Bicycle ride to school = Child abuse?

h/t Say Uncle

Are you neglecting your children by allowing them to ride a bike to school?
Appears so in TN.
Read the comments in the link for more details from the principle parent involved.
She's been promised/threatened with a visit from Child Protective Services.

Drop $650 for this nifty child abuse vehicle

Just took Son #2 back to college.
In the back of the pick-em-up was his Giant brand mountain bike.
Saw dozens of other vehicles of child neglect on campus.

Child neglect reaching epidemic proportions on a college campus

As a grammar school student, I had to walk to school ... Almost a mile away! Sometimes in the snow! On a route that took me under the Chicago Skyway! Where I sometimes saw dead rats!
Always knew my parents were negligent.

Alphabet Soup Agencies

Let's not talk about the big old dogs on the block. CIA, FBI, BATF.
They're all big. Old enough that you grew up with 'em. Some of 'em even had/have their own tv shows.

FBI - Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Like I said, they're big and old. With Mean 'n Tough reputations. Institutions.

No ... the dogs I'm talking about are the younger pups. The new litter whelped by Bitch Public Military and sired by Private Industry. A POTUS a long time ago talked about these dangerous dogs.

The litter is so big ... talking about each pup, even finding out about each pup, could be exhausting.
Following is a few I learned about this week.

VIPS; Volunteers in Police Service. A public/private volunteer org.







CCC Citizen Corps; The mission of Citizen Corps is to harness the power of every individual through education, training, and volunteer service to make communities safer, stronger, and better prepared to respond to the threats of terrorism, crime, public health issues, and disasters of all kinds.

Is this the Civilian Corps that Obama asked for?

All the above I gleaned from the GSN site, Government Security News which has a wealth of news on whats happening in this enormous sector of the global police-state economy.

 
Of course, some pages of GSN are sponsored. By the likes of General Dynamics.


And all of it is giving me a flashback. As a nineteen year old buck private in the Regular Army, I was stationed at WRAMC, Walter Reed Army Medical Center. After transporting a patient to a clinic from our ward, I snagged a magazine from the waiting room. It was a glossy 4-color rag meant for Pentagon insiders. In it I was exposed for the first time to advertising for war material. Ads for tanks that read like ads for SUV's, missiles, high velocity penetrators, etc.. It was an educational experience.
What did I learn? 
 There is profit in war.


War is a Racket

Point made.

h/t View from the Porch

Per Tam's astute historical elucidation of the below post, graphic reworked.
Amazin' the difference one lil word makes.

Wonder what Pete Seeger plays

Just remember that a guitar is only an inanimate object. No guitar has ever incited a Wobblie to riot on its own. The finger strumming the guitar determines how its used.

Mystery Solved!

The Gibson raid still on my mind this am.
Either my wookie suit is on too tight, or the dots are all connecting, or something.

Woodie Guthrie's guitar sported a militant sticker...

Guitar manufacturer Gibson has replicated Guthrie's 1945 Southern Jumbo.

Photo from Gibson.com Woodie Guthrie SJ (Southern Jumbo)

 Look at the pic above! Are you kidding me? This land is your land!? What are you? Commies??!

Obviously our government can not risk fascist killing machines just laying around.

Save the date; May 8th

The whole world is watching! was the chant in Chicago's Lincoln Park circa 1969.

Calling Bill Ayers ... Bernadette? Hey Hey Ho Ho

Soon again, the world will be watchin Chicago.
h/t Chicago Tribune

Local activists gear up for G8, NATO summits planned for city.

Excerpts that jumped out;

... Chicago could see crowds of protesters similar to the 35,000 or so activists who descended on St. Paul, Minn., during the 2008 Republican National Convention,...

... Chicago activist Joe Iosbaker, who helped organize the RNC protests in 2008 and whose home was raided by FBI agents last October, ...

 ... recent statement by police Superintendent Garry McCarthy that the department is preparing for “mass arrests” of protestors during the summit. ...

Police Riot is what it came to be known as

 Wonderin' if it'll be like the "good ol' days

Prepping for militant citizen test, 1968

Iowahawk New Scandal at DoJ as Illegal Guitars End Up In Hands of Mexican Drug Lords

h/t Iowahawk

WASHINGTON – Today’s uncovering of secret multi-agency program for shipping illegal Gibson guitars to Mexican drug cartels ... rtwt @ Big Hollywood

For ya'll that ain't hip to the meme ... start with the real story of the raid of guitar maker Gibson by agents of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
This audio is the most informative.

Interview of Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz ...

Money Quote: "It is my view, the reason we got raided the second time, ie. yesterday, is because, uhhh, there is a hearing for that court case (Gibson is suing for the return of almost a half million dollars of confiscated goods in a 2009 raid, in which NO CHARGES WERE BROUGHT), where we are showing compelling evidence that we have had no wrongdoing, and the government is trying to intimidate us into copping a plea.

Can you say "Thugocracy"? Thought so

Artwork! Awesome!

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Provided by the talented Robb Allen at Sharp as a Marble
Besides bloggy writin' (with free snark), he's an awesome pixel wrangler as well.

When he posted a "Red Light Special" on high quality American made pixels, i jumped on it.
Glad I did.

Pixels warrantied against fading for 5 years!

As a fellow member of the International League of Pixel Pushers, he was able to realize the featured header using only a blog description and a handful of existing posts right outta the gate. Nice!

Thanks Robb.
We now return you to our regular militancy already in progress.