Congressman McGovern's Shameless Exploitation

 
    It was a veritable 'who's who' of anti-gun advocate panelists last Friday night at the Boys and Girls Club on Tainter Street in Worcester Mass. Only about five of the eighty five attendees were staunch Second Amendment supporters. The panel, headed up by Congressman Jim Rubberstamp McGovern, wasted no time in the salacious exploitation of a private citizen's personal pain. Mrs. Marcy Johnson spoke of her thirteen year old son paralyzed by a stray bullet. Earlier, in Westford Mass, the town Selectman held a special town meeting with much the same goal in mind. Unfortunately it didn't quite work out for him as he wanted. More on that later.
    The usual boogieman was the gun industry and gun lobbyists. You see some lobbyists are good and others are bad. The intent of Friday's meeting was to denigrate the 'bad' lobbyists. I will let Rubberstamp Jim explain: "... it requires every one's help of standing up to very powerful, well funded special interests.."
    He was right!
    Sitting alongside of the guy who raided millions for a campaign he had no opponent in were many other powerful, well funded special interests. At the head table were John Rosenthal of the Stop Handgun Violence organization, Worcester Police Chief Gary Bribe Me Gemme, North Hampton Mayor David Narkewitcz. This guy from the U-Mass Lib Land area belongs to a cabal of mayors against illegal guns. Well, at least he is concentrating on "illegal" guns. Strange, since his next door neighbor of Amherst doesn't recognize "illegal aliens" and gives them sanctuary. Hey, it is BizarroWorld don't ask me to explain it. Rounding out the panel was the famous 'acting' Commissioner of the Worcester Health Department Dr. Michael Hirsh. I wrote about him in an earlier blog.
    So, apparently the good Congressman was correct in his statement of  "powerful, well funded special interests."

    But John Rosenthal gets the Golden Foot In The Mouth Award for his blurt to the audience in attendance.
    " Those who oppose gun laws argue that people need to have the same weapons that the military has. That they cannot trust the government or law enforcement ( I'm with you on that JR) and that they need to be armed to the hilt to defend themselves against a renegade government (still with ya' JR) But, the government has nuclear weapons, planes and tanks.."
    Excuse me? Nuclear weapons? Planes and tanks?
    So, even if we keep our high capacity automatic weapons we will still be woefully underarmed against government tyranny. I think that was what he was trying to say but some how I doubt it.
    ... And the award goes to...
    That took the cake for me. I was ready to hand the Golden Foot In The Mouth Award to the Westford Selectman when he realized his town meeting went straight to hell after the room was SRO with gun rights advocates and other citizens who then voted the assault ban down in the town of Westford. He is quoted as saying: ".. wasn't getting the discussion we wanted." The Selectman was later seen sucking his thumb and holding a blanket after the meeting.

    None of these forums ever take into account facts and numbers. Liberals hate facts. They are stubborn things and tend to discredit the impassioned plea of the victims and the intentions of the lawmakers who exploit them. According to a USA Today study published 2/22/13 over the past seven years only three of the 934 mass shootings were in schools. "...it is a rare event.." says Northeastern U. Criminologist James Allen. Over 40% of those shootings were domestically linked or the perp knew the vic in some way. Gun crime is truly an act of violence against another person. The gun is only a means to an end. The USA report did not break down the other numbers. It didn't matter, I went back to a source for them.
    I had the pleasure of speaking to Reid K. Smith, who is at Wayne State U., on my radio show a couple years back. He is a great advocate of changing the conceal carry laws on campus. He started this movement after the Virginia Tech shooting. He told me on the radio show that less than 1/10th of 1% of all shootings are committed by legal gun owners in the United States.
    He took the rare step of doing some research. Then he spoke publicly about it. Thanks Reid.
    That means (quite literally) that over 99.99% of all shootings are committed by criminals with illegally owned guns. Regardless of how you slice up the pie people who take the ownership of guns seriously are not the target audience for more gun control. We should be looking to round up the nut bags and gangs out there who get them illegally.... I need a sedative.
    Couple that with the statistics that rate cities with the strictest gun laws such as Chicago and Washington DC that ban all guns within city limits have the highest gun violence. Criminals could care less. Lets also not forget what happened to the citizens of Australia after they passed comprehensive gun banning. Crime jumped double digits within weeks

    Again, the correlation between guns and tobacco were raised by one audience member at Friday's meeting. It was the boilerplate use of how Congress acting changed the industry. God forbid any American should accept responsibility for their actions. We'll just let government pass a law.
    All the new laws and regulations have done was create new revenue for the government. Victims be damned. As I wrote in another blog the overwhelming majority of money raised after the tobacco laws were passed went to everything under the sun except health. You think the new gun laws will have anything to do with crime prevention? Does the Healthcare bill have anything to do with Healthcare? This, despite a referendum passed in 1994 from the citizens of Massachusetts that over 40% of all tobacco taxes and fines go to healthcare.
    Essentially the nonsense from the Left is going to ratchet up. This, in the face of a growing Resistance movement spreading across the nation. Over 300 people showed up at the Statehouse in Communist Vermont in support of their Second Amendment rights. To date there have been two protests in two cities here in Massachusetts over as many months.
    ( Author's Note: I must say, I read the T+G article on the 2/23/13 rally on Lincoln Square. The writer was very good at being factual and objective. I was there and the article was well done.)

    It is called 'freak-out politics'. The Libs at the helm know only this. It will take the will and force of the American people who will stand up and demand rights. The shameless exploitation of a mother's anguish carries no weight in this debate but, will be the 'banner yet waved' by the purveyors of freak-out politics.
    I cannot fathom the agony of a lost child to gun violence. I can only pray I never will. Even so, I hope my knowledge and evolved sensibilities will steer me through with logic and not blind emotion. Liberals are all about how someone 'feels' never what someone thinks.

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Same Old Story, Same Old Song And Dance

    The fluttering of Leftist hearts across America were a cacophony the night of the State of the Union speech. The stirring performance, the command of the stage, the inability to give the correct envelope to the correct person. There wasn't a dry eye in the room. That is, until POTUS laid down over twenty nine new programs. The tears quickly turned to aneurysms.
    And he has at least three more of these events ahead of him.
    My ambivalence towards the President is overshadowed by my utter disdain for the Republican who occupy both chambers of Congress. After all, I expect this boiler plate  rhetoric from the Anointed One. It is the fecklessness of the Republicans that makes me want to jump into a wood chipper.
    These turncoats will huff and they will puff but they will never blow the house down. Instead they will just jump down the chimney and fry. We will hear time and time again how close we are to another 'cliff' or another 'shutdown' only to find out that the sheep in wolves's clothing has backed away and 'compromised". After all, isn't that what bipartisanship is all about? The majority in power making the minority not in power look impotent. All we need now is for Speaker Boehner to cry at his next pres conference. That always goes over well Johnny.

    "Already the Affordable Healthcare Act is helping to slow the growth of health-care costs." His Almighty has proclaimed. However, Investor's Business Daily's Jed Graham (2/14/13) opens up his article with this little dose of reality.
    "A new Obamacare rule sends a strong signal to modest income families that they can no longer afford to work for firms that offer affordable health coverage."...... YAY!
    Cornell University's Richard Birkhauser calls it "... a no man's land." Employer based insurance is skyrocketing yet the median income of modest income workers puts them over the threshold to qualify for the AHA.... NICE.
    In addition, if these modest income earners do not fork over the cash for their employer's coverage then the happy-go-lucky folks at the IRS will fine them every April 15th.... Isn't Socialism grand?

    Between the fiscal cliff deal supposedly aimed at the 1% (it isn't) and the AHA which was supposed to bring down health care costs and help the poor (it doesn't) Americans of all income levels are getting royally screwed with out even the courtesy of a reach around either.
    Aetna predicts their premiums to jump 20-50%. The Kaiser Foundation has discovered that employees will be facing astronomical deductibles with increases as high as 34%. Jed Graham of IBD calls the President's claims "..out of touch with trends in the private workforce."... What a shocka!! The guy is a total Communist who has never held a job a day in his life. What the hell did we expect?
    And do not expect the Republicans to do anything about this either. It would be like that scene from the movie Planet of the Apes where Charlton Heston tries to argue with the Ministers of Science. The camera changes angles to show the three ministers in that classic 'hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil' pose. That's ok, Heston gets them all back in the second movie.. He blows the freakin' planet up. Maybe we can get Achmed-Al-Wacka-Job in Tehran and his sidekick Minnie-Me from North Korea to do that for us.

    It is all the same crap from this idiot at the helm. Spend and tax more with all his mal-informed minions on board the Magical Misery Tour.
    There is this guy who comes into the place I work at and he was all excited about $9 and hour. He wanted to know when all this was going down. He was so grateful for the crumbs bestowed upon him by the corpulent benefactors in Washington DC I simply didn't have the heart to burst his delusional balloon.
    He wasn't alone either. All day long EBT wielding citizens  had nothing but praise for the Condemner In Chief I decided to remain silent for fear of my own safety lest I speak ill of He whose name shall not be spoken.
    It is simply mind boggling how we can put a finger on evidence of government screw up after government screw up and the American people still expect government to solve the problems and get their act together. Isn't that the definition of insanity?
    After decade so f regulations and tax loopholes that send jobs overseas the President wants to create fifteen ( that is a 1 and a 5) business zones across America. There is only one problem with that. It is the decades of regulations and tax loopholes that send jobs overseas.
    It will take years of regulatory hurdles just to acquire the property. It will take more years of regulatory hurdles just to tear the buildings down (as well as lawsuits). Still more years to obtain the zoning and permits to erect the new buildings which will all be performed by the donors from construction unions instead of the unemployed slobs who live right next door to these eye sores.

    It was about halfway through the speech that my dog was scratching at the door to be let out. I took her outside to her run to hook her up. This took a few minutes of searching for the lead in the dark. I must have been out there a good 5-8 minutes. Upon returning to my television I was struck with the most profound epiphany. The President was still droning on and I hadn't missed a single thing he said.
    He must certainly be an Aerosmith fan because his speech was the same old story, same old song and dance.


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Make The Character More Likable

 
    It has been suggested to me by some associates that I should not be so open about my political opinion on various pages I post upon and hold accounts. One page is considered  'professional' in nature and that I should refrain my obvious Conservative opinion and links to The Lexington Green. ".... you might alienate potential employers " was one critique.
    And who would that alienated employer be? Some one I wouldn't want to work for in the first place was my immediate summation. If some one was to find my writing favorable then my political leanings become rather germain to my eventual goal of of working in Conservative Media. The creator of the FX Channel was in USA Today last week and he spoke of why he started the network. All of his story ideas would come back from the big networks rejected. All of them had attached notes with a recurring theme. The notes read, "can you make the character more likable?"
    Make the character more likable? The character is supposed to be a serial killer, he's supposed to be a drug addict. That is the main point of the story! I am not here to become more likable. I am here to speak to the power of truth, not truth to power. I could please everyone by making my product more palatable. That would be speaking truth to power. Imbue my words to give them meaning, immersing myself in the theme, etc, etc...Oh, shoot me!
    My soul and my convictions won't allow it. Instead I prefer to speak to the power of truth. I prefer to write about the things that will make the reader ponder, question and then act. I produce all my own material and perform all the research. Unlike many print journalists and politicians I have no problem taking full responsibility for my content. If the content offends you here is a quarter. Call some one who cares.

    We see this very same 'cringing' from within our political process from Republicans. They think by being more 'likable' they can win again. They print media and the GOP itself is infected with this bug of being more moderate. It is as if we have a bizarre form of Stockholm Syndrome. We have been captives of the ideologies of the Left for decades to the point where we are actively thinking we might like it. If we become more like our oppressors they might let us go. It is an unalterable, powerful truth that most of the Republican candidates who softened their Conservatism  not only lost the elections anyways but they lost a piece of their souls. They lost their integrity and thus alienated their 'future employers'. The American people.
    Lt. Col. Allen West lost his re-election due in part to becoming a shill for the Republican Campaign Committee. Besides his voting record he was the strong arm for the RCC. His job was to collect the checks from the freshman Congressmen and send them to the RCC offices. What that Marine should have been doing is telling the RCC to go pound sand and speak to the power of truth and expose the entire scandal. Would he have been re-elected? Well, like the narrator of the old Tootsie-Pop commercial said, "..the world may never know." However, I would have loved to have seen that campaign and Col. West would still have his integrity and my respect.
    Scott Brown lost his bid in part to his support for NDAA and Feinstein's obsession with tables full of guns. His rhetoric of being 'independent' is a farce. If he was really independent then he would have exposed the whole lie of NDAA just as he exposed the insider trading scandal of legislators. Now that is independence!
    
     In the Boston Herald last Sunday (2/11/13) political writer and lawyer Jennifer Braceras tosses out some unsupported quotes  from The Tea Party and Conservative talk show hosts. I would never do that. I would mention the name, the date, the place. The topic of the conversation was in trying to find more principled candidates. I could tell her premise was bogus. I quote: ".. maybe now we can get someone (candidate) who's actually Conservative, they whisper."
    I have no idea who you were talking to from The Tea Party Jen, but as someone who is an active member of the Tea Party, some one who has spoken at rallies, planned events, interviewed and written about the organization I can tell you for certain that The Tea Party at large doesn't endorse any particular candidate to begin with.Our attempts at finding principled leaders isn't  something we 'whisper' about it is one of our foremost, guiding tenets.

     If there is to be a criteria for citizen journalism it should be that the writer passionately be truthful in what he/she writes. In doing so there is no barrier the author cannot overcome. There is no critique that can stick from the opposition. By sticking to the facts the writing becomes impervious to ridicule and becomes powerful. It forces the opposition to spend an inordinate amount of time fact checking. Once it realizes there are no misrepresentations the opposition is reduced to name calling and is thus exposed for the charade it is.
    Anyone, anywhere can toss up a plate full of truth and empower it. What is that saying we hear? For every statistic there is another statistic that contradicts the first. So, which one do we believe? We believe the one that is true not the one we want to believe is true. We must believe what is proven to be true.
    Liberalism is rife with truths that are empowered. Conservatism, on the other hand, is simply powered by the truth.


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The Political Football Game Halftime Show

    Karen Hughes is wrong. Her assessment of the current state of the Republican party is way off the mark. She is just regurgitating the same standard lines HER boss is telling her to say. Jesus H. F-ing Christ! I should have run for the chairmanship!
    Here is what we really need to do.
    We need a candidate with star power. We need a candidate who is so conservative he/she scares the bee-jeezus out of other Conservatives. We should never apologize and never step back from our positions. God knows the Liberals never do. We have nothing to lose.... Oh, you mean we would lose the election? Of course we will. We would have anyway no matter who we toss onto a soapbox. The Democrat Machine is well oiled and well financed here is BizarroWorld.
    The point is that this whole hand wringing over Scott Brown has got to stop. He is out, party over, everyone go home. It is ten to one that Gail asked him not to run again. That campaign treadmill is a killer on a marriage. I do not blame her one single bit. Besides give Scott some credit here. Any man worth his salt knows that when the wife says no the answer is no. The second coming of Christ will not dislodge a woman's resolve.
    The GOP pushing Tagg Romney makes us look foolish and desperate. Tossing any warm body onto the stage will end in disaster. Let Markey win, he will anyway. The People's Republic of Massachusetts has this thing all sewn up that's why Markey was chosen. Lynch is just there for good press. He knows he will lose and he doesn't care. He still gets his raise, his new car and a remodelled office.

    Hunker down GOP. Let us marshall the forces of grassroots politics and creep our way into every facet of the local political scene we can find. Be the water under that dry sponge of entrenched Liberal Democrat control and seep our way right up to the top. Let the Democrats dig that hole deeper, let them take the whole state down along with them. Meanwhile we Conservatives will have been working behind the scenes shaking hands, building relationships and creating the next wave of  Conservative Republican Government. The Democrats are in their heady days of Oligarchist Socialism right now. They have the hubris to think they can get away with anything and they can because they do. As the situation deteriorates society will be desperate for a way out. This will coincide with the next big election cycles of 2014 and 2016. If Conservatives play their cards right and stick to the plan between now and then we could pull off a decisive win.... Maybe.
    The problem is it is idiots like Karen Hughes, Michael Steele and the rest of the  Republican bobble-heads in charge who consistently drop the ball just inches from the end zone. In 2010 I interviewed Commander Kirk Lippold of the USS Cole. He was running for Congress out in his district in Nevada. Just 48 hours before I was to go on air I get an e-mail from his campaign manager cancelling the interview. Turns out the Nevada state GOP ended up picking some other guy as their man and demanded Lippold cancel all press and not talk of his campaign. I quickly scrambled together another interview and managed to get the Commander onto the show anyways.
    Guess what we ended up talking about?..The campaign and all the shenanigans behind the scene.
    You see, the Commander had that star power I spoke of earlier. He was the right man for the right job, perfectly placed at the perfect time. God himself couldn't have done better. But the GOP dropped the ball and went with some nobody and lost big. They felt that the other guy was more likable, more happy faced and almost just like a Democrat.

    The state has the Democratic Machine running 24/7/365. We need to be determined to accept nothing but our Conservative values and nothing less than absolute , unconditional victory based on those values. If we compromise to be more 'like Democrats' then we will not only lose elections we will lose our souls as Conservatives.
    Every time the San Francisco 49'ers went to the Superbowl they won. It was already in the bag that they would win this one as well. But a determined opponent with only victory on their minds who slogged their way to the top was to face them this time around. In the end it was the Ravens who picked apart an entrenched dynasty and took victory away.

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