Here we go again!

Student Suspended for Wearing NRA Logo T-Shirt

This is what happens when the government takes over the operation of a once privately owned business.  In this case, it is the public education system.  The faculty and staff currently taking up space in our public schools are a product of this failed system.  They were entrusted with teaching our children, but as Forrest Gump stated, "Stupid is as stupid does."  They should not be referred to as "educators, but instead, the more appropriate term, "blind dictators" and "government puppets."  Correct me if I'm wrong, but please direct me to one instance, just one, where a t-shirt has ever hurt someone.

God help us, now that the gooberment is taking over our health care system.

I'm actually too disgusted with the world this morning to write anything of length, so I'll just leave you with this statement that was made during the House Judiciary Committee hearing regarding: "The President's Constitutional Duty to Faithfully Execute the Laws." which took place in December of 2013.

"The problem with what the president (Barack Obama) is doing is that he's not simply posing a danger to the constitutional system; he is becoming the very danger the Constitution was designed to avoid: that is, the concentration of power in any single branch." - Prof. Jonathan Turley, Georgetown University Law School

This one takes the cake.  Remember, this is America.  Or at least, it was.

Court Rules That School May Ban Patriotic Shirts 'For Safety'.

Once again, the idiotic state of California has made themselves the most ridiculous state in the entire Nation.  A small group of high school students, who in support of this wonderful Country, decided to wear patriotic tee-shirts depicting American flags, on Cinco-de-Mayo, a Mexican holiday celebrating the defeat of the French in 1862 at the battle of Puebla.  Because the high school administration was concerned of possible racial violence, the students wearing the American flag shirts were required to either remove their shirts or turn them inside-out.

WTF?

As I said, this is AMERICA, NOT MEXICO!  If there's a threat of violence, then you must remove all of the Mexican references or have the Mexican kids remove or turn their shirts inside-out.  Better yet, don't allow the celebration of such a violent Mexican holiday!  After all, if it's about the possibility of violence, remove the issue (the Mexican flag).  They are welcome to back to "their" soil and celebrate all they want.  Oh wait, their country wasn't good enough for them.  That's why they came here, isn't it?

 

It's time to disband the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA). Why would anyone want to continue paying for such a worthless entity? It's kind of like an Alaskan Eskimo buying an air conditioner for his igloo; in case it ever hits 90°F.  By eliminating this dysfunctional organization, we could reinstate a few essential government programs that the average US citizen has come to rely upon.

Lets take a look a some of the numbers.

• Since 9/11/01, it cost over $60,000,000,000 (that's BILLION) to fund the TSA.
• There have been over 25,000 security breeches on their watch.
• The TSA Spent $36,000,000 on 207 devices that "puff air" on passengers.
• All 207 are collecting dust in warehouses.
• Like all government programs, they've become bloated. They planned for 16,500 "agents".
• It has now grown to over 62,000 "agents". That's a 400% increase!
• There are over 3,986 executives at it's D.C. headquarters that earn, on average, $103,852/year. There is one TSA executive that earns more than $5,400,000/year.
• Keep in mind, these are government employees, not private corporations. They work for US! (supposedly)
• More than 700 scanners have been installed since 2007 at a cost of $170,000 each.
• These scanners are worthless. Why? Because they can't see anything concealed at your sides!
• A total of 19 guns were found. That's a cost of slightly more than $6,000,000/gun found.
• And not one of those belonged to a terrorist! Almost all of them were owned by lawfully, licensed citizens.
• President Obama proposed a TSA budget that would raise the security fees from $2.50 to $7.50; each way.
• Actual cost of that screening is $11.38.
• There have been more than 16 individuals that flew 23 different times through U.S. airports since 2004, that were later identified, and accused of involvement in terrorist plots.
• None was stopped or questioned.
• The government budget for the TSA is over $7.6 billion and only $3.2 billion for "green energy".
• Yet the government has eliminated the emergency extension for unemployment benefits for over 2 million US citizens and decreased the budget for "food stamps" by $8.7 billion that affects 1 in every 7 citizens.

Way to go Uncle Sam, for looking out for our own!

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1. TSA's Behavior Detection Program a Costly Bust

Here’s the amount of money the Transportation Security Administration has spent for behavior detection officers to identify airline passengers suspected of being a high risk for terrorism: $900 million.

And here’s the number of passengers flagged by the program and charged with terrorism: zero. The TSA fully deployed the Screening of Passengers by Observation Technique (SPOT) program in 2007, and by fiscal year 2012, about 3,000 behavior detection officers were stationed at 176 of the more than 450 TSA-regulated airports in the country.

The officers "are intended to identify high-risk passengers based on behavioral indicators that indicate mal-intent," according to a report from the General Accountability Office.

Through the SPOT program, behavior detection officers "are to identify passenger behaviors indicative of stress, fear, or deception and refer passengers meeting certain criteria for additional screening of their persons and carry-on baggage," the report stated.

The officers can then refer passengers to a law enforcement officer for further investigation and possible arrest.

But the GAO concluded that the "published research we reviewed did not support whether nonverbal behavioral indicators can be used to reliably identify deception."

The GAO told the House Subcommittee on Transportation Security that for fiscal years 2011 and 2012, it analyzed the SPOT program at 49 airports and found that there were 61,000 passengers who displayed "behavioral indicators that indicate mal-intent."
Of those, 8,700 or 13.6 percent were referred to a law enforcement officer, and of the 8,700, only 365 were arrested — just 0.59 percent of the passengers flagged by the SPOT program.

And none of them was arrested for "terrorism."

Rather, they were charged with offenses such as possessing fraudulent documents, having an outstanding warrant, or drug possession.

Given the SPOT program's poor performance, the GAO clearly indicated its recommendation in the title of its report: "Aviation Security: TSA Should Limit Funding for Behavior Detection Activities."

Next up, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).  aka: America's Gestapo!

Did you see it?  If you happened to have tuned in at 6:30 pm E.S.T. when the Superbowl game was to begin, you probably saw, and heard, the reading of the Declaration of Independence.  According to the announcer, this has been a tradition since the first Superbowl game that was played post-9/11.  My first reaction that this was to occur was one of patriotism.  I didn't take long however, to realize the inevitable, WTF?

Now please, don't misunderstand me.  I am an extremely patriotic person.  I stand up during colors, the playing/singing of our National Anthem (regardless of how poorly it is played or sung, this year was no exception) facing the American flag with my hand over my heart (hat removed).  Most time, I'll even sing along (my apologies to the surrounding fans)!

But why are we reading the Declaration of Independence?  I fail to see the connection to a football game.  Who, on the entire planet, doesn't know that the Unites States of America, is an independent country?  I would much rather make all of the people in the stadium recite the Pledge of Allegiance.  You remember that, don't you?

I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

If  you're trying to get the attention of the peoples of the world, to let them know that, "We the People" are the strongest, most dedicated and determined nation on planet earth, the sound of 82,500+ football fans reciting the Pledge, would clearly make that point!

To make matters worse, make a note of WHO was reading the Declaration.  Yes, there were a number of people with which I have no problem, but to hear the words from the mouths of Washington D.C. and Hollywood hypocrites, literally sickened me.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

I've taken the liberty of highlighting a couple of passages in the Declaration.  During the current POTUS' administration, as well as the previous eight administrations, these particular passages have been ignored and whittled away slowly, to the point that this Declaration is nearly irrelevant!  This Country is no longer the great and respected one that it once was.

So please, stop the insanity and hypocrisy!  Don't waste our time with the reading of a document that you clearly don't understand.