OK, I know I am an American, and I am very American at that.  Even with all of my international police mission experiences.  But geeze.  How can Coke be enticing to drink when someone is pissing on it?

Ugh! I took the photo of this coke machine in Brussels Airport last time I passed through.  Does anyone think that a nice cold coca-cola all covered with piss be refreshing?

I know European thinking is different, but who is the idiot that thought that this kind of marketing would sell a coke.

Note:  I was near this machine for over an hour and a half an no one, not one person bought a coke from this machine.  Duh.

Maybe the pissing boy is the National Symbol of Belgium - wouldn't surprise me, but still - a pissed on soft drink just has no appeal to most folks :)

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Ok, it seems that BO thinks that Bill Gates is Secrtary of Defense.  But ssshhhhh maybe secretly he is.  Oh well, what can we say?  Someone must have mis-programmed the teleprompter again :)


Yeah, well after all Robert Gates was originally a Bush appointee.  So there has to be something wrong with him :)

Well, I guess we shouldn't expect too much from BO.

Maybe someone in the administration should learn to check out DoD's website once in a while.

Not much happening right now - y'all stay safe!

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ACORN is back in the news with more voter fraud cases against it.

"On Monday, Nevada officials charged Acorn, its regional director and its Las Vegas field director with submitting thousands of fraudulent voter registration forms last year. Larry Lomax, the registrar of voters in Las Vegas, says he believes 48% of Acorn's forms "are clearly fraudulent." On Thursday, prosecutors in Pittsburgh, Pa., also charged seven Acorn employees with filing hundreds of fraudulent voter registrations before last year's general election..."

Article can be found here.

Yet interestingly:

• ACORN is eligible for over 2 billion in stimulus dollars
• ACORN is directly connected to the OBAMA campaign (it is public record)
• ACORN will assist the census bureau with the census (it will probably be done as well as the voter registrations - 48% fraudulent)
• ACORN is directly connected to SEIU - (The Service Employees International Union and ACORN have exchanged funds back and forth.)
• The Service Employees International Union spent $30,816,092 in independent expenditures in support of Barack Obama
• Wade Rathke, the founder of ACORN is now tied into the union. He left ACORN because his brother Dale Rathke embezzled $1 million as the CFO. ACORN was going to bring suit, but they dropped it. Wade Rathke, apparently, did not report that to the police and was removed from ACORN, at least according to their board minutes. Wade Rathke is active with the Service Employees International Union as their chief organizer.

If you don't believe me. Be your own detective and find out.

What happened to this Presidency being transparent?

Well, Y'all stay safe

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Now many churches hire their own pastor. Some go through the denomination , but for those local churches that hire their own pastor - they really should do a background check.

I am not going to get into the discussion of "depending on God" and "operating by faith" as those qualities are admirable, but no where did Jesus say we are to be "blindly lead" and the like.

A lot of people can have a good interview and perhaps no one at the previous church will tell you of the problems if they want the pastor to go quietly. Perhaps the church itself does not know of the pastors activities away from the church. The point is at least check out the obvious. She if he or she has a criminal background or if they are a registered sex offender.

Especially nowdays - here is an example:

"THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: May 10, 2009
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Bruce Windsor lived the life of a respectable family man -- father of four, deacon in his South Carolina church, youth soccer coach, a volunteer who helped build orphanages in Brazil. On Feb. 26, four days after his 43rd birthday, he donned a mask, wig and sunglasses and tried to rob a bank at gunpoint, authorities say.

Windsor, it turns out, was falling down a financial hole. A real estate investor who ran several property business, his troubles predated the recession but continued as the housing bubble burst and easy credit for businesses and consumers dried up.

Clad in an orange jumpsuit, his hands cuffed at his waist, Windsor calmly told the judge at his bond hearing: "I've never stolen anything in my life."

Windsor is one of a growing list of unlikely suspects, ordinary people from ministers to ex-cops, who cite financial duress for allegedly turning to a crime that targets fast cash -- bank robbery..."

You can find the story here.

The initial check is not expensive and it can lead to total peace of mind.

Most of all - Be Safe!

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We all know that when hiring people for a job, you need to know more about them. A background check on a potential employees is a must. MySpace could have learned from this.

Friday April 17, 2009 Report: MySpace Employee Arrested Over Stolen Info
Social networks are all about sharing information, of course--photos, interests, inane thoughts. But as Facebook's recent terms of service battle has demonstrated, it's certainly possible to take things too far. Take the example of a MySpace employee recently arrested for theft of employee information.

TechCrunch got the scoop on this one, having been forwarded the info by a number of MySpace employees. According to Michael Arrington, The information theft and arrest is the more serious matter - confidential employee information, including "at least" name, social security numbers and compensation, was taken by an employee in the company's benefit's department without authorization, beginning in June 2008 or earlier.

Reportedly the intent of the theft was to "annoy selected individuals." Because, yeah, few things are more annoying than some practical joker getting a hold of your Social Security number. The power was also reportedly shut off in MySpace's Los Angeles headquarters. Employees have been asked to work from home for the day.

The story can be found here

You can conduct a background check using the background investigation services here with the search box in my side bar or the Net Detective.

You do not need to concern yourself with the FCRA (Fair Credit Reporting Act) as they do not use credit reports at all for the backgrounds. They glean information from thousands of public records sources to get you the information.

Most of all - be safe!

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I saw a funny scene in a movie today.  Most that saw it probably did not even think about it.  The police hooked up a psychopath to a lie detector to see if she was telling the truth.  - Eh.

As I stated before in a previous post about Caylee Anthony:

• More appropriate details provided by psychopathic offenders compared to nonpsychopathic offenders when lying (but no difference when telling the truth)
• No difference in narrative length between the true and false conditions among psychopathic offenders, and for both groups, truthful narratives were longer than false narratives
• For psychopathic offenders, spontaneous corrections more frequent when lying compared to telling the truth. This is opposite to the finding with non-criminal populations - according to CBCA, the presence of spontaneous corrections is thought to be associated with credibility.
• Psychopathic offenders judged less credible than non-psychopathic offenders, even when telling the truth. Seven times less likely to be judged credible to be precise.
• Narratives produced by psychopathic offenders were judged to be less coherent overall than narratives produced by non-psychopathic offenders. 

Um - you know the real problem is that a psychpath does not see the difference between truth and what he or she wants to be the truth. So there is nothing to detect.  Then again, lie detectors don't work and the psuedo-science which is closer to voodoo than it is science known as polygraph testing is not reliable at all.

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The title of this post nearly says it all.  Sometimes a 90 second video is all you need to "bust open" any case.  Well, the real story behind that is that it probably took hours if not days of surveillance to get that useful 90 second clip.

You have to be diligent and patient and ready during your surveillance.

Diligence:  Keep up with the surveillance if you have cause to suspect that your target will have the behavior you wish to catch in photos or video.  Keep up the surveillance can be difficult, especially if you are not paid for it - it takes time - sometimes many man hours to get a small bit of useful evidence.

Patience:  If you let yourself get frustrated or distracted during surveillance, chances are you will miss that little small chance to catch the suspected behavior.  Frustration is useless in surveillance and all it does is lead to useless expenditure of bad emotions.

Ready:  Have your equipment ready on stand by and extra batteries or recording media if needed. If you are not ready - that suspected behavior may only last a few seconds.  If you need to fire up the equipment and you are not ready - well, you miss out on the key thing you spent hours waiting for.

Also you may wish to practice surveillance and using your equipment before doing it for real.  Know the start up time of the camera and focus abilities, lighting, etc.  You do not want to experiment with real target and real surveillance and all you may wind up with is a bunch of blurry photos or video.  That or you may discover that you taking the vide causes too much attention to yourself.

Most of all, whatever you do - be safe!

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