Interesting Items by Alex Gimarc
July 22, 2013 Note: The Interesting Items web site has been damaged due to the DDoS attack the Hosting Company suffered early last week. We will update it as soon as they repair their damage. Thank you for bearing with us. Cheers - - AG ============================== ============================== =============== Monday July 22, 2013 Interesting Items 7/22 - Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy – In this issue: 1. Zimmerman 2. IRS 3. Climate 4. O’Donnell 5. Bunny 6. Detroit 7. Pebble 1. Zimmerman. Fallout from the Zimmerman verdict took place all week long as the race hustlers seized upon the outcome to push their divisive political agenda. They are exploiting the death of this 17 year-old for all its worth, while bringing the full force of the US Department of (In)Justice to bear against the acquitted. Last week we saw the return of one Rachel Jeantel, the young man’s girl friend, who made the rounds of the cable shows trying to undo the damage she did to herself on the stand. She got a makeover, with a new hairdo and better clothes and coaching on a story that got better each time she told it. This woman is the product of the public education system and the ultimate democrat voter. She is not to be ridiculed, though that would be easy. She is to be pitied. She expounded on the proper use of the epithets “cracka” and “nigga.” Interesting set of words, as both are used regularly by southern whites and blacks respectively, but woe be unto the opposite racial member that uses it. The most interesting thing she said was that Trayvon was that Zimmerman looked gay, and there was some concern that he would follow Trayvon home where his younger brother was. This makes the rationale for the attack more old fashioned gay-bashing than anything else, something Limbaugh and Drudge picked right up upon and the rest of the leftist media purposely ignored. Holder made a few public remarks, doing his level best to further whip up the racial frenzy. Obama did the same Friday, though his remarks seemed more timed to deflect from very damaging revelations during the House IRS Hearings the day before. In Florida, the IT forensics specialist that notified the defense of Trayvon’s cell phone contents withheld from them by the prosecution and was fired when the case went to the jury filed the expected whistleblower lawsuit against Rachel Corey and the State Prosecutor’s Office. Discovery will be very fun to watch during this case, as the internal threats apparently were spread far and wide, and the evidence manipulation went a lot farther than simply the fired IT forensics guy. Nice shop Ms. Corey is running. Holder’s speech has been described by some as a signal that he does not have enough to charge Zimmerman with a civil rights violation. Yet they placed a hold on all evidence gathered during the investigation by Florida law enforcement and the FBI. This means that he will not get his firearm back any time soon. There was a story of an offer to gift Zimmerman with his choice of firearm so I do not expect him to be unarmed for long. Of course the death threats continued and will continue as long as Obama, Holder and the other race hustlers stir up the masses. All in all, despite the best efforts of the race baiters, I do not get the impression this is working as well as they would like. Perhaps we are finally getting sick and tired of the game. I know that I am. 2. IRS. A blockbuster revelation at the House Committee hearing on the IRS targeting conservative groups has the IRS General Counsel, one of only two political appointees to the IRS, directing the action. Along with head of the IRS who visited the Obama White House over 157 times during his tenure, more than any other cabinet member, this not only demonstrates the involvement of the Obama WH in the festivities, but also the depth of that involvement. This is not going away any time soon. http://dailycaller.com/2013/ 07/17/irs-lawyer-says-scandal- was-overseen-by-d-c-names- names/ 3. Climate. Barbara Boxer (D, CA) held a hearing on “climate change”, formerly known as “manmade global warming due to carbon dioxide emissions” Thursday. As usual, the panel of experts was packed with supporters of the fraud, most of which take public funding to say so, but also included a hard core skeptic, Dr. Roy Spencer who looks at satellite data, and Roger Pielke, who is swinging to the skeptic side of the discussion but grudgingly blames everything on carbon dioxide. The hearing was intended to underscore Obama’s call for a further war on carbon (dioxide) from a couple weeks ago. Despite what everyone else had to say or claimed, Roy Spencer blew them out of the water, making the case that there is no measurable manmade global warming due for carbon dioxide, or due to anything else for that matter. In fact, global temperatures have been static for at least 17 years, while carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere continue to increase. Once the levels of carbon dioxide and temperatures in the atmosphere decouple, every single one of their computer generated models fail and the theory falls apart. And it has been going on for 17 years. Watts Up With That had excellent coverage of the hearing, which did not give the outcome Boxer and the senate democrats wanted. You can find a writeup including presentations and video at the following link. http://wattsupwiththat.com/ 2013/07/19/watch-yesterdays- blockbuster-performance-by-dr- roger-pielke-jr-and-dr-roy- spencer-at-senate-climate- hearing/ 4. O’Donnell. Former Republican TEA Party candidate for the US Senate Christine O’Donnell has been ridiculed by many for her missteps during her run for US Senate from Delaware to Chris Coons, a committed Marxist, in 2010. As it turns out, the democrats were sufficiently concerned about her candidacy that they used the IRS to leak confidential tax information to the media starting the day she announced her candidacy in 2010. A Treasury Inspectors General told Senator Charles Grassley in response to a question that O’Donnell was one of four Republican candidates or donors targeted since 2006. The IRS slapped a lien on a home she no longer owned on the day she announced, something the media loudly reported. That reporting damaged her early on. And it was all a blatant lie manufactured, aided, and abetted by a politicized IRS. At the same time, a state government official illegally accessed her tax information. Neither of these happens unless the political appointees in the IRS approve the harassment. It wasn’t political missteps that defeated O’Donnell. Rather it was Obama administration dirty tricks coupled with the slavish reportage of the state-run media. http://hotair.com/archives/ 2013/07/18/christine-odonnell- a-victim-of-irs-abuse/ 5. Bunny. Yet another example of a government that is too large, too intrusive and too overbearing is the USDA Bunny Inspectors. Using a very old law intended to regulate animals used in circuses and zoos; bureaucratic creep has extended the regulatory intrusiveness down to single magicians using animals. In this case, a 54-year old magician in Missouri who ends his show by pulling a rabbit out of his hat was slapped with a demand for a disaster recovery plan for the rabbit the USDA licenses for use in his show. Along with the disaster plan, he also is required to notify the USDA of the itineraries of his travels with the rabbit. If he decides to eat the rabbit, he doesn’t need to tell the USDA. The new regulation apparently came out of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, where people abandoned their animals in an attempt to flee the storm. A lot of animals died during the destruction, leading to a need (in the eyes of the bureaucracy) for a disaster plan for their care. And they are busily applying it as far and wide as humanly possible. I think the USDA has outlived its usefulness and is sorely in need of defunding and responsibilities transferred to the many states. Sooner would be better than later. http://hotair.com/archives/ 2013/07/17/overregulation- follies-feds-want-disaster- plan-for-magic-hat-bunnies/ 6. Detroit. After over half a century of one party (democrat) rule, the economic disaster formerly known as the city of Detroit filed for bankruptcy last week. This makes it the largest bankruptcy in recent times. The filing was under federal bankruptcy laws by an Emergency manager appointed by the Michigan Governor. Detroit has total liabilities of $18 billion. The recovery plan calls for cutting the $11.5 billion debt down to around $2 billion, mostly by slashing pensions of municipal union members who will end up getting around 17% of what is promised. Welcome to reality, union members and retirees. Of course the unions found themselves a friendly judge who issued an injunction based on a provision of the state constitution that she read to not allow local governments to declare bankruptcy, instead putting the entire state treasury on the hook for fiscal malfeasance of each local government. It’s going to be interesting to see the unions and their union-friendly judges make the case that that provision of the state constitution trumps federal bankruptcy laws. This is the first major bankruptcy in a while. Given the fiscal straits occupied by the states of CA, IL and NY, I do not expect it to be the last. 7. Pebble. Speaking of fiscal reality, it just hit the Iliamna Village Council, which is trying to rescind supportive comments submitted by the Village Council President to the EPA’s hatchet job study on mining in the Bristol Bay region. The comments were submitted with an analysis by a Professor Emeritus from the Colorado School of Mines blasting away at mining development in the region. As of this writing, the EPA is essentially saying tough toenails, as the comments and the analysis will be included as part of the permanent record, likely because it agrees with their anti-mining position. The Village Council overrode the President and pointed out that a mine would bring jobs to one of the most economically destitute regions in the state, and this is a Good thing. They also probably pointed out that they saw few if any positive economic benefits by the mostly out of state dominated commercial fishery in Bristol Bay. Reality, what a concept. http://www.adn.com/2013/07/16/ 2977006/council-seeks-to- rescind-comments.html More later - - AG "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776. 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