Great Satan, Inc.

I just got an email from AlGore and the WeTards reminding me that Earth Day is today. They would very much like me to harrass at least 10 of my friends and family members, “And ask them to join with you and the millions of other Americans who want Congress to support clean energy jobs by closing the carbon pollution loophole.”

They are trying to get people to believe that forcing existing energy companies to pay millions of dollars in “carbon credits” will somehow create new jobs. I got a Wetard email yesterday that proclaimed, “President Obama has demonstrated that he understands that a cap on carbon pollution will lead to rapid growth in clean energy investment and create millions of jobs.”

They need to do a much better job explaining this concept to me. I guess the clean energy fairy waives her magic wand after new restrictions and cap and trade taxes cripple the energy industry, and suddenly millions of new jobs appear?  Or, maybe the same fairy wiggles her nose and suddenly we have all of the infrastructure and practical technology available to create “clean” energy.
In the email from today, the WeTards also provide a second link that says, “I support clean energy but I’d like to help in other ways.” Curious as to what “help in other ways” means to them, I click on the link and it takes me straight to a donation page.

No thanks, I’m not donating my hard earned money to the Make AlGore a Billionaire fund. What happened to the days when they just wanted you to plant a tree or toss a couple of cans in the recycling bin?

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As promised, here is the complete set of photographs that were taken at the Tax Day Tea Party in Phoenix on April 15th, 2009.

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One of the top stories in local news this week is that Phoenix will hit triple digits this week.  Even before the global warming hoax got started, this was a big story, and I’ve never understood why the media makes such a fuss over it each year.  It’s going to hit 100 degrees every year here, whether we like it or not, so what exactly makes this news?

The East Valley Tribune reports, “Normally at this time of year, highs are in the upper 80s.”   Well, if you are looking backwards, that may be true, but it is not the whole story.

A quick check of records from the past couple years shows that the high temperature on April 28th, 2007 was 101.7, with temperatures in the mid to high 90’s a few days before and after (source: tnetweather.com).  In 2008, we were a bit more fortunate, and the temperature bounced around in the 90’s from mid-April to mid-May, then steadily climbed until we hit the century mark on May 18th.

The Tribune did mention that our earliest 100 degree day was March 26, 1988, and the latest, June 18, 1913.  What they did not include is that we had three days below 70 degrees for the high this month, which is WAY below normal for this time of year.

Conclusion?  The sky is falling 100 degrees at the end of April is normal.  Nothing to see here folks, move along.

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Last Thursday, the President proclaimed, “More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States, many from gun shops that line our shared border.”

Those of us who are concerned that our second amendment rights are about to be trampled on have more than a sneaking suspicion that this manufactured gun smuggling “crisis” is going to be used to justify gun bans and restrictions.

You can call me a conspiracy theorist and give me a tin foil hat,  but it turns out that 90 percent is really about 17 percent.

In a depends on the definition of “is” moment, Obama spokesperson Denis McDonough told FOX News on Saturday, “By recovered he means traceable, guns traced back to the United States.”   I admit, I haven’t had as much schoolin’ as most of the Obama administration’s posse, but I do know the definitions of both traceable and recovered, and they are quite different.

Follow this if you can folks, Here’s how they got to the 90 percent number:

In 2007-2008, the ATF submitted 11,000 guns to the ATF for tracing.

Those 11,000 firearms were part of the 29,000 firearms Mexican officials recovered at crime scenes.

ATF states that 0f the 11,000 firearms submitted to U.S. officials for tracing, 6,000 could be traced somewhere because of the serial numbers or other distinctive markings.

Of those 6,000 firearms, 5,114 or 90 percent, were found to have been smuggled from the U.S.

Wow, and I thought I had math defeciencies!

Let’s try that again without all of the BS:

29,000 firearms were recovered at crime scenes by Mexican officials.

Of those 29.000 firearms, 5,114 were found to have been smuggled into Mexico from the US.

That’s 17.6 percent.

The worst part about this story isn’t the blatant lying and manipulation of the facts, but that Obama’s spokespeople have repeatedly stated that they stand by the 90 percent statement.

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Which is ironic since she claims to be a comedian.

If you are fortunate enough to have missed Janeane Garofalo’s latest bats**t crazy rant on MSNBC, you can see it at Olbermannwatch.com, along with some great commentary by my favorite late night show, Red Eye.

Being called a “redneck and a “racist” by her doesn’t make me angry, it makes me laugh. She’s been a joke for a long time, and this latest nonsense just makes her even less credible (like the CNN reporter at the Tea Party) and more of a joke than ever before. A sad, pushing fifty but trying to look twenty, unattractive on the inside and out joke.

Anyone that calls a group of people rednecks, and in the same breath accuses said rednecks of being racist can not possibly be taken seriously. I’m not exactly sure which combination of mental illnesses she suffers from (NPD for one), but one of the symptoms is obviously cognitive dissonance.

Another reason to not be upset is the drivel she spews isn’t meant for me, it’s meant for the Elvis Factor, the “enlightened” that congregate at the Starbucks the next day over lattes and talk to hear their own voice, but never listen.

So, here’s to you Janeane – I’m not laughing with you, I’m laughing at you.

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It just so happens that the exurbanleague.com folks reside in the same metro area that we do, and when I saw their generous offer to learn to shoot on their site,  Capitalist Pig and I decided to take them up on it.

Kevin from exurbanleague.com was a peach, and kind enough to meet us out at Usery Mountain Shooting Range on Friday. As a member, Kevin was able to get us a discount on the range fee (and we LOVE discounts), and it only cost us 5 bucks each.

Kevin did a fantastic job of teaching me proper range and gun saftey, and we even got some lessons on how to shoot competition practical pistol (which was very cool!).  Since I’m very new to owning and using firearms, this trip was invaluable to me, and I highly recommend Kevin’s offer to anyone out there who wants to learn the PROPER way to use firearms.

If you’re not close to Kevin, and want to learn, there is a great site where you can find a map of people who offer “Hands-on” instruction in a safe, controlled environment.

The image above is the target that I shot with my recently purchased Ruger 10/22.  This is the second time I’ve shot with it, and I just love it (the rifle and shooting it).  I think I’m doing pretty darn well for a beginner, but you can decide for yourself.

Thanks again to Kevin for the great instruction and opportunity!

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The Tax Day Tea Party brought several thousand people to Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza today. It was impossible to get a count of the attendees, as we saw a steady stream of people both arriving and leaving for the two hours that we were at the event. I’m thinking there were ten thousand there easily.

A very large group of people crammed into an area in front of the Capitol Building where politicians, concerned citizens and radio and TV hosts were speaking. It was so crowded in that area that we were never able to actually see who was speaking, so we chose to mill around the crowd and take some photos for your viewing pleasure.

We’ll be writing more about the event itself within the next few days, but I wanted to leave you with the best quotes of the day:

A woman holding a sign in one hand and a cell phone to her ear:

I’m standing in front of the capitol with fifty thousand other people and they all hate Obama.

This one is our favorite:

If I would have known that protesting would be this much fun, I would have done it in the ’60’s instead of starting to protest in my sixties.

Some general crowd shots:

Just some of the many clever and creative signs (we’ll post more later):

We would like to dedicate this one to the exurbanleague.com guys:

I’ll post some more tomorrow, but I’ll leave you with this one. I haven’t decided what is more humorous – seeing “hippies” at the Tea Party, or the camera crew grabbing them out of the crowd and making a fuss over them. I might normally say that they got lost on their way to a Phish concert, but they did have Tea Party signs :

P.S. – If you didn’t already know it, Arizona is a beautiful place:

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