Since when does the President get to order Congress to do anything? Apparently, this President can order Congress to buy a certain level of insurance. Obama has decreed that Congress must buy the “Gold” plan under Obamacare. Where does that power come from?
Is there no limit to what this government thinks it can do?
Every time a person commits a crime with a firearm, we hear people come out of the woodwork, demanding that we place more restrictions on gun ownership. A man is being sought in Orlando for using the camera on his cell phone to take upskirt pictures of little girls.
We should take immediate action:
There should be a waiting period for any electronic device with a camera.
Mandatory background check for all camera sales.
All camera sales should be required to go through a dealer, so that a background check can be done.
To prevent surreptitious filming, no cameras of less than 8 inches in length, or less than a combined length and width of 14 inches. Additionally, they must make a loud noise when filming/taking pictures.
No camera devices may use more than 20% imported parts.
Must have a license to buy a camera.
It’s for the children.
I must have read each of Tom Clancy’s novels a dozen times. He died yesterday at the age of 66. It seems that as of late, I read of deaths and think: “Man, he isn’t that much older than I am.”
When I was in the Navy, Clancy was easily my favorite author. I remember waiting to buy each novel as it came out. (Until he began allowing others to publish and use his name. That was when the suck began.) I must have worn out three copies of Red Storm Rising, until ebooks came out.
He was a smart man that seemed to be prescient. He predicted that a highjacked aircraft would be used to attack the United States.
Sad day
If you go to a Federal Government website today, you will notice that the page has been replaced. For example, the USDA’s site has this notice:
The FTC has this one:
Never let a crisis go to waste. The Whitehouse has the following:
Note what it says:
Because Congress did not fulfill its responsibility to pass a budget, much of the federal government is shut down.
Conveniently ignoring the fact that Obama has been running the country for his entire Presidency without a budget. His proposed budget for last year was rejected 414-0 in the House, and 99-0 in the Senate. His budget the year before went down 97-0 in the Senate. In fact, Obama has failed in his own legal obligation to deliver a budget to congress on time. He has failed to do so in three of the last four years. In fact, the last time that congress passed a budget was April 29,2009.
This is not about a budget, this is about the president wanting Congress to increase the debt limit, and essentially give Obama unlimited access to whatever funds he desires. Obama is using this to push his agenda.
A new law banning texting while driving goes into effect today in Florida. Tam said it best:
The irony of this law being enforced by a guy carrying a pager, a
cell phone, a two-way radio and playing Solitaire on the laptop bolted
to his transmission tunnel while he keeps one eye on the readout of his
radar gun is duly noted.
The family of Karvis Gamble is protesting outside of the Orlando Police Department’s headquarters because Gamble was shot by police officers in January. The protesters said they won’t give up until someone is charged in the shooting death of Gamble. They are “demanding justice,” which has come to mean vengeance and has no real meaning in terms of what is just.
It turns out that the details of the police shooting are different. The police were investigating a drug complaint when Gamble reached for a gun on the table next to him and was fatally shot. Ecstasy, marijuana, and two stolen firearms were located at the scene.
Deandre McCullough disputes police claims that there was drug activity
at the Arlington Road studio. He said Gamble was sweeping up with a
broom and in no way threatened police before being shot and killed.
Of course, anti gun forces were quick to blame guns for the death.
I am against the “war on drugs” and think that they should be legalized. However, with them being illegal, the people who are currently engaged in the drug trade are, by definition, criminals. Criminal enterprises cannot call the police or file lawsuits to settle business disputes, so they must resort to violence.
We are seeing families blaming honest people when their criminal thug relatives are killed for living the thug life. We are being told that we do not have the right to resist criminals who would use force against us to ply their trade. I say enough.
The New York Times is running yet another hit piece against guns. This time, they are reporting that the number of children accidentally killed is much higher than has been reported. The piece begins with anecdotal tales of child shootings.
The paper reports that many of these shootings are reported as homicides instead of accidents. They claim that twice as many accidents are occurring as are being reported. Another hit piece from a media source with an agenda.
Here is a recipe that is fairly cheap, but tastes pretty good. Every person into prepping has a lot of beans and rice on hand.Even in good times, this is a cheap and tasty dish:
1 pound of hot pork sausage
1 large onion
1 green pepper
minced garlic
salt
1 pound of red kidney beans
rice
In a large pot, place the raw beans and add water to about 2 inches higher than the level of the beans. Place it on medium heat and cover. When it comes to a boil, turn it down to a simmer.
While that is heating:
Chop the onion and pepper and saute them with a tablespoon of minced garlic.
While that is cooking, make marble sized meatballs out of the sausage.
Once the onion begins to turn clear, add the sausage and brown it.
When the sausage is brown, add the mixture to the beans. Bring to a boil, cover, and lower to simmer.
Let it cook for three hours, and stir occasionally. Add water as needed. If the mixture turns out too soupy, you can crush a few beans against the side of the pot, and that will thicken it. If that isn’t enough, a half teaspoon of flour dissolved in a cup of warm water can be added to thicken it up.
Serve over rice. This makes enough to feed 5 or 6 people, with leftovers. It is also really good with some fresh french bread or cornbread.
Suggested condiments: Ketchup makes them good, as does Louisiana Hot Sauce.
This meal costs less than $2 a serving. It was a real hit at the firehouse, both because it is tasty and cheap.
Reading this CNN article really boiled my blood. The author spends the first paragraph talking about how famous the people in the story are, as if that matters. The fact that they are famous is mentioned several times in the story, as if it should have given them a pass for breaking the law.
The second paragraph begins a racist diatribe, and tells you a lot about the attitude and personality of Mr White. He claims that:
Regardless of how much money or accolades I have garnered.
Regardless of my journeys across the globe. I will be forever at the
white officer’s mercy.
A couple pf paragraphs go by where he goes on about how he and his “lady” are trying to enjoy a vacation, and then he complains about being pulled over for speeding: 40 in a 25. He insists that he wasn’t and says he is going to fight the ticket.
During that same paragraph, he states they they began seeing cotton fields, and he mentions the “history of our ancestors picking cotton and being enslaved tugged at her heartstrings.” Again, with the mention of race and slavery.
According to him, there is a “driveway” that led to a cotton field, so he pulled over, using the excuse that the “oil change” light came on. He then says “we took in the history and the oppression that those little white balls created decades ago.” This supposedly brought tears to his eyes.
A cop that was driving by turned around and questioned them. Why? BECAUSE YOU WERE TRESPASSING, YOU RACIST TWIT. Trespassing is a crime, and the two of you compunded that crime by picking some of the cotton and placing it in your “lady’s” purse. That is called stealing. You didn’t get stopped because of race, you got stopped because you were committing a crime, and the fact that you are a Hollywood actor does not give you a free pass. He even took a picture of himself stealing the cotton and posted it online:
That farmer makes his livelihood from growing that cotton, and if every jerk that drove that road pulled over and took some, the farmer would soon starve.
Mr White then spends the next four paragraphs describing the interaction with the cop. At no time does he accuse the cop of making a racial statement.
Then he says, in the second to last paragraph:
I will not stop until this incident is made public and that racist
cop, Barfield, is reprimanded and punished. That was one of the worse
days of my life and I plan on making it one of his as well.
I wonder if CNN knows what libel is? If Officer Barfield should happen to read this, I would recommend that he contact an attorney about a lawsuit against Mr White, Mr Diggs, Katie the CNN producer, and CNN.
My son’s girlfriend wants to go to nursing school, so they have been looking at a few schools in the area. Yesterday, they went to tour the campus of a local college to see how the place was. Since Florida law prohibits the carrying of weapons on a college campus, my son decided to leave his pistol at home, rather than leave it in the car while he was in the school. That almost cost him dearly.
As they were walking across the parking lot on the way back to their car, another car pulled up behind them, and the window rolled down. The black male driver leaned out and told them “get your white ass out of my way, honky” and then told him to keep his “cracker ass” on the white side of town where he belonged. My son replied, telling the driver to kiss his ass.
My son made his way to his car, and the other driver pulled up, got out of his car with a tire iron, and attacked my son’s car. It easily could have been him instead of his vehicle that was damaged.