Upon Governor Beverly Perdue’s declaration of a State Of Emergency on September 1, 2010 Dove Hunters, Concealed Carry Handgun Licensees, Target Shooters and all other gunowners cannot possess, transport or use firearms off their personal property as per N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-288.7
New Orleans did the same thing during Hurricane Katrina (and local and federal goons went door to door STEALING guns from honest citizens in the time when they needed self-defense the MOST!
When Ted Olsen teamed up with his former adversary, David Boies, to file a federal lawsuit on behalf of two plaintiffs against Proposition 8 in California, one would have thought that the apocalypse was indeed nigh. Olsen and Boies were on opposite sides in 2000 when they were arguing before the Supreme Court about that little election issue in Florida… I think it was important, but I don’t recall. Anyway, the fact is, they teamed up and brought a lawsuit against the State of California. At the time it was filed, there was reticence and mistrust from the LGBT community. There was a real concern that if Olsen and Boies lost it would be disastrous precedent for future lawsuits to overcome. Lambda Legal was one group who was worried that the timing wasn’t right, and that a loss would be incredibly damaging. Some conspiratorial voices buzzed that Olsen was going to intentionally throw the case. But, no such thing happened, and they actually won, for now. There’s a good chance that this ends in California, though, because California may not pursue the appeal. Governor Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown have declined to pursue it any further, and as they were the defendants named, nobody else would have legal standing to defend Prop 8 before the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. If this happens and the 9th Circuit declares that there’s no standing, the case does not advance. That would be the best scenario for social conservatives, a containment of their loss, because a Circuit-wide defeat of Prop 8 would in effect wipe out any state law or state constitutional amendment that restricts marriages to one man and one woman. Other states would most certainly appeal that to the U.S. Supreme Court and it’s really a toss up at that point, because Judge Vaughn Walker- ahem- a Reagan conservative appointee- wrote a solid ruling that was based in constitutional law and analysis, and not the emotional, irrational whining of the Prop 8 defenders who almost seemed to be throwing their own case intentionally. But, this is not about the ruling in Perry v Schwarzenegger. There is a movement afoot that I have been sensing since this case was first filed.
Conservatives are turning the page on gay issues.
At first it was subtle. Just a little rustling in the wind. In 2004, Vice President Dick Cheney broke ranks with President Bush and declined to support a federal Constitutional amendment that would have forced a nationwide definition of marriage on all 50 states. Not for nothing, but many prominent Republicans at the time also recoiled at the idea of etching such a thing into our founding document. Many who did faced enormous criticism from liberals and conservatives alike. The next wave crested when the State of Massachusetts could not get the required votes to place a ballot initiative that would repeal marriage equality. The State of Iowa became the first state West of the Mississippi to enact same-sex marriage when their state supreme court overruled the ban on same-sex marriage and it’s held for several years now. So, when did conservatives see the writing on the wall and decide that the time was right to make a move? I would say it all began with the campaign and election of Barack Obama.
Barack Obama has, in the past, expressed his support for marriage equality back when he was doing community work in Chicago. Yet, when he ran for the U.S. Senate against the carpetbagger Alan Keyes, he dialed back his support to the fence-sitting position of ‘civil unions’. It was easy to look like the beacon of reason next to the virulently homophobic Alan Keyes, who called Mary Cheney a selfish hedonist and even kicked his own daughter out of the house for being a lesbian. Everyone knew that Obama was being groomed for a run at the presidency even while he was being sworn into the Senate, and on the national stage, the more vague you are, the more people you reach. He tried several times to reach out to socially conservative, religious Black people, first through using ex-gay singer Donnie McClurkin on his campaign tour, and then by inviting Rick Warren, pastor of the Saddleback Church, to give the invocation at Obama’s inauguration. Warren has had his own litany of anti-gay screeds and arguably, the blood of many Africans on his hands thanks to his help in getting condom distribution stopped in countries ravaged by HIV/AIDS. Gay people were frankly livid at Warren got such a prestigious invite. Incidentally, many social conservatives were also livid that Warren accepted. Obama then failed to say anything about Propostion 8. He did not object to his words being used out of context in pro-Prop-8 ads. He did not say much a year later when a voter’s referendum was used to repeal the legislatively enacted same-sex marriage law in Maine, one that was heavily financed by out of state interests, similar to how Prop 8 was pushed. Obama’s justice department filed briefs in two cases, one defending the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act from a Massachusetts lawsuit, and another defending the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy by people who were suing to keep their careers in the United States Military. Both briefs were filled with insulting and demeaning characterizations of gay people. It was becoming clear that Barack Obama was no “fierce advocate” for the LGBT community. By the time Ted Olsen and David Boies filed the lawsuit, a plan was in place.
I have to admit, it’s a good plan.
First, you quietly drop the opposition to same-sex marriage and gays serving in the Armed Forces. Even if you oppose it, just let it go, because eventually these battles will be lost. The second is to have some conservatives actually outflank the President on these issues. Not conservatives who actually have any power, mind you, but a few big names that might open some eyes, like Dick Cheney and Laura Bush. It makes Obama look weak if he can’t even throw a bone to members of his base. Ken Mehlman comes out. GOProud puts on a conservative gay convention and has Ann Coulter speaking, not to mention such sponsors as Tammy Bruce, Grover Norquist, Margaret Hoover, John Hawkins, Lisa DePasquale, Bruce Carroll & John Ciccone, Christopher Barron & Shawn Gardner, Jimmy LaSalvia, Craig Engle, Christopher Taylor & Anthony Cirone, Roy Eappen, and Jessica Lee. Glenn Beck even takes a few steps back and telling Bill O’Reilly that there’s bigger fish to fry than gay marriage. The plan is, I believe, in two years, to split the gay vote from two fronts- the first is dropping opposition to or even expressing support for marriage equality, and the second is to use Islamophobia to convince us that compared to Muslims, Christians are downright docile. Lastly, they get to one-up a president who has had a lot of trouble putting his words of support into any tangible action that benefits gays & lesbians. If the Republicans manage to deliver marriage equality while Obama waffles on it, it’s going to go a very long way in getting new GOP support in 2012.
Some have said that the social conservatives in the GOP won’t stand for it, but I believe that they will endure it, because the thought of four more years of Obama enacting what they believe to be a socialist, communist, non-citizen, Muslim (okay, look, birthers and other people who try and paint Obama as something completely foreign- he’s black. Deal with it, okay? Get over yourselves.) agenda is more frightening to them than two dudes and two chicks getting married. So the GOP will downplay their social cons and their theocratic cons, and use the Tea Party movement to recruit gays by one-upping the president and the do-nothing Democrats in Congress. Even though their motives are purely political and have nothing to do with, oh, doing the right thing for LGBT people, they get to wrap themselves in the mantle of acceptance and equality while they evangelize a new batch of gays & lesbians into Republicanism.
I’ve been there. I’m a recovering Republican. I’ve seen what this kind of governance has done for this country and I can’t say I like what I see, and that has nothing to do with marriage equality or LGBT issues. It has more to do with giving away so much power to megalithic, unaccountable corporations who have undermined capitalism and representative democracy, which as a result, is systematically destroying a once prosperous American middle class, and in this endeavor, Democrats are also complicit. They have just as much blood on their hands as Republicans. I am all for diversity of thought and public opinion in the political sphere, I am not one who thinks that all gays should vote Democrat, but I do ask that you think about this sudden shift in opinion and ask yourself why they want your vote so badly that they’re willing to throw 30 years of pandering to Christo-fascists and Moral Majority types under the bus to get it. Perhaps they see that younger generations aren’t quite as hip to the disturbing anti-gay messages of the late Jerry Falwell or the severely aged Pat Robertson. Perhaps they see Islam as a far greater threat to the West than homosexuality. No doubt we have to keep a watchful eye on crazy radical Muslims, but the degree of fearmongering going on lately is a bit much. Whatever the reason is, remember, they’re not doing it because they genuinely believe in marriage equality. They want something from us. They need something from us. Our problem is that we’ve forgotten how to be demanding. We’re a cheap date, anyone knows by watching how we fawn over Democrats who make us promises they have no intention of keeping. So let’s stop being such pushovers and start dealing, and make them come to us hat in hand. Democrats too, it’s time that we hold them responsible for broken promises, stalling, and inaction as well. Screw it, while we’re at it, ANYONE who feels that they’re simply being pandered to, stop being so easy and start holding the feet of your elected officials and candidates to the fire. Let’s hold them all accountable for selling out the American Dream while using volatile but meaningless social issues to distract us from how badly we’re being shafted.
President G.W. Bush and fmr. RNC chair Ken Mehlman.
Earlier this week, former Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman came out of the closet, confirming rumors and reports about his sexual orientation that have been around since 2003. Mehlman was also the campaign manager for President George W. Bush during his 2004 re-election campaign. Mehlman was the strategist who came up with the idea to put marriage rights to the ballot box in 11 states in 2004 and several more in 2006 in order to get social conservatives to come out and vote, using homophobia as a way to keep Republicans in power. He’s not the first closet homo to betray his own, but he is by far the most powerful in recent years to do so.
Mehlman now claims to support marriage equality and has expressed a desire to help achieve that end. Putting aside my outrage at this guy for a moment, let’s look at this practically. I don’t know if the damage he did can be undone. He’s created a climate in which over half the states now have some sort of state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, with some states like Texas going so far as to outlaw civil unions, domestic partnerships, or any private legal agreement that confers upon same-sex couples any semblance of marriage rights. Legislators cannot override these amendments. The courts are hesitant to, except in California, and that was only because same-sex marriage was actually legal for a short period of time before Proposition 8 went into effect. As that case waits to be heard by the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, efforts to defend marriage equality in the states that have it, and to at least stop further amendments in states that have yet to pass them, continue on. Though the anti-marriage equality movement is waning and groups like the National Organization for Marriage look more and more silly each day, there are still some powerful people out there who still are unwilling to support full marriage equality for gay & lesbian couples.
Like President Barack Obama.
It is sad that Laura Bush, Dick Cheney, and Ken Mehlman have all come out in support of same-sex marriage. That Ann Coulter is being ostracized by World Net Daily for speaking at a gay Republican (GOProud) convention. That Glenn Beck said on The O’Reilly Factor that we have “bigger fish to fry” than same-sex marriage. It’s stunning to me that Barack Obama would waste a political opportunity to be ahead of the curve, and it looks to me like conservatives are making a bold move to capture the gay vote. Obama, on the other hand, who promised to be a “fierce advocate” for the LGBT community, has been one great big letdown. In 2009, his justice department filed a brief (known as the DOMA brief) in federal court, defending a lawsuit against part of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, in which it compared same-sex marriages to incestuous couplings. Gay people were noticeably pissed. In response, Obama promised to sign into law a bill that would provide domestic partnership benefits for federal employees. We’re still waiting on that one. Granted, he did sign the Matthew Shepard Act into law, which added sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability to the federal hate crimes statute, but this was hardly an act of courage. The law was attached to a defense authorization measure. Two years prior it passed the House and Senate as a stand-alone bill that was vetoed by President Bush. With a greater Democrat majority in both houses, he couldn’t get this done by itself? And then there is Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. Oh boy, is the Obama administration blowing it on this one. The wind is at his back on the repeal of this terrible law, and yet, he continues to pander to the dwindling number of people on the right who support this ban on gay & lesbian servicepeople for no rational reason. His “study” is a joke, the survey being conducted is loaded with homophobic questions, gay soldiers are not guaranteed secrecy if they take the survey, and people can take the survey as many times as they want. Can you say “skewed” and “unscientific”? I don’t remember Harry Truman conducting a survey before he ordered the military to be racially integrated. Soldiers follow orders. This should be a no-brainer. As Rachel Maddow mentioned, spending a little political capital goes a long way in winning respect, not just from your base and the people who voted you in, but from yourself.
I don’t even want to get into Obama hiring an “ex-gay” gospel singer for his campaign tour, or all his other borderline homophobic crap he’s dabbled with the whole time he was courting the gay vote. Ken Mehlman was a high-ranking Republican who was closeted and did do a lot of damage to the cause of equality, but he would have done the same if he were straight. We opposed Mehlman and the agenda he put forth back then. I am far more concerned with elected officials who claim to be ‘fierce advocates’ for me who then refuse to do jack shit when it comes to repealing terrible laws that keep us second-class citizens. Ken Mehlman betrayed himself. Barack Obama has been betraying us since before he got elected.
“An off-duty Chicago police officer shot and killed a man who broke into his South Side home Friday morning,” Becky Schlikerman of The Chicago Tribune informs us.
The suspect, we are told, was armed:
“The officer…fired his service weapon several times, killing the intruder…”
Neighbors are supportive:
“They invaded his home, he did what he had to do…”
A core issue behind the McDonald Supreme Court case was so if the neighbors’ homes are invaded, they’ll be able to do what they have to do. That the Daley administration continues to fight recognition of their right to do so every step of the way ought to be all any fair-minded person needs to know…..
Oath Keeper Sheriff Richard Mack – interview for the movie “Guns and Weed: The Road to Freedom.” Filmed at Wyoming Liberty Fest in Lander, August 21, 2010.
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I think a lot of libertarians and Republicans tend to not want to “rock the boat.” For instance, I have a Goldwater Republican friend who lives in Phoenix and he hates illegal immigration, is directly affected by it in a negative way, but doesn’t like what the governor’s doing there, because it “causes unrest” and “goes too far.”
Whereas liberal progressives LOVE to yell and demand their “rights.” It’s a problem…..libertarians just basically want to “be left alone”, that’s almost the common DEFINITION of libertarianism. And the definition of progressivism is that they LOVE to screech, tell people what to do and “push the envelope.”
Libertarians should all own and carry guns. Carry a handgun and own a rifle. It reinforces the idea of self-defense, in everything. Guns are not only a physical tool, they are a psychological tool. Carrying one reminds you that libertarianism isn’t just “leave me alone”, it’s “if you push me too far I’ll push back.”
Some may think that “rocks the boat” or “goes to far”, but I’m a peace-lovin’ man and it makes a lot of sense to me.
ZAP: Do not initiate aggression.
ZAP 2.0: Do not initiate, OR ACCEPT, aggression.
Pretty girl in pearls with a shotgun shoots at encroachment:
J-Tizzle rocks the Remington 870 while dismissing encroachment. What’s not to love?
This is an excerpt from upcoming movie “GUNS AND WEED: THE ROAD TO FREEDOM”
Republican Liberty Caucus endorsee, Ron Micheli says that “Sheriffs are the ultimate authority.”
I dig it. Commonly considered a fringe belief, it’s actually codified into the Posse Comitatus Act:
Posse Comitatus (Latin): Power of the county. The whole force of the county: that is, all the male members of a county over fifteen, who may be summoned by a sheriff to assist in preventing a riot, the rescue of prisoners, or other unlawful disorders. Clergymen, peers, and the infirm are exempt.
CHEYENNE — Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron Micheli’s support for a movement to recognize local sheriffs as the ultimate law enforcement authority has drawn fire from his opponents and runs counter to an emphatic warning from a federal judge in Casper.
Micheli insists the higher power of elected sheriffs is an extension of states’ rights spelled out in the U.S. Constitution. In a recent interview, he said that if elected, he would appoint a state attorney general who agrees with him.
“I will appoint an attorney general who understands the 10th Amendment, and who understands states’ rights, and we will do everything possible to enforce them,” Micheli said.
The 10th Amendment to the Constitution specifies that all powers not expressly delegated to the federal government are reserved to the states or the people.
“A federal authority, if he comes into a local jurisdiction, should be in communication, and should be working with the local sheriff before an arrest is made,” Micheli said. “The fact (is) that the sheriff is the authority in that jurisdiction.”…
….An Associated Press report earlier this year found that the push to declare sheriffs as the highest law enforcement agent in the land is gaining traction nationwide. Many federal officials say the effort is misguided…..
Micheli has been endorsed by Richard Mack, a former sheriff in Graham County, Ariz., who is active in the loosely organized movement called the Oath Keepers. The group enlists law enforcement and military personnel to pledge that they would refuse 10 unconstitutional orders, including any commands to confiscate guns or to perform warrantless searches…..
Sounds like a good way to push back against federal encroachment.
During the seven fat years, Pharaoh taxed the people at the rate of twenty percent to fill his storehouses with grain. Then, during the seven years of famines, he did not simply return the people’s grain to them, but instead used the grain to reduce the people to bondage. Today, we call this Social Security. The purpose of Social Security should be to secure financial independence and even wealth for all those who work regularly, not to convert those who work into government dependents upon their retirement. — Dr. Clifford F. Thies, Eldon R. Lindsay Chair of Free Enterprise
Professor of Economics and Finance, Shenandoah University
by Eric Dondero
Our conservative Republican friends may be a bit too timid to admit to it, but we libertarian Republicans will say straight out, loudly and boldly, that Yes, we Do Want to Fully Privatize Social Security!
From The Hill, “Dems plan to attack GOP on Social Security,” Aug. 9:
House Democrats are planning more than 100 events around this week’s anniversary of Social Security to attack Republicans who want to reform the popular entitlement.
Democrats and interest groups on the left have scheduled “birthday parties†and other events to highlight Saturday’s 75th anniversary of the program signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt.
A Democratic leadership aide said Republicans are “highly vulnerable†on both Social Security and Medicare.
“This is a party that said they want Medicare to wither on the vine and want to privatize Social Security,†the aide said.
Burn your Social Security Card!
Curiously, in the entire piece there’s no mention whatsoever of the Libertarian Party which advocates in their platform complete privatization.
From LP.org:
Libertarians believe you should be able to opt out of Social Security and invest your money in your own personal retirement account. An account that you own and control – one that politicians can’t get their hands on.
Republicans and Democrats say it can’t be done – that your Social Security taxes are needed to pay benefits to today’s retirees. Instead of letting you invest in your own future, they want you to have faith that someone else will pay your benefits when it comes time for you to retire.
Although most won’t admit it publicly, their “solutions” to the Social Security crises all come down to some combination of tax increases and benefit cuts.
Libertarians know that there’s a better way.
Countries like Chile, Mexico, Britain, and Australia have successfully made the transition from their failed Social Security systems to healthy systems based on individual retirement accounts.
The Libertarian Party even went so far as to sponsor nationwide rallies in the 1980s to burn Social Security cards, and urge its members to drop out of the S.S. system. Republicans gain Libertarian voters with boldness; not bland pastels
So here we have the Libertarian Party criticizing Republicans for not backing real Social Security privatization.
And if you think the LP is “fringe,” consider for a moment their candidate for US Senate in North Carolina is currently polling between 8 to 10%.
But of course, the Dems can’t attack the Libertarian Party. They have to portray the Republican Party as the “extremist Privatizers.”
The Republican Party needs to not only appeal to moderate Centrists, but the libertarian swing voter, as well. Libertarians are not pacified by namby pamby proposals of soft reform, or tinkering around the edges.
A bold Republican stance for full privatization of Social Security and other failed government programs will undoubtably attract that hardcore libertarian vote. Without such boldness, the Republican candidate is likely to loose 3, 4 or 5% or maybe even like North Carolina with a strong articulate Libertarian candidate on the ballot, as much as 8 to 10% of the vote on their libertarian flank.
The job of us libertarian Republicans is to help the GOP appeal to that flank.
So, go ahead Democrats. Keep playing up the “Republicans want to Privatize Social Security” line. You only make our job much more easier. Dr. Thies is a longtime Republican, former National Chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus, and currently Senior Editor of Libertarian Republican. Eric Dondero is a former Senior Aide to US Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX), 1997-2003.
We’re making this film because we’re amazed by how many people who love guns also support the War on Drugs, and how many people who love drugs support the War on Guns. They need to know the two wars fuel each other. And most pro-pot people are also into progressive socialism. It doesn’t make sense. If you’re into one freedom, you really should be into ALL freedoms.
For instance, Woody Harrelson is a well-known pot advocate. I agree with Harrelson on the pot issue. But he’s an inveterate Obama licking socialist progressive.
Salon.com: At least at this point, it appears that Obama is pushing onward with the war in Afghanistan. Is he just constrained by geopolitics? Is he simply not free to say, “Look, we’re not going to do this anymore”?
Harrelson: I think there’s a lot of persuasive and powerful people around Obama. For a president to make his own decisions, I think that’s a rarity. Even someone who we think of as our guy — this is a guy with integrity, a guy who cares, for the first time in a long time — in the Oval Office, even with him we don’t really know who’s pulling the strings. I think of every president as being a marionette. Whether he’s any different, I don’t know. Certainly his military advisers all want him to prosecute this war to the end, just as they did in Vietnam with LBJ.
It’s just too depressing, I think we’re going to have to hit the streets. Obama has the chance of becoming JFK or LBJ. I think JFK was one of our last great presidents, although I thought Carter was pretty great too…..
Which just goes to prove my thesis….the Republicans better quit trying to legislate against what people smoke and who they bed, or we’re going to have a permanent majority of people who want to rob from the disarmed producers to support the insolent and indolent parasites.
Not that repubs don’t do that, but lately the dems have been taking it to vast new levels. And while dems don’t care what kind of freaky mammal sex you have, they certainly want to control or eliminate every tiny little other nuance in the world. Coal, oil, commerce, guns, hunting, water, health care, salt, or body fat index and ironically, weed.
Why should the government protect us from ourselves?
If you think they should, then no one should have guns, right? (Except of course, the government, because the government is an all-knowing and perfect loving-yet-stern parent to guide us in our every decision!)
Another issue: PROHIBITION DOES NOT WORK. The War on Drugs has been unwinnable since the 1930s. It only fuels government waste, bolsters government intrusion, and puts good people in prison. It also fuels the War on Guns. Look how Holder tried to reinstate the Assault Weapon Ban to help the War on Drugs.
Prohibition doesn’t make people quit smoking pot anymore than a total gun ban would make a patriot hang his head in shame and voluntarily hand in all his hardware to the federal smelter.
“A User’s Manual For The Human Experience” by Michael W. Dean is a book I most likely would have never read if I had not previously read, reviewed, and enjoyed Dean’s “$30 Writing School.” I’m glad I found “$30 Writing School” on the shelf of a book store and enjoyed it, because that led me to this “User’s Manual For The Human Experience.” It is a self-help book, but one like no others I have read. I found it to be unique, interesting, informative, and most of all enjoyable.
Dean definitely has a style of his own. It’s a mixture of reflection, self-assuredness, a zest for life, libertarianism, his own brand of humor, all combined with a love for his wife and cats. In this very revealing book, Dean shares some of his triumphs along with some personal tragedies in order to present a message that will help the reader live a more productive and positive life. He calls his personal philosophy of living “Life Amplification,” or “LifeAmp” for short, and describes this as learning to be comfortable in your own skin, and making a living doing what you love….
My friend Neema directed this piece (which features me) about the Wyoming Firearms Freedom Act, for the news. This showed in Casper, Cheyenne, Riverton, Lander and throughout most of Wyoming. Yay! It’s also got Anthony Bouchard, from the Wyoming Gun Owners Association.
Neema and I are working on a film together. It’s about liberty.
Here’s part two, Wyoming governor candidates talking about guns:
We just bought a house, and you know A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME WITHOUT AN AK-47 TO PROTECT IT. I made that saying up, but I’m sure it’s as true here as it is in Iraq.
Wolverines!
This could be on the cover of "Mall Ninja Monthly" magazine
Check out our new Yugo AK-47. Yup, believe it or not, the AK commonly said by experts to be the best AK is made in Yugoslavia by the same company, Zestava / Zestava Arms, that made the YUGO automobile. (The cop ridden in the movie “Dragnet” by Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks. In the movie, Dan Aykroyd calls the car “The cutting edge of Serbo-Croatian technology.”)
It’s an M-70 AB2, the very best AK you can get, and we’ve got one! yay! You’re not a real libertarian if you don’t own a rifle (and know how to use it), so get your Yugo AK-47 here. Be sure to pick up some commie cold-war ammo too.
Sgt. Joe Friday (Dan Aykroyd) narrating: “After losing the two previous vehicles we had been issued, the only car the department would release to us at this point was an unmarked 1987 Yugo…a Yugoslavian import donated as a test vehicle by the government of that country and reflecting the cutting edge of Serbo-Croatian technology.”
It’s a great Schumer-hits-the-fan gun to keep zombies at bay. And it’s NOT LEGAL IN CALIFORNIA. (The best things aren’t.)
Sgt. Joe Friday (Dan Aykroyd) narrating: “After losing the two previous vehicles we had been issued, the only car the department would release to us at this point was an unmarked 1987 Yugo…a Yugoslavian import donated as a test vehicle by the government of that country and reflecting the cutting edge of Serbo-Croatian technology.”
Never forget what they say,
AK-47 Magacin koji prihvataju članov familije 7,62 x 39 je istovetan.
Punjenje Puške automatske M70 AB2 vrši se iz odvoivog magacina (okvira) kapaciteta 30 metaka. Moguće je korišćenje i specialnog magacina kapaciteta 75metaka, a koji se isporučuje na zahtev kupca.
Shootin’ at Cap and Trade with a Smith & Wesson Model 500! He’s got my vote!
Gerald Gay, Republican. He’s a former Wyoming state Representative, tea party guy, running again this fall in HOUSE DISTRICT 36 (My district, Casper). He’s a member of the NRA and the JPFO, and I like his stances on things. Check out his answers to the RLC liberty survey, here: http://www.rlcwy.org/RLC-CandidateQuestionnaireV1.2-WYgay1.htm
His website is here: http://votegeraldgay.com
Vote for him in the primary on August 17, 2010! I certainly will!
This is my friend Neema Vedadi’s song “I Own Me.” It kicks ass.
He’s my buddy, we hang out a lot and go shooting and are making music together and are working on a film together. (He’s a TV Newscaster on the Wyoming ABC affiliate, K2 News.)
Its gettin thicker than dreadlocks/
they treat us like we’re dread scott/
don’t wanna see the feds pop/
or be the one that they’d stopped/
or get in trouble cause I talked shit to their mascot/
frickin’ busybodies need to go and buy an ascot/
tellin’ me you own me then makin sho’ i’m taxed out/
maxed out, deep in-debted from the easy credit/
that the fed imbedded then they betted it all be copacetic/
if they were the medic but forget it/
the people are gettin’ pissed/
blowin up like some unleaded/
they want control unfettered/
but ya’ll know that smells fetid/
like the craphole that we’re headed/
to if they don’t let me do me/
and you do you/
and all the guns in the gunverment /
won’t amount to a twenty-two /
if they keep on stompin’ on amendment number two/
and we don’t even need you/
take your welfare and your brainwashing free-school/
and ya’ll are so see through; easy to see you is evil/
chorus:
Nobody owns me/
ya’ll haters don’t/
I own me /
so back the fuck off/
(x 2)
I make my own rules/
take my own tools/
you ain’t in my shoes/
no you ain’t get to choose/
I ain’t pay you dues./
I pay ‘em for my self/
don’t expect shit from me/
and I ain’t need your help/
and in case you didn’t know/
this song is for the parasites/
the feeders that bleed us and treat us/
like they’re the hand and we’re the dice/
no utopian paradise to be had from any plan/
the world’s too complex for any man to comprehend/
all the supply and again all the demand/
when the few control the view/
their mistakes are multiplied /
the decisions should be ours/
like our bodies. Let’s take back our lives/
Only a slave if you submit/
and ya’ll know I got some fight!/
and this ain’t racist /
its for blacks, whites and asians/
middle eastern people, latinos/
and everyone who wants to be free, so/
we’ll even let it slide if you’re emo/
I never signed no social contract/
I’m about to have to repo/
myself, for my health/
and my wealth/
put your bills back on the shelf/
capitol hill can go to hell/
we should put them punks in jail/
we could live our lives ourselves…./
chorus
So who’s to say Barack Hussein/
knows what’s best for me?/
I knock the man and not the name/
cause in my family tree/
could be husseins so I take aim/
at tyranny times three/
branches that act just/
like geriatric babysitters/
poonannies./
but really you’ll get beat-up/
if you don’t follow their edicts/
there’s a law against living /
year its worse than shariah./
but where can I go if this/
whole world is socialist/
though we know that it failed for the soviets./
Its 1984 people please notice this./
Fuck a tax feeder time to overthrow them tics/
its in the declaration Jefferson wrote the shit/
So choose to be a free man /
governments we’re over it/
governments we’re over it!/
CHEYENNE — The Wyoming Department of Revenue has suspended sales tax collections from gun shows because of increasing animosity toward the state’s field tax agents.
Dan Noble, director of the department’s excise tax division, said Friday that an incident at a gun show triggered the decision.
He added, however, that resistance from gun show sponsors and participants has been a recurring problem statewide.
“I have 10 field reps throughout the state, and every one of them has experienced some animosity,” he said. “Folks are nervous anyway because there are guns there. I don’t want to put my people at risk.”….
…”We tend to have more trouble at gun shows than any place,”….He said the “climate” has changed and some of the gun show people are “fairly extreme.”…
Anthony Bouchard (executive director of the Wyoming Gun Owners’ Association) said that the position of his group is that the state shouldn’t charge sales tax on gun and ammunition sales because of the Second Amendment right to bear arms.
Identifying himself as a “tea partier and damned proud of it,” Wise said Friday that people are angry at the federal government over health care reform and other actions.
…Noble informed members of the Legislature’s Joint Interim Revenue Committee Thursday of his decision because at some point legislation may be necessary, he said.
Note that no one pulled a gun, it’s just people who own guns getting up in the tax man’s grill.
I think the Founders would be proud. This is LITERALLY the intended and true reason for the Second Amendment.
Party like it's 1775!
And while we’re on the subject, check out this Daily Kos article, Why liberals should love the Second Amendment.
It’s written by a liberal and published in a progressive leftist rag. Despite all that, the article is brilliant. (*but the many idiotic comments will convince you that the writer is one of the few smart ones.)
Cale Case (Republican) – Wyoming state senator, co-sponsor of the Wyoming Firearms Freedom Act, Hotelier, libertarian, Republican Liberty Caucus member, sometimes called “The Ron Paul of Wyoming”, comes over to Michael W. Dean’s house and yacks freely about how a Constitutional Convention can save America. They also yack about Molon Labe, the economy, homeschooling, guns, cats, pot, porn, dueling, the wind tax, the role of government, Ron Micheli, Matt Mead, Rita Meyer, Gerald Gay, Free State Wyoming and Free State Project New Hampshire, how wonderful Wyoming is, and how to be hopeful, not fearful, in the coming years in America.
I own two parcels of land in Kenna, New Mexico (population 15). It’s in Roosevelt County, and it’s literally in the middle of nowhere. Here is a Google satellite view of the Kenna area. Here is the Wikipedia article on Kenna. Here is an article with the very interesting history on how I came to own the land.
The photos above and below are of the town, not of the land. I’ve never been to Kenna or seen the land. But I own it, and will probably never use it, and am tired of paying the eight dollars a year in property tax, and would love to sell it and buy more guns. (I gots me a hankering for some AK-47s, actually!)
The land is two parcels, each is 1/6 of an acre, which is enough to camp on. You can go there when the Schumer hits the fan! I’m selling both parcels as a unit for $750.
The land is property number 1 000 010 004 285 00 – lots 9 and 11 of block 81 in Kenna, New Mexico. It’s a matter of public record that I own them, and this can be confirmed by phone with the county clerk at the courthouse in Portales, NM.
Nearly a gigabyte of sonic Michael Dean loveliness….125 songs, high-quality MP3s, FREE. Every song ever recorded by Bomb, Baby Opaque, The Beef People, Right Arm of Wyoming, The Rolling Scabs, Slish, and a few other cool surprises.
…according to Senator Jon Kyl (R – Arizona), who says he met one-on-0ne with Obama, and Obama said he would NOT close the border because that would remove his leverage for a mass-amnesty immigration reform. (This link will take you right to wear the pertinant part starts in the video):
Be Libertarian, AND avoid Christian Sharia. End the Fed, cut off welfare, but keep porn, pot and gambling legal!
I’m a libertarian. I believe that government FAR overreaches its rights. I think the government would be much more effective if it were about 1/2 of 1% of the size it is now.
I believe that the only morally correct laws are laws that protect people from aggression against their person or property. I think that the only things that should be illegal are murder, rape, assault, theft, fraud, and trespassing.
A large force that has always been active in American politics is what I call CCCs, i.e. Christian Conservative Constitutionalists. Ronald Reagan was one. The John Birch Society would fit that description. The Constitution Party do. Many LDS do. This CCC force is “making a comeback”, often in the form of people who claim to be part of the Tea Party, like Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck.
I agree with about 95% of what most of these folks believe in. For instance,
I believe in the right to keep and bear arms, without limitation.
I want lower taxes.
I do not believe in bailouts or “too big to fail.”
I think welfare (of all kinds) should be slashed to the bone, and/or eliminated.
I believe that homeschooling should be legal and easy, and the public schools should even be phased out.
I believe in the right of people to worship as they please (for instance, I’m appalled that a kid got kicked out of school for wearing a rosary. I don’t think that voluntarily wearing a rosary to public school violates any kind of “separation of church and state.”)
I oppose “hate crime laws” (murder and assault are already illegal, adding time for what you were thinking while committing the crime is racist.)
I’m against Affirmative Action (I think it’s racist.)
I believe the borders should be closed (at least until all freebie incentives are removed).
I’m against unlawful wiretaps and illegal search and seizure.
I am appalled by the march of socialism and I fear and hate the Obama administration’s hostile takeover of America.
HOWEVER, most CCCs believe that drugs, porn, prostitution, gambling and gay marriage should also be illegal. SHOW ME WHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION, OR IN NATURAL LAW, YOU CAN JUSTIFY THOSE THINGS BEING ILLEGAL! That’s my problem with CCCs. If they were in power, we would have a wonderful Constitutional Republic for about 95% of things, but something amounting to Christian Sharia for the other 5%.
NO LAW IS MORALLY JUST UNLESS IT PROTECTS THE PERSON OR PROPERTY OF OTHERS. It is immoral to try to force the government to force YOU to act “moral.” Trying to make the state regulate your husband from looking at porn or keeping your wife from gambling is lazy nanny-state bullshit, and is not morally acceptable. And it certainly isn’t Constitutional and does not conform to Natural Law (which is the only MORAL law.)
I don’t do drugs, but I am convinced that drugs should be 100% legal. The War on Drugs does far more harm than good, and ruins far more lives than it helps. It costs billions in taxes, jails and lawyers, and encourages violent crime. Prohibition didn’t work for alcohol and it ain’t working for drugs. Besides outlawing drugs (or porn or gambling) will NEVER stop drugs (or porn or gambling.) Outlawing these things won’t even minimize them. People will do them anyway.
Thomas Jefferson said “The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered… according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain understanding of the people of the United States at the time of its adoption...” Well, at the time of The Constitution’s adoption, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington grew (and likely smoked) marijuana and Benjamin Franklin slept with many French whores.
My favorite Wyoming candidate for Governor, the best candidate we’ve got, the guy I’m voting for, Ron Micheli, said in a recent interview that he thinks porn should be illegal and marriage should be defined as being between a man and a woman. Porn illegal? How is that moral. How can you even SAY that? Show me in The Constitution, or Natural Law, where outlawing porn is even moral. (And my thought on marriage? Take the state out of the equation. The STATE has no right to be involved. Marriage should be between two people and maybe their church. As a libertarian comedian Doug Stanhope once said “If marriage didn’t exist, would you invent it? Would you go ‘Baby, this shit we got together, it’s so good we gotta get the government in on this shit. We can’t just share this commitment between us. We need judges and lawyers involved in this shit, baby. It’s hot!’”)
Doug Stanhope for president
Enforcing random nanny laws (like outlawing pot, porn and gambling) will lead to tyranny. It will pave the way for a new Hitler, whether the nannying comes from the right or the left. I don’t think Obama is Hitler. But I think that Obama is paving the way for a Hitler (or Stalin), a few presidents from now, at the rate things are going. AND CHRISTIAN “CONSERVATIVE” GEORGE BUSH HELPED HIM. Every time someone’s in “power”, for the last hundred years, they’ve chipped away a little more at the Constitution, at Natural Law, and added more and more bullshit, thinking their party will be in “power” forever. But with the next changing of the guard, the other party abuses those “powers” even more, in the opposite direction.
“The problem isn’t Democrats. The problem is Republicans who aren’t willing to become libertarians”
The only solution I can really see for NOT having a Hitler running America into the ground in ten or twenty years is GET RID OF THE NANNY-STATE BULLSHIT on the left and GET RID OF THE CHRISTIAN SHARIA on the right. Concentrate on the basic human rights governance, abide only by Natural Law, strip government down to near nothing, get rid of “special” rights, and only protect human rights. (Hint: free health care is not a “human right”, because it’s not free. Someone else has to pay for it, and the government forces them at gunpoint to pay. That’s not a human right!)
I’m not going to “waste my vote” on a third party. I’m going to back TRUE libertarian candidates (not CCCs) operating within the Republican Party. I think that’s the plan that’s got the best plan. (Rand Paul for president anyone?)
And from a simple logistical standpoint, the CCCs should re-evaluate their plan. CCCs are NEVER gonna get the “youth vote” or the “hipster vote”, which is a large part of the vote. Only Libertarian Republicans can attract the youngsters.
If a more-libertarian Republican Party can’t save America, nothing can. If it can’t, my prediction is that in five or ten years, we’ll all “party like it’s 1775.” And if that happens, I’ll likely be shoulder to shoulder with the CCCs, saying “How the fuck did you let this happen? Oh well, you did let it happen, now let’s fix it. So praise God and pass the ammunition.”
–Michael W. Dean
Michael W. Dean is the Wyoming representative for the Republican Liberty Caucus. His views are his own.
I have a HUGE problem with Utah’s executions! They are unsafe for the executioners!
Last night The State of Utah killed scumbag Ronnie Lee Gardner (below- he murdered a bartender for not serving beer quick enough).
Utah executed Gardner by having four guys with .30-30 rifles shoot the scumbag in the heart. (Five guys shot, but one had a blank…as is common with execution by firing squad….some sort of pussy-ass “Plausible deniability” for the shooters. He’ll I’d ONLY be a shooter in a firing squad if I could know for SURE I had a live round.)
The execution took place in a 20 x 25 foot room, with the five shooters firing through six-inch high slots in the wall (below.)
My problem with this is that at 25 feet in a concrete room, there is ABSOLUTELY the chance for a .30 caliber bullet to go through the scumbag, hit the back wall, ricochet off another wall and come back and kill one of the executioners through the slot. BAD GUN SAFETY PRACTICES, UTAH!
Congressman Assaults Student on Washington Sidewalk….
….allegedly.
Though video doesn’t lie….
Congressman Bob Etheridge (D)
Etheridge was elected to his seventh consecutive term in the 2008 Congressional elections. He defeated Republican Dan Mansell and Libertarian Will Adkins.
Bob Etheridge is a member of the New Democrat Coalition. He is active in Freemasonry and is currently the Grand Orator for North Carolina Freemasonry. Etheridge currently resides in Harnett County, North Carolina. His wife is a school nutritionist and they have three children and two grandchildren.
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Recently while on a public street, Bob Etheridge was involved in an alleged assault, Breach of the Peace, and kidnapping (or false arrest) when he grabbed and forcibly detained a student who asked him a question about the Obama agenda. When asked “Do you support the Obama agenda?” Etheridge demanded to know the identities of the interviewers and grabbed one of them by the wrist, neck, and shoulders. The student’s repeated requests to be freed were ignored for most of the incident.
I hate liberals so damn much!
But not for their freaky mammal sex
I don’t care what you wed or do or screw
and I don’t care if you shoot crack!
I hate liberals because they steal
My money and my rights
They mug me and they mug you
and think they’re doing right…..
I HATE LIBERALS SO DAMN MUCH (AND I HATE STATISTS TOO)…but I love cats!
Michael W. Dean and Debra Jean Dean have rainy day fun talking about the baffling case of South Carolina candidate Alvin Green, chili cookin’ on a rainy day with your baby, the concept and the book Future Shock, the growing divide between far left and far right, the concept and the book The Road to Serfdom, THE PUSSIFICATION OF THE WESTERN MALE, the cool site and book The Art of Manliness, why people who hate guns are really dangerous (and pussies), how all laws and taxes are enforced at the barrel of a gun, and more nifty stuff.
I’ve always kind of dismissed the “birthers”, I think Obama was born in Hawaii. (Though I STILL don’t think he’s my legitimate “leader” because I don’t believe in mob rule being legitimate.)
But there’s a newish and under-reported theory here, on this site, which I think deserves to be reprinted far and wide, that basically shows why EVEN IF OBAMA WAS BORN IN HAWAII, HE IS NOT LEGALLY LEGITIMATE TO BE OUR PRESIDENT.
WHAT IS CERTAIN
What is certain is 1 fact; it’s not speculation; it’s not a conspiracy theory; it’s not based on rumor or the allegations or speculations of his opponents or supporters. It’s a fact he proclaims every day, and asserts about himself in his biography, Dreams from My Father.
1) We are certain that his father is Barrack Hussein Obama, Sr., a man who was a subject of the British empire on Aug. 4, 1961, and a transient alien in the U.S.A..
WHAT THIS 1 FACT PROVES
2) This one fact proves that according to the British Nationality Act of 1948, that — let’s call him by this name for the sake of ease — Barack Hussein Obama II was at birth a British subject.
3) And this conclusion in law, in turn, proves that he is not a natural born citizen of the United States of America; because according to 4 rulings of the Supreme Court, a natural born citizen is, “one born in the country of parents who are citizens,” and since his claimed father was a British subject, not a U.S. Citizen, even if Obama is a U.S. Citizen, he is not a natural born citizen. (It is important to note that “natural born” is a legal term, “natural-born” can be used also for the medical term, of a natural birth without caesarean insection).
4) And this conclusion, in turn, proves that he is not eligible to hold, accept or retain the office of President of the United States, on account of the absolute prohibition in Article II, Section i, paragraph 5, of the U.S. Constitution, that the president be a “natural born citizen.”
5) And this conclusion, in turn, proves in law that Barack Hussein Obama is not the lawful president of the U.S.A., and that none of the laws he signs, the appointments he makes, or the actions he takes are binding in law on anybody.
6) And this establishes that in law he is a usurper, a pretender, and not the lawful Commander-in-chief of the U.S. military.
7) And this proves, beyond the shadow of doubt, that the U.S.A. is currently in its greatest Constitutional Crisis.
So don’t get confused by speculation, rumor, or conspiracy theories. This 1 fact and its consequences in law are all that is necessary to act as a concerned citizen, and to vote accordingly, to march on Washington, D.C., or to justify his immediate and peaceful arrest by lawful authorities in any jurisdiction.
So….as some have asked (at FSW), if this COULD be proven in court (the Supreme Court?), would it invalidate everyone Obama has appointed? Every edict he’s enacted? His Supreme Court nominee? Would she have to recuse herself if this made it to the Supreme Court? Could it ever make it there? Will I get a knock a the door and be “disappeared” in the middle of the night for even conjecturing about this? (Very few people have covered this story online, and there is very little online about it, even mentioning it).
Anyway, not sure it would transfer to Biden if Barry were proved and found illegitimate to serve. Would probably transfer to Nancy Pelosi (yikes!) or the majority leader if it happens after Jan next year if the Repubs retake majority this November. Maybe a reason to wait on this?
Also, I have always had the feeling that if Berry were unable to continue (lets say sudden heart attack from realizing how tough the job is, and that not everyone will be overjoyed with his “CHANGE”s), that Biden would concede it to Nancy. The Powers that be just ain’t gonna let that lummox be in charge. he was on the ticket to be the gray haired white guy, period. He’s fulfilled that duty, and now he’s no longer part of the equation. Nancy is the Karl Rove to Obama’s Bush, she’s running the country FAR more than jokin’ Joe.
I have been active in libertarian circles for more than a decade, so when Ron Paul’s Presidential campaign raised more than $6 million in one day for our Presidential candidate, I was jumping for joy. That was in December, 2007, and was in conjunction with a nationwide “Tea Party” protest of Big Government. At our local event in Georgetown, Ron Paul supporters hosted our own fundraising event in which we wrote “Income Tax”, “Federal Reserve”, and “Invasion of Iraq” on boxes and tossed them out the 2nd story window of the event venue onto the streets of Georgetown.
The “Tea Party” was a nationwide event organized by Ron Paul supporters. Therefore the original concept of the Tea Party was libertarian — in favor of individual liberties (including personal freedoms and the ability to make any choice that does not harm another), limited government, and free markets.
The summer after the MoneyBomb fundraising success, in 2008, I participated in a Revolution March with Ron Paul supporters in DC (that’s me, with the Ron Paul sign, below right). The march was quite massive, likely with between 7,500 and 10,000 participants from all across the country. It ended with a concert in front of the nation’s capital which lasted all day.
2009 Resurgence
Things went quiet for a while, until early 2009. That’s when Rick Santelli drew attention for his remarks made regarding the Homeowners Affordability and Stability Plan in February of last year — from the floor of the CME Group during pre-market hours. Santelli accused the government of promoting bad behavior and called for a Chicago Tea Party in response. Scattered cheers, whistles and applause could be heard from some of the personnel around the floor.
I participated in my second tea party event when I was asked to speak at the Reston Tea Party (in northern Virginia) on April 15 of last year. My speech focused on an economic issue that I believe important on tax day: repealing the Sixteenth Amendment. In my speech, I discussed how I never was duped into voting for George W. Bush, but that those who did can now redeem themselves by working for liberty in 2009, 2010, and beyond. I was well-received despite the hard rain pouring down on me as I spoke. At the time of my speech, I could tell that a broad coalition of folks were attending the Tea Party, and I surely realized that not all of them would agree with me — especially on social issues. So be it.
Hijacked Tea Party?
But it’s now a year later, and the Tea Party seems to be transforming from a libertarian gathering to promote less intrusive government and celebrate our freedoms to a neo-con group promoting War in Iran, criticizing immigrants and diversity, and persecuting those with different religious views. Rachel Maddow and David Weigel from The Washington Post have provided excellent coverage of this transformation from the very beginning, interviewing libertarian bloggers like Steve Gordon and Jason Pye and even interviewing Congressman Ron Paul to gain their perspective on the Tea Party hijack. Maddow was shocked to learn that three so-called Tea Party supporters challenged the inspiration behind the Tea Party — U.S. Rep. Ron Paul — for Congress in his rural Lake Jackson/Victoria area district in Texas.
The “far left media” recently crowned Sarah Palin the new mother of the Tea Party movement. This is problematic for several reasons.
First, Palin is employed by FOX News, which has a history of propping up increased foreign intervention — including the War in Iraq. Second, Palin is closely associated with people who support increased interventionism abroad. In her most recent trip to Hong Kong, she brought a prominent media relations strategist/lobbyist named Randy Scheunemann. Third, there is a correct perception that Sarah Palin is scripted — she’s using talking points from people writing speeches for her rather than sharing what she really believes. (I’m sure she has some core beliefs, but what are they?)
Increased foreign interventionism, bigger military budgets, and sending our troops to more countries abroad is the exact opposite of what the original Tea Parties were all about — so libertarians, paleo-cons, and traditional Goldwater conservatives should be rightful skeptics of the strategists who have put into motion the hijacking of the Tea Parties.
There are several national groups claiming to lead the Tea Party. These include:
* The Tea Party Express, which created a campaign called Our Country Deserves Better. Of the $1.3 million raised for their campaign from July to November, $870,000 plus of it went to a single Republican campaign firm in California.
* The Tea Party Nation, run by Judson Phillips, which organized the recent Convention in Tennessee. Libertarian-leaning groups like Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty and Eric Odom’s American Liberty Alliance decided not to participate after dealings with Phillips and his co-organizers.
* The Tea Party Patriots, which is working with FreedomWorks — headed by former U.S. Rep. Dick Armey.
Be wary of any national group trying to control local Tea Party organizations.
How Do We Proceed?
This is not the first time a libertarian concept has been adopted by others. It was libertarian economist Milton Friedman who developed the concept of school vouchers, but most of the credit was never given. The same is true of the Cato Institute, which developed the concept of Social Security privatization but is rarely credited with it. And who was it that was actively calling the War on Drugs a failure from the early 70s onward? Despite that most people recognize the failure of the War on Drugs, the Libertarian Party rarely receives credit for popularizing what is now plainly obvious: that the War on Drugs has not worked.
The original message of the Tea Party — let’s take our government back! – still rings true. It’s up to us to keep fighting to reclaim our personal and economic liberties — and that includes a humble and logical foreign policy.
I would encourage people who share the Republican Liberty Caucus commitment to limited government to attend local Tea Party meetings to get a flavor for what your local branch of the Tea Party is like. Certainly the flavor of the local Tea Party depends on who is leading it. The local Tea Party objectives should determine if it’s a good fit for you. If it isn’t, start your own Tea Party.
If more libertarian-leaning Republicans were leaders in the Tea Party movement, perhaps the Tea Party movement would have a decisively more libertarian flavor.
Overall, the credit for the Tea Party concept goes to the most innovative thinkers in politics today: libertarian Republicans and Ron Paul supporters. The current Tea Party is heading in the wrong direction, but whether it can reverse its course is up to us.
There’s never been a better time to get involved in the movement to change our government to one of, by, and for the people. I challenge you to become active in your area. Joining the Republican Liberty Caucus is a great place to start.
Tea Party Member Punched by liberal protester in North Carolina.
Can you imagine if this were a tea party guy punching a liberal? Or a white tea party guy punching a black liberal? Either would by the ONLY story in MSNBC and CNN today. The PRESIDENT would likely address it.
But I predict this will not be covered AT ALL by anyone, except maybe FOX. And I’ll bet Eric Holder will make sure guy who did the punching is not charged under “hate crime” laws, as he really ought to be, if you’re gonna have such silly laws.
Also, how come those of us who open carry weapons never get hassled at tea parties?
–Michael W. Dean
UPDATE:Both the puncher AND the guy who got punched are being charged with assault. What the fuck is wrong with this world? ? ?
Sound Strike, a group of musicians–led by Rage Against the Machine, and including Kanye West, Sonic Youth, and Massive Attack–are calling for a boycott of Arizona, refusing to perform in the state until a recently passed law regarding illegal immigration is repealed.
WOW!
Remember the “King of the Hill” episode (“Love Hurts and So Does Art”) where an “important” New York City conceptual artist comes to Texas and gets shunned for defaming beef in his exhibit (by displaying an x-ray of Hank Hill’s beef-filled colon)?
"King of the Hill" "Love Hurts and So Does Art"
The artist threatens the sheriff “YOU’LL NEVER HAVE ANOTHER SHOWING OF IMPORTANT ART FROM NEW YORK IN THIS STATE AGAIN!”
The sheriff drawls back at the artist “We’ll get by….”
That will be Arizona’s feeling if “important” “edgy” bands stop playing the state.
My wife and I often drawl “We’ll get by….” regarding situations like that. It’s kind of a running joke, and fits SO many situations.
Today we signed the papers and bought our house! yay! yay! woot woot!
We’ve lived in Wyoming for coming up on a year, that will be in July. But one year ago today and tomorrow was when we came to Wyoming on a reconnaissance trip. We went all over the state that week, and we decided on that trip to make Casper our home. A month after that, we moved here and rented the house we just bought today.
To celebrate one year of being in love with wonderful Casper, Wyoming, here’s a re-print of my blog post (on my other blog, Stink Fight) from those two days. Yay!
So, we are having a BLAST! Loving this place. We’re really psyched to move here, and we’ve totally fallen in love with Casper. That’s where we’re pretty sure we’re going to live.
We arrive in Casper and go out to dinner at a Red Lobster full of families with kids, while both openly packing. No one blinked. People saw, but it was no issue. Food was yummy!
Next morning we go out to breakfast at the Cheese Barrel diner on W. 6th and S. Center. Open carried no problem. Food was great, service was nice. Very friendly place.
Ever see a snow shovel in June? Casper has ‘em!
We drove around for a few hours and got used to the lay of the city. Casper is a nice place. We looked at houses that were listed for rent in the paper, to get an idea of how much rentals are, and what different neighborhoods are like.
Stopped at a Walgreens. We open carried, no problem:
Went to lunch at Wonder Bar with a bunch of our new friends. Seven of eight open carried, no one cared, food and service were really good:
We have a far richer social calender in Wyoming than we do in California where we’ve lived for decades.
Four folks, four guns:
The Free Caballeros loafin’ at the Loaf & Jug:
Went to the Poison Spider Shooting Range. Spent about five hours there. Shot many many hundreds of rounds, 9mm, 45mm, .223 and .308. Even a few hundred rounds of .22. We were the only people there, and it’s totally remote. A nice change from the range we go to in Los Angeles that has about 100 people at it at any given time. Would have loved to shoot longer, but a thunderous downpour sent us seeking shelter and dinner (and I suppose it was getting late).
Bowling with guns:
DJ bowls a perfect 300 with a borrowed .45:
Me shooting a cool Israeli Galil
DJ with an AR-15:
I lose my battle rifle virginity! Me shooting the wonderful FAL. Hit a metal deer silhouette at 200 yards. DJ hit it repeatedly too.
Me shooting a Remington 700 (.308:) counter-sniper rifle:
I hit the same deer-sized metal target at 200 yards more than once. DJ hit a cougar-sized target at 300 yards – but only took that one shot, the kick was just a bit much for her post-surgery shoulder after the AK and the FAL. What an elegant weapon that Remington is!
Went out with our new friends afterward to Tacos Mexicanos. Yes there is Mexican food in Casper, and it’s good. And we open carried no problem.
Was a wonderful, gun-tastic day! Much thanks to our generous friends for sharing their weapons and the marvelous range.
Back at the hotel now, about to jump into the hot tub and then sleep. Tomorrow we continue on to other wonderful towns in Wyoming on our tour of liberty and bison!
What do you think contributes more to society? A cutting-edge modern art gallery in one of the most famous and cosmopolitan cities in the world, or a drive-through liquor store that sells cheap guns with no waiting period in Wyoming?
I’m gonna go with the guns & liquor place.
SUBMITTED FOR YOUR APPROVAL, two businesses…. The Shooting Gallery art gallery in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood, and the BiRite drug store in the Casper, Wyoming neighborhood known as “Felony Flats.” BiRite doesn’t even have a website, but you can go on Google Street View HERE, and see it and the neighborhood.
HERE Google Street View is the same treatment for The Shooting Gallery. And you will see that a “bad neighborhood” like Felony Flats in Casper is a much nicer looking (and safer) place than an “edgy” neighborhood in San Francisco (The Shooting Gallery says it picked that name because junkies shoot up in the doorway, and you can get shot on that block. Charming….) And scroll to the left of the Shooting Gallery….that’s the park we used to call “Sucker Punch Park”, named for what often happens to any white person who dares walk there. By the way….this place is a few blocks from Hyde Street Studio where my band Bomb recorded our first album, To Elvis in Hell. I know this neighborhood well.
I’ve never been to the Shooting Gallery, it started after I moved out of that town. But I’ve been to a dozen places exactly like it….taxpayer-funded gen-x edgy hipster anti-American-values storefronts that local liberal rags love to drool all over and consider “important.” The art these places show always sucks, barely qualifies as art, and the only people who ooh and ahh over it are suffering from “the emperor’s new clothes” syndrome.
Remember the “King of the Hill” episode where an important New York artist comes to Texas and gets shunned for defaming beef in his exhibit? He threatens the sheriff “YOU’LL NEVER HAVE ANOTHER SHOWING OF IMPORTANT ART FROM NEW YORK IN THIS STATE AGAIN!” and the sheriff drawls “We’ll get by…..”Well, I’m that sheriff in this story.
The Drugstore part of the Wyoming Drugstore went outta business this year, after many decades of providing for the community. But the other parts of the place are still in business: a greeting card shop that feels delightfully like something from the 1940s, a liquor department, and a sporting goods section that sells 9mm semi-auto pistols for $140 bucks with no waiting period.
Cheap 9mm Hi-Point Pistol
Yup, these are what are commonly called “Saturday Night Specials“, which was originally a racist term and I don’t like to use it (as in “guns that black people buy to shoot folks on a Saturday night, just for kicks.”) But the drugstore sells Hi-Point brand guns, which are OK if that’s all you can afford.) (Unlike Jimenez Arms – or what I call an Especial de la noche de sábado – an even cheaper Mexican gun that might blow up in your hand. They have before with some people.)
While I wouldn’t trust my life to a $140 pistol (my cheapest semi-auto cost $450, and my cheapest revolver cost $370), these guns do have a legitimate purpose – providing self-defense to people who can’t afford a better gun. And this Wyoming liquor store selling them contributes that service to society. Unlike edgy liberal art galleries, which provide nothing of value…..
The Shooting Gallery opened it’s (sic) doors in 2003 to the edgy Tenderloin district of San Francisco; one known for it’s diverse culture and history. Owner and curator, Justin Giarla, founded the space to offer a welcoming environment for viewing the art he loves.
Justin started collecting art at the age of 23 and has since amassed over 500 pieces in his own collection. Growing up in Southern California gave Justin an affinity with everything lowbrow: pop art, street art, outsider art, punk rock album art, comic book art, surf/skate art, erotic photography and hot rod culture. Giarla has long since recognized the necessity to provide lowbrow artists with a platform, which is exactly what The Shooting Gallery has done for the past seven years.
Since opening The Shooting Gallery, Justin has gone on to start his own publishing company and open three more San Francisco galleries including White Walls, Gallery Three and D.D.Arts. The Shooting Gallery also participates in art fairs around the worldand hosts annual fundraisers for local non profits.
(emphasis mine, not theirs – MWD)
Shepard Fairey at The Shooting Gallery
Come on. Some place that celebrates a destroyer of property (and Obama licker) like Shepard Fairey, considers graffiti on someone else’s private property to be art, considers a naked lady in a net or a piano hanging from the ceiling to be “art”, venerates propaganda that lambastes George Bush with an ironic “More Military Less Education” (if we’re talking about public schools, I’d agree, even though I know they’re being ironic)….AND does it all with the help of PUBLIC funds…..come on….I think a cheap gun store contributes a lot more to society. At least the cheap gun store could offer me protection for the risking of my life I’d have to do to walk down the street where the art gallery is…on a street devastated by bad decisions of San Francisco liberal politics. (Though I will never walk down that street again, because it would be a FELONY to carry a gun to protect myself on that street.)
Now if you wanna see some “emperor’s new clothes” art that I DO dig, here’s some nifty performance art, William S. Burroughs shooting a painting that Ralph Steadman did of William Shakespeare. (Steadman is the shorter gray-haired gent seen here with Burroughs.)
In the late 1980’s and early ’90’s there was this great band from San Francisco called Bomb. I never got to see them live. Jack Endino did and his comment was, “The drummer is amazing”. They made this great record called Hits of Acid and one of my favorite tunes of all time is “I Loved Her, Then I Died” – I urge heavy rock fans to check it out. Here’s a free mp3 of the tune “You In Romance”
Hits Of Acid is a great lost-classic. It’s super-warped heavy rock. And like all of my favorite records – listening takes me on a journey. If this band came out of Seattle instead of San Francisco – they would have been one of the great Grunge bands.
OK, I was not shocked AT ALL when Los Angeles County voted yesterday to boycott Arizona over the very sensible anti-illegal immigration law Arizona has passed. California is free to shoot themselves in the foot economically (this boycott will hurt sinking California more than it will hurt Arizona). California has shot themselves in the foot early and often for decades, which is why it’s drowning in debt and canceling even basic services. (Whereas the state I moved to from California, Wyoming, is doing fine and dandy, and even has a surplus of money! Shhh! Don’t tell California! They’ll get Obama to come steal it!)
And Los Angeles are hypocrites, they’re not going to boycott the electrical power they get from Arizona…about 25% of the power used in LA comes from Arizona!
So I wasn’t even surprised when this “shoot ourselves in the foot” boycott resolution was passed by a mere two people on a damn bureaucratic committee, despite the fact that a majority of Californians are in favor of the Arizona law.
The issue would, in essence, be dealt with in a manner similar to broadly accepted episodes of racial and cultural intolerance and abridgments of rights, such as the Jim Crow laws and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, said district spokesman Robert Alaniz….
I dunno, I lived in California for 23 years, so nothing should really shock me. But when I see a region that is about to fail from its own policies, is bankrupt (economically and spiritually), yet insists on bankrupting itself further to insult another state’s policies, (that only mirror and enforce federal law), then insist on teaching their children, in an official capacity, that that other state is worse than Hitler for trying to save itself, well, I am just damn lucky (again) that I got out of that statist cesspool of entitlement and bullshit a year ago. Fuck those California carpetbaggers, and shame on them for trying to insist another state fuck itself up.
And remember, by the way, the Arizona law hasn’t even gone into effect yet! The law goes into effect 90 days after the close of the legislative session, which has not been ended yet and does not have a definite end date.
Meanwhile, I finally sat down and read the Wyoming Firearms Freedom Act (which goes into effect July 1). I love it. It’s so beautiful, it actually made me weep with joy. When is the last time a piece of state legislation in your state made you weep with joy?
Here’s the full text of that short, wonderful law.
I like all of it, and especially these “reaffirming our rights against the Feds” parts:
(vii) Article 1, section 7, of the Wyoming constitution provides that absolute, arbitrary power over the lives, liberty and property of freemen exists nowhere in a republic, not even in the largest majority; …
….the Wyoming constitution provides that all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their peace, safety and happiness; for all the advancement of these ends they have at all times an inalienable and indefeasible right to alter, reform or abolish the government in such manner as they may think proper;
I’m glad my wife, my cats and me got out of California and got on the RIGHT side of any possible schism, early. And it’s pretty mindblowing where the candidates for Wyoming Governor are not only running on a platform of AGREEING with these ideals, it’s almost certain that one who feels this way WILL be the next Governor of Wyoming. I’d look for some legislation out of my state in the next few years that will make Arizona look like Californians.
This is likely, from all early accounts and polls, the next Governor of Wyoming:
When the New York City Community Board 1 voted 29-1 with 9 abstaining to support the proposed place of worship, a lot of people lost their minds. Many claimed that building a mosque so close to the former World Trade Center site was an insult to the memory of those who died at the hands of Islamic terrorists. I am inclined to agree and think it’s a little insensitive to build a mosque so close to the place where so many died horrible deaths, murdered in the name of Allah, and yet, I can’t help but see the irony in many conservative commentators who think that New York should force Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf to hit the bricks and find another location.
Private property is private property, even in New York. Just because a Muslim temple is offensive to those who think all Muslims are terrorists does not give them the right to use the police power of government to force Rauf to relocate. Besides, if you want to talk about “offensive”, how’s this?
Pretty disgusting, eh? Almost nine years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, and there’s still not much to speak of at the former site of the World Trade Center where almost 3,000 people lost their lives. Where is the outrage over that? You wont find it in this story because you can’t blame Muslims for all of the graft, gridlock, and politicking that occurs in New York City on a daily basis. I think it’s far more insulting to the memory of the victims to leave their grave unmarked. Think about it. Let’s say a Muslim killed you. Would your family be enraged if you were buried in a cemetery that couldn’t agree what to put on your grave as a headstone, and due to ‘cemetery politics’, the monument which is supposed to commemorate your eternal resting place was delayed indefinitely or would your family be angry that a Muslim family completely unrelated to your killer had a burial plot two rows over and was able to have their headstone?
~Matti Frost
P.S.- Hi everyone. Sorry I’ve been away for so long.
NOTE: This song is not a call to action. Its a history lesson, about the Whiskey Rebellion….sort of punk rock Schoolhouse Rock.
“Would You Tar and Feather a Tax Collector?”
NEW song from Right Arm of Wyoming. DOWNLOAD MP3 HERE. (RIGHT CLICK TO SAVE.) http://www.rightarmofwyoming.com/TarA…
Kingston, Jamaica (CNN) — Jamaican authorities declared a state of emergency in Kingston after gang members supportive of an alleged drug lord wanted by the United States attacked at least three police stations and blockaded a large swath of the city.
Two of the police stations were evacuated after being hit with Molotov cocktails, while the status of the third was unclear.
Gang members blocked off a miles-long area of Jamaica’s capital city — mostly in West Kingston — using vehicles, sandbags, barbed wire and anything else they could find…..
The country that I think has the most direct application for us, however, is one that we don’t have a lot in common with, and that’s Jamaica. In response to a sharply rising crime rate in Jamaica in the early 1970s, the government imposed complete gun prohibition. In fact, possession of a bullet meant a mandatory life sentence in prison. There was a special gun court where people would be tried in secret for gun possession offenses. And in conjunction with this tremendous crackdown on guns, they also did everything else that you can imagine Oliver North or Ross Perot doing to our Bill of Rights in your worst nightmares. They had gun sweeps, drug sweeps, militarized law enforcement, the government breaking into people’s houses, with no probable cause at all, to look for illegal weapons and drugs.
Every kind of oppressive measure you could want, censorship of violent television and movies, everything you could want in terms of “let’s get really serious and crack down and get rid of all these silly constitutional liberties that are standing in the way of rough and tough law enforcement,” they did. What happened was the crime rate and the homicide rate dropped substantially for the first six months. They then started to rise again, got back to their old levels, and within a few years were far ahead of their old levels, and a few years later were at double and triple the levels which had inspired this kind of crackdown in the first place. One of the kinds of violence that increased in Jamaica was homicide by police officers. Jamaicans were getting killed by their police at a rate higher than the general American homicide rate of anybody getting killed by anybody…..
Here are many many many photos of our quickie two-day vacation to Yellowstone and Cody this week. ….in our state, four hours away. Bison, mountain goats, Old Faithful and more!
(More pictures up now! Part one is here, part two is here.)
(photos of kittens to keep your head from exploding when you read this article):
You know how in science fiction movies from the past few decades, any movie that takes place in “the not-too-distant future” will have different cliché literary devices to let you know it’s in the not too distant future? Like they usually have a black president? And you say to yourself “Sure, OK, that could happen, why not? Race is a non-issue. Race means about as much to me as the color of my cats.”
But then they have other cliché literary devices to let you know that in this not-too-distant future, while things look much the same, they are VERY different? Like in the opening scene, the main character will be putting on his tie to go to work, listening to the morning news…but the scene will cut in mid-sentence to the TV newscaster saying something like “….and the rain of frogs and blood that fell from the sky south of downtown this morning is the fourth such event this month. In other news, the Senate voted 61 to 39 today to approve the House bill to allow house pets and house plants to have full voting rights….”
Well, I felt like that today. Actually, I’ve felt like that pretty often in the past year.
I needed a cute kitty chaser too, after Nancy Pelosi told people today “quit your job, follow your dreams, play music, and we’ll take care of your health care”:
Cloward and Piven “proposed to create a crisis in the current welfare system – by exploiting the gap between welfare law and practice – that would ultimately bring about its collapse and replace it with a system of guaranteed annual income. They hoped to accomplish this end by informing the poor of their rights to welfare assistance, encouraging them to apply for benefits and, in effect, overloading an already overburdened bureaucracy.”
SO…as if that weren’t enough to make your head explode, here are a few unrelated (?) news items today in the fed’s “march to progress”….
Life in prison is ‘cruel and unusual’ punishment for teens, Supreme Court rules
Milagro Cunningham, a 17-year-old who beat and raped an 8-year-old girl before leaving her to die under 197 pounds of rock in a recycling bin in a remote landfill…
I’m glad that the Supreme Court (a bunch of dudes and liberals in dresses) decided that we don’t wanna be mean to teenagers and give them life in prison for doing things like that. That makes my head want to explode, and no amount of cute kittens can help.
Being appalled at this 6-3 ruling might make you think I’d be happy about this 7-2 ruling that came down the same day (today):
Supreme Court: Sex offenders can be held indefinitely
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday the federal government has the power to keep some sex offenders behind bars indefinitely after they have served their sentences if officials determine those inmates may prove “sexually dangerous” in the future.
“The federal government, as custodian of its prisoners, has the constitutional power to act in order to protect nearby (and other) communities from the danger such prisoners may pose,” Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the 7-2 majority….
seems good on the surface, in a “think of the children!” way, but could be expanded to anything. This means they could probably put citizens in prison if they thought you might be a danger to the government, but had no proof. If they just “feel it’s a good idea” in a “think of the children!” sort of way. (Like if you vote Republican or Libertarian….)
I think that a problem a lot of libertarians and Republicans have is relying too heavily on the Constitution (and on its interpenetration by the guys in dresses. Letting those guys make up the rules as they go along was never the plan of the Founding Fathers.) The Constitution does not GRANT rights, it only tries to ENFORCE rights THAT YOU WERE BORN WITH. It’s all about NATURAL RIGHTS, not what Nanci Pelosi or Harry Reid or even Ron Paul says. It’s what is RIGHT, not what some lawmakers or law interpreters SAY is right.
If you live your life with integrity, you KNOW what’s right, and you don’t need some guy in a dress to tell you so. And Natural Rights (and the Constitution) only include negative rights (which are actually good things), like the right not to be killed for no reason, the right not to be tyrannized and taxed to death. And Natural Rights (and the Constitution) do NOT include and “positive rights” (positive rights are bad things), like the right to “free heath care”, the right to “a good job with benefits”, etc. Because positive rights can only be obtained by stealing from others.
Governments cannot earn money, they can only steal it, borrow it or print it. And none of those help honest people, and none of those are included in Natural Rights. And arrogant and sociopathic thuggish goons like Nanci Pelosi, Harry Reid, Obama, and now apparently the Supreme Court, do not understand Natural Rights. And Governments only have power if YOU give it to them.
I’m not telling people not to vote. I’d say vote for the least statist person who has a chance to win…usually a Republican, put the breaks on the Obama regime Cloward and Piven crap, and after that’s taken care of, we’ll work from there.
Pass this basic info on, brothers and sisters….especially to the youngins.
Article exclusive for the Libertarian Republican. Michael W. Dean works for a living in Wyoming, makes protest music, and refuses to buy into the notion that academics in DC can tell him what to do in Wyoming, and he will not pay for the health care of other musicians.
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