Been deadlining this week and it doesn’t stop. Thinking of you all, though.
Big Second-Amendment guy, Alan Korwin is making news with a big First-Amendment case.
You can always count on the FBI … to be just 61% accurate in its mass-homicide stats. Heck, they could save taxpayers’ money just by using random chance. Oh. Maybe they did.
“By threatening their lives as well as their budgets, Obama has created a huge class of losers, who statistically overrun the small class of winners and outweigh them in savvy…”
Oh. BTW. Still working on the candle-heater experiment. First trial was a spectacular bust and deadlines have prevented me from getting back to it. Hoping to try again this weekend.
Yes, even encourage them to bring you their personal information so you can walk them through the application process as you show them what Dear Leader and the Kindly Reid-Pelosi-Sebeliuses have wrought for them. (Just think how helpful that’ll be to everyone’s digestion and mood!)
So seriously now* … What will you be grateful for tomorrow and in all the coming holidays?
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* The Obamaites are apparently serious about ruining your Thanksgiving, as well as your health, your economy, and your country with their central medical planning. But could anybody who actually lives within reality possibly take those people’s advice seriously?
NOTE: “Dog Goldberg” is delightful. But please don’t even think about feeding your dog Beneful until you’ve done your research! Some of the owner claims may be unfounded, but really, the ingredients barely qualify as food. It’s shocking that Beneful is marketed as healthy.
“What to do if and when Obamacare collapses.” Jim Powell reminds us once again that Obamacare set out to do virtually the opposite of everything that actually needs to be done to restore sanity and affordability to medical care.
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Back later with more, including Deep Thoughts, serious questions, and another Amazon Christmas shopping list. For the moment, I’m off to clean kitty cages at the local (private) shelter.
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Oh, and here’s a bonus. The wiseass site Cracked.com has long had a freedomista slant. Lately, though, they’ve been getting pretty serious about it. The latest: “5 recent trends that make it hard to trust police.”
There’s little there that’ll be news to Living Freedom readers. But consider that Cracked’s audience goes waaaaay beyond us.
In the meantime, assuming you can buy insurance at all, maybe you can get it for free! It seems that the U.S. is developing a kind of ideal income level where you can a) live reasonably well while b) maximizing your tax-provided benefits. Millions more will surely aim for this welfare-state version of “success.” Cockapoo nation!
But some proud traditionalists will not go happily into that EZ future.
Anybody could have predicted that the so-called Consumer Finance Protection Bureau would end up as yet another spy agency. But who would have been cynical enough to think that would be among its main missions from the get-go? Uh. Well. Only people with a brain.
Uh oh. The old assassination market idea gets new life in the age of TOR and bitcoin. Somehow, I don’t think this is going to go any better than it went for Jim Bell.
The Dallas Buyers Club is in my Netflix queue for sure. From everything I’ve read or heard, it’s a spectacular indictment of big government (specifically the death-dealing FDA) and a celebration of Outlaw entrepreneurism. That it stars Matthew McConaughey is merely a plus.
Another long-time outdoors writer and sportsman who’s shocked to learn that laws passed against eeeeeeevvil gun owners also — oops! — apply to him. (H/T to LA)
Well, is this gonna cause more melodrama in the security theater, or what?
Unbelievably, British police make a plausible case that a spy guy whose decomposing corpse was found locked in a gym bag died by a self-caused accident. Definitely news of the weird.
Alas, the Puppycide documentary folks did not make their Kickstarter funding goal — though nearly 1,000 donors and a last-minute push put them over $60k. The good news is, that with the strong support and urging of those donors, they’re aiming for a relaunch this week, this time to fund a 30-minute doc rather than a feature-length film. I’ll keep you posted when that happens and hope everybody who pledged before will jump in again.
As we speak, Dear Leader is about to announce that — lucky you! — you can keep your inferior, inadequate, cancer-covering, less expensive, lower-deductible health insurance after all. For a while.
Except that, as even NPR understands, that’s mostly impossible due to all the hurdles insurance companies had to go through to be “allowed” to cancel old plans and the hurdles they’ll have to go through to be “allowed” to keep them. Not to mention the millions — billions? — they’ve spent making internal changes and notifying policyholders. And what’s their motivation undoing it all and doing it all again a year from now?
The “Obamacare Schadenfreudarama” has been entertaining (horrible though it is, in fact). But this adds yet another dimension of suckage.
Whatever the details of what O. is about to announce, the whole heap of s*t appears to be nothing but more noisome politics: “See, I’m letting you keep your plan. If those evil-bad-monster insurance companies still cut you off on January 1, it’s only because they’re so greeeeeeeedy and don’t care about you.” Also a desperate attempt to save Dem pol asses.
How many do you suppose will fall for it?
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But at least there’s one encouraging sign. ZeroHedge reports that Americans are 34 times more interested in buying guns than buying Obamacare. (Dispute the motivations and the reasons for the difference in stats; it’s still a hoot of a notion.)
Her name is Adriana. No surname revealed. You know her better as the original smiling face of the Obamacare website.
She now claims she’s being “cyberbullied.” What she really means is she’s become part of the political joke around The Big Failure. Cyberbullying? Hyperbole. We’re not talking death threats or threats to reveal her innermost secrets. We’re talking snide commentary.
Still, I felt sorry for her. I figured she was just some stock photo subject or a model who signed a release without knowing how her mug was going to be used. Not her fault she became the Face of Failure.
But nooooo. Ms Adriana, it appears, “… contacted the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services about having free family photos taken in exchange for having those photos used to market Obamacare.”
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I haven’t blogged about the Dick Metcalf/Guns & Ammo fiasco, partly because it went from outrage to resolution at Internet lightspeed. Also because, while I was considering what I could add, I got a special request from S.W.A.T. (and a very helpful S.W.A.T. reader) to do a column on it. Which I just did. Check it out when the February 2014 issue emerges.
The short version, for those who’ve been temporarily off planet Earth, is that Dick Metcalf, yet another long-time gun writer with an elitist attitude and No Clue, published a column in G&A that got him in deep, deep yogurt. He got fired and the editor who’d okayed the column quit.
Metcalf not only advocated more restrictions on gun owners, using arguments right out of the antis’ handbook. He showed an astounding ignorance of history and the Bill of Rights. Which was even more shocking, given that Metcalf has been a history faculty bigwig at two major universities.
And both he and his editor Jim Bequette totally missed the fact that we’re in a battle for our rights, and you don’t publish columns in hopes of stimulating nicey-nice “dialogs” with people who want to destroy you and everything you stand for.
Now I know the ‘Net’s been around only for oh, quarter of a century or so. So maybe there are still 12-year-olds who don’t understand that if you put yourself out there in some big public way, you might pay embarrassingly public consequences. But, really, Adriana? Really?
And I know that there are still 70-year-old members of the engraved-shotgun crowd who think those nice antis’ down at the country club have a point when they say we peasants are just too icky and out-of-control to own guns without government permission. But really, Metcalf? Really?
How widespread is such obliviousness-to-the-point-of-insanity? How do people this ignorant even manage to get their fuzzy-bunny slippers on the correct feet in the morning, let alone function in modern society?
