Comments on: Friday Talking Points [251] -- Don Young Shows GOP How Not To Reach Out To Minorities

By: Michale

Michale — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:22:32 +0000

Speaking of an April Fool...

Obama Proclaims April the Month to Teach Young People ‘How to Budget Responsibly’
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-proclaims-april-month-teach-young-people-how-budget-responsibly

So, let me get this straight..

A leader (and I use the term in it's most basic sense) who has risen our debt to over 16 TRILLION dollars, dollars we DON'T have, is going to lecture young people on how to be fiscally responsible...

You simply CANNOT make this stuff up...

Michale

By: Michale

Michale — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:09:01 +0000

And, in other news....

Our own fair-haired star, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz putting out a fund raiser request saying that the DNC is broke and spent more money than they had..

http://cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/dnc-chair-were-red-we-spent-every-last-pennyand-then-some

Democrats spending more money than they have!???

I am shocked!! Shocked I tell ya!!! :D

What is it about Democrats that they are anathema to fiscal responsibility???

Michale

By: Michale

Michale — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:12:37 +0000

Now, a quick review is in order. Where did the Sandy Hook shooter get his guns from? His mother. The Sandy Hook shooting was the reason we're even talking about gun legislation right now, and the compromise both sides can agree upon leaves as the only loophole the way the Sandy Hook shooter got his guns. Brilliant. Simply brilliant. And people wonder why cockroaches are more popular than Congress."

So, what are you saying??

That because the mother had a son with mental problems, she would have been denied weapons??

That would require a nationalized database of mental health cases..

Are ya'all REALLY on board with that??

Let's face the facts here. Our current system of background checks is a joke. ACLU Bleeding Heart Lefties won't let it have any real teeth...

And the Left proposes EXPANDING that joke into a BIGGER joke??

Nothing being proposed today (except an outright ban/confiscation from the Looney Fringe Left) would have prevented Sandy Hook..

So, this begs the question..

WHY are they even being discussed??

Sure, they might prove useful.. It might snare a psychotic arsehole or two BEFORE they get a gun.. But it would likely prevent hundreds of thousands of law abiding Americans from obtaining needed weapons..

And to try and tie the current legislation to Sandy Hook is an even BIGGER joke than the background checks.. As I mention above, what is being proposed would have had absolutely NO EFFECT on Sandy Hook..

It's like proposing earthquake safety legislation in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy...

Sure, it might be a tad beneficial..

But one has absolutely NOTHING to do with the other...

Here is the ONE fact that NO ONE has been able to refute..

Guns are NOT the problem. Availability of guns is not the problem.

I can prove that unequivocally and w/o question to the most die-hardest Gun Control liberal...

Michale

By: Michale

Michale — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:50:11 +0000

But while we were all court-watching, there was some other political news happening this week. We start off with an embarrassing item. Now, I'm as big a Star Trek fan as the next guy, but hearing that the I.R.S. spent $60,000 on a Star Trek spoof training video was a bit much even for me. Sure, that's not just "peanuts" when it comes to federal budgeting, it's in fact "one grain of salt on one single peanut." But still, guys, it's like you're painting a target on yourselves (right before tax season, to make it worse) saying: "Oh, please cut our budget... pretty please?!" It wouldn't have been so bad if it was at least ACCURATE... But they had on ST:TNG uniforms on the Bridge of the ST:TOS Enterprise. Duuuuhhhhhhh...... Whatta bunch of maroons... Moving on, I would have thought that Obama would deserve a (dis)honorable mention for partying like a One Percent'er... Sometimes, that perception cuts to the core. Like when President George W. Bush stopped playing golf in 2003, at the height of the Iraq War. “I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal,” he said years later. “I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them.” That’s also why Mr. Bush did two other things, without fanfare or praise. First, he never headed home to his Texas ranch until after Christmas, instead going to Camp David for a few days. That way, the hundreds of people revolving around him at all times — White House staff, Secret Service agents, reporters, photographers, all the others — could spend the holiday with their families in and around Washington, D.C. No one ever reported that — until this column. Second, he rarely attended sporting events, although he once owned a baseball team and was a self-confessed stats junkie. His thinking there was the same: If he went to a baseball game (right down the street from the White House), his mere presence would mean hours and hours of extra security for fans. He once stopped off at the Daytona 500 and the metal detectors through which every fan had to pass left thousands outside in line when the green flag fell; he didn’t attend many sporting events after that. But something remarkable has happened with these occupants of the White House: Neither President Obama nor first lady Michelle appear to give a damn about perception. They won the White House and, by God, they’re going to enjoy their time there, no matter the cost. And who cares what you think, anyway? How else to explain the nonstop vacations the pair keep taking during what Mr. Obama calls the “worst financial crisis since the Great Depression”? In 2013, the First Family has already enjoyed three vacations — that’s one a month. (Sorry, Joe America, you might have to forget your week at the beach again this year, but make sure you get those taxes in on time!) p.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/31/curl-the-obamas-live-the-1-percent-life/ And, since the financial news is ALWAYS news.. :D By manipulating the price of money through sustained and historically low interest rates, Greenspan and Bernanke created an era of asset mis-pricing that inevitably would need to correct. And when market forces attempted to do so in 2008, Paulson et al hoodwinked the world into believing the repercussions would be so calamitous for all that the institutions responsible for the bad actions that instigated the problem needed to be rescued -- in full -- at all costs. Of course, history shows that our markets and economy would have been better off had the system been allowed to correct. Most of the "too big to fail" institutions would have survived or been broken into smaller, more resilient, entities. For those that would have failed, smaller, more responsible banks would have stepped up to replace them - as happens as part of the natural course of a free market system peakprosperity.com/podcast/81371/david-stockman-federal-reserve-fed-wall-street-bernanke-deformation#ixzz2PDPw61Ya Hmmmmmmm Letting the crash happen.... WHO around here suggested that THAT would have been the best policy... Hmmmmmmmmm :D Michale