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Monday, January 28, 2013

One Of The Terrible Costs Of The Obama Economy

Study: Nearly half overqualified for jobs...

Politico:

Sheriff David Clarke Jr.: Skip 911, defend yourself

By KEVIN CIRILLI | 1/28/13 9:43 AM EST

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Jr. said on Monday a radio ad in which he urges residents to take a safety course in handling firearms because “calling 911 and waiting is no longer your best option.”
Clarke doubled down on CNN’s “Starting Point,” saying that there are certain instances where calling the police would be “of no use.”

“There are certain situations — and I think most people get that — where 911 is going to be of no use. For instance, once the wolf is at the door, once the intruder is inside your home, once you’re on the street and someone sticks a gun in your face to take your car or your wallet, you don’t have the option of calling 911,” Clarke said.

He continued: “In those situations, there are certain things you can do to protect yourself. It’s a public safety message, and I’m just here to let the people know, give them the information as to what’s going on, and to give them options, if you will, as to how to defend themselves in those situations.”

In the ad released earlier this month, Clarke says: “I’m Sheriff David Clarke, and I want to talk to you about something personal…your safety. It’s no longer a spectator sport; I need you in the game, but are you ready? With officers laid-off and furloughed, simply calling 911 and waiting is no longer your best option.”

He continues: “You can beg for mercy from a violent criminal, hide under the bed, or you can fight back; but are you prepared? Consider taking a certified safety course in handling a firearm so you can defend yourself until we get there. You have a duty to protect yourself and your family. We’re partners now. Can I count on you?”

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Here's the ad:

The Beginning of Tyranny

Jason Mattera dares to question Bloomberg on Gun Control.

Bloomberg dodges the question, then sends his goons for some attempted intimidation.

From Breitbart:

Coincidence in the Middle East

In order of being reported in the last 3 days

Iran states an attack on Syria is an attack on Iran

Any foreign attack on Syria would be considered an attack on Iran, a senior Iranian official warned Saturday as the first Patriot missile batteries were declared operational along Turkey’s tense border with Syria.

Israel warns of possible pre-emptive chemical weapons strike in Syria

Israel could launch a pre-emptive strike to stop Syria’s chemical weapons from reaching Lebanon’s Hezbollah or al Qaeda inspired groups, officials said Sunday.

The warning came as the military moved a rocket defense system to a main northern city, and Israel’s premier warned of dangers from both Syria and Iran.

and this AM

Syria: Hezbollah sets up camps near WMD facilities

Shiite terror group reportedly eyeing Bashar Assad chemical warfare arsenal; Israel fears growing chaos in war-torn country will enable Hezbollah to get hold of advanced weaponry

Hezbollah has set up several bases in Syria, near known locations where Syrian President Bashar Assad is holding parts of his chemical warfare arsenal, Ynet learned Monday.

The information came to light amid growing concerns in Israelthat Assad’s arsenal of unconventional weapons – considered to be the largest in the world – would fall into the hands of the Lebanon-based Shiite terror group.

Nothing to see here.

Move along

Obama On Holocaust Remembrance Day Refers To Systematic Slaughter Of 6 Million Jews As “Senseless Violence”

Obama has also been using the phrase “senseless violence” to describe the Newtown massacre.

From The Blaze:

President Barack Obama on Sunday paid tribute to the victims of the Holocaust by vowing to “stand in the way of any tyrant or dictator who commits crimes against humanity.”

“We honor the memories of the 6 million Jews and millions of other innocent victims whose lives were tragically taken during the Holocaust over sixty years ago,” Obama said in a statement marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day. “Those who experienced the horrors of the cattle cars, ghettos, and concentration camps have witnessed humanity at its very worst and know too well the pain of losing loved ones to senseless violence.”

Obama has invoked the phrase “senseless violence” multiple times in his push for more gun control following the Newtown, Conn. massacre.

Jan. 27 marks the anniversary of the 1945 liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, designed as part of the Nazis’ “Final Solution” to systematically exterminate the Jews — a deliberate act that while incomprehensible, was hardly “senseless.”

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Nazi Eyewitness Warns: The Final Step of Nazi Control – Gun Laws

From Gateway Pundit:

(Fairly Civil)

Kitty Werthmann is a native Austrian who remembers well the Third Reich reign of terror in Europe. Kitty believes America is truly the greatest country in the world. She speaks often on socialism and how Adolf Hitler took power. This is from her 2009 essay:

America Truly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don’t Let Freedom Slip Away

The Final Steps – Gun Laws:

Next came gun registration. People were getting injured by guns. Hitler said that the real way to catch criminals (we still had a few) was by matching serial numbers on guns. Most citizens were law abiding and dutifully marched to the police station to register their firearms. Not long after-wards, the police said that it was best for everyone to turn in their guns. The authorities already knew who had them, so it was futile not to comply voluntarily.

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The War in the Republican Party, and Winning?

So I read a lot over the past week about Obama (i,e, the PROGRESSIVE..as opposed to liberal or democratic movement) nuking the GOP.

I think of the progressives as Bolsheviks. Not so much in terms of their social policy (altho that may be an open question) but in terms of Jim Malone’s Chicago Dictum ‘and THEN what are you prepared to do’. Clearly the Progressives are prepared to eliminate the 2 party idea so that their political ideas control the people.

I wonder if any of them ask themselves if this is american?

Never mind.

They clearly see this as a moment to split and destroy the GOP.

Fine.

I have argued here many times that what made this nation what it was in 1941 is the immigration policies in effect from 1840-1924. It’s like this. If the Republican Party does not adopt this kind of policy, THEY WILL NEVER GET the vote of those American who happen to have Latino Heritage. Or Chinese Heritage. Or Caribbean Heritage. Or Vietnamese Heritage. Or Japanese Heritage. That’s how it is. So sorry, but why is this not completely clear yet?

Arguments to the contrary about lazy people coming here to collect SNAP, Welfare. Medicaid and drive Lincolns to the contrary … When the Declaration and Constitution were written NOBODY was worried about immigration, legal or not. This is NOT a social policy issue, this is an issue about WHAT AMERICA IS.

That’s how it is.

All the republicans have to do is put their chins on their hands and stand up and say, THIS IS WHAT MADISON, MONROE, LINCOLN, JACKSON, JEFFERSON, FRANKLIN, MASON, WASHINGTON AND ADAMS WERE THINKING.

End around cynical disbelief.

But that’s just one issue.

Abortion. Another social issue. This is NOT an issue of being TRULY conservative and to PROVE this all we have to do is look at the relationship between Barry Goldwater and Jerry Falwell over issues just like this.

Abortion to some people is murder. To others it is not. Certainly REPUBLICANS can AGREE that past the earliest age of a fetus where we have rescued that fetus into life killing that being IS TO BE ILLEGAL, but that if such a case does not pass congress, any president will ACCEPT THE LAW. Period. States can do whatever they wish as more local standards are always going to be more reflective than some blunt, huge national hand sledge of a hammer.

Faith MUST be replaced by the best of our science and known fact.

IN THIS CASE. The above restriction will be difficult enough to achieve, but at least the case for it can be made on scientific, factual grounds, and then that itself will make the moral and ethical case.

But this should be a MINIMAL ISSUE. We already have a law and frankly the nation would be best served by ensuring every person not willing to have a child HAS AND USES BIRTH CONTROL.

Voting. PICTURE ID. Freely available. TOWN BY TOWN. You have to present the data for your own ID in person.

Terrorism: The USA is NOT WILLING to set a coefficient of Americans to die because we want to avoid taking action around the world. We also set the value of 9/11 the same way we did 12/7/41. Therefore the drone attacks will continue, and if our embassies are attacked, if Americans are killed, harmed, kidnapped, there is going to be real physical trouble. REAL TROUBLE. DISPROPORTIONATE TROUBLE. Those who wish to kill Americans as a part of some religious or political campaign are not Americans in the USA and get nothing more than the Wehrmacht in 1944. Nothing. At best.

Foreign Policy: We have allies. We work together. Others are not allies and can wait in line for judgments about aid. Probably the answer is no.

Gay Marriage: No one’s biz. States decide. Perhaps the state only grants civil union licenses and YOUR church, synagogue, temple, etc, confers the religious title of marriage. Up to you locally, not the govt.

Taxes, Debt, Deficit: The ONLY WAY OUT is a rapidly growing economy, with rising median incomes, some of which pay the govt - not a govt which needs more and more funds to pay more and more programs needed to help more and more people because the more they take and borrow, the less is around to invest, build, and research. If we continue as is, NO ONE WILL HAVE ANYTHING when they hit 65, and ‘doctors’ will be graduates of 2 yr community colleges in order to keep costs down and see enough patients.

There will be NOTHING. Except civil unrest. Republicans should be taking EVERY appearance before the camera to hammer this single message home.

Cassandra Wilson

Caravan

Sweet Lorraine

Sunday, January 27, 2013

"So What If Abortion Ends Life?"

MARY ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, of Salon stating baldly,

I believe that life starts at conception. And it’s never stopped me from being pro-choice”

Now, I can understand the argument that at conception only FAITH can demand the belief that the hollow ball of cells is a human being. In fact, scientifically it is hard to argue otherwise effectively.

Personally I would have simply said that past the earliest fetal age at which we have, through our scientific efforts rescued to life a premature baby, abortion IS factually murder.

However I never dreamed that someone could BELIEVE that life begins at conception and then justified the murder of that life.

Because that’s what it is to that person, then.

MURDER.

Yet I know that throughout my own pregnancies, I never wavered for a moment in the belief that I was carrying a human life inside of me. I believe that’s what a fetus is: a human life. And that doesn’t make me one iota less solidly pro-choice.

Unbelievable.

And here is the justification.

All life is not equal. That’s a difficult thing for liberals like me to talk about, lest we wind up looking like death-panel-loving, kill-your-grandma-and-your-precious-baby storm troopers. Yet a fetus can be a human life without having the same rights as the woman in whose body it resides. She’s the boss. Her life and what is right for her circumstances and her health should automatically trump the rights of the non-autonomous entity inside of her. Always.

Now, I doubt there is much of an argument where the health and life of the mother might be in question. But…circumstances? Then…

All life is not equal?

Thomas Jefferson, phone call for you.

Is any further comment necessary about the moral underpinning of this kind of thing?

UK: Fewer Than One In Four People Think Islam Is Compatible With British Life, Government Minister Scolds Public For Being “Islamophobic”

Pack of Ass Boys

From the Daily Mail:

Fewer than one in four British voters believes Islam is compatible with the British way of life, the UK’s first Muslim woman Cabinet Minister reveals today.

Baroness Warsi will quote private police figures which show that more than half of race hate attacks in Britain are against Muslims as she condemns critics of Islam for peddling ‘hate’.

Lady Warsi sparked huge controversy two years ago when she said Britain’s approach to Muslims has made Islamophobia acceptable at middle class dinner parties.

But in a new speech today she accuses critics of Islam of being ‘un-British’ themselves by grouping ordinary Muslims with extremists.

The Minister for Faith and Communities reveals stark polling conducted by YouGov which found that just 24 per cent of voters think Islam is compatible with being British, while more than half disagree. Only 23 per cent say Islam is not a threat to Western civilisation.

An unrepentant Lady Warsi, whose parents emigrated from Pakistan, said that she was right to speak out before and will use the new evidence to warn that the ‘underlying, unfounded mistrust’ of Muslims is fuelling extremism.

In her speech to a group called Measuring Anti-Muslim Attacks, which monitors violence against Muslims, Lady Warsi condemned politicians and the media for failing to do enough to combat negative views of Muslims.

‘When I said that Islamophobia had “passed the dinner table test”, I meant anti-Muslim sentiment had become so socially acceptable, it could be found even in the most civilised of settings.

Detroit: America's Third World City

The welfare state in all its "glory":

January 27: Holocaust Remembrance Day

See Every year on Holocaust Memorial Day, I'll light a candle. But why?

Brief excerpt:

...[W]hen I visited Prague's famous Jewish cemetery on the Czech Republic leg of our misery tour, I saw something that disgusted me. As I walked through the site, which reminded me of a mouth crowded with crooked, grey teeth, I saw a man spit on the ground....

Liberal Media Already Pushing Death Panels for Fat People and Smokers

We were warned.
The liberal media is already pushing a plan to let “health sinners” – like fat people and smokers – die without health care treatments.

Maybe they’ll make them secret death panels like in Great Britain where a national audit found that half of dying patients placed on the controversial “Liverpool Care Pathway” are never told that life-saving treatment has been withdrawn. Each year 57,000 patientsdie without being told life-saving treatments have been stopped.

The worries about Liverpool Care Pathway arise from reports that it is sometimes invoked without informing either the patient or family. (Photo: Alamy)

The AP reported:

Faced with the high cost of caring for smokers and overeaters, experts say society must grapple with a blunt question: Instead of trying to penalize them and change their ways, why not just let these health sinners die?

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