Rep. David Scott (D – Georgia, 13th District) has the guts to state the obvious:

Posted on Thursday, May 22, 2014 by BZ

If you want to see what ObamaKare looks like, look at the current VA. The VA is the minor leagues, and ObamaKare is the majors.

God bless David Scott for DARING to make this statement in public for all to see.

However, the American Media Maggots will not broadcast this video far and wide. They will do their best to ensure you will NOT see this video for even a few seconds.

Take it away David Scott:

And there you have it. From HotAir.com:

Via the Free Beacon, watch to the very end for the crucial counterpoint to Obama’s nonsense this morning. Namely, the VA’s problems are very well documented. When O harrumphs that he needs to study the problem or whatever, he’s transparently doing nothing more than buying time to plot his next move politically. He’s the guy who was calling VA wait times an “urgent” problem seven years ago. Now, suddenly, he needs a few weeks or months or years ~~for you to lose interest~~ to get to the bottom of all this. And the fact that it’s a Democrat, not a Republican, who’s on the floor laying that out tells me this is now a five-alarm fire inside a caucus that’s already panicked about being burned to the ground this November by Obama’s unpopularity. If he’s at 42 percent today, where’s he going to be in a month when his passivity, inaction, and — to borrow a Bush-era phrase beloved by the left — incuriosity about veterans languishing from VA corruption and sclerosis are firmly on the public’s radar? Wait until they find out that he hasn’t even formally met with Shinseki in nearly two years.

Thank you, Representative Scott, for daring to state something that, unfortunately, won’t be covered or mentioned by your compatriots. You appear to stand alone for a bit but at least you took a public stand. Forty veterans have likely DIED while simply waiting for care that was due and promised to them.

On the other hand, Mr Obama, you said and pledged and promised to build a “21st century VA” that would take care of our veterans. Video of you saying that, here.

And to Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki I say:

You sniveling jackanape.

You think you inherited a problem-free environment? Were you that stupid?

You sacrificed your fellow veterans and failed — FAILED — to take care of them and honor them and look out for them. They were the least capable to help themselves whilst, simultaneously, you were tasked to help them. How could you possibly not do everything within your power to help each and every veteran having landed in a VA hospital?

Let me please state the obvious, Mr Shinseki: these veterans did not land in VA hospitals because they were happy and fulfilled and whole and uninjured.

They landed in VA hospitals because they were shot or blow apart or lost limbs or had extremities sawed off or had their minds inexorably altered by war and explosions and the searing redness of seeing their friends torn apart.

And you, sir, upon an Army Chief of Staff’s retirement — which is very, very generous — additionally served as a director for Honeywell, Ducommon, Grove Farm Corporation, First Hawaiian Bank and Guardian Life Insurance.

Let’s look at your portrait here, sir:

Once proud and true; an actual warrior. You now make me ashamed, sir.

Since then you seem to have forgotten more than you have ever learned. You are a minute shadow of your former self.

With you in mind, here is my goal at my advanced at of 63 and in my lowly position of Sergeant: my job is to ensure that, every shift, my troops go home at end of watch

As a supervisor for my Sheriff’s Department, my job is not to do anyone else’s job; not to do my Lieutenant’s job, not to do my Captain’s job, not to do the job of a deputy. But still, to ensure that each and every person on my watch goes home safely and securely, no matter the cost or the advocation.

Because my job is to be an advocate for my troops unless and until they prove themselves unworthy of my advocation.

Safety rules all. It trumps job or goal or mission. Because if my troops aren’t safe and secure, then no one else can be safe or secure.

If this country cannot take care of 85 million Americans via the VA — then how can it possibly take care of 300 million Americans?

The Obvious:

Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2014 by BZ

Obama promises to investigate the VA situation fully and ensure that people are punished and held to answer.

Just as he insisted that persons were punished and held to answer for Benghazi.

That should have you quaking in your boots, veterans.

FDIC’s “Operation Choke Point” and firearms sellers

Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2014 by BZ

FDIC’s new view: let’s simply choke them out. Like a nice arm-bar or carotid choke.

From the WashingtonTimes.com:

‘High risk’ label from feds puts gun sellers in banks’ crosshairs, hurts business

Obama plan pressures financial institutions

by Kelly Riddell

Gun retailers say the Obama administration is trying to put them out of business with regulations and investigations that bypass Congress and choke off their lines of credit, freeze their assets and prohibit online sales.

Since 2011, regulators have increased scrutiny on banks’ customers. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in 2011 urged banks to better manage the risks of their merchant customers who employ payment processors, such as PayPal, for credit card transactions. The FDIC listed gun retailers as “high risk” along with porn stores and drug paraphernalia shops.

And why would that be, ladies and gentlemen? Paul Harvey said this, here, about armed vs unarmed societies. If you are intelligent you realize who Paul Harvey was. If you are a Millennial you are not and couldn’t care less about your freedoms as long as you can Tweet and clasp an iPad.

Meanwhile, the Justice Department has launched Operation Choke Point, a credit card fraud probe focusing on banks and payment processors. The threat of enforcement has prompted some banks to cut ties with online gun retailers, even if those companies have valid licenses and good credit histories.

“This administration has very clearly told the banking industry which customers they feel represent ‘reputational risk’ to do business with,” said Peter Weinstock, a lawyer at Hunton & Williams LLP. “So financial institutions are reacting to this extraordinary enforcement arsenal by being ultra-conservative in who they do business with: Any companies that engage in any margin of risk as defined by this administration are being dropped.”

This is federal GovSpeak for “let us eliminate firearms retailers, and those who are injured vicariously are simply fodder for the greater good.”

A Justice Department representative said the agency is conducting several investigations that aim to hold accountable banks “who are knowingly assisting fraudulent merchants who harm consumers.”

Translated: banks who loan to those frowned-upon by the federal government will themselves be held under more constant and critical scrutiny by said federal government.

This is, again, the federal government purposely choosing which private businesses will succeed and which private businesses will fail. Via banks and loans and the FDIC.

How about some specific examples?

T.R. Liberti, owner and operator of Top Gun Firearms Training & Supply in Miami, has felt the sting firsthand. Last month, his local bank, BankUnited N.A., dumped his online business from its service.

An explanatory email from the bank said: “This letter in no way reflects any derogatory reasons for such action on your behalf. But rather one of industry. Unfortunately your company’s line of business is not commensurate with the industries we work with.”

-Black Rifle Armory in Henderson, Nevada, had its bank accounts frozen this month as the bank tried to determine whether any of Black Rifle’s online transactions were suspicious.•

In 2012, Bank of America suddenly dropped the 12-year account of McMillan Group International, a gun manufacturer in Phoenix, even though the company had a good credit history, the owner said. Gun parts maker American Spirit Arms in Scottsdale, Arizona, received similar treatment by Bank of America, the country’s largest banking institution.

“This seems to be happening with greater frequency and to many more dealers,” said Joe Sirochman, owner of American Spirit Arms. “At first, it was the bigger guys — gun parts manufacturers or high-profile retailers. Now the smaller mom-and-pop shops are being choked out, and they need their cash to buy inventory. Freezing their assets will put them out of business.”

But of course it is only business and has no foundation in the type of business involved nor is it sourced from DC.

And HERE is the paragraph that reveals all:

However, the American Banking Association, the industry’s advocacy group in Washington, said businesses deemed “risky” will be frozen out of the financial system if the Justice Department continues Operation Choke Point because the regulatory burden and risk of investigation will be too great for less-specialized banks to bear.

There you go. A “way around” to trump all way-arounds. And bankers respond:

“We’re being threatened with a regulatory regime that attempts to foist on us the obligation to monitor all types of transactions,” Richard Riese, a senior vice president at the American Bankers Association, said in the April 28 issue of American Banker. “All of this is predicated on a notion that the banks are a choke point for all businesses.”

To a point never addressed before, until the Obama Administration. And that never addressed by Leftists “in the tank” for Mr Obama.

In an interview with The Times, Mr. Riese said the cost of doing business with gun retailers outweighs the benefits for some banks, given that regulators deem the industry as “risky,” state laws vary on the sale of guns and ammunition, and the Justice Department’s enforcement.

The Independent Community Bankers of America, an association for small banks, said enforcement actions from the Justice Department are too broad and overly aggressive.

Are any of you surprised that this stems from the Obama Administration — the most strident opponent of the Second Amendment in history?

And here is the point — that I apparently have to emphasize — again and again:

Commentary by Paul Harvey:

     
     "Are you considering backing gun control laws???"
     
     Do you think that because you may not own a gun, the
     rights guaranteed by the Second Amendment don't
     matter?
     
     CONSIDER THIS...
     In 1929 the Soviet Union established gun control.
     - From 1929 to 1953, approximately 20 million
     dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded
     up and exterminated.
     
     In 1911, Turkey established gun control.
     - From 1915-1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to
     defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
     
     Germany established gun control in 1938.
     - From 1939 to 1945, 13 million Jews, gypsies,
     homosexuals, the mentally ill, and others, who were
     unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
     exterminated.
     
     China established gun control in 1935.
     - From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents,
     unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
     exterminated.
     
     Guatemala established gun control in 1964.
     - From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to
     defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
     
     Uganda established gun control in 1970.
     - From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to
     defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.
     
     Cambodia established gun control in 1956.
     - From 1975 to 1977, one million "educated" people,
     unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and
     exterminated.
     
     That places total victims who lost their lives because
     of gun control at approximately 56 million in the last
     century.
     
     Since we should learn from the mistakes of history,
     the next time someone talks in favor of gun control,
     find out which group of citizens they wish to have
     exterminated.
     
     It has now been 12 months since gun owners in
     Australia were forced to surrender 640,381 personal
     firearms to be destroyed, a program costing the
     government more than $500 million dollars.
     - The results Australia-wide; Homicides are up 3.2%,
     Assaults are up 8 %, and Armed robberies are up 44%.
     In that country's state of Victoria, homicides with
     firearms are up 300%.
     
     Over the previous 25 years, figures show a steady
     decrease in armed robberies and Australian politicians
     are on the spot and at a loss to explain how no
     improvement in "safety" has been observed after such
     monumental effort and expense was successfully
     expended in "ridding society of guns."
     
     It's time to state it plainly; Guns in the hands of
     honest citizens save lives and property and, yes,
     gun-control laws only affect the law-abiding citizens.
     Take action before it's too late, write or call your
     delegation.
     
     Paul Harvey

Past history is the best predictor of future performance or the lack thereof.

Irony of the Fifth Annual Law & Disorder Conference in Portland, Oregon:

Posted on Monday, May 19, 2014 by BZ

Sometimes you just have to larf and let Leftists speak for themselves on video.

This would be one of those times.

First, a tad bit of background: the fifth annual “Law and Disorder Conference” was held in Portland, Oregon this year. See the attractive graphic above. The L$D Conference defines itself as:

This conference calls for people, movements, organizations and collectives to present alternative accounts to the political dimensions of civic engagement, mutual aid and revolution as they relate to economics, politics, invention, technology, work, artistic and cultural production, the body, pedagogy and social change. The conference promises to create a provocative space for comparative critical dialogue between activists, revolutionaries, educators, artists, musicians, scholars, dancers, social/cultural workers, doulas, actors and writers.

Our primary goals are to establish collaboration between individuals, organizations and collectives working on issues related to LGBTIQQAA, Political Prisoners, police and prison abolition, international solidarity, earth and animal liberation and anti-racist organizing.

Great idea. Let’s abolish police. Let’s abolish prisons. But first, let’s let chaos rule at the Disorder Conference. Nihilists and Anarchists unite!

From the LibertarianRepublic.com:

by Austin Petersen

A meeting of Anarcho-Syndicalists devolved into chaos at Portland State University last week. The “Law & Disorder” conference presented by the Students of Unity was disrupted by protesters complaining about “survivor trauma” and the “patriarchal society” which is “prioritizing powerful white men.”

Eventually police were called, causing the protesters to flee.

Anarcho-Syndicalists are a subset of anarchists who believe in a communistic approach to self governance. Their theory is to use revolutionary unionism as a method for workers to destroy the capitalistic society and gain control of the economy. Contrast that with libertarian anarchism, Anarcho-Capitalism, which argues that free markets and voluntary interactions are the greatest moral and ethical good.

You may call for the interpreters at any point and not feel guilty.

You and I both know you can’t write this kinda stuff; it writes itself. Portland University was shocked, shocked I tell you — that it got what it deserved and advocated.

One nice point: Portland State University paid $20,000 for the conference. Money well spent, I suggest. Let’s see: dope or L$D? L$D wins.

While we’re on the topic, let’s witness a L$D “White Privilege” lecture as spoken by a White Dude. A pretty big clue: “with only five people in the room.”

“Whiteness isn’t skin color … skin color is a marker of whiteness that can signify to others, this person may be white … I act white, and by acting white, I prove to everybody else that I’m white, and that at that point the privileges that are associated with whiteness are ones that I take on.”

I guess: that’s why some young male blacks “act black” because it’s “more real”? And “more real” = more stupid, more violent, more ignorant, more unwilling to succeed, more unwilling to aspire, and why in that vein young male blacks call themselves “niggas”? Just curious. Because, after all, no one should have to “act white.” How oppressive and defeatist. There is, culturally, a major, major difference between pronouncing the word “nigger” and “nigga.” Please see this for your cultural enlightenment.

Or do I place myself into the LGBTIQQAA ( Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Intersexual Quasi-Quadrasexual Asexual Antisexual) category? Because, after all, if you do not know or understand this acronym you are a hater and a sexist.

You just gotta smile and appreciate all the information around us that mostly doesn’t get published or revealed — but does here. I pop the balloon of Leftist propaganda.

God bless the Leftists. They are their own best and worst advocates.

Collier’s Song:

Posted on Sunday, May 18, 2014 by BZ

And a great one it is; — best sung a capella in an Irish bar. Poxy Boggards, anyway.

I CAN HEW by David Dodds

On Saint Monday’s day, it’s well I do admire
When I sit at home by me own coal fire
Then it’s off to the pub, for a glass or two
For to work on a Monday, that would never do

Well I like my whiskey and I like my beer
I’ll drink fourteen pints and I’ll not feel queer
I can hold my beer as good as any man.
And I’ll dance and sing as long as I can.

I can hew boys, I can hack it out
I can hew the coal, I can dance and shout.
I can hew boys, coal that’s black and fine
I’m a collier lad, working down the mine.

Well my boy’s fourteen, he’s a strappin’ lad
And he’ll go to the pits soon, just like his dad.
And when Friday comes, we’ll pick up our pay.
And we’ll drink together, to round off the day

I can hew boys, I can hack it out
I can hew the coal, I can dance and shout.
I can hew boys, coal that’s black and fine,
I’m a collier lad, working down the mine.

And its when I’m dead.. oh I know full well,
I’ll not go to heaven, I am bound for hell.
And my pick and shovel, old Nick he’ll admire,
And he’ll set me hew’n coal for his own fire.