Tuesday, April 30, 2013

According to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the recent terror bombings in Boston require a new interpretation of the Constitution to give the government greater power to protect citizens.

"The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry," Bloomberg said during a recent press conference. "But we live in a complex world where you're going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change."

According to a Breitbart.com article, the anti-gun Bloomberg claims that recent attacks on the Second Amendment have left him confident that such re-interpretation is possible.

"The Supreme Court has recognized that you have to have different interpretations of the Second Amendment and what it applies to and reasonable gun laws," Bloomberg said. He employs the tactic of incrementally "lowering the bar" by suggesting that Americans should be willing to give up a degree of freedom in exchange for a degree of security.

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Gun-Haters Eat Crow after Blaming NRA for Marathon Bombing

A benefit of the First Amendment is that when all people can freely express themselves, normal people are regularly reminded of how warped some can be in their thinking--particularly those who seem to derive perverse satisfaction from publicly displaying their hatred of the NRA.

For example, two days after the bombing at this year's Boston Marathon, chronic NRA-basher Frank Smyth, in an article posted on MSNBC's website, proclaimed that gunpowder had been used in the bombs, and on that basis concluded that the suspects were on the loose because the NRA had opposed requiring microscopic "identification taggants" in gunpowder in the 1990s.

Prospect of Federal Funding Inspires Gun Control Research Gathering

On Tuesday, April 23, the Committee on Priorities for a Public Health Research Agenda to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence--a body formed under the Institute of Medicine, the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences--met in Washington, D.C.

Since 1996, federal law has prohibited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from funding research that openly advocates gun control. In January, President Obama issued a memorandum directing the CDC to develop a new "gun violence" research agenda, and called on Congress to provide >0 million to fund the effort. The committee's mandate is to advise the CDC in developing "a public health research agenda to improve knowledge of the causes of gun violence, the interventions that prevent gun violence, and strategies to minimize the public health burden of gun violence."

Outrage of the Week

National Public Radio describes its trademark, long-running weekday show, All Things Considered, as a mix of "news, interviews, commentaries, reviews, and offbeat features." We can now add "acerbic rants" to that descriptive list, thanks to the outrageous comments of anti-gun Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D).

Malloy was interviewed recently on the show after the U. S. Senate rejected proposed sweeping federal gun-control measures for which he strongly advocated.

According to a NewsBusters.org article, during the interview, anchor Melissa Block read back to Malloy his previous, slanderous comments about gun manufacturers--"The gun industry wants to sell as many guns to as many people as possible, even if they're deranged, mentally ill or have a criminal background - they don't care."--and asked Malloy for his comments.

Gallup Poll Shows Only 4% of Americans Think Gun Control is an Important Problem

A recent CNSNews.com article reported on an April Gallup poll, which found that only four percent of Americans think guns and gun control are an important problem facing the country. Despite the Obama administration's all-out efforts to enact new and more restrictive gun control legislation, the poll showed that Americans are far more concerned about the economy, unemployment and the federal debt.

According to Gallup, "Few Americans mention guns or immigration as the most important problems facing the nation today, despite the current attention lawmakers in Washington are giving to these issues. The economy still dominates as the top concern, followed by jobs and dissatisfaction with the general way in which Congress and the government work."

Everything Is Bigger In Texas- Including the NRA Annual Meeting Grassroots Workshop!

At no time in recent history has it been more important for NRA members and Second Amendment supporters to be effective activists in our campaign to protect and preserve our Second Amendment rights. Our freedom is under attack like never before, on multiple fronts!

As such, your attendance at this year's FREE NRA-ILA Grassroots Workshop in Houston is a critical step toward ensuring the future of our gun rights. This Workshop has been a staple of NRA's Annual Meetings for decades, and is one of the most popular seminars of the week, attended by hundreds of freedom-loving NRA members.

Attend the NRA Annual Meetings Firearms Law Seminar in Houston!

The 16th Annual Firearms Law Seminar will be held on Friday, May 3,, 2013, as part of NRA's Annual Meetings.

The gold standard in firearms CLE classes, this day-long seminar provides legal instruction for practicing attorneys who represent firearms owners and licensed dealers, attorneys wishing to expand their practice to such clients, and others having an interest in Second Amendment law.

ALABAMA: NRA-Supported Omnibus Firearms Bill Passes House Committee

ALASKA: Common Sense Legislation Passes Senate and Goes to Governor

ARIZONA: Two Pro-Gun Bills Pass in Legislature and Go to Governor

CALIFORNIA: Anti-Gun Legislators Vote to Destroy Hunting and the Second Amendment in California

COLORADO: Plan for Federal Lands in Grand Junction Area Will Close Lands to Recreational Shooting

COLORADO: Mental Health Bill Full of Problems Passes House Committee

CONNECTICUT: Attention Gun Owners and Sportsmen—You are Immediately Impacted by the State's New Draconian "Gun Control" Law

DELAWARE: Senate Passes Bill Criminalizing Private Transfers of Firearms

IDAHO: Hunting Included in New Management Plan for Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge

ILLINOIS: Proposed Statewide Shall-Issue Right to Carry Legislation Jeopardized

INDIANA: NRA-Backed Pro-Hunting Reform Bill Goes to Governor for His Expected Signature

KANSAS: Governor Brownback Signs Pro-Gun Bill into Law

LOUISIANA: Update- Firearm Bills under Consideration by the State Legislature

MAINE: Senate Passes Handgun Permit Confidentiality Legislation, Goes to Governor for His Expected Signature

MARYLAND: Join NRA President David Keene at the Caroline County Lincoln Day Dinner

MONTANA: BLM Management Plan Will Affect Motorized Big Game Retrieval

MONTANA: Management Plan Closes Public Land to Target Shooting

MONTANA: Governor Vetoes Common Sense Pro-Gun Bill in Montana

MONTANA: Miles City Resource Management Plan Will Affect Motorized Off-road Big Game Retrieval

NEVADA: Several Pro- and Anti-Gun Bills Still Moving Forward in Carson City

NEVADA: Senate Bill 221 and Senate Bill 227 Referred to the Senate Finance Committee

NEW JERSEY: State Senate Committee to Hear Testimony on Anti-Gun and Anti-Sportsman Bill Package

NEW YORK: Join NRA President David Keene at the Wayne County Conservative Party Dinner

NORTH CAROLINA: Critical Right-to-Carry Reform Bill Advances to House Floor

NORTH DAKOTA: Pro-Gun Bills Signed By Governor

OREGON: Bills Harmful to Law-Abiding Gun Owners Move Out of Committee

PENNSYLVANIA: Critical Firearms Preemption Legislation Introduced

RHODE ISLAND: Gun Control Package Unveiled

SOUTH CAROLINA: Critical Self-Defense Bill Detrimentally Weakened in Senate

SOUTH CAROLINA: Mental Health Reform Bill to be Considered by the Senate

TENNESSEE: Senate Passes School Security Measure, Goes to Governor for His Approval

TEXAS: Legislature Moving On School Security Measures

UTAH: Veto Override Session Needed

WASHINGTON: Act Now! Special Session to Consider Gun Control Measures Under Consideration

WEST VIRGINIA: Significant Legislative Victories this Session for Second Amendment Supporters

WEST VIRGINIA: Charleston Mayor Danny Jones Continues Crusade Against Your Gun Rights

Monday, April 22, 2013

Feinstein's Husband Richard Blum Gets Contract to Sell Postal Bldgs

http://www.newpartiotsblog.com/news/feinsteins-husband-richard-blum-gets-contract-to-sell-postal-bldgs-/

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Fwd: Sad about our Healthcare

Okay folks, I know you think the C-Span Channel that broadcasts all those Congressional hearings is boring, but, really, you should have been around to watch the Senate Finance Committee's hearing Wednesday on the Affordable Health Care Insurance Oversight.

Folks, you haven't seen so many faces of misery since you watched Les Miserables for three and a half hours... and they were all Democrats. And one of them, Senator Max Baucus, was the primary sponsor of Obamacare in the Senate!

Now, try to follow me here because this gets pretty complicated. (It seems that Nancy Pelosi was right; you have to pass Obamacare to find out what's in it... and the Democrats are now learning what the Republicans warned them about. It's an unworkable mess that is throwing millions of Americans off the health care rolls!)

Okay, apparently, tens of thousands of American employers began throwing workers off their health care plans and opting to pay the much lower federal fine for not offering health care for their workers. Thousands more are even now converting their full time workers to part time workers by limiting working hours per week to less than 30, in compliance with Obamacare rules.

(Remember when Paul Ryan and the Republicans predicted employers would do this? Remember when Democrats were warned that employers would move to save operating expenses by moving their entire work force into federal healthcare exchanges?)

Now, these workers who have lost their health care benefits are busy trying to sign up for state health care exchanges. (There are Internet sites available if your state has agreed to sign up to Obamacare).

However, when these American workers, soon to be without employee-provided health care, go to the Health Exchange to sign up, they are finding they are not qualified! It seems that during the signup process, applicants are required to fill in various income and benefit data, which then flows over to IRS computers who then are to spit out what your premium costs will be and how much federal tax credits you'll receive in order to receive subsidies to help you afford health care premiums that are as much as 30% more than you were paying under your employer's plan!

Big Problem! The IRS is only allowing somewhere around 9% subsidy support for Obamacare Health Care Exchange premiums that are priced so much higher than the worker was paying under his employer plan! (Surprise, Surprise! Remember Republicans warning that forcing working Americans to pay for the 30 million leeches who pay nothing for their health care under Medicaid would drive the premiums of working Americans higher?)

Second Big Problem! The IRS computers won't mate up with the Health Care Exchange computers because the IRS computer system is obsolete! So when workers try to sign up for Obamacare, the IRS and the Health Exchanges are telling applicants to go to hell!

And so fireworks really broke out at the Finance Committee hearings on Obamacare yesterday afternoon. Senator Max Baucus, (Dem), said, "How could this happen? I'm hearing from my constituents that they and their families have been left out in the cold and are without health care because the Exchanges are not accepting them!" Quote from Senator Bill Nelson, (Dem) Florida, "my constituents are not going to be happy to hear this administration failed to implement the necessary changes to accommodate health care applicants... someone has to pay for this!" Similar outrage was professed by Senator Ron Wyden (Dem) from Oregon.

Sadly, Obama Program Director for the Healthcare Affordability Act was on hand to lend testimony. All he could seem to do was sympathize with his Democratic buddies, saying that maybe the problems could be ironed out by the end of 2014 but could offer no ideas about how that could be done.

An Update! This morning a Harvard economics professor came on CNBC and announced that, according to a federal study his group just completed, the Health and Human Services Secretary is going to be forced to come back to this same committee, hat in hand, and request $700 billion dollars more be allocated to Obamacare just to pay for those automatically covered under current federal programs.

Also, sadly, the Wall Street Journal reported that, in addition to the
30 million Americans not currently covered under Obamacare, we can expect tens of millions more who will be left in the "no-health-care Twilight Zone"; those who were doing just fine with their employee health care plan until Obamacare was implemented this year. And many of those who were working 40-hour weeks will find themselves deemed "part time employees" working less than 30 hours per week and unable to afford Obama's premiums even if they could get through the application process.

And, as usual, while the working poor, and the rapidly-declining middle class will be out in the cold without any health care, the Medicaid/Welfare leeches have no worry. They are covered by that $700 billion dollar pot of gold Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services will be demanding from Congress soon!

Sad. Damned Sad.

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The Crazy Accurate Thermal Images That Saw Dzokhar Tsarnaev Through a Boat Tarp (Updated)

http://gizmodo.com/5995153/the-crazy-accurate-thermal-images-that-saw-dzokhar-tsarnaev-through-a-boat-tarp

The dramatic decline of the Philadelphia Inquirer newsroom captured in photos

http://paidcontent.org/2013/04/20/the-dramatic-decline-of-the-philadelphia-inquirer-newsroom-captured-in-photos/

Monday, April 15, 2013

5 Awesome Things To Listen To On Spotify That Isn't Music

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/awesome-things-to-listen-to-on-spotify-that-isnt-music/

Fwd: LIST OF TRAITOR SENATORS - UN Gun Rights

Impeachable Violation of Oath to Defend the Constitution !

Over the weekend, we came four votes away from the United States Senate giving our Constitutional rights over to the United Nations. In a 53-46 vote, the senate narrowly passed a measure that will stop the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.

The Statement of Purpose from the bill read:

To uphold Second Amendment rights and prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.

The U.N. Small Arms Treaty, which has been championed by the Obama Administration, would have effectively placed a global ban on the import and export of small firearms. The ban would have affected all private gun owners in the U.S., and had language that would have implemented an international gun registry on all private guns and ammo.

Astonishingly, 46 of our United States Senators were willing to give away our Constitutional rights to a foreign power.

Here are the 46 senators that voted to give your rights to the U.N. Notice that ALL are either Democrat or "Independent."

Baldwin (D-WI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Coons (D-DE)
Cowan (D-MA)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gellibrand (D-NY)

Harkin (D-IA)
Hirono (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kaine (D-VA)
King (I-ME)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)

Nelson (D-FL)

People this needs to go viral. These Senators voted to let the UN take our guns. They need to lose the election. We have been betrayed. These

46 Senators Voted to Give your 2nd Amendment Constitutional Rights to the U.N.

Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Warner (D-VA)
Warren (D-MA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR