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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.

  • 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

    West Ridge Mine –

    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 –

    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

    Kmart in Homer Glen

    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?

  • Eat, Drink, & Be Merry For Tomorrow We Die

    Back on Monday I had a fairly lengthy email exchange with a colleague.  In addition to a prediction of the race he wanted something a little more down the trough so to speak.  I told him that if Obama won it would be the beginning of the end of our beloved U.S of A.

    I have a quote on my foundations page:

    A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.  From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
    — Attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler

     

    It appears the American people have spoken: they want the free lunch; they believe we can eat the rich;  they demand their free phones and it really doesn’t matter who’s paying for it… as long as it’s not them.  They want a pot on every stove and a chicken in every pot.  They understand nothing of finance or economics other than to know that someone else should pay.  The government has trillions; they should get theirs’.  It’s a lot like Kramer explaining a write-off to Jerry on Seinfeld.  The American people don’t know where the money comes from and frankly don’t care.  The government has the money.  The government knows what it’s doing.  I’m voting for the guy who’s going to make sure that I get mine.

    I spoke with a friend this afternoon who told me about Santa Claus.  I’m not a huge Rush fan but it is so dead on the money.

    But first, let me tell you, small things beat big things yesterday. Conservatism, in my humble opinion, did not lose last night. It’s just very difficult to beat Santa Claus. It is practically impossible to beat Santa Claus. People are not going to vote against Santa Claus, especially if the alternative is being your own Santa Claus.

    Now, everybody is jumping on Romney’s chain today, getting in his chili. Look, he may have not been the most optimal candidate, but he’s a fine man. He would have been great for this country. Mitt Romney and his family would have been the essence of exactly what this country needs. But what was Romney’s recipe? Romney’s recipe was the old standby: American route to success, hard work. That gets sneered at. I’m sorry. In a country of children where the option is Santa Claus or work, what wins? And say what you want, but Romney did offer a vision of traditional America. In his way, he put forth a great vision of traditional America, and it was rejected. It was rejected in favor of a guy who thinks that those who are working aren’t doing enough to help those who aren’t. And that resonated.

    via Rush Limbaugh.

    Is that not accurate?

    We don’t want to work.  We want life to be easy.  We want to believe that rich people did not earn their money.  We want the government to take care of us, keep us safe.  We have a tax code that punishes saving and savers — people who save their money get their social security taxed at a higher rate than those who spend their money.  We go out of our way to accommodate irresponsibility at every turn; everyone deserves a second chance… or a third… or a fourth…

    And so a great many celebrated last night.  Indeed!! Eat, drink, & be merry for tomorrow we die.  First you will kill the producers; the so called “rich” who take most of the financial risk in this country.  Then you will punish the banks, those who also make money by taking a financial risk.  As the economy fails the masses will demand safety and comfort from their government giving up more and more freedoms along the way.  We, our government, will force more taxes and restrictions on the dwindling number of producers — you cannot fire people, you cannot make more than $1,000,000 per year, etc.  It will never be enough.  More regulations, less freedom.  More demands by the populous; less to go around.

    Congratulations America.  You’re witnessing the beginning of your end.

    So by all means eat, drink, and be merry… for tomorrow we all shall die.

  • Who’s Helping; Who’s Talking

  • Socialism Hurts the Poor

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  • CPS Pays Parents for Good Behavior

    Blatantly stolen from Second City Cop:

    Is the lure of a $25 gift card enough to persuade a parent who’s not involved in their child’s education to get involved?

    Seventy Chicago Public Schools that have struggled to engage parents are about to find out.

    At Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s request, Walgreen Co. has agreed to provide $25 gift cards to parents who pick up their students’ report cards and participate in parent-teacher conferences during report card pickup days.

    “This is a way, in my view, of incentivizing responsible parenting,” Emanuel told a news conference at Field Elementary School, 7019 N. Ashland.

    Is he serious? “incentivizing responsible parenting?” In what parallel universe is this unmitigated ass living in? If you “incentivize” (which isn’t even a real word) bad behavior, what do you get? More bad behavior.

    Every study in existence proves this. Example A is the entire welfare system – you pay someone not to work, you get a shitload of people not working. You give someone a check for pushing out babies, pretty soon the birthrate skyrockets and you have 15, 14 even 13-year-olds having babies. You know what reduced the teen birthrate back in the 1990’s? Stopping the checks.

    Emanuel said he got the gift card idea during one of his morning workouts.

    “That’s what happens when I start swimming. I start coming up with ideas,” the mayor said.

    The mayor then approached Walgreen CEO Greg Wasson, who jumped at the opportunity to “give back” to the city where the company has operated for 112 years and now has 150 stores.

    This explains part of where he keeps getting these fucked up ideas – chlorine poisoning.

    via Second City Cop.

    So that’s kinda entertaining.  But I fail to see how giving away gift cards to parents who come pick-up report cards and sit for parent-teacher conferences is exactly creating an incentive for bad behavior.  Seems like good behavior to me.

    The bigger problem with this is like Chris Rock (and Barack Obama) have pointed out that we keep setting the bar so low.

    Another comparison, though, is illustrated by an old Chris Rock joke: “People say Colin Powell speaks so well. What’d they expect him to say? ‘Ahmma drop me a bomb’?” There’s something incredibly condescending to think of saying that a man who has risen to the ranks of 4-star general or United States Senator is “articulate,” but it’s always meant as a compliment. In reality, though, it’s a backhanded one.

    Obama is more than “articulate,” of course; he’s a truly gifted orator. And he was editor of the Harvard Law Review and otherwise has some mighty impressive credentials. It does seem, though, that the bar is set much lower for Obama than most men who would be president.

    via Outside the Beltway.

    Isn’t there a soft bigotry in saying that these parents need this incentive to do things that other parents do [without the incentive]?

    I actually believe — from what I’m seen with my own eyes living on the West Side for 9 years — that the vast majority of parents want to help their kids get a good education.  They want to be a positive influence in their children’s lives.  They just simply do not know how because they were never taught by their parents.

    What we need to do is help train parents to be better parents.  Not throw $25 in gift cards at them and expect them to suddenly become Ma and Pa Cleaver.

  • More Dem on GOP Violence

    ALTA LOMA, CA — Someone keyed the word “Obama” into two cars and slashed seats in another outside a residence that had Mitt Romney campaign signs.

    via CBS Los Angeles.

    But wait, that’s not all you get:

    Racine, WI — Before the event could get under way, though, organizers say a truck affixed with “Obama” stickers drove through the parking lot and dumped quantities of nails.

    “We went outside and picked up what we could,” said Lou D’Abbraccio, holding a cup filled with nails. “But this was just wrong.”

    via Mount Pleasant.

     

     

  • Obama a Real Contributor to Subprime Loan Failures

    President Barack Obama was a pioneering contributor to the national subprime real estate bubble, and roughly half of the 186 African-American clients in his landmark 1995 mortgage discrimination lawsuit against Citibank have since gone bankrupt or received foreclosure notices.

    As few as 19 of those 186 clients still own homes with clean credit ratings, following a decade in which Obama and other progressives pushed banks to provide mortgages to poor African Americans.

    via The Daily Caller.

    Kudos to The Daily Caller for putting together this incredibly well researched piece about Obama being one of the lawyers who sued Citibank to make sub-prime loans.

    That this story is being written in 2012 and not 2008, and by a small independent website and not by any of the major media outlets is a complete indictment of our entire media system.

    I can remember when I stopped watching The Daily Show.  It was shortly before the 2008 election and Michelle Obama was the guest.  After she comes out, the first question John Stewart asks is something like, “Tell us something we don’t know about you?” and the crowed goes wild.  It was an sardonic arrow aimed at those who were screaming to anyone who would listen, ‘What do we really know about these people?’

    The truth Mr. Stewart, is we knew very little about these people.  We still know very little about these people.  It’s a same that the media didn’t do its job 4 years ago and any time since.  So because you ignored your responsibilities for the last 4 years someone has now produced some facts showing how:

    • Obama sued Citibank forcing it to make bad, sub-prime loans;
    • Many of those loans failed, including nearly half of those plaintiffs in the Obama case;
    • The sub-prime loan failures led to the collapse of the entire mortgage system causing the greatest economic crisis since the great depression.

    Mr. Obama help create the problem he inherited.

    That is what the press should be reporting.

  • “Obama, Romney – Same Police State”

    Johnson’s first point was that the US political system is in desperate need of transparency.  Whether Obama or Romney is elected next month, he told the audience, we will still have “a heightened police state in the US.”  And Obama and Romney are guaranteed to continue American military interventions abroad, he added.

    via RT.

    Indeed.  Obama and Romney are more alike than different when you consider the other ideas being bantered about.  Such as:

    However, [Johnson] saw taxing marijuana as one alternative to outlawing it. “I have drank alcohol,” he said, “and I have smoked marijuana. … I can tell you that in no category is marijuana more dangerous than alcohol – yet we are arresting 1.8 million people a year on drug-related crimes.” He claimed that fully half of the US court and prison budget every year goes to drug-related offenses, and asked, rhetorically, “to what end?”

    I would love a presidential candidate to come forward and tell the American people directly that the war on drugs has been an epic failure.

    Johnson repeated throughout the debate that thanks to American wars abroad, the US has unnecessarily made millions of enemies around the world.  The use of the military, he said, is to defend the country, not invade other nations.

    I would love a presidential candidate to come forward and tell the American people directly that our foreign policy of intervening in everyone else’s affairs has been an epic failure.

    “The biggest threat to our national security is that we’re bankrupt,” he told the audience….

    I would love a presidential candidate to come forward and tell the American people directly that our debt is a national security issue.

    …

    Kudos to Gary Johnson.  Such a shame that the GOP and Dem and MSM just ignore you.

  • Islamist Radicals Visited White House

    A year-long investigation by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has found that scores of known radical Islamists made hundreds of visits to the Obama White House, meeting with top administration officials.

    via The Investigative Project on Terrorism.

    This is a problem.

    A real mo fo problem.

    No word yet from the Ministry of Truth.