2013 Twitter Post from Washington DC

Vietnam Wall entrance is open to all. Guard dog and guards are solely for intimidation. Go in. God Bless 'em pic.twitter.com/O7XSjOzbtj

— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) October 5, 2013

If Twitter existed on June 5th 1989 would you have seen?: (more…)

There’s a lot wrong here.   A LOT !

Vietnam Wall entrance is open to all. Guard dog and guards are solely for intimidation. Go in. God Bless 'em pic.twitter.com/O7XSjOzbtj

— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) October 5, 2013

But if I could just direct your attention to one little aspect many seem to overlook.
A sitting U.S. Congressman is telling the American People  not to worry, that armed guards and police attack dogs are only (solely) there to intimidate them.
Sit still and be quiet for a bit, while you think about that.
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This one is funnier than trying to stop people from looking at Mount Rushmore….   Perhaps I find this funnier because it not far from home and very familiar stomping grounds. To give you an idea how stupid this is, it’s wide open water.   Florida Bay is the body of water between the curve of the Florida Keys  WEST into  greater gulf of Mexico.      Biscayne Bay is a smaller sized body of water South East of Miami EAST to the Atlantic Ocean.
Enforcement ? Imagine trying to stop 3 million people, spread over 500 miles squared, from looking at a full moon.   That’s how practical enforcement would be.
(Via Breitbart)  Just before the weekend, the National Park Service informed charter boat captains in Florida that the Florida Bay was “closed” due to the shutdown.
Until government funding is restored, the fishing boats are prohibited from taking anglers into 1,100 square-miles of open ocean. Fishing is also prohibited at Biscayne National Park during the shutdown.
The Park Service will also have rangers on duty to police the ban of access to an ocean. (more…)

A few days BigFurHat @iOTW predicted the following:

Many laughed thinking it was silly.    Well, it has indeed come to pass (more…)

Dancing With A Purpose

Have you ever watched a guy provoke a fight?     Do you remember when the Fed’s shot Randy Weaver’s dog at Ruby Ridge?   The reason for that is the same reason why President Stompy Feet is provoking you now….  he wants confrontation;  he wants anger;  It’s all just tinder to create a situation where “more control” becomes needed and justified.
The current “regime” that has become the petty display of President Stompy Feet is desperate to convince you, or enforce by design, a belief that liberalism has value.   You don’t win the fight for liberty in this phase by letting the aggressor make you angry.  Instead you need to find the key to smart resolve.
Our current goals should be to keep up morale, and highlight the larger objectives of their intents.   Learn from the historically smart resolve of Solidarity and Resistance.   Dance and sing joyful songs along the way, even if you have to do it in private.  Don’t let anyone steal your peace – that alone, will drive the regime nuts. (more…)

Commodore Snoogie Woogums predicted this:

[…] Park spokeswoman Maureen Hugatree stated that the orders to fill in the canyon with fog had come straight from the White House. “They told me that they had deemed the fog machine operators to be essential emergency personnel with previous experience of clouding issues to the public,” she explained… (peoples cube)

Now it has come to pass…. (more…)

Yesterday President Stompy Feet posed for his latest national portrait.   Today the park service admits they were told to inflict the maximum public pain during the government shutdown.  Also today, the Border Patrol reveals they have been told to “Stand Down” and ignore border crossings.
All of this why?
Because the actual truth is people are awakening to the reality that most of the federal government is *non essential*; and, quite frankly, we can just do without them.  THAT is the real risk to sellers of BIG government.   It’s the same visible reality that stemmed from the ‘sequester cuts’ which, despite all the protestations to the contrary, really don’t have impact.   That’s the real issue. (more…)

Still Dancing….

And so we enter Day #4 of the federal shutdown with the media still gnashing it’s horrible teeth determined to frame the horrid Republican Anarchists, Terrorists, jihadists.   But the electorate continue to defy the media demands.

Tea Party extremists caused this #BoehnerShutdown. Tell @SpeakerBoehner to end it now: http://t.co/hLq6qOd2lM pic.twitter.com/WW4soKEibu

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) October 3, 2013

CBS Polling shows when the government shut down back in November 1995, 51 percent of Americans blamed the Republicans in Congress, while 28 blamed President Bill Clinton.
And what are those numbers today? 44% blame GOP, 35% blame Obama, and 17% blame both.  Imagine what the polling would be if the media reporting was neutral.
But the media was able to find an OFA organizer who signed up for Obamacare.  Only there was one little issue they didn’t share.  His premium TRIPLED. (more…)

TreeHouse Team Ponderings:   Little one’s hair is nicely cared for and she’s wearing cute, clean clothes. Which makes one think mental illness on the part of caregiver/mom-person is not as significant a factor as perhaps they would like it to be?

This child looks properly cared for by a relative and thus, whatever the dead person did today was not primarily a result of mental illness, but a decision. Just a thought. In addition, the child is not behaving hysterically in the way that children accustomed to abusive surroundings might rip loose when “something else” goes wrong.

The child appears to be responding to a caring adult in an appropriate manner…not clinging or freaking out–but trusting. Again, that suggests the chaos was a result of deliberate decisions, not a result (primarily) of “mental illness.”
[O]ne of the very first newsmen on the scene was a reporter for Alhurra (“The Free One”)TV?   They shot the first video all the stations were using.

Alhurra is operated by the non-profit corporation “The Middle East Broadcasting Networks, Inc.” (MBN). MBN is financed by the U.S. Government through a grant from the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), an independent federal agency. The BBG serves oversight and as a firewall to protect the professional independence and integrity of the broadcasters. (link)

Interesting thought…  Somali woman hired to work in prisons.   Prisons generally filled with large percentages of those holding Muslim faith.  Hmmm? (more…)

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