Well Said
“Democrats on health care: 15-year-olds who want birth control are adults. 26-year-olds who want health insurance are children.”
$3.73 Per Gallon Or Green at $59.00
This is fucking insane. The government is out of control, I did not pay my taxes for stupidity, yet that’s all these idiots know. Revolution soon me thinks.
Despite sequester, DOD signs contract for $59/gallon green jet fuel
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recently warned that sequestration would cause “suspension of important activities, curtailed training, and could result in furloughs of civilian personnel” but the spending cuts haven’t killed the green fuels program, as the Pentagon has continued purchasing renewable fuel at $59 per gallon.
“In March, Gevo entered into a contract with the Defense Logistics Agency to supply the U.S. Army with 3,650 gallons of renewable jet fuel to be delivered by the second quarter of 2013,” Gevo announced this week in its first quarter financial report. “This initial order may be increased by 12,500 gallons. All shipments will be at a fixed price of $59 per gallon during the initial testing phase. These shipments are in addition to the renewable jet fuel supplied to the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and the U.S. Navy (USN).”
Conventional JP-8 jet fuel costs $3.73 a gallon, according to the Defense Logistics Agency.
Society Evolves
To Big For Its Own Good
Following my last post about Holders letter to Kansas, I was thinking about all the snide remarks I made, and if maybe I should tone it down a bit. I know that my site is frequented by the same department whose leader I just called a poodle.
Um, no, I won’t stop.
It’s not that I hate government, it is the fact that the government in its current form is to big and out of control. To make an analogy look to the education districts of our public schools, since 1979 the administrative branch is 700 times bigger than it was, while the teacher and pupil growth rate stands at 200 percent in that same period. So what to glean from that, the same thing we glean from the federal government. To many bureaucrats and not enough teaching. To big for its own good or ours.
I understand that since our government began, people chasing power wanted to get involved in or in bed with the politicians. A natural occurrence of an aggressive Type A personality like most business owners or politicians, (back in the day), had in common. Powerful friends could guarantee contracts and favors much the same as we have now. The problem is, back then becoming a public servant was considered a privilege and a national duty.
Now it’s like winning the lottery, because in a lot of ways, it is. If you make it to a position of power such as a Mayor or Governor you are going to be paid well, if you make it to Congress you have set yourself up for life, and the longer you stay, the wealthier you will become, make to the White House, even better. And that, has created the monster we have now.
The United States is a huge complex country, with a multitude of problems to be dealt with, but as with the education bureaucrats in cities all over the country, you have X amount of politicians calling the shots, they have thousands of appointees helping them legislate/dictate the laws of the land, then you have millions bureaucrats wielding the sword of the aforementioned group. And all of these people get pad better than the private sector with pensions and benefits unimaginable to Joe Public.
Now add progressive liberals to the mix and disaster is just around the corner. They would tax their own mother into the poor house if they hadn’t already given her a six figure salary and appointed her to Czar of Poor Houses.
So yes, we need government, it just needs to be downsized about 40% and until something positive happens along those lines I’m gonna keep bitchin’ to whoever will listen.
Eric Holder Tries To Spank Kansas
I love it when Bambam’s pit bull poodle get’s off his leash. He sent a snotty letter to Kansas Governor Sam Brownback claiming the law they just passed to bar feds from enforcing gun laws is unconstitutional and they would sue to prove it. But like many of Obama’s hench men, he forgets that the federal law itself is unconstitutional thus making any action by Federal Agents quite lame and a crime. After Fast & Furious, what makes him think he deserves any respect.
A new law in Kansas that criminalizes the enforcement of federal gun controls in the state is unconstitutional, Attorney General Eric H. Holder said.
“In purporting to override federal law and to criminalize the official acts of federal officers, [the law] directly conflicts with federal law and is therefore unconstitutional,” Mr. Holder wrote to Gov. Sam Brownback in a letter dated April 26. “Federal officers who are responsible for enforcing federal laws and regulations in order to maintain public safety cannot be forced to choose between the risk of a criminal prosecution by a state and the continued performance of their federal duties.”
Mr. Holder cites the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which says federal law trumps conflicting state authority or exercise of power. Kansas’s law became effective April 25.
Mr. Holder wrote that federal authorities “will continue to execute their duties to enforce all federal firearms laws and regulations. Moreover, the United States will take all appropriate action, including litigation if necessary, to prevent the State of Kansas from interfering with the activities of federal officials enforcing federal law.” Read more here at The Gateway Pundit
Does Holder have a leg to stand on? Not according to The Tenth Amendment Center.
1. Kansas is NOT purporting to criminalize the exercise of constitutional federal responsibilities. On the contrary, the bill criminalizes what the state has determined is unconstitutional. It is the position that such federal acts are indeed a violation of the Constitution. No matter how much Eric might believe it to be otherwise, his view is obviously not universal – especially in Kansas.
2. The Supremacy Clause. Holder takes the position that all tyrants do – that everything they do is authorized, anything to the contrary – worthless. But Holder is wrong. The Supremacy Clause doesn’t say that “any law in conflict with federal law” is void. It says that only those laws “in pursuance” of the constitution are supreme. The new Kansas legislation, again, takes the position that such federal acts are not constitutional, and therefore not supreme. Read the rest here
Copy of Holders letter.
Click to biggie size.
Very Nice
Facts – Some Things You Can’t Hide
And I don’t want to hear any shit about Obama inherited this economy, Bush tried to regulate Fannie and Freddie, Democrats stopped him.
37 Years Ago Today – We Need Another Hero
“37 years ago today, two protestors attempted to burn an American flag in the outfield of Dodger Stadium. A baseball player by the name of Rick Monday of the Chicago Cubs rushed over and grabbed the flag to thunderous cheers.
The two protestors were arrested and Monday received a standing ovation from the LA crowd when he came to bat. He was later quoted saying, “If you’re going to burn the flag, don’t do it around me. I’ve been to too many veterans’ hospitals and seen too many broken bodies of guys who tried to protect it.”
We could use a few million Rick Mondays right now.