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Friday, February 14, 2014
Insight into Organized Crime in the Americas
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Hey! Let’s hang loose in Hawaii! Welfare, a spot on the surf, Costco on every island!!! Why do we go to work?
The Cato Institute released a study showing that welfare benefits pay more than a minimum wage job in 33 states and the District of Columbia . Even worse, welfare pays more than $15 per hour in 13 states.
According to the study, welfare benefits have increased faster than minimum wage. It’s now more profitable to sit at home than it is to earn an honest day’s pay.
Hawaii is the biggest offender, where welfare recipients earn $29.13 per hour, or a $60,590 yearly salary, all for doing nothing.
Here is the list of the states where the pre-tax equivalent “salary” that welfare recipients receive is higher than having a job:
1. Hawaii : $60,590
2. District of Columbia : $50,820
3. Massachusetts : $50,540
4. Connecticut : $44,370
5. New York : $43,700
6. New Jersey : $43,450
7. Rhode Island : $43,330
8. Vermont : $42,350
9. New Hampshire : $39,750
10. Maryland : $38,160
11. California : $37,160
12. Oregon : $34,300
13. Wyoming : $32,620
14. Nevada : $29,820
15. Minnesota : $29,350
16. Delaware : $29,220
17. Washington : $28,840
18. North Dakota : $28,830
19. Pennsylvania : $28,670
20. New Mexico : $27,900
21. Montana : $26,930
22. South Dakota : $26,610
23. Kansas : $26,490
24. Michigan : $26,430
25. Alaska : $26,400
26. Ohio : $26,200
27. North Carolina : $25,760
28. West Virginia : $24,900
29. Alabama : $23,310
30. Indiana : $22,900
31. Missouri : $22,800
32. Oklahoma : $22,480
33. Louisiana : $22,250
34. South Carolina : $21,910
Do you think we should reform welfare?
HELP!!!!!!! Free $$ & Healthcare...oh Dear!
What a Deal!....I got an email the other day from
a Nigerian prince; He's got a MILLION DOLLARS
and he wants to give it to me for FREE!
And all I have to do is give him all my bank account
numbers so he can transfer the money!
I was about to do it, but then I got ANOTHER email;
It's from a KENYAN prince, and he wants to
give me FREE healthcare for life!
… and all I have to do is give him all my bank
account numbers so he can make it happen!
It's from a KENYAN prince, and he wants to
give me FREE healthcare for life!
… and all I have to do is give him all my bank
account numbers so he can make it happen!
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Houston, TX – Armed Store Clerk Shoots Armed Robber Multiple Times...
Guns Save Lives |  |
- SC Governor Nikki Haley Implies She Would Sign Constitutional Carry Bill During Pro Gun Bill Signing
- Colorado House Rejects Bill That Would Repeal Magazine Limit
- Manuel Martinez, Who Fled Cuba, DESTROYS Oregon Lawmakers on Gun Control, Accuses Them of Treason
- Students Rally Behind Classmate Who Was Arrested for Accidentally Leaving a Shotgun in His Car Following Hunting Trip
- Obama’s Choice for Surgeon General is Anti-Gun Activist
- Houston, TX – Armed Store Clerk Shoots Armed Robber Multiple Times
SC Governor Nikki Haley Implies She Would Sign Constitutional Carry Bill During Pro Gun Bill Signing Posted: 11 Feb 2014 02:35 PM PST This morning, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley signed South Carolina’s concealed carry reform bill. The bill will allow South Carolina carry permit holders to carry firearms on their person into restaurants and other establishments that serve alcohol. Haley delivered remarks prior to signing the bill to clarify the that it is still illegal to consume […]  |
Colorado House Rejects Bill That Would Repeal Magazine Limit Posted: 11 Feb 2014 12:46 PM PST Democrats in Colorado’s state legislature are apparently not learning too much by the recall of two state senators and a looming recall forcing the resignation of a third. Today, Democrats in the Colorado House’s House State Affairs committee, voted along party lines to reject a bill which would have removed the magazine limit that is […]  |
Manuel Martinez, Who Fled Cuba, DESTROYS Oregon Lawmakers on Gun Control, Accuses Them of Treason Posted: 11 Feb 2014 12:03 PM PST Best video of the week. Manuel Martinez, fled communist Cuba gave Oregon lawmakers an earful at a recent hearing. Martinez, who was imprisoned in Cuba for opposing the Castro regime was able to escape Cuba in 1962. “They come here in those dog and pony show and cry that their going to protect people. You’re […]  |
Posted: 11 Feb 2014 10:10 AM PST Well, this story gives me some hope for the future generation in regards to gun rights. According to The Capital Gazette, students at South River High School in Edgewater, Maryland are rallying behind their classmate, Patrick Bryan Mitchell, who was arrested on Friday. Mitchell was arrested after it was discovered the 18 year old senior […]  |
Obama’s Choice for Surgeon General is Anti-Gun Activist Posted: 11 Feb 2014 09:17 AM PST Emily Miller over at the Washington Post has done a nice write up on why President Obama’s choice for surgeon general is a nightmare for gun rights in America. Dr. Vivek Murthy has proven himself to be anti-gun at several turns, though he has so far side stepped answering questions about his stance on gun […]  |
Houston, TX – Armed Store Clerk Shoots Armed Robber Multiple Times Posted: 11 Feb 2014 12:50 AM PST According to media reports, a man tried to rob the “Stop and Gone” convenience store in Houston, TX. However, the suspect quickly learned he was facing an armed citizen. The store’s clerk drew a firearm and opened fire, striking the suspect multiple times. The suspect was able to flee the store and a third party […]  |
Monday, February 10, 2014
America's Power Is Under Threat The Metcalf incident is a reminder of our greatest vulnerability. ...
By Peggy Noonan
Welcome to my obsession. It is electricity. It makes everything run—the phone, the web, the TV, the radio, all the ways we talk to each other and receive information. The tools and lights in the operating room—electricity. All our computers in a nation run by them, all our defense structures, installations and communications. The pumps at the gas station, the factories in the food-supply chain, the ATM, the device on which you stream your music—all electricity. The premature infant's ventilator and the sound system at the rock concert—all our essentials and most of our diversions are dependent in some way on this: You plug the device into the wall and it gets electrical power and this makes your life, and the nation's life, work. Without it, darkness descends.
Because this is so obvious, we don't think about it unless there's a blackout somewhere, and then we think about it for a minute and move on. We assume it will just be there, like the sun.
But this societal and structural dependence is something new in the long history of man.
No one who wishes America ill has to blow up a bomb. That might cause severe damage and rattle us. But if you're clever and you really wanted to half-kill America—to knock it out for a few months or longer and force every one of our material and cultural weaknesses to a crisis stage—you'd take out its electrical grid. The grid is far-flung, interconnected, interdependent, vulnerable. So you'd zap it with an electromagnetic pulse, which would scramble and fry power lines. Or you'd hack the system in a broad, sustained attack, breaking into various parts, taking them down, and watching them take other parts down.
Or you'd do what the people at the center of a riveting front-page story in this newspaper appear to have done. You'd attack it physically, with guns, in a coordinated attack.
The heretofore unknown story happened last April 16. There was an armed assault on a power station in California. Just after midnight some person or persons slipped into an underground vault near Highway 101 just outside San Jose. He or they cut telephone cables—apparently professionally, in a way that would be hard to repair. About a half hour later, surveillance cameras at Pacific Gas & Electric Co.'s nearby Metcalf substation picked up a streak of light, apparently a signal from a flashlight. Snipers then opened fire. The shooters appear to have been aiming at the transformer's cooling systems, which were filled with oil. If that was their target, they hit it. The system leaked 52,000 gallons; the transformer overheated and began to crash. Then there was another flash of light, and the shooting, which had gone on almost 20 minutes, stopped.
The assault knocked out 17 giant transformers that feed electrical power to Silicon Valley. A minute before the police arrived, "the shooters disappeared into the night," in the words of reporter Rebecca Smith, who put the story together through interviews, PG&E filings, documents and a police video.
No suspect in the case has been identified.
Jon Wellinghoff, who at the time was chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, told Ms. Smith the attack "was the most significant incident of domestic terrorism involving the grid that has ever occurred." If the attack were replicated around the country, it could take down the entire electrical grid.
There was no big blackout after the attack—officials rerouted power, and power plants in Silicon Valley were asked to increase their output—but it took 27 days to get the substation fully working again.
Mr. Wellinghoff said he briefed Congress, the White House and federal agencies. But 10 months have passed since the attack, and he fears another, larger one could be in the planning stage.
Ms. Smith quotes an FBI spokesman in San Francisco saying the bureau doesn't think a terrorist organization launched the attack. Investigators, he said, "are continuing to sort through the evidence." PG&E, in a news release, called it the work of vandals.
If so, they were extremely sophisticated and well-armed. More than 100 shell casings were later found at the site. They were of the kind ejected by AK-47s. They were free of fingerprints.
Mr. Wellinghoff later toured the area with professionals from the U.S. Navy's Dahlgren Surface Warfare Center in Virginia, which trains the SEALs. He said the military experts told him it looked like a professional job. They noted small piles of rocks that they said could have been left by an advance scout to alert the attackers as to where to get the best shots.
Some in the industry see it the way Mr. Wellinghoff does, including a former official of PG&E, who told an industry security conference he feared the incident could be a dress rehearsal: "This was an event that was well thought out, well planned and they targeted certain components."
Rich Lordan, an executive at the Electric Power Research Institute, said: "The depth and breadth of the attack was unprecedented" in the United States. The motivation, he said, "appears to be preparation for an act of war."
It's hard to look at the facts and see the Metcalf incident as anything but a deliberate attack by a coordinated, professional group with something deeper and more dangerous on their minds than the joys of vandalism.
So, questions. Who is looking for the shooters, and how hard? On whose list of daily action items is it the top priority?
Those who worry about the grid mostly worry about hackers, and understandably: The grid is under regular hack attack. But the more immediate and larger threat may be physical attacks. In any case, as Ms. Smith suggests, the Metcalf incident appears to lift the discussion beyond the hypothetical.
Protection of the grid on all levels and from all threats should be given much more urgent priority by the federal government. If it ever goes down nationally, it will take time to get it back up and operational, and in the time it could take—months, weeks—many of our country's problems would present themselves in new and grimmer ways. There would likely be broad unrest, much of it inevitable and some of it opportunistic. What would happen in an environment like that, with people without light, means of communication, and perhaps in time food? What would happen to public safety? To civil liberties? Those questions sound farfetched. They are not.
I end with an anecdote. In 2006 I met with some congressional aides and staffers to talk, informally, about what questions should be in the country's hierarchy of worries. They were surprised when I told them a primary concern of mine was electricity, how dependent we are on it, how vulnerable the whole system is. I asked if there was any work being done to strengthen the grid. Blank faces, crickets. Then a bright young woman said she thought there was something about electricity in the appropriations bill a while back.
You always want to think your government is on it. You want to think they see what you see. But really, they're never on it. They always have to be pushed.
Friday, February 7, 2014
InSite Crime...Organized Crime in the Americas
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