“Iran says mosque bombers also planned Russian consulate attack”: Sure!

comment by Jerry Gordon

Looks like the Mosque Blast in Shiraz, last month that killed 14 and wounded 200, wasn’t an ‘industrial accident’, as originally reported by the Iranian press. Could it be the work of dissidents backed by US, Israeli or British covert operatives? As Iran [...]

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From Fox News:

MOUNT PLEASANT, Texas — Federal agents say their case for a series of workplace raids in five U.S. states was strengthened by identity theft victims who recounted stories of plummeting credit scores and medical benefits denied.

Federal authorities carried out the sweeps Wednesday, arresting hundreds of workers at Pilgrim’s Pride chicken plants [...]

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From The New York Sun:

Fund-Raiser on the Coast Cancelled Over ‘Security’

By JOSH GERSTEIN
Staff Reporter of the Sun

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — The Clinton campaign’s abrupt cancellation of scheduled appearances here is leaving members of the Sikh community dismayed and demanding an explanation.

Traditional food, elaborate costumes, and ritual sword fighting were on display as thousands of Sikhs celebrated [...]

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From Fox News:

KABUL, Afghanistan — A bomb blast targeted lawmakers touring a factory north of Kabul Tuesday, killing at least 28 people, including five parliamentarians, a lawmaker said.

The blast was one of Afghanistan’s bloodiest attacks since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

The bomb blast went off outside a sugar factory in the northern [...]

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From Iran Focus:

Tehran, Iran, Oct. 30 – At least half a dozen Iranian students were arrested on Tuesday while taking part in an anti-government protest on the campus of Tehran’s Allameh University.

Several hundred students gathered outside a faculty building on campus denouncing the recent government-orchestrated crackdown taking place inside Iranian universities, according to an eye-witness [...]

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I guess we got out just in time.

Running in packs?

Well, whatever I carry, there will be a minimum of two reloads. Maybe three.

I’m just gearing up to carry the PT911 (15+1×9mm).

Maybe I should carry two.

Maybe a nice 1911 for a BUG. Something stylish. Rock Island, maybe.

Happily, I don’t visit Vegas much.

From The High Road:

SOUTHWEST VALLEY: [...]

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Portmanteau is an interesting word.

I’ve become familiar with a number of meanings and usages.

Originally, the word came from Middle French “porter” (to carry) and “manteau” (a coat or cover), and formerly referred to a large travelling bag or suitcase with two compartments. Kind of a “carry-all” luggage piece.

Lewis Carroll coined a more contemporary application [...]

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This post is by Garry Hamilton – co-owner of NoisyRoom.net. His post is in response to a link from The Anchoress yesterday who disagrees with us strongly on the subject of illegal immigration – read her post here. We have the greatest respect for The Anchoress and she is certainly entitled to her opinion, but [...]

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In the contining debate about (euphemistically) “immigration,” let us not forget: this isn’t about real estate.

Those who want to sneak into the U.S.A. aren’t here for the land. There’s plenty of land in the places from which they come.

It isn’t the mountains or the trees or the lakes or the rivers.

They come here [...]

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So there I was . . .

It occurred to me as I was showering on the way to work . . .

No, wait . . . I was driving . . . I think. It’s so hard to tell the difference.

I was listening to Rush remark on the “new” proposal by Hillary that kids [...]

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From the High Road – Garry Hamilton:

The Jerusalem Post reports:

Israeli professor killed in US attack

Quote:

As Jews worldwide honored on Monday the memory of those who were murdered in the Holocaust, a 76-year-old survivor sacrificed his life to save his students in Monday’s shooting at Virginia Tech College that left 33 dead and over two dozen [...]

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By: Garry Hamilton

The recent cyber-tiff, wherein one “Senator” Nolan demonstrates the proper political technique for alienating one’s constituency, gives some insight into what it means to arrogate authority.

The metaphor, used early on by one of the “irrelevant” bloggers, of a “political pyramid” of power seems quite apt in this evolving context.

Though he’s not “too worried [...]

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By – Garry Hamilton (alias: Arfin Greebly):

I don’t think I can say that with enough emphasis. Seriously.

Legislation solves nothing. Really.

You can’t solve rudeness by making a law that people must be polite.

You can’t prevent sex by outlawing sex. People are going to do it. All you will change is when and [...]

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Hypocrisy, live… Hey Senator, the second amendment is part of the constitution – you can’t act as if it is for thee and not for me. Another liberal criminal in office – he’s also a big-time theif. Hat Tip: Garry Hamilton

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/16653571.htm

“The senator, who owns a farm near Harrisburg and a beach home in Margate, N.J., [...]

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So, how will I vote this year?

Gosh. Let me think.

Let’s see . . . I lost my job in early 2000 . . . as the Clinton/Gore Econo-Bubble began to disintigrate.

It was nearly two years of project hopping, including three family moves, the loss of our home, and a bankruptcy, before I had a [...]

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By: Garry Hamilton (comments from a discussion forum discussing school shootings)

Until about 3 years ago I was all of: 1) disarmed, 2) disinterested in arms, 3) a little afraid of arms (ironic, after military service), 4) worried about people who WERE interested in arms, 5) more worried about people who had them.

Events, not persuasion, led [...]

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The West stands bemused by the aggressive antics of Islam, as it employs widespread violence to impress on Westerners how peaceful it is.

The outright irony of this is, of course, lost on major media mills, who continue to grind out stories of the Pope’s insensitivity.

The only thing more outrageous than the image of Islam kicking [...]

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All The Speculation That’s Fit To Print.

Today, hundreds of Mexicans and non-Mexicans crept, walked, or ran across some part of our Southern border.

No one noticed except, perhaps, an understaffed and underfunded group of Minutemen volunteers.

We spent the early hours of this morning marveling at the latest flying pig.

Also today, a nation of lying religious zealots [...]

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But G-d forbid we would actually profile which might make a difference, inspect our ports and lock down our borders… Lunacy abounds…

By: Garry Hamilton

While the actual practicality of Hollywood’s famed plot enabler “binary explosive” (where two liquids are mixed to form a bomb) is so minor as to be material for a sitcom, the “experts” [...]

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By Garry Hamilton

Read here.

It makes one wonder if “USA Today Exhibits Hoplophobia” would describe this kind of reporting.

(Hoplophobia = fear of weapons, Greek, literally “weapon-terror”)

Hoplophobia is commonly used to mean “fear of guns” since these are the weapons most hoplophobes rant about.

Evidently, USA Today has a case of this, to the point where they will [...]

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By: Garry Hamilton

No, I’m not asking that question, I’m responding to it. Forgive my pointing out that this is (ahem) a loaded question. So, to the anonymous person who posed it, here are my thoughts:

What an odd assertion. Most of the world’s Christians have no such proclivities. I have to assume you’re chucking [...]

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It was my privilege to know Sam for a brief time.

Here was a man more than 20 years my senior who could (and did) out-work me any day of the week.

He was tough. He was quiet. He was smart.

There are people with hydro-electric power today because he lived. Our nation stands under [...]

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Chris Simcox

Chris Simcox spoke this evening in Reno, Nevada to a roomful of people who came to find out the skinny on the condition of our borders.

I don’t know what I expected. Some of the press has characterized him as a “gun-toting” wacko xenophobic nutjob “with a troubled past” and other references calculated to [...]

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Ahh, Screw ‘em.

In a startling move today, the majority of those serving in the US Senate signaled that they have no desire to remain in office after this year.

In affirming a cloture vote to push forward legislation that directly contradicts the plainly expressed will of the majority of US citizens, the Senate made it clear [...]

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I’ve watched, slack-jawed, the proceedings of the past few days as our president promises to shuffle the deck chairs at the border, our senate promises to dilute the identity and prosperity of our nation, and presumed conservatives merge with flaming liberals to promise a free ride to anyone who can break the law for long [...]

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Hey, Bush & Rove:

You can quit playing stupid now.

This isn’t your country to give away.

The jobs you have are a sacred trust, and you are dangerously close to a complete betrayal.

Rove, where the hell did you get the idea that your ratings suck because of the war?

Sure, the Libs don’t like the war, but they [...]

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If it wasn’t clear before, it should be blazingly clear now.

Congress—at least the left-hand side of it—thinks you are all fools.

The salient points are these:

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It’s Sunday.

Against my better judgement, I often do my grocery shopping on Sunday—especially in the evening. And today is such a day. So, with a little sigh, I set off to lay in the week’s supplies.

After the usual hour (okay, two hours) I’m just about done, the short list handed to me [...]

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Racism: that new “reflected accusation” attack.

Somewhere in the distant past, someone invented a diabolical trick with which to confound civilized people: the “reflected accusation” attack.

It works like this: you come up with something you want to inflict on the object of your antagonism; get it well defined with a label; itemize all [...]

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With the various threats to our national security simmering on the front burner, here’s a little reminder:

If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will [...]

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by Garry L. Hamilton

“What to do with 11-15 million illegals, many of whom have American families, own property and otherwise live good lives?”

Fruit of the poison tree. Getting away with a crime for 20 years doesn’t suddenly make it alright.

Shall we all, then, refuse to pay our taxes? Refuse to obey the traffic [...]

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Today I found myself answering this question:

“What to do with 11-15 million illegals, many of whom have American families, own property and otherwise live good lives?”

Well, here are my thoughts.

• Fruit of the poison tree. Getting away with a crime for 20 years doesn’t suddenly make it alright.

• Shall we all, then, refuse to [...]

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Unless You Work In Education

I learned something today. I was reading Chuck Muth’s final entry in the Enge Files and noted a remark in the 4th paragraph and allusions in others that led me to ask a (teacher) friend of mine what the hell kind of employment contract would specify that a collective bargaining [...]

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Unilateral tolerance is a bad idea.

You run into the school bully. He slaps you around. He gives you the “new rules” according to him.

You’re a good guy, your parents raised you well, so you turn the other cheek. After all, if you let him have his way, he won’t bother you.

Next week [...]

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Last week (here) I mentioned that leaking intelligence to an enemy is a bad idea.

I’m sure you were all shocked and amazed at that revelation; I know I was.

I thought I’d waste some more of your time with another aspect of security.

Had to toss a coin. Borders? Personal security? What to do?

Well, [...]

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Let’s talk about security for a moment.

There’s physical security, where something or someone is protected from some kind of attack or theft. Gates, fences, walls, safes, castles, barbed wire, window bars, and that sort of thing are used for this. Frequently, guards are included.

An often overlooked adjunct to this is the guarding and [...]

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Please pardon my paraphrase. My Danish is pretty rusty.

I’d like to make a point though, that the Danes are a noble people, made of stern stuff and, in my humble opinion, equal to the business of upholding their honor and defending what’s theirs.

So, as I said, what follows is not a translation, but a [...]

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Congratulations, Sam. Welcome to the bench of our country’s highest court.

Sorry about the crap you had to endure under the guise of a “job interview” as envisioned by a pack of hyenas whose sole superior qualification for their jobs is that they are better liars than you are.

In my line of work, it’s acceptable [...]

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If you view NoisyRoom daily, you will have seen (most of) this posted yesterday.

However, I think it’s worth a reprise. After all, it’s Monday, and many of us can’t remember what we read yesterday.

This is one of those “grand conspiracies” that happens right under everyone’s nose and yet is dismissed by the very people [...]

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This is one of those “grand conspiracies” that happens right under everyone’s nose and yet is dismissed by the very people it will hurt most.

An article run in The Independent & The Independent on Sunday (here) contains a proposition that the U.N. should suck the lifeblood from the nations of the world, creating an unspeakably [...]

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Excelsior! The mountain rises majestically above the jungle.

Excelsior! The goal of many an adventurer, drawing them across deserts and swamps.

Excelsior! Sought by many, reached by few, crowned at its apex only by the strongest.

The stuff of legend, woven into the fabric of tales told around campfires, seen clearest by the dreamers, its [...]

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