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Disgraceful: Arlington Graves Stripped Of Personal Mementos
Honoring Dead From Iraq, Afghanistan

(Utterly disgraceful.  Although this was apparently a policy, it had been long ignored.  Many families were unaware of it and had not been told.  Precious mementos of their loved ones were thrown in the trash.  As our Vets march to be able to access their own memorials at the #1MVetMarch, the indignities done to them and to their families continue)


Via Daily Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2451626/Arlington-graves-stripped-personal-momentoes-controversial-clean-up.html


The carefully-chosen mementos that cover graves in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery offer a deeply personal glimpse into the lives of grieving military families.

These reminders have now been scrubbed away following a new policy which has banned family and friends from placing tributes on the graves.

Headstones have been stripped of photos, drawings and poignant notes, in particular those in Section 60, home to the graves of more than 800 service members killed while doing their duty in Iraq and Afghanistan.

An Arlington spokesman said they were responding to complaints that the cemetery was looking too disorderly, and said the section needed to follow the same rules as the rest of the site.

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More Pictures from the #1MVetMarch

Ted Cruz showed up

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A reliable program gone hay wire and Wal-Mart taking advantage of it for the name of profit.
Good job everyone. And if Obama Care goes the same way, what then?

This is a about the poor being greedy, what happens when the rich get greedy with Obama Care?
Ian'there enough fraud with Medicare and Medicade?


http://gma.yahoo.com/walmart-shelves-emptied-food-stamp-shopping-spree-171042474--abc-news-topstories.html

[Ross]

http://freepatriot.org/2013/10/14/obama-administration-plants-seeds-doubt-christian-ministry-defined-hate-group/

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Nitwit Piers Morgan Gets Back on Gun Soap Box

Dingy Piers Morgan squares off with Alan Gottlieb on 'Guns Save Lives Day'

(CNN can't cancel this CLOWN'S show fast enough)

BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff
October 14, 2013 10:41 pm
http://freebeacon.com/morgan-guns-saves-lives-day-one-of-the-most-disgusting-things-ive-ever-had-to-witness/

CNN host Piers Morgan had a shout filled interview over gun control with the founder of Guns Save Lives Day Alan Gottlieb Monday evening.

The pro gun safety organization situated their event around the anniversary of the Newtown shooting to counter gun control activists who will co-opt the day to advance their partisan agenda, Gottlieb said.

Morgan reacted with predictable indignation, as he often does with anything relating to gun control.

The CNN host concluded the interview by declaring Guns Save Lives Day is "one of the most disgusting things I've ever had to witness":

PIERS MORGAN: Let me leave with a final word from Shannon Watz of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America –

ALAN GOTTLIEB: Another gun control group.

MORGAN: Gun safety is a better phrase, isn't it Mr. Gottlieb?

GOTTLIEB: No, "gun safety" is a misnomer, these people have never even shot a gun, they've never even been trained for safety.

MORGAN: I've shot an AR-15.

GOTTLIEB: Go to a gun range and train for safety.

MORGAN: Mr. Gottlieb if you would just let me read what she said. "American mothers will not allow a depraved vocal minority to sully or smear the memory of the victims of Sandy Hook." Let me just say to you Mr. Gottlieb, what you did –

GOTTLIEB: Nobody is smearing any memories, my heart goes out to them to every victim of any kind of violence.

MORGAN: What you did, Mr. Gottlieb in launching this campaign on the first anniversary of Sandy Hook is of the most disgusting I have had to witness ever witnessed and you should be ashamed of yourself.

GOTTLIEB: But your 50, 60, 70 anti-gun shows that you've done picking on the rights of gun owners is not disgusting, not picking on or polarizing anything, OK right? It's OK for you to do it but it's not ok for anyone else.

MORGAN: All right I've had enough of you. We're moving on.

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Obumacare's Website Crashing Because It Doesn't Want You To Know Expensive The Plans Are, Creates "Traffic Bottleneck" By Forcing Users To Create Account Before Seeing Prices

(Even better, HHS knew beforehand this would slow the exchange
website down considerably but went with it anyway)

Via Forbes:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/10/14/obamacares-website-is-crashing-because-it-doesnt-want-you-to-know-health-plans-true-costs/

A growing consensus of IT experts, outside and inside the government, have figured out a principal reason why the website for Obamacare's federally-sponsored insurance exchange is crashing. Healthcare.gov forces you to create an account and enter detailed personal information before you can start shopping. This, in turn, creates a massive traffic bottleneck, as the government verifies your information and decides whether or not you're eligible for subsidies. HHS bureaucrats knew this would make the website run more slowly. But they were more afraid that letting people see the underlying cost of Obamacare's insurance plans would scare people away.

"Healthcare.gov was initially going to include an option to browse before registering," report Christopher Weaver and Louise Radnofsky in the Wall Street Journal. "But that tool was delayed, people familiar with the situation said." Why was it delayed? "An HHS spokeswoman said the agency wanted to ensure that users were aware of their eligibility for subsidies that could help pay for coverage, before they started seeing the prices of policies."

As you know if you've been following this space, Obamacare's bevy of mandates, regulations, taxes, and fees drives up the cost of the insurance plans that are offered under the law's public exchanges. A Manhattan Institute analysis I helped conduct found that, on average, the cheapest plan offered in a given state, under Obamacare, will be 99 percent more expensive for men, and 62 percent more expensive for women, than the cheapest plan offered under the old system. And those disparities are even wider for healthy people.

That raises an obvious question. If 50 million people are uninsured today, mainly because insurance is too expensive, why is it better to make coverage even costlier?

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NSA Collecting 500,000 Contacts From
Your Online 'Buddy Lists' Each Day

(Lying SackOfSh!t Obama said last June that the NSA's email collecting program "does not apply to U.S. citizens."  Privacy advocate Senator Barack ObuttHead unavailable for comment)

Via Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-collects-millions-of-e-mail-address-books-globally/2013/10/14/8e58b5be-34f9-11e3-80c6-7e6dd8d22d8f_print.html

The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans, according to senior intelligence officials and top secret documents provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

The collection program, which has not been disclosed before, intercepts e-mail address books and "buddy lists" from instant messaging services as they move across global data links. Online services often transmit those contacts when a user logs on, composes a message, or synchronizes a computer or mobile device with information stored on remote servers.

Rather than targeting individual users, the NSA is gathering contact lists in large numbers that amount to a sizable fraction of the world's e-mail and instant messaging accounts. Analysis of that data enables the agency to search for hidden connections and map relationships within a much smaller universe of foreign intelligence targets.

During a single day last year, the NSA's Special Source Operations branch collected 444,743 e-mail address books from Yahoo, 105,068 from Hotmail, 82,857 from Facebook, 33,697 from Gmail and 22,881 from unspecified other providers, according to an internal NSA PowerPoint presentation. Those figures, described as a typical daily intake in the document, correspond to a rate of more than 250 million per year.
http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/the-nsas-overcollection-problem/517/

Each day, the presentation said, the NSA collects contacts from an estimated 500,000 buddy lists on live-chat services as well as from the "in-box" displays of Web-based e-mail accounts.

The collection depends on secret arrangements with foreign telecommunications companies or allied intelligence services in control of facilities that direct traffic along the Internet's main data routes.

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PETA Wants Redskins To Change Their "Racist" Logo To A Potato

http://www.peta.org/b/thepetafiles/archive/2013/10/11/Washington-Redskins.aspx

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OUTRAGEOUS! U.S. Army Lieutenant Sentenced To 20 Years In Ft. Leavenworth For Killing Taliban Scouts Helping To Set Up Ambush of His Platoon

(Sickening beyond words)

Via Allen West:
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/allen-west-out-foxhole/2013/oct/14/more-outrageous-treatment-our-military/#ixzz2hjUCHLaL

If the fact that the Obama Administration has blocked aging veterans from visiting the World War II memorial and denied death gratuity benefits for fallen warriors doesn't seem to indicate contempt for our military, how about this most recent story?

Army First Lieutenant Clint Lorance, a 28-year-old combat leader in the 82d Airborne Division from Celeste, Texas was recently found guilty of two counts of murder in Afghanistan and sentenced to 20 years in Ft. Leavenworth.

The story of First Lieutenant Lorance has not been covered by a single major media source.

In July 2012, Lorance was ordered to take command of a platoon in the southern Afghanistan province of Kandahar, a region where I also spent two and a half years training and advising the Afghan National Army. The platoon Lorance now commanded had lost its previous leader to enemy attack.

During a patrol in enemy territory, Lorance ordered a marksman to engage two unarmed Taliban fighters on a motorcycle operating as scout spotters.

In Afghanistan and Iraq, a common enemy tactic is for unarmed fighters on motorcycles with cell phones to track unit movements. In fact, enemy combatants had previously used the tactics against this same platoon.

Lorance, who was operating in a combat zone, saw the scout spotters and assessed them as a threat to his platoon. Aerial surveillance later backed up Lorance's on-the-ground assessment.

It seems obvious that enemy scouts reporting a unit position and movements in order to facilitate an ambush would define "hostile intent." But not according to the watered-down Rules of Engagement with which our warriors must contend.

In little more than a year, First Lieutenant Lorance was tried and sentenced to prison. Swift justice to be sure, but why then did it take four years to try and convict Nidal Malik Hasan, who fatally shot 13 and wounded more than 30 during his 2009 rampage at Ft Hood Texas?

The irony of the dilemma currently facing our troops, those who have volunteered to protect and defend our freedoms, is appalling. Shall they fight and kill the enemy but then risk imprisonment because of insidious rules by lawyers?

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Oooops...Syrian Jihadist Rebel Blows Himself Up
Trying To Fire A Recoilless Rifle