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Kudos to Governor Scott

May 3, 2012

Tampa mayor Bob Buckthorn wrote to the governor, requesting firearms be banned at the RNC convention in August. The governor answered in the negative and for that we thank him.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott has rejected a request to ban visitors from carrying concealed weapons in downtown Tampa during the Republican National Convention in August.

The request came from Mayor Bob Buckhorn, who wrote Scott to ask for an executive order to override state and federal laws allowing people with concealed weapons permits to carry firearms.

Buckhorn and others are concerned about people carrying guns at such a large, politically charged gathering.

In a same-day response to Buckhorn’s letter Tuesday, Scott, a Republican, said banning guns in the downtown area would infringe upon citizens’ constitutionally protected rights to legally arm themselves.

“Like you, I share the concerns that ‘violent anti-government protests or other civil unrest’ can pose dangers,” Scott wrote in his two-page response. “But it is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law.

Scott also said that his understanding is guns are already banned inside the convention center and in the surrounding “safety zone” created by the Secret Service.

Fox News

The man gets it. And for that we are grateful.

Bank of America: Anti 2nd Amendment

April 21, 2012

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Bank of Something, but it sure isn't America

Apparently doing business with a firearm related company is too risky for one of the largest banking institutions in the U.S..

McMillan Fiberglass Stocks, McMillan Firearms Manufacturing and McMillan Group International have been collectively banking with Bank of America for 12 years. But no more: In a recent meeting, the mega-bank told the firearms company that its business is no longer welcome.

Operations director Kelly McMillan told the Daily Caller that his company has never been late on a payment and has never bounced a check. The debt outstanding on its line of credit is at 61 percent.

But at the bank’s request, he said, the McMillan group of companies would soon be paying off its credit line and closing its accounts.

Writing Thursday on Facebook, McMillan described a meeting at his office with Ray Fox, a business banking Senior Vice President with the giant bank. What was originally scheduled as an “account analysis” meeting, however, quickly became a political smackdown.

The Bank of America emissary, he said, “spent 5 minutes talking about how McMillan has changed in the last 5 years and have become more of a firearms manufacturer than a supplier of accessories.”

“At this point I interrupted him,” McMillan said, and asked, ‘Can I possibly save you some time so that you don’t waste your breath? What you are going to tell me is that because we are in the firearms manufacturing business you no longer what my business.’”

Fox’s reply, according to McMillan? “That is correct.”

McMillan told TheDC that he plans to move his company’s account to “a more Second Amendment-friendly bank” as soon as it can be done.

He recalls telling the bank executive that he planned to tell the National Rifle Association, Safari Club International, and his other gun-loving friends “that Bank of America is not firearms-industry-friendly.”

“You have to do what you must” was Fox’s reply, he said. “We have to assess the risk of doing business with a firearms related industry.”

Daily Caller

Guess they don’t want our business, either.

H/T: Erinyes

Jane you Ignorant Slut

March 12, 2012

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Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem Call for FCC to Ban Rush Limbaugh

The Left’s hunt for conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh’s head stepped up a notch Saturday when Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem called for the FCC to ban him.

Radical feminist activist Robin Morgan also participated in penning the anti-free speech piece published by CNN.com:

Limbaugh doesn’t just call people names. He promotes language that deliberately dehumanizes his targets. Like the sophisticated propagandist Josef Goebbels, he creates rhetorical frames — and the bigger the lie the more effective — inciting listeners to view people they disagree with as sub-humans. His longtime favorite term for women, “femi-nazi,” doesn’t even raise eyebrows anymore, an example of how rhetoric spreads when unchallenged by coarsened cultural norms. [...]

If Clear Channel won’t clean up its airways, then surely it’s time for the public to ask the FCC a basic question: Are the stations carrying Limbaugh’s show in fact using their licenses “in the public interest?” [...]

This isn’t political. While we disagree with Limbaugh’s politics, what’s at stake is the fallout of a society tolerating toxic, hate-inciting speech. For 20 years, Limbaugh has hidden behind the First Amendment, or else claimed he’s really “doing humor” or “entertainment.” He is indeed constitutionally entitled to his opinions, but he is not constitutionally entitled to the people’s airways.

It’s time for the public to take back our broadcast resources. Limbaugh has had decades to fix his show. Now it’s up to us.

They want to take back broadcast resources for the likes of… Schultz and Mahr? Hell, if Hanoi Jane had her way we’d be calling each other ‘comrade’.

Go to Marooned in Marin for many more examples of the left’s ‘selective moral outrage’.

Toons via Pookie.

Dismantling the 1st Amendment

March 10, 2012

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H.R. 347 was signed by the president and became law on March 8, 2012.

Vast Majority of U.S. House Votes to Criminalize Protest (H.R. 347)

The 1st Amendment to the Constitution declares that the people of the United States have a right to assemble, speak and petition the government for redress of grievance that cannot be abridged. But with the passage of H.R. 347, the Congress has gone ahead and abridged that right anyway. H.R. 347 (bizarrely named the “Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act”) declares that whoever knowingly engages in protest near a building where the president is doing his business is guilty of a federal crime if the protest “impedes” or “disrupts” the flow of government business or official functions.

“Whoever … knowingly, and with intent to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions, engages in disorderly or disruptive conduct in, or within such proximity to, any restricted building or grounds when, or so that, such conduct, in fact, impedes or disrupts the orderly conduct of Government business or official functions …or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be punished as provided in subsection (b). (b) The punishment for a violation of subsection (a) is– (1) a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than 10 years, or both, if– (A) the person, during and in relation to the offense, uses or carries a deadly or dangerous weapon or firearm; or (B) the offense results in significant bodily injury as defined by section 2118(e)(3); and (2) a fine under this title or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, in any other case.”

No more demonstrating at presidential appearances, at least not if you don’t want to be arrested. No more demonstrating even near wherever the president is, even if nobody gets hurt, even if no property is damaged, even if nobody trespasses (see section b(2)). Raise your voice too loud and bother the president as he goes about his business and you can get tossed in federal prison for a year. Even talk about doing such a thing can get you a year in prison.

‘Kiss My Ass’

February 13, 2012

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I needed something to get my Monday started and Joan delivered! Here’s Ted Nugent and Piers Morgan talking about gun control…

Piers seems to be a useful idiot for leftists… but sometimes he’s not even useful. Good grief.

Reinforcement

February 9, 2012

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President Obama “reinforced” his stance on the controversial contraception mandate while speaking at the Democrats’ annual retreat at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. today, Senate Democrats said.

Following President Obama’s speech at the retreat, a small group of Senate Democrats, mostly women, left the retreat early in order to hold a news conference on Capitol Hill to counter the Republicans’ news conference today at which they called for the mandate to be overturned.

Democrats said they will “fight strongly” to keep the mandate in place.

“It is our clear understanding from the administration that the president believes as we do, and the vast majority of the American women should have access to birth control,” Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said pointing out that 15 percent of women use birth control for medical issues. “It’s medicine, and women deserve their medicine.”

Democrats today called on Republicans to stop using women as a “political football,” and stop defining this debate, as Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., did earlier in the day, as a religious issue.

“It’s time to tell Republicans ‘mind your own business,’” said Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J. ”Ideology should never be used to block women from getting the care they need to lead healthier lives.

“The power to decide whether or not to use contraception lies with a woman – not her boss,” said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. “What is more intrusive than trying to allow an employer to make medical decisions for someone who works for them?”

ABC

A few days ago Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote:

“Today, virtually all American women use contraception at some point in their lives. And we have a large body of medical evidence showing it has significant benefits for their health, as well as the health of their children.”

Oh, really? According to the National Cancer Institute, oral contraceptives may increase the risk of breast, cervical and liver cancer.

And not every woman has used or will use birth control. I am an exception to her rule.

Meanwhile, House Speaker Boehner and fellow Republicans have vowed to fight the mandate. With what, pop guns?

Romney claims that obama is infringing on religious rights… Meanwhile, as Governor, he did the same thing with Romneycare? Oh, what a tangled web we weave…

Just Folks

January 15, 2012

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We went to a gun show at the Fort Lauderdale War Memorial Auditorium yesterday. And in spite of the fact that there was another gun show running concurrently in Dade county, the place was solidly packed. As in, can’t move, can’t breathe, think I’m bolting out the side door, sardine tin packed.

But, mission at hand, we persevered and Mike bought a stealthy new carry piece. He’d gone with Kel-Tec in mind, but I and every dealer he spoke with talked him out of it, so he ended up with a subcompact little Ruger LCP, a .380 double action with a laser. You can’t believe how tiny and light the thing is; like a deadly toy.

Gun show regulars in Dade county back in the early 90′s, people watching was half the fun for us. The crowds then were mostly… ‘aficionados’. Lots of strange shirts, bandanas, rough looking types…
This crowd was ‘just folks’. I only saw one Harley t-shirt. There were people of all ages, from every walk of life. The disparity between then and now was stunning.

Interesting facts about the auditorium – Opening in 1950, it cost just $450,000. in community donated funds to build.
The lobby floor features the names of WWII battles radiating from a floor seal and there’s also a statue of a Vietnam War soldier, donated by the Gold Star Mothers in the mid 1970’s.

The Ten Commandments sit out front. It IS city property and atheist groups have tried to get it removed, but evidently someone has fought for them. I was surprised and pleased to see them.

This image is stock from around 1990, but they look the same today.