Only in the mind of a severe leftist would this make sense.   The only way not raising taxes is equivalent to government spending is if the concept of capital ownership is from the position that all wealth belongs to the collective government.   Do you recognize how incredibly radical this statement is?   This position means your income, determined by your labor, does not belong to you, it belongs to the federal government, and they will determine for you how much of it you are allowed to keep.   Reflect on this for a moment.

WASHINGTON — Announcing his budget plans for fiscal year 2013 in an address at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va., President Barack Obama characterized the current income tax rates — signed into law by President Bush a decade ago — as a form of government spending.

Essentially, the president said that the federal government “spends” when it does not raise taxes. (more…)

Tucker Carlson appeared on Fox News this morning to discuss the Daily Caller’s latest installment of it’s “Inside Media Matters” investigation.  These goons actually wanted to hire private investigators to do opposition research and dig up dirt on ANY and ALL Fox  employees. 

The full story is below the fold….  (more…)

It’s not quite as silly as you might think. See, some anti-gun group is boycotting them today, because they decided that whatever state law is in a given state, they will not impose further restrictions than on their customers. Which is to say: If the state allows open carry, so does Starbucks, and they won’t prohibit a person from wearing said firearm on their premises. Seems sensical, but those freedom-hating, uncivilized brutes who are scared by their own shadows are all in a tizzy. That’s why the PA Gun Blog decided to annouce a Buy-cott for the same days as the boycott. Thus, Starbucks Appreciation Day.

See, what the provicial-minded neaderthals trying to boycott didn’t realize is that Starbucks–my former employer– does in fact have a history of violence in its stores, with lessons learned and passed on. On the night of Sunday, July 6th, 1997, three employees of the Georgetown, DC Starbucks were murdered in a  case was sadly never fully resolved. The bodies were discovered early the next morning by the opening shift supervisor, and within hours, Howard Shultz (CEO) had broken his vacation to fly to DC to spend time with the other employees of the store. I remember, when I worked for the company, senior staff who had attended the funerals of each employee telling how the CEO had cried at each service, clearly and visibly upset at what had happened.

DC had, and still has, some of the strictest gun controls in the nation– and at that time, Schultz learned that all the gun control in the world wouldn’t keep his employees safe. While Starbucks may overall market itself to the over-grown hippy crowd, it’s not so much of a “lefty” company as a company pursuing enlightened self-interest.

In honor of my former employer, I would like to present readers with some things about Starbucks that they may not have known, specifically in regards to complains I constantly see blog-commenters make.

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Guest posted by GFC…

………………………………………..“Be My Valentine.”

This is a phrase that conjures up a lot of different images associated with the celebration of Valentine’s Day. Cards with hearts and little poems on them. Candy and flowers given to someone you love. And images of cupids flying around shooting their arrows of love into unsuspecting youths. Young and old alike expressing their affection for their sweethearts. February 14th for many means cards, candy, flowers, and cupids.  (more…)

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Two Oahu women have filed a lawsuit against Petco, claiming their dogs had parts of their bodies cut off while being groomed at the Kaneohe store.

Three-year-old Gilzale and Pomeranian-Maltese mix Dodo are the best of friends. The little girl was crushed when the dog was injured.  Her grandmother, Gladys Kapuwai, says she took Dodo to Petco in Kaneohe for grooming last July and, a couple of days later, realized one of her ears had been cut off. (more…)

BANGKOK (AP) — An Iranian man carrying grenades blew off his own legs and wounded four civilians in a trio of blasts that shook a busy Bangkok neighborhood on Tuesday, Thai authorities said.

The explosions came a day after an Israeli diplomatic car was bombed in India — an attack Israel blamed on Iran. Authorities say its unclear whether Tuesday’s Bangkok explosions were linked to the New Delhi attack, but Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said, “we can’t rule out any possibility.”

Thai security forces found more explosives in a house where the Iranian man was staying in Bangkok, but it was not known what targets they might have been meant for, Police Gen. Pansiri Prapawat said. (more…)

Gee….I was watching the news tonight, and I didn’t hear a thing about this.  Surely the MSM is going to want to cover this.   CNN:  OWS was attacked at a Santorum rally.  ABC:  99%ers rescued at a Santorum rally.  NBC:  America mourns the mistreatment of students during Santorum Speech.   CBS:  Oh look!  Something bright and shiny!  And at last, PBS:  No comment.  Seriously, my opinion of Santorum went up 1,000% after watching the way he handled himself in the face of this orchestrated mayhem.  He went into the belly of the beast and faced them down.  Oh…and listen to the crowd cheer when these scumbags are dragged off…”USA …USA.” 

It takes you to be with me not just for me because all of us are going to have to make it happen.

Thank you, good luck and God Bless You.

Let me remind everyone that Obama’s last budget failed to pass in the Democrat Party controlled Senate by a vote of 97 – 0.   That’s ZERO, as in nada, not one democrat vote.  So to see his next proposal held up once again by those same democrats as an example of fiscal sanity is, well, quite honestly, ridiculous. 

In February 2009, while democrats’ controlled the White House and both houses of congress, Obama submitted his first budget to Congress.  It boldly predicted that the federal deficit would decrease dramatically during Obama’s term, dropping from an estimated $1.841 trillion in fiscal 2009 to $557.4 billion in fiscal 2012.   However, in the fiscal 2013 budget that Obama submitted to Congress today, the White House is predicting that the federal deficit for fiscal 2012 will not be $557.4 billion after all.

Instead, the White House says, it will be $1.3269 trillion.

That means Obama’s fiscal 2010 budget proposal missed on its fiscal 2012 deficit prediction by $769.5 billion–an error of 138 percent.   Kinda’ missing that whole promise to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term, huh?  The federal debt has increased by $4.47 trillion since President Barack Obama released his first federal budget on Feb. 26, 2009 and that budget was entitled, “A New Era of Responsibility.”   Comical in retrospect….

Now let’s look at how the Associated Press critiques this latest budget.

(AP) Taking a pass on reining in government growth, President Obama unveiled a record $3.8 trillion election-year budget plan Monday, calling for stimulus-style spending on roads and schools and tax hikes on the wealthy to help pay the costs. The ideas landed with a thud on Capitol Hill. (more…)