WIll this end well?

The Supreme Court has decided to review whether "whether strict local and state gun control laws violate the Second Amendment".

This could be good, because this could lead to a lessening of strict gun control laws in some states that are not currently 2nd amendment friendly.

It could be bad, because it could end up that these laws are actually upheld. But that would mean that the Supremes have to reverse themselves regarding Heller.

Precedent setting, either way.

On the one hand, I believe in the 2nd amendment. I am a strict constitutionalist, therefore the 2nd amendment means just what it says...."shall not be infringed" means just that. I do not believe that any license is needed to carry, either concealed or openly, nor to possess any "arm". Does that mean full automatic firearms and RPG's should be legal? Yes. Sawed off shotguns? Yes. Arms are, after all, arms. Who gets to limit them? If they are limited, we are violating the part about "shall not be infringed". While the original "arms" referred to the muskets and such that were the technology of the day, there were no limits placed then, no limits as to what kind, nor how many "arms" . "shall not be infringed". Enough said.

On the other hand, there is that pesky 10th amendment. States rights and all that. Just in case you need a refresher, it reads "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.".

Does the 2nd trump the 10th? We shall see. One could argue that the 2nd is came 2nd, as a part of the original Constitution, and the 10th was, IIRC, added later. You also have the Articles of Confederation..."Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States".

I dunno, this will be interesting though. Let's see how the spin ges in non 2nd amendment states. Should be interesting arguments from the east coast folks, and from Illinois, and especially from the PRK (People's Republik of Kalifornia)...

One issue is the viewpoint of the constitution. I see it as a limiter for government, not a document bestowing rights to the "people". Others see it as giving rights to the "people", not a limit to what government can do.

More HERE

I'm betting that things will go for more 2nd amendment rights. Eventually. Someday.

Naive and Egotistical

But doesn't that describe the entire elite left?

Youtube video HERE where Jack Kelly says Sarkozy thinks that Obama is "incredibly naive and grossly egotistical".

Well, DUH.

more Left failure

Go here for a long article about the slow (but accelerating) collapse of socialism in Europe.

It's long but worth the read.

Now, If only, as I said before, the left here in the US can learn from this before they go too far down the path of socialism to easily change direction.

But I doubt that they will.

So where does that leave the US in 2---3---or 5 years?

Failing like Europe?

Or will we, as citizens, rein in the left before it is too late?

If not, someday no one will admit to voting for a Democrat in the past.....

Heeee's Baaaaaccckkk!

Kim Du Toit and Connie are back, this time doing internet radio.

If their show is half as good as his prose was, then it will be worth "tuning in"

European Socialists need “to think a lot harder about what the state can and can’t do in the 21st century,”

But not here. Here, socialism is good.

“I don’t think Socialism in Europe has a future; and given that it is a core constitutive part of the European democratic consensus, that’s bad news.”

The US democrats can't seem to learn, nor can they veer from the course that they have set, even though their European ideal is moving ever farther right....

Socialism is fading.....Everywhere but here in the US.

You'd think that they would learn from their European socialist brothers.

But no.

Thought 4 the day

Look
I understand too little too late...
I realize there are things you say and do
You can never take back.
But what would you be if you didn't even try
You have to try....
So after a lot of thought
I'd like to reconsider,
Please,
If it's not too late....
Make it a cheeseburger

L.L.

I'm just sayin'

Under "this is just cool" comes THIS.....a 180 H.P. siren!

Everyone should have a hobby....some folks restore cold war era sirens.

HT: AMCGLTD

On Disarmament

Nuclear disarmament is a great idea.
In theory.
But then all it takes is one who won't.

Mr. Obama shows his naivete in his remarks.

Still stuck in the 60's mindset, apparently.

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't."

Even French President Sarkozy agrees that Obama is foolish.

Realistic assessment on ones opponents does not seem to be a strong point of liberals.

Obama....College administrator?

Via WRSF, comes this tidbit, looking at the Obama administration with a different viewpoint.

Hard to argue with.

Read it, decide.

Sad, ain't it?

Glowbal Warmening discussed at length

Michael Hammer:

Why I am an Anthropogenic Global Warming Sceptic:

This is worth a read, it is long as hell, but worth reading nonetheless. It breaks down the issues with the global warming climate change fallacies better than any other argument than I have ever seen.

Excerps:

The AGW hypothesis is based on temperature rises between about 1975 and 1998 or about 25 years worth of data. This is claimed to be definitive yet the last 10 years worth of data shows falling global temperatures. This is claimed to be a short term aberration and of no consequence. I do not see how 25 years can be considered definitive beyond dispute while 10 years of data is a short term aberration, too short to be significant. I would have thought at least a 10:1 ratio would be necessary to make such a claim.

AND:

For the last 10 years the global temperature data shows either no atmospheric temperature rise or indeed a falling global temperature. Recently this has been claimed to be due to a combination of a quiet sun and changes in ocean circulation superimposed on the underlying warming trend. The further claim is that when these effects reverse, warming will start again with a vengeance.

If these natural processes can cancel out the impact of AGW then they are as powerful as AGW. If they can overwhelm the impact of AGW to cause cooling they are more powerful, yet IPCC and other AGW proponents have claimed in previous assessment reports that solar influences are only a minor contributor compared to CO2.

Take the time to read the whole thing. It pretty well trashes the "logic" that is used in the AGW arguments.

Update:

It seems that all of the original data about surface temps seems to have vanished in a sorta/kinda tragic accidents or something....

Hah! The sacrificial lamb is slaughtered

So Yosi Sergent (NEA communications director), has "resigned". It would seem that his complicit promotion of the Obama agenda has led to his shame....Enough shame that he felt it necessary to tender his resignation. Said resignation was, of course, enthusiastically accepted. He will be sacrificed so that the political careers of others higher up in the food chain might live on.

Wonder what plum assignment they have in mind for him (in about 6 months)?

It is another facet of the "Chicago Way".

The Chicago Way....The apples don't fall far from the tree

So everyone is up in arms about the telephone conference between the White House (via Buffy Wicks...who works for Obama via Valerie Jarret) and the NEA...

DUH.

Did anyone expect that the true colors of a Chicago politician and his Chicago Staff would not eventually shine through? Strongarming those whose funds you control is a good old Chicago method of control. It's not like this sort of tactic is a new idea. The art has been polished and refined for many years. (see also: Mayor Daley....Both of them) Lets face it. Mr B. Obama is a product of his environment. It's how he got where he is today, via the power structure that works by twisting arms. If you are surprised, then you are either not paying attention to who he is, have spent the last few years in an alcoholic or drug induced haze, or you have the intelligence of limp broccoli.

The fact that they thought that they could get away with it is the real issue. Not so much that fact that they tried....Or the fact that we know about it.

Lets forget about the fact that the government has no mission to (nor mandate either) fund what some artist might call art. (nah, lets talk about it) IMNSHO that should be left to the rich...Let them decide what "art" they would like to endow with funds. Let other foundations choose (or not) to promote artists. It is not for the government to choose what to fund.

The fact is that the transcripts show that the NEA has failed in its mission. It has betrayed those who created and supported it. It has, while not necessarily offered money to those who are funded by NEA grants, at least threatened and coerced them to be pro-Obama in their "art" endeavors. NEA is supposed to be there because "art and humanities is for everyone" (actually it is colossal waste of taxpayer money for a bunch of liberal weenies who congratulate each other's work in a never ending circle jerk, all funded with someone elses money.

We should, IMO, immediately de-fund the NEA, for the same reasons we defunded Acorn.

(Personally, I'd burn the administrators of the NEA at the stake, but then again, I am like that for people who betray the trust ....)

But then again, perhaps we can get more posters like THIS.

Because they think they know better than you do

The left thinks (at least their elite "intelligentsia" do) that they know better than the rest of us how to take care of ourselves. If we would only take their advice, and live the way "they" say, we, as society at least, will be better off. Of course, we, as individuals might not be better off, but society as a whole will be better. (hint, that's why they call them socialists....)

Instead, they feel that we "act like teenagers"...Unruly teenagers at that. Unable to make decisions without guidance from a parent-like government. How condescending, how paternalistic....how elitist.

They have no idea, however, how unruly people can be when a socialist begins to tell them how hot or cold they can make their house. The people of this country can only be pushed, can only take so much. We are, after all, used to freedom, and will only brook so much interference in their lives. Even though they are trying to "boil the frog slowly", the frog will only take so much heat.

Willing to let the government turn back your thermostat or your water heater because they think that they have a better use for the electricity that you would use for heating you hot water or heating or cooling your house? That's what the elitists think they should be able to do with the "smart grid" at your house. You gonna let them decide how hot or cold you must be? Gonna sit idly by as they choose who gets power and who doesn't?

Betcha that they find out what truly unruly children we can be, should they decide to try to implement this scheme.....

But that is another topic for another day.

ETA: Midwest Chick has another slightly different view.

Health care legislation is dead......really.

So yesterday the comment was made that there would be some kind of health care legislation and how would it change our current situation.....My take is that there will be no legislation at all, simply because no politician will be willing to vote "yes" on any legislation concerning changing of our health care. Since the DNC and it's minions couldn't push the thing through quickly and early, then they have lost the initiative and anything related to such a bill is toxic....The "third rail" of politics.....No politician who wants to get elected in 2010 or even 2012 will vote for any health care bill. Even in so-called blue states.

So ultimately, since the votes won't be there, they will table things for a year or so and try again...All the while claiming "victory" .

The thing is, if they really want to change things for the better, and help people be insured, then there are a lot of reform opportunities available, just none that will make splashy headlines.. Tort reform, changing regulations to allow better purchasing, co-ops, streamlined regulations, etc. But do they ever propose this? Nope.

The real thing is, is this about helping people or about power?? Ultimately, I think it is about power and control over you and me. Control over your health care is control over you. And for a socialist, (or if you prefer, a statist) control over the individual by the state is everything...

The thing is with these people, they never give up and they never stop. They are back year after year, trying each and every time they think that they get a chance.

Let's not let them have that chance.

Finally got a chance to post......Had to do a hack on the Prius to get the electric only mode to work....This might just save me some real significant amounts of gas....

I'd have posted sooner, but getting home I had all number of chores to do, and little time to post last night. Then today, as I said, I had the install to do on the Prius and then cooking....grilled steak with angel hair pasta and grilled peppers with mushrooms, onions and green onion shoots....

Had a great time a the BlogMeet yesterday (Sunday). If you are in the area and can attend the next one, I HIGHLY recommend spending time with these folks. Intelligent, well spoken, interesting, well thought out people.

I met Roberta (of course) and Old Grouch, and Shermlock, and One MansVote, and a few others....

While some are smart asses (all in good fun!!!), they are all highly intelligent, very entertaining, and worth the time to meet. I hope to be able to make the time to do other BlogMeets. But the drive is about 1:45 so it can be problematic.

Many thoughts whirled around the table that few hours, and many things were discussed. We didn't solve the world's issues, but we discussed many of them and it was good, and the food was excellent. I followed Roberta's lead in getting the buffalo burger with mushrooms, cheese and bacon (MMMM, Bacon!).

Go, if you can.

If not, you'll be the poorer the next day.

What great knockers

Go here to see more....


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Via Roberta X comes this tidbit regarding health care, and the fact that the story we are getting may not be the whole entire unvarnished truth.....

BBBbbbut the DNC and it's minions wouldn't LIE would they? Or the President?

222 years ago today

Today is, BTW, Constitution Day.

222 years ago today, 39 brave men signed a document that gave meaning to the new nation. 222 years ago today, those brave men signed their names to a document which set the framework for a nation that grew faster than any other in the world, and attracted the best, brightest, strongest, gutsiest, most productive people in the world from their home countries in the quest for freedom. They built a country which, in only a century and a half, became arguably the strongest, most productive, most free nation in the world.

In signing that document, those men made life better for those who had the courage and intestinal fortitude to make the move from their homes in the search for a better life. In the 1800's it was, generally, a one way trip. Yet thousands upon thousands chose to move to this new land of opportunity and freedom, created and sheltered by the words placed on that document. Poles, Russians, Germans, Englishmen, Chinese, Greeks, Africans....... Hindu and Muslim, Buddhist and Christian....From all continents they came, in the quest for freedom and opportunity that the Constitution promised.

Let us all take the time to thank those brave men, and to thank whatever deity you speak to that they had the courage to create that document and to make it the law of the land.

And let us never let the defense of that wonderful document ever become anything other than our highest priority, even unto revolution against those in government who would ignore it or circumvent its meaning.

Good news!

Perhaps even the house is able to see whats what....Or perhaps they are deciding to get in front of this, and sacrifice ACORN to keep the rest of us voters happy.

Either way, it is a great thing that the issues with ACORN have finally been made public enough that even the MSM decided to report on it...of course, it is sad that the media is so in the pocket of the liberals that it took 2 youngsters to do the MSM's work for them. Its not like there were any real surprises in the allegations against the folks from ACORN...

Of course, the bills are not compatible between the House and Senate, and they will, if we allow it, probably quietly let the issue die without reconciling them, but only if We The People lat them....

Now....the real question:

Will Mr. Obama have the gall, the effrontery to veto this bill, if and when? Or will he throw his friends, colleagues and staunch supporters to the wolves....

Either way, this is great news.


BTW, to see how your representative voted, go HERE

So I have a suggestion to all you liberals who seem to think that everyone should pay taxes, and that it's ok to decrease health care for those of us who work for it to give health care to those who either don't or who cannot afford it:

Here's the thing...You are welcome to work as hard as you wish, but if you think that we all should pay more taxes, then please, set an example. Feel free to pay all of your income to the government, keeping only enough to keep you above the poverty line.

Feel free to take the time to claim an uninsured person as a dependent on your insurance....Hell, claim 6 or seven on the family plan.

Just leave my money and my health insurance alone.

For you liberals making 6 or more figures.....Please re-read the above. spend your income like you want the rest of us to. You really don't need that McMansion, or the three (or more) cars...The boat, the condo on the lake, etc..

Put your money where your politics are.

Or else just shut up and go away.

The difference (at least one of the many) between conservatives and liberals.....illustrated.

So the right has made a statement.....Will anyone listen? We conservatives have, with our tea parties, and now the march on Washington of something in excess of 1.8 million people, made our first statement. Will the current officials take heed? Will the GOP party officials? One would have to estimate that each of those who attended could easily represent 10 or more people, perhaps as many as a hundred. If so, at least 18 million people and as many as 180 million dislike the current direction of more tax and spend and more big government. We want change, but not the kind that is currently in the wind. People are angry. They were unhappy with George W. Bush, and are even more unhappy with Mr Obama's ideas. Health care, Cap and Trade, Stimulus. Enough is enough. Stop, already.

Or will this die down and die before the 2010 election and will we as a people choose to elect more of the same?

One thing I hope that we can shout to our officials is that we are here, and we won't go away. We have been told that we, each of us, was alone in our anger and protest. We know better now. We know that each of us has tens (hundreds?) of thousands of sisters and brothers who feel the same anger, and the same frustration. Each of us now knows that we are not alone.

Will the GOP and the libertarians learn a lesson here? Will they give us more of the same....More RHINO's and more Democrat Lite? Will they learn and support those who would truly represent what the people want and seek? Or will they choose to again throw the opportunity away, and give the people an even less appealing candidate than the trash that the DNC throws to us for a choice of representative in 20 10 and 2012 and, in 2 years, president in 2012? Or will they present us with a choice that we can get behind, choose to support and campaign for, and who is electable? I mention the RNC and the Libertarians, because the DNC is apparently a lost cause....

Will the leadership in the Senate and the House decide to listen, or will they stubbornly choose the direction which they have taken lately....Ignore the constituents and make decisions according to party lines and politically traded favors? One would think that these men who have been elected to represent us are intelligent to make the choice that keeps them elected. Yet evidence shows otherwise. Will this protest make a difference? Or will it be ignored by incumbents and political parties alike?

We can choose to elect others, if we are given a choice, or if we choose to vote against the current party structure. Let us hope we can have a candidate (or candidates) for which we do not have to hold our nose, but rather one which we can enthusiastically support.

Before there is a revolution.

SRSLY.

Keep pissing us off, next time there will be 5 million. Then things might get ugly.


BTW, anyone notice that the trash left by this group is about 1% of the trash left by the attendees of the inauguration or that of the election party in Chicago? Perhaps the conservatives folks are really more green that the liberals...

Yet another commentary on 9-11

This is, I know, long. I hope that you read it. I hope it makes you think.


The day was 9-11-09. It was a beautiful morning. A normal day. No one knew that this would be
the day that we in the US finally took notice of the war the Islamist radicals had declared on
us years ago.

A war it had been, just an ineffective war. Like flies buzzing around us, we ignored them,
occasionally swatting at them, neither side having much effect on the other. We as a nation
took no real notice of the danger, and we ignored those who would harm us. The warning signs
were there, and we had been given plenty of notice by the other side in their previous
attacks. But ignore them we did.

No more. On that day, we learned, we took notice. But did we, as a nation, learn?
I remember thinking that it was a terrible accident, that morning, seeing the pictures on TV.
But knowing nothing, I left for work, not realizing that we were at war. I though it was just
another day, albeit one in which a errant airliner had had an accident.

At work about an hour later, I remember my employee telling me..."another one! Another plane
just hit the other tower!". I knew then, that very moment, that we were at war. I said to my
staff "the world as you know it has just changed, nothing will be the same after this day".

Was I right?

Have we changed? For a few months after the attacks, we pulled together as a nation, as a
people.

But how soon we forget.

Sadly, 8 years later, most have forgotten the horror that we all felt that day. Sadly, we
forgot the fear and anger that pulled us together. Islamic radicals are far away, being bled
and distracted by our finest young men and women, in a place most of us don't really care
about. We care little that our soldiers are undergoing deprivation and are under constant
deadly danger in order that we might have the luxury to forget.

And forget we have.

The additional security at airports, while probably ineffective (we really don't know or have
any way to measure), is just an additional irritation to the ordeal of flying somewhere.... No
one has really cared about the changes in the alert level...green, orange, yellow, red... We
really pay little notice and care even less. Do you know, right now, what the current "color
of the day" is? Do you care?

No one knows what the Bush administration has done to protect us, or the Obama administration either....How many successes have they had, of which we know nothing? How many plots foiled? All we know is that there have been no major attacks on our soil since that day.

Yet.

All that they (the islamists) have to do to succeed in elevating our fear and terror is to
succeed one more time. Until then, we might never know how many times our government has
successfully guarded us. We will only know if they fail.

Perhaps then we as a nation will remember, and pull together once more, forgetting our petty
squabbles and turning as one people to face a common enemy.

From where I sit, we have forgotten. We as a nation have let the lessons of that day slip from
our consciousness, and fall away to the abyss of obscurity. And for that, I am ashamed.

Individuals may still remember, many, such as myself, will never forget. But most, fed drivel
by the mainstream media, have indeed forgotten the horror and anger of that terrible day.

I have not forgotten. Have you?

Have your forgotten the day where we, the most powerful nation were attacked by a few men
using our own airplanes against us? Have you forgotten the fear, the anger (and yes, the hate)
that flowed like water that day? Have you forgotten that while on the first two planes people
(as far as we know) did not fight back, when the truth became known to the third set of
passengers that instead of being sheep, some occupants of that third airplane became wolves
instead and fought back? Can you remember the fact that for a short time, we became one people instead of blue or red, and for once, acted as a nation instead of a bunch of selfish, childish, individuals?

I have not forgotten. I remember those days with horror, and anger, and pride. Many have
forgotten, and many more will in the years to come.

I won't. Ever.

Will you?

Watching Mr. Obama's speech

I am torn between :

Damn, he sure talks purty....("gee, Mr. Taggart, you use your mouth better than a twenty dollar whore")

And:

Liar! Liar!... pant's on fire!

Smooth delivery of a very carefully parsed speech, that leaves out a lot of details, and skips over a lot of things that are legitimate concerns. Skipping over the issues that are concerns, he highlights the good, while glossing over the details that are unpalatable to most Americans who care. He did downgrade the number of uninsured from, IIRC, 47 million to 30 million. Must have decided to not count those illegals he now has promised he won't cover...for today.

"Trust me" still remains the best thing he can come up with..."I can fix this for all of you" and "it won't cost anyone anything. I promise"....."I don't want to get rid of insurance companies, but I will undercut them with government backed plans".

No matter how you slice it, it is socialism. If he and his cohorts really wanted to fix things, they could. But they won't. They want socialized health care. Insurance reform isn't enough. Tax reform for health insurance purchased without your employer isn't even on the table. It's all about control. All the rest is empty promises, twisted truths, and outright lies. If you don't see that, then you are blinded by His light. And a fool.

If his plan is worth anything, he will present a plan and let the public review it for 90 days....rather than try to shove it down our throats. Betcha he doesn't.

Hats off to the man who cried "liar!" during his speech. Hope the Secret Service and Capitol Police don't stick the nightstick too far up hurt him too badly. That took balls.

More here

"cause we know what's best for you....

Fines for those who do not purchase or otherwise obtain health insurance....

That's the new proposition.

Despite promises to the contrary, we all knew that it would come. The only good thing is that they let it out sooner, rather than later.

More here

If this is a surprise to you, then you really haven't been paying enough attention....

SRSLY

Via RobertaX comes another reason why Britain, Europe, (and, at the rate that we are traveling in their direction) the US will soon stope circling the rim, and take the plunge as a culture.

Go here to learn about the latest reason to leave Britain, especially if you have kids.

Instead of solving the problem, the Brits just hide from it. And they fail to address the real issues behind their problem.

Thus leading to a lessening of their culture and country.

To think "that the sun never set on the British empire", and now they have only this as a legacy.

Sad.

Taught a new rifleman yesterday. Honed my skills as well.

But most importantly, taught the safe handling, rules and skills that were passed to me by my father, his father, and others, to another generation that he might be ready when and if he is needed. Nothing like passing knowledge on to another. That sharing leaves both teacher and student richer for the experience.

Tough decisions....Or, who are the enemies of the constitution?

The oaths begin the same way....

Enlisted men's oath
"I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;.... "

Officer's oath
"I, _____ , having been appointed an officer in the Army of the United States, as indicated above in the grade of _____ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic....."

Both of these oaths state that the taker of the oath "will defend and support the constitution. So what does a military man do when the people giving orders (the lawfully elected and sworn government) may well be the domestic enemies of the state? When the president (and congress) has trampled on the constitution (and I am not just talking about the current president, lest there be any question about that)? When the government from which they take their orders is the entity destroying and violating the constitution which they swore to defend.

I ask because I am not sure how the members of the military can follow orders of the president, or not depose the Senate or the House members...They (the government officials) have become the enemies against which the military has sworn to defend...

Make no mistake, I am glad that they don't. But, they do have justification.....

What would you do if you were a general? The right thing? or follow the leaders who have violated the very thing you swore to defend?

The only valuable thing

from sipseystreetirregulars

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

It's all about power...Theirs over ours. If we allow it.

"We will not disarm.

You cannot convince us.

You cannot intimidate us.

You can try to kill us, if you think you can.

But remember, we'll shoot back.

And we are not going away.

Your move."

and:

It's not about health care, taxes, guns, or any other single issue.

It's about freedom from further government oppression, and a rollback of previous tyranny.

They insist on pushing forward.

We will not fall back.

War -- actual shooting war between freedom-loving Americans and those who would expand the life-by-theft modus operandi of both Looter and Moocher -- is therefore inevitable.

Come to Washington on September 10-13 and join us in defying those who would presume to be our masters.

Not my words, but I wish that they were. But the sentiment is one with which I can agree.

More.. (the rest of the article) here. Worth the read.

If, of course, you are serious about freedom.

Are there enough of us? Enough who care? Enough willing to do something?

Or are we all armchair quarterbacks...?

I spent the day at the range today. Practicing for "the day" should it occur. Polishing skills passed on to me by my father and his father. Honing the one skill I might offer my country and its citizens in their time of need. Passing those skills onto another as well. I may not be good for much, but I can shoot. Not as well as some, but better than most.

Men are not deer, nor are they paper. They may however, be targets.

I hope that day never comes.....If it does, are you ready?

Or will you hide in your home and let others do the dirty while you cower?

Flying too high.....

with wax wings....

You can't say it much better than that.

But THIS is funny...and, sadly, somewhat representative of reality.

HT: The blogfather

Coming soon to a neighborhood near you....

Protests Protests Protests!

Seems Mr Chavez isn't all that well liked as the press would have had us believe a few months ago....

I expect serious dissatisfaction to break out here in the US about Feb. of 2010. And it will be expressed at the ballot box and perhaps in other ways.

Seems that socialist policies don't make everyone happier and better off...

Would that Mr Obama, Ms Pelosi, and all of the other socialist Democrats realize this sooner rather than later.

Before we begin circling the rim like Britain and Venezuela. Before it's too late for us... as, I fear, it is for them.

The new meme:

"We are socialist already"

Yep, I have heard it 4 times now from liberals.

Once from my brother, a state away, who is not so much a liberal as a follower....His wife was an academic who had to get a job in the private sector to pay her bills, but an unrepentant liberal nonetheless.

Once from a union man. A Teamster. Salt of the earth kinda guy, but a Teamster.....He regurgitates all of the liberal cant that is repeated at union hall meetings.

Once from an academic at VU....this is the sort of thing that one might expect from an academic at a state run university, but from a Lutheran university???

And once today, Saturday....I had business downtown, and, just for fun, stopped to laugh and point at the 6 (rather pathetic looking, I might add) folks waving signs (no longer pre-printed, but actual handmade signs so that we might think that they weren't astroturf or anything...) promoting government option health care. After watching them for a few minutes, I engaged the brightest looking one in conversation, asking him how he could stand behind such a socialist agenda as government run health care....His first response was "well, we are halfway socialist anyway....Medicare, roads, military, and police and fire and interstate highways are "socialist" endeavors, paid for by all for the "common good".... so why not health care?"

I did try to discuss the ideas with him, but it became apparent that he was not willing to discuss things, but rather was just going to repeat his memorized lines, so I politely thanked him for his time and wandered off. He returned to the group, no doubt thinking and crowing that he had chased away another conservative...Let him think so. It doesn't hurt me to have him feel good about his failure.

But the point of all of this is that this appears to be the new meme....."We are halfway socialist already, so what is one more socialist program or agenda item?"

Just wondering if others have come across this meme, and have you any good way to crush the assumptions that are so erroneous? Roads are paid for (at least in my state) by fuel taxes, as are the highways. Police and fire I can sort of understand, and couldn't argue with and the same with military, (except they are all part of the "common defense" mentioned in the Constitution.)

But is this going to be their next theme that they shall use to convince a few more people that socialized medicine is a good idea? Just another step down the road to pure socialism? Am I supposed to think that that is a good thing?

Please let me know.

Start with them when they are young....

"When an opponent declares, `I will not come over to your side,' I calmly say, `Your child belongs to us already.. . . What are you ? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else"
Adolph Hitler, 1939


See also this: I PLEDGE (ESPECIALLY FROM ABOUT 3:54 ON !) " I pledge allegiance to Obama"??

If this doesn't make your hackles stand up, then you are either drugged into senselessness, brain dead, drunk, or were born with the intelligence of a rutabaga.

I mean, damn, this is scary. Very. Disturbing even.

What will be the Obama salute? Hitler had one....One arm raised...

I will, of course, salute him thusly, using only one finger....

She lets 'em have it.

This lady got her say....Wonder if anyone listened? (HT TB2K)

More of this is needed, until they get the message.

Until and unless, of course, we as citizens decide to buy some rope, and find a few handy trees for those who don't....

Or we water the tree of liberty. Any of the three works for me.

Lets hope that they listen so we don't have to take other measures.

Recoil therapy last night

Sometimes life is good.

Just like Mao

http://servicewire.org/node/6620

Mr Obama will address the schoolchildren and exhort them to "do more, do something for your country....." and "Obama will address students "about the importance of persisting and succeeding in school" at 1 p.m. Eastern at the WhiteHouse.gov website. The announcement said the federal Department of "is encouraging educators, students and parents to use this opportunity to help students get focused and begin the school year strong." The government also is publicizing a list of suggestions for students and teachers to do in preparation for the speech, including studying Barack Obama's writings and presidency. Obama had announced the speech during a child reporter's visiting the White House.

Not everyone is happy about it though....."You can call it what you will but Obama Youth or Hitler Youth … This is much too slippery a slope, this day and age with the role of government becoming more invasive the last thing I want is for 'them' to get a tooth into my kids,"

More HERE

He might just want to try and make a difference in kids education by persuading them to do well in school......But then again, his record so far makes one wonder...what will he say? The NEA has already indoctrinated so many children already, so what will he say to make a real difference?

"Obama Youth Corps" anyone?

One wonders....

Things never change....

and somehow....we never learn.

Same mistakes, over and over and over.

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." ~ Cicero - 55 BC

Sound familiar?

Thought so.

Via TB2K I bring you THIS:

FOXNews.comWednesday, September 02, 2009

Van Jones, the Obama administration's "green jobs" adviser, told a group of listeners earlier in the year that the reason Republicans are stonewalling the president is because they're "assholes."

Jones' remarks were recorded in a video from February that was posted to YouTube.

He made the remark during an energy lecture in Berkeley, Calif., after a woman in the audience asked him why President Obama and congressional Democrats were having trouble moving legislation -- even though Republicans, with a smaller majority, didn't have as much trouble earlier in the Bush administration. "Well, the answer to that is, they're assholes," Jones said, to uproarious laughter. "That's a technical, political science term."

Apparently, it was ok to block the Bush administraation's legislation, but not the Obama administration's.

These people act like children. Poorly raised children at that.

The scary part is that they are nominally in charge now.

"Hope and Change" and all that.

Oh, and BTW, on our way back from the Indy Gun Show, we stopped at a Whole Foods to buy something just to support the chain.

You heard it here first.....

As some of you know, I sell a gun cleaning product called Strike-Hold through my company, 3 Part Supply. We were at the Indy 1500 gun show this Fri, Sat, and Sunday.

Near the end of the show, a black couple were wandering around, with the male wearing what appeared to be a brand new "Obama" T-shirt. I have no idea how long he had been at the show, but the Obama t-shirt did stand out. (the show, while primarily attended by whites, did have a fair amount of other ethnicities and races but few, if any admitted Obama disciples. He stopped across the aisle from our table and I commented to another vendor about the foolishness of wearing that t-shirt at a gun show. After looking at several pistols, he filled out a 4473 and waited while his info was called in to the NICS database for verification/approval. Being the good capitalist that I am, I figured that he was a potential sale for a can of Strike-Hold for maintenance of his newly purchased firearm, (and things were slowing down as it was the end of the show...) so I engaged him in conversation. ( Besides....I just had to find out if he was sane or ballsy or whatever for wearing that t-shirt to the gun show).

Somewhat defiantly, he asked if I was willing to talk to him even though he was wearing an Obama t-shirt (apparently, he had gotten some comments from other show attendees and vendors that he had found offensive). I replied that "I really don't care about your choice of president, and you are now a gun owner", and attempted to tell him about the benefits of Strike-Hold. He kept bringing the conversation back to his choice of t-shirt and to Mr. Obama. I suggested that, while his choice of apparel was not well thought out, he did have the right to wear whatever he wanted, even though Mr. O was not a favorite amongst the gun show crowd. He replied with something about "free speech", and that some vendors had refused to sell him anything, and implied that it might be about his race. I countered that free speech works both ways, and suggested that had I been wearing a KKK shirt, he might have chosen to not talk with me or to buy my product. I pointed out that "freedom of speech works both ways", but he seemed to discount that concept (the implication was that only his view mattered, often an attitude of the "thinking" liberal). I also suggested to him that most vendors here cared more about the color of his money than the color of the hand that he used to hand it over when he made a purchase.

I asked if it was his first handgun purchase, and he said that it was. I suggested that if he had not had training, that a handgun course was a good idea , and that the folks at the NRA booth could help him find training. I also mentioned the 4 rules for firearms, and suggested that he learn to follow them for his safety and the safety of others. The man was nice, decent, fairly well educated, spoke well, and seemed to be genuinely interested in my suggestions. But there was something wrong....He just didn't seem right.

His paperwork went through, and he took possession of his new GLOCK handgun in .40 S+W (no stereotypes at work here....). I congratulated him on his purchase, and moved away so he could complete his transaction.

He did come over to the table, and, after asking a few questions, purchase a can for maintenance and cleaning of his new firearm.

To get to the point: He didn't seem like the typical firearm purchaser....Not because of his race, but because of his liberal leaning, and because of his demeanor. Something Ican't put my finger on, but something wasn't right. HE had stated that he had "just put that shirt on that morning, and I wear it all the time" yet it was brand new....I sincerely hope that the FFL/seller did everything correctly, because on the drive home, I came to the conclusion that, while I cannot be sure, he was there to find something for an upcoming story, perhaps on television or something. Perhaps something about discrimination based on his choice of shirt, or president, or an expose' of racial discrimination at gun shows, or how easy it is to buy a firearm at a gun show, or something or something like that... His companion always had her purse held under her arm, and always pointed at he and myself....Video perhaps?

Perhaps I am wrong. Perhaps I will never know. But there was something just not right about this dude.

Look for something in the Indianapolis paper, or TV, or something in the near future.......I would bet money that he (and perhaps I?) will be in a story. Sure hope I look good and sound good on the hidden video.

Why is it

That everywhere else in the world, poor people are thin

Yet in America, poor people are generally the fattest?

Just wonderin....

Whoah......

go HERE for a really snarky post by Anarchangel.

Worth the click, but swallow first.......SRSLY

Damn.

That was cold.....Good, but cold.

Gone to the Indy 1500 gun show.

Stop by the 3 Part Supply & Accessories table and say hi, if you happen to attend.

I'm the guy with long hair.

not the other one.

Teddy

Lets just hope that Ms MaryJo Kopechne has a chance at him before his judgement.

I'm just sayin'.

Just figured I'd mention it, since the MSM hasn't done so, even once in their hours and hours of effuse praise for him.

Dragons.

"I fear that we have awakened a sleeping giant, and filled him with terrible resolve."
Naval Marshall General Isoroku Yamamoto, at Pearl Harbor., 1941


Legend has it that he stated this after the attack on Pearl Harbor. It may be that this is merely legend. No one knows for sure....


But truer words cannot be spoken about the "debate" between the left and the right regarding health care in particular, and the philosophy behind it. The oppositon has awoken, looked around, and found that they are many.

For the most part, conservatives have been absent, or at least quiet, in their opposition of the entitlement mentality that has pervaded the left. Not protesting (at least not in ways that made headlines) about the liberal socialist agenda that has been foisted on the American people, at the expense of their wallets. Social programs (some might say "social experimentation" writ large) using taxpayers dollars. Government programs and incentives that, quite frankly, have failed year after year, pet programs funded as rewards for interest groups, and incredibly expensive boondoggles that have befitted few except campaign donors of the left.

But the "Health Care" (socialized medicine) debate has enraged the "sleeping dragon" of conservatives and libertarians. Never before have so many conservatives, libertarians, and even slightly left leaning people gathered together and voiced their opposition to an issue. Never before has the opposition to not only socialized medicine, but other government spending been opposed so vehemently.

Those opponents of "Big Government" have been told for many years, by "Big Media", and other parts of the MSM, that they were alone in their thinking. By themselves, they were quieter than they might have been. Not silent, perhaps, but not organized, and not loud in their protest. They seldom banded together, seldom held protests, were, at best, quiet in their opposition to the direction that the left and the socialists have steered this country, leaving large protest gathering to those who benefited from the government largess that they opposed. Most had neither the time nor the energy to organize and to attend protests, having to take time for jobs, and family, and their social needs. Most could not be bothered to take the time, unlike those on the other side, who had no commitments, were easily "astroturfed" and really had nothing to lose by protesting, and generally nothing better to do anyway.

No more. Those opposing "Health Care Reform" have not only found their voice, they have discovered that not only do they have many others who are in agreement with them in their opposition to big government, to big spending, and to handouts and social programs, but they have also discovered that the politicians fear them in large groups, and that this fear gives the protesters a voice. They now know that their protests are heard, and are, if not heeded, are taken into account. Politicians like their jobs, and despite the dismissal and spin by the MSM, they now realize, due to the Internet and other communication channels, that their constituents are unhappy with the status quo, and want "change", want their representatives to actually represent their constituents. Not Barack Obama's style of "change", but change that decreases government, and lowers, rather than raises taxes, and a change that will bring about a return to the very principles upon which this great nation was founded.

Mr. Obama promised "change", and that is indeed what people voted for. But I doubt that the "change" that he is instigating will be what he envisioned. His supporters on the left will not like the "change" that may come about. The "sleeping dragon" has been awakened by the far left's overreaching, and will not go quietly into the night, as they had done before. "Change" is in the wind. The dragon has awakened.

The revolution from which this country began was, at any given time, supported by less than 3% of the population. Yet those 3% wrought great changes on the world, forging a great nation that 230 + years later is, while not perfect, still the most productive and most powerful nation on the planet. And the opposition to the left's plans encompass far more than 3% of the citizens of this nation. "Change" shall indeed happen.

Let us make that "change" for the better. Let us not lose our voice. Let us forge a "change" to return to the principles of this nations founders, and a return to the government that allowed this nation to grow and become what it is. Let us remove those who would change this nation to follow the social (and socialistic) pattern of Europe, which is dying, despite the help and defense that we provide.

I have been polishing a post regarding the constitutionality of the "health care legislation" when, taking a break, I find that LawDog has done a better job that I had.

So go and read his. It's better than I would have done.

IOW, "yeah, what he said"

Lefttards

Via Insty comes this.

All I have to say is that they obviously think that people can be easily confused by acts such as this....Which makes them contemptuous of their constituents intelligence. And, they apparently can't even hire a smart enough "lefttard" to not get caught.

Sadly, this sort of violence and destruction is the mark of the left, rather than the right.

We generally don't destroy property, but face you directly. Cowardly leftist tactics like destroying property generally get rightists pissed off, but make few changes in our thinking.

I doubt if they fooled as many people as they think though. People aren't as stupid as the left DNC gives them credit for....Except, of course, those who vote the way the DNC wants them to.

Power....control...

"We face a stark choice. The Left thinks it is winning. They want total control, but they will accept a foot in the door.

I hope we don't give them even a foot in the door, because our house will never be safe again."

And:
"control over your health means the power over life and death. Once the Democrats control one-sixth of the US economy they can hang on to power for good."

Go here for the meat of the article.

It's well written, and worth reading. And scary.

So a few weeks ago was county fair time. This means, among other things, that it is also 4-H beef time for my household. (my brother puts people together to buy the cows he selects (and he does a damned good job of selecting beef cows) so that no one needs to buy a whole cow). We decided to buy a 1/4 of a 4-H cow. We like 4-H beef, as it is , if not organically raised, damned close to it, and it helps a kid earn money for college or whatever.

So, to get to the point, in a roundabout way, I had to clean out the freezer to make room for the 200 lbs or so of "new" beef. After cleaning the freezer (which hadn't been done for about 3 years) I found that I had about 35 lbs of assorted beef, deer, elk, (and a 10 lb smoked ham from Who Knows Where) that was recovered from the depths of the chest freezer.

Placing the "new" beef into the freezer was going to be tough, as it also contains about 15 lbs of salmon patties, assorted "organic" seafood and other fish, about 20 lbs of assorted sausage, and other sundry things that I keep long term.

I know, I know...... get to the point of this post!

We decided to donate the "extra" leftover beef and other meats to someone who could use it. Times are hard here, in this area, if not as hard as they are in other locales, but still tough for many people. We have personally been lucky in that we haven't been hit as hard as others, we have decent sources of income that so far haven't dried up for us. The issue that we had was that the beef was not commercially packed, and therefore no local food pantry was willing to take it. I called a neighbor who is active in a local church and asked him if he know a family who could use about 30 lbs of assorted beef and other meat. He said he know a family that could use it, as there were parents, kids, and grandkids that were living in the same house to save money, and they could use the food. I told him to have the guy call me.

7 minutes later, a guy named Mike called, having been referred to me by my neighbor. He asked me if I still had the beef, and I said yes. He lives about a mile and a half from me. He asked if I was home , and I said that I was, but would be going out in a while...Or he could pick it up tomorrow....He arrived in less than 5 minutes.

Thanking me for the beef and other meat, he assured me that it would be put to good use. While not wanting to appear desperate to get it, he didn't waste any time getting to my house, nor loading it into his truck. I hope he can use it to feed his family. We had extra. We really have more than we need. We were glad to share it.

The thing that came to mind, after he had loaded the meat into his truck, shaken my hand, thanked me several times, was that I chose to give the food away. No one forced me, nor decided that someone else needed my possessions more than I. No one forced me to give a portion of my possessions to someone else. It was my choice, not the government's. It was our decision to give it away to someone who needed it. We could have kept the food, but chose not to, rather to give it to others in need. Nothing noble about it, just the way we both were raised.

Here's the thing....If you come by and tell me that so and so (perhaps a friend of yours?) needs an operation, and you are collecting donations for him/her, I'll likely throw a ten or a 20 in the hat. But again, that is my choice. I might not donate either. My choice. Depends....But the government takes my cash, and decides who to give it to. They decide who gets my money. They decide how much of my money they take, and decide what happens with my money without any input from me.. Make no mistake,... it is MINE. The government takes it. Technically, I am paying my taxes voluntarily, but the fact is that it is by the threat of force, or imprisonment, or confiscation of my property if I do not choose to "volunteer" to pay my share....which is also determined by the government. Nowhere in my copy of the constitution does it mention giving collected taxes to others, for any reason.

What I did with my extra food was charity, helping out my fellow man. What the government does is theft, not charity. They take, and give it away to others. State, local and, of course, federal officials decide who gets my hard earned money. I get no input, no real say, as to who those recipients are. This is theft. If I knock you down and take your wallet, it is theft, even if I give that money to a church later. A significant portion of the tax money that is taken is not used "for the common good" like police, and roads, and fire protection, and military defense of this nation, but is given to others, in the form of housing, food (or food stamps), or cash payments, all given to others without my permission or my input. Theft, plain and simple, no different that if I take your wallet and give it to another person.

This is what the new health care initiatives will be to an even greater degree. THEFT. "They" will take YOUR money, your hard earned wages and add additional money from your employer, and give that value to another person, or persons. It will not be your choice how the money is spent, nor will it be your choice how the remainder that is taken in "your" name is spent. You will not have choices as to how your "health care funds" are spent, even on yourself. You will take what care "they" decide to give you..... "Sorry, we are aware that your money helps 2 other people ......we spent your money on others, and there is none left for your angioplasty.....Yes, you have put in enough to pay for it several times over in the past 5 years, but we spent it all on those who don't pay into the system. Some of it went to care for the illegal gardener that your neighbor uses...some went to the guy and his wife who while they both CAN work, choose not to because they get nearly as much from the government by not working....... Some went to pay for that unwed mother's child who needed 6 months of hospitalization because she drank during her pregnancy.. and some went to pay for the other girl's 3rd abortion....But I am sorry that there isn't enough for you.....Hope you live long enough to get to the top of the waiting list....shouldn't take more than 6 months...

Thanks for taking care of all those other people too, BTW, we appreciate it, even if they don't...You see, without people like you, we wouldn't have jobs in the new government health care system, and we'd be on welfare too..."

********

You see, it is about choice....I chose to give away my food...You may choose to give to a charity. You may choose to tithe to a church. You may choose to give that homeless person money at the stoplight....Or, You may choose not to do any of those things.

I chose to help someone in my community. Thousands and thousands of people do so every day. Corporations too. But keep squeezing people and businesses, and soon there will be even less charity than there is right now, (which is down about 20% from even 20 years ago). But this is a choice, not a tax. People with extra choose to give to those who have a need. But the giving is voluntary.

Until now.

1 month

of not shooting (I foolishly let life get in the way) and my bullseye scores dropped from 540 to 450.

I got to make recoil therapy a priority, if not for my sanity, then for my proficiency.

But it must be crisis, otherwise we won't be able to "fix" it.

Via Holly, I bring you this, without comment, for your perusal.

Remember

You only have the rights for which you are willing to fight.

You may well not have to fight for any of them, but if you are unwilling to fight for them, and you opponent knows this, then you do not have those rights, or they will shortly be taken away form you.

Let the "powers that be" know and understand what you are willing to fight for. Thus you will keep those rights.

If you are not willing to fight for those rights and freedoms, then you, my friend, are a subject.

Your choice.

Just a little at a time....

Read Anarchangel's latest.

Says it better than I can.

Yep, they were lyin'.

Seems Greenpeace has been exaggerating Just a Teesy Weensy Bit...But the ends, according to them, justify the means.

Draw your own judgement.

I stole another poster

From TAM, comes THIS

Check her site out. It's good.

Stunning, isn't it?

Via WRSA, I bring you THIS

So much for representing your constituents

via Timebomb2000.com, I bring you THIS

Were I a voter in his district, I'd vote against him even if I agreed with him, just because of what he says here.

When he comes home, he should fear the lamppost and the rope carrying constituents he has failed.

But that's just me. I expect representation from my representatives and congressmen.

But then again, I am a stickler for such things.

It could happen.

In fact, it sorta is, with the removal of transfats, and salty stuff in NY and other places.

A nice story via AMCGLTD.com about how things could be. Written in 1978, it is eerily prescient.

Soon, if the liberals have their way, we too will be better for government regulation of our food supply and our bad habits. All in the name of good.

But I'd rather have the ability to kill myself with diet than eat artificial, processed, "good for you" foods all the time.

But then again, I am all for personal choice.

But I, of course, am a dissenter.

Take the time

THIS is a long post. Take the time to read it. Then think about it and read it again.

Then take stock, and change your ways. Be safer for doing so.

Seriously.

It's like that at my house. For good reason.

Go, read, learn.

Then vs Now

"I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration, somehow you're not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration."

Hillary Clinton, in a somewhat shrieking tone, sometime in 2003.


Today, however, dissent is not permitted, it disturbs the "ONE". He is diturbed by dissent, and in fact dislikes having hard questions asked of him...We should all just trust him. How dare we, the peasants, disagree with our betters, those who know more (because they are edumacated), who have spent time in the halls of academia and are so socially liberal in their groupthink. Today we are "Political Terrorists"

We should know better than to dissent from their opinions, their social (and socialistic) experiments.

Just think of what a better world we could all live in, if we would just hand over our hard earned dollars and allow them to spend them in the "best" way.

It's not that I really don't care about the "Pore and Starvin", it's just that I am tired of giving tax money that I earned to help those who make bad choices over and over again without learning the lessons that they might if the bad choices actually cost them, or hurt enough to teach them what not to do. (negative reinforcement.... look it up if you aren't sure what I am referring to....)

Edited To Add: another opinion similar to mine. But she usually is....

isn't it tinteresting....

Bob Dylan was temprarialy detained by the Long Branch N.J police (seems that not fitting the neighborhood is a crime in that area....But I digress) and was affable, decent, polite and civil to the 20 something officer who had no idea who he was...As he was unable to provide ID (my green card is in my other pants????) he was detained until they could identify him.

No screaming "do you know who I am?"or threats , and he left without any trouble.

If only Gates had acted this way.

One wonders.

(still, despite the politeness of Mr Dylan, one wonders why he was detained and asked for ID. Is it a crime in Long Branch to walk down a public street? I don't know enough details anout this but I wonder why this incident started.

But at least Mr Dylan didn't make it worse.

That's because we practice more.....and we do it because we like to shoot.

"In actual shootings, citizens do far better than law enforcement on hit potential,” said White. “They hit their targets and they don't hit other people. I wish I could say the same for cops. We train more, they do better."

Via Instapundit, we get this.

Despite the fears generated by the Gun Fearing Weenies liberals police can't be everywhere, and even when the are on scene, they generally aren't as good at hitting their targets. They generally don't just "spray and pray" unload their guns on target(s).

But the "civilian protector" doesn't fit the orderly plans the desk jockys and their administrative bosses like to game out in their retreats. It disturbs them to not have everything under their control so they'd rather have everyone disarmed....even if it causes significant loss of life because a civilian can't take care of things at the scene early on.

Most real cops admit that they are all for concealed carry. It's the upper level "management" that prefers the power and control to be in the hands of the police.

A crack....A small one, but a crack in the Obama Facade, nonetheless.

Seems the Obama Administration is willing to give up on the public health insurance option, replacing it with "cooperatives" (shades of Hillarycare....?) in order to get "Health Care Reform", which is really just government control of health care,

Step one in the plan to socialize medicine, which is step 2 in the long range plan for the socialization of Amerikka.

Glenn Reynolds says it's a "Parthian retreat"...I agree. Look it up.

They will never stop, only retreat and try again. Socialists are never going to give up and become good capitalists, and they won't move to a socialist country. They will always try to change this one "for the better", failing to realize that it is the wealth and power created by the capitalists that makes the world safer for socialists to do their slimy digging at the roots of that same foundation of capitalism.

Soon, there will be no new equipment...or even hospitals.

Why medicare like insurance isn't good for you,

(or why ObamaCare will destroy the best health care system in the world)


Let's not forget, folks, ObamaCare *WILL*NOT*BE*FREE*. (unless you are deemed "poor" or somehow worthy of a government handout....BUT THE REST OF US WILL PAY FOR THAT HANDOUT.)

At a greatly higher rate than we do right now.

Photo ID required....other roadblocks too

Rep Greene REQUIRES a photo id to be at one of his "town hall" meetings. (he's a democrat, BTW)

"In Texas, Rep. Gene Green's office is requiring town hall attendees to present a photo ID that proves they live in his district.

On his Web site, Green says "due to a coordinated effort to disrupt our town hall meetings, we will be restricting further attendance to residents ... and verifying residency by requiring photo identification.""

Interesting....isn't it the democrats who don't want a requirement to show ID to vote????But it seems that it is ok to require ID to attend a town hall meeting.

He apparently can't believe that his constituents could oppose the legislation.

Such hypocrisy.

LOTS of good stuff at Hamilton, Madison, and Jay regarding the Health Bill:

Go HERE to find out why the health care bill isn't what is promised....

This by people who have actually read the bill.

Unlike yer senators and representatives.

astroturf again

only it is on Obama's side, not the anti healtcare protesters.

via Michelle Malkin: THe little girl "randomly" selected: at NH was a plant.

Yet they have the temerity to accuse us of being shills.

ETA: More HERE

Who actually wrote

The health care reform bill?

Just wondering. anyone know?

Words from a wise man long dead

Ronald Regan (blessed be his name) speaks out against Socialized Medecine

"...One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It is very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. Most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can't afford it. "



Something to think about

I wonder what they (the DNC) paid for a swastika to be painted on one of their folks offices?

Just wondering..

So very nice

gotta go HERE and see what Mr. Hennessey did for the White House rumor central.....

BBBUT the DNC and Obama know better than us!

“I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform them.” — James Madison

If it was true then, it is even truer today.

ASS-TROTURF

REDSTATE has some interesting comments regarding Astroturf, and who is doing the astroturfing.

Like I said, the DNC/Liberals wing has never seen real grassroots, because they always create their own astroturf in a campaingn.

Nothing is real for them.

Even when real peasants have read the bills (more likely than the legislators) and have real, legitimate complaints. Since the DNC only has paid protestors, the rest of us who protest against then must have been paid as well.

Try Craigslist in your area. See what you find.

Once you lose it, you'll never get it back.

Via TB2K, comes this...

No comment, other than to say that it is worth the read.

Pigs, flying, and other stuff

Today, My mother, who has always thought that I was a bit paranoid about my government, has become convinced that I am correct, at least where the Obama administration is concerned.

Now I gotta go buy a lottery ticket.

Dress rehearsal for civil war...

Via WRSA comes this.

Worth thinking about.

Sadly, it's not just a story

and sadly, we are likely to find out too late that we are, indeed, a second rate, impotent nation, rather than the best country in the world, destination of many, even unto risking their lives to get here.

And sadly, we must accept that despite widespread voter fraud, no birth certificate, no real reason to vote for him, enough voted for the "one" to let him and his Ilk ravage our once strong country and begin the process of turning it into a socialists paradise.

We the people did it to ourselves, dammit. Not me, and not you, perhaps, but we, as a nation, allwed these socialist destroyers into power.

And my god have mercy on our country.

Read this.

Weep.

Just in case you really don't know how...

HERE is an easy way to find your reps, congressmen, state legislators, etc.

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt

Just enter yer zip code.

One might consider it a first step in target reconnaissance.

THere's probably gonna be more of this

Unless incidents like THIS are actually DNC creations....Since they seem to believe that headlines are reality, and legitimate protest MUST be astroturf....(no doubt because without their organizing the masses, there would never be a protest in favor of their actions).

Eventually, however, the constituents are just gonna show up with rope, and torches, and pitchforks and make their wishe4s even plainer than they have now.

And already the "town hall" meetings are policed heavily...

If only these non representing representatives and congressmen would get the message.....THe people , the true (not astroturfed by the DNC) grassroots, made up of conservatives, liberals, and in between folks DON"T WANT THE$ GOVERNMENT CONTROLLING HEALTHCARE. THere are enough of us that those who vote for it should fear, not only for their jobs, but fear for their very safety.

I'm not advocating violence here, but you can't piss off this many people and not have a real crazy or two get really mad.

And the police won't be able to stop it, should it ever becone a mob violence thing. And if they keep on this path, it will.

Good thing for these non-representing congressmen and members of the house that most of us are (fairly) peaceful, law abiding folks...

So far.

Coming soon to a location near you

It's Detroit today (How many years of socialist experimentation?), other places soon.

Are you prepared?

Got the means to protect what you have?

Think about it.

Hungry people have a different viewpoint about right and wrong.

Why ObamaCare is worse than doing nothing at all

Go HERE to find out why.

Then CALL OR WRITE OR FAX YOUR SENATORS. OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

Tell 'em "hell no"

Worth a read.

Via Holly, I bring you THIS.

It is so good, I have nothing to add.

Something to think about

and realize this is Backwoods Home magazine, and not Soldier of Fortune....

Scary.

Mobs.....RIIIIIIIIGHT

Seems that the DNC is feeling the heat. Either they are really stupid, and can't tell "grassroots" from "Astroturf", or they are feeling the heat and have gone to trying to discredit all of you (us) who have protested this debacle of a health care bill.

They'd rather lie than admit that over 50% of the citizens of the US dislike this so called reform.

Here is their message about us and the MOBS we run with...Paid for (i must have missed getting my check) by greedy insurance companies and the like.

Lies lies lies..

Michelle Malkin has examples of "mobs" on her site.

Perhaps the fact that they are unable to get a "mob" of protesters without bussing them onto their protests is lost on them. They may well be unable to fathom the concept that some of us actually take an interest in things, and choose to protest (it's that pesky first amendment again) without someone telling us where and when to do so.

I guess that the only thing that they have is the spin to work with.

I think it shows that they are scared. Scared of failing. Scared of us. Scared that we, the people are gonna get in the way of their agenda. Scared that we will finally stand up and say "no more".

As it is, I think that this, coupled with the stimulus bitll, is gonna cause a drastic change in the makeup of our senate and house. People are finally beginning to realize what liberals really stand for.

And that isn't a bad thing at all.

dissent....rat out your friends and family!

Since the DNC and the Obama administration can't spin things quickly enough (see my previous post), the White House has asked all good citizens to rat out their neighbors, friends, and family that dislikes and/or publicly dissents on the Health Care Plan.

Seems somewhat reminiscent of the brownshirts in....1939? '40?

So dissent is no longer "the highest form of patriotism" anymore, I guess. It's only against the left's opponents that dissent is good.

BE CAREFUL what you say.....and to whom you say it.

Lets hope that they aren't like the PHONE COPS..... (5:40).

No mater how the left spins it

The fact is that all the protesters that show up at pro-ObamaCare rallies have researched the subject, understand the bill, and have valid objections. So much so, that the senators are apparently canceling town hall type meetings.

And no, we aren't organized by the insurance companies, the hospitals, or any other organization.

We are there because we care enough to protest a bill that will dismantle the best health care system in the world.

It's grassroots, not astroturf.

But to the left, there is no difference. They cannot make grassroots happen, so they have to have astroturf.

To them, all grassroots is astroturf.

Via FreeRepublic.com

Apparently it's popping up everywhere in LA....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2305584/posts