Not to mention hybrid Prius tanks!
The satirists at Second City have come up with the perfect introduction to President Obama’s speech tonight in which he’ll tell us why we need bomb Syria. I think they have just characterized the low-information voters who blindly follow Obama far better than any conservative or libertarian columnist could hope to do.
H/T Instapundit
I was checking out the Colorado Springs TV stations to see how they were playing the recall election of Senate President John Morse (D-Colorado Springs. One of the stations I checked was KKTV Channel 11. They are the local CBS affiliate in Colorado Springs.
At the bottom of the page of a story about how redistricting was causing some voter confusion at the polls in the recall election, KKTV had a set of links entitled More From Our Partners. The lead story in this category was about the new voter ID law in North Carolina. It was from “DGA”. Following the link I found that DGA stands for the Democratic Governors Association and the article was accusing Gov. Pat McCrory of backing “voter suppresion.” The link is gone now as they have rotating links. However, you can still see it in the screen cap shown below.
You have to wonder if this same station would consider the Republican Governors Association as their “partner” and include links to its “news” stories. Frankly, I don’t want my local TV station to consider either party as their “partner”. I want them to report the news without a slant. At least with KKTV the curtains have been pulled aside a bit and their bias can be seen.
The Gazette of Colorado Springs seems to get Senate President John Morse (D-Colorado Springs) and his motivation. At least that is the impression I get from reading this editorial in yesterday’s edition. The editorial discusses Morse and his purported liberal leanings. They note that the Marijuana Policy Project, a leading organization pushing for the legalization of pot, has named Morse their “#1 worst state legislator in the United States” for trying to sneak a bill through the legislature that would have, in effect, repealed Colorado’s voter-approved initiative on marijuana. The Gazette says that Morse is not a liberal but an authoritarian politician.
Liberals in Colorado’s 11th Senate District should understand that Morse is not a genuine liberal. Rather, he governs as an equal-opportunity authoritarian.
That’s why he may become the first state politician in Colorado history to be recalled.
And the second quote from the editorial which really summarizes what this recall election is all about.
This recall isn’t a battle of right versus left, conservative versus liberal. It’s a citizen effort to end the reign of a politician who views the public – even his most liberal constituents – as fodder for the elite political class in Washington, Denver and New York.
The City of Chicago Committee on Public Safety approved a rewriting of city ordinances that would repeal the city’s gun registry.
A decades-old requirement for Chicago gun owners to register their firearms will soon be off the books after a panel of aldermen on Monday recommended repealing it.
If the full City Council agrees as expected on Wednesday, it will be the first time in Chicago since 1968 that legal guns don’t have to be registered. That’s when then-Mayor Richard J. Daley set up a city gun registry.
The change can be traced to the State of Illinois’ new concealed carry law which gave the state the sole authority to issue gun permits and licenses.
According to Chicago Tribune, Alderman Ed Burke (D-14th Ward) was quite angry over the changes. Burke is the only alderman to have bodyguards provided by the taxpayers of Chicago.
Todd Vandermyde, the NRA’s lobbyist in Illinois, called these changes a “start”. A video interview of Todd is by the press after the Public Safety Committee meeting is can be seen here. As the video is an auto-start video, I’ve just included the link instead of embedding it.
All I can say after watching this is Go Todd!
Charles C. W. Cooke of the National Review sat down with Tim Knight and Luke Wagner to talk about the recall elections in Colorado. They are two of the leaders of the Basic Freedom Defense Foundation which is spearheading the efforts to recall Senate President John Morse (D-Colorado Springs) and Senator Angela Giron (D-Pueblo).
I am the first person from the national press that Knight has spoken to directly. “This is not about us,” he explains. “The new gun laws were just the catalyst. A lot of people are very upset about being ignored, so finding vocal moral support hasn’t really been a hard sell. There’s a lesbian couple that’s been very happy in helping us.” I raised my eyebrows at this. “I start there,” he adds, “because people say to me, ‘Well, they couldn’t possibly be interested in helping you.’ Well, sure they can! They care about protecting themselves, too.”
A desire to protect ones’ self is not limited to white, conservative, male heterosexuals. Likewise, being ignored by those that supposedly represent you in the various legislatures pisses people off including more than just gun rights advocates.
We knew it was coming and now it is here. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, at the behest of President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, have now published their proposed rule regarding background checks and Chief LEO sign-offs for trusts and/or corporations seeking to purchase firearms that come under the National Firearms Act of 1934.
The proposed rule was published today in the Federal Register and can be found here.
The more extensive rationale for this as signed by Attorney General Holder can be found on the ATF website here.
We will have 91 days from today in which to submit comments regarding this proposed rule. I hope to have an automated letter generator up similar to what we did a couple of years ago on the multiple semi-auto rifle purchase reporting requirement. In the meantime, Prince Law Firm has a number of suggested letters here. They have some additional suggested steps to take here.
As attorney Dave Hardy said with regard to the petition from the NFA Trade and Collectors Association, expecting ATF to be reasonable is never a good idea. David Codrea has more on the petition from NFATCA here and the consummate stupidity of their move.
While the background checks of all responsible persons within a gun trust might be tolerable, it is the requirement for the CLEO check-off that is the real knife in the back. In many locations, chief law enforcement officers won’t sign off on any NFA item regardless of whether it is a suppressor or a full-auto machine gun. NFA gun trusts were the one way around anti-gun police chiefs and sheriffs. The new proposed rule does away with that.
I had batted the idea of a NFA trust around with my brother-in-law. I think we may be doing something sooner than later and I’d suggest you might want to do the same.
While the recall elections in Colorado Springs and Pueblo are actually under way, tomorrow is the official election day. It will be the day where the rest of America will see if Bloomberg can successfully buy the legislatures of western states to further his anti-gun jihad and whether there will be any accountability for those legislators who traded the Constitution for money.
Ginny Simone reports for in a special for NRA News on the recall elections. She has interviews with many of the average guys who said enough was enough. People like Victor Head of Pueblo who is a plumber and Rob Harris of Colorado Springs along with El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa who is a plaintiff in the Federal lawsuit against the new gun laws.
The Colorado Springs Gazette estimates that Colorado Springs along with Pueblo have gotten a 500% return on their investment. The investment to which they refer is the cost of holding the recall elections for Senate President John Morse (D-Colorado Springs) and Senator Angela Giron (D-Pueblo). The return comes from all the out of state money donated to their campaigns by the likes of Michael Bloomber, Eli Broad, and others of their ilk that is being spent on campaign advertising. The editors note that these donors want Morse to continue his ideological agenda which is “averse to community interests”.
After pointing out that the recall proponents are operating on a shoe-string budget, the contributions from the NRA and Americans for Prosperity notwithstanding, they conclude:
Despite his enormous advantage in out-of-state money from special interests and left-wing billionaires, the “Whole Lot of People for John Morse” Facebook page asks us to “fight back against the NRA and Koch Brothers!”
Don’t be fooled. If big out-of-state money buys our community’s elections, Morse wins by a landslide. The good news: Either way, the election is not an expense to Colorado Springs. It is more like manna from heaven, even when Morse defenders ship cash to the best political operatives Chicago’s political machine can provide.
Remember – the only reason there is even a recall is because Bloomberg bought the votes of the Democrats in the Colorado legislature on gun control through a combination of money and the threat of primaries.
Since it takes so little to injure the feelings of the gun prohibitionists and cause hysteria, here is something else – free guns!
Aaron at Weapon-Blog has his list of contests in which you can win free guns and accessories. This month it seems tilted towards pocket guns and ARs.
In the pistol category, there are two Springfield XD-S pistols (both 9mm and .45 ACP), two Kahrs, and a Beretta Nano among other choices. In the rifle category, I count 6 AR-15s plus some very nice bolt rifles. Finally, if you want a new Mossberg shotgun, they have four listed including two Thunder Ranch 500s. Finally, there are just a ton of contests with all sorts of accessories ranging from Crimson Trace lasers to holsters to night vision devices.
If you come across any other contest or giveaway involving firearms, let Aaron know at the link on his site.
If Coloradans needed another reason to vote to recall the odious Senate President John Morse (D-Colorado Springs) and his anti-gun compatriot Sen. Angela Giron (D-Pueblo), here is one you’ve probably not considered. If either or both survive the recall elections, they are each eligible under Colorado law to collect 10 cents per vote cast.
If everyone registered to vote in Morse’s El Paso County Senate District 11 actually voted, then Morse — with a victory — could be reimbursed $6,901.For Giron, whose Pueblo Senate District 3 has 81,846 registered voters, she could receive $8,100 in reimbursement cash.
Morse and Giron, who face recalls for their support of Colorado gun laws passed this year by the Democrat-controlled legislature, would have 60-days after the date of the recall election to file a request with the state.
“It’s just not something we’re going to look to do,” said Kjersten Forseth, a consultant to both the Morse and Giron recall campaigns. “The taxpayers are already being forced to pay for these unnecessary recalls, and we’re not going to look to punish them.”
Given the amount of money that the incumbents have received from the likes of Mayor Bloomberg and LA billionaire Eli Broad, it is pocket change.
Their consultant did say it might be different if the money was coming from the organizers of the recall petitions. However, she went on to add, “that’s not at all democratic.”
I find that last comment rather rich considering Sen. Morse’s own comments to Rachel Maddow shown below in which he told Democrats in the State Senate to ignore their constituents when it came to voting to abridge their Second Amendment rights.
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