UPDATE: Number Of U.S. Gun Makers Refusing Sales To Gov’t In ‘Firearms Equality Movement’ Triples In Two Weeks

Gun ControlFrom CNSNews.com:

By Gregory Gwyn-Williams, Jr

On February 22, “Right Views” reported that a growing number of firearm companies have suspended the sale of guns to states, counties, cities and municipalities that restrict their citizens’ rights to own them.

In just two weeks, the number of companies participating in what has been named the “Firearms Equality Movement,” has more than tripled from 34 companies to 118.

The Police Loophole lists every company and links to the statements that each has released regarding their new policies.

Let me just throw this into the mix: what did the Obama Administration already do regarding private business in America?  That’s right, he forced the government into seizure of two of the three largest American automakers, GM and Chrysler.  The result no one saw coming or wanted to report?  Oh yes, that hundreds of dealerships closed.

A report by issued in July of 2010 by Neil M. Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program of the Treasury Department, said that both GM and Chrysler needed to shut down some “underperforming dealerships.” But it also said the cuts shouldn’t have been made so fast and during a recession. The report estimated that “tens of thousands of jobs were lost as a result.”

“It is not at all clear that the greatly accelerated pace of the dealership closings during one of the most severe economic downturns in our nation’s history was either necessary for the sake of the companies’ economic survival or prudent for the sake of the nation’s economic recovery,” the report said.

What happens when the Obama Administration can’t get any more Colt or S&W or Ruger or Remington parts or firearms?

I think you can see where I’m going.

BZ

 

 

Bill Whittle: “virtual State of the Union,” 2013, involving firearms

“Truth is to Demorats as light is to vampires.”
— BZ

BZ

P.S.
Dear Readers: today is a commute day.  My wife and I are driving to the northern Fornicalia coast near Ft Bragg to stay in a rental house for the next ten days.  I’ll be blogging, of course, as I usually do.  I just may not have a particularly timely post for tomorrow.  At this time of year, where we’re going, the crabbing and whale-watching is usually very good and I hope to acquire some crab in the gullet and some whales in camera and on video.

 

 

Daylight saving time should be abolished

ClockDaylight Saving Time (United States) 2013 begins at 2:00 AM on Sunday, March 10 and ends at 2:00 AM on Sunday, November 3

Does it not seem to you that DST seems to extend itself farther and farther every year?

To what end?  And why?

First, a petition is circulating to kill DST or make it the new “now.”  From HuffPo:

On March 10, Americans will set their clocks forward an hour in the biannual ritual known as Daylight Saving Time (DST). But the hour of reckoning could be close at hand for DST, if some online petitioners get their way, that is.

A petition seeking to eliminate DST (or make it the year-round standard) has surfaced on the White House’s “We the People” crowdsourcing platform. The document, which needs 100,000 signatures to prompt a response from the West Wing, urges President Obama to eliminate the “archaic practice” of adjusting clocks twice a year.

Daylight Saving Time was standardized in the U.S. by the 1966 Uniform Time Act, according to National Geographic. That act has since been amended several times, most recently by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which extended DST by one month.

The “We the People” petition claims that, while some industries still support DST, studies have shown the change is a health risk, leads to a loss in productivity and is “really annoying.”

I don’t know about the health issues, but I gladly cast DST into the “really annoying” category.  Because: we’re “saving daylight” for — what?

And one very interesting point I’d guess you’ve never realized:

Though participating areas of the country must switch their clocks on the same day, no federal law forces states to observe the time change, according to National Geographic. Arizona, for example, has not observed DST for decades.

Good for them, I say.  Independent thinkers who can make their own decisions.  Where are the other so-called “independent thinkers”?

Oh yes, that’s correct.  Pandering to DC for cash.  More Free Cheese.

The WashingtonCityPaper actually has a measured and logical view: get rid of DST.

For nearly 100 years, daylight saving time has been a pox on American sanity. It’s time for its long, dumb history to end.

Enough with changing our clocks (car, watch, bedside, kitchen); enough with the cutesy mnemonic devices (“spring forward—or backward?”); and enough with remembering things period (“is it this Saturday?”). Daylight saving time has been tried and tested all over the world for different reasons by many generations, and the only solid, incontrovertible fact to glean from this grand temporal experiment is that it’s a pain in the ass.

Yes!

Belief in DST’s energy-saving powers is often traced to a 1970s study from the Department of Transportation. A later review of that research by the National Bureau of Standards, however, found that the results were not significant. A more recent study by Yale professor Matthew Kotchen of energy consumption in Indiana (a state that formerly did not observe DST, and then observed it on a county-by-county basis) found that Indianans actually increased their energy use during daylight saving time by 2 percent: People might have turned on their lights less frequently, but they ran their air-conditioners more.

If the science behind DST’s supposed energy-saving powers is so inconclusive, why does this irritating pastime persist? Good question; let’s ask 7-Eleven. The convenience-store chain was the main source of funding behind a coalition supporting the extension of DST in 2005. Why? Because more sunlight in the summer meant more retail business. The National Golf Association also supported the extension, estimating that increased sunlight would increase golf revenues by $200 or $300 million, as detailed by Michael Downing in his 2005 book Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time.

It’s stupid, it’s complicated, it yields much of nothing.

Time to become more simple and plain, I submit.

What say you?

BZ

 

 

Berkeley Councilman Proposes Email Tax To Fund Postal Service

TaxesRemember when this was ridiculed on the internet via Snopes.com?

Ridicule no more!

From SFCBSLocal.com:

BERKELEY (CBS SF) – A Berkeley city councilman has suggested that a tax on email may be a wise way to help fund the United States Postal Service, according to the blog Berkeleyside.

District 8 Supervisor Gordon Wozniak, who represents an area that includes the Claremont Hotel and the eastern end of the UC Berkeley campus, made the comments Tuesday as city officials moved to halt the sale of a Post Office building on Allston Way due to a decline in business.

But shoot, the tax would only be teensy-weensy:

“There should be something like a bit tax. I mean a bit tax could be a cent per-gigabit and they would still make, probably, billions of dollars a year.  And there should be, also, a very tiny tax on email,” Wozniak said at Tuesday’s meeting.

Nineteen Eighty-Four, here we come, freedoms-a-vanishing!

Let’s just serve up a heaping helping of US citizens as collective Frogs In The Boiling Pot, eh?

Remember what I wrote last post about a new Leftist abrogation every day?

Validated.

BZ

Perhaps it’s time for a replay of this wondrous classic whose creation was more prescient than the Amazing Kreskin:

“Be thankful I don’t take it all.”

“And you’re working for no one but me.”

 

 

Florida bill would require anger management courses for bullet buyers

Audrey Gibson, FL SenatorYes.  You read that correctly.  You don’t need glasses.  You damned near need a new country, however.

From FoxNews.com:

A Florida legislator wants anyone trying to buy ammunition to complete an anger management program first, in what critics say is the latest example of local lawmakers reaching for constitutionally-dubious solutions to the problem of gun violence.

The bill filed Saturday by state Sen. Audrey Gibson, D-Jacksonville, would require a three-day waiting period for the sale of any firearm and the sale of ammunition to anyone who has not completed anger management courses. The proposal would require ammo buyers to take the anger management courses every 10 years.

“This is not about guns,” Gibson said. “This is about ammunition and not only for the safety of the general community, but also for the safety of law enforcement.”

Gibson said she’s concerned with citizens stockpiling ammunition, potentially creating dangerous situations should those individuals ever come in contact with law enforcement agencies or criminals.

“It’s about getting people to think, really, about how much ammunition they need,” Gibson said. “It’s a step, I think, in a safer direction. It’s about getting people to think before they buy.”

First, let me state the obvious: this excrement is coming from a black female Demorat.  That’s essentially all you need to know.  I’d wager this empty suit is public-school educated, though Wikipedia claims she acquired a BA in Criminology from Florida State.

Allow me to proffer some more issues in “obviosity” (just made that up): I’m a cop.  And I don’t fear people who may stockpile ammunition.  These days I’d simply call them honest, good and true Americans responding to their corruptors in DC.

Apparently, however, her classes neglected to take American history into account and she resoundingly failed to read any of our nation’s foundational documents; you know, the basic ones: the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights.  The Federalist Papers?  She likely thinks those are what you roll around your dope for a nice, fat joint.

Though I’m not a fan of Michael Savage, he had it right back in 2005 when he stated, before anyone else, that Liberalism is a mental disorder.

There is no cure.  And the disease becomes more rampant.  The mentally ill, Demorats, Liberals, Progressives, Leftists — their mental disorders cannot be “cured.”  It only becomes more catching, like a virulent bubonic plague, when Free Cheese is added to the mix.

As I’ve said many times, you simply cannot make crap like this up.  Just when you think you’ve seen or heard the sickest of ideas from the Left, they manage to outdo themselves.  It’s as though they not only possess what I call Historical Alzheimers — I’d submit purposely so — but they go out of their way to top each other, weekly, in terms of the most daft, inane, brain-dead, illogical, illegal and outright stupid ideas to craft into some form of law whose sole purpose is to remove more of your freedoms.

I’m guessing that Senator Gibson isn’t a “bad person” per se; she likely doesn’t set stray kittens on fire.  But the Demorat culture and Leftism has clearly lobotomized her to the point where she cannot even recognize the documents that created this country.  She needs a refresher course in BZ 101 in re the US Constitution and the real purpose behind its creation — positive vs negative rights.

A very brief review of my post:

Our current Constitution frames much of what we value in terms of what the government cannot do.
– The government cannot engage in unreasonable searches and seizures
– It cannot inflict cruel and unusual punishment

 

Thomas Jefferson said: When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.

Let that sink in and then percolate for a bit.

BZ