The 62nd annual observance of the National Day of Prayer will take place on May
2, 2013 across the nation. Organized events will be held in thousands of public venues where intercession will be made for America and its leadership. This year’s theme, “Pray for America”, is based on Matthew 12:21 which reminds us that “In His name the nations will put their hope.” 

Throughout the state there will be prayer breakfasts, prayer walks, prayer gatherings at city halls, churches, parks, schools, and the state capitol. 

Please contact the national website at www.nationaldayofprayer.org to find a prayer event close to you.   

Below are the locations and time for the MS Gulf Coast area. If you are unable to attend
an NDP event, please take time May 2 to pray in unison where you are.

Gulfport: 12:00 pm -1:00 pm Gathering for prayer at the
Vietnam War Memorial Corner of 27^th Ave. & 14^th St.West Side of Hancock Bank Gulfport, MS

Biloxi : 12:00  pm – 1:00 pm City Hall 140 Lameuse Street

Pascagoula: 11:30 AM – 12:45 PM First Baptist Church of Pascagoula, 902 Live Oak Ave 

D’Iberville: 11:30 am - 12:30 pm 10383 Automall Parkway At  City Hall

Lucedale: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm George County Courthouse Square (In case of rain will be
held at First Baptist Church across the street)

Ocean Springs: 12 pm – 1:00 pm City Hall 1018 Porter Ave.

Bay St. Louis: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Hancock Medical Center, Hwy 90  

City of Gautier NDP City Observances:

St. Mary’s Catholic Church 5/2/13  8:00am Mass

City Hall, Veterans Tower   5/2/13    7:30am

Gautier High School (flag pole)  5/2/13  7:15am

MGCCC Jackson Co. Campus   5/2/13 3:00pm at the (Bell Tower)

First United Methodist Church 5/5/13 10:00am

Frazier Park   5/5/13   9:00am

Vancleave:  12  pm – 12:45 pm Gazebo in front of the Vancleave HighSchool  Hwy 57

Long Beach: 12 pm – 1:00pm Flag Pole at the Town Green South
of City HallvJeff Davis Avenue

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm River Front, Denny St. In Case of rain, the event will be held at the Recreation Center.

Stennis Space Center Observance: 12:00- 12:30 pm Observance event for SSC
employees Stennis Space Center Roy S. Estess Building

Diamondhead: 9 am Diamondhead Community Church 5301 Diamondhead Circle

A could of weeks ago I spoke out against the Online Sales
Tax and had several that disagreed. They felt that online retailers are
cheating by not paying taxes like the bos stores.

My reasoning is that it’s a just one more major Pain in the
Buttocks where the burden on business is greater then the tax dollars up for
grabs.

Sen Mitch McConnell spoke out against the Internet Tax Bill
and was criticized. However, after fact checking his claim…..well, see below in an artical in the Washington Post 4.26.13

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McConnell’s claim that there are ‘nearly 10,000’ tax codes nationwide

By Glenn Kessler, Published: April 26 |
Updated: Monday, April 29, 5:00 AM

J. Scott Applewhite/AP

“From what I’m told, there are nearly 10,000 state, local, and municipal
tax codes nationwide. And while complying with so many codes might not be a big
deal for large online retailers, it’s a huge burden on the little guys.”

--Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, speaking against a bill that
would require online merchants to collect sales taxes, April 23, 2013

During last week’s debate over a bill that supporters call the Marketplace Fairness Act—which appears headed for Senate passage in May with bipartisan support
--a colleague spotted this “nearly 10,000” figure and wondered about its
accuracy. It certainly seems like a large number.

The Facts

 The proposed bill would require online sellers with annual revenues of
about $1 million to collect the relevant sales taxes that would have been due
if the buyer had purchased the item in their home state. Currently, no sales
tax is expected to be collected if the seller does not have a physical presence
in the state, such as a warehouse. Instead, buyers are supposed to pay such
sales taxes when they file their income taxes, but compliance is poor, so
states claim they are losing billions of dollars in unpaid state taxes.

McConnell’s office said he got the figure from a report by the Tax Foundation, which said that “several
private firms maintain databases of the sales tax rates in the 9,600 local
jurisdictions in the United
  States that levy them.”

Joseph D. Henchman, vice president of legal and state projects at the Tax
Foundation, said the actual figure is 9,646, as of July 2011. He said that Vertex, Inc., a sales tax
software provider, calculated the figure at the Tax Foundation’s request.

The Vertex estimate is in the mainstream for such estimates. Avalara,
another software specialist, gives an estimate of 14,500, while CCH calculates it as 7,600.

Diane L. Yetter, founder of the Chicago-based Sales Tax Institute,
said the numbers vary so much because of differences in the sophistication of
the software. For instance, she said, Denver
has several special-purpose tax districts, such as for the stadium or the
convention center. Some software companies count each district as separate tax
jurisdiction and others lump together all of the districts as one entity.

The numbers add up quickly because all but five states have sales taxes, and
these then can be layered with county, city and/or district sales taxes. 
In 2012, Vertex says, 259 tax jurisdictions either increased or decreased their rates, while 167 new
tax districts were created.

“The number is not easily verifiable,” she said, noting the wide ranges of
estimates. “But 9,600 is probably a good average.” She said the figure refers to
the number of “tax authorities that have the right and the ability to impose a
tax with a rate.”

Whether the crazy-quilt of tax jurisdictions is “a burden” is open to
interpretation. David French, senior vice president of government relations at
the National Retail Federation, which is pushing hard for the new law, said
that “it is true that there are roughly 9,600 taxing jurisdictions, but the
Marketplace Fairness Act contains several provisions to simplify compliance for
remote sellers.”

As an example, he said the bill would require that there be only one return
per state, so sellers would only have to file a maximum of 47 returns (45
states with a sales tax, plus D.C. and Puerto Rico).
He said the bill also includes a requirement for a uniform tax base within each
state, which is already underway as a result of an effort known as the
Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement.

We obviously take no position on the legislation but the Congressional
Research Service produced an interesting report that lays out some of the issues for
readers who want to know more.

The Pinocchio Test

McConnell’s figure stands up to scrutiny, falling right in the center of the
various estimates of tax jurisdictions in the United States. It may be debatable
whether the figure is especially relevant, especially if the bill would indeed
simplify the filing of state taxes, but McConnell earns a prized Geppetto
Checkmark.

by Michael Moynihan  | April 10, 2013 10:16 AM EDT

© 2013 The Newsweek/Daily Beast Company LLC

Last week, Rutgers University fired its mercurial basketball coach after he was videotaped “shoving, grabbing and throwing balls at players in practice and using gay slurs,” according to ESPN. Under pressure from school administrators, Rutgers’ athletic director, who had previously defended the coach’s behavior, resigned. It was an appropriate response: violent oafs should be fired from their university jobs for violent, oafish behavior.

On the same day ESPN broadcast the Rutgers tape, The New York Post reported that Kathy Boudin, a professor at Columbia University, was named the 2013 Sheinberg Scholar-in-Residence at NYU Law School. In 1984, Boudin, a member of the Weather Underground, a violent, oafish association of upper-class “revolutionaries,” pled guilty to second-degree murder in association with the infamous 1981 Brinks armored car robbery in Nyack, New York. Babbling in the language of anti-racism and anti-imperialism, Boudin assisted in ending the life of three people, including Waverly Brown, the first black police officer on the Nyack police force, and left nine children fatherless. She was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison. In 2003, Boudin was released; by 2008 she had landed a coveted teaching position at an Ivy League university.

Indeed, Boudin’s Columbia University biography doesn’t mention her violent past, describing her simply as “an educator and counselor with experience in program development since 1964, working within communities with limited resources to solve social problems.” Neither does an official NYU press release announcing her new gig, instead explaining that Boudin “has been dedicated to community involvement in social change since the 1960’s.” Well, that’s one way of putting it. (Boudin didn’t respond to an interview request.)

Kick a student on the basketball court and you’ll lose your university job. Spend two decades in prison on radical chic murder rap and you’ll get one.

Let’s be clear: Private colleges can hire whomever they like, though one suspects that a Pinochet loyalist, a propagandist for Franco, or a far-right bomber—where academic jobs are scarce—wouldn’t make the shortlist of candidates at Columbia or NYU. In fact, there is a rather ignoble tradition within academia of welcoming those with fringe views and violent backgrounds, provided their politics were “misguided” in the appropriate direction.

Here's a quick look at Kathy Boudin and other 60s radicals turned professors.

The most famous Weather Underground bombers-cum-professors are, of course, Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn (also a former Sheinberg Scholar-in-Residence at NYU, which must consider bomb-making skills when making its selection), whose infantile politics and tenure on the FBI’s Most Wanted List never dented the confidence of the University of Illinois or Northwestern University.

Ayers and Dohrn have long maintained that their bombing campaigns never deliberately targeted people, a claim that elides a rather important event: the famous 1970 explosion at a Weather bomb factory in New York City that killed three people, all of whom were constructing nail-packed pipe bombs for deployment at an army dance in Fort Dix, New Jersey. The goal was to blind, maim, and kill. Boudin was present, but escaped the explosion and evaded capture. She insisted during her 2003 parole hearing, against logic and and all available evidence, that she was unaware the house was being used to construct bombs.

In a fair-minded piece for LA Weekly, journalist Peter Jamison reported that investigators also believed an unsolved 1970 bombing of a San Francisco police station, which killed one officer and blinded another, could be tied back to Ayers and Dohrn. According to Jamison, “two credible eyewitnesses—both former left-wing radicals tied to the Weathermen—gave detailed statements to investigators in the 1970s alleging that Dohrn and Howard Machtinger, another member of the group, were personally involved in organizing the deadly attack.”

Ayers, Dohrn, and Machtiger spent most of the 1970s “underground,” attempting to avoid prosecution on a variety of charges (including a foiled attempt to bomb the Detroit Police Officers Association Building) and Jamison says that the three “were all targets of a secret federal grand jury investigation in 2003” into the police station bombing. It might not surprise you that, before retiring, Machtinger was a professor at North Carolina Central University and Teaching Fellows Director at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill’s School of Education. According to Jamison, Ayers, Dohrn, and Machtiger all refused repeated requests to comment on the case.

Or take former Black Panther party grandee Ericka Huggins, who is now a professor of women’s studies at California State University, a professor of sociology at Laney and Berkeley City College, and, according to one official biography, a “human rights activist.” In 2011, students at the University of Kentucky could receive extra credit for attending a lecture by Huggins, described as a “political prisoner and human rights activist.” It does not seem to bother these universities that in 1970 Huggins was brought to trial on charges of “aiding and abetting” the murder of Alex Rackley, a fellow Panther they wrongly believed to be a police informant. She was acquitted.

But a few salient facts aren’t disputed: After days of “interrogation,” Rackley was brutally tortured—beaten mercilessly, boiling water poured on his naked body—and left to marinate in his own blood, urine, and feces. As a warning to other “traitors,” one torture session was audiotaped. In the scratchy recording recovered by police, Huggins can be heard recalling when she “began to realize how phony [Rackley] was and that he was either an extreme fool or a pig, so we began to ask questions with a little force and the answers came out after a few buckets of hot water.” During the session, Rackley was tied to his chair with a gun pointed at him. As he shifted nervously, Huggins snapped, “Sit down motherfucker. Keep still.” (A copy of the tape was recently discovered in a Connecticut house and can be listened to here).

After 16 years in prison, her sentence was commuted by President Bill Clinton and, not long after, the self-identified “human rights activist” took a position teaching at John Jay College.

In their book Murder in the Model City, authors Paul Bass and Douglas W. Rae describe a broken Rackley being led out of the house two days after the taped session, to be driven to his execution site in a nearby marsh: “From her perch by the kitchen counter, Ericka Huggins, the highest-ranking female Panther in town, watched [Panthers George] Sams and Warren [Kimbro] walk Rackley out the door. Sam brandished the .45 automatic as he held Rackley’s arms, which were tied together with ropes.” Warren Kimbro shot Alex Rackley in the head. He later confessed to the murder and was sentenced to life in prison, but only served four years. By 1975, he was an assistant dean at Eastern Connecticut State University.

After years on the run, having been indicted for her involvement in the Brinks robbery and murder in Nyack, Weather Underground member Susan Rosenberg was caught in 1985 moving “740 pounds of dynamite and weapons, including a submachine gun,” according to The New York Times, from her car into a storage locker. After 16 years in prison, her sentence was commuted by President Bill Clinton and, not long after, the self-identified “human rights activist” took a position teaching at John Jay College. After her contract wasn’t renewed, she found a perch at Hamilton College, though furious opposition by some faculty members forced the administration to withdraw the offer. But no hard feelings from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Interdisciplinary Studies Program, which in 2011 invited students “to a celebration of Susan Rosenberg” upon the release of her memoir.

Former Weather Underground member Eleanor Raskin, who fled after being indicted for bomb making in the 1970s, is an associate professor at Albany Law School. In 1981, Raskin and her husband were arrested in connection with an explosives cache uncovered two years earlier by New Jersey police (her husband was placed on probation; the charges against Raskin were dropped). After years in hiding, Mark Rudd, a Weather leader who also fled indictment and went “underground,” turned himself in 1977 and was sentenced to two years’ probation. He later taught at Central New Mexico Community College.

And on it goes. Perhaps you detect a pattern developing here?

They might have been violent charlatans, but they were violent charlatans in search of a better society. They might resist providing a full and proper accounting of their crimes, but most will concede that their tactics might have been misguided and offer qualified repentance, but insist that their instincts were correct.

So go ahead and commit a crime, “expropriate” a bank. Just make sure you leave an incoherent manifesto at the scene, claiming that you’re shooting your guns and filling your pockets with loot for the people. When caught, you won’t be a convicted murderer, but a “political prisoner.” And when released, you can be a college professor.

Here I am eating a snack of chips and what my wife calls Nuclear Salsa while watching America Live w/ Megyn Kelly. She’s discussing the Boston Islamic Terrorist with Rep. Peter King and others.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19yo terrorist, was being questioned under the ‘Public Safty’ Clause before the reading of his Miranda Rights. They learned that the 2 jihadist had planned an attack on Times Square. The FBI was 16 hours into the 48 hour limit of the exception clause when a Magistrate Judge shut down the questioning. Miranda was giving and he hasn’t answerd any other questions.

The judge was following the directions of the DOJ. Yes, Eric Holder and the DOJ ordered the the Judge in along with a DOJ Lawyer and the questioning ends. So, the DOJ who leads the FBI sends in a Judge to shut down the FBI when they had used only a fraction of the time the ‘Public Safty’ clause was available.

There is no telling how much more intel we could have gotten had the DOJ not shut down the DOJ.

Who side is Holder on again?

For the last couple of weeks, my wife and I have been working on the landscaping of our new home. There have been a few…ah…casualties.
Just a little background here, I was raised to never….NEVER….cut a Pecan, Magnolia, Oak, Dogwood, or Loblolly Pine. (And azaleas but since I hate those I choose to ignore that rule and keep silent if I do have to remove one)

Now, since we have a squirrel army that surround us and drop
acorns everywhere, we have several small trees growing under larger Oak, Pecan and Pines. Wanting to be able to mow under them at some point I took it on my own to….yes….CUT DOWN Several trees from sapling to some 8-10 feet tall to make way for the older trees to flourish and improve our view of the back yard.  

I share this story to get to THIS Story.  Today is Earth Day. Please watch the video (Click Here for Link) to see the ensuing outcome of my killing of helpless trees….kg

Have you head for Magnetic Putty? This is some of the coolest HD Video of stuff.

Yea I know....I'm easly amused.

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