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My Samsphere friend and blogger Maggie Thurber was ruminating on whether or not we could actually create the Constitution again (assuming that it did not exist). Given the current political scene, how far we have strayed from it, her outlook is rather pessimistic (given that the second idea for the title of her post was … Read more
Caroline Glick is Deputy Managing Editor of the Jerusalem Post and had this to say about Obama after his takedown by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu: …Obama’s leadership model is the model of subversive leadership. Subversive leaders in democracies do not tell their citizens where they wish to lead their societies. They hide their goals from … Read more
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
Household debt as a percentage of personal income While much attention has been made of our national debt, many also personally have piled on debt, especially since 2000. Now for the very first time, consumers have been deleveraging – and at a quick pace. But still, most of us are still highly leveraged with credit … Read more
Debt Ceiling
Yes, Anthony Weiner probably did tweet a picture of his Weiner to a college co-ed. He is arrogant enough. They are both adults. It’s not as if he cheated on his wife and lied to a grand jury about it. But the coverup by the left wing organs (sorry) is a glorious display of self-immolation.
(H/T: Powerline)
Investigative reporter Erick Stakelbeck, host of the network program “Stakelbeck on Terror,” has written a book everyone needs to pay attention to. It’s called “The Terrorist Next Door, ‘How the government is deceiving you about the Islamist threat.”
The New Hampshire Senate will be voting on HB 146 this week, a bill that would give the jury in any trial the power of nullification.
Coincidence?
..what I find particularity perverse is that “Republican” Senators in New Hampshire could be tying themselves to the Massachusetts compromise as the tipping point at which staying in RGGI would then no longer make sense.
Yes, we can say that the Great Recession was a cause of this. However, that said, has TARP and the Stimulus (according to Cheerleader-in-Chief), and all of the subsequent Obama policies help? Looks like this Change has been rejected….for the Hope is gone… (H/T: Greg Mankiw)
Over at Big Hollywood, it is Ben Shapiro /PrimeTime Propaganda. And I’m not surprised. I have pretty much stopped watching the big networks’ offerings. After all, as a Conservative middle aged, white, Evangelical male who believes in traditional values, has never cheated on his wife for 30 years, don’t drink, don’t carouse, or do drugs, … Read more
US House votes down raising the debt ceiling 318-97 And 82 Democrats joined the Republican caucus for the vote. Obama wanted a "clean" up and down vote on his ability to send us further into debt – NO spending cuts or promises attached. This is a TEA Party victory over those that would commit us … Read more
Yeah, THIS chart goes a ways to explaining THAT chart: We’ve been worried about the housing taking a double dip. It is rather obvious that no matter what, the policies that have been put into place thus far have engendered NO trust and faith by the public. The housing stock already foreclosed upon is just … Read more
Remember, if you could have quit, if you HAD quit, there would never have been a need for the TEA Party. (H/T: Big Government)
(H/T: The Enterprise Blog)
That’s $480 million per second on a 35 hour work week.
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And Obama is setting a trajectory to never returning to the Founders’ vision of a limited and towards that of a socialist society:
(H/T: Cafe Hayek)
A chart doing a quick comparison of Bush vs Obama after the break:
Click on the image for a larger size: (H/T: Lawrence Livermore National Labs)
We must know our enemies. The ground-troops for the regressive statists are being trained online HERE. These are the enablers for the political/government/ruling classes. There is much good to be learned about them in their "DFA Night School." These classes are designed to teach people to enable and grow a leviathan government with unlimited powers. Knowing their aims, tactics, and plans gives us … Read more
Marine Corps Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) Number 2112 “Precision Weapons Repairer. That is what I did. I found this entry on the Marine Corps Community for USMC veterans. I found it worthy of sharing. It took me back to the hard works and labors of my early days as a young Marine serving our country. So on this Memorial day, I not write of my own musings and thoughts, but I defer that to my brother Amorers who have so adeptly described what we do (and did). To them I say…Semper Fi!
The destructive power of a machine gun, mortar or rifle by itself is nothing, but when manned by Marines in combat, it strikes terror into the heart of the enemy.
Armorers in the Marine Corps make sure that each one of these weapons, along with many other small-arms, are secured, maintained and accounted for, until Marines need to put them to use.
Armorers are responsible for every weapon in their charge – 100 percent accountability at all times.
“Most people don’t realize how much we do on a daily basis,” said Sgt. Clinton Rosemeyer, armory chief, Headquarters and Service Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific. “Between the multiple weapons counts, issuing weapons, maintenance and inspections after recovering weapons – we keep pretty busy.”
The battalion’s armory contains pistols, rifles, machine guns and mortars. Armorers must be able to inspect the weapons to determine if they have malfunctions, need repairs or meet serviceability standards, according to Marine Corps Order P1200.7.
In order to do that, armorers must be able to disassemble and assemble every weapon in their charge, and be able to assess the condition of each piece of the weapon.
