Give ’em hell

In the midst of this move from old rental house to new purchased house, I have also been having to deal with the moving of my employer’s offices from building that is being remodeled to one that should have been remodeled before we moved over.

The temporary building is, as they always are, completely inadequate for our needs. From the flooring to the electrical.

But, it was the only space available with phone and data hookups, so away we went.

Went is the perfect word to end that sentence, as it seems that we have overloaded both the phone and data systems with our daily operations, and will be “rearranging” things today, tonight and Monday.

This unfortunately means that I will not be allowed the time to go to Seattle Mayoral Disgrace, Greg Nickels’, little anti-gun pogrom on Monday night.

I don’t have any info on a general meet up for bloggers at the City Hall Hatefest, but if anyone wants to send me some, I’ll post it up here.

Give ’em hell for me, won’t you.

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Get ready for the re-education

The numbers for Obama’s health care plan look worse than those for Bush’s privatization of Social Security

Less than 15% of U.S. voters support, and 53% oppose, a proposal pushed by health insurers requiring every American to provide proof of private health insurance or face tax penalties or other fines, according to a new poll. The poll, commissioned by Consumer Watchdog, also found that by just under a two-to-one margin voters favor requiring a return on taxpayer-funded research that leads to new medical treatments or prescription drugs.

So, of course, this means that Obama’s people will have to get out there and re-educate the people so that they” believe this is good for them.

McCain’s campaign plan of taxing your employer based health care plan like income was apparently shot down during the election, but that isn’t stopping the Democrats in Congress from floating it through the system

In the last month of the presidential campaign, it was one of Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s strongest attack lines: John McCain, they warned, would “tax your healthcare benefits for the first time ever.”

But now, some Congressional Democrats in charge of health reform are talking about doing just that.

They would not go as far as McCain, who wanted to end the tax exclusion entirely for employer-sponsored insurance, which excludes money spent by employees and their employers on health benefits from income and payroll taxes.

But some key Democrats are talking about limiting the benefit for workers, so that those with higher incomes or more generous health benefits might pay taxes on some portion of the income they use to pay for their health premiums.

The redistribution of health care. Lovely.

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John Moses Browning High School

The City of Chicago Public School system is wanting to open a “homosexual-friendly” high school (whatever the fuck that is).

The proposed name is: Social Justice High School – Pride Campus

I have never heard a single modern-day story about a school that wasn’t “homosexual-friendly”. Some students may have been bigots, but the entire school or even just the school staff; Never.

If GLBT children are going to get their own school, then shouldn’t children from firearm owning/enthusiasts families get one too?

Oh wait, GLBT are harassed by private citizens. Gun owners are harassed by the government.

I’m about tired of these creeps whining about “persecution”. They haven’t the foggiest idea of what it is to be run around in circles and then jailed by people who take your tax dollars and feed their families with them.

The motto of the CPS is “Children First”. That is obviously a lie.

It should instead read “Agenda First”. There is nothing about children in this plan.

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Not in a hundred years

Will you ever see figures like these for any of the major counties in western Washington (because they’re afraid to release them).

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The state of Texas and local hospital districts spent an estimated $677 million to provide health care to illegal immigrants in a year, a new study says.

The survey, issued by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, said that most of the money — $597 million — was spent by local hospital districts for the immigrants’ care during the state’s fiscal year that ended on Aug. 31, 2007.

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The Harris County Hospital District provided $203.5 million in uncompensated care to illegal immigrants in 2007, the report said.

But county hospital district officials disputed the report’s numbers, noting that they were calculated on the basis of charges instead of costs. They said charges are inflated, typically double the actual costs of services to taxpayers.

“The cost of health care to undocumented immigrants is something we worry about, something we monitor, but we don’t want to overstate it,” said David Lopez, president and CEO of the Harris County Hospital District. “It’s not an overwhelming percentage of our budget.”

Lopez said the actual cost is 10 to 14 percent of the hospital district’s budget, or about $100 million to $120 million.

About 80 percent of the district’s illegal immigrant patients were women and children, and most were pregnant women. Lopez said the hospital district was not consulted for the report.

So this guy is OK with spending 10-14% of his county’s annual budget on people who are only here because either ours is better (and costs less) than theirs, or because they want to have an anchor baby.

If he’s an elected official, he should be recalled. If he is appointed, the administration should be pressured to fire him. Even if times were good, $100 million dollars is $100 million dollars too much.

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Think Calgunners aren’t risking jail? Think again

Okay, some of the commenters at Kevin’s and Uncle’s seem to think that just because the Calguns folks went to the trouble of checking with attorneys about their innovative legal theories, they’re not really engaging in civil disobedience. It’s not breaking the law if you’re complying with the law, right?

Not if your local DA disagrees with your interpretation of the law. Not if you have to spend tens of thousands of dollars fighting to keep out of prison. You may be in the right, but you have to fight to prove it.

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I’ve only been a Calgunner for a short time, and I’m already aware of a number of individuals, like Matthew Corwin, who’ve been targeted for prosecution, had their lawfully-owned rifles confiscated, and had to fight to keep from being crushed by the hammer of the State just because they exercised their Second Amendment rights as part of the mass civil actions Calguns has inspired. Continue reading →

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A Cautionary Tale

Joe Huffman often makes the point that gun banners are bigots. We need to make them as reviled as the KKK.

All well and good, but there are methods that work and methods that don’t. Want an example of one that failed?

Continue reading →

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Can’t We All Just Get Along?

Prag and threeper, both adorable, both crawling towards the same goal. Which one is which is for the reader to determine. 

(Think about your choice: it may say more about your willingness to label than about any particular philosophy you think you’re espousing.)

Folks, the whole threeper/prag thing is awfully silly.

Continue reading →

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The Soundboard: Carrying On, Week Two

The CD’s and hard drives are still in boxes. Here I am having never wanted them more.

But local FMRadio has proven at least mostly worthy

Chicago – 25 or 6 to 4

I had this one picked for last Thursday, but forgot it, so I can’t even claim a tie in.

Go With The Flow – Queens of the Stone Age w/Dave Grohl

Can’t get much more suggestive than that.

Shake Your Blood – Probot

Grohl again, this time with his hybrid project.

Not the video you want your mother to watch. But you may want your wife/girlfriend to do so. Especially if they liked the QotSA vid.

Enjoy!

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I’d order some Chinese

But they have a tendency to order back. And point guns at me while doing so.

China may soon cut business tax as part of its efforts to prop up the slowing economy amid the global financial crisis, state media reported on Tuesday.

The government is ‘very likely’ to soon cut the business tax for enterprises by one percentage point, the China Daily said, citing an unnamed source close to policymakers.

China’s current business tax varies from three to 20 per cent, boosting government revenue by 600 billion yuan (S$131 billion) last year, according to the paper.

Well doesn’t that just take the fortune cookie!

We’re getting FDR: Part Deux and the Chinese get to resurrect Reagan/Goldwater

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He can’t keep them off the ballot

Harry Reid is demanding that someone, anyone, make an appointment to Obama’s so-to-be-empty seat.

The momentum for a special election to replace President-elect Barack Obama ran into a major hurdle late this afternoon in the form of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) who penned a letter today to scandal-tarred Gov. Rod Blagojevich making clear he would prefer the incumbent step aside and let Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn make the appointment.

“It is within the authority of the Illinois legislature to remove your power to make this appointment by providing for a special election,” wrote Reid in a letter obtained by The Fix. “But a decision by you to resign or to step aside under Article V of the Illinois Constitution would be the most expeditious way for a new Senator to be chosen and seated in a manner that would earn the confidence of the people of Illinois and all Americans.”

Reid adds that his preference for an appointment by Blagojevich’s successor rather than a special election is driven by his belief that it is “imperative” that a new senator from Illinois be seated as soon as possible.

Yes, because it wouldn’t have anything to do with the possibility that Harry is afraid that with this scandal involving multiple Democrats is still unfolding and that there is a moderate possibility a Republican could win the seat.

No. Not at all.

Obama and Reid were scared by the Chambliss win and are trying to get Snowe out of the Senate so that they can hand Minnesota over to Franken and get their 60th seat, and this throws a wrench into that plan.

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