New Zealand: stealing from your savings account sounds like a great idea

BNZ ATMFrom New Zealand’s Scoop.com:

National planning Cyprus-style solution for New Zealand

Tuesday, 19 March 2013, 11:32 am
Press Release: Green Party

19 March 2013

National planning Cyprus-style solution for New Zealand


The National Government are pushing a Cyprus-style solution to bank failure in New Zealand which will see small depositors lose some of their savings to fund big bank bailouts, the Green Party said today.

Open Bank Resolution (OBR) is Finance Minister Bill English’s favoured option dealing with a major bank failure. If a bank fails under OBR, all depositors will have their savings reduced overnight to fund the bank’s bail out.

“Bill English is proposing a Cyprus-style solution for managing bank failure here in New Zealand – a solution that will see small depositors lose some of their savings to fund big bank bailouts,” said Green Party Co-leader Dr Russel Norman.

“The Reserve Bank is in the final stages of implementing a system of managing bank failure called Open Bank Resolution. The scheme will put all bank depositors on the hook for bailing out their bank.

Again, an excellent idea — raiding the accounts of those who had nothing to do with the fiscal management of a given banking institution(s) — but who only made the mistake of having their accounts present at same.

You see?  I said the concept would take off.  Great ideas like this are starting to make their rounds and will spill over into other countries.  Viral ideas for Leftists, anyone?  ATM runs in New Zealand, anyone?  And with ideas like this, why put money in a bank if it’s nothing but fodder for capricious government raids?

How long until DC gets the idea as “their own”?

BZ

 

 

Schakowsky: Assault Weapons Ban ‘Just the Beginning’

From Breitbart’s Big Government:

Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), a member of the Democratic Party’s leadership in the House of Representatives, suggested to Jason Mattera at a Feb. 13 women’s rights rally that plans for an assault weapons ban and private-sales background checks were only the beginning of a broader gun control agenda extending to handguns as well.

Schakowsky evidently did not recognize Mattera, a conservative video journalist and senior investigative reporter for Talk Radio Network, who infamously confronted Vice President Joe Biden in the Capitol. (Mattera introduced himself to Schakowsky by name but did not indicate that he was filming or that he is conservative.) She spoke to Mattera as if he were a fellow gun control enthusiast–and Mattera played along, eliciting answers about Schakowsky’s enthusiasm for gun control.

It’s no surprise that Demorats, Leftists, Progressives and the Obama Regime wish to abrogate the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights, particularly the 2nd Amendment because — once the 2nd falls — the 1st Amendment is up for bid.

And then the individual has no control, and Government ultimate control.  One then becomes a Prole, a Groundling, a Serf, a Subject to the King.

In the exchange:

Schakowsky: We’re on a roll now, and I think we’ve got to take the–you know, we’re gonna push as hard as we can and as far as we can.

Mattera: So the assault weapons ban is just the beginning?

Schakowsky: Oh absolutely. I mean, I’m against handguns. We have, in Illinois, the Council Against Handgun… something [Violence]. Yeah, I’m a member of that. So, absolutely.

Mattera: We’ll never get a handgun ban with the Second Amendment as stated.

Schakowsky: I don’t know. I don’t know that we can’t. And there may be an allowance, once again, for communities–I have communities in my district that prohibited handguns within their borders. The rights of municipalities and states to view that as a sensible way to keep people safe–I don’t think it’s precluded.

Clear evidence, in my book.

This is nothing new.  Mr Obama himself quite clearly stated that no one should own firearms.

From Gregory Gwyn-Williams, Jr. at CNSNews.com:

In his new book, At the Brink, economist and author John R. Lott Jr., assesses the presidency of Barack Obama and recalls conversations regarding gun laws they had while working at the University of Chicago.

In Chapter Three, Mr. Lott discusses gun-control and takes the reader back to his time at the University of Chicago, where he and then-professor Barack Obama spoke on numerous occasions about guns in America.

“I don’t believe people should be able to own guns,” Obama told Lott one day at the University of Chicago Law School.

(A) chapter (of the book) documents the actions that Obama has taken on guns, citing the following:

  • In 1996, Obama supported a ban on handguns
  • In 1998, he supported a ban on the sale of all semi-automatic guns
  • In 2004, he advocated banning gun sales within five miles of a school or park, which would have shut down nearly all gun stores

Mr Obama has spoken many times.  His original words are clear and undiluted: he’s coming for your American rights.  He fervently believes that no individual should own any kind of firearm.

As far as Mr Obama in concerned: no American civilian is responsible or can be trusted.  No one.  Not you.  Not me.

BZ

 

 

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

 

 

US Sheriffs: coalescing around taking a stand AGAINST further gun control

I wish my sheriff were one of these involved but, on the Left Coast, it’s a Death Knell if you make anything other than a 100% PC statement regarding the issue.  Better yet, staying completely silent is the best option — as is his default here.  The state of Fornicalia is controlled by Leftists who solely vote Demorat — as the Supermajority in Sacramento testifies.  My Sheriff, as of this writing, is conspicuously absent from the list below.

That said, I proffer this positive insight of county Sheriffs supporting the 2nd Amendment:

List of County Sheriffs

Name County State
1 Blake Dorning Madison Alabama
2 Ana Franklin Morgan Alabama
3 Andy Hughes Houston Alabama
4 Jay Jones Lee Alabama
5 Scott Mascher Yavapai Arizona
6 Joe Arpaio Maricopa Arizona
7 Tom Sheahan Mohave Arizona
8 Paul Babeu Pinal Arizona
9 Mark J. Dannels Cochise Arizona
10 Mike Moore Boone Arkansas
11 Adam Christianson Stanislaus California
12 Jon Lopey Siskiyou California
13 Tom Bosenko Shasta California
14 John D’Agostini El Dorado California
15 David Hencraft Tehama California
16 Dean Growden Lassen California
17 Dean Wilson Del Norte California
18 Mike Poindexter Modoc California
19 Thomas Allman Mendocino California
20 Mike Downey Humboldt California
21 Margaret Mims Fresno California
22 Greg Hagwood Plumas California
23 Bruce Haney Trinity California
24 Martin Ryan Amador California
25 Jerry Smith Butte California
26 Donny Youngblood Kern California
27 James W. Mele Toulumne California
28 Justin Smith Larimer Colorado
29 Terry Maketa El Paso Colorado
30 John Cooke Weld Colorado
31 Stan Hilkey Mesa Colorado
32 Lou Vallario Garfield Colorado
33 Rick Dunlap Montrose Colorado
34 Jeff Christopher Sussex Delaware
35 Bill Snyder Martin Florida
36 Frank McKeithen Bay Florida
37 Mike Scott Lee Florida
38 Rick Beseler Clay Florida
39 Michael Adkinson Walton Florida
40 Grady Judd Polk Florida
41 Stacy Nicholson Gilmer Georgia
42 Scott Berry Oconee Georgia
43 Roger Garrison Cherokee Georgia
44 Neil Warren Cobb Georgia
45 Butch Conway Gwinnett Georgia
46 Gary Gulledge Paulding Georgia
47 Joe Chapman Walton Georgia
48 Roy Klingler Madison Idaho
49 Kieran Donahue Canyon Idaho
50 Daryl Wheeler Bonner Idaho
51 Chris Goetz Clearwater Idaho
52 Doug Giddings Idaho Idaho
53 Doug McFall Jerome Idaho
54 Brian Brokop Lewis Idaho
55 Joe Rodriguez Nez Perce Idaho
56 Tom Carter Twin Falls Idaho
57 Dave Resser Benewah Idaho
58 Edward Motley Edgar Illinois
59 Mike Emery McLean Illinois
60 Jerry Parsley Clark Illinois
61 Brad Rogers Elkhart Indiana
62 Bill McCarthy Polk Iowa
63 Warren M. Wethington Cedar Iowa
64 Frank Denning Johnson Kansas
65 Denny Peyman Jackson Kentucky
66 Michael A. Helmig Boone Kentucky
67 John Snedegar Bath Kentucky
68 Scott F. Harrison Powell Kentucky
69 Chuck Korzenborn Kenton Kentucky
70 Charles A. Jenkins Frederick Maryland
71 Dar Leaf Barry Michigan
72 Ted Schende Benzie Michigan
73 Larry Stelma Kent Michigan
74 Robin Cole Pine Minnesota
75 Bill Rasco DeSoto Mississippi
76 Billy McGee Forrest Mississippi
77 Cecil Cantrell Monroe Mississippi
78 Brad A. DeLay Lawrence Missouri
79 Charles Heiss Johnson Missouri
80 Steve Cox Livingston Missouri
81 Mick Epperly Barry Missouri
82 Stephen Stockman Mercer Missouri
83 George R. Underwood Oregon Missouri
84 Michael Dixon Osage Missouri
85 Randee Kaiser Jasper Missouri
86 Tom Rummel Sanders Montana
87 Jay Doyle Lake Montana
88 Scott F. Howard Powell Montana
89 Chris Hoffman Ravalli Montana
90 Darby Harrington Wibaux Montana
91 Mike Linder Yellowstone Montana
92 Ed Kilgpore Humboldt Nevada
93 Benjamin D. Trotter Churchill Nevada
94 Tony DeMeo Nye Nevada
95 Douglas R Dutile Grafton New Hampshire
96 Dan Houston Bernalillo New Mexico
97 Shawn Menges Catron New Mexico
98 Patrick R Jennings Chaves New Mexico
99 Johnny Valdez Cibola New Mexico
100 Jim Maldonado Colfax New Mexico
101 Dennis A. Cleaver De Baca New Mexico
102 Todd Garrison Dona Ana New Mexico
103 Scott London Eddy New Mexico
104 Raul Holguin Grant New Mexico
105 Michael R Lucero Guadalupe New Mexico
106 Herman Martinez Harding New Mexico
107 Saturnino Madero Hidalgo New Mexico
108 Mark Hargrove Lea New Mexico
109 Rick Virden Lincoln New Mexico
110 Marco Lucero Los Alamos New Mexico
111 Raymond Cobos Luna New Mexico
112 Benny House Otero New Mexico
113 Joe Schallert Quay New Mexico
114 Joe Mascarenas Arriba New Mexico
115 Darren Hooker Roosevelt New Mexico
116 Ken Christesen San Juan New Mexico
117 Benjie Vigil San Miguel New Mexico
118 Robert Garcia Santa Fe New Mexico
119 Joe Baca Sierra New Mexico
120 Phillip Montoya Socorro New Mexico
121 Miguel Romero Jr Taos New Mexico
122 Heath White Torrance New Mexico
123 William Spriggs Union New Mexico
124 Louis Burkhard Valencia New Mexico
125 Tony Desmond Schoharie New York
126 Richard Devlin Jr. Otsego New York
127 Donald Smith Putnam New York
128 David Cole Steuben New York
129 Coy Reid Catawba North Carolina
130 Adell Dobey Edgefield North Carolina
131 Jerry Jones Franklin North Carolina
132 Charlie McDonald Henderson North Carolina
133 Ed McMahon New Hanover North Carolina
134 Jimmy Thornton Sampson North Carolina
135 Eddie Cathey Union North Carolina
136 Donnie Harrison Wake North Carolina
137 Carey Winders Wayne North Carolina
138 A.J. Rodenberg Clermont Ohio
139 Sam Crish Allen Ohio
140 Bob ‘Big Block’ Colbert Wagoner Oklahoma
141 Johnny Tadlock McCurtain Oklahoma
142 Roger LeVick Jackson Oklahoma
143 Glenn E. Palmer Grant Oregon
144 Gil Gilbertson Josephine Oregon
145 Tim Mueller Linn Oregon
146 Craig Zanni Coos Oregon
147 John Hanlin Douglas Oregon
148 John Bishop Curry Oregon
149 Larry Blanton Deschutes Oregon
150 Jim Hensley Crook Oregon
151 Pat Garrett Washington Oregon
152 Dan Staton Multnomah Oregon
153 Mike Winters Jackson Oregon
154 Brian Wolfe Malheur Oregon
155 Mitchell Southwick Baker Oregon
156 Frank Skrah Klamath Oregon
157 Jason Myers Marion Oregon
158 Bob Wolfe Polk Oregon
159 Jack Crabtree Yamhill Oregon
160 Jim Muller Adams Pennsylvania
161 Eric J. Weaknecht Berks Pennsylvania
162 Clinton J. Walters Bradford Pennsylvania
163 Jeffrey C. Krieg Elk Pennsylvania
164 Bunny Welsh Chester Pennsylvania
165 Al Cannon Charleston South Carolina
166 Chuck Wright Spartanburg South Carolina
167 Wayne DeWitt Berkeley South Carolina
168 Jim Matthews Kershaw South Carolina
169 James Metts Lexington South Carolina
170 Leon Lott Richland South Carolina
171 Jim Ruth Bradley Tennessee
172 Jim Hammond Hamilton Tennessee
173 Larry Smith Smith Texas
174 Terry Box Collin Texas
175 Joel W. Richardson Randall Texas
176 Jack Brandes Austin Texas
177 Johnny Brown Ellis Texas
178 Michael Cox Hill Texas
179 Bob Alford Johnson Texas
180 Earl Howell McCulloch Texas
181 Parnell McNamara McLennan Texas
182 David Medlin Oldham Texas
183 Tommy Gage Montgomery Texas
184 Dane Kirby Fannin Texas
185 Cameron M. Noel Beaver Utah
186 David Edmunds Summit Utah
187 James Tracy Utah Utah
188 Robert Dekker Millard Utah
189 Frank Park Tooele Utah
190 Joseph Yeates Box Elder Utah
191 G. Lynn Nelson Cache Utah
192 James Cordova Carbon Utah
193 Jerry Jorgensen Daggett Utah
194 Todd Richardson Davis Utah
195 Travis Mitchell Duchesne Utah
196 Greg Funk Emery Utah
197 James D. Perkins Garfield Utah
198 Steven White Grand Utah
199 Mark Gower Iron Utah
200 Alden Orme Juab Utah
201 Lamont Smith Kane Utah
202 Blaine Breshears Morgan Utah
203 Marty Gleave Puite Utah
204 Dale Stacey Rich Utah
205 Rick Eldredge San Juan Utah
206 Brian Nielson Sanpete Utah
207 Nathan Curtis Sevier County Utah
208 Jeff Merrell Uintah Utah
209 Todd Bonner Wasatch Utah
210 Cory Pulsipher Washington Utah
211 Kurt Taylor Wayne Utah
212 Terry Thompson Weber Utah
213 Merv Gustin Duchesne Utah
214 Than Cooper Garfiled Utah
215 James B. Nyland Sr. Grand Utah
216 Gene Ercanbrack Morgan Utah
217 Mike Lacy San Juan Utah
218 Kay P. Larsen Sanpete Utah
219 Phil Barney Sevier Utah
220 Kenneth Vanwagoner Wasatch Utah
221 Kirk Smith Washington Utah
222 Ken Bancroft Asotin Washington
223 Tom Jones Grant Washington
224 Dave Brown Skamania Washington
225 Brett Myers Whitman Washington
226 Ken Irwin Yakima Washington
227 Mike Harper Roane West Virginia
228 Ken Merritt Wood West Virginia
229 David A. Clarke Jr. Milwaukee Wisconsin

Again, historically, Sheriff’s have the ability to make the logical argument as being the true foundations of local US law enforcement.

“THE GOVERNMENT DOES REQUIRE OUR PERMISSION TO EXIST.”

Digest that, if you will, you ignorant Leftists.

BZ

P.S.

As of this publishing, I find it disheartening that there are only 12 Texas Sheriffs on the list, whilst there are 17 Fornicalia Sheriffs on the list — considering there are only 58 counties in Fornicalia, and there are 254 in Texas.  I submit: as goes Fornicalia so go Leftists.  But, on the other hand, as goes Texas so go Conservatives.

I can certainly account for the larger Fornicalia county Sheriffs not being listed here: they have massive populations in urban areas primarily consisting of those dependent upon government Free Cheese largesse, with greater gang activity, higher “minority” loads (though, in Fornicalia, the Caucasoid is in truth the statistical minority), and held accountable to a Leftist Voting Block.

As in: NONE of these counties chiming in:

Census 2010: The Biggest Counties in California

2010 rank 2000 rank County 2000 pop 2010 pop Raw change % change
1 1 Los Angeles 9 519 338 9 818 605 299 267 3.1
2 3 San Diego 2 813 833 3 095 313 281 480 10.0
3 2 Orange 2 846 289 3 010 232 163 943 5.8
4 6 Riverside 1 545 387 2 189 641 644 254 41.7
5 4 San Bernardino 1 709 434 2 035 210 325 776 19.1
6 5 Santa Clara 1 682 585 1 781 642 99 057 5.9
7 7 Alameda 1 443 741 1 510 271 66 530 4.6
8 8 Sacramento 1 223 499 1 418 788 195 289 16.0
9 9 Contra Costa 948 816 1 049 025 100 209 10.6
10 10 Fresno 799 407 930 450 131 043 16.4
11 14 Kern 661 645 839 631 177 986 26.9
12 12 Ventura 753 197 823 318 70 121 9.3
13 11 San Francisco 776 733 805 235 28 502 3.7
14 13 San Mateo 707 161 718 451 11 290 1.6
15 15 San Joaquin 563 598 685 306 121 708 21.6
16 17 Stanislaus 446 997 514 453 67 456 15.1
17 16 Sonoma 458 614 483 878 25 264 5.5
18 21 Tulare 368 021 442 179 74 158 20.2
19 19 Santa Barbara 399 347 423 895 24 548 6.1
20 18 Monterey 401 762 415 057 13 295 3.3

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

 

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