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"Texas Stomp"
(January 29, 2014) Last night, before the SOTU, CNN, NBC, & CBS ran
a commercial from the anti-gun lobby featuring Gabby Giffords and her Astronaut husband.
It was dumb and unconstitutional, but it was also sad. I had readthe article in Breitbart
that they were going to do that, so I tuned in to CNN. The best that can be said about the
spot was said earlier by a BB reader named "TexasStomp." This reader was THERE when
Giffords was shot and you may also become depressed when you read this eyewitness
account. Here it is, without redaction:
Giffords is being used and it's shameful.
Giffords and Kelly
First, she was a very...VERY conservative dem who NEVER supported gun control in the state or DC that I know of. She is from a ranching family. You cannot run a ranch without guns...not in the AZ desert.
Second, her attacker was WELL KNOWN to authorities, had a record of arrests and releases that resembled the best "catch and release" programs in every hunting and fishing state.
Third, his mother was politically connected. An elected Dem who ran parks and recreation.
Fourth, the Sheriff was a democrat and the dumbest sob to breath air.
Fifth, the system worked. The kid tried to buy a gun and was denied on the basis of his arrest record and pending felony charges.
Sixth, he HAD PENDING FELONY CHARGES AND WAS WALKING AROUND FREE.
Seventh, NO amount of anti-gun legislation would have prevented him from obtaining a gun. NONE.
Eighth, Giffords was advised by local leos to hire protection details for little monthly tet a tets with constituents. SHE ALWAYS DECLINED THEM. She not only did NOTHING to protect herself, but she did nothing to protect constituents EVEN AFTER RECEIVING DEATH THREATS from the attacker.
And now she's the poster child for gun control? Gimme a break.
The real tragedy is the people who were not as lucky as Mizz Giffords who was packaged and wisked away by helo while the others had to wait their turn for medical assistance.
A 9 year old girl was killed in that shooting as were 5-6 other folks. They were all on the ground in far worse shape than Giffords but they all had to wait for the Medivac to take Gabby.
I was at the vet clinic across the street when the gunfire started. it lasted about 3-4 minutes before the shooter was wrestled to the ground. After that...I walked outside too look.
The young girl may have been killed instantly. The elderly man who shielded his wife was but she was hit and bleeding. And where were the rescue people? ALL of them were around GIFFORDS and NOBODY but Giffords was evac'd out on the first round.
The next helo to land came a full 8 minutes later. The facts were all in the Tucson
paper. It was disgraceful.
You may be saying to yourself that this is NOT the story we were told by the MSM or the
Associated Press. I would be outraged, if I hadn't already known that the public story had been carefully
molded by the friends of the President. But I had no idea that the situation was that bad. Do Progressives
EVER tell the truth?
"CHARLIE SAID IT WOULD"
(January 28, 2014) Once upon a time, there was a weatherman. And, he
did not fancy himself a Climatologist, nor a Meteorologist. He was a Weather Man. I had
the distinct honor to work with him at Channel 4 in Greenville back in the mid '80's. His
name was Charlie Gertz. Frankly, I cannot remember a single time when he was wrong.
The late Charlie Gertz, real weather man
Charlie had been a meteorologist for the Army Air Corps and then for
the Air Force, when the Air Force and the Army split up. If he and his mates were wrong, pilots
could die, and so they were very, very careful. He used to tell me about what they did
in order to get their prognostications correct, and he, too, looked forward to a day when
they could forecast accurately, two days in a row. Nevertheless, Gertz was so accurate
with his forecasts that Channel 4 felt no guilt at all advertising, "Charlie Said It Would."
They even gave away umbrellas with the saying and the station logo on them. It was an
easy bet.
Just before I decided to reopen my Ad agency, and forswear TV news,
Charlie, who had piqued my interest in the elements, reminded me that you cannot predict weather in South
Carolina accurately more than four hours in advance - six at the outside. Forecasting for
the midsection of the country was an easy 8 hour sinch. But wherever there were mountains,
to the east (in the northern hemisphere) there were simply too many variables for that.
During our wintry weather, it's good to remember
that, even though it wasn't their fault, almost every prognosticator missed the forecast,
except that there was cold and there was moisture of some kind. Some
had guessed that it would snow a little, but it turned out to be much more, or in some places
it wasn't snow at all, but freezing rain and havoc with electrical lines - too many variables
for little South Carolina, with its savannah geography. The only one who was close was
John Cessarich, who, ironically also forecasts for TV4 in Greenville. It really makes you
appreciate the genius of the late Charlie Gertz. In times like this, Charlie WOULD
have said it would.
State of the Onion
(January 28, 2014) You don't have to watch the President's
pretentious, defensive, selfish State of the Onion - it will make you wince with
tears and pain. Here's what he will say:
the Onion
"Trust me. It's complicated with many layers. Don't mess with me,
I think I can rule America by executive order. America is broke because of Republicans.
My way or the highway - I won't compromise. Republicans won't compromise. Trust me."
I suggest you visit your outhouse, instead. The smell will be the same
as will be the speech's content.
A DIFFERENT VIEW
OF THE ECONOMY
(January 27, 2014) I occasionally get email from really smart
readers. The following is one of those. Let's call him, "Jack." I'm not sure I agree
with Jack, but it's so well written I thought you ought to get a chance to read it for
yourself.
As I sit here, watching a classic Mel Brooks movie and pondering
intermittently about the meaning of life, I decided to take a look at your column and
headlines as I often make a habit of doing.
Upon cycling through your news headline about "'20 Early Signs'
(the world is yet coming to another end, again)", my first conclusion is that there are
writers at zerohedge that know what they're talking about - and sadly, those that don't.
This article, in
particular, was written by the latter. I can detail why the American
stock-market is absolutely not an indicator of economic progress, or why the English
pound remains established at a higher value than the dollar or the euro, or why disruptions
in China, Ukraine, or anywhere else on earth don't disturb me AT ALL.
I compare this article to something I once read, entitled along the
lines of "More Asteroids Pass Near Earth Than Ever Before". What that article, much
like this one, failed to realize or properly iterate to its readers was the fact that asteroids
pass by the earth every single hour of the day - in fact, millions of them hit us and burn
up in the atmosphere. WE can simply see them now. They've always been there; always
will be. Better communication, to apply that metaphor, allows people worldwide to see
the minor and (sadly) expected violence and chaos of realms outside of the familiar
realm of their suburban armchair quarterbacking headquarters.
Armchair Quarterback Trophy
To take the metaphor and make it a reality, the 'better communication'
I write about is more often than not an editorial and speculative piece of garbage. Thus,
'speculators' drive Wall Street. Trends drive panics. Bubbles need a foundation to blow
up before they burst - and so I can say firmly that any bubble being spoken of in that
article was set up a long, long time ago. In financial terms, that means years - not decades.
If you want 20 generic signs of any impending apocalypse you can flip through any book
on the subject - secular or religious - and you'll eventually flip to the right 20 pages.
Therefore, this means that I can pick any random 20 events going on the world right now
and declare with a high sound and official voice that the sky, is in fact, falling.
The sky is always falling. The sky is never falling. If both are true,
what is this 'sky'? If something is always falling, and never falling - perhaps the key to
that, and this argument, is not to scream that the sky is falling or staying up there - but
to redefine the term 'falling' instead. The editor of your quoted article asks the wrong
questions, which in turn lead them to the wrong conclusions.
And Jack could well be correct. Many people agree with him. But
I have learned that when almost everybody isn't worried, there usually is something lurking
in the shadows that they are not seeing. It is equally important to look at both sides, and I
was happy to read and include this essay, here. Thank you, Jack.
OBAMA AS NIXON.
(January 26, 2014) National Democrats have reduced human beings to animals
who must depend on the government for their every need. They are very close to making their
ideal become a living terror in America. Looking at the wreck they have made of our
culture, our morals, and our economy, I would suggest that their ideals are as corrupt as their
results. As President Obama rots, beached on the same plage as did President Nixon,
his actions become more erratic and self indulgent. And America rots with him.
Obama as Nixon as Obama
Enter former Governor, Mike Huckabee. He made a speech before
a conservative group in which he painted the Democrats with the sins mentioned above. A
Democrat parrott lied in a tweet. All the Democrat Killer Klowns from Outer Space picked
up the lie and slandered Huckabee incessantly, until it was PROVEN that the Originator's
words were just another propaganda falsehood, when she made a sheepish half-apology.
My point is simple: Had someone not come forward with a video of
the Huck's actual speech, the LIE told by Obama's DEMOCRAT stenographers would still be reported as a
fact. But to tell a truth, national Democrats have to lie, because everything they believe in
is either twisted or a complete failure (this idea is not new at all). So when you hear a Democrat speak, remember
that, like Nixon, they're just hiding something - in this case, a desire to wipe out the TEA Party.
In any case, it would probably be best to avoid most Democrats as you may catch something
from them.
ANOTHER HARD DECISION LACKING
SCIENTIFIC FACTS
(January 25, 2014) Marlise Munoz is brain dead, according to some doctors.
Her baby, which she is still carrying - thanks to the wonders of science - may not be in perfect
health, but there is no evidence that the baby is in permanently damaged. It may be that, while
trying to save the mother, they injected her with drugs which may have hurt the baby, but all we
have on the baby's condition is hearsay. The judge, urged on by Marlise's husband, has ruled
that Marlise should be taken off of life sustaining medical help. Something that is catagorically
against the Texas law. You can read all about it, here.
Erick Munoz
There is only one set of questions to ask Erick Munoz: Why do you want to kill your child?
Are you thinking that it's tough enough to have one child, already, why have two? Do you have
irrefutable evidence that your child is damaged beyond repair? Are we seeing in
you another fear that you will be saddled with life-crushing medical bills?
I think it would be important that, before we judge either Texas, the hospital,
or the Law itself, that we find out about the baby's health and it's chances for survival. But if
we have excited fibs from Erick's lawyers, rather than scientific fact, NO disposition that effects
the baby should be allowed.
I don't know who appointed this judge who made the decision, but it was a mistake,
and the judge's decision is inappropriately rushed.
"A VENTRILOQUIST CAN ALWAYS
FIND A GOOD DUMMY"
(January 23, 2014) And Billy Barber 2 ought to know. As a politician, he has
consistently parroted the NAACP's effort to cheat during elections. When did they do this?
Every damn day. Trying to keep the identity of a voter secret from the officials who are trying
to make sure that the voter's identity is genuine can have only one purpose.
William Barber II, embarrassing African-Americans every day
The NAACP used to have, along with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference,
a real purpose - desegregation. And they got that well-deserved prize. But like so many once useful
organizations, they had to either find something new to bitch about, or go out of business. In the end they
chose from the goodie bag of Karl Marx. Now we have a group of people, who have never changed a thing in their
rich, inherited wealth lives, running an organization which does not need to exist, griping because some people
have more money than others. Involuntary wealth redistribution is a biblical sin. It's theft. A somewhat
odd choice, considering that many of the members are ministers.
I really didn't want to write about this, I was working on an editorial about the right to
life - abortion is still murder except in very, very limited circumstances. But Barber's remarks were so
incendiary, so wicked, so vile, I had to say something. There are names for what Billy B2 said about our
Junior Senator - covetousness, false witness, and theft. But that's not all. If one is to judge past behavior
as a future indicator, in his entire life, William Barber II will never be as sharp or as kind or as principled
as Tim Scott. B2, by his off-color remarks, savaged and broke the very definition of the 8th, 9th, & 10th
Commandments.
I am genuinely angry with Barber. People such as he would make me wish I had never
helped the NAACP, were there not people such as Tim Scott. Yes, I probably should just ignore Barber
- Sen. Scott is so obviously a better person in so many gentlemanly ways than the classless, ignorant North
Carolina bigot, William Barber II. Barber defiles our state and our representative with verbal covetousness, intentional libel,
and theft - just by acting like a dummy.
ECONOMIC RECOVERY STORYLINE IS A SHAM
(January 1, 2014) It's nice not to have to guess. But if you have to, one of the best
places to hedge your guess is information from zerohedge.com, a journal of the best guesses national
and international economics available. The contributors to this blog are profound in their insights and
echo things I've been saying all along. Like I said, it's nice not to have to guess. The excerpt below is
a very good example. It's from Tyler Durden on a subject I have been harping about for years. Click
on the link, after the excerpt and read it all.
"The entire economic recovery storyline is a sham built upon easy money funneled by
the Fed to the Too Big To Trust Wall Street banks so they can use their HFT supercomputers to drive
the stock market higher, buy up the millions of homes they foreclosed upon to artificially drive up home
prices, and generate profits through rigging commodity, currency, and bond markets, while reducing loan
loss reserves because they are free to value their toxic assets at anything they please – compliments of
the spineless nerds at the FASB. GDP has been artificially propped up by the Federal government through
the magic of EBT cards, SSDI for the depressed and downtrodden, never ending extensions of unemployment
benefits, billions in student loans to University of Phoenix prodigies, and subprime auto loans to deadbeats
from the Government Motors financing arm – Ally Financial (85% owned by you the taxpayer). The country
is being kept afloat on an ocean of debt and delusional belief in the power of central bankers to steer this
ship through a sea of icebergs just below the surface."
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT ON MLK DAY
(January 20, 2014)
"Runaways" courtesy & © iMaksim.com
YEAR OF THE JACKPOT
(January 19, 2014) It finally had to happen.. a statistical impossibility has
come into being.
HEADLINES ON DRUDGE these days read like the Year of the Jackpot, that
exquisitely ironic short story by Robert A. Heinlein. I mean, statistically speaking, can this many
ridiculous things happen without some horrible earth change or revolution occurring? It really is creepy.
- First lady celebrates turning 50 at lavish Saturday night party...
- Obama: 'I'll act on my own'...
- Cher: "He Let Us Down"...
- Rogers: Russia may be behind Snowden leak...
- Cash for Kidneys...
- UN: Cold is proof of Global Warming.
- REPORT: Heat is proof of Global Warming.
- Exorcism claimed in murders of two Maryland toddlers...
- Bloodied Syria, resurgent Iran set to dominate at Davos...
- Taliban Attack on Kabul Restaurant Shocks Expat Community...
- American troops may return to Middle East to train Iraqis...
- Islamist militants strengthen grip on Falluja...
- Oliver Stone drops out of MLK movie after script rejected...
- Will Adultery Keep King Off Big Screen?
- BACHELOR star calls gays "perverted."
- Supreme Court to weigh cell phone searches by police...
- In Reversal, FBI Now Emphasizes Role in Law Enforcement...
- Companies Woo Weed Crowd With Edgy Ads...
- Colorado Shop Owners Can't Keep Marijuana Edibles in Stock...
- Pictures Putin didn't want you to see: bizarre Olympic site of Sochi...
- Protester detained for waving rainbow flag...
- MYSTERY: Colorblind Man Sees Color For First Time After Fall...
- STUDY: Sunlight Lowers Blood Pressure...
- Scientists baffled after mystery rock appears in front of Mars rover...
- Man's pickup burns half-hour after getting recall notice...
- REPORT: 17-year-old may behind TARGET data theft...
- Dennis Rodman Checks Into Rehab...
- CALIFORNIA 'DROUGHT OF THE CENTURY'...
- FEAR: Drinking-water shortage possible...
- Mayor claims Christie camp held Sandy money hostage...
- Gov. staff attacks MSNBC...
- Christie goes on Florida fundraising blitz...
- ESPN Considered Banning Use of 'REDSKINS'...
- SPOIL CARIBBEAN: Dozens Fall Ill on Ship...
- County signs up prison inmates for Obamacare...
- REPORT: 41k Canadians flee country over healthcare system...
- 'GIRLS' Dunham defies her critics over 'doctored' VOGUE cover...
- 'I never felt bullied into anything'...
- Carnivorous fish injure 10 river bathers...
- Hi-tech rivals San Francisco and Seattle clash on the road to Super Bowl...
- FEAR: City to pull cable cars, streetcars for game...
- Doctor offers to trade vasectomy for playoff tickets...
- SENECA CANONS have no known scientific cause.
- COPS: 74-Year-Old Man Victim Of 'Knockout Game' At DENNY'S...
- Madonna Apologizes For Using N-Word...
- Actress Forced Out Of Production After Endorsing 'Tea Party' Candidate...
- SAG Awards: Winners List...
- 'HUSTLE' Takes Top Prize...
- Harvey Weinstein Has Change of Heart On Violence In Films...
- 'WOLF' Victims Appalled by Glorification...
- Nun gives birth to baby named after Pope...
- Egyptian editor backtracks after saying 'Americans will be killed in streets'...
- Smog in China prompts authorities to display sun on giant screens...
- Wealthy continue to flee...
- Wife of India minister found dead after TWITTER spat...
