http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Washington Thu, 23 May 2013 15:41:40 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=Washington Wed, 22 May 2013 20:13:16 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b1b_1369266982 Barrackbar Osama This was a local bank-owned property. I personally toured this property and dealt with the "tenants" and assisted in the sale of the property. One of the tenants went only by the name " The Rev", the rest wouldn't give their name. This one was chock full of garbage, medical waste, needles, and a sicko was shitting in bags and tossing them in the backyard. The interior which you cannot see from the video, was just as bad. Oh, and they were turning tricks for crack rocks and meth, with up to 4 whores working in the house at a time. I'd like to thank the neighbors, who got the exterior debris removed, before an eviction was completed. The house sold in 2 weeks.... http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b1b_1369266982 Barrackbar Osama Local Crack, Meth, Whore House, and Garbage Dump - 2 short video tour Washington, Crack, Meth, Tons, Trash, Shit, Piss, Rats, Needles, Whores Thu, 23 May 2013 11:45:26 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cdf_1369323834 cajunmojo The Senate will finally confront one of the architects of the subprime mortgage crisis today, hauling a tax-dodging, union-busting, bank-breaking, billionaire member of the "one percent" before the Senate Commerce Committee... to consider her confirmation as Secretary of Commerce in President Barack Obama's Cabinet.In the same week that the Senate grilled the CEO of Apple, Inc. about the low taxes it pays due to maintaining large cash deposits overseas, the Senate will roll out a warm welcome to Chicago heiress Penny Pritzker, who runs what Forbes called "one of the grandest and most successful family tax-avoidance schemes ever." Instead of being lectured about her patriotism, Pritzker is being praised to the heavens, with fellow Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) claiming that the heiress to the Hyatt hotel fortune "has broken through the glass ceiling with her extraordinary intelligence and business acumen." The enthusiasm is bipartisan; fellow Illinoisan Mark Kirk is also on board . Pritzker has a rather dubious record of public service, most recently serving on the board of the Chicago Public Schools, which just yesterday approved plans to close forty-nine failing schools. Her most notable public "contribution" has involved raising and bundling millions of dollars for President Obama's lavish political campaigns. Unions dislike Pritzker as well, and at least one has opposed Pritzker's nomination based on its many battles with the Hyatt hotel chain regarding working conditions and wages. The left grassroots is also visibly irritated by the choice, seeing Pritzker's nomination to Commerce as the pay-to-play, Chicago cronyism that it is. But the fix is in. When future generations look back at this moment and wonder how Washington failed to hold Wall Street--or itself--accountable for the subprime crisis, they will understand that Washington never really cared about anything but its own political prerogatives. With the right political friends, you can get away with anything. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cdf_1369323834 cajunmojo TAX-DODGING, UNION-BUSTING, SUBPRIME MORTGAGE BANKER HAULED BEFORE CONGRESS Penny Pritzker, Senate Commerce Committee, democrats, liberals Thu, 23 May 2013 10:09:08 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=585_1369317987 BasicChannel Apparently, creating a special hamburger to honor Charles Ramsey was just the beginning. Now, the hero in the rescue of four kidnap victims held captive on Cleveland's West Side for roughly 10 years will enjoy free burgers for life. More than a dozen Northeast Ohio restaurants have pledged an offer of a burger anytime Ramsey wants to stop by and dig in. AMP 150 at the Marriott Cleveland Airport; Washington Place Bistro and Inn in Little Italy; Fahrenheit restaurant in Tremont; Market Garden Brewery, Bier Markt, Bar Cento and Nano Brew in Ohio City; Welshfield Inn in Troy Township; Hodges and Pura Vida in downtown Cleveland; 87 West at Crocker Park in Westlake; Orchard House restaurant in Brunswick; Flour restaurant in Moreland Hills, and the Allegheny Grille in Foxburg, Pennsylvania, have joined in the offer. The burger tribute was inspired by Ramsey, who stopped eating his meal of a Big Mac to intervene and aid the escape of Amanda Berry and her daughter, along with Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight. Onlookers, media speak to Charles Ramsey (center) after he helped free Amanda Berry from 10 years being held captive in a west side Cleveland home. Scott Shaw, The Plain Dealer Soon afterward, Hodges restaurant, where Ramsey works as a dishwasher, created the Ramsey Burger, a play on a Big Mac. "It's an 8-ounce burger of Certified Angus Beef, with a secret sauce," says chef-co-owner Chris Hodgson. Initially offered as a weeklong special, the sandwich has been promoted to permanent status on Hodges' menu. Which got Hodgson's partner, Scott Kuhn of Driftwood Restaurant Group, thinking a bigger tribute was due. "We want to honor our local hero with local food," said Kuhn, who operates four of the restaurants participating in the offer. "He stopped his meal midway through to help those women. We're now making sure he has other opportunities to go out and fully enjoy his burger." A single-edition "Chuck Card," good for life, is being stamped in Ramsey's honor. Anytime that Ramsey takes the card into one of the participating restaurants, he'll get a free burger. "I'm sure some places will give him more -- maybe add fries and a soft drink -- but that will be up to them," Kuhn says. Ramsey, who has been traveling during a paid leave from his job at Hodges, was not available for comment. The Chuck Card will be formally presented to him when he returns to Cleveland. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=585_1369317987 BasicChannel Charles Ramsey, who helped free Cleveland kidnap victims, gets burgers for life charley ramsey,burger,ohio Wed, 22 May 2013 23:20:54 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f59_1369278925 USMC_SRT A Navy dolphin training to look for mines off the coast of San Diego found a museum-worthy 19th-century torpedo on the seafloor, military officials said. The brass-coated, retro wonder of technology was one of the first self-propelled torpedoes used by the U.S. Navy. Just 50 of these so-called Howell torpedoes were made and only one other example has been recovered; it sits in the Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport, Wash., outside of Seattle. 'Realizing that we were the first people to touch it or be around it in over 125 years was really exciting.'- Christian Harris, operations supervisor for the SSC Pacific Biosciences Division The 130-year-old, 11-foot-long weapon was discovered back in March during a mine-hunting exercise that the Space and Naval warfare Systems Center Pacific (SSC Pacific) was conducting with bottlenose dolphins. "Dolphins naturally possess the most sophisticated sonar known to man. They can detect mines and other potentially dangerous objects on the ocean floor that are acoustically difficult targets to detect," operations supervisor Braden Duryee, of the SSC Pacific Biosciences Division, said in a statement. Dolphins use their natural sonar, called echolocation, to determine the size and shape of underwater objects by sending out a series of clicks that bounce off their targets and boomerang back to them. The marine mammals can be trained to report what they have found to human handlers using certain yes or no responses. Handlers can then investigate what the dolphins find by sending the animals to mark an object's location with a weighted buoy line. In this case, one of the dolphins indicated to its handler that it had detected a minelike target. The recovery dive team initially thought the dolphin had found an old tail section off an aerial drop mine, according to a statement from SSC Pacific, but officials soon realized they were handling a much rarer artifact. "It was apparent in the first 15 minutes that this was something that was significant and really old," Christian Harris, operations supervisor for the SSC Pacific Biosciences Division, said in a statement. "Realizing that we were the first people to touch it or be around it in over 125 years was really exciting." The Howell torpedo had a 132-lb flywheel that would be spun prior to launch. With a warhead filled with 100 lbs of gun cotton, the weapon had a range of 400 yards and could reach speeds of 25 knots, military officials said. "It was the first torpedo that could be released into the ocean and follow a track," Harris said. "Considering that it was made before electricity was provided to U.S. households, it was pretty sophisticated for its time." The torpedo is being kept in a tank of water to prevent erosion on its surface. The historical weapon will eventually be shipped to the Naval History and Heritage Command at the Washington Navy Yard. Navy officials said last year that the U.S. military may begin retiring its dolphins in 2017 in favor of cheaper mine-hunting robots. Dolphins' amazing sonar ability can be a blessing and a curse for marine mammal-military relations; the animals are acutely vulnerable to high-powered naval sonar used during military tests, and past naval exercises have been linked to dolphin strandings. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/05/21/navy-dolphin-finds-rare-130-year-old-torpedo/?intcmp=sem_outloud#ixzz2U59VaLp9 * Members of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific Marine Mammal Team pose May 15, 2013, with one of the Navy's specially trained Atlantic bottle-nosed dolphins. The team, along with the dolphin, are responsible for the discovery http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f59_1369278925 USMC_SRT Navy dolphin finds 130-year-old torpedo USN, Navy, Dolphin, Torpedo Wed, 22 May 2013 15:59:03 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2eb_1369252524 flank99 Heavy Rain is on its way to Banff Alberta and it will bring 50+mm of rain for Banff Alberta and the Low Pressure System is Heading from State of Montana, Idaho and Washington and The Heavy Rain will also affect Lake Louise, Canmore too and People in Banff you may Consider to Wear Rubber Boots and Rain Coats and your Rain Suits to keep you dry and if you Wanna Travel to Banff on Friday you have to Wear your Rain Coat and your Rubber Boots and your Rainsuits to walk around the Town and for People in Calgary wanna to Travel to Banff pack up your Rain Gear and People in Canmore and Lake Louise you have to wear your Rain Suits and Rubber Boots and have your Umbrella Ready to stay dry and the Heavy Rain will Fall in Banff, Lake Louise and Canmore on Friday People in Banff stay dry. http://www.sydneyinearlymarch.blogspot.ca http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2eb_1369252524 flank99 Heavy Rain to Hit Banff Alberta on Friday May 24, 2013 Heavy Rain to Hit Banff Alberta on Friday May 24, 2013 Wed, 22 May 2013 15:50:54 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b7b_1369252127 Catalytic By Glenn Garvin Miami Herald In his book "The Joys of Yiddish," Leo Rosten, struggling to define the concept of "chutzpah" to Americans, toyed with a bunch of English expressions: "gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible 'guts,' presumption plus arrogance." In the end, he concluded no single word sufficed. Chutzpah, he wrote was "that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan."If Rosten were around today, he might offer another definition: a country that sends a spy to steal millions of pages of national-security secrets from its best friend in the world and then demands his release as a sign of friendship. That's exactly what happened last month when President Obama visited Israel, only to be berated over the imprisonment of Tel Aviv's self-described "master spy," Jonathan Pollard.Pollard has been in jail since 1985, when he was arrested for using his job as a U.S. Navy intelligence analyst to plunder enough classified documents to fill a 6-foot-by-10-foot room, which he sold to Israel for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Sentenced to life in prison, he's scheduled for parole in November 2015, after completing 30 years of his term.Pressure on Obama Both Israeli president Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are believed to have demanded Pollard's release in private meetings with Obama. Members of the Knesset were so open about their intentions to rough Obama up on the subject of Pollard that the president declined an offer to speak there.Deprived of a chance to shout at Obama face to face, Knesset member Danny Danon instead took to the pages of USA Today, where his op-ed piece called Pollard's jailing "an historic wrong" and added: "If President Obama plans on asking the Israeli people to trust him during what promises to be a tumultuous four years, bringing Jonathan home would be a just and noble way to do so."Putting aside the fact that a lot of Americans might reasonably expect they've already earned some trust by giving Israel $3 billion a year (nearly half the U.S. budget for foreign military aid), the clamor for Pollard's release begs the question: Why are the Israelis insisting that the future of relations with the United States rests on the immediate release of a convicted spy who is just 19 months from possible parole? The answer is that Israeli officials don't want Pollard released because he's served his time. They want him released because they think he didn't do anything wrong and they want Washington to publicly admit it. And they think this is an opportune moment to press their demand because Obama is politically weak and might hope to score points with a wavering constituency, American Jews.But releasing Pollard would be a giant mistake for the president. Pollard is neither a naive kid who blundered into trouble for unthinkingly passing a harmless secret or two to an ally, nor an innocent Jewish victim persecuted by an insidious network of anti-Semites within the U.S. government. He is, rather, a mercenary who looted U.S. national security for personal gain.Israel was the biggest beneficiary of Pollard's perfidy. He stole so many documents - delivering up to five suitcases-full at a time to his control officer - that the Israelis had to buy a condo and equip it with a high-speed copying machine just to handle the take. The Israelis in return paid him $2,500 a month (well over his U.S. government take-home pay), lavished him with jewelry and European vacations, and set up a Swiss bank account to hold a $300,000 bonus.And still Pollard wanted more. He tried to sell American secrets to Pakistan, Australia and South Africa's apartheid regime. He stole classified documents on China to help his wife land a big public-relations contract with China.Profitable proposition If spying was quite profitable for Pollard, it was no bargain for American taxpayers. It cost many millions of dollars to replace the intelligence systems he compromised, including a blueprint for U.S. electronic interceptions around the world. Pollard's disclosures enabled Israeli missions that the United States would never have agreed to support, like a 1985 bombing raid on a PLO headquarters in Tunisia that killed scores of innocent bystanders. And much of the material Pollard stole (including information on how the United States tracked Soviet submarines) wound up in Moscow - perhaps because the KGB pilfered it from Israel, perhaps because the Israelis swapped it for Jewish emigrants from Russia.It is inconceivable that any American president would stamp these actions with approval by granting early release to the man who carried them out. And for President Obama, whose attorney general has prosecuted more government officials for leaks under the 1917 Espionage Act than all his predecessors combined, it would be an act of unfathomable hypocrisy.If it's OK for Pollard to dump documents to Israel, why isn't it OK for Bradley Manning to do the same to Wikileaks? Because the Knesset says so?Glenn Garvin is a columnist for the Miami Herald. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b7b_1369252127 Catalytic Master Israeli spy and traitor Jonathan Pollard should serve out his prison sentence Israel, Jews, Jonathan, Pollard, spy, traitor, espionage, convicted, US Fri, 17 May 2013 12:27:12 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=48f_1368806567 Brockk Democratic Party Marches in Washington DC 1928 Fear And IntimidationThe apple does not fall far from the tree Remember your roots Representative Paul Ryan was my guest Thursday and we covered a lot of ground. The transcript will be posted ASAP below. On the question of DOJ's snooping of the House press gallery, Representative Ryan replied to my question about it: "Of course I'm troubled. Are you kidding?" Most of the MSM hasn't figured out yet that if the DOJ can grab the press phone records originating from the House, they can grab any phone record coming out of the Hill. Ryan also comments on the impact on the election of the manipulation of the Benghazi attack by the White House and on the IRS scandal. For additional background on the IRS scandal, read this post and this post by Carol Platt Liebau, and this post by National Review's Kevin Williamson, for background on Benghazi this post by Powerline's John Hinderaker, and for the impact of all the scandals on the president this important column by Peggy Noonan. Transcript of the Paul Ryan interview: HH: Joining me, a member of the Ways And Means Committee, and of course, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, Congressman Paul Ryan. Congressman, welcome back, good to talk to you. PR: Hey, Hugh, how have you been? Good to see you, or good to be with you, excuse me. I guess I can't see you. Good to hear you. HH: Thank you. I want to begin with what my colleague, Carol Platt Liebau at Townhall.com has pinned as the key thing thus far in the IRS scandal. On August 4th, 2011, Obama appointee Williams Wilkins, who is chief counsel of the IRS, was briefed on the political targeting of conservative groups. Now he's a well-trained lawyer. PR: Right. HH: Could he possibly have learned of this and not informed the White House, in your view, Paul Ryan? PR: We're going to find out. You know, I don't know the answer to the question, but I can tell you this, we're going to find out the answer to these questions. The reason we know about this already is because of the Ways And Means Committee and the oversight and research we've been doing, which prompted the Inspector General report. We had hearings last year in the Ways And Means Committee where we asked the commissioner about this, and they just denied it. And so they have had a couple of opportunities since that moment you just, you know, since then, to affirm, confirm or deny with Congress whether this happened or not. They denied it. So there's a lot we have left to learn. They can try and have disciplinary action, they can call for resignations. Those things are necessary. But they're not enough. And Hugh, this goes much bigger than this. And this is unfortunately the kind of thing you have with a big government and a really bad tax code. And you know, we have a government that's working for itself, not for the people. And the IRS is fishing around people's private lives, it's approving the groups it likes and harassing the groups it doesn't. That's not who we are. HH: Congressman, Peggy Noonan, in a piece that went online minutes ago, and will be in the paper tomorrow, writes we are in the midst of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate. And she writes, as it always comes down to trust, do you trust the President's answers when he's pressed on an uncomfortable story? Do you trust his people to be sober and fair-minded as they go about their work? Do you trust the IRS and the Justice Department? You do not. And it goes on to say look, these are his agencies. The IRS and the Justice Department answer to him. Does he set the tone? PR: Of course he sets the tone. This isn't just about incompetence, though. This is about an overreach. This is about a government that has gone beyond its scope, and this also speaks to the philosophy of government that's at play here in Washington. And if you want to have a government that does everything for you, they've got to know everything about you. If you want to have a government that should be in the position of picking winners and losers, well then, they will pick winners and losers. And so it's not a story just about incompetence. It's about overreach. You know, big government is bad in theory, but it's much worse in practice. And effective government, that is good government that's limited, focuses in on our core duties. So this speaks to more than just, you know, did they do this to conservative groups before an election to try and give themselves an advantage? It also goes beyond that to, you know, bureaucrats are making decisions for us on behalf of government, not on behalf of the people. And so... HH: Now Congressman, I've heard... PR: That's, to me, a bigger, the bigger issue here. HH: I have heard from people that the SEC has targeted Romney/Ryan supporters. I have heard, and I know for a fact about the EPA scandals and the fake ID's, and the selective FOIA requests. I was told by Rob Portman yesterday about the HHS Obamacare fundraising scandal. PR: Right. HH: It's everywhere. How vast is this culture of intimidation and corruption? PR: I get the sense that we're just at the tip of the iceberg here. And this is why we're going to do this methodically, we're going to do this the right way, we're not going to be passioned or partisan. We're going to do our jobs as the representatives of the people, you know, the legislative branch of government doing our Constitutional duty of conducting oversight of the executive branch. The executive branch has clearly overreached. This seems more like a pattern than a couple of one-off events that a couple of rogue people in Cincinnati. It clearly goes bigger than that. And we're going to painstakingly go through this system and find out just how deep this is. But I would say at the core of the system is a government that is spending beyond its reach. HH: Now many hearings have you set aside? And how far into the summer are they scheduled? PR: Well, we're in the middle of planning all of that. And so we're just trying to collect as much information as we can right now in the Ways And Means Committee. There's a lot of people we've got to talk to, a lot of people that have to be deposed, and a lot of evidence that has to be gathered. And so just like a good investigation, you go where the evidence shows you. And here's the point we're trying to get at. We need to restore accountability, trust and transparency to government. And that means you have to get answers. That's what Benghazi is all about, getting to the actual answers so things like this do not happen again. HH: Speaking of Benghazi... PR: Tomorrow, we're holding a hearing in the Ways and Means, we're going to hold the IRS accountable, we're going to ask tough questions, but we're going to keep going. And we also need to ask deeper questions. I hope we don't lose the moment to ask deeper questions. What is the government's role? What should it be doing? And what shouldn't it be doing? We can get this right, and people deserve a government that supports them. Families deserve real security. They deserve a government that treats them equally, and that's not what we're getting right now. HH: Now Congressman, speaking of Benghazi, John Hinkeraker of Powerline is coming up after this, and he's gone through the emails. They're a MacGuffin. They reveal that they intended at the White House to mislead Congress in the election narrative, but they don't tell us where this, the video narrative came from. You were living in the middle of that campaign. As you look back at this, how great a degree of deception was being practiced and organized at Team Obama concerning Benghazi? PR: Well, I mean, now what I know, I didn't know this then, of course, but what I know now is that there was clearly an attempt to dissuade the country from thinking this was terrorism. The question is who made the decision to tell our U.N. ambassador to go on the Sunday shows and say this was just some spontaneous mob, there's nothing to see here, don't worry about it, it's not terrorism. And then there are the issues, the even bigger issues, which is what could have been done to save these lives that evening, especially the two guys who were killed later on, and what wasn't done, and why were those decisions made. And then who's decision was it to basically put out information that they knew not to be true? We heard that from the campaign. I don't want to sound like some sore loser about the campaign, but I don't want my government, as an American citizen, telling me things that they know aren't true. I don't want my government picking winners and losers for IRS oversight to harass people because of their political views. That's what a banana republic does. That's not what the United States of America should be doing. And so if we want to make sure that this kind of banana republic thuggish behavior doesn't continue, then we in the Congress are going to do our jobs and hold people accountable. HH: I'm not asking you to be sour grapes here, and I heard you say that. But do you believe the manipulation of the Benghazi story resulted, impacted the election outcome? PR: Well, I think, of course, I think it had impacts. I can't say whether this was, I don't know that anybody could say that it was the factor. I don't think that you could say that. But if people knew all of these facts that we now know, and there's more to find out, then, if we knew then what we know now, do I think that could have changed some opinion? Do I think that would have changed the direction of public opinion? Sure. Of course. But I can't, I have no idea whether it would have changed the outcome or not. HH: Your colleague, Devin Nunes, was on the program yesterday, and brought to my attention what I had not realized, which is the extent of this snooping on AP reached the House of Representatives. PR: Yeah. HH: And he used the wrong term. He said wiretapping. He meant snooping, because they just swept up the phone records. Does that shock you that the DOJ without a court order and on their own initiative, swept up the phone records of the House of Representatives? PR: Well, it's the Cloak Room, excuse me, it's not the Cloak room where members of Congress used the phones. They call it the Press Gallery, which is not far from the Cloak Room. It's in the same House floor, it's off the House floor. But my understanding is they took the records of the House Press Gallery AP. Members of Congress use the phones in what we call the Cloak Room. I don't think they took those records. So I don't think you could say they swept up the records of members of Congress' phone calls. They took the records of AP reporters in the House Gallery who were doing, were reporting on Congress. HH: But if they can do that, if they can go into the House, can't... PR: Yeah, look, I'm not making an excuse. I'm just trying to make sure that we're accurate here. HH: Does it trouble you? PR: Of course it troubles me. Are you kidding me? Look, this is why, again, the point I'm trying to make here is let's not think of this as just, oh gosh, some bad people at the IRS did those dumb things, and then oh, some overzealous prosecutor at the Justice Department did that, and oh, gosh, you know, some low level person at the State Department did this. We should not be thinking like that. We should be thinking this is what you get with big government in practice. This is what you get when you have a government that just has gone beyond its moorings, that has gone beyond its scope, and this is the kind of government you get with progressive politics. And that's just not in keeping with our Constitution. That's not what we deserve. We want equality under the law, and that's not what we're getting, whether we're a reporter, a taxpayer, or a citizen. HH: Congressman Paul Ryan, we will be watching the Ways And Means Committee hearing tomorrow with great, great interest. Thanks for joining us. End of interview. http://www.hughhewitt.com/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=48f_1368806567 Brockk Democratic Party Marches in <span class="highlight">Washington</span> DC 1928 Fear,Intimidation Mon, 20 May 2013 15:27:59 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=44a_1369077139 SciTec Authorities last week made an agreement not to prosecute a Northwest D.C. man who used his unregistered handgun to kill a pit bull in order to stop it from mauling a child in his neighborhood to death. As part of the agreement, Benjamin Srigley , 39, was required to pay a $1,000 fine but will not have criminal charges filed against him for the three unregistered firearms and the ammunition that investigators found in his possession, said Ted Gest , a spokesman for the office of the attorney general. "We took it into account that he saved this boy's life," Mr. Gest said. Possession of an unregistered firearm or ammunition in the District is punishable by up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine, and prosecutors said Mr. Srigley could have faced up to seven criminal charges in the case. "In our recent memory this is a unique charge because of the unusual circumstances of this case," said Mr. Gest , whose office generally prosecutes low-level crime in the District. The horrific incident that spawned the investigation occurred on a Sunday afternoon in late January as 11-year-old Jayeon Simon and his friend rode bicycles near Eighth and Sheridan streets Northwest in the Brightwood neighborhood. According to court records filed in D.C. Superior Court, three unleashed pit bulls pounced on Jayeon and attacked him. Seeing the attack, Mr. Srigley went inside his home to get his Ruger 9mm pistol while several other men hopped over fences to get away from the dogs, court records state. From behind the wooden fence of his front lawn, Mr. Srigley began firing at the dogs. His shots attracted the attention of a Metropolitan Police Department officer on bicycle patrol nearby, and he also opened fire on the dogs, killing the other two. The boy survived the attack but now bears scars on his elbow, torso and leg as a reminder. Jayeon 's family is thankful for Mr. Srigley , crediting him for saving the boy's life. "I don't think he should be charged at all because it's an act of heroism," said Chris Speight , 45, a cousin who helps care for Jayeon . In addition to deciding how to handle Mr. Srigley 's case last week, authorities also made the decision to press charges against the dogs' owner, Alan Paige . Mr. Paige , who lives a block north of the corner where the attack occurred, will face nine criminal charges - including three counts of possession of a dangerous dog, three counts of having an unleashed dog, and three counts of allowing a dog to go without a collar. The charges account for each of the three dogs, Mr. Gest said. Mr. Paige could not be reached at his home Friday for comment. A hearing is scheduled in June for his case. Answering the door at his home, a duplex with a stone facade and well-manicured yard, Mr. Srigley held his own dog back from his front door and declined Friday to comment on the case because it is still technically pending in court. The office of the attorney general is deferring prosecution, meaning it will remain active while Mr. Srigley meets conditions set by authorities. In addition to paying a $1,000 fine, which was submitted in full Wednesday when the case when to court, the charges against Mr. Srigley - who police noted has no criminal record - will be dropped on condition he is not charged with any other crimes in the next two months. While investigating the case, police seized Mr. Srigley 's pistol, which he said he purchased legally in Virginia when he lived there, and close to 100 rounds of ammunition from his home. Mr. Srigley told investigators that he owned two other guns - an antique M-1 rifle and a Mossburg 12-gauge shotgun - which were in a storage space in the District. Police also seized those guns, but authorities have agreed they will return the firearms to Mr. Srigley when he registers them in Maryland, where he plans to soon move. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=44a_1369077139 SciTec Man Fined $1,000 for saving Boy's Life with Unregistered Handgun pitbull, dog, bite, gun, rights, second, amendment, Washington, DC, Obama, Liberal, fine Mon, 20 May 2013 06:30:51 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1e4_1369045768 nobyte10000 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1e4_1369045768 nobyte10000 Los Angeles: Americans accept Islam Ahmadiyyat at the hands of World Muslim Leader los angeles, usa, america, washington, new york, peace, human rights, tornadi, hollywood Sun, 19 May 2013 05:33:18 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ad5_1368955855 nobyte10000 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ad5_1368955855 nobyte10000 A Message of Peace - European Parliament usa, europe, parliament, world peace, los angeles, washington dc, new york, toronto, canada, germany, vancouver, belgium Wed, 22 May 2013 15:26:09 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5fb_1369250319 dfaugust MILLER: Anthony Weiner is a twit who treats women like dirt Anthony Weiner thinks his brief absence from elected office means the public will forget his disrespect and disdain for women. He's wrong. He didn't just treat strange women like sex objects, he harassed female journalists who work on Capitol Hill. Two of us work at The Washington Times. Mr. Weiner was forced to resign from Congress because he was caught texting and tweeting pictures of his private parts to women, some from the House members' gym. The married Democratic congressman thought the scandal would blow over, but House Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Deborah Wasserman-Shultz were so disgusted with his behavior, they told him to take a hike. A year earlier, The Washington Times White House Correspondent Susan Crabtree was covering Congress for The Hill. She was reporting on the House Ethics Committee's conviction of Rep. Charles Rangel, New York Democrat, and possible punishment. She wrote that her sources said Mr. Weiner might speak on the floor in defense of Mr. Rangel to get a lighter penalty than censure. Mr. Weiner was furious with the story, probably because it could jeopardize his mayoral ambitions by being associated with the tax cheat. On Dec. 2, Mr. Weiner saw Ms. Crabtree in the Speaker's Lobby, which is the area off the House floor where reporters wait to talk to members as the enter or leave the chamber. Ms. Crabtree asked him if he would be speaking in Mr. Rangel's defense that day. He replied that she had not verified that detail in her story. She told him that she had had two very good sources that said, exactly as she wrote, that he was considering speaking. Mr. Weiner then gave her the middle finger - in front of all the other reporters - and quickly walked away. The congressman wasn't just being a jerk and targeting a female journalist, but he was deceitful about his intentions. As Ms. Crabtree reported the following day, during the censure vote, Mr. Weiner and two other Democratic members of the New York delegation gathered around Mr. Rangel in the well of the chamber to show their solidarity. Mr. Rangel, the former chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, became only the 23rd member of Congress in history to be censured by his colleagues in the House of Representatives. Six months after Mr. Weiner flipped off Ms. Crabtree, he subjected me to humiliating sexual comments. I was covering the sexting scandal for The Times. On June 1, the whole Capitol Hill press corps was looking for Mr. Weiner to get some answers. I happened to be the only reporter in the Speaker's Lobby when Mr. Weiner walked out, clearly looking for someone to tell more of his lies about the scandal. At this point, he was still denying everything, telling the press that his Twitter account had been hacked. The other women had not yet come forward to show their own naked pictures sent by the congressman. That day, Mr. Weiner stopped when I approached him and moved in very closely, about six inches from me. He debated me on the charges against him by making sexually explicit jokes at me. As this went on, dozens of reporters crowded around us in a huddle. http://www.washingtontimes.com/multimedia/audio/anthony-weiner-makes-lewd-jokes-female-reporter/ Weiner: We don't know where the photograph came from. We don't know for sure what's on it. We don't know for sure if it was manipulated. If it was taken out of one place and dropped something else. And I'm going to let the firm get to the bottom of all that. Jon Stewart might have actually been right last night. Miller: Are there pictures out there of you undressed? Do you have pictures that exist? Weiner: You know this is part of the problem with the way in which this has progressed and one of the reasons that I was, perhaps - you'll forgive me - a little bit stiff yesterday. Miller: Jesus Christ. Reporter: You've used the word firm, you've used the word... Weiner: Can I ask, is there a weiner joke that hasn't been used in this context? Miller: You're making them all, though. Weiner: I'm making them all? Miller: You're making all those. Weiner: I would refer you to any of the coverage of this case, the jokes kind of write themselves. Mr. Weiner then gives an extensive defense of his privacy. A reporter asked him to explain how he claimed to have been hacked but did not deny taking the photo of himself. "We know for sure I didn't send those photographs. We know for sure that someone did. We know for sure that one of my follower's name was inserted. We know for sure she's put out a statement she doesn't know me. I certainly don't know her. I don't really know her connection to this, but her statement speaks for itself." He then explained that he was tweeting at time and deleted the tweet when he saw it. Miller: How did someone get a picture of you in your underwear, if that's possible? Weiner: We don't know where this photo came from, if it has been manipulated, which is a possibility. As Jon Stewart alluded to last night, there are reasons to believe it might have been. (Comedian Jon Stewart, Mr. Weiner's close friend and former roommate, joked on the previous night's show that he remembered his friend as being less well-endowed.) Weiner: We don't know that it's a police matter. I got spam yesterday. ... Reporter: How can it not be? Weiner: How can it not be? Very easily. Every day all of us get spam. Every day, all of us have people responding to us, 'Can't believe you're sending me this.' Miller: You're a member of Congress. Weiner: I'm a member of Congress. I'm also a citizen. There's nothing official about someone sending ... by the way. ... Miller: You're standing in the Speaker's Lobby, having 40, 75 reporters around you. If this is an issue of the Capitol Police, if this is ... Weiner: Why? Miller: Because you're a member of Congress standing in this Capitol ... Weiner: But a member of Congress doesn't mean when someone sends a piece of spam to my account, doesn't make it a federal offense. Miller: But this whole issue could go away. ... Weiner: I am trying to find out, and I think I have taken steps to do so. If you'll forgive me, I know we're now in the weeds of a particular issue. If you can take a step back - not literally - you can step as close as you like. Let's remember what happened here. A congressman named Weiner who has a rather edgy, perhaps aggressive Twitter feed. Where he was spending the whole day poking at Clarence Thomas, gets a Twitter picture of fill in the blank. This was a prank, intended to derail me or distract me, whatever it is. It is not a federal case. Now maybe it will turn out - forgive me - that this is the point of al Qaeda's sword and that this is the effort, this is where it's going to begin. And I've asked internet security to take a look at my private Internet feed - my private Twitter feed that has 45,000 followers, more than Michele Bachmann, I want to point that out. I finally passed her. That interaction shows the real character of Anthony Weiner. Today, he does not claim to have learned to respect women in his brief absence from public life. He is solely focused on regaining power and fame. The disgraced congressman asked New York voters Wednesday to give him a "second chance." He doesn't deserve it. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/22/miller-anthony-weiner-twit-who-treats-women-dirt/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5fb_1369250319 dfaugust Anthony Weiner is a twit who treats women like dirt anthony weiner, boner, devience, perverts,democRATs, &quot;liberals&quot;, democRATs, politicians Wed, 22 May 2013 14:09:18 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=258_1369245961 Bricksnsticks {{ ANOTHER VACATION }} With scandal swirling about the White House, First Lady Michelle Obama may be considering an extended exit from Washington this summer, fleeing for weeks to the Obamas' traditional summer haven, Martha's Vineyard. According to the Boston Globe , "Michelle Obama and the children may be on the island for an extended period." But the president would hardly be suffering by comparison. He may come up on weekends and then stay for two weeks at the end of the summer, the Globe reports. The White House has not commented on the Obamas' vacation plans. The Obamas are said to be eying a house in Farm Neck on the Vineyard. If they land there, the president will have easy access to the lovely Farm Neck Golf Club and Cafe . Here's the view from the tee on the third hole.It appears Michelle may be skipping her usual spring excursion overseas, which in the past has included stops at a luxury resort in Spain and in South Africa . Instead, she'll accompany her husband next month on an official trip to Africa . But not to worry. She already spent two weeks in Hawaii this past winter and jetted out for some Apsen skiing in February. The Obamas opted out of their annual trip to Martha's Vineyard in 2012, likely because they were campaigning and because a luxury sojourn there would have conflicted with the campaign image Obama was trying to project as a fighter for the middle class. http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2013/05/22/michelle-extended-vacation/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=258_1369245961 Bricksnsticks {{ ANOTHER VACATION }} - Michelle Said to be Considering an Extended Vacation michelle obama, vacation