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Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

An Administration Crazed with its own Power! it is about time: GAO Now Investigating DHS Ammo Purchases

The Obama Administration and its personal gang of enforcement, DH-SS, has been making sure citizenry will be left disarmed and feeling helpless. This is to just show us who is boss by a small minded, revengeful and mendacious bunch in the executive branch and its departments. m/r

GAO Now Investigating DHS Ammo Purchases - Washington Whispers (usnews.com)

By ELIZABETH FLOCK

April 29, 2013
http://landing.newsinc.com/shared/video.html?freewheel=69016&sitesection=usnews&VID=24617506

The Government Accountability Office tells Whispers it is now investigating large ammunition purchases made by the Department of Homeland Security. Chuck Young, a spokesman for GAO, says the investigation of the purchases is "just getting underway."

[MORE: DHS Denies Ammo Purchases Aimed at Civilians]

The congressional investigative agency is jumping into the fray just as legislation was introduced in both the Senate and the House to restrict the purchase of ammo by some government agencies (except the Department of Defense). The AMMO Act, introduced Friday, would prevent agencies from buying more ammunition if "stockpiles" are greater than what they were in previous administrations.

Donelle Harder, a spokeswoman for Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., who introduced the legislation in the Senate, tells Whispers the bill would also require GAO to share the findings of its report on DHS purchases with Congress.

[READ: McCain, Schumer Say Gun Control Is Coming Back]

Officials at DHS have denied to both Whispers and lawmakers that it is stockpiling ammunition. The Associated Press reported in February that DHS wanted to buy more than 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition, but DHS officials testified last week it was only planning to buy up to 750 million.

-go to the links-

Monday, April 29, 2013

Frequently the Dumbest Person on the Month: Congresswoman's Round-the-World Trip Cost Taxpayers $23K

Maybe she went to see the two Viet Nams, North and South,"living together, side by side."

Now, along with the dumbest, she is joining the most wasteful and/or corrupt. She is mostly, because she is so dumb, among the most arrogant, because there is nothing else there. m/r

Congresswoman's Round-the-World Trip Cost Taxpayers $23K | Political MoneyLine Blog
By Kent CooperPosted April 29 2013

Full short post-

The House Judiciary Committee reported Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, traveled around the world on an official trip in February that cost $23,646. The Feb. 16-22 trip on commercial flights was to Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia.

Jackson Lee did not travel over or back with CODEL Landrieu that included several members of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption. The delegation was to meet with local community leaders, adoption officials, and other government officials, such as the Vietnamese Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs.Jackson Lee took commercial flights over and caught up with the delegation in Seoul, South Korea. After visiting South Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia, she then left the delegation early for her return commercial fight through Frankfurt, Germany.

The trip costs included $19,970 for transportation, $1,292 for per diem and $2,385 for other purposes.

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Stopping the enemy Gov't. - GOP aims to slow federal bullet buys

The not-so-devious SOB's in the Obama Admin. and DHS are trying to suck up all the ammo so the Gov't. surreptitiously disarms the public. m/r

GOP aims to slow federal bullet buys - The Hill
By Jordy Yager - 04/27/13

Republicans want to limit the number of bullets federal agencies can purchase so American gun owners can buy more.

Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe and Rep. Frank Lucas have introduced a bill that would prohibit every government agency — except the military — from buying more ammunition each month, than the monthly average it purchased from 2001 to 2009.

The lawmakers say the Obama administration is buying up exceedingly high levels of ammunition in an attempt to limit the number of bullets the American public have access to on the open marketplace.

"President Obama has been adamant about curbing law-abiding Americans’ access and opportunities to exercise their Second Amendment rights," said Inhofe.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/news/296471-gop-aims-to-slow-federal-bullet-buys#ixzz2RoPJMgid
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Lest We Forget How Stupid the Press Media Are - In a Nutshell

In a Nutshell | National Review Online

By Mark Steyn

April 22, 2013 - full post-

Further to my weekend column, if nothing else, the Boston bombing has usefully distilled the media template for such stories to its absolute essence.
Stage One:

Let’s Hope The Boston Marathon Bomber Is A White American

Stage Two:

The Boston Bombers Were Muslim: So?

Cut-out-and-keep these two headlines, and you too can be on top of the conventional wisdom within moments of the next atrocity.
(More on Miss Garber’s incoherent maunderings here.)

A 30% Marijuana Tax and Repeal Considered In Colorado

Weren't 'high' taxes the real reason the Democrat legislator's wanted Pot to be legalized.
In the 1930's, Liquor taxes had as much to do with the repeal of the Volstead Act as public popularity to get rid of Prohibition. The strange coalition of corrupt politicians, bootleggers, gangsters and religious self-righteous thought the 18th Amendment was just doing just fine. After all, it brought us organized crime and bigger, more corrupt government, didn't it? m/r

Marijuana Repeal Considered In Colorado « CBS Denver

Reasoned Truth and Passion that needed saying! - Judge Jeanine Pirro Weighs in Terrorist Family - Marathon Terror Attack - Wake Up America!

Hear, Hear!
It is still amazing to see ex-CIA (but he still thinks like a bureaucrat) Mike Baker, at the end of this video, blaming the Russians.
The Russians do not generally share their intelligence with us. But our Massive Intel-Bureaucracies, at least 22 of them, all keeping their eunuch's rice bowls full, buried the information. They didn't use it, review it, nor share it. They kept it on their own self-serving turf. Judge Pirro is absolutely right, they "stove-piped" it!
Sorry for the mixed metaphors. m/r

Judge Jeanine Pirro Weighs in Terrorist Family - Marathon Terror Attack - Wake Up America! - YouTube

Published on Apr 27, 2013

Marathon Terror Attack Judge Jeanine Pirro Weighs in Terrorist Family

Move on, No Double Standard Here - Steyn: Media will downplay Boston bomber-Muslim link

Steyn: Media will downplay Boston bomber-Muslim link | The Daily Caller
from 4-19-13

On Rush Limbaugh’s Friday program, fill-in host Mark Steyn reminded listeners of Limbaugh’s Tuesday comments predicting the media would “circle the wagons” for Islam if it turned out that the suspects in Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing Muslims, saying that the prediction will come true.

As it turned out, the suspects Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were indeed Muslims, and Steyn, author of “After America: Get Ready for Armageddon,” said the media wagon-circling would begin “any moment now.”

“As we now know, these guys are Muslim,” Steyn said. “One of them was Muslim. He’s dead — he died in the early hours this morning. The other guy, still on the lam, is Muslim — Muslims from Chechnya. And so, as usual, any moment now we’ll start to hear, ‘Oh well, these are just lone wolves,’ as Rush said. ‘They’re not typical of anything.’ None of these guys are ever typical of anything.”

Cartoon Of The Day: Where The Bomber Hid

Cartoon Of The Day: Where The Bomber Hid » Common Sense Evaluation

Obama slings arrows, jokes at White House Correspondents’ Dinner 2013

“I look in the mirror and say I’m not the strapping young Muslim Socialist that I used to be,” Obama quipped at one point, reflecting on how he’s aged into a second term.While he was kidding about himself, Obama sharpened his sword when it came to the GOP.

True for once! He was kidding, he's no longer young and never was strapping!

Obama slings arrows, jokes at White House Correspondents’ Dinner 2013 - POLITICO.com

Why are liberals afraid of black conservatives? - The Truth!

"The Democratic Party and our mercenary black leaders won’t willingly give up the power and perks they’ve gathered on the backs of black America. Believe me, the biggest weapon the Republican Party has today is the black conservative. The Democrats know it, the race-bait-pimps and poverty princes like Sharpton and Jackson know it, and the media that move to destroy black conservatives whenever they can know it best of all. That is probably why the likes of Jackson and the MSNBC talking heads do not debate men like Ben Carson or Thomas Sowell."

Why are liberals afraid of black conservatives? | Washington Times Communities
Sunday, April 14, 2013 - What is Really Going on? by Wayne Dupree

WASHINGTON, April 14, 2013 — Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman are heros. Their strength and conviction to free blacks from slavery are a testament to what happens when individuals think more of their community than themselves and are willing to risk everything for a cause greater than themselves.

In comparison, modern black “leaders” like Jesse Jackson Jr. and Al Sharpton are tiny and self-serving. They don’t serve black Americans or champion freedom and liberty for all. They champion liberal politics and ideology, and that’s odd; liberals want to see blacks tucked neatly into the roles of their design.

Liberals can’t abide a black person who leaves the black plantation of poverty and handouts to stand on his own two feet; they treat with contempt a black man who turns his back on their free money to work hard to make a good life for himself and his family. How dare these dissidents show the black community what they can do with their lives if they walk away from poverty and work to better themselves?

Too many liberals think they have the black race all sewed up, and it just paralyzes them to hear of black conservatives.

What they hate is that there are thousands of conservative blacks continuing to talk, continuing to make noise, continuing to be rebels against the liberal plantation that is the Democratic Party.