Friday, November 15, 2013
The challenge of driving in Alaska.
I have seen far more moose, and had a few close call with them however.
Gotta admire that bear's gymnastics ability.
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I think we discovered Sarah Palin's role model.
If it seems familiar, then you may be thinking of this one of Andrew Breitbart's favorite fake pimp James O'Keefe.
Maybe this is part of the dress code that Palin has to adopt now that they are the only Right Wing group willing to publish her venomous word salad diatribes.
Perhaps Palin needs to be more careful as to whom she models her look after, since things did not work out so well for O'Keefe.
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Comedians Key and Peele join the Daily Show to help determine if Sarah Palin is Racist or Not Racist. I literally have no idea which way this might go.
20 Points Of Forgery: Reporting Allegations Of Obama Birth Certificate Forgery
Exclusive: Citizen Reporting Allegations of Obama Birth
Certificate Forgery Responds to U.S. District Court, Part 1
“HE REALLY DOESN’T HAVE A CHOICE”
By Sharon Rondeau | The Post & Email
(Nov. 14, 2013) — On October 18, 2013, Douglas Vogt submitted a Notice of Commission to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington to report two federal crimes, misprision of felony and misprision of treason, against the United States relating to the birth certificate image posted on the White House website in April 2011 purported to be that of Barack Hussein Obama.
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| On October 18, Washington State resident and business owner Douglas Vogt submitted a Notice of Commission to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in accordance with federal statutes, requesting the empaneling of a special grand jury to examine the evidence in his filing. |
Vogt is not challenging Obama’s eligibility, having filed the affidavits in keeping with 18 U.S.C. §4 and 18 U.S.C. §2382, which address misprision of felony and misprision of treason, respectively. The statutes mandate that anyone with knowledge of either type of crime having taken place who does not report same to “some judge or other person in civil or military authority under the United States” faces a fine and a prison sentence. In his submission, Vogt asked the judge to convene a special federal grand jury to examine his evidence, which consisted of a public affidavit and a sealed affidavit with more details of the alleged crimes.
Former attorney Montgomery Blair Sibley provided assistance to Vogt in preparing the Notice of Commission.
On October 29, The Post & Email interviewed Vogt about the crimes he alleged were committed in regard to the forgery of the birth certificate. On a page of his main website, Vogt lists the 20 points of forgery identified in his public affidavit.
Vogt and typesetting expert Paul Irey are working on a book about the birth certificate forgery entitled From Forgery to Treason.
On November 5, Judge James L. Robart issued a response to Vogt which claimed that his court did not have “subject matter jurisdiction” over the matter, citing previous civil lawsuits challenging Obama’s eligibility for the office over the last five years.
A week later, Vogt submitted his response to the court, within which he reveals that the court clerk changed the title of his original submission from “Notice of Commission” to “Vogt v. Obama” in the style of a lawsuit. Vogt explains that he did not seek the Court’s assistance in settling a “case or controversy,” citing language from Article III, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution detailing the function of federal courts, but rather, is adhering to federal statutes governing knowledge of the commission of a crime and requesting necessary statutory action on the part of the judge to summon a grand jury.
The following is our exclusive interview with Vogt following the submission of his response.
THE POST & EMAIL: Did Mr. Sibley assist you with your reply to the court?
MR. VOGT: Yes; in fact, he used this case for his own case in Washington, DC. We did it together, but he did most of it. My impression is that because of his cases in the past, he’s spent a lot of time on the Article III issue. I would say that the court is trying to label this as a different case than what it is. This is merely reporting a crime stated by a law passed by the first Congress, second session, and it’s by obligation. The problem is that the court clerks have only two things they can file: either a criminal case of a civil case. There isn’t anything in between.
You can read the filing on obamaforgerybook.com. It’s on the left-hand-column. The first item is the judge’s reply to me, and the second is our reply to the judge.
It’s pretty simple. What we’re trying to do is give citizens the right to collect evidence and give it to a federal judge to put it to a grand jury. The evidence could be against a bureaucrat or politician. It puts some of the control and justice back into the people’s hands, which is what the Founding Fathers originally intended. The judge has the right to put it into a grand jury. The law says “a court or an attorney of the United States.” So that is what we’re doing. It caught everybody flat-footed, including the Obots. They don’t know what to make of it. Many people did not know about this part of the law.
As an accountant, I looked at the law with a fresh eye. It’s something that Congress gives the court, and it’s by statute. An honest person is supposed to report a crime.
“Standing” means if you’ve suffered a loss of some sort: physical or monetary, and how it affects you. But it has no meaning when it comes to a criminal case. This is not either: this is reporting a crime; it’s as simple as that. By judicial rule 6, I’m told, if it’s in the public’s interest, and certainly, this is, the judge has to put it into a grand jury; he really doesn’t have a choice. So this poor judge is between a rock and a hard place. That’s why they answered me the way they did; they’re trying to make it appear to be a different kind of case than it is. You can tell by my response that we basically answered that question.
If the judge still does the same thing after this, it will be appealed. It’s very clear. I don’t see how an appellate court would rule anything different than, “He has the right to be released from liability for misprision of treason and felony.”
THE POST & EMAIL: And you want an acknowledgement of your report of the crimes?
MR. VOGT: We gave them the one page to sign off already. That’s all the judge has to do. Once he does that, he’s acknowledging that a crime or crimes have been committed against the United States, and he then really has to put it to a grand jury or he could be construed as being an accessory after the fact. That’s the law; it defines what an “accessory after the fact” is.
THE POST & EMAIL: So you’re using the statutes to get the judge to acknowledge the crimes and summon a grand jury, even if you can’t get an audience before one yourself.
MR. VOGT: Yes. He’s obligated, too, because it is in the public’s interest. I presented 20 points of forgery. It’s 17,000 or 18,000 words. The sealed document even says who created the forgery and the other ones who helped. They have the whole thing. They know it. Nobody is going into the evidence I presented; definitely not the Obots. They’re too scared, because it involves some of them; I’m sure they must realize that. Nothing like making them sweat, turning the tables on them. They just didn’t realize I was going to go for the throat. This is how you do it: you do it using your brains, not a lot of verbiage and cursing and Saul Alinsky tactics. I don’t have to.
THE POST & EMAIL: Propaganda…
MR. VOGT: Yes, the “big lie.” No, I’m going for the throat. I did it nice and quietly and just dumped it on them, and now they understand what I’ve done.
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Can Tesla sell the pickup truck of the future?
A Tesla Motors Inc. vehicle is displayed during the 2013 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan, on Jan. 15, 2013.
Not if it can't conquer Texas, first.
Elon Musk has already taken on the auto industry and space travel. But is he ready to take on Texas?
It seems we're going to find out, judging from the news that Tesla Motors, Musk's media-darling electric car company, is planning to build a pickup truck within the next five years. To date, Tesla has carved out a profitable niche selling eco-friendly luxury sedans to wealthy techies. It's still working on a crossover SUV for 2014 and a cheaper sedan for 2016 (not to mention dealing with a spate of battery fires). But, never short of ambition, Musk toldBusiness Insider yesterday that Tesla intends to eventually produce a pickup modeled on the Ford F-150, America's top-selling vehicle.
Pulling that off would be a rather remarkable design feat. Ford, for its part, is aiming to have a mere hybrid version of the F-150 ready for 2020.
But making a viable Tesla pickup could be an even more daunting marketing challenge. While California, Tesla's home base and the source of half its customers, is by far the largest market for electric cars, Texas rules pickups. The state is responsible for one in six sales nationally. As Automotive News recently wrote, more pickups are sold in Dallas and Houston combined than any other state.
The upshot: if you want to sell a truck to Americans, all roads lead to the Lonestar State. As General Motors' North America Vice President Mark Reuss told Businessweek, "The opinion and recognition of how good the truck is starts in Texas."
Unfortunately, Texas poses at least two big hurdles for Tesla. The first is cultural: As of now, green vehicles just aren't that big in the land of BBQ and oil rigs. Texans buy more than 9 percent of all vehicles in the U.S., but only around 4 percent of electrics and 6 percent of hybrids. That said, culture changes. And it's not hard to see buyers in tech-friendly Austin deciding to shell out for a truck that indulged their inner cowboy and eco-warrior.
But the second, much higher hurdle is legal. As of now, Texas has effectively banned Tesla from marketing its cars in state, thanks to a statute that bars vehicle manufacturers from selling directly to customers. Why does that amount to a banishment? Because instead of working through local dealerships, like most automakers, Tesla sells all of its cars online and through company-owned showrooms. It even has ones set up in Houston and Austin. But its sales reps there aren't allowed to offer test drives, quote prices, or even send customers to the website.
Tesla already lost a lobbying battle to change the law earlier this year, thanks to pushback from dealers. Unless it finds a Plan B, it's plans for a pickup may just stall out.
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'Pink Star' diamond sells for world record at auction
File photo of Model Murphy-Thomas posing with The Pink Star diamond at Sotheby's auction house in central London.
The oval-shaped diamond weighed in at 59.60 carats. A person in the bidding room purchased the precious stone for $73.99 million.
GENEVA — The "Pink Star", a huge flawless pink diamond, was auctioned for 68 million Swiss francs ($73.99 million) in Geneva on Wednesday, a world record price for a gemstone, Sotheby's said.
The oval-shaped diamond, mounted on a ring, weighed in at 59.60 carats. It was bought by a man bidding in the room, who told reporters that he was buying it on behalf of an anonymous person whom he represented.
"Ladies and gentlemen, 68 million is the world record bid for a diamond ever bid and it's right here," Sotheby's David Bennett said to applause as he brought down the hammer in the Geneva salesroom.
Sotheby's said it was still calculating the final price, which will include the buyer's premium.
It was the star lot at Sotheby's semi-annual jewelry sale in Geneva, held in a heavily-guarded hotel showroom, which followed strong Hong Kong auctions last month.
The previous record was held by the "Graff Pink", a 24.78 carat fancy intense pink diamond bought by Laurence Graff, the London-based jeweler known as "The King of Diamonds", in 2010 for 45.44 million Swiss francs ($45.75 million at the time).
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Author: By Stephanie Nebehay 'Pink Star' diamond sells for world record at auctionof Reuters
Woman jumps off cruise ship, presumed dead
A passenger and a security camera witnessed the woman jump off the 1,300-cabin Grand Princess ship (pictured) into the Pacific Ocean about 650 miles northeast of Hilo, Hawaii.
The Grand Princess was bound for Hawaii on the third day of a 15-day trip that started in San Francisco, California.
An American woman in her 50s on a Hawaii-bound cruise ship leaped overboard on Wednesday afternoon in a bid to kill herself and is presumed dead, a spokeswoman for Princess Cruises said.
A passenger and a security camera witnessed the woman jumping off the 1,300-cabin Grand Princess ship into the Pacific Ocean about 650 miles northeast of Hilo, Hawaii, at about 2 p.m. PST, Princess Cruises spokeswoman Julie Benson said.
"This is very sad," Benson said. "This was not an accident. It was apparent that she went overboard intentionally."
The ship was bound for Hawaii on the third day of a 15-day trip that started in San Francisco, California, Benson said.
Benson said the crew turned the ship around and began searching for the woman when they were notified by a passenger. The search was continuing Wednesday evening, she said.
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