Theo Spark

Tuesday, 11 June 2013

Tuesday Totty..............

Monday, 10 June 2013

H/T DJ Elliott

Who's Your Daddy?.......................from Dan Friedman

"Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.!"

--President Barack Obama's commencement address to the graduating class of Ohio State University on May 5, 2013.

H/T: People's Cube

Working Off the Pregnancy Pounds: Holly Madison Busts Out some Cleavage in Skimpy Crop Top and Tiny Running Shorts

Hey, at least she's getting out there for a run. I've been slacking!

See, "Holly Madison Goes For Saturday Morning Run in Sporty Pink Crop Top and Tiny Grey Athletic Shorts."

Lots of breast photos at the link.

Bedtime Totty..............

Girl Molding Her Torso For Ballistics Gel

Bonus Totty.................

The Kid From Brooklyn and San Fran Airport cleansing stations! (Video NSFW)...from TPC

At San Francisco Airport cleansing stations have been installed to accommodate the religious needs of Muslim cab drivers.

Around the country, however, the right to simply use the word Christmas has been denied to Christians. Why one and not the other?

At The Political Commentator here. (NSFW video)

News.........................

An Unfaithful Bremerton Sailor

BLACKFIVE: NSA leaker "trained" to be Special Forces

Sikorsky to Build CH-53K Operational Test Helicopters for US Navy

Spain: Sorry about this, but some of these renewable-energies subsidies have got to go

Idaho Republican's exit worries immigration advocates

Bob Rasmussen is a true 'Renaissance Man'

NASA's biggest rocket yet aims for 2017 test flight

Al- Maliki: Halabja Deserves to be a Separate Province

Army brigade defects in disputed territories

First Carrier Countermeasure Anti-Torpedo Launched

BLACKFIVE: A Grim Reading of the Recent Intelligence Scandals

Security clearances held by millions of Americans

Local doctor says coconut oil helps reduce symptoms of Alzheimer's disease

More Golf for the President

Why is it 'sexist' to state the obvious about women doctors?

First clash between Syrian rebels and Iraqi soldiers. Baghdad bankrolls Assad’s war

The Radicalization of Palestinians Kerry Has Not Heard About

Understanding the Turkish Demonstrations

Intelligence Report: Number of Islamists in Germany Grows

Danger in 3-D: The Rapid Spread of Printable Pistols

Gender Politics Return: Germany's Rebellious New Feminists

Taliban mount complex attack against Kabul airport

LCS: The US Navy’s High-Value Skirmisher

It’s Official… China’s Coming to RIMPAC

Syria: Assad forces massing for major assault on Aleppo

Pic Dump..................

SPITFIRE 944..........................

In 2005, an 83 year-old World War II pilot is surprised to see 16mm footage of his 1944 Spitfire crash for the first time.

H/T 45 Govt

A Woman of Valor..................from Dan Friedman

When writer and Zionist patriot Caroline Glick spoke in New York at the J Post conference on April 29, her message was somewhat overshadowed by her public contretemps with Alan Dershowitz. Now a video of Glick’s entire address has been posted on her blog without any distractions. I urge you to watch it from beginning to end

Overnight News...............

Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.. - Stray voltage

Vermont decriminalizes pot sort of

Secretive U.S. panel eyes China's Smithfield deal

Dallas - Fort Worth now a 'command and control' center for Mexican cartels

Jordan Jittery as Assad Troops Advance

States with the Most Government Benefits

Wealthy turn hedge funds into family offices

Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.. - Clearly...

Global warming caused by CFCs, not carbon dioxide, study says

Government likely to open criminal probe into NSA leaks: officials

Boxer Alfredo Angulo suffers gruesome, fight-ending injury

So - why can NO-ONE remember Obama at Columbia?

Japanese troops head to Calif. beach for training

Pictures: Impeach Illegal Obama Protest On I-5 Overpass Snarls Traffic; Camp Pendleton

Argghhh! The Home Of Two Of Jonah's Military Guys.. - Indeed

Calif. law: Full military regalia is OK

Will Europe Save Itself?...................from Dan Friedman

Gates of Vienna, June 9, 2013

A message of hope. Below is the text of the speech given by Geert Wilders to the American Freedom Association in Los Angeles today.

The Resurgence of National Pride and the Future of Europe

Speech by Geert Wilders
Los Angeles, June 9, 2013

Dear friends, thank you for inviting me to Los Angeles. I always like coming to the United States. There are many things that I admire Americans for. One of them is that they are unashamedly patriotic.

Prince Harry Displays Apache Cosford 2013

The Army Air Corps Apache Attack Helicopter Display Team displaying at RAF Cosford Airshow 2013.

Captain Wales (Prince Harry) was front seat co-pilot gunner for the display, pilot was Staff Sergeant Jamie Boakes.

But Words Will Never Hurt Me

Monday Mopsies................

Forget the Surveillance Sunday Rule 5

Wow, what a roundup!

See, "Here's Some Alice Goodwin Rule 5 to Take Your Mind Off #NSA Surveillance."

A great set of babe-blogging hotties.

Bazongas!

Sunday, 9 June 2013

Bedtime Totty..............

LFL | USA | Season 4 | Game 10 | Jacksonville Breeze vs. Omaha Heart

H/T DJ Elliott

Bonus Totty.................

Pic Dump...................

H/T Jeff

Shadow theatre of Attraction with a Great British montage | Final 2013 | Britain's Got Talent 2013 Winners

The Sunday Best...............

My First Fist-Fight in the Navy

Asteroid whizzes past Earth

Free gun initiative begins in Houston neighborhood

A Government Out Of Control

IRS employee: Washington showed "unprecedented interest" in Tea Party groups

Woman Stops Eating to Try to Live on Sunlight & Water

Would the Marketplace Fairness Act lead to. less taxes?

Test confirms mystery pendant likely from ValuJet crash

GOODSTUFF'S BLOGGING MAGAZINE (106th Issue)

Meeting With Xi Jinping Morphs into Weekend with the Boys

Michelle Sends Regrets to Chinese First Lady

PM: Israel can't rely on outside sources for its security

and finally.............

A 'family blog' update

Fighting Words.......................from Dan Friedman

"I call on the Western democracies, and primarily the leader of the Free World, the United States, do not repeat the dreadful mistake of 1938 when Europe sacrificed Czechoslovakia. Do not try to appease the Arabs at our expense."

"Israel will not be Czechoslovakia. Israel will fight terrorism"

--PM Ariel Sharon, 6 October, 2001

[Tragically, Gaza turned out to be Sharon’s personal Czechoslovakia and “sacrificing” it to the Arabs had the effect he predicted. It remains to be seen whether Israelis have finally learned their lesson, or will they repeat their mistake on an even grander scale? df]

Israel Hayom, 6/7/13

Europe under attack, Israel beware

By Dror Eydar

1. Europe is on fire. It has been for some time. Roughly half a century after World War II, it is being conquered, by degrees, with no battle. That last terrible war destroyed the national idea and made Western-style democracy vulnerable to the dangers that threaten its existence with no real ability to cope with them.

Intellectual Froglegs 30 Sec Promo (#1)

Theo's Birthday Totty................

Connecting the radical dots in Boston!...from TPC

If the TPC blog can connect the radical dots concerning the recent events occurring in Boston one wonders how Barack Obama and his band of merry national security men and women can't!

Unless for reasons understood only by them they don't want to!

Read at The Political Commentator here.

Latest Details on Santa Monica Shooting Massacre

Here's the update, "Suspect Had 1,300 Rounds of Ammo During Santa Monica Shooting Rampage."

#SMC UPDATE: Surveillance photo shows suspect entering Santa Monica College library twitter.com/ABC7/status/34…
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) June 8, 2013

And ICYMI, freakin' unreal, "The Perp-Whisperer: Inspirational Speaker Dyana Valentine Sends Love to Mass Murderer in Santa Monica Shooting Rampage."

Anne V Body Paint - Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2013

Man, the body paint videos are completely wild!

And Anne V's breasts are pert as a whistle. Amazing.

See: "Body Paint Behind the Scenes."

Don't miss her perky breasts poking out at the link.

She's a fine babe!

Saturday, 8 June 2013

Living in the Government's Fishbowl

By Alan Caruba

You have to wonder why all the data gathering by the National Security Agency, Homeland Security, and the FBI failed to identify and surveil the perpetrators of the Boston Marathon bombing? When even the Russians warned national security authorities about the Chechen brothers, Dzhokan and Tamerlan Tsaraev, they were reportedly interviewed and then ignored.

“Are you planning to make bombs to kill infidels?” “No, sir.” “Okay, have a nice day.”

It is useful to recall the extraordinary fear that the 9/11 attacks generated. Americans were ready to accept any means possible to avoid further attacks. The Patriot Act came off the shelf and was enacted swiftly even though most members of Congress barely had time or perhaps even made the effort to read it.

On June 6, an unidentified “senior administration spokesman” said, “Information collected under this program is among the most important and valuable intelligence information we collect, and is used to protect our nation from a wide variety of threats.” The latest revelations about the scope of that intelligence gathering, combined with those about the misuse of data by the Internal Revenue Service, led The New York Times to say of the reassurances being offered—just trust us—“The administration has now lost all credibility”; amending that shortly after to “…on this issue.” Too late. You told the truth the first time.

The Times, along with many conservatives, was wary of the Patriot Act, saying it was “reckless in its assignment of unnecessary and overbroad surveillance powers.”

The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution says “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable search and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath and affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

S.T. Karnick, the Director of Research for The Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based, free market think tank, said, “The audacity of monitoring everyone’s phone calls in hopes of catching a small number of terrorists demonstrated the unconstitutionality and self-contradiction at the heart of the mass government surveillance. There is no probable cause for which to search any particular individual’s call records, merely a probability that someone somewhere used a telephone to assist in the planning or commission of a crime.”

A report in The Guardian, a British newspaper, of the gathering of all phone data was followed on June 6 by a report in The Washington Post that “The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track one target or trace a whole network of associates, according to a top secret document obtained by The Washington Post.”

That document was leaked and if it were not for such leaks to the news media we would not know even a fraction of what the current and past administrations have been doing with regard to the invasion of the constitutionally protected privacy of Americans.

Dr. Yuri N. Maltsev, PhD, professor of economics at the A.W. Clausen Center for World Business of Carthage College, responded to a Heartland Institute invitation to address this issue saying, “Our Constitution is openly and brazenly violated and it reminds me of how Russians, Chinese, Cubans, and many many others lost their freedom and paid dearly with tens of millions of innocent lives.”

Seton Motley, president of Less Government and, like myself, a Heartland policy advisor, also responded to the invitation, saying, “This is just the latest example—but maybe the worst—of the Obama administration’s complete disregard for the Constitution and the freedom from government overreach it guarantees us. Here’s hoping the stunning totality of all we’ve lost will cause us to rise up and demand that it all be restored.”

We have learned that we now all live in a government fishbowl.

In the aftermath of 9/11 the Bush administration did what it thought must be done to avoid a comparable attack, but the Obama administration has turned the Patriot Act into an excuse to ignore the Constitution and impose a potential police state on all of us.

In a June 6 Wall Street Journal opinion by Elizabeth Goitein, a co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, warned that “The most tangible problem is the invasion of American’s privacy. The so-called metadata collected by the NSA includes information about our calls, such as the numbers we call, the numbers of those who call us, when the calls were made, and for how long. This information may seem relatively trivial at first blush. Yet, pieced together, these details can paint a detailed and sensitive picture of our private lives and our associations.”

Add in the information gained from surveillance of our data on the Internet and you have NO privacy whatever.

It is time to increase restrictions on the way the IRS can use the information we are required by law or regulatory fiat to provide. Indeed, it is time to eliminate the income tax and replace it with a Fair Tax. It is time to remove the IRS from the enforcement of Obamacare and to repeal this noxious law.

It is time to overhaul the Patriot Act and to put strong limits on the capacity of the federal government to indiscriminately gather information on every U.S. citizen with massive data gathering systems in the name of national security.