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Saturday, December 19, 2015

The dirty GOP sellout bastards . . .

"Gun control in GOP-passed budget, cheers Bloomberg group."

An anti-gun group applauded the GOP approved $1.8 trillion end-of-the-year spending bill and tax package Saturday, claiming that it will boost gun control efforts and expand background checks. "The final version of the funding bill demonstrates the steady progress we are seeing to reduce gun violence in this country," said Everytown for Gun Safety. The group said increased law enforcement spending will help limit gun violence, President Obama's top agenda item in his last year in office. Everytown is backed by Bloomberg, who started Mayors Against Illegal Guns while mayor of New York.

5 comments:

Uncle Elmo said...: MORE MONEY FOR EVERYBODY!!! Including funding more studies on gun violence.

Gee, I wonder what conclusions they'll come to. I'm sure they'll be every bit as objective as the government-funded studies regarding climate change/anthropogenic global warming have been.; December 19, 2015 at 1:53 PM
Bill Lorton said...: That was a hell of a gut-check until I actually read the article, Mike. I was relieved that it was only a budgetary increase...but any money for those folks is a misappropriation of tax dollars in my opinion. As far as the GOP betrayal issue...I didn't trust them back when I voted Democrat, and I don't trust them now that I consider myself a to-the-core Libertarian. I find it hard to believe that there is a single federal politician that has the interests of us Citizens at heart. All we can do is push back when bullied, tell anyone with ears our position, and stock the larders deep.; December 19, 2015 at 2:15 PM
Anonymous said...: So let me see if i get this. If you're out in the middle of the woods, will they send an FAA guy out there, in the middle of nowhere, to hunt for the guy flying a small hobby drone? Sounds like a great way for some bureaucrat to go missing---; December 19, 2015 at 2:27 PM
Anonymous said...: The GOP , The Siamese Twin of the DNC; December 19, 2015 at 7:46 PM
Anonymous said...: "It also cheered the removal of a proposal to sell surplus military guns."

What the hell does that mean?; December 20, 2015 at 3:38 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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