Smart People = Common Sense
A Former Judge, Sheriff, NRA Constitutional lawyer (smart people) understand what is going on with gun control, why then do police chiefs in California and Chicago don’t? Is it blind loyalty to a progressive agenda, or are they just useful idiots, (aka stupid people).
A Nod to Blaine over at Moonbattery
Can’t Trust Any Of Them
So after the last few months banging the drum for Rand Paul, he jumps ship and votes with dems on the Hagel confirmation.
You just cant trust a politician.
On a 58 to 41 vote, the Senate confirmed the former GOP senator as four Republicans joined 54 Democrats in approving Hagel, ending a nearly two-month battle that included an unprecedented filibuster against the nominee.
The four Republican senators voting in favor were Thad Cochran (Miss.), Mike Johanns (Neb.), Richard C. Shelby (Ala.) and Rand Paul (Ky.). All 41 no votes came from Republicans.
A Nod to Weasel Zippers for the heads up.
Fox Sports Jason Whitlock Claims 15% Of NFL Players Gay or Bi
I am not sure where this guy gets his information. Pretty much like the rest of liberal America he makes up a statistical number and uses it to push his point. The 15% number has absolutely zero information to substantiate it as accurate. It’s a guess, (and a bad one), and he knows it. But liberals don’t care about accuracy, their main concern is getting others to believe it. I could care less about the plight of a gay NFL player, that’s not the point, the point is that a national writer pulls a number out of his ass, (pardon the pun), and prints it regardless of fact.
He does this for readership by creating controversy….period!
Let’s be honest. I think it’s reasonable to assume that 15 percent of NFL players are gay and/or bisexual. Generally speaking, they’re forced to conceal their sexuality out of fear of being ostracized and potentially released from the team. _ Jason Whitlock FOX Sports
Nuff Said
A Nod to Harper at Passed Up Strange
Bad Idea…The Wolves Are In Charge
Are you shitting me? Schumer is the guy dictating this? He doesn’t know where Wyoming is, let alone where the other “fly over states” are.
“These negotiations are challenging, as you’d expect on an issue as complicated as guns,” the chief negotiator, Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), said in a statement Saturday. “But all of the senators involved are approaching this in good faith. We are all serious about wanting to get something done, and we are going to keep trying.”Resolution of whether to keep records of private sales is key to earning the support of one of the Republicans involved in the talks, Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn, who has a solid A-rating from the influential National Rifle Association and could provide political cover for lawmakers of both parties who are wary of supporting the plan.
Key votes? Fuck You!!!
Coming Soon
The wife’s nephew put together actual footage from the Russian meteorite as a movie trailer, he lives in La La Land and does a bunch of Hollywood stuff, I will leave it at that. Kinda cool, thought I would share.
The 100% Death Tax
I assumed that this was just on a wish list for Democrats, I had NO idea that it is in the works, and decided upon by a new commission that is exempt from government over site. Freaking scary people.
Last January 18th, in a little noticed interview of Richard Cordray, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Bloomberg reported “[t]he U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau [CFPB] is weighing whether it should take on a role in helping Americans manage the $19.4 trillion they have put into retirement savings, a move that would be the agency’s first foray into consumer investments.”
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) created by the 2,319 page Dodd-Frank legislation is a new and little known bureau with wide-ranging powers. Placed within the Federal Reserve, a corporation privately owned by member banks, the CFPB is insulated from oversight by either the President or Congress, its budget not subject to legislative control. It is not even clear that a new President can replace the CFPB director on taking office.
The CFPB incursion into individual personal savings, in order to control how you invest your money, isn’t a new idea. Current proposals grew from a policy analysis as disclosed by Roger Hedgecock.
On Nov. 20, 2007, Theresa Ghilarducci, professor of economic policy analysis at the New School for Social Research in New York, presented a paper proposing that the feds eliminate the tax deferral for private retirement accounts, confiscate the balance of those accounts, give each worker a $600 annual “contribution,” assess a mandatory savings tax on every worker and guarantee a 3 percent rate of return on the newly titled “Guaranteed Retirement Accounts,” or GRAs.
How would that be accomplished? The Carolina Journal reported Ghilarducci’s 2008 testimony to Nancy Pelosi’s House.
Democrats in the U.S. House have been conducting hearings on proposals to confiscate workers’ personal retirement accounts “including 401(k)s and IRAs” and convert them to accounts managed by the Social Security Administration.
Your Government universal GRA investment savings account is an annuity managed by Social Security. Hedgecock noted ‘[m]ake no mistake here: Obama is after your retirement money. The “annuities” will “invest” not in the familiar packages of bond and stock mutual funds but in the Treasury debt!’
By 2010 Bloomberg published an article titled “US Government Takes Two More Steps Toward Nationalization of Private Retirement Account Assets.” In that article Patrick Heller observed that, with Democrat control of Congress and the Presidency:
[I]n mid-September 2010 the Departments of Labor and Treasury held hearings on the next step toward achieving Ghilarducci’s goals. The stated purpose was to require all private plans to offer retirees an option to elect an annuity. The “behind-the-scenes” purpose for this step was to get people used to the idea that the retirement assets they had accumulated would no longer be part of their estate when they died.
So the Government would get the money, not the estate or family of the people who saved the money during a lifetime of work. That’s a one hundred percent death tax on savings. Worse, the most responsible and poorest families will be penalized.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/02/the_feds_want_your_retirement_accounts.html#ixzz2Lm61IlzF
College Drop Out Gives Obama Economic Advice
Al Sharpton has a high school diploma from a Brooklyn high school. He dropped out of Brooklyn College. He is racial agitator and tax cheat owing over 1 million in back federal and state taxes.
The President of the United States Barack Obama asked this man for advice on the economy.
We are screwed.
No Apologies
Let the sequester happen…and don’t apologize for Obama’s bad policy.
In 2008 I was laid off due to the housing market crash, created by the Clinton Administration. I have worked for three different private sector companies since. One shut the doors because they could not compete in this economy, the next was a commission job for a greedy and crazy employer, (that lasted two months), and my current position was a fall back on a trade I learned in my 20’s. I am making 22% less and my taxes are higher than they were in 2008 and I have not had health insurance since the early ’90s, small construction companies can’t afford it. To put it mildly I am not impressed with Obama’s economy, and in 2014 I am going to have to pay for health insurance or a fine whether I can afford it or not. Instead of planning for the future, saving money for retirement, I will be cutting back just to survive.
When I hear about all of these federal employees and their unions whining about taking a day a week off due to cuts I cringe. Their pay has been frozen but the vaunted benefits are the same. I have gone backwards and the federal government has added employees since Obama became POTUS. So the only “business” that thrives in a recession, apparently, is the federal government. And they produce nothing.
Union leaders cannot stop the furloughs or determine who in each agency must take them. They are demanding that employees be able to choose when to take days off and volunteer for more to help financially strapped colleagues. They want guarantees that no one will be penalized when work does not get done and assurances that managers cannot choose favorites to spare.
“Many of you will be missing eight, 10, 20 days of work,” Alex Bastani, president of Local 12 of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), told a standing-room-only crowd of 400 Labor Department employees Thursday at a lunchtime town hall on sequestration.
“The imminence of it is what’s scaring me,” Louise Leonard Campbell, an economist for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, said Thursday as she left the meeting. “I’m a single mom. My son has health issues. This is just snowballing.”
“We are just living from one paycheck to another, and this could be really bad for us,” said Jorge Figueroa of Silver Spring, who works in quality control for the unemployment insurance division. He has four children, two in college. “I am telling you, this is going to be very stressful.”
Until you do something that benefits me or mine you get zero sympathy. As a matter of fact you can kiss my ass, you should feel blessed and lucky you have a job.