Rants for July 24, 2012

I have been watching and reading the many points of view spewed by the left in America over the last few weeks.  What was that  famous saying from Rahm Emmanuel, now Mayor of Chicago (God help the city), that you never let a crisis go to waste?   As I reported in a previous post, the lamestream media tried to tie the murdering scumbag Holmes in Aurora, Colorado, to the Tea Party.  Then the same breathless lamestreams jinn up the debate about "gun control", along with the help of that RINO, Mayor Bloomberg of New York.  The insanity never ends apparently, even that practised by those claiming smart.

Thomas Sowell has a great article on the gun control issue.  HERE is his take.  He uses the word propaganda to decribe the shameless lamestream media in their pursuit of an agenda.  I agree with his analysis and would add they also have no respect for the dead.  Though they are mostly liberals (lamestreamers vote 90% democrat) and are self proclaimed "in touch" with their emotions, they sure pursue the relatives of the murder victims for a scoop.  They try and make the person cry, they are shameless.

But as bad as the left really are in their hypocrisy they are always focused on "gun control" and abortion "rights" and never stray.  Got a murder, intimate a right winger, want to give condoms to fifth graders at school, claim the right has a war on women.  It matters not the level of ridiculousness, the left always brings the issue back to a "rightwing" effort to restrict some "right" the left believes in.  Even though the proof is quite the opposite.

I am fascinated how the left, when in power, will pass a plethora of laws restricting people rights and behaviours (smoking, helmets, jaywalking) and then claim the right wants to tell people what to do in their bedrooms!  Hell, the folks in major cities across America can't even eat a tranfat or drink a cola in a 24 ounce cup!  A RINO like the Mayor of New York (actually he changed his registration from democrat  when he first ran so he could get Rudy Guliani's endorsement) is the "panderer in chief" for these social experiments. 

Same with guns.  The left acts  as if taking the gun from the law abiding person will solve violence.  As Thomas Sowell has pointed out the truth is the opposite.  Look at Washington DC for instance.  They had the strictest gun laws yet the highest murder rates for years.  Same in Chicago.  We folks with a brain know it is the person not the weapon.  A murderer bent on killing will use whatever is available.  You just can't stop them unless of course there is an armed person in the target group.  We never hear of the people who fend off the killers do we?  The NRA has some stats I have seen before that indicate two million crimes were avoided because the perps were scared off by an armed citizen.  We need to see those stories more often.

Then we have the Penn State mess.  They even removed the statue of oe Paterno from the campus last week.  The NCAA fined them 60 million bucks (a estimated one years take from football) and banned the team from four or five years of post season play and took a bunch of scholarships away.  All because Jerry Sandusky, a scumbag molester  and some others who should have done something to prevent the abuse, turned their heads away.  Those people were responsible and should be punished severely.  I would accept castration of Sanduky, but the left would say that is "cruel and unusual" I bet.  Anyway, my view is they are punishing all the young men who had nothing to do with the crime.  Why take all the victories away and why impose a team punishment when it was the leaders who need to be punished?  Maybe this view is not PC but I feel bad for the hundreds of young men who are being punished for doing absolutely nothing wrong.  They did not even know Sandusky was a molester, yet they are forced to be thrown into his punishment.

Romney is being pressured to release his tax returns back to the stone-age and I say, don't do it Mitt.  Do what is required by law and screw the critics.  All releasing them will do is give fodder for the opposition and the fact you were successful will be used against you endlessly.  Hell, they have been bashing you anyway and thankfully you have started to return fire.  Funny how the lamestreams don't report daily on your charitable giving and volunteer work over the years isn't it?  Of course Joe Biden, the President of Vice, gave what, $20 to charity and that is adored by the lamestreams.  My God, what a upside down world the press has created.

So, success is now a bad thing according to the democrats.  When asked why she is demanding Romney release his returns and she is refusing to release hers, Nancy Pelosi said something like . well, I am not running for President.  Yeah right Nancy, you were third in line for the job as Speaker.  You are just a hypocrite liberal.  Besides, you and your hubby are millionaires aren't you?  How dd you get that money and where is it parked?  We need to know.  Then we have the DNC babe Wasserman-Schultz screaming Romney has overseas accounts while she has them too.  Amazing hubris.  But dutifully, the amestream stenographers of every word Obama and the democrats speak show no desire to purse the truth on the lefty pals of theirs.

In California, we have the scandal of the Parks Department hiding 55 million bucks while claiming no money in the till.  This is the tip of the iceberg in my view.  When you look at your cell hone bill for instance, you will see a number of "special" taxes and/or exaction's listed there.  Each one probably raises millions of dollars from us.  Where is the accountability of that money.  Do we get a GAO report for our money?  Does the Controller audit these funds?  My guess is we overpay billions of dollars every year yet all we hear from gubmint is "send us more", and now "vote for an increase in November".  This is what we have allowed in America.

Whew!  I am a skeptic about gubmint.  I was an elected official for eight years and I saw the sausage being made.  I saw the money pouring in and it was up to us to oversee it's expenditure in a rational and logical way.  In our little county we have always been very austere and the reserves show that is true.  If the state ran itself as Nevada County does (there have been a couple f screwups though) we would not be in deficit.  But until there is a backbone in Sacramento and DC to spend only as much or less than comes in, we will be talking about this mess forever.