Sunday, October 13, 2013
Government continues weak, ineffective, and appearing to be impotent
Jessica James @jessicajamesSix of them are wearing Bike helmets. Three have riot type helmets. Two have full riot gear. The guy far left
looks like he just "jumped in" to see what's happening.
Seeing them "March" to the White House would lead a man who has "Been to the show" to think, "I can kick these guy's asses-easy" .
They fanned out on the sidewalk in front of the White House, backs to the fence, and stood there.
Friday, October 11, 2013
May be wrong, but here's a thought.
Hitler took great care to pamper and coddle his people
and they loved him -- and the Nazi regime -- for it. -
http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/hitler-feel-good-fuehrer-with-focus-on-social-benefits-t11523.html#sthash.UoGlEEGj.dpuf
Well, I was a law officer for 30+ years, and during that time, I earned a degree in Criminal Justice Administration and completed two years of Law School.
Here is my thought:
All the National Parks are National because they are Public Property. So far, I have been to Yosemite, King's Canyon, the Grand Canyon, Zion, The Arches, and assorted other smaller parks.
I never saw a "No Trespassing" sign posted. They charged me admission--until I turned 65, then I got a "Forever Pass".
My thought: Next time a Park Ranger tries to stop and cite--especially on the Mall, where no admission is charged, I suggest getting his name and station address. Then, sue for False Arrest.
I'm sure they are going to come back with " I was acting under orders".
That worked out real well at Nuremberg
Sunday, October 6, 2013
A Dawning
We were riding our horses along this morning.
I was thinking about yesterday. My Congressman, Dr. Paul Gosar, had planned a day to pick up trash along a mile of Hwy 89 near Chino Valley, CA.
Several of his local staffers were out there.
One woman related that she had a caller, who had called four times while she was out of the office, and the caller's message was "Tell him (Dr Gosar)--He's stupid bastard" . Same message--four times.
Then I recalled this story:
Barack Obama is political king of the fake Twitter followers, with more than 19.5 MILLION online fans who don't really exist
Then, this morning I had read this one:
BarackObama.com calling all troop twits to Twitter-
Tweet a Deceit is the order of the day
Then , it dawned on me.
A combination of things has occurred.
---There was a time when Liberal/Progressives (Lib/Progs) [We used to call them Communists] could expect normal people and Conservatives to "Be Civil" and not contest their ambitions and assertions.
Certain actions by Obama (Make NO MISTAKE--the Orders Come from the top. They might be Obama--or they might be Valerie Jarrett, and Obama repeats them, but they come out of the Oval Office) such as barricading the WWII Memorial have lessened a truthful, honest, and to Lib/Progs--abrasive response.
-- People that buy Obama's Bulls**t have dwindled down to a handful of either brainwashed Kool-Aid drinkers, or those that use Obama as a conduit to drain the treasury--can you say Solyndra or Fisker.
-- So, it is now two things:
One, trying to convince Conservatives that Obamaphiles still outnumber us.
Two, trying to convince us that Obamacare is good, The debt ceiling needs to be raised, and we still do not need a budget. \
A little known fact about a budget: A Budget --passed by Congress allows the House to fund, limit, or de-fund predatory Administrative agencies like IRS, EPA, and TSA.
Friday, October 4, 2013
BORDER PATROL REP CLAIMS AGENTS BEING ORDERED TO STAND DOWN
http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/10/04/breitbart-exclusive-border-patrol-rep-claims-agents-ordered-stand-down
The National Border Patrol Council has come forward to reveal to the American public once again management practices that could be risking the lives of Americans -- and the lives of illegal immigrants.
Shawn Moran, Vice President of the National Border Patrol Council, spoke exclusively with Breitbart News and claimed that Border Patrol management has begun the practice of ordering Border Patrol Agents to stand down and cease pursuing drug smugglers, human smugglers and traffickers, and illegal aliens. He also warned it could lead to illegal aliens entering the country from nations associated with terrorism.
“It doesn’t matter whether it’s drugs, bodies, or how large the group is, our agents are being ordered to stand down by Border Patrol management,” said Moran. "I have received reports from our agents in every single sector from San Diego to the Rio Grande Valley in Texas that they are receiving these orders."
"They are not being relieved in place, they are simply being told that someone else is being dispatched, but none of us have seen that occur," he explained. "We are simply being ordered to stand down and stop tracking and trying to apprehend the criminals.” He discussed the importance of agents being relieved in place when tracking an individual or group.
"Border Patrol senior leadership says the stand downs are a means of addressing budgetary shortfalls and making sure agents aren’t working longer shifts," Moran said. "The Border Patrol has a larger budget than ever, but the agents on the ground have not seen the benefits of an increased budget. The increased budget has not trickled down to the men and women with their boots on the ground."
"They are placing the budgetary concerns before the security of our border," Moran stated. "We have situations where top-level bureaucrats in the U.S. Border Patrol and in the Customs and Border Protection Agency are receiving massive bonuses -- some up to $64,000 --- for finding ways to reduce the pay Border Patrol Agents receive."
"Groups that are outside of human trafficking, human smuggling, and drug smuggling are going to exploit these stand down orders as well, not only cartels but illegal aliens from nations that are tied to terrorism,” he warned.
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Nothing new here, folks.
What do I base that on?
1. In 1992, the Border Patrol had set up a Check Point on I-15, between Escondido, CA and Temecula, CA. A Chev Suburban loaded with 32 Illegal Aliens, ran the check point. B P Agents pursued. The Suburban went off I-15, into Temecula, down streets zones 35 MPH at 70 mph. The High School was just getting out. Four students in a Honda Civic were leaving, and were broadsided by the Suburban. All four were killed.
The BP responded with Orders from HQ in D C.
IF a suspected "Load Car" ( Car filled with Illegals) was attempted to be apprehended by a B P Agent using Red & Blue Overhead lights and a siren, and that Load Car VIOLATED ANY Traffic Law, the Agent was to: Turn off the lights and sired, execute a u-turn, and return to the originating point or position.
Forty Per Cent of the Border Patrol is comprised of "Anchor Babies" or naturalized citizens. Their allegiance is to relatives in Mexico--Not the United States.
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Sher: "David, thanks again for your time in addressing this vital issue that impacts all of us in the US. I'd like to start by asking you to explain some of the reasons that illegal immigration into the United States has become so uncontrollable over the last 30-40 years. Let's start with the makeup of the US Border Patrol. You mentioned that the US' affirmative action programs and the EEOC have been largely responsible in creating a situation, in that fully 70% of the USBP is now comprised of agents holding dual Mexican and US citizenship. Would you elaborate?"
David: "Sorry. That's not exactly what I said. I didn't make myself clearly understood. What I said was that 70% of the Border Patrol is Hispanic. That in and of itself isn't bad. Some of the most dedicated and aggressive officers I ever worked with were Hispanic. It is a bad thing that a huge number of those Hispanic Border Patrol Officers are anchor babies or derivative citizens. Let me explain; A Derivative citizen is someone who is born in a foreign country of at least one U.S. Citizen Parent. The Anchor Baby is someone whose parents who are residents and citizens of a foreign country but who is born here.
"It is unfortunate that there are U.S. Border Patrol Officers who, through a quirk of law, are U.S. citizens but whose loyalties, culture and mores are of and to a foreign nation. I am referring specifically to Mexico. We currently have Border Patrol Officers who were raised, educated and indoctrinated in Mexico. They regard themselves as Mexican first and their loyalties are to Mexico. They regard their mission as Border Patrol Officers as primarily to assure the safety of their fellow countrymen while they illegally enter the United States. This is why we have a history of Border Patrol Officers working for the Mexican human and drug smuggling cartels. Being raised in Mexico and having friends and family there, they have a support network to use when they get crosswise with U.S. law. Of course, when they get caught, they flee to Mexico where they have family and friends.
David: "Sorry. That's not exactly what I said. I didn't make myself clearly understood. What I said was that 70% of the Border Patrol is Hispanic. That in and of itself isn't bad. Some of the most dedicated and aggressive officers I ever worked with were Hispanic. It is a bad thing that a huge number of those Hispanic Border Patrol Officers are anchor babies or derivative citizens. Let me explain; A Derivative citizen is someone who is born in a foreign country of at least one U.S. Citizen Parent. The Anchor Baby is someone whose parents who are residents and citizens of a foreign country but who is born here.
"It is unfortunate that there are U.S. Border Patrol Officers who, through a quirk of law, are U.S. citizens but whose loyalties, culture and mores are of and to a foreign nation. I am referring specifically to Mexico. We currently have Border Patrol Officers who were raised, educated and indoctrinated in Mexico. They regard themselves as Mexican first and their loyalties are to Mexico. They regard their mission as Border Patrol Officers as primarily to assure the safety of their fellow countrymen while they illegally enter the United States. This is why we have a history of Border Patrol Officers working for the Mexican human and drug smuggling cartels. Being raised in Mexico and having friends and family there, they have a support network to use when they get crosswise with U.S. law. Of course, when they get caught, they flee to Mexico where they have family and friends.
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Word was passed to the smugglers. If red and blue lights came on behind one of these vehicles--forget that it Could be a City Police Officer, a Deputy Sheriff, or a Highway Patrol Officer- the response was to accelerate to high speed with dangerous lane changes. Often on I-8, the Load Car would cross the center divider and go the wrong way. Several American unsuspecting citizens were killed like this in head on crashes.
Mexico capitalized on this. In 1995, a Mexican Consul would almost beat the ambulances to crashes, and "Prep" the "Victims" for a lawsuit against what ever agency had been pursuing .
This was under Bill Clinton.
2. A B P Agent , on his way to Federal Court, spotted a family on the street in San Diego.
Memo Curbs Arrests of Immigrants
After a backlash, the Border Patrol won't nab suspects except at the border or checkpoints. Now agents are angry.
After protests over recent immigration arrests in San Diego and San Juan Capistrano, Border Patrol officials have instructed agents not to make arrests on city streets or question suspected illegal immigrants except along the border and at highway checkpoints in Orange and Riverside counties.
The directive, outlined in an Aug. 8 memo, is aimed at agents in San Diego and southern areas of Orange and Riverside counties.
"The future of Border Patrol operations" depends on eliminating the public perception that agents occasionally conduct neighborhood sweeps, says the memo from William T. Veal, chief patrol agent for the greater San Diego area.
Agents reacted with anger and disbelief to the memo.
"I refuse not to do my job. They want us to turn a blind eye even if we know that an alien is here illegally, and a criminal [besides]. That's reprehensible," said agent Thane Gallagher, who is also a union official. "Whose mythical notion is this that once an illegal alien is in the U.S., we're supposed to turn our back?"
The policy was announced by Veal last week, after the Aug. 1 arrests of five members of a Mexican family by Border Patrol agents. The family -- parents, son, daughter and a nephew, all adults -- was (ALLEGEDLY) walking to the Mexican Consulate near downtown San Diego to apply for matricula consular cards, identification cards issued by the Mexican government to its citizens living in the United States. The arrests were made about a block from the consulate.
Later in the day, a friend of the family was arrested and deported when he went to retrieve the family's car, consular officials said.
The arrests sparked controversy and words of protest by Deputy Consul General Javier Diaz, who met with Veal to discuss the incident. Officials at the National Border Patrol Council Local 1613, which represents local agents, said Veal's directive was largely motivated by the outpouring of criticism leveled at the agency after the arrests. The incident was the first time in recent memory that such an arrest has occurred so close to a Mexican consulate in the United States, according to U.S. and Mexican authorities.
Mexican Consul General Rodulfo Figueroa said he was astonished by the arrests because of their proximity to his downtown office, where Mexican nationals have long been able to come without worrying about Border Patrol agents approaching them and where consular officials have been able to effectively do their job helping Mexicans in the U.S.
"There is sort of a unwritten agreement that it shouldn't happen," Figueroa said. "I don't know what brought them here."
Veal's memo was also shaped by fallout from a series of June arrests in San Juan Capistrano. In one instance, a father whose children were in grade school was arrested, forcing officials to place the children in a county facility.
The San Juan Capistrano arrests, and the wave of rumors and fears they fed, resulted in a meeting that attracted more than 400 people who met with the Mexican consul, lawyers and a U.S. immigration official in a church gymnasium.
Veal declined Tuesday to discuss the memo. A Border Patrol spokesman said the document is viewed as internal communication.
The memo was directed at all agents in the San Diego sector, which includes San Diego County and the border checkpoints in San Clemente and Temecula. It said agents are prohibited from initiating enforcement action in cities, residential areas, near workplaces and locations where day laborers gather. Agents are also prohibited from taking enforcement action while driving to assignments.
The priority for Border Patrol agents, Veal wrote, should be "maximum containment" of illegal immigration at the border and preventing the entry of terrorists. Enforcing immigration laws away from the border and at workplaces will be done by the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, he wrote.
Agents said the memo has had a chilling effect.
"Morale was already bad, but this memo sent it plummeting to the lowest point I've ever seen," said Shawn Moran, a spokesman for the union representing agents. "The guys and women are asking what management expects them to do, if not their jobs. We're telling them they have to follow the chief's orders."
Patricia Mariscal, a San Juan Capistrano activist who organized protests against the June arrests, welcomed the memo's message.
"This will allow the Border Patrol to continue with its mission of enforcing the immigration laws while at the same time treating immigrants with respect," said Mariscal. "But they've had other policies and regulations in place that they haven't followed in the past. I hope this is one they'll follow."
In San Diego, fallout from the arrest of the family near the Mexican Consulate has continued to cause unease.
While Moran defended the four agents who made the arrests, others said the Border Patrol had violated a long-held trust that the neighborhood around the consulate was sacred ground.
Mexican immigrant Angela Velasquez, 56, waited on a recent afternoon with her daughter, who was trying to get a Mexican passport. Velasquez said the area around the consulate should be a "protected zone," where undocumented immigrants don't have to worry about being arrested.
The American Friends Service Committee in San Diego has received several phone calls from apprehensive illegal immigrants since the arrest, said director Christian Ramirez.
"This has really sent shock waves throughout the Latino community," Ramirez said. "People have called to ask if it's safe to go to the Laundromat, supermarket, school, swimming lessons.
George W Bush was President then
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3. In 2004, B P Agents at the Temecula Check Point deduced that no transporter was coming through their station. Four Agents took vans and went to Riverside, San Bernardino, Upland, Ontario, and Chino, CA. In four days, they had collected 440 Illegals off the streets.
Rep. Joe Baca, D- San Bernardino, stormed into B P HQ in DC, ranting that the B P was "Disturbing his constituents". Very quickly, an order came from DC directing that "Agents would not leave their Check Points."
Again, under President George W. Bush
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
A not-so-good trip.
I had been retired from the California Highway Patrol on October 1, 2001. Wife wanted to move to a more rural location, so we found a builder, bought 5 acres outside of Ramona, CA, and put up a new house
On our way to do a Final Inspection on Feb 27, we had stopped at a gas station in Poway, CA. While I walked back from the Cashiers, I was looking to my left--where cars usually came from, and suddenly was laying on the concrete looking up at a rear bumper. An inattentive middle-aged woman, backing in to the gas pumps, had hit me and knocked me down.
I had been wanting to see Water Wheel Falls in Yosemite Park. The ONLY way to get there is to hike down Tuolomne Canyon from Toulomne Meadows . Since I get flyers from Yosemite, I saw a back pack trip that went to Water Wheel Falls. I signed up. The trip was set for June 30.
Drive up June 29, camp over night at Toulomne Meadows, then hike 6 miles to Glen Aulin High Sierra Camp, camp over night, hike 3 miles to and from Water Wheel Falls, camp over night, then return to Toulomne Meadows the last day
The injury from the woman backing over me resulted in knee surgery on May 30.
On June 29, I start driving up. Around Lone Pine on Hwy 395, the throw-out bearing on my clutch ceased to be. I had a 97 Ford Explorer Sport with a 5 speed. Thank the Lord, I grew up with manual transmissions, and knew how to ( Call it one or the other) Double-Clutch or Speed Shift. Means shifting gears without a clutch.
Got to Toulomne Meadows. Camped and socialized with the 11 others hikers, the Guide and Assistant Guide. That night, mosquitoes feasted on our blood. I itched for several days
We hiked down to Glen Aulin. The flyer had said to bring a swimsuit to bathe/cool off in the river. Did that, as the temperature was ninety-something.
Coming back to our tents, I went to step up on a step. I was wearing Flip-Flops, as that was another item the flyer had said to bring. AS I did my right foot slipped out, and went down the the previous step. I heard a pop, and felt a sting in my right foot .
After a while, there was swelling, and one of the other hikers was a RN. I asked her if she thought it was broken. She said yes. I told her NOT to tell ANYONE.
I shoved that foot into my hiking boot and laced it up. It would be there the next three days.
We hiked down to the falls next day. Luckily, I had bought hiking poles to take some of the stress off.
The next day, we hiked the 6 miles back up to Tuolomne Meadows.
This site tells you what is like.
http://www.yosemitehikes.com/tioga-road/glen-aulin/glen-aulin.htm
My Ford Explorer went into the shop. They found that the radiator was also leaking and that had to be replaced along with the clutch.
On our way to do a Final Inspection on Feb 27, we had stopped at a gas station in Poway, CA. While I walked back from the Cashiers, I was looking to my left--where cars usually came from, and suddenly was laying on the concrete looking up at a rear bumper. An inattentive middle-aged woman, backing in to the gas pumps, had hit me and knocked me down.
I had been wanting to see Water Wheel Falls in Yosemite Park. The ONLY way to get there is to hike down Tuolomne Canyon from Toulomne Meadows . Since I get flyers from Yosemite, I saw a back pack trip that went to Water Wheel Falls. I signed up. The trip was set for June 30.
Drive up June 29, camp over night at Toulomne Meadows, then hike 6 miles to Glen Aulin High Sierra Camp, camp over night, hike 3 miles to and from Water Wheel Falls, camp over night, then return to Toulomne Meadows the last day
The injury from the woman backing over me resulted in knee surgery on May 30.
On June 29, I start driving up. Around Lone Pine on Hwy 395, the throw-out bearing on my clutch ceased to be. I had a 97 Ford Explorer Sport with a 5 speed. Thank the Lord, I grew up with manual transmissions, and knew how to ( Call it one or the other) Double-Clutch or Speed Shift. Means shifting gears without a clutch.
Got to Toulomne Meadows. Camped and socialized with the 11 others hikers, the Guide and Assistant Guide. That night, mosquitoes feasted on our blood. I itched for several days
We hiked down to Glen Aulin. The flyer had said to bring a swimsuit to bathe/cool off in the river. Did that, as the temperature was ninety-something.
Coming back to our tents, I went to step up on a step. I was wearing Flip-Flops, as that was another item the flyer had said to bring. AS I did my right foot slipped out, and went down the the previous step. I heard a pop, and felt a sting in my right foot .
After a while, there was swelling, and one of the other hikers was a RN. I asked her if she thought it was broken. She said yes. I told her NOT to tell ANYONE.
I shoved that foot into my hiking boot and laced it up. It would be there the next three days.
We hiked down to the falls next day. Luckily, I had bought hiking poles to take some of the stress off.
The next day, we hiked the 6 miles back up to Tuolomne Meadows.
This site tells you what is like.
http://www.yosemitehikes.com/tioga-road/glen-aulin/glen-aulin.htm
Glen Aulin (Tuolumne Falls & White Cascade)
Distance: 13 miles (21 km) round trip to White Cascade and the Glen Aulin High Sierra Camp
Trailhead Elevation: 8,500 feet (2,550 meters)
Glen Aulin Elevation: 7,900 feet (2,400 meters)
Total Elevation Change: 600 feet (180 meters)
Glen Aulin Elevation: 7,900 feet (2,400 meters)
Total Elevation Change: 600 feet (180 meters)
Hiking Time: 7 - 10 hours
Why hike to Glen Aulin? To see the picturesque effects produced by a manic-depressive river. For three miles, the Tuolumne River curves lazily through meadows like a time-lapse video of a cat on a sunny windowsill. Then it perks up and dashes over a series of cascades and waterfalls, terminating at Glen Aulin - envision, if you're enjoying the metaphor, the same cat as you try to herd it into a cage to take to the vet to have some highly private bits snipped off. Below Glen Aulin, if you go that far (and even if you don't, for that matter), it becomes even more sedate than it was at the top of the trail - under anesthetic, perhaps. Then it rouses again for a raucous trio of waterfalls and the descent into the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne - not unlike a cat that's just conducted a self-exam and realized exactly what you've done to it.
Difficulty: 7 out of 10, let's say. Besides the distance and the starting elevation, most of the elevation change is packed into the half of the hike closest to Glen Aulin, so you notice it more, and much of that stretch is rocky as well, requiring you to slow down to pick your way through the riprap.
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As we arrived at Tuolomne Meadows, one of the hikers asserted that his pack seemed heavier than any previous hike. The Guide had a scale a,d weighed it at 50 pounds. I got mine weighed too, and knowing it was lighter than the trip down, it was still 48 pounds.
That evening, I went down to Lee Vining to a hotel room, spent the night--after a shower, and drove home the next day.
Showed the wife my foot the next day. Now, it was black and blue around most of the top side. Wife went into a tirade--something about "You could have died".
My Ford Explorer went into the shop. They found that the radiator was also leaking and that had to be replaced along with the clutch.
You might be sitting there asking: Why didn't you tell the Guide? Answer: Liability.
The Guide would have been responsible to send the assistant guide out to contact Park Rangers. Meanwhile, I would have not been allowed to walk. Another hiker in the group fell ill the morning we returned to Tuolomne Meadows. The Assistant Guide contacted the Rangers. A paramedic--on foot--responded. A Ranger responded, riding a horse and leading a second horse for the trip out. The ill hiker was alter charged $1500 for that attention and the ride. He was taken to a location and placed on a helicopter, which was a $12,000 ride.
And, I would not have been able to see Water Wheel Falls
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
An Obama Revelation
WALID SHOEBAT (former Terrrorist from "Palestine") can prove Obama is a Muslim, associated with Muslim Brotherhood
Saturday, June 15, 2013
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