Category: Politics
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Ineptocracy
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Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrants | Politics and Law – CNET News
A Senate proposal touted as protecting Americans’ e-mail privacy has been quietly rewritten, giving government agencies more surveillance power than they possess under current law.
CNET has learned that Patrick Leahy, the influential Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, has dramatically reshaped his legislation in response to law enforcement concerns. A vote on his bill, which now authorizes warrantless access to Americans’ e-mail, is scheduled for next week.
via CNET News.
Very sad.
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Gov. Regulation Run Amok: 6,125 New Regs. in 90 Days
It’s Friday morning, and so far today, the Obama administration has posted 165 new regulations and notifications on its reguations.gov website.
In the past 90 days, it has posted 6,125 regulations and notices – an average of 68 a day.
via CNSNews.com.
Shear insanity.
Makes me think of the old Guns & Roses song Signs.
We’re no longer free. Very sad.
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US Guns Sales Booming
Mel Bernstein, owner of Dragonman Arms in Colorado Springs, told KOAA-TV that sales of semi-automatic weapons had boomed in recent days.
He said: “We’re going from normally six to eight guns a day, to 25. I stocked up, I got a stockpile of these AK-47s, we’re selling these like hot cakes. Luckily I had an idea of what was going on because it happened with Clinton.”
Mr Bernstein said he normally orders up to 7,000 rounds a week from distributors but could now only get hold of 3,000 because of demand.
John Kielbasa, owner of Fernwood Firearms in Hankins, New York, told CNN: “Sales are up. I had a guy waiting here first thing in the morning (the day after the election.) He came in, bought two AK-47s. It’s going to be good for me for business.”
via Telegraph.
Again from the U.K. No U.S. paper wants to touch this right now. They wrote all about it before the election when it would drive gun-control folks to the polls. Now, it’s the other side of the sword; Obama is the greatest gun salesman of all time.
Even if Obama manages to slip something by the Congress the damage is done. 12.7 million background checks in 2008 alone. The number’s only gone up… every year since. Obama in office is responsible for 5 – 6 million new guns sales since 2008. Crazy.
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Valerie Jarrett Says:
After we win this election, it’s our turn. Payback time. Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don’t forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay. Congress won’t be a problem for us this time. No election to worry about after this is over and we have two judges ready to go.
— Valerie Jarrett, Obama Senior Advisor
That’s one classy lady.
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Companies Closing or Laying-off Since Obama Won
An incredible complication of stories over at TheBlaze.com.
Here’s a partial list of layoffs announced since the election:
Energizer – laying off 1,500 employees
Exide Technologies – laying off 150 employees
Westinghouse – laid off another 50 employees
Research in Motion Limited – laid off about 200 employees
Lightyear Network Solutions – laid off more than a dozen
Providence Journal – laid off 23 employees
Hawker Beechcraft – laying off 240 employees
Boeing – laying off 30% of executives at Boeing Defense, Space & Security
CVPH Medical Center – laid off 17 employees
US Cellular – laying off 980, 640 in the Chicago area
Momentive Performance Materials – laying off 150
Rocketdyne – laid off about 100
Brake Parts – laying off 75
Vestas Wind Systems – reducing headcount by 3,000
Husqvarna – laying off 600
Center for Hospice New York – laying off 40
Bristol-Meyers – laying of 480
OCE North America – laying off 135
In its statement, UtahAmerican Energy blames the Obama administration for instituting policies that will close down “204 American coal-fired power plants by 2014″ and for drastically reducing the market for coal.
United Blood Services Gulf South region, the non-profit blood service provider for much of south Louisiana and Mississippi, will lay off approximately 10 percent of its workforce. It was a hard decision to make according to Susan Begnaud, Regional Center Director for the Gulf South region.
Insane right? Here’s a partial list of businesses closing announced since the election:
Caterpillar Inc. will close its plant in Owatonna Minn.
Mount Pleasant’s Albrecht Sentry Foods
The Target store at Manassas Mall Va.
Millennium Academy in Wake Forest NC
Target Closing Kissimmee FL Location
The Andover Gift Shop in Andover MA
Grand Union Family Markets Closing Storrs Location CT
Movie Scene Milford Location NH
Update: TE Connectivity Closing Greensboro Plant – 620 Layoffs Expected
Gomer’s Fried Chicken in South Kansas City
Fresh Market on Pine Street in Burlington
AGC Glass North America to permanently close its Blue Ridge Plant in Kingsport Tenn
The Target store at Platte and Academy in Colorado Springs
The Roses store on Reynold Road in Winston-Salem NC
Bost Harley-Davidson at 46th Avenue North and Delaware Ave. in West Nashville TN
Townsend Booksellers in Oakland
The Kmart store in Parkway Plaza off University Drive in Durham NC – 79 Jobs Lost
Where’s Chris Matthews on this story? Where the rest of the media on this story?
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IL Voters in 10 counties Want Concealed Carry
Residents in some Illinois counties sent a message to lawmakers this week: Give citizens the right to carry concealed weapons.
Measures supporting concealed carry were on the ballot Tuesday in at least 10 mostly rural counties — Adams, Bond, Henry, McDonough, Mercer, Randolph, Rock Island, Schuyler, Stephenson and Warren — and passed overwhelmingly in every one.
The votes were nonbinding because local law cannot override state law. But advocates say they hope to build pressure on lawmakers to support concealed carry.
Illinois is the only state where carrying a concealed weapon is entirely illegal.
via DailyHerald.com.
Hat Tip to Stranger over at Extrano’s Alley for the story. Being in Cook County where it’s illegal to even think about owning a gun, I did not even know these referenda were on the ballot.
Kudos to the rest of the state for standing up to The Machine.
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Craigslist Ads Seek Election Night Sex
As Mitt Romney and Barack Obama make one final, last-ditch effort to win the presidency, some Washington, D.C. and surrounding area folks are using Craigslist to make one last-ditch effort to find an election night companion for some adult entertainment.
Here are some of the best lines from personal ads seeking to relieve some stress from this seemingly never-ending campaign, “grown folks style”:
via The Daily Caller.
A tad more prurient than I usually but it’s too funny to pass up.
Click and enjoy.
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US Out Of The Top 10 In World Prosperity Index
The Legatum Prosperity Index assessed and ranked the prosperity of 142 countries based on eight sub-categories: economy, entrepreneurship and opportunity, health, governance, education, safety and security, personal freedom, and social capital.
via Business Insider.
We are now 12th.
Embarrassing. No wonder people are leaving in droves.
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Bloomberg Turns Down National Guard Over Guns
Bloomberg has reportedly turned down additional help from the U.S. National Guard. “We don’t need it,” Bloomberg insists, despite pleas from the boroughs for back-up. “The NYPD is the only people we want on the street with guns.”
via TheBlaze.com.
Do I have this right?
New Yorkers would rather starve than have someone with a firearm bring them something to eat? If so then they deserve to starve.