RANT: Organizational purity

Monday, December 28, 2009

http://www.lifenews.com/nat5767.html

Fake Catholic Groups Resurface in Health Care-Abortion Funding Debate
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
December 11, 2009

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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — They led the way in confusing Catholic voters about the pro-abortion record and views of presidential candidate Barack Obama. Now the fake Catholic groups that claim to be pro-life but advance the pro-abortion agenda are back — this time in the national debate over health care and abortion funding.

Catholics United and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good proved that adding “Catholic” to the name of an organization could get one media attention — and condemnation from pro-life Catholics who knew better.

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Guess we need some official board for who can use the word “catholic”. Do Coke and Pepsi have these types of problem?

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: A new tax; just say “no”

Monday, December 28, 2009

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff324.html

A 400 Percent (and Higher) Excise Tax
  by Michael S. Rozeff

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The Wall Street Journal brings more bad news. A headline reads “Lawmakers Weigh a Wall Street Tax.” The first mention of this was in October. The proposal has not died as Congress seeks new ways to finance its profligate spending. Both houses are considering legislation.

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I oppose ALL taxes. New or old. It’s just giving drugs to an addict.

Cut gooferment spending now!

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RANT: Fire Napolitano and ask Hillary some hard questions

Sunday, December 27, 2009

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20091227/D9CRN3B02.html

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WASHINGTON (AP) – Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says there is no indication that the man who attempted to destroy an airliner in Detroit on Christmas Day is part of a larger terrorist plot. Napolitano refused to say whether Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has a connection to al-Qaida

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Doesn’t anyone think she should be fired? Like the baseball manager who gets the ax for a poorly performing team, it may well not be her “fault”, but she’s the “manager”. TSA and Homeland Security “failed”; with some blame left over for Hillary and the State Department. (How did he get a visa?) Bet the next Czar of Homeland Security / TSAwill do better. (Or, they should be fired too!)

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GUNS: Everyone NEEDS an AK47

Sunday, December 27, 2009

http://www.lewrockwell.com/maloney/maloney19.1.html

Automatic for the People: The AK-47
by C.J. Maloney

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Alexander Hamilton wrote in The Federalist No. 29 that should the federal government ever turn despotic it “can never be formidable to the liberties of the people while there is a large body of citizens, little, if at all, inferior to them in discipline and the use of arms.” If every American family had an AK-47 hanging on the wall over the 46” wide-screen plasma, that’d force enough to give any army pause.

So next May Day, assuming you remember it at all, take a moment to honor the memory of the millions slaughtered over the lethally stupid idea of communism, but give a nod to God’s great mercy, to His mysterious way that willed that very same idea to birth the AK-47. It gave to the working masses the ability to defend themselves from the more virulent strain of politicians; it is the sword of the common man. Of all the firearms yet dreamed up by mankind, it is the automatic for the people.

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Why you might ask?

One: Do you think the politicians or the police fear the people?

Two: See the rising crime rate in unarmed Britan? And the number of home invasions?

Third, See the Tea Party rallies? Congressional Town Halls? They do any good?

Fourth. Dial 911 and die!

Nope, it’s time to defend yourself!

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RANT: Congress “fixes” the Airlines; we should “fix” Congress!

Saturday, December 26, 2009

http://blogs.jobdig.com/wwds/2009/12/22/congress-fixes-airline-customer-service-with-new-law

Congress Fixes Airline Customer Service With New Law
Posted in December 22nd, 2009
by CAL, Curmudgeon at Large

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I would like to comment, but being Christmastime and all, there’s a risk it might make me appear to be all curmudgeonly. But, still.

Way to go, Congress. Can you imagine any other American business or institution other than the airlines so tone deaf as to ignore thousands of irate, tarmac-stuck, can’t-use-the-toilet customers? Again, thanks Congress. You fixed it. And Mr. Airline, you are lucky you didn’t get worse. You could have been shot.

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May I blame the gooferment for the reason they pass a “Traveler’s Bill of Rights”?

Can we spell “regulatory capture”? That explains the FAA.

The Air Traffic Control system si generously credited to the 1950’s. Airports and their gates are a locally controlled joke.

How about if we make the airlines responsible for: the ATC, the airports, and their security?

Bet that the cost of fuel would give us a digital control system. Bet that the airports would be models of effiency and convenience. Bet that the security would be easy and transparent.

It’s the gooferment that is the problem.

Every time; every where!

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POLITICAL: New DNA techniques and “not our job”

Saturday, December 26, 2009

http://reason.com/blog/2009/12/20/florida-sees-its-12th-exonerat

Florida Sees Its 12th Exoneration
Radley Balko | December 20, 2009

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This is a common refrain from state officials and prosecutors. “It isn’t our job to find innocent people in the prisons.” Even in jurisdictions where there’s every reason to believe an unusually high number of innocent people have been convicted. They threw the state’s resources at putting the people behind bars in the first place, but argue it’s the responsibility of the wrongly convicted themselves or cash-strapped non-profit groups like the Innocence Project to bring the cases to the attention of the courts—usually as the same prosecutor offices fight them every step of the way.

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Sorry, the little L libertarian disagrees. Justice demands it! New DNA evidence that can prove innocence must be examined by the State. Otherwise, we’re just a “banana republic”!

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QUOTE: The Present

Friday, December 25, 2009

QUOTE: Yesterday is history ~ tomorrow a mystery ~ today is a gift ~ that’s why we call it the present. ~ Babatunde Olatunji

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GUNS: To preserve the peace

Friday, December 25, 2009

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=119889

My gun: A most necessary tool
Posted: December 24, 2009
Phil Elmore
  a freelance author, technical writer and publisher of the self-defense e-zine The Martialist.

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Until we, as a society, relearn that guns are tools, we will continue to put armed citizens like Roderick Scott on trial. Until we, as a people, remember that guns are technology – that they are neither good nor evil, possessing neither volition nor intent as inanimate objects – we will continue to uphold victimhood as morally preferable to using force in self-defense. Until we, as a society, stop vilifying law-abiding, productive members of society who take responsibility for the protection of their homes, their families and their property, we will continue contributing to the problem of crime in an increasingly out-of-control nation.

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It may seem incongruous to talk about guns on the birthday of the Prince of Peace.

BUT, (there is always a big butt), how do we have peace?

By being “peaceful”. And that translates to everyone having a “piece”.

Heinlein said it best: “An armed society is a polite society.”

“Dona Nobis Pacem”

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POLITICAL: Four month rotation

Thursday, December 24, 2009

On a recent trip to AC, at the magic show, an USAF fellow was there. With wife and two little girls. (Guess he was leaving from McGuire) Under duress, he revealed that he was about to leave on Thanksgiving for a FOUR MONTH ROTATION as a medic to the “war”.

Of course, this made me start thinking.

Why four months?

… because 181 days in a war zone gives certain benefits, entitlements, and pay.

Why Thanksgiving?

… no clue. (A human being might have scheduled the 4 months to split the holidays.)

Why are we always at “war”?

… because “war is the health of the state”.

Why do we regard the military as a job?

… that family could lose the husband.

Why?

… because we don’t have the stones to stand up to the political class and say “no”?

“Dona Nobis Pacem”

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NEWJERSEY: 937M$ for Obamacare

Thursday, December 24, 2009

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/12/the_hidden_costs_of_obamacare.html

December 24, 2009
The hidden costs of Obamacare
Phil Marshall

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Let’s take a look using New Jersey as an example.

According to State Health Facts.org , New Jersey has 935,500 total Medicaid recipients at a cost of 7.3 billion dollars. The state’s share is 3.65 billion. The state cost per recipient is $3,904.00.

New Jersey accounts for 1.6% of all US Medicaid recipients. If the reported 15 million are added to Medicaid nationwide, New Jersey’s 1.6% of that total would be 240,000. Multiply 240,000 by $3904.00 and ObamaCare adds 937 million dollars to the New Jersey State Budget. New Jersey will be forced to either raise taxes or make additional budgets cuts.

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Given the state of NJ’s budget, there’s no way that NJ can come up with 937M$

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