(Breitbart) Conservatives & Tea Partiers plan to reignite the flame of 2010 next Saturday, 23 February in cities and towns across the United States–the event entitled Day of Resistance already is expecting at least 50,000 Americans that have already signed up for 97 rallies in more than 30 states across the country.
The rallies will focus on 2nd Amendment issues and President Obama’s push for gun control but they will also branch out into all aspects of oppressive big government.
Texas Active Oil & Gas Wells Image: Texas Comm Environmental Study
(San Antonio Express News) The “Lone Star State of Texas” is quickly earning a new moniker: Saudi Texas–Oil production in Texas is soaring so much that production jumped to an average of 2.139 million barrels a day in November, the best showing in more than 25 years.
Analysts are chalking up Texas booming production to shale plays, especially South Texas Eagle Ford Shale which is quite possibly the largest single economic development in the history of the State of Texas and ranks as the single largest oil and gas development in the world.
Oil Analysts are tossing around the words “phenomenal, amazing and unprecedented” when discussing the numbers.
On the 13 March, 2012 I wrote here long gone are the days of any logical person using the Obama Administrations talking points that the United States has only 2% of the world’s oil reserves, yade, yade, yade…
The reality is, the United States currently has 1.142 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil resources and over 200 years worth of oil at current consumption rates.
More here Exposing the 2% Oil Reserves Myth -IER
H/T: Common Sense Club
(LA Times) While a national debate has erupted over wannabe Imperial President Barack Hussein Obama’s use of lethal drone strikes overseas, federal authorities have stepped up efforts to license surveillance aircraft for use by law enforcement and other uses, spurring growing concern about privacy violations and a continued abuse of the 4th Amendment by the Obama Administration.
On the 27 October, 2011 I wrote here that “Big Sista’s” Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) monitoring equipment, which include speaker systems and motion sensors were being rolled out to a street near you with the aid of government funding.
Subsequently, I wrote on the 10 January, 2012 here that Janet Napolitano’s DHS, announced the Natl Operations Centers and its offices of Operations, Coordination and Planning, received written authorization to collect and retain personal information on new anchors, journalists, reporters, or anyone that may use “traditional and/or social media” in real time.
Under what authority does the federal, state and local governments determine that they can secretly collect and store information on Americans without a warrant? What are the limits to the long-arm of federal, state and local authorities to collect this data?
Members of Congress, together with legislators in 18 States are considering bills that would limit the use of unmanned aerial systems, together with new civil liberties and privacy protections to ease fears about invasive surveillance from the skies.
Doesn’t Congress still have the power of the purse? Why haven’t they pulled the plug on the Obama Administration ability to spend money to eavesdrop on Americans without a warrant and cut domestic enemies of the Constitution off at the knees?
L.A. Chinatown Golden Dragon Dance
Li Phoebe, plays with ribbons as she watches the 114 Annual Golden Dragon Parade Saturday at L.A. Chinatown
People feed money to a Lion Dancer of the LA Yingon Assn Lion Dance Team during Los Angeles Chinatown 114th Golden Dragon Parade
(Daily Bulletin) Los Angeles Chinatown streets came alive during today’s 114th Annual Golden Dragon Parade as more than 125,000 residents, visitors and tourists enjoyed the weekend long Chinese New Years Festival.
Los Angeles Chinatown New Years Festival continues tomorrow starting at 10:00 am until 8:00 pm
For more information: Golden Dragon Parade & New Year Festival
Related: Chinatown Los Angeles
CATO: Where Gun Owners Have Prevented Crimes -Paula Priesse
(CATO Institute) Gun control proponents want legislation that will restrict access to firearms–their rational is to reduce accidental shootings and criminal use of guns against people but if harm reduction is the goal, policymakers should pause to consider how many crimes such as murder, rape, assaults and robberies are thwarted by ordinary people who were fortunate enough to have access to a firearm.
Gun control proponents can not deny that people use guns successfully against criminals but they tend to play down how often such events take place. The purpose of this map is to draw more attention to this aspect of the firearms policy debate.
Rest here from CATO Institute
Connecticut Lawmaker: Make Gun Owners Names Public –WND
(Breitbart) Disappointed with New York State lawmakers and other states around the country who have passed strict gun control legislation, six companies composed of manufactures, gunsmiths and sporting-good retailers have announced policies in the past week, to restrict or forbid the sales of products sold to what law-abiding citizens may purchase.
Related: Missouri Democrat/Progressives Call for Gun Confiscation
Colorado Company Threatens to Leave State of Gun Bill Passes
Thanksgiving for the Goodness of America –Image: Catholic Online
(Daily Caller) Footage of the United States Dept of Agriculture (USDA) compulsory “Cultural Sensitivity Training” program reveals USDA employees being instructed to refer to the Pilgrims as “illegal aliens” at huge taxpayers expense.
Unseen video clips were made public on Thursday by Judicial Watch requiring USDA employees to bang on tables and chant in unison to learn the proper politically correct thinking about diversity and minorities or as overpaid diversity instructor Samuel Betances called them “emerging majorities.”
Between requiring USDA employees to repeat that “every federal agency has discriminated against African-Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, Indians and other groups,” Betances encouraged the employees to take note because the presentation is “a huge expense.”
In 2011 and 2012 the USDA paid Betances and his company nearly $200,000 for their part in the “cultural transformation” program.
As reported by FOX News in October, Judicial Watch first broke the news of the USDA compulsory sensitivity training program based upon information it obtained in response to a FOIA request–that request was prompted by a tip provided to the organization by a USDA whistleblower.
H/T: Townhall.com
(The Hill) House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said yesterday that she opposes a cut in congressional pay of $174,900 because it would diminish the dignity of lawmakers’ jobs.
“I don’t think we should do it–I think we should respect the work we do,” Pelosi told reporters on Capitol Hill. “I think its necessary for us to have the dignity of the job that we have rewarded.”
Nancy Pelosi’s comments were made in the context of the looming Obama Sequester which would force across-the-board-cuts that would affect most federal offices including Members of Congress pay–with lawmakers nowhere near a deal to avert those cuts, federal agencies are bracing for ways to absorb them.
Related: Sequestration Is Still Better than the Alternatives –CATO
Exposing the Absurdity of Washington’s Anti-Sequester Hysteria
Day of Resistance
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Mama Always Taught Me To Read Labels –Image: Winning With Women