God's awesome ocean scenes ... Thx Sarah R!

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This is in HD, 3D. I hope your computer can view it that way. Excellent video you can pause and read the captions if you wish.  If you want captions, you may need to click on “cc” at the bottom right. The Ocean as you have never seen it. (GO FULL SCREEN – click bottom far right after video is showing) http://www.youtube.com/embed/mcbHKAWIk3I

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Lafe Solomon obama's Lord of U.S. Labor Policy Thx Bob G!

 

The Lord of U.S. Labor Policy

 By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL

Lafe Solomon, acting general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, defies Congress and the courts on behalf of Big Labor.

For a true expression of the imperious and extralegal tendencies of the Obama administration, there is little that compares with the Wisdom of Solomon. Lafe Solomon, that is, the acting general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board.
Mr. Solomon's wisdom was on revealing display this week, in the form of a newly disclosed letter that the Obama appointee sent to Cablevision in May. The letter was tucked into Cablevison's petition asking the Supreme Court this week to grant an emergency stay of NLRB proceedings against it. The Supremes unfortunately denied that request, though the exercise may prove valuable for shining new light on the labor board's conceit.
A half-year has passed since the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Noel Canning that President Obama's appointments to the NLRB were unconstitutional, and thus that the board lacks a legal quorum. In May, the Third Circuit affirmed this ruling. Yet the NLRB—determined to keep churning out a union agenda—has openly defied both appeals courts by continuing to issue rulings and complaints.
Regional directors in April filed two such unfair-labor-practice complaints against Cablevision.
The company requested that Mr. Solomon halt the proceedings, given the NLRB's invalid status. It is Mr. Solomon's refusal, dated May 28, that provides the fullest expression of the NLRB's insolence.
The acting general counsel begins his letter by explaining that the legitimacy of the board is really neither here nor there. Why? Because Mr. Solomon was himself "appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate"—and therefore, apparently, is now sole and unchecked arbiter of all national labor policy.

Associated Press Lafe Solomon, acting general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board.

This is astonishing on many levels, the least of which is that it is untrue.
Mr. Solomon is the acting general counsel precisely because the Senate has refused to confirm him since he was first nominated in June 2011. Nor will it, ever, given his Boeing BA +1.38% escapades.
Then there is the National Labor Relations Act, which created the NLRB. The law clearly says that the general counsel acts "on behalf of the Board"—a board that is today void, illegitimate, null, illegal. Mr. Solomon admits the "behalf" problem in his letter, though he says he's certain Congress nonetheless meant for him to be "independent" of the board. He says.
The acting general counsel naturally rushes to explain that—his omnipotence aside—the NLRB still has every right to ignore the courts. His argument runs thus: Because a decade ago the 11th Circuit issued an opinion that upholds recess appointments (though it didn't deal with Mr. Obama's breathtaking reading of that power), there exists a "split" in the circuit courts. The NLRB is therefore justified in ignoring any courts with which it disagrees until the Supreme Court has "resolved" the question.
What Mr. Solomon fails to note is the extremes the NLRB has gone to in order to suggest court confusion. The agency has deviated from past procedures, and it refused to ask either the D.C. Circuit or the Third Circuit to "stay" their opinions. Why? Because to do so—and to be rebuffed—would put the NLRB under enormous pressure to acknowledge that those courts have authority over its actions.
The board has likewise ignored the fact that the D.C. Circuit hears more NLRB decisions than any other, and is also the pre-eminent court for reviewing federal agency decisions. This ought to entitle that court, and its Noel Canning ruling, respectful deference from the labor board.
The most revealing part of Mr. Solomon's letter is the section cynically outlining why the NLRB continues to operate at a feverish pace. Mr. Solomon notes that this isn't the first time the board has operated without a quorum.
The NLRB issued 550 decisions with just two board members before the Supreme Court's 2010 ruling in New Process Steel that the NLRB must have a three-person board quorum to operate. Mr. Solomon brags that of these 550, only about 100 were "impacted" by the Supreme Court's ruling—which, he writes, proves that the NLRB is justified in continuing to operate even at times when its "authority" has been challenged.
Mr. Solomon is in fact celebrating that of the 550 outfits harassed by an illegal, two-member board, only about 100 later decided they had the money, time and wherewithal to spend years relitigating in front of the labor goon squad. The NLRB is counting on the same outcome in Cablevision and other recent actions.
The board will push through as many rulings and complaints against companies as it can before the Supreme Court rules on its legitimacy. And it will trust that the firms it has attacked and drained will be too weary to then try for reversals. This is why the Obama administration waited so long to petition the Supreme Court to reverse Noel Canning. The longer this process takes, the more damage the NLRB can inflict on behalf of its union taskmasters.
Right now, the NLRB is the only weapon the administration can wield on behalf of Big Labor. The need to placate that most powerful special interest was behind Mr. Obama's decision to install his illegal recess appointments in the first place, and it explains the NLRB's continuing defiance of courts and Congress. Mr. Solomon's wisdom is the Obama philosophy of raw power, in all its twisted glory.

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Major Heather Lucky Penney 9-11-2001 ... Thanks Ramey H!

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MISSION UNIMAGINABLE Inbox x ramey hoskins 11:59 AM (1 hour ago) to     MISSION UNIMAGINABLE The events of Sept. 11, 2001, put an F-16 pilot into the sky with orders to bring down United Flight 93 Late in the morning of the Tuesday that changed everything, Lt. Heather “Lucky” Penney was on a runway at Andrews Air Force Base and ready to fly. She had her hand on the throttle of an F-16 and she had her orders: Bring down United Airlines Flight 93. The day’s fourth hijacked airliner seemed to be hurtling toward Washington. Penney, one of the first two combat pilots in the air that morning, was told to stop it. “I genuinely believed that was going to be the last time I took off,” says Maj. Heather “Lucky” Penney, remembering the Sept. 11 attacks and the initial U.S. reaction. The one thing she didn’t have as she roared into the crystalline sky was live ammunition. Or missiles. Or anything at all to throw at a hostile aircraft.  Except her own plane. So that was the plan.  Because the surprise attacks were unfolding, in that innocent age, faster than they could arm war planes, Penney and her commanding officer went up to fly their jets straight into a Boeing 757.           “We wouldn’t be shooting it down. We’d be ramming the aircraft,” Penney recalls of her charge that day. “I would essentially be a kamikaze pilot.”  For years, Penney, one of the first generation of female combat pilots in the country, gave no interviews about her experiences on Sept. 11(which included, eventually, escorting Air Force One back into Washington’s suddenly highly restricted airspace). But 10 years later, she is reflecting on one of the lesser-told tales of that endlessly examined morning: how the first counterpunch the U.S. military prepared to throw at the attackers was effectively a suicide mission.     “We had to protect the airspace any way we could,” she said last week in her office at Lockheed Martin, where she is a director in the F-35 program.  Penney, now a major but still a petite blonde with a Colgate grin, is no longer a combat flier. She flew two tours in Iraq and she serves as a part-time National Guard pilot, mostly hauling VIPs around in a military Gulfstream. She takes the stick of her own vintage 1941 Taylorcraft tail-dragger whenever she can. But none of her thousands of hours in the air quite compare with the urgent rush of launching on what was supposed to be a one-way flight to a midair collision. First of her kind. She was a rookie in the autumn of 2001, the first female F-16 pilot they’d ever had at the 121st Fighter Squadron of the D.C. Air National Guard. She had grown up smelling jet fuel. Her father flew jets in Vietnam and still races them. Penney got her pilot’s license when she was a literature major at Purdue. She planned to be a teacher. But during a graduate program in American studies, Congress opened up combat aviation to women and Penney was nearly first in line. “I signed up immediately,” she says. “I wanted to be a fighter pilot like my dad.” On that Tuesday, they had just finished two weeks of air combat training in Nevada. They were sitting around a briefing table when someone looked in to say a plane had hit the World Trade Center in New York. When it happened once, they assumed it was some yahoo in a Cessna. When it happened again, they knew it was war. But the surprise was complete. In the monumental confusion of those first hours, it was impossible to get clear orders. Nothing was ready. The jets were still equipped with dummy bullets from the training mission. As remarkable as it seems now, there were no armed aircraft standing by and no system in place to scramble them over Washington. Before that morning, all eyes were looking outward, still scanning the old Cold War threat paths for planes and missiles coming over the polar ice cap. “There was no perceived threat at the time, especially one coming from the homeland like that,” says Col. George Degnon, vice commander of the 113th Wing at Andrews. “It was a little bit of a helpless feeling, but we did everything humanly possible to get the aircraft armed and in the air. It was amazing to see people react.” Things are different today, ­Degnon says. At least two “hot-cocked” planes are ready at all times, their pilots never more than yards from the cockpit.  A third plane hit the Pentagon, and almost at once came word that a fourth plane could be on the way, maybe more. The jets would be armed within an hour, but somebody had to fly now, weapons or no weapons. “Lucky, you’re coming with me,” barked Col. Marc Sasseville. They were gearing up in the pre-flight life-support area when Sasseville, struggling into his flight suit, met her eye.   “I’m going to go for the cockpit,” Sasseville said. She replied without hesitating. “I’ll take the tail.” It was a plan. And a pact. ‘Let’s go!’ Penney had never scrambled a jet before. Normally the pre-flight is a half-hour or so of methodical checks. She automatically started going down the list.  “Lucky, what are you doing? Get your butt up there and let’s go!” Sasseville shouted. She climbed in, rushed to power up the engine, screamed for her ground crew to pull the chocks. The crew chief still had his headphones plugged into the fuselage as she nudged the throttle forward. He ran along pulling safety pins from the jet as it moved forward. She muttered a fighter pilot’s prayer — “God, don’t let me [expletive] up” — and followed Sasse­ville into the sky. They screamed over the smoldering Pentagon, heading northwest at more than 400 mph, flying low and scanning the clear horizon. Her commander had time to think about the best place to hit the enemy. “We don’t train to bring down airliners,” said Sasseville, now stationed at the Pentagon. “If you just hit the engine, it could still glide and you could guide it to a target. My thought was the cockpit or the wing.” He also thought about his ejection seat. Would there be an instant just before impact? “I was hoping to do both at the same time,” he says. “It probably wasn’t going to work, but that’s what I was hoping.” Penney worried about missing the target if she tried to bail out. “If you eject and your jet soars through without impact .  . .” she trails off, the thought of failing more dreadful than the thought of dying. But she didn’t have to die. She didn’t have to knock down an airliner full of kids and salesmen and girlfriends. They did that themselves. It would be hours before Penney and Sasseville learned that United 93 had already gone down in Pennsylvania, an insurrection by hostages willing to do just what the two Guard pilots had been willing to do: Anything. And everything.  “The real heroes are the passengers on Flight 93 who were willing to sacrifice themselves,” Penney says. “I was just an accidental witness to history.” She and Sasseville flew the rest of the day, clearing the airspace, escorting the president, looking down onto a city that would soon be sending them to war.  She’s a single mom of two girls now. She still loves to fly. And she still thinks often of that extraordinary ride down the runway a decade ago. “I genuinely believed that was going to be the last time I took off,” she says. “If we did it right, this would be it.”

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Cuban vote at Ramey's winter home

People are still desparate to get here aren't they, Ramey.  Would anybody get in it and travel that 90 miles back to Castro-land?   I don't think so!

 

Sam 

 

 

My winter abode.

Venture Outers,

See below pictures of a Cuban Handmade Boat that showed up at our boat basin the other day.  Kevin called Fish and Game and the Coast Guard  and they said it's now our boat--- "Boat for Sale" (no title)

The fact is this is a sample of good old  engineering and perseverance,just to think that a little canvas and junk can be turned into something that traveled 90 miles and still appears to be seaworthy is amazing.

Nobody has any idea where the occupants got off to but my guess is they are in Miami by now.

Stan

Cuban Boat #2

 

Cuban Boat 

 

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Krauthammer- obama's Climate warming speech does nothing to combat glpobal warming

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The economy stagnates. Syria burns. Scandals lap at his feet. China and Russia mock him, even as a “29-year-old hacker” revealed his nation’s spy secrets to the world. How does President Barack Obama respond? With a grandiloquent speech on climate change.
Climate change? It lies at the very bottom of a list of Americans’ concerns (last of 21 — Pew poll). Which means that Obama’s declaration of unilateral American war on global warming, whatever the cost — and it will be heavy — is either highly visionary or hopelessly solipsistic. You decide:
Global temperatures have been flat for 16 years — a curious time to unveil a grand, hugely costly, socially disruptive anti-warming program.
Now, this inconvenient finding doesn’t mean there is no global warming. But it is something that the complex global warming models that Obama claims represent settled science have trouble explaining. It therefore highlights the president’s presumption in dismissing skeptics as flat-earth know-nothings.
On the contrary. It’s flat-earthers like Obama who refuse to acknowledge the problematic nature of contradictory data. It’s flat-earthers like Obama who cite a recent Alaskan heat wave — a freak event in one place at one time — as presumptive evidence of planetary climate change. It’s flat-earthers like Obama who cite perennial phenomena such as droughts as cosmic retribution for environmental sinfulness.
For the sake of argument, nonetheless, let’s concede that global warming is precisely what Obama thinks it is. Then answer this: What in God’s name is his massive new regulatory and spending program — which begins with a war on coal and ends with billions in more subsidies for new Solyndras — going to do about it?
The U.S. has already radically cut CO2 emissions — more than any country on Earth since 2006, according to the International Energy Agency. Emissions today are back down to 1992 levels.
And yet, at the same time, global emissions have gone up. That’s because — surprise! — we don’t control the other 96 percent of humankind.
At the heart of Obama’s program are EPA regulations that will make it impossible to open any new coal plant and will systematically shut down existing plants. “Politically, the White House is hesitant to say they’re having a war on coal,” explained one of Obama’s climate advisers. “On the other hand, a war on coal is exactly what’s needed.”
Net effect: tens of thousands of jobs killed, entire states impoverished. This at a time of chronically and crushingly high unemployment, slow growth, jittery markets and deep economic uncertainty.
But that’s not the worst of it. This massive self-sacrifice might be worthwhile if it did actually stop global warming and save the planet. What makes the whole idea nuts is that it won’t .
The have-nots are rapidly industrializing. As we speak, China and India together are opening one new coal plant every week. We can kill U.S. coal and devastate coal country all we want, but the industrializing Third World will more than make up for it. The net effect of the Obama plan will simply be dismantling the U.S. coal industry for shipping abroad.
To think we will get these countries to cooperate is sheer fantasy. We’ve been negotiating climate treaties for 20 years and gotten exactly nowhere. China, India and the other rising and modernizing countries point out that the West had a 150-year industrial head start that made it rich. They are still poor. And now, just as they are beginning to get rich, we’re telling them to stop dead in their tracks?
Fat chance.
I’m not against a global pact to reduce CO2 emissions. Indeed, I favor it. But in the absence of one — and there is no chance of getting one in the foreseeable future — there is no point in America committing economic suicide to no effect on climate change, the reversing of which, after all, is the alleged point of the exercise.
For a president to propose this with such aggressive certainty is incomprehensible. It is the starkest of examples of belief that is impervious to evidence. And the word for that is faith, not science.
Charles Krauthammer writes for the Washington Post Writers Group.
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Why not an American military coup? ... SamKat

It is unfathomable to me that the smartest people in America have not arranged an American coup of the current  president.  He is doing all of the unbelievable things which should get him removed from office.  I would like to be a fly on the wall in his closed door meetings with George Soros, the power behind the traitor.

Our military, FBI, and CIA should resent his dictatorial meddling with our prior system of checks and balances.  It is the secular progressives who have led the USA to this doorstep of destruction.  Our poor wounded warriors and killed service people have their sacrificial services and our freedoms floating away due to the actions of this narcssistic potus.

SamKat

Polish Commentary ... It is right on, good Denison friend, Doug Brooke!

July 4, 2013
Eastern Poland
Amid all the barbecues and
fireworks today in the Land of the Free, it may be worth a short
pause to remember the words of Thomas Jefferson some 237-years
ago:
"We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed
by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these
are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
"That to secure these
rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just
powers from the consent of the governed,"
"That whenever any Form of
Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the
People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,
laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers
in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their
Safety and Happiness."
Powerful stuff.
In one of the most eloquent
treatises in history, Jefferson lays out that human beings are born
free. And that we create governments in order to stay free.
Further, whenever governments
become destructive to this effort, human beings have a right to
dissolve the government and create a new one.
Jefferson then lays out an
entire laundry list of grievances against the British King that have
compelled the colonists to throw off the chains of tyranny and form
a new government. This "long train of abuses" includes:

• He has
  erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of
  Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.

• He has
  obstructed the Administration of Justice

• He is at
  this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to
  complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny

• For taking
  away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering
  fundamentally the Forms of our Governments

As the modern, dysfunctional
version of the US government has become little better than the court
of King George III, one might make the exact same arguments
today.

• They have
  employed a multitude of offices, from the National Security Agency
  to the US Postal Service, to illegally spy on their citizens.

• They have
  used the power and intimidation of tax authorities to bully
  political opposition groups.

• They have
  authorized the military detention and drone assassination of their
  own citizens.

• They have
  indebted future generations who will not be born for decades, and
  squandered the nations wealth on fraud, waste, and foreign
  military folly.

• They have
  destroyed the primary function of the free market by awarding
  supreme monetary authority to a tiny banking elite.

• They have
  passed tomes of new laws and regulations which criminalize
  everything from collecting rainwater to childhood lemonade
  stands.

I'm sure you would have a
several more to add to this list. And I'd be curious to hear from
you about it.
By Jefferson's own standard, it
seems rather clear that the government-- most governments-- have
become destructive against their higher purpose: to safeguard the
people's liberty.
Today shouldn't be a
celebration... it should be a memorial service. Or at least a time
to reflect heavily-- when will enough finally be enough? When will
it be time to act?

Until tomorrow,

Simon Black
Senior Editor, SovereignMan.com

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A big thanks to all of you out there protecting our country. You make me proud to be an American.

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Trip to Africa! Add to our debt, Fuehrer ... funny, Judi C!

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