* U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000
* Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000
* New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
* National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
* Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000
Let’s now remove 8 zeros and pretend it’s a household budget: (more…)
WASHINGTON DC – President Obama turned up on NBC’s “Meet the Press” for the first time since the passage of ObamaCare, and gave exactly the performance that every veteran Obama-watcher would have expected: a bitter, intransigent partisan claiming to be the only non-partisan, non-ideological participant in the “fiscal cliff” drama. “I’m not driven by some ideological agenda – I’m a pretty practical guy,” he explicitly stated, offering his past four years in office as evidence.
It’s too bad “Meet the Press” doesn’t have a laugh track. (more…)
What do Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, The RNC, Mitt Romney, Wayne La Pierre, The NRA and NRA President David Keene have in common?
They don’t know their enemy, nor how to fight back against them. They are insufferably out of touch, out of sync, and have no rhythm because they are all operating on broken historical paradigms.
Consider this latest round of NRA pushback as summed up by Jim Hoft in this headline at Gateway Pundit:
NRA Mocks Feinstein’s Ignorant Gun-Ban Bill: Next She’ll Want to Add “Nuclear Bomb” to Banned Gun Features – “Mocking“? Strong in the stupid force is this crew. Hoft puts a link to the NRA article which includes:
Feinstein’s 1994 ban listed “grenade launcher” as one of the prohibiting features for rifles. Her 2013 bill carries goes even further into the ridiculous, by also listing “rocket launcher.” Such devices are restricted under the National Firearms Act and, obviously, are not standard components of the firearms Feinstein wants to ban. Perhaps a subsequent Feinstein bill will add “nuclear bomb,” “particle beam weapon,” or something else equally far-fetched to the features list. (link)
This is the same insufferable mindset behind the “oh, no they can’t“, “they wouldn’t“, “that’s impossible“, approach toward legislative manipulations: (more…)
(introduction by Sundance) Dear Readers:
The nature of lies is to please…. Truth has no concern for anyone’s comfort.
— Catherine Dunn
Prepare to be uncomfortable. Today we will share some truthful information regarding the pending Dianne Feinstein “Assault Weapon” legislation.
But first I want to remind you of a specific date: January 20th 2010.
That was the day AFTER Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown won his historic election and turned the “Kennedy Seat” back to the “Peoples Seat”……..
Everyone, and I do mean “everyone”, proclaimed victory in killing Obamacare, there was no way President Obama was going to get it passed now because Brown represented the proverbial 41st Senate vote against it, reducing the Senate support to 59 one less than Harry Reid needed.
Oh, how joyful, and insufferably naive the Constitutional Conservative, Tea Party, Republican movement was. As a lone voice, we shouted out then the opinion that it did not matter, Obamacare would get through ‘By.Any.Means.Neccessary’, because we know these people and how they operate, and it did. On January 20th our little voice was an infinitesimal minority – Everyone thought victory over Obama was at hand. (more…)
Whether or not you own a firearm, or care about the Second Amendment, you should watch these manuevers closely. It ain’t about guns.
Remember when President Obama’s Office of Legal Council argued defense of “Obamacare” under the auspices of taxing authority? Subsequently, the 10th Amendment was essentially bypassed.
This article focuses on the “buy back” possibility. But that is not how this crew operates. They will work through the “Permitting and/or Registration Taxation” angle. The current administration is exceptionally skilled at using regulation (see Cass Sunstein) to control freedom.
WASHINGTON DC – Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said that she and other gun control advocates are considering a law that would create a program to purchase weapons from gun owners, a proposal that could be compulsory. (more…)
Liberal Lies – In the wake of the tragic Newtown massacre, we’re hearing all the usual lies and misconceptions about firearms. And since it’s wise to be educated on a topic before advocating policy on it, this is a good time to explode the gun myths being bandied about.
1. The issue is automatic weapons. – Boston mayor Thomas Menino and CNN’s Don Lemon both recently repeated the common mantra that we have to get “automatic weapons” off the streets. Automatic weapons, however, are machine guns, which, except for individuals who receive special permission from the federal government, have been illegal to own since the passage of The National Firearms Act in 1934. In addition, the Firearms Owners’ Protection Act of 1986 made it generally illegal for any civilian to own an automatic weapon manufactured after that year. (more…)
Naive people continue to state that Gun Control legislation will not pass the Senate or House. These are the same voices who said “Obamacare is effectively dead”… short-sighted, and insufferably wrong. They screamed “70% of Americans do not want Obamacare – That WAS correct but they got it anyway. The Senate, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi pushed through the Obamacare bill by ridiculously manipulative rule changes and procedural machinations. Gun Control legislation will be done the same way. Guns will be banned.
It does not matter the size of the opposition, the left operates effectively as a minority influence to change and subvert the will of the majority – they always have. The question of gun control is not “if”, but “when” and to what extreme. Personally, I believe that only revolvers will be permitted in the eventual allowances, and single bolt-action rifles also. Everything else will be outlawed.
WASHINGTON DC – With pressure building from Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid opened the door Monday for legislative action on gun control in the wake of the deadly massacre at a Connecticut elementary school last week.
While he said “no one law” or policy can stop a “determined madman,” Reid argued that Washington is “not doing enough” to protect the public from tragic episodes like the one that unfolded in Newtown, Conn. where 20 children and six adults were murdered by an armed assailant. (more…)
Tim Scott is a good addition to the Senate. He has a strong principled background and will be a great all around fiscal conservative. Good News.
SOUTH CAROLINA – South Carolina Rep. Tim Scott, R-S.C., has been appointed by Republican Gov. Nikki Haley to the Senate seat now held by Republican Jim DeMint. DeMint is leaving the Senate at the end of the year to run the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation.
“He is the right person,” she said. She pointed to his strong relationship with the business community and the “courage” he showed during a fight with the unions and the National Labor Relations Board during a recent effort to move Boeing factories to the state.
Scott will be the first African-American Republican in the Senate since former Sen. Edward Brooke, R-Mass., lost his bid for reelection in 1978. The 47-year-old, who won a second House term last month, was the first black Republican to represent South Carolina in the House in more than a century. (more…)
Everything, and I do mean e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g. from this moment forward will be highly scripted, controlled and manipulated toward a very specific agenda. Take nothing at face value – question everything. Just like the fake bomb threat at the Newtown Memorial today, so that media could be kept out…. it is all about a specific agenda now…. As President Obama is quoted here by Knoller:
WASHINGTON DC – A bill to restrict the use and sale of weapons like the high-powered Bushmaster .223 that coroners said had killed many of the children at Sandy Hook, would be introduced in the next session of the US Congress, promised senior Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein “It will ban the sale, the transfer, the importation and the possession. Not retroactively but prospectively. And it will ban the same for big clips, drums or strips of more than 10 bullets,” she told NBC News, adding that she expected Mr Obama to support the bill.
The move – which would essentially revive the Bill Clinton-era assault weapons that was allowed to lapse in 2004 – is expected to be highly controversial with the powerful gun lobby and politicians whose constituents cling fiercely to their Second Amendment gun rights. (more…)
The net is flooding with conspiracy theory about this shooting. Most of them are total bunk. However there are major issues with the initial, and evolved reports; and indeed something is not passing the sniff test for me either. One website has begun collecting a list of all the discrepancies (here).
We are going to thin it down to the pertinent ones; can you think of any to add to the list? Starting with…. why the pictures of a 20 year old shooter as a child? Where’s the recent pics?
1.) According to the official story, Adam Lanza was found with his older brother’s ID, and it was not stolen. However, older brother Ryan–who officials say is very cooperative–claims not to have even seen his brother since 2010. Where would Adam get this ID?
2.) According to the official story, Adam Lanza was wearing a black outfit with a mask and bulletproof vest. Why would he want to hide his identity, and why would he wear a bulletproof vest, if he planned to kill himself? (more…)