Exercising your constitutional rights

When you start hearing intelligent people say stupid things, you know they’ve lost the argument. Bill Clinton is a smart man. He’s a Rhodes Scholar. He’s well read. But he can’t defend liberalism by an appeal to facts. So he does the only thing he can. He makes up stuff. The same tactic is used by today’s racialists. Everything is about race. Criticism of an Obama policy is an attack on him and all blacks because he’s black. Read more: http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/08/bill-clinton-says-harder-vote-purchase-assault-weapons/#ixzz2dTTFDoqe
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When you start hearing intelligent people say stupid things, you know they’ve lost the argument. Bill Clinton is a smart man. He’s a Rhodes Scholar. He’s well read. But he can’t defend liberalism by an appeal to facts. So he does the only thing he can. He makes up stuff. The same tactic is used by today’s racialists. Everything is about race. Criticism of an Obama policy is an attack on him and all blacks because he’s black. People are getting tired of hearing the “it’s all about race” narrative. Even President Obama is not convinced that race is a factor of conservative opposition to his policies. Obama told PBS' Newshour that Republican opposition to his policies isn't about the color of his skin. “It doesn't have to do with race in particular.” Bill Clinton’s latest act of desperation to motivate the liberal base is to claim that voting is more difficult than purchasing an assault weapon. During Clinton’s speech at the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, the first black president, as Toni Morrison called him in 1998, said the following after offering support for President Obama’s expansion of the welfare state: “We must push open those stubborn gates,” Clinton said. Clinton suggested that the Supreme Court decision striking down a portion of the Voting Rights Act was an act of continuing racism. “A great democracy does not make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon. We must open those stubborn gates,” Clinton stated. Read more: http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/08/bill-clinton-says-harder-vote-purchase-assault-weapons/#ixzz2dTT8RBtZ
Read more at http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/08/bill-clinton-says-harder-vote-purchase-assault-weapons/#6XkAtrhphwGVH4Yh.99

When you start hearing intelligent people say stupid things, you know they’ve lost the argument. Bill Clinton is a smart man. He’s a Rhodes Scholar. He’s well read. But he can’t defend liberalism by an appeal to facts. So he does the only thing he can. He makes up stuff. The same tactic is used by today’s racialists. Everything is about race. Criticism of an Obama policy is an attack on him and all blacks because he’s black. People are getting tired of hearing the “it’s all about race” narrative. Even President Obama is not convinced that race is a factor of conservative opposition to his policies. Obama told PBS' Newshour that Republican opposition to his policies isn't about the color of his skin. “It doesn't have to do with race in particular.” Bill Clinton’s latest act of desperation to motivate the liberal base is to claim that voting is more difficult than purchasing an assault weapon. During Clinton’s speech at the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, the first black president, as Toni Morrison called him in 1998, said the following after offering support for President Obama’s expansion of the welfare state: “We must push open those stubborn gates,” Clinton said. Clinton suggested that the Supreme Court decision striking down a portion of the Voting Rights Act was an act of continuing racism. “A great democracy does not make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon. We must open those stubborn gates,” Clinton stated. Read more: http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/08/bill-clinton-says-harder-vote-purchase-assault-weapons/#ixzz2dTT8RBtZ
Read more at http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/08/bill-clinton-says-harder-vote-purchase-assault-weapons/#6XkAtrhphwGVH4Yh.99

According to the Billary.............

"A great democracy does not make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon," 

For the record Billary, last weekend, I exercised my 2nd amendment constitutional right  and bought a rifle and a shotgun.

Not only did I have to provide an ID, I had to complete a questionnaire, have that information called into to a federal government database and actually have my constitutionally protected right approved by some clown I never met.

It seems reasonable to me for voters to do the same thing.

Life in "Progress" City - Wilmington DE edition

From my ex-wife's hometown.........

Police in Wilmington are investigating the reported gang rape of two women at a park in Delaware. Police say two women, ages 32 and 24, were reportedly attacked and sexually assaulted by a group of 10 to 12 black male juveniles in Kosciuszko Park at about 6:54 p.m. Thursday. According to police, the suspects, who range in age from 12 to 17-years-old, remain on the loose........

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Conservatism.........Saving liberals from themselves

So you decide that for whatever reason your average criminal is a good guy who's just had some hard knocks in life.

As a result, you show some compassion and don't put this clown away like you should but let him back on the streets.

Question. who do you think this guy is going to victimize first; a bunch of conservatives who live in the nice cushy environs of "Redville" or the liberal residents of "Progress" City?

You won't need a lot of studies to figure it out. We can witness it in California..........

It wasn’t supposed to turn out this way, was it? In 2011, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Plata that California must reduce overcrowding in the state’s prisons, overcrowding so severe that the Court — or five members of it, anyway — found that it constituted cruel and unusual punishment and thus violated the Eighth Amendment. The “Brown” of the case is California Governor Jerry Brown, who when faced with the predictably grim prospects demanded by the decision, saw through the legislation and implementation of what has been labeled “Public Safety Realignment.” This innocuous term is of course government-speak for “realigning” people out of prison where they belong and onto the streets of California’s cities, with the greatest share of them coming to roost in and around Los Angeles.

It’s impolite to say “I told you so,” but sometimes good manners must give way to good sense. I’ve visited this topic on three previous occasions here on PJ Media, in each case referring to the predictable consequences of failing to punish people for proscribed conduct. Today, fewer felons are in California’s prisons, perhaps making life a bit more tolerable for those who are so confined, but making life all the more intolerable for the rest of us. In 2011, 50,678 people were sent to state prison in California. The following year, after all that “realignment” started happening, the number fell to 33,990.

Though Governor Brown and the lesser lights of California politics have sought to put a glad face on what has happened since, the inescapable truth is that crime in California, after years of decline, is on the rise once again.

For just one example, look at the website of the California State Department of Justice, on which appears a chart depicting trends in violent and property crimes for the last 30 years (a period that happens to roughly coincide with my career as a police officer). Both lines on the graph indicate a fairly consistent downward trend in crime — that is, until one looks at 2012, when both lines ticked upward.

What could have happened in 2011 that explains this? Puzzling.

Read the rest.

Who did she vote for?

 

I'll bet Winston and Logan are not making minimum wage

So now we have this big push to increase the minimum wage.........

Washington already has the nation's highest state minimum wage at $9.19 an hour. Now, there's a push in Seattle, at least, to make it $15.

 That would mean fast food workers, retail clerks, baristas and other minimum wage workers would get what protesters demanded when they shut down a handful of city restaurants in May and others called for when they demonstrated nationwide in July.

So far, the City Council and mayoral candidates have said they would consider it in the famously liberal city. One said, however, that it may not be soon.

Venture capitalist Nick Hanauer said there's no time to waste. What the nation needs is money in the hands of regular consumers. "A higher minimum wage is a very simple and elegant solution to the death spiral of falling demand that is the signature feature of our economy," he said.

Years ago, I had a paper boy named Winston. That kid would deliver papers rain or shine to my office for what I think was about three - four years.  One day a kid named Logan came to collect for the paper, I asked him about Winston and he told me that Winston was his brother and that he was working at King's Island, a local amusement park.

Last summer, Logan dropped a note with our paper that the brothers (there were actually three boys) were moving on and that we would have a new carrier.

I could be wrong but I would venture a guess that these, now, men are not making minimum wage anywhere.

Unfortunately, in our society today, showing up is considered a major job skill for our youth. But these boys learned in their formative years that there was a lot more to just showing up if you want to make more money.

See Winston took his paper route skills to a place that paid better, Kings Island. He probably found a better job or went to school to get a real college degree, not one of those Russian Lit Barista type degrees and moved on to something even more profitable. That's how the ladder of success works.

And I'm guessing that all those boys are moving right up the ladder.

We're not sure why, but we're certain humans are responsible

This Washington Post piece is incredible.........

The IPCC admits that it doesn’t have a sure answer to a vexing question: Why has warming slowed a bit in the past decade or so? With medium confidence, the draft suggests that the explanation lies in a mix of natural variations and things such as the oceans absorbing more heat or more volcano debris reflecting sunlight back into space. It’s also possible, the scientists admit, that the planet’s sensitivity to greenhouse emissions is lower than middle-of-the-road projections.

Unless the IPCC’s report changes drastically between now and next month, the bottom-line message will be clear. Some uncertainties are inevitable when humans try to comprehend an incredibly complex climate system. Scientists might not be able to answer some questions for years, until they can look back at what changed after so much carbon dioxide entered the atmosphere so quickly. Those inevitable uncertainties are all the more reason for governments, starting with the United States’, to head off the ample risks of continuing to release huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the air and to set about it with speed and ambition.

First off, warming hasn't slowed over the past decade, it's downright non existent.

Second, how do we explain the warming on Mars? To my knowledge, the last human to show up there was Timothy Leary.

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What you can get with your EBT

I'm thinking that the government loaded up the EBT cards yesterday since I was in a local convenience store and the derelict in front of me was loading up.

Here was her grocery list

- a gallon of milk
- two, two liter bottles of coke
- a 12 inch microwave hoagie
- two bags of Frito's
- a bucket of cotton candy

and as the clerk was ringing it up, she ran back to get a candy bar of some kind.

When I hear people cry about the "food deserts", communities where there are no stores offering fresh meat and produce, I have to laugh.

This ding dong was all of three blocks from a local Kroger store..........packed full of wholesome & fresh goodies. It was clear from the look of her stretched out tattoos, that this honey hadn't eaten a fresh vegetable in quite a while but it sure didn't curtail her caloric consumption.

But instead of heading there, she was at the convenience store, where her bags of awesome nutrition was a good 3-4 dollars more expensive than the local full service grocery.

Combined with the guy who I assumed was her baby daddy (who had plenty of cash for lottery tickets), it was quite the deflating experience.

Call me a callous, non caring, d-bag if you like. But before your drop that on me, I challenge you to an hour in a convenience store and witness the protoplasm that walks in on "pay day" and report what you witness.