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Why Conservatives Suck:

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Bill Whittle nails it regarding Conservatives:

Note that Mr Whittle does not talk about Republicans — he speaks about Conservatives.  And note that Mr Whittle doesn’t talk about how people think things should be, but how they are.  Conservatives aren’t popular with the current generation of American Low Information Voters (ALIVs) because they want to know what can be given to them — “for free” — from their government.

When you have an electorate that doesn’t realize the money coming from government originates from the pockets of taxpayers, you have an electorate with the average IQ of nematodes — courtesy of state-run educational systems elevating feelings over facts.

BZ

 

 

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Dr Keith Ablow: “We are raising a generation of deluded narcissists.”

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Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.comFrom FoxNews.com:

A new analysis of the American Freshman Survey, which has accumulated data for the past 47 years from 9 million young adults, reveals that college students are more likely than ever to call themselves gifted and driven to succeed, even though their test scores and time spent studying are decreasing.

Psychologist Jean Twenge, the lead author of the analysis, is also the author of a study showing that the tendency toward narcissism in students is up 30 percent in the last thirty-odd years.

This data is not unexpected.  I have been writing a great deal over the past few years about the toxic psychological impact of media and technology on children, adolescents and young adults, particularly as it regards turning them into faux celebrities—the equivalent of lead actors in their own fictionalized life stories.

Please read the rest of the story here.

With the nation, now, led by the Grandest Narcissist of them all.

So grand, in fact, that by the sheerest dint of his own Imperial Hand he plans to suspend your very Constitutional rights.  The media lapdogs and electorate will roll over to have their collective bellies further rubbed, giving up their freedoms for a dog biscuit.

Now: don’t you feel better?

Because, after all, if you’re a Demorat or a Leftist, it’s not about facts — it’s all about feelings.

BZ

 

 

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Statistics the government and DEM/AMM don’t want you to know:

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Correct.  In the past 20 years violent crime has gone down by 50%.  Murders are down by 54%.

And violent crime — gun crime — exists in heavily populate areas despite the massive amounts of gun control in those population zones.

So the reasons to enact more stringent gun control laws equate to a simple “disarmament agenda” by Leftists.  Not to control crime.  Not to lower violent crime.

A disarmed America is an America where citizens become subjects and proles and groundlings.

BZ

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The federal government: background checks to be required for each ammunition purchase

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Correct.

Demorat Senator Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut (no linkage, I’m sure), has said:

By Gary Fields

Associated Press

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.) said he intends to introduce a bill this month that would require background checks for all purchases of ammunition, which he called the “black hole of gun violence prevention.”

Mr. Blumenthal said Tuesday that the bill would be in addition to background checks already required for firearms purchases from federally licensed dealers. Checks are run through a database maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that lists former felons, fugitives, those deemed mentally ill and others who are barred from possessing firearms or ammunition.

A felon who walks into a store to buy ammunition “can load an entire shopping cart, pay and walk out,” Mr. Blumenthal said. He said that sellers who are not federally licensed would have the checks run by a federally licensed dealer…

Though there is yet no text for the bill available to my knowledge, you can rest assured there will be limits on the amounts purchased overall, limits per-purchase, and limits within a period of time.  Additionally, because of the background checks necessarily involved you may also rest assured that the length of time for said checks will be extended due to the greater number of them required.

But, good news!  This will demand expansion of the government due to the additional number of federal drones to conduct these background checks, enabling each individual request to be rushed through committee in, oh, say, roughly six months.

A few immediate questions and issues come to mind:

–   An ammo check is another step along the way in order to drive gun owners away from being gun owners;
–   This will, by logical extension, eliminate the sales of ammunition over the internet;
–   This will, by logical extension, create an underground black market for ammunition, a la the 18th Amendment;
–   You will be pushing law-abiding citizens to potentially become law-breaking citizens;
–   The Domino Principle: backgrounding ammo, registering ammo, limiting ammo purchases, individual stampings, minimizing pressures, minimizing grain, limiting home loader black powder purchases, available metals, limiting casings and of course, eliminating lead and disallowing loaders to alternates;
–   Federal checks on ammunition storage: this would potentially require ammunition reports on said storage — is it secure?  How secure?  Where is it kept?  How many rounds have you expended per week?  Per month?  Further: are you licensed?
–   For example: as Rangemaster for my department, it was determined by my admin that we would accept surplus M-16s for de-tuning to semi-auto.  I had to account for each and every part removed from each rifle, and had to keep said parts sealed and safe for any future federal audits.  Because I took from the fed, I had to be accountable to the fed.  The fed could step onto my range with no prior announcement and demand an audit for its weapons; further, it could demand all those rifles back at a moment’s notice, in their prior fully-auto condition.  If I couldn’t provide, I was personally responsible.
–   The Logical Extension: could federal representatives demand entry onto your premises, into your home, in order to determine the make, manner and fashion in which you store your ammunition?  And could you be subject to immediate arrest if you are not in precise compliance?

This is the first step in order to ban ammunition wholesale which, then, would be used to ban firearms for the American citizen.  This is a lawyer’s attempt to circumvent the Second Amendment.  Make no mistake.  What is the Constitutional objection?

I say: it isn’t the government’s business what I buy, how I buy, when I buy and how much I buy in terms of ammunition. These are privacy abrogations.

Let us also not forget this:

EXCLUSIVE: Cuomo Close To Announcing Sweeping New Gun Control Laws

Governor Working On Deal That Would Go After Assault Weapons, Magazines

January 8, 2013 6:47 PM

YONKERS, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — A deal to give New York one of the toughest gun control laws in the nation is being negotiated by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who, sources said Tuesday, is hoping to announce the plan Wednesday during his State of the State speech in Albany.

The fuse is lighted.  And the weight of government on every level is coming for your guns, your rights, your freedoms.

Not to mention all your cash via taxes.

BZ

 

 

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Truth: your taxes are about to literally skyrocket in 2013

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Economics 101Courtesy of both the Demorats — for the demand — and the Republicans, for lack of a spine.

Mitch McConnell, the blithering idiot, said “the tax issue is finished.”  (Full transcript here.)

Uh, no — you moron — no, it’s not.

It’s barely started.

My first paycheck of the year just got lowered by $200 via additional taxes.  I get paid bi-weekly, so at this point I’m initially losing a minimum of $400 a month.  So far.  The month is young.

That translates to: I’ve just initially lost the equivalent of one car payment a month.  So my chance of purchasing another car?  ZERO.

From “Face The Nation” this past Sunday, The NanceMeister weighs in:

Did you listen closely?  McConnell thinks he’s won.  And Pelosi baldly states that the Demorats are out for “tax reform” and “increased revenue.”

SCHIEFFER: Do you then agree with the Republican leader in the Senate, Mr. McConnell, who says we’re done now with the taxing side of it; now we have to concentrate on spending? Is that done now?

PELOSI: No.

SCHIEFFER: Is the revenue side of it taken care of yet?

PELOSI: No, no, it is not. I mean, the president had said originally he wanted $1.6 trillion in revenue. He took it down to $1.2 as a compromise. In this legislation we had $620 billion, very significant, high-end tax — changing the high-end tax rate to 39.6 percent. But that is not enough on the revenue side. We’ve already agreed to $1 trillion in spending cuts, over $1 trillion in spending cuts.

SCHIEFFER: So what are you talking about there? Are you talking about more taxes?

PELOSI: We’re talking about looking at the tax code, putting everything on the table from the standpoint of closing loopholes — and we know that we can do that — special subsidies for big oil, for example, $38 billion right there. But again, not to take things in isolation, just to say, OK, well, how much more revenue can we get as we go forward?

SCHIEFFER: Are you then saying to the upper classes, get ready; you’re going to have to pay some more; this is not the end of it?

PELOSI: Well, I’m saying that’s not off the table.

SCHIEFFER: That’s not off the table?

PELOSI: That’s not off the table. But not in terms of tax rates but in terms of other considerations.

SCHIEFFER: You’re talking about deductions and other things.

PELOSI: And the rest.

$800 billion dollars already acquired in taxes.  The Demorats want another TRILLION dollars in taxes this year.  Where?  From YOUR pocket.  Americans, to the thoughts of the Demorats, are still insufficiently taxed.

Am I a mega-millionaire?  Hardly.  I’m “middle class.”  And — thanks to Mr Obama and Demorats — my ass is already on fire with the initial additional taxes.  The precise strata, Mr Obama, that you swore wouldn’t be affected.  You damned LIAR.

Even CNBC says the tax code may be the “most progressive since 1979.”  Hello?  Jimmy Carter?  Anyone?  Bueller?

Even Obama supporters find themselves “shocked” and “angry” at the new tax increases.

Yes indeed.  That’s how stupid are Obama supporters.

You mean he actually wants Cloward-Piven?  He actually wants taxes to skyrocket?

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So: how much did YOU lose on your first paycheck of the year?

BZ

Demorats Laugh Over Your Tax PlightUgly Demorats laugh profoundly at the stupidity of the American Electorate.

 

 

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