The Filibuster of yet another CR.

Senator Ted Cruz has been speaking more or less continually since about 130pm my time[central] yesterday. The vitriol I've seen displayed, the snide comments I've seen about it, are disheartening.

The media quite frankly I expect it from. they are owned lock stock and both smoking barrels, complicit and willingly in league with the democrat party. Hence why some time ago I renamed them the Progressive Propaganda Ministry.
Here's Brit Hume's take
"Utterly Meaningless"

Time making light of him for |
Green eggs and Ham, Ashton Kutcher and White Castle

Now I missed the first two of those things...but...I happen to LIKE the story green eggs and ham still to this day.  So bite me.    As for White Castle...he was pointing to the stated fact, stated BY White Castle,  that White Castle was cutting back on their store openings,because under ACA they could no longer AFFORD to build those stores and more importantly HIRE the staff to man/run them!  

From the Daily Caller. ObamaCare can be defunded IF
A Meteor hits Joe Biden
The Atlantic
  Why his last stand against Obamacare doesn't make sense

What and Sen Thrumonds 1957 stand against the Civil Rights Act of 1957  did? 

 Or Sen Huey Long in the 30's?  People are making fun of Cruz and making snide comments for his reading of Green Eggs and Ham. Well what about Longs readings of things like "pot likkin" recipes or quoting of Shakespeare?





Now for a few on  personal accounts of people on twitter...

★★Von-Von★★ ‏@1969FY 11h

#TedCruz is simply an ignorant bought & paid for #Koch puppet. Anyone who doesn't see that is a shameful idiot.....

John DeVore ‏@JohnDeVore 11h

I bet money that Senator Ted Cruz watched The West Wing's second season filibuster episode because I just watched it last week.

Jake Fogelnest ‏@jakefogelnest 14h

Ted Cruz looks down at his notes. "What else, what else..." He launches into more Obamacare material. It's the worst open mic in history

Okay let me stop right here to respond to that last one. What?  And Obama never doing anything except by teleprompter is any better?

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God there are so many tweets it's hard to get em all. That being said... Let me finish this as I listen to Ted Cruz finish out his last 30 mins, unless the majority gives him consent to continue, which I seriously doubt.;  that Filibusters be they "true" filibusters that happen on the day of a major or minor bill vote or pre or post cloture votes...don't happen often. They are the last resort in this day and age of instant communcations to TRY and educate, elucidate and illumate people on just what it is these bills are about.   To try and change minds if possible.  Now again in this day and age when the divisions of ideals are so wide, so set in stone this isn't likely...but it is possible.   

To....demean this process, these filibusters be they a "true" filibuster during the time the congress is supposed to be voting on  a bill or pre or post cloture floor time filibusters...is to spit upon the people, to spit upon the memories of those who have gone before these politicians, those that filibustered themselves in the past. Whether I agree with the reasons behind those filibusters or not...to demean THIS filibuster and Senator Ted Cruz, the man currently in control of the floor.  It spits upon the memories and accomplishments of the founders of our country and those that came after, and those among the rest of us that weren't in DC; WE THE PEOPLE.

When WE The People abrogate our responsibilities and yield up the power to the government as has been happening for decades...we demean the memories of our fore fathers.   I haven't bothered to even try and discuss this with anyone because in once case it's by and large preaching to the choir and on the other?  The other is childish folk sticking their fingers in their ears and humming REAL loud.

I believe I have.......an inkling what our future holds. Immediate and slightly farther out. I don't like it. I don't like it one damn bit.

And it's over. Sen Cruz is finished as per senate rules. personally I think it was petty for Reid to NOT allow Sen Cruz to proceed until he dropped.  Now they are invoking a prayer. A prayer that for my money I believe falls upon deaf ears. I believe a great many of those on the hill worship one thing..POWER.

Now Reid is insulting and spitting upon Sen Cruz, the american people and the memories of our forefathers, by calling Sen Cruz filibuster a waste of time.  weep for the future.

Remember  TANSTAAFL and...

I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.

American Gun Use is OUT of Control!

Oh noes whatever shall we do?  Shall we cower and simper?  I think not. Lets just call on the UN and the rest of the worlds NGO's all of whom hate us...to disarm the american people.  My response to this thought line?  I hope you've made out your will....

What brings this on my germs and virii? the article of which I will provide the link for,  AFTER I rip the shit out of it.  *Note I will not provide links for the places where you can find the numbers and attitudes I give you because I am long past tired, and past the point of apathy in regards to  repeatedly posting links that back me/prove my point,  only to have people ignore it and not read it*  Lets start with the following image. 

" Dude! thars not a magazine in that thar rifel!"  Incongruity number one. If you are going to complain about the violence I'm surprised this idiot didn't use stock footage of swat armed cops, or even your average regular department cops many of whom have AR-15's as standard equipment. That however wouldn't have fit the narrative. Neither would using footage of gang bangers such as the ones  under it.




Next the caption of the photo.
A man on a rifle range: 'More Americans lost their lives from firearms in the past 45 years than in all wars involving the US.' Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images


Sigh...the man in that photo is most assuredly not ON the range.  He might be AT the range in the gun shop, but he's not ON the range.

Lets take the quote....You are including suicides in those numbers laughing boy. I don't. and your numbers for those killed in WARS is off anyway.
By my count it's more like 1.25 million americans killed in all wars since the civil war, just in KIA 620,000 of those ALONE was the civil war. and since you insist on including SUICIDES in your numbers..I'll include casualties/injured and MIA's in MINE. Which brings the numbers for the Civil War alone up to 1.5 MILLION people. That right there by itself, that single war, trumps your 1.384 million killed by guns in the US by.....115,829 people.

"Everywhere you look in America, people are trying to make life safer. On roads, for example, there has been a huge effort in the past 50 years to enforce speed limits, crack down on drink/drug driving and build safety features into highways, as well as vehicles. The result is a steadily improving record; by 2015, forecasters predict that for first time road deaths will be fewer than those caused by firearms (32,036 to 32,929)."  

Hmmm. I gotta wonder at those numbers. Be they true or not know this.  People like you bemoan the deaths in America and curse gun owners and point to yourselves as though you were better.  Here's a newsflash again.   Do you people know what the ACTUAL percentage of people killed/murdered in the US are? Not the per capita numbers used by the PPM to inflate, conflate and bullshit the american people? You should...I've posted the goddamn numbers often enough. The actual percentage of the US population that is murdered every year is less than one percent. The numbers are invariably between 5 and 9 THOUSANDTHS of ONE percent of the total population. That's right the numbers are between .005-.009% of 1% of the US population being murdered every year.  THAT's it.  Now again do ya'll know how the reports are compiled?  In the US any murder investigated or suspected as such, whether there's a court conviction or not...goes into the US numbers. Where as in someplace like...ohhh England..unless it's investigated as a murder and garners a conviction of a perpetrator in court, it doesn't go into the yearly government released statistics.

As for the rest of the article, the author can eat shit and die. Holier than thou whining little puppet.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/21/american-gun-out-control-porter?commentpage=1


As Old Ben once said "they who would give up essential liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety"

Remember TANSTAAFL and...

I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity

Short short rant on illegal drugs/war on same

Saw a post on facebook a while ago that showed an infographic on war on drugs, and cost.  It was headed by several things including "victimless crime."

Now while I agree by and large that it's a STUPID war and costs us a shit ton of money for no gain..I take exception to the "it's a victimless crime" shit. I knew at one time plenty of people who used pot...which comprise the bulk of the drug users in the nation, about 95%% give or take. They tend to be, least the ones I knew in the past...successful business owners, and tech wiz kids who run networks for big companies.  Where I take exception to victimless crime bullshit is with the hardcore users of hallucinogens, inhalants, heroin and others comprise about 3.5 million of the nation's 22-23 million users. Those who use those drugs tend to be the real problem children, committing robberies and murders, and car jackings and shit to get their next fix.  So do NOT tell me the drug business is victimless you assholes.

That is all.

Historical, and not in a good way, USSC decision

Ladies and gents...apparently while we've all been busy focusing on President Obummer, the congress, the various government agencies and how THEY are trying to fuck us....
Repeated multiple attempts and and infringements on our 2nd amendment rights since 1934 on the federal level. the stuff they've been doing on state levels in certain states is seriously heinous.
Attempts to regulate us into virtual and financial slavery....the clusterfuck known as Obamacare, EPA regulations, OSHA regulations.  New rules and regs up and down the government bureaucracy alphabet soup. 

We kind of forgot to watch the United States Supreme Court.

In a decision this June...in language that leaves me cold...the dishonorable justices termed our constitutionally protected rights...well just one for now, as privileges.  No I shit you not.  In Salinas V. Texas  the supremes...inluding Justices, Scalia, Kennedy,  Thomas, Alito.etc, all..said the plaintiffs case failed to meet requirement for the 5th amendment.  Justice Alito went so far as to say, and Justices Kennedy and Chief Justice Roberts agreed that,
"JUSTICE ALITO, joined by THE CHIEF JUSTICE and JUSTICE
KENNEDY,concluded that petitioner’s Fifth Amendment claim fails because he did not expressly invoke the privilege in response to the officer’s question"

Wait...what?  Since WHEN did our constitutionally enumerated and protected RIGHTS become privileges?    Here's a kicker...the only justice to file a dissenting opinion in this case was Breyer.


Now without a singular doubt the plaintiff[suspect] should have exercise his right to shut the fuck up to avoid self incrimination just a tad sooner. But at the time of his questioning, he wasn't under arrest, he wasn't mirandized, he was cooperating with officers. up til they got to the point where they asked him if the shells found at the crime scene would match his shotgun. THEN he shut up.  Read the file.  It's interesting. He wouldn't answer that one simple question but cooperated with every other single question the PD asked.  Hell they lacked sufficient evidence to arrest him for it in the first place so they arrested him for outstanding traffic warrants to his name. He was released due to insufficient evidence to even attempt to try him for murder. They arrested him on hearsay "witness" evidence in which someone else said they heard Salinas confess to the murders.

Justice Alito went on to say in his opinion that "The privilege against self incrimination is an exception to the general principle that the government has a right to everyones testimony"


Justice Breyer wrote and Justices Kagan, Ginsburg and Sotomayor joined him..
"In my view the fifth amendment here prohibits the prosecution from commenting on the petitioners silence in response to police questioning. And I dissent from the courts contrary conclusion"


A friend of mine upon reading this story on my facebook wall said...and I quote  "if the amendments can be classified as privilege, then think of the 1st, 2nd, and 4th and how they come into play. In short as a country, you are screwed if this is allowed to continue"In short I happen to agree with him. Although he's leaving out the 6th. 8th  and frankly the government on all levels has been ignoring and pissing all over  the 10th for  decades if not longer. If we allow the courts to redefine our constitutionally protected rights as privilege, then we are dead as a nation. Dead and buried and all over but the dying and enslavement of the people.  So the question becomes...what happens, what do we do going forward? 

In the long....

There are it is said 4 boxes of liberty.  First is The Soap Box ,in which we speak our minds and try to enlighten others as to what we think and why we think and try to bring them around to thinking as we do through logical, reasoned and sometimes highly impassioned  argument.

Sadly a great many aren't listening to logical argument backed by historical examples and it's hard to cut through the noise of the Progressive Propaganda Ministry when those who believe what the PPM and the government tell them, stick their fingers in their ears and hum real loud when we TRY to have a conversation.  So as far as I'm concerned...by and large the soap box is now useless outside of , as they say, preaching to the choir.

The Ballot Box in which we vote our conscious and try to put people in office who hold closest to our own ideals and beliefs.  Well that one is now well and truly fucked.  Anytime anyone comes out of the grass roots as it were, a reformer, they are vilified, shouted down, shouted over, etc...or the PPM digs out old skeletons as it were to destroy them. Look at what happened with the willing connivance between the PPM and the Republican National Committee  in 2011-2012 election cyclein their successful efforts to destroy every other possible candidate until we were left with Romney...the RNC's chosen man, chosen I might add before the first goddamn debate was even over.

The Jury Box- in which we chosen for a jury are supposed to decide whether we believe someone guilty of a crime solely on evidence, not emotion.  You can feel in your heart that a defendant is as guilty as sin, but if you decide the case on that,  on feeling. on facts not in evidence you fail your duty as a juror, and better pray to whatever god you believe in that  you don't face the same dishonesty in your jurors should you face a judge and jury someday. IOW should the shoe be on the other foot.  I don't care if the son of a bitch on trial has a record as long as my arm that includes rape, robbery and all sorts of other fun and entertaining criminal discord...the fact he's out is either a failure on the part of cops to find actual evidence, the prosecution to prove it's case or the system itself for failing us all. Make  no mistake the justice system is failing us miserably.  It's also still having some successes and actually doing it's job.  I could keep on in this vein and give examples and what I believe is a huge travesty of justice in keeping someone alive whose such a danger to the populace that we keep him in a cage indefinitely at tax payer expense, and it's expensive. [it runs in the BILLIONS to house a states prisoners every year.] rather than removing him from the equation of life. However that is an issue that includes my take on the death penalty and that discussion is NOT why we're here right this second.

 Finally there is the final arbiter...the ammo box. In which the only way to be free because the other 3 boxes have failed...is to start the bullets flying and people on both sides start dying.  Frankly as heated and nasty as the arguments are getting, as we have more and more examples of a government run amok...we may very well be approaching that time.  Our forefathers guaranteed us and protected this final box in the Constitution because they knew as students of history, that all governments eventually slide over that embankment of power onto the road of  tyranny eventually. They knew that a free, educated and armed populace could not be enslaved without a fight, or deceit and  trickery.

Can we who believe in the Constitution and the greatness of our nation turn back the tide of tyranny using solely the 1st 3 boxes before it's too late, and have no choice but to open the fourth?
 I don't know what to think on that score anymore.  Somedays I say unequivocally "yes" and then I read shit like this court opinion, see honest people vilified and verbally stone for their honesty and forthrightness and  belief in the greatness of the nation, the law and the people. I've said before I've been blocked from and by more groups than I care to think about. Most of them are a mental masturbatory circle jerk echo chamber. Some started out that way...some get taken over by the idiots and become that way and.......sigh and this is turning into one long assed ramble in the end. Time to end it.  I leave you to think your own thoughts and come to your own conclusions.

Remember TANSTAAFL and...

I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insantiy

Woman who didn't want gun in home, now grateful she did

Oh and a hearty hat tip to my friend Miguel over at GunFreeZone for this one.

So this lady didn't want a gun but her husband insisted she learn how to use one just in case.  Turns out the hubby was right.  As some of my friends in the gun community are fond of saying "It's better to have a gun and not need it, then to need it and not have it."

Turns out that the idiots who broke into her home were brothers and they were high on some illicit substance. Do any of the anti gun nuggets out there REALLY think talking or tossing something at them would have worked?  If so..more the fool you.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09/13/texas-mans-pregnant-wife-never-wanted-to-have-a-gun-in-the-house-but-now-shes-sure-glad-he-insisted/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=story&utm_campaign=ShareButtons


Remember TANSTAAFL and...

I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.

Zimmerman

Yeah, I know. ya'll are probably as tired of hearing that name as I am, and for varying reasons.

Well as some of you may know George Zimmerman's wife called the cops and accused him of assault and pointing a gun at her.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57602050-504083/george-zimmerman-briefly-taken-into-custody-after-domestic-dispute/

Now he was released and in a simply shocking  turn of events..SHE has been arrested.

http://nationalreport.net/shellie-zimmerman-arrested-charged-battery-george-zimmerman/

Now does anyone notice a difference in the two links?

No?  think on it. I'll wait.


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If you guessed that the link about George is from a NATIONAL Big 3[ABC/CBS/NBC] affiliate and the other is a smaller outlet.  Congratulations! You grok*. If you didn't guess the correct answer...well there's always the next pop quiz I suppose.

The first got splattered all over the national news, non stop. While the second, outside of 2 smaller outlets is getting no play  whatsoever in the national media. Hell even FOX ain't bothered to report the 2nd one yet and I figured they'd be first to jump on it.

In other news Shellie Zimmerman was pled guilty to and took  a plea deal for perjury, about 2weeks ago. A friend of mine suggested that from his read of it, she was railroaded. That may or may not be...but did not the STATE government of Florida, and the progressive propaganda ministry ,and that quisling ass licking, duck fucking, dipshit we have for a President;  do that to her husband from the get go?   Is she not trying to do the same thing now to get a more favorable outcome for her in the divorce case against her soon to be EX husband?  Welcome to the party Shellie, karma is a bitch.

Hmmm if the video from Shellie's ipad show that she did in fact start the altercation with George the other day and was the one doing the assaulting?  I wonder what the fact that she's already on probation for lying, is going to do to any sentences she might garner if tried  and convicted by judge or jury for this assault charge?   For one it certainly violates the terms of her probation, so she'll likely get time behind bars for that alone.  We'll just have to watch and see.

Remember TANSTAAFL and.....

I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.


*you grok- understand, comprehend.

miscellaneous post

As I sit here on this beautiful friday afternoon, miserable, I gotta ask?  What for did I do to deserves this misery?
*next round of sneezing, sniffles and back of the throat drainage ensues like a solid slap to the head*

Oh yeah..I skipped out on taking my allergy meds for a day or two in the middle of ragweed season. this is my punishment.  My sinuses telling me in totally not subtle, totally unequivocal way that *I* am a dumb ass for not taking my allergy meds.

With any luck I'll be better by tomorrow. Sunday at the latest. in the mean time...I am miserable.

Remember TANSTAAFL and...

I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.

9/11...12 years later.

Yay and verily it's that time of year again. Time to shout "Remember 9/11", and ask "where were you/what were you doing on that day"

I'll keep this short and sweet folks.
I remember EXACTLY where I was and exactly what I was doing when it happened.  I also remember thinking as I ran over to the electronics department just in time to watch the plane fly into the 2nd tower.."someone just declared war".  I also remember thinking it might have been the Pakistanis.    Honestly as hypocritical as this is going to sound. I don't need people posting "remember 9/11" across my wall. See...as I said. I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing.
I also have something like 15-20 VHS tapes full of non stop hour by hour, 24hr coverage for days afterword. For days afterword my VCR was NEVER off and neither was my television. If the tape ran out when I was home..I changed it. If it was set to run out in the middle of the night..I set my alarm clock for a little before  that time to change the tape. While I was at work my little sister did it for me. I did that for...4 days. I called my sister shortly after I watched the plane hit the 2nd tower and told her to jack a blank into the VCR and hit record.  I bought a pack of tapes during my lunch break and took it home with  me.

I will never forget. I will never forgive.  Ever.

addendum 9/11/13 1:50pm:
Then there was the US Ambassador and 3 other brave souls killed by yet more cowards on the anniversary of 9/11, on september 11th 2012.  What did our government do about it? They blamed it on you tube video. Said it had nothing to do with the anniversary of 9/11 and swept it under the rug with the willing perfidity and compliance of the Progressive Propaganda Ministry.

Again..I will never forget and I will never forgive. In this case that extends to the people who killed our ambassador and his security team AND to our government.


That is my 9/11 anniversary post. That is all.

Remember..TANSTAAFL and...

I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.

From urbangrounds. DC proposes 24hr waiting period before you can get a tattoo.

Yep you read that title right. They are proposing a 24 waiting period in DC before you can get a tattoo.

Read on McDuff...
UrbanGrounds

I love this bit from my blogger buddy Robbie who's blog that is...

"A public safety issue? Uh, huh.

This encapsulates the entirety of the Progressive ideology: you are too stupid and utterly incapable of making decisions on your own behalf; it is only through the wisdom and benevolence of the Government that you might be saved from yourself.

Except when it comes to murdering the unborn baby in your uterus — in which case, we’ll get out of your way and let you destroy two lives at once without a moment’s pause."

Yep pretty much sums it up.

Remember TANSTAAFL and...
I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.

Race? what is race?

Good question.
Here's the short answer. It's a massive crockpot full of shit on high temp that's stinking up the whole house  and a misnomer.

"Wait? What?"  I can here you say or in some cases shout at the top of your lungs.

Verily, calm down. Sit a bit and ruminate, whilst I illuminate. Yes as a matter of fact I've happily jacked that line from a Disney cartoon. What of it? It's a good line. Movie was full of 'em. However I digress, back to the subject at hand.

Race, is a massive crock of shit. A false bill of goods. Snake oil sold to the unwitting and in some cases the willfully ignorant,  by a nest of snakes.  A great many of them in political office.  Lets not get me started on what I'd like to do to most politicians. It's graphic and ugly.

What most people refer to as "race" is in point of fact, my fellow germs and virii..Tribe.  Ergo 'racism' is 'tribalism'.  In other words, differences of opinion and fighting between the various tribes of man.   There are as many different tribes and kinds of tribes as...well I won't say as there's stars in the sky, or fish in the sea because that would be an exaggeration. However there's a just a whole lot of different tribes and kinds of tribes out there in the world of man.

Tribalism has existed among man since we first separated from our ape ancestors and came down out of the trees.  Sociologically it all breaks down to tribe in one form or another.
In the micro scale you see it as loyalty and relationship of  family. Blood relations.  Your mother, your father, your sisters and brothers.  Next scale up is extended family, Aunts, uncles, cousins etc. 
In times past to make or preserve peace or for varying other reasons...one family would marry into another by bonding their sons and daughters. Thereby making, keeping the peace, cementing ties of friendship and power...the reasons for marriage are varied throughout history and that's a whole different discussion on it's own.  

Here's another example of tribe. The social tribes.  Folks who get together for love or enjoyment of one form of art, or what they consider art or another. Love of machines like cars.  Enjoyment in collecting something like guns, knives, books, musical instruments etc etc ad nauseum.   Sports fans are another tribe, choosing to belong to a tribe that share's their love and enjoyment of a game. Cosplayers, Gamers, Geeks, all different tribes with one thing in common. Their love of and enjoyment in sharing what they love with others who feel as they do.  They are tribes of choice. They  choose to belong to that tribe.

What else are the military branches but tribes. Navy, Marines, Army, Air Force etc.  Tribes that give up something, time, some freedoms and time for themselves for their  the smaller tribe, their family to join a larger tribe, the military as a whole, in order to serve the greater good for an even GREATER tribe.   In other words their nation.  They sacrifice some of the smaller tribal needs for the needs of the greater tribe, the nation. 

Nation or nationality is tribalism in Macro or large scale...simplest way I can put it.

Tribes all have varying desires, wants, needs and are GOING to clash. It's just nature.  all nature wars on itself. Plants will strive to grow faster, grow off to the side or even strangle their competitors for sunlight to grow. Small fish are hunted and eaten by other fish, who in turn are hunted by something else right on up the chain.  Insects war among each other for territory and sustenance and supplies for the larder, for the good of that insect tribe.
There isn't but one race, the human race, all else is tribalism.  Once you accept that...[or happen to have a low tolerance for bullshit from the get go] it's a little easier to deal with the "race baiters", and those who cry "racism, racist, hater...etc etc.".  They are in it not to better their tribe but for the betterment of themselves at the EXPENSE of their tribe and everyone else.     It's also a lot of fun to make their heads explode when you explain this stuff to them.  the apoplexy, oh my god the faces turned purple with rage...is down right amusing.  I keep waiting for their heads to explode in the most literal sense of the word, from blood pressure alone, but I keep getting disappointed. Oh well. I can live with that I suppose.

Remember TANSTAAFL and..

I now return you to your regularly scheduled inanity and insanity.