and I wonder. Where will we be as a nation in 10, 20 years? Will we still exist? Or more specifically, will we still exist as nation? If we are still a nation will it any longer be a nation we recognize? Will we still call ourselves the United State of America? Will we any longer be truly, United I wonder?
I just don't know...though I suspect the answer, IF enough people finally reach their breaking points and band together that the answer to at least some of those questions will be, yes. As I watch and read the various news posts and blogs, and goings on in the world today; I also understand that as a nation at this moment we are in the middle of a Schism Event, for lack of a better term. We are as a nation deeply, deeply divided by ideology , by education and the lack there of, by attitudes. All of this DRIVEN not by our own ideas and prejudices...though that is a part of it; but by the very people we hire to represent us. Our Government. So who is to blame? Us? Or the government? The government is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, fucking things up to a fare thee well. To a point where it's all going to collapse and rise anew from it's own ashes, and maybe not for the better. Or it's all going to burn and all that will be left is barbarism. Only time will tell. By and large though this is the fault of Us, you and me, We the People. The huddled masses.
Some recognized the rot setting in and screamed from the rooftops. They were ignored. Some of us still scream from the rooftops and are ignored. The being ignored part is to be expected of course. The complete collapse of the education system and it's inability to actually teach, to get kids to learn..to learn. To study and understand history, economics, and more importantly to imbue in young minds to pass on to those young minds.. the ability to think logically, critically. To understand that from failure comes success because only by failing, by falling on our asses and getting back up to try and try again...can we learn to succeed. Now a days that is not what is taught. What is taught is that they are speciall simply because they exist. That may be true of immediate family but to the rest of the world?
By allowing that rot to set in, by tolerating it's existence, and in the case of some encouraging it's spread, we are where we are at today. There is as I said...hope. I know of many friends, online that are teaching their kids to think for themselves, to question authority, to think logically and critically. To be able to fend for themselves in the world. Whether it be a stable world or a world gone mad is irrelevant, those kids will survive...they will thrive. But I still wonder what kind of world we'll give them to inherit.
So for their sake, and my own..I'll continue to scream from the roof tops, at the top of my lungs. Loudly, Bluntly, and as profanely as possible in the hopes that enough of the sheep realize that being calmly led to the slaughter, willingly, is no way to live. And in that realization...become sheepdogs, sheperds to light the way for the future.
Remember TANSTAAFL and..
I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Thursday, February 14, 2013
State of DIS Union 2013. Part 4.
Okay. For those of you who would actually like to read this in order...
Part 1.
Part 2
Part 3
Now onward and upwar..........no can't really call it upward since it's the bottom of a spiral. I must be a closet masochist for doing this to myself every year. Anywayyy....on with the self flagellation, mental masturbation, and the vivisection of Obama's self aggrandization. [Verily observant one. I realize that latter word is no word at all...just a bastardization but...perpend. Has Obama really been acting like a real President? Or has the fatuous fop been acting more like a King in his own mind? Happy now? No? Didn't think so.]
America must also face the rapidly growing threat from cyber-attacks. We know hackers steal people’s identities and infiltrate private e-mail. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets. Now our enemies are also seeking the ability to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, and our air traffic control systems. We cannot look back years from now and wonder why we did nothing in the face of real threats to our security and our economy.
That’s why, earlier today, I signed a new executive order that will strengthen our cyber defenses by increasing information sharing, and developing standards to protect our national security, our jobs, and our privacy. Now, Congress must act as well, by passing legislation to give our government a greater capacity to secure our networks and deter attacks.
Honestly? I agree cyber attacks are a threat. Monitoring for virii, spamware, bot programs etc is a pain in the ass. Track em down and do something ugly. Throw them in a deep dark hole and screw with their minds. Or someone could just hurry the hell up, invent Bun Bun and sick him on the hackers and script kiddies of the world. After all are they not the telemarketers of the electronic media? What? Don't get the reference? Google Sluggy Freelance and be prepared to lose hours and days reading it. Trust me. Do it and start from the beginning. Bun Bun is my favorite homicidal mini half lop bunny. There are days in dealing with spam on the computer and telemarketers on the phone that I truly mourn the fact he isn't a real....dammit.
Even as we protect our people, we should remember that today’s world presents not only dangers, but opportunities. To boost American exports, support American jobs, and level the playing field in the growing markets of Asia, we intend to complete negotiations on a Trans-Pacific Partnership. And tonight, I am announcing that we will launch talks on a comprehensive Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the European Union – because trade that is free and fair across the Atlantic supports millions of good-paying American jobs.
Sigh...the Asians okay but good luck. The Europeans? Oh man at this rate it's a race to see who can get to total financial collapse first..Us or them.
We also know that progress in the most impoverished parts of our world enriches us all. In many places, people live on little more than a dollar a day. So the United States will join with our allies to eradicate such extreme poverty in the next two decades: by connecting more people to the global economy and empowering women; by giving our young and brightest minds new opportunities to serve and helping communities to feed, power, and educate themselves; by saving the world’s children from preventable deaths; and by realizing the promise of an AIDS-free generation
.Ahh yes must help the impoverished nations because they can't do it themselves. You are really starting to annoy me B. Because now I'm starting to sound like a broken record. Where is the money going to come from for all this? You do realize that this will have about the same effect as humping a roll of razor wire? In that it will leave us raw, bleeding, in pain and asking ourselves "What the hell was I thinkin?" The answer being is...you weren't. Some of the poorer nations are that way for a reason. Why? Well because their rulers and some of their inhabitants prefer it that way. Think I'm nuts? Ask yourself with all the money that flows in via mining etc into say..various parts of Africa, why are they still such shitholes? WElll as previous mentioned...a good portion of monies goes to the dictators who rule those countries. Your goals are laudable but I suspect that even though you're saying this..A. you don't have a plan or B. that even if you have a plan it isn't going to accomplish much.
Above all, America must remain a beacon to all who seek freedom during this period of historic change. I saw the power of hope last year in Rangoon – when Aung San Suu Kyi welcomed an American President into the home where she had been imprisoned for years; when thousands of Burmese lined the streets, waving American flags, including a man who said, “There is justice and law in the United States. I want our country to be like that.”
Question, B? Just how can we remain a beacon of freedom when you keep stripping those freedoms away and inch at a time? You and the rest of the government under your direction has made it more difficult and expensive to START a business, let alone run one currently in existence. The various agencies of the government keep passing more and more asinine regulations. Passing defacto laws by passing congress and pissing all over the the constitution. I've read blogs and articles over the past 6 months that suggest you've passed so many that John Q Citizen commits 3 felonies a day without even knowing about it. Which for those of us citizens should be, and is, a total "What the Fuck?!" moment. I won't even bother to bring up the Executive Order you signed that allows you and the government to grab power via the Airways[Airplanes], the Airwaves[ tv and radio] the internet, etc etc.
In defense of freedom, we will remain the anchor of strong alliances from the Americas to Africa; from Europe to Asia. In the Middle East, we will stand with citizens as they demand their universal rights, and support stable transitions to democracy. The process will be messy, and we cannot presume to dictate the course of change in countries like Egypt; but we can – and will – insist on respect for the fundamental rights of all people. We will keep the pressure on a Syrian regime that has murdered its own people, and support opposition leaders that respect the rights of every Syrian. And we will stand steadfast with Israel in pursuit of security and a lasting peace. These are the messages I will deliver when I travel to the Middle East next month
.I find this a tad difficult to believe old boy, when you have been slapping our Israeli allies in the face for the last 4 years. While trying to make friends with terrorists. Why do I say that? WHY are you giving F-16's and other weapons systems to Egypt...which is now run by the Muslim Brotherhood?
All this work depends on the courage and sacrifice of those who serve in dangerous places at great personal risk – our diplomats, our intelligence officers, and the men and women of the United States Armed Forces. As long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will do whatever we must to protect those who serve their country abroad, and we will maintain the best military in the world. We will invest in new capabilities, even as we reduce waste and wartime spending. We will ensure equal treatment for all service members, and equal benefits for their families – gay and straight. We will draw upon the courage and skills of our sisters and daughters, because women have proven under fire that they are ready for combat. We will keep faith with our veterans – investing in world-class care, including mental health care, for our wounded warriors; supporting our military families; and giving our veterans the benefits, education, and job opportunities they have earned. And I want to thank my wife Michelle and Dr. Jill Biden for their continued dedication to serving our military families as well as they serve us.
Uhm Dude? You do realize that most of the military, the troops anyway...don't trust you as far as they can throw you right? Ain't a one that I know personally that believes a word that erupts from your lips. World Class Care while your ACA is going to be busy dismantling the greatest medical system in the world? Excuse me for not drinking the kool aid bro.
But defending our freedom is not the job of our military alone. We must all do our part to make sure our God-given rights are protected here at home. That includes our most fundamental right as citizens: the right to vote. When any Americans – no matter where they live or what their party – are denied that right simply because they can’t wait for five, six, seven hours just to cast their ballot, we are betraying our ideals. That’s why, tonight, I’m announcing a non-partisan commission to improve the voting experience in America. And I’m asking two long-time experts in the field, who’ve recently served as the top attorneys for my campaign and for Governor Romney’s campaign, to lead it. We can fix this, and we will. The American people demand it. And so does our democracy.
Of course, what I’ve said tonight matters little if we don’t come together to protect our most precious resource – our children.
How odd....there were no problems getting to the polls and voting in Texas that I'm aware of. Certainly weren't any problems gettting people in to vote and getting them back out, so the next person could vote at my polling place.
It has been two months since Newtown.
Ahhh....here we go...the attack on the 2nd Amendment. Yeah yeah..I know.."it's for the children" Hitler said much the same thing you know...when he stripped the jews of their right to bear arms. Welll...we all know how that little play ended...badly.
I know this is not the first time this country has debated how to reduce gun violence. But this time is different. Overwhelming majorities of Americans – Americans who believe in the 2nd Amendment – have come together around commonsense reform – like background checks that will make it harder for criminals to get their hands on a gun. Senators of both parties are working together on tough new laws to prevent anyone from buying guns for resale to criminals. Police chiefs are asking our help to get weapons of war and massive ammunition magazines off our streets, because they are tired of being outgunned.
WHAT rise in gun violence? The only reason it seems there's more is that we see it hyped to a fare thee well by your lapdog media. So you can use it as an excuse to infringe upon the 2nd amendment. The overall murder rate...hell the overall CRIME rate has been on the decline for more than 20 YEARS! This is in spite of the increase in population; not because of it.
US Crime stats...
Each of these proposals deserves a vote in Congress. If you want to vote no, that’s your choice. But these proposals deserve a vote. Because in the two months since Newtown, more than a thousand birthdays, graduations, and anniversaries have been stolen from our lives by a bullet from a gun.
One of those we lost was a young girl named Hadiya Pendleton. She was 15 years old. She loved Fig Newtons and lip gloss. She was a majorette. She was so good to her friends, they all thought they were her best friend. Just three weeks ago, she was here, in Washington, with her classmates, performing for her country at my inauguration. And a week later, she was shot and killed in a Chicago park after school, just a mile away from my house.
Hadiya’s parents, Nate and Cleo, are in this chamber tonight, along with more than two dozen Americans whose lives have been torn apart by gun violence. They deserve a vote.
Her parents want a vote? No...they don't get a vote to restrict MY rights just because they don't happen to agree with them. NOT the way this country works. NOT the principles it was built and thrived on. Oh and that shooting? Gang related boyo. The shooters, upstanding young souls with gang ties, and I'll bet..juvie criminal records a mile long. Welcome to the big time boys. Fortunately for you the people of chicago don't have the stones to execute you for your crimes.
Gabby Giffords deserves a vote.
Uhmmm Gabby did have a vote, plus she was a congress critter and she is a supporter of the 2nd amendment.
The families of Newtown deserve a vote.
Yeah yeah...using kids to drive emotional tensions so high that people ACT before they THINK. Notice boys and girls I'm giving those people credit for being able to think? Yeah pretty magnanimous of me I believe. Obama? SHUT UP!
The families of Aurora deserve a vote.The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence – they deserve a simple vote.
Sigh...what do all these places have in common boys and girls? Citys/states with massive gun restrictions and gun free zones. Oh and this just demonstrates the level of STUPID of the average anti gunner...[thanks to my friend miguel over at Gun Free Zone for the screencap]
Ow! Ow! Ow! OW!!!! Fuck me sideways! That much stoopid really goddamn hurts!Sigh of course what the witless wonder fails to realize is that 2nd amendment protects all the rest. Drop the 2nd and the rest go into the garbage right along side it. Why is it idiots like him fail to understand, that the rights in the Constitution aren't granted by the Constitution, but are rights we already HAVE, that are enumerated and protected by the Constitution? I'll bet you money I don't even have that he voted for Obama...both times. headdesk
Our actions will not prevent every senseless act of violence in this country. Indeed, no laws, no initiatives, no administrative acts will perfectly solve all the challenges I’ve outlined tonight. But we were never sent here to be perfect. We were sent here to make what difference we can, to secure this nation, expand opportunity, and uphold our ideals through the hard, often frustrating, but absolutely necessary work of self-government.No you were sent to represent the people, ALL the people, not just the ones that put you in office. So far you have been doing a piss poor job you verbose victim making ner do well.
We were sent here to look out for our fellow Americans the same way they look out for one another, every single day, usually without fanfare, all across this country. We should follow their example.
We should follow the example of a New York City nurse named Menchu Sanchez. When Hurricane Sandy plunged her hospital into darkness, her thoughts were not with how her own home was faring – they were with the twenty precious newborns in her care and the rescue plan she devised that kept them all safe.Good for her. She was doing her JOB. She should be congratulated for doing it well but...really? You are starting to bore me you reject from a sperm bank. Is it true that the best part of your daddy's DNA ran down your mama's leg? Which would make you the lowest of the low.
We should follow the example of a North Miami woman named Desiline Victor. When she arrived at her polling place, she was told the wait to vote might be six hours. And as time ticked by, her concern was not with her tired body or aching feet, but whether folks like her would get to have their say. Hour after hour, a throng of people stayed in line in support of her. Because Desiline is 102 years old. And they erupted in cheers when she finally put on a sticker that read “I Voted.”
Sigh...polling places aren't allowed to close until the last person in the line when the official hours end, votes. It's federal fucking law! Nice try though....
The one voting law that really bugs me is this one...
We should follow the example of a police officer named Brian Murphy. When a gunman opened fire on a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, and Brian was the first to arrive, he did not consider his own safety. He fought back until help arrived, and ordered his fellow officers to protect the safety of the Americans worshiping inside – even as he lay bleeding from twelve bullet wounds.
When asked how he did that, Brian said, “That’s just the way we’re made.”Which ignores the fact that the Head Priest of the Gudwara was the first to attack the gunman...with a KNIFE! One wonders what the outcome would have been had he been armed with a gun. I suspect the gunmen would have been a corpse long before the cops showed up. But by all means feel free to laud Officer Murphy.
That’s just the way we’re made.Yep that's the way Americans are made, we're raised that way. Most of us anyway. You on the other hand are camel sized pile of lard and bones. Not good for much.
We may do different jobs, and wear different uniforms, and hold different views than the person beside us. But as Americans, we all share the same proud title:
We are citizens. It’s a word that doesn’t just describe our nationality or legal status. It describes the way we’re made. It describes what we believe. It captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations; that our rights are wrapped up in the rights of others; and that well into our third century as a nation, it remains the task of us all, as citizens of these United States, to be the authors of the next great chapter in our American story.
Of course citizen doesn't describe our nationality! Our nationality describes our nationality, you addlepated idiot! Citizen doesn't describe our beliefs...it's part of our beliefs but doesn't actually describe them. Oh my he does go on don't he?
Citizen, there are 4 definitions for it.
1.: an inhabitant of a city or town; especially : one entitled to the rights and privileges of a freeman
2 : a member of a state
3 a native or naturalized person who owes allegiance to a government and is entitled to protection from it
4 a civilian as distinguished from a specialized servant of the state
I think 1 and 3 are the ones most pertinent.
Sigh...he's ignoring several things again, and deliberately misconstruing others, but I'm getting tired of playing. Truly tired of vivisecting this massive pile of manure. So...it's done and over with boys and girls. Hope you enjoyed it...
Remember TANSTAAFL and..
I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.
Part 1.
Part 2
Part 3
Now onward and upwar..........no can't really call it upward since it's the bottom of a spiral. I must be a closet masochist for doing this to myself every year. Anywayyy....on with the self flagellation, mental masturbation, and the vivisection of Obama's self aggrandization. [Verily observant one. I realize that latter word is no word at all...just a bastardization but...perpend. Has Obama really been acting like a real President? Or has the fatuous fop been acting more like a King in his own mind? Happy now? No? Didn't think so.]
America must also face the rapidly growing threat from cyber-attacks. We know hackers steal people’s identities and infiltrate private e-mail. We know foreign countries and companies swipe our corporate secrets. Now our enemies are also seeking the ability to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, and our air traffic control systems. We cannot look back years from now and wonder why we did nothing in the face of real threats to our security and our economy.
That’s why, earlier today, I signed a new executive order that will strengthen our cyber defenses by increasing information sharing, and developing standards to protect our national security, our jobs, and our privacy. Now, Congress must act as well, by passing legislation to give our government a greater capacity to secure our networks and deter attacks.
Honestly? I agree cyber attacks are a threat. Monitoring for virii, spamware, bot programs etc is a pain in the ass. Track em down and do something ugly. Throw them in a deep dark hole and screw with their minds. Or someone could just hurry the hell up, invent Bun Bun and sick him on the hackers and script kiddies of the world. After all are they not the telemarketers of the electronic media? What? Don't get the reference? Google Sluggy Freelance and be prepared to lose hours and days reading it. Trust me. Do it and start from the beginning. Bun Bun is my favorite homicidal mini half lop bunny. There are days in dealing with spam on the computer and telemarketers on the phone that I truly mourn the fact he isn't a real....dammit.
Even as we protect our people, we should remember that today’s world presents not only dangers, but opportunities. To boost American exports, support American jobs, and level the playing field in the growing markets of Asia, we intend to complete negotiations on a Trans-Pacific Partnership. And tonight, I am announcing that we will launch talks on a comprehensive Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the European Union – because trade that is free and fair across the Atlantic supports millions of good-paying American jobs.
Sigh...the Asians okay but good luck. The Europeans? Oh man at this rate it's a race to see who can get to total financial collapse first..Us or them.
We also know that progress in the most impoverished parts of our world enriches us all. In many places, people live on little more than a dollar a day. So the United States will join with our allies to eradicate such extreme poverty in the next two decades: by connecting more people to the global economy and empowering women; by giving our young and brightest minds new opportunities to serve and helping communities to feed, power, and educate themselves; by saving the world’s children from preventable deaths; and by realizing the promise of an AIDS-free generation
.Ahh yes must help the impoverished nations because they can't do it themselves. You are really starting to annoy me B. Because now I'm starting to sound like a broken record. Where is the money going to come from for all this? You do realize that this will have about the same effect as humping a roll of razor wire? In that it will leave us raw, bleeding, in pain and asking ourselves "What the hell was I thinkin?" The answer being is...you weren't. Some of the poorer nations are that way for a reason. Why? Well because their rulers and some of their inhabitants prefer it that way. Think I'm nuts? Ask yourself with all the money that flows in via mining etc into say..various parts of Africa, why are they still such shitholes? WElll as previous mentioned...a good portion of monies goes to the dictators who rule those countries. Your goals are laudable but I suspect that even though you're saying this..A. you don't have a plan or B. that even if you have a plan it isn't going to accomplish much.
Above all, America must remain a beacon to all who seek freedom during this period of historic change. I saw the power of hope last year in Rangoon – when Aung San Suu Kyi welcomed an American President into the home where she had been imprisoned for years; when thousands of Burmese lined the streets, waving American flags, including a man who said, “There is justice and law in the United States. I want our country to be like that.”
Question, B? Just how can we remain a beacon of freedom when you keep stripping those freedoms away and inch at a time? You and the rest of the government under your direction has made it more difficult and expensive to START a business, let alone run one currently in existence. The various agencies of the government keep passing more and more asinine regulations. Passing defacto laws by passing congress and pissing all over the the constitution. I've read blogs and articles over the past 6 months that suggest you've passed so many that John Q Citizen commits 3 felonies a day without even knowing about it. Which for those of us citizens should be, and is, a total "What the Fuck?!" moment. I won't even bother to bring up the Executive Order you signed that allows you and the government to grab power via the Airways[Airplanes], the Airwaves[ tv and radio] the internet, etc etc.
In defense of freedom, we will remain the anchor of strong alliances from the Americas to Africa; from Europe to Asia. In the Middle East, we will stand with citizens as they demand their universal rights, and support stable transitions to democracy. The process will be messy, and we cannot presume to dictate the course of change in countries like Egypt; but we can – and will – insist on respect for the fundamental rights of all people. We will keep the pressure on a Syrian regime that has murdered its own people, and support opposition leaders that respect the rights of every Syrian. And we will stand steadfast with Israel in pursuit of security and a lasting peace. These are the messages I will deliver when I travel to the Middle East next month
.I find this a tad difficult to believe old boy, when you have been slapping our Israeli allies in the face for the last 4 years. While trying to make friends with terrorists. Why do I say that? WHY are you giving F-16's and other weapons systems to Egypt...which is now run by the Muslim Brotherhood?
All this work depends on the courage and sacrifice of those who serve in dangerous places at great personal risk – our diplomats, our intelligence officers, and the men and women of the United States Armed Forces. As long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will do whatever we must to protect those who serve their country abroad, and we will maintain the best military in the world. We will invest in new capabilities, even as we reduce waste and wartime spending. We will ensure equal treatment for all service members, and equal benefits for their families – gay and straight. We will draw upon the courage and skills of our sisters and daughters, because women have proven under fire that they are ready for combat. We will keep faith with our veterans – investing in world-class care, including mental health care, for our wounded warriors; supporting our military families; and giving our veterans the benefits, education, and job opportunities they have earned. And I want to thank my wife Michelle and Dr. Jill Biden for their continued dedication to serving our military families as well as they serve us.
Uhm Dude? You do realize that most of the military, the troops anyway...don't trust you as far as they can throw you right? Ain't a one that I know personally that believes a word that erupts from your lips. World Class Care while your ACA is going to be busy dismantling the greatest medical system in the world? Excuse me for not drinking the kool aid bro.
But defending our freedom is not the job of our military alone. We must all do our part to make sure our God-given rights are protected here at home. That includes our most fundamental right as citizens: the right to vote. When any Americans – no matter where they live or what their party – are denied that right simply because they can’t wait for five, six, seven hours just to cast their ballot, we are betraying our ideals. That’s why, tonight, I’m announcing a non-partisan commission to improve the voting experience in America. And I’m asking two long-time experts in the field, who’ve recently served as the top attorneys for my campaign and for Governor Romney’s campaign, to lead it. We can fix this, and we will. The American people demand it. And so does our democracy.
Of course, what I’ve said tonight matters little if we don’t come together to protect our most precious resource – our children.
How odd....there were no problems getting to the polls and voting in Texas that I'm aware of. Certainly weren't any problems gettting people in to vote and getting them back out, so the next person could vote at my polling place.
It has been two months since Newtown.
Ahhh....here we go...the attack on the 2nd Amendment. Yeah yeah..I know.."it's for the children" Hitler said much the same thing you know...when he stripped the jews of their right to bear arms. Welll...we all know how that little play ended...badly.
I know this is not the first time this country has debated how to reduce gun violence. But this time is different. Overwhelming majorities of Americans – Americans who believe in the 2nd Amendment – have come together around commonsense reform – like background checks that will make it harder for criminals to get their hands on a gun. Senators of both parties are working together on tough new laws to prevent anyone from buying guns for resale to criminals. Police chiefs are asking our help to get weapons of war and massive ammunition magazines off our streets, because they are tired of being outgunned.
WHAT rise in gun violence? The only reason it seems there's more is that we see it hyped to a fare thee well by your lapdog media. So you can use it as an excuse to infringe upon the 2nd amendment. The overall murder rate...hell the overall CRIME rate has been on the decline for more than 20 YEARS! This is in spite of the increase in population; not because of it.
US Crime stats...
Each of these proposals deserves a vote in Congress. If you want to vote no, that’s your choice. But these proposals deserve a vote. Because in the two months since Newtown, more than a thousand birthdays, graduations, and anniversaries have been stolen from our lives by a bullet from a gun.
One of those we lost was a young girl named Hadiya Pendleton. She was 15 years old. She loved Fig Newtons and lip gloss. She was a majorette. She was so good to her friends, they all thought they were her best friend. Just three weeks ago, she was here, in Washington, with her classmates, performing for her country at my inauguration. And a week later, she was shot and killed in a Chicago park after school, just a mile away from my house.
Hadiya’s parents, Nate and Cleo, are in this chamber tonight, along with more than two dozen Americans whose lives have been torn apart by gun violence. They deserve a vote.
Her parents want a vote? No...they don't get a vote to restrict MY rights just because they don't happen to agree with them. NOT the way this country works. NOT the principles it was built and thrived on. Oh and that shooting? Gang related boyo. The shooters, upstanding young souls with gang ties, and I'll bet..juvie criminal records a mile long. Welcome to the big time boys. Fortunately for you the people of chicago don't have the stones to execute you for your crimes.
Gabby Giffords deserves a vote.
Uhmmm Gabby did have a vote, plus she was a congress critter and she is a supporter of the 2nd amendment.
The families of Newtown deserve a vote.
Yeah yeah...using kids to drive emotional tensions so high that people ACT before they THINK. Notice boys and girls I'm giving those people credit for being able to think? Yeah pretty magnanimous of me I believe. Obama? SHUT UP!
The families of Aurora deserve a vote.The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence – they deserve a simple vote.
Sigh...what do all these places have in common boys and girls? Citys/states with massive gun restrictions and gun free zones. Oh and this just demonstrates the level of STUPID of the average anti gunner...[thanks to my friend miguel over at Gun Free Zone for the screencap]
Ow! Ow! Ow! OW!!!! Fuck me sideways! That much stoopid really goddamn hurts!Sigh of course what the witless wonder fails to realize is that 2nd amendment protects all the rest. Drop the 2nd and the rest go into the garbage right along side it. Why is it idiots like him fail to understand, that the rights in the Constitution aren't granted by the Constitution, but are rights we already HAVE, that are enumerated and protected by the Constitution? I'll bet you money I don't even have that he voted for Obama...both times. headdesk
Our actions will not prevent every senseless act of violence in this country. Indeed, no laws, no initiatives, no administrative acts will perfectly solve all the challenges I’ve outlined tonight. But we were never sent here to be perfect. We were sent here to make what difference we can, to secure this nation, expand opportunity, and uphold our ideals through the hard, often frustrating, but absolutely necessary work of self-government.No you were sent to represent the people, ALL the people, not just the ones that put you in office. So far you have been doing a piss poor job you verbose victim making ner do well.
We were sent here to look out for our fellow Americans the same way they look out for one another, every single day, usually without fanfare, all across this country. We should follow their example.
We should follow the example of a New York City nurse named Menchu Sanchez. When Hurricane Sandy plunged her hospital into darkness, her thoughts were not with how her own home was faring – they were with the twenty precious newborns in her care and the rescue plan she devised that kept them all safe.Good for her. She was doing her JOB. She should be congratulated for doing it well but...really? You are starting to bore me you reject from a sperm bank. Is it true that the best part of your daddy's DNA ran down your mama's leg? Which would make you the lowest of the low.
We should follow the example of a North Miami woman named Desiline Victor. When she arrived at her polling place, she was told the wait to vote might be six hours. And as time ticked by, her concern was not with her tired body or aching feet, but whether folks like her would get to have their say. Hour after hour, a throng of people stayed in line in support of her. Because Desiline is 102 years old. And they erupted in cheers when she finally put on a sticker that read “I Voted.”
Sigh...polling places aren't allowed to close until the last person in the line when the official hours end, votes. It's federal fucking law! Nice try though....
Hours of Operation
Citizens who are in line to vote when the polls are set to close must be allowed to vote.The one voting law that really bugs me is this one...
Literacy Tests
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibited states from requiring voters to take a language comprehension, or any other type of test, at their polling place in order to be allowed to voteWe should follow the example of a police officer named Brian Murphy. When a gunman opened fire on a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, and Brian was the first to arrive, he did not consider his own safety. He fought back until help arrived, and ordered his fellow officers to protect the safety of the Americans worshiping inside – even as he lay bleeding from twelve bullet wounds.
When asked how he did that, Brian said, “That’s just the way we’re made.”Which ignores the fact that the Head Priest of the Gudwara was the first to attack the gunman...with a KNIFE! One wonders what the outcome would have been had he been armed with a gun. I suspect the gunmen would have been a corpse long before the cops showed up. But by all means feel free to laud Officer Murphy.
That’s just the way we’re made.Yep that's the way Americans are made, we're raised that way. Most of us anyway. You on the other hand are camel sized pile of lard and bones. Not good for much.
We may do different jobs, and wear different uniforms, and hold different views than the person beside us. But as Americans, we all share the same proud title:
We are citizens. It’s a word that doesn’t just describe our nationality or legal status. It describes the way we’re made. It describes what we believe. It captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations; that our rights are wrapped up in the rights of others; and that well into our third century as a nation, it remains the task of us all, as citizens of these United States, to be the authors of the next great chapter in our American story.
Of course citizen doesn't describe our nationality! Our nationality describes our nationality, you addlepated idiot! Citizen doesn't describe our beliefs...it's part of our beliefs but doesn't actually describe them. Oh my he does go on don't he?
Citizen, there are 4 definitions for it.
1.: an inhabitant of a city or town; especially : one entitled to the rights and privileges of a freeman
2 : a member of a state
3 a native or naturalized person who owes allegiance to a government and is entitled to protection from it
4 a civilian as distinguished from a specialized servant of the state
I think 1 and 3 are the ones most pertinent.
Sigh...he's ignoring several things again, and deliberately misconstruing others, but I'm getting tired of playing. Truly tired of vivisecting this massive pile of manure. So...it's done and over with boys and girls. Hope you enjoyed it...
Remember TANSTAAFL and..
I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
State of DIS Union 2013 continued. Part 3.
Onward Ho! This is the way I slog through this marsh of fecal perpetudenous, of such massive dimensions that even God[or whatever deity you happen to believe in] cannot believe the scope of it. Oy! Vay! Anyway...NEXT!
Part of our rebuilding effort must also involve our housing sector. Today, our housing market is finally healing from the collapse of 2007. Home prices are rising at the fastest pace in six years, home purchases are up nearly 50 percent, and construction is expanding again.
But even with mortgage rates near a 50-year low, too many families with solid credit who want to buy a home are being rejected. Too many families who have never missed a payment and want to refinance are being told no. That’s holding our entire economy back, and we need to fix it. Right now, there’s a bill in this Congress that would give every responsible homeowner in America the chance to save $3,000 a year by refinancing at today’s rates. Democrats and Republicans have supported it before. What are we waiting for? Take a vote, and send me that bill. Right now, overlapping regulations keep responsible young families from buying their first home. What’s holding us back? Let’s streamline the process, and help our economy grow.
These initiatives in manufacturing, energy, infrastructure, and housing will help entrepreneurs and small business owners expand and create new jobs. But none of it will matter unless we also equip our citizens with the skills and training to fill those jobs. And that has to start at the earliest possible age.
Housing? Uhmmm No? Stay out of housing Junior Space Cadet. The government has fucked that sector to a fare thee well by loaning money through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and forcing banks to lend money, to people who couldn't buy the ash from a cigarette! And you mental midgets want to continue the cycle? No and HELL No!
Study after study shows that the sooner a child begins learning, the better he or she does down the road. But today, fewer than 3 in 10 four year-olds are enrolled in a high-quality preschool program. Most middle-class parents can’t afford a few hundred bucks a week for private preschool. And for poor kids who need help the most, this lack of access to preschool education can shadow them for the rest of their lives.
Tonight, I propose working with states to make high-quality preschool available to every child in America. Every dollar we invest in high-quality early education can save more than seven dollars later on – by boosting graduation rates, reducing teen pregnancy, even reducing violent crime. In states that make it a priority to educate our youngest children, like Georgia or Oklahoma, studies show students grow up more likely to read and do math at grade level, graduate high school, hold a job, and form more stable families of their own. So let’s do what works, and make sure none of our children start the race of life already behind. Let’s give our kids that chance.
You know...if I had the patience right now I could quite probably come up with studies that refute yours and even if I can't...the government doesn't belong in the education game.
Let’s also make sure that a high school diploma puts our kids on a path to a good job. Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges, so that they’re ready for a job. At schools like P-Tech in Brooklyn, a collaboration between New York Public Schools, the City University of New York, and IBM, students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering.
We need to give every American student opportunities like this. Four years ago, we started Race to the Top – a competition that convinced almost every state to develop smarter curricula and higher standards, for about 1 percent of what we spend on education each year. Tonight, I’m announcing a new challenge to redesign America’s high schools so they better equip graduates for the demands of a high-tech economy. We’ll reward schools that develop new partnerships with colleges and employers, and create classes that focus on science, technology, engineering, and math – the skills today’s employers are looking for to fill jobs right now and in the future.
Now, even with better high schools, most young people will need some higher education. It’s a simple fact: the more education you have, the more likely you are to have a job and work your way into the middle class. But today, skyrocketing costs price way too many young people out of a higher education, or saddle them with unsustainable debt.
Through tax credits, grants, and better loans, we have made college more affordable for millions of students and families over the last few years. But taxpayers cannot continue to subsidize the soaring cost of higher education. Colleges must do their part to keep costs down, and it’s our job to make sure they do. Tonight, I ask Congress to change the Higher Education Act, so that affordability and value are included in determining which colleges receive certain types of federal aid. And tomorrow, my Administration will release a new “College Scorecard” that parents and students can use to compare schools based on a simple criteria: where you can get the most bang for your educational buck.
To grow our middle class, our citizens must have access to the education and training that today’s jobs require. But we also have to make sure that America remains a place where everyone who’s willing to work hard has the chance to get ahead.
Sigh...no. No more free rides. No more telling kids they HAVE to go to college. That thinking has got us where we are today. Nope...let us encourage our children to learn a trade. Or two trades. Hell! As many trades as they want! Encourage them to go to trade school not college. College for most, ends up being a waste of money for a degree they can wipe their ass with but not much else. That and a buck fifty will get you a bottle of water.
Our economy is stronger when we harness the talents and ingenuity of striving, hopeful immigrants. And right now, leaders from the business, labor, law enforcement, and faith communities all agree that the time has come to pass comprehensive immigration reform.
Real reform means strong border security, and we can build on the progress my Administration has already made – putting more boots on the southern border than at any time in our history, and reducing illegal crossings to their lowest levels in 40 years.
Real reform means establishing a responsible pathway to earned citizenship – a path that includes passing a background check, paying taxes and a meaningful penalty, learning English, and going to the back of the line behind the folks trying to come here legally.
Yeah yeah..Same shit, same bullshit actually we've been hearing for years. DO, don't talk. On second thought every time you do something it turns into an unmitigated disaster. I've changed my mind. Go sit in the corner Odumbo. Sit down, shut your piehole and don't do a blessed thing.
And real reform means fixing the legal immigration system to cut waiting periods, reduce bureaucracy, and attract the highly-skilled entrepreneurs and engineers that will help create jobs and grow our economy.
In other words, we know what needs to be done. As we speak, bipartisan groups in both chambers are working diligently to draft a bill, and I applaud their efforts. Now let’s get this done. Send me a comprehensive immigration reform bill in the next few months, and I will sign it right away.
But we can’t stop there. We know our economy is stronger when our wives, mothers, and daughters can live their lives free from discrimination in the workplace, and free from the fear of domestic violence. Today, the Senate passed the Violence Against Women Act that Joe Biden originally wrote almost 20 years ago. I urge the House to do the same. And I ask this Congress to declare that women should earn a living equal to their efforts, and finally pass the Paycheck Fairness Act this year.
We know our economy is stronger when we reward an honest day’s work with honest wages. But today, a full-time worker making the minimum wage earns $14,500 a year. Even with the tax relief we’ve put in place, a family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That’s wrong. That’s why, since the last time this Congress raised the minimum wage, nineteen states have chosen to bump theirs even higher.
Tonight, let’s declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to $9.00 an hour. This single step would raise the incomes of millions of working families. It could mean the difference between groceries or the food bank; rent or eviction; scraping by or finally getting ahead. For businesses across the country, it would mean customers with more money in their pockets. In fact, working folks shouldn’t have to wait year after year for the minimum wage to go up while CEO pay has never been higher. So here’s an idea that Governor Romney and I actually agreed on last year: let’s tie the minimum wage to the cost of living, so that it finally becomes a wage you can live on.
Sigh....all raising minimum wage does is create yet MORE inflation. "Wait, what do you mean raising the minimum wage and forcing people to pay people more money than a job is either worth or more than that employer can afford, causes inflation" headdesk, headdesk, headdesk. Focus! What happens when you FORCE companies to pay more to their people, force higher costs of doing business on them? What do they do? They raise the cost of the product or service and pass their cost of doing business, on to the customer! Jeebus I know 10year olds with more mental capacity than you! Raise the minimum wage and make no mistake; you're going to force small businesses already walking the razors edge to stay open in this shitty economy, to close their doors; because then they'll no longer be able to afford to pay their employees. Let alone the rest of their over head. Simple fucks fail to understand basic mathematics. Sheesh!
Tonight, let’s also recognize that there are communities in this country where no matter how hard you work, it’s virtually impossible to get ahead. Factory towns decimated from years of plants packing up. Inescapable pockets of poverty, urban and rural, where young adults are still fighting for their first job. America is not a place where chance of birth or circumstance should decide our destiny. And that is why we need to build new ladders of opportunity into the middle class for all who are willing to climb them.
Focus! WHY did those plants close? Was it really that demand was down for the products or that it was cheaper to close the plants and re open somewhere else that was cheaper to operate with less taxes and wages that weren't union extortion? Use your heads for something besides hat racks.
Let’s offer incentives to companies that hire Americans who’ve got what it takes to fill that job opening, but have been out of work so long that no one will give them a chance. Let’s put people back to work rebuilding vacant homes in run-down neighborhoods. And this year, my Administration will begin to partner with 20 of the hardest-hit towns in America to get these communities back on their feet. We’ll work with local leaders to target resources at public safety, education, and housing. We’ll give new tax credits to businesses that hire and invest. And we’ll work to strengthen families by removing the financial deterrents to marriage for low-income couples, and doing more to encourage fatherhood – because what makes you a man isn’t the ability to conceive a child; it’s having the courage to raise one.
Rebuild vacant homes in run down neighborhoods where gunshots are the timekeepers that people set their watches by? In communities where the crime rate would make your head explode from the sheer scope of the numbers? Where there are no jobs to be had because well; no one wants to live, open a business or there? Why? Because getting mugged/robbed/raped/murdered/carjacked etc, isn't a slight possibility but an almost guaranteed certainty? No thanks, pass. Yet another money wasting proposal where Obummer hasn't specified where the money is going to come from. So I can only assume the Unicorn again.
Stronger families. Stronger communities. A stronger America. It is this kind of prosperity – broad, shared, and built on a thriving middle class – that has always been the source of our progress at home. It is also the foundation of our power and influence throughout the world.
Tonight, we stand united in saluting the troops and civilians who sacrifice every day to protect us. Because of them, we can say with confidence that America will complete its mission in Afghanistan, and achieve our objective of defeating the core of al Qaeda. Already, we have brought home 33,000 of our brave servicemen and women. This spring, our forces will move into a support role, while Afghan security forces take the lead. Tonight, I can announce that over the next year, another 34,000 American troops will come home from Afghanistan. This drawdown will continue. And by the end of next year, our war in Afghanistan will be over.
Yep tell the enemies of freedom exactly when they can come out from under the rocks into the open and destroy all the work we just put in. Brilliant. *breaks into the serenity prayer...
Lord give me the serenity to accept the things I can't change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I've had to kill because they pissed me off. Amen* I feel better...okay not really but I am calmer.
Beyond 2014, America’s commitment to a unified and sovereign Afghanistan will endure, but the nature of our commitment will change. We are negotiating an agreement with the Afghan government that focuses on two missions: training and equipping Afghan forces so that the country does not again slip into chaos, and counter-terrorism efforts that allow us to pursue the remnants of al Qaeda and their affiliates.
Today, the organization that attacked us on 9/11 is a shadow of its former self. Different al Qaeda affiliates and extremist groups have emerged – from the Arabian Peninsula to Africa. The threat these groups pose is evolving. But to meet this threat, we don’t need to send tens of thousands of our sons and daughters abroad, or occupy other nations. Instead, we will need to help countries like Yemen, Libya, and Somalia provide for their own security, and help allies who take the fight to terrorists, as we have in Mali. And, where necessary, through a range of capabilities, we will continue to take direct action against those terrorists who pose the gravest threat to Americans.
Alqueda is no longer a threat? *falls out of chair laughing again.* Would you stop?! Falling like that hurts, you inconsiderate ass!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/mali/9868595/Analysis-al-Qaeda-goes-full-circle-with-attempt-at-political-hijack-of-the-Sahara.html
Africa is a ripe garden for Al Queda to plant and bear the fruits of its efforts. The numbers of people they could recruit are damn near endless on the african continent. A continent in which it's tribal sub elements have been slaughtering each other in wholesale job lots for more than 2000 years. For money, for food, for power...hell for FUN!
http://dawn.com/2013/02/12/thailand-says-al-qaeda-eyes-attack-on-us-consulate/
http://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?sid=11&aid=1004&dir=2013/February/Wednesday13
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/mali/9860822/Timbuktu-al-Qaedas-terrorist-training-academy-in-the-Mali-desert.html
and being that it's an African nation with tons of hungry, angry, desperate people...that call will as previously mentioned...likely bear fruit.
Even islamics can play the hearts and minds game
As we do, we must enlist our values in the fight. That is why my Administration has worked tirelessly to forge a durable legal and policy framework to guide our counterterrorism operations. Throughout, we have kept Congress fully informed of our efforts. I recognize that in our democracy, no one should just take my word that we’re doing things the right way. So, in the months ahead, I will continue to engage with Congress to ensure not only that our targeting, detention, and prosecution of terrorists remains consistent with our laws and system of checks and balances, but that our efforts are even more transparent to the American people and to the world.
Of course, our challenges don’t end with al Qaeda. America will continue to lead the effort to prevent the spread of the world’s most dangerous weapons. The regime in North Korea must know that they will only achieve security and prosperity by meeting their international obligations. Provocations of the sort we saw last night will only isolate them further, as we stand by our allies, strengthen our own missile defense, and lead the world in taking firm action in response to these threats.
Likewise, the leaders of Iran must recognize that now is the time for a diplomatic solution, because a coalition stands united in demanding that they meet their obligations, and we will do what is necessary to prevent them from getting a nuclear weapon. At the same time, we will engage Russia to seek further reductions in our nuclear arsenals, and continue leading the global effort to secure nuclear materials that could fall into the wrong hands – because our ability to influence others depends on our willingness to lead.
Blah, blah blah blah. Same shit...different day. Booorrrrrrrrrring! *looks at clock* Oy! 2.5hrs of my life bled away while I reply to this elphantine river of shit?! Okay, I give up. I'm tired. I'll try to write and post part 4 of 4 tomorrow. Why tomorrow instead of tonight? Because I'm afraid my brain might retaliate by shutting down, if I wade through the last of this massive pile of manure!
Remember TANSTAAFL and...
I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.
Part of our rebuilding effort must also involve our housing sector. Today, our housing market is finally healing from the collapse of 2007. Home prices are rising at the fastest pace in six years, home purchases are up nearly 50 percent, and construction is expanding again.
But even with mortgage rates near a 50-year low, too many families with solid credit who want to buy a home are being rejected. Too many families who have never missed a payment and want to refinance are being told no. That’s holding our entire economy back, and we need to fix it. Right now, there’s a bill in this Congress that would give every responsible homeowner in America the chance to save $3,000 a year by refinancing at today’s rates. Democrats and Republicans have supported it before. What are we waiting for? Take a vote, and send me that bill. Right now, overlapping regulations keep responsible young families from buying their first home. What’s holding us back? Let’s streamline the process, and help our economy grow.
These initiatives in manufacturing, energy, infrastructure, and housing will help entrepreneurs and small business owners expand and create new jobs. But none of it will matter unless we also equip our citizens with the skills and training to fill those jobs. And that has to start at the earliest possible age.
Housing? Uhmmm No? Stay out of housing Junior Space Cadet. The government has fucked that sector to a fare thee well by loaning money through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and forcing banks to lend money, to people who couldn't buy the ash from a cigarette! And you mental midgets want to continue the cycle? No and HELL No!
Study after study shows that the sooner a child begins learning, the better he or she does down the road. But today, fewer than 3 in 10 four year-olds are enrolled in a high-quality preschool program. Most middle-class parents can’t afford a few hundred bucks a week for private preschool. And for poor kids who need help the most, this lack of access to preschool education can shadow them for the rest of their lives.
Tonight, I propose working with states to make high-quality preschool available to every child in America. Every dollar we invest in high-quality early education can save more than seven dollars later on – by boosting graduation rates, reducing teen pregnancy, even reducing violent crime. In states that make it a priority to educate our youngest children, like Georgia or Oklahoma, studies show students grow up more likely to read and do math at grade level, graduate high school, hold a job, and form more stable families of their own. So let’s do what works, and make sure none of our children start the race of life already behind. Let’s give our kids that chance.
You know...if I had the patience right now I could quite probably come up with studies that refute yours and even if I can't...the government doesn't belong in the education game.
Let’s also make sure that a high school diploma puts our kids on a path to a good job. Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges, so that they’re ready for a job. At schools like P-Tech in Brooklyn, a collaboration between New York Public Schools, the City University of New York, and IBM, students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering.
We need to give every American student opportunities like this. Four years ago, we started Race to the Top – a competition that convinced almost every state to develop smarter curricula and higher standards, for about 1 percent of what we spend on education each year. Tonight, I’m announcing a new challenge to redesign America’s high schools so they better equip graduates for the demands of a high-tech economy. We’ll reward schools that develop new partnerships with colleges and employers, and create classes that focus on science, technology, engineering, and math – the skills today’s employers are looking for to fill jobs right now and in the future.
Now, even with better high schools, most young people will need some higher education. It’s a simple fact: the more education you have, the more likely you are to have a job and work your way into the middle class. But today, skyrocketing costs price way too many young people out of a higher education, or saddle them with unsustainable debt.
Through tax credits, grants, and better loans, we have made college more affordable for millions of students and families over the last few years. But taxpayers cannot continue to subsidize the soaring cost of higher education. Colleges must do their part to keep costs down, and it’s our job to make sure they do. Tonight, I ask Congress to change the Higher Education Act, so that affordability and value are included in determining which colleges receive certain types of federal aid. And tomorrow, my Administration will release a new “College Scorecard” that parents and students can use to compare schools based on a simple criteria: where you can get the most bang for your educational buck.
To grow our middle class, our citizens must have access to the education and training that today’s jobs require. But we also have to make sure that America remains a place where everyone who’s willing to work hard has the chance to get ahead.
Sigh...no. No more free rides. No more telling kids they HAVE to go to college. That thinking has got us where we are today. Nope...let us encourage our children to learn a trade. Or two trades. Hell! As many trades as they want! Encourage them to go to trade school not college. College for most, ends up being a waste of money for a degree they can wipe their ass with but not much else. That and a buck fifty will get you a bottle of water.
Our economy is stronger when we harness the talents and ingenuity of striving, hopeful immigrants. And right now, leaders from the business, labor, law enforcement, and faith communities all agree that the time has come to pass comprehensive immigration reform.
Real reform means strong border security, and we can build on the progress my Administration has already made – putting more boots on the southern border than at any time in our history, and reducing illegal crossings to their lowest levels in 40 years.
Real reform means establishing a responsible pathway to earned citizenship – a path that includes passing a background check, paying taxes and a meaningful penalty, learning English, and going to the back of the line behind the folks trying to come here legally.
Yeah yeah..Same shit, same bullshit actually we've been hearing for years. DO, don't talk. On second thought every time you do something it turns into an unmitigated disaster. I've changed my mind. Go sit in the corner Odumbo. Sit down, shut your piehole and don't do a blessed thing.
And real reform means fixing the legal immigration system to cut waiting periods, reduce bureaucracy, and attract the highly-skilled entrepreneurs and engineers that will help create jobs and grow our economy.
In other words, we know what needs to be done. As we speak, bipartisan groups in both chambers are working diligently to draft a bill, and I applaud their efforts. Now let’s get this done. Send me a comprehensive immigration reform bill in the next few months, and I will sign it right away.
But we can’t stop there. We know our economy is stronger when our wives, mothers, and daughters can live their lives free from discrimination in the workplace, and free from the fear of domestic violence. Today, the Senate passed the Violence Against Women Act that Joe Biden originally wrote almost 20 years ago. I urge the House to do the same. And I ask this Congress to declare that women should earn a living equal to their efforts, and finally pass the Paycheck Fairness Act this year.
We know our economy is stronger when we reward an honest day’s work with honest wages. But today, a full-time worker making the minimum wage earns $14,500 a year. Even with the tax relief we’ve put in place, a family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That’s wrong. That’s why, since the last time this Congress raised the minimum wage, nineteen states have chosen to bump theirs even higher.
Tonight, let’s declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to $9.00 an hour. This single step would raise the incomes of millions of working families. It could mean the difference between groceries or the food bank; rent or eviction; scraping by or finally getting ahead. For businesses across the country, it would mean customers with more money in their pockets. In fact, working folks shouldn’t have to wait year after year for the minimum wage to go up while CEO pay has never been higher. So here’s an idea that Governor Romney and I actually agreed on last year: let’s tie the minimum wage to the cost of living, so that it finally becomes a wage you can live on.
Sigh....all raising minimum wage does is create yet MORE inflation. "Wait, what do you mean raising the minimum wage and forcing people to pay people more money than a job is either worth or more than that employer can afford, causes inflation" headdesk, headdesk, headdesk. Focus! What happens when you FORCE companies to pay more to their people, force higher costs of doing business on them? What do they do? They raise the cost of the product or service and pass their cost of doing business, on to the customer! Jeebus I know 10year olds with more mental capacity than you! Raise the minimum wage and make no mistake; you're going to force small businesses already walking the razors edge to stay open in this shitty economy, to close their doors; because then they'll no longer be able to afford to pay their employees. Let alone the rest of their over head. Simple fucks fail to understand basic mathematics. Sheesh!
Tonight, let’s also recognize that there are communities in this country where no matter how hard you work, it’s virtually impossible to get ahead. Factory towns decimated from years of plants packing up. Inescapable pockets of poverty, urban and rural, where young adults are still fighting for their first job. America is not a place where chance of birth or circumstance should decide our destiny. And that is why we need to build new ladders of opportunity into the middle class for all who are willing to climb them.
Focus! WHY did those plants close? Was it really that demand was down for the products or that it was cheaper to close the plants and re open somewhere else that was cheaper to operate with less taxes and wages that weren't union extortion? Use your heads for something besides hat racks.
Let’s offer incentives to companies that hire Americans who’ve got what it takes to fill that job opening, but have been out of work so long that no one will give them a chance. Let’s put people back to work rebuilding vacant homes in run-down neighborhoods. And this year, my Administration will begin to partner with 20 of the hardest-hit towns in America to get these communities back on their feet. We’ll work with local leaders to target resources at public safety, education, and housing. We’ll give new tax credits to businesses that hire and invest. And we’ll work to strengthen families by removing the financial deterrents to marriage for low-income couples, and doing more to encourage fatherhood – because what makes you a man isn’t the ability to conceive a child; it’s having the courage to raise one.
Rebuild vacant homes in run down neighborhoods where gunshots are the timekeepers that people set their watches by? In communities where the crime rate would make your head explode from the sheer scope of the numbers? Where there are no jobs to be had because well; no one wants to live, open a business or there? Why? Because getting mugged/robbed/raped/murdered/carjacked etc, isn't a slight possibility but an almost guaranteed certainty? No thanks, pass. Yet another money wasting proposal where Obummer hasn't specified where the money is going to come from. So I can only assume the Unicorn again.
Stronger families. Stronger communities. A stronger America. It is this kind of prosperity – broad, shared, and built on a thriving middle class – that has always been the source of our progress at home. It is also the foundation of our power and influence throughout the world.
Tonight, we stand united in saluting the troops and civilians who sacrifice every day to protect us. Because of them, we can say with confidence that America will complete its mission in Afghanistan, and achieve our objective of defeating the core of al Qaeda. Already, we have brought home 33,000 of our brave servicemen and women. This spring, our forces will move into a support role, while Afghan security forces take the lead. Tonight, I can announce that over the next year, another 34,000 American troops will come home from Afghanistan. This drawdown will continue. And by the end of next year, our war in Afghanistan will be over.
Yep tell the enemies of freedom exactly when they can come out from under the rocks into the open and destroy all the work we just put in. Brilliant. *breaks into the serenity prayer...
Lord give me the serenity to accept the things I can't change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I've had to kill because they pissed me off. Amen* I feel better...okay not really but I am calmer.
Beyond 2014, America’s commitment to a unified and sovereign Afghanistan will endure, but the nature of our commitment will change. We are negotiating an agreement with the Afghan government that focuses on two missions: training and equipping Afghan forces so that the country does not again slip into chaos, and counter-terrorism efforts that allow us to pursue the remnants of al Qaeda and their affiliates.
Today, the organization that attacked us on 9/11 is a shadow of its former self. Different al Qaeda affiliates and extremist groups have emerged – from the Arabian Peninsula to Africa. The threat these groups pose is evolving. But to meet this threat, we don’t need to send tens of thousands of our sons and daughters abroad, or occupy other nations. Instead, we will need to help countries like Yemen, Libya, and Somalia provide for their own security, and help allies who take the fight to terrorists, as we have in Mali. And, where necessary, through a range of capabilities, we will continue to take direct action against those terrorists who pose the gravest threat to Americans.
Alqueda is no longer a threat? *falls out of chair laughing again.* Would you stop?! Falling like that hurts, you inconsiderate ass!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/mali/9868595/Analysis-al-Qaeda-goes-full-circle-with-attempt-at-political-hijack-of-the-Sahara.html
Africa is a ripe garden for Al Queda to plant and bear the fruits of its efforts. The numbers of people they could recruit are damn near endless on the african continent. A continent in which it's tribal sub elements have been slaughtering each other in wholesale job lots for more than 2000 years. For money, for food, for power...hell for FUN!
http://dawn.com/2013/02/12/thailand-says-al-qaeda-eyes-attack-on-us-consulate/
http://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?sid=11&aid=1004&dir=2013/February/Wednesday13
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/mali/9860822/Timbuktu-al-Qaedas-terrorist-training-academy-in-the-Mali-desert.html
and being that it's an African nation with tons of hungry, angry, desperate people...that call will as previously mentioned...likely bear fruit.
Even islamics can play the hearts and minds game
As we do, we must enlist our values in the fight. That is why my Administration has worked tirelessly to forge a durable legal and policy framework to guide our counterterrorism operations. Throughout, we have kept Congress fully informed of our efforts. I recognize that in our democracy, no one should just take my word that we’re doing things the right way. So, in the months ahead, I will continue to engage with Congress to ensure not only that our targeting, detention, and prosecution of terrorists remains consistent with our laws and system of checks and balances, but that our efforts are even more transparent to the American people and to the world.
Of course, our challenges don’t end with al Qaeda. America will continue to lead the effort to prevent the spread of the world’s most dangerous weapons. The regime in North Korea must know that they will only achieve security and prosperity by meeting their international obligations. Provocations of the sort we saw last night will only isolate them further, as we stand by our allies, strengthen our own missile defense, and lead the world in taking firm action in response to these threats.
Likewise, the leaders of Iran must recognize that now is the time for a diplomatic solution, because a coalition stands united in demanding that they meet their obligations, and we will do what is necessary to prevent them from getting a nuclear weapon. At the same time, we will engage Russia to seek further reductions in our nuclear arsenals, and continue leading the global effort to secure nuclear materials that could fall into the wrong hands – because our ability to influence others depends on our willingness to lead.
Blah, blah blah blah. Same shit...different day. Booorrrrrrrrrring! *looks at clock* Oy! 2.5hrs of my life bled away while I reply to this elphantine river of shit?! Okay, I give up. I'm tired. I'll try to write and post part 4 of 4 tomorrow. Why tomorrow instead of tonight? Because I'm afraid my brain might retaliate by shutting down, if I wade through the last of this massive pile of manure!
Remember TANSTAAFL and...
I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.
The State of DIS Union continued...part 2.
Welcome to day 2 of trying to blow smoke up the the collective asses of the masses and fiscal fuckeduptiTUDE. Let the massacre of acres of asinine verbiage continue!
But we can’t ask senior citizens and working families to shoulder the entire burden of deficit reduction while asking nothing more from the wealthiest and most powerful. We won’t grow the middle class simply by shifting the cost of health care or college onto families that are already struggling, or by forcing communities to lay off more teachers, cops, and firefighters. Most Americans – Democrats, Republicans, and Independents – understand that we can’t just cut our way to prosperity. They know that broad-based economic growth requires a balanced approach to deficit reduction, with spending cuts and revenue, and with everybody doing their fair share. And that’s the approach I offer tonight.
I'm tired of having this argument about the rich. I'm tired of posting the facts and figures about how much the rich ACTUALLY pay. So I'll just point you to the recent brouhaha over golfer Phil Mickelson and his plans to leave California because when you include state and federal taxes...he only gets to keep about 45 cents out of every dollar he makes. Yeah, I know he does well money wise but why should that large a percentage of his income go to the government? No Seriously...WHY?! He works hard for that money so why shouldn't he be allowed to keep as much as possible? Oh because some asshole trying to make him/herself rich at the expense of people who actually work their asses off like Phil, says so? Don't think so. You want to play that game? Obama? Pelosi? Reid etc etc? Okay fine..I can play you one better. I need a harem. Hand over your wives and daughters...it's only fair after all. *snort* Economic growth requires a balanced approach? Oh you mean raise EVERYONES taxes? That's what I thought you said. Revenue comes from We the People. You know...the folks who pay your wholly unearned salary and pay for your extravagant vacations and dances and security and the house you live in and the food you eat etc etc? However...we don't HAVE a revenue problem. What we have a problem with is a president and a congress that spend money like a sailor in a whorehouse! The difference being that when the SAILOR runs out of money..he goes home!
On Medicare, I’m prepared to enact reforms that will achieve the same amount of health care savings by the beginning of the next decade as the reforms proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission. Already, the Affordable Care Act is helping to slow the growth of health care costs. The reforms I’m proposing go even further. We’ll reduce taxpayer subsidies to prescription drug companies and ask more from the wealthiest seniors. We’ll bring down costs by changing the way our government pays for Medicare, because our medical bills shouldn’t be based on the number of tests ordered or days spent in the hospital – they should be based on the quality of care that our seniors receive. And I am open to additional reforms from both parties, so long as they don’t violate the guarantee of a secure retirement. Our government shouldn’t make promises we cannot keep – but we must keep the promises we’ve already made.
Oh so you're prepared to enact reforms that will achieve savings in health care in a decade? So just what are you planning on doing in that 10years? No seriously. I want to know. We don't need savings in the budget and spending and healthcare in 10years. We need it right fucking now, you double talking con artist! Already the Affordable Care Act is raising costs, causing doctors to quit rather than deal with the nightmare you passed and those that are staying are in many cases no longer accepting medicare/medicaid; because the government while fast to spend money is notoriously slow about paying it's goddamn bills. "ask more from the wealthiest seniors" Oh and here I thought it was the Republicans that wanted to throw granny and gramps off a cliff. Thanks for showing your true colors and proving you really don't give a shit about anyone. *golf clap* Well Done . Oh, Incompetent Child Who Would Be King. If medical bills shouldn't be based on the number of tests done and services rendered and procedures performed, then what pray tell should they be based on. Please, tell us. You with your DECADES of medical experience and medical school doctorate. Tell us. What is our medical bill going to be based on. How many times you can sit, cross your legs, hold your breath, cross your eyes and fart? You and the government have been writing checks with my money, my parents money, my friends money and everyone elses and then defaulting on the loan. I'm going to file a lien on federal property one of these days I swear.
To hit the rest of our deficit reduction target, we should do what leaders in both parties have already suggested, and save hundreds of billions of dollars by getting rid of tax loopholes and deductions for the well-off and well-connected. After all, why would we choose to make deeper cuts to education and Medicare just to protect special interest tax breaks? How is that fair? How does that promote growth?
Actually Junior Space Cadet Obama, we don't need to get rid of loopholes and deductions. We need to get rid of the entire tax code and replace it with either a flat tax or a consumption/national sales tax. Then we need to pass a change to the rules that states that any monies raised are all the monies the government has to run on. No more than that...not a dime. No more borrowing money from the, among other people, the Chinese.
Here take a listen to this guy...he says it more eloquently than I do. Wellll...depending on your definition of eloquent..
You hear him? Balance the fuckin budget B!
Need to balance the budget but lets give federal workers a pay raise
Anyone else see the logic disconnect in this? Let alone the mathematical deficiencies?
Now is our best chance for bipartisan, comprehensive tax reform that encourages job creation and helps bring down the deficit. The American people deserve a tax code that helps small businesses spend less time filling out complicated forms, and more time expanding and hiring; a tax code that ensures billionaires with high-powered accountants can’t pay a lower rate than their hard-working secretaries; a tax code that lowers incentives to move jobs overseas, and lowers tax rates for businesses and manufacturers that create jobs right here in America. That’s what tax reform can deliver. That’s what we can do together.Let me repeat...toss out the current tax code and have a flat tax or consumption tax. No credits, no exemptions for anything. EVERYONE pays the exact same percentage.
I realize that tax reform and entitlement reform won’t be easy. The politics will be hard for both sides. None of us will get 100 percent of what we want. But the alternative will cost us jobs, hurt our economy, and visit hardship on millions of hardworking Americans. So let’s set party interests aside, and work to pass a budget that replaces reckless cuts with smart savings and wise investments in our future. And let’s do it without the brinksmanship that stresses consumers and scares off investors. The greatest nation on Earth cannot keep conducting its business by drifting from one manufactured crisis to the next. Let’s agree, right here, right now, to keep the people’s government open, pay our bills on time, and always uphold the full faith and credit of the United States of America. The American people have worked too hard, for too long, rebuilding from one crisis to see their elected officials cause another.
Now, most of us agree that a plan to reduce the deficit must be part of our agenda. But let’s be clear: deficit reduction alone is not an economic plan. A growing economy that creates good, middle-class jobs – that must be the North Star that guides our efforts. Every day, we should ask ourselves three questions as a nation: How do we attract more jobs to our shores? How do we equip our people with the skills needed to do those jobs? And how do we make sure that hard work leads to a decent living?
A year and a half ago, I put forward an American Jobs Act that independent economists said would create more than one million new jobs. I thank the last Congress for passing some of that agenda, and I urge this Congress to pass the rest. Tonight, I’ll lay out additional proposals that are fully paid for and fully consistent with the budget framework both parties agreed to just 18 months ago. Let me repeat – nothing I’m proposing tonight should increase our deficit by a single dime. It’s not a bigger government we need, but a smarter government that sets priorities and invests in broad-based growth.
Hey B? Anyone ever tell you that you sound like a broken record? Shut up and stop repeating yourself...it's annoying. Oh and NO as a matter of fact you're proposals are NOT paid for. Seeing as how you've spent over 2 trillion dollars in actual revenue and BORROWED another 1.3 trillion dollars this past year. Just where the fuck is the money for these proposals going to come from? Oh I konw...that magic unicorn you've got locked up in the basement of the treasury is going to vomit piles of money and shit precious gems in all the colors of the rainbow. Yeah that's it!
Our first priority is making America a magnet for new jobs and manufacturing.
After shedding jobs for more than 10 years, our manufacturers have added about 500,000 jobs over the past three. Caterpillar is bringing jobs back from Japan. Ford is bringing jobs back from Mexico. After locating plants in other countries like China, Intel is opening its most advanced plant right here at home. And this year, Apple will start making Macs in America again.
Lets see...right now they are hiring a whopping 30 people. If and when the million square foot facility gets up to full production it will have 1400 workers...but that won't be until after the first of the year in 2014 according to catepillars own schedule!
catepillar
And they are also opening yet another facility overseas...
in Ireland..
I don't know how they are going to afford all this though because...
Catepillar financial link..
Ooopsies at their Chinese subsidiary
Ford Jobs?
Perhaps he meant this Finnish firm purchasing former ford transmission plant.
Which will create "hundreds of jobs"
Or perhaps he meant the deal Ford made with his union buddies to create another couple hundred jobs at a plant in Ohio. Whoopy Shit Sherlock.
Intel Jobs? Perhaps he's mistaking Ireland for the US.
Durp
Notice this disconnect..." Apple's plans to move some Mac production to the U.S. The company is investing $100 million on this venture, Cook said." Yet if you read the article behind the durp, they are spending $4 BILLION dollars to create jobs in and a plant in Ireland. *snort*
There are things we can do, right now, to accelerate this trend. Last year, we created our first manufacturing innovation institute in Youngstown, Ohio. A once-shuttered warehouse is now a state-of-the art lab where new workers are mastering the 3D printing that has the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything. There’s no reason this can’t happen in other towns. So tonight, I’m announcing the launch of three more of these manufacturing hubs, where businesses will partner with the Departments of Defense and Energy to turn regions left behind by globalization into global centers of high-tech jobs. And I ask this Congress to help create a network of fifteen of these hubs and guarantee that the next revolution in manufacturing is Made in America.
thwack! Pay Attention you mental midget. YOU meaning the government, DOES. NOT. CREATE. JOBS. Got it? Somehow I suspect that went in one ear and out the other. Not surprising since there is nothing but air space, in that place where your brain is supposed to be.
If we want to make the best products, we also have to invest in the best ideas. Every dollar we invested to map the human genome returned $140 to our economy. Today, our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer’s; developing drugs to regenerate damaged organs; devising new material to make batteries ten times more powerful. Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race. And today, no area holds more promise than our investments in American energy.
After years of talking about it, we are finally poised to control our own energy future. We produce more oil at home than we have in 15 years. We have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas, and the amount of renewable energy we generate from sources like wind and solar – with tens of thousands of good, American jobs to show for it. We produce more natural gas than ever before – and nearly everyone’s energy bill is lower because of it. And over the last four years, our emissions of the dangerous carbon pollution that threatens our planet have actually fallen.
Uhmmm...yeah. That's why you've curtailed offshore drilling, and basically killed the XL pipeline while funneling money to your compaign contributors to piss away on things that don't work at the moment. Here's a hint. if the demand is there the free market...in others we the people, will funnel the money to those ventures ourselves by investing in those companies. It's not for you to decide, Oh Mr Dumbo Ears.
But for the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Yes, it’s true that no single event makes a trend. But the fact is, the 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15. Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and floods – all are now more frequent and intense. We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence. Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science – and act before it’s too late.
*facepalm* anyone ever notice that it's ALWAYS for the sake of the children when he and the government suggests stripping us of our rights and/or raping us for more money?
The good news is, we can make meaningful progress on this issue while driving strong economic growth. I urge this Congress to pursue a bipartisan, market-based solution to climate change, like the one John McCain and Joe Lieberman worked on together a few years ago. But if Congress won’t act soon to protect future generations, I will. I will direct my Cabinet to come up with executive actions we can take, now and in the future, to reduce pollution, prepare our communities for the consequences of climate change, and speed the transition to more sustainable sources of energy.
Four years ago, other countries dominated the clean energy market and the jobs that came with it. We’ve begun to change that. Last year, wind energy added nearly half of all new power capacity in America. So let’s generate even more. Solar energy gets cheaper by the year – so let’s drive costs down even further. As long as countries like China keep going all-in on clean energy, so must we.
In the meantime, the natural gas boom has led to cleaner power and greater energy independence. That’s why my Administration will keep cutting red tape and speeding up new oil and gas permits. But I also want to work with this Congress to encourage the research and technology that helps natural gas burn even cleaner and protects our air and water.
Indeed, much of our new-found energy is drawn from lands and waters that we, the public, own together. So tonight, I propose we use some of our oil and gas revenues to fund an Energy Security Trust that will drive new research and technology to shift our cars and trucks off oil for good. If a non-partisan coalition of CEOs and retired generals and admirals can get behind this idea, then so can we. Let’s take their advice and free our families and businesses from the painful spikes in gas prices we’ve put up with for far too long. I’m also issuing a new goal for America: let’s cut in half the energy wasted by our homes and businesses over the next twenty years. The states with the best ideas to create jobs and lower energy bills by constructing more efficient buildings will receive federal support to help make it happen.
America’s energy sector is just one part of an aging infrastructure badly in need of repair. Ask any CEO where they’d rather locate and hire: a country with deteriorating roads and bridges, or one with high-speed rail and internet; high-tech schools and self-healing power grids. The CEO of Siemens America – a company that brought hundreds of new jobs to North Carolina – has said that if we upgrade our infrastructure, they’ll bring even more jobs. And I know that you want these job-creating projects in your districts. I’ve seen you all at the ribbon-cuttings.
Tonight, I propose a “Fix-It-First” program to put people to work as soon as possible on our most urgent repairs, like the nearly 70,000 structurally deficient bridges across the country. And to make sure taxpayers don’t shoulder the whole burden, I’m also proposing a Partnership to Rebuild America that attracts private capital to upgrade what our businesses need most: modern ports to move our goods; modern pipelines to withstand a storm; modern schools worthy of our children. Let’s prove that there is no better place to do business than the United States of America. And let’s start right away.
Oh my dear fluffy lord. Climate Change? Nope. Sorry it's called a natural process. You can not stop it! It's going to happen one way or the other, no matter what we do. You do realize you egotisical, sociopathic, meglomaniacal horses ass that on the geological and planetary scale of things, we are no more than bugs to be squashed by the Earth itself? Something the earth excels at doing by the way. The Global Warming, sorry Climate Change hysteria is just that. Hysteria driven by fear. Fear driven by unscrupulous feces and blood covered douchebags like your buddy Algore. You remember Al Gore don't you folks? Former Vice President, Creator of the Internet, Owner of a firm that sells "Carbon Credits" that makes him fucktons of money while he pollutes the planet flying around in his private jets, limos, and living in energy sucking mansions? Oh and the guy who just sold his latest failing venture Current TV, to Al Jazeera? The propaganda machine for Islamic Jihadists everywhere. He could have kept it in American hands because Glen Beck offered to buy it from him...but instead Algore turned around and sold it to those supporters of honor killing, camel humping assbags...Al Jazeera. Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy don't it?
Ask any CEO where they'd rather locate their company too. A place where they can be free to run their business as they see fit, pay their employees for the work they do without being extorted by your union buddies; and not be penalized with higher taxes and costs for being successful? Or Places where despite the shitty roads and conditions the goddamn governments by and large leave them alone?
A Fix it First program? WHERE is the money going to come from?! Oh yeah..I forgot...the Unicorn. Silly Me. *snort*
Leave We the People, alone and get the hell out of our way you duplicitous zombified donkey dick. So we can get back to the business of business, making money and making our beloved country prosperous again...oh and putting your arrogant ass and others, out of a job.
Remember TANSTAAFL and ...
I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.
But we can’t ask senior citizens and working families to shoulder the entire burden of deficit reduction while asking nothing more from the wealthiest and most powerful. We won’t grow the middle class simply by shifting the cost of health care or college onto families that are already struggling, or by forcing communities to lay off more teachers, cops, and firefighters. Most Americans – Democrats, Republicans, and Independents – understand that we can’t just cut our way to prosperity. They know that broad-based economic growth requires a balanced approach to deficit reduction, with spending cuts and revenue, and with everybody doing their fair share. And that’s the approach I offer tonight.
I'm tired of having this argument about the rich. I'm tired of posting the facts and figures about how much the rich ACTUALLY pay. So I'll just point you to the recent brouhaha over golfer Phil Mickelson and his plans to leave California because when you include state and federal taxes...he only gets to keep about 45 cents out of every dollar he makes. Yeah, I know he does well money wise but why should that large a percentage of his income go to the government? No Seriously...WHY?! He works hard for that money so why shouldn't he be allowed to keep as much as possible? Oh because some asshole trying to make him/herself rich at the expense of people who actually work their asses off like Phil, says so? Don't think so. You want to play that game? Obama? Pelosi? Reid etc etc? Okay fine..I can play you one better. I need a harem. Hand over your wives and daughters...it's only fair after all. *snort* Economic growth requires a balanced approach? Oh you mean raise EVERYONES taxes? That's what I thought you said. Revenue comes from We the People. You know...the folks who pay your wholly unearned salary and pay for your extravagant vacations and dances and security and the house you live in and the food you eat etc etc? However...we don't HAVE a revenue problem. What we have a problem with is a president and a congress that spend money like a sailor in a whorehouse! The difference being that when the SAILOR runs out of money..he goes home!
On Medicare, I’m prepared to enact reforms that will achieve the same amount of health care savings by the beginning of the next decade as the reforms proposed by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles commission. Already, the Affordable Care Act is helping to slow the growth of health care costs. The reforms I’m proposing go even further. We’ll reduce taxpayer subsidies to prescription drug companies and ask more from the wealthiest seniors. We’ll bring down costs by changing the way our government pays for Medicare, because our medical bills shouldn’t be based on the number of tests ordered or days spent in the hospital – they should be based on the quality of care that our seniors receive. And I am open to additional reforms from both parties, so long as they don’t violate the guarantee of a secure retirement. Our government shouldn’t make promises we cannot keep – but we must keep the promises we’ve already made.
Oh so you're prepared to enact reforms that will achieve savings in health care in a decade? So just what are you planning on doing in that 10years? No seriously. I want to know. We don't need savings in the budget and spending and healthcare in 10years. We need it right fucking now, you double talking con artist! Already the Affordable Care Act is raising costs, causing doctors to quit rather than deal with the nightmare you passed and those that are staying are in many cases no longer accepting medicare/medicaid; because the government while fast to spend money is notoriously slow about paying it's goddamn bills. "ask more from the wealthiest seniors" Oh and here I thought it was the Republicans that wanted to throw granny and gramps off a cliff. Thanks for showing your true colors and proving you really don't give a shit about anyone. *golf clap* Well Done . Oh, Incompetent Child Who Would Be King. If medical bills shouldn't be based on the number of tests done and services rendered and procedures performed, then what pray tell should they be based on. Please, tell us. You with your DECADES of medical experience and medical school doctorate. Tell us. What is our medical bill going to be based on. How many times you can sit, cross your legs, hold your breath, cross your eyes and fart? You and the government have been writing checks with my money, my parents money, my friends money and everyone elses and then defaulting on the loan. I'm going to file a lien on federal property one of these days I swear.
To hit the rest of our deficit reduction target, we should do what leaders in both parties have already suggested, and save hundreds of billions of dollars by getting rid of tax loopholes and deductions for the well-off and well-connected. After all, why would we choose to make deeper cuts to education and Medicare just to protect special interest tax breaks? How is that fair? How does that promote growth?
Actually Junior Space Cadet Obama, we don't need to get rid of loopholes and deductions. We need to get rid of the entire tax code and replace it with either a flat tax or a consumption/national sales tax. Then we need to pass a change to the rules that states that any monies raised are all the monies the government has to run on. No more than that...not a dime. No more borrowing money from the, among other people, the Chinese.
Here take a listen to this guy...he says it more eloquently than I do. Wellll...depending on your definition of eloquent..
You hear him? Balance the fuckin budget B!
Need to balance the budget but lets give federal workers a pay raise
Anyone else see the logic disconnect in this? Let alone the mathematical deficiencies?
Now is our best chance for bipartisan, comprehensive tax reform that encourages job creation and helps bring down the deficit. The American people deserve a tax code that helps small businesses spend less time filling out complicated forms, and more time expanding and hiring; a tax code that ensures billionaires with high-powered accountants can’t pay a lower rate than their hard-working secretaries; a tax code that lowers incentives to move jobs overseas, and lowers tax rates for businesses and manufacturers that create jobs right here in America. That’s what tax reform can deliver. That’s what we can do together.Let me repeat...toss out the current tax code and have a flat tax or consumption tax. No credits, no exemptions for anything. EVERYONE pays the exact same percentage.
I realize that tax reform and entitlement reform won’t be easy. The politics will be hard for both sides. None of us will get 100 percent of what we want. But the alternative will cost us jobs, hurt our economy, and visit hardship on millions of hardworking Americans. So let’s set party interests aside, and work to pass a budget that replaces reckless cuts with smart savings and wise investments in our future. And let’s do it without the brinksmanship that stresses consumers and scares off investors. The greatest nation on Earth cannot keep conducting its business by drifting from one manufactured crisis to the next. Let’s agree, right here, right now, to keep the people’s government open, pay our bills on time, and always uphold the full faith and credit of the United States of America. The American people have worked too hard, for too long, rebuilding from one crisis to see their elected officials cause another.
Now, most of us agree that a plan to reduce the deficit must be part of our agenda. But let’s be clear: deficit reduction alone is not an economic plan. A growing economy that creates good, middle-class jobs – that must be the North Star that guides our efforts. Every day, we should ask ourselves three questions as a nation: How do we attract more jobs to our shores? How do we equip our people with the skills needed to do those jobs? And how do we make sure that hard work leads to a decent living?
A year and a half ago, I put forward an American Jobs Act that independent economists said would create more than one million new jobs. I thank the last Congress for passing some of that agenda, and I urge this Congress to pass the rest. Tonight, I’ll lay out additional proposals that are fully paid for and fully consistent with the budget framework both parties agreed to just 18 months ago. Let me repeat – nothing I’m proposing tonight should increase our deficit by a single dime. It’s not a bigger government we need, but a smarter government that sets priorities and invests in broad-based growth.
Hey B? Anyone ever tell you that you sound like a broken record? Shut up and stop repeating yourself...it's annoying. Oh and NO as a matter of fact you're proposals are NOT paid for. Seeing as how you've spent over 2 trillion dollars in actual revenue and BORROWED another 1.3 trillion dollars this past year. Just where the fuck is the money for these proposals going to come from? Oh I konw...that magic unicorn you've got locked up in the basement of the treasury is going to vomit piles of money and shit precious gems in all the colors of the rainbow. Yeah that's it!
Our first priority is making America a magnet for new jobs and manufacturing.
After shedding jobs for more than 10 years, our manufacturers have added about 500,000 jobs over the past three. Caterpillar is bringing jobs back from Japan. Ford is bringing jobs back from Mexico. After locating plants in other countries like China, Intel is opening its most advanced plant right here at home. And this year, Apple will start making Macs in America again.
Lets see...right now they are hiring a whopping 30 people. If and when the million square foot facility gets up to full production it will have 1400 workers...but that won't be until after the first of the year in 2014 according to catepillars own schedule!
catepillar
| Date | Milestone | ||||
| March 2012 | Groundbreaking | ||||
| March 2013 | Building Occupancy | ||||
| June 2013 | First Pilot Build (MHE308) | ||||
| August 2013 | Second Pilot Build | ||||
| October 2013 | Pre-production Start up 308 | ||||
| November 2013 | Grand Opening | ||||
| January 2014 | First Shipment | ||||
| March 2014 | Production MHE 305, 305.5 | ||||
| July 2014 | Production MHE 303.5, 304 | ||||
| February 2015 | STTT D3-D5K2 |
in Ireland..
I don't know how they are going to afford all this though because...
Catepillar financial link..
Ooopsies at their Chinese subsidiary
Ford Jobs?
Perhaps he meant this Finnish firm purchasing former ford transmission plant.
Which will create "hundreds of jobs"
Or perhaps he meant the deal Ford made with his union buddies to create another couple hundred jobs at a plant in Ohio. Whoopy Shit Sherlock.
Intel Jobs? Perhaps he's mistaking Ireland for the US.
Durp
Notice this disconnect..." Apple's plans to move some Mac production to the U.S. The company is investing $100 million on this venture, Cook said." Yet if you read the article behind the durp, they are spending $4 BILLION dollars to create jobs in and a plant in Ireland. *snort*
There are things we can do, right now, to accelerate this trend. Last year, we created our first manufacturing innovation institute in Youngstown, Ohio. A once-shuttered warehouse is now a state-of-the art lab where new workers are mastering the 3D printing that has the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything. There’s no reason this can’t happen in other towns. So tonight, I’m announcing the launch of three more of these manufacturing hubs, where businesses will partner with the Departments of Defense and Energy to turn regions left behind by globalization into global centers of high-tech jobs. And I ask this Congress to help create a network of fifteen of these hubs and guarantee that the next revolution in manufacturing is Made in America.
thwack! Pay Attention you mental midget. YOU meaning the government, DOES. NOT. CREATE. JOBS. Got it? Somehow I suspect that went in one ear and out the other. Not surprising since there is nothing but air space, in that place where your brain is supposed to be.
If we want to make the best products, we also have to invest in the best ideas. Every dollar we invested to map the human genome returned $140 to our economy. Today, our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer’s; developing drugs to regenerate damaged organs; devising new material to make batteries ten times more powerful. Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race. And today, no area holds more promise than our investments in American energy.
After years of talking about it, we are finally poised to control our own energy future. We produce more oil at home than we have in 15 years. We have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas, and the amount of renewable energy we generate from sources like wind and solar – with tens of thousands of good, American jobs to show for it. We produce more natural gas than ever before – and nearly everyone’s energy bill is lower because of it. And over the last four years, our emissions of the dangerous carbon pollution that threatens our planet have actually fallen.
Uhmmm...yeah. That's why you've curtailed offshore drilling, and basically killed the XL pipeline while funneling money to your compaign contributors to piss away on things that don't work at the moment. Here's a hint. if the demand is there the free market...in others we the people, will funnel the money to those ventures ourselves by investing in those companies. It's not for you to decide, Oh Mr Dumbo Ears.
But for the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Yes, it’s true that no single event makes a trend. But the fact is, the 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15. Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and floods – all are now more frequent and intense. We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence. Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science – and act before it’s too late.
*facepalm* anyone ever notice that it's ALWAYS for the sake of the children when he and the government suggests stripping us of our rights and/or raping us for more money?
The good news is, we can make meaningful progress on this issue while driving strong economic growth. I urge this Congress to pursue a bipartisan, market-based solution to climate change, like the one John McCain and Joe Lieberman worked on together a few years ago. But if Congress won’t act soon to protect future generations, I will. I will direct my Cabinet to come up with executive actions we can take, now and in the future, to reduce pollution, prepare our communities for the consequences of climate change, and speed the transition to more sustainable sources of energy.
Four years ago, other countries dominated the clean energy market and the jobs that came with it. We’ve begun to change that. Last year, wind energy added nearly half of all new power capacity in America. So let’s generate even more. Solar energy gets cheaper by the year – so let’s drive costs down even further. As long as countries like China keep going all-in on clean energy, so must we.
In the meantime, the natural gas boom has led to cleaner power and greater energy independence. That’s why my Administration will keep cutting red tape and speeding up new oil and gas permits. But I also want to work with this Congress to encourage the research and technology that helps natural gas burn even cleaner and protects our air and water.
Indeed, much of our new-found energy is drawn from lands and waters that we, the public, own together. So tonight, I propose we use some of our oil and gas revenues to fund an Energy Security Trust that will drive new research and technology to shift our cars and trucks off oil for good. If a non-partisan coalition of CEOs and retired generals and admirals can get behind this idea, then so can we. Let’s take their advice and free our families and businesses from the painful spikes in gas prices we’ve put up with for far too long. I’m also issuing a new goal for America: let’s cut in half the energy wasted by our homes and businesses over the next twenty years. The states with the best ideas to create jobs and lower energy bills by constructing more efficient buildings will receive federal support to help make it happen.
America’s energy sector is just one part of an aging infrastructure badly in need of repair. Ask any CEO where they’d rather locate and hire: a country with deteriorating roads and bridges, or one with high-speed rail and internet; high-tech schools and self-healing power grids. The CEO of Siemens America – a company that brought hundreds of new jobs to North Carolina – has said that if we upgrade our infrastructure, they’ll bring even more jobs. And I know that you want these job-creating projects in your districts. I’ve seen you all at the ribbon-cuttings.
Tonight, I propose a “Fix-It-First” program to put people to work as soon as possible on our most urgent repairs, like the nearly 70,000 structurally deficient bridges across the country. And to make sure taxpayers don’t shoulder the whole burden, I’m also proposing a Partnership to Rebuild America that attracts private capital to upgrade what our businesses need most: modern ports to move our goods; modern pipelines to withstand a storm; modern schools worthy of our children. Let’s prove that there is no better place to do business than the United States of America. And let’s start right away.
Oh my dear fluffy lord. Climate Change? Nope. Sorry it's called a natural process. You can not stop it! It's going to happen one way or the other, no matter what we do. You do realize you egotisical, sociopathic, meglomaniacal horses ass that on the geological and planetary scale of things, we are no more than bugs to be squashed by the Earth itself? Something the earth excels at doing by the way. The Global Warming, sorry Climate Change hysteria is just that. Hysteria driven by fear. Fear driven by unscrupulous feces and blood covered douchebags like your buddy Algore. You remember Al Gore don't you folks? Former Vice President, Creator of the Internet, Owner of a firm that sells "Carbon Credits" that makes him fucktons of money while he pollutes the planet flying around in his private jets, limos, and living in energy sucking mansions? Oh and the guy who just sold his latest failing venture Current TV, to Al Jazeera? The propaganda machine for Islamic Jihadists everywhere. He could have kept it in American hands because Glen Beck offered to buy it from him...but instead Algore turned around and sold it to those supporters of honor killing, camel humping assbags...Al Jazeera. Makes you feel all warm and fuzzy don't it?
Ask any CEO where they'd rather locate their company too. A place where they can be free to run their business as they see fit, pay their employees for the work they do without being extorted by your union buddies; and not be penalized with higher taxes and costs for being successful? Or Places where despite the shitty roads and conditions the goddamn governments by and large leave them alone?
A Fix it First program? WHERE is the money going to come from?! Oh yeah..I forgot...the Unicorn. Silly Me. *snort*
Leave We the People, alone and get the hell out of our way you duplicitous zombified donkey dick. So we can get back to the business of business, making money and making our beloved country prosperous again...oh and putting your arrogant ass and others, out of a job.
Remember TANSTAAFL and ...
I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
The State of DIS Union 2013
Yes boys and girls once again it is that time of year. The time of year when our Elected Liar in Chief gets up in front of God, Congress, US and the World and tells, lies, damn lies and goddamn lies. In an effort to enhance my calm while I rip this thing to shreds with heavy dosing of sarcastic replies and the occasional factual reply with actual..you know..FACTS in them; I have donned my beloved wireless headphones, put my media player on shuffle and cranked the volume to ear bleed causing levels. The Lance Fondler in Chief's spewing of stupidity is in eye-talics. Now onto the critiquing of The Play. Perpend.....
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens:
Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress…It is my task,” he said, “to report the State of the Union – to improve it is the task of us all.”
Tonight, thanks to the grit and determination of the American people, there is much progress to report. After a decade of grinding war, our brave men and women in uniform are coming home. After years of grueling recession, our businesses have created over six million new jobs. We buy more American cars than we have in five years, and less foreign oil than we have in twenty. Our housing market is healing, our stock market is rebounding, and consumers, patients, and homeowners enjoy stronger protections than ever before.
Together, we have cleared away the rubble of crisis, and can say with renewed confidence that the state of our union is stronger.
But we gather here knowing that there are millions of Americans whose hard work and dedication have not yet been rewarded. Our economy is adding jobs – but too many people still can’t find full-time employment. Corporate profits have rocketed to all-time highs – but for more than a decade, wages and incomes have barely budged.
It is our generation’s task, then, to reignite the true engine of America’s economic growth – a rising, thriving middle class.
It is our unfinished task to restore the basic bargain that built this country – the idea that if you work hard and meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or who you love.
It is our unfinished task to make sure that this government works on behalf of the many, and not just the few; that it encourages free enterprise, rewards individual initiative, and opens the doors of opportunity to every child across this great nation.
Ahh yes you've ended the war. Then why old boy are there still troops over seas fighting it?
You've created jobs? *snort* Yeah government jobs maybe. A good many of the companies you've given grant money to, because they donated to your campaigns....have gone tits up. They are in other words...defunct, gone, dead and buried. Solyndra for one. *gasp!* How dare I mention that name? Piss off you overdramatically posing tosser. Oh then there was the electric car company that you gave ohhh a 200 MILLION dollars to. It was supposed to have been more than half a BILLION. But the Department of Energy killing bureaucrats, ended up freezing the funds.What was the name....oh yeah. Fisker! They were supposed to build a plant here in the US and show that Electric Cars are COOL and gas cars are dying, uncool, uncouth dinosaurs. What happened there you sanctimonious ass?
"Fisker received federal funds in part to help purchase a shuttered General Motors plant in Delaware, where it predicted it would one day employ 2,000 auto workers to assemble the clean-burning gas-electric family car, known as the Atlantic. But company executives began hinting in February that it would reconsider that plan and look for a cheaper place to build the car after the Department of Energy froze the $529 million green-energy loan the company had received, and had been drawing on since 2010.
Fisker used the first $169 million in taxpayer funds to bring to market the Karma, a flashy $100,000 hybrid sports sedan that it assembles in Finland. After a series of delays and stumbles, the company announced it had sold its first 1,000 Karmas, bringing in $100 million in revenues so far this year. The sleek, high-end model has been well received by critics, and the company reported this week it has started to sell in Europe, and could soon be on sale in the Middle East.
arlier this year, one of the Karmas stopped working in the middle of a Consumer Reports road test -- an embarrassing breakdown that Fisker later blamed on a faulty battery. The lithium-ion batteries became the subject of a recall, including for a defect that raised the risk of fires. "
May 30 2012.
Oooops.
Oh wait there's more......it's doing so well that....
1.Fisker can't make any more cars until its battery supplier is up and running again. That supplier, A123 Systems, just went up for grabs in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. A Chinese firm won the bidding, but it's not yet clear if the bid will be challenged or whether A123 is willing to keep Fisker as a customer.
2. It seems to have a CEO problem..."Tony Posawatz, Fisker's third CEO in a year.."
3.The privately held company is scouring the world to link up with another automaker or find more investors. It wants to buttress the thousands who have already kicked in about $1.2 billion so it can start production in late 2014 or 2015 of its next model, a smaller, cheaper hybrid, which is expected to be a much bigger seller than the Karma
Plug in car maker looking for more investors or another auto manufacturer to save it's ass
Let me close this section of the vivisection by stating unequivocally...it is NOT the governments job to create jobs! Especially not when a good chunk of that is expanding the government with government jobs. No the governments job is to create an environment that is as regulation light as possible. An environment that ENCOURAGES entrepreneurs and business owners...not penalizes them for being successful! Oh and stay the fuck out of our way you money grabbing prick!
Next!
The American people don’t expect government to solve every problem. They don’t expect those of us in this chamber to agree on every issue. But they do expect us to put the nation’s interests before party. They do expect us to forge reasonable compromise where we can. For they know that America moves forward only when we do so together; and that the responsibility of improving this union remains the task of us all.
Our work must begin by making some basic decisions about our budget – decisions that will have a huge impact on the strength of our recovery.
Over the last few years, both parties have worked together to reduce the deficit by more than $2.5 trillion – mostly through spending cuts, but also by raising tax rates on the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans. As a result, we are more than halfway towards the goal of $4 trillion in deficit reduction that economists say we need to stabilize our finances.Nooo...we expect the government and the peons that are OUR employees....yeah that's right I said you power hungry pissants work for US. We do NOT work for you! Now where was I...oh yeah. We expect our employees to do what they are told, do the jobs they were hired for, for the term they were hired for and then go home!
You must make basic decisions about the budget? You and your party who had complete iron control of the government who couldn't be BOTHERED to pass a goddamn budget because you were too busy ramming Obamacare down our throats? Oh man that's a laugh! You and the government who couldn't be bothered to pass a budget for the last 4 goddamn YEARS!? Yeah Yeah..I know oh syphilitic offspring of a pimp and a camel. You presented budgets. News flash every one of them that you personally presented were voted down UNANIMOUSLY. You're own party wouldn't vote for your budgets. Hint, freaking hint.
You've cut the deficit by 2.5 trillion dollars? *falls out of his chair laughing uncontrollably.*
Ow...that hurt. You cut the deficit? Mother pussbucket! You and CONgress have managed to add not 2, not 4 but just shy of 6 TRILLION dollars to the National Debt in the last 4 years. A feat that I might add not even Bush jr quite managed to accomplish in 8. Though Jr came close. Bloody close and I'll point out again that it took Jr 8 years to do it! Way to set a new record homey.
Now we need to finish the job. And the question is, how?
In 2011, Congress passed a law saying that if both parties couldn’t agree on a plan to reach our deficit goal, about a trillion dollars’ worth of budget cuts would automatically go into effect this year. These sudden, harsh, arbitrary cuts would jeopardize our military readiness. They’d devastate priorities like education, energy, and medical research. They would certainly slow our recovery, and cost us hundreds of thousands of jobs. That’s why Democrats, Republicans, business leaders, and economists have already said that these cuts, known here in Washington as “the sequester,” are a really bad idea.
Now, some in this Congress have proposed preventing only the defense cuts by making even bigger cuts to things like education and job training; Medicare and Social Security benefits.
That idea is even worse. Yes, the biggest driver of our long-term debt is the rising cost of health care for an aging population. And those of us who care deeply about programs like Medicare must embrace the need for modest reforms – otherwise, our retirement programs will crowd out the investments we need for our children, and jeopardize the promise of a secure retirement for future generations.
Yep passed a bill and then created a committee that was filled on both sides with ultra doctrinaire, fanatical hacks! Yeah that one was doomed to fail from the start. NEVER should have happened.
Recovery? WHAT recovery? Man you're so out of touch it's ridiculous. On the other hand...that's not surprising. If sequestering is such a bad idea then WHY did you do it...and right before the most recent election I might add. Yes by all means lets cut education spending on a federal level...it's like a drunk throwing money at a stripper. It accomplishes nothing except wasting money, sending you home sexually unsatisfied , with a massive case of blue balls and angry you didn't get laid. No more federal spending on education. Leave it to the states and the states only. Unless they REQUEST funds. Ahh Medicare and Social Security. Social Security is bad comedy. It was never supposed to be a permanent fixture...but a temporary one...primarily for the benefit of war widows and orphans. Like every other "temporary" measure in government history it fast became a permanent and bloated fixture. The convoluted fiduciary clusterfuck that we've all come to know and love. The political football that both sides use to try and pummel old folks into voting one way or the other in a stampede of false, created, hyped to a fare thee well, fear. My generation, our parents, and our grandparents would have been better off putting that money away in savings accounts or investing it in the market as WE saw fit...not letting the government 'hold" it for us. But most people are too stupid to realize that, due to the now piss poor education system. Medicare I have a love/hate relationship with. Go through and audit the hell out of it. Find the corruption and con artistry going on and eliminate them, and Medicare/Medicaid can stay for all I care.
Thus ends part one of my fisking of the State of the DIS Union address of 2013.
Remember TANSTAAFL and...
I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens:
Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress…It is my task,” he said, “to report the State of the Union – to improve it is the task of us all.”
Tonight, thanks to the grit and determination of the American people, there is much progress to report. After a decade of grinding war, our brave men and women in uniform are coming home. After years of grueling recession, our businesses have created over six million new jobs. We buy more American cars than we have in five years, and less foreign oil than we have in twenty. Our housing market is healing, our stock market is rebounding, and consumers, patients, and homeowners enjoy stronger protections than ever before.
Together, we have cleared away the rubble of crisis, and can say with renewed confidence that the state of our union is stronger.
But we gather here knowing that there are millions of Americans whose hard work and dedication have not yet been rewarded. Our economy is adding jobs – but too many people still can’t find full-time employment. Corporate profits have rocketed to all-time highs – but for more than a decade, wages and incomes have barely budged.
It is our generation’s task, then, to reignite the true engine of America’s economic growth – a rising, thriving middle class.
It is our unfinished task to restore the basic bargain that built this country – the idea that if you work hard and meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or who you love.
It is our unfinished task to make sure that this government works on behalf of the many, and not just the few; that it encourages free enterprise, rewards individual initiative, and opens the doors of opportunity to every child across this great nation.
Ahh yes you've ended the war. Then why old boy are there still troops over seas fighting it?
You've created jobs? *snort* Yeah government jobs maybe. A good many of the companies you've given grant money to, because they donated to your campaigns....have gone tits up. They are in other words...defunct, gone, dead and buried. Solyndra for one. *gasp!* How dare I mention that name? Piss off you overdramatically posing tosser. Oh then there was the electric car company that you gave ohhh a 200 MILLION dollars to. It was supposed to have been more than half a BILLION. But the Department of Energy killing bureaucrats, ended up freezing the funds.What was the name....oh yeah. Fisker! They were supposed to build a plant here in the US and show that Electric Cars are COOL and gas cars are dying, uncool, uncouth dinosaurs. What happened there you sanctimonious ass?
"Fisker received federal funds in part to help purchase a shuttered General Motors plant in Delaware, where it predicted it would one day employ 2,000 auto workers to assemble the clean-burning gas-electric family car, known as the Atlantic. But company executives began hinting in February that it would reconsider that plan and look for a cheaper place to build the car after the Department of Energy froze the $529 million green-energy loan the company had received, and had been drawing on since 2010.
Fisker used the first $169 million in taxpayer funds to bring to market the Karma, a flashy $100,000 hybrid sports sedan that it assembles in Finland. After a series of delays and stumbles, the company announced it had sold its first 1,000 Karmas, bringing in $100 million in revenues so far this year. The sleek, high-end model has been well received by critics, and the company reported this week it has started to sell in Europe, and could soon be on sale in the Middle East.
arlier this year, one of the Karmas stopped working in the middle of a Consumer Reports road test -- an embarrassing breakdown that Fisker later blamed on a faulty battery. The lithium-ion batteries became the subject of a recall, including for a defect that raised the risk of fires. "
May 30 2012.
Oooops.
Oh wait there's more......it's doing so well that....
1.Fisker can't make any more cars until its battery supplier is up and running again. That supplier, A123 Systems, just went up for grabs in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. A Chinese firm won the bidding, but it's not yet clear if the bid will be challenged or whether A123 is willing to keep Fisker as a customer.
2. It seems to have a CEO problem..."Tony Posawatz, Fisker's third CEO in a year.."
3.The privately held company is scouring the world to link up with another automaker or find more investors. It wants to buttress the thousands who have already kicked in about $1.2 billion so it can start production in late 2014 or 2015 of its next model, a smaller, cheaper hybrid, which is expected to be a much bigger seller than the Karma
Plug in car maker looking for more investors or another auto manufacturer to save it's ass
Let me close this section of the vivisection by stating unequivocally...it is NOT the governments job to create jobs! Especially not when a good chunk of that is expanding the government with government jobs. No the governments job is to create an environment that is as regulation light as possible. An environment that ENCOURAGES entrepreneurs and business owners...not penalizes them for being successful! Oh and stay the fuck out of our way you money grabbing prick!
Next!
The American people don’t expect government to solve every problem. They don’t expect those of us in this chamber to agree on every issue. But they do expect us to put the nation’s interests before party. They do expect us to forge reasonable compromise where we can. For they know that America moves forward only when we do so together; and that the responsibility of improving this union remains the task of us all.
Our work must begin by making some basic decisions about our budget – decisions that will have a huge impact on the strength of our recovery.
Over the last few years, both parties have worked together to reduce the deficit by more than $2.5 trillion – mostly through spending cuts, but also by raising tax rates on the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans. As a result, we are more than halfway towards the goal of $4 trillion in deficit reduction that economists say we need to stabilize our finances.Nooo...we expect the government and the peons that are OUR employees....yeah that's right I said you power hungry pissants work for US. We do NOT work for you! Now where was I...oh yeah. We expect our employees to do what they are told, do the jobs they were hired for, for the term they were hired for and then go home!
You must make basic decisions about the budget? You and your party who had complete iron control of the government who couldn't be BOTHERED to pass a goddamn budget because you were too busy ramming Obamacare down our throats? Oh man that's a laugh! You and the government who couldn't be bothered to pass a budget for the last 4 goddamn YEARS!? Yeah Yeah..I know oh syphilitic offspring of a pimp and a camel. You presented budgets. News flash every one of them that you personally presented were voted down UNANIMOUSLY. You're own party wouldn't vote for your budgets. Hint, freaking hint.
You've cut the deficit by 2.5 trillion dollars? *falls out of his chair laughing uncontrollably.*
Ow...that hurt. You cut the deficit? Mother pussbucket! You and CONgress have managed to add not 2, not 4 but just shy of 6 TRILLION dollars to the National Debt in the last 4 years. A feat that I might add not even Bush jr quite managed to accomplish in 8. Though Jr came close. Bloody close and I'll point out again that it took Jr 8 years to do it! Way to set a new record homey.
Now we need to finish the job. And the question is, how?
In 2011, Congress passed a law saying that if both parties couldn’t agree on a plan to reach our deficit goal, about a trillion dollars’ worth of budget cuts would automatically go into effect this year. These sudden, harsh, arbitrary cuts would jeopardize our military readiness. They’d devastate priorities like education, energy, and medical research. They would certainly slow our recovery, and cost us hundreds of thousands of jobs. That’s why Democrats, Republicans, business leaders, and economists have already said that these cuts, known here in Washington as “the sequester,” are a really bad idea.
Now, some in this Congress have proposed preventing only the defense cuts by making even bigger cuts to things like education and job training; Medicare and Social Security benefits.
That idea is even worse. Yes, the biggest driver of our long-term debt is the rising cost of health care for an aging population. And those of us who care deeply about programs like Medicare must embrace the need for modest reforms – otherwise, our retirement programs will crowd out the investments we need for our children, and jeopardize the promise of a secure retirement for future generations.
Yep passed a bill and then created a committee that was filled on both sides with ultra doctrinaire, fanatical hacks! Yeah that one was doomed to fail from the start. NEVER should have happened.
Recovery? WHAT recovery? Man you're so out of touch it's ridiculous. On the other hand...that's not surprising. If sequestering is such a bad idea then WHY did you do it...and right before the most recent election I might add. Yes by all means lets cut education spending on a federal level...it's like a drunk throwing money at a stripper. It accomplishes nothing except wasting money, sending you home sexually unsatisfied , with a massive case of blue balls and angry you didn't get laid. No more federal spending on education. Leave it to the states and the states only. Unless they REQUEST funds. Ahh Medicare and Social Security. Social Security is bad comedy. It was never supposed to be a permanent fixture...but a temporary one...primarily for the benefit of war widows and orphans. Like every other "temporary" measure in government history it fast became a permanent and bloated fixture. The convoluted fiduciary clusterfuck that we've all come to know and love. The political football that both sides use to try and pummel old folks into voting one way or the other in a stampede of false, created, hyped to a fare thee well, fear. My generation, our parents, and our grandparents would have been better off putting that money away in savings accounts or investing it in the market as WE saw fit...not letting the government 'hold" it for us. But most people are too stupid to realize that, due to the now piss poor education system. Medicare I have a love/hate relationship with. Go through and audit the hell out of it. Find the corruption and con artistry going on and eliminate them, and Medicare/Medicaid can stay for all I care.
Thus ends part one of my fisking of the State of the DIS Union address of 2013.
Remember TANSTAAFL and...
I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.
Yes Yes it's State of the Union time!
Wellll...almost. I'm not going to watch it..I never do. I will however after they post the transcript tonight or tomorrow, section it out and rip it to pieces like I have for the last several years. Although last years never got completely posted because it made me wanna puke and pissed me off so bad. did you know that, on Thursday Obama is going to do a "Fireside Chat", in "homage" to FDR's? He's going to to do this live stream/you tube.
The staff is also going to answer questions right after the SOTU.
Expect the first section sometime tomorrow night probably. How big the entry ends up being, depends on the length of the speech and how far I get into reading it and ripping it to shreds before having to sit hard on the urge to vomit all over my keyboard.
Remember TANSTAAFL and...
I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.
The staff is also going to answer questions right after the SOTU.
"Immediately following the President's speech, join us for a special
“Open for Questions” panel with senior staff, live from the White House.
If you have a question about the speech, ask it on Twitter with the
hashtag #WHChat or on the White House facebook or Google+ pages."
So...lets bombard them with questions shall we?
So...lets bombard them with questions shall we?
Expect the first section sometime tomorrow night probably. How big the entry ends up being, depends on the length of the speech and how far I get into reading it and ripping it to shreds before having to sit hard on the urge to vomit all over my keyboard.
Remember TANSTAAFL and...
I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.
Friday, February 8, 2013
Ahh the "We're Children" thing again..
Warning, put down your drinks and swallow your food first before watching this
You ever notice that this is a common misconception among liberals? That we free citizens are children that need our government to take care of us? I believe otherwise. We are ADULTS free to live our lives as we see fit. Make our own choices and be RESPONSIBLE for our own actions. I own up to my fuck ups, and I've made waaay more than a few. How about you? Help for those in need begins in the home and the community. Though I will grant you there are people, like my younger sister who will never be able to function in normal society so yeah...she needs the stipend. By and large though, I believe that many of those on the dole are quite capable of surviving on their own by hard work...they just choose the easy way.
You ever notice that this is a common misconception among liberals? That we free citizens are children that need our government to take care of us? I believe otherwise. We are ADULTS free to live our lives as we see fit. Make our own choices and be RESPONSIBLE for our own actions. I own up to my fuck ups, and I've made waaay more than a few. How about you? Help for those in need begins in the home and the community. Though I will grant you there are people, like my younger sister who will never be able to function in normal society so yeah...she needs the stipend. By and large though, I believe that many of those on the dole are quite capable of surviving on their own by hard work...they just choose the easy way.
Anti 2nd amendment people
I've been reading some of my favorite blogs as usual. Also the CSGV facebook wall as well. It has me wondering... How many of these people on this site have ever FIRED a gun, let alone owned one. In some cases I know that some of these people own guns because they SAY they do. Now, they MIGHT be lying about that but lets give them the benefit of the doubt shall we? For the rest, I highly doubt it. They only know what they've been taught and told, by other people with equally closed minds.
Then there's this guy...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-ridleythomas/national-rifle-association-correct_b_2497178.html
Yes yes he ADMITS he and those like him want us to give up our guns so we can then live in a Violence Free Utopia because you know...violence is all the fault of those nasty evil inanimate objects known as guns. It has nothing to do with criminals who don't give a damn about the law, penalties for committing crimes that are laughable because prosecuters cut deals that let stone cold killers out on the street after serving as little time as possible so long as they behave in prison.. Nothing to do with the mentally disturbed such as well...everyone who has committed a mass shooting in the last 20yrs or so. Nope it's all the fault of that evil black inanimate object. Now that's a hell of a racist way to think.
NEWSFLASH Life is Violent! The very act of birth itself is a violent, bloody act. We commit violence every day of our lives or because of services we use allow other people to do it for us so we can live the way we want. Cutting down trees for paper. For wood for building materials. Building well...anything. All that hammering, sawing, drilling, screwing etc. It's called SURVIVAL. Cows eat grasses to survive...we slaughter and eat the cattle. Where the fuck do you think all those steaks, burgers, beef fajitas, cube steaks, beef stews, and roasts, etc... we eat come from? Chicken? Where the fuck do you think your fried chicken comes from. The chickens have to be raised up and slaughtered for our dinner table. The eggs you use or can use to cook just about anything. Eggs in the meatloaf to bind it. Eggs in cookies and cakes and doughnuts and...damn I'm making myself hungry and I just frelling ate! You like rack of lamb? You think the lamb just woke up one day and said..."oh I don't need that Spine or my ribs today."? REally? you did think that? Damn you're dumb.
Wait. what's that? You think being a vegetarian makes you better in the slaughter count? Bitch please...you are killing and eating living plants! Just because they may not move around and have "brains" doesn't mean they aren't alive. Don't go all holier than thou on me, it doesn't float. Everything on this rock consumes something else to survive. You telling me that's not violence? Grow the fuck up.
Remember TANSTAAFL and....
I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity
Then there's this guy...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-ridleythomas/national-rifle-association-correct_b_2497178.html
Yes yes he ADMITS he and those like him want us to give up our guns so we can then live in a Violence Free Utopia because you know...violence is all the fault of those nasty evil inanimate objects known as guns. It has nothing to do with criminals who don't give a damn about the law, penalties for committing crimes that are laughable because prosecuters cut deals that let stone cold killers out on the street after serving as little time as possible so long as they behave in prison.. Nothing to do with the mentally disturbed such as well...everyone who has committed a mass shooting in the last 20yrs or so. Nope it's all the fault of that evil black inanimate object. Now that's a hell of a racist way to think.
NEWSFLASH Life is Violent! The very act of birth itself is a violent, bloody act. We commit violence every day of our lives or because of services we use allow other people to do it for us so we can live the way we want. Cutting down trees for paper. For wood for building materials. Building well...anything. All that hammering, sawing, drilling, screwing etc. It's called SURVIVAL. Cows eat grasses to survive...we slaughter and eat the cattle. Where the fuck do you think all those steaks, burgers, beef fajitas, cube steaks, beef stews, and roasts, etc... we eat come from? Chicken? Where the fuck do you think your fried chicken comes from. The chickens have to be raised up and slaughtered for our dinner table. The eggs you use or can use to cook just about anything. Eggs in the meatloaf to bind it. Eggs in cookies and cakes and doughnuts and...damn I'm making myself hungry and I just frelling ate! You like rack of lamb? You think the lamb just woke up one day and said..."oh I don't need that Spine or my ribs today."? REally? you did think that? Damn you're dumb.
Wait. what's that? You think being a vegetarian makes you better in the slaughter count? Bitch please...you are killing and eating living plants! Just because they may not move around and have "brains" doesn't mean they aren't alive. Don't go all holier than thou on me, it doesn't float. Everything on this rock consumes something else to survive. You telling me that's not violence? Grow the fuck up.
Remember TANSTAAFL and....
I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity
to believe in gun control..
It's amazing what one has to believe to believe in gun control
by Michael Z. Williamson
That incidents where people shoot criminals in self defense are very rare, and shouldn't be used as excuses to own guns, just as incidents where presidential press secretaries are shot are very rare, and shouldn't be used as excuses to ban guns.That guns are the real cause of crime, but we will blame and jail the owner of said gun for the crime, even if the owner wasn't the person involved.
That a mugger will kill you in the half-second it takes to draw from the holster, but won't harm you while you dial 911 on your cell phone, talk to the dispatcher and wait half an hour for the cops to arrive.
That gun control works, which is why there are no illegal weapons in Northern Ireland or Beirut.
That the Second Amendment only applies to flintlocks, just as the First Amendment only applies to quills and lead type.
That the proper response to an attack is to call the police, but only unarmed police, because "Violence never settles anything."
That it's wrong to make snide, sexist comments about women, unless the comments are about women who own guns.
That a gun with an 11 round magazine is dangerous, but a gun with fifteen 10 round magazines is much safer.
That we should rehabilitate criminals and treat them as people, but never let them own guns, even if their crime was nonviolent.
That a hijacker could easily take a gun away from a pilot, but the hundreds of passengers aboard would then be unable to take the gun away from the hijacker.
That if there'd been a gun aboard American Airlines Flight 93, someone could have been hurt.
That pilots have enough to do in the cockpit, without having to worry about distractions like firearms to stop hijackers and fire extinguishers to stop fires, and these activities should be left to "trained professionals."
That such "trained professionals" will only be available on one flight in five.
That rather than have the pilot risk human life by shooting at a hijacker, we should simply have the Air Force shoot down the plane, thus preserving life.
That rapists prefer to attack armed women so they can take the guns and use them against the victims.
That 1 firearm owner in 10,000 will commit an act of violence in his or her lifetime, and this is far more frightening than the 25% of drivers who will cause a serious or fatal accident.
That you should rely on police in lieu of your gun, just as you should rely on a dentist in lieu of your toothbrush.
That the press reporting a shooting is "responsible," but failing to report that the shooter was stopped by an armed citizen is an attempt to prevent the "glamorization of guns."
That car keys, umbrellas and hairspray are good tools for self-defense, despite the fact that police continue to carry guns.
That Washington DC's low murder rate of 80.6 per 100,000 is due to strict gun control, but Arlington, Virginia's high murder rate of 1.6 per 100,000 is attributable to the lack of gun control.
That the depressed and emotionally disturbed should not be allowed to own guns that shoot bullets with 250 ft-lbs of energy, but should be allowed to own 4000 lb cars with 1,136,000 ft-lbs of energy (at 65 mph).
That "assault weapons" are "very powerful" but big game hunters oddly prefer .30-06s and .375 H&Hs.
That assault rifles are "underpowered" for hunting, but can "punch through police body armor." More powerful hunting rifles, however, cannot.
That we should outlaw bullet proof vests so criminals can't use them, and private citizens should be then proud to be killed in the crossfire, knowing they are doing their part for society.
That we don't need the Second Amendment or arms to protect our Constitution, but should instead use the courts and the government system, just as we did in 1776.
That the lack of mention of guns in wills in colonial American cities proves that most Americans didn't own them, just as the lack of mention of outhouses proves that most people squatted in the yard.
That this alleged lack of ownership is as relevant to the Second Amendment as the lack of interest in newspapers at the time was relevant to the First Amendment.
That among the hundreds of documented cases against anti-gun freaks we note that: the press secretary of Handgun Control was arrested in DC for discharging an illegal handgun, a ranking regional officer of the Million Moron March was convicted of felony assault, and other Million Morons in Colorado have been arrested for attacking firearm dealers and activists, but "gun nuts" are "obsessed with violence."
That the laws against specifically named weapons have been found unconstitutional, that the laws against "types" of weapons have been considered vague, that the laws against cosmetic features are easy to comply with and still produce the identical mechanism, and that laws against particular mechanisms are unconstitutional is an indication of the "obsessiveness" of firearms enthusiasts to do what they enjoy doing, against the wishes of the narrow minded prudes who wish to stop them, and not an indication of the obsessiveness of the ignorant paranoids who fear them.
That NASA, the military, physiologists, anatomists and trainers all agree and Olympic scores confirm that men on average have tremendously more upper body strength than women, but women should try to defend themselves with martial arts and not a gun.
That according to investigative reports, alarm systems are expensive, often easily defeated, and the alarm company may not respond for three hours, even then only driving by rather than stopping, but an alarm system is a more reliable means of protecting the home than a firearm.
That less guns in an altercation is a good thing, so you should not be armed against a criminal to keep yourself safe.
That rather than spend a few hundred dollars on a firearm and an afternoon learning how to use it, one should instead spend thousands of dollars and several years learning a martial art, so you'll be well-prepared to fight anyone, as long as they're in your gender division and weight class.
That it's terrible when police officers plant weapons on a suspect to enable them to make an arrest, but we should have tougher laws against weapons and trust the police not to abuse them in this way.
That police arriving at 80mph are a better way to stop criminals than bullets arriving at 800mph.
That because of the bombing at Oklahoma City and the knife-point hijacking on September 11, we should take guns away from people who weren't involved.
That a police officer under 21 shouldn't be able to buy a gun for off duty use, because his competence depends on that blue jacket.
That people buy guns as "substitute penises," because they know that only people with small penises ever get attacked by criminals.
That Hitler and Stalin didn't disarm citizens, only Jews, Gypsies, gays, unionists and other "undesirables." (Yes, a liberal member of the MMM actually said this in the Washington Post, quoting www.potomac-inc.org.)
That to properly understand Nazi gun control, one must consider the "legitimate fears" they had of the Jewish population. (This was another self-proclaimed liberal. I'm beginning to wonder.)
That families with children should not be allowed to own guns for safety reasons, just as they aren't allowed to own dogs, power tools, or toxic chemicals.
That it's wrong to destroy someone's life over an administrative crime by jailing them and impoverishing their family, unless that crime is owning a gun.
That a law that allows someone to keep doing "X" that has been legal for years, in the face of another, badly written law that says they can't do "Y", is a "loophole."
That it's wrong to politicize that the World Trade Center attackers didn't need guns to hijack a plane, but okay to politicize that the Columbine killers bought guns…illegally.
That when someone dies because they couldn't get a drug the government won't approve, it's tragic, but when someone dies because they couldn't defend themselves with a gun the government won't approve, that's just life.
That a criminal is somehow more of a threat to a cop than to a regular person, so police need guns and regular citizens don't.
That guns are a symbol of white male oppression, and we should address this by banning inexpensive guns that are available to poor minorities, guns with less than 6 lbs trigger pull which are useable by females and smaller men, require special storage and licensing fees to stop "those people" from affording them, require proof of "need" such as political connections or large acreage or the money to go on expensive safaris, and all this will stop those evil white males.
That governments should maintain the "legitimate monopoly of force," because the American Revolutionaries, the Maquissards, the Israelis in Palestine and the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan were "illegitimate," but Hitler, Mao, Pot, Mussolini and Stalin were "legitimate."
That the "Reasonable" uses for guns are hunting and target shooting, but not self-defense. In other words, it's acceptable to use them as toys but not as lifesaving devices.
That .50 caliber rifles are both "very rare" and "selling like hotcakes."
That the fact that .50 caliber rifles are very rare justifies banning them, just as the rarity of Lamborghinis and other high-performance cars justifies banning them.
That one has the moral obligation to make a citizen's arrest when one sees a felony in progress, and that it should be accomplished by yelling at the perpetrator, "Stop! Or I'll yell 'stop' again!" rather than by drawing a weapon.
That intelligent people should support gun control because they realize they are too stupid to be trusted with guns.
That a gun is merely an inadequate substitute for a penis, so when attacked by a mugger one should pull out a…
That a gun is a symbolic penis…what this has to do with defending one's life I have no idea. It simply serves to prove that anti-defense psychiatrists clearly have Freudian issues that THEY need to address.
That if honest people give up their weapons, the criminals and dictators will give up theirs, as Chicago street gangs and Hitler have demonstrated.
That only the government should control guns, just as only the government should control broadcasting, and only the government should control religion.
That an actor from Hollywood who points a gun at friend and foe without discrimination, who keeps the finger on the trigger with no target, who fires a handgun on its side, who fires two guns akimbo, who tries to shoot a single-action pistol with a lowered hammer, and who fires 60 shots from a 30-round magazine, should be taken as an expert on the subject.
That "reasonable licensing fees" will stop casual ownership of guns, but anyone who would jump through hoops to own a gun is obsessive.
That outlawing the carrying of guns will stop people from doing so, just as lowering the speed limit stops reckless driving.
That we should deal with the problem of criminals using illegal weapons by taking lawful weapons away from honest people.
That we should ban guns-if it saves even one life, it's worth it, just as we should ban assemblies where people might be trampled to death-if it saves just one life, it's worth it, and we should ban speech by groups who offend public order-if it saves just one life, it's worth it, and we should ban unhealthy foods-if it saves just one life, it's worth it, and…
That anyone convicted of domestic violence should not be allowed to handle guns, unless that criminal is "Marky" Mark Wahlberg handling guns in "Planet of the Apes."
That rifles are useless in a world of fighter planes and nukes, just as automobiles are useless in a world of 747s.
That sky marshalls, who are present on less than 10% of all flights, are a good solution to hijacking, but armed pilots, who would be present on every flight, are not.
That a pilot might accidentally shoot a .38 caliber hole in a plane, thus somehow mysteriously causing 10,000 cubic feet of air to disappear in a moment, or hitting a vital electrical wire that was somehow not safely duplicated by another, despite federal requirements to that effect, but a "Trained Air Marshall" won't do this even when in the stress of battle against a hijacker.
That pilots might accidentally shoot a hole in the skin of an airliner (see above), so shouldn't have guns, and if the terrorists start banging away, we'll just have to hope for the best.
That pilots shouldn't be armed because they aren't trained for use of weapons, but may use violent maneuvers that they aren't trained for to somehow magically secure a hijacker they can't see in his seat.
That a .38 caliber bullet might destroy an airliner, but violent maneuvers won't rip the wings off.
That a pilot shooting through a small cockpit door at an incoming hijacker migh somehow fail to put any bullets into him, but a 110 lb flight attendant will easily get close enough to tackle a hijacker and use a stun gun.
That a terrorist might masquerade as a "Trusted Traveler," hoping to be the only such person aboard with a firearm, but would never be able to impersonate a law enforcement official or get a job as a pilot.
That a pilot is not trained in dealing with terrorists, so should stay in the cockpit. Instead, it's up to the flight attendants and passengers to deal with the situation. After all, they ARE trained professionals.
That it's just a matter of time until another hijacking takes place, and there's nothing we can do about it, and no, you can't carry a gun.
That many "supporters of Second Amendment rights" endorse "reasonable gun control," just like many "supporters of First Amendment rights" endorse "reasonable media control."
That keeping a gun for self-defense implies a desire to shoot someone, just as keeping matches and having homeowner's insurance implies a desire to be an arsonist.
That a punk wakes up one morning, and thinks, "Gee, instead of robbing, raping, sodomizing and killing a young woman, why don't I turn my $400 gun in for $20 and a pizza and go work at McDonald's?"
That the more helpless you are, the safer you are from criminals.
That you should give a mugger your wallet, because he doesn't really want to shoot you and he'll let you go, but that you should give him your wallet, because he'll shoot you if you don't.
That despite all the outrage about Corporate America's cavalier treatment of employees, Domino's Pizza's demand that employees be unarmed is an altruistic effort to stop them from hurting themselves, and not a calculated financial bid to avoid having a lawsuit filed by a dead robber's family.
That gun owners are "potential terrorists," because they have all the necessary equipment, just like Sarah Brady is a "potential hooker," because she has all the necessary equipment.
That one can sue a store for having a slick floor, falling ceilings, and sharp corners, but if they refuse to let you bring a gun in and you get shot by a criminal, they aren't liable for enforcing that rule with others.
That there is no right of self defense, and the police are not legally obligated to respond to my cries for help when disarmed, but you can sue them if they take too long to get to a traffic accident.
That arming police just "escalates the violence," so to be really effective, we should ban the use of nightsticks by the police. In fact, we should ban the police. If they didn't exist, the criminals wouldn't need to be armed. In fact, we shouldn't have locks on doors, because that just encourages forcible entry.
That assault rifles are far too powerful to hunt deer and elk, and too dangerous for private citizens to own, but are too impotent for modern warfare, too weak to reliably kill soldiers, and have no place in the concept of a citizen reserve.
That there's no incongruity in claiming the preferred weapon of a drug dealer is a $25 .22 caliber pocket pistol, and claiming the preferred weapon of a drug dealer is a $2000 machinegun in the same piece of propaganda.
That any cheap weapon is a "Saturday night special," and any expensive weapon is an "assault weapon."
That "Cops" and other shows are edited to show the boring encounters with traffic stops and the occasional drunken fool with a revolver in his pocket, and never show the millions of cases where the cops are gunned down in droves by machinegun toting drug dealers.
That "NYPD Blue" and "Miami Vice" are documentaries.
That an intruder will be incapacitated by tear gas or oven spray, but if shot with a .44 Magnum will get angry over your retaliation and kill you.
That firearms in the hands of private citizens are the gravest threat to world peace, and China, Pakistan and Korea can be trusted with nuclear weapons.
That Charlton Heston as president of the NRA is a shill who should be ignored, but Michael Douglas as a representative of Handgun Control, Inc. is an ambassador for peace who is entitled to an audience at the UN arms control summit.
That ordinary people, in the presence of guns, turn into slaughtering butchers, and revert to normal when the weapon is removed.
That someone who fails to clear his weapon, fails to point it in a safe direction, pulls the trigger without checking the chamber, and blows his foot off is an example of how even a "trained professional" can be a "victim" of a diabolical gun, but people in the military who clean weapons millions of times a year without getting hurt are "dumb grunts."
That the New England Journal of Medicine is filled with expert advice about guns, just as Guns and Ammo has some excellent treatises on heart surgery.
That one should consult an automotive engineer for safer seatbelts, a civil engineer for a better bridge, a neurosurgeon for spinal paralysis, a computer programmer for Y2K problems, and Sarah Brady for firearms expertise.
That modern design firearms contain features such as box magazines and fiberglass stocks, which were designed for military use and shouldn't be available to civilians, just as modern design automobiles contain features such as rack and pinion steering and McPherson struts, which were designed for the race track and shouldn't be available to civilians.
That rifles such as AR-15s, AK-47s and L1-A1s were designed for military shooting and shouldn't be available to civilians, just as vehicles like Chevrolet Suburbans, Jeeps, and Land Rovers were designed as weapons platforms and military utility and shouldn't be available to civilians.
That the best way to avoid an accidental shooting is to stay completely ignorant of guns and never go near them, just like the safest way to avoid an accidental drowning is to stay completely ignorant of swimming and never go near water.
That the best thing our kids can do to bullies and drug dealers is "just say no," and fight back, and the best thing we can do to muggers and thugs is to give them $50 and wait for them to go away.
That it's outrageous that the Milwaukee police took 45 minutes to respond to reports of Jeffrey Dahmer's last victim running around naked in the cold, then returned him to his attacker without checking ID, but the best thing a citizen can do in an emergency is dial 911.
That the "right of the people peaceably to assemble," the "right of the people to be secure in their homes," "the enumeration herein of certain rights shall not be construed to disparage others retained by the people," "The powers not delegated herein are reserved to the states respectively, and to the people," refer to individuals, but "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" refers to the states.
That the 2nd Amendment, ratified in 1791, allows the states to have a National Guard, created by act of Congress in 1916.
That the National Guard, paid by the federal government, occupying property leased to the federal government, using weapons owned by the federal government, punishing trespassers under federal law, is a state agency.
That despite the 1990 case Minnesota Gov. Rudy Perpich vs. Department of Defense, where the Supreme Court ruled specifically that the National Guard is under federal orders and the state governor cannot object, the National Guard is still, in fact, a state militia.
That private citizens can't have handguns, because they serve no militia purpose, even though the military has hundreds of thousands of them, and private citizens can't have assault rifles, because they are military weapons.
That it is reasonable for California to have a minimum 2 year sentence for possessing but not using an assault rifle, and reasonable for California to have a 6 month minimum sentence for raping a female police officer.
That it is reasonable in California to get two years in jail for a serious crime such as possessing but not using a weapon, and probation for a minor crime such as molesting your children.
That it is reasonable to jail people for carrying but not using guns, but outrageous to jail people for possessing marijuana.
That minimum sentences violate civil rights, unless it's for possessing a gun.
That door-to-door searches for drugs are a gross violation of civil rights and a sign of Fascism, but door-to-door searches for guns are a reasonable solution to the "gun problem."
That the first amendment absolutely allows child pornography and threats to kill cops, but doesn't apply to manuals on gun repair.
That capital punishment is not a crime deterrent, but gun control is.
That a woman in a microskirt, perfume and a Wonderbra, without underwear, is a helpless victim, but someone getting paid $6 an hour to deliver the cash from a fast food place to the bank at the same time every night is, "asking for it." And you won't allow either of them to carry a gun.
That Illinois' law that allows almost any government official from Governor to dogcatcher to carry a gun is reasonable, and the law that prohibits any private citizen, even one with 50 death threats on file and a million dollar jewelry business from carrying a gun is reasonable. And it isn't a sign of police stateism.
That the 80 religious kooks in Waco were a threat to American security, but snipers killing them as they left the building, machinegunning children, hiding the video evidence, possibly torching the building on purpose, and having no case to present in federal court is good law enforcement. And it isn't a sign of police stateism.
That free speech entitles one to own newspapers, transmitters, computers, and typewriters, but self defense only justifies bare hands.
That with the above, a 90 LB woman attacked by a 300 LB rapist and his 300 LB buddy, has the "right" to kill them in self defense, provided she uses her bare hands.
That there's nothing in the Constitution that specifically prohibits banning certain guns, but there is something in the Constitution that specifically prohibits banning certain sex acts.
That gun safety courses in school only encourage kids to commit violence, but sex education in school doesn't encourage kids to have sex.
That a criminal will take a gun away from you and use it against you, so conversely, the best thing to do when threatened is to take the criminal's gun away from him and us it against him.
That the ready availability of guns today, with only a few government forms, waiting periods, checks, infringements, ID, and fingerprinting, is responsible for all the school shootings, compared to the lack of school shootings in the 1950's and 1960's, which was caused by the awkward availability of guns at any hardware store, gas station, and by mail order.
That we must get rid of guns because a deranged lunatic may go on a shooting spree at any time, but anyone who owns a gun out of fear of such a lunatic is paranoid.
That there is too much explicit violence featuring guns on TV, but that cities can sue gun manufacturers because people aren't aware of the dangers involved with guns.
That the gun lobby's attempt to run a "don't touch" campaign about kids handling guns is propaganda, and the anti-gun lobby's attempt to run a "don't touch" campaign is responsible social activity.
That the crime rate in America is decreasing because of gun control, but the increase in crime requires more gun control.
That 100 years after its founding, the NRA got into the politics of guns from purely selfish motives, and 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, the black civil rights movement was founded from purely noble motives.
That statistics showing high murder rates justify gun control, and statistics that show increasing murder rates after gun control is legislated are "just statistics."
That we don't need guns against an oppressive government, because the Constitution has internal safeguards, so we should ban and seize all guns, therefore violating the 2nd, 4th, 5th and 9th Amendments of that Constitution, and won't thereby become an oppressive government.
That guns are an ineffective means of self defense for rational adults, but in the hands of an ignorant criminal become a threat to the fabric of society.
That guns are so complex to use that special training is necessary to use them properly, but so simple to use that they make murder easy.
That guns contribute to high death rates and should be banned, but tobacco and alcohol are okay.
That guns cause crime, which is why there has never been a mass slaying at a gun show.
That guns cause crime, just like matches cause arson.
That guns cause crime, just like women cause prostitution.
That guns cause crime, just like men cause rape.
That guns aren't necessary to national defense, which is why the US Army only has 3 million of them.
That banning guns works, which is why New York, DC, and Chicago cops need guns against armed criminals.
That women are just as intelligent and capable as men, but a woman with a gun is "an accident waiting to happen."
That women are just as intelligent and capable as men, but gunmaker's advertisements aimed at women are "preying on their fears."
That a handgun, with up to 4 switches and controls, is far too complex for the typical adult to learn to use, as opposed to an automobile which only has 20.
That handguns are useful only for murder, which is why the police and military define them as defensive weapons.
That neighbors who carry guns against the occasional lunatic are paranoid, because of the perfectly justifiable fear that every single one of them is waiting to turn into a lunatic.
That a majority of the population supports gun control, just like a majority of the population used to support owning slaves.
That one should ignore as idiots politicians who confuse Wicca with Satanism and exaggerate the gay community as a threat to society, but listen sagely to politicians who can refer to a self-loading small arm as a "weapon of mass destruction" and an "assault weapon," use the term "bullet casing," don't know the difference between a "clip" and a "magazine," and can't tell the difference between an AKM, an MAK-90, and an SKS.
That there is no absolute right to a weapon, documented historically because the British government used to prohibit Catholics from owning guns. And that wasn't a sign of religious bigotry. (Note: the British Constitution actually RESTORED to Protestants the right to own arms, which Catholic James II denied them.)
That rifles with pistol grips are assault weapons, just like vehicles with racing stripes are sports cars.
That you don't need a gun against invaders, because the government will know in plenty of time to issue you whatever weapons you need.
That Massachusetts is safer with bans on guns, which is why Teddy Kennedy has machinegun-toting guards.
That most people can't be trusted, so we should have laws against guns, which most people will abide by, because they can be trusted.
That a woman raped and strangled with her panties is morally superior to a woman with a smoking gun and a dead rapist at her feet.
That Cary Nation, referring to wine and beer as "Demon Rum" and "Spirits" was an obvious kook, but Sarah Brady, and Diane Whinesteen referring to self-loading sporting rifles as "Military Assault Weapons" and "Weapons of Mass Destruction" are intellectuals.
That the "Right to keep and bear arms" refers to armorial badges and coats of arms, not to weapons. (Potomac-inc.org)
That guns should be banned because of the danger involved to the public, but live reporting from the battlefield, which can keep the enemy informed of troop deployments, getting thousands of troops killed and perhaps losing a war, is a protected act that CANNOT be compromised on.
That the right of explicit teenage pornographic websites to exist cannot be questioned because it is a constitutionally protected extension of the Bill of Rights, but the claim that handguns are for self-defense is merely an excuse, and not really protected by the Bill of Rights.
That the ACLU is good because it uncompromisingly defends certain parts of the Constitution, but the NRA is bad because it defends other parts of the Constitution.
That a house with a gun is three times as likely to have a murder, just like a house with insulin is three times as likely to have a diabetic.
That police operate in groups with backup, which is why they need larger capacity magazines than civilians, who must face criminals alone, and therefore need less ammunition.
That we must ban the sale of guns through classified ads in newspapers, in case a terrorist sees the ad, flies halfway around the world, buys the gun and uses it to commit an act of terror, rather than using one of the millions of weapons left behind by "responsible" governments after their colonial excesses.
That calling 911 and asking them to send a man with a gun to protect you is good, but cutting out the middleman by protecting yourself is bad.
That people who own guns out of a fear of crime are paranoid, but people who don't want other people to own guns in case it causes them to commit crimes are rational.
That guns cause the high suicide rate in the US, even though Japan's rate is almost three times higher.
That we should ban gun stores near schools, because of all the 10 year olds who are buying guns without parents' permission.
That there is a statue called "Armed Freedom" in the Capitol, but that that is irrelevant to the intent of our ancestors.
That we should ban "Saturday Night Specials" and other inexpensive guns because it's not fair that poor people have access to guns too.
That guns have no legitimate use, but alcohol does, which is why we issue cops guns instead of beer.
That police and soldiers are the dregs of society who were unfit to get any real job, which perfectly qualifies them with the high moral standards and keen intellects to handle these complicated tools and be our guardians.
That it's acceptable to arm a courier at $6 an hour to shoot criminals for stealing bank deposits, but unacceptable for a college-educated business owner to do it himself.
That a registration plan will reduce crime, because criminals will register their guns despite the Supreme Court decision Haynes v. U.S. (309 U.S. 85, 1968) that registration violates self-incrimination.
That it's reasonable to require proof of a criminal act before an order of protection can be issued, but reasonable to assume anyone with a gun will commit a criminal act, so they should be subject to prior restraint.
That teaching abstinence exclusively rather than use of condoms is doomed to fail, but encouraging absolute bans on guns rather than education in safe use is the only acceptable method of reducing crime.
That it is outrageous that civilians have rifles that were designed for the military for their own self defense, but perfectly okay to have polluting, potentially unstable, heavy vehicles that were designed for the military simply as status symbols.
That guns are the gravest threat to society because 83,000,000 gun owners didn't commit a crime yesterday.
That it is essential to incorporate locks and sensors into guns to make them safer and that only a criminal would not support this, but cops and federal agents would be exempt for safety reasons because locks are unreliable and hinder access.
That a bank guard can protect money with a gun, but you cannot protect your children with one.
That all gun dealers sell illegal weapons, just like all black people sell drugs.
That crime is higher in urban areas with less guns, and we must continue to disarm the minorities in these areas because of the risk of crime, and that isn't bigotry.
That an underpaid, overworked bodyguard should be glad to throw himself in front of a bullet for you.
That your safety is someone else's responsibility, but they have no right to tell you how to live your life.
That guns are useless against tyranny, because an armed populace of 160 million cannot defeat an army of 2 million mixed in among it. Oddly, the person claiming this has no credentials in strategic operations.
That if the above is true, we should not be terrified of the concept of that government holding control of our lives and freedom at its whim.
That the piecemeal destruction of the right to keep and bear arms makes the right useless, and therefore justifies destroying it further.
That one should be more afraid of one's spouse blowing a gasket and shooting the children, than of those children being run over by a hormone-driven teenager in a car.
"It can't happen here."
That people are too stupid to handle guns, but are intelligent enough to vote.
That guns are not an effective means of self-defense, which is why police carry them.
That one can "study" the "gun issue," but not know the difference between an assault rifle and a battle rifle.
That the NRA, with over 4 million members, is "out of touch" with America, and HCI, with 50 thousand members, is a "mandate from the people."
That a baseball bat is good protection against a burglar, provided his gun fires baseballs.
That to judge a group by secondhand news and hearsay is bigotry, unless that group is the NRA.
That the National Defense Act of 1916 doesn't exist.
That pricing products out of the reach of poor people through excessive regulation is discriminatory practice, unless that product is a gun.
That manufacturers are not responsible for damages caused by their products, unless that product is a gun.
That trigger locks and other devices make guns safer, which is why the police and military refuse to use them.
That registration of guns will help law enforcement, because that way they won't need probable cause and a warrant to conduct a search.
That registration of guns, which makes their existence a matter of public knowledge under the FOIA, isn't dangerous to owners.
That registration of guns, in violation of the McClure-Volkmer Act, and as declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, is somehow still legal.
That the gun-toting rednecks at Saratoga and Yorktown caused the Revolution, and the British forces were intent on providing peace to North America.
That private citizens making private sales of private property is a "loophole."
That the existence of weapons not banned by previous laws is a "loophole."
That making it harder to get a license to sell firearms legally will reduce the number of people selling illegally.
That it's safer to do nothing than resist with a gun, which is why the military wins so many wars by not fighting.
That we must close shooting ranges because of the noise, but ban silencers because they are quiet.
That owning a gun for self-defense indicates an intent to kill, just like owning a first aid kit indicates an intent to impersonate a physician.
That guns are an "epidemic" even though we can't treat them with penicillin.
That there's no right to own military weapons, which is why the Civilian Marksmanship Program at http://www.odcmp.com exists to sell military weapons to civilians under Congressional authority.
That suggesting teachers be armed is an outrageous suggestion for a "civilized" society, which is why the Swiss and Israelis do it.
That making it harder and harder for even cops to have guns on school property will somehow make it harder for lunatics to kill the utterly helpless students.
That accidents with a product justify banning the product, even though MADD has never called for a ban on alcohol, people actively push to legalize drugs, and no one wants to ban swimming pools, so basically it's only practical items like guns we should ban and not the luxury items that are essential to human survival.
That a high percentage of immigrants own guns as an overreaction to the living conditions in their nations of origin, but the US should try to emulate those nations' gun control and social policies.
That the 14th Amendment requires states to accept each other's drivers licenses, even with age or vision requirement differences, marriage licenses even with age or relationship differences or if it's a gay marriage, but somehow doesn't apply to licenses to carry weapons.
That the same people who build illegal high-tech drug labs for less than $30,000 won't build illegal low-tech gun shops for less than $10,000.
That people with large gun collections are dangerous, especially if they have more than two hands to shoot with.
That autoloaders are "easily converted" to fully automatic fire, yet the person telling you this has no idea how it's accomplished.
That banning rifles with bayonet lugs will cut down on all the drive-by bayonetings.
That shooting at an intruder who smashes your door and enters with knife in hand will somehow "escalate the violence."
That it's safer with less guns, which is why lunatics shoot up schools instead of gun shows or police stations.
That guns cause crime, which is why there was no rape or murder in the Dark Ages.
That stopping the people who don't commit murder from having guns will lessen the number of those who do commit murder.
That since banning a few guns hasn't helped, we should ban more.
That just like the anti-nuclear weapons movement used to believe, if the potential victims disarm, the oppressors will take pity on them and give up their weapons in remorse.
That oppressing gun owners until they violate the law justifies oppressing them further.
That "crime guns" and old police guns should be destroyed at government expense, because the cost of exorcising the evil spirits from them before selling them to lawful owners is exorbitant.
That raising the legal age to possess firearms from 18 to 21 will REALLY show those 16 year olds.
That inner-city blacks in public housing should be disarmed to prevent crimes, but not rich white suburbanites. And it isn't a sign of racism.
That creating firearms crime by having a Byzantine code of firearm laws proves there's a problem, and justifies more laws to create more crime.
That liberal parents who give guns to problem children to "teach them responsibility" are not responsible for the deaths they cause, but everyone else's guns are.
That gun owners are a threat by existing that must be destroyed by any means possible and their rights are unimportant, but the thugs who attack us on the street whom the gun owners wish to be armed against are simply a problem we have to put up with.
That one should judge all gun owners by the acts of a few criminals, just like one should judge all blacks by the acts of a few inner-city crack dealers.
That making it harder to get firearms legally will reduce their illegal use, just like making it harder to get a prescription will cut down on the illicit drug trade.
That it's tragic when a child dies in a firearms accident, and we must pass restrictive laws to prevent it, but children poisoned by household chemicals are simply unavoidable accidents.
That you don't need a gun, therefore no one needs one, and you have the right to impose that belief and will on others.
That stupidity can be cured by legislation.
That societies with less guns have less killings by guns, just like societies with less cars have less vehicular homicide. This is deemed to be relevant.
That criminals who rob to support their drug habit can afford $65 a minute in ammunition for their automatic "Weapon of choice."
That with nationwide gun control, the entire nation can be as safe as NYC, LA and Chicago.
That since a gun isn't 100% effective for self defense, you should get rid of it, along with your first aid kit and fire extinguisher, since they aren't 100% effective, either.
That if a violent criminal enters your house, you should do nothing and wait for the police arrive, just as you'd do nothing for an injury or fire and wait for the fire truck or the ambulance.
That if Chicago were to legalize firearms, it would have shootouts in the streets, which never happens now.
That it's wrong to use tax dollars to finance private political agendas, unless that agenda is to ban guns.
That a "safe gun" will help stop criminal misuse of firearms just like "safe sex" works so well to stop rape.
That a cop with felonies on his record is safe with fully automatic weapons but a churchgoing mother with a parking ticket as her worst crime is unfit to use a pistol to protect her child.
That a suicide who used a gun would still be alive if he or she had used a knife or hanged himself or herself.
That someone else's suicide is a problem for the rest of us that would be prevented if we gave up our guns.
That alcohol is acceptable in private, as long as the user doesn't use it while driving, but mere possession of a gun is a threat to others.
That gun owners are unwilling to compromise, which is why there are only 20,000 gun laws in the US.
That criminals are better shots than civilians because of all the time they spend on the practice range.
That since criminals are better shots by the logic above, one is safer by not shooting back, but just waiting for them to run out of ammo.
That it's reasonable to assume an accident would have been lethal if the victim wasn't wearing a seatbelt, and reasonable to assume that an armed defender would have been safe even if they didn't have a gun.
That one accidental death is too many, but thousands of people dying because the means of self-defense were not available is unavoidable and not worthy of worry.
That we should ban guns because people have a "right to feel safe," but the right to feel safe by owning firearms for defense is not valid.
That it's outrageous to count 18 and 19 year-old parents as "children" for statistical purposes, but perfectly acceptable to count them as children for purposes of exaggerating gun deaths among "children."
That a zero-tolerance policy is bad regarding drugs, but a zero-tolerance policy is good regarding guns.
That martial arts are a better form of self-defense, and can defeat an armed opponent, but we still need to ban guns because of the danger they present to those few people who don't know karate.
That government officials can be trusted with automatic weapons, but private citizens cannot, because of the number of people private citizens kill while kicking in doors without search warrants.
That an 18 year old can handle a machinegun and die defending another nation's oil reserves, thereby being a hero, but an 18 year old who tries to defend his or her child with a gun belongs in jail.
That the few people who can't use martial arts or other non-lethal means of self-defense-the young, the old, the infirm, the disabled, the weak, the small, and the pregnant-are simply the necessary sacrifice we must make to criminals to avoid the risks of letting people be armed. This is not bigotry.
That the dangers of guns outweigh their recreational uses, unlike alcohol and motorcycles.
That getting rid of guns reduces violence, so the military should be armed with bouquets of flowers.
That we should hang out at funeral homes to tell the families of the deceased how lucky they are their loved one was killed by a drunk and not a man with a gun.
That a conservative with a dozen guns is an "extremist," and a liberal with a dozen guns is a "museum."
That a team of cops shooting an unarmed citizen 19 times and not getting charged with murder is "law enforcement" but an old lady shooting a knife-wielding attacker is "vigilanteism," and we should leave defense to the professionals.
That we should require trigger locks and safe storage facilities for all guns in order to prevent accidents, just like we require all household chemicals to be kept in a locked cabinet.
That a woman shooting a rapist is a felon.
That NORML is good for supporting legalization of a politically unpopular product, but the NRA is bad for supporting legalization of a politically unpopular product.
That poor people who live in high crime areas and can't afford alarms shouldn't be allowed to have guns either.
That telling a murderer he'll go to jail for carrying a gun will make him think twice.
That the only way to end gun violence is to ban guns, just like the only way to end medical malpractice is to ban doctors.
That killing a triple murderer so you don't become the fourth victim is "escalating the violence."
That we should get rid of "junk guns" so that criminals are forced to use reliable high-quality guns.
That repealing laws that discriminate against gun-owners "endorses" guns, just like repealing laws that discriminate against gays "endorses" homosexuality.
That guns are designed only to kill, just like women are designed only to give birth.
That only people over 21 are allowed to defend themselves.
That we should ban guns because their primary purpose is to kill people, but we shouldn't ban alcohol, which has its primary purpose getting intoxicated and losing control of the higher faculties, thereby increasing violence and accidental death.
That according to "Professor" Michael Bellesiles, the lack of mention of firearms in Colonial literature proves their scarcity, much like the lack of mention of outhouses proves their scarcity.
That somehow the above is more relevant to the 2nd Amendment than the lack of letters to public officials and newspapers is relevant to the 1st Amendment.
That a person who would commit violence with a gun would never do so with a knife.
That most people are seething cauldrons of potential violence who cannot be trusted with a gun, but most people are so decent that there is no need to carry a weapon for defense.
That a person foolish enough to leave a gun loaded and lying in reach of a child will somehow be responsible enough to attach a trigger lock.
That 83 million gun owners are "extremists," and the 50,000 members of the Million Moron March are "the majority."
That allowing concealed carry does not reduce crime through deterrence since some people do so even though it's illegal, but allowing concealed carry increases crime, because more people carry guns and use them irresponsibly. (Brady Bunch)
That a woman buying a gun to defend herself against a violent ex needs five days to "cool off."
That a woman being raped should refuse help from an armed stranger, and instead wait for the police.
That if the Million Moron March protesters feels threatened, they should ask police with guns to protect them while they tell everyone how worthless guns are for protection.
That a trauma surgeon's experience in treating gunshot wounds makes him an expert on gun control legislation, just like an automobile body repair technician's experience repairing cars makes him an expert on traffic laws.
That the typical town only needs one law enforcement officer per 1000 population, because most people are law abiding, but that it's dangerous to let citizens carry weapons because most people are criminal.
That the risk of arrest for carrying a weapon on school grounds will stop a person bent on suicide from starting a shootout.
That felons should be denied the right to ever own a weapon, just like rapists should be castrated before being released from jail.
That the 1939 US vs Miller case, is "established law" that endorses gun control and the matter is closed, just like Plessy vs Ferguson endorsed "separate but equal" schools and the matter is closed.
That game wardens have the most dangerous job in the world, because everyone they deal with is armed.
That there's no risk of the US becoming a police state, Japanese-Americans were not interned in the 40's, blacks were not oppressed and jailed in the 50's, and no students were killed at Kent State.
That when the government promises that they won't confiscate our weapons after we register them, we can believe them, as did the Commanche, the Sioux, the Apache, the Kaw, the Cree, the Blackfoot, the Italians in NYC, the Jews in Germany, the Zulu in South Africa…and the Americans at Lexington and Concord.
That the government can control guns as well as it controls drugs.
That the high crime rate in cities with oppressive gun control proves the need for gun control in cities without gun control and with low crime.
That Charlton Heston, as president of the NRA, must be a racist, despite his marches with Dr. King in the 1960s. After all, all gun owners are racist, and that theory isn't bigoted.
That we don't need guns because America is safe, and only criminals or people wishing to start trouble would be out late at night in bad neighborhoods.
That according to Diane Whinestein, there is no left-wing conspiracy to send police and troops to imprison American gun owners, but there is a vast, right-wing conspiracy of gun owners who must be disarmed for attempting to stop it.
That .50 caliber weapons must be banned in case Americans use them to shoot holes in the armored cars that the government doesn't own and isn't going to send against them, also according to Diane Whinestein.
That ships using Australian waters mustn't carry handguns against the mythical threat of piracy or mutiny, because some aspiring captain might sell them for a few bucks.
That gang punks shot by other gang punks are innocent victims, and babies shot by government agents deserve to die because of the unpopular beliefs of their parents.
That allowing the poor and minorities to defend themselves is Fascist.
That small arms can't win wars, as all the Viet Cong bombing, air superiority, and naval missions prove.
That John Wayne, rejected by the Marines for bad knees, who portrayed firearms as used by soldiers and law enforcement is a draft-dodging agent of evil, but antigun draft dodger Sylvester Stallone, making movies about Vietnam veterans and using weapons gratuitously, is an American hero to be slobbered over.
That violence is bad, but any defensive use of a firearm that doesn't involve the death of the perpetrator is invalid.
That the NRA is bad for running political activities, but the Million Moron March, stealing money from AIDS research, illegally maintaining tax-exempt status as a 501c(3) organization and fraudulently using a hospital rent-free as its headquarters is good for running political activities.
That Charlton Heston is evil for working for the NRA for free, but Sarah Brady charging $10,000 a speech is a paragon of altruism.
That a ranch rifle made after 1994 is somehow a military rifle.
That all firearms retailers are illegal gun dealers, just like all pharmacists are illegal drug dealers.
That hate is not a family value, but all gun owners are tobacco-chawin', beer-swillin', racist, redneck bubbas.
That a gun which sits silently in a drawer and costs pennies per round to shoot is a bad idea for self defense, but a dog that requires walks, veterinary care, and licenses, may not be allowed in certain neighborhoods and may annoy the neighbors at all hours is a good idea for self defense.
That the worst thing one can do if there's an intruder in the house is get a gun and apprehend them, and the best thing on can do is pretend to be asleep and wait for them to go away, especially if they are raping your children.
That gun control will "keep guns out of the wrong hands," meaning law-abiding Americans' hands.
That trigger locks do not interfere with the ability to use a gun for defensive purposes, which is why it makes sense that police officers are exempt from using them on their duty weapons.
That the government attempting to stop the Microsoft "monopoly" is good, and the Federal government pressuring cities to buy guns only from Smith & Wesson is also good, and not monopolistic.
That "assault weapons" have no purpose other than to kill large numbers of people, which is why the police need them.
That "assault weapons" are only designed for killing offensively, and the police need them but you do not.
That citizens don't need to carry a gun for personal protection but desk-bound police administrators who work in a building filled with cops do, as do tax auditors, vegetable inspectors, mail inspectors, and meat inspectors.
That beer-gutted police have special mental, emotional and physical capabilities that enable them to deal with the incredible complexity of a firearm, and private citizens can never hope to achieve such competence.
That the Brady Act and the "Assault Weapons" Ban which both went into effect in 1994 are responsible for the decrease in violent crime rates since 1991, and since 2004 when the AWB expired.
That 25% of the dealers at gun shows are unlicensed, and we must license these purveyors of books, tools, knives, clothing, artwork, candy and historical artifacts.
That because of New York's "tough laws" against guns, there exist black market dealers who spend thousands of dollars in gas and other expenses to drive to Arizona, which has "weak laws" in order to buy Ruger pistols at $500 each retail and drive back to New York and sell them to criminals at an "average" of $50 each, thereby making a profit. (Brady Bunch)
That there's no contradiction in the same liberals who said in the 60s that 18 year olds who could fight should be able to vote, now saying that 18 year olds can vote but shouldn't own guns.
That there are "secret lists of gun owners maintained by controversial organizations" such as the KKK and the Black Panthers, and that registration of guns will somehow prevent this. (Potomac-inc.org)
That a person with a gun that isn't registered is "armed outside the law," even though no such registration laws exist. (Potomac-inc.org)
That gun owners are all ignorant and stupid, but nevertheless belong to a huge, well-organized conspiracy that exists to destroy the nation. (Potomac-inc.org)
That the weapons that are useless for fighting crime and defending against tyranny or invasion will be the instruments of this dastardly plan. (Potomac-inc.org)
That 10 USC 310 and 10 USC 311 don't exist.
That suicides involving firearms are "gun deaths" but suicides involving knives are not "stabbing deaths."
That even though all white vans and Chevrolet Impalas are registered, they couldn't catch the DC murderers, because only gun registration will stop killings.
That "Weapons of Mass Destruction" in Iraq refers to an intact, armed nuke with a delivery system, but in the US refers to common self-loading rifles.
That an AK-47, designed in 1947 with a maximum effective range of 400 yards, was "designed to pierce police body armor" that didn't exist until the 1970s at "ranges over 1000 yards."
That there is a magic force called "kickback" that no one who works with firearms has ever heard of. It does not affect police or soldiers. "Kickback" causes a weapon to recoil, spontaneously aim itself at a loved one and automatically fire and kill them. "Kickback," while never having been observed, is a huge threat to safety and why "semiautomatic assault weapons" should never be sold to civilians.
That a good liberal opposes letting people use guns to defend themselves and their businesses because of the benefits of crime to police, insurance companies and large corporations who can afford the loss their smaller competitors can't. Only a "rightwinger" would support letting an individual engage in self-determination.
That we must ban guns with folding stocks, which have no "sporting purpose," so criminals can only get fixed stock rifles that are more accurate.
That you should wait until a severe emergency to get a gun, just as you should wait until it rains to fix the roof.
That it is acceptable to overwork interns, who will kill a few patients from fatigue-based carelessness, in order to make them better doctors and save more patients in the long run, but absolutely unacceptable for a law-abiding citizen to shoot anyone, even a rapist or murderer in the act.
That the number of accidental and suicidal deaths by drugs should not be included in statistics, but the number of accidental and suicidal deaths by guns should be.
That even despite that, when the risk of guns is lower than the risk of medical drugs, it's a "national tragedy."
That with only 1 chance in 5 of facing violent crime, and 1 chance in 10 of a gun being used defensively, the risk is minimal and gunowners are paranoid freaks, but it is insane not to get immunized against hepatitis, which strikes 1:50,000 people.
That 1:10,000 guns will be used to commit a crime, so we must get rid of them, and only 1:1000 people will have a dangerous reaction to an immunization so we must keep them.
That guns cause crime, even though crime has been shown to drop in areas with higher levels of gun ownership, and to rise where guns are restricted. This is due to "other factors." We should ignore those other factors and ban guns.
That a gun is a symbolic penis, and the person telling you this is a psychiatrist who drives a BMW.
That we should be scared of the people who own symbolic penises, but not of those who want to chop off all those symbolic penises.
That the Patriot Act, allowing the government to obtain library or bookstore records as ``an important tool for investigating and intercepting terrorism' even though they haven't done so is morally repugnant, but banning assault weapons that haven't been used in crime IS "An important tool for fighting crime and terrorism."
That guns in areas of the world like Afghanistan are frequently used in crime, and therefore guns are bad, just like doctors in Afghanistan have a high rate of patient loss, therefore doctors are bad.
That guns don't cause an increase in crime in low crime areas like Arlington, VA where they are available legally, but do cause an increase in crime in adjoining areas like Washington, DC where they are not available legally. The obvious solution to this is to make them illegal more places, which will make the crime rate go down to the level it is in places where they're legal.
That it's important to see that since the UK banned guns, they've had almost no crime with guns...er...well.
That some places have no guns, and no murder with guns, just like the US has no cricket bats, and no murder with cricket bats.
That ".50 caliber sniper rifles can bring down an airliner," and a .50BMG isn't very accurate.
That a single .50 caliber bullet can bring down an airliner, but the Air Force chooses to waste money on rapid fire 20mm cannon and missiles for this purpose, while the Army prefers missiles such as the Patriot.
That guns are not a good way for your neighbor to defend himself, so you should take them away from him. Or rather, have some other people with guns take them away from him, rather than risk getting hurt by his useless weapon.
That we are a peaceful society, and the way to deal with people who aren't peaceful is to send police and soldiers to peacefully persuade them with guns, and not resort to violence.
That the "gun show loophole" allows you to go to a gun show and find a federally licensed dealer surrounded by cops and federal agents and 10,000 buyers, who will wink and violate existing federal law by not requiring ID, a form 4473 and a call to NICS before selling you a gun, and neither of you will be arrested for the attempt.
That the "gun show loophole" allows you to go to a gun show and buy other things without a waiting period--like ammo, cleaning kits and books.
That the firearms industry is "unregulated." (http://www.atf.gov/firearms/faq/index.htm) (And that's just the FAQ.)
That fighting against a mugger makes one a "mercenary, fighting for money."
That the Army could save a lot of money taking the precision adjustable sights and optical sights off M16s, since they are "designed to be spray-fired from the hip." (According to Sarah Brady.)
That the only reason to own a firearm silencer is for quiet assassinations, just like the only reason to own a car muffler is to clandestinely run over civilians.
© 2005 by Michael Z. Williamson. Permission is granted to copy for non-profit use as long as proper credit is given. Please contact the author when you do, through www.MichaelZWilliamson.com. It is preferred that this © notice be attached. For online fora that will reject copyrighted works, please note the source in text.
This was first published at http://www.keepandbeararms.com in 1999.
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