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This isn’t going to go away for the Obama administration. The President’s gaffe…”You didn’t build it, someone else did” is going to remain a major theme from now until the elections on November 6th. From The Hill;

The Republican National Committee (RNC) sent the Democratic National Committee (DNC) a birthday cake on Friday, but the DNC sent it back.

The cake read “you didn’t bake this” over a picture of President Obama. Text written in icing reads, “Happy birthday, Mr. President.” The cake marks the occasion of the president’s birthday, which is Saturday, with a play on the “you didn’t build that” controversy.

“If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen,” Obama told a crowd last month. “The point is, when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative but also because we do things together.”

Republicans revolted over the line…

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A musical tribute to Adam Smith Chick-fil-A

Reblogged from http://www.boudica.us/weblog.html  Take this viral.

Just for kicks, all of you heterosexuals who support gay marriage, join your friends at the kiss-in and sexually kiss a member of the same sex.  Any takers???  How about you Mr. Smith, you seem like a “take the bulls by the horns” kind of guy, care to lead?  – Phoebe

DFU SING-ALONG: Adam Smith – Chick-Fil-A Bully

Chick-fil-A ‘kiss’ day marred by ‘Tastes like hate’ graffiti

August 3, 2012

On a day that some gay-rights activists are planning a “National Same-Sex Kiss Day,” a Chick-fil-A in Torrance was vandalized overnight with hateful graffiti.

Chick-fil-A employees were greeted Fridays morning with the words “Tastes like hate” scrawled in large black lettering mimicking the chain’s advertising across the back wall of the restaurant at 182nd Street and Hawthorne Boulevard in Torrance.

With media helicopters hovering overhead and police officers on the scene, one employee said, “I’m just trying to sort everything out.”

 

Chick-fil-A has been at the center of media scrutiny and public debate ever since the company’s president publicly expressed his opposition to same-sex marriage.

On Friday, some gay-rights activists are encouraging same-sex couples to go one of the chicken restaurant’s locations and take a photo or video of themselves kissing.

It remains unclear whether this protest will generate the huge crowds that turned out Wednesday for “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day,” when tens of thousands waited through long lines in a show of support for the executive.

 

The privately held company declined to give specific sales figures but released a statement to the Los Angeles Times confirming that frenzied sales of chicken sandwiches and cross-cut waffle fries had made for a record-setting day.

“We are very grateful and humbled by the incredible turnout of loyal Chick-fil-A customers on August 1 at Chick-fil-A restaurants around the country,” said Steve Robinson, executive vice president of marketing, in the statement. “While we don’t release exact sales numbers, we can confirm reports that it was a record-setting day.”

Newport Beach resident Ian Conger cited both business and religious reasons for dining Wednesday at the relatively new Costa Mesa location.

“This company is family-owned, and they’re putting their money where they want to, and that’s their right,” he said. “Nobody should tell someone how they should spend their money. God is very good to my wife and I, and I feel God’s going to be with us through this and he’ll be with the opposer as well. He doesn’t hate anybody.”

Will Ferrell breaks down on Conan O’Brien show

Will Ferrell broke down on ‘Conan’ Thursday night. The star of the upcoming film ‘The Campaign’ was preoccupied with another set of movie stars, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. Ferrell was unable to stay his tears as he described the pain he felt for the pain that Pattinson and Stewart must feel as their fairytale romance has been rocked by Stewart’s admitted affair with the director of her previous film. Despite Conan O’Brien’s repeated attempts to calm the usually unflappable funnyman, Ferrell could not be consoled, proof that Stewart’s affair has hurt not only those involved, but those who who loved their unmatchable love, too.

 

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Court Upholds Domestic Drone Use in Arrest of American Citizen

 

A motion to dismiss charges based on the use of a Predator drone was denied Wednesday

By Jason Koebler

August 2, 2012

A North Dakota court has preliminarily upheld the first-ever use of an unmanned drone to assist in the arrest of an American citizen.

A judge denied a request to dismiss charges Wednesday against Rodney Brossart, a man arrested last year after a 16-hour standoff with police at his Lakota, N.D., ranch. Brossart’s lawyer argued that law enforcement’s “warrantless use of [an] unmanned military-like surveillance aircraft” and “outrageous governmental conduct” warranted dismissal of the case, according to court documents obtained by U.S. News.

[Photo Gallery: The Expansion of the Drone]

District Judge Joel Medd wrote that “there was no improper use of an unmanned aerial vehicle” and that the drone “appears to have had no bearing on these charges being contested here,” according to the documents.

Court records state that last June, six cows wandered onto Brossart’s 3,000 acre farm, about 60 miles west of Grand Forks. Brossart allegedly refused to return the cows, which led to a long, armed standoff with the Grand Forks police department. At some point during the standoff, Homeland Security, through an agreement with local police, offered up the use of an unmanned predator drone, which “was used for surveillance,” according to the court documents.

Grand Forks SWAT team chief Bill Macki said in an interview that the drone was used to ensure Brossart and his family members, who were also charged, didn’t leave the farm and were unarmed during the arresting raid.

[FAA Releases List of Registered Drone Operators]

Brossart faces felony terrorizing and theft of property charges and a misdemeanor criminal mischief charge. Although his charges weren’t dismissed, Brossart won a motion to move the trial from Nelson County—which has a population of 3,100—to nearby Grand Forks County.

Brossart is believed to be the only American citizen who was arrested with the assistance of a drone on U.S. soil. John Villasenor, of the Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institution, says the legality of domestic drone use likely stems from two Supreme Court cases that allow police to use “public, navigable airspace” for evidence gathering.

Domestic drone use has become a controversial topic over the past several months, with Congress directing the Federal Aviation Administration to devise guidelines for proper drone use.

[The Coming Drone Revolution: What You Should Know]

Wednesday, Massachusetts Democrat Rep. Edward Markey released a draft of a bill that would require private drone operators to inform the government of any data collected by drones and would require law enforcement to “minimize the collection … of information and data unrelated to the investigation of a crime.”

States are “increasingly using unmanned aircraft systems in the United States, including deployments for law enforcement operations,” according to the bill. There “is the potential for unmanned aircraft system technology to enable invasive and pervasive surveillance without adequate privacy protections.”

In April, Brossart told U.S. News that he thought the SWAT team use of the drone was “definitely” illegal. Some estimates suggest that there may be as many as 30,000 unmanned drones operated in the United States by 2020 for uses such as wildfire containment and surveillance, law enforcement, and surveying.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/08/02/court-upholds-domestic-drone-use-in-arrest-of-american-citizen

 

This is what you call cruise-r control

Vermont farmer angry over pot arrest is accused of crushing cop cars with tractor

 

MONTPELIER, Vt. –  Working in a stout former bank building with windows closed and air conditioners humming, Orleans County sheriff’s deputies didn’t know what was happening in their parking lot until a neighbor called 911.

A man on a big farm tractor, angry about his recent arrest for resisting arrest and marijuana possession, was rolling across their vehicles — five marked cruisers, one unmarked car and a transport van.

By the time they ran outside, the tractor was down the driveway and out onto the road.

With their vehicles crushed, “We had nothing to pursue him with,” said Chief Deputy Philip Brooks.

Thursday afternoon’s incident ended when city police in Newport, the county seat of the northern Vermont county, caught up with Roger Pion, 34, a short distance away.

No one was injured. At least two deputies had gone inside a few moments before after washing their vehicles, officials said.

“Nobody was hurt. That’s the thing everybody’s got to cherish,” said Sheriff Kirk Martin.

Brooks said late Thursday afternoon it was uncertain what new charges Pion would face. He said Pion was being held by the Vermont State Police at their barracks in nearby Derby. A dispatcher there referred questions to the sheriff’s department.

Sheriffs said they did not know if Pion had a lawyer. A phone number for him could not be located.

Martin estimated damage to the vehicles at more than $300,000. Not only were their roofs and hoods caved in, “the radios are ruined, the radar detectors, the cages in the cars … We’re going to have to get the jaws of life up here to pry the trunks open and see about the rifles and shotguns,” Martin said.

Brooks said the vehicles destroyed constituted more than half the fleet of sheriff’s cruisers in the rural county on the Canadian border. Others were out on patrol at the time of the incident.

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