LEE RODGERSJanuary 21 –
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CRIMINALS: “BULLET TAX? WHO CARES?”
“ARAB SPRING” PROGRESS REPORT
CRIMINALS: “BULLET TAX? WHO CARES?”
“ARAB SPRING” PROGRESS REPORT
Harbaugh vs. Harbaugh. A Super Bowl combined with a family soap opera.
Perfect.
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"I'm proud to be President of the United States." – Joe Biden, Idiot, Saturday 1/19, Iowa State Society inauguration ball.
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Going up. And up. And up: The price of medical insurance. And Obama said his socialized medicine scheme would lower health-care costs.
He lied.
Told you so!
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Want free medical care? You might consider the example of Stephen Espalin, 57, who's a career criminal, currently incarcerated in Florida. He's gotten chemotherapy in prison and will soon have taxpayer-paid heart surgery.
How'd he get into the Graybar Hotel? By threatening to kill Barack Obama. An earlier visit was brought about by a threat on the life of George W. Bush.
At least he's bi-partisan.
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The latest anti-gun liberal brainstorm is high taxes on bullets. Can anyone seriously believe that criminals who plan to use a gun as a profit-making device will be deterred by a higher tax? Or that a nut-case who figures he's going to die, anyway, after he slaughters random victims, will worry about the per-bullet cost?
Only a liberal could be so dumb.
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Back in the 1990′s Barack Obama told author and college faculty colleague John Lott, “I don’t believe people should be able to own guns.”
In an interview that was published in June of 2012 between Kathryn Jean Lopez and John Lott, she asked Lott why people should believe his citation of Barack Obama’s quote above, “I don’t believe people should be able to own guns.” Lott responded ...
“Well, don’t just take my word for his views on guns, look at the positions Obama took on guns during his time in Chicago. Obama supported a ban on handguns in 1996, and a ban on the sale of all semiautomatic guns in 1998 (a ban that would have encompassed the vast majority of guns sold in the U.S.). In 2004, he advocated banning gun sales within five miles of a school or park (essentially a ban on virtually all gun stores), and he has worked in other ways to support bans. He was on the board of directors for the Joyce Foundation, the largest private funder of research to ban gun ownership in the U.S.” – Source: Freedom Outpost
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Survey says (Fox News) …
In answer to the question, "If the government passed a law to take your guns, would you give up your guns or defy the law and keep your guns?" two thirds said they'd defy the law – including 59% of liberals.
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Educator/morons at work ...
The Mt. Carmel school district in Pennsylvania has suspended a five-year-old girl from kindergarten because she told a classmate that she was going to shoot her mom with a soap-bubble gun. The school authorities declared her a terrorist.
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Just to put Obama's arrogance in perspective, try this …
Go to your bank, speak to a loan officer and tell him/her that you want to be given authority to borrow unlimited amounts of money. Let me know what kind of response you get.
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NY Post's Page Six column reports that plans for a big-time inaugural concert were cancelled because no real big-timers were interested.
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One lesson that liberals never learn: It IS possible to leap from the frying pan into the fire. Two examples from recent history: Events in Libya (the Benghazi murders) since Khadafy was overthrown, and in Egypt post-Mubarak.
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Austin Hill (Townhall.com) brings perspective to the mental disorder that's destroying the nation from within …
“Many of us seem to lose all sense of reality when it comes to the economic promises of politicians. Most American adults seem to understand that a drunken person cannot drink themselves to sobriety, and that no individual or household can spend their way out of debt. Yet when politicians promise to “help” us by spending more of our money, many of us seem to believe it.
“Yet the existing federal government debt, on a per-capita basis, translates to approximately $54,000 per individual citizen, and about $200,000 per household. Simply saying “I don’t understand economics very well” is unacceptable. Americans must grow up and realize that a stable society needs prosperous private enterprise, and government that operates within its means.
“In my native homeland of California, the “make somebody else pay” philosophy could not be more obvious. Last November, voters there rejected a modest state sales tax increase that was on the ballot (a tax that would have impacted all consumers), yet overwhelmingly supported an income tax hike on – you guessed it, “rich people.” “Don’t stop my government services,” a majority of California voters seemed to say, “but make somebody else pay for it.”
“Debt, out of control spending, and making somebody else pay – they all amount to a lethal combination. Will Americans grow up in sufficient time to choose more wisely?”
The answer, I fear, is … no.
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Candidate for “Moron of the Year”: New York Mayor Bloomberg, whose pronouncement that teenagers should not be allowed access to guns overlooked those teenagers wearing U.S. military uniforms in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.
It's staggering to think that someone so stupid is CEO of the largest city in the nation.
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I don't know who claims credit for it, but I saw a short list of Things We Take For Granted That Are Soon to be Extinct. Among them …
The Post Office.
Checks – the kind you write on your bank account.
Newspapers.
Land-line telephones.
Privacy – or what's left of it.
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Arlys reminds us of a quote by one of my favorite iconoclasts, P. J. O'Rourke ...
"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. And the Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it."
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A Mad Mike contribution …
A teacher goes around her class asking each of the kids what do they need at home?
Joey says "A computer." The teacher replies, "That would be very useful."
Kimmy says "A new lawn mower." and she gets a similar response.
Little Johnny pops up and says "At my house we don't need nothing!"
The teacher asks him to think again carefully, as everybody needs something.
Little Johnny replies, "No I'm sure. When Obama was re-elected, I remember my dad saying, “Well, that's the last (bleeping) thing we needed!”
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."