White House considering executive action on guns

I knew this was coming, it was just a matter of time; and unlike this idiot here, who believes that the following headline was overdone. I happen to believe it to be very true:

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From the Weekly Standard:

Vice President Joe Biden revealed that President Barack Obama might use an executive order to deal with guns.
“The president is going to act,” said Biden, giving some comments to the press before a meeting with victims of gun violence. “There are executives orders, there’s executive action that can be taken. We haven’t decided what that is yet. But we’re compiling it all with the help of the attorney general and the rest of the cabinet members as well as legislative action that we believe is required.”
Biden said that this is a moral issue and that “it’s critically important that we act.”
Biden talked also about taking responsible action. “As the president said, if you’re actions result in only saving one life, they’re worth taking. But I’m convinced we can affect the well-being of millions of americans and take thousands of people out of harm’s way if we act responsibly.”
Biden, as he himself noted, helped write the Brady bill.
Eric Holder was scheduled to be at the meeting that’s currently take place at the White House.

Ah yes, this ought to be very interesting to see what these Marxist gun grabbers come up with; as the Godfather of Chicago said, never let a crisis go to waste. As for what the idiot above that I linked to said about Drudge’s headline, I give you the words of Lew Rockwell:

In my experience, gun controllers are violent people, and private gun-owners are not. That is, gun controllers support mass murder; they just want it to be a monopoly of soldiers, police, etc. They would be glad to see Alex and the rest of us shot. Gun owners tend to abhor personal violence, and would only use it in defense of their family, themselves, and their property. And this is not a left-right issue. Non-commissar leftists like the late Alexander Cockburn are anti-gun control; neocons like Bill Kristol or the Randites are pro-gun control. Here is something that all good people across the spectrum can agree on: the state should be disarmed; the people should be packing.

It will be an amazing thing to see just whom on the right caves to the Marxist’s demands of gun surrender, or “control” as they like to call it. I just wonder which one of the Neoconservatives will fall first and say, :”Well, we have to have some sort of control!” I expect that Podhoretz or Kristol will be the first ones to falter to the demands of this administration.

Again, I do not know if having Alex Jones coming out as the circus act for the far right was a good idea, it may have just given the White House the ammo (sorry…) it needed to get what it wanted to carry out. Needless to say, there is going to be political fallout from something like this and it is not going to be good for the Democrats. I just hope that the GOP is ready to stage a comeback in 2014 or 2016. But from the looks of things at the moment, the GOP has some serious image issues, especially when it comes to the middle class.

This is what happens when Democrats destroy an economy.

People get desperate:

Stay classy, Atlanta burglars.
Last month, thieves reportedly stole more than $250,000 worth of equipment from a warehouse northwest of the city, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The building was being used to film “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues” — a sequel to the 2004 comedy “Anchorman,” starring Will Ferrell and Christina Applegate.
The building’s owner, Davis Nort, told authorities that $300,000 worth of copper wiring had been stripped from the building. The suspects also made off with four Apple computers.
“It’s a shame this happened,” Nort told WSBTV, “because Atlanta is really trying to get big in the film industry.”
via ‘Anchorman 2’ Set Burglarized In Northwest Atlanta Huffington Post.

The plain truth is that the Democrats under Bill Clinton passed the sub-prime clause to the Community Reinvestment Act of 1973, in 1994. Clinton also repealed the Glass–Steagall Act. This caused an economic bubble and destroyed our economy. To be fair, the Republicans did not help matters either, when they removed a good deal of regulation from the SEC on loans and loan companies. This only made things worse from the standpoint of how bad and big the bubble became.

When bubbles collapse like this one has, people become unemployed and people get desperate and when they do, they begin to steal. The ironic thing here is that the very polices that got us into this whole mess, which were passed in the 1990’s by the Democrats, are the very same one’s that the Democrats are advocating for now and are supported by people like Huffington Post and its owner.

Mitt Romney was not the problem, Republicans and Conservatives were the problem

I hate to be the one to say it, but, sadly, it is true:

It was two weeks before Election Day when Mitt Romney’s political director signed a memo that all but ridiculed the notion that the Republican presidential nominee, with his “better ground game,” could lose the key state of Ohio or the election. The race is “unmistakably moving in Mitt Romney’s direction,” the memo said.
But the claims proved wildly off the mark, a fact embarrassingly underscored when the high-tech voter turnout system that Romney himself called “state of the art” crashed at the worst moment, on Election Day.
To this day, Romney’s aides wonder how it all went so wrong.
They console each other with claims that the election was much closer than realized, saying that Romney would be president if roughly 370,000 people in swing states had voted differently. Romney himself blamed demographic shifts and Obama’s “gifts”: federal largesse targeted to Democratic constituencies.
But a reconstruction by the Globe of how the campaign unfolded shows that Romney’s problems went deeper than is widely understood. His campaign made a series of costly financial, strategic, and political mistakes that, in retrospect, all but assured the candidate’s defeat, given the revolutionary turnout tactics and tactical smarts of President Obama’s operation.
via The story behind Mitt Romney’s loss in the presidential campaign to President Obama – News – Boston.com.

You see, there used to be a time in this Country, when the Republican Party and the Conservative movement actually stood for something; and that is a Constitutional Republic. A Constitutional Republic is what The United States of America was founded as, and not a Democracy as is parroted by some of the idiots on the left and some of the idiots on the so-called “Right” as well.

The Republican Party and the Conservative movement in this Country used to stand for social, economic and military restraint. Nowadays, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party both stand for unlimited spending, hippy-style social policy, high taxes, totally ignoring the United States Constitution and runaway military. This is why the American people did not vote for Mitt Romney or any of the so-called Republican “Players” during this election. Because all they saw was Democratic Party, and Democratic Party Lite.

American’s economy is in shatters, and the Republican Party and the Democratic Party are both to blame for it. Instead of being adults and making the tough calls, on what needs to be done. Like ripping out the so-called “free trade” agreements and putting back in place the tariffs that would pay down our debt, and fund our social safety net — the Republicans are refusing to allow taxes to be raised on anyone making over a million dollars a year and the Democrats are squabbling over any and all cuts made to the social system.

As for Americas economy, why it is totally in shambles is because of the idiot transformation that took place during the Nixon years. America essentially ended the The Bretton Woods system and began a system of Keynesian economics. This caused America to print more money, than they had to back it up in gold. Which causes inflation and devaluing of the US dollar. Again, this was done, by both parties and is why we are where we are today.

Instead of actually fixing Americans problems through sound policy; the Republican Party would rather pick a fight with AFL-CIO and the UAW to try to crush the labor movement in this Country. After doing this, they really actually expect to be elected in those Union friendly states. My friends, something is horribly wrong the Republican Party.

Mitt Romney lost the 2012 election for one simple reason: Romney allowed himself to be framed by the liberal media as a rich, out of touch, elitist who could have honestly cared less about the middle class in this Country. Mitt Romney might actually be a very moral person and a very capable leader. But, when you have the money he has, you get painted in that fashion.

Another thing that is wrong with the Republican Party and the Conservative movement was written about by Patrick J. Buchanan in his 2005 book, “Where the Right went Wrong.” Since that time, the Bush Presidency has ended and it was thought for a time that the neoconservatives in this Country would be relegated to the backwoods of politics for a very long time.

However, Kristol, Podhoretz and the rest of that neoconservative clan had other ideas. They spend a good deal of money in foolhardy plans to try to bolster Mitt Romney’s bid for the White House. Which ultimately caused Mitt Romney’s loss in the election. Which makes one wonder if possibly the neoconservatives were a bit worried that Mitt Romney was not the defense hawk that they truly wanted in the White House and actually were trying to kneecap his Presidency.

The war in Iraq should have been a wakeup call to the media, to Americans and to the Conservative movement that unilateral war without proper constitutional authority was a disaster. Instead the Conservative movement and the Republican Party just buried Bush and his failures and are now making the case for all out war with Iran.

In closing: My friends, Mitt Romney was not the problem; the problem is that the Conservative movement that was, and the Republican that was, of long ago; has been replaced with a Democratic Party Lite. This is not an American Conservative movement. But, rather a horrible fraud. This is why the Republicans lost the election of 2012 — nothing more, nothing less.

Anyone who tells you otherwise, is a highly misinformed.

Others: Balloon Juice, Addicting Info, The Impolitic, Firedoglake, PERRspectives, The Political Carnival, Lawyers, Guns & Money, PoliticusUSA, The Moderate Voice, Washington Examiner, The Hill,Booman Tribune, Gawker, The National Memo, The Other McCain, Mediaite, Eschaton and Outside the Beltway (Via Memeorandum)

This is why I have never wrote anywhere except for here.

The only exceptions to that rule are where I submitted cross-postings of a few blog postings at Faith Writers and I also have an account at Nolan Chart, which is a libertarian site, to submit original writings.

This here is the reason, the story via St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

ST. LOUIS • Conservative talk radio host and commentator Dana Loesch sued the owner of the conservative website Breitbart.com Friday, claiming that although her relationship with the news and opinion aggregating website had gone “tragically awry,” Breibart.cοm LLC refused to let her work for the company or anyone else, forcing her into “indentured servitude in limbo.”
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court here, seeks at least $75,000 in damages, as well as a judge’s declaration that her contract had expired.
The suit says that difficulties managing the Breitbart “media ’empire’” or ideological conflicts or both had spiked the working relationship, creating a “increasingly hostile” work environment. When Loesch tried to terminate her work agreement in September, Breitbart refused and extended the agreement by a year, the suit says.
Breitbart.cοm LLC refuses to allow her work to be published and “sabotages” her attempts to find work elsewhere, the suit says.

This right here is why: because when you sign a contract, the person you sign with, basically owns you. The only way to get out of the contract is to go to court and ask a judge to release you out of your contract. Hence the reason for me never signing with anyone at all. Back when I was defending the right hardcore, I was asked to sign with someone once. It was not a huge amount of money, but the place seemed a bit shady at the time and I passed on it. I do not regret it either, because really, after my dealings with them, I never heard anymore about them. The site never came up and I asked about it. I was told they had “capital issues” and decided to not to put the site online.

Besides all of that; call it my independent spirit, call it my left leanings, call it my hatred of corporate shills; call it whatever you want to call it. But, when you are writing for a company of some sort, unless you are writing for yourself and have a LLC formed or something like that — you are a corporate writer. You are being paid by a company to spout talking points. This is why I shied away from that sort of a thing. I happen to be someone who has a rather quirky opinion on that.

Blogging was started by people who felt that the corporate ran and controlled media had a monopoly on the political, social and cultural conversation in this Country. People like Matt Mullenweg who basically took a piece of software that its original author abandoned and in open source terms, “forked” the software and created the software that about 90% of bloggers today use, including myself. Oh, there are others, like Blogger, TypePad and few others; but honestly, from what I am told, and from what I have experienced with one; they for the most part, do truly suck. WordPress is great, easy to use, and best of all, it is free! All you need, is a host, that can handle the traffic; and you are golden.

Now here is the part, where I start sounding like an old geezer, and I am too; I am, after all, 40 years old. (Puts on old geezer wig and costume…) (said in best old geezer voice that I can muster..) Back in the good old days of blogging, in 2006, we didn’t have these new fangled gadgets like Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Digg and Reddit for promotion tools; the only we were linked to, is if we e-mail the blog authors and prayed to God that they even linked to us!

But, seriously, the rise in social media, Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Reddit all make it very simply to promote a blog. The truth is, you really do not have to pay for promotion; well, unless you are like me, someone that everyone thinks is an creep, an asshole or worse and nobody wants to link to you, for whatever reason. Then you might have to pay for some promotion. Otherwise, today, all you have to do is find your target audience and use twitter, Facebook and the rest to promote yourself.

On the other hand; Blogging has also created a few unintended by-products. I will list them:

Blog Snobbery – This is as old as blogging itself. You always have your various classes of blogger. The big guys and the little guys. The big guys were little guys at one time and because of linkage and influence; and because they got in on the blogger scene early, they became huge. Well, when they did, they basically said piss on the little guys and never link to them and such. This causes hard feelings towards them, and gets them called snobs. The big guys forget that no blogger is a island and they got where they were, because of other people. Sites like Memeorandum, promote that sort of snobbery. Because some people feel that if you are not on that site, you are nobody, which is bogus. Because they are good deal of great political writers and other sort of writers that are never scanned by Memeorandum at all. Also too, that blog snobbery stuff, it happens on the left and the right as well. I never, ever got any respect back in 2006, when I was all into the “hate Bush and the Republicans” thing back then. It mainly was because I was not partisan enough for them, and too, because I really was not big into the “Gay Rights” thing and because I was not much into the idea that abortion is cool thing either. On the right, it is because I just do not get into identity politics of the right. It sucks, and those who do it, hate me, because I won’t.
The Political Echo Chambers – This is one of the more depressing things about the political blogging scene on the left and the right. Take a quick scan of Memeorandum and you will see what I mean. All of the lefty blogger all talk about the same story and repeat the same thing. The right does it too. One only need to have the Memeorandum colors plug in for either Google Chrome or Firefox to see what I mean there. I did this on my old blog, for about 6 months or so, after Barack Obama was elected in 2008. I made some decent money at it, I also made friends with people; whom looking back, were nothing but backstabbing weasels. Finally, one day, I just decided that I just had enough. I got into blogging to tell the truth, not say what everyone else was saying and I just stopped the whole echo chamber thing.

Another thing that bugs me about the whole political blogging thing; is that I have noticed that some people have to sell themselves out to be someone in the blogging world. I have noticed this on the right mostly. I have actually seen one blog, who I will not name here; actually write on his blog and I quote, “Good press can be bought!” I almost fell out of my chair when I read that. I do not know if he was being sarcastic or serious; but I thought to myself, “What a freaking sellout….” This is something that I have never done, changed my opinion, because some fat cat waved money under my nose. It has never happened and never will. My thoughts, opinion and worldview are not up for sale.

Everything, and I do mean everything on this blog; that I have ever written, was written because I happened to believe that thing to be morally right or wrong. I believe that the federal Government is not necessarily the “end all” of all what ails America. I disagree with the progressives that big corporations are what stops Americans for being all that they be. It is the Government that does this. It also is, in some cases,because of the people themselves. At the same time, I have supported Republicans and when they decided to lie to people, like me, who voted for them; I turned on them and decided that I wouldn’t support those who lie to their constituents. This did not happen, because some idiotic liberal fat cat waved money under my nose. This happened because I happen to agree with Patrick J. Buchanan, when he said economic patriotism and economic populism is dead. This is called having a moral compass and knowing the corporatists or crony capitalists are why unions were formed in the first place. Plus too, I am defending my family, the honor and legacy of my Father and my grandfather, who came here from the hills of Middlesboro, Kentucky and Dalton, Georgia to find work and make a better life for themselves and because the UAW and the organized labor movement, they were able to do just that. Most idiotic Republicans do not get that; which is their problem, not mine.

Anyways, back to Dana Loesch and the Breitbart clans. Dana does not much like me. She is a feminist and I do not have much use for those sort of women. I am a hardcore Fundamentalist Christian, although, I don’t always act like it, but I digress — and me and Dana had some interesting exchanges on twitter a while back. So, I just sort of avoided her. I just do not believe that feminism is a Conservative mindset at all. I am someone of the Phyllis Schlafly and Patrick J. Buchanan camps, when it comes to that sort of stuff. Which is why I do not get along with those types at all. Plus too, I am a hardcore defender of the Military and those who serve in the Military, irregardless of political stripe. Dana, as I found out; made some very nasty statements about her Father, and Vietnam, that I felt were totally immoral. I realize her Dad was not the greatest in the world. But, in my humble opinion, no one deserves to be told that they should have ended up on the Vietnam memorial wall. I don’t give a flying flip what they did to their kids. That, my friends, is just damned wrong.

As for Andrew Breitbart, I never much cared for the man. A long time ago, Andrew made some asinine comments about Ted Kennedy, on the day he died. I understand someone not liking someone like Ted Kennedy; but making comments like that goes beyond the pale. After that, I never gave the man much thought, until he died. I took no pleasure in his death at all. But, unlike some, I did not act like he was some sort of perfect being, nor did I join in the chorus of those on the right, who acted like he was some sort of Conservative god or something. As for those who bought Breitbart’s company. I was never approached by them, thankfully. I felt the buying of the company and continuing it and profiting off the name of a dead man was sick and morbid. Which is why I linked to them sparingly on my blog. I felt that the Breitbart thing should have just ended, when his life ended. Which tells me much about the morality of those involved in the thing.

…and those are my thoughts. All 1929 of them. 😀

Update: The Lonely Conservative says something that I believe many writers should read:

Note to new bloggers: If you think you’re going to work for anyone out there besides yourself make sure you get a contract and have it looked over by a lawyer. If our own side is doing this to our own side, anything is possible. Make sure you protect yourself. I don’t think Andrew Breitbart would have treated his friends this way, but unfortunately, he is not available for comment.

I agree with that 100%. If something sounds and looks fishy, that it most likely is; which is what was the case with the person who contacted me. It just did not sound right, and the presentation sounded fishy. So, I passed and I am glad I did.

Mission Accomplished

I guess my comment hit it’s intended target.

….and the cockroaches are coming out of the woodwork. So far, two comments from Government workers.

I wonder do their bosses know that they comment on blogs during work hours? 😯

One from someone in the Army and one from the court system in Indiana.

Remember folks, I reserve the right to publish comments, complete with IP addresses. Just sayin’….

Another perfect example of what is wrong with “The Right”

As all of you know, who actually read this blog, ever since Governor Snyder decided to stab disillusioned former Democratic Party voters, like myself, in the back with his so-called “right to work” bill; I have been highly critical of the so-called “right.”

Already so far, I have pointed that Christians, like David Brody at Pat Robertson’s CBN have been morbidly using this tragic event in Newtown, CT for evangelistic tools. Well, now it seems that well-known members of the so-called “right” are now cashing in on the event as well.

First up, someone who the NYT very accurately calls the token negro:

(CNN) – Republican Rep. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the new appointee to replace Sen. Jim DeMint, indicated Wednesday he may oppose any gun control legislation in the Senate next Congress, saying instead the larger issue is one of “moral decay.”
“I think the solutions are not necessarily in new legislation. Perhaps the solution starts with us examining the mental condition of the person and the persons in the past that have had the desire to create the atrocities we have seen recently,” he said on CNN’s “Starting Point with Soledad O’Brien.”

By the way, it is not so much that I really care that he is black and a Republican. Great, wonderful, more power to him. It is that he goes around acting like, “Hey! Look at me, I am black man and a Republican! Yay me!” Big deal dude. Here’s a chicken flavored cookie for ya. It is sort of like identity politics for Conservatives. Something that I find to be very highly annoying. It is not just him; Allen West, Nikki Haley, Most Jewish Republicans, and Michelle Malkin do the same stuff all the time. I like to call them affirmative action conservatives. I mean, really, nobody really gives two flips what you really are; which are corporatist shills to be quite honest with you.

Another stop on the douche-nozzle express train is none other than Newt Gingrich, who’s president campaign was a very well timed joke:

During a local talk radio show early Wednesday morning, former Speaker Newt Gingrich cast his lot with the religious right by blaming last week’s tragic shooting in Newtown, Connecticut on secularism and immoral video games.
Gingrich joined host Brian Thomas of 55KRC in Cincinnati to discuss his latest book, but the conversation quickly pivoted towards gun control and why godlessness in our schools is really to blame:
When you have an anti-religious, secular bureaucracy and secular judiciary seeking to drive God out of public life, something fills the vacuum. And that something, you know, I don’t know that going from communion to playing war games in which you practice killing people is necessarily an improvement.

Like I wrote before:

The truth is the Republican Party and so-called Conservative movement has not been worth a damn since that day on January 3, 1987, when Senator Barry Morris Goldwater decided that he was not going to take any orders from any special interest groups and decided that a life of retirement was in order. When he left, that Party and that movement went to the toilet. It really kicked into high gear on January 20, 1989, when then President Ronald Wilson Reagan waved goodbye to the people at the airport and prayed that he had left the reigns of the Nation in good hands with his successor.
Image? Nah, more like total rottenness from within.

This proves that above which I wrote. The GOP is rotten from within, and has been for years.

I am no fan of Hillary Clinton really, but this is lame

It really is:

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was set to face a grilling from Congress this week over the terrorist attacks in Benghazi when she started channeling the late poet Shel Silverstein.
“I have the measles and the mumps / A gash, a rash and purple bumps,” said Clinton, in effect, informing the House and Senate (with regrets!) that she was suffering too many maladies to testify as expected about the Sept. 11 attack in Libya.
America’s top diplomat was to provide her first public answers regarding the murder of US Ambassador Chris Stevens.
Now that won’t happen.
Clinton’s story beggars belief: While traveling in Europe, she contracted a stomach virus . . . which made her dehydrated . . . which made her faint at home . . . which caused her to fall and hit her head . . . which gave her a nasty concussion.
So Clinton’s deputies will appear in her stead before the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday to explain the State Department’s failures.
That is not nearly enough.
via Hillary Clinton’s fishy concussion—Editorial – NYPOST.com.

So basically the New York Post is accusing Hillary of lying about her injury. As I said in the title. I am no fan of her at all. But this is totally lame, but not out of line with the idiot right. (As opposed to the old honorable right.)

Others: Exposing Liberal Lies, CNN, Politico, The Raw Story, The Daily Caller and The Glittering Eye (Via Memeorandum)

Ugh: The Birthers are still at it

They are still at it….:

You might think that President Obama’s comfortable reelection last month would put an end to the Republican birther conspiracy. But if you do, you don’t know Arizona Republicans.
The latest battle for the movement that believes Barack Obama is ineligible to be President was fought Monday at the state’s Electoral College vote, where a trio of Republican electors — including state GOP chair Tom Morrissey — once again raised concerns that Obama’s birth certificate is a fake during the electoral college vote.
They were rebuffed by other Republicans in the room, including Gov. Jan Brewer. National Republicans have also distanced themselves from the birther movement. But in Arizona, the birthers aren’t going quietly, even if they do recognize that they are going.
Morrissey, the leader of the Republican Party in Arizona and a former Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal for the state, tried to present his concerns over Obama’s eligibility as something other than birtherism.
“My issue isn’t whether he was born here,” he told KFYI radio in Phoenix Monday. “I have questions [about Obama’s longform birth cerfiticate]. … You know, I have a law enforcement background. I come at this with a little different perspective. It just doesn’t ring right with me.”
via Arizona Electors Fight The Birther Fight One More Time | TPMDC.

I will admit something to you all. Back in 2007, When Barack Obama was still running for President, when I was running my old blog; I gave these very stupid people a minute of my time and took them seriously. What a huge mistake that was, I quickly realized that these people were nothing more than bitter and ugly racists. I can also tell you where this whole conspiracy originated from or at least I can tell you were I saw it originally.

Back in 2007, when I was running my old blog, I happened across an article at a site called The Conservative Voice, which merged with Townhall.com. In it was an article by someone, whom now I forget was his name and in it, it contended that Barack Obama was not an US citizen. Around this time, the Hillary camp picked up the story and feed it to the media. From there, it took a life of its own. The funny thing was in that article was a quote that was not sourced. So, I did a little investigation work and ran the quote through Google search and guess where it came from? It came from none other than the White Nationalist Website, Stormfront.org.

I was shocked that someone would make such an accusation like that, with no real proof. Much less, lifting a quote from another article taken from a site like stormfront. Which brings me to my point here. This “Birther” movement is nothing more than racism at its worst. Barack Obama is a citizen of this Country and the white people just need to get the hell over it. The Klan era is over folks, you lost the battle, now get over it and move on.

What really sucks is that we have people, who are millionaires and of politically privileged ethnic background; who claim to be on the side of liberty and freedom, who have pushed this nonsense and for what? So that they can get into newspapers and get attention paid to them. It is sick and sad, and it makes the Conservative movement, which has some very good American ideals behind it, look like an idiotic clown show.

This is why I stopped paying attention to those who involved with this many moons ago.

Megan McArdle is absolutely correct

There is really little we can really do.

I gave her hell once, because I didn’t get the humor. But, she’s right here. I just hope the Republicans and Democrats are listening.

The only sad thing is, that she is actually having to explain all that to the masses. What does that say about America? 😯

A perfect example of why the right believes the left is pure evil

Here is the New York Times living up to its reputation among the right, as a left-wing propaganda outlet:

People in the rural, hilly areas around Newtown, Conn., are used to gunfire. In one woodsy stretch, southeast of downtown, the Pequot Fish and Game Club and the Fairfield County Fish and Game Protective Association, where members can fish in ponds and hunt pheasant, lie within a mile of each other, and people who live nearby generally call them good neighbors.
But in the last couple of years, residents began noticing loud, repeated gunfire, and even explosions, coming from new places. Near a trailer park. By a boat launch. Next to well-appointed houses. At 2:20 p.m. on one Wednesday last spring, multiple shots were reported in a wooded area on Cold Spring Road near South Main Street, right across the road from an elementary school.
Yet recent efforts by the police chief and other town leaders to gain some control over the shooting and the weaponry turned into a tumultuous civic fight, with traditional hunters and discreet gun owners opposed by assault weapon enthusiasts, and a modest tolerance for bearing arms competing with the staunch views of a gun industry trade association, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, which has made Newtown its home.
The place that witnessed one of the worst mass killings in United States history on Friday, leaving 20 schoolchildren and 8 adults dead, is a bucolic New England town comfortable with its firearms, and not an obvious arena for the nation’s debate over gun control. But the legislative battle right here shows how even the slightest attempts to impose restrictions on guns can run into withering resistance, made all the more pointed by the escalation in firepower.
“Something needs to be done,” said Joel T. Faxon, a hunter and a member of the town’s police commission, who championed the shooting restrictions. “These are not normal guns, that people need. These are guns for an arsenal, and you get lunatics like this guy who goes into a school fully armed and protected to take return fire. We live in a town, not in a war.”
The gunman’s mother, Nancy Lanza, had collected several weapons, including powerful handguns and a semiautomatic rifle that she and her son, Adam, were fond of shooting, and it remains unclear where they took their target practice. Much of the gunfire and the explosions reported by residents to the police in recent months came from a spot less than three miles from their house. Police logs identified the spot as one of the town’s many unlicensed gun ranges, where the familiar noise of hunting rifles has grown to include automatic gunfire and explosions that have shaken houses.
via In Newtown, Conn., a Stiff Resistance to Gun Restrictions – NYTimes.com.

….and what is at the very bottom of this story? This:

The owner of one, Scott Ostrovsky, said he and his friends had been shooting automatic weapons since he bought the 23-acre property more than 12 years ago. It is safe, he said, because his land is sandwiched between two other gun ranges, the 123-acre Pequot hunting club and the 500-acre Fairfield club.
The explosions his neighbors hear are targets that are legally available at hunting outlets. “If you’re good old boys like we are, they are exciting,” he said. He said he was distraught at the school massacre but said guns should not be made the “scapegoat.”
“Guns are why we’re free in this country, and people lose sight of that when tragedies like this happen,” he said. “A gun didn’t kill all those children, a disturbed man killed all those children.”

You see, this is why the right hates the left with a passion; because of stories like this one here. Which are nothing more than left-wing propaganda dressed up as real news. The term for it is activist media. This is why people like Bill O’Reilly and Rupert Murdoch despise the New York Times and every other liberal controlled media outlet.

Oh sure, let’s make everyone who owns a gun, who supports the second amendment, disagrees with Barack Obama’s politics and the Democratic Party’s politics out to be psychotic domestic terrorists. Way to go guys, why to fucking go. 🙄 I mean, seriously? Is this the means to an end? Is this the way we are going to treat each other? Are we going paint Conservative or liberal political counterparts as terrorists? Is this the path that we really want to take?

If so, count me out. I am not interested in making people I disagree with into monsters; I might not like some of the actions of the right; in fact, I am disgusted by a good deal of what is happening now on the right. However, I am not interested in demonizing people. It takes a special sort of asshole to do what the left is going to those who believe in owning guns. Using a tragic event like this for political advancement or in this case, retreat — is will beyond my ability to be in agreement.

I have said this before, although I do not believe that I have actually written it before. So, it is time that I did. I was reading earlier tonight about what happened here in Ann Arbor and in Detroit, in the 1960’s. How the hippy movement and counterculture got started. How that John Sinclair and friends dared to stand up against evil Government forces who were simply wrong. I was really enjoying reading about it at this site here.

Anyhow, I will just say it. It has become painfully aware to this disillusionment riddled democrat — turned right of center, turned back to Independent —- that the counterculture left has actually become the establishment left, and you know something? They are just as evil as the people that they were fighting against in the 1960’s. I mean, taking guns away people? Are you people honestly serious? Is this what the left, and the Democratic Party establishment now wants to be known as, anti-gun? anti-second amendment? Do you people have any semblance of knowledge about what our founding fathers fought and died for? Not to mention those who found in all of our wars!

This is not any sort of “greater good.” This is not progress, this is fascism of the Nazi sort and of the sort that came from the soviet empire! This is why the phrase “Don’t tread on me” came to be! Because big Government statists were trying to tread on the rights of the people. If this sort of gun legislation is passed through, it will be the end of the Democratic Party for a very long time, I can assure you of that. This is not the 1990’s people, this is 2012 and the right is much organized, and if this happens there will be hell to pay come 2014. I can assure you of that. You think the Koch brothers are trouble now? You just try to pass an “Assault Rifle Ban.”

This union busting crap that I was complaining about, is a flash in the pan to what the establishment right and the grass will do, should the Democrats try to pass something like that. I can assure you, it will get ugly. No, I am not talking about violence, silly. I am talking about elections, and politics. It will get ugly and I can see the fallout now, and it is one that I shudder to think about.