Benghazi cover up

Though still treading lightly, Democrats appear to be backing away from President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over their handling of the Benghazi terror attack and their past comments. This has taken many people by surprise because, up to this point, the Democrats as a group have largely supported the Obama administration’s explanation of Benghazi and blamed the Republicans for trying to create a scandal where there is none.
Several prominent Democrats have appeared on Sunday morning news shows, including Fox News Sunday and Meet the Press, to discuss the various facts that have come to light as a result of an ongoing investigation into the Benghazi embassy attack.
The list of Democrats backing away from Obama is growing and includes Representative Stephen Lynch (D-MA), who is on the Government Oversight Committee, and Representative Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD), who is the Ranking Member of the House Intelligence Committee. This is still just the beginning. Watch the interviews below:
Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD), also conceded that the reports were edited in order to reflect something that wasn’t true, though he claims this was during a “volatile” time. Don’t expect these Democrats to be the last.
The media is turning on Obama and Hillary as well, though not fully, yet. Remember, almost any level of criticism is a step in the right direction, considering the media has been acting as the “fourth branch” of government for the last four years.
The Democratic concerns emanate from the fact that the CIA talking points explaining the circumstances surrounding the Benghazi embassy attack were changed by the Obama Administration to eliminate mention of Islamic terrorism. This raises the question of whether the changes were meant to cover up catastrophic decisions by the State Department concerning embassy support and security. I think we know the answer: yes.
Click here to see the 6 biggest scandals from Hillary’s involvement with Benghazi so far.
The level of incompetence, sheer evil, and negligence on Hillary’s part is simply breath taking. The fact that millions of Americans still want her to be president is an example of the philosophical sickness that’s eating away at America’s moral fabric.

DHS Officer arrested twice blows whistle to America

Julia Davis, a former Customs and Border Protections Officer, was falsely declared a domestic terrorist and subjected to retaliatory efforts against her by the Department of Homeland Security. Her home was raided by a 27 man “special response team.” She was twice falsely arrested and imprisoned, but later exonerated. She is now a national security expert and has put out a historical documentary titled Top Priority: The Terror Within. She claims that the War On Terror by the Department of Homeland Security is a charade and that the agency seems to be targeting concerned American patriots.

Dart the idiot concealed carry without the law means Constitutional Carry is Open carry like the police dumb ass

CHICAGO (STMW) – Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart said Sunday that he is proposing a concealed-carry gun ordinance to keep Cook County from becoming the “Wild West.”
Dart said he’s worried about a stalemate in the General Assembly on a law to license people to carry concealed guns. If legislators don’t meet a June 9 court deadline to pass such a law, anyone with a state firearm owner’s identification card could legally walk anywhere in public with a concealed weapon, Dart said.
“We would have the Wild West,” Dart said to the Chicago Sun-Times. “There would be no regulation.”
Dart said he’s proposing a concealed-carry law for Cook County that would take effect only if the General Assembly failed to act by June 9 and the court didn’t extend the deadline.
“I was in Springfield for 11 years,” Dart said of his time as a legislator. “Deadlines sometimes don’t mean anything. We have to be prepared in the event something does not get done.”
Dart’s ordinance would give him the power to approve and reject licenses to carry concealed guns in Cook County. Applicants would have to pay a $300 fee for a license.
Dart said he thinks the ordinance would apply not only to Cook County suburbs, but also to the city of Chicago in the absence of a state law governing concealed carrying of guns.
Chicago Police spokesman Adam Collins said: “If a statewide law is not passed, the city is preparing to implement a comprehensive concealed-carry ordinance to ensure that guns stay out of the hands of criminals.”
Illinois is the only state that does not have a law allowing people to carry concealed firearms.
The National Rifle Association sees the issue as key to its national agenda of protecting Second Amendment gun rights.

The NRA and other gun-rights advocates would like to see legislation that authorizes concealed-carry licenses for anyone who undergoes the necessary training and passes a background check. Those are commonly called “shall issue” licenses.
But Dart and other gun-control activists want to retain more control over who gets the licenses and where gun owners can carry their weapons in public. Those are called “may issue” licenses.
Under Dart’s proposed “may issue” ordinance, he would grant licenses only to people who demonstrate a need to carry a firearm for protection.
Dart said he recently spoke to elderly people in the south suburbs. They complained that the police were unresponsive. Some said they were regularly burglarized while they attended church.
“It’s a matter of timing,” Dart said, noting that those people could have become homicide victims if they came home during a burglary.
Those are the types of people who might show a need for a concealed-carry permit, Dart said. But someone without a specific need for a gun would have difficulty receiving a license, he said.
Business owners who could hire armed security for protection also might have a hard time getting a license, Dart said.
The proposed ordinance would ban concealed weapons in many public places, including mass transit, schools, child-care facilities, sporting venues, hospitals, government buildings and police stations. Businesses could restrict concealed weapons by displaying a sign.
Dart said the $300 application fee would pay for the employees he would have to hire to process license requests.
The June 9 deadline for a concealed-carry law was set after the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in December that Illinois’ ban on public gun possession was unconstitutional. “The Supreme Court has decided that the [2nd] amendment confers a right to bear arms for self-defense, which is as important outside the home as inside,” the Seventh Circuit wrote.
Attorney General Lisa Madigan has until June 24 to decide whether she will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the appeals court’s ruling.
She hasn’t said whether she will, but her office argued in a court filing that the Seventh Circuit ruling conflicted with other decisions

Madigan is denied extension

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan asked the U.S. Supreme Court Monday for more time to decide whether to appeal a court's ruling that the state's ban on the public possession of firearms is unconstitutional.
A petition seeking a 30-day extension -- until June 24 -- argued that the December ruling by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals conflicted with several other rulings on guns, including a federal appeals court's finding on New York's restrictive concealed carry law. The Supreme Court announced earlier this month it would not hear an appeal of that case.
The 7th Circuit called Illinois' prohibition on the carrying of concealed firearms unconstitutional and ordered lawmakers to remedy the problem by June 9.

U.S. Supreme Court informed Lisa they will reject the appeals and they are not granting her the extension. Any further delay of the order from the 7th Circuit of Appeals order stands or a June 1 dead line will be issued.

Ford fails to issue recall after more than 1500 complaints filed yet no RECALL on safety issue

As a fleet manager of a County Law Enforcement Agency, we have expierienced several headlight failures. Being a member of the forum and using the handy serch function I have seen that this is a common problem, and should be addressed. I have been in contact with the NHTSA and am currently putting out a Teletype to all Law Enforcement agencies nationwide. I did however feel that this information would be helpful to members here who have had the same issue. The info in the Teletype is as follows:

This agency has experienced several failures of lighting control modules on 2005 Ford Crown Victoria’s. While driving down the road, we have experienced a sudden loss of headlights, and in some cases, the headlights have not came back on for a substantial period of time. The failures occurred without warning. We have contacted Ford Fleet services and made them aware of the issues but at this time they have not issued any recalls. We have also contacted the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) and filed a complaint. ODI has currently opened an investigation into the issue which is referenced under NHTSA Action Number : PE08066. Due to the safety issue of this defect and the cost associated with repairs, I would ask that anyone with this problem contact the NHTSA at 1-888-327-4236 and file a complaint in an attempt to have a recall issued from Ford. The current investigation covers Ford Crown Victoria’s and Mercury Grand Marquis’s, model years 2003-2005.

As stated I would encourage anyone that this failure applies to also contact the NHTSA and file a complaint. Maybe with enough of a response we can get Ford to acknowledge the problem and issue a recall.

Thank You,
Jeff

Customer replied 1115 days and 11 hours ago.

Headlamps will not come on after driving awhile and parking car. Then after you start the car the headlamps will not come on at either headlamp control, auto or lamps on. All other lamps work, dash, stop, turn, left turn, right turn, driving lights, tailights. You can hold up the dim-bright lever to flash to pass and head lamps will come on bright after car sets over night. Head lamps work ok.

Expert:  Tim replied 1115 days and 8 hours ago.

Sounds like a bad Lighting control module.It is located above the gas pedal. Check fuses 19 and 21 in the interior fuse box and let me know if you have power on each side of the fuses.

 

The headlight on my 2005 Ford Crown Victoria [53k miles] turns off intermittently. Should I replace the LCM?

Sometimes the Photocell functions well: turns on the light after ignition switch and wiper are activated, or when I cover the cell by hand. However, during the evening times the low headlight including the high do not turn on; I will be forced to use the High beam by pulling the switch lever and holding.

 

2005 Crown Victoria Headlights will not turn on only the high beems turn on when I pull back on the High beem flasher on the turn signal arm?

In: Ford Crown Victoria [Edit categories]

Answer:

Might have to replace the head lite switch, in the car. You have a timer on it, might be bad. Edit 521: On my 2005 CVPI, I had a similar problem. Mounted under the dash, just above the OBD connector is a box (appx. 4" X 6" X 2" roughly) with a couple of wiring harnesses plugged into it (if I recall, 3 plugs total). This is an electrical control module that the lights and horn and other stuff goes through. When I removed mine and opened it up, I found that on one of the small relays inside, the solder had broken loose from one of the pins on the relay to the board, causing it to intermittently prevent contact to power the headlights. The part is rather expensive from the dealer, but if you have any soldering skills, a good magnifier, and a set of torx type drivers, you should be able to make the repair yourself. I had to look really close to see it, as it only looked like a small ring around the pin, but was actually a broken solder joint. A simple reheating to melt the solder back to the pin, and a dab of fresh solder over it, and no more issues for me. Note also that this was sometimes an intermittent problem, as I could be driving along and the lights switch off, then a few minutes later (sometimes longer) I would hear a click under the dash as the relay again made contact, and the lights would come back on. Until then, I had to hold the High Beam switch for lights. Hope this helps!

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Smoke and Mirrors in the City of Chicago

Illinois has yet failed to arm it's citizens to be able to protect themselves, however while this is going on Chicago gun crimes rise. McCarthy says it is not because of warm weather. But the weather has been proven to be part of it. McCarthy says in the last 7 months gun crimes are down from last year at this time. But what he has failed to realize is that this time last year temperatures were in the 70- 90 degree marks, while this year we have a few days at 80 and then back to 40 or 50. But it has been proven weather plays a part. But McCarthy says pulling officer's from desk jobs and placing cops already on overtime to more overtime and placing them in high crime areas is proof crime is going down. Wrong this smoke and mirror trick will work for a while but more cops are needed. In the last 10 years Chicago has not done any highering until Daley's last year in office. C.P.D. loses 2,000 officer's a year do to retirement, other departments, and termination. If you multiply 2,000 x 5 years that is 10,000 officer's lost with out replacement so figure 10 years that is 20,000 officer's gone. C.P.D. is rushing what they have in qualifying personal through the academy. However the city only get's 2,000 good ones out of 5,000 thousand that apply and out of the 2,000 only 75% make it passed the first 5 years on top of the other officer's leaving. If the city dropped it to where if you can shoot and know the law and constitution come to city hall and get sworn in and then on top of your job you go through the academy full time and the job part time this would flush more cops to the streets. how do you get the right people back ground checks. If they can pass a everything like a candidate with college except new highers would have high school diplomas no GED excepted applicants you'll have good officer's. In this life time you have to go old school highering practices until you get your number's and then you higher every year instead of 4 years.  

Senator Dave Syverson letter to the Sarges readers

 

 

Friends,

As you know, I have been a strong supporter of our second amendment rights, and have long been an advocate for Right-to-Carry legislation. I have come to this conclusion not based on politics, but the facts and documentation from 49 states that have implemented forms of Right-to-Carry.

Recently, the Illinois House failed to pass comprehensive pro-gun legislation. I want to take a few minutes to share with you the differences in Illinois and surrounding states and how easy it should be to pass comprehensive Right-to-Carrry legisiation.

As you likely know, Illinois is the only state in the nation that does not recognize some form of Right-to-Carry. All five states surrounding Illinois -- Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri and Wisconsin -- have a "shall issue" law. Other Midwestern states similar in size to Illinois -- Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania -- all have "shall issue" laws as well.

Each of those states requires a background check to receive a permit to carry a weapon. All of those states, except Indiana and Pennsylvania, require a firearm safety course to be approved for a permit.

The Legislative Research Unit here in Springfield did a fantastic job breaking down the requirements for right-to-carry laws by state across the country. I think you will find of interest what the other 49 states have done and how they differ in their approach to Right-to-Carry. Click here to see state by state charts.

If you take a look through the details, you'll see it should be easy for members of both parties to come together on a piece of legislation that allows law-abiding citizens their right to carry, while also keeping weapons out of the hands of those who shouldn't have them.

While it is a serious issue, these cartoons do a good job explaining some of the opposition to passing legislation and the issues they don't adequately address.

I hope you know I'll continue to work hard with both Republicans and Democrats to pass a comprehensive commonsense Right-to-Carry bill.

Thank you for your continued interest in this important topic and I'll keep you up to date on the latest developments here at the Capitol.   

 

Sincerely,

  

 

 

  

 

Senator Dave Syverson