Something to think about

My comment...  Snopes says this story is unproven. Sadly, Snopes has shown their true stripes and that is about as far as they can go. I have no idea if the story is real, but Obama, who was raised in a Muslim home and who strongly identifies with his Muslim father has never said anything to indicate he is NOT fully Muslim. Yes, he attended the Christian church of that radical Chicago preacher ("Reverend" Wright?), but only because he could enjoy anti-American hate speech. However, Snopes likes to downplay that.  My thought is that he simply is unable (or uncaring enough) to hide his true feelings anymore. In a fit of rage, Obama snaps at U.S. military brass: "Don't you dare try and paint all of Islam with the same brush.    Showing his Muslim stripes, Obama threw a hissy fit and stomped out of a Pentagon meeting about the bombing campaign against ISIS over remarks allegedly tying the Islamic State (ISIS) to Islam. His tantrum reportedly took place in the afternoon of last week just prior to the president's departure to Camp David. It was an informal briefing on the expanded bombing campaigns to take place in both Syria and Iraq. Halfway through the already very brief briefing, President Obama stood up clearly agitated, and walked out of the room. The casually dressed Obama returned to the briefing moments later with a senior adviser alongside him, though his mood continued to indicate he was still very upset. The senior adviser made a couple pointed remarks to the Pentagon representatives, reminded them the president had already had a very busy day, and then both she and the president once again left the room. Within seconds, Barack Obama returned again to the just concluded briefing, pointing at the still seated Pentagon staff and indicating how "inappropriate" it was to "try and paint all of Islam with the same brush." The president repeated similar remarks, his mood going from agitation to outrage. His voice carried to several other West Wing offices. The senior adviser, who did not originally return with the president into the briefing, suddenly re-appeared alongside him,  as well as the president's personal aide. She was smiling, and telling everyone "we're done here" which she repeated several times and then led the president back out into the hallway.

Be thinking

THE ANSWER IS NO...     This is very  interesting and we all need to read it from start to finish. And send it on to  everyone. Maybe this is why our American Muslims are so quiet and not speaking  out about any atrocities.   Can a good  Muslim be a good American? This question was forwarded to a friend who worked in  Saudi Arabia for 20 years. The following is his reply:   · Theologically - no. Because his allegiance is  to Allah, The moon god of Arabia.   · Religiously - no. Because no other religion is  accepted by His Allah except Islam. (Quran,2:256)(Koran)   · Scripturally - no. Because his allegiance is  to the five Pillars of Islam and the Quran.   · Geographically - no. Because his allegiance is  to Mecca , to which he turns in prayer five times a day.   · Socially - no. Because his allegiance to Islam  forbids him to make friends with Christians or Jews.   · Politically - no. Because he must submit to  the mullahs (spiritual leaders), who teach annihilation of Israel and  destruction of America , the great Satan.   · Domestically - no. Because he is instructed to  marry four Women and beat and scourge his wife when she disobeys him. (Quran  4:34 )   · Intellectually - no. Because he cannot accept  the American Constitution since it is based on Biblical principles and he  believes the Bible to be corrupt.   · Philosophically - no. Because Islam, Muhammad,  and the Quran does not allow freedom of religion and expression. Democracy and  Islam cannot co-exist. Every Muslim government is either dictatorial or  autocratic.   · Spiritually - no. Because when we declare 'one  nation under God,' The Christian's God is loving and kind, while Allah is NEVER  referred to as Heavenly father, nor is he ever called love in the Quran's 99  excellent names.   Therefore,  after much study and deliberation... Perhaps we  should be very suspicious of ALL MUSLIMS in this country. They obviously cannot  be both 'good' Muslims and 'good' Americans. Call it what you wish it's still  the truth. You had better believe it. The more who understand this, the better  it will be for our country and our future.   The  religious war is bigger than we know or understand! If you don't want to be involved you best be pricing prayer rugs.

Your government, not mine

MANASSAS, VA — A 17-year-old boy is being persecuted because he and his 15-year-old girlfriend voluntarily shared naked pictures with one another. As if that were not enough injustice, the boy was forcibly photographed naked as evidence… and investigators want even more.

Trey Simms, 17, is the teen at the center of this controversy. He has been charged with two felonies — manufacturing and distributing child pornography — because of the text messages shared between he and his girlfriend, who is two years younger than him.

Police confiscated his cell phone and iPad as evidence. They also forced him to pose nude for photographs that would be used as further "evidence." NBC Washington provided an interview with the boy's aunt, in which she explained what has already been done to the boy:

"He said they took him to a room and took pictures of his genitalia," Stacy Bigley [Trey's aunt] said. "I asked if they're allowed to do that, and [Trey] said, 'I tried to refuse,'" which he did, he didn't want to do it. They told him if he did not they would do it by force."

A local magistrate signed off on a new search warrant Thursday, asking for more nude pictures of Trey's genitalia to compare with evidence. The teen said police wanted to force him to become aroused.

According to the boy's lawyer, Jessica Harbeson Foster, prosecutors want more nude photos of the boy — while he has a medically-induced erection. There is an actual signed search warrant to acquire "pictures of his erect penis."

When Foster asked how police were going to acquire the photos, she was told,according to the Washington Post: "we just take him down to the hospital, give him a shot and then take the pictures that we need."

Detective David E. Abbott of the Manassas City Police Department is the lead investigator of Trey Simms' case. When the defense attorney spoke with the detective, he said that after obtaining photos of the teen's erect penis he would "use special software to compare pictures of this penis to this penis."

"Who does this?" Ms. Foster asked. "It's just crazy."

"This is a 17-year-old who goes to school every day, plays football, has never been in trouble with the law before," said the boy's lawyer to the Washington Post. "Now he's saddled with two felonies and the implication that he's a sexual predator. I don't mind trying the case. My goal is to stop the search warrant. I don't want him to go through that. Taking him down to the hospital so he can get an erection in front of all those cops, that's traumatizing."

The irony of the situation is that in the process of "investigating" this so-called child pornography case, the government is itself creating more "child pornography" — by the state's own definition. Whereas no victim existed when two teenagers were voluntarily showing pictures to each other, the government's involvement has produced actual child abuse and humiliation.

The government apparently will stop at nothing short of ruining this boy's life. If Trey Simms is convicted of the felonies he has been charged with, he could face years in prison and spend the rest of his life as a registered sex-offender. All because of an activity that should not have been made into a criminal matter.

See more from NBC Washington:

Accountability Check
Manassas City Police (Virginia)
Phone: 703-257-8000

Interesting

Who would have thought that two different agendas could be on the same sign---even down to the vehicles in the background. Amazing! I sometimes get the idea that we are being set up and I don't like being a sucker.

Washington Post story says we are all in deep doo with the DEA running wild

Heavily armed drug cops raid retiree's garden, seize okra plants

Parents who use okra have kids who use okra. Photo via Flickr user Matt The Ogre (CC).

Georgia police raided a retired Atlanta man's garden last Wednesday after a helicopter crew with the Governor's Task Force for Drug Suppression spotted suspicious-looking plants on the man's property. A heavily-armed K9 unit arrived and discovered that the plants were, in fact, okra bushes.

The officers eventually apologized and left, but they took some of the suspicious okra leaves with them for analysis. Georgia state patrol told WSB-TV in Atlantathat "we've not been able to identify it as of yet. But it did have quite a number of characteristics that were similar to a cannabis plant."

Indeed! Like cannabis, okra is green and it has leaves.

Okra busts like these are good reason for taxpayers to be skeptical about the wisdom of sending guys up in helicopters to fly around aimlessly, looking for drugs in suburban gardens. And that's not to mention the issue of whether we want a society where heavily-armed cops can burst into your property, with no grounds for suspicion beyond what somebody thought he saw from several hundred yards up in a helicopter.

Marijuana eradication programs, like the one that sent the helicopter up above the Georgia man's house, are typically funded partly via the Drug Enforcement Agency's Cannabis Eradication Program. Many of these funds come from the controversial asset forfeiture programs, which allow law enforcement officials to seize property from citizens never even charged - much less convicted - of a crime.

The Cannabis Eradication programs have historically inflated the size of their hauls by including non-psychoactive "ditchweed" in their totals of plants seized. In past years, ditchweed accounted for up to 98 percent of seized outdoor plant totals. According to the ONDCP, ditchweed still makes up an unspecified percent of outdoor plants seized.

It is also unclear how many of the seized plants are actually okra.

Christopher Ingraham writes about politics, drug policy and all things data. He previously worked at the Brookings Institution and the Pew Research Center.

Lazy Gun

Lazy Gun I swung my front door wide open and placed my Remington 12-gauge shotgun right in my doorway.  I left 5 shells beside it, then left it alone and went about my business.   While I was gone, the mailman delivered my mail, the neighbor boy across the street mowed the yard, a girl walked her dog down the street, and quite a few cars stopped at the stop sign near the front of our house.   After about an hour, I checked on the gun.  It was still sitting there, right where I had left it.  It hadn't moved itself outside. It certainly hadn't killed anyone, even with the numerous opportunities it had been presented to do so. In fact, it hadn't even loaded itself.   Well you can imagine my surprise, with all the media hype about how dangerous guns are and how they kill people. Either the media is wrong or I'm in possession of the laziest gun in the world.   The United States is 3rd in Murders throughout the World. But if you take out Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC and New Orleans, the United States is 4th from the bottom for Murders. These 4 Cities also have the toughest Gun Control Laws in the United States .  All 4 are controlled by Democrats.   It would be absurd to draw any conclusions from this data - right?   Well, I'm off to check on my spoons - I hear they're making people fat.

Fwd: Need a new bumper sticker?

It is not his fault

QUIT BASHING OBAMA 
by COL. ROBERT F. CUNNINGHAM 
and PATRICK RISHOR, The Gilmer Mirror. 
　
Quit trashing Obama's accomplishments.  He has done more than any other President before him. 
Here is a list of his impressive accomplishments:
 
First President to be photographed smoking a joint.

First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner. 
 
　
First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
 
　
First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.

First President to violate the War Powers Act.
 
　
First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
 
　
First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
 
　
First President to spend a trillion dollars on "shovel-ready" jobs
when there was no such thing as "shovel-ready" jobs.
 
　
First President to abrogate bankruptcy law 
to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
 
　
First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
 
　
First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.
 
　
First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
 
　
First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.
 
　
First President to terminate America 's ability to put a man in space.

First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.
 
　
First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
 
　
First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional  and refuse to enforce it.
 
　
First President to threaten insurance companies if they 
publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.
 
　
First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.
 
　
First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
 
　
First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
 
　
First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).
 
　
First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
 
　
First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
 
　
First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.
 
　
First President to golf more than 150 separate times in his five years in office.
 
　
First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel records.
 
　
First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
 
　
First President to go on multiple "global apology tours" and concurrent "insult our friends" tours.
 
　
First President to take more than 17 lavish vacations, in addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers.
 
　
First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
 
　
First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
 
　
First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense.
 
　
First President to repeat the Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.
 
　
First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona).
 
　
First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they "volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences."
 
　
Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion.
 
　
It's hard to comprehend all this guy has gotten away with. 
 
Any other president would have been impeached!
 
What is wrong with our government that they allow this guy carte blanch?    It absolutely boggles the mind!
 
I feel much better now. I had been under the impression he has not been doing ANYTHING!!
 
AND THE RESULT????
Consider the following statistics ...
 
　
The median income of American households dropped by $2,627 during President Barack Obama's first term — and the number of people in poverty rose by about 6,667,000, according to a new report from the Census Bureau.
 
　
Some 46,496,000 Americans are now in poverty, the highest number ever and a 16.73 percent increase from 2008 when Obama took office.
 
　
Overall, 15 percent of Americans are considered to be living in poverty, up from 13.2 percent in 2008.
 
　
But the figures are much higher for blacks and Hispanics — 27 percent of blacks and 25.6 percent of Hispanics are living in poverty. The rate for non-Hispanic whites is 9.7 percent.
 
More than one-fifth of all Americans under age 18 — 21.8 percent — are in poverty, 
as are 9.1 percent of those 65 and older.
 
　
A single individual earning less than $11,270 last year was considered to be in poverty.
 
For two-person households, the threshold is $14,937; for three-person households, $18,284; for a family of four, $23,492.
 
　
Last year, the real median household income in America was $51,017, a 4.89 percent drop from 2008. Median income dropped in every year of Obama's first term.
 
　
For black households, median income last year was $33,321, according to the report "Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States ." 
 
　
The income and poverty estimates shown in the report are based solely on money income before taxes and do not include the value of non-cash benefits, such as those provided by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Medicare, Medicaid, public housing, or employer-provided fringe benefits.