in Cleveland and Wilmington.

Ohio’s credit is equal to 25 percent of in-state spending and non-Ohio resident wages and 35 percent of resident wage expenses, up to $5 million per production.

In Ohio, nine out of every 10 film industry jobs went to residents, but most were working as extras, which earned $172 on average, according to the study. The average wage for non-Ohioans was $37,127, which study authors said is likely skewed toward “high-priced Hollywood talent.”

More money for tax credits is one tool Ohio can use to build a strong film industry that employs Ohioans, said Ivan Schwarz, executive director of the Greater Cleveland Film Commission, which funded the study. Schwarz said the industry could be more year-round instead of a seasonal effort.

“Filmmakers are not afraid of the weather,” Schwarz said. “There’s nothing you can’t do in Ohio except for mountains and desserts. They really look at this as an untapped gold mine and they’re excited to come here.”

Gubberment Gone Wild: We Have Video of the TSA Thugs Assaulting a US Congressman

Last week, we brought you a story about an incident at the San Antonio in which Texas Congressman Francisco Canseco claims he was assaulted by an overpaid, illiterate thug from the Transportation Safety Administration.  Representative Canseco claimed the bully in a TSA shirt grabbed him by the genitals, at which time the Congressman pushed his hand away.  The hired goon from the TSA then claimed that it was he who had been assaulted by the Congressman.  These pathetic, self-important, piggies from the TSA are the true scum of the Earth.

Now, we have video of the incident, thanks to dogged reporters pursuing and practically begging government officials for transparency:

Judge for yourself.  It is obvious to any reasonable person that the dimwitted loser from the TSA grabbed the Congressman by his nutsack.  The natural, reasonable response for anyone would be to push away the hand of someone trying to molest you.  Only a sheeple obediently standing in a concrete shack waiting for the Cyclon B shower could disagree.

The fact that the unaccountable pervert from the TSA fondled a citizen without cause is not the story here.  Pedophiles, deviants, and miscreants misbehaving in TSA uniforms are commonplace.  These sickos fondle, molest, and put their grimy paws all over men, women, and children everyday.  The story  here is that if these losers from the TSA will grope a Congressman and smugly get away with it, what are they going to do to your child and your wife?

Notice in the video at the :47 mark.  Observe how the loser from the TSA reacts, or more to the point, overreacts when Citizen Canseco pushes away his groping hand.  The TSA piggy calls for backup, and no fewer than seven other loser thugs with badges surround the Congressman.  This is how all losers in uniforms with small brains and even smaller penises react when their Nazi authority is challenged.  They revert to full-on Defcon 1 mode.  A subsequent visit to the airport again caused the Congressman to be searched without cause, and surrounded by more badged bacon when he questioned what was going on.

Again, this is a United States Congressman the thugs in uniforms are doing this to.  If they’ll violate his rights and menace him in this fashion, knowing the possible ramifications and public attention, what will these piggies from the TSA do to you or I?  The United States government is utterly out of control.  It is time we stand up for our natural rights and our codified legal protections under the 4th Amendment.

If government wants to pat you down or conduct a search of your person or property, it can do so if, and only if, it has probable cause or a warrant.

You do not give up your natural rights or 4th Amendment protections because you purchased an airplane ticket.