MidnightRider

You're not interested??? That seems to be the only thing you are interested in. And the only thing you're interested in is jumping into the middle of a conversation and making remarks just to get a reaction. Do you have anything of substance to add or are you content to sit back and stir the pot while providing nothing of value to the conversation? Before you label me as a Republican, I assure you I'm not. I refuse to identify/align myself with one ideology. We've had miserable failure after miserable failure in that office for many terms (Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama) and I'm a fan of none of them. I specifically omitted Reagan from that list because I was in my teens and simply had no interest in politics at that point of my life. I did enlist under Reagan but it really had nothing to do with him, I just wanted to shoot Russians in the face.

Yes, if I applied myself. Conversely, if one were so inclinded, they could Google all or some of that themselves. I'm really not interested in pulling up this admin's parade of failures (again) because, frankly, its too damned depressing. Help yourself though, I'm sure you could come up with more than what I listed.

Nope. You (I think, based upon previous posts) and I have both spent time over there in that wonderful corner of the world and know what we're dealing with. There is no reasoning with these people.

Well, here are just a few, off the top of my head: 1. IRS targets Obama’s enemies: The IRS targeted conservative and pro-Israel groups prior to the 2012 election. Questions are being raised about why this occurred, who ordered it, whether there was any White House involvement and whether there was an initial effort to hide who knew about the targeting and when. 2. Benghazi: This is actually three scandals in one: The failure of administration to protect the Benghazi mission. The changes made to the talking points in order to suggest the attack was motivated by an anti-Muslim video The refusal of the White House to say what President Obama did the night of the attack 3. Watching the AP: The Justice Department performed a massive cull of Associated Press reporters’ phone records as part of a leak investigation. 4. Rosengate: The Justice Department suggested that Fox News reporter James Rosen is a criminal for reporting about classified information and subsequently monitored his phones and emails. 5. Potential Holder perjury I: Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress he had never been associated with “potential prosecution” of a journalist for perjury when in fact he signed the affidavit that termed Rosen a potential criminal. 6. The ATF “Fast and Furious” scheme: Allowed weapons from the U.S. to “walk” across the border into the hands of Mexican drug dealers. The ATF lost track of hundreds of firearms, many of which were used in crimes, including the December 2010 killing of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. 7. Potential Holder Perjury II: Holder told Congress in May 2011 that he had just recently heard about the Fast and Furious gun walking scheme when there is evidence he may have known much earlier. 8. Sebelius demands payment: HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius solicited donations from companies HHS might regulate. The money would be used to help her sign up uninsured Americans for ObamaCare. 9. The Pigford scandal: An Agriculture Department effort that started as an attempt to compensate black farmers who had been discriminated against by the agency but evolved into a gravy train delivering several billion dollars in cash to thousands of additional minority and female farmers who probably didn’t face discrimination. 10. GSA gone wild: The General Services Administration in 2010 held an $823,000 training conference in Las Vegas, featuring a clown and a mind readers. Resulted in the resignation of the GSA administrator. 11. Sebelius violates the Hatch Act: A U.S. special counsel determined that Sebelius violated the Hatch Act when she made “extemporaneous partisan remarks” during a speech in her official capacity last year. During the remarks, Sebelius called for the election of the Democratic candidate for governor of North Carolina. 12. Solyndra: Republicans charged the Obama administration funded and promoted its poster boy for green energy despite warning signs the company was headed for bankruptcy. The administration also allegedly pressed Solyndra to delay layoff announcements until after the 2010 midterm elections. 13. AKA Lisa Jackson: Former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson used the name “Richard Windsor” when corresponding by email with other government officials, drawing charges she was trying to evade scrutiny. 14. The New Black Panthers: The Justice Department was accused of using a racial double standard in failing to pursue a voter intimidation case against Black Panthers who appeared to be menacing voters at a polling place in 2008 in Philadelphia. 15. Waging war all by myself: Obama may have violated the Constitution and both the letter and the spirit of the War Powers Resolution by attacking Libya without Congressional approval. 16. Biden bullies the press: Vice President Biden’s office has repeatedly interfered with coverage, including forcing a reporter to wait in a closet, making a reporter delete photos, and editing pool reports. 17. AKPD not A-OK: The administration paid millions to the former firm of then-White House adviser David Axelrod, AKPD Message and Media, to promote passage of Obamacare. Some questioned whether the firm was hired to help pay Axelrod $2 million AKPD owed him. 18. Sestak, we’ll take care of you: Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel used Bill Clinton as an intermediary to probe whether former Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) would accept a prominent, unpaid White House advisory position in exchange for dropping out of the 2010 primary against former Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.). 19. I’ll pass my own laws: Obama has repeatedly been accused of making end runs around Congress by deciding which laws to enforce, including the decision not to deport illegal immigrants who may have been allowed to stay in the United States had Congress passed the “Dream Act.” 20. The hacking of Sharyl Attkisson’s computer: It’s not clear who hacked the CBS reporter’s computer as she investigated the Benghazi scandal, but the Obama administration and its allies had both the motive and the means to do it. 21. An American Political Prisoner: The sudden decision to arrest Nakoula Basseley Nakoula on unrelated charges after protests in the Arab world over his anti-Muslim video is an extraordinarily suspicious coincidence. “We’re going to go out and we’re going to prosecute the person that made that video,” Hillary Clinton allegedly told the father of one of the ex-SEALs killed in Banghazi. 22. Get rid of inconvenient IGs: Corporation for National and Community Service Inspector General Gerald Walpin was fired in 2009 as he fought wasteful spending and investigated a friend of Obama’s, Sacramento Mayor and former NBA player Kevin Johnson. The White House says Walpin was incompetent. 23. Influence peddling: An investigation is underway of Alejandro Mayorkas, director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, who has been nominated by Obama for the number two post at the Department of Homeland Security. Mayorkas may have used his position to unfairly obtain U.S. visas for foreign investors in company run by Hillary Clinton’s brother, Anthony Rodman. If I applied myself, I'm sure I could come up with more...

Oh? Please inform me what I don't know of Fast and Furious. I assume you were involved in it to know so much more than I. Also, please share with everybody exactly how many investigations you've been involved with to have such intimate knowledge of the investigation process. Just to be clear, are you asking me what I'm doing with my guns or are you making a blanket statement about gun owners, in general? Try to remove some of the emotion from your posts, it clouds your judgment. Here is the code that I live by: They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. You get on with your bad self in that regard. Me? I'm a big boy and don't need anyone to take care of me so the Fed can f#ck off until such a time that I do commit a crime, which won't happen, so yeah, the Fed can KMA. I look forward to you enlightening us with your adventures of daring do in your efforts to stamp out gun crime.

Yup. Kinda hard to keep track anymore. Actually, it's pretty easy to keep track of them. Every time reality rears it's ugly head they'll just shift to the next faux-controversy. Benghazi! (No evidence of a coverup?) Obamacare! (Oh . . . it's working even better than expected?) Benghazi! (The organizer was captured and will be brought to justice?) IRS/Lerner! Etc. Etc. Etc. 1-2 years after the congress requested the info, the IRS reports - opps crashed hard drive. Ah so sorry. Target! Cease fire, clear and elevate all weapons and return to the start line. No further excuses necessary from those responsible, answer why these emails were not properly backed up and archived.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-captured-benghazi-suspect-in-secret-raid/2014/06/17/7ef8746e-f5cf-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost The timing of this is rather convenient. If you didn't exist I would have to invent you. I see what you did there but I'm confident this is another "SQUIRREL" moment for those in charge.

We can run but we can't hide! Maybe the son of one of Nixon's trusted teammates did a bit of consulting wt the O team. They seemed to have experience with missing data as I recall. Amazing how crashed hard drives can happen at the most inconvenient times. Maybe they think the public can be fooled every day Seriously, this crashed hard drive doesn't pass the common sense smell test. But in the end it could have happened as an accident but I'd think the odds are strong that it was no accident that the very computer that had the emls related to the investigation of the IRS targeting conservative groups would happen to crash. How even more amazingly inconvenient that those missing emails just happened to be to those who would gain from the targeting of conservative groups - white house, democrat offices and the agencies they control under the administration http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/14/irs-says-it-lost-lois-ler_n_5494762.html Quote: But an untold number are gone. Camp's office said the missing emails are mainly ones to and from people outside the IRS, "such as the White House, Treasury, Department of Justice, FEC, or Democrat offices." end quote There had been previous stories that democratic congressional leaders had been pressuring and or coordinating wt the IRS to investigate tea party and other conservative groups. A crashed hard drive on a client would be of no consequence if they had a proper backup, archive and COOP solution. That's elementarhy sh#t for any gov entity. This is so blatant that its sickening. I know its rhetoric but people should be in jail for this, based upon what I posted above. Stunning incompetence or outright arrogance, not sure which. Maybe both?

My apologies on the links, they worked for me. As you stated, it is rather convenient. It is stunning to see how our elected officials and their appointees thumb their noses at us at every turn. Had this been some low level fed lackey, you'd still be able to see the mushroom cloud that formed over their cubicle once leadership caught wind of it. And here's some more stuff they apparently feel that they don't have to comply with: 1.15.1.7.6 (08-19-2013) Responsibilities of All IRS Employees Each IRS employee must: Manage the records they create and/or maintain in accordance with policies outlined in IRMs 1.15.1 through IRM 1.15.7; Assure the integrity and confidentiality of the records in their custody and with which they use to do their jobs. Managers are responsible for ensuring that their employees comply with these requirements; and Return records requested from the FRC promptly when finished with the records.

Here's a list of potential laws broken: The following laws set forth basic legal requirements for federal records management and closely related activities at the IRS. Provision of these laws that are most relevant to IRS records management are codified at 5 USC §§ 552, 552a, 553; 18 USC § 641, 798, 2071; 26 USC §§ 6103, 7213; 31 USC § 3523; 40 USC §§ 1401-1503; and 44 USC Chapters 21, 29-35. Administrative Procedure Act of June 11, 1946, Ch. 324, 60 Stat. 237; Budget and Accounting Procedures Act of 1950, Pub. L. No. 80-784 (September 12, 1950); Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments of 1996, Pub. L. No. 104-231 (October 2, 1996); Federal Records Act of 1950, Act of June 30, 1949, Ch. 288, Title V, 64 Stat. 583, which requires, among other things, that the head of each federal agency establish and maintain an active, continuing program for the economical and efficient management of agency records; Federal Records Management Amendments of 1976, Pub. L. No. 94-575 (October 21, 1976); Freedom of Information Act, Pub. L. No. 89-487 (July 4, 1966) (as amended); Government Paperwork Elimination Act, Pub. L. No. 105-277 (Division C) (October 21, 1998); Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1996, Pub. L. No. 104-106 (Division E) (February 10, 1996); National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Act of 1984, Pub. L. No. 98-497 (October 19, 1984); Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980, Pub. L. No. 96-511 (December 11, 1980) (as amended); Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Pub. L. No. 104-13 (May 22, 1995); Paperwork Reduction Reauthorization Act of 1986, Pub. L. No. 104-13 (October 18, 1986) (as amended); Privacy Act of 1974, Pub. L. No. 93-579 (December 31, 1974) (as amended); Records Disposal Act of 1943, Act of July 7, 1943, Ch. 192, 57 Stat. 380 (as amended); Tax Reform Act of 1976, Pub. L. No. 94-455 (October 4, 1976) (as amended), providing for punishment by imprisonment, fine or both of IRS employees and contractors who disclose tax information to unauthorized individuals or who access tax information in an unauthorized fashion; and Act of June 25, 1948, Ch. 645, § 1, 62 Stat. 795 (as amended), which prohibits the concealment, removal, or mutilation of federal records and punishes same by fine or imprisonment or both, and which is set forth at 18 USC § 2071. See also 18 USC §§ 641, 793-794, 798, and 952. The following Executive Orders, regulations, agency orders, and policy documents set forth additional legal requirements and guidance for federal records management and closely related activities at the IRS. Relating to the Civil Service Commission and Labor-Management in the Federal Service, Executive Order 12107, 44 Fed. Reg. 1,055 (January 3, 1979) (as amended), which supersedes Executive Order 10561 providing that official personnel folders are records of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and permitting OPM to prescribe regulations therefore; National Industrial Security Program, Executive Order 19829, 58 Fed. Reg. 3,479 (January 8, 1993) (as amended); Classified National Security Information, Executive Order 12958, 60 Fed. Reg. 19,825 (April 20, 1995) (as amended); Personnel Records, 5 CFR Part 293, which contains a basic personnel records and files system for Federal agencies; Records Management, 36 CFR Ch. XII, Subch. B; Management Accountability and Control, OMB Circular A-123 (revised), 60 Fed. Reg. 33,876 (June 29, 1995); Management of Federal Information Resources, OMB Circular A-130 (revised), Transmittal Memorandum No. 4 (November 28, 2000); Records and Information Management Program, Treasury Directive 80–05 (February 23, 2000); and Records Management, General Accounting Office Policy and Procedures Manual for Guidance of Federal Agencies, Title 8, Transmittal Sheet 8-8 (February 1991). Federal Register: This is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as Executive Orders and other Presidential documents. This document is used to retrieve the IRS privacy act system of records; Treasury Directive 80-05, RIM program: This directive provides policies and assigns responsibilities for records management, forms management, and interagency reports management. This directive also authorizes the issuance of Treasury Department Publication (TDP) 80-05, RIM Manual, which includes additional policy guidance for specific categories of records; Other IRMs that relate to the RIM program: IRM 1.15.2 (Types of Records and Their Life Cycle); IRM 1.15.3 (Disposing of Records); IRM 1.15.4 (Retiring and Requesting Records); IRM 1.15.5 (Transferring/Removing Records); IRM 1.15.6 (Managing Electronic Records). Note: IRM 1.15.7 Files Management is referenced under RIM as it relates to other programs. IRS Records Control Schedules (RCS) (formerly IRM 1.15.8 through IRM 1.15.37), now Document 12990, Catalog 57810D: These provide disposal authorizations for records accumulated by organizations/business units within IRS; General Records Schedules (GRS): The Archivist of the United States (NARA) issues the GRS to provide disposal authorization for temporary administrative records common to all agencies of the Federal government. They include records relating to civilian personnel, fiscal accounting, procurement, communications, printing, and other common functions, and certain nontextual records. The IRS has incorporated the GRS in the IRS comprehensive RCS Manual as RCS 38 through RCS 64 (formerly IRM 1.15.38 through IRM 1.15.64), IRS Document 12829, Catalog 54713E. And here's the link: http://http://www.irs.gov/irm/part1/irm_01-015-001.html

Yup. Kinda hard to keep track anymore.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-captured-benghazi-suspect-in-secret-raid/2014/06/17/7ef8746e-f5cf-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html?Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost The timing of this is rather convenient.

This is an Obama problem? This and the rest of the travelling roadshow are his problems. You know as well as I do, leadership may not have been actively engaged (in this case, I'm convinced they were) in whatever transgression occurred, but the buck still stops with them.

Well, how convenient. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ats-again.html I'm sure some of you are familiar with backup and archiving procedures, not to mention laws regarding retention of all official gov email. Please tell me again, how this isn't the most corrupt admin in the history of this country because I got nothing...

Agree, happens all the time. Costs less than shipping the equipment back home. I like it even better when we sell 120 M1A1 MBT's to the Iraqi's because we think they're all responsbile and stuff now. As I stated earlier, we are freaking AWESOME at nation building. USA! USA ! USA!

Personally, I would go with an AR platform first. Here's a good article on stopping power, or the myth thereof: http://m.policemag.com/article/2426/stopping-power-myths-legends-and-realities. I like this part: Its really all about what you're most comfortable firing. Once you've decided upon a particular gun, caliber etc. practice. A lot. You may also want to enroll in a shooting class or two. Just be sure the instructor is reputable before doing so. It really all boils down to this though: "Three P's" -Placement -Penetration -Permanent wound cavity If this will be for home defense (possible even CCW), you must ask yourself one very important question. Are you willing to end another human's life? Its really easy to say yes but I would do some serious introspection first. If it turns out that you can't pull the trigger in a SHTF moment, it is a very real possibility that the perpetrator will take your gun from you and kill you with it, if they are so inclined. Just some food for thought. Good luck with your purchase. Careful though, they're kinda like Lay's potato chips.

There is no database, and there shouldn't be, unless concessions are made. There are rows and rows and rows of file cabinets of paper files. Where do you think all those registrations end up? The information exists, there is not a single good reason why that that information is not entered into digital format. The only thing it does it waste time and money (both paid by the tax payers) when there is a need to track a gun. Agreed. When we track the sale of other things that can kill at the will of the operator (e.g. automobiles), it makes no sense to forego tracking firearm transactions. To what end? Tell me, how do they know which gun store to go to when investigating a crime? I mean, that is the whole purpose of archiving the 4477's in a database, correct? How long do you think it would take them to develop some actionable intelligence? Days, weeks, months or years? What are they going to do when they get the 4477s in hand? Do they process 20 years worth from every FFL in the state every time a violent crime involving a firearm is committed? Why do you feel it's the Fed's business versus the state's? You actually want the orchestrators of "Fast and Furious" to track MY guns? No.

It amuses me that some would go out like the students in the pic on the left. Its pathetic really... When they kick at your front door How you gonna come? With your hands on your head Or on the trigger of your gun? Just thought I'd leave you some fodder to get you foaming.

As a starting point, I, like most Americans, I would like to see expanded background checks, limits on magazine size, a potentially a renewed effort to ban assault rifles. I'd also like to see the NRA and the right allow the ATF to have a full-time director, and allow them to use modern technology (such as an excel database) to keep track of gun sellers. I'd like to see the ATF be able to demand gun dealers to keep an inventory and a history of who they sell to. Christ we can find out in 10 minutes who purchased sudafed in the last month, but we can't do the same for guns. I KNEW I saw you post this at some point. Just couldn't find it because I was looking further back in the thread. Do you even know what an assault rifle is? Go look it up. You have truly shown your ignorance on this topic, in this post and I can't take anything else you say, seriously. Good day, sir. So.... Still nothing to refute that background checks work Nope, not gonna waste my time. When you can show me that they stopped a mass murder, I'll do further research. Edit: You've had time to Google it by now, what's an assault rifle? Is it the scary looking black gun that sorta looks like what Army dudes and Marines carry around? Is that it?

"the right to bear arms has never been Absolute. there has always been restrictions on what kind of arms you can purchase and who can purchase them." Never and always? Pretty absolute and pretty inaccurate but pretty entertaining, nonetheless. The rest of your argument is weak sauce. Please keep the laughs coming though.

As a starting point, I, like most Americans, I would like to see expanded background checks, limits on magazine size, a potentially a renewed effort to ban assault rifles. I'd also like to see the NRA and the right allow the ATF to have a full-time director, and allow them to use modern technology (such as an excel database) to keep track of gun sellers. I'd like to see the ATF be able to demand gun dealers to keep an inventory and a history of who they sell to. Christ we can find out in 10 minutes who purchased sudafed in the last month, but we can't do the same for guns. I KNEW I saw you post this at some point. Just couldn't find it because I was looking further back in the thread. Do you even know what an assault rifle is? Go look it up. You have truly shown your ignorance on this topic, in this post and I can't take anything else you say, seriously. Good day, sir.

I'm still awaiting your response to this; "Of course its analogous. You are exercising your 1st amendment rights in the same way that I exercise my 2nd amendment rights. How would you feel if I came on here and told you to STFU and go get whatever you're saying approved by some federal keyboard jockey before you post it? You cool with that? You don't get to f#cking cherry pick the Constitution!" Edit: Oh, and you never said if you wanted a beer or not so I got you one anyway but then I drank it.

Interesting information, but it seems that despite all the blood, sweat, and money that was thrown into Iraq, little was accomplished to stamp out corruption or ensure governance that is at all competent. In fact the regime of corruption was tacitly used as matter of convenience while our forces occupied the country. The Iraqi military is also plagued by corruption, cronyism, and generally incompetent leadership. These are pretty much the same circumstances that were present when the government and military of South Vietnam rapidly collapsed, as well as Afghanistan today. Yup. You can buy allegiance for a song in that region of the world.

It has everything to do with the Neanderthals inhabiting that particular patch of earth. Heathens, through and through. Let's see; they stone girls to death just for going to school. Check. They wipe their a#ses with their hands. Check. They sh#t all over a toilet instead of in it. Check. Women are for pro-creating and boys are for "fun." Check. Barbarians, the whole lot of them. I would not lose a single second of sleep if we turned the entire region into an ashtray. Before anyone gets all butt-hurt about what I just wrote, I invite you to spend a little time with the friendly folks of the Middle East. You will walk away stunned... I did two tours in Iraq spending about 2 years there. The first was in Baghdad with an engineer unit, the second in Mosul with an eod unit. Yes i seen some things that I personally don't agree with. Such as 6 year old kids doing work of cleaning porta potties while an adult sat in the air conditioned truck the entire time. Even though we don't agree with it that is their culture. Believe it or not as we were there helping build their government. Those types of things started to change. We would see 2 adults come and cleaning the porta potties and no kids be involved at all. I don't think nor wish or want them to be turned into an ashtray as how you put it. Don't act as if we don't have similar problems here. We have racist/serial killers that kill others due to skin color or for any other criteria their warped minds come up with. Or gangs that beat up, stab, shoot people for walking down the wrong side of a street or wearing the wrong color. We to use to think similar to women were for procreating only. But we have gotten smarter and moved on passed that thankfully. If we can learn from those mistakes and become better as a culture. Then they can to. Huh? You're seriously going to compare the problems in America to those of Iraq? Not even the same universe. Wow dude, you really reached on that one.

Do you seriously read that rag? Sadly, I usually utilize foreign desks for my news on what's happening in America. That's the only place you can get any semblance of truth, these days.