Solving a Problem Which Does Not Exist

Running the risk that Chuckmeisterunleashed might somehow be viewed as an "all guns, all the time" blog, which it most definitely isn't, I just had to write about the newest atrocity imposed on the 200 million of us who believe in the 2nd Amendment.  So sit back, kiddies, and read about what else the dimbulbs in Foggy Bottom have decided to do to you...

Did you notice that POTUS announced the day before yesterday another two "executive actions" to further erode our 2nd Amendment rights?

First, he unilaterally decided that corporations cannot buy weapons without first undergoing background checks on all their officers.  I guess he's worried that the CEO or CFO or CIO will take the cannon sitting out on the front lawn and use it to lob a shell into the palatial offices of a rival business leader.  Can't have that happen, now can we?  Of course, there's no evidence that something like this has ever happened, but it might, you know, so let's put a law in place that prevents it.  A new law to prevent a problem which doesn't exist.  Yeah, that's the ticket!

And second, but far worse, the Golfer-in-Chief unilaterally decided that we Americans can no longer reimport old military rifles originally manufactured in the U.S.  These would be the old M-1 Garands used in the Second World War and Korea, 1903 bolt action Springfields, handy little M-1 Carbines and .22 competition target rifles that were made here and shipped to allies overseas as much as 110 years ago.  They've been languishing in storage in Manila, and Grenada, and Panama, and Spain, and dozens of other countries which supported us in our military efforts over the years.  I guess he's worried that somebody, somewhere will use one of these outmoded rifles, heretofore purchased primarily by collectors, to kill somebody.  But, you might want to know, there's no evidence that anyone, anywhere has ever been killed using one of these reimported guns.  None! 

In fact, less than 3% of all murders involving guns are committed using rifles.  People dead set on making somebody dead tend to use small, light pistols instead of heavy, unwieldy old military rifles. 

But worse yet, the Vacationer-in-Chief's dumb ass order will effectively kill the Civilian Marksmanship Program.  The CMP was created by Congressional Order back in 1903 so that our youth could buy guns on the cheap and use them to learn marksmanship, so that they would be ready to defend our nation in case of national emergency.  The CMP is a completely self-supporting, quasi-governmental agency that seeks out and reimports old U.S. military weaponry for resale to otherwise qualified Americans who can pass the requisite background checks. 

Let me emphasize again.  In order to buy guns through the CMP, one must meet every single requirement imposed on anyone purchasing a gun through conventional sources. 

The CMP requires no funding at all from the American people.  None.  It has helped hundreds of thousands of sportsmen to acquire high-quality guns over the decades, including me, for reasonable prices.  Now, with this illegal E.O. in place (the President cannot overturn an act of Congress with an Executive Order...but once again he has, and who's going to stop him?), the CMP will have nowhere to acquire their inventory, and will thus be forced out of business.

This E.O. brings to 25 the number that POTUS has issued in circumvention of Congress in an effort to erase the 2nd Amendment.  He should know above all others that ill-conceived gun control laws do nothing to reduce crime, and can, in fact, have quite the opposite effect.  Take a look at Chicago, the murder capital of America, if you doubt me.  The good people of Chicago have been disarmed, so only the bad guys have guns.  And I'm betting they're pretty happy about that.

So, in an effort to appear to be doing something, anything, the TelePrompTer-in-Chief, blissfully unaware of the Law of Unintended Consequences, but intent on satisfying another of his Liberal wet dreams, issued an order that solves a problem which does not exist, while destroying a time-honored and highly beneficial tradition, which heightens our self defense, while costing the American people not one damn dime.

Lord help us.  Only three more years left...

Put Down Those Guns And Come Out With Your Hands Up...

The commie dweebs in Sacrascrewyou are at it again!

Not content with savaging our incomes with ever-higher levels of taxation, while wasting our tax dollars indiscriminately, the dimbulbs up there are now doing everything in their inflated power to gut the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and disarm all Californians.

Several new pieces of legislation are now working their way through various committees and on to Governor Jerry Brown's desk like crap through a Christmas goose.  Here's a sampling of what we citizens face:

S.B. 108:  This little jewel strips your right to self defense by mandating that guns be locked up tight in your home, at all times, regardless of whether anyone is present.  So when that window glass breaks at 3:00 a.m., just ask the burglars to kindly wait while you unlock your safe and politely load your weapon.  In the spirit of fairness and cooperation, I'm sure the bad guys will play along, right?

S.B. 374:  This classic example of government run amok expands failed and flawed California laws to cover millions more guns, including all semiautomatic rifles with detachable magazines.  Every single one.  This means my little Ruger .22 target rifle may soon be classified as an "assault weapon" and will no longer be legal to own or use here in the land of fruits and nuts.  And what am I to do with it?  Deliver it to the Sheriff's office, I guess, where it will be melted down and turned into electric cars.
 
A.B. 711:  The commie who thought this one up will no doubt be Mayor of San Francisco soon.  If Brown signs this, all lead bullets will soon be outlawed.  The theory goes among the tree huggers that lead ammo is killing condors, which, of course, it isn't.  They have no proof to offer, just a supposition based upon liberal wet dreams.  Just so you know, the lead used in bullets is inert, and cannot harm any living organism.  But logic doesn't seem to work on these socialists.  So outlawing lead ammo means we'll only be able to use bullets in the once-Golden State made from some other metal, which isn't widely available, and costs many times more.  And anybody who thinks ammo manufacturers will conjure up special ammo made from unicorn hooves for sale here in California by its lonesome is smoking some of those anti-God cigarettes.  This is called forced economic disarmament.  If people can't afford to buy ammo, voila!  You don't have to outlaw guns.  You've just reduced them from self-defense mechanisms to nothing more than expensive boat anchors.      

S.B. 53:  If this passes and is signed, you'll no longer be able to buy ammo over the Internet, which I do all the time, and you'll be required to buy an annual permit, at a significant fee, just to buy ammo from any conventional source.  And every time you stop by the gun store to pick up a few boxes of bullets, you'll be fingerprinted and get to pay for a background check.  Background checks cost at least $25.00.  So you buy a box of 9mm bullets for $20.00,which will now cost you $45.00.  And if you aren't near a store to buy ammo, or can't afford it, you've been effectively disarmed and the 2nd Amendment has been erased from the Bill of Rights.

S.B. 293:  If some manufacturer somewhere ever says they have figured out a way to insure that a gun can only be operated by the lawful owner, also known as "owner authorized," regardless of how much it costs to make or whether manufacturers will choose to make them, knowing that they will only be bought in California, then this bill gives the politicians the authority to ban all other guns not meeting that requirement without advance notice or reimbursement.  Hmmm.  That oughta' work.

S.B. 396:  If Brown signs this one, all ammunition magazines for rifles, pistols and shotguns that hold more than 10 rounds, including those presently legally owned, would be declared illegal, would be completely banned, and would need to be turned in for destruction.  Failure to turn them in would render the owner a felon and subject him or her or it to arrest and prosecution.  Do you see a pattern here?  This is how to turn law-abiding citizens into felons if they don't bend over and grab their ankles when the big dogs bark.  Don't you just know that the gang-bangers will laugh themselves silly at the futility of this gimcrackery. 

Aren't you proud you're a Californian?  Don't you think all gun owners in our state will be happy to comply with this grab-bag of socialist edicts?  

Just remember:  where guns are plentiful and legal and owned by responsible citizens (think Texas and Florida) crime virtually stops.  Where guns are outlawed (think Chicago and D.C.) crime goes through the roof and honest citizens pay the price.   Gun control isn't about guns.  It's about control.  And if the politicians can disarm you and me, they will no longer be concerned about what we can do to them in return for what they want to do to us. 

Mama, don't let your babies grow up to be legislators... 

Makes me want to puke...

The President of the United States obviously seems to believe he's the President of Black America.

This past week Mr. Obama cut in front of his puppet Jay Carney at one of those uber-boring pressers and interjected himself once again into the Zimmerman/Martin situation. 

During his 10 or 15 extemporaneous minutes of pontificating, Obama mentioned the term "African-American," or "African-Americans," or the "African-American Community" some 20 separate times.  And if you're wondering how may times he mentioned "Irish-Americans," or "Italian-Americans," or "Greek-Americans," or "Chinese-Americans," or "Native Americans," or "Krygestanian-Americans," the number would be, oh, ummm, let's see...zero, even though all he really knows is "Being Tan as a Community Organizer in Chicago."  He makes me a bit queasy, if I do say so myself.  Tossing my cookies remains an option.

So, ladies and gentlemen, for those who always wondered what it would be like to have a "person of color" as President, you now know.  It means that you're going to be subjected to a never-ending stream of crap about things you don't want to know, or need to know, or hoped you'd never find out, while the economy of America goes straight down the dumper.  In a survey just completed your fellow Americans now openly admit that they believe race relations are much, much worse than they were the day Barry was immaculated.  Wasn't his ascension supposed to make race relations better?  Could it be that events have worked out exactly as planned?  Does he really hate America that much?  And does anyone believe that another black president is in our future?  Me thinks not. 

November, 2016 is...just...around...the...corner.  Thankfully.

MSM = WTF?

Have you wondered whether the just-ended trial in Sanford, Florida would have occurred at all if the racial makeup of the protagonists were somehow different?

What if Jorge Zimmerman was black and Trayvon  Obama Martin was white?  Ummm, no, not a word would have been uttered by the MainStreamMedia (MSM).  Every day here in America black folks murder white folks by the dozens and the MSM is strangely (and predictably...and sadly) silent. 

What if Zimmerman and Martin were both black?  Once again, nary a peep would have been heard.  Black people are killing black people with abandon all across the Fruited Plain.  Look at Chicago, for instance.  Over the Fourth of July looonnnngg weekend, 72 were shot and 12 died.  Including two little toddlers.  All black.  On both sides of the guns.  Not a single comment to be heard outside the Chicago area.  It seems black on black crime is A-Okay with the MSM. 

And by the way, guns have been completely outlawed in the Windy City for more than 40 years.  How's that gun control thing working out?

What if Zimmerman and Martin were both white?  Sorry, but the MSM's meme would not have been fed by reporting on such a story.  White people kill each other all the time.  Not as often as black people kill each other, but often.  So, nothing to see here.  Move along...

But Zimmerman being Hispanic ("White Hispanic," according to the New York Times...maybe the very first time in history such a racial designation has been used, but only to further the story that white people are the only ones who can be, you know, like "racist"), and Martin being a "little black teenager," whoa!  Do we have a story here! 

Little black teenager?  6' tall and 175 lllll bbsss, against a doughy white Hispanic.  Unfair fight, unless you happened to have a Glock 17, of course.

This has been a 24/7 story for more than a year.  And that's why poverty pimps like Jessuh (baby daddy) Jackson and Al (Tawana Brawley) Sharpton, and even the Golfer-in-Chief, arguably a wannabe black, have felt compelled to opine on this situation.  Blacks were forced to work in the fields 400 years ago so we should do anything, anything, to make it up to them, even to the extent of tilting our reportage to include blatantly racial bias. 

So a white Hispanic neighborhood watch-type in a gated Hispanic/Black neighborhood with a Glock, disregards orders from a 911 operator (are they even permitted to issue orders...and are we compelled to comply?) and follows a dope-smoking, kicked-out-of-school, burglary-tool-carrying, heavily tattooed, somebody-elses'-jewelry-in-his-pocket, Facebook-abusing, curseword-spewing tagger, gets sandbagged, cold cocked and MSM-style pummeled, pulls out his heater and lets the air out of this kid.  Only due to the influence of the White House, the MSM, black "leaders" and liberal apologists was this guy charged, and now he's been found not guilty by five white and one "black Hispanic" (again?). 

And by the way, where's this "Black Community" they keep talking about?  Is it in Compton?  Southside Chicago?  Washington, D.C.?  Or Atlanta, maybe?  I don't know, but I'd like to, or else maybe they should stop talking about it.

But the story's not yet over.  The DOJ has reopened an investigation of Zimmerman, in all likelihood preparatory to filing a civil rights violation.  One thing about this racist Administration; it never changes. 

They're rioting in Oakland.  Ummm, yeah, but that's what they always do there.  Rioting in Oakland is like their main pastime.  Since there's no jobs, what else to they have to do but riot?  Nothing much to report.  In fact, nothing much to report anywhere, except for the fact that the MSM has an an agenda! 

NBC, you socialist, bottom-feeding video-doctoring cretins should be ashamed of yourselves.  You should be, but you aren't.  MSNBC, as the public relations arm for the Democrat National Committee, your bias was expected, and once again you did not disappoint.  ABC, your ilk is growing ever more tiresome.  Does anybody but me remember that ABC anchor George Stephanopolis was Billy Jeff Clinton's Chief of Staff?  CNN, the Clinton News Network, it's time to turn out the lights and go get a real job for a change.  New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and all other tree-killing, dinosaur media, bottom-of-the-birdcage lefty rags, curl up and die.  To the MSM in general, you all suck! 

There, my spleen duly vented, I feel much, much better...

Global Something or Other

Good news boys and girls!  Obama gave another of his MAJOR POLICY ADDRESSES OF THE DAY recently, and in it he declared an all-out war on Global Warming, or Climate Change, or whatever they're calling it today.

Obama stated that 97% of all climate scientists agree:  Climate Change is here, it's real and it won't be too long at all before we all burn up in a fiery, Hellish cataclysm.  He said that 12 of the hottest days in history occurred during the past 15 years, or something (they didn't!).  He said that carbon emissions are really, really bad, and that they cause all kinds of bad things (like soot on your newly-washed Mustang GT).  He also said that coal is dirty, and messy, and black, kind of like assault weapons, and it should be outlawed before it kills us all.  Not that there's anything wrong with the color black, mind you, especially if it's on a person, especially if he or she (or it) votes Democrat. 

He went on to say that the XL Keystone Pipeline should not be approved unless it can be proven, PROVEN, do you here me?, that it will not exacerbate (I love that word!) the global climate situation (it should be noted that the State Department has issued two, TWO separate studies stating that the Pipeline will have no deleterious (I love that word also!) effects on our environment).  But two is definitely not enough.  We have to keep conducting these studies until we get the results we're looking for. 

And so, in the midst of numerous scandals, rendering His second term a complete failure so far, Obama has done his best to change the subject by trying to further ruin the U.S. economy by sending us off on a tangent to halt Global Something or Other.

Well, I don't know about you, but I'm really happy about this.  Obama's unilateral efforts will serve to kill the U.S. coal industry, surely tanking his favorables in ten coal-producing states.  It's predicted that his executive actions (bypassing Congress completely, don't you know) will put at least 85,000 people out of work.  He's killed 10,000 coal jobs so far via onerous EPA regulations he'd mandated.  Another 75,000 await pink slips resulting from his new focus.  November, 2014 is coming, and quickly. 

And let's not forget another byproduct of his edicts.  Every single homeowner in America will see a dramatic increase in their electric bills because half, HALF the electricity in the country is produced by coal.  And us Californians will see another huge increase because PG&E is mothballing the San Onofre nuclear reactor, which has heretofore produced 8% of all the energy consumed in the once-Golden State.  Californians, look for a 17% increase in your light bill in the very near future.  And look for Robert Redford and the Sierra Club to rejoice at their decision.  At least a couple of commie pinkos are happy about this.

And to those who were coerced into buying one of those electric plug-in cars, where do you think the electricity comes from?  It comes from coal, you eco-weenies.  And eliminating coal will cause your bill from charging up your wussie little overpriced clown car to skyrocket.  Serves you right, you ignoramuses.  Or is that ignoramusi?

It's a good thing there's a plastic bubble over America, protecting us from the air in China, indisputably the dirtiest on the planet, from floating across the Pacific and soiling our air in week.  Of course you know that China's opening two new coal-fired electricity plants every week, and India's 1.3 Billion cow-worshipping, snake-charming people are producing pollution at a record rate, but change-the-subject, feel-good efforts to "do something" about the climate, even though those efforts are patent horsepucky, will surely cause latte-loving, sauvignon blanc-sipping socialists to open up their wallets and fork over the cash to the Democrats, which is all that  really counts.

So yes, I'm happy.  I'll have my solar photovoltaic generating array installed by then, reducing my electric bill to just about fifteen bucks a month.  And everybody else, especially all those dodos who voted for this unqualified dufus in the White House, will go nearly bankrupt paying for his flights of fancy. 

Just remember, if you lie down with dogs, you'll get up with fleas...

To Hell With Gold...Let's Buy Ammo!

 

You've no doubt seen those interminable TV commercials extolling the virtues of buying gold, silver and other precious metals.  They tell you that gold will protect you from inflation and the falling value of our once-vaunted currency.  And, so long as Mr. Bernanke, Fed Chairman, continues to print money at the rate of more than $85 BILLION DOLLARS a month, month after month, there's no question that it's just a matter of time before inflation (too many dollars chasing too few goods and services) grinds our dollar into pennies. 

They also tell you that gold and silver have appreciated much more than the stock market over the past decade or so.   That's true; while gold has increased about 400% since 2003, the stock market is up only about 175%.  So yes, my friends, buying gold might be a really good idea.  But I think I have a better one:  Ammunition.

About ten years ago George W. Bush was president and a box of 50 .22 long rifle caliber rimfire cartridges cost about $2.50.  Or, roughly a nickel apiece.  They remained at about that price until something earth-shattering happened on November 6, 2008:  Barack Hussein Obama was elected president. 

Beginning the next morning there was a run on guns and ammunition that has scarcely abated since.  Why?  Because those in the know, know that Obama and his Chicago cronies hate guns and hate the fact that you and I can buy and keep and use them.  He/they want to disarm you, and everything he's done since being reelected has proves it.  Now that he no longer needs to be reelected he can begin to focus on his primary goals; pass carbon taxes, eliminate conservatism, end drilling, make citizens dependent upon the Government, end freedom and - wait for it - disarm us.  His actions after the Sandy Hook massacre is proof positive that I know what I'm talking about.

So, I and millions of others like me have been buying guns and ammo at a record clip.  In fact, Obama was named "Gun Salesman Of All Time" by the National Rifle Association.  Gun company stocks have increased since his election by a factor of ten.  Gun prices during that period have increased by at least 100%.  And ammo is now almost beyond the budget of the average American.  Proof?

A "brick" of .22 ammo, or 500 rounds, will set you back $100, maybe even $150,  or about four or five times what it cost ten years ago!

Other calibers have increased more or less proportionately.  Some of this is simple economics of the supply - demand variety.  Lots of people want it and the manufacturers can't make it fast enough.  And I'm of the opinion it won't calm down until we elect a president who decides to honor his oath to protect and defend the Bill of Rights...including that pesky 2nd Amendment.  

Until then, you decide:  buy gold and hope to get a modest rate of return, or buy ammo and be almost guaranteed to see your investment double, triple or even quadruple in value.  As for me, I'm buying all the ammo I can find... 

My Kind of Job...

I screwed up.  Yes, kiddies, I had a choice to make while growing up, and I chose wrong.  I decided to get an education, take a job, work my ass off and, hopefully, reach the semi-lofty heights of success.  Oh, and reap the rewards that accrue therewith. 

I should have chosen to emulate Lois Lerner.

You may not know her.  She's the career bureaucrat babe that until a few days ago ran the tax-free organizations office for the Infernal Revenue Service.  Those are the 501c(3) IRS code organizations like Goodwill Industries and the Salvation Army, and c(4) political speech "Citizens United" outfits like Karl Rove's Crossroads USA and George Soros' uber-lefty Media Matters and MoveOn.org.  They can raise money and spend it in an effort to influence thoughts and votes because the Supremes voted in the aforementioned case that doing so is protected by the 1st Amendment to the Constitution.

These outfits make application to the IRS, and those applications are then approved (or denied) by whoever runs the department at the time.  Except in Lois' case.  If the applicant organization consisted of folks with a conservative viewpoint, such as with the terms "Tea Party" and "Constitution" in their names, the applications were neither approved or denied; they were just put into the lower right hand drawer of her desk and allowed to languish there until the applicant sees the error of their ways and converts to socialism, or Jesus decides to finally return.  Or, of course, until Barry leaves office.  If he ever does. 

Look at it this way.  If an organization wishes to influence political thought and speech, and is prohibited from raising money to do so because the Liberal Loons running things at the IRS keep you from proceeding, then you have effectively been shut out.  Your voice has been silenced.  And your ability to provide that influence has been squelched.  In essence, through the unreal power of the IRS only the liberal point of view was allowed to spew forth.  And spew it did during the 2012 election cycle.  And we all know how that turned out.

So good ol' Lois was hauled before Congress. She began her testimony by declaring her innocence, and then promptly claimed her rights under the 5th Amendment to the Constitution.  Of course, as a lawyer she knew she couldn't do that, but she did.  She basically testified, and then refused to testify.  And because of the furor her doing so caused, she was promptly put on extended leave of absence at full pay and benefits!  Whoa!  From what I hear her union will appoint a lawyer at our expense, and she will appeal that absence.  That may take 18 months to wind its way through the courts.  And if she is found against, she has the opportunity to appeal.  And that will take another 18 months!  So Lois gets three years, at least, at full pay, which is $177,000,00 per year, for doing absolutely nothing.  Which, by the way, would take her past her mandatory retirement age, so she could check out at full pay and bennies without ever working another day.  Think of it; because she's caught hosing conservatives she gets to sit home eating bon-bons and watching Jerry Springer reruns at about $100 per hour. 

Of course, we conservatives would prefer it that way, since while she was working she was screwing things up for good, God-fearing Americans.  Reports are that she has been resolute in harming conservatives at every opportunity.  But we poor slugs were never informed of such propensities because her peers in the D.C. bureaucracy were of a like mind...lefty socialist thieves.  

So, Congress will investigate, and possibly recall her to try and pry some info out of her.  And she'll just do that 5th thing again, which will result in more sturm and drang without anything being learned.  But good ol' Lois will still be doing that "cha-ching" thing at nearly $4,000 a week.  

Remember when choosing civil service meant a meager salary but great benefits and absolute, ironclad job security? Now, it's still the same but the salary is just about twice  what an ordinary, run-of-the-mill, tax-paying civilian earns.  Where did I go wrong?  why didn't somebody tell me that civil service is the quickest and most secure way to becoming a millionaire?  I'm pissed...