14 Year Old Samaritan Wrongfully Arrested

From the "That's just not right!" files, we bring you the story of Edwin, a mild mannered, soft spoken 14 year old boy from Orlando, FL. Edwin happened to be shopping with his mother at the local Burlington Coat Factory, when he noticed a young girl (3 year old) wandering around without adult supervision. Because they were at the front of the store, and being that he was concerned she was alone, Edwin told his mother that he was going to help the girl find her parents.

When he approached the girl, he noticed a group of women just outside leaving the store. He thought maybe one of the women was the child's mother so he proceeded to walk the girl outside. Moments later, the mother, who was paying at the cashiers and apparently not keeping great tabs on her child, came outside to claim her daughter. She thanked Edwin for keeping her daughter safe.

Edwin returend to his mother and they continued to go clothes shopping. During the child's disappearance from her mother's side, the police were called. When they arrived, they identified Edwin as the man that attempted to walk out of the store with the little girl. Edwin was apporached by the police officer, questioned, arrested, and perp walked out of the store. During this event, local media were contacted about an attempted abduction that was foiled so they arrived and shoved cameras in the young teen's face. His name was also released to the media, which shouldn't have happened considering he's a minor.

So no witnesses came forward saying he did kidnap the girl, the girl's mother said she wasn't pressing charges, rather she was thankful for his good deed, and the officer even noted on his arrest report that it appeared the boy was trying to help the girl, but there was "probable cause" to arrest the teen for charges of "false imprisonment."

How about we arrest this jack ass cop, Sgt. Richard Mankewich, for false imprisonment of Edwin? It gets tougher with every passing day to find true, good, thoughtful, caring people and no wonder why! I guess there's a reason Clare Boothe Luce's quote is timeless "No good deed goes unpunished."

Hopefully, the State Attorney has enough sense to throw all the charges out, and perhaps will look further into this officer's record. We certainly could do with one less Dudley Do Wrong like Mankewich serving and protecting us.

BP Oil Spill, Obama, Rahm and the MSM's Lax Coverage

Imagine that George W. Bush were president right now, and it was revealed that his chief of staff had lived rent free in the home of one of BP's consultants. Do you already hear the echoes of the chants calling for his/her resignation? Do you already see Nasty Pelosi parading in front of every camera and microphone just to call out the so-called "culture of corruption" she vowed to banish? Which of course, the state of political fairs, such as government trust and transparency, have gotten much worse with her and her party at the helm, but I digress. But you know, even if you're Socky, you know somewhere deep inside your brain chasm that the mainstream media (MSM) would be having a field day on this if it was still Dubya's show.

But it's not, it's Obama's. Still, even I'll admit the mainstream media has gotten somewhat tougher on him over the past few months. Sure... gone are the days in which Obama's oratory skills gave Chris Matthews thrills up his legs, and now even ol' snivel face, James Carville, is criticizing Obama's administration for their ineptitude in handling the oil spill. But these criticisms are still mild pleasantries compared to what would've happened had this happened under Dubya's watch and more importantly, if his chief of staff had lived rent free for 5 years courtesy of a BP consultant. If your having trouble with your imagination, remember how often we heard about Haliburton over Dubya's 8 years... that should help you get the idea.Photo of President Obama reviewing federal oil spill emergency procedures.

Let's note the track record here and conclude what you will:

• Obama is the single largest recipient of campaign donations from BP and it's employees.
• Obama's right hand man, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, lived rent free in a D.C. apartment for 5 years courtesy of a BP consultant. Not to let it slip notice, that living rent free and not claiming that as income is an obvious income tax violation, but then again, Obama's administration is notorious for this (read: Geithner, top IRS guy).
• Since the explosion at Deepwater Horizon and the unfortunate oil spill began, 53 days have passed. In that time, Obama has met with Sir Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, and even {gasp} the Jonas Brothers!!! But has yet to meet with the CEO of BP - huh?
• In an interview with Matt Lauer, our eloquent, infallible, master of oration, PresBo went off teleprompter when he said he wanted to "know whose ass to kick" over the oil spill. This alarms me for two reasons. First and foremost, what's our omniscient President admitting when he doesn't even know whose ass to kick? Has his head been in the sandpit (Read: too much playing golf reference) for the past 40 days or is he just that stupid? For that, he should kick his own ass. Secondly, did the first real black President (Credits to Clinton for being the first not-real black President) just go thug on us? What's that supposed to prove? Have the pollsters told him that he's too far removed from the street and the likes of folks like Reverend Wright that his street cred has declined and so he's looking to recover? Seriously? Whose ass to kick? C'mon!

Suffice it to say, the MSM's coverage of Obama's handling of the oil spill catastrophe is quite different than what Dubya would have experienced. There are stories, connections, and shenanigans that are continually getting uncovered. We'll continue to do our part here and share those, along with our opinions and observations. Thanks for visiting the Tribe!

Census Jobs: Hire, Fire, Repeat!

Let me start off first with an apology...

It has been far too long since we've convened around the warm glow of the Tribe's fire. Debate, discussion, fun and frivolity have not been experienced here for well over half a year. I will not make excuses, but simply say I'm sorry for that.

Now, we're reloading the Observational Diatribe with a new domain,(note: new website address sans .blogspot), a new backdrop (cluttered desk and files symbolic of the great minds that come here, busy regular people, trying to stay on top of life, work, finances, and everything else that gets thrown at us - or simply the files represent the conspiracy theorists!), some new stuff in the Tribe Store (Check it out, it's undergoing a remodel too!), and some new sponsors (Give em a click!). I won't be able to commit to a post a day, which I struggled with during the Tribe's first iteration (part of the reason I fell off), but I will make regular posts when the mood hits me right. No more 6 month gaps for sure!

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Do you recall the news headlines that blasted in April about the jobs recovery? President Obama stated, "We are beginning to turn the corner."? Remember that? Any one see around that corner yet?

Following the lamestream mass media overload of news that shone positive on Obama and his policies, Socky derived that same success conclusion. He emailed, "Well, some ray of hope, we actually posted job gains for the first time in long while. Most expects gains from hereon, should be little easier finding a job..."

Socky makes it too easy for me to counter. I responded immediately, "Gained 200k jobs, 75k to temp census employees, 100k to bad weather bounce back, so it’s a step in the right direction but it isn’t huge – and in the article I read, I missed the notion that this ambiguous “Most” think-tank you refer to sees gains from here on out." Socky refers to this "Most" think-tank quite a bit. I hope they charge him for the vast amounts of service he gets from dropping their name.

Socky's counter came back, "That's why I referred to it as a "ray of hope", implies glimmer, slight. I never said huge. And yes from all the reports I've seen this morning, feel free to check for yourself, economists think we hit the turning point, towards slow recovery and job growth. Census did help, but private industry did hire at least, something we have not see in 27 months. And why are you so pessimistic?"

Let's dissect that last email:

• "From all the reports" he saw - aka from the lamestream media, Obama's proponents, his biggest myrmidons. Of course they'd provide any story that shines positive on their Obamessiah.
• Socky asserts that we saw some recovery in private industry in that great job number rebound, which I'd love to be optimistic and say, "That's possible... slightly." But that wouldn't be true, not even slightly. In fact, the private sector lost 23,000 jobs in March. That link also discusses the phenomenon of storm rebound when it comes to jobs, but Socky didn't bother to respond to that point.
  
• Lastly, and related to the post title, over half of those terrific jobs that were gained were through the temporary (read: not long term) hire of Census employees. So we have more Federal Government employees on the payroll who provide nothing of value. Let me clarify, they do not produce anything of value or add any material value to the wealth of this nation, they do not produce anything that is sold or even provide a service that is bought. They provide a service per se, in conducting the duties of gathering the Census data, but that doesn't make money, that doesn't create wealth. Nope, in fact, it takes wealth through taxes to create those jobs. When a job number gets published and over half are federal employees - that information should be clearly divulged by the media in the hopes it prevents people like Socky to go running to the streets to celebrate the coming of the economic recovery. An increase in jobs driven mostly by government expansion, is not an indicator of economic recovery. It's an indicator of increased tax burden to pay for those jobs.

Interestingly enough about those Census jobs that were created, that number was inflated. Some of them were duplicates. What am I saying? I'm saying the Census hired and fired several employees in order to provide higher job creation numbers to the Labor Department. No way, that can't be! I see Socky now, assuming he reads this, he's saying, "There's Chief on another hair brained right wing conspiracy theory."
Maybe I am, maybe I'm not. Time will tell. I look forward to seeing more Census workers come forward to pull the covers off these bogus numbers even more. I mean, come on! This is the same government that saved or created 30 jobs with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending in Arizona's 15th congressional district. One problem: Arizona only has eight districts! The current administration has shown to be willful and deliberate in providing false information to support their policies and agenda. Sarcastic curiosity here: Why doesn't Socky's report sources ever document these findings? Hmmmm.... peculiar indeed!
I expect these charades to continue for two more years and that's where my optimism comes in. I'm optimistic that people like Socky come to grips with the wrong decision they made in November 2008, make amends by thinking rationally and clearly about the impact an ill-advised vote can ultimately have, and perhaps make a better informed decision in 2012. If that slim chance doesn't occur, I remain optimisitic because I believe enough citizenry has been typically apathetic to politics and is finally feeling infringed enough by the federal government that they'll show up at the polls and outnumber the rest of you Sockys!
How's that for optimism!?!?!

Obama-2Face: Is America Healthier or Not?!?!

It was apparent to me long before the One was elected that he was a cleverly propped up orchestrated candidate that swooned the masses with eloquent speech albeit void of any relevant content. So here he is pushing his agenda's main course, the ObamaCare socialist health plan, that will further exacerbate the American economy and aid the progression of the Cloward-Piven Strategy and it's no surprise that he lies:

Or was it just an honest flip flop?

"Recession" by Obama

Creepy video brought to you by the President that doesn't want to let a perfectly good crisis go to waste:

Doesn't that Obama look creepy or am I just biased? I could see the latter being true.

At any rate, I think this is meant to be campy but the points seem way too real... way too much like we're seeing the implementation of the Cloward-Piven Strategy.

Bleep Bloop: Call Of Duty

Four geeks sitting around playing the game that has consumed much of my life this past month...

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I'm just as geeky... I know :(

Yes, I used an emoticon...GEEKY!

LEGO Matrix

Because I liked the Matrix and I love me some LEGOs!

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