[GMA.YAHOO] Employees at the Chase Bank in Bryan, Texas, were taken by surprise when a man walked in and claimed to be Michelle Obama's newly adopted son, according to police. Johnnie Fletcher Gooden Jr., 29, said on Saturday that the first lady adopted him via Facebook the day prior. He then requested access to Obama's bank account. Chase employees told Gooden there was no such account, but he refused to leave and police were called to the scene.
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Obama: "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon"
Here is your chance O, his name is Johnnie Fletcher Gooden Jr but you can change it to BHO, Jr. after all the Mrs O adopted him and you know you two can put on your "hoodies" and play ball on th WH lawn... Bo the dog can be your catcher too for the ones that get away from you.
Don't why it is even necessary to use the term draconian to describe California gun laws, except that lawmakers in Sacramento are planning even more Draconian gun laws. It is as though they understand the immutable relationship between tyranny and an armed polite society. And they are voting for tyranny.
The leftist editor of the New York newspaper which published an interactive map of local gun owners is out of a job. Caryn McBride was laid off last week in a round of newsroom cuts.
Gun permit requests are nearly doubled what they were in two previous years in Newtown, Connecticut, where 27 children and adults were gunned down by a crazed teen. Actual gun purchases under the radar sans permits are prolly triple.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Pistol Ammo
.45 caliber, 230 grain, From Last Week: -.01 each (.05 over three weeks)
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Chris Covert writes Mexican Drug War and national political news for Rantburg.com and BorderlandBeat.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com
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California will continue to makes changes to its gun laws on a regular basis. They know this will not deter criminals. They aren't even trying to deter criminals.
A Democratic state legislator once told me about a study in Europe. They took a sleeping drug that had been packaged in bottles and put it in blister packs. Suicides using the pills dropped. Turns out some potential suicides were put off by the extra effort getting at the pills.
When he told me this I assumed he was talking about deterring crime. He wasn't. It's about deterring legal firearm ownership. They know that every extra speed bump will result in a percentage drop in gun sales--which is exactly what they are after.
Over time, people get used to whatever speed bumps you have created. So it only works if you constantly create more.
Somalia is suffering an "explosive" outbreak of polio and now has more cases -- 105 -- than all other countries in the world combined, a World Health Organisation official said Friday. The outbreak is complicated by the fact health workers have limited access to south-central Somalia, controlled by Al Qaeda-linked militants.
The Shaboobs don't believe in curing polio. Polio was good enough for Mo' so it's good enough for them...
Health officials are responding with vaccination campaigns that have reached 4 million people since the outbreak began in May, but those health officials have limited access to about 600,000 children who live in areas of Somalia controlled by the armed group Al Shabab.
In addition to the 105 cases, another 10 cases have been confirmed just across the border in Kenya in what is essentially the same outbreak.
"The first thing to say is it's very worrying because it's an explosive outbreak and of course polio is a disease that is slated for eradication," said Oliver Rosenbauer, a spokesman for the global polio eradication initiative at the World Health Organisation in Geneva. "In fact we're seeing more cases in this area this year than in the three endemic countries worldwide."
Polio is considered eradicated globally except for those three endemic countries: Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan.
I can't imagine what all three have in common...
In a bit of good news, though, Rosenbauer said polio numbers are down in those three countries. Globally there have been 181 cases of polio this year, including those in Somalia and Kenya. Somalia was removed from the list of endemic polio countries in 2001, but this year's outbreak is the second since then.
In the Al Shabab area of south-central Somalia, disease surveillance is functioning and cases have been confirmed from the region, but health officials are likely not able to detect all the cases.
"We have a much less sense of how the vaccination campaigns are happening," Rosenbauer said. "We have less ability to monitor and see how the campaigns are going. What we do know based on the vaccination status of suspected cases is that the vaccination status is lower there than in the accessible areas. For sure it's a complicating factor."
Mohamud Yasin, a retired doctor who has treated polio throughout his career, said: "It's indeed worrying because this comes at a time when the country is still hugely affected by the raging fighting which prevents volunteers from accessing people in need of vaccines. It may take time before we can confidently say we have has a universal coverage of the immunisation."
At the Global Vaccine Summit in the United Arab Emirates in April, Bill Gates helped unveil a six-year plan to eradicate polio. The eradication effort will cost $5.5 billion, three-quarters of which has already been pledged, including $1.8 billion from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The outbreak in Somalia does not set back the six-year plan, said Rosenbauer, because unpredictable and intermittent outbreaks were programmed into the timeline.
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You know these are terribly one sided pension plans when they pass additional laws that say you cannot change the one sided deal in the future. Total default is the only way to hit the reset button on these 'never able to fund' future liabilities.
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Kidding aside, this shall lead to a higher risk-premium being required by and paid to future bond purchasers, which shall result in higher taxes, which shall result in more taxpayers abandoning the county, which shall, as the cycle circles and, eventually enters, the drain, result in Detroit West....
[WASHINGTONTIMES] The Homeland Security Department spent $600,000 apiece to build houses in Arizona that would have gone for less than $100,000, according to a report in the Arizona Republic that's raising questions in Congress.
"This type of spending is irresponsible as our nation faces significant budget deficits and the men and women in the Border Patrol face cuts in overtime that are essential to their mission," Rep. Ron Barber, the Arizona Democrat in whose district the homes were built, said in a statement Friday.
The Republic said Homeland Security built 21 homes and bought 20 other mobile homes for $15 million. Comparable homes go for between $70,000 and $100,000, the paper said. The homes were built to be rented to border agents and officers.
Didn't the real estate market tank in Arizona? Why couldn't they buy bank repossessions instead?
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I for one support the construction of DHS Kasernes, no matter what the cost.
A team of student radio navigation researchers from the University of Texas has developed a "GPS spoofing device" that allows an attacker to take control of a ship's navigation system.
The UT students successfully hacked a GPS navigation system and took control of a ship's course.
Their test has exposed a serious potential security threat to everything from ocean liners to oil tankers.
The UT team tested their GPS spoofing device in June on an $80 million 213-foot yacht in the Mediterranean Sea. They were able to change the course the mega-yacht without anyone on the ship knowing.
Students, acting as attackers or hackers, were able to send fake GPS signals to the ship's civilian navigation system and change its course.
The GPS spoofing device is stealthy. It created a "ghost ship" on the ship's GPS screen. The ghost ship fools the crew into believing that the ship is on it's proper course, when in reality the ship is moving in a different direction.
The GPS spoofing device reasearch is bring led by assistant professor Todd Humphreys from the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at the Cockrell School of Engineering.
"The ship actually turned, and we could all feel it, but the chart display and the crew saw only a straight line," Humphreys told the Cockrell School of Engineering's website.
Drones are also at risk. Last year Humphrey and his team used similar technology to take over a UAV.
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Having vectored the aircraft to the proper release point, there's no 'spoofing' iron bombs. Properly calculated with airspeed and altitude, gravity is profoundly consistent.
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Just another prep step for secession and the rebirth of the Republic of Texas & Oklahoma. Proper EW r&d, send it over to Texas Instruments in Dallas.
going to have to get legal domicile established there soon, to beat the rush.
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"lest people take it seriously. Or maybe we should?"
I dunno, OS.
I've been thinking recently that I hope my father's birth and upbringing in San Antonio, and my living there when I was a baby, will qualify me for "right of return" to Texas if they declare independence (though hope I won't need it for the next few years, until I retire).
Maybe Sgt. Mom and Blondie would put in a good word for me too.
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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.
[GMA.YAHOO] Employees at the Chase Bank in Bryan, Texas, were taken by surprise when a man walked in and claimed to be Michelle Obama's newly adopted son, according to police. Johnnie Fletcher Gooden Jr., 29, said on Saturday that the first lady adopted him via Facebook the day prior. He then requested access to Obama's bank account. Chase employees told Gooden there was no such account, but he refused to leave and police were called to the scene.
Somalia is suffering an "explosive" outbreak of polio and now has more cases -- 105 -- than all other countries in the world combined, a World Health Organisation official said Friday. The outbreak is complicated by the fact health workers have limited access to south-central Somalia, controlled by Al Qaeda-linked militants.
