Hmm
April 14th, 2009
Looks like Perry is going to get my vote after all this fall.
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Here We Go
January 26th, 2009
The opening salvo has been shot.
The mayor is wrong however. This is about the right to keep and bear arms, and nothing else.
Cold dead hands and all.
Categories: Guns, Politics | Tags: AWB, civil rights, socialist stupidity | 1 Comment
Obama Supporting Teacher Abuses Soldier’s Daughter
November 6th, 2008
This is evil pure and simple. It is especially angering to me, as my black first grade teacher used to take my lunch money and give it to the black kids. She was a vile evil women, whom I would slap in the face even today if the chance was given to me.
This poor little girl is attacked by this teacher because her father is a McCain supporter and a soldier. It is disgraceful that she thinks it is okay to inject her political opinions into the classroom, and force it upon these kids.
HatTip: Michelle
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Guns and Ammo Selling Out Across the Country
November 6th, 2008
Obama’s election, and his promise to reinstate the assault weapons ban have people panicking a bit. According to this article, stores and distributors are starting to get low on their stock of semi-auto sport guns, magazines, and ammo. Any weapon that is semi-auto and has a capacity greater than 10 rounds is very popular right now, and is a potential victim to be banned.
Gun bloggers are not exempt from the buying frenzy by any means. Uncle let’s us know about Jay G’s potential black rifle purchase. There are dozens of posts on blogs and forums asking, “What should I buy before Obambi takes away our rights?!”. All these people are correct to buy what they want now. There is no telling when the ban will be reinstated, what it will contain, and there likely will not be a sunset provision this time.
The arguments against such a ban are for another post, or series of posts, but it is sufficient to sum the topic up with, “They don’t work.” This is a proven fact. I have been contemplating this for several months now. About a month or so ago an order was placed for twenty AR magazines. Today, I ordered half a case of ammo from Natchez.
We have discussed this in the past, and the wife agrees that we will need to make some more purchases before the end of the year. An AK variant of some type is on the list, along with mags and ammo for it.
The five hundred rounds of 5.56 that will be arriving are enough. Components to load several thousand more rounds will be purchased after the new year.
Hopefully we are all wrong about this, but it is better to prepare now, than to wish you had later.
Categories: Freedom, Guns, Politics | Tags: AR-15, AWB, civil rights, obama, RKBA, semi-auto, socialist stupidity | 4 Comments
Obama’s Civilian Defense Corps?
November 4th, 2008
What the hell are these bastards doing at a polling place?
Edit: A report from Fox News
Michelle has more on this story.
Update: Another Fox News Video. The remaining Black Panther is a moron.
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This Sucks
October 30th, 2008
The hits just keep on rolling. The Texas Comptroller’s Office reversed the bogus lean they put on my account yesterday. The money came back this morning. Of course now I am stuck with $560 worth of NSF charges, and the bank says there is nothing they can do to help me. I was told to call the Comptroller for help. Good luck with that, the guy at the bank said.
So the state has officially screwed me out of over $500 on a debt that I did not owe.
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Forget Socialism, Communism is now Being Embraced.
October 30th, 2008
U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D. Toledo) whipped the crowd up before Mr. Obama took the stage yesterday telling them that America needed a Second Bill of Rights guaranteeing all Americans a job, health care, homes, an education, and a fair playing field for business and farmers.
This is an unbelievable quote. Thanks to Random Nuclear Strikes for posting about this little tidbit of pure communism. This is the definition of totalitarian communism as practiced by, the USSR, Cuba, North Korea, and others. The only way government can guaranty a job, health care, a home, an education, and “a fair playing field for business and farmers” is for the government to own it all, and force you to take this great government job that will not reward you in any way for working harder than the guy next to you.
“Fair” or “fairness” is liberal democrat code for taking away everything you have worked for and giving it to some shmuck who has spent their miserable life sitting on their ass.
The democrats are freaking communists pure and simple.
Update: Here is a video.
Here is the letter the Toledo Blade wrote to Senator Obama.
So, this all stems from our original Socialist in Chief, FDR. What a shock. This is the change we are going to get America. More failed socialist policies that have already doomed us to overwhelming debt, that will make us look back to today and smile fondly. Change my ass.
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That was and is Scary!
October 29th, 2008
This has already been the week from hell. Yesterday I totaled my new ‘99 Tahoe, and today I accessed my checking account online, and found that it was negative $1,000! What the heck?
So I look into the details and I have a court ordered lien on my account for almost $3,000. This wiped out my checking, and savings account I use for overdraft protection, and incurred about a dozen NSF fees at $35 a piece. Great, I thought. What the hell is this all about. I owed the IRS a bit of money after last year, and set up a payment plan with them so that couldn’t be it. After calling them, they confirmed this. So who could it be? I don’t owe anyone money or anything.
At lunch I went to the bank to find out what the hell was going on. It turns out the Texas Comptroller’s Office put the lien on my account. Now here comes the scary part. Back in June I set up a business to sell fireworks. After applying for the necessary Tax ID number, I decided against it, and never sent in the required signature form. So I was never issued a Tax ID, or permit to conduct business. I also never conducted any business.
I thought the matter was over with seeing as how I never completed the process. I was wrong on that thought. A couple of weeks ago I got a sales tax bill for $200. Having not collected or filed any returns I was puzzled and made an inquiry to the government office in question. They replied that they could close the account, and asked me to send my ID number on the letter I received. I did that last week, and left Thursday night for our anniversary trip. We went camping and came back Monday.
Well apparently, they neither closed the account, or canceled the supposed fee. Instead they decided that I somehow owed them $2,343 and somehow got a government order to seize the money in my savings and checking accounts! So, the government provided no form of due process for me, no intent to levy letter or anything like that, and arbitrarily decided it would be OK to steal $2,300 out of a private citizens personal account.
This is unbelievable to me. Of course they have reversed the levy after I called and raised hell with them. How this is legal is beyond me however. The bank is going to try to get my NSFs cancelled, so that is good. What a complete nightmare and pain in the ass though. It scares me that the government can just come in and seize whatever they want, whether they are owed it or not.
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It is Starting
October 23rd, 2008
McCain Supporter Robbed, and Maimed for being a McCain Supporter
Arm yourselves, and be vigilant.
Update: Meh, this turned out to be complete BS. Apparently the girl scratched herself in the face while looking at a mirror, and was not at the ATM at the time she said the robbery occured.
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OK, Now I am Pissed
October 23rd, 2008
It looks like more socialism is headed down the pike.
Powerful House Democrats are eyeing proposals to overhaul the nation’s $3 trillion 401(k) system, including the elimination of most of the $80 billion in annual tax breaks that 401(k) investors receive.
House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-California, and Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Washington, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee’s Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, are looking at redirecting those tax breaks to a new system of guaranteed retirement accounts to which all workers would be obliged to contribute.
This is just infuriating. Now they want to socialize our retirement savings even further. Never mind the fact that Social Security is an abysmal failure. More of the same should fix the problem. There’s real HopeChange for you.
A plan by Teresa Ghilarducci, professor of economic-policy analysis at the New School for Social Research in New York, contains elements that are being considered. She testified last week before Miller’s Education and Labor Committee on her proposal.
At that hearing, the director of the Congressional Budget Office, Peter Orszag, testified that some $2 trillion in retirement savings has been lost over the past 15 months.
Welcome to the free market and freedom. The markets go up and down. Government involvement is usually the reason for them going down, as we have recently seen in this downtrodden market.
Under Ghilarducci’s plan, all workers would receive a $600 annual inflation-adjusted subsidy from the U.S. government but would be required to invest 5 percent of their pay into a guaranteed retirement account administered by the Social Security Administration. The money in turn would be invested in special government bonds that would pay 3 percent a year, adjusted for inflation.
The current system of providing tax breaks on 401(k) contributions and earnings would be eliminated.
So, our “subsidy” would be a $600 tax break. Keep it. What good is that going to do me? What is that in real money for an average guy, $150? Get real people. Under our current 401(k) plans we can save up to $15,000 a year, tax free.
Now, we get to the very evil part of this whole plan. You read it correctly. They want to take another five percent of your income, and force you to put it in an account ran by the same people that have already ruined social security! Really? That is the plan? Please take that plan and keep it. We don’t want that rotting corpse.
These accounts would supposedly earn a guaranteed 3% interest. That’s right, three measly percent. That means when you actually got your money back it won’t be worth what it was when you put it in.
The sham of the whole thing is in the details. First of all, guaranteed means that we taxpayers are on the hook for the bonds that are going to earn all this lame interest. So if it doesn’t work, we get to pay for it! So on top of our overwhelming obligations to social security, this idiot economics professor wants us to give the government more of our money to throw down the same rabbit hole.
Secondly, remove the tax-incentive for comanies to match 401 contributions and the match goes away. You just killed a massive chunnk of wealth right there.
Finally, what do you think the market is going to do if this happens? Their cash cows, the vehicle most Americans use to invest in the market is going to dissapear. If you think we have a problem now, just wait until that happens. The markets will crash for real then, and those government bonds won’t be worth crap with no one around to buy them. This plan is just plain stupid.
“I want to stop the federal subsidy of 401(k)s,” Ghilarducci said in an interview. “401(k)s can continue to exist, but they won’t have the benefit of the subsidy of the tax break.”
Under the current 401(k) system, investors are charged relatively high retail fees, Ghilarducci said.
“I want to spend our nation’s dollar for retirement security better. Everybody would now be covered” if the plan were adopted, Ghilarducci said.
I sent this woman an email and told her that subsidy is the wrong term. Under the current 401(k) system we actually get to keep our own money if we invest it for the future. This is not the government’s money it is ours. Socialists always paint a tax break as government spending. The truth of course is, it is not government spending. It is our cash not hers, or “the nation’s”. This is a freedom thing here. This plan is nothing short of totalitarian seizure of our retirement savings.
Her last statement was especially egregious. Please FOAD lady! Leave OUR money alone you socialist hack! Go back to Notre Dame and drink another Manhattan and complain about how stupid we peasants are to your friends. We bitter clingers also cling to our money, so keep you damn hands off it!
I was going to comment on the rest of the article, but please just go read the whole thing. I can’t take it anymore. These damn communists are going to force us to revolt if they keep it up! I will be following this one closely.
HatTip: KdT
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