“Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens’ lives. Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.”
— Ron Paul
Politics
It’s not often I agree with HuffPo…
…but this is one of those times.
Why ‘Calyee’s Law’ Is A Bad Idea.
And I just hope the HuffPo folks remember why laws made in this way are a bad idea when other “bad things” happen. For instance, knee-jerk firearms legislation….
Quote for the day
“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.” –James Madison, speech at the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788
Thanx, Lane.
A question for people who wish to ban guns
We have thousands of years of recorded history that didn’t involve guns but certainly involved violence. How can you think banning guns will end violence?
Banning bad/evil people might be a better step, but by definition they won’t adhere to your ban so what good will it be?
Facts and data support the notion that allowing a citizenry to be armed, to have force equalizers, does far more good — especially towards crime and violence prevention. (as a start on data, see Howard Nemerov’s book 400 Years of Gun Control – Why Isn’t It Working)
More “Hope and Change”®
[T]he position that Obama is now taking on medical marijuana—go after producers and sellers but leave patients alone—is no different from the position his predecessor took. In fact, Obama’s crackdown on medical marijuana is, if anything, more aggressive than Bush’s, with more frequent raids, IRS audits that threaten to put dispensaries out of business, forfeiture threats to dispensaries’ landlords, and direct interference in the legislative process by U.S. attorneys. This is certainly not what voters thought they were getting when they heard Obama repeatedly promise to change course on this issue.
How’s that hope and change working out for you?
Meet the new boss… worse than the old boss.
Again, good for him, not for us
In President Obama’s press conference yesterday he kept droning on about his daughters. I want to focus on is this statement:
I should also point out that I have men with guns that surround them often…
You see, this isn’t the first time Mr. Obama has bragged about how he has highly trained men and women that surround he and his family 24/7/365 (and will for the remainder of their lives), and by the duty of their job are supposed to give their life for him. He’s proud of the fact they have guns to protect him and keep evil people from doing him harm.
But Mr. Obama’s track record has demonstrated he doesn’t want you to have guns to protect you and your family. Loves guns when they protect him, hates guns when they protect you.
Hypocrite, thy name is Barak.
Why should we care?
Here in Austin, a women hit and killed a pedestrian. The woman left the scene, but was later apprehended and charged. Here’s the story.
I’m not here to talk about the incident itself, but rather the reporting of the incident.
The local news is making a big to-do out of this because of the woman’s job: she’s a staffer for a Texas State Representative.
Why are we supposed to care about this? Why is her day job something to focus on? Why does that make this more newsworthy than other hit-and-runs? Is it because she’s young, pretty, and blonde? The news media does suffer from “pretty white girl syndrome“. Is it because she works for a Republican and the liberal news media wants to try to draw some sort of evil connection?
If this woman worked as a garbage collector, would they care? even if her boss was a Republican?
Can someone please tell me why this angle of reporting? Why is it newsworthy? Why does it matter?
Or is it just their bias showing through?
SB 766 – passed!
SB 766, the shooting range protection bill, passed out of the Texas Legislature and is on its way to the Governor for his signature. Good deal.
The House sponsor was Rep. Jason Isaac. It’s still weird to see his name in regards to Texas politics, because we went to high school together in Virginia. Just one of those “small world” things. But I’m glad to see this!
Only if you agree with me….
Remember…. “open minded” means “agrees with me”. Remember… free speech, so long as I approve of it and it agrees with my beliefs.
*sigh*
Beck, Limbaugh, and Fox News irritate me, Maddow and HuffPo irritate me. Those precious 1A provisions are there precisely to protect unpopular speech. It’s a shame so few people understand that any more.
What We Want
What we want: 1 To be left alone. 2 To have our rights left alone. Why is that so hard for some people?
– Linoge
Stuff From Hsoi 