Wednesday, January 30, 2013

GDP drops by 0.1% in 4th Quarter

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324156204578273611039517142.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_LEFTTopStories

Those close to me know that last fall in the heat of the Presidential debate cycle I was of the belief that we had entered a recession and would see the numbers later.  Later is today.  The US GDP dropped by 0.1% for the fourth quarter of 2012 as spending throughout our economy slowed.  

Right now we have a stock market that is inflating against real numbers that suggest no real reason for confidence.  As we get closer to another "fiscal cliff" debate look for things to stall again as the nonsensical debate regarding debt by the Federal government combined with job depreciation in response to Obamacare continue to harm the economy.

Saturday, January 26, 2013

To Those Who Give Up Citizenship

There are literally millions of people around the world wanting to come to the United States of America for all of the freedoms we have cherished for two centuries.  There should be a price paid by those who choose to give up that precious status.  I should think it would be automatic that anyone deciding on their own to simply surrender American citizenship would instantly be considered an enemy of the state and would be barred from entry into this country for life.  There simply is no reason to surrender your citizenship.  None. 

There are two types of people who take the oath to serve.  There are Patriots who truly believe in the things this nation stands for (or is supposed to stand for).  There are those that do so for self empowering purposes.  Decide which you are.  Yes that means love or leave it.  If you do leave then you had better mean it.  This country is dying because the unprincipled are becoming the majority.  Decisions have consequences.

About that Republican "War on Women"

http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/25/emails-show-fbi-investigating-sen-bob-menendez-for-sleeping-with-underage-dominican-prostitutes/

Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Jon Edwards and now Bob Menendez say hi!

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Hey Hillary! You Are Right!

It doesn't make a difference.  In fact it makes so little difference that perhaps you should prove how much you care about those dead Americans in Benghazi by encouraging Chelsea to volunteer for combat duty.  I am sure she will do her duty and seek front line combat action since your guy Leon has unilaterally declared that women belong in combat positions.  Yep, no possible negative outcome could be anticipated from this.

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Bed Bath and Beyond Attacker

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2264793/Woman-stabbed-dozen-times-NJ-Bed-Bath--Beyond-shopping-infant-son.html?ICO=most_read_module

A young mom shopping in Bed Bath and Beyond pushing a stroller with her newborn is attacked.  The attacker stabs her in the chest over a dozen times puncturing both lungs.  Tyrik Haynes the 19 year old waste of oxygen who was arrested for the crime was already facing charges regarding an incident last month in which he set a cat on fire.

Why this piece of work was even walking the streets is a major question in my mind.  Also the fact that he was carrying a weapon should be warning to those gun control fanatics that think weapons bans accomplish anything serious regarding public safety.

That said I just want to make one point.  Our system of laws should include justice.  Justice means that punishment should be equal to the crime.  This individual is a menace to society and has already proven he is not worthy to live among us. Neither should we as a society accept that monsters like this should be maintained at public expense. It would serve Mr. Haynes right if he were to be strapped down, stabbed in the chest and then set afire.


Friday, January 18, 2013

My Three Proposals

1. I propose that a bill be drafted and sent to Congress for consideration that would make the White House a Gun Free Zone.  Provide no exception for Secret Service or law enforcement.  If it is good enough for schools it should be good enough for the President.

2. I suggest that states allow prisoners upon discharge the option of a one way bus ticket to New York state.  Clearly New York with it's vast wealth and freedom from weapons is the safest environment for recovery and rehabilitation.

3. As the state of California has insisted on open acceptance of people in this country without documentation I would recommend every state in the union have an amnesty program that provides one way transportation for any undocumented alien to go directly to the California city of choice to reside and receive benefits.

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

The 2nd Amendment and the UCMJ

Military members take an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic.  Any order given to any military member that calls for the engagement against a private citizen on American soil is an illegal order and would require that service member to turn weapons against whomever is giving said order. 

It is absolutely a requirement for active duty military members to resist tyranny.  There is no question about this.  Following illegal orders is a violation of military law that would subject service members to Courts Martial discipline with penalty up to and including death depending upon the offense.

The President of the United States with support of the liberal media and hysterical people on the left apparently believes that he has control of the armed forces and thus the ability to remove private property by his personal declaration and via force.  This nation may be heading down a dark pathway led by an evil man who intends to be a dictator.  The fight is not done with today's little speech.  It is only beginning.

Saturday, January 12, 2013

So Long Aaron Swartz

Reddit co-founder, hacker, liberal douche activist and all around evil guy Aaron Swartz has committed suicide.  This young man dedicated most of his brief adult years to causes that bring harm to our society and the world in general. He was a criminal facing years in prison and huge fines for his activities and may have simply saved the tax payers a bundle by taking his own life.  The left will trivialize his evil actions and mourn him over the next few days.  I say good riddance.  We were not allies in life, so we are not in death either.  I have nothing good to say about him.

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Executive Orders and Gun Rights

Vice President Biden yesterday stated that "The president is going to act."  He said "There are executive orders, there's executive action that can be taken. We haven't decided what that is yet. But we're compiling it all with the help of the attorney general and the rest of the cabinet members as well as legislative action that we believe is required."  He further said that "it's critically important that we act."

Finally he stated that "As the president said, if your actions result in only saving one life, they're worth taking. But I'm convinced we can affect the well-being of millions of Americans and take thousands of people out of harm's way if we act responsibly."

Here is the thing.  There is no authority for the President to just arbitrarily restrict the 2nd Amendment.  Further there is no "moral" authority for obligation or permission in existence for such an attempt to be made.  If anything the morality of the nation is defined in the Declaration of Independence which gives the authority to the Constitution. Without the Declaration of Independence we have no basis of a country.  The Constitution codifies the limitations upon government.  Any President who tries to unilaterally userp the power to restrict the rights of the governed forfeits authority and should be resisted.  This is exactly why we have the 2nd Amendment in the first place.

Should this President attempt to use an Executive Order to limit gun rights there should be immediate articles of Impeachment prepared.

I can recognize that well meaning touchy feely people may put their irrational fear of legalized gun ownership ahead of reason, but supporting a tyrant's grab for power has consistently led to civil warfare. Funny thing about history and how liberals never actually learn from any of it.

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Run, Hide, Fight? Hardly.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcnA_Cq_Csk
The Department of Homeland Security has sponsored the linked video which describes what to do in the event of a shooter entering an office building.  The suggestion of run, hide and as a last resort to improvise weapons and fight.  The scenario presented shows how this should work in a perfectly handled situation.

I call BS on this entire thing.  Run, hide and fight is the strategy that has been employed by every dead person in a mass shooting in history.  It is nothing more than a strategy that is tantamount to suicide.

A better plan infinitely more likely to prevent your murder is what I like to call Arm, Intercept, Destroy.  Private citizen packing whatever caliber of firearm with as many rounds as they deem the need to carry will be much better able to engage a would be killer and put that jerk down before they empty rounds into targets at random.

Remember that..Arm, Intercept, Destroy.  It kills the bad guys every single time.  Brought to you by the 2nd Amendment..guarding Americans against Tyranny and Murder for 200 years!

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Also, About those "Progressives"

what is so progressive about Communism? 

Putnam County Clerk is a Hero of Common Sense

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/04/releasing-names-gun-permit-holders-endangers-public-new-york-county-clerk-says/

There are several items around the Journal News and other papers complaining about the denial of a Freedom of Information request.  Firstly they are simply wrong on the law.  There are Federal guidelines regarding public information that declare that within public information (which only means it is owned by the public) there is a concept called "releasable."  Just because something is public information (i.e. your Social Security number is public information, owned not by you rather by the Federal Government and thus the people) it is not releasable to the public.

The Journal News is guilty of using the information for no actual public benefit.  Common sense proves this and it is self evident.  These papers and publishers that are defending the Journal News are guilty of purposeful denial of common sense.

The county clerk of Putnam County is absolutely right in that he is denying the request based on the danger it puts private citizens in by publishing the names and addresses of legal permit holders.  The Journal News is guilty of placing all of the unarmed neighbors in direct danger.  Anyone pretending that this is not true should be openly mocked and humiliated.  No one should be treated as a serious adult in the discussion who thinks this was even decent journalism on the part of the Journal News.

Dennis Sant is a public employee with common sense and should be hailed.  Good conservatives should be willing to lend to any legal defense efforts he faces from the lunatic left.

Tuesday, January 1, 2013

The Journal News MegaHypocrisy

http://www.rocklandtimes.com/2013/01/01/the-journal-news-is-armed-and-dangerous/

They must not have liked it when various sources started publishing names and addresses of the staff.  If they keep up with their nonsense then maybe it is time for someone to research and publish the license plate numbers of all their cars.

Leadership is Hard - John Boehner vs. the Tea Party

There is a political principal that has existed for several years that requires the House Speaker to have majority support of legislation from his/her own party in order to bring it to vote on the floor.  Today is a monumental moment to test that view out.  The US Senate this morning showed a lack of sense or will to do right by passing a prosal that would add over $600B in taxes supposedly while only cutting spending by $15.  This in a country running Trillion dollar deficits.  It is a bad plan.  It flies against any sense of economic reality.  It likely does not have majority support among GOP House members.

Forget that for a decade Democrats complained about the Bush tax rates being cuts only for the rich...the same Democrats who now insist that this package prevents tax increases for 98% of Americans...(you know..those same 98% who allegedly did not get a tax cut in 2001 or 2003?)  The insane hypocrisy there is astounding.  Forget even that the current President is the only President to ever spend $3Trillion in one budget year.  George W. Bush never did such a thing..not once..ever.  The best the US Senate and the Vice President could come up with in a nearly $4Trillion "budget" is $15Billion in cuts.  This is what they were able to work out.  Oh ya and to push the other mandatory cuts that the law says occur today down the road for 2 more months..so that in two months the left can lie some more, the media can propagandize some more and the Senate GOP caucus can cave some more.

I say no!  Today the House GOP caucus should reject this bill and force the country to accept what it is.  I am certain that the President all along really wanted the deadline to pass.  I'm not convinced that this is really a bad thing.  It is preferable in my opinion to force the tax rates back up and make the Democrats and liberals in general face the truth of their decade long lie.  It is extremely better to do so with the hundreds of billions in mandatory spending cuts that would truly put a dent in the current out of control deficits.

If John Boehner forces the House to vote for this bill today I believe that on Thursday his tenure as Speaker of the House must end.

Update:  The House of Representatives is going to vote on the Senate proposal with no Amendments allowed.  Whether it passes or fails this country needs a new leader of the House and I will not support any members who vote for this bill.