We the People Freedom Forum – so, where IS the website?

I had put this post up (“We the People Freedom Forum – so, where ARE the tax forms?“) a couple of days ago. Well, I just got a little tweet  – it seems that the site has now changed:     Well, well.  Questions getting a little to close about the non-profit status?  Thinking that … Read more

Well, now you know why the Democrats want 16,000 new IRS agents for Obamacare

And H&R Block is absolutely ecstatic! Many of us political junkies already knew the connection between the IRS and Obamacare; the Federal agency most tax-paying citizens hate dealing with. Under Obama’s Affordable Care Act, you will get to be MUCH more chummy – not only will you have to share all your economic data with … Read more

The Pay Per Mile Tax Plan…. What can go wrong?

When the planners downshift into planning mode, they know all; they know best, and you best just do as you’re told and remain quiet. We’ll get there when we get there, just fasten your seat belt and don’t ask questions. Of course, most of the time things don’t go as “planned” and a thing known as “unintended consequences” side swipes or T-bones the planner and the plan into a ditch. An example of such an unintended consequence soiling the trousers of a planner was just reported a few days ago by the Washington Examiner.

Apparently, the gas tax isn’t bringing in quite as much as the spenders planned. (Is it ever enough? That’s rhetorical, we know the answer). It’s bringing in less. Why? One reason is that (or so it’s claimed–personally I don’t buy it, but I’ll play along), “President Obama’s push for fuel efficient cars has resulted in better mileage and fewer stops at the pump.”  Which means there are less stops to fill up, less gas spilling into the tank, and less taxes to confiscate from the driver. Burn. One planner’s beast, is another planners feast. (I’m not quite sure what that means exactly, but I dig the rhyme.) But have no fear, when faced with an immovable object, the planner does what the planner does best: plan another way to fleece…errr… invest for the public.

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Piers Morgan and The Cunning Brits, a 21st Century Lesson

Okay, raise your hand if you want to punch this guy? I know I’m not alone.

I’m not a big TV culture guy. I don’t know who’s on American Idol, I don’t know if members of Jersey Shore are still jiggling in camera shot down the sodden crumbling Jersey boardwalk (I’ve seen pictures of the actresses) or not, and I’m not sure if BJ replacing Trapper was a good move and if the series will last. So, if some living TV canker sore is irritating me, it must be irritating millions.

This particular crusty irritant is Piers Morgan. A Brit expatriate that found himself on our shores and decided to “entertain” us with his insight, opinions, and malodorous smuggery.

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Busy Day…

Just a shout out to the busy day.  I am having one, and will not be available to post until perhaps this evening. As you were.    

“I don’t know WHY anyone NEEDS an AR-15”. Wrong premise, Progressives!

True Freedom means not having to have a Need to order justify having something

assault weaponRemember that the next time somebody demands “Why do you need that?” (unless it is your spouse or your Mother – then forget what I’m saying here.  Steve is busy and I am having another one of those “paralysis blocks” that bloggers sometimes have.  Not exactly “writer’s block” (during which you can’t think of a thing to say, and worse, if you did, can’t type two words that lie together well) but a case of “there’s too much going on – what to take on first (or best) and not sound like a me-too schmuck”.  But sometimes, when in that mode, it’s like you are the shooting guard in basketball and you go into a 0 for 20 shooting run – the only way out is to keep shooting.  So, here’s a shot in the dark.

We are, as a nation, at a cusp.  The vast majority of Americans were outraged at the tragedy in Newtown.  True to form, Progressives jumped on this crisis with both feet – hey such a chance to advance a fundamental Progressive ideal – an unarmed citizenry.  After all, their belief system demands fealty to the notion that Government is there for YOU and that their Government (and make no mistake, no limited government is any Government of theirs) will take care of you.  Thus, no guns, and certainly no guns of any consequence.  You don’t need them to defend yourself (call 911) and you really don’t have to hunt (that’s cruel to animals, and besides, we grow them in that plastic wrap).  They really don’t believe in guns, even as many of these Progressive elected officials make utter fools of themselves concerning the vocabulary concerning the descriptions of firearms and accessories (we’ll let you off the hook – we’d laugh less at you if you just said “ewww, you can’t have them because they’re ICKY” than when you can’t get the basic nomenclature right).

So, from their Olympus like heights of Enlightened Morality, they proclaim “You don’t NEED that!” – and they do mean it; they have no idea of why something would be important to you – and they don’t care to know.  In their worldview, where the rest of us need guidance, this is one of those supreme moments of applying Progressive Guidance (yes, upper-case chosen deliberately to show the height of Progressive Reaction of those that they have allowed to go astray for too long – they are done with “our foolishness”.

Any time you hear Liberal or Progressive (yes, you can be the former without being the latter but with the way that the New Left is hollowing out the Democrat Party, that person is seldom is a moderate Democrat) say that, here is your reposte:

So, Jackass, what does Need have to do with Freedom?

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Molon Labe…Mr. President

Can’t verify if this is real (sure looks it, but would this be possible?).  Either way, it is highly appropriate.  If you don’t know what Molon Labe means yet, read the definition.

I was going to do this – but the Everlasting Phelps did a pretty good job…

The Everlasting Phelps is a new blog to me and had a bit of a commentary on Obama’s Executive Orders – all 23 of them.  I have some concerns about some of the Exec Orders  (as in, is there any authorization in real law to substantiate the claim to do this, or is this  simply yet another example of “Obama being Obama” (or more bluntly put “The Rule of Man via Monarchical Decrees / The Law of the Strong Man”)).  Anyways, Everlasting Phelps has a quick reposte that matched my first reactions as well:

  • Tell the government to follow the law.
  • Tell the regulators to stop the stupid and useless regulations.
  • Pay the states back for the unfunded mandates that the Feds keeps making.
  • Tell the Attorney General to do his job.
  • Start another unfunded mandate. (See #3.)
  • Tell FDLs how to do something no one is ever going to bother to do.
  • Do the same thing the NRA already does, only half as well at twice the cost.
  • Do what Underwriters Laboratories already does, only half as well at twice the cost.
  • Tell the Feds to do their jobs.
  • Tell the DOJ to do its job.
  • Tell myself to do my job.
  • Spend more money.
  • Tell everyone to do their goddamned jobs.
  • Tell the doctors to figure out why it isn’t the feds’ fault that they aren’t doing their jobs.
  • Figure out a way to push “smart guns” that don’t exist and wouldn’t be useful as guns if they did.
  • Tell everyone that Obamacare doesn’t actually mean what it says.
  • Tell everyone that, seriously, Obamacare doesn’t actually mean that. We had to pass it to find out what was in it, after all.
  • Tell everyone that I’ve been a partisan hack for the last month every time I said the NRA was crazy to want to post more cops in schools.
  • Do the same thing that every police agency in the country has already done, only half as well and at ten times the cost.
  • Tell doctors what they already know.
  • Tell people what the parts of Obamacare that don’t say anything say.
  • Tell HHS to do their job.
  • Hand the rest of the job of telling everyone to do their jobs off to someone else so it is no longer my job.

Here’s the list but with the Exec. Orders with them:

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Another Day With NH Democrats….Two More Taxes…or is it Six?

NH Roads and bridges - NH Democrats look to raise gas taxThe Concord Monitor is reporting on a  plan by New Hampshire Democrat David Campbell (D- Nashua), that would eventually extract $115,000,000.00 million more dollars per year out of the pockets of struggling New Hampshire families.  He’d like to raise the gas tax and the increase the cost to register your vehicles every year.

His ‘plan’ would raise the price you pay for gas five cents a year for three years.  At the same time the cost of your vehicle registration would also increase five dollars a year for three years.  So you’d’ see two separate tax increases every year for three years; is that two new taxes of six?

The promise, and given past experience this means nothing coming from a New Hampshire Democrat, is that they will use this additional tax money exclusively for road and bridge work.

We obviously need money for roads and bridges but I don’t think we need any new taxes and fees–so I have a better idea.

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Crony Capitalism

The State Employees Association of NH, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Service Employees International Union, is set to open talks soon with Governor Hassan. For those of you private sector pukes still workin’ for the man, I have three words, well, actually more than that, taken from the existing SEIU Collective Bargaining Agreement (which can be read … Read more

When dogs go bad with assault weapons…

Cold crazed, conniving killer?

This from Local10.com in Cantonment, Florida:

“According to officials, a man has died after a dog jumped into a van, stepped on the accelerator, and struck him as he opened a gate outside a Florida Panhandle home.”

As usual, the real “inside story” is to be found in the comments that follow the article.

Here are some of them:

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Notable Quotes: Wayne LaPierre

  “There is not a national, one-size-fits-all solution to protecting our children,” he said. “But do know this – President [Obama] zeroed out school emergency planning grants in last year’s budget and scrapped “Secure Our Schools” policing grants in next year’s budget.” Washington Times Related: Washington Guardian

Bullet To The Head Of The NRA: A Little Perspective

“The coward only threatens when he is safe.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

I am a bit intrigued, I must confess. An on line game emerged called, ‘Bullet to the Head of the NRA’ Depicted in the game is an interactive where the gamer can shoot  NRA President David A. Keene. The game is very graphic…and people are outraged… Just not me….I couldn’t care a fig. But the whole notion of violence by a lefty! Yeah, not so much. 

Seriously. How much of a threat is a person, who hides behind a

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Ignoble Quote – President Barack Hussein Obama

“What’s more important?” he asked. “Doing whatever it takes to get an A grade from the gun lobby that contributes to their campaign or giving parents some peace of mind when they drop their child off for first grade?”

 – President Barack Hussein Obama (1/16/13, on issuing 23 Executive Orders on Government gun control)

Once again, President Strawman decides to make an ignoble argument on a very important topic – how far he is going to push the Federal Government in infringing upon the Second Amendment.  Certainly anyone that has been following the issue knows exactly what he is doing with this line – he is calling those of us who support the Second Amendment as is, is framing a whole class of citizens, as kid killers.  After all, who in right mind would pick a legislative score over live kids?

Let me repeat that – Kid Killers is how he wishes to portray those that respectfully disagree with him.  That also includes us who are not always all that respectful as well (but hey, if I’m going to be called a Baby Killer and neaderthalic, I’m supposed to be respectful?).

And this from a guy (I do respect the Office of the President, but since he continues to use the language and manner of a cheap street community organizer, he has not earned that respect) who actually voted to make baby killing legal (remember, he voted to allow partial birth abortion).   So, it is merely a matter of his ideology – surround himself with kids as political stage props when it suits HIS ideological belief (which has nothing to do with kids but all about disarming the American population as his past votes and actions have shown every time).  But when HIS ideological belief supports abortion, well, the only stage props he needs is a box of plastic bags.  But, I digress.

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