That the IRS was paying an outside vendor to back up emails from IRS employees.

If congress really wants to get to the bottom of this (which I am beginning to doubt, suspecting that the whole Faux Outrage is just for show) all they have to do is subpoena the company’s data. Simple to do, and if THEY (SonaSoft) have lost the data, then we all will know for sure that there is a coverup. There can be only so many coincidences….

Were I the president of SonaSoft, I’d have already pulled the appropriate emails and would have them sitting in a thumb drive waiting for the appropriate parties to request them. (or I’d be waiting for my truckload of used bills to be delivered to my bank account in Geneva….)

If Congress chooses not to subpoena the emails from the backup company, SonaSoft, then we all will know that we are being played…and that Ryan and his ilk are as much a part of things as Obama and Lerner.

Which opens up a whole shitload of other options.

Lampposts, ropes, cartridge boxes, Rails, tar and feathers, these are a few of the things I dream about….

Perhaps it is time we watered a tree.….

The alternatives, for both us and those who follow us, are worse that what could happen if that tree is watered.

Think they are a waste of money? Most people do.

Now they are a greater waste of money.

Fees to double for most air travelers

Hey, someone has to pay for those big buildings for all those administrative workers at TSA headquarters and all those VIPR teams at bus stations and such.

So now you get to pay more for ineffective security that you don’t want anyway.

Because “Safety”.

Just what the fuck are you gonna do about it, Mr Ryan and Congress?

JUST WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT THE IRS?

Are you going to start charging people with impeding an investigation?

With destroying evidence?

Lying to congress?

Conspiracy in all of the above?

You are a bunch of useless blowhards…unless people START BEING ARRESTED AND BEING PUT IN PRISON FOR THESE OFFENSES TO THE CITIZENS OF THESE UNITED STATES.

All of you bloviating, you words, your faux outrage mean NOTING until you start putting people in jail.

When does that start?

Well, We’re waitng….

Cop or not. Slitting the throat of a dog?

And, apparently, at this time, No longer a cop.

Which is good, sorta. Thing is, how did a person like this ever become a cop. How did his fellow cops not see the psychopath inside him? And if they did, then how was he still a cop?

I know, the Blue Line/Blue Wall….Which is why the police aren’t respected anymore.

I’m not trying to bash cops here…thousands of cops did everything right yesterday, harmed no one, and treated everyone they met well.

But how is it that a cop could do this?

’cause he didn’t have any….so how can they get it if it was never there?

I mean, they never existed.

Ever.

Unless they went to Syria before the war….

“Bush lied” and all that

So how can they “seize Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons stockpile” if it doesn’t exist?

See HERE for an interesting post about the feds soliciting bids for escorts for unaccompanied alien children to be taken to regional shelters.

Things that make ya go HMMM?

I have no way to verify this, one way or another, so I don’t know….But it fits. Fits with the Fast and Furious debacle, fits with so many other Obama methods that are designed to make a statement for the press that can be used to convince the generally un informed public to go along with the proposed solution.

You decide.

HT Golden Goose

SO if the US Patent and Trademark office can, arbitrarily, decide to renege on the protections that are basic to a trademark, can they also do so with a patent, just because a political figure chooses to lend his support to having those protections removed? Especially because some group of people feels that the name is offensive to them? Can they decide that a patent is also null and void because some group whines loudly enough?

Really, this is again a destruction of our laws and protections that we have used for over 200 years.

How can we allow such heavy handed actions?

Look, I am sorry that the Native Americans don’t like the name “Redskins” and the associated logo. However, no one says that they have to like it, nor do they get priority in the law over the owner of the trademarked logo and name. Nowhere in our constitution is there a right to not be offended.

No, I mean, really hot. Like 15,000 CPM hot, according to my geiger counter.

I went in this morning for a cardiac stress test. Never had one before. I had heard stories about how bad (how hard) it was. to take the test, but I didn’t find it that bad.

So first hard part was “no caffeine for 24 hours”!!!! Luckily, all the people I encountered this morning were either pleasant or just stayed away from me, so no deaths or anything like that.

Then I get to the testing center and I am injected with Technetium-99 and we wait while it is distributed in my bloodstream.They handled this in lead cases and lead sheilded syringes and told me it was pretty “hot”…I asked a”how hot” and they said that for up to 2 days I could set off radiation detectors if I were close enough.(actually not, as with a 6 hour half life, it is all gone in about 60 hours (10 half lifes), or 2.5 days)

I then laid down and had some sort of computer controlled 3 dimensional photography while I am laying quietly. Then I am hooked up to a 6 lead electrocardiogram device and put on a treadmill.

Now I had heard horror stories about the treadmill test: that it was horrific torture and that the testing technicians pushed people into near death in order to stress the heart. I did not find it so.

I have a resting heart rate of 67. I went up to nearly 4 times that over a 10 minute period, holding it there for the last 3. While I was out of breath, It wasn’t that bad. I work harder that that most weekends. The machine said I was doing 13 times my resting metabolic rate. My blood pressure never went above 160/110.

While I did start to sweat and breathe hard, I never was feeling like I was working THAT hard, although my pulse rate did get to over 180 + (peaking at 224) for the last three minutes or so.

Anyway, they let me go for a few hours before returning for more photographs.

I couldn’t resist the urge to go home and get out my CDV 700 (you have a Geiger counter, don’t you?) and see how “hot” I was.

I pulled it out of storage and put batteries in it, turned it on and found that I was half scale on the high range. 15,000 CPM or 25 mR/hr. (I actually fired up both of them, one calibrated recently, one not, and found that they both read nearly identically.)  Pretty hot. Hot enough to find mid scale on my CDV 715 on the lowest scale (0.1). Pretty active, really. Hot enough to trigger the (minimal) warning chirp on my NukAlert.  And I will be for awhile with a half life of 6 hours.

I can’t wait to see if I glow in the dark.

ETA: If I figured it correctly, I had about 2350 Banana Equivalent Doses. 

I don’t owe you anything. Not my time, my money, or my vote. I don’t care how bad things get, or how awful the policies of the Democrats are–and trust me, I fully understand how awful they are. I’m not required to support any of your politicians just because they have an “R” next to their name, or shut my mouth about the things I believe strongly about, just to ensure your victory on election day. In fact, I’m not even obligated to contribute to your victory.

Read it all.

Doubt the GOP leadership will listen though. They have their agenda, and it isn’t mine, and I doubt it is your either.

There are those who say that voting for the lesser of the two weasels is still the best choice. I disagree. That is what got us here in the first place.