[FOXNEWS] Questions are swirling about how a postal worker from Florida managed to land a small gyrocopter Wednesday on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol without being shot out of the sky by authorities.
Mailman Doug Hughes took responsibility for the stunt on a website where he said he was delivering letters to all 535 members of Congress in order to draw attention to campaign finance corruption.
"As I have informed the authorities, I have no violence inclinations or intent," Hughes wrote on his website, the democracyclub.org. "An ultralight aircraft poses no major physical threat -- it may present a political threat to graft. I hope so. There's no need to worry -- I'm just delivering the mail."
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Hmm... WH would be really screwed if a swarm of autonomous or preprogrammed drones crashed the party. One gyrocopter just carried letters. What if its payload was something else? How low has security fallen.
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At this point anyone can build a swarm of small copters that seek heat and inject a lethal dose of cyanide. So, who do you want to kill?
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Questions are swirling about how a postal worker from Florida managed to land a small gyrocopter Wednesday on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol without being shot out of the sky by authorities.
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Sounds like this nut expects to make bail, then come back for some chuckles at his trial and get a stern warning never to do it again....hahahahaha.
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How would one go about shooting something so small and nimble out of the sky without substantial collateral damage?
A Sidewinder? A 20 mm cannon? You'd have to ram it with a Piper Cub!
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Secure the perimeter of the US Capitol with an F4U Whistling Death Corsair (RC model, of course). Battle of the Scale Model Titans.
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He's in a little bigger trouble than he might think (maybe). The g'copter was not registered, and a search of landings.com doesn't show him in the pilot database.
Doubt that he'll be working on his ATP anytime soon.
[The Right Scoop] I'm beginning to think Hillary is a compulsive liar. Today she was caught telling a lie about her family and their immigrant status, just so that she can reach out to pro-illegal alien advocates. As clearly evidenced by the current occupant of the WH, it's a perfect segway to power.
Speaking in Iowa Wednesday, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that all her grandparents had immigrated to the United States, a story that conflicts with public census and other records related to her maternal and paternal grandparents.
The story of her grandmother specifically immigrating is one Clinton has told before. Clinton's sole foreign-born grandparent, Hugh Rodham Sr., immigrated as a child.
"Her grandparents always spoke about the immigrant experience and, as a result she has always thought of them as immigrants," a Clinton spokesman told BuzzFeed News. "As has been correctly pointed out, while her grandfather was an immigrant, it appears that Hillary's grandmother was born shortly after her parents and siblings arrived in the U.S. in the early 1880s."
The now-retired general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee Jerry Zeifman: [Watergate Investigation, 1970's - Why she was fired] "Because she was a liar,” Zeifman said in an interview last week. “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”
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I think all lefties have this problem. See, history isn't about facts to them, so it's not set in stone as it were. It's more like snot. And snot is to be flung wherever it's needed to serve their purpose.
If a perfect lie detector is developed, all politicians and government officials should be fitted with explosive collars that go off when they lie. Sure, the detonation rate will be high, but it's the life they chose.
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I've come to the conclusion that these people lie to you as a demonstration of power. "Here, I'll tell you some impossible transparently BS, and you'll nod your head and go along so I don't yell at you."
It has become apparent that she'd rather lie, even when it would be easier to tell the truth.
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Well hell, you can now choose your gender and you can make up your own language (see Mx, Xer, etc.) so of course you can make up your own history.
All of life is a construct, nothing is real or unchangeable.
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"Her grandparents always spoke about the immigrant experience and, as a result she has always thought of them as immigrants,"
While she was little, I told my daughter many stories about how I grew up in a cave, how her grandfather was almost single-handedly responsible for killing all the saber-toothed tigers in North America, how all the roads and buildings were put in shortly before she was born, how we didn't have baths, and all kinds of other good stuff.
After she figured out I may have been stretching the truth a bit, she discarded all that.
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Stick with what works. Imagine a Hillary who only told the truth -- fat, 6 kids each with a different father and behind on the mortgage for her trailer.
[Breitbart] The foreign ministers of both Germany and France offered strong praise for Hillary Clinton after she announced her presidential campaign.
Laurent Fabius, who serves as Foreign Minister of France under its Socialist Party leadership, praised Clinton as "an exceptional woman for a job that requires exceptional qualities."
Fabius has met with Clinton several times before, reports The Guardian. In a July reception to honor Clinton in Paris, he praised the former Secretary of State for her "leadership" and "natural authority."
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy added to the chorus of compliments, wishing the former first lady good luck on Twitter. "Good luck @Hillary Clinton! I know how strong your passion is for the United States," Sarkozy wrote.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany offered similar remarks, in an op-ed that read, "Hillary Clinton... has profiled herself not only as a reliable partner for Europe and as friend of Germany, but she has also proven she has sure instincts in world crises -- from Afghanistan to the Middle East." They enthusiastically backed our last socialist, wealth redistribution candidate, why would they not back this one as well? Little new here, other than a clear confirmation. Well, maybe all these leaders have copies of her email, and they're hoping to cash in after the election. They'll have to get behind Russia, Iran and China, of course...
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Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy added to the chorus of compliments, wishing the former first lady good luck on Twitter. "Good luck @Hillary Clinton! I know how strong your passion is for the United States," Sarkozy wrote.
Hillary: "l'état, c'est moi"
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Because the most fundamental drive of Euros is hatred of USA?
[WASHINGTONTIMES] With everyday Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,ns now on the hook for drastic conservation measures, Republicans say the time has come to focus on the real culprit: a state and federal regulatory framework, fueled by environmental litigation, that requires a certain aquatic environment for at-risk fish while making it nearly impossible to build dams and other water-storage projects.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy ...the GOP house majority whip. He replaces Eric Cantor, who got whupped because his politix are like Kevin McCarthy's... described Mr. Brown's April 1 executive order as the "culmination of failed federal and state policies that have exacerbated the current drought into a man-made water crisis."
"Sacramento and Washington have chosen to put the well-being of fish above the well-being of people by refusing to capture millions of acre-feet of water during wet years for use during dry years," the Bakersfield Republican said in a statement. "These policies imposed on us now, and during wet seasons of the past, are leaving our families, businesses, communities and state high and dry."
Environmentalists have long blamed agriculture for absorbing more than its share of water, but figures from the California Department of Water Resources show that farming accounts for about 41 percent of applied water usage. Fully 48 percent is reserved for environmental purposes, which includes improving the health of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and its most famous inhabitant, the delta smelt.
So far Republicans, farmers and business interests have been unable to drum up much outrage over the situation, but that may change with the Democratic governor's historic restrictions, prompted by a record low snowpack and fourth year of drought.
The order calls for urban water agencies to achieve a 25 percent reduction through methods such as increased rates, reductions in kitchen and bathroom faucet flow rates and converting 50 million square feet of lawn into "drought-tolerant landscaping."
Environmentalists laud the stricter conservation order.
"The days of casual waste and inattentive consumption are over in California," Steve Fleischli, water program director of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in a statement. "Now everyone will be expected to do his or her part to help save water."
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"Now everyone will be expected to do his or her part to help save water."
Does that include the Delta Smelt? Will the 48% of the State's water "reserved for environmental purposes" also be reduced by 25%? Will 25% of the enviro-weenies move to Cuba?
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Doing our part, like releasing 4.8 billion gallons of water from a reservoir so that 6 fish can swim down stream
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Not that I'm directly involved in it, but I'm afraid a lot of farms in this state have gotten pretty far away from the family farm concept that your parents and grandparents knew in the East and the Midwest. It used to be that kids got out of school for the summer so they could help their parents on the farm. These days in California the work is mostly done on factory farms by illegal aliens on vast fields that a family could never work by themselves while the kids in the cities get fat, lazy and brain dead watching TV all summer in air conditioned comfort. I might catch hell for saying so but it's hard for me to be sympathetic with that.
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Even though no major water storage infrastructure has been built or begun the permitting process for decades, and the existing system was meant to support half the current population, if the environment diversions were lessened realistically, the consequences of the drought would be more manageable. The risible reality of the state is that environmental watermelons have halted any practical water storage projects, but politicians cannot even think of doing the alternative, which is halting growth The unspoken, but nasty truth is that the tax benefit of growth fuels the union/Democratic party's ability to control largesse to the idiots that keep them in power. Permitting fees for housing for example can produce as much as $100,000 to local government. Property tax and business taxes are the lifeblood of locals, so no-growth dooms them to frugal budgets. So we have a policy that cannot store water, cannot curb growth, and the only alternative is the rapid decline in the quality of life and property values for citizens. Thus the stewards of the public purse destroy the paradise that was California through craven, intentional neglect of their basic duties.
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Past time to build a few desalinization plants. Carlsbad is building one to supplement our water and half of San Diego is already asking for a cut. It's not even complete yet guys.
If Brown had any courage (besides reversing the crazy environmental laws) he'd set up a plan to build a massive desalinization plant near the San Onofre nuclear reactors. Get enough water for LA and find a way to recapture the salt for sale.
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Of course, Carlsbad is a prime example of a city that could never say no to growth. The result is that, while it is gridlocked and overcrowded, the city is flush with money that it can spend on desal plants. The silver lining is they might not have to drink toilet water. The bummer is they are gridlocked and overcrowded.
Gonna need a lot of energy to power those desal plants and the San Onofre nuke plants have been decommissioned. All Moonbeam can think to do is tell us to stop watering our lawns. A columnist in the San Diego Union/Tribune said recently we might need to adopt a more "French" attitude toward personal hygiene. Ewwww!
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The really nasty little secret is that the Delta Smelt is not even a native species and is plentiful in its original habitat.
AND don't forget the Klamath Sucker, another farm killer that wasn't native either (seems it was a bait fish that got loose) but in either case the EPA is not interested in reality. They seem to have an agenda that means no one has a job in Californicate except with the government.
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The National ENQUIRER - the same organization that brought down Mr. Edwards. The 'elite' media spits on the NE as a supermarket check out rag, but in doing so releases the NE from the usual herd allegiance to the narrative.
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Rantburg called this tactic a couple years ago IIRC, something about estranged husband staying married for the kid finding love in Huma another blah blah blah first woman openly gay president. Partially excuses her child molesting husband and explains chelsea suddenly a fashion model.
Down 21 in the first quarter but past the 50, why not try the fake punt. Despite all the gay proud dingleberries, I'd wager we would never hear about a lover because she is such a horrible personality, it makes an understand why Billster the Molester got out early and often.
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When lofos all vote the red arrow
Like toads hopping under the harrow,
It's head for the rainbow
That follows her halo,
The shaft for the old straight and narrow.
[FOXNEWS] With the Secret Service still smarting from its 2012 prostitution scandal in Cartagena, Colombia, another federal law agency is in hot water over an even more salacious sex scandal - in the same country.
The Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Michelle Leonhart, Tuesday faced a grueling three-hour inquisition from the House Oversight Committee over an Inspector General's report that found DEA agents in Bogota, Colombia engaged in "sex parties" with hookers and that the parties were paid for by the very narco mobs the DEA was sent to fight.
"This behavior is not acceptable," Leonhart said in her opening statement. "It is my hope that the additional training and guidance we have provided to all personnel - particularly those stationed overseas - will prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future."
Her contrition did little to calm members of either party, who were incensed - not only at the infraction itself - but also at the weak discipline meted out to the still unnamed participants - a maximum of a two-week suspension.
Rep. Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C., asked Leonhart, "Do you have any idea how absurd all of that sounds to an ordinary human being?" Leonhart repeatedly explained that a maze of civil service system protections for government workers prevents her from firing federal employees.
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Send them to escort the cleaners.
Work in the archives pulling the FOIA requests.
Set them up for weekly bloodtests.
Use them as targets for the drug interdiction dogs.
Lots of work for them to do.
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"Do you have any idea how absurd all of that sounds to an ordinary human being?"
Some of us ordinary human beings are catching on to the fact the someone is making a helluva lot of money bringing illegal narcotics into this country and, politicians being politicians, the money will corrupt. The War on Drugs is a smoke screen.
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Record IRS collection harvest anticipated for 2014 returns, from a near record low number of workers and payers. I embrace my IRS masters and their redistribution and big gov't mission.
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These seizure/confiscation laws have become a cash cow with little bill of rights protection for the individual--Cash cow for governments provides the incentives.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[The Right Scoop] I'm beginning to think Hillary is a compulsive liar. Today she was caught telling a lie about her family and their immigrant status, just so that she can reach out to pro-illegal alien advocates.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] With everyday 
[FOXNEWS] With the Secret Service still smarting from its 2012 prostitution scandal in Cartagena, Colombia, another federal law agency is in hot water over an even more salacious sex scandal - in the same country.
