Guns Not Welcome

I am going to start a new section called "Guns Not Welcome". It is intended to highlight commercial locations that have chosen to exclude access to their stores for people with legally carried handguns. The Nebraska law allows them to do so and I would like to make a list available to CCW folks so we know where to avoid. If you want to add to list send me the Store name, Location(city, address, general area) and I will add it to the list. You might want to let the business know that they are going to be on the list, and might want to reconsider. Just post the address in the comments and I will gather them up. This is likely to be a short list unless I get many contributions so spread this around and encourage your friends to keep their eyes open and report.

With the Clarity of a Beauty Pagent Contestant

In a reply to a question during a CBS interview about the stimulus package and how it will help small business the Vice-President said this:

JOE BIDEN: "Well, there's a number of ways. It depends on what your business is. I would recommend that woman call my office directly and I will be able to guide her as to what pieces of this package would be directly helpful to her. For example, it may very well be that she is in a circumstance where she is not able...her customers aren't able to get to her. There's no transit capability. The bridge going across the crick to get to her business needs repair. It may very well be that she is in a position where she is unable to access her energy costs are so high by providing smart meters by being able to bring down the cost of her work force through the cost of operating her business..." Youtube video here- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXFGLySXZhI

This is why he is Obama's life insurance policy.

Too Much Irony

There is a new bill in congress that renews and extends the old "Assault Weapons Ban" It is HR 45. This bill has provisions that require registration of all handguns at the Federal level as well as the usual gun bans for semiautomatic long guns. During the election campaign Obama said he would respect the Supreme Court ruling that The 2nd Amendment is a declaration of individual right of ownership. The clearest declaration of his attitude was expressed during a campaign stop where he said: “If you’ve got a gun in your house, I’m not taking it, Even if I want to take them away, I don’t have the votes in Congress, This can’t be the reason not to vote for me. Can everyone hear me in the back? I see a couple of sportsmen back there. I’m not going to take away your guns.’’ "I don't have the votes" is the key comment here for me. His efforts in the Illinois Senate belie his lack of interest in gun control laws. The irony? HR 45 was introduced by Bobby Rush. For the young folks. Bobby Rush is the founder of the Black Panther Party in Illinois. From Wikipedia: "From the beginning the Black Panther Party's focus on militancy came with a reputation for violence. They often took advantage of a California law which permitted carrying a loaded rifle or shotgun as long as it was publicly displayed and pointed at no one. Carrying weapons openly and making threats against police officers, for example, chants like "The Revolution has come, it's time to pick up the gun. Off the pigs!" helped create the Panthers' reputation as a violent organization." So we have the ultimate radical from the 60's and 70's wanting to take away our gun rights. Sounds like it really is time to Ammo up.

Is this the Twilight Zone?

Sometimes I think I must be living in some kind of Bizarro world. Here is just a short list of difficult to fathom events in no particular order.
1 A tax cheat (Timothy Geithner) is confirmed for Sec. of Treasury.
2 A tax cheat (Tom Daschle) is nominated for Sec of Health and Human Services.
3 A religious leader (Rev. Joseph Lowery) insults 80% of Americans during inaugural prayer.
4 The President of the United States (Barak Obama) tells the Republicans "I won" so they should get in line.
5 The rehabilitation of the founder of the 60's terrorist group Weather Underground (Bill Ayers) has begun.
6 Global Warmer in Chief (Al Gore) testifies before Congress, telling it that the very survival of life on earth is at risk.
7 The Democrats want to borrow and spend over $1,000,000,000,000.00 to help an economy suffering from a lack of consumer credit.
8 The President of the United States (Barak Obama) gives his first public interview to Dubai-based Al-Arabiya.
The scariest part of all this is that the national press either ignores the implications or actually seem to play cheerleaders and prime defenders. Where we go from here is becoming even more frightening.

A Little Obama Tale

This is a made up story. Kind of like the morality tales of old.

It had been a long day. First the inaugural and then all of the attendant activities. The balls and parties seemed endless. Before going to bed the new President just had to go sit in the "Big chair". He knew the way. He had been there before but this time he was going not as a visitor but as the President. President Obama. What a cool title. It is easy to see how being President could get you into trouble. Everything you asked for was right here waiting for you. Special food or drink was no problem.
Sitting at the President's desk for the first time he did what everyone does when they sit at "their" desk for the first time. He started to open drawers. They contained all of the paper, pens and pads with his name that he could ever want. There was one thing he had not expected to see. A large manila envelope addressed to him. It was from the previous occupant of the chair George Bush. It had a handwritten note that said "Open this in private and by the way, good luck".
The new President opened the large envelope and it contained 3 smaller envelope. On one envelope was written the instruction: Open during the first national/international emergency. The next envelope read: Open during the second national/international emergency. The third and final envelope said open the day you face your third disaster. Not wishing to tempt fate he put the set of envelopes aside.
Ironically, VP Biden's election campaign speech about President Obama facing a serious challenge early in his presidency came to pass. What it was isn't really relevant. What matters is that when faced with with the first major challenge of his administration he remembered the envelopes he found the first day. Taking out the envelope labeled #1 he tore it open and read it. It said: "Tell them the problems were caused by the guy before you." He sat for couple seconds stunned. He thought about the possible implications. "It couldn't be that simple. You couldn't solve such gigantic problems with such a simple excuse could you?"
He turned to his aide and ordered a news conference. It took a couple of hours but in short order he had gathered reporters and was ready for the announcement. He walked to the podium and waited for everyone in the room to quiet down. He started to speak: "Ladies and gentlemen of the press, my fellow citizens and citizens of the world I am here to explain what is happening and what we are going to do. The long and short of it is that all of this is George Bush's fault. The solution is to ask what George Bush would do and do the opposite. So that is what we must do." He laid out his ant-WWGBD plan. The place went nuts. What insight, what courage. The press reported that we all had to get behind such bold leadership. Around the world he was hailed as the real thing. A leader for the ages.
Things calmed down for a while like they always do. And, like things always do another disaster reared it's ugly head. Some of the polish had worn off his image and he needed a bit of rehabilitation. He opened the second envelope. Time for another news conference. Time for another pronouncement: "This challenge comes to us because of choices I made when I was new to the Presidency. I thought my choices would work because they were not what George Bush would do if he were in power. Opps. It is obvious that I was wrong. We didn't know it then but we must have mistakenly done what George Bush would have done after all. Well that will change starting right now. I promise that in the future I will consult with the finest minds to help determine what George Bush would really have done. We can then be assured we are following the right route by doing the opposite." Once again the place went crazy. The shouts of "Courage", and "What leadership" rang through the briefing room. It wasn't long before world leaders proclaimed unity with the US in it's change of direction away from the new failed Bush policies. Once again the world had been restored to it's proper balance.
Somewhere in the world that balance once again started to tip. An evil was starting to rise. In the past, without the unity brought by President Obama's intelligence and leadership of change, this new challenge would have fractured us and caused such disruption that future generations would face the bleakest of choices. With the problems looming President Obama turned to the last envelope. He slid it out of the desk drawer. Opening it he prayed it would once again give him a solution. A way to save his Presidency from the trash bin of history. The world was waiting for the leader, "The One" to tell them what to do. He slowly unfolded the paper. The third message was simple and easy to follow. It said: "Take out 3 envelopes."

What an insult

I vaguely remember a teacher talking about how punctuation in a sentence means everything. Take the title to this posting for example. If I had put an "!" at the end of the sentence It would have been an expression of outrage as in "What an insult for throwing that shoe!" On the other hand written as "What, an insult for throwing a shoe?" means something completely different. In the first case I would be granting the position of power to the shoe thrower. By granting that person any sense of outrage on my part would be to lower myself to a level of third world sewer walkers. I believe a more appropriate response would be to view the shoe as more like a brick. A brick thrown my way could easily be considered an insult but I would see it as more on an assault. That would mean the thrower would be subject to criminal penalties. Put them away. Enough said.

If you doubt that Obama is a racist ...

From Rod Dreher:
Mr. Obama wrote in his 1995 autobiography, Dreams From My Father, about his attraction to the leftist pastor's church as a vehicle for social change. If black nationalism would uplift the race, he wrote, "then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence."
'nuff said