Conservative Blogs Central: Jul 1, 2011

ON CENSORING FELLOW CONSERVATIVES OVER MORMONISM
Navy and Air Force still flying strikes over Libya
Obama breaks federal law, grants $80k to ACORN!
Oil prices back to before Obama tapped reserves

http://thejimmyzshow.blogspot.com/2011/07/jimmy-z-friday-show.html

The Stinky Award: NBC News Hosts Admit Pressure to Book More Pro-Obama Flacks

Can we all stop pretending that news agencies have anything to say anymore? Can the news agencies just admit that they are no longer relevant except as preachers of leftist dogma? And why does anyone still watch these Democrat flacks?

Glenn Beck Bitchslapping Jon Stewart

SMACK!

GLENN BECK TV SUMMER TEASER

On 9.12.11 Glenn Beck will launch GBTV!

Video: Minnesota Government Shuts Down

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota’s state government is closed for business.
It shut down at 12:01 a.m. CDT Friday, the victim of an ongoing dispute over taxes and spending between Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican legislative majorities. Talks fell apart well before the deadline, leaving state parks closed on the brink of the Fourth of July weekend, putting road projects at a standstill and forcing thousands of state worker layoffs.
Even before the final failure, officials padlocked highway rest areas and state parks, herding campers out. The full impact will hit Friday morning as thousands of laid-off state employees stay home until further notice and a wide array of services are suspended.
Critical functions such as state troopers, prison guards, the courts and disaster responses will continue. On Friday morning, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Kathleen Blatz will begin the court-appointed job of sifting through appeals from groups arguing in favor of continued government funding for particular programs.
Dayton addressed the looming shutdown at about 10 p.m. Thursday, emerging after a day of fitful negotiations with legislative Republicans to say the two sides were still fundamentally divided over how much the state should spend the next two years and that the shutdown was inevitable.
“This is a night of deep sorrow for me,” Dayton said.
Republican lawmakers had been gathered at the Capitol for hours as they demanded that Dayton do what he had said for months he would not do: Call a special session so they could pass a “lights on” budget bill to keep government running. The governor insisted he would only agree to a total budget solution that incorporated the many facets of state spending.

We Must Watch the Watchers

In Clive Thompson’s WIRED article “Watching the Watchers,” the author addresses the growing popularity of sousveillance, which is the monitoring of events not by those above (surveiller in French) but by citizens, from below (sous-). Since the Patriot Act ended the rule of law in America and brought with it the blight of totalitarianism, concerned libertarians have begun to ask quisnam vigilo vigilo or “who watches the watchers?”

Increasingly, individual members of the public feel the need to participate. There is an app for that; it is Bambuser. It streams cell phone video directly to the Web. In an online article by Becca Caddy, the author describes her interview with Hans Erickson, Bambuser’s CEO. She asked him what sort of users his company had targeted. He said,

One of our founding members, Mans Adler, envisaged Bambuser as a global tool that would aid democracy, allowing anyone and everyone a medium to get their message heard. During the recent Egyptian and Bahraini protests we saw a surge in broadcasts as demonstrators used Bambuser to stream personal videos from inside Tahrir square, Friday prayers and even funerals.

If ignorance is bliss, it is no doubt reassuring to believe that it simply cannot happen here. Government oppression crushing civilian dissent happens in Tiananmen Square or Tahrir Square, not in Washington Square. Guess again. Freedoms to assemble peaceably and, through free political speech, to criticize the acts of government are the first liberties that totalitarians seize.

Carlos Miller’s Website Photography is not a Crime chronicles a list of police departments and other government entities whose members believe that the public lacks the legal privilege of scrutinizing and criticizing their activities, especially when those activities might be extra-legal. The extent to which the police have come to serve the interests of the state, rather than to serve and protect the public is alarming.

When agents of the state hide what they are doing, they are generally up to no good. When they arrange matters such that they are above the very law that they are sworn to enforce and are unaccountable to the people, the resulting form of government is totalitarian. Other Constitutional guaranties that have disappeared under the PA are habeas corpus, or the right to force the state to justify holding citizens involuntary and the requirement that the state must demonstrate probable cause prior to arrest.

There are government surveillance systems in all 50 states, ostensibly to make the streets safer for the public; however, there is no safety if we are not safe from the police. That someone can be arrested for the egregious crime of standing in her own front yard because an agent of the state claimed arbitrarily, subjectively, and expediently that he was uncomfortable is inexcusable.

An attorney for another woman who was arrested in similar circumstances pointed out to Ray Sanchez of ABC News that videotaping is probably the most effective way to protect citizens against police officers who exaggerate or lie. Judges and juries want to believe law enforcement, he said. They want to believe police officers and unless you have credible evidence to contradict police officers, it's often very difficult to get judges or juries to believe the word of a citizen over a police officer.

When police prevaricate under oath to get convictions, the government that they represent is fundamentally corrupt because they cannot do this without the tacit approval of both the judicial and legislative branches of that government. If Paul Revere rode tonight, his clarion call would be, “The totalitarians are coming.”

May your gods be with you.

Wow!! Herman Cain Eviscerates Obama In New Ad!

I like Michele Bachmann, but ads like this could change my mind.

Derek R.B. Douglas: Obama Birth Certificate Forger

This very well could be the dude who spliced together the amateurish adobe layers, Obama is claiming is his birth certificate.

Derek Douglas serves on the White House Domestic Policy Council (DPC) as Special Assistant to President BarackObama, where he leads the DPC’s work on urban and metropolitan policy issues. Prior to working in the White House, Douglas served as Washington Counsel to New York Governor David A. Paterson and Director of Governor Paterson’s Washington, D.C. Office. In this capacity, Douglas served as the Governor’s chief architect for federal policy and oversaw federal policy development and advocacy on domestic, economic, and urban policy issues for the State of New York.
Prior to his appointment in 2007, Douglas served as Associate Director of Economic Policy at the Center for American Progress where he founded and served as Director of the Economic Mobility Program. Prior to joining the Center, Douglas was a Counsel at O’Melveny & Myers LLP and an Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense andEducational Fund. Douglas graduated from the University of Michigan with Highest Honors in Economics and from the Yale Law School.
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Glenn Beck: The Final Episode

We all owe a lot to this little man.

"Glenn Beck is a wonderful man who has worked so hard to share the truth that the lame stream socialist media does not want to tell us about. Glenn has generated an awareness among millions of us who were blindly trusting what the lame stream media put out there but no longer. Glenn has millions of people who have been and will continue to be enlightened by the truth. God Bless Glenn, his family, his staff and friends." ... by RememberThisSong

Gov. Chris Christie: Jet Talk Is Just A "Mask" To Raise Taxes

After Pelosi globe trotting her family around the world like a rock star, on our dime, it is the heights of hypocroicy for Obama to even bring up the subject of corporate jets.

Pic Ned Gracie's Blog Site

But since he did, what would you rather have, someone making themselves rich and flying around in a private jet, or the government taking YOUR MONEY and phonying around world in a tax money funded 787?