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Call The Cops At Your Own Risk

Posted on November 1, 2012 | Comments Off on Call The Cops At Your Own Risk

Not all the bad news is political. Things have also changed in your very neighborhood. The headline is the title of a good article here, with two revealing videos attached.

The first video is supposed to show how the cops will beat an innocent man bloody. Well, not exactly. To my eyes, we see a very stupid man resisting arrest for which he is beaten, certainly more than is necessary, but, after all, he started it.

The second video is much more impressive. It’s a 48-minute law school lecture, but it isn’t at all dry. Especially not because when the professor finishes he turns the podium over to a police detective who proceeds to underline everything the professor has said.

Which boils down to this: If you are involved in any way in a crime (even as the victim), do not ever talk to the cops. Stand on your Fifth Amendment right to remain silent. Only ask for the chance to contact a lawyer. And, if you have a choice in the matter, don’t summon the cops in the first place. Call the lawyer first, let the lawyer summon them.

The badge gang no longer exists to help you. If they ever did. Sad but true.

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Cooling out the mark

Posted on October 31, 2012 | Comments Off on Cooling out the mark

If you vote for Barry, then you are the mark that’s been cooled out, sucker.

“From the time it took office, the Obama administration has sought to suppress the very concept of a ‘war on terror’ or the terrorists’ war on us.

“The painful farce of calling the Fort Hood murders ‘workplace violence,’ instead of a terrorist attack in our midst, shows how far the Obama administration would go to downplay the dangers of Islamic extremist terrorism.

“The killing of Osama bin Laden fed the pretense that the terrorism threat had been beaten. But the terrorists’ attack in Libya exposed that fraud — and required another fraud to try to “cool out” the voters until after election day.”

And when it comes to perpetrating fraud, Barry’s your man.

Via a commenter at Neo-Neocon, which also has a good Fox News special report on Benghazi video. While the rest of Barry’s court media joins in “cooling the mark,” Fox is on the case.

UPDATE:  So is the Drudge Report, the sometimes shrill but always influential news source that, if you remember that far back as some of us do, broke the Slick Willie-Monica scandal open when Newsweak was sitting on it.

MORE: Iowahawk proves (once again) that mockery is the best medicine.

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Want more bad economy? You know what to do

Posted on October 31, 2012 | Comments Off on Want more bad economy? You know what to do

“With mischief like these regulations in mind, Mitt Romney said at the second debate, ‘I talk to small business across the country. They say, ‘We feel like we’re under attack from our own government.’ Denying that Obama is hostile to business, Democrats insist that his infamous taunt ‘You didn’t build that’ has to be taken in context. I agree. The context is his presidency.”

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Combat iPhone

Posted on October 30, 2012 | Comments Off on Combat iPhone

This is what happens to an iPhone when three cars run over it. They’re obviously not battle hardened. In case you thought they were. On the other hand, dig this: the owner got it working again!

“Well it turns out that other than making my earside speaker a little fuzzy, my iPhone was perfectly repairable. Thanks uBreakIFix. You guys rock.”

Via Cobb.

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There’s a wolf in my fiddle

Posted on October 29, 2012 | Comments Off on There’s a wolf in my fiddle

Not a live wolf. No more than the bow’s “frog” is a live frog. How could one possibly fit a real wolf inside something with no more depth than a cigar box? No, I mean a wolf tone, so called because it’s supposed to remind you of the animal howling.

Well, not exactly. Not even a crying Israeli jackal, actually. Mine, which occurs on my $500 rental beginner’s violin when I bow a C natural in first position on the A string, is more wispy. Like an intermittent breeze ruffling tree leaves if I were to sustain it past four beats, which I try not to. It’s become a phobia of mine now.

I’d noticed the wispy breeze for months, no matter what corrective I made to bow speed, fingering, shoulder movement, thumb-on-the-frog, etc. So, the other day while trying out some new $500 bows to replace my chunky $30 student fiberglass, which I seem to have outgrown, I asked the shop pro to check it out.

He did, including in a higher position. He said it was a probable wolf, i.e. a sympathetic artificial overtone which could be due to the string or to the spruce-maple combination of the wooden violin itself.

Which cements my previous intention to return this Eastman beginner’s instrument around my one-year beginner’s anniversary in December and buy a new step-up one. I’ll probably get another Eastman, a 405 for around $1,200. And new strings, maybe expensive Dominants. But, first, I’ll be sure to check that C natural. And hope I can say adieu to the wolf. Forever.

UPDATE:  Well, now, this fellow says: “On a good violin with the traditional bass bar you tend to have a wolf tone on the B natural or C natural above A 440.” And he adds that’s especially so on the A string. I’m not sure my rental qualifies as “good,” but the wolf is right there.

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Lots of blame to go around on Benghazigate

Posted on October 28, 2012 | Comments Off on Lots of blame to go around on Benghazigate

“Why did the National Security Council watch passively for seven hours while our ambassador and three other Americans died?”

Why, indeed? The Liar President couldn’t have let them die without help from all concerned, including the “workplace violence” (i.e. Fort Hood jihadi massacre) Pentagon. The Joint Chiefs of Staff  should resign, now!

UPDATE:  Fox News and the Christian Science Monitor are on the case. As Instapundit says: Remember, no one died in Watergate.

MORE: From military writer Bing West in National Review: “Fighter jets could have been at Benghazi in an hour; the commandos inside three hours,” Mr. West wrote.

“If the attackers were a mob, as intelligence reported, then an F-18 [Navy fighter jet] in afterburner, roaring like a lion, would unnerve them. This procedure was applied often in the Iraq and Afghanistan [campaigns]. Conversely, if the attackers were terrorists, then the U.S. commandos would eliminate them. But no forces were dispatched from Sigonella [Italy].”

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Slats and flaps

Posted on October 27, 2012 | Comments Off on Slats and flaps

Captain Dave not only is the kind of airline pilot that even someone who’s afraid of flying would enjoy flying with, he can also write really well. And this piece, probably tossed off with a minimum of rewriting at his Flight Level 390 blog (subtitle: America from the flight deck), is one of his best.

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