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In the wake of a monstrous crime like a madman's mass murder of defenseless women and children at the Newtown, Conn., elementary school, the nation's attention is riveted on what could have been done to prevent such a massacre.

Luckily, some years ago, two famed economists, William Landes at the University of Chicago and John Lott at Yale, conducted a massive study of multiple victim public shootings in the United States between 1977 and 1995 to see how various legal changes affected their frequency and death toll.

Landes and Lott examined many of the very policies being proposed right now in response to the Connecticut massacre: waiting periods and background checks for guns, the death penalty and increased penalties for committing a crime with a gun.

None of these policies had any effect on the frequency of, or carnage from, multiple-victim shootings. (I note that they did not look at reforming our lax mental health laws, presumably because the ACLU is working to keep dangerous nuts on the street in all 50 states.)

Only one public policy has ever been shown to reduce the death rate from such crimes: concealed-carry laws.

Their study controlled for age, sex, race, unemployment, retirement, poverty rates, state population, murder arrest rates, violent crime rates, and on and on.

The effect of concealed-carry laws in deterring mass public shootings was even greater than the impact of such laws on the murder rate generally.

Someone planning to commit a single murder in a concealed-carry state only has to weigh the odds of one person being armed. But a criminal planning to commit murder in a public place has to worry that anyone in the entire area might have a gun.

You will notice that most multiple-victim shootings occur in "gun-free zones" -- even within states that have concealed-carry laws: public schools, churches, Sikh temples, post offices, the movie theater where James Holmes committed mass murder, and the Portland, Ore., mall where a nut starting gunning down shoppers a few weeks ago.

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  I  love Christmas lights. They remind me of the people who voted  for
Obama. They all hang together; half of them don't work, and  the ones that
do, aren't all that bright. 
   
    For those who  understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do
not  understand, no explanation is possible. 

Liberals have nearly destroyed this country socially. Disloyal corporations have almost sold America away!

I’m going to ask a Question to the Tea Parity members. I have written our Senator from the state of Wyoming but I don’t seem to get a very good answer.
Obummer wants more money to spend, has anybody up in Corrupt DC ever ask him why he needs more money to spend. Make a list and produce it to the American people, and allow the American people to say “Yes or No” about this so called revenue increase with raising Taxes on everyone.
Some how we are allowing 600 people that can’t seem to get it’s head out of the sand in telling the American people what’s good for them and what’s not.
Not any of them could ran a lemonade stand and make a profit.
I’m still trying to find out they need more money for “What so they can give it to the people hoe wish to kill us” or to more bankrupt green energy companies. Or maybe to pay back his Union buddies that got him elected Illegally.
Can anyone tell why?
Just because this Butthead won the election doesn’t mean he should get his way. He’s like a little kid throwing a temper tantrum when they don’t get their way. Has anybody looked the Healthcare bill that was passed and see just how many taxes are in that bill “21” to start with, and not one of those taxes help the American people. No not one.
All of them “STOP DIGGING THE HOLE DEEPER” as for the debt.
Of course these people that make billions of dollars have stuck their foot in their mouths a few months ago. You take actors, athletes just how many jobs have they produced. All they know how to do is get in trouble and get their hands slapped.
I’ve taken sometime and thought about what happened in Newtown and it saddens me very much. We ask ourselves “Why” and the only thing that I can come up with is our Judicial system, and the bleeding hearts of America. I guess I could go on about this problem but I would be blowing smoke to the wind. At what age to we start teaching our kids and grandkids right from wrong. Theirs 3 things that parents are forgetting to teach kids today. Manners, respect, and be polite towards one another specially towards adults.
To be completely honest I seat back and think about our freedoms and they are being taken away one by one, and wish to ask the people of America just how many freedoms do you have to give up before “We the People” wake up.
We try to elect people with some brains to go to Corrupt DC but somehow on the way they seem to lose their brains. All they want to do for so many years is TAX and SPEND our money on stupid things. We could stop paying taxes like so many of them and see if they have enough jails to lock 300 million people up. Or better yet try to elect people with common sense and spend the taxpayer money right.
Like I have said in this blog I just blowing smoke to the wind because they in Corrupt DC will never listen to anything I or any American has to say about what is going on. Even thought they are being paid by our tax dollars.

I am making an appeal to all of you to contact your reps in Washington to weight in on important issues like:

1. No accountability for Bengazhi

2. Short sale of Citizens' money to bail out GM

and others.... your choice (unlike Obamacare)

You can contact your reps at

Senate:  SENATE dot GOV

House: WRITEREP dot HOUSE dot GOV

By Ben Klayman | Reuters – 1 hr 17 mins ago

(Reuters) - General Motors Co said it will buy back 200 million of its shares from the U.S. Treasury and the government plans to sell its remaining stake within 15 months, all but assuring a multibillion dollar loss.

Treasury said it will sell its remaining stake of about 300.1 million shares "through various means in an orderly fashion", and could begin the process as soon as January.

The auto giant, dubbed "Government Motors," received about $50 billion from the Treasury as part of its bankruptcy restructuring in 2009 under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).

The stock sale is part of a broader push to wind down the controversial financial bailout.

The GM sale will raise the proceeds that Treasury has recovered to $28.6 billion. With $20.9 billion left from the original bailout, the government would have to sell its remaining shares at an average price of $69.72 to break even.

If Treasury sold its remaining stock at the price GM is paying now, it would come up short by more than $12 billion.

Please join us by emailing your reps in Washington against this short sale of our tax dollars !!!

We MUST BREAK EVEN OR MAKE A PROFIT ON OUR TAX DOLLARS - OTHERWISE WE HAVE GIVEN OUR MONEY AWAY ! 

DEMAND A PROFIT !

Original link at:http://news.yahoo.com/gm-buy-stake-treasury-plans-full-exit-holdings-131103066--finance.html

Strap on your seat belts, here's my latest self-defense thought: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KYf9H6Zl2O4

I recently sent this link out to a number of friends.   

 I know some of them are very conservative, some are liberal, some are military, some are teachers and college professors.  I expected to hear the whole gamut of comments.  One of the most disturbing is from, an otherwise intelligent, retired college professor, a PhD.    

Below is what he said, and my reply.  What do you think?  We had all better prepare ourselves for these conversations.  Our politicians can't agree to fix the tax code, cut spending, or balance a budget; but they rammed through Obamacare and they are building support to ram through their unconstitutional restrictions on gun ownership.

Sent: Mon, Dec 17, 2012 5:21 pm
Subject: Re: Breeding Ground for School Shooter

Ther tragic murder of 20 babies before christmas and their torturous grief, that I know all to well, of the parents of those babies has me reliving that tragic day in late november when my 4 year first son was called to join our saviour, Jesus, I know there are many many others that are reliving the loss of their babies around the most holy day in the christian year.  I also recall the loving condolances from family, friends and strangers when they heard about my loss. Tragedy,s of this type seem to rekindle love in the hearts and minds hundreds, thousands, millions of people as they share our grief and that outpouring of heartfull love is a reminder that the day of birth of Jesus, the holy prophet of love is approaching.  The grief that I have endured those many years ago has made me more grateful of my God, that he thought enough of all his children to send his only son, a mortal to teach us the value of love.  Upon reflection of my life and the manner I have lived it, striving every day to be that which God created me to be even though I was not always aware of doing so and unaware of the incentive that was driving me toward that goal until recently.  It could be that I had an unknown wish that there would come a day that my Jimmy would go to God and point to me on earth and poroudly proclaim to God "thats my dad".

So I find good reason to glorify the birth of our Lord with prayers of thanks, within my grieving, for the blessings which have come to all by the birth of Chirst, in a manger on a day when a bright star in the heavans guided three wise men to that manger.  So rejoice in the birth of Jesus and have a very merry and thankful christmas.

Bill Uthe

Found this on PJ Media this morning.  It makes a really good argument for hardening schools...

Defending the Targeted School

RGIII (Robert Griffin III), superstar quarterback of the Washington Redskins is the latest black under attack by the Blackness Gestapo. The Blackness Gestapo are racists, black and white, who troll the airways keeping blacks in-check, faithful to their blackness. They believe to be authentically black, one must behave and think in certain ways. Blackness Gestapo mandated authorized black behavior includes having a chip on your shoulder against whites, maintaining an eternal victim and entitlement mindset, never achieving success without Democratic Party programs and never ever voting Republican. Blacks must call themselves African-Americans and display an urban edge via their speech, attire and attitude.

Blackness Gestapo enforcer, ESPN analyst Rob Parker accused RGIII of not being black enough. Griffin comes from a great military family. His fiance is white. He is extremely articulate. He wants to be judged by his performance on the football field without regard of his skin color. Wow, what a radical concept in our new “everything-is-about-race” Obama America. Doesn't RGIII sound like he embraces the dream of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr that people be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin?

But worst of all, rumor has it that Griffin might be a Republican.

The idiotic self imposed suppression of black liberation and growth by the Blackness Gestapo goes way back.

In the 70s, I remember watching an episode of the sitcom, “Good Times”. A black politician was criticized by the black community for coming across too white. To prove his blackness and win black voters, the politician had to show he could speak an urban language called The Dozens. Clearly, the absurd restrictive message of the episode was regardless of ones education, racial loyalty requires that blacks maintain remnants of the hood.

Remember, the 90s comedy TV show, “In Living Color”? A standard joke of the program was the black guy who did not sound or behave like he came from the ghetto. The message was blacks who speak English correctly and prefer sushi over fried chicken are traitors trying to be white.

I witnessed the same brain-dead behavior from blacks here in Florida when brilliant articulate black Republican Jennifer Carroll ran for Congress against the Democrat incumbent do-nothing-for-her -constituents Corrine Brown. Brown's district was mostly black and ghetto. Brown had been in office forever without much positive change in her district. Carroll was smart and loaded with fresh new ideas. Brown won reelection hands down. Word on the street was Carroll sounded too white. Give me a break! Racist idiots!

Blackness Gestapo Generals Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton had a “tude” against Obama for running for president without hood “creds” such as theirs. Obama had to prove his blackness by spending 20 years in Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s racist church. The mainstream media partnered with the Democrats in hiding Rev. Wright's racist rants from the public to protect their first black serious socialistic/progressive contender for the Oval Office.

If I sound a bit frank in my language, it is because I am tired of Blackness Gestapo thugs threatening and stifling the growth of blacks. How dare they dictate the behavior of myself and other blacks.

American blacks are blessed to be born in the greatest land of opportunity on the planet. Just as whites are not monolithic, neither are blacks. We are individuals. Our God given birthright of freedom grants us opportunity to explore limitless tastes and behaviors without being chained by Authorized Blackness.

Forty years ago, I met a black fencing master – as in sword fighting. I was elated. I carted the brother to recreation centers across Baltimore. I wanted black kids to see black excellence beyond basketball, football, baseball and entertainment. I wanted them to see that blacks need not be limited in their abilities, hopes and dreams.

So Blackness Gestapo thug Rob Parker, get a life and mind your own business. RGIII is free to be whomever and whatever he wishes without you and your homey's approval. Wimp conservatives/Republicans say we must pander to your ilk to win the urban vote. That “ain't happenin'” as far as I am concerned. I will never sacrifice principles and values that I know are right and best for all people to the false god of votes. Racist thugs like you must and will be defeated.

Heck, this RGIII kid is so good, I just might become a Redskins fan. ...Nah. Go Ravens!

Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American

LloydMarcus.com

OK, so it's my first day of vacation this year and I'm up at 1a.m. checking email and reading Ann Coulter's "Godless, The Church of Liberalism" (good times, good times) when I get an email from tiptopjob.com (whom I subscribed when I was job hunting last year).  I open it up and what do I see but....

OK, so already being incensed at the liberalism in the U.S. (Coulter has that effect on me), I go to their website usagc.org and find an awfully U.S. officially looking website stating that

"Some of our benefits:

In a secret government agreement granted without approval or debate from lawmakers, the U.S. attorney general recently gave the National Counterterrorism Center sweeping new powers to store dossiers on U.S. citizens, even if they are not suspected of a crime, according to a news report.

Earlier this year, Attorney General Eric Holder granted the center the ability to copy entire government databases holding information on flight records, casino-employee lists, the names of Americans hosting foreign-exchange students and other data, and to store it for up to five years, even without suspicion that someone in the database has committed a crime, according to the Wall Street Journal, which broke the story.

Whereas previously the law prohibited the center from storing data compilations on U.S. citizens unless they were suspected of terrorist activity or were relevant to an ongoing terrorism investigation, the new powers give the center the ability to not only collect and store vast databases of information but also to trawl through and analyze it for suspicious patterns of behavior in order to uncover activity that could launch an investigation.

The changes granted by Holder would also allow databases containing information about U.S. citizens to be shared with foreign governments for their own analysis.

A former senior White House official told the Journal that the new changes were “breathtaking in scope.”

Read More Here.....   http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/12/gov-dossiers-on-us-citizens/

This is a Must Read, Folks.......

Via The Texas Tribune:

A coalition of tea party activists called on the Texas Legislature Tuesday to hold the line on taxes, crack down on employers who hire undocumented immigrants, make deep spending cuts and enact several ethics and transparency reforms.

 

The Tea Party Caucus Advisory Committee expressed support for Gov. Rick Perry’s so-called “budget compact,” aimed at ending budgetary tricks, limiting spending by Constitutional amendment and stopping any tax increases.

 

But the conservative group took direct aim at Perry elsewhere in its legislative agenda, entitled “Make Texas Strong.” The activists want the Legislature to zero out the hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for a series of tax incentive programs championed by Perry as crucial economic development tools.

THE COMMITTEE'S FULL DOCUMENT IS POSTED AT THIS LINK

Some Highlights include (and you'll love these)

Getting Back to Basics – Make State Spending Fit into a Constitution-sized Box by: eliminating departments, agencies, commissions, and programs that exceed the core constitutional functions of state government (listed above). Texans for a Conservative Budget has compiled a list of spending items, which can be eliminated or reduced by streamlining. [Source: http://www.texaspolicy.com/center/fiscal-policy/reports/real-texas-budget-solutions-2013-and-beyond] Lawmakers should look to this list of reductions before they ever utter the words “we need sources of new revenue.” The Conservative Budget list includes the Texas Enterprise Fund, Texas Emerging Technology Fund, and the Special Events Fund, which is an extended subsidy for Formula 1 racing and other entertainment venues. These state funds mirror the federal government’s practice of tinkering with the economy. Central planning through subsidies is not the proper role of government in a free market society. State government has no business attempting to pick winners and losers and doling out tax dollars to special interests any more than the federal government does. It is time to end this form of corporate welfare in Texas.

Stop Chasing Federal Dollars – Make Texas Strong & Independent of Federal Strings; reduce state reliance on federal dollars and restrict all new federal grant programs.

Implement Tax and Expenditure Limits – State and local government spending from ALL sources should increase only by the sum of population growth plus inflation and no more. We support a constitutional amendment to set this limit in order to protect current and future taxpayers from excessive state spending.

 Budget Transparency – practice truth in budgeting by ending diversions; a tax or fee should go to fund the original intent of the legislation that created the tax or fee; should a surplus occur, the fee or tax should be reduced, and the surplus used to reduce state debt.

Reforming Texas’ Public Pension Systems – According to recent reports from the Texas State Comptroller, the Texas retirement system, while fairly well funded compared to other states, is still legally liable to pay defined benefits totaling 10 to 20 times what state employees paid into the system. The legislature should institute these reforms: Freeze enrollment in the current defined benefit system and enroll newly hired or unvested employees in a 401(k)-style defined contribution pension plan.

Zero-based Budgeting – starts a budget from zero and requires justification for requested funding for each line item of a budget. This budgeting discipline has not been used by the State of Texas for the last nine years (2003), but should be instituted immediately to ensure taxpayers get the most value for their tax dollars.

 The Rainy Day Fund (also known as the Economic Stabilization Fund) – should only be spent on one-time emergency items or tax relief. The fund should NOT be spent for ongoing expenses. If we truly believe in personal responsibility, then the State of Texas should lead and preserve the Rainy Day Fund for true natural and man-made disasters. We need look no further than the recent example of the devastation wreaked by super storm Sandy. The states of New York and New Jersey immediately turned to the federal government for relief, and many of the people of those states are still waiting, months later. The Rainy Day Fund should be preserved so that Texas can be strong and less dependent on the federal government in times of disaster.

Reducing State Debt – We should avoid a state fiscal cliff by resisting the temptation to add to our state debt just because interest rates are low. Soaring debt is just as wrong for our state as it is for the federal government.

 Restructuring state government — Texas state government must be restructured:

To reduce the size, scope, and cost of state government

Because state government is weighted down with far too many overlapping, duplicated efforts = numerous bureaucratic kingdoms. (Natural resources has approximately 38 individual departments/agencies and programs.) Refocus Sunset process on making government more efficient by abolishing agencies, committees, boards, and statutes and consolidating agency functions

State government should be reduced down to its core constitutional functions. Core functions should then be performed as efficiently and effectively as possible to achieve measurable results.

The Texas Legislature should mandate a state government-restructuring project for the interim, which would:

Taxes

The Margins Tax – Abolish the gross margins tax, and begin by making the small business exemption permanent. The tax has underperformed, is complex, costly, and difficult to comply with. The tax is unfair as it is collected even from businesses that show no profit.

Property Tax Reform – Abolish and replace with a reformed sales tax that includes an adjusted tax rate and base.

Sales Tax – any increase in the sales tax base or the sales tax rate must be accompanied by reductions in other taxes. State and local governments should come to rely on consumption taxes as their main revenue generators.

State Income Tax – a non-starter! Texas is one of nine states without an income tax and should remain so. Texas should continue to encourage economic growth (a healthy tax base) by keeping taxes low and adopting pro-growth reforms.

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While speaking at a Dec. 16 prayer vigil for victims of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT, Barack Obama, ever the divisive political creature with a burning transformative agenda, could not pass on the opportunity to politicize the event:

“In the coming weeks, I’ll use whatever power this office holds to engage my fellow citizens, from law enforcement, to mental health professionals, to parents and educators, in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this, because what choice do we have? We can’t accept events like this as routine.

Are we really prepared to say that we’re powerless in the face of such carnage, that the politics are too hard?

Are we prepared to say that such violence visited on our children year after year after year is somehow the price of our freedom?”

Forget about the shock, grief, anguish, pain and suffering of the survivors.  Never mind that the vigil was intended to honor the innocent victims, not promote Obama’s ardent agenda to “fundamentally transform the United States of America.”

Never let a crisis go to waste…ever.

And to think, there are still people who wonder why America is so divided.

Congratulations Barack…Saul Alinsky would be proud of you.

If Obama is truly devoted to preventing such tragedies, how about he cease and desist being the most divisive American political figure of the 21^st century?  Anyone who is paying attention knows he is leading a group of like-minded politicians whose strategy is “divide and conquer.”

If Obama is honestly concerned with preventing the routine slaughter of children in schools, schools will no longer be gun free zones.  The criminally inclined, mentally deranged people who have perpetrated these shootings clearly have not respected these gun free zones, including America’s shopping malls and other public gathering places.

For “progressives” to use these tragedies as a thinly disguised attempt to alter or abolish Second Amendment Rights for free American Citizens is further evidence that they are attacking, not defending the Constitution of the United States of America.  Why is it not surprising that those who desire a “fundamental transformation” of America would be derelict in their duties while ignoring their oath of office?

Here is a clue for Obama and his high falutin, fancy pants, smooth talking, words parsing “progressive” Ivy League chums:

The Second Amendment was not written so 21^st century Americans could go deer hunting.

America’s Constitution secured the Right of the People to keep and bear arms as the last line of defense against tyrannical government.  Having just fought against and defeated King George’s military, America’s founders were keenly aware of the need for all Citizens to be prepared in defense of their Liberties.  It matters not whether tyrannical government is imposed by a foreign crown as it was in the 1700s, or from Washington DC, as is being done today.  Tyrannical government is tyrannical government.

As Patrick Henry said during debate in the Several State Conventions on the adoption of the U.S. Constitution:

“Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?  Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction, and having them under the management of Congress?  If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?”

Barack Obama and his fellow “progressives” are not interested in defending the God given, constitutionally protected Rights of American Citizens.  They are interested in ensuring that “progressives” gain a firm, final grasp on unstrained power.

America had better wise up.  Fast.

Because of groupthink and a poverty of imagination, the story of American Freedom and of American exceptionalism may end far too soon in a tragic, final chapter.

http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/never-let-a-crisis-go-to-wasteever/ 

In a complaint filed early last week in state court, a pro-illegal alien advocacy group, the state's largest union, and a Montana resident born in Canada sued Montana and several state officials as a result of the passage of Legislative Referendum 121 (LR-121). (See Complaint; see also Great Falls Tribune, Dec. 11, 2012). LR-121 denies state-taxpayer funded services such as state licenses, state employment, unemployment or disability benefits, and aid for university students to illegal aliens. The law also requires state agencies to notify the U.S. Department of Homeland Security of illegal aliens who have applied for state services. (LR-121).

In their lawsuit, the plaintiffs assail LR-121 on four grounds. First, they claim that Section 4 of LR-121 violates their fundamental right to privacy under Article II, Sections 3 and 10 of the Montana Constitution because it requires individuals to disclose their citizenship or legal immigration status to the state to obtain benefits.

Second, the plaintiffs claim LR-121 violates due process under Article II, Sections 3 and 17 of the Montana Constitution because they claim it grants discretion to state employees to determine who is an "illegal alien" and does not provide notice and opportunity for a hearing in the event that an applicant for services is classified as an "illegal alien" and denied services.

Third, the plaintiffs claim that LR-121 violates equal protection under Article II, Sections 4 of the Montana Constitution because it creates classes of similarly situated persons and treats them differently. "One class consists of persons who are United States citizens, lawfully present in Montana, and have readily-available proof of their citizenship status. The second class consists of persons who are United States citizens lawfully present in Montana, and do not have readily-available proof of their citizenship status, or for whom proof of their citizenship status may involve factual determinations and the application of federal law." (Complaint at pgs 17-19, 23). The plaintiffs also claim the law impermissibly treats lawfully admitted noncitizens who lawfully remain in the United States differently than unlawfully admitted noncitizens who remain lawfully in the United States by denying the latter state services.

Finally, the plaintiffs claim LR-121 is preempted by federal immigration law under the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution (U.S. Const., Art. VI, Cl. 2) because, they argue, the law both regulates immigration by creating classifications of aliens not defined in federal law such as "illegal alien" and conflicts with federal law by denying services to those who might have entered the United States unlawfully but have been granted permission toremainby federal law or presidential fiat.

The complaint asks the court to declare LR-121 unconstitutional and preliminarily and permanently enjoin its enforcement.

Representative David Howard, LR-121's drafter, says the measure is necessary to save tax dollars and discourage illegal aliens from making Montana their home. (Billings Gazette, Oct. 09, 2012). Montana citizens agreed, overwhelmingly approving the measure in the November election by nearly 80 percent. (See Montana Secretary of State's Official Election Results). Unless preliminarily enjoined by the court, LR-121 will take effect on January 1, 2013.

Read more....

www.fairus.org/legislative-updates/fair-legislative-update-december-17-2012