Let's review here, Pilgrim.
Donald J. Trump was elected to build a wall on our Southern border. "Build That Wall!" was the chant heard at so many of Trump's rallies across America. He said he would build the wall. No question. The wall is needed, he said, and we agree, to keep out alien migrants, and illegal drugs, and guns and weapons that could be used to cause mayhem.
Trump said he'd get Meheeeeko to pay for the wall. They said they wouldn't. No big surprise there. And the Leftoids among us laughed at him for being so stupid as to think our friends south of what they call "La Frontera*," the Frontier, would ever pay to close off their Number Two source of foreign capital. That would be "remittances," which is the word the Progressives among us call the money illegals send home to momma back in Guadalajara after taking a job that Americans won't do. It works out to more than $20 Billion a Year!
* BTW, the Mexicans have never gotten their arms around losing the Mexican-American War. And thus, they do not consider the "Border" as a "Border." Rather, it is a smelly ditch to be waded across on the way to the Land of Freebies...
Uhh, sorry for the interruption. Back to the rant...
I wonder, just for discussion's sake, what would happen if we paid $50 an hour to pick tomatoes, and decided to no longer pay to educate and feed and clothe and house those who shouldn't be here? Just thinkin' out loud there...
We know walls work. The walls around the White House tend to prove that. And the wall across 4,000 miles of China worked pretty well for a thousand years or so. And the "wall" of 32,000 American soldiers that keep Northern Koreans out of Southern Korea. You could call that a successful endeavor. Remember the wall that separated East from West Berlin? That worked pretty well for a couple of decades, didn't it? And the wall that separates the "free" part of Jerusalem from those fun-loving Palestinians who made a hobby out of blowing up Jewish pizza parlors...and themselves.
Funny, not a single pepperoni - or Israeli - blown skyward since.
But in spite of quite obvious proof that the majority of Americans want the wall built, and NOW, the Democrats are using every single parliamentary trick in their quiver to thwart the publics' interests. They have refused to fund the wall, even though they know we want it. They WILL NOT give Trump a legislative victory, preferring rather to run on this and many other Progressive goals during the mid-term Election upcoming. And even though there's millions of dollars for border security in Jordan, of all places, in our newly-approved budget, there's nowhere near the money we need to begin construction.
So we know that a "wall-less" America invites millions of aliens to invade our Country and take advantage of the many delightful aspects of our Representative Republic (no, children, we DO NOT have a Democracy...). So we're told we have somewhere around 11,000,000 (roughly the population of ND, SD, MT, ID, NV and NE) illegals living here. And somehow to the Leftoid Progressives out there, that's a good thing. That's an almost limitless source of brand-new voters to take back power and keep it forever.
To the Constitutional Conservatives out there, without an enforced border we do not have a country.
This little disagreement has blossomed to the point where California, once the bastion of all things wonderful, has decided that illegals are now the Holy Grail. CA no longer deports heinous criminal felons from our midst. I fear that only mass murders would be shown the door here in the once-Golden, but now severely tarnished state.
I wonder what you'd have to do to get yourself deported by the commie pinko dumbass liberal weenies who are running things up there in Sacrascrewthetaxpayers? Hmmm.
Anyhoo, I just noticed that Andrew McCabe, the ex-Number Two at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the fellow who was put in charge of overseeing the Trump - Russia fiasco, the real gem who oversaw the Clinton illegal email investigation, has now been accused of perjuring himself at least four times in front of Congress. He is also the philanderer who was caught porking his also-married little FBI sweetheart Lisa Page. This is the guy who bragged during about 100,000 text messages to her that he had an "insurance policy" to keep Trump from being elected, whatever that meant, and then to take him down once he was, was fired by the IG because of these illegal transgressions. And then, having his fat FBI pension jerked from under him at the last minute, and facing a number Federal probes over his blatantly illegal activities, just raised more than $450,000 in ONE DAY from "Go Fund Me" to help pay for his legal fees.
Think of it. A true liar, criminal, philanderer, cheat, thief and overall Bad Guy, who sucked from the public teat for twenty years, just begged the gullible FB public to help him try and escape justice. What a great Country we live in!
So, I thought to myself, if McCabe can use "Go Fund Me" to help pay for his legal defense, why don't we Americans use "Go Fund Me" to help pay for the Wall? Think of it: If only 250,000 Americans coughed up $1,000 each, we'd have the $25 Billion we need to build that sucker! So if just a few concerned, red-blooded, God-fearing, law-abiding 'Muricans, roughly the population of Springfield, MO, were to donate a Thousand Bucks each, we'd have our Wall, and San Fran Nan Pelosi and "Crying Chuck" Schumer would have the smiles wiped off their frequently lifted, but still sagging, Leftoid faces.
I like it. How 'bout you? Here's another idea. Just send that $Thou to me, The Chuckmeister, and I'll make sure it gets to the proper recipient. You can count on that. I mean, if you can't trust The Chuckmeister, just who can you trust?
Oh yeah, and to all my faithful, loyal and admiring legions of fans out there, all eleven or twelve of you, let me send along my heartfelt wishes for a happy and healthy Easter!
Saturday, March 31, 2018
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
"National School Walkout Day"
Would you be interested in learning exactly who financed the "National School Walkout Day" this past week? You know, the one where school "kids" were instructed to leave school and march to "end school gun violence?"
It seemed to me to be a rather speedy jump between a school mass shooting and organized, orchestrated, scripted and televised for hours-at-a-time mass protests nationwide. Awfully quick, I thought. Like only a couple of days.
Just a thought, but isn't it ironic that these "kids," the ones marching to the music written by others, spewing the talking points given them, are begging the Government to please take away one of their God-given Rights and freedoms? To please make it illegal for them, aged 15 to 18, to own and use and enjoy and defend themselves with a firearm until they're 21? Like their predecessors have for hundreds of years? Like I did. Like millions of Americans did. Like millions of Americans...are? Just asking...
It seemed to me to be a rather speedy jump between a school mass shooting and organized, orchestrated, scripted and televised for hours-at-a-time mass protests nationwide. Awfully quick, I thought. Like only a couple of days.
So I did a little research. I wanted to find out who was paying for all of this. Who was "pulling the strings," so to speak. Who was deciding behind the scenes upon the theme, the logistics, the transportation, the marketing and advertising, and the care and feeding of tens of thousands of high schoolers all across the Fruited Plain. And this is what I discovered...
Within hours of the Parkland, Florida shooting those vehemently against guns were lining up to condemn this massacre. Falling in love with the nearest microphone, they were. Good, I said. It was horrible and shouldn't have been allowed to happen. And if the government, various governments, had done the jobs we paid them to do...it wouldn't have. The local Broward County Sheriff was called on 39 separate occasions, without result. The FBI was called at least twice. The perp even called the FBI on himself!
Just today I learned that the administration of that self-same Parkland school tried to have the shooter forcibly committed back in 2016. They made the case that this crazy was a likely mass murderer. Despite this alert, the ball was dropped, once again.
It has been said, especially after such monumental, bone-headed screw ups like this one, that we're lucky we don't get all the Government we pay for. Except when it concerns protecting us from prospective mass murderers, which did not happen in Parkland, Florida...
Lemme see here: the authorities failed us. The folks we're paying to keep us safe, didn't. On literally dozens of occasions this event could have been forestalled, but it wasn't. Bureaucracy intervened. Inertia intervened. Coffee breaks and long weekends and ignorance and misunderstandings and union meetings and fear and concern for retirement benefits got in the way. And yet they want us to agree to disarm and go ahead and trust them to keep us safe in the future. Sure we will...
Within days of the shooting, celebrities were condemning the event, and the gun at its center. Others started ponying up gobs of money to pay for the protests to come. And the "Womens' March," a left-wing organization seemingly against all things patriotic and democratic, took the lead. And it lined up almost One Hundred non-profits and corporations to start shoveling cash their way. The purported theme of the March was a "demand to end gun violence." But if you were to visit the Womens' March website, you'd learn that the ReeeeeL theme of this hurriedly enacted, but obviously previously well planned protest was "demand Congress enact gun control." Hmmmmm...
Just today I learned that the administration of that self-same Parkland school tried to have the shooter forcibly committed back in 2016. They made the case that this crazy was a likely mass murderer. Despite this alert, the ball was dropped, once again.
It has been said, especially after such monumental, bone-headed screw ups like this one, that we're lucky we don't get all the Government we pay for. Except when it concerns protecting us from prospective mass murderers, which did not happen in Parkland, Florida...
Lemme see here: the authorities failed us. The folks we're paying to keep us safe, didn't. On literally dozens of occasions this event could have been forestalled, but it wasn't. Bureaucracy intervened. Inertia intervened. Coffee breaks and long weekends and ignorance and misunderstandings and union meetings and fear and concern for retirement benefits got in the way. And yet they want us to agree to disarm and go ahead and trust them to keep us safe in the future. Sure we will...
Within days of the shooting, celebrities were condemning the event, and the gun at its center. Others started ponying up gobs of money to pay for the protests to come. And the "Womens' March," a left-wing organization seemingly against all things patriotic and democratic, took the lead. And it lined up almost One Hundred non-profits and corporations to start shoveling cash their way. The purported theme of the March was a "demand to end gun violence." But if you were to visit the Womens' March website, you'd learn that the ReeeeeL theme of this hurriedly enacted, but obviously previously well planned protest was "demand Congress enact gun control." Hmmmmm...
Here's a partial list of some of those who would deprive you of one of your Constitutional Rights:
AFl-CIO (why does the very largest union organization in
this Country, fat with members who own and use and
enjoy guns, want to restrict gun rights? Do their members
know this?)
this Country, fat with members who own and use and
enjoy guns, want to restrict gun rights? Do their members
know this?)
Service Employees International Union (doing their best
to make entry-level jobs pay $15 an hour so they can
to make entry-level jobs pay $15 an hour so they can
unionize the newly "rich" employees)
GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders
American Civil Liberties Union
Occupy Wall Street
Pussy Hat Project (?)
United We Dream (so wannabe-not illegals don't like guns?)
MoveOn.Org (owned and operated by George Soros, uber-
leftist, billionaire ex-felon, a Jew who turned in Jews to
the Nazis, who's working overtime with his
oodles of cash to turn America into a socialist paradise)
leftist, billionaire ex-felon, a Jew who turned in Jews to
the Nazis, who's working overtime with his
oodles of cash to turn America into a socialist paradise)
Center for American Progress (started and operated by
Hillary Clinton's campaign manager Podesta. Need I say
more?)
more?)
CODEPINK (anti-war group famous for picketing GWB 24/7)
Emily's List (organizes women to run for Democrat offices)
Human Rights Campaign
National Abortion Federation (!)
Natural Resources Defense Council
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
Gays Against Guns (!!!!)
High School Democrats of America (discriminating
against pre-schoolers, are we?)
against pre-schoolers, are we?)
The Communist Party of the United States of America (of
course. Easier to take over 'Murica if nobody's armed)
And, last but not least, Planned Parenthood Federation of
America.
Excuse me, but what the Hell does Planned Parenthood have to do with gun control? And why would they be spending some of the more than $500 Million a year the taxpayers give them (!) on trying to influence legislation and remove Americans' Rights? It would seem that what they do is much more violent - and frequent - than any mass shooting. Except maybe as a tool of left-wingers who are fixated upon erasing the 2nd Amendment and disarming Americans.
One, of course, has to ask, "Why?" Why do they feel the need to disarm Americans? What do they have planned? Or is it that they just do not believe that we toothless ignorant uneducated "flyover" rubes are smart enough and capable enough to actually be trusted with a...wait for it...GUNS! Remember my old warning, "They just want to be left alone to live our lives...
One, of course, has to ask, "Why?" Why do they feel the need to disarm Americans? What do they have planned? Or is it that they just do not believe that we toothless ignorant uneducated "flyover" rubes are smart enough and capable enough to actually be trusted with a...wait for it...GUNS! Remember my old warning, "They just want to be left alone to live our lives...
Oh, and here's a short list of some of the celebrities who opened their fat checkbooks to help pay for this "March:"
Jeffrey Katzenberg (co-founder of Dreamworks)
Jeffrey Katzenberg (co-founder of Dreamworks)
Steven Spielberg (ditto. How many of this duo's films have
featured stars with guns mowing down citizens with
abandon?
featured stars with guns mowing down citizens with
abandon?
Little Mikey Moore (infamous bloated, diarrhea-of-the-mouth,
millionaire gasbag puke)
George Clooney ($500,000 to buy him some gun-control!)
Oprah Winfrey (I heard she found her donation for this
existential "march" between the cushions of her couch)
Oprah Winfrey (I heard she found her donation for this
existential "march" between the cushions of her couch)
Just a thought, but isn't it ironic that these "kids," the ones marching to the music written by others, spewing the talking points given them, are begging the Government to please take away one of their God-given Rights and freedoms? To please make it illegal for them, aged 15 to 18, to own and use and enjoy and defend themselves with a firearm until they're 21? Like their predecessors have for hundreds of years? Like I did. Like millions of Americans did. Like millions of Americans...are? Just asking...
It has been said that we are known by the company we keep. And in this instance, perhaps a faux-national movement must be known by the folks who planned it and are paying for it. And left-wing, communist, pro-abortion, pro-gay, pro-redistributionist, anti-war, anti-free enterprise, pro-tax hikes, anti-conservative gun-hating anarchist groups dedicated to ending the American Experiment and replacing it with something, uh, less "free," and who have probably never seen a real gun up close, are picking up the tab.
Just thought you'd like to know...
Update: As this is written a kid took a gun, a pistol, not an "assault rifle," to a "gun free zone" school in Great Mills, Maryland, one of the most gun-free of our states, and shot a 16 year-old ex-girlfriend and a 14 year-old boy. Before he could shoot others he was taken out by an on-duty, armed school SRO (School Resource Officer). The SRO shot the perp dead before he could kill or injure others. DEAD! And that's rock-solid evidence that the only way to stop a Bad Guy with a gun is a Good Guy with a gun.
Okay, MSNBC/CNN/NPR/PBS/ABC/CBS/NBC and all the left-wing websites, begin your 24/7 otherwise spin...right now!
Update: As this is written a kid took a gun, a pistol, not an "assault rifle," to a "gun free zone" school in Great Mills, Maryland, one of the most gun-free of our states, and shot a 16 year-old ex-girlfriend and a 14 year-old boy. Before he could shoot others he was taken out by an on-duty, armed school SRO (School Resource Officer). The SRO shot the perp dead before he could kill or injure others. DEAD! And that's rock-solid evidence that the only way to stop a Bad Guy with a gun is a Good Guy with a gun.
Okay, MSNBC/CNN/NPR/PBS/ABC/CBS/NBC and all the left-wing websites, begin your 24/7 otherwise spin...right now!
Thursday, March 8, 2018
Give me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Illegals...
So Attorney General Jeff Sessions showed up in Sacramento yesterday to file suit against the once-Golden State of California.
Seems that good ol' CA has been passing laws and doing all sorts of questionable socialistic stuff that thwarts the Federal Government in its efforts to exercise its Supremacy Authority over immigration matters in this Peoples' Republic.
It even declared itself a "sanctuary state," effectively walling itself off from the rest of America. Maybe "The Wall" The Trumpster wants so badly should be built between CA and the U. S. of A.
What's the problem, you ask? Instead of notifying Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when a convicted, illegal immigrant rapist, murderer or gang member is incarcerated in one of our many jails so they can come and scoop them up, called honoring an ICE "detainer," these Taxifornia local city and county authorities have been ordered, under the threat of law, to simply turn. them. loose. Loose to prey once again on the innocent citizens of the surrounding areas.
Example: Of the recent 800 illegals that ICE had targeted for a sweep in the Bay Area, less than 200 were nabbed. And that's because Oakland Mayor Libby Snuffle, or something, warned them the day before so they could escape before capture. Now, if you're thinking that her doing so is treason, or at least harboring fugitives or obstructing justice, along with impersonating a Mayor, in my opinion you'd be right. But I'm not a lawyer, thankfully, so my legal opinion doesn't matter.
But my opinion as a citizen, does...
Oh, and also, our Civil Servant-for-Life Jerry Brown and Company also made it a law that you can't cooperate with ICE if they come to your business or jail and ask for info about illegals. And you can't ask anybody their immigration status, anywhere, anytime, or for any reason. Ever! Big No No! No freedom of speech in this Socialist Paradise, my friends. And you can't do business with anybody who's trying to build that dratted wall down south, either. I mean, you're a contractor and you provide an estimate on any part or all of that wall, the micro-managing dweebs up there in the Capitol will arrest you, fine you Big Time and send you to the Gray Bar Hotel for a nice, long rest. Oh, and bar you from ever doing bizz in Taxifornia ever again. Ever.
Clearly, the brain-dead bozos in charge have been working overtime to turn CA into Cuba.
So Sessions told the group of law enforcement folks he was addressing that CA's efforts in this regard are, wait for it, unconstitutional. But wait! Jeff, my man, you have to understand something: To you, the Constitution means what it says. It's sacrosanct. Inviolable. You honor it. We fought a war over it. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have died fighting for it. It's like the guide book to our Country's representative republic.
But to the Leftist weenies out here, the Constitution is old, outmoded, and no longer to be honored. To them, it is a "living, breathing document," and needs to be revised and rewritten every now and then to conform with modern, popular trends. You know, like men peeing in girls' bathrooms. Like disarming the public. And like making up its own immigration laws.
To the Democrats, in short, that moldery old piece of velum doesn't really mean what it says. And even if it does, it still needs to be ignored...
So Democrats truly believe that the Bill of Rights, all ten of them, neatly provided to us as a "boxed set," need to be pared down a bit; maybe six or seven of them should be retained, while the 4th and the 5th need to be revised, the 2nd needs to go away entirely, the 10th needs to be enlarged and the 1st needs to be slimmed down so that conservative speech is thereafter outlawed. The first shot in this prospective civil war was fired by Sacramento. Sessions and the United States just returned volley.
Now we all know that Hollywierd celebritards, Silicon Valley billionaires, Millennials and Sacrascrewyou politicians all agree that illegals aren't really illegal; they're just undocumented. They luuuv them! But the residents of the other 46 CA counties, where normal folks are trying to live, know that illegal aliens are, ummm, illegal. And the criminals among them, at the very least, need to be rounded up and deported.
But that flies in the face of the Democrat's Holy Plans. The "more equal than you," having turned their back on their usual blue collar base, now want to create a whole new set of uninvited, but uber-welcome visitors as brand new citizens so they can rush right over to the voting booth and vote for Democrats. Several times, at least. And the first step toward so doing is to legalize them, by anyway possible.
They simply want to strengthen their supermajority hold on power here so they can keep it. Forever.
Rash talk? CA started issuing drivers' licenses to illegal aliens two years ago. Last year it issued more than 850,000 of them to illegals, 100,000 more than to people who have a right to be here. And due to Billy Jeff ("Blue Dress") Clinton's Motor Voter law, which automatically signs you up to vote when you get your license, they could well have been signed up to vote at the same time they obtained it. All they had to do was tick a box on the form. Of course, doing so illegally would be perjury. A crime. Did they commit this crime on top of the crime of coming here illegally ? What do you think?
One more example: We have what's called a "jungle primary" here. That means that the two top vote getters in the primaries face off against each other in the General Election. Whether or not they are Democrat or some thing else (heavy emphasis on the "thing" here). So, because the Democrats have this State by the short hairs, the top two vote getters are...always Democrats. We do not have a single Republican in State-wide elective office. Not a single one.
Do you now understand why that sound you're hearing is the roll-up door on rented U-Haul trucks slamming shut as the frustrated, beat-down Middle Class proceeds to head East on the I-10 for anywhere else .* Anywhere! And in the past decade they've taken more than $10 Billion of taxable income with them. And CA businesses are following their ex-workers in droves. We've lost more than 10,000 businesses to other states in just the last decade. We've lost five Fortune 500 companies to Texas since CA started screwing around with taxes, laws, rules, regulations and fees. Companies such as Toyota, Occidental Petroleum and Carl's Jr. Will the last one out please turn off the lights?
Texas, as well as Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada and many other states really, REALLY love California's exiting new Plan. How do you think it will work out?
* To rent a U-Haul trailer in Denver with your final destination, the "drop off" location, is Lost Angeles, your fee will be $1,071.00, one way. To rent a U-Haul in L.A. with Denver as your destination, your one-way fee is only $154.00. There's a whole lot more folks going than coming...
Seems that good ol' CA has been passing laws and doing all sorts of questionable socialistic stuff that thwarts the Federal Government in its efforts to exercise its Supremacy Authority over immigration matters in this Peoples' Republic.
It even declared itself a "sanctuary state," effectively walling itself off from the rest of America. Maybe "The Wall" The Trumpster wants so badly should be built between CA and the U. S. of A.
What's the problem, you ask? Instead of notifying Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when a convicted, illegal immigrant rapist, murderer or gang member is incarcerated in one of our many jails so they can come and scoop them up, called honoring an ICE "detainer," these Taxifornia local city and county authorities have been ordered, under the threat of law, to simply turn. them. loose. Loose to prey once again on the innocent citizens of the surrounding areas.
Example: Of the recent 800 illegals that ICE had targeted for a sweep in the Bay Area, less than 200 were nabbed. And that's because Oakland Mayor Libby Snuffle, or something, warned them the day before so they could escape before capture. Now, if you're thinking that her doing so is treason, or at least harboring fugitives or obstructing justice, along with impersonating a Mayor, in my opinion you'd be right. But I'm not a lawyer, thankfully, so my legal opinion doesn't matter.
But my opinion as a citizen, does...
Oh, and also, our Civil Servant-for-Life Jerry Brown and Company also made it a law that you can't cooperate with ICE if they come to your business or jail and ask for info about illegals. And you can't ask anybody their immigration status, anywhere, anytime, or for any reason. Ever! Big No No! No freedom of speech in this Socialist Paradise, my friends. And you can't do business with anybody who's trying to build that dratted wall down south, either. I mean, you're a contractor and you provide an estimate on any part or all of that wall, the micro-managing dweebs up there in the Capitol will arrest you, fine you Big Time and send you to the Gray Bar Hotel for a nice, long rest. Oh, and bar you from ever doing bizz in Taxifornia ever again. Ever.
Clearly, the brain-dead bozos in charge have been working overtime to turn CA into Cuba.
So Sessions told the group of law enforcement folks he was addressing that CA's efforts in this regard are, wait for it, unconstitutional. But wait! Jeff, my man, you have to understand something: To you, the Constitution means what it says. It's sacrosanct. Inviolable. You honor it. We fought a war over it. Hundreds of thousands of Americans have died fighting for it. It's like the guide book to our Country's representative republic.
But to the Leftist weenies out here, the Constitution is old, outmoded, and no longer to be honored. To them, it is a "living, breathing document," and needs to be revised and rewritten every now and then to conform with modern, popular trends. You know, like men peeing in girls' bathrooms. Like disarming the public. And like making up its own immigration laws.
To the Democrats, in short, that moldery old piece of velum doesn't really mean what it says. And even if it does, it still needs to be ignored...
So Democrats truly believe that the Bill of Rights, all ten of them, neatly provided to us as a "boxed set," need to be pared down a bit; maybe six or seven of them should be retained, while the 4th and the 5th need to be revised, the 2nd needs to go away entirely, the 10th needs to be enlarged and the 1st needs to be slimmed down so that conservative speech is thereafter outlawed. The first shot in this prospective civil war was fired by Sacramento. Sessions and the United States just returned volley.
Now we all know that Hollywierd celebritards, Silicon Valley billionaires, Millennials and Sacrascrewyou politicians all agree that illegals aren't really illegal; they're just undocumented. They luuuv them! But the residents of the other 46 CA counties, where normal folks are trying to live, know that illegal aliens are, ummm, illegal. And the criminals among them, at the very least, need to be rounded up and deported.
But that flies in the face of the Democrat's Holy Plans. The "more equal than you," having turned their back on their usual blue collar base, now want to create a whole new set of uninvited, but uber-welcome visitors as brand new citizens so they can rush right over to the voting booth and vote for Democrats. Several times, at least. And the first step toward so doing is to legalize them, by anyway possible.
They simply want to strengthen their supermajority hold on power here so they can keep it. Forever.
Rash talk? CA started issuing drivers' licenses to illegal aliens two years ago. Last year it issued more than 850,000 of them to illegals, 100,000 more than to people who have a right to be here. And due to Billy Jeff ("Blue Dress") Clinton's Motor Voter law, which automatically signs you up to vote when you get your license, they could well have been signed up to vote at the same time they obtained it. All they had to do was tick a box on the form. Of course, doing so illegally would be perjury. A crime. Did they commit this crime on top of the crime of coming here illegally ? What do you think?
One more example: We have what's called a "jungle primary" here. That means that the two top vote getters in the primaries face off against each other in the General Election. Whether or not they are Democrat or some thing else (heavy emphasis on the "thing" here). So, because the Democrats have this State by the short hairs, the top two vote getters are...always Democrats. We do not have a single Republican in State-wide elective office. Not a single one.
Do you now understand why that sound you're hearing is the roll-up door on rented U-Haul trucks slamming shut as the frustrated, beat-down Middle Class proceeds to head East on the I-10 for anywhere else .* Anywhere! And in the past decade they've taken more than $10 Billion of taxable income with them. And CA businesses are following their ex-workers in droves. We've lost more than 10,000 businesses to other states in just the last decade. We've lost five Fortune 500 companies to Texas since CA started screwing around with taxes, laws, rules, regulations and fees. Companies such as Toyota, Occidental Petroleum and Carl's Jr. Will the last one out please turn off the lights?
Texas, as well as Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada and many other states really, REALLY love California's exiting new Plan. How do you think it will work out?
* To rent a U-Haul trailer in Denver with your final destination, the "drop off" location, is Lost Angeles, your fee will be $1,071.00, one way. To rent a U-Haul in L.A. with Denver as your destination, your one-way fee is only $154.00. There's a whole lot more folks going than coming...
Sunday, March 4, 2018
An Essay on Ending Gun Violence...
Unless you've been living in a dumpster behind the local Wal-Mart, you know that there's been another school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
Yes, sadly, a disaffected, delusional, obviously mentally-ill 19 year-old serial troublemaker legally bought a semi-automatic rifle and proceeded to shoot up a high school there, killing 17 and wounding a couple of dozen others. Within a nanosecond, a stampede to the nearest microphone by gun-hating politicians nationwide erupted. Several junior reporters were unfortunately trampled.
So far as I know, no one has yet to call for banning microphones...
Despite mounting evidence that the local, state and Federal authorities had been contacted numerous times on several levels with warnings about this miscreant ogre, which they all completely ignored, they immediately called for an all-out ban on AR-15-style rifles. No matter that a previous ban throughout the 1990's of this popular rifle had proven notoriously unsuccessful. That's because less than 3% of all gun deaths in the U.S. are caused by rifles...of any kind.
And for the National Rifle Association, which had absolutely nothing at all to do with this tragedy, to be outlawed, banned, ended, finished, torched, filleted, made kaput, drawn, quartered and erased, and its leaders tarred and feathered and run out of Foggy Bottom on a rail.
Now you and I know the real reason for this tragedy is that this kid is nuts. And a nutty kid with a predisposition toward killing his classmates, especially one who'd previously announced his intentions to do so, one who'd even called the FBI on himself, probably would have done it with a knife had a gun not been handy. Or a rock, or a bomb, or a car or a truck. Like those fun-loving Muslim jihadist murdering thugs are doing all over Europe where guns are harder to come by.
BTW, this nutcase took an Uber to the scene of the crime. Should we outlaw Uber?
To continue, I guess those of a Progressive persuasion haven't managed to embrace blaming knives for violence. Or cars. Or any other means. Just guns. They really, REALLY hate guns! Maybe they were scared by a gun when they were young...
My personal opinion is that they just don't think we're capable of being trusted with a firearm. Or to raise our own kids. Or to choose what to eat. Etc., etc.
Regardless of what that "living, breathing" document called the Constitution says, you're not adult enough. You can't be trusted. No sirree. Not "evolved" enough, like they are...
1. The Leftoids tell us they hate so-called "assault weapons" because they're all black and evil and scary looking. Regardless of the fact that to be an "assault weapon" the gun must be capable of being shot on full-automatic fire, and full auto weapons have been outlawed here in 'Murica since 1934, the Lap Dog Media will either intentionally alter the facts, or are too damned ignorant or stupid to know what they're talking about.
As an aside, don't you find it interesting that we mere mortal Americans are being lectured to by Coastal Elite media-types who have never even touched a firearm? And don't know anyone who has?
Soooo, the answer is to simply force manufacturers to color their ARs a shocking pink. Or maybe a nice cool magenta. Or perhaps an attractive chartreuse? Solves the problem, that!
2. We could simply change the name of these murdering killing machines to "Snug's," instead of guns. You know, guns backwards. Yeah, that's it! We change the name to one more warm and fuzzy and friendly! I mean, who could possibly be upset with something called "Snug's?" Can't you just see it? "Hey you! Drop the Snug!" Heh, heh...
Likely as not no one would ever use one of these things to cause mayhem again, because no one would wish to be laughed at by their gangbanger friends for carrying some "Snug's." Can't you see the MS-13 gang member on the South side of Chicago if one of his homies showed up with a fuchsia-tinted AR?
BTW, "AR" stands for "Armalite Rifle," in honor of the Chicago company that originally developed it way back in 1955. And not, "assault rifle" as CNN/MSNBC/NPR/PBS/and all the Alphabet Media would have you believe.
3. Force ammunition manufacturers to remove all gunpowder from the cartridges they sell. No gunpowder, no boom. No boom, no wounds. No wounds, no bleeding. No bleeding, no more Liberal effort to ban the the most popular Modern Sporting Rifle in America.
This is kind of like what Taxifornia has done. The once-Golden State, having already banned so-called "assault rifles," will soon require a Federal NICS-system background check before you can purchase ammo. Thus, a $5.00 box of lowly .22 rimfire cartridges for shooting at tin cans will soon cost more than $50.00! A buck a shot? The bozos in Sacrascrewyou have finally learned that making ammo too expensive to buy will turn expensive firearms into expensive boat anchors. You've got to give these sleazy bozos credit; they've been working to achieve this lofty goal for at least 40 years, and now they've found it. And middle-class gun owners are fleeing the state in droves!
4. Change the age for purchasing AR-style rifles, or ANY rifle, for that matter, not to 21, noooo, but maybe to 46! Or maybe 59! Or conceivably 84! I mean, the "more equal than you" made the age 18 by arbitrary means, why not do the same for 21? You tell everyone they can have one of these rifles, just. not. now.
Later. Much, much later. And I figure they're hoping by the time they'll make it legal for you to buy one of these evil "weapons of war," you'll have contracted some serious disease. Or maybe you'll be a cripple. Or perchance you'll just go ahead and die. And that solves the problem, right?
Gollleee, I'm really getting the hang of this problem solving thing...
5. Since school shootings have energized Democrats to rally together and try to ban pretty much all rifles, they obviously aren't aware that they can't do that because of that pesky 2nd Amendment. Sooooo, since they can't erase the 2nd without our approval, which we will not provide, trust me, my suggestion is that we simply outlaw schools!
Yeah, that's the ticket! We outlaw schools. I mean, there's no Constitutional Right to school! Since many of us believe that home schooling is equal to or better than the one obtained from Big City Gummint, eliminating them would be the solution! And think of how much money we'll save? We could eliminate the Department of Education! Plus, the state, county and city school districts! We could save Hundreds. of. Billions. of. Dollars. a. Year! No schools, no shootings! No shootings, no more bleeding and press conferences and nasty Twitter remarks and crisis actors and assaults on the Constitution by leftist dweebs who really should be bagging groceries at Albertsons!
No disrespect to Albertsons intended.
6. We're told by the "Violence Policy Research Council" fully 98% of all mass shootings occur in so-called "gun free zones." And we know that such signage acts as a beacon to would-be mass murderers. That's because the Bad Guys would prefer not to be met with a hail of bullets. They may be crazy but they're not stupid.
So the smart thing to do would be to remove such signs and replace them with something like, "Enter at your own risk! We're armed and ready to defend our children!" But we know that the commies who run things here on the Left Coast, at least, will never, ever go along with something intelligent like that. I mean, why would we try to protect our children like we protect our banks, and our Federal buildings, and our Hollywierd actors?
So, because they know there's a big chunk of 'Murica that's armed and considered dangerous, just make everywhere a gun-free zone and the murdering thugs will be confused as to where to start shooting. I mean, if only 5% of the ducks were armed, do you think anyone would go duck hunting? Makes sense, right?
Maybe they'll pick a bowling alley to shoot up next and leave our kids alone.
7. Those of a Progressive nature will note that we're constantly hammered by TV Ron Jeremy's telling us that if you're under 21 you can't buy a beer, so why should you be permitted to buy an "assault rifle?" Of course, those self-same blow-dried dweebs who pontificate on all sorts of stuff they know absolutely nothing about, are obviously unaware that there's no Amendment to the Bill of Rights that guarantees those under 21 the Right to buy beer. Hmmmm. No right to "keep and pound beers?" So my solution is simple: Lower the age for kids to buy beers to 18! Problem solved, right? Right?
8. And finally, the Leftoids amongst us are anxious to tell us that a "Gun Free Zone" sign is all that's needed to keep armed perpetrators away from our schools. And since we know the mentally-ill are almost always responsible for these awful mass shootings (Muslim Jihadist murdering thugs notwithstanding), it would seem to me that the simple way of ending this problem is to put Reeely Biiiiiiig signs next to those "gun free" signs reminding would-be perps that they are fixing their gaze upon a "Mentally Ill-Free Zone!" Maybe they could use all capital letters to get the Bad Guy's attention (one of Lost Angeles' least intelligent but most-Democrat politicians recently suggested this as a deterrent. BTW, he's leading in the race for CA's next Governor).
(!)
So, no guns, no nutcases. And if there's anything you'd like to outlaw, just contact the sign maker. Or that dumbass L.A. politician. Problem solved...
I'm so happy to be able to resolve thorny issues such as this. If there's anything else you'd like me to tackle, just give me a call...
Update #1: With thanks to Dan Bongino, ex-FBI, CIA, NYPD cop, Secret Service agent and radio talk show host, you might wish to contemplate that laws piled on top of laws to try and prevent gun crimes, that are on top of the 25,000 Federal, state and local laws we already have, that no one apparently is enforcing, only serve to punish the law-abiding. Think of it: you probably haven't thought of robbing a bank today. So you'll be supportive of draconian laws against bank robbers, which serve only to punish the bank robbers. But gun laws, by their very nature, only punish legal, law-abiding gun owners. But Bad Guys acquire their guns through illegal means! They don't use background checks. They use back alleys. So they buy a black market gun, shoot up a school, and good, honest, God-fearing loyal Americans have to pay a price for their transgressions. And those self-same Bad Guys are reeeeely happy about new, more and better gun laws, so they're less likely to encounter an armed victim. Cogitate on THAT awhile.
Update #2: Current legislative plans to eliminate the possibility of a future Parkland-style shooting include banning so-called "bump stocks," instituting "Universal Background Checks," and removing the Constitutional Rights from citizens aged 18 through 20 years and 364 days. Hello! The Parkland shooter didn't use a "bump stock." The weapon he used was purchased using a full-blown Federal NICS-background check. And punishing those who can join the military, learn to shoot fully-automatic, actual "assault weapons," serve honorably, then come home to be told they not only can't buy a beer, they can't even buy a civilian model of a semi-auto gun. Yeah, that's it! That oughta' jack up military recruitment!
Update #3: Those of you who've read this far are probably thinking this is a reeeeely long posting. But it's not! It's an essay. I told you that going in. So I wrote until I got tired. It's your fault if you chose to read it. No nasty replies, please...
Update #4: Okay, so I lied. Here's like an epilogue sort-of update. As I write this some bozo shot himself in the head outside the White House gates. Will those guns just please take a day off?
Yes, sadly, a disaffected, delusional, obviously mentally-ill 19 year-old serial troublemaker legally bought a semi-automatic rifle and proceeded to shoot up a high school there, killing 17 and wounding a couple of dozen others. Within a nanosecond, a stampede to the nearest microphone by gun-hating politicians nationwide erupted. Several junior reporters were unfortunately trampled.
So far as I know, no one has yet to call for banning microphones...
Despite mounting evidence that the local, state and Federal authorities had been contacted numerous times on several levels with warnings about this miscreant ogre, which they all completely ignored, they immediately called for an all-out ban on AR-15-style rifles. No matter that a previous ban throughout the 1990's of this popular rifle had proven notoriously unsuccessful. That's because less than 3% of all gun deaths in the U.S. are caused by rifles...of any kind.
And for the National Rifle Association, which had absolutely nothing at all to do with this tragedy, to be outlawed, banned, ended, finished, torched, filleted, made kaput, drawn, quartered and erased, and its leaders tarred and feathered and run out of Foggy Bottom on a rail.
Now you and I know the real reason for this tragedy is that this kid is nuts. And a nutty kid with a predisposition toward killing his classmates, especially one who'd previously announced his intentions to do so, one who'd even called the FBI on himself, probably would have done it with a knife had a gun not been handy. Or a rock, or a bomb, or a car or a truck. Like those fun-loving Muslim jihadist murdering thugs are doing all over Europe where guns are harder to come by.
BTW, this nutcase took an Uber to the scene of the crime. Should we outlaw Uber?
To continue, I guess those of a Progressive persuasion haven't managed to embrace blaming knives for violence. Or cars. Or any other means. Just guns. They really, REALLY hate guns! Maybe they were scared by a gun when they were young...
My personal opinion is that they just don't think we're capable of being trusted with a firearm. Or to raise our own kids. Or to choose what to eat. Etc., etc.
Regardless of what that "living, breathing" document called the Constitution says, you're not adult enough. You can't be trusted. No sirree. Not "evolved" enough, like they are...
They just want to be left
alone to live your life.
So fixing the blame for this tragedy remains a work in progress. As a long-term gun(s) owner and user (more than sixty-five years), and a reasonable, common sense kind-of-guy, I thought I'd offer up a few suggestions as to how we emerge from this quagmire. Instead of them trying to outlaw guns while telling us they're not, or us trying to get them to stop blaming us gun owners for the horrendous actions of others when it's in their DNA to never, ever stop, I've come up with a series of prospective solutions to the problem. So sit back, open a cold Buuuud (I just did!), and let me take you by the hand...
1. The Leftoids tell us they hate so-called "assault weapons" because they're all black and evil and scary looking. Regardless of the fact that to be an "assault weapon" the gun must be capable of being shot on full-automatic fire, and full auto weapons have been outlawed here in 'Murica since 1934, the Lap Dog Media will either intentionally alter the facts, or are too damned ignorant or stupid to know what they're talking about.
As an aside, don't you find it interesting that we mere mortal Americans are being lectured to by Coastal Elite media-types who have never even touched a firearm? And don't know anyone who has?
Soooo, the answer is to simply force manufacturers to color their ARs a shocking pink. Or maybe a nice cool magenta. Or perhaps an attractive chartreuse? Solves the problem, that!
2. We could simply change the name of these murdering killing machines to "Snug's," instead of guns. You know, guns backwards. Yeah, that's it! We change the name to one more warm and fuzzy and friendly! I mean, who could possibly be upset with something called "Snug's?" Can't you just see it? "Hey you! Drop the Snug!" Heh, heh...
Likely as not no one would ever use one of these things to cause mayhem again, because no one would wish to be laughed at by their gangbanger friends for carrying some "Snug's." Can't you see the MS-13 gang member on the South side of Chicago if one of his homies showed up with a fuchsia-tinted AR?
BTW, "AR" stands for "Armalite Rifle," in honor of the Chicago company that originally developed it way back in 1955. And not, "assault rifle" as CNN/MSNBC/NPR/PBS/and all the Alphabet Media would have you believe.
3. Force ammunition manufacturers to remove all gunpowder from the cartridges they sell. No gunpowder, no boom. No boom, no wounds. No wounds, no bleeding. No bleeding, no more Liberal effort to ban the the most popular Modern Sporting Rifle in America.
This is kind of like what Taxifornia has done. The once-Golden State, having already banned so-called "assault rifles," will soon require a Federal NICS-system background check before you can purchase ammo. Thus, a $5.00 box of lowly .22 rimfire cartridges for shooting at tin cans will soon cost more than $50.00! A buck a shot? The bozos in Sacrascrewyou have finally learned that making ammo too expensive to buy will turn expensive firearms into expensive boat anchors. You've got to give these sleazy bozos credit; they've been working to achieve this lofty goal for at least 40 years, and now they've found it. And middle-class gun owners are fleeing the state in droves!
4. Change the age for purchasing AR-style rifles, or ANY rifle, for that matter, not to 21, noooo, but maybe to 46! Or maybe 59! Or conceivably 84! I mean, the "more equal than you" made the age 18 by arbitrary means, why not do the same for 21? You tell everyone they can have one of these rifles, just. not. now.
Later. Much, much later. And I figure they're hoping by the time they'll make it legal for you to buy one of these evil "weapons of war," you'll have contracted some serious disease. Or maybe you'll be a cripple. Or perchance you'll just go ahead and die. And that solves the problem, right?
Gollleee, I'm really getting the hang of this problem solving thing...
5. Since school shootings have energized Democrats to rally together and try to ban pretty much all rifles, they obviously aren't aware that they can't do that because of that pesky 2nd Amendment. Sooooo, since they can't erase the 2nd without our approval, which we will not provide, trust me, my suggestion is that we simply outlaw schools!
Yeah, that's the ticket! We outlaw schools. I mean, there's no Constitutional Right to school! Since many of us believe that home schooling is equal to or better than the one obtained from Big City Gummint, eliminating them would be the solution! And think of how much money we'll save? We could eliminate the Department of Education! Plus, the state, county and city school districts! We could save Hundreds. of. Billions. of. Dollars. a. Year! No schools, no shootings! No shootings, no more bleeding and press conferences and nasty Twitter remarks and crisis actors and assaults on the Constitution by leftist dweebs who really should be bagging groceries at Albertsons!
No disrespect to Albertsons intended.
6. We're told by the "Violence Policy Research Council" fully 98% of all mass shootings occur in so-called "gun free zones." And we know that such signage acts as a beacon to would-be mass murderers. That's because the Bad Guys would prefer not to be met with a hail of bullets. They may be crazy but they're not stupid.
So the smart thing to do would be to remove such signs and replace them with something like, "Enter at your own risk! We're armed and ready to defend our children!" But we know that the commies who run things here on the Left Coast, at least, will never, ever go along with something intelligent like that. I mean, why would we try to protect our children like we protect our banks, and our Federal buildings, and our Hollywierd actors?
So, because they know there's a big chunk of 'Murica that's armed and considered dangerous, just make everywhere a gun-free zone and the murdering thugs will be confused as to where to start shooting. I mean, if only 5% of the ducks were armed, do you think anyone would go duck hunting? Makes sense, right?
Maybe they'll pick a bowling alley to shoot up next and leave our kids alone.
7. Those of a Progressive nature will note that we're constantly hammered by TV Ron Jeremy's telling us that if you're under 21 you can't buy a beer, so why should you be permitted to buy an "assault rifle?" Of course, those self-same blow-dried dweebs who pontificate on all sorts of stuff they know absolutely nothing about, are obviously unaware that there's no Amendment to the Bill of Rights that guarantees those under 21 the Right to buy beer. Hmmmm. No right to "keep and pound beers?" So my solution is simple: Lower the age for kids to buy beers to 18! Problem solved, right? Right?
8. And finally, the Leftoids amongst us are anxious to tell us that a "Gun Free Zone" sign is all that's needed to keep armed perpetrators away from our schools. And since we know the mentally-ill are almost always responsible for these awful mass shootings (Muslim Jihadist murdering thugs notwithstanding), it would seem to me that the simple way of ending this problem is to put Reeely Biiiiiiig signs next to those "gun free" signs reminding would-be perps that they are fixing their gaze upon a "Mentally Ill-Free Zone!" Maybe they could use all capital letters to get the Bad Guy's attention (one of Lost Angeles' least intelligent but most-Democrat politicians recently suggested this as a deterrent. BTW, he's leading in the race for CA's next Governor).
(!)
So, no guns, no nutcases. And if there's anything you'd like to outlaw, just contact the sign maker. Or that dumbass L.A. politician. Problem solved...
I'm so happy to be able to resolve thorny issues such as this. If there's anything else you'd like me to tackle, just give me a call...
Update #1: With thanks to Dan Bongino, ex-FBI, CIA, NYPD cop, Secret Service agent and radio talk show host, you might wish to contemplate that laws piled on top of laws to try and prevent gun crimes, that are on top of the 25,000 Federal, state and local laws we already have, that no one apparently is enforcing, only serve to punish the law-abiding. Think of it: you probably haven't thought of robbing a bank today. So you'll be supportive of draconian laws against bank robbers, which serve only to punish the bank robbers. But gun laws, by their very nature, only punish legal, law-abiding gun owners. But Bad Guys acquire their guns through illegal means! They don't use background checks. They use back alleys. So they buy a black market gun, shoot up a school, and good, honest, God-fearing loyal Americans have to pay a price for their transgressions. And those self-same Bad Guys are reeeeely happy about new, more and better gun laws, so they're less likely to encounter an armed victim. Cogitate on THAT awhile.
Update #2: Current legislative plans to eliminate the possibility of a future Parkland-style shooting include banning so-called "bump stocks," instituting "Universal Background Checks," and removing the Constitutional Rights from citizens aged 18 through 20 years and 364 days. Hello! The Parkland shooter didn't use a "bump stock." The weapon he used was purchased using a full-blown Federal NICS-background check. And punishing those who can join the military, learn to shoot fully-automatic, actual "assault weapons," serve honorably, then come home to be told they not only can't buy a beer, they can't even buy a civilian model of a semi-auto gun. Yeah, that's it! That oughta' jack up military recruitment!
Update #3: Those of you who've read this far are probably thinking this is a reeeeely long posting. But it's not! It's an essay. I told you that going in. So I wrote until I got tired. It's your fault if you chose to read it. No nasty replies, please...
Update #4: Okay, so I lied. Here's like an epilogue sort-of update. As I write this some bozo shot himself in the head outside the White House gates. Will those guns just please take a day off?
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