Nice to know that nothing has changed in Africa, huh, Hillary?

From the Daily Mail comes the news: Britain and Ireland suspend aid to Uganda after £10m of funding ends up in Prime Minister’s account.

And if that has you shaking your head, check out this information about your own tax dollars at work:

Uganda is a regular recipient of American foreign aid. USAID, the State Department subdivision that administers foreign aid, reports that Uganda received $431.2 million in aid in 2008; $416.9 million in 2009; and an estimated $456.8 million in 2010. Requested disbursements for 2011 total $480.3 million.

How much of that do you figure got skimmed?

Grasshoppers blame ants for their own unpreparedness. "Tempers flare in NJ city where thousands stranded."

"Feed me, Seymour, and feed me now!"

You'd better get some pizzas in there, Barack.

HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) — Officials in the city of Hoboken, N.J., are defending their response to severe flooding from superstorm Sandy.

Public Safety director Jon Tooke says at least 25 percent of the city on the Hudson River across from Manhattan remains under water. He estimates at least 20,000 people are stranded and says most are being encouraged to shelter in place until floodwaters recede.

Tempers flared Wednesday morning outside City Hall as some residents complained the city was slow to get food and other supplies out to the stranded.

We hear you, collectivist butthead, we just no longer pay attention to you, or believe the statist pap you deal out. Where were you on Fast and Furious? Where are you on Benghazi?

PBS News Co-anchor Frets about loss of Major Network News Influence

A fragmented nation and a fragmented audience for news is making the country more difficult to govern, PBS News Hour co-anchor Jeffrey Brown said during a weekend talk at Western Washington University.

A generation ago, before cable news channels and internet news sources, most people got their news from the same small collection of sources: three major TV networks and a hometown newspaper or two, Brown said. People gathered around their televisions for the assassination of a president, a walk on the moon, and other major events.

"It was an age of mass media news, one audience sharing a common experience," Brown said. "For the most part, the mass audience experienced such things together."

Brown, featured speaker for the university's Fall Family Open House Saturday, Oct. 27, contrasted that world with the one we live in today, in which Americans can restrict themselves to cable news stations and internet news sources they find most congenial.

"For the most part, we now live in the world of niches," Brown said.

He acknowledged that the availability of more choices was a good thing, but also noted that the change seems to be part of a far more divided and bitter political atmosphere.

"If we only connect with like-minded people, how do we hear other views?" Brown asked. "It's hard not to feel it has some relationship to the divisions around us."

Well, that didn't take long.

SMASH AND GRAB: A woman appears to be making off with "kicks" at Mello Magic Sneakers on Rockaway Beach Boulevard yesterday.

Jersey City on total lockdown from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. after rash of store break-ins, officials say

After 24 people were arrested last night on charges of breaking into stores, Jersey City has imposed a city-wide curfew on pedestrians and all businesses overnight, officials said today.

"We have to provide for the welfare and safety of all our residents" during the recovery from Hurricane Sandy, Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy said. "This limitation will assist us in achieving this goal."

Pedestrians must be off the streets in all areas of the city from 7 p.m. tonight until 7 a.m. tomorrow, Jersey City spokesman Stan Eason said. All businesses in the city must be closed during that period, Eason said.

Originally, businesses with power were allowed to operate during their normal hours. Under the new curfew policy being implemented tonight, "all" businesses must be closed without exception, Eason said.

As much as 75 percent of the city has been without power since Monday. PSE&G officials said that power is expected to be fully restored by Monday, Nov. 5. The city has also alerted residents not to drive on city street in order to allow emergency and road crews to make repairs.

And, in New York . . .

Hurricane Sandy brought out the worst yesterday in some sleazy New Yorkers, who looted stores and homes across the city.

Some posed as Con Ed workers to dupe their victims.

Police arrested more than a dozen looters in the Rockaways and Coney Island, which had been evacuated, and stood guard outside ravaged stores at the South Street Seaport.

“This morning when they told us the water receded, I walked back to the house to feed [my pets],” said Eric Martine, 33, a cabby who lives in Brooklyn’s Gerritsen Beach. “Guys were looting, pretending they were Con Ed and holding people up. It was sick.”

Residents said police warned them to beware of crooks pretending to be utility workers.

Cops fanned out yesterday to deal with looters around the city.

“We will not tolerate these scumbags looting. We will arrest them on sight,” said a police source.

Why don't these homeowners try shooting some of the SOBS?

Slow-walking the truth.

Or the cover-up, take your pick.

The Old Guard on Duty.

The Old Guard

Tomb of The Unknowns, Arlington

Praxis: Suspenders.

From a regular reader:

About a year ago you ran a Praxis on military pants suspenders. In response I bought two pairs at $9 @ and used one pair at work. They were everything the praxis said, but recently one of the straps tore. I went looking for a more available substitute and found one, and it was cheaper. This may be useful for anyone unable to find the GI originals.

Walmart carries suspenders under the George brand at $6.50 @. There are two styles, one where the crossover is sewn and another where it passes through a triangular buckle that permits you to adjust the location of the crossover. I got the kind with the adjustable crossover. This closed ebay auction has a picture of the style.

I ran the length adjustment out as far as it would go, adjusted the crossover to roughly match that of the GI style, then at each of the four gripper clips I squeezed the strap to one side and cut the wire loop in the middle then slid the strap off the gripper clip. I then took two carabiner style snap links that I got for 50 cents @ and threaded one through the short and long strap on the left side and the other through the short and long strap on the right side, taking care not to put any twists in the straps. The carabiners are arranged so that the narrow end is up and the wide end hooks through a belt loop.

I've prepared two pair like this. I retain my remaining GI pair at home in case I'm unfortunate enough to need them for serious social purposes, but I use my two modified George pairs at work, alternating them to let them dry better between shifts. I've found that the carabiners are faster and easier to attach and remove from my pants than the hooks on the GI ones were, and when I needed to let the suspenders hang such as when using the toilet the hooks would sometimes come loose while the carabiners don't.

The kind with the non-adjustable cross over could be modified the same way but I'd be worried that the crossover would be too low on the back

I've also retained the gripper clips I've removed. While I don't have any immediate plans, it looks like they might serve as a closure on a pouch if rendered subdued and non reflective. They would be a closure that could also be used to hold the pouch open.

Michael

ALLARD: Obama knew about the attack, ignored three requests for help

Cold political play could cost him the election. Ken Allard is nobody's fool. This Benghazi deal may finally be the thing that delegitimizes Obama permanently from the military. Not only that, but it has burned up Petraeus' over-blown reputation too. He should have known better than to have become Obama's toady.

Experienced Floridian warns friend in Sandy's path: People Will Be ‘Fighting In The Streets’ For Gas, Food

‘Mark, get out! If it’s not the storm, it’ll be the aftermath. People are going to be fighting in the streets over gasoline and food.’”

David Codrea: Issa, Grassley staffers issue second joint Fast and Furious report

"Management failures" I'll have my own analysis after I read it.

GSL article on Kurt Hofmann

Hard as gun haters try, freedom won’t die

David Codrea: ATF whistleblower Cefalu calls on Romney to address Fast and Furious gunwalking

Whistleblowing Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent Vince Cefalu, in the news of late for having a stay placed on his termination by retaliatory management, itself a headline-generating event due to his high media profile and the callous way it was done, called on Republican Presidential contender Mitt Romney Friday to show leadership on Fast and Furious gunwalking.

From John Robb: Why Sandy Is Scary in Simple Terms

And he leaves out the social breakdown of goblins in the wreckage.

Praxis: Welrod -- The Original SART

Welrods as delivered to the Danish Resistance.

Some useful links here, including one on the U.S. Welrod.

U.S. Welrod.

Does anyone here doubt that WE are the Zombies.

Marines, police prep for mock zombie invasion. Given the trouble the military/DHS-types got into the last time when they designated their probable enemies as "Tea Party types," now we have "Zombies" doing decidedly unzombie-like things. Says the note that accompanied this link:

Who here thinks that this exorcise is not what I think it is???? Is this the gov training for martial law right in front of our faces???

"In the scenario, a VIP and his personal detail are trapped in a village, surrounded by zombies when a bomb explodes. The VIP is wounded and his team must move through the town while dodging bullets and shooting back at the invading zombies."

Several things jump out. Zombies doing IEDs? Shooting BACK at zombies, connoting that the zombies were shooting at them? 'Invading' zombies versus just zombies, who technically are indigenous to the area before their transformation.

A Public Service Announcement for the ATF and FBI for Monday

"Son, you're on your own."

The federal government will be shut down on Monday.

Hurricane Sandy chugged toward the East Coast on Sunday with such enormous size and force that public officials warned of the potential for widespread destruction and disruption for millions of people in its path.

Unfortunately, by Friday you'll be fighting gang-banging looters in the streets. If you get in really deep shit, you could always call on the militia. Oh, wait, nobody is allowed any firearms up there. Well, like the parson said in Blazing Saddles, "Son, you're on your own."

Texas trooper in chopper shoots, kills 2 suspected illegal immigrants

Well, don't cover your load in Texas, whatever you do. I got this link from the leftists at OpEdNews, but some things transcend politics.

HOUSTON -- Two people were killed in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley after a state trooper flying in a highway patrol helicopter opened fire on a fleeing pickup authorities thought was smuggling drugs, officials said.

No drugs were found inside the truck. Troopers found three people shot inside the truck, two of them dead. The third person was hospitalized and seven others were taken into custody, including one who initially fled, according to the statement. All the passengers and the injured person are suspected to be illegal immigrants, officials said Friday. They did not release the identities of those killed. A Texas Parks and Wildlife warden tried to pull the truck over about 3 p.m. Thursday on a farm road near La Joya, about 75 miles north of the border, according to authorities.

“The vehicle refused to stop and sped up,” Mike Cox, a spokesman for the agency, told The Times.

As the driver fled, the warden followed in pursuit, radioed for backup, and a Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter and ground units were called in to assist, Cox said.

Troopers suspected the driver was smuggling drugs, according to an agency statement released to The Times on Friday by spokesman Tom Vinger. The truck had "a typical 'covered' drug load in the bed," the statement said.

A great guy named Joe needs your prayers more than I do at the the moment,

Keep him there, would you please?

John Richardson: It's Not All Violence They Oppose

"Surgical Asshole Removal Tool"

The Coalition To Stop Gun Violence (sic) does not oppose all violence. They are on record in support of state-sponsored violence.

John sent me a link to this article along with this note: "BTW they were going nuts on Twitter last night about Absolved." Now I don't do Twitter or Facebook, but if they don't like the old chapters on the net, they really won't like the reworked version where a S.A.R.T. ("Surgical Asshole Removal Tool", see the chapter "10,000 Lawyers') round turns up a ballistic match to an earlier shooting. All in fiction and all in fun.

Don't blame ya a bit, kid.