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Well, how’d that work out for him, eh Steve?  Are you looking to continue to whip up the alienation of the conservative base of the Party that Walt successfully torqued off and was subsequently unsuccessful at getting the same to vote for him (name of John Stark come to mind?) in the General Election? (and NO!, not all Republicans are conservative, truth be known – not by a long shot).

We have to keep in mind there’s a whole segment in the Party, particularly the people who are the Big Donors, who would love to have a one day national primary because that favors the people that give big money.  It could also lead to a mistake of electing a celebrity.  We could end up with Brad Pitt as our nominee in a one day national primary.

On the other hand, we have our most fervent TEA Party activists who would like us to have a caucus or primary every week for 50 weeks leading up to the convention.

This, I believe, was a shot at the 603 Alliance –

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I’ve heard Ken before – he gives speech to the plight of the Western States whose land is mostly still “held” by the Federal Government stemming from their days as newly appointed States.  It is this situation that makes them oft “over the political barrel” as without taxable land mass, they can be beholden to “free money” from the Feds – and the those that would use that situation against them (re: US Senator Harry Reid (D-NV).  He is speaks on “State Equality”

Part 1

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We’ve railed against Political Correctness for years and how it is the hobgoblin of minor minds.  I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been called a racist, misogynist, homophobe, cold-hearted, uncaring…and a TEA Partier (heh!).  Frankly I don’t much care and a couple of times I’ve started laughing – which drives that Progressive nuts for obvious reasons.  It just doesn’t matter any more as for me (and the rest of the Groksters), we’re all set understanding that they’ve got nuttin’.  But most people DO care because they just don’t understand that if they only would look past those emotional attacks, they’d be home free.  Ammo Grrrll from Powerline has this observation – and what to do when attacked:

As soon as someone claims to be “offended” or worse yet, to “feel unsafe,” the discussion is automatically over. It’s really a nasty, intellectually-dishonest tactic to change the subject completely. You’re losing, so let’s not make it about the subject under discussion, but about your feelings. Since there is no “right or wrong” with feelings and everybody is entitled to as many feelings as she can generate, then the moral high ground is already ceded. And the person who disagreed with her and made her feel “unsafe” is clearly a vicious “bully.”

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Update: “The shooter was lining people up and asking if they were Christian,” she wrote. “If they said yes, then they were shot in the head. If they said no, or didn’t answer, they were shot in the legs.  Chris Mercer Harper, 26 years old was the shooter.

Let’s see what stands up over the next set of hours and days.

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This is the kind of headline that I normally put up as a simple BlogHeadline of the Day simply because it evokes a sense of “you have GOT to be kidding me” bordering on a WTF moment.  This one, however, had a sense of rage and blood pressure rise:

CNN Report: Veterans Tried to leave Classroom to Stop Shooter, Denied By Staff

A lot of returning vets still hold themselves to the standard of not just protecting the Constitution but also others – trained to run towards the sounds of fighting and having the skills to do something once there.  I saw it a couple of weeks ago when I heard a loud noise and a person in what I thought was our yard and our dogs started ferociously barking. I started to run upstairs to go fetch something; the Youngest came barreling down the stairs and immediately ran outside – a look on his face I’d not seen before.  But he ran, not to the sound of gunfire, but to protect us.

Look, it will be a few days before we know all the details other than where it happened, people were killed by a 20 year old guy and there was some talk on 4chan that has come up that he warned people of what was going to do.  Also we have reports that he told people to lay down and then get up and tell him what religion they believed.

That’s it.  My point is that there were people,

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Nope, this will have to serve until I get a transcript.  But here is Obama, on one hand decrying American Citizens their 2nd Amendment Right but is bringing in “refugees” with ties to terrorism into the Homeland??

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ADMITTED 1,519 FOREIGNERS WITH TERRORIST TIES INTO THE U.S.

Judicial Watch reports that the Obama administration has granted asylum or residency to 1,519 foreigners with terrorist ties. This information comes from an annual report to Congress by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

More than half of the terror supporters granted asylum or residency by Team Obama provided material support to terrorist organizations, according to the USCIS report. Other received military-type training from a terrorist organization (nine fall into this category), voluntarily provided medical care to members of a terrorist group, or solicited funds or recruited individuals for membership in a terrorist organization.

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Some Smart Person had this to say about 2015 (emphasis mine, reformatted):

The United States may be totally independent of Arab oil by the year 2015.  Unfortunately, so will everyone else because statistically that will be the year the last barrel of oil is pumped from the last well on earth. Of course, there will be no “last barrel” as such in 2015 because the world’s oil fields cannot continue to produce at current levels much longer.

The 1975 International Petroleum Encyclopedia, updated and published annually by the Petroleum Publishing Co., sets proven world reserves — the oil known for a fact to be present and recoverable by current technology — at about 103 billion metric tons. The current world annual consumption rate is approximately 2.8 billion.

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