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With the ultimate goal being a monopoly of violence.
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
A Zero Tolerance Policy I Can Get Behind
Catoosa restaurant fires 12 workers for not showing up on 'Day Without Immigrants' [More]See, it's never been about the concept. It's always been about the application.
Keep an eye on this one -- I won't be surprised to see a lawsuit.
If You Can't See, Turn on the Damn Light
Sixth Circuit Reverses IRS, Tax Court: 'Citizens Can't Comply With Tax Laws They Can’t See' ... In today’s case, however, the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service denied relief to a set of taxpayers who complied in full with the printed and accessible words of the tax laws. [More]So how come you keep referring to this petty Caligula wannabe as "the Commissioner"?
The Obama appointee has a name, you know. And the gutless Republicans just about had him out over complicity in the Lerner cover-up and then balked.
[Via Michael G]
First Step
The Iowa House of Representatives has just introduced a major pro-gun owner bill. House Study Bill 133 (HSB133) is a comprehensive gun bill that effectively re-writes a large portion of Iowa’s firearms and use of force laws. HSB133 is a major bill (more than 41 pages long) that benefits Iowa gun owners in numerous ways. We’ve listed a general overview below. [More]I have not had time to analyze this or asses its chances and probably won't. I'm presenting it here so that those so inclined can do their own checking.
Not Exactly Incentive to Change
That doesn't strike you people as intrusive and creepy?
And you wonder why your stuff goes straight to the junk file?
And She Wears Jeans When She Does It
"I've filed gun legislation every session. I want to make it harder and harder to get guns in and get guns into the hands of people who shouldn't have them." [More]Meaning you, of course. Ain't no criminal gonna pay the tax or abide by a ban. Creem knows that, but she gets off on in-your-face harassment of those she hates.
It will never be "enough."
Domestic enemies will continue to do this until they no longer can. The trick is figuring out how to dissuade them from trying. They seem bent on forcing the "surrender and obey" or "defy and resist" choice on people who would prefer to just to be left alone.
After All, They Register Cars, Don't They?
Yes, they do. And I just got this in my mailbox:
I sold the Mustang about a year ago. And in Ohio, you don't just have to satisfy one set of bureaucrats to transfer a title, you need to go through three: the Ohio EPA "e-check" for proof of emissions compliance before transfer, and where I live the buyer needs to go through two separate BMV offices -- one to process title transfers and the other to issue new license plates.
So why, after all that, do they not know I no longer own this car? What if I'd bought and later sold a gun jumping through all the mandated hoops? Or reported it stolen, as some would require?
I shudder to think what could happen if it were used in a crime. If a situation similar to this vehicle cluster**** happened, I doubt I'd have gotten notice by mail, but could have instead been "visited" by men with the prime directive to make it home at the end of their shift. This shows it's hardly that far-fetched to suppose obeying "common sense gun safety laws" and entrusting government workers to get it right could prove far from safe.
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So why, after all that, do they not know I no longer own this car? What if I'd bought and later sold a gun jumping through all the mandated hoops? Or reported it stolen, as some would require?
I shudder to think what could happen if it were used in a crime. If a situation similar to this vehicle cluster**** happened, I doubt I'd have gotten notice by mail, but could have instead been "visited" by men with the prime directive to make it home at the end of their shift. This shows it's hardly that far-fetched to suppose obeying "common sense gun safety laws" and entrusting government workers to get it right could prove far from safe.
Kabuki Air Theater Presents
TSA allows Kennedy Airport passengers to walk through security checkpoint without being screened [More]I'd be proceeding from the assumptions that this may have been no mere act of incompetent negligence, and that something coould have been walked through and secreted for later use by an embedded asset. And I'd be looking for signs of payoffs.
That's OK. At least they got my Mom.
Focal Point
Now that Republicans have control of Congress, they seem to have lost focus. [More]I disagree. They know exactly what they're doing.
If they can sabotage Trump's administration and engineer its failure -- without overtly standing against him and having to own it -- they can come back to the voters and say "See what happens when you think you know better than we do?"
They'll be counting on the average voter to look only at the manipulated results, not at their hidden intrigues that caused them.