"What a Horrible Woman"

Here's an interesting clip from CNN's Jack Cafferty reporting on the congressional delegation's trip to Copenhagen last month for the world climate change conference. It seems that aside from the actual delegates, there was a whole bunch family members and hangers-on who also got a free ride at tax payers expense, courtesy of the Speaker of the House, who, according to this CNN report, refused to answer questions about how much the trip cost US taxpayers.

To paraphrase Shakespeare, it seems that the state of Denmark isn't the only place where there is something rotten.

With the exception of Lou Dobbs' reporting, I've always considered CNN to lean a little bit towards the left in it's coverage, but perhaps those days are drawing to a close. Cafferty's monologue gets more worked up and scathing as he describes Pelosi. Just like the emperor's new clothes, even some news networks are waking up to a regime that is not what they expected. Here's the link to the video.

More Special Elections Before November

In case we thought the special elections ended with Scott Brown's outstanding win in Massachusetts, there are more to come:

In Broward County, Florida ( Ground Zero for ballot recounts in the 2000 presidential election) The surprise mid-term resignation of Congressman Robert Wexler (D) puts the 19th Congressional District up for grabs. Traditionally, 19th District has been heavily Democrat, but this year, three potential Republican candidates are vying for the red seat at the special election on April 13th. According to the Florida Sun Sentinel, "state Sen. Ted Deutch, D- Boca Raton, is the odds-on favorite to become South Florida's newest member of Congress." the Sentinel goes on to say,"Three candidates are seeking the Republican nomination: Joe Budd, a financial planner; Ed Lynch, a contractor who ran against Wexler in 2008; and Curt Price, a retired Fort Lauderdale police officer who owns a business that sells safes. None has held elected office before."

Hawaii's First Congressional District is also up for a special election after Congressman Neil Abercrombie (D) resigned in order to run for Governor. Historically, Republicans in Hawaii have had about as much chance of getting elected as Rosie O'Donnel has of being hired as a pole dancer, but this year, may be different (the election, I mean ... ). House Rep. Charles Djou is running as the Republican candidate, while the Dems are fielding more than one candidate. The blog, Jumping in Pools explains that, "There will be just one election, where all candidates from both sides will be competing for a plurality, leaving the top vote getter as the victor who takes the seat, and resulting in a united GOP in excellent condition to sneak an Aloha victory."

Read more: http://jumpinginpools.blogspot.com/2009/12/upcoming-elections-of-importance.html#ixzz0dpjZSX73

Time to stock up on beer and chips. It's going to be an interesting election season.

Hitler Reacts to Scott Brown's Senate Win

It's Friday. Time for a little fun.

Here's a very funny YouTube clip that probably mirrors the sentiments of some people in Washington and San Francisco.

Click here for the link.

Enjoy!

Never Let an Election Go to Waste

Republican candidate for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat, Scott Brown's win yesterday in Massachusetts may be a taste of things to come in the November mid-term elections when the entire U.S. House of Representatives and one-third of the U.S. Senate is up for re-election.

The electorate is fed up with Chicago-style politics in Washington D.C., and this morning I suspect that many incumbent Democrats and maybe quite a few Republicans are considering their options and wondering if they should run again in November.

I wish Scott Brown luck in his new position. I hope he works to restore fundamental conservative values to a party and a government that has tried for too long to be a big tent and encompass all people and all opinions. The correct word to describe this is not "Diversity", but "Fragmentation",

Personally, I'm almost as tired of the Republicans as I am of the Democrats. In some cases, it's hard to tell the difference. Having lived through several elections in a country that had first a three-party, and later a four-party system of government, I can only say that while our two-party system invites the frustrating procedure of voting for the lesser of two evils, a multiple-party system often splits the vote between the two most capable parties, thus allowing the worst party to actually be elected!

So, while I support the unofficial Tea Party and it's attempts to rein in the abuses of Democrats and Republicans alike, I don't see the Tea Party ever becoming a viable third party option. I would, however like to see the Tea Party replace either the Democratic or the Republican party. Neither one has earned the trust and respect of the American people for a long time.

Good News for Wyoming Concealed Carry Permit Holders

I just received this from a reliable source. Currently, 48 of the 50 states allow some version of concealed or open carry of a handgun for personal protection. Wyoming is one of those enlightened states. They just need to tweak the wording to their legislation a little bit.

The right to self-defense is surely the most basic of all rights. Nobody would blame a dog for biting the person who kicks it; nobody would blame an animal for attacking the hunter who is trying to shoot it (I'm a hunter, by the way); so why would anybody question a person's right to defend themselves with a firearm when the alternative is injury or death?

But I digress. Here's the good news from the State of Wyoming:

OFFICE OF GOVERNOR DAVE FREUDENTHAL
State Capitol
Cheyenne, WY 82002
Ph. (307) 777-7434

January 15, 2010

******FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE******

Contact: Jonathan Green, Press Secretary
Phone: 307.777.7437
E-mail: jgreen3@state.wy.us

Gov. Freudenthal Backs Legislation to Restore Concealed Carry Reciprocity

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Gov. Dave Freudenthal has announced his support for proposed legislation to restore Wyoming concealed carry reciprocity after the current statutes were found to be ambiguous. Senate File 26 is sponsored by Sen. Cale Case of Lander.

Gov. Freudenthal said, “This is important legislation that ensures that lawful permit holders in and out of Wyoming can carry firearms as originally intended. I am very pleased that Senator Case has proposed legislation which remedies this problem and will take us back to a place where we have reciprocity with a significant number of other states.”

Last year, Wyoming Attorney General Bruce Salzburg discovered language in the existing law that would have significantly reduced the number of states to which Wyoming could grant reciprocity. Reciprocity is where two states agree to accept one another’s permits. Freudenthal and Salzburg agreed to postpone implementing a decision reducing the number of states who could legally carry concealed firearms in Wyoming, in order to give lawmakers an opportunity to craft a legislative fix. Salzburg believes the proposed legislation will clarify the statute and remove the problems with determining which states should be granted reciprocity.

“The existing statute requires the Attorney General to determine whether other states' concealed carry laws have requirements that are 'similar' to Wyoming's. The problem is that other states' laws are similar to Wyoming's requirements, in some respects, and markedly dissimilar in others. Because reciprocity is an important issue, I wanted more certainty regarding the scope of my statutory review of other states’ laws,” Salzburg said.

Sen. Cale Case is the primary sponsor of the legislation, with co-sponsors Sen. Eli Bebout, Rep. Edward Buchanan, Rep. Pat Childers, Rep. David Miller and Rep. Owen Petersen. The Governor sent a letter expressing his support for the legislation to the bill’s sponsors, Thursday.

Who Really Wants to Disarm Gunowners?

Despite victories by pro-individual freedom groups in the United States to promote laws allowing carrying of concealed weapons for self defense, and lawsuits like D.C. v. Heller that reaffirmed the individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms, as declared by the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the forces of darkness are gathering here and overseas to ban gun ownership by "mere" citizens around the world. Here's an interesting video about the international efforts to severely limit or ban private ownership of firearms. Just click here to watch it.

Throughout the world, throughout history, kings and governments that have held superior firepower over their citizenry have become less benevolent and more dictatorial, simply because they could. The Founding Fathers recognized this fact when they wrote the United States Constitution and made sure that the right of the people of the USA to own guns would always be there (along with other safeguards) to keep a balance of power between the people and the government.

If you don't think that totalitarian government is a possibility in the 21st century, consider the British parliament's decision to hand power over to the bureaucrats in the European Union. These people have done to Britain what the Nazis failed to do. Click here for the story. But of course, the government had already almost completely disarmed the population through a series of restrictive gun laws that date back to the early 1920s.