One Man's Crisis Is Another Man's Opportunity: Rick Perry Visits Colt Manufacturing In Connecticut

This spring, the idiot mainstream press breathlessly reported and applauded as the Connecticut legislature passed even more restrictions on gun ownership in the wake of the Newtown tragedy. Oh, the humanity, oh how noble a legislature, this we say this will fix things, by golly!

What was not well-reported were the some 400 employees of Colt who appeared at the state capitol to ask for cooler heads to prevail, all to no avail.

This week, Rick Perry came to visit, to invite Colt to relocate to Texas, a state that will never ever ever piss on them like Connecticut did.

The president of West Hartford-based Colt Manufacturing said Friday he will be pleased to host a visit by Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, a state he called a loyal supporter of the gun maker.

Perry is traveling to Connecticut on Sunday for a Northeast job-poaching tour that will also take him to New York.

A number of gun makers in Connecticut have said they are looking into leaving after the state passed some of the toughest gun laws in the country, a response to last year's massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in which 20 children and six educators were gunned down.

Colt president Dennis Veilleux said he welcomes Perry's visit Monday morning. 

He was careful to speak in code:

"While we have been proud to call Connecticut home for 175 years, as we look to future growth we have a responsibility to consider all options that ensure we remain competitive and meet the needs and expectations of our customers," Veilleux said.

The translation being: 'We're outta here.'

The plant leaves. The workers leave, highly trained people whose families have worked for the firm for decades and more. Their families leave, and their children never come back. The suppliers to Colt also leave, and their workers and families. The costs of maintaining roads and running schools don't go down, but the tax revenue certainly does.

And as for the firms recruited to take Colt's place? Question #1 is: 'If you will do this to Colt, what will you do to us? Besides, we've been talking to Texas, and Alabama, and Tennessee...They've got better weather, better food, lower taxes, and fewer Democrats.'

OS believes in our Federal system, with most power flowing to the states and the people. It allows a Texas to profit from the idiocy of Connecticut, and serves thereby to restrain their folly. The best reforms arrive dressed as competition.

Bebe Netanyahu Repeats His Message In Plain English: Israel Will Not Allow Another Holocaust

Lest anyone be lulled by a 15K Dow, the NBA Finals, the NHL Finals, the US Open Golf Tournament, an entertaining baseball season, or distracted by the multiple scandals now enveloping the Presidency (once again), Bebe reminds us that we are allllll up to our hips in the Middle East...

Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, made the following remarks on Thursday at the dedication ceremony for the permanent pavilion at Block 27 at Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp.

"The leaders of the Allies (UK, US, France) knew about the Holocaust in real time. They understood exactly what was happening in the death camps. They were asked to act, they could have acted, and they did not. To we Jews the lesson is clear. We must not be complacent in the face of threats of annihilation. We must not bury our heads in the sand or allow others to do the work for us.

From here, the place that attests to the desire to destroy us, I, the Prime Minister of Israel, the state of the Jewish People, say to all the nations of the world: The State of Israel will do whatever is necessary to prevent another holocaust."

Netanyahu made the comments as other Israeli government ministers, Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage Bogdan Zdrojewski, Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Piotr Cywinski, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate and exhibition curator Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council Rabbi Israel Meir Lau and Holocaust survivors looked on.

OS takes zero joy in the cascading scandals overtaking the US government.  Many innocent people will perish because we are not paying attention to the world around us while we sort out our own problems. There are a lot of bad actors out there, and they are very happy to use our distraction to spill oceans of innocent blood. It's who they are, it's what they do.

In the wake of Watergate, the resignation of Nixon, and the confusion and national paralysis that followed, Southeast Asia fell to the Marxists, the boatloads of desperate refugees sailed from Vietnam to Hong Kong, and Pol Pot murdered his millions. There was nothing, and no one, to stand in their way.

Given Barack Obama's weakened reputation, active encouragement of chaos in North Africa, and the general war that has enveloped Syria, moving into Lebanon, the deterioration of Iraq, the interventions of Iran, and the Muslim Brotherhood in control of Egypt, Israel is essentially surrounded. Obama is, if not a closet practicing Muslim, deeply influenced by Islam, and will throw Israel under the bus when push comes to shove. 

Israel, for its part, will not go down without a fight, and Heaven only knows what that fight may entail.

It is time to watch and pray, and hope that sane heads somewhere prevail.

Inspired Truck Gate Art, June 2013

Sometimes, a brave soul possesses both the idea and ability to create one of those unforgettable artistic moments...

The 'Visionary' Barack Obama

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Pastor Peters Provides The Quote of The Day

 We face constant critics who decry the looming irrelevance of Christianity, its impending death, and the sins, weakness, and ineffectiveness of the Church and her ministers.  It would seem that we must constantly reinvent ourselves merely to survive.  But that is not true.  We have only to wait and we will win.  He has promised to come again, that we will be where He is and we will be with Him.  This is most certainly true.  But He has also promised that the old will pass away and the new will come.  Heaven is not some sanitized version of today in which the horrors of the news are replaced with good and happy stories.  Heaven is the old done and the new begun, the today that becomes the eternal tomorrow, when the victory of Christ brings to culmination all things as He has promised.

 
The rest here.

Hello There, Mister Obama And All Your Progressive Fellow Travelers

It appears, since OS is a Verizon customer, that ya'll have been logging every phone call I've made for years.

Let's make this easy for you, ok?

So, all those phone calls overseas--either to a family member or business colleagues. No need to worry there...no conspiracies cooked up, other than to deliver goodies to an office in London every Christmas.

Also, every keystroke has been monitored. Hmmm....lots of stuff about music, family, visits to restaurants, visits to family, pictures of dogs, babies, gardens, cakes we've baked, friends we love.

And, yes, this blog; which, if you will notice, has some pretty acid things to say about Massah Obama, Miz Hillary, Massah Harry, Mizz Nancy. You'll also notice that OS keeps calling for sending these clowns on their way via the ballot box, and only via the ballot box.

OS is many things, but stupid he's not. And he has no taste whatsoever for bloodshed, because when the blood begins to spill, there is absolutely no telling what tragedies will overtake us. No, no, no. The French Revolution, followed by Bonaparte, should be enough of a cautionary tale to restrain us all.

Two final things to say, since you're reading them anyway:

You and yours will fail. Monsters like you always fail, though you do ever so much damage as you run headlong over the cliffs of history.

There is a God, who is the unique Creator of you and everything else, and he does sit in judgment upon his creatures. You will not want to confront him with your unrepented sins on your head. This day will come, as it comes to all. Act now, turn to Heaven for mercy, while there is yet time.

OS is not a regular Glenn Beck fan, but this segment is on point.

Tom Donilon's Out, Susan Rice In As National Security Advisor To POTUS

Wow, we should all feel safer already, don't-cha-know...breathe that collective progressive sight of relief, now that we have a real expert on the job, someone with impeccable credentials and the trust of everyone in the country. Not someone who would peddle a bogus story about some video as the cause of a terrorist attack on an embassy....

Oh, wait....

This also puts her in the White House, directly reporting to the President, and well under the umbrella of executive privilege afforded any president and his advisors, out of reach of those nasty senators and congressmen who might want to ask questions of her under oath....

And...she needs no Senate confirmation to serve in the post!

Sweeeeet!

This scandal will not go away, and the unanswered questions just keep stacking up.  Someone, somewhere in the White House is already talking with his/her lawyer about how to cover his/her backside while he/she tells the unvarnished truth, with the requisite documents (those that haven't been shredded yet) to corroborate the testimony. It's the way the world works. Someone decides they he/she has no taste for prison, or that last flicker on conscience begins to burn, and away we go...

It is only a matter of time...

Dancing IRS Employees And The Legitimacy Of Government

It's hard work, you know, serving as an extension of the perpetual Obama political campaign. Little wonder the IRS found and extra $50 million dollars laying around for employee conferences these past few years, and some 30k of that for this fascinating line-dancing video.




Increasingly, it has become clear that the IRS has become an extension of the political arm of the Obama regime. When Obama declared, 'They bring a knife, we bring a gun', he wasn't kidding. When he boasted about going after his enemies, he wasn't kidding.

OS has a prediction to make: As the pieces of this scandal come together, and the jigsaw puzzle of facts and anecdotes is assembled, the very legitimacy of the 2012 Presidential election will come into question.

The rallies for Romney in Ohio were huge in the days approaching the election, while Obama's folks struggled to fill even modest halls.

 So many states weren't even contested...the entire election felt, well, oddly contrived, strangely manipulated. There was genuine shock at Obama's win, especially after he lost the endorsement of normally loyal newspapers. OS asked friends in Ohio how this could have happened, and they shook their heads, either saying 'I don't know', or 'Cleveland'. Even the coal miners voted Romney this time.
Something just didn't add up, but no one knew how to explain it.

The stories now being told about the deliberate campaign of the IRS to intimidate political opposition may well be the tip of the iceberg.  The 2012 may have been manipulated to the point of fraudulence.

If this does become apparent, we are in a world of trouble. Obama will never resign, and no impeachment could succeed without a healthy GOP majority in the Senate after November 2014.

We are in a world of trouble. OS is not calling for the President's head. He is urging one and all to pray for this nation, and to prepare themselves for a rough and painful ride.

The Articles Of Impeachment Filed Against Richard Nixon

The damage control machine is in full gear now, with this conversation between Dan Pfeiffer (White House shill-of-the-week), and George (I-owe-my-career-to-the-Clintons) Stephanapolous.

The quote of the day is: 'The law is irrelevant', followed by immediate back-tracking--that's ok, the message made it out there into the open air. There was also the vow to engage in a 'modified limited hang-out' mode (in Haldeman and Erlichmann mode). Followed by condescending language about the Republicans, saying that what they're really mad about is losing the election and that Obamacare still lives. He was at pains to protect Obamacare, no. matter. what. And that they owe Susan Rice an apology for pointing out that she spread falsehoods.

This White House, like the Nixon White House, has decided to brazen their way through it. Facts be damned, law be damned, truth be damned, the Constitution be especially damned, The President Is Above The Law And Don't You Forget It, How Dare You Ask Disrespectful Questions.

The frightening revelation, details aside, of the Nixon years, was that the re-election campaign of 1972 (run by an organization aptly named CREEP) involved the enlistment of much of the Federal Government as a tool to accomplish that goal. The IRS was involved. The Attorney General was involved, the CIA was involved...on it went. There was no line that separated the government from the political operation. It was frightening to contemplate, as we were on the road to a dictatorship.

Fast forward forty years, here we are again. This will not end well. Read below to understand why. The words below are in the historical record, the actual words used to recommend impeachment.

This will not end well. The individual scandals will break upon the administration like a hurricane. It will just keep raining, but this President will never resign his post. It is his only identity, his one life's quest. He will never surrender it, his strength of will puts Nixon and even Bill Clinton in the shade. He will play the race card, the class card, and eventually perhaps even a religion card or two.

This will not end well. OS fears the dots will connect, and lead directly to the President and his staff.


Here are the articles of impeachment passed by the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives which led to Nixon's eventual resignation on July 27 1974.

Article 2 is especially troubling:

Article 2

Using the powers of the office of President of the United States, Richard M. Nixon, in violation of his constitutional oath faithfully to execute the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in disregard of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has repeatedly engaged in conduct violating the constitutional rights of citizens, impairing the due and proper administration of justice and the conduct of lawful inquiries, or contravening the laws governing agencies of the executive branch and the purposed of these agencies.
This conduct has included one or more of the following:

1. He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavoured to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposed not authorized by law, and to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be intitiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.
2. He misused the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service, and other executive personnel, in violation or disregard of the constitutional rights of citizens, by directing or authorizing such agencies or personnel to conduct or continue electronic surveillance or other investigations for purposes unrelated to national security, the enforcement of laws, or any other lawful function of his office; he did direct, authorize, or permit the use of information obtained thereby for purposes unrelated to national security, the enforcement of laws, or any other lawful function of his office; and he did direct the concealment of certain records made by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of electronic surveillance.
3. He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, in violation or disregard of the constitutional rights of citizens, authorized and permitted to be maintained a secret investigative unit within the office of the President, financed in part with money derived from campaign contributions, which unlawfully utilized the resources of the Central Intelligence Agency, engaged in covert and unlawful activities, and attempted to prejudice the constitutional right of an accused to a fair trial.
4. He has failed to take care that the laws were faithfully executed by failing to act when he knew or had reason to know that his close subordinates endeavoured to impede and frustrate lawful inquiries by duly constituted executive, judicial and legislative entities concerning the unlawful entry into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, and the cover-up thereof, and concerning other unlawful activities including those relating to the confirmation of Richard Kleindienst as Attorney General of the United States, the electronic surveillance of private citizens, the break-in into the offices of Dr. Lewis Fielding, and the campaign financing practices of the Committee to Re-elect the President.
5. In disregard of the rule of law, he knowingly misused the executive power by interfering with agencies of the executive branch, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Criminal Division, and the Office of Watergate Special Prosecution Force, of the Department of Justice, and the Central Intelligence Agency, in violation of his duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed.

In all of this, Richard M. Nixon has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President and subversive of constitutional government, to the great prejudice of the cause of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the United States.
Wherefore Richard M. Nixon, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.
Adopted 28-10 by the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives.

It's A Family Affair: The Barack H Obama Foundation Fast-Tracked For Non-Profit Clearance By The IRS

Obviously, there was 'adequate supervisory oversight' to see this application through, and even make the date of non-profit status retroactive....sweeeeeet...

It helps to be the President's half brother, raising funds to build a madrasa back home in Kenya...and the poor gent has twelve wives to keep fed. This brother's got him some bills to pay, ya'll.  If you think this is not a good way to run a government, you be a raaaaaaaacist! Just ask Chris Matthews and that fount of good character Al Sharpton.

Of course, Donna Brazile, one of the meanest operators in contemporary politics (she ran Al Gore's campaign in 2000, amongst other things) is now pontificating that the real problem is that folks are getting all bent out of shape over these minor matters...if we would just all sit down, shut up, and let people like her run the show, we'd all be so much better off.

Scuse' us, Donna, if we don't follow your advice....