The Police were convinced by his posture he was hiding drugs. So, against his will, they pinned him down and shoved exploratory probes up his butt and took x-rays – weeks later, he received a bill for $4,539. (settlement link)

(ORIGINAL STORY) Media Report by KOB New Mexico – On January 2, 2013, David Eckert was leaving Wal-Mart in Deming, NM and reportedly failed to make a complete stop at the stop sign. He was immediately pulled over by police. Law enforcement then asked Eckhert to step out of the vehicle.

According to reports Eckert appeared to be clenching his buttocks so law enforcement concluded that Eckert was hiding narcotics in his anal cavity. The officers detained Eckert and secured a search warrant allowing for an anal cavity search.

It gets worse. Much, much worse. Like, unbelievably, staggeringly worse. (more…)

( Hat Tip ctdar ) MOSCOW — A Chechen rebel warlord who has plagued the region for decades and most recently threatened to attack the Sochi Olympics is dead, Chechnya’s Kremlin-backed strongman said Thursday, but he offered no proof and his claim couldn’t be verified.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on his Instagram that Doku Umarov, who urged his fighters to strike the Games, had died — a claim he has made repeatedly in the past. The information about Umarov’s death came from intercepted communications between other rebel leaders who were discussing his replacement, he said, but he didn’t make clear when the conversation took place or how it was heard. (more…)

Define “shortly”… ?

DECEMBER 17th 2013 […] The Florida Bar opened an inquiry, which included very specific questions regarding our policies for each and how we were conducting ourselves. We responded promptly and to The Florida Bar’s satisfaction, and the entire matter was deferred until after the trial. Although no further action has been taken since the verdict, the file has remained open. Yesterday, in response to a very specific question from the press, The Florida Bar followed their policy and confirmed that there was an “open matter” regarding me and the Zimmerman case.

Generally, The Florida Bar discourages public comment on pending matters, but in this instance, and since the matter was reported in a completely incomplete manner, and in a way that opened opportunity for inaccurate speculation, I’ve decided to respond. I am certain that matter will be closed shortly, and that the conclusion will suggest that we handled these new and novel approaches in an appropriate and ethical way. (continue reading)

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

It doesn’t take a leap to see the possibility Barack Obama is just about over this gig he was willingly thrust into.   When you look at his speech today about the NSA domestically, and then review the reality of failure in foreign affairs, you can almost see the visible gears turning out the thought/perspective, “this sucks”.

There comes a time when a highly scripted and massively controlled person eventually turns inward and asks the hard questions of themselves.   It sure looks like Dear Leader is in such a position.

All the stuff indoctrinated to sell via teleprompter with grand prose just isn’t carrying the same value it once did.   That Columbia liberalism doesn’t actually deliver the sense of fulfillment – especially when you do all the things they said would work, and yet look at the consequences evident in the reality of abject failure. (more…)

Here is a brief video outline of the issue:

Mental exercise – Reverse the races and imagery:

NOW…. Imagine – The college students are white, the ad shows a black woman welcoming back the students, and subsequently the students/alumni of the college begin to attack the company because they dare use a black woman in their ad.

How would the story of that race-reversed example be reflected in the media ? (more…)

It has been around three years since we initially asked the question.   A lot has happened in those years; and if you would indulge me, I would like to ask again:

Look at the following image.  It reflects differently to most people depending on your perspective and situational reference.    Think about it closely and I’ll pose the original question yet again:  Where do you see yourself in this image?

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He’s not even trying to make the audience believe any more. The Lip-Syncing lip movement is 3 or 4 seconds behind the soundtrack being broadcast.

WASHINGTON DC – In a bid to calm growing privacy concerns about the government’s spying powers, President Obama outlined a series of steps Friday aimed at ushering in “concrete and substantial” reforms to the National Security Agency.

“Americans recognized that we had to adapt to a world in which a bomb could be built in a basement and our electric grid could be shut down by operators an ocean away,” the president said during a major policy speech at the Department of Justice.

“And yet,” he added, “in our rush to respond to very real and novel threats, the risks of government overreach—the possibility that we lose some of our core liberties in pursuit of security—became more pronounced.” (more…)

I’ll admit to being a little frustrated with the Charles Krauthammer’s of the world who talk about ObamaCare self-destructing because it is financially “unsustainable”.   This they also call the “death spiral” to describe the possible collapse of ObamaCare because the financial arrangements inherent within ObamaCare do not support it continuing.

Intellectually accurate.    BUT, when you think about how current political progressives operate, PROFOUNDLY NAIVE  and structurally false.

U.S. taxpayers will make up the difference between costs and revenues via the Reinsurance program:

[WSJ] Robert Laszewski—a prominent consultant to health insurance companies—recently wrote in a remarkably candid blog post that, while Obamacare is almost certain to cause insurance costs to skyrocket even higher than it already has, “insurers won’t be losing a lot of sleep over it.”  How can this be?  Because insurance companies won’t bear the cost of their own losses—at least not more than about a quarter of them.  The other three-quarters will be borne by American taxpayers. (more…)