The Untimate Fighting Knife!

Here's something that will put weapon hating politicians into a cardiac arrest! I'm sure we will see this knife in a Hollywood film murder scene any day now. The WASP knife pictured and seen in this video will give a helping blast of CO2 to your target bringing on some real additional trauma to those organs.

You can get you very own before they are banned right here!

Cook County’s Jail Is Deadly and Disgraceful

Chicago—Sheriff Tom Dart has allowed the inmates to run the asylum. In a nearly 100 page report the Justice Department exposed dangers, appalling medical care and a mass violation of the civil rights of Cook County Jail's inmates.

Most people don’t care about jail conditions until they or a family member wind up there. What we fail to think about are the people who were arrested and awaiting their day in court. People never before arrested are too often there as a result of mistaken evidence or witnesses and are housed with the killers and rapists.

The sad truth is the jail is inhabited by 90% African-Americans. Young white inmates are routinely forced to submit to sexual assault by the African-American inmates. It’s always been that way.

I first found myself sent to the jail in 1967 to handle some nasty disturbances when the infamous Jack Johnson was warden. He used the Barn Boss system of letting inmates enforce discipline. Cash could buy an inmate anything including privacy with his girlfriends. I remember well the electric chair near the four, deluxe Death Row cells.

It was only five years earlier when cop killer James Dukes got his final reward in the Cook County hot seat. I talked to an old reverend that walked many a man to his death in that chair. Fuhrman vs. Georgia changed all that and the chair was later sent to the Illinois Department of Corrections never to return.

After a major jail scandal Sheriff Joe Woods fired Jack Johnson and brought in Winston E. Moore to clean up the mess. The jail guards got a raise and the new misleading title of correctional officer. They were deputized and brought in under the Sheriff’s Merit Board.

In those days the Federal Metropolitan Correction did not exist and the Cook County Jail had an entire tier reserved for federal prisoners. Since most were white collar criminals or bank robbers it was the cleanest and safest part of the entire jail.

Just South of The Cook County Jail there were two facilities run by the City of Chicago. One was the Cermak Memorial Hospital which held every level of prisoner and the other was the Bridewell House of Correction that only held low level misdemeanor prisoners. These facilities were somewhat clean and safe and a better place to be held than the County Jail.

In 1970 Sheriff Joe Woods suddenly found the city jail facilities, prisoners and their guards handed over to him and that’s when the Cook County Department of Corrections was formed.

It was only a few years later when the Department of Corrections Executive Director, Winston Moore was indicted and tried for his own missteps as the old problems never went away. It was my old friend, former assistant State’s Attorney Susan Sherwin who prosecuted Moore who was ultimately acquitted.

Nobody in their right mind wants to be a jail guard so the jail is perennially understaffed and always over-crowded. Sexual assault is still realty. Jail rape is nearly always covered up because the victims face severe beatings or death if they complain to the guards. What man would ever admit getting the Buga-Buga by force in jail?

So now Sheriff Dart has inherited the problem and can’t really begin to deal with it because of the outrageously corrupt Cook County Board. No amount of deodorizer will fix this mess. Should Dart fight for the funds and tools he needs he will never see another term as Sheriff. The Cook County Democratic Party will dump him in favor of yet another yes man with missing testacals.

I wonder what pretend reforms are in store for the white inmates with the sore rectums?

Defining Constitutionally protected Firearms

In D.C. vs. Heller the court gave gun owners the gift of vague descriptions of firearms that are protected and therefore cannot be banned.

The Court avoided defining constitutionally protected weapons other than to say that, it protects handguns and other weapons "in common use." The court suggested that dangerous or unusual weapons may not be protected and sidestepped saying just what those were.

Weapons in common use applies to military and police weapons. That makes the case that the banned black semi-automatic rifles and pistols with large capacity magazines that are, in common use cannot be denied.

This has gotten interesting, because USA vs. Miller held military type weapons are protected. Now Heller says that gun possession is an individual right rather than a government or collective right.

I can only see one meaning here and that is a much broader assortment of weapons are now definitively protected including all semi-automatic and perhaps fully automatic weapons.

I take this to mean that neither states nor the federal government can ban the ownership of National Firearms Act weapons. Before you could only own these in states that allowed these registered class III weapons.

The bans on .50 caliber rifles and the high capacity, “black guns” can no longer stand.

We will wait as nearly every criminal defendant charged with various gun law violations and their lawyers wait for a turn at the Wheel of Justice. The slower civil cases brought by the NRA and Second Amendment Foundation may be moot by the time they are heard.

The bad news here that people are rarely arrested for simple possession of banned weapons. Those arrested are usually charged with assault, or a smorgasbord of other offenses. It will be gun collectors or others caught with these weapons by chance that will be testing the various gun bans in court.

California, New Jersey, New York and a few other places are going to see their penal codes shrink as these now invalid laws cease to exist.

I hope to hear from a few legal beagles on this posting.

Is Obama’s Hawaiian Birth Certificate a Fake?

I’ve read the rumors all over the Internet along with the pro-Obama screams that this story is nothing but a smear. American Presidents are required by our Constitution to be an American by birth. Does Obama qualify? That should be simple to answer.

Okay, let’s put it to bed with a certified copy from the state vital records department once and for all. Where is it? I’m waiting…

Media News Filtering For What Agenda?

Chicago--A woman is robbed and shot outside a trendy restaurant while waiting for her boyfriend to pick her up. The police take the report and as always publically list the suspects' three easiest identifiers, sex, race and age.

This is done so that people that don’t possess these identifying characteristics can quickly be eliminated from suspicion. Broadcasting descriptions does help police solve crimes.

The media more often than not will list anything but race as they use their mass communication to hinder rather than help any search for suspects. Why do they even bother giving and description at all?

One only needs to look at the racial population of their jail and prisons to know that violent crime is most often a product from minorities. I guess the media feels Americans are unworthy of knowing the truth.

Chicago’s Perfect Genocide Storm

The Chicago Police Department has been turned into an undermanned, demoralized, observe and report security guard service.

The blame lies squarely on the shoulders of the Mayor and City Council. Their Far Left politics and corruption are 100% of the problem.

The elimination of self-reliance and rewarding people for avoiding productivity creates droves of ignorant but loyal voters keeping the Bolshevik despots in power indefinitely. Too many of Chicago’s citizens are only too happy to turn personal responsibilities over to any nanny government.

Chicago’s politicians have made the entire population totally dependant on the police for protection and survival by violating both their gun and self-defense rights. The problem is they’ve put the handcuffs on the police and shifted the control of the city to the criminal element.

Gun control began in America during post Civil War reconstruction as a way to keep the newly freed slaves disarmed and that kept the Ku Klux Klan in solid control for nearly 100 years.

Today Chicago’s unconstitutional gun control enables street gang thugs to commit genocide. The facts are clear that nearly all of Chicago’s murder victims are African-American.

Even now the beleaguered new police superintendent is planning to resurrect the gun raid team whose only significant accomplishments were raiding the homes of middle-aged white gun collectors and grabbing guns never used in any crimes. The Supreme Court has recently made it quite clear this is constitutionally protected activity.

The police department has been neutralized as an effective crime fighting tool. It will take a total leadership change and decades before anyone wearing the Chicago police uniform will trust City Hall and appointed police administrators again enough to dare do the job they were trained to do.

Chicago has created conditions for the perfect genocide storm.

Dennis Farina Took The Easy Way Out.

Los Angeles-Dennis Farina is the Chicago cop turned actor who was turned into a criminal defendant by an over-zealous and unforgiving LAX Police Department. Farina just paid a fine on par with a minor traffic ticket.

Farina could have easily won this small battle but his airline tickets alone would have exceeded the monetary punishment he accepted had he asked for his day in court.

Today Farina’s lawyer, Blair Berk slipped into court, under the media's radar one day before Farina’s scheduled arraignment and settled the matter for good. Berk pled Farina to a single count for a nominal fine and some unsupervised probation. Berk was able to get the prosecutors to agree to waive Farina’s appearance before the judge.

Okay, I hate this resolution because Farina broke no law and instead simply forgot he had that gun in his briefcase. However, trying the case would have required numerous court appearances, lots more good money and a considerable interruption of Farina’s life.

I salute Blair Berk for her exceptionally fine work done in the best interest of her client. Berk turned a criminal complaint into something parallel to a parking ticket where the fine is mailed to the court. If you ever find yourself in trouble Blair Berk is on the job.

Crime Punishment And Susan Atkins

Corona, CA-Susan Atkins was exactly what nightmares were made of. The reign of terror inflicted upon innocent citizens by Atkins and the Manson Family almost stand alone in history’s most depraved killings 39 years ago.

Atkins escaped the death penalty imposed on her by the trial court. Before and after the Manson rampage thousands of men and women have been executed for lesser crimes.

Since her murder rampage Atkins slowly rejected her mentor, Charles Manson and became a well-behaved prison inmate. Atkins has done all those things we want criminals to do and is no threat today. Atkins is now incarcerated only for punishment rather than rehabilitation. Atkins will not survive more than several months.

Atkins contracted cancer. The disease has brought the amputation of one of her legs. Now she has months to live because of untreatable brain cancer and she is no longer capable of walking or even sitting up in bed.

Prison officials told L.A. Times reporters that the state has spent $1.4 million on Atkins just since last March on medical care and security costs.

I will spare the hearts and flowers crap for another day. The cost of keeping Atkins in custody is an extravagant exercise that taxpayers don’t need. This is beyond punishment for Atkins. The only people being punished are Atkins’ family and friends who are in no way involved in the events that happened so long ago.

Chicago Is In A Real Law Enforcement Crisis

Chicago—I spent nearly a week in my birthplace learning about the ticking metropolitan time bomb.

During my Chicago travel I drove around 018, 019 and 023 the most. I rarely saw any marked police vehicles in the affluent or yuppie neighborhoods.

I interviewed a dozen cops in 001,012,018, 019,023 and at O’Hare. The neighborhoods of these police districts included Downtown, Old Town, New Town, Lakeview, Wriglyville and the near West side.

In order to insure candid interviews I promised the officers that I would not identify them as sources for this article. The answers came as if I had only interviewed only one cop rather than a dozen.

The officers said they were in a mess. They fear for their jobs, pensions and families. They are all riding 99 (the radio designation for one man cars) even during peak hours for violent criminal activity.

These days the officers I talked with will no longer make stops on cars with multiple suspicious occupants. The officers are also reluctant to make any contact with large groups of gang types in rough neighborhoods for the same reason. The dangers are twofold, physical danger and the very real danger of unwarranted race based complaints.

The officers view their duties as that of report takers and crime scene clean-up crews always responding after the fact.

None of the officers I talked to believe they have the support of the administration. The officers feel they are expendable because they see so many fellow officers humiliated and striped of their stars and police powers after bogus complaints.

The department is substantially undermanned because of retirements and a large portion of officers on medical leave or light duty. The officers told me many, if not most the officers are abusing medical excuses because the morale is at an all time low. One officer said, “Why go to a job you have grown to hate when you can be paid to stay home?”

Some officers complained about being out gunned and don’t really believe they will ever see the M-4 carbines J-Fed said were being issued to the officers. Some cited the lack of in-service firearm training and 30 rounds per year ammunition allotment as a sick joke.

Others revealed that promotions within the department these days have little to do with qualifications, ability or fairness. The civil service system has been scrapped to accommodate sexual paramours, political hacks and race based shenanigans.

Many officers feel they’ve become the whipping boys for the media. They say reporters hate officers and the mission of the police. The officers feel that most of Chicago’s reporters are simply programmed products of politically, Far Left Liberal college professors.

I asked the officers each about Chicago’s gun control laws and for their opinion. The officers all told me that the city’s gun ban worked against them. Some told me that small business owners can’t fight robbery or extortion and the thugs take full advantage of the situation.

When I asked about concealed weapon permits for law abiding citizens every officer I interviewed said it would be a good idea.

Chicago’s First Ever Rally Demanding Concealed Weapons Legislation

In light of last month’s Heller Decision from the United States Supreme Court Hundreds of Chicagoans rallied at the James Thompson Center within sight and sound of both City Hall and the state offices during a business day.

The main guest speaker, Dr. Suzanna Gratia-Hupp is seen here with me in a festive mood. In the other picture is my pal Raj Singh with his two lovely daughters, Kirin and Jaslene who were there to send a loud message to some rogue politicians that the State of Illinois must obey the law of the land.

There was a full press cadre but few media outlets published or broadcast the images and sound they captured. I guess they were there hoping for some kind of misconduct like in so many other demonstrations Chicago has hosted. Most media pretended this never happened.

More information with pictures and video can be found here.

How Humiliating!

Chicago—I just got off the plane at O’Hare and the very first thing I see is J-Fed’s sour puss with this headline!

Okay, now I must defend poor J-Fed. We have to remember J-Fed’s never been a street cop and just does not know the job. That’s not J-Fed’s fault, but the clowns that hired him to be the city’s top cop.

Next J-Fed inherited both a horrible public policy and a mandate that he support the Mayor’s unlawful and un-American gun control policy straight to Hell.

The law-abiding are forcibly disarmed and at the mercy of murderous thugs while an incredibly undermanned and outgunned police department just can’t cope.

Every day the problem gets worse. The only answer is to respect the law-abiding people’s gun rights. Create workable, concealed weapon training and permit program.

J-Fed should simply collect his $300 K per year and pretend the mayor is right.

Your Chance to Meet Crimefile in Chicago!

I’m going to be at Friday’s downtown Chicago Gun Rights Rally. I hope some of my old friends, new friends and blog visitors will stop by and say hello. This is our chance to let Mayor Daley know he is out-of-step with the law of the land.

This is also a kick off for obtaining conceald weapon legislation in Illinois. Read more about that here.

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CBS2 Is the Breaking News Today

Chicago—Did the CBS2 News department’s expose’ of an NBC5 reporter’s presence at the home of a news maker place a prominent, Emmy Award winning reporter in a false light? Was CBS2 reckless or even malicious in airing a story that aside from not being newsworthy would defame and destroy the career of a reporter for a competing station?

The biggest question I have about this entire mess is: What would motivate any reporter to demolish an ongoing news investigation of another correspondent’s work?

I can only find one word to describe this CBS2 effort, ugly. What was the justification for this really dubious story they turned into something with a sordid and salacious slant?

It looks like a Cook County Circuit Court Jury will be deciding what CBS2 and the other named individuals did wrong and how much they should be punished. A lawsuit was filed late today seeking unspecified damages on behalf of eleven-year veteran WMAQ-TV reporter, Amy Jacobson by her lawyer, Kathleen T. Zellner.

Aside from CBS, named in Jacobson’s Complaint are, Joe Ahern President and General Manager of WBBM-TV Chicago, CBS 2 Vice President and News Director Carol Fowler, anchor Rob Johnson, reporter Mike Puccinelli, Northwestern University Journalism Professor Michele Weldon and Tracy Reardon.

It was nearly a year ago when Jacobson was working on the story of Lisa Stebic, the still missing Plainfield, IL mother of two children. Lisa Stebic’s marriage had gone sour and her husband, Craig Stebic; a private investigator is a "Person of Interest" (God, how I hate that term!) in an act of presumed foul play.

Police and the missing woman’s relatives say Craig Stebic had the motive, means and opportunity to kill his wife and dispose of her body. As a private investigator Stebic should have sufficient skills to murder and cover the crime avoiding detection. Of course no adequate evidence has surfaced to qualify as Probable Cause to allow anyone’s arrest and trial for any crime.

Craig Stebic obtained a lawyer and invoked his absolute right not to answer police questions. Neither cops, nor their agents can ask Stebic anything at all or risk being sued. Anything Stebic says to them will never see the inside of a courtroom unless Stebic initiates the contact, is re-advised of his rights and waives them first.

Jacobson was not restricted by any law from getting Stebic to talk. Jacobson was on a mission to get to the heart of this story she was assigned to tell. Jacobson undertook a personal safety risk to do her job.

These kinds of cases are solved only if investigators or anyone can keep the suspects talking. Apparently Stebic was still talking, at least to Jacobson until the moment CBS2 aired their story.

Had Craig Stebic gotten caught in a lie or made any confession the threshold of probable cause may have been crossed and an arrest of a murder suspect facilitated.

Perhaps Lisa Stebic’s remains may have been found and grieving family members got some closure or at least the satisfaction that Lisa Stebic’s children are not being raised by her killer. Such a discovery by Jacobson would have served both WMAQ’s viewers and justice well.

Jacobson’s investigation was suddenly exposed by competing WBBM-TV’s news reports. Those reports seemed to leave an impression with many viewers that there was some sort of an affair or romance between the married reporter and Craig Stebic. That impression was never supported by any facts.

Despite the fact that Jacobson violated no rules, laws (civil or criminal) CBS2 apparently destroyed Jacobson’s successful career.

I’ve wondered how this mess would have played out if Jacobson been a man under the same circumstances? I’m doubt CBS2 would have gotten themselves into this legal quagmire.

The early part of any lawsuit is always a major investigation. Records, emails, Internet service provider data and telephone bills are subpoenaed for an exhausting examination. People are interviewed and after everything possible is done the discovery process ends with the depositions of all involved being taken.

Lawyers for Jacobson will have the most fun taking the depositions of this group of defendants. Some of those folks may know their way around a newsroom but submitting to the depositions will be every bit as much fun as being waterboarded by their inquisitors.

Most reporters and news directors for some unknown reason don’t do well at depositions. Perhaps it’s because they are used to be asking the questions and not accustomed to answering them.

CBS2 was contacted and so far they have declined comment.

Here’s an unedited and unfiltered copy of the complaint filed in court today:

2016 Olympics In Chicago? Surely You Jest!

Chicago—These days Chicago can’t hold any public event without having Black on Black murders and shootings imported into these events from the ghetto.

Chicago’s gun laws only work to keep the law-abiding disarmed. The morale of Chicago’s undermanned and inadequate police department has never been lower. They would never be able to keep up with the tremendous crowds or the vast network of criminals preying on them.

Proper policing can only work as a partnership between citizens and police. Today there is no such partnership in Chicago. The law-abiding are unarmed and hiding in their bathtubs from the bullets because Liberal gun control never works.

Chicago’s corrupt politicians and bureaucrats can be counted on to play the extortion game against every business trying to get a piece of the huge financial windfall that comes with this event.

Holding the 2016 Olympics in Chicago will bring a violent crime bloodbath along with a huge public corruption crime wave that will begin right on the Fifth Floor of City Hall.

The Olympic Committee and the taxpayers of Chicago should say no thanks to having the games in Chicago.

I borrowed the clever homicide chalk graphic with the Olympic Torch from my friends at secondcitycop.com.

55 MPH Sucks As a National Speed Limit

Leave it to a pretend Republican to be an auto insurance company shill and try to shove that hated 55 MPH speed limit down our throats. The real issue was that local governments hated losing the massive revenue generated by traffic citations not really involving traffic safety.

With the new unmanned photo technology just think of the billions in salary hikes, improved benefits and better than ever getaways for conferences our politicians and bureaucrats can enjoy. That while we enter another great depression over oil speculators and the government assisted mortgage lenders that have created an incredible mess.

Our insurance companies never once reduced rates in the 21 years of the since repealed 55 speed limit despite their assertions that accidents and deaths were reduced. These companies are in the business of taking us for all they can after government ties us down for them to rob us with mandatory insurance laws. Trust me, before mandatory insurance laws the best bargain was uninsured coverage you must buy today anyway. They rape us worse than ever.

This was never about saving fuel but about the prostitution in the sacred halls of Congress. More money to steal and more cash for re-election campaigns.

This is where Americans need to storm the capitol and call for the hanging of scum like Senator John Warner.

If they are from the government they are here to rob you. Thank God for the Heller Decision maybe we can stop them someday.

Celebrating the Fourth of July

The cause of Liberty was improved somewhat by the reaffirmation of Americans gun-rights by the Supreme Court.

Other than that things are dismal. We have more people in our prisons than any other nation on earth. Far too many are there for victimless crimes and offenses like Martha Stewart’s misleading some FBI agent. Gun collectors are still facing prison for some really non-dangerous highly technical violations of obscure gun laws.

I have a serious sense of doom as the forces of the Far Left have hijacked both political parties and given us two really pathetic and unqualified candidates to lead our nation. This as we are dealing with what may be the largest bank failure disaster since the Great Depression and as soaring oil prices along with the falling dollar can only bring civil unrest in our cities.

Instead of having social unrest over worthy issues the turmoi will be over demands for an unlimited nanny. In the past Americans would fight over out-of-control taxation, random searching of Americans at government checkpoints and government’s unwanted involvement in every aspect of our lives. Those days of fighting for liberty and freedom are apparently over.

It may be a good idea to see if some of us can get dual citizenship and a second passport from the few non-Socialist countries left of our parents or grandparents. America may never be the, land of the free and home of the brave again in our lifetime.

Why do Americans bother to celebrate a holiday wrapped around the freedom they have rejected long ago?

The Supreme Court Says Criminals Need Not Register Their Guns In America.

That has been the law of the land since 1968. I’ve had the gun rights haters tell me I was crazy when I’ve asserted America’s felons and ex-convicts are exempt from any form of firearm registration schemes. Registration laws are only government harassment tools to victimize law-abiding gun owners and invade their privacy.

Gun registration is both an expensive and meaningless exercise especially since gun sellers at every level are required to keep records under existing federal law. Why in the world do state and local government need to duplicate what already exists under federal law?

There are in fact two Supreme Court cases that have held requiring felons to register their guns violates their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination. The strongest most often cited case is Haynes v. United States, 390 U.S. 85 (1968)

U.S. Supreme Court Haynes v. United States, 390 U.S. 85 (1968)
No. 236 Argued October 11, 1967 Decided January 29, 1968
Syllabus
Petitioner was charged by information with violating 26 U.S.C. § 5851 (part of the National Firearms Act, an interrelated statutory system for the taxation of certain classes of firearms used principally by persons engaged in unlawful activities) by knowingly possessing a defined firearm which had not been registered as required by 26 U.S.C. § 5841. Section 5841 obligates the possessor of a defined firearm to register the weapon, unless he made it or acquired it by transfer or importation, and the Act's requirements as to transfers, makings and importations "were complied with." Section 5851 declares unlawful the possession of such firearm which has "at any time" been transferred or made in violation of the Act, or which "has not been registered as required by section 5841." Additionally, § 5851 provides that "possession shall be deemed sufficient evidence to authorize conviction, unless the defendant explains such possession to the satisfaction of the jury." Petitioner moved before trial to dismiss the charge, sufficiently asserting that § 5851 violated his privilege against self-incrimination guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment. The motion was denied, petitioner pleaded guilty, and his conviction was affirmed by the Court of Appeals.

Held:
1. Congress, subject to constitutional limitations, has authority to regulate the manufacture, transfer, and possession of firearms, and may tax unlawful activities. Pp. 390 U. S. 90, 390 U. S. 98.

2. Petitioner's conviction under § 5851 for possession of an unregistered firearm is not properly distinguishable from a conviction under § 5841 for failure to register possession of a firearm, and both offenses must be deemed subject to any constitutional deficiencies arising under the Fifth Amendment from the obligation to register. Pp. 390 U. S. 90-95.

3. A proper claim of the privilege against self-incrimination provides a full defense to prosecutions either for failure to register under § 5841 or for possession of an unregistered firearm under § 5851. Pp. 390 U. S. 95-100.

4. Restrictions upon the use by federal and state authorities of information obtained as a consequence of the registration requirement,

suggested by the Government, is not appropriate. Marchetti v. United States, ante, p. 390 U. S. 39, and Grosso v. United States, ante, p. 390 U. S. 62. Pp. 390 U. S. 99-100.

5. Since any proceeding in the District Court upon a remand must inevitably result in the reversal of petitioner's conviction, it would be neither just nor appropriate to require such needless action, and accordingly the judgment is reversed. Pp. 390 U. S. 100-101. 372 F.2d 651, reversed.

What’s in the future for Paul Huebl And His Blog?

Please, tell me just what you’d like to see more of at Crime, Guns and Videotape.

This blog began during a dark period for me. I was suffering from a temporary, seven month loss of nearly all my hearing. Doing my normal routine was impossible. The blog became the only outlet I had but frankly it has been fun. Thankfully my hearing returned and my blog stayed.

I was a late comer to this somewhat new way of sharing news and opinion. It’s nothing less than a technology miracle that with modest costs I can mix words with pictures, audio and video.

I believe content is King and I want so much to find time to bring my visitors much more. I want to be able to give you more of what you want from me. I have to guess just what that may be. I also am without funding from this site to gather more content. Creativity for me is a must or I’d have few readers at all. I’ve seen many a decent blog with tiny readership and meaningless crap blogs with amazing readership.

Blog promotion seems to be an art I’ve not yet mastered. I’d love nothing more than to just be generating exactly what my visitors want and make a living at the same time. Only a small percentage of bloggers have made the big time.

TV news and newspapers are dying a slow death of a thousand cuts. The viewers and readers are vanishing. Gone from the usual media customers are the audience of the 18 through 35 demographics. Their former viewers and readers are here in cyberspace.

If I had my way, I’d be reporting to you wherever news happens. I’d go to Iraq, Afghanistan or anyplace where news is unfolding and history is being made. I want to show you those things that seem to get too much filtering by mainstream or old media.

I want to bring you more original video so my visitors can see just what I see. I want to be able to bring you more behind the scenes information from major crimes, government’s missteps and those ordinary people in extraordinary events.

I want to expose more heroes and villains but am limited too often by geography and funding.

As for the question I posed in the headline of this story, I don’t have a clue what the future holds. I’m flying by the seat of my pants.

A Dog’s Life Just Got Better Thanks to Leona Helmsley

New York—Some will say the old broad was loose as a goose. Others will say that the so-called Queen of Mean was a greedy tax cheat. One thing for sure she loved man’s best friend.

Aside from leaving $12 million bucks to her own mutt, Trouble, she has left somewhere between $5 or 8 Billion dollars for the benefit of dogs. Some are outraged she did not take care of the Red Cross, the poor in America or something far more worthy. I say, “Good for Helmsley”!

Dogs improve the lives of humans in so many ways. I believe that our loyal four legged friends prevent thousands of suicides of otherwise lonely seniors. Dogs also prevent untold violent and property crimes every day and they save human lives as rescue animals. What would the blind and disabled do without help dogs?

If our dogs get subsidized veterinary care so they have a better life and the dog pounds of America become doggie hotels like the human ones Helmsley ran that’s okay by me.

Price of Gas Was Too Much For These Two

Read why here.