Snapped Shot

Ok, it is time to fire them all. I mean it. ALL of them have to go. Republican, Democrat, Independent, Socialist, Commie and Obama. They all have to be fired. Some in Congress want to nationalize oil companies. Others want to nationalize health care (we are half way there already).

Now some in Congress believe that you are too stupid to know how to drive and pay for the gas yourself. They do not believe that you are capable of knowing when and how to limit yourself.

WASHINGTON - An influential Republican senator suggested Thursday that Congress might want to consider reimposing a national speed limit to save gasoline and, in turn possibly ease fuel prices.

Sen. John Warner, R-Va., asked Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman to look into what speed limit would provide optimum gasoline efficiency given current technology. He said he wants to know if the administration might support efforts in Congress to require a lower speed limit.

Warner cited studies that showed the 55 mph speed limit saved 167,000 barrels of oil a day, or 2 percent of the country's highway fuel consumption, while avoiding up to 4,000 traffic deaths a year.

"Given the significant increase in the number of vehicles on America's highway system from 1974 to 2008, one could assume that the amount of fuel that could be conserved today is far greater," Warner wrote ...

A Republican? How about INCREASING SUPPLY instead of decreasing users and usage? Forcibly decreasing usage???

How can anyone even think that they can begin to limit the increase in users and consumption of oil? There is no way. There is no way, short of an international shortage. It is time for these people to just admit that our country is growing and we still need energy. If not, they should all be fired. If they can't stand up for what is right, then they are in the way.

It would seem that according to the mainstream media today, that one of the latest rulings from the US Supreme Court was all about reaffirming the right of ordinary people to only own guns for self-defense.

While self-defense was a major portion of the debate in front the Court, the main argument was whether or not ordinary citizens of this country are allowed to own guns as opposed to regulated militias and government armies.

Take a look at this photo and tell me what the MSM believe was the major crux of the ruling?

Americans can keep guns at home for self-defense, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday in the justices' first-ever pronouncement on the meaning of gun rights under the Second Amendment.

Well, no, not really. First, the ruling was not their "first-ever pronouncement" of guns rights. They made a semi-ruling back in 1791 and in 1939. But that was not a solid ruling to determine, FOR THE LEFT, what the 2nd Amendment really meant. And, from what I read of the ruling, the primary ruling was that people in general, no matter where they are living, have the unbridgeable constitutional right to own a gun. AND self-defense is one of the primary reasons for having that right to own a gun.
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With today's recent developments in the US Senate, the media had a lovely May-day this day. To tell you the facts, the Senate did not pass a plan to increase taxes on profits earned by US oil companies. With all the focus of Americans today on the price of gas, this movement in the Senate was pretty profound and news-worthy.



Now, how did the mainstream media handle this news? The NewsBuster's site has two postings about this as well, here and here, highlighting the media's bias in their reporting on the Senate vote. Let's take a look for ourselves shall we? From Yahoo News comes this AP report:

Senate GOP blocks windfall taxes on Big Oil

The author of this piece is H. Josef Hebert. This was his second posting to the internet. This post occurred around 6pm (central). The first post was around 2pm. Its title was:

Senate GOP blocks oil taxes

Evil Senate GOP'ers have actively blocked the passage of the plan to tax windfall profits of BIG OIL. And that was just the titles. The body of the piece highlights the author's apparent bias towards GOP'ers and taxing BIG OIL. (added emphasis is mine)...
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HonestReporting uncovered this blatant Palestinian propaganda, which was fueled by a reporter for the BBC. This is how the BBC's Aleem Maqbool covered the story:

One weekday last year, at about three in the afternoon, Israeli armoured jeeps moved into the centre of Ramallah, pulling up outside the most popular hummus cafe.

In full view of passers-by, including children on their way back from school, the troops dragged a man in his early 20s out of the cafe. He was a wanted militant. They shot him - first in the legs, then stomach, then his head.

Within minutes, the "Palestinian reflex" had kicked in. Schoolboys piled into the area to throw stones at the soldiers until they left. As we arrived, the troops fired back with live bullets, injuring four people, before the jeeps sped out of the city.

Once the army had gone, I have to say, I was a little surprised to see grown Palestinian men standing by the side of the road, weeping and hugging, and teenagers who'd been throwing stones, breaking down.

And this is what really happened according to the IDF, supported by accounts reported by Ha'aretz, The New York Times and AFP:

The force identified Abed Al-Halim aiming his AK-47 assault rifle at them and opened fire at him. Abed Al-Halim attempted to flee the scene. Forces fired at him once more and identified hitting him. The soldiers ceased fire at the moment Abed Al-Halim no longer posed a threat to him. ...

During the operation, shots were fired and stones were hurled at the Border Police force, which responded with warning shots and specific fire at an identified source of fire. The IDF has received no information regarding civilian injuries and no such claims were registered with the DCO.

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Thank you for coming to class today. Today, we are going to discuss the proper, or rather the improper, use of file photos. As you know, file photos are shots that are used to generally display the topic of your article. For example, if one were to talk of whales and cite a recent research showing their grissly death due to global warming, you could find a file photo of a nice happy whale swimming in the sea. You have to make sure that the whale is of the same species that your article is referring to. And, preferably, in the same body of water or region.

So, for our first real example, I give you this webpage. Now, in case Ma'an News decides to correct their mistake, I have created a screen capture of the offending webpage and post it here.



Now, notice that the story talks of an bombing by an failure of a palestinian homicide bomber. Actually, in this case, we can accurately call this person a SUICIDE bomber because when he blew up his vehicle that was LOADED with explosives, he only managed to kill himself. Tack one up for the useful idiots.


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One of the greatest pieces of propaganda to come out of Pallywood has been deemed questionable by a Court of Appeals in France.

The Israeli army, using the angles of the shots, demonstrated that the gunfire could not have come from their position. The independent investigators led by Philippe Karsenty, a director of the Media-Ratings watchdog, went further and said the scenes had been staged and that report was a “hoax”.

He was successfully sued for defamation but opted to press on to a higher court.

Last week, he was vindicated. Senior French judge Laurence Trebucq, sitting on the Court of Appeals in the Palais de Justice, acquitted Karsenty and ruled against France 2 and its reporter, Enderlin. They now intend to take the matter to the nation’s highest court, which rules on technicalities, not facts.

Judge Trebucq’s meticulous ruling upheld - point-by-point - Karsenty’s case against the al-Durra footage.

The inflammatory report was essentially destroyed when he ordered the government-owned broadcaster to produce all the raw footage shot of the incident and instead of a few seconds of film, an 18-minute excerpt, still not the complete sequence, was shown to the court.

It revealed staged battle scenes, rehearsed ambulance evacuations - but nothing to substantiate the toxic television report.

No shots were seen coming from the Israeli position, no bullets were shown striking the boy, no blood was seen on the father’s shirt, though he was said to have cradled his eviscerated son in his arms, and the boy is seen to move, even to look conspiratorially at the television camera, when he is supposed to have been dead.

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Ok, here are some more updates on that ICE raid on the AgriProcessing plant raid that yielded nearly 400 illegal democrat voters.. umm.. I mean illegal immigrants.

From a member of Congress comes this message of respect and admiration...

U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley on Tuesday asked federal officials for a tally of the costs of last week's immigration raid in Postville and similar enforcement actions in 2006 at Swift & Co. meatpacking plants in Marshalltown and five other Midwest cities.

"It is important that my constituents in Iowa and all U.S. taxpayers know how their tax dollars are being spent," the Waterloo Democrat said in a letter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement Assistant Secretary Julie Myers.

Braley said it's important for federal immigration officials to be as transparent as possible when enforcement actions occur.

The congressman asked for a breakdown of ICE's expenses, including planning, execution, processing, detention and deportation costs. He also asked for the budgets of other cooperating agencies that assisted with the raids.

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