12 dead in Colorado midnight movie shooting: here come the shouts for GUN CONTROL

Whilst the rest of the nation slept, a 24-year-old male entered a midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” at the Century 16 theatres in Aurora, Colorado, and opened fire with a rifle, shotgun and handgun — killing 12 and wounding 36 at last update.

Any mass killing like this is a tragedy.  And a perfect, again, political opportunity for the Left to decry the possession of firearms by the electorate.

As Paul Joseph Watson writes:

“Within hours of the tragic shooting in Aurora, Colorado at a screening of the new Batman movie, the political machine is already gearing up to exploit the incident as a tool to demonize the second amendment and characterize Americans who are against big government as extremists.”

Piers Morgan from CNN has already written:

Horrendous details from this Colorado cinema shooting. America has got to do something about its gun laws. Now is the time.

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) July 20, 2012

More Americans will buy guns after this, to defend themselves, and so the dangerous spiral descends. When/how does it stop? #Colorado

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) July 20, 2012

Lunatics like this will always try and get guns. It should be 100,000 times harder than it is for them to do so. That’s my point. #Colorado

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) July 20, 2012

ABC News, you’ll be pleased to read, is already indicating the shooter has TEA Party links.  How novel!

ABC’s Brian Ross reported this morning that there is “a Jim Holmes of Aurora, Colorado, page on the Colorado Tea party site… talking about him joining the Tea Party last year.”

Breitbart is indicating the shooter may be a registered Democrat.

Again — wouldn’t that be novel indeed?

Time will tell.

I can only conclude:

It’s clearly time to gather all your firearms and place them at the end of your driveway, with all your ammunition, like the good prole the current American Government wishes you to be.

BZ

 

 

Illegals training illegals to fly: okay by TSA!

THIS is how irreparably-broken your government is:

The TSA let twenty-five ILLEGAL ALIENS attend a flight school RUN by an illegal alien!

From CNSNews.com:

“Transportation Security Administration (TSA) approved flight training for 25 illegal aliens at a Boston-area flight school that was owned by yet another illegal alien, according to the Government Accountability Office.

The illegal-alien flight-school attendees including eight who had entered the country illegally and 17 who had overstayed their allowed period of admission into the United States, according to an audit by the GAO.

Six of the illegal aliens were actually able to get pilot’s licenses.”

But that’s not the best part.  This is:

“Stephen Lord, who is the GAO’s director of Homeland Security and Justice Issues, testified about the matter Wednesday in Rogers’ subcommittee. Rogers asked him: “Isn’t it true that, based on your report, the Transportation Security Administration cannot assure the American people that foreign terrorists are not in this country learning how to fly airplanes, yes or no?”

Lord responded: “At this time, no.”

If you doubt the veracity of this story, then please click on the US government’s own GAO report here.

Let there be no mistake: we’re no safer now — with our diminished freedoms, government-paid crotch-grabbers, aerial drones over our own cities and the massive “Homeland Security” apparatus — than we were on September 10th of 2001.  The GAO report just said so.

Let me remind you all: just who has stopped devices from going off in US civilian aircraft recently?  That’s right: regular American citizens like you and me.  NOT the TSA Grope Squads in our airports.

This is an abortion on toast, ladies and gentlemen.  We lose our freedoms, and acquire our repressive TSA colonoscopies if we wish to fly and, better yet (o joyous day), TSA wants to add these physical intrusions to trains, buses and local transit.  Next up to bid?  You guessed it: checkpoints on our national highways.  Where you’ll have to show your ID, but illegals won’t.

This, however, should make you feel ever-so-much better:

“A GAO official told CNSNews.com that, based on their names, none of the 25 illegal aliens who attended the flight school appeared to be from Muslim countries. Instead, they had Latin American names.”

Just because many Middle Eastern men are readily confused with Mexicans and other “swarthy” individuals completely precludes terrorists from daring — the temerity of them! — to actually utilize a false name.

I’m certainly assuaged.

Aren’t you?

BZ

P.S.
Here is TSA at its finest.

My prior post on TSA incompetence here.

 

Schumer to Bernanke: MORE PORKULUS before November! And? What about Obama and Bain Capital?

[This probably should have been two separate posts.  But frankly, I couldn’t hold back the information and felt compelled to simply “get it out there” as soon as possible.  My apologies if this makes for a confusing post. –BZ]

There is an exhortation from Demorats this week — mostly Chuckie Schumer — to “stimulate” the economy BEFORE November.  Translated: Obama needs help.  Time to cheat and stack the deck.  As Schumer said to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke: “get to work” and instigate more “quantitative easing.”  This is ObakaSpeak for more Porkulus, meaning: get those presses printing even more cash per day.

Let’s see: hitting ourselves with a ball-peen hammer on a head-wound site makes the wound heal quicker.  Right?  I.E., spending another massive clot of hundreds of billions of dollars will take us right out of the economic doldrums just like it did last time.  Right?

It didn’t work then and it won’t work now.  Where did the cash go?  NO ONE KNOWS.  And no one was made to ACCOUNT for all the TARP and “stimulus” funds.  Hundreds of BILLIONS of dollars VANISHED — and the economy’s transmission is still stuck in REVERSE.

This is naked cheating and election stacking, not to mention the incredible, the staggeringly-profligate and pointless waste of OUR taxpayer dollars.  Mine.  Yours.

And no one much cares.  Another day.  Another story.  Ho-hum.  We, ladies and gentlemen, have been essentially lobotomized into lethargy.  No one sees this.  No one writes of this.  No one covers it.  No one goes berserk over this!

This isn’t YOUR money, DC!  This is MY money you’re pissing away!  In order to elect a two-toed sloth in an open shirt who has stated he plans to piss MORE of my money away to the pointless, the lazy, the arrogant, the entitled, the unmotivated, the haughty, the illegal, the Leftists, the Socialists, those who wish to — like himself — see Cloward-Piven truly enacted nationally.

A man who has never kept a budget, run a business, met a payroll, had to sacrifice, despises our military, our national traditions, despises success and private establishments, wants Americans to be ashamed of success, gladly became the Apologist-In-Chief, eschews the very same transparency he promised, dodges actual work, hard work, dodged his job in the Senate (by voting “present” 129 times, an easy and cowardly way to avoid contentious issues), took campaign contributions from Bain Capital —

Oh wait, that’s correct.  You read it here: Mr Obama took campaign money FROM BAIN CAPITAL.  Yes.  The SAME Bain Capital he accuses Mr Romney of Masterminding (bwaa-ha-haaa), which did nothing but crush big companies, kill small children and animals, outsource jobs, set fires in forests, slit the throats of the homeless and sack good and decent Americans.

Note this:

“Bain Capital contributed to Obama and Romney in 2008. Obama received $95,270. More striking is the fact that Bain gave $495,900 to the Democrat Party versus $183,150 to the Republicans.”

Let’s perhaps, then, point this out:

“Obama for America failed to file notice of nearly 2 million dollars in contributions in 2008.”

Further:

“Final Audit Report on Obama for America. On April 19, the Commission made public the Final Audit Report of the Commission on Obama for America (OFA) covering campaign finance activity between January 16, 2007 and December 31, 2008. The Commission approved a finding that OFA failed to file required 48-hour notices totaling $1,972,266 received in 2008.”

And even further:

“Barack Obama’s campaign has been quick to rip Mitt Romney for his association with Bain Capital, which outsourced certain jobs during restructuring of companies. There’s only one problem: many of the very executives who were running Bain Capital during the 1999-2002 period now under media scrutiny donated to Obama’s presidential campaign. And Obama was more than happy to cash the checks.

The same SEC form from February 2001 that lists Mitt Romney as “sole shareholder, sole director, Chief Executive Officer and President of Bain Capital … the controlling person of Bain Capital” also lists over a dozen other managing directors of Bain Capital, Inc. — all of whom were undoubtedly more active than Romney was during this period. And President Obama took money from many of them.

Take Joshua Bekenstein. Bekenstein has been a managing director of Bain Capital since 1986. In 2008, he signed Barack Obama a $4,600 check. In 2004, he gave a $50,000 donation to the Democratic National Committee. That’s outsourcing money, plain and simple. And Obama was happy to take it.

Or how about Stephen Pagliuca? Last year, he cut a $35,800 check to Barack Obama’s Victory Fund. Then he cut another $30,800 check to the DNC. And another $30,800 check to the DCCC. Jonathan Lavine and Mark Nunnelly have both maxed out to Obama already, as well as to the DNC. Lavin was a bundler for Obama, and raised over $100,000 for him. Michael Krupka gave Obama $4,600 in 2008.”

Ladies and gentlemen, please.  You have to understand what is at stake here.  It isn’t simply an “election” this time.  It’s about the future of this nation, its success or failure.  The stakes are in fact that high.  The bar has been raised.  And you are purposely being MUSHROOMED by the DEM/MSM — see the above links.

Pass the word.  Take my links.  Check them yourself.

Your very future is quite so personally at stake.

November is less than four months away.

BZ

 

BZ: one door closes; another one OPENS

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Sooner or later, it had to come.

I’ve been on Blogger since my first post on June 19th of 2004.

But Blogger, as you likely realize, is owned and run by Google.  You know, the same monster that recently decided to eliminate the newest Romney promo video on YouTube — that’s right, also owned by Google.

I figure it’s just a matter of time before Google decides to eliminate me because, after all, I’ve had an eight-year blogging romp for free.  And I’m one blogpost short of tapping a major Conservative vein that Google doesn’t like.

On one front I have to hand it to Blogger: this adventure — and boy was it an adventure — didn’t cost me a damned thing except blood, sweat, tears and massive amounts of time.  For a free venue I’d say I’ve gotten my money’s worth but, of course, there is no such thing as the proverbial Free Lunch.  Sooner or later a price has to be paid.  And the upcoming price those linked to Blogger will have to soon face: censorship.

And I refuse to go there.  I will pay for my own “sovereignty,” so to speak.  Because you really do, in the end, get what you pay for.

Now: I am involved in a consortium with TexasFred, American & Proud, and Texas Shady.  We all kick in buckage for our server time, domain names and techno upkeep.  And we OWN our domain names now.

Frankly, it just allows me to sleep a bit better at night knowing that no one can take this blog down for some arbitrary or capricious reason.  I would ask, though, for a time, that you hold a bit of tolerance in your heart for me whilst I learn and transition from Blogger to WordPress.  I may make some — ahem — clumsy mistakes that otherwise wouldn’t have occurred.  For me it’s a learning curve; steep but possible.  I must apologize in advance for future ham-handed efforts to come until I get this WordPress “thing” down.

That said and written, I would ask three questions:

1. What do you think of the new site?
2. Why do you visit BZ and what do you expect to find?
3. How can I make it better?

In closing, I say: Goodbye to Blogger, and to the old Bloviating Zeppelin site.  Some have suggested I simply take it down and move on.  But like one of my children, I can’t do that.  It will be up as long as Blogger allows.  I cut my political and techno teeth on that blog.

BZ is dead.  Long live BZ!

Except: one door is closing and another door is simply opening a bit further.

Excelsior!

BZ

P.S.
Unlimited techno thanks to Bushwack at American & Proud for his unswerving reliability, insight and hard work on this creation and transition!  Absolutely couldn’t have done it without him.

 

Reflections on ObamaKare:

“You can’t tell how good the day was until the night has come.”
– Old Axiom

The final arguments are not yet in.

Voices on both the Left and Right are crowing about the Roberts SCOTUS decision in re ObamaKare.

To listen to it, both sides would portray themselves as having won. I submit: no one has “won.” Because there is no such thing as a “win” to pull out of ObamaKare.

There is only this:

A LETTER TO MY NIECES and NEPHEW:

I know you voted for Obama.

He was your first federal vote.

You voted for him because you were taught in your Public Education venues that base Caucasoids were and are inherently despicable and responsible for the bulk of what’s wrong with history.

In our own nation — and around the globe.

You were taught to be GOWPs: Guilty Overeducated White People. You were raised in Paradise (Coronado, Fornicalia) and doted upon by dutiful parents. You went to Fornicalia universities as well.

But now, you are the racial miNORity instead of the maJORity in not only Fornicalia but soon to be so around the nation. And you think me racist by dint of my merest mentioning of race.

With this in mind, I submit: you have voted for your own terrible future conditions and early demise.

You may be like your GOWP Caucasoid kind already.

Your kind won’t have children. And if they discover a pregnancy they’ll likely abort. Because they can or because it’s inconvenient. If they actually bring a child to term it will be by mistake or by a one-time singular choice. After many weeks of anguish. Bottom line? I suspect you or your peers won’t have kids.

And what is your devotion to your parents? Will you take them into your personal homes when they require intensive care? They will require intensive care. They will have health problems. They will have mobility problems. Just like my father did. And your grandfather.

My guess: they’re on their own. My two brothers. His wife. Because you will have your own lives and they won’t wish to intrude.

Which means that, like your parents, you’ll be literally “on your own” when you get older and riddled with disease and infirmities. You won’t have kids to help and, if you do, they’ll be even more distracted and uninvolved than you were.

You’ll only have your wonderful Government to assist. The Government and future you assured by voting for Mr Obama. Your healthcare, resultingly, will be conducted with all the kindness, loyalty, care, efficiency and professionalism of your local DMV. And administered by bureaucrats, not doctors. Cost and age will be the only considered factors. The older you get, the less valuable you become.

So here’s YOUR future under Mr Obama:

  • Death Panels
  • Excessive taxes
  • Health care rationing
  • Lack of doctors
  • Lack of nurses

Which will equate to this:

Your final days won’t be covered by your children. You didn’t have any.

You were born alone and you have the mandate that you will die alone.

You will find your final days shoved — if you still have a semblance of life about you — into a small room with another ten individuals.

And further, because you are Caucasoid, you will find your Caretakers speaking anything but English. And ignoring your needs because you are. Because when you think it’s not about race — there are others who think differently. Open your eyes. Start looking around. In Fornicalia you’d best have an excellent grasp of Spanish, Tagalog or Jamaican Patois. Start learning now.

THIS is what you have guaranteed under ObakaKare.

About ten or twenty years in the future. But, because you are ignorant and short-sighted, Mr Obama has ALREADY taken advantage of you. Because if ObamaKare holds and, moreover, if he acquires a second term. . .

And if you don’t think this is your future — ?

Then I might actually — for a second or two — feel sorry for you.

Bottom line: “There is no fixing stupid.”

Good luck with that Obama vote. Good luck with Mr Obama’s dystopia.

You’d best learn Spanish and quickly. If you move east, adhere to Islam.

This isn’t a Brave New World. It’s a quivering, apologistic, simpering, cowardly New World.

You weren’t born alone. Both your parents were there.

But be prepared to die alone.

And with no one who cares about you around you. Your loving parents will have long since passed away.

BZ