The Minuteman

Blogging is going to be a bit light.  I’m helping out a club with a radio contest this weekend. 

Here are a couple links to things I want to write up on but just don’t have the time.  I can feel the free ice cream machine stirring stuff up, but it just doesn’t want to flow.

• Obama stops drilling here and tells Brazil to drill so we can import their oil.
• First Portland shuts down a lemonade stand, now Hazelwood has shut down Girl Scouts selling cookies.
• FBI wastes more money on another ID system.

I’ll try and get some cream flowing again. 

“Choices”? What about the choices of the students that will be expelled if they choose to carry everyday self-defense tools which they carry off campus on a regular basis? Would they use the same argument if the bill were to allow mixed race couples on campus? Or allowing Jews and Muslims on campus? Or how about forbidding the university administration to expel students who obtained abortions? Would those be “choices” the administration should be allowed to make?

[I have always been amazed that people seem to think that allowing people to have a choice is some how forcing others into something.  People are not being forced into anything, the only changes being made is allowing people the choice to exercise their rights.  It baffles my mind how people twist the idea of allowing someone to exercise their rights becomes a violation of their rights.

People seem to love choices as long as the choices are things that they want access too.  All too many people are willing to piss on other people’s rights when they don’t like it or disagree with it.  The fact is though allowing people to carry arms for self-defense does not interfere with the rights of others, in fact it helps prevent others from interfering with your rights as well as the rights of others.  Just the same, rights need to be supported whether you like them or not.  -B]

That’s the same Al Baker who went after a bunch of agencies in Nevada. Awesome job Mr. Baker!

H/T to Joe. 

A Federal Reserve official announced today that the US has reached a cross roads towards insolvency. 

"If we continue down on the path on which the fiscal authorities put us, we will become insolvent, the question is when," Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher said in a question and answer session after delivering a speech at the University of Frankfurt. "The short-term negotiations are very important, I look at this as a tipping point."

As time moves forward people, agencies, and others will progress through the stages.  The pain train is coming whether people like it or not.  To come out of this is going to take blood sweat and tears, pain is unavoidable and the longer people try and prolong the inevitable the more the final crash is going to hurt.  If you think everything is roses and unicorns, think again.

Apparently SEIU has been harassing Sodexo USA, to the point that Sodexo has now filed a civil suit under the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.

Union thuggery is the only way unions can continue to gain members and power.  Unions are not looking out for the employees or members, they are looking out for themselves.  They take a percentage of the employees pay in “dues.”  The more the worker makes, the more profit the union gets paid.  This means it’s in their best interests to extort as much as they can for pay.  Then when the employee works harder, pulls extra shifts, and does overtime the union gets paid a percentage of that labor.  The union did nothing for the employee all union does is get paid more.

Unions are worthless, they are nothing more that thieves who in many cases can force their people to give up money just for employment.  What do unions really do currently, seriously?  I fail to see any union do anything I can NOT do myself.  If I don’t like the environment I work in, I have every right to quit.  I do not have a right to work for a particular company, just the same a particular company doesn’t have right to retain me as an employee.  Unions are the creation of people who don’t have the balls to deal with problems themselves.  If you don’t like what a company is doing, do not work for them, do not buy their products, and do not support them.  Unions steal from people under the guise of protecting  and helping them, no different from the government. 

H/T Phil.

And that explains one of the key failings of the Fed. The two necessities in life, food and energy, are experiencing tremendous inflation. But the Fed’s inflation model ignores those things.

How stupid do you have to be to think people don’t need to eat or drive? 

-Alan Andrews-I can’t eat an iPad

[People who end up in positions like that as well as with roles in government end up there not because they are smart, but because they’re too stupid to do anything else.  They are trying to give new lies while the costs of basic living are obviously going up. 

Who cares if the iPad is cheaper, people need to food, water, and fuel to live.  Could the price for an iPad be dropping because demand has decreased?  Has this decrease occurred because people instead are having to spend their money on food and transportation to their job?  The fact is people are spending money on just what is needed, iPads are not necessary to survive.

Our leaders have done nothing but make life considerably harder, more complicated, and then they have tried to conceal it claiming it’s not a “cost of living”.  The most important items that every person needs to survive are ignored.  Remember though, there’s no inflation and everything is fine. –B ]

Joking about campus carry legislation is well and good until you find yourself on a college campus, confronted by a madman who’s chosen to ignore the school’s “gun free” policy. Then it’s no laughing matter. –W. Scott Lewis, Campus concealed carry bill no laughing matter

[I have written on this previously, but Scott has a wonderful way with words in this article.  (RTWT) –B]

Apparently I don’t look like one.  A coworker of mine said she didn’t see me as a person who would shoot let alone carry a gun.  In other words, I don’t look like a bumbling redneck idiot or helpless, dumb blonde the media portrays gun owners to be.  She was even surprised that I am somewhat of a blogger, which is partially how the topic came up.

Joe Huffman is considered a “red-necked, knuckle-dragging, Neanderthal” and he has his Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington.  He also currently works at Microsoft.  Why is it everyone thinks gun owners fit into some cookie cutter mold?