One hardly knows where to begin, so OS decided he should begin by actually looking up and reading the documents Himself signed today.
He's just getting underway.
The first one seems to be more about coordinating the information at hand into the NICS criminal identification system.
Standard stuff--form committees, issue memos, burn money, issue press releases, burn money, go on research junkets to London, burn money, hold conferences in warm locations, deliver papers, listen to papers being delivered, burn money.
The second one borders on the bizarre:
In addition to being a law enforcement challenge, gun violence is
also a serious public health issue that affects thousands of
individuals, families, and communities across the Nation. Each year in
the United States there are approximately 30,000 firearm-related deaths,
and approximately 11,000 of those deaths result from homicides.
Addressing this critical issue requires a comprehensive, multifaceted
approach.
Recent research suggests that, in developing such an approach, a
broader public health perspective is imperative. Significant strides can
be made by assessing the causes of gun violence and the successful
efforts in place for preventing the misuse of firearms. Taking these
steps will improve our understanding of the gun violence epidemic and
will aid in the continued development of gun violence prevention
strategies.
The language sounds high-flown and noble, unless it is actually read.
Influenza is a public health issue, like smallpox once was. There was an influenza epidemic in 1918-1920 which killed millions. A real virus was transmitted person-to-person which created sickness for 500 million, and death for some 20 million.
That, friends and neighbors, is an epidemic.
People committing violent crime with any sort of weapon is not an epidemic-it's delinquent behavior. To even utter the phrase 'gun violence epidemic' is a crime against the English language, against moral sensibility, against common sense.
This is Orwellian DoubleSpeak, pure and simple. Think back to Bill Clinton's famous summation of his presidency: 'It Depends Upon What Your Definition Of "Is" Is'. Words have no objective meaning, but are sounds produced in order to get one's way today.
'Gun violence epidemic'.
There is no such thing.
There are, however, amoral thugs with all manner of weapons, guns included, who fear neither God nor man. They are responsible for over five hundred murders in Obama's home turf of Chicago in 2012. Baltimore, Detroit, Philly, D.C, New Orleans...the list goes on. All of them strongholds of the Democrat Party power base, all of them killing fields for the citizens.
And, today, the mayors of those cities gathered in Charleston to hear and cheer Joe Biden as he lectured the rest of us on why we should all be disarmed.
Take a few minutes, listen at the link...
Joe also dismissed any plans to have armed guards in schools by declaring 'We don't want rent-a-cops in schools'. Ass. Hole.
Williamson County Tennessee, blessedly, won't be heeding his advice.
'Gun violence epidemic' indeed.
Showing posts with label Joe Biden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Joe Biden. Show all posts
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Fred Thompson Summarizes The VP Debate: I Know Joe Biden--That Was Joe Biden
OS still believes the GOP completely dropped the ball by not nominating Fred Thompson for President in 2008. The fact that the man contributed much to saving the Republic from the Nixon White House in the early 1970's, and Tennessee from Ray Blanton in the late 1970's shows that we suffer from a case of short memory. So many remember him only as an actor, an accidental career, literally. Fred's really a crack small-town Tennessee Southern lawyer who took his talents to a big stage, and his contributions to this country are significant.
His main failing is his self-effacing personality--he doesn't live for the adrenaline rush of the crowd. He's more interested in making certain he's pithily expressed what needs saying, which brings us to today's essay from Fred:
OS urges his army of listeners to read it all, and offers up this particulary pithy paragraph as a foretaste of Fred's verbal skills.
I met Joe Biden almost 20 years ago and served in the Senate with him for eight. In private conversation among equals he can be candid, introspective and thoughtful. But when he puts on his political hat he has no inner voice that tells him, “Joe, you’re going on too long. Joe you’re being a bully. You’re being discourteous to your colleagues. Joe, that makes no sense. It’s obviously not true. Don’t say that.” He either has no idea how he comes across to normal people or he doesn’t care. I’ve never figured it out. However he parlayed a handful of votes in Iowa into the Vice Presidency. I gotta give him that.
There's much more where that came from.
Enjoy!
His main failing is his self-effacing personality--he doesn't live for the adrenaline rush of the crowd. He's more interested in making certain he's pithily expressed what needs saying, which brings us to today's essay from Fred:
OS urges his army of listeners to read it all, and offers up this particulary pithy paragraph as a foretaste of Fred's verbal skills.
I met Joe Biden almost 20 years ago and served in the Senate with him for eight. In private conversation among equals he can be candid, introspective and thoughtful. But when he puts on his political hat he has no inner voice that tells him, “Joe, you’re going on too long. Joe you’re being a bully. You’re being discourteous to your colleagues. Joe, that makes no sense. It’s obviously not true. Don’t say that.” He either has no idea how he comes across to normal people or he doesn’t care. I’ve never figured it out. However he parlayed a handful of votes in Iowa into the Vice Presidency. I gotta give him that.
There's much more where that came from.
Enjoy!
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Now THIS Is Embarassing: Obama's 2008 Campaign Co-Chair Introduces Paul Ryan To A Campaign Crowd In Virginia; Governor Wilder Denounces Joe Biden
Ruh-roh.
From CNN, earlier today:
Artur Davis, the former four-term Democratic congressman from Alabama who co-chaired President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign, introduced the running mate of Obama's Republican challenger in Virginia Friday.
"Are you ready to meet the next vice president of the United States?" Davis asked at a rally in Springfield, Virginia. It was Ryan's second event of the day. He held a rally outside Richmond on Friday morning.
In his introduction, Davis pointed to Ryan's age – he's 42 – as having energized the GOP. Davis is 44.
"Remember a week ago, some of our Democratic friends had the illusion that we were kind of an older party. That were the party of the last generation. One week later I'm the oldest man on this stage right now," Davis said. "What a difference a week makes."
Davis, who said in May he was switching parties from Democrat to Republican, said he had only disagreed with Ryan on one subject: the status of Led Zeppelin as the "#1 band of the modern era."
"I questioned you as you said it. As a Genesis man, I questioned it," Davis said.
He also praised Ryan's willingness to advance a House GOP budget that included sometimes-unpopular cuts to programs in the name of cutting the federal debt.
"President Romney is going to have a vice president who believes, in a town where no one takes responsibility for anything, Washington D.C., this man wrote a budget with tough, hard, necessary choices. He put his name on it," Davis said.
And there's former Virginia Governor Wilder letting loose about Joe Biden...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The nation's first elected black governor, Virginia's L. Douglas Wilder, lambasted Vice President Joe Biden on national television Wednesday for his remark to a largely black crowd about banks keeping people "in chains."
Wilder, a Democrat and a grandson of slaves, echoed indignant denunciations from Republicans, including presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney, that Biden's comment at a Tuesday rally in Danville, Va., injected race into the presidential contest.
"Without question, they were appeals to race," Wilder told CNN. "And if you don't argue with that, then you understand that, then the next question is: Why? Why do you feel you need to do that? But the more important thing that I got out of this was Biden separated himself from what he accused the people of doing. As a matter of fact, what he said is, they are going to do something to y'all, not to me, not us. So he was still involved with that separate America. And I'm sick and tired of being considered something other than an American."
Ouch!!
Both gents, in case it needs to be said, are black. You know, that core group of Obama supporters that would never ever ever ever think about voting for aaaaaannnnyyyone else--ever.
It takes real courage for reach gentleman to speak up--they will have a lot of anger spewed in their direction over the next few weeks.
OS wishes them well, and as the descendant of a Confederate soldier from Mississippi, really truly wishes we could somehow get past the race-baiting, the constant pouring of salt into old wounds, the relentless appeal to our resentments at the expense of our hopes and our sense of logic.
Even George Wallace publicly repented of the practice, for crying out loud. The rest of us would do well to look to his example.
From CNN, earlier today:
Artur Davis, the former four-term Democratic congressman from Alabama who co-chaired President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign, introduced the running mate of Obama's Republican challenger in Virginia Friday.
"Are you ready to meet the next vice president of the United States?" Davis asked at a rally in Springfield, Virginia. It was Ryan's second event of the day. He held a rally outside Richmond on Friday morning.
In his introduction, Davis pointed to Ryan's age – he's 42 – as having energized the GOP. Davis is 44.
"Remember a week ago, some of our Democratic friends had the illusion that we were kind of an older party. That were the party of the last generation. One week later I'm the oldest man on this stage right now," Davis said. "What a difference a week makes."
Davis, who said in May he was switching parties from Democrat to Republican, said he had only disagreed with Ryan on one subject: the status of Led Zeppelin as the "#1 band of the modern era."
"I questioned you as you said it. As a Genesis man, I questioned it," Davis said.
He also praised Ryan's willingness to advance a House GOP budget that included sometimes-unpopular cuts to programs in the name of cutting the federal debt.
"President Romney is going to have a vice president who believes, in a town where no one takes responsibility for anything, Washington D.C., this man wrote a budget with tough, hard, necessary choices. He put his name on it," Davis said.
And there's former Virginia Governor Wilder letting loose about Joe Biden...
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The nation's first elected black governor, Virginia's L. Douglas Wilder, lambasted Vice President Joe Biden on national television Wednesday for his remark to a largely black crowd about banks keeping people "in chains."
Wilder, a Democrat and a grandson of slaves, echoed indignant denunciations from Republicans, including presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney, that Biden's comment at a Tuesday rally in Danville, Va., injected race into the presidential contest.
"Without question, they were appeals to race," Wilder told CNN. "And if you don't argue with that, then you understand that, then the next question is: Why? Why do you feel you need to do that? But the more important thing that I got out of this was Biden separated himself from what he accused the people of doing. As a matter of fact, what he said is, they are going to do something to y'all, not to me, not us. So he was still involved with that separate America. And I'm sick and tired of being considered something other than an American."
Ouch!!
Both gents, in case it needs to be said, are black. You know, that core group of Obama supporters that would never ever ever ever think about voting for aaaaaannnnyyyone else--ever.
It takes real courage for reach gentleman to speak up--they will have a lot of anger spewed in their direction over the next few weeks.
OS wishes them well, and as the descendant of a Confederate soldier from Mississippi, really truly wishes we could somehow get past the race-baiting, the constant pouring of salt into old wounds, the relentless appeal to our resentments at the expense of our hopes and our sense of logic.
Even George Wallace publicly repented of the practice, for crying out loud. The rest of us would do well to look to his example.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Joe Biden Wins The Unspeakable Horse's Patooty Award
What does one say about a Vice-President of the United States who enjoys 24/7/365 protection of the US Secret Service and charges the Service 2,200 rent for the space to house the agents who protect him 24/7/365?
Really, can't make this stuff up!
Actually, speaking for the taxpayer--WE pay rent there, or at least 60% of it. The other 40% is borrowed, and our grandchildren will pay that part.
Of course, as of today, anyone who may object to this sort of thing are have been labelled 'terrorists' by...er....Joe Biden.
Really, can't make this stuff up!
The U.S. Secret Service does more than protect Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. — the agency also pays him rent.
Since April, Mr. Biden has collected more than $13,000 from the agency charged with protecting him and his family for use of a rental cottage adjacent to the waterfront home he owns in a Wilmington, Del., suburb.
Mr. Biden, listed not as vice president in federal purchasing documents but as a “vendor,” is eligible for up to $66,000 by the time the government contract expires in the fall of 2013, the records show.
Officials say the arrangement came about when a previous tenant moved out of the cottage and the Secret Service moved in.
Edwin M. Donovan, special agent in charge at the Secret Service's Office of Government and Public Affairs in Washington, said the agency pays $2,200 in rent per-month, the same amount a previous tenant had paid before moving out.
He said the close location provides a level of security for the Biden family the agency might not have had otherwise. Asked if the Secret Service typically pays rent to the people it protects, he said, “It’s a rental property so we pay rent there.”
Actually, speaking for the taxpayer--WE pay rent there, or at least 60% of it. The other 40% is borrowed, and our grandchildren will pay that part.
Of course, as of today, anyone who may object to this sort of thing are have been labelled 'terrorists' by...er....Joe Biden.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
This Was Not S'posed To Happen, According To The GOP: O'Donnell Wins The Delaware Primary
From Fox News this evening:
Tea Party favorite Christine O'Donnell, a perennial candidate with no government experience, soundly defeated veteran politician Mike Castle for the Republican Senate nomination in Delaware Tuesday -- posing a major upset to the political establishment on the last big day of primaries.
With all precincts reporting, O'Donnell beat Castle 53-47 percent.
O'Donnell's win stands as the latest sign of Tea Party strength but also the latest test of whether that movement helps or hinders the Republican Party, with an open seat and perhaps a GOP Senate majority at stake.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee issued a terse statement congratulating O'Donnell for her nomination "after a hard-fought primary campaign."
Hmmm...will be interesting to see just how down-and-dirty the Democrats will be willing to get to hold on to the seat recently occupied by Joe Biden. BTW, it's not the 'Biden Seat'. It belongs to the voters of Delaware. O'Donnell can likely win if she reminds her constituents of that one simple fact.
Tea Party favorite Christine O'Donnell, a perennial candidate with no government experience, soundly defeated veteran politician Mike Castle for the Republican Senate nomination in Delaware Tuesday -- posing a major upset to the political establishment on the last big day of primaries.
With all precincts reporting, O'Donnell beat Castle 53-47 percent.
O'Donnell's win stands as the latest sign of Tea Party strength but also the latest test of whether that movement helps or hinders the Republican Party, with an open seat and perhaps a GOP Senate majority at stake.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee issued a terse statement congratulating O'Donnell for her nomination "after a hard-fought primary campaign."
Hmmm...will be interesting to see just how down-and-dirty the Democrats will be willing to get to hold on to the seat recently occupied by Joe Biden. BTW, it's not the 'Biden Seat'. It belongs to the voters of Delaware. O'Donnell can likely win if she reminds her constituents of that one simple fact.
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