First, Jack White from The White Stripes:
And next, Foghat:
Slide guitar doesn’t get any better than this. Or does it?
How about Mississippi Fred McDowell?
And how about ZZ Top?
And there you go. Guitar classicists.
BZ
From TheBlaze.com:
Aug. 13, 2013 10:28am, by
SIERRA VISTA, Arizona — Cochise County Sheriff Mark Dannels doesn’t mince words. He’s angry that local law enforcement and the citizens who call the Southwest border home have been left out of the decision making process when it comes to security and immigration reform.
Dannels has lived along the border since 1984. He remembers when the dangers from smugglers circumventing the rocky, mountainous terrain were few and far between. Now, he says, a different breed of narcotics traffickers has amassed weapons, technology and small armies of death; threatening not only the stability of Mexico but U.S. national security as well. He works closely with DEA, FBI, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement but the system is not perfect.
It’s no secret that the Mexican drug runners and human traffickers have gotten infinitely more organized, better funded, better armed and more violent. Automatic weapons are the norm, as are grenades and explosives.
The photographs, which of course I have not “made up” or Photoshopped as perhaps Leftists would accuse, speak for themselves regarding the naked savagery of Mexican cartels. You need to see this. The American public needs to see this.
Sitting at a local eatery under the shadow of the Huachuca Mountains, he questioned how much time, if any, the law makers who drafted SB 774 – known as the ”Gang of Eight” bill — had actually spent on the border. Dannels, along with residents living on the Southwest border and local senior law enforcement officials told TheBlaze on a recent trip to Arizona that they were left out of the decision making process on border security. They say the Gang of Eight bill just isn’t good enough when it comes to addressing the complex security issues they deal with every day.
And that is the entire point. Border Sheriffs and Chiefs of Police must deal with the violence and incursions every day, every hour. It never stops. It never takes a pause.
“Look at (Sen. Marco) Rubio out of Florida — have you been down here, Rubio?” he said, noting that drug cartels had just replaced a radio relay station on the mountain that the sheriff’s team had taken down less than three weeks earlier.
A radio relay station which helps cartel soldiers speak to each other via radio relay towers. Yes. The cartels have their OWN radio towers on OUR soil.
The Sinaloa Cartel, one of Mexico’s most powerful drug organizations, uses the ”receiver/transmitter to extend their communication footprint between Mexico and the Huachuca mountains,” a U.S. Intelligence official, familiar with the terrain, told TheBlaze. It’s how they stay ahead of law enforcement and keep track of their contraband, the official added.
Home invasions, burglary, theft, destruction of private property — and a constant fear that it’s only going to get worse — is something Cochise County border residents live with daily.
Home invasion burglaries and robberies, kidnappings, theft, destruction of AMERICAN private property — these are the things that American citizens have to tolerate every day, every hour. It never stops. It never takes a pause.
“I say to myself, ‘Rubio, you’re making decisions for me, for my state, for my county, my city when you haven’t even been here – what an insult, what do you know about our border? You know nothing about our border. Yet you’re making those decisions without even speaking to us.’”
Rubio’s office did not return phone calls seeking comment.
Imagine that. No returned telephone calls.
Ranchers and law enforcement agents in Arizona told TheBlaze they don’t trust that anyone in Washington understands how serious the security issues are, especially with the growing power of Mexican drug cartels operating on the border.
Again, DC politicians — and there isn’t much more than a dime’s difference between the Demorats and the Old Staid Republicans — operating and issuing their own orders, laws and acts in a vacuum that is purposely held in arrogance and ignorance.
Sheriff Dannels sums up:
“You can understand why the citizens of Cochise county are upset, they detoured the drug cartels right into their backyards,” Dannels said. ”I say it everyday…on the federal side- you created it, you solve it. You need to redefine your plan of the 90s, and don’t put a maintenance key on border security until that’s done and I stand strongly on that.”
But: not only won’t the federal government “solve it,” they refuse to let anyone else even try.
I recommend you look at these ugly photographs once again. Because that is what you are defending your border against. That is: those things normalizing here.
BZ
From Breitbart.com:
DiGenova represents Benghazi whistleblower Mark Thompson. He told WMAL that he “does not know whether [the missiles] were at the annex, but it is clear the annex was somehow involved in the distribution of those missiles.”
He claimed his information “comes from a former intelligence official who stayed in constant contact with people in the special ops and intelligence community.” He said the biggest concern right now is finding those missiles before they can be put to use. “They are worried, specifically according to these sources, about an attempt to shoot down an airliner,” he claimed.
Is this the unspoken nasty secret surrounding Benghazi and the reason the current administration thinks those four deaths mean nothing? And why they’ll do anything to cover it up and minimize it to their best extent?
Perhaps this paragraph will shed some light:
Months earlier, following then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s February 7 testimony on Capitol Hill about the Benghazi attacks, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) suggested that one of the causes behind the terrorist attack “may have been that there was a gun running operation going on in Benghazi, leaving Libya and going to Turkey and [distributing] arms to the [Syrian] rebels.”
As may perhaps my previous posts here and here and here and here.
But no one seems to care.
Which tells me one thing: never work for the federal government. Your death means nothing.
BZ
From the gay newspaper, FrontiersLA.com, and from an Equality California press release:
Today, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the historic School Success and Opportunity Act into law, ensuring transgender youth have the opportunity to fully participate and succeed in schools across the state. Assembly Bill 1266, authored by Assemblymember Tom Ammiano, passed the California State Senate and Assembly earlier this summer. The bill is the first of its kind in the country, and requires that California public schools respect students’ gender identity and makes sure that students can fully participate in all school activities, sports teams, programs and facilities that match their gender identity.
The new law builds on a national movement to end discriminatory practices and ensure transgender youth have the same opportunity to succeed as other students. Massachusetts and Colorado have statewide policies in line with AB 1266, and the Colorado and Maine state human rights commissions have held that state law requires schools to respect students’ gender identity. Additionally, many school districts across the country have adopted policies that ensure no student is left out, including the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second largest school district.
A wonderful day, yes?
But where are any references to details? What will AB 1266 actually allow or mandate?
From FreeRepublic.com:
Essentially, Bill 1266, brought to the floor by Sen. Mark Leno and Tom Amianno, means any California student can use any bathroom they wish, regardless of their ‘birth gender’ on record.
1266 also means sports team positions and locker rooms must be open to all genders. This bill does not require a student to get a doctors’ note declaring the student is Transgender, and therefore, needing to be treated as a particular gender. Students of today can say, “we don’t need no stinkin’ notes.”
No, the student can simply declare on his or her own that as of today, I am male, female, transgender, asexual, poly-gendered, pan-gendered. Pronouns too, we will be forced to maintain the fiction of calling a he a she if that is the wish of the day.
Further: their wishes can change at the drop of a hat, mood-dependent.
Your female elementary school child may find Bobby coming out of the boy’s bathroom on Wednesday, and on Thursday find Bobby, now enamored of the name Roberta, in the stall right next to her. All completely legal, now.
I shite thee not.
And what if a given school decides to cancel this foolishness? You can bet it will be subject to lawsuits on every level: local, state and federal — and subject to the removal of funding from any number of sources.
The text of AB 1266 is here. The Pacific Justice Institute responds here and in snippets below:
Sacramento, CA– In a disappointing course of events, California Governor Jerry Brown signed AB 1266, the School Bathroom Bill, into law today. This law requires California public schools to allow students to use bathrooms, showers, locker rooms, and other facilities based on their “gender identity” and not biological sex.
Brad Dacus, President of Pacific Justice institute said, “We at Pacific Justice Institute stand ready and willing to defend anyone who will be victimized as a result of this new law. That includes someone whose privacy rights are violated in the bathroom, in the locker room, in the showers, or someone who is prevented from playing on a sports team because someone from the opposite gender took their place.”
Those whose rights are violated by thew new law are encouraged to contact Pacific Justice Institute for proper defense.
PJI has lead the opposition to AB1266 throughout its stint in the legislature, and also created GenderInsanity.com as a focal point for the opposition. PJI staff attorney Matthew McReynolds also testified in both houses of the legislature in opposition to the bill.
But, as I am customarily wont to do, I posit: what is the Logical Extension from this? I respond: the same for public restrooms throughout the entire state, and this will occur within, I submit, the next two years. The doors have, literally been opened, and precedent has been set.
You’ll have male pedophiles in the women’s bathroom in disguise covered by the law, waiting to view young girls au naturale. And that’s just to start. They can’t wait.
A few scenarios from GenderInsanity.com:
– Imagine your 12 year-old son goes on an overnight camping trip with the Boy Scouts. The Scout troop leader nervously tells you that one of their newest members has been assigned to his tent, and even though she has lived most of her life as a girl, everyone needs to treat her like just another Boy Scout, since that’s now what she wants and “it’s the law.”
– Finally, think about your teenage daughter . . . a star athlete whose basketball team is poised to make a deep run in the playoffs. Until, you learn, their main rival has recruited a hulking center who decided he could break more records and block more shots by identifying as a girl.
The Olympics writ small and, now, directly in your face.
Some information for all:
Through numerous case studies, the Department of Justice has developed characteristics and behavioral indicators of a pedophile. They are as follows:
Ladies and gentlemen, the door is now open.
Let the predation commence.
BZ
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