Comparatively speaking, Mayors Against Illegal Guns members are almost eight times more likely to be convicted of crimes than Florida concealed firearm license holders – but that number is based off 23 years of licenses versus four years of MAIG.
But in their eyes, they are your betters and know how to live your life for you. Via Insty.
I blame the drug wars for this: Home chemistry kit now comes with no chemicals in said kit. It's more of a chemistry shopping list/tease ("Here is what you could be doing if you had the actual tools at hand"). Why not charge to download a list of items a kid needs? Too many DEA agents look at little curious Johnny's chemistry kit and suspects him to be a meth dealer.
This is the end game for ObamaCare. To make the current system unaffordable for employers, (by making everyone buy the same approved gold star plan across the board) they would dump their plans and force employees to fend for health coverage for themselves seeing how it would be mandatory by law to be covered.
If there is ever an argument about dropping the prisoners in Club Gitmo off in the middle of the ocean from a flying C-130 5000 feet above sea level it's these three words: Weaponized body fluids.
It also makes churches beholding to the government. Gay marriage will be the keystone on this issue. If a church is accepting public funding then what strings are attached? A church can say they aren't going to perform gay marriages but yet accepts funding, that funding could be revoked and then the church will be left on its own (as it should). At that point, we'll see if the church submits itself to the rule of the government or if it will make a stand.
For a guy whose entire career was built on nothing but talking, he looks like he blew his speech last night. Maybe the ugly reality of last fall's election is finally hitting home.
3) Tactfully leaves out cheap unskilled labor as an explanation of other countries' competititveness;
4) Nuclear power: It's back (still);
5) Obama's earmark veto threat seems ill-advised, since he will probably have to eat it. This will be the Beltway CW, but that doesn't mean it's wrong;
Or. . . Been out of the loop for a few days trying to post something to make up for it.
Grand Valley State University may not have a Big Ten team like Michigan or Michigan State but they have something that neither one of them has. A Lip Dub club.
GVSU is also minutes away from Lake Michigan so there is that benefit with geography too.
For years if you wanted to go to Vegas from Arizona, you had to take the two lane highway across Lake Hoover Dam. Now with a 4 lane bypass just built, it cuts down the travel time for the people in a hurry to lose their money.
And you can see how the bridge was built thanks to the wonders of time lapse photography.
Have a busy weekend so to hit upon a few things before my big weekend of community organizing (I'm helping to coach my daughter's soccer team. If that's not community organizing, I don't know what is).
Snappy comebacks for Christine O'Donnell? Robert Stacy has that. Seriously, if dabbling in witchcraft as a teenager is an issue, then shouldn't an admission of sniffing coke in an autobiography as a twenty year old be one as well? Of the two, sniffing coke is actually against the law. Even in California.
[T]hey've been soaring in the public sector. Last year, for the first time, the number of unionized public employees exceeded the number of unionized private workers -- 7.9 million to 7.4 million.
Now, since the country has five times as many private jobs as public ones, this was possible only because the public unionization rate (37.4 percent) was more than five times higher than the private one (7.2 percent).
Another big difference: The average federal worker is compensated at $123,000 a year, including $42,000 in benefits -- more than twice what the average private worker gets. (State and local government employees don't do as well, but still beat private-sector pay.)
And these days a public job is a lot more likely to be truly a 9 to 5 affair than a private one.
I don't know if Obama was born in the US or abroad and I don't care. Part of the reason why he doesn't show his birth certificate is to marginalize those demanding to see it. But his behavior is very un-American. Case in point: Barack reported the United States to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights because some states have right to work laws and can't organize into unions. To me that's a feature, not a bug.
Stuart Varney embodies the American spirit more than Barack Hussain Obama ever has.
And yet even more union corruption. Enough to grind my teeth down to nubs. They say they are for the little guy. They say they are for the working man. But why is it the higher ups keep on lining their pockets at the expense of the membership?
4. The attendees saw a continuity between George Bush and Barack Obama, spendthrift and ineffectual Republicans and Democrats. To me, this was the most interesting aspect of the crowd. There were definitely more Republicans than Democrats (who may have been missing almost totally), but virtually everyone we talked with identified as an independent. Who was fed up with the past decade, really, not just the past 18 or so months of Obama.
It's for science. Today, everyone will find out just how powerless Allah is if California is still on solid ground. Do your part.
Besides, it's Biblical to make fun of false religions:
I Kings 18: 25-27
25Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “You go first, for there are many of you. Choose one of the bulls, and prepare it and call on the name of your god. But do not set fire to the wood.”
26So they prepared one of the bulls and placed it on the altar. Then they called on the name of Baal from morning until noontime, shouting, “O Baal, answer us!” But there was no reply of any kind. Then they danced, hobbling around the altar they had made.
27About noontime Elijah began mocking them. “You’ll have to shout louder,” he scoffed, “for surely he is a god! Perhaps he is daydreaming, or is relieving himself.b Or maybe he is away on a trip, or is asleep and needs to be wakened!”
And speaking of Bob Belvedere, he awarded this blog the prize of The Blog Post Title Of The Month. Not sure but I think I won something between a No-Prize and winning lottery numbers.
First, a bit of history about a country who experienced exponential growth of government followed by rampart inflation. No, not Wiemar Germany. Argentina.
Even the best democracies agree that when a major war approaches, democracy must be put on hold for the time being. I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.
Or is it more of a despotic attitude that Global Warming Cultists have?
I can understand where Neil McDonough is coming from. In acting violent scenes, they are all faked, staged and choreographed. No should be getting hurt for real and they use corn syrup and red food dye for blood. With love scenes, he's really kissing the woman who is only pretending to be his lover in order to titillate the viewers.
Finally, Ladies and Gentlemen, our new Health Care Overlords.
To be fair, Hank Johnson does suffer from Hepatitis C. Which affects his liver. He is also suffering from being a liberal Democrat too. Which obviously affects his brain. There is no explaining his theme song, however.
Doug pulls a twofer. With a picture of the dayweekmonth year and the audio clip to go along with it. Because when you have lost Howard Stern, you've lost the Easily Amused With Tales Of Bestiality Crowd.* It's a start.
*I would listen to him from time to time when I lived in Michigan and had to be in the Detroit area. The last time I purposefully listened to him was when he had a caller on talking about having sex with a dog. Howard didn't approve but he enabled the guy by having him on the air. So I enabled myself to turn his show off.
Sometimes when stuff like this happens all at once, it's almost by design to overwhelm the average person.
The latest on the Government Takeover of the Health Care System is that it's not going anywhere just yet. As soon as the Democrats will whip up the votes, the Senate version will be moved to the floor of the House for a vote. Then it can go straight to the White House for a vote. Scott '41' Brown and reconciliation will be rendered moot at that point.
Speaking of the Government Takeover of the Health Care System (I'm doing what I can to avoid calling it 'Health Care Reform' when what it will lead to is a government ran system. My own personal War with Words.), if this isn't illegal, it should be. At the most, unethical. Or as it's usually called: Chicago Land Style Politics.
To get them coming and going, a new bank tax going into effect. Who benefits? GM, Chrysler, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac who by curious coincidence, happen to be owned -- entirely or with a partial take -- by the US Government.
AKA: A long overdue round up. There will be a quiz on this but -- like government schools are fond of telling students -- there are no right and wrong answers.
A fellow Barbarian in Arms was interviewed by Team Sarah Radio. Now if you listen to about the ten minute mark, would it be fair to say that economics and energy are more tied together than most people think?
Did the Dallas Tea Party make their case for MSNBC being "The Whitest Network On TV"?
Will Batman be able to escape being dropped into a vat of acid? Find out next time I do a round up. Same Bat-Blog, Bat-Time is whenever I get around to it.
And by grassroots I really mean SEIU and the DSCC (And tea parties are astroturfed by people being paid to be there). But if they spend their money on people holding signs for Martha Coakley but who are going to vote for Scott Brown anyway, it's money well spent.
They're going to need it with the way Martha Coakley treated this staffer from The Weekly Standard.
Not to mention a good spell check program. It's her very own state, for crying out loud.
Due to a previous engagement (So I'm recovering from an ether soaked handkerchief my Samoan attorney gave me while out celebrating(Who, for the record, is neither Samoan or an attorney)), I couldn't be here so I called in a favor to my friend, Blake, to finish this for me.
But the one thing that the Bloggers Who Link should never do is wear a flower sun dress to a posthumous Medal of Honor award ceremony. No matter what your level of education, it's plain tacky.
Robert Stacy is the Blog Fu master of Bloggers Who Link. For starters, he goes a long way to say the thing that needs to be said. And you can enjoy the ride there.
There's been a dust up about a nasty rumor about Stacy's past. I can assure you, nothing is further from the truth. Just because there is a camera pointed at Rachel Maddow's head doesn't make her an authority on anything. It's an issue of fake journalists repeating what their producers say in their earpiece. Besides, I heard a rumor that her coochie is a protective habitat due to the rare and endangered species of crabs who live down there. No Kwell for her.
Do you realize what these links are? These links are gold. They are At The Point Of A Gun links. And those links are not there to attract Google spiders. It's as if I have Levi Johnston Nude up on purpose for that very reason.
After years of not being funny, David Letterman went two for two with teenage rape jokes. The first on Monday night and the second on Tuesday's show (Conservatives 4 Palin have the videos). It's that level of creepiness that when Elliot Spitzer went to shake hands with Letterman, it was Spitzer who used Purell afterward.
What else can I say that hasn't been said around the blogosphere? Other than a round up of everyone who has said something.
Ace has his own take on the ordeal. As well as a picture of Letterman and his lovely bride. Well, lovely to someone, one would hope. After giving birth to his bastard child he finally decided it was time to make it official.
To top it all off, both Todd and Sarah respond via Facebook.
"Any 'jokes' about raping my 14-year-old are despicable. Alaskans know it and I believe the rest of the world knows it, too."
- Todd Palin
"Concerning Letterman's comments about my young daughter (and I doubt he'd ever dare make such comments about anyone else's daughter) [Ed's note: Is that a reference to a current President's daughter?] : 'Laughter incited by sexually-perverted comments made by a 62-year old male celebrity aimed at a 14-year-old girl are not only disgusting, but they remind us Hollywood has a long way to go in understanding what the rest of America understands - that acceptance of inappropriate sexual comments about an underage girl, who could be anyone's daughter, contributes to the atrociously high rate of sexual exploitation of minors by older men who use and abuse others.'"
Do not forget to donate if you can't make it. This might be a vast right wing conspiracy but the people running it are cheap bastards. Expecting us to volunteer all our time and energy for free. Is a new laptop computer too much to ask for?
P & P have a clip of David Shuster making an ass of himself. Or as Shuster calls it, Tuesday. After listening to the clip a couple of times, it's crap a late night talk show host would say. Did his script get mixed up with Jon Stewart's?
And this is the best Tea Party sign I've seen in a while.
If none of these issues are not enough of a discussion for you, how about the Civil War. It was not civil, nor was it a war. Discuss amongst yourselves.
