The Minuteman

No one likes staring at my ugly mug while I’m preaching on my soap box.  So instead I’ll let her do it.

Facts are stubborn things and that video does a wonderful job of laying out the facts.  Including previous trends, how they compare historically, and what it means.

The bottom line is the War on Poverty actually creates a system that rewards people for being in poverty.  It becomes a vicious circle since those in poverty remain there because their receive more from doing nothing than working to alter their situation.

Watch the video, it’s just shy of 7 minutes and well worth your time.

h/t Weer’d, Grouch Old Cripple

The bad news is, given yesterday’s post it can no longer be said that these types of incidents never happen.

A former police officer was sentenced Friday in federal court to 20 years in prison for producing child pornography after he admitted using his iPhone to film sex acts with an 8-year-old boy when the child was sleeping or unconscious.

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Hurlbut is a former police officer for Aquia Harbour and had used the department’s Internet connection to share child pornography, according to court records. The state-certified department serves a gated community in Stafford County.

He befriended the parents, developed trust in the child, and then utterly violated both.  Then he violated the trust given by the public by using public resources to distribute his depravity.  The biggest kicker though is the following:

Hurlbut was later fired from the police department for an unrelated issue, court filings state.

So his department didn’t figure it out and instead it was a separate group of agencies.  Given the following information though how did no one seem to notice in his department?

In court records, prosecutors in the case described Hurlbut as a man who “appears to have been attracted to single mothers with boys who were about eight to ten years of age. Hurlbut does not appear to have had a romantic or sexual interest in the mothers but instead lavished his attention on the women’s sons.”

State Sponsored Criminal Count: 120 William Hurlbut

May bruno in cell block a provide a punishment like no other.

So with all those fruit loops running around Wall Street nonproductive because they quit their jobs to be there.  I decided that as usual today was going to be yet another productive day.

Got the house cleaned up, there’s still a few things I need to stash away but I decided to finally start putting some ideas into motion.

I created a Zazzle store.  I’ve only posted up one design idea thus far.  I put it on a coffee mug too.  The wife and I are working on some other design ideas as well.  I’m not the most “graphically gifted”.  I am really good at under the hood type work, but making shiny things people like not so much.

If you’d like to see something a little bit different let me know.  I’m going to continue working on some of my other ideas.

I don’t expect people to throw money towards me without giving something in return.  So I spend my time coming up with goods and services I can exchange for money.  Obviously these dolts are too stupid to figure out that’s how you make money.

There was an article arguing that the dolts were correct because the top one percent has been growing the amount of wealth controlled.  I think the cause of that is there are less people working over all, thus shifting wealth.  If you want to become rich, work your ass off and come up with something world changing.

My wife is working today, I’m working here at home on personal projects.  Yet they’re sitting around on their ass and getting paid to do so.  That’s why I don’t like redistribution of wealth.  It punishes the productive and rewards the lazy.

Via Kevin

This one makes me sick. 

A former South Ogden police officer has been sentenced to a possible
life prison term on charges of aggravated sexual abuse of a child and
forcible sodomy.

Welling, 41, worked for the agency from August 2008 until his
resignation in January while both the internal and criminal
investigations were ongoing.

As this incident occurred while the officer was off duty the reason for it’s inclusion is because of the trust children are instructed to give to police officers.

State Sponsored Criminal Count: 119 Andrew Welling

Because the trust gained by being police officer is something to abuse.

So I’ve seen this movie from beginning to end.  Evidently Holder missed how that scene ends.  Otherwise he wouldn’t be replaying the dialog.*

*I know it’s not an exact translation but it is pretty accurate.  If it wasn’t you wouldn’t be laughing.

A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and
Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly
missions over Afghanistan and other warzones.

Not sure what the exact attack vector is.  I have a feeling that the pilots aren’t surfing the web while flying but then again it’s certainly possible.  Stuxnet, has totally changed the malware attack vectors.

An internet connection is no longer required to be vulnerable.  Most disturbing is the fact they’ve tried to remove it numerous times and it keeps coming back.

Be careful out there, the web not getting any less hostile.

Take what comfort you can that whichever party is in power, it’s the same shined-up jackboot. And as long as it is only stomping cockroaches, who cares? –At least, who cares until they find themselves defined as a cockroach.* But, damn you, don’t look me in the eye and tell me that it is in any way how the freely elected government of a free country of free men and women operates, ‘cos it ain’t.

Roberta X – Tolja 10/7/2011

[I have mixed feelings about the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki.  On the one hand he technically is an enemy combatant.  On the other he’s a US citizen and the decision for his death shouldn’t exactly occur behind closed doors.  It is a slippery slope that many are willing to look past because we all know he was such a bad guy.  Letting things like this slide establishes a precedent that could be very bad.  Especially with how easily and quickly the government is labeling different groups of individuals as potential terrorists.  Roberta nails it on the head, eventually you’re going to be the cockroach.  -B]