Tuesday, January 20, 2015

This message might not register so much as a blip on the seismographs of sophisticated media moguls, but for rank and file Catholics, including Cardinals, it’s the kind of content heavy language that they would have expected to come from a returned Christ, Himself. From the Chairman of the Board, in person, not just his earthly COO.

For at least a few responsible, conservative Vatican hierarchs, these two proclamations must have sounded like a policy world reprise of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this time in the corridors of Vatican power. Indeed, they rightly see themselves as responsible conservators of a trove of policy features designed to support a coherent story line that reflects as many of the details of a rich Biblical tradition as possible.
For them when the Messiah returns, all will be clear. Francis apparently doesn’t think his mega flock can wait. Alas the Big Guy Above seems to prefer the upbeat company of harps on clouds. Who knows? All we really do know is that, for 2,000 years He has avoided the turbulence of our sweaty, never satisfied masses down here.

At any event, Francis is now moving to straighten out a few major Vatican policy defects that are within his power to address. Maybe like Sloan, Francis also hears a voice. Maybe the Lord above just likes dead Irish musicians. All these things that Francis has been saying should have been factored into the mix two thousand years ago. For a billion Catholics, and anyone else with a marginally clear head, these are epoch making course corrections about to be implemented by a vast global entity. That they are long overdue makes them no less welcome.

[“Pelicans: I think that diving down to get fish with a previous hole or tear would cause a pelican’s pouch to blowout or tear just the same”

The situation started and stopped during last season. This year it began again during season. Same area, same M.O. This is not a bunch of stupid snowbirds yanking hooks, this is a sick sociopath who abuses animals for no legitimate reason. Animal abusers usually come from homes where they were abused and can go on to abuse and/or kill humans.

Over the weekend, Federal Wildlife was on patrol on Summerland. MCSO was spotted over at the commercial docks on the north side of Summerland at about the same time. LEO is looking and so are many residents, both full and part time.

This is not innocent injury, there is a sick phuck among us and they will be caught. They will appear on the MCSO hotsheet. The punishment should be to wear a dead pelican around their neck and stand on US1 with a sign identifying them and where they are from.

Now here’s the strange part that was never touched upon or mentioned during the 9/11 commission investigation and findings. Building 7. No one puts any importance into building 7. Building 7 is relatively far from both towers. No debris from towers 1 or 2 fell upon building 7. Building 7 was not hit by any planes, but mysteriously catches fire. Mayor Giuliani’s emergency bunker was located in building 7, and way before the fire began in building 7, he was asked by reporters if he was going to seek shelter in his emergency bunker, and he replied, “No I was told to keep out of building 7.” Now why would that be? Building 7 was his emergency bunker. It also held all the files that were supposed to be submitted to the investigation committee investigating criminal acts by the CIA, FBI, The Enron scandal, and last but not least, the investigation of the $7 trillion that was unaccounted for by the Bush administration in which George W Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld were being implicated in a criminal scandal. But guess what? The fire that began in building 7 began on the floors in which those files were stored. These files were supposed to be evidence of the above mentioned allegations. So, you have a mysterious fire that begins in building 7, and then the building also does a demolition type collapse for no apparent reason, destroying all evidence. Then on an interview on CNN with Larry King, King interviews WTC owner Larry Silverstein, in which Silverstein said, “I gave the firefighters the order to pull building 7”. “Pull” is a term used by building demolition crews, which means blow it up.

Does this mean that building 7 had demolition explosives before 9/11? Why did building 7 have ready to pull devices in it? You can’t install demolition devices into a building in a few hours. That’s impossible. It takes months to ready a building for demolition. Engineers need to study the buildings structure beforehand, and carefully place all the squibs in all the strategic locations. Building  maintenance and employees of buildings 1,2 & 7 have mentioned that for 4 months prior to 9/11, an unnamed company was doing some type of wiring late at night in all 3 buildings and that these crewmen were working in the elevator shafts and key floors in which building maintenance was forbidden to enter. They also reported that all key card entries were not recorded and all surveillance cameras were shut off during the time this work was being done on all 3 buildings.

The final fact is that Marvin P. Bush, the president’s younger brother, was a principal in a company called Securacom that provided security for the World Trade Center, United Airlines, and Dulles International Airport. The company had an ongoing contract to handle security at the World Trade Center — expiring the day the buildings fell down.

Wow, airport security plus WTC security too? They killed 3 birds with 1 stone. Destroyed criminal evidence. used the so called attacks on 9/11 to invade Iraq for it’s oil, and the perfect excuse to finally implement the Patriot Act on American citizens (Big Brother).

Think about this. Everything happening around the world today has evolved from 9/11. Just like when every news media network had reported that Osama Bin Laden had died of kidney failure in November 2001. But, nah! You’re not going to remember that right? Why do you think his body was thrown into the sea by our Navy? Because it’s Muslim law? But how is that Muslim law when they live in a freaking desert? Sorry to disturb y’all with facts.

See you at gas pumps. Watch the spin now of it being a “User increase” but reality is its to pay back the gas lobby for funding Conservatives campaign coffers.

Remember what the price of fuel was last week and think of that this time next year. Tomorrows flavor of Koolade will be Pachyderm Punch.

She is a retired United States Air Force Colonel, and a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy. That may not be news worthy, but the fact that she is the first American woman to fly in combat since the 1991 lifting of the prohibition of women in combat, is news worthy.

She piloted a “Warthog”, the A-10, in combat, over Iraq and Kuwait in support of Operation Southern Watch. FYI the Warthog is just about the only US attack aircraft that really gets down in the dirt with the troops that it protects. It fires the massive 30 mm GAU-8 Avenger rotary cannon. The cannon is the ‘hogs primary armament and the heaviest-ever automatic cannon mounted on an aircraft. It fires 4200 rounds per minute with absolutely deadly accuracy. In addition to close (very close) ground support for troops, the A10 is a premier tank killer. McSally has about 100 hours of combat flight time.

In addition to McSally’s combat experience, she is the first woman to command a USAF fighter squadron, the 354th Fighter Squadron (354 FS) based at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.

Martha McSally first earned national recognition for successfully overturning a military policy requiring all U.S. servicewomen to wear a Muslim Abaya and headscarf when off base in Saudi Arabia.

McSally has two masters degrees, one in in Public Policy, from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. The second in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Air War College, where she graduated #1 in her class out of 260 senior military leaders.

McSally’s public service did not end with her Air Force career. In the November elections she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives by the electorate in the Tucson Arizona area.

McSally is a conservative Republican.  McSally has vowed to vote to either repeal or fundamentally repair the Affordable Care Act. She supports local control of education, stating that, …“education for our kids should not be dictated by Washington bureaucrats but by local experts with parent involvement and rewards for excellence. Hard-earned middle-class-taxpayer money should not go to D.C. to strip education funds off the top, then return to the states with conditions, paperwork and mandates resulting in cookie-cutter educational recipes”

McSally has stated her belief that women around the country are concerned with jobs, affordable healthcare, the future of social security, and education. She appeared on national television in October 2012 saying, “You want to talk about a war on women? Walk in my shoes down the streets of Kabul. Walk in my shoes down the streets of Riyadh; where women have to be covered up. Where they’re stoned, where they’re honor killed if they’ve been raped, where they can’t drive and they can’t travel without the permission of a male relative. That’s a war on women.”

Deer Friends, retired Air Force Colonel Martha McSally is a new Republican Congressperson, which is newsworthy.

Part 2) Unfortunately the media is the great opinion shaper of our nation. Unfortunately they are overwhelmingly liberal/progressive/Democrats. Unfortunately the ethics that at one time required journalists to only report news and to not interject their personal feelings into their work is extinct.

An excellent example of that is the hue and cry they raised wherein they labeled the Republicans as being the party of NO.  While it is true that Republican legislators followed their conscience and voted against many Democrat initiatives, that is the American way. You can be sure that the Democrats will now do the same.

Another example of purely selective and biased reporting is that that the media virtually ignored the fact that while the Democrats had control of the Senate, about 350 bills that had passed in the Republican House were stonewalled, killed, in the Democrat controlled Senate.

98 percent of those bills passed in the House with bipartisan support — Republicans and Democrats working together to pass legislation. 50 percent of the bills passed unanimously, with no opposition. 70 percent of the bills passed with two-thirds support in the House. And over 55 bills were introduced by Democrats. The House has passed more than 30 jobs bills that were ignored in the Senate.

But the Democrat leadership said “No, HELL NO”.  Now the President is making it crystal clear that he is abandoning the Constitution and he will of the people by throwing down the gauntlet of threatened vetoes. Just another example of “NO, HELL NO”.

From 2009 until 2013 the Democrat Senate said NO to the law and refused to pass budgets. NO, NO, and NO.

Sixty-four percent (64%) of likely U.S. voters think there is a global conflict in the world today between Western civilization and the radical segment of Islam. Obama’s bizarre refusal to acknowledge the conflict between civilization and radical Islam is telling America “NO, HELL NO.”

Seventy-six percent of Americans say that fighting terrorism should be government’s top priority. Obama and the Democrats say “NO, HELL NO.” Obama’s priority is to release Gitmo prisoners to fight again. He is doing all in his power to close Gitmo, he’s just released at least five more murderous Jihadist fighters.  It now appears that his and the Democrats top priority is to provide free Junior College tuition. There is a monumental disconnect between Obama and the governed.

54 percent say Obama is exceeding his authority as president when he transfers suspected terrorists out of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay. Obama and the Democrat response? “No, HELL NO”.

Has the media pointed out that it is the Democrats who are in truth and in fact the real party of NO? Hell no.

PART 3) YESTERDAY A POSTER WROTE: “…2014 was the hottest year since temperatures have been recorded. Man has been making heat from fossil fuels since that time. Where does all that heat go?”

FTR’S RESPONSE: Unfortunately the poster has his/her facts wrong. The poster probably read the NOAA report that was recently released that claimed that last year was the warmest since 1850, and simply misinterpreted it. A closer look at NOAA’s report reveals that the alleged ‘record’ amounted to an increase over 2010, the previous ‘warmest year’, of just two-hundredths of a degree – or 0.02C. The margin of error is said by scientists to be approximately 0.1C – several times as much.

Then if you look at another NOAA publication, you’ll find that the “likelihood” that 2014 was the warmest year on record was only at 48%  Link

NASA says it’s only about 38%.

Another government web site, Climate.gov, reported about a year ago that “Since the turn of the century, however, the change in Earth’s global mean surface temperature has been close to zero.”

Certainly all of that should convince you that the issue of global warming is not “settled science.” The reasons to doubt the claims are legion.

Another of the reasons to doubt the claim that man is the cause of climate change is the existence of a very accurate record of temps in central Great Britain dating back to 1650, long before the industrial revolution. That record is called Central England Temperature (CET) record. If you look at the graph to be found at Link you will see that the annual mean temperature has been rising at the same rate since 1650. Further, you will see that the temps in 1720, 1780, 1883, 1835, 1876, 1920, 1949, and 1960 are within a tiny fraction of a degree of the present time.

Is the global climate changing? Certainly, it always has and always will. Is man the cause? That question has not been satisfactorily answered, personally I seriously doubt it.

PART 3) Deer Friends, this will be my last posting for some time. How much time, I’m unsure. Today, Tuesday, when you read this, I will have just undergone a surgery to remove and replace my right shoulder joint which is totally worn out, shot. Arthritis is the culprit. The procedure will require that my right arm be immobilized, probably for about 6 or so weeks. I believe that I will be unable to use a keyboard. I will try to learn to type with only my left hand, so hopefully FTR’s house will be dark for only a short time.  We’ll see. In the meantime, please, please, all of you in the CT community whose political philosophy is similar to mine, please post your thoughts and arguments.

SPECIAL TO DEER ED: Thanks again for the fine dinner Mrs. FTR and I had with you and Sloan a few years ago.  His posting on Friday slamming you and I proves the old adage that no good deed goes unpunished. Sloan’s thought processes remain “interesting.”

ONE MORE THING: Enjoy this video

Hope to be back soon. Respectfully submitted, FTR.