Obama Administration Won’t Ban Your Guns…But The U.N. Will

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“United Nations: Where America feeds the hands that bite it” – Gregory Nunn

The Second Amendment debate is a never-ending and ongoing debate that has taken the argument all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. District of Columbia v. Heller,1 held that the Second Amendment is an individual’s protected right to possess a firearm for lawful purposes in federal enclaves; Purposes such as self-defense within the personal domicile. McDonald v. Chicago,2 was also a landmark Supreme Court decision to determine whether the Second Amendment is applicable to the individual states. Summarily, the Court held an individual’s right to “keep and bear arms” is incorporated by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and does in fact apply to states.  It is without dispute that the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution is fundamentally, culturally, and socially a cornerstone of American life, underscoring the natural right of self-defense which is essential to liberty.

As of 1986, thirty-five states had some form of right to carry through licensure. of those thirty-five states, only eight were “shall-issue” states (meaning a license must be issued if no legal reason existed to prohibit such issuance); nineteen of those states were “may-issue” states (meaning the issuing authority could issue or deny upon his or her own discretion) and only one state (Vermont) was unrestricted (meaning no licensure required to carry a firearm concealed or openly). Fifteen states were “no-issue” states.  Meanwhile, Legislatures across the nation acted over the last 25 years.  Presently forty-eight states have some form of right to carry through licensure. Wisconsin and Illinois still do not allow citizens the right to carry guns, nor does the District of Columbia.

A whole lot of people, organizations and groups, have spent time, money and energy to advocate for second amendment issues, pass laws and pave the way for the right to keep and bear arms. Despite this, it totally confounds me why some of our citizens, despite their stated support for the second amendment, still turn around and vote for gun-grabbing liberals like Barack Obama?

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RLCNH Report for June 5, 2011

The RLCNH Report JUNE 5, 2011  | subscribe to this list ACTION ALERT!  Liberty lovers, please spend some time today contacting the members of the Committee of Conference on SB 148, which will determine what action the State of New Hampshire takes against Obamacare. SB148, relative to health insurance coverage and declaring that the attorney general … Read more

Rent-seeking is generally companies sucking up to Govt; what do you call it when our Govt goes rent-seeking to OTHER countries’ Govts?

"The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works — whether it helps families find jobs at a decent wage, care they can afford, a retirement that is dignified."            – President Barack Obama, Inauguration, 1/20/09   I know that lots of companies use their … Read more

Is our society that close of losing the idea of self-responsible “internal governor” for the Progressive “external governor”?

“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. ”

– Ben Franklin, Constitutional Congress

 "No controlling legal authority."

– Al Gore,  1996 Presidential campaign

The country is all a Twitter by Uber-Progressive Congressman Weiner (D-NY) acting as a sales dude for "tidy whities" and working out at the gym all the time – but for someone other than his new bride. I’m not going to post the pic – our main blogging rule is "Adult themes but kid friendly", and in this, I have no intention of putting up one that would cause a "Hey Mom, what is this?" moment.

Rather, I’d rather (as you can tell from the top quotes) bring up the idea of the differences (again) between a society that is made up of people with internal governors (self-responsible and self-governing) and one that has to have external governors (laws and regulations) surrounding its people.  In essence, either we can literally control ourselves ("virtuous") by internal rules (our hearts, our minds, our moral compasses) or we are forced to be controlled by external rules (decrees from others).  Which camp do you think Anthony Weiner falls into?  More importantly, which camp do you think our country is falling into?

As to the first – Hint: "I have…

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Manchester City Politics and Swimming Pools

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“You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry.  Most people do…”  –Author Unknown

City pools…the latest whipping boy for the Alderman. Corriveau and Lopez want to charge out-of-towners, not make them go away.  Osborne dismissed it as minutia. Greazo wants to double-dip. Alderman Garth Corriveau said pools are a “luxury.” I would agree, Garth….let’s make this all about the “Haves and  Have nots!” Swimming Pool politics has it all! Apathy, Class warfare, taxing and spending, empire building, and demagoguing. Same old corrupt thinking.

Alderman Phil Greazo proposes to charge all users of city pools. Just one minor problem, Greazo…”WE ALREADY PAY FOR THE STINKING POOLS THROUGH THE TAX BASE!”

The UL reports in the June 1st story, “About 96,800 people who live in Manchester used the city pools in 2010…” That is 88% of this city’s just under 110,000 population. And, according to the data provided by Parks and Recreation only, 1,500 non-residents use the pools. But here is the real problem: these numbers are absolute bunk!

Anecdotally, here is where I think the numbers more accurately live: I think city pool use is more accurately +/- 12-16% of the total city population. With a staff of lifeguards on hand, the conditions prevail where public pools become babysitters by proxy. Here is my math…

(96,800 +/-16% = 15,488)  (15,488 / 2 = 7,744)  (7,744 +/-6 uses = 46,464) (7,744 +/-3 uses  = 23,232) (46,464 + 23,232 = 69,696)

I think non-resident use is DOUBLE despite Manchester Parks and Recreation assertions. Non-resident use most likely accounts for upwards of 25% of use. Heck, Why not? ITS FREE!!!( not Manchester residents)  Based on my own experiences at Livingston Pool, waiting there sometimes 40 minutes or more, the non-resident use is out of hand and isn’t tracked as well as it should be.  Here is what I think…More math…

(3,900 +/-$6 uses = 23,400)

I don’t think three non-residents or 3,000 non residents using the pools matters…until it is you, a city taxpayer, quietly watching and waiting at the fence…outside of the pool… roasting in the hot sun, while non-resident interlopers frolic about in the pool because it is, “free for them.” Under that circumstance, one non-resident swimmer is one-too-many.

Manchester’s Livingston pool is highly attractive. The net result, however has been a constant overflow of guests using that pool, while other pools in the city rarely see capacity use.  The pool clearly exceeds its bathing load because of high demand and the young staff is not equipped to properly manage the demand.

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Vulnerable Teenage Girls

The Nashua Telegraph, in reprinting (as a guest editorial) the left wing blathering of the Concord Monitor, has just reassured sexual predators who want to abuse young girls in the state of New Hampshire, that their secret is probably safe.

Didn’t they learn the first time?

From Townhall (emphasis mine):

One of the administration’s programs helps distressed homeowners avoid foreclosure by providing permanent loan modifications.

Yeah, this is going to work out well.  Doesn’t the Administration remember Rick Santelli’s rant on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade where he and the traders railed against the idea that they (and us) should be responsible for paying other peoples’ mortgages?  The TEA Party movement it helped to spawn has become the biggest political movement in recent history – and no friend of the ever-expanding-government policies of Obama!

Another program, now ramping up, gives states that have been the hardest hit by falling home prices funding to help reduce the principal of a borrower’s loan, among other things.

Heck, why can’t *I* get my principal reduced?  After all, I’m current on my loan – why should I be discriminated against?  I’ve played by the rules – not buying more house than I could afford (in fact, bought far less), haven’t remortgaged a whole bunch of times, and blown the cash on toys and vacations, or redone the house well above my pay grade.  Heck, who WOULDN’T want to chop off 10%, 20%, or even more from their mortgage?  Hey, MY house has fallen in market price too (and selling is about 196 days in my town to boot!).

"I think those will make a big difference in terms of the problems of unemployed homeowners and falling house prices," said Massad. But he added the process was tricky.

"There are issues of how you do it, making sure it’s fair, making sure you don’t create the wrong incentives," Massad said.

Fair?  Are you kidding? NOTHING about taking taxpayer monies and just giving it…

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Notable Quote – Walter Russell Mead

One way to summarize the kind of change we need. During the farm era the focus of American domestic policy was to create the most favorable possible environment for millions of ordinary Americans to launch flourishing small businesses. Rather that focusing on home ownership, American social policy should probably be looking at small business formation … Read more

FYI – GrokTALK!s Gone Fishin’ (Figuratively)

Even Bloggers need a vacation, even if it is just from the part that’s not blogging. So no new GrokTALK! Podcast this week. But help yourself to leftovers. We’ve got plenty of interviews that you may have missed to keep you going until next time.

The lamestream media makes a fool of itself again over Palin

Remember all the media jeering about how Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from her doorstep? She didn’t. What she DID say was you can see mainland Russia from Alaska…which you can, from one of the Aleutian Islands. Media stupid and wrong; Palin, smart and right.

How about the media jeering about how Palin referred to "the Boston Tea Party in 1773"? The ignoramuses in the media thought it happened in 1776! Media, stupid and wrong; Palin, smart and right.

Here’s another good one:

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Can Romney Do It?

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“If you can’t convince them, confuse them.”   -President Harry S. Truman 33rd American President.

 Mitt Romney came to New Hampshire Thursday and formally announced he will seek to unseat President Obama in 2012.  Despite his formal announcement being overshadowed by Governor Sarah Palin’s visit, it’s official: Romney is in for 2012.

Can Romney win the nomination? The former Governor of the People’s Republic of Massachusetts has a very well-documented laundry list of problems. Romney supporters cringe at similarities between the Bay State’s health care program and Obamacare. Romney has shown himself to be a clear and unadulterated flip-flopper on the hot-button issues such as abortion, gun control, immigration, and gay rights.

In his 1994 bid for Senate, Romney said, “I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I believe since Roe v. Wade has been the law in this country for 20 years, we should sustain and support it. I sustain that law and the right of a woman to make that choice…” Romney would ultimately go on to proclaim himself to be “pro-life.” The late Senator Edward Moore Kennedy, when campaigning against Romney in 1994, quipped, “(My opponent isn’t pro-choice or anti-choice, he’s multiple choice.”

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Maybe the House Got the Message

Perhaps the House of Representatives did get the message from last November‘s election and from polls indicating that Americans are serious about cutting deficit spending.  On Tuesday, in a bi-partisan vote (82 Democrats,  236 Republicans) the House overwhelmingly rejected President Obama’s request to unconditionally increase the debt ceiling.  Only 97 Democrats voted to continue reckless spending.  

Despite alarmist claims about not raising the debt ceiling, the Secretary of the Treasury can dispense its approximately $2 trillion revenues on a priority basis.  Our country need not default on our debt or fail to pay the military, seniors, the poor, or other critical obligations UNLESS OBAMA’s administration CHOOSES NOT TO MAKE THOSE PAYMENTS. 

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Given no honest men – “what do we do?”

Well, that was quick!  Maggie responded via a comment here: Skip – thanks for picking up on this…it’s much appreciated! I wanted to follow up on your question, "could we find a group of people equal to the task?" Unfortunately, if such a group were to be created, there would be maneuvering and posturing and … Read more

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