Orlando, FL --In light of another mass casualty shooting this time in a crowded Gay Bar we have little choice but to plan ahead for more of the same. Our ignorant politicians nearly always respond to this kind of threat with every type of failed gun prohibition, TSA style checkpoints and of course those Gun Free Zones.  We've learned on thing we can’t deny.  Nearly everyone of the active shooter events are stopped either by gunfire by a good guy or suicide of the gunmen. The are only stopped by the type of force they inflict on others.  As for the TSA style checkpoints at venues, they are a total farce.  Putting unarmed, untrained, un-vetted marginal people in pseudo police uniforms to stop terrorism is laughable.  Additionally this type of faux security makes a mockery of our Fourth Amendment rights to be free of unreasonable searches.  Any determined armed terrorist/criminal need only display their weapons to totally defeat these search...

San Francisco, CA—The Ninth Circuit Court’s three judge panel originally ruled that California’s Concealed weapon law was void in light of both the recent Heller and McDonald cases in the US Supreme Court . California counties and cities issue carry permits except that the jurisdictions controlled by Democrats simply deny them except for a select few politically connected favorites. Yesterday the full court, at the urging of State Attorney General Kamala Harris revisited the case, en bank.  The full court reversed and allowed for the continued blanket denial of permits. The case Peruta v. County of San Diego is now been positioned in direct conflict with the Supreme Court and other Circuit court opinions to the contrary.  Here the Ninth Circuit Court simply repealed the right to bear arms through an outrageously biased and defective judicial action.  The next fight will be in the US Supreme Court and we must now guess who will be confirmed to fill t...

Westwood, Los Angeles, CA —A deadly dispute between two engineering Ph.D   eggheads at the UCLA   campus yesterday was turned into an unnecessary and obscene military commando exercise by authorities.   UCLA Police   officers  immediately responded to a shooting scene and found two dead males.   They appeared to have suffered fatal gunshot wounds from a low powered handgun and a recently fired 9MM pistol lay nearby.   Additionally there was a suicide note that made this somewhat clear to be an isolated Murder/Suicide event.   What followed was nothing less than what we’d expect from an out-of-control fascist government.   The authorities turned this into a massive training exercise that disrupted and disturbed the entire region. SWAT teams were summoned from every department surrounding the area.   FBI, Homeland Security and the BATFE joined in the raiding party.   A chance to test their inter-agency radio communic...

Washington, DC--Donald Trump has given us  some strong lip service to his support of traditional Conservative causes.  Immigration Enforcement, Gun Rights, are two of the biggest issues where the GOP has faltered.  Wether the traditionally Liberal Trump has really turned around still remains to be seen.  The words coming from his mouth are the ones I want to hear. I'm an Army veteran.  I was drafted and trained to kill Communists.  Today Communists are running our government. The sad truth is that the Communists have taken over our government decades ago and our Constitution is on the ropes. With Trump's amazing success in the Primary elections the leadership faction of the GOP is in a major  panic.  The GOP leadership has been nearly 100% RINO pretenders.  Since Ronald Reagan left office they have put up increasingly Liberal losers that have long ago abandoned Conservative voters like me.  I have not voted in a Presidential elect...

Los Angeles, CA-- We can begin with the popular ride sharing outfit, Uber that relied on the data brokers assurances they were somehow getting comprehensive nationwide criminal histories of their driver applicants.   What Uber got for their money were numerous criminals convicted of disgusting, despicable and violent crimes. Uber officials expressed surprise as they are now forced to shell out millions to victims and government agencies for their deadly failures. Data brokers are not licensed to do investigations.  They are not capable of doing them. They are merely providing data they've collected.  That data is key punched by minimum wage earners and in some cases foreign workers.  Additionally numerous data contributors are actually people serving time in American prisons!  There are just too many holes in the data provided.  Massive mistakes of omissions and incorrect information is the rule, not an exception. Let's begin with reality.  The FBI can...

Oswald's crappy 6.5 Italian Carcano rifle Dallas, TX — Lee Harvey Oswald was a former Marine.    He was trained on the eight round semi-automatic M-1 Garand rifle.   In 1963 he military was dumping those fine rifles on the surplus market when they switched to the 20 round M-14 rifle. Klien’s Sporting Goods in Chicago was selling both the far superior M-1 Garand and the crappy 6.5 Carcano rifle that Oswald bought and used on Kennedy.   Of course Kline’s sold many other rifles by mail order back then.   Oswald selected the really cheap Carcano rifle.   He also bought a cheap 4X scope.   Had there been any kind of conspiracy Oswald would have purchased a far superior rifle like the M-1 Garand he was trained to use.   Certainly had others been involved a better rifle would have been chosen. The distance between Kennedy and the sixth floor window was just  81 meters .   Kennedy’s limo was traveling in a straight line away from ...

Los Angeles, CA —We are now in a truly multimedia world.   TV and Newspapers are on life support because of declining viewers and readership.   Today’s people want news on their terms, instantly, short, sweet and with compelling video. People want to see news on the iPhones and IPads.   They want it while they are between tasks. They seek it out while in the grocery checkout line or when waiting at the barber’s office or hair salon. The opportunities for citizen journalists are starting to surface.   Today the pay may be low but now’s the time to prepare.   You can be creative and lead the pack or be left in the dirt. You need writing skills.   Hopefully you learned them in school. Multimedia is the venue.   That means writing, photography, video and video editing.   You must be a master of all media forms.   You also need to learn how to transfer your work to the Internet.   Most people have some of these skills right now. ...

Los Angeles, CA- -While attending the German Film Pre-Oscar Reception here I saw an attractive lady and asked a fellow who I was chatting with what he knew about her.  He made a disapproving face and said she made documentary films about rocks.  He then said  that her films must be dreadful!  That lady was Petra Haffter and I didn't care about the the quality of her films because she had a great presence and she rang my bell.  I had to meet her!   I forgot the line I used on Petra, but she responded in a warm and friendly manner.  I liked her more by the second! Her personality was equally attractive!  Petra then invited my to a screening of her film series on rocks.  Suddenly in my mind I could see the disapproval on the face of of the guy who thought Petra's films must be dreadful.  I tried not to show Petra any skepticism but I had some serious doubts.  I then called the Goethe Institute and put in my RSVP for the screening. ...

Los Angeles, CA -My DJI Inspire 1 drone cost well over $3,000.00 extra batteries are well over $200.00 each.  Realistically you need several additional batteries if you plan to do any extended flying.   One of the batteries I purchased was only recharged seven times and somehow gave a "damaged cell" warning.  The battery is absolutely unusable.   Three DJI technical support calls later they told me to send it in with photos of all six sides of the battery with proof of purchase and I'd get a replacement.  Sounds simple!  Not so fast!  The date on the receipt Oct 2015 was not readable.  So they refused to send me the replacement.  Without a better copy of thr receipt I'm out of luck!  So now I'm supposed to kiss enough ass to get a better copy of the receipt from my dealer.  He's closed today so it will delay replacement assuming the dealer will generate another copy. My drone dealer is top notch in every way ...

LosAngeles, CA --instead of having a contest about the art of filmmaking, acting and soundtracks we now have a disgraceful political exercise, The Oscar Awards . The Olympic Games began as a way to unite people everywhere.  The common enjoyment of sports connected people with the  singleminded goal of excellence.   Instead of creating dividing issues with race, politics and religion the Olympics have brought people together. Likewise the art of entertainment should be a uniting force.  However the evil of division, hate and distrust has turned the Oscars into a political freak show. The participants now wear ribbons and bracelets and campaign for political crap that has nothing to do with art or entertainment.   Nobody benefits from divisive, abrasive or offensive political rhetoric, boycotts or blacklisting.  Those being offended the most are the ticket buying audience.  The only thing that should count at the Oscars are compelling stories told by t...

Los Angeles, CA- -As the final preparations are being made for Sunday's Oscar Awards Gala terrorism is a real possibility.  Terrorists love to create havoc during events that draw worldwide publicity. Having untrained minimum-wage earning workers in pseudo police garb is beyond silly.  Thankfully the LAPD will be out in force with every possible resource to deal with these issues.  I keep wondering when terrorists will employ mortars for assassination and terror within the USA? That may be old technology but teemed up with small computers those things would have amazing accuracy.  Air surveillance by helicopters or drones is  now more important than ever.  Our large shopping malls are perfect soft targets because they phased out armed security over 40 years ago.  Before everyone had a cell phone there was an advantage to mall guards with radios.  They could notify their office to call police to deal with problems.  Now anyone can make the ca...

I Los Angeles, CA --Last night I attended a screening of RACE at the Director's Guild Theater in Beverly Hills.  I was waiting and waiting to see my personal favorite actress, Carice van Houten playing Adolf Hitler's cinematographer, Leni Riefenstahl .     Riefenstahl was more than a filmmaker, she was an amazing artist that invented film equipment like jibes and cranes that are still in use today.  RACE was about the Berlin 1936 Olympic star athlete, Jessie Owens wonderfully played by a fine young actor, Stephan James.   The script by Anna Waterhouse and Joe Shrapnel was a historically correct, spellbinding masterpiece.   Actor, Jason Sudeikis rocked as Owen's coach, Larry Snyder .  The issues of racial differences and bigotry were overcome here by a simple conspiracy to make Owens the fastest man alive.  In 1936 while World War Two was still unthinkable the Nazis were rounding up and deporting Jews.  That atroc...

Los Angeles, CA --Kill them?  Not really but their jobs are meaningless.  They are overpaid, underworked and rarely are actually involved in creating news content.   The anchor smiles, personalities and emotional response to news content serves no purpose other than to create a subtitle propaganda influence on each story.  Celebrity anchors help shape the simple minds of viewers and the audience votes.  I don't think there's anyone that can't live without those rehearsed, TelePrompTer reading familiar news faces.  One of the silly games played are those phony anchor questions, tossed to the field reporters.  They are designed to sound candid but they're written by the reporters in a rather poor attempt to make the anchor sound involved with or at least interested in the story.  News, both broadcast and print is rapidly drowning in red ink.  The Internet is currently the real source for finding news content.  It's quick, easy and always o...

Los Angeles, CA--A judge here ordered Apple to aid the FBI in their investigation of the San Bernadino Terror case.  So far Apple has balked and is refusing to comply with the court order.  Giving the government the power to see the material on our cell-phones to combat terror is far more dangerous than any terrorist on earth.  This would truly be the THOUGHT POLICE Orwell warned us about. 

Aschaffenberg, Germany --it was December 1968 when after being drafted by the Army I wound up in this beautiful hamlet.  I was just about 15 miles from Frankfurt and was blessed to be assigned there as a medical corpsman. It was Christmas time and I was in a strange land far away from home.  I decided that since I was a guest in  this nation I'd act like one.  I was compelled to learn the customs, language and culture.  I stayed far away from fellow soldiers if for no other reason I liked the elegant German babes better.   I soon found that the German people were incredibly kind to me.  I made some wonderful new friends and got an education few Americans ever get.   The 18 months I spent in Germany  was the very best time of my life.  I traveled everywhere I could.  The money exchange rate was four Marks to the Dollar then. It was truly an adventure!  If I made a mistake it was not staying there an...

Big Bend, TX-- With the sudden death of Supreme Court Judge  Antonin Scalia we can count on Barack Obama to appoint a gun grabbing Communist to the court.  That would shift the court 180 degrees to the Left.  It remains to be seen if foul play was involved in Scalia's death however at 79 he reached life expectancy for males he was however considered in good health. My guess is we are a year away or less from a second Civil War as the Left will destroy our hard won freedom. We can try to wait and see but by then it will be too late.  Arguably any appointment could face delay by the Senate but should that happen the unrest will be severe.   Obama has prepared his Homeland Security just as Hitler did with his SS.  They've been given huge resources and more than a billion rounds of ammunition to use against guess who?  Internment camps are ready along with thousands of coffins for those that dare resist. I see absolute doom on the horizon.   Can Obama...

Oak Brook, IL --This Chicago suburb is the long time home of McDonald's headquarters.  The market share of this fast food icon has been slipping into the Abyss for the last decade.  Their schemes like 24 hour breakfast has done little.  Adding a few un-exciting menu items hasn't worked very well either.   I have the cure.  It's incredibly simple but I think corporate arrogance has prevented this kind of necessary menu reform.   McDonalds and burgers were matched from Ray Krock's grand idea.  This is six decades later and times and tastes have changed.  Frankly we need more choices today.   Rival fast food enterprise Burger King is not without similar problems and they just announced they are adding hot dogs.  The pictures of their new offerings make it clear they don't have a clue of how to do dogs! Ketchup on hotdogs is not fit for human consumption! Yes, that's what they're offering? Yuck! The big three hotdogs in ...