It's Time Law Enforcement Officers Start Securing Their Firearms

June 9, 2009 just a regular guy

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Of the three AR-15s and two shotguns that were stolen from northern California law enforcement vehicles last January four have been recovered and some of the alleged perps involved in the theft are now behind bars charged with federal crimes.

All but one of the guns stolen in recent months from Contra Costa County sheriff’s and California Highway Patrol cruisers have been recovered, and three men are facing federal charges in the case, authorities said Monday.

Three AR-15 semiautomatic rifles and two shotguns were stolen from law enforcement cruisers and then sold at least twice, according to investigators. Of the five recovered weapons, four belong to the sheriff’s office and one to the CHP. An AR-15 belonging to the sheriff’s office is still unaccounted for, and investigators believe it may have been disassembled for parts, said sheriff’s spokesman Jimmy Lee.

Daniel William Vess, 20, and Kao Kweng Saephan, 24, have pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court in Oakland to possessing a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle that had been transported in interstate commerce. The weapon was made outside California.

A third suspect, Brandon Buchanan, 27, of Stockton was arrested Thursday. Authorities said the guns were sold to an unspecified person who then resold them to Buchanan.

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How in the world could these crooks have gotten their hands on these weapons to begin with? Why weren’t these firearms secured inside a locked building after the shift ended instead of being left overnight inside police cars?

Most folks probably think it would take someone with some fairly heavy brass nads to go breaking into police cars and steal guns but the fact of the matter is, these days there are plenty of people roaming around who are more than willing to take the risk.

In fact, criminals stealing weapons from law enforcement officers seems to be quite common these days as can be seen here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here a fully automatic M-16 rifle is stolen, here a gun stolen from a cop is used to kill another officer and this officer had his gun stolen while he lay injured inside his crashed police vehicle!

One would think law enforcement personnel, of all people, would be most cognizant of firearm security especially since they are on the front lines every day with the potential of staring down the barrel of a gun that may have been stolen from a fellow officer.
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Microsoft Sneaks Un-Installable Extension Into Firefox Browsers

June 9, 2009 just a regular guy

If you are religious about updating your PC through the Microsoft Update website and use the Firefox browser then there is an excellent chance an un-installable Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant extension was added to Firefox without your knowledge or your permission back in February.

Since millions ditched the widely exploitable Internet Explorer years ago for the much more secure open source Firefox, Microsoft has seen its browser market share continue to erode month after month. I wonder if this might be Microsoft’s sneaky way of getting back at those who have shunned their bloated-buggy-wide-open-to-internet-hackers browser?
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Tuesday June 9th

June 9, 2009 just a regular guy

Knucklehead arrested for bugging people around town while wearing womens’ swim suit, with video.

Sugarcreek Township Police said a man who has been harassing people while wearing a woman’s bathing suit was arrested Monday evening. For about a week people have been calling Sugarcreek Township police to say a man in a one-piece bathing suit was harassing them along the banks of the Little Miami River and along nearby streets.

Elevator door gives way when man playfully pushes friend into it. Friend falls down shaft and is killed.

A freak accident took the life of a 19-year-old Downers Grove man over the weekend when he plunged down an elevator shaft in an apartment building near Iowa State University, police said. Robert A. Pawlak, a 2008 graduate of Hinsdale South High, was next to an elevator on the seventh floor of the Legacy Apartments when a friend pushed him, said Ames, Iowa, Police Cmdr. Mike Brennan. Pawlak hit the elevator door, the door collapsed inward and he fell down the shaft.

Celebration over new job results in Darwin moment for teenager.

A Kansas City teen has lost a fingertip in a weekend firecracker explosion. The Kansas City Star reported that the 17-year-old told police he was celebrating with friends because the mother of one of his friends had gotten a job.

Workers at restaurants rip off patrons’ credit card info and give it to other crooks who then charge over $700,000 with the info.

Eight people have pleaded guilty to stealing credit card numbers from patrons at Washington restaurants and using them to buy more than $730,000 worth of merchandise. Federal prosecutors said Monday that five former servers at M&S Grill, Clyde’s Restaurant and 701 Restaurant used hand-held skimming devices to steal credit card numbers and provide them to three Maryland men.

Fisherman snags live air to air missile in gulf of Mexico.

Bomb squad technicians are working to destroy an air-to-air guided missile a commercial fisherman hooked in the Gulf of Mexico. The fisherman brought the 8-foot live missile on shore at Madeira Beach Monday afternoon, where Pinellas County deputies and members of the MacDill Air Force Base bomb squad detonated and dismantled it, then took the pieces to the base.

Former inmate sues prison nurse over two day long woody.

Now this is hard time. An ex-con is suing an upstate prison nurse who allegedly sent him back to his cell after medication side effects gave him a painful erection that wouldn’t go away. Dawud Yaduallah says he suffered for 55 hours before finally getting hospital treatment to relieve the problem in his pants.

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Military Veterans' Hope For Saving Mojave Preserve Memorial Rests With U.S. Supreme Court

June 8, 2009 just a regular guy

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In 1934 World War l veterans constructed a wooden cross on top of Sunrise Rock in the California Mojave National Preserve as a memorial to not only honor their fellow comrades who didn’t make it home from the war but in fact all Americans who have fallen in battle. The original cross is long gone but several subsequent replacements have been erected over the years without any issues whatsoever. Until now.

Enter Frank Buono, a former National Park Service employee who filed a lawsuit, with the eager assistance of the anti American ACLU, seeking to prevent the permanent display of the cross lest he be offended if he ever left his home in OREGON and decided to max out his carbon footprint by driving all the way down to southern California through the middle of a 1.6 million acre desert preserve and happened to look over and see the memorial. He argued through his anti American ACLU attorneys that the cross’ display on federal property violated the establishment clause of the First Amendment of our Constitution. The District Court where the original suit was filed and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal both ruled that the memorial is unconstitutional and must be removed. In the meantime, pending appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit ordered the cross be covered up with a plywood box.

While the case was pending the Ninth Circuit’s response, Congress did what it could to help by designating Sunrise Rock a national memorial, symbolically barring its dismantling with the use of federal funds. Congress later attempted to convert Sunrise Rock to privately held property in a land swap exchange for another parcel of land but the anti American ACLU would have none of that.

Mr. Buono through his anti American ACLU attorneys filed a motion to not only enforce the previous court order preventing the display of the cross, but also to prohibit the land exchange. The District Court granted both motions. The Secretary of the Interior appealed, arguing that the district court abused its discretion. The Ninth Circuit disagreed saying the District Court did not abuse its discretion and the U.S. government was unable to show the lower court’s findings were clearly erroneous or that the District Court in fact made any errors in judgment.

So, this tiny cross in the middle of nowhere is unconstitutional huh? Just because it sits on land that belongs to the people of this country?

The First Amendment reads:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

A group of military veterans building a minuscule memorial out in the middle of nowhere in honor of their fellow soldiers who died in battle for their country doesn’t appear to me to be anything close to Congress creating law establishing any particular religion. How in the world could this country have become so screwed up when it comes to the clear and obvious intent of the founding fathers?

Answer, too damn many activist judges who create law from the bench with their own twisted partisan view of our Constitution, that’s how. Elections have everlasting consequences folks. Always have always will.

“A story untold is a story forgotten,” said Joe Davis, public affairs director for the VFW. “We must tell the story of our veterans and fallen heroes, and we must keep this veterans memorial.”

Henry and Wanda Sandoz, current and longtime caretakers of the memorial agree: “If they were to tear down the memorial which has been there for 75 years, I would lose faith in our government,” said Wanda Sandoz. Henry agreed, “It would be sad. It would be so sad.” The Sandoz’s have been caring for the memorial since 1984 when they promised their friend Rily Bembrey, a WWI veteran, on his death bed, that they would look after the monument. Bembrey was one of many veterans who erected the memorial after relocating to the desert after the war to find physical and emotional healing.

“If the plaintiff is so offended by the possibility of seeing this memorial cross in the desert, will he be offended when he drives by Arlington National Cemetery?” asked Jim Sims, National Senior Vice Commander of the Military Order of the Purple Heart. “It’s our opinion that this case is not about a single memorial cross, it is a larger issue of honoring veterans who served and sacrificed for our country.”

The American Legion is also concerned about the fate of the memorial. “If you don’t think this is not the first domino in a series, you’re not paying attention,” said Mark Seavey, Assistant National Legislative Director for The Legion. “The cross is emblematic of sacrifice, not religion.”

Please check out this resource regarding this story: Liberty Legal Institute

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Janet Napolitano Welcomes Arab With Pro Terrorist Leanings To Advisory Panel

June 8, 2009 just a regular guy

And here we go folks as the chief of America’s Homeland Giveaway Department, who calls anyone who believes in the Constitution, Second Amendment, a crackdown on illegal immigration, the chance at life for yet to be born babies and of course returning soldiers potential domestic terrorists, just added the head of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (better known as the leave-us-alone-while-we-prepare-to-attack-your-country-from-within gang) Kareem Shora to her official advisory panel.

As you can see from the accompanying World Net Daily article–anti Israel, pro Hamas and friend of America hating jihadists all over the world–Shora would certainly appear to be an outstanding addition (sarcasm intended) to the group of people assembled to assist the Homeland Giveaway Secretary in her efforts to keep this country safe and sound from the Islamic terrorists who are strolling across our southern border with little to no resistance, a situation that has been going on for years.

No doubt she will try and round out her advisory council with a couple of Hugo Chavez’s top lieutenants, a handful of Mexico’s drug cartel hitmen and perhaps Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers just to maintain a nice balance in keeping with the goal of giving everyone who really hates our country a seat at the table and a voice to be heard. After all this is the same woman who uttered this nonsense when addressing border security at a news conference back in March,

One of the things that we need to be sensitive to is the very real feeling among southern border states and in Mexico that if things are being done on the Mexican border, they should also be done on the Canadian border,” Napolitano told a conference in Washington.

“We shouldn’t go light on one and heavy on the other,” she said of the Canadian and Mexican borders.

“This is one NAFTA, one area, one continent, and there should be parity there. I don’t mention this to suggest that everyone in this room will agree with that, I mention it to suggest it’s something I have to deal with, and so I ask for your sympathy.”

Yeah, let’s be fair and treat the Canadians crossing our borders as though they are smuggling tons of drugs and millions of people into our country illegally. Let’s not look at the obvious, let’s not deal with the situation the way we should and get the problems resolved while ensuring the safety of American citizens. Let’s continue to be over the top politically correct about these issues and bury our heads in the sand in the process, just like the British have done have done with their country.

Breaking news from worldnetdaily.com,

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano swore in to her official advisory council the head of an Arab American organization whose officials have labeled deadly anti-U.S. jihadists as “heroes” and opposed referring to Hamas as a terrorist organization.

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, or ADC, also has close ties to anti-Israel professor Rashid Khalidi, whose association with President Obama – first exposed by WND – stirred controversy during last year’s presidential campaign.

The ADC also leads the opposition to domestic anti-terrorism measures taken after the 9-11 attacks, such as watch lists, background check delays for visas and an initiative meant to more comprehensively screen visitors from select Mideast countries or specific individuals labeled as possible national security threats.

Last week, Napolitano swore in Damascus-born Kareem Shora, the ADC’s national executive director, to a position on the Homeland Security Advisory Council, an outside-the-department group of national security experts that advises the secretary. Shora is the first Arab rights advocate on the panel.

At the ceremony in Albequrque, Shora reportedly recounted how he watched with his immigrant father Obama’s address last week to the Muslim world. Shora said his father cried when he heard Obama’s message of reconciliation.

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European Union Parliament, Several Countries, See Conservatives Sweeping Into Power

June 7, 2009 just a regular guy

It appears the Europeans have had enough of political correctness, unrestrained immigration insanity and socialism in general and are replacing the leftist governments in many countries and flooding the European Union Parliament with conservatives.

Rightly blaming the leftist politicians for the economic and social messes within their countries most voters are indicating through early reports and exit polling that center right and conservative parties will be taking over, or in a few cases retaining, the reins of most European governments. Perhaps the citizens of these countries will be able to regain some of their firearm ownership rights that were taken away by all these left wing governments that are now being swept out of power.

It’s about time the people woke up over there and come 2010 it’s going to be our turn.

Conservatives raced toward victory in some of Europe’s largest economies Sunday as initial results and exit polls showed voters punishing left-leaning parties in European parliament elections in France, Germany and elsewhere.

Some right-leaning parties said the results vindicated their reluctance to spend more on company bailouts and fiscal stimulus amid the global economic crisis.

First projections by the European Union showed center-right parties would have the most seats — between 263 and 273 — in the 736-member parliament. Center-left parties were expected to get between 155 to 165 seats.

Right-leaning governments were ahead of the opposition in Germany, France, Italy and Belgium, while conservative opposition parties were leading in Britain and Spain.

Greece was a notable exception, where the governing conservatives were headed for defeat in the wake of corruption scandals and economic woes.

Germany’s Social Democrats headed to their worst showing in a nationwide election since World War II. Four months before Germany holds its own national election, the outcome boosted conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel’s hopes of ending the tense left-right “grand coalition” that has led the European Union’s most populous nation since 2005.

“We are the force that is acting level-headedly and correctly in this financial and economic crisis,” said Volker Kauder, the leader of Merkel’s party in the German parliament.

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New Jersey Cop Loses Control, Beats Man Mercilessly

June 7, 2009 just a regular guy

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The Passaic New Jersey police department is conducting an investigation into the beating of a man by one of their officers after the incident was captured on videotape. It cannot be determined from the surveillance tape recorded by a local business if the man, Ronnie Holloway, 49, actually said anything to the officers as he was approached on a street corner and told to button up his shirt but he later claimed he had said nothing, that it was a one way conversation.

Holloway appeared to be standing on a street corner waiting to cross when a squad car came flying up in front of him and quickly stops. A female officer sitting in the passenger seat then ordered Holloway to cover himself up and he appears to be doing what he was asked. All of a sudden a male officer, Joseph R. Rios III, who was driving jumps out, hustles up to the man, grabs him, slams him into the cop car hard enough to make it shake then throws him to the ground and starts wailing away with fists and baton. The attack on the man continues with another body slam into the car and even more baton whacks.

The whole time this is going on the female officer looks rather shellshocked, not really knowing how to respond to what her partner is doing to the guy and at one point appears to be trying to remove the baton from his hand. During the beatdown she looks to be directing her verbal communications not at the suspect but at her partner.

Interestingly when the cavalry arrives they take Holloway into custody in a matter of seconds without any problems.


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Sunday June 7th

June 7, 2009 just a regular guy

Teenage criminal, with an extensive history of violence, arrested for the rape and murder of eight month old baby boy.

A 17-year-old Terrytown man was arrested on charges of aggravated rape and first-degree murder of an 8-month-old child Saturday afternoon, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office said. Arnold T. Ross, of 136 Friedrichs Road in Terrytown, was booked into the Jefferson Parish Correctional Facility. No bond is available on the first-degree murder charge.

90 year old woman finally gets her high school diploma. Good for her.

As a teenager during the Great Depression, Eleanor Benz, now 90, watched her parents struggle to provide for seven children. In her senior year at the Chicago Public Schools’ Lake View High, Benz dropped out of school to help. “I only had a few months left, but a job opened up where my sister worked, and that was a rare thing in 1936, to find a job before you finished high school,” said Benz, of Gurnee.

St. Louis man first Missouri fatality this year related to tick bite.

A St. Louis-area man has died of a tick-borne disease, the first death related to ticks this year in Missouri. Laboratory analysis showed the unnamed man was infected with a bacteria that causes ehrlichiosis, a disease similar to Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

History made. First black female rabbi ordained in Ohio.

Describing herself as the “new face of Judaism,” Alysa Stanton became the first black female rabbi in the country during an ordination in Cincinnati. Stanton, of Blue Ash, was among 14 rabbis ordained Saturday at the Plum Street Temple. She will serve as rabbi of the predominantly white Congregation Bayt Shalom in Greenville, N.C., beginning this summer.

Two Alabama prison escapees captured in North Dakota.

A nearly 14-hour standoff on a ranch in North Dakota ended Saturday with the arrest of two men who escaped from a rural Alabama prison more than 1,200 miles away, a federal law enforcement official said. Joshua Southwick, 26, and Ashton Mink, 22, were apprehended following two shootouts with North Dakota law enforcement, nearly two weeks after their brazen escape from the Perry County Detention Center in Uniontown, Ala.

Man attempting to carjack a vehicle shot dead when he attacks concealed weapons permit holder.

An alleged carjacker was shot and killed in north Houston Saturday morning, police said. At about 6:15 a.m., witnesses pulled Darryl Milton Franklin Jr., 37, out of a car that he was reportedly breaking into in the 1100 block of Langwick Drive.

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Obama Administration Gives Landowners One Week To Accept Deal For Flight 93 Memorial

June 6, 2009 just a regular guy

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The Obama administration is giving landowners in the Pennsylvania countryside, where flight 93 crashed that fateful September 11, 2001 day, one more week to sell to the federal government property they have demanded for the planned minimum 1500 acre memorial to the people on the plane who died or eminent domain proceedings will begin.
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From today’s philly.com,

The federal government issued an ultimatum yesterday to people who own land designated for the Flight 93 memorial in Western Pennsylvania: They have one week to reach an agreement on the sale of their land or the government will initiate proceedings to seize it.

The order came hours after Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter (D., Pa.) met with people who own 500 acres in and around the Shanksville area, where Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001, and with victims’ relatives eager to see the memorial built in time for the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks.

“After meeting with the landowners and the Park Service today, I have high hopes that the parties are close to agreement and will be able to reach consensus over the land in the next week so we can keep the memorial on track without using eminent domain,” Salazar said. “Only if the parties are not able to reach agreement will we have to use the last resort of eminent domain to acquire land.”

Damn, 1500 acres for a memorial? That is what 2.3 SQUARE MILES? The entire World Trade Center complex sat on a total of 16 acres! And what is up with demanding landowners sell their property for this memorial that many consider to be more of a tribute to the dirtbags who hijacked the airplane than the people who probably prevented it from being flown into the White House or other prominent building?

(Another related video can be viewed here.)

What I find interesting about this forced land grab would be something I came across here.

Fact Sheet
Flight 93 National Memorial
Boundary Recommendation
Flight 93 Advisory Commission
July 30, 2004

The Flight 93 Memorial Act (P.L.107-226) directs the Flight 93 Advisory Commission (the Commission) to recommend a boundary for the national memorial to the Secretary of the Interior.

The Commission approved a resolution on the recommendation of a boundary for the Flight 93 National Memorial at the July 30, 2004 Commission meeting.

Lands within the boundary of a national park may include both public and private lands. Private lands within the boundary have no inherent restrictions placed on them.

By law, lands may only be purchased from willing sellers for the Flight 93 National Memorial.

The boundary includes approximately 1,500 acres of core land to be purchased by the federal government to ensure the crash site is forever protected and the heroic actions of the passengers and crew are commemorated. The core lands also provide areas for visitor facilities and direct access to US30, thereby removing visitor traffic from local roadways.

The boundary also provides a fitting setting for the memorial by including approximately 700 acres of land to be protected in partnership with local
landowners through easements, other less-than-fee measures, or full fee acquisition.

The recommended boundary was developed through site visits, computer visual simulations, extensive conversations with area landowners, and in coordination with local government officials.

The Commission prepared the recommendation in partnership and cooperation with the Families of Flight 93, the Flight 93 Memorial Task Force, and the National Park Service.

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Barack Hussein Obama Dissed Big Time In Saudi Handshake Line

June 5, 2009 just a regular guy

Ah yes the good old handshake line. Here we get to watch as the apologist-to-muslims-in-chief, standing right next to Saudi King Abdullah, sticks his hand out over and over only to have several people not even bother to give him a glance let alone give his mitt a shake.

No worries Mr.Obama as I guarantee there are millions of people here right at home that would do the very same thing.

Don’t look for this one on msnbc, nbc, abc, cbs, cnn or any other left wing state run media outlet even though if the same thing happened to George W. Bush it would be on a never ending loop, played ad nauseam….for a month by those clowns.
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