Utter Fallacy

The House of Representatives has pushed through a bill that hands Barrack his much desired "cap and trade". All of us will suffer if this should make its way through the Senate. Obama of course claims that the measure is needed to prevent "global climate change".

You'll notice that the wording on that claim has changed. They used to call it "global warming". Surreptitiously they've smuggled in a change in terms. Now they call it "global climate change". Do you know why? Because the planet isn't warming. In fact, it has been cooling for the last 11 years. We are in the midst of the coldest summer in the Northern Hemisphere in 50 years.

In a previous post I related an article that showed that the EPA was using September temperature figures for October temperature reports for large portions of the globe in order to artificially increase the mean temperature.

Science has a central tenant, that being "predictable and repeatable". If your hypothesis can not be verified by actually predicting the future repeatedly, then you have to assume that your premise is flawed. In other words. If you postulate that increasing the CO2 content in the atmosphere will increase temperatures, then the observations do not pan out, your premise is incorrect. In other words mankind is not changing the environment. It is troublesome for the liberals when the pesky environment doesn't cooperate.

Well you see their pet projects are depending on us believing that the sky is falling. I mean they are at the forefront of creating "green" technology. Do you know how one creates green technology? You take a simple straight forward technology. You make a Rube Goldberg version of it that is less efficient, more costly and less dependable. Then you slap a "green/eco-friendly" label on it and ridicule the public into buying it. When ridicule alone doesn't work, then you invent a bogus theory and call it science. Using that "science" as an excuse, you disadvantage the "non-green" technology via legislation.

So it would be problematic of course if one of you top climate scientists suspended his faith and actually looked at the conflicting scientific evidence. Well that has happened. Alan Carlin, the primary author of a 98 page EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) report that questions the soundness of "global warming" science has reported that his findings are being quashed by the EPA. In an e-mail exchange released to CBS news, Carlin's boss, Al McGartland is quoted as saying:

"The administrator and the administration has decided to move forward... and your comments do not help the legal or policy case for this decision."

In other words, "shut up! Don't confuse the public with facts".

So there you have it. Many of us have known that the science behind global warming is specious at best. I mean when announcements are made about the scientific world arriving at a "consensus". That says it right there. Science isn't driven by consensus. It's science not American Idol. Sciences is driven by the ability of a theory to reliably and repeatedly account for the observed facts.

So, if the Senate also passes "cap and trade" they are in effect simply creating a system by which they are leveling the playing field. They are slanting the odds so that their uneconomical, ungainly, ineffective, Rube Goldberg-esque "green" technology can compete. They do it by raising the cost of conventional technology by means of a tax. This eco-fad will spell ruination for our economy. American family budgets already struggling with the cost of energy will be stretched even thinner just to service a lie.

When Will Heller Begin to Pay Out

A year ago the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in the Heller vs DC case; finding that Americans do indeed have a fundamental individual right to keep and bear arms. For years liberals had claimed that the second amendment only authorized states to maintain National Guard troops. This argument was of course specious at best, but citing that perverted interpretation they authored tens of thousands of intrusive anti-gun laws that thus far have had no effect on reducing crime

The Supreme Court's decision basically stated that weapons normally used for legal pursuits such as self-defense or sport could not be outlawed or unduly restricted. Since that ruling change has been slow in coming. Washington DC residents are still by and large prevented from owning handguns by an unwieldy permitting process.

Movement is however slowly beginning to occur in fits and starts. A Philadelphia "assault weapon" ban was recently struck down by the Commonwealth Supreme Court. That same court also struck down a law limiting the number of handguns that a person can purchase in a month. Further it was decided that municipalities could not preempt state law.

Unfortunately substantial resistance still exists. Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, a historically anti-RKBA activist, refused to consider the second amendment in a case challenging New York's ban on Nunchaku and a recent challenge to Chicago's oppressive anti-gun laws was shot down by the Seventh Circuit Court.

We RKBA'ers waited a damned long time for such a ruling. It's about time that we start actually seeing the benefits and making use of it. Where the hell is the NRA? We've funnelled huge amounts of money into that organization. It initially condemned Heller for taking the case to court. Of course after he walked out with the landmark decision in hand, they paid obligatory lip service to it, but where are they now? The huge amounts of money religiously sent into that organization by RKBA'ers can certainly fund a lot of legal challenges. Where are they?

Let me tell you friends I think a vision of their own mortality is what prevents the NRA from actually using the money and decision to its full effect. Why fund an organization that no longer has a foe? In my mind, that is why they do not do what we expect them to do. Perhaps if we shift enough of our cash to supporting actual activist organizations with courage such as the JPFO then the NRA behemoth will wake from its slumber and engage the now vulnerable foe.

If any NRA supporters are reading this missive, please call your NRA representative and demand that they get off their over funded, under active asses and retake the ground that they've allowed to be unjustly occupied due to their lackadaisical attitude. Threaten to give you donations to othe RKBA groups. Hit them in the wallet, that will get them off their keesters!

I Stand With You

While Barack Obama might be reticent to say that he supports the unrest in Iran, I am not afraid to say that I support the protesters. While Barack supports perpetrators of election fraud like ACORN, I am willing to say that the voice of the population of a country should not ignored or stifled. While Obama is busy curtailing the rights of his own people, I am willing to say that I cheer the attempt of the people of Iran to rise up and seize their rights from the greedy clutches of an oppressive regime. Yes my friends, Barack Hussein Obama might not support the attempts of the people of Iran to oust the unjust regime that he wishes to reach his hand out to, but I do!

Here is a video of a protester that was shot during the unrest:


Here is another:


Here protesters attack an Iranian police vehicle:


This video shows some of the scale of the protests:

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Quick Round Up

There are several things quick things I'd like to cover quickly:

1.) NASA is launching a mission to the moon. They intend to crash an impactor into the south polar region of the moon some time in October. The impact should be large enough that amateurs should be able to witness the event live in a moderate power telescope. Here is the mission home page.

To this I say, "Cool!"

2.) It seems that Obama is replacing hundreds of dollars per month in food stamps for some laid off workers' families with a single $25 check. Here is an article about it.

To this I say, "How ironic."

3.) Some people have been giving me crap for calling Carlos Bledsoe's (aka. Abdulhakim Muhammad) attack on the recruiting station in Arkansas a terrorist attack. Well it seems I'm not the only one raising this concern. According to this article, there are quite a few folks thinking that same thing.

To this I say, "I told you so!"

Beyond that let me do a little prognostication. Be prepared for a wave of similar attacks. Our muslim foes want to convert this country to an islamic nation and they are making in-roads in that effort. Already many are leaving prison inducted into the religion and radicalized as well. Al Quaeda has been attempting to specifically recruit terrorists that do not fit the young muslim male mold. They are looking for people that do not automatically raise suspicion.

4.) Obama has been calling for "fiscal restraint" and abiding by "pay go" rules. This is simply amazing. After signing a huge $800 billion laundry list of unfunded liberal pork under the guise of providing economic stimulus, he suddenly wants budget discipline?

To this I can say nothing because I am laughing too hard to speak!

Oh and that "stimulus" package... Where's the stimulative effect?

A Tribute

Watching the ongoing misadventures of the current Commander in Chief has me REALLY missing the only true one in my entire lifetime. Pardon me for getting all sentimental but damned Fox News just ran his address honoring the Rangers on Pointe Du Hoc on the 40th anniversary of D-Day and I got all mushy.

That was a man that was able to give a good speech (even without a teleprompter!). For those who want to know... I was on a patrol along the East German border on the day that particular speech was given. I remember clearly sitting on a castle wall on a hill top that was a frequent patrol stopping point because it overlooked a long stretch the border around Mödlareuth, eating a mess hall bologna sandwich and reflecting on the fact that it was D-Day. The thin line of history that led from those bloody beaches directly to my patrol along that barbed wire festooned border did not escape me even back then in my youth.

Unfortunately, our current Commander in Chief has more in common with the former leader of that, now failed country than he does with Ronald Reagan.

Evolution Naysayers

Yes I know, when you view the title of this post you will probably think that I am going to be addressing religious fundamentalists that insist that the diversity of life on this planet can not have sprung forth without the intervention of the invisible hand of an almighty deity - but I'm not. No my friends, there are others who poo-poo the idea of evolution. Interestingly it is the very ones who claim to most fervently support the notion of evolution that I will address. These naysayers however believe that evolution must be arrested... stopped dead in its tracks. They believe that they control evolution and not vice-versa.

Perhaps by now you may be getting an inkling of where I am headed. Perhaps you do not believe my contention. Allow me to continue.

Mother nature generally has a way of thinning the herd; trimming the weak and replacing them with stronger performers. You see the environment and ecosystems of the planet are a constantly changing milieu of push and shove. It is a dance between specialization and generalization... a cycle of rise and fall. It is quite simply change incarnate.

To illustrate my point, let's protract the megaloceros a favorite of mine:
This is a long-dead species of elk that once wandered far and wide across ice age Europe and Asia. The name covers a wide variety of species but is generally and more frequently used to indicate the species more commonly known as the Irish Elk.

These animals sported an amazing set of antlers. Fossilized examples of these antlers have been found throughout Europe and are often then mounted and hung on the walls like other trophy antlers. That is where I saw my first set, hanging on the wall in a gasthaus in Germany while I was stationed there. The breathtaking size of them impressed me and remains stuck in my mind to this day.

As a side note, it is often incorrectly believed that they are related to the American moose. They are not. They are more closely related to fallow deer.

It is also the general haughty consensus that mankind caused the demise of this creature. It is believed that we hunted this critter to its end. The undeniable fact is that the stocks of this animal had so declined that their continued existence was precarious at best.

So did we really hunt this creature to death? Perhaps... but it had already been weakened by the fact that the ever changing environment had migrated away from it, depriving it of its sweet spot or niche. So, while mankind may have finished the job. Nature itself had already decided this creature's fate. As the ice receded from the last ice age, so too did the niche ecosystem that spawned and nurtured this amazing creature.

So what if a few precariously surviving individuals of this species were found to miraculously exist today? The standard mantra would be that we would need to set aside generous reserves and prevent the encroachment of mankind to ensure that this obsolete species did not pass on into the twilight. This in spite of the fact that nature itself has rung the death knell for the species. Resources would be squandered to thwart evolution and the environment.

Ask yourself this. Should we preserve this species from its rightful end, are we perhaps not doing the very thing that they wish to prevent? Are we not still allowing mankind to impact nature by preventing its demise? Rightfully some other species should rise to fill the vacated niche. Are we not preventing or delaying that natural process by our actions?

Consider the fact that, if we should cause the demise of a species we are impacting nature and if we should favor a challenged species then we are also impacting the natural course of things.

Those of this mindset are insisting that they and not nature, are the smarter ones in their knowing that all species simply must endure. They point at man as an evil doer but forget that nature itself created and spawned man to be exactly what he is. They delude themselves into thinking that they control the very system that brought them forth and caused them to evolve from their ape brethren. They stand in the stream of change; bucking the unremitting current, their chest heaving with the exertion, defiantly shaking their puny cozened fists in the face of inevitability.

You see, some day we too will pass into obsolescence. The particular mix of traits that fleetingly places us in our niche at the pinnacle of this ecosystem in this environment will without a doubt be superseded and no longer address the challenges of survival in that niche of a future ecosystem in an inevitably changed environment.

These are the naysayers that I wish to address with this post. Perhaps by now you will see that they are every bit as wrong about evolution as the religious fundamentalist sort; if not more so!

So now let's expand our examination of these people beyond the realm of the evolution of animal species and the variability of the environment.

These same evolution naysayers have cast their specious philosophy upon our economy. An economy is after all analogous to an ecosystem. Things change there too and sometimes the requirements that once caused a company to arise and prosper may, by the will of fate alone change, leaving that once flourishing company high and dry and ill-suited to compete in their new environment.

Our illogical naysayers once again threateningly shake their feeble little fists in the face of this "fait accompli" and claim their doomed megalocerous of a company is "too big to fail". In response they toss out colossal sums of money with reckless abandon all to serve their near-religious faith in their ability to forestall the inevitable sands of change. They cavitate in an impotent churning froth of hastily printed Monopoly money and misguided peckish fervor. Here too, they will fail. They are doomed to failure and we with them are doomed to go along for the ride. Our complicity of inaction ensures that generations to come will also be doomed to a seat on this hellish ride to a thundering crash of splintering failure and the misery of slow recuperation.

Of course they will use their foray into this realm to support their faith in stymieing biological evolution and ecological change. They will nationalize these companies and then force them to crank out unwanted ill-conceived products. They will rationalize, that if they build them then the consumers will come... They deny the fact that the financial environment is diced into ecosystems of supply and demand. Expecting these products to sell would be akin to tossing a goldfish up into a tree and expecting it to thrive there.

Logic is obviously not their strong suit.

Expanding this line of thinking leads us to other arenas in which they ply this feckless philosophy.

...Communism for example...

Communism is of course a creature doomed from the start. It is a chimera... a damned combination of ill-combined traits praying for niche where it can thrive. Our naysayers believe that in spite of the fact that this hideous creature has failed abysmally in every single "ecosystem" where it's been released, that it too must none-the-less be perpetuated. They contend that the failure to date is due to the fact that it was not they who managed the release of this Frankenstein's monster into the wild.

There are of course those who read this, who are sure to puff out their huffing puny chests, roll their lower lips into a childlike pout and wheeze out an indignant protest against the fact that I deign to claim that they are following this path, but facts are facts and they are discarding the endeavors of our founding fathers. I call as my witness those who are perhaps the best authority to call a spade a communist spade. I present to you Pravda, the former official mouthpiece of the communist regime of the fallen USSR. Who better to recognize communism when they see it? In an April 27th editorial, Pravda claims:

"It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed..."

Read the whole editorial. It is brutally eye opening.

How can the president of the United States nationalizing one business after another and placing the proletariat (labor unions) in charge of the factories not be called Marxism and communism? We all know that it is a perfect example of Chicago-style quid pro quo politics. It is surely a corrupt payback for services rendered but it is also the very definition of Marxism... the contrived conflict between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie.

Communism is of course doomed. I claim that because we all know that without deprivation mankind has no impetus to excel. It is discomfort that compels us forward. Have you ever heard the saying, "necessity is the mother of invention?" Under communism, society invariably wallows in paralyzing mediocrity and complacency since by definition, every effort is rewarded the same. People are inspired to greatness only with the greatest stimulus and communism provides only the vapidity of contrived "fairness" as a stimulus.

Again we and generations of our progeny are doomed to go along for this hand basket ride. Or are we?

Be forewarned. I may edit this post as my thoughts continue to crystallize around this line of logic.

Fresh Off the Griddle

I just got a fresh batch of pictures of my grandson and I've realized it's been a while since I posted any pics of him. So here's an update for y'all:

A Worthy Cause

In the 1980's Congress gave every American veteran the honor of being buried with full military honors. What they did not do was ensure there would be enough military buglers to play taps for these fallen veterans. Click the title of this post to navigate to a site that hopes to provide a military bugler for each and every one of our fallen heroes. This charity is run by Tom Day, a Marine Corps veteran who believed that sufficing with playing Taps on a boombox was not good enough for our fallen protectors. He has personally trained buglers and helped others assemble uniforms. He funds much of this effort from his pension. I heard this story on the news and was compelled to offer this man a reflex salute.

A Little Family History For Memorial Day

Some of you may know that I am related General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (he's my great great...). Some time ago a movie named Gettysburg focused on his actions at the battle of Gettysburg on top of Little Round Top, an action for which he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Here is the section of that film surrounding that part of the battle:

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

It is this kind of selflessness that is recognized on this weekend. Take a moment and reflect on the sacrifices that have been offered up at the altar of freedom. What have you done to deserve those sacrifices?

There are so many these days who are fixated on the things that they feel they are entitled to. In truth, you are entitled to nothing. This nation owes you nothing. YOU owe this nation. You owe it your vigilance. You owe it your toil and if need be your blood. We have been so lucky for so long that we easily forget that. We become concerned with questions like "How should I pay for health care?" and some leap to the conclusion that it would be easiest if such things were just handed to them. Of course it would be easy if that would happen, but such thinking isn't very realistic now is it? The answer to such a dilemma is rarely as gratifying as getting something for nothing. The answer is that we ourselves must be prepared for such eventualities. We must save and put aside a bit for rainy days.

The problem is that we are now pursuing such unrealistic ideas at break neck speed. The ideals that our fore-bearers fought and died to preserve are being discarded like so much worthless chaff all in a pursuit to attain the unattainable, something for nothing.

Look at the action portrayed in those four videos. You see men dying left and right. Ask yourself why are they standing there and putting themselves in such a lethal situation. Do you think that they are doing it to get free health care? Or, are they doing in to preserve the nation and freedom?

Now ask yourself the greatest question. Would you give up your life to preserve freedom for your friends and family? If not, then why? The only reasons I can picture are either selfishness or cowardice. Which applies to you?

A New Toy

So I worked a little deal. I traded a pistol for this:


What do you all think? I've been thinking of perhaps getting out of the gun game. Maybe I'll turn my collection into some other fun toys.

New 2009 Deficit Forecast

The OMB has released the newest projections for president Obama's deficit for this year. 1.84 trillion dollars ($1,840,000,000,000). According to the US Census Bureau the current population of the United States is 306,409,555. So a little math yields a figure of $6,005.03 for every man woman and child in the United States just to pay for Obama's deficit spending for this year so far (and we're not even half way through it yet). This level of deficit spending means that fifty cents out of every dollar the government is spending this year is borrowed. Here are a few things that could be bought for every man woman and child with that six grand...

How about 1,200 Subway sandwiches or 1,645 Big Macs?

Not into fast food... well then you could buy two top of the line Dell laptops for each and every person in the US and still have $600 to buy some software for them.

You could buy a brand spanking new, tricked out one of these for everyone and still have cash to buy gas for it for a year:
Not a biker, then how about we send everyone in the country on two 7 day Disney Western Caribbean cruises with a balcony stateroom?

It is time for Obama to stop blaming this all on George Bush. Obama sat with the majority party in the Senate that presided over the years prior to his election to president, so he is equally to blame for the state of the economy at the point that he took over the reins. Besides he's running a full four times higher than the highest annual deficit EVER in the entire history of the nation!

Riding The Wave

Some time ago I told you about a law passed in Montana that exempted firearms made and kept in Montana from federal regulations. Some of you may not have grasped the immensity that the passage of that law represents. This is a direct challenge to the over-reaching influence of the federal government. This law will no doubt be tested in the SCOTUS and the result of that decision will be huge. Basically, if you read the constitution you'll find that in Article 1 Section 8 Congress is given a FINITE list of powers. We are used to thinking of Congress as being all powerful and unlimited in the things that they can impose upon us and dictate from on high. That is not how our founding fathers had envisioned it. You see all of the liberal agenda has been built upon one small line in the Constitution. That lines reads:

"The Congress shall have power... To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes"

Do you see there where they are given the ability to regulate what kind of firearms you may own? How about the authority to dictate that a non-functioning, low-flow toilet must be installed in your bathroom? Do you spy the words granting the authority to nationalize health care or take over companies? Personally, I don't!

Going back in history you'll find that the SCOTUS repeatedly struck down all of Roosevelt's "new deal" legislation until two Key justices, Justice Owen Josephus Roberts and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes switched sides to avert a Roosevelt threat to stack the court with dupes. So, even back then libs ruled by threat and intimidation. From that point on the court took the stance that limits on Congress' regulation of commerce should be decided by the ballot box and not the court. Basically, they abdicated their responsibility to act as a check and balance against the other two branches of government. Our forefathers knew that the fervor of the moment can often overpower the prudence of time. For that reason they designed a system that made change a hard thing to enact. Roosevelt's threat short circuited that design and cursed us with the end result that we see today. It was this "stitch in time that saved nine" that was the turning point. Today, Congress dictates one intrusive law after another unabated. They spend our money with reckless abandon and have forgotten that they serve us and not the other way around.

If Montana's law should stand up to the scrutiny of the SCOTUS that means that all those years of Congressional over-reaching will be built on quite sandy soil.

Like I said the one thing of lasting legacy left by the George W. Bush administration is his appointments to the SCOTUS. Let's hope that they do not lack a spine on this one folks!

It seems that two other states, Utah and Texas thought that Montana had a damned good idea and are duplicating Montana's spiffy new law.

Here is Glenn Beck's presentation of this material. Sure, he can be a little sensationalistic, but I still like him:

Budget Cuts

Obama has been out making a show of "cutting the budget". Of course it truly is nothing but a show for his dimwitted wonder-struck faithful. Here's a little vid-clip that I've blatantly swiped off of ALa over at Blonde Sagacity that illustrates it perfectly.

Manufactured News for the Masses

Well it would appear that all here at casa G-Man have survived the H1N1 swine flu pandemic for now. In view of the dire coverage on the daily news however, we have been forced to retreat to the safety of our hermetically sealed bunker to avoid its lethal depredations...

C'mon people this is not a modern incarnation of the black plague... It's the damned flu! About 36,000 people a year die due to the flu, but so far only one person (a Mexican visitor) has died from this flu in this country.

The news media have been in full swing, ramping up the panic level all in an effort to cast a camouflage net over Obama's latest misdeeds and diablerie. If they keep us running scared or distracted we may not notice the handbasket we're riding in nor question our eventual destination.

For example if the holy one wants to discard capitalism... Viola! NBC produces a depression era shanty town in Sacramento California to justify his unconstitutional deeds:



But if you dig into it things are not as our buddy Matt Lauer presents them. Read this responsible report on the shanty town you will find that it has existed for years and that it has not seen any appreciable population growth because of the current economic downturn. In fact it has been populated over the decades by the chronically homeless; those who through mental illness or addiction have found a normal life impossible to lead and therefore have found themselves on the street.

Day by day our freedoms are being abridged at an alarming rate by this administration. You now no longer have the right to pursue your luck in business and ride that business to success or failure. Now if you succeed, you are vilified and outrageously taxed. If however you fail... then you will be propped up, your assets nationalized and the ill-fated fruits of your toils taken away from you.

When some of us refuse to be distracted and rise up in anger... The press again flies cover:



It really is a sad state of affairs. We're all homophobes and racists because we disagree. Moving on along... If you happen to believe the word "marriage" should only be used to label committed relationships between a man and a woman... well then they'll gin up some hideous buffoon to claim that you are a transsexual and sing the praises of a man who savaged you simply because you didn't toe that approved party line:



It is time to rise up people! It is time to raise your voice in unity with the rest of us in the silent majority that find the direction this nation is headed to be unabashedly wrong. We must in one resolute chorus drown out the droning pipes of the politburo's propaganda mill. It is time for us to demand a little truth in advertising. We must insist that if it says "news" on the label that it is indeed news and not mindless agitprop! It is time for us to demand that journalists practice journalism!

Rightwing Extremism Afoot in Montana?

The Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer recently signed Montana House Bill 246 into law. This bill exempts Montanans from any gun control laws passed by the Federal government after 1889 (The year Montana joined the Union). It cites the second, ninth and tenth amendments of the U.S. Constitution and the Montana State Constitution as the authority to authorize this exemption. Here is the cogent excerpt:

A personal firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition that is manufactured commercially or privately in Montana and that remains within the borders of Montana is not subject to federal law or federal regulation, including registration, under the authority of congress to regulate interstate commerce. It is declared by the legislature that those items have not traveled in interstate commerce. This section applies to a firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition that is manufactured in Montana from basic materials and that can be manufactured without the inclusion of any significant parts imported from another state. Generic and insignificant parts that have other manufacturing or consumer product applications are not firearms, firearms accessories, or ammunition, and their importation into Montana and incorporation into a firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition manufactured in Montana does not subject the firearm, firearm accessory, or ammunition to federal regulation. It is declared by the legislature that basic materials, such as unmachined steel and unshaped wood, are not firearms, firearms accessories, or ammunition and are not subject to congressional authority to regulate firearms, firearms accessories, and ammunition under interstate commerce as if they were actually firearms, firearms accessories, or ammunition. The authority of congress to regulate interstate commerce in basic materials does not include authority to regulate firearms, firearms accessories, and ammunition made in Montana from those materials. Firearms accessories that are imported into Montana from another state and that are subject to federal regulation as being in interstate commerce do not subject a firearm to federal regulation under interstate commerce because they are attached to or used in conjunction with a firearm in Montana.

This is the latest in a string of challenges to the expanding authority of Washington DC. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out in the courts. This effectively trumps Texas' Governor Rick Perry's recent statement threatening secession from the union... Well until he actually secedes that is.

You know the thing that really puzzles me? Schweitzer is a democrat... What the hell is up with that? A lib actually standing up to the sainted Obama and supporting an individual's right to keep and bear... anybody seen a weather report in hell lately?

Here's a Schweitzer quote:

“I like big guns, I like little guns, I like pistols, I like rifles, and I would like to buy a gun that’s made in Montana.”

Word is, a flight of a squadron of pigs was recently witnessed in Helena.

I guess this moves the democrat Brian Schweitzer officially and solidly into the right-wing extremist column.

Here is a local news article about the bill.

Rightwing Extremism?

Click the title of this post to read a report issued by Obama's Department of Homeland security. It appears that this department that was once tasked with protecting us from the threat of terrorism has been re-tasked with policing political opponents. I'll present the finding of this report in Jeff Foxworthy fashion. Dear readers I present you with, "You might be a dangerous right-wing extremist if...":

• You buy guns or ammunition in advance of an inevitable gun ban
• You oppose any further imposition on our second amendment rights
• You believe our government is not doing enough about the illegal immigrant issue
• You oppose amnesty for illegal aliens
  
• You are disgruntled with the economy
• You think we are paying too many taxes
• You are tired of pork barrel spending, bailouts and rampant ear marks
  
• You believe abortion is immoral
  
• You think Obama is taking this country too far to the left
• You believe in upholding the constitution
  
• You are a returning veteran

So I guess applying those standards, Rick Perry (R) governor of Texas is a dangerous rightwing extremist when he said:

"I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state. That is why I am here today to express my unwavering support for efforts all across our country to reaffirm the states’ rights affirmed by the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. I believe that returning to the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution and its essential 10th Amendment will free our state from undue regulations, and ultimately strengthen our Union."

Hurray Rick Perry! Way to go!

Janet Napolitano has diverted this essential agency's attention from protecting all of us to clamping down on political dissent. The telling line from the whole report is this:

"Threats from white supremacist and violent antigovernment groups
during 2009 have been largely rhetorical and have not indicated plans to carry out violent acts."

In other words, "these people we are warning you about are doing nothing illegal except thinking thoughts that we disagree with and that is why they are dangerous". Remember no matter how distatseful the position may be in your estimation, we the people have the constitutional right to espouse them! Have these people ever heard of the first amendment? I wonder how long it will be until we have political prisoners languishing in liberal prisons for thinking these dangerous thoughts. Here's another interesting thing re-read that quote. this time compare and contrast. Here let me help:

"Threats from white supremacist and violent antigovernment groups
during 2009 have been largely rhetorical and have not indicated plans to carry out violent acts."

More liberal logic on display? Here, let me translate that for you, "just being against this government means you're violent".

Remember people, it's tax day. Go out and be a rightwing extremist today by supporting the grass roots efforts to voice our displeasure at a local tax day tea party! (Click here to find the location of a protest near you!)