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Friday, January 30, 2009
As we reported last week, legislation to require a federal license to possess any detachable-magazine semi-automatic rifle or shotgun, or any handgun, has been introduced in Congress. Bills to re-impose the federal "assault weapon" and "large" magazine ban, or to impose a much broader ban, have been introduced in Congress since 2003, and will likely be introduced in the current Congress soon.
Already, the deliberate deceptions we heard from anti-gunners previously are resurfacing. Anti-gun Sen. Carl Levin, (D-Mich.), said Thursday on the floor of the Senate that "assault weapons" are "capable of firing up to 600 rounds per minute" and that they are "once again pervading our streets and neighborhoods."
Did we mention that our opponents are deliberately deceptive?
Many fully-automatic firearms can fire 10 rounds in a second, which theoretically would work out to 600 rounds per minute, but they cannot be reloaded fast enough to achieve anything near that rate in reality. But we are not talking about fully-automatic firearms—we're talking about semi-automatics, and the difference between them need not be explained here.
"Pervading our streets?" Anti-gun lawmakers swore up and down that once the "assault weapon" ban expired, the murder rate would go through the roof. Well, the ban expired in 2004 and since then, the murder rate has gone down to a 43-year low.
The anti-gunners think they can revive this bogus issue, and maybe they can; they will no doubt try. But Congress required a study of the 1994 ban, and the study concluded, "the banned weapons and magazines were never used in more than a small fraction of gun murders." Violent crime was going down before the ban, and it has continued to go down after the ban. If the issue is looked at objectively, it should be over, done with, water under the bridge. The ban should never have been imposed in the first place, let alone be imposed again or ever expanded.
And certainly guns should not be banned on the basis of nonsense like Sen. Levin's speech, and other deliberate deception perpetuated by gun ban groups.
Deliberate deception such as:
- A folding stock makes a rifle concealable, as if it were a pocket knife. But anyone who knows anything about gun laws knows that federal law requires a rifle to be 26 inches long, regardless of its stock, and a 26-inch-long rifle is not concealable.
- A pistol grip is designed to allow a rifle to be fired "from the hip." But the 90 million pistols owned by the American people all have pistol grips, and they aren't designed to be fired "from the hip." Besides that, the fact that a rifle has a shoulder stock and sights mounted on the barrel proves that it is designed to be fired from the shoulder.
- Magazines designed to hold more than 10 rounds are not useful for self-defense. If they really believe that, let them propose to prohibit the military and police from having pistol magazines that hold 12, 15, and 17 rounds.
- These guns are "high-powered." Next time an anti-gunner calls a gun "high-powered," ask him to name one gun that is low-powered. They even call .22 rimfires "high-powered," when they want to brand a .22 as a so-called "assault weapon."
NRA members who own AR-15s and other so-called "assault weapons," you are not alone. There are nearly two million AR-15s in our country, the same number of M1s, the same number of M1 Carbines, and many more Mini-14s, semi-automatic shotguns, pump-action shotguns, and all the other guns the anti-gunner want to call "assault weapon." Countless millions of American own handguns that use magazines of over 10 rounds.
Our challenge is to coalesce these Americans into a political force that will make anti-gun lawmakers' heads swim. When they repeat gun ban groups' deliberate deceptions, we must tell the truth; not some of the time, but
all of the time! But we cannot wait for them to act, and then only respond in defense. We must be out front. When we carry our message, we must do so confident in the knowledge that we are doing so in a manner that respects our fellow citizens, and their right to disagree--a way of doing business that is alien to our opponents--and that our arguments are based in logic and fact, not deceit.
Friday, January 30, 2009
As we reported last week, legislation to require a federal license to possess any detachable-magazine semi-automatic rifle or shotgun, or any handgun, has been introduced in Congress. Bills to re-impose the federal "assault weapon" and "large" magazine ban, or to impose a much broader ban, have been introduced in Congress since 2003, and will likely be introduced in the current Congress soon.
Already, the deliberate deceptions we heard from anti-gunners previously are resurfacing. Anti-gun Sen. Carl Levin, (D-Mich.), said Thursday on the floor of the Senate that "assault weapons" are "capable of firing up to 600 rounds per minute" and that they are "once again pervading our streets and neighborhoods."
Did we mention that our opponents are deliberately deceptive?
Many fully-automatic firearms can fire 10 rounds in a second, which theoretically would work out to 600 rounds per minute, but they cannot be reloaded fast enough to achieve anything near that rate in reality. But we are not talking about fully-automatic firearms—we're talking about semi-automatics, and the difference between them need not be explained here.
"Pervading our streets?" Anti-gun lawmakers swore up and down that once the "assault weapon" ban expired, the murder rate would go through the roof. Well, the ban expired in 2004 and since then, the murder rate has gone down to a 43-year low.
The anti-gunners think they can revive this bogus issue, and maybe they can; they will no doubt try. But Congress required a study of the 1994 ban, and the study concluded, "the banned weapons and magazines were never used in more than a small fraction of gun murders." Violent crime was going down before the ban, and it has continued to go down after the ban. If the issue is looked at objectively, it should be over, done with, water under the bridge. The ban should never have been imposed in the first place, let alone be imposed again or ever expanded.
And certainly guns should not be banned on the basis of nonsense like Sen. Levin's speech, and other deliberate deception perpetuated by gun ban groups.
Deliberate deception such as:
- A folding stock makes a rifle concealable, as if it were a pocket knife. But anyone who knows anything about gun laws knows that federal law requires a rifle to be 26 inches long, regardless of its stock, and a 26-inch-long rifle is not concealable.
- A pistol grip is designed to allow a rifle to be fired "from the hip." But the 90 million pistols owned by the American people all have pistol grips, and they aren't designed to be fired "from the hip." Besides that, the fact that a rifle has a shoulder stock and sights mounted on the barrel proves that it is designed to be fired from the shoulder.
- Magazines designed to hold more than 10 rounds are not useful for self-defense. If they really believe that, let them propose to prohibit the military and police from having pistol magazines that hold 12, 15, and 17 rounds.
- These guns are "high-powered." Next time an anti-gunner calls a gun "high-powered," ask him to name one gun that is low-powered. They even call .22 rimfires "high-powered," when they want to brand a .22 as a so-called "assault weapon."
NRA members who own AR-15s and other so-called "assault weapons," you are not alone. There are nearly two million AR-15s in our country, the same number of M1s, the same number of M1 Carbines, and many more Mini-14s, semi-automatic shotguns, pump-action shotguns, and all the other guns the anti-gunner want to call "assault weapon." Countless millions of American own handguns that use magazines of over 10 rounds.
Our challenge is to coalesce these Americans into a political force that will make anti-gun lawmakers' heads swim. When they repeat gun ban groups' deliberate deceptions, we must tell the truth; not some of the time, but
all of the time! But we cannot wait for them to act, and then only respond in defense. We must be out front. When we carry our message, we must do so confident in the knowledge that we are doing so in a manner that respects our fellow citizens, and their right to disagree--a way of doing business that is alien to our opponents--and that our arguments are based in logic and fact, not deceit.
Friday, January 30, 2009
As we reported last week, legislation to require a federal license to possess any detachable-magazine semi-automatic rifle or shotgun, or any handgun, has been introduced in Congress. Bills to re-impose the federal "assault weapon" and "large" magazine ban, or to impose a much broader ban, have been introduced in Congress since 2003, and will likely be introduced in the current Congress soon.
Already, the deliberate deceptions we heard from anti-gunners previously are resurfacing. Anti-gun Sen. Carl Levin, (D-Mich.), said Thursday on the floor of the Senate that "assault weapons" are "capable of firing up to 600 rounds per minute" and that they are "once again pervading our streets and neighborhoods."
Did we mention that our opponents are deliberately deceptive?
Many fully-automatic firearms can fire 10 rounds in a second, which theoretically would work out to 600 rounds per minute, but they cannot be reloaded fast enough to achieve anything near that rate in reality. But we are not talking about fully-automatic firearms—we're talking about semi-automatics, and the difference between them need not be explained here.
"Pervading our streets?" Anti-gun lawmakers swore up and down that once the "assault weapon" ban expired, the murder rate would go through the roof. Well, the ban expired in 2004 and since then, the murder rate has gone down to a 43-year low.
The anti-gunners think they can revive this bogus issue, and maybe they can; they will no doubt try. But Congress required a study of the 1994 ban, and the study concluded, "the banned weapons and magazines were never used in more than a small fraction of gun murders." Violent crime was going down before the ban, and it has continued to go down after the ban. If the issue is looked at objectively, it should be over, done with, water under the bridge. The ban should never have been imposed in the first place, let alone be imposed again or ever expanded.
And certainly guns should not be banned on the basis of nonsense like Sen. Levin's speech, and other deliberate deception perpetuated by gun ban groups.
Deliberate deception such as:
- A folding stock makes a rifle concealable, as if it were a pocket knife. But anyone who knows anything about gun laws knows that federal law requires a rifle to be 26 inches long, regardless of its stock, and a 26-inch-long rifle is not concealable.
- A pistol grip is designed to allow a rifle to be fired "from the hip." But the 90 million pistols owned by the American people all have pistol grips, and they aren't designed to be fired "from the hip." Besides that, the fact that a rifle has a shoulder stock and sights mounted on the barrel proves that it is designed to be fired from the shoulder.
- Magazines designed to hold more than 10 rounds are not useful for self-defense. If they really believe that, let them propose to prohibit the military and police from having pistol magazines that hold 12, 15, and 17 rounds.
- These guns are "high-powered." Next time an anti-gunner calls a gun "high-powered," ask him to name one gun that is low-powered. They even call .22 rimfires "high-powered," when they want to brand a .22 as a so-called "assault weapon."
NRA members who own AR-15s and other so-called "assault weapons," you are not alone. There are nearly two million AR-15s in our country, the same number of M1s, the same number of M1 Carbines, and many more Mini-14s, semi-automatic shotguns, pump-action shotguns, and all the other guns the anti-gunner want to call "assault weapon." Countless millions of American own handguns that use magazines of over 10 rounds.
Our challenge is to coalesce these Americans into a political force that will make anti-gun lawmakers' heads swim. When they repeat gun ban groups' deliberate deceptions, we must tell the truth; not some of the time, but
all of the time! But we cannot wait for them to act, and then only respond in defense. We must be out front. When we carry our message, we must do so confident in the knowledge that we are doing so in a manner that respects our fellow citizens, and their right to disagree--a way of doing business that is alien to our opponents--and that our arguments are based in logic and fact, not deceit.
Remember This?
Jan 31, 2009 | 9:53 PM PST
Category:
News
During the campaign, Obama
said, "We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.
"That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen."
That was back in May of 2008. Now?
On his first full day in the White House, President Obama was
photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat.
"He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?" said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. "He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there."
It's good to be king.
Remember This?
Jan 31, 2009 | 9:52 PM PST
Category:
News
During the campaign, Obama
said, "We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.
"That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen."
That was back in May of 2008. Now?
On his first full day in the White House, President Obama was
photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat.
"He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?" said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. "He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there."
It's good to be king.
Remember This?
Jan 31, 2009 | 9:50 PM PST
Category:
News
During the campaign, Obama
said, "We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.
"That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen."
That was back in May of 2008. Now?
On his first full day in the White House, President Obama was
photographed in the Oval Office without his suit jacket. There was, however, a logical explanation: Mr. Obama, who hates the cold, had cranked up the thermostat.
"He’s from Hawaii, O.K.?" said Mr. Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, who occupies the small but strategically located office next door to his boss. "He likes it warm. You could grow orchids in there."
It's good to be king.
Maryland State Senator Lisa Gladden wins this week's Most Idiotic Statement Of The Week award for her gushing statement, caught on tape, to a political reporter, “It doesn’t matter if the state of Maryland is broke as long as Barack Obama is going to be President of the United States – this is great!” Maybe the real idiots are the ones that elected her.
Maryland State Senator Lisa Gladden wins this week's Most Idiotic Statement Of The Week award for
her gushing statement, caught on tape, to a political reporter, “It doesn’t matter if the state of Maryland is broke as long as Barack Obama is going to be President of the United States – this is great!” Maybe the real idiots are the ones that elected her.
Maryland State Senator Lisa Gladden wins this week's Most Idiotic Statement Of The Week award for
her gushing statement, caught on tape, to a political reporter, “It doesn’t matter if the state of Maryland is broke as long as Barack Obama is going to be President of the United States – this is great!” Maybe the real idiots are the ones that elected her.
Face to face with the worst economic crisis confronting our nation in decades, our dedicated public servants are hard at work on our behalf.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is busy launching
an online petition for readers to express their outrage at conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh. This, coming on the heels of triumphant Democrats
confirming a tax cheat as our new Treasury Secretary, which came on the heels of giddy Democrats
spearheading a new bill through Congress that would require camera phones to make a sound when taking a picture.
Six Democrats were busy
enjoying a Caribbean junket sponsored by Citigroup after Congress obligingly approved the $700 billion bailout of financial services firms in October, while others were hard at work crafting a $819 billion spending package under the guise of stimulating the economy.
What spending millions of bucks on sexually transmitted diseases and giving
billions of our tax dollars to corrupt left-wing groups like ACORN has to do with stimulation has yet to be explained. Instead, we're urged to look at 'the larger picture'.
The 'larger picture' that immediately comes to my mind is Father Earth, Algore,
testifying before Congress, warning of the imminent demise of the human species because of global warming, while the
storm of the century rages across 1,400 miles of the U.S. I digress...
President Obama meanwhile, continues his honeymoon, bravely shrugging off the
arrest of his half-brother for dope and his
aunt's illegal status.
In response to news that Iran now has the ability to
manufacture a nuclear weapon this year, Obama ordered the closure of Guantanamo and changed the rules governing interrogation of terrorists, in order to assure these prisoners not be made "uncomfortable." No mention was made of the 61 Gitmo inmates that had already been released and found, once again, engaged in jihad.
Obama then followed up by asking the military's Joint Chiefs of Staff to
cut the Pentagon's budget request for the fiscal year 2010 by more than 10 percent -- about $55 billion.
Obama reacted to Republican Congressman and House Intelligence Committee Chairman
Peter Hoekstra's comment "There's no way and no chance to stop the Iranian nuclear program," by penning a Dear Achmadinejad letter to Iran, legitimizing the rogue regime by agreeing to direct talks, something Bush had refused to do.
Iran promptly responded, claiming that Obama's offer signaled that America's policy of "domination" has failed. "This request means Western ideology has become passive, that capitalist thought and the system of domination have failed," Iran gleefully retorted.
No fool, he, Obama had already pre-empted Iran by
appointing Gary Samore as our new Weapons of Mass Destruction Czar, allowing him to continue focusing on his plan to do away with the military's 'Don't ask, Don't tell' policy regarding gays in the military.
Anticipating this new policy, Army Secretary Pete Geren has
approved adding legal personnel to help combat sexual assault among soldiers, which he deemed "repugnant to the core values" of the Army.
Meanwhile, our dedicated public servants on the state level are just as busy. New York's Mayor Bloomberg, facing shrinking tax revenues that have turned the $1.3 billion November budget hole into a now $4 billion chasm, took to the microphones and
declared a war on - salt. I'm not making this stuff up.
In California, the state was
unable to give the taxpayers their tax refunds because, oops, there's no money left. Not to worry, California is counting on being a big winner in the stimulus jackpot as soon as our public servants in D.C. can get rid of the pesky opposition and pass the much touted 'stimulus bill', thereby relieving them of personal responsibility for the bad decisions of oh, the last 40 years, that have left the state in default.
Undeterred by lack of funds, California continued doing the people's business by
enacting a new law that provides millions of Californians with limited English proficiency the right to an interpreter from their commercial health and dental plans.
This law comes on the heels of another California
eco-mandate that requires owners of gas stations to purchase new equipment to reduce vapor emissions at the pump.
In the name of Mother Earth, dozens and potentially hundreds of gas stations, unable to afford the cash to comply with these new mandates, are
choosing to shut down. Unfortunately these small businessmen don't have the promise of 'stimulus' money to pay the piper so, poof, they're green toast.
With foreign money
fleeing the US at record rates, with a
2009 deficit already at $1.2 trillion, (
your share is $175,000) and a
16-year high unemployment rate, states respond by
continuing to spend money at boom-time rates, despite shrinking revenues.
Governors across the nation are reacting by making plans to
levy higher taxes next year on clothes, soft drinks, gasoline, auto licenses and other items that likely will hit low- and middle-income families.
Joe six-pack will just have to cough up more dough. Obama has called on all of us to
make sacrifices, and its our patriotic duty.
Noticeable only by its total absence, is any call for the one solution that would solve the economic crisis. Cutting taxes. Not only do ordinary Joes get to keep and spend more of their own money, thus doing some actual stimulating to the weak economy, but tax cuts, as shown by history, would also fill depleted government coffers.
But, hey, our public servants are the experts. And fortunately, they're judged on their promises instead of their results. The recent election indicated that this is what Americans want. And now we're getting it.
Soon, the government will own pieces of banks, insurance companies, mortgage companies, car companies, possibly airlines, media etc., etc. By this time next year, (if Iran hasn't nuked us), you will be able to walk into any of those businesses and get the same service you now get from the government run post office - which by the way - will
soon be cutting back on 6 day mail deliveries due to budget problems.
We asked for it, we got it. God bless America.
Nancy Morgan is a columnist and news editor for RightBias.com
She lives in South Carolina
This article may be re-printed, with attribution
Face to face with the worst economic crisis confronting our nation in decades, our dedicated public servants are hard at work on our behalf.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is busy launching
an online petition for readers to express their outrage at conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh. This, coming on the heels of triumphant Democrats
confirming a tax cheat as our new Treasury Secretary, which came on the heels of giddy Democrats
spearheading a new bill through Congress that would require camera phones to make a sound when taking a picture.
Six Democrats were busy
enjoying a Caribbean junket sponsored by Citigroup after Congress obligingly approved the $700 billion bailout of financial services firms in October, while others were hard at work crafting a $819 billion spending package under the guise of stimulating the economy.
What spending millions of bucks on sexually transmitted diseases and giving
billions of our tax dollars to corrupt left-wing groups like ACORN has to do with stimulation has yet to be explained. Instead, we're urged to look at 'the larger picture'.
The 'larger picture' that immediately comes to my mind is Father Earth, Algore,
testifying before Congress, warning of the imminent demise of the human species because of global warming, while the
storm of the century rages across 1,400 miles of the U.S. I digress...
President Obama meanwhile, continues his honeymoon, bravely shrugging off the
arrest of his half-brother for dope and his
aunt's illegal status.
In response to news that Iran now has the ability to
manufacture a nuclear weapon this year, Obama ordered the closure of Guantanamo and changed the rules governing interrogation of terrorists, in order to assure these prisoners not be made "uncomfortable." No mention was made of the 61 Gitmo inmates that had already been released and found, once again, engaged in jihad.
Obama then followed up by asking the military's Joint Chiefs of Staff to
cut the Pentagon's budget request for the fiscal year 2010 by more than 10 percent -- about $55 billion.
Obama reacted to Republican Congressman and House Intelligence Committee Chairman
Peter Hoekstra's comment "There's no way and no chance to stop the Iranian nuclear program," by penning a Dear Achmadinejad letter to Iran, legitimizing the rogue regime by agreeing to direct talks, something Bush had refused to do.
Iran promptly responded, claiming that Obama's offer signaled that America's policy of "domination" has failed. "This request means Western ideology has become passive, that capitalist thought and the system of domination have failed," Iran gleefully retorted.
No fool, he, Obama had already pre-empted Iran by
appointing Gary Samore as our new Weapons of Mass Destruction Czar, allowing him to continue focusing on his plan to do away with the military's 'Don't ask, Don't tell' policy regarding gays in the military.
Anticipating this new policy, Army Secretary Pete Geren has
approved adding legal personnel to help combat sexual assault among soldiers, which he deemed "repugnant to the core values" of the Army.
Advertisement
Meanwhile, our dedicated public servants on the state level are just as busy. New York's Mayor Bloomberg, facing shrinking tax revenues that have turned the $1.3 billion November budget hole into a now $4 billion chasm, took to the microphones and
declared a war on - salt. I'm not making this stuff up.
In California, the state was
unable to give the taxpayers their tax refunds because, oops, there's no money left. Not to worry, California is counting on being a big winner in the stimulus jackpot as soon as our public servants in D.C. can get rid of the pesky opposition and pass the much touted 'stimulus bill', thereby relieving them of personal responsibility for the bad decisions of oh, the last 40 years, that have left the state in default.
Undeterred by lack of funds, California continued doing the people's business by
enacting a new law that provides millions of Californians with limited English proficiency the right to an interpreter from their commercial health and dental plans.
This law comes on the heels of another California
eco-mandate that requires owners of gas stations to purchase new equipment to reduce vapor emissions at the pump.
In the name of Mother Earth, dozens and potentially hundreds of gas stations, unable to afford the cash to comply with these new mandates, are
choosing to shut down. Unfortunately these small businessmen don't have the promise of 'stimulus' money to pay the piper so, poof, they're green toast.
With foreign money
fleeing the US at record rates, with a
2009 deficit already at $1.2 trillion, (
your share is $175,000) and a
16-year high unemployment rate, states respond by
continuing to spend money at boom-time rates, despite shrinking revenues.
Governors across the nation are reacting by making plans to
levy higher taxes next year on clothes, soft drinks, gasoline, auto licenses and other items that likely will hit low- and middle-income families.
Joe six-pack will just have to cough up more dough. Obama has called on all of us to
make sacrifices, and its our patriotic duty.
Noticeable only by its total absence, is any call for the one solution that would solve the economic crisis. Cutting taxes. Not only do ordinary Joes get to keep and spend more of their own money, thus doing some actual stimulating to the weak economy, but tax cuts, as shown by history, would also fill depleted government coffers.
But, hey, our public servants are the experts. And fortunately, they're judged on their promises instead of their results. The recent election indicated that this is what Americans want. And now we're getting it.
Soon, the government will own pieces of banks, insurance companies, mortgage companies, car companies, possibly airlines, media etc., etc. By this time next year, (if Iran hasn't nuked us), you will be able to walk into any of those businesses and get the same service you now get from the government run post office - which by the way - will
soon be cutting back on 6 day mail deliveries due to budget problems.
We asked for it, we got it. God bless America.
Nancy Morgan is a columnist and news editor for RightBias.com
She lives in South Carolina
This article may be re-printed, with attribution
Face to face with the worst economic crisis confronting our nation in decades, our dedicated public servants are hard at work on our behalf.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is busy launching
an online petition for readers to express their outrage at conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh. This, coming on the heels of triumphant Democrats
confirming a tax cheat as our new Treasury Secretary, which came on the heels of giddy Democrats
spearheading a new bill through Congress that would require camera phones to make a sound when taking a picture.
Six Democrats were busy
enjoying a Caribbean junket sponsored by Citigroup after Congress obligingly approved the $700 billion bailout of financial services firms in October, while others were hard at work crafting a $819 billion spending package under the guise of stimulating the economy.
What spending millions of bucks on sexually transmitted diseases and giving
billions of our tax dollars to corrupt left-wing groups like ACORN has to do with stimulation has yet to be explained. Instead, we're urged to look at 'the larger picture'.
The 'larger picture' that immediately comes to my mind is Father Earth, Algore,
testifying before Congress, warning of the imminent demise of the human species because of global warming, while the
storm of the century rages across 1,400 miles of the U.S. I digress...
President Obama meanwhile, continues his honeymoon, bravely shrugging off the
arrest of his half-brother for dope and his
aunt's illegal status.
In response to news that Iran now has the ability to
manufacture a nuclear weapon this year, Obama ordered the closure of Guantanamo and changed the rules governing interrogation of terrorists, in order to assure these prisoners not be made "uncomfortable." No mention was made of the 61 Gitmo inmates that had already been released and found, once again, engaged in jihad.
Obama then followed up by asking the military's Joint Chiefs of Staff to
cut the Pentagon's budget request for the fiscal year 2010 by more than 10 percent -- about $55 billion.
Obama reacted to Republican Congressman and House Intelligence Committee Chairman
Peter Hoekstra's comment "There's no way and no chance to stop the Iranian nuclear program," by penning a Dear Achmadinejad letter to Iran, legitimizing the rogue regime by agreeing to direct talks, something Bush had refused to do.
Iran promptly responded, claiming that Obama's offer signaled that America's policy of "domination" has failed. "This request means Western ideology has become passive, that capitalist thought and the system of domination have failed," Iran gleefully retorted.
No fool, he, Obama had already pre-empted Iran by
appointing Gary Samore as our new Weapons of Mass Destruction Czar, allowing him to continue focusing on his plan to do away with the military's 'Don't ask, Don't tell' policy regarding gays in the military.
Anticipating this new policy, Army Secretary Pete Geren has
approved adding legal personnel to help combat sexual assault among soldiers, which he deemed "repugnant to the core values" of the Army.
Advertisement
Meanwhile, our dedicated public servants on the state level are just as busy. New York's Mayor Bloomberg, facing shrinking tax revenues that have turned the $1.3 billion November budget hole into a now $4 billion chasm, took to the microphones and
declared a war on - salt. I'm not making this stuff up.
In California, the state was
unable to give the taxpayers their tax refunds because, oops, there's no money left. Not to worry, California is counting on being a big winner in the stimulus jackpot as soon as our public servants in D.C. can get rid of the pesky opposition and pass the much touted 'stimulus bill', thereby relieving them of personal responsibility for the bad decisions of oh, the last 40 years, that have left the state in default.
Undeterred by lack of funds, California continued doing the people's business by
enacting a new law that provides millions of Californians with limited English proficiency the right to an interpreter from their commercial health and dental plans.
This law comes on the heels of another California
eco-mandate that requires owners of gas stations to purchase new equipment to reduce vapor emissions at the pump.
In the name of Mother Earth, dozens and potentially hundreds of gas stations, unable to afford the cash to comply with these new mandates, are
choosing to shut down. Unfortunately these small businessmen don't have the promise of 'stimulus' money to pay the piper so, poof, they're green toast.
With foreign money
fleeing the US at record rates, with a
2009 deficit already at $1.2 trillion, (
your share is $175,000) and a
16-year high unemployment rate, states respond by
continuing to spend money at boom-time rates, despite shrinking revenues.
Governors across the nation are reacting by making plans to
levy higher taxes next year on clothes, soft drinks, gasoline, auto licenses and other items that likely will hit low- and middle-income families.
Joe six-pack will just have to cough up more dough. Obama has called on all of us to
make sacrifices, and its our patriotic duty.
Noticeable only by its total absence, is any call for the one solution that would solve the economic crisis. Cutting taxes. Not only do ordinary Joes get to keep and spend more of their own money, thus doing some actual stimulating to the weak economy, but tax cuts, as shown by history, would also fill depleted government coffers.
But, hey, our public servants are the experts. And fortunately, they're judged on their promises instead of their results. The recent election indicated that this is what Americans want. And now we're getting it.
Soon, the government will own pieces of banks, insurance companies, mortgage companies, car companies, possibly airlines, media etc., etc. By this time next year, (if Iran hasn't nuked us), you will be able to walk into any of those businesses and get the same service you now get from the government run post office - which by the way - will
soon be cutting back on 6 day mail deliveries due to budget problems.
We asked for it, we got it. God bless America
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