Spin, Spin and More Spin

I came across this meme today and thought that I would do a little checking of the facts, so here it is…

Now anyone who followed me during the last election cycle knows what I think of Paul Ryan. He’s a big government republican who doesn’t know how to spell conservative. He’s been the number three man in John Boehner’s clown posse for years and i hope you get my point. But… I’m one of these odd people that kinda likes the truth and this isn’t exactly it.

It says that Ryan supported raising the minimum wage when Bush asked for it but under Obama he claims that it will cost jobs. First off, President Bush NEVER asked for the minimum wage to be raised. Both the House and the Senate were controlled by the Democrats and this was their plan all the way. All that George Bush had to do with it was that he said that if they sent him the bill, that he would sign it. And he did.

Next we have Ryan’s own words about supporting the increase but did you notice how he qualified his support by tying it to cuts in the small business tax? He basically said yeah, I’ll support it if we credit back the money paid to small businesses. Guess what happened next, they left off the rest of his platform. No… they wouldn’t do that would they?

Here is his quote from the meme…  “Last year, I supported an increase in the minimum wage because it also included tax relief measures for employers to offset the cost of the proposed minimum wage increase.” This meme was created from a Think Progress story and the story did tell the truth begrudgingly while still trying to spin it,

“A ThinkProgress analysis finds that at least 67 Republicans who are still in Congress today backed an increase in the minimum wage in some form, including Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI).”

Farther down we find…

“Though Ryan ultimately voted against the measure, he argued that he supported raising the hourly rate as long as it came with a suitable “offset” of small business relief. “Last year, I supported an increase in the minimum wage because it also included tax relief measures for employers to offset the cost of the proposed minimum wage increase,” he noted in a floor speech, as he announced “with great regret” that he could not back the bill without more small business tax cuts.”

Wait a minute, wait a minute… He voted NO… With George Bush as President Paul Ryan voted no to the increase and because he says no to Obama he’s a hypocrite. Really…

Now let’s talk seriously for a minute. There can be no comparison between raising the wage in 2007 and raising it now. Look at the unemployment numbers, look at the work force, look the economy, then and now. We have never recovered. Obama talks about all of the jobs created but we have less people working today than there were in 2008. So someone could vote yes in 2007 and vote no today simply because the economy can’t take it.

One last thing… Post Hoc Err Prompter Hoc… because of that, this.The democrats minimum wage increase went into effect July 2007, July 2008 and July 2009…. and can anyone think of something else that happened over that same two year period?

It”s Time We Had A Long Talk… About Math

I’m not a smart man. I’ve never been to college, never got high grades. I cannot do algebra but I’m pretty fair at old-time basic math; adding and subtracting and so on. Another thing that I can do naturally is to notice things that are out of whack, a form of intellectual OCD.

So, here I am reading through the Daily Kos, a left leaning web site, when I see that the House Republicans and Democrats had compromised on the Farm bill and cut $8 Billion from Food Stamps over a 10 year period. Ok, now here is what caught my attention, The Daily Kos claims that this will effect 2 million people, that it will cut $90 a month from the benefits of 850,000 families.

And my OCD kicked in.

Have you noticed what’s wrong? I didn’t check their math but I’d say that it’s right… but it’s also wrong. Their number is based on 2 million people, 850 thousand families; where did they pull these numbers from? There are now 47 million people receiving food stamps, not 2 million.

So to cut $8 Billion over 10 years is a cut of 800 million a year. Divide by 12 and you get a 66,666,666 cut per month. Now we again divide that by 47 million and the cut is… $1.47 cut per person per month.

I guess they are really large families. Now, I’m not making light of the cuts but how can we ever do anything when people lack basic math skills.

When the Truth Becomes a False Attack and a Sleazy Political Trick, You Know That You Are Dealing With a Whacked Out Liberal.

Wendy Davis rose to national fame for her pink running shoes and a pro-abortion filibuster in the Texas State Senate. Everyone loves Wendy, so she is now running to be Governor. Her story is one that many people, especially women, can relate too.

All right, you’re running for the office of the Governor of the State of Texas, so you go around telling people your life story. You want to connect with the people and share an understanding; there’s nothing at all wrong with that but what happens when the story that you’re telling turns out not to be completely true? If you’re a whacked out progressive/socialist you place all blame on your political opponent.

Pregnant and married at a young age, she finds herself divorced and living in a trailer park at 19. Well, she was really 21 but that’s not the important thing. The trailer park turns out to be a family owned trailer where she and the baby lived for 3 months before moving into an apartment.

She worked multiple jobs to support them while also getting a college degree and going on to graduate from Harvard Law School. That sounds great. But while parts of this are true, there are details that are missing. Like the husband, who was a lawyer that paid for her last two years of college and drew out his 401 K and took out a loan to pay for Harvard. It turns out that when he made the last loan payment on her Harvard education, she divorced him.

My hat is off to any person who works their way through school, while raising a child and can make Harvard quality grades. But how do you forget getting married, quitting your jobs and someone else paying for your education? That confuses me.

Then when the truth comes out, you double down and blame your opponent for dirty tricks.

I guess that even Harvard doesn’t teach ethics and responsibility.

 

 

 

 

http://www.bizpacreview.com/2014/01/22/wendy-davis-fires-back-blames-opponent-for-attacking-her-factually-blurred-bio-95913

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20140118-as-wendy-davis-touts-life-story-in-race-for-governor-key-facts-blurred.ece

 

 

 

Nothing,That’s What

This stared as a reply on a Facebook thread to the question, “what would the republicans replace the ACA with” and it grew…

…… can you try not to use a straw man argument so much. While lack of insurance and healthcare cost are a concern, they are not what’s holding the country back so a plan would not have anything to do with moving the country forward. And guess what? Immigration reform is not what is holding the country back either but that is what they want to divide the country on next. That is all the progressive/socialist have to offer, divide and blame, divide and blame.

In 2009, what did the country need? It needed jobs. While the left had the presidency, the house and the senate, what did they do for jobs? Absolutely nothing.

To be honest, that’s not surprising because government can not create jobs. No matter how much money they spend, they are not creating jobs. Now can the government kill jobs? Oh you betcha.

Now what is holding the country back today? That’s easy; Barack Obama and the progressive/socialist agenda. You see, while the majority of voters elected Obama, the majority of Americans have no faith in him. Consumer confidence is down, consumer borrowing is down, business borrowing is down.

The Fed has been pumping $87 Billion a month into the “economy,” with almost zero interest rates. The libertarians have been screaming about the inflation this will cause but there’s no inflation. Why? Because no one is borrowing the money. The money has to enter the system before inflation but it hasn’t, it’s just sitting there.

The left hates big corporations but they love to brag on the Stock Market and the money being made on their 401K’s under Obama. They fail to see how things are tied together. Ask them how the market is making money while the unemployed and under employed are barely surviving? Ask them how they are making big profits while the people have no money and aren’t spending any money? Watch the blank look come over their faces.

Business is making money by not borrowing, by not hiring and not expanding. They are making money by paying down debt, cutting jobs, cutting insurance and other benefits. All of that goes directly to their bottom line.

There is no such thing as a jobless recovery. It’s just that simple. Whether it’s a business or a family, if you cut expenses your cash flow increases. It all looks great until you reach the day when there is nothing left to cut. What happens then? The increases turn into decreases and profits turn into loses.

This is the Obama economy and the left refuses to even look at it. It’s the republicans fault, Fox News fault, McDonald’s fault and to a degree they’re right. You see it’s the fault of every one of us who is not stupid enough to run out and borrow and spend like a democrat. If we were to borrow and spend, hiring would resume, expansion would resume and the economy would rebound. I’m sorry but that’s not happening when no one knows what job killing bill this nut will want next.

Now back to the ACA and your wanting the republicans to come up with a plan. I would not support any republican plan. You refuse to acknowledge that the government lacks the authority to have any plan on healthcare. It is none of their business. If the ACA worked perfectly, everyone had insurance, prices came down and all was wonderful, it would still be a complete failure because of the power given to the government that can now be used almost unlimitedly.

“1984” Will the left ever learn?

“Goldstein was delivering his usual venomous attack
upon the doctrines of the Party–an attack so exaggerated and perverse that
a child should have been able to see through it, and yet just plausible
enough to fill one with an alarmed feeling that other people, less
level-headed than oneself, might be taken in by it. “

~ George Orwell 1984

Looking back, I can still remember the first time that I read this paragraph; it was as if my mind opened and I was assaulted and beaten by the word “Liberal.” And to this day, Liberal still jumps out because this was the how of liberalism then, and it’s still the how now

You know, my life is an open book, if you want to know something, just ask. Now two of the things that I put up front for all to see is my politics and the fact that no matter how good I would like to be, my writing sucks. But all is not lost, I’ve learned that between my ramblings and some well placed quotes I can convey a message that’s honest, truthful, educational and simply cuts through the bull shit. If you can follow along.

Before jumping back to the how of liberalism, let’s look at the why of liberalism.

“At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.” ~ P.J. O’Rourke

My experience with liberals parallels that quote. I have had the distasteful task of actually spending time on the leftist sites, Daily Kos, Media matters, Americans against the Republican Party,Mother Jones, Addictinginfo and more. Not a pleasant experience by any stretch of the imagination. Personal responsibility is unknown. Just look at who they championed for the minimum wage increase; a woman who has been working for minimum wage for ten years. McDonald’s is not her problem; she is her problem. And I can’t help but feel that the woman was really encouraged to speak out and kind of like Sandra Fluke, used for political purposes.

Economically illiterate, they want to make policy on things that they don’t understand. They lack an understanding for all policy it seems because they cannot debate on policy. If you follow them you will find that the problems in this world are Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Citizens United, The Koch Brothers, Guns, Greedy Corporations, Republicans, Racist and homaphobes (Lump them together under Republicans) and income inequality. If these things could be stamped out, the would would be unicorns and rainbows.

That is the why of liberalism. It’s not your fault, it’s somebody else’s fault and the government will take from others and give it to you.  They create division. The reason that you’re poor is because the rich man has your money. SMDH

Ok, back to the how of liberalism. To put it bluntly, instead of open debate, they lie. As Orwell, said, they put just enough truth in it to lure you in and then you get lost in the hyperbole. A child should know better but the liberals will fall for it every time.

So what brought this up? I posted a meme from Americans against the republican party…

Two liberal friends commented it seems correct to them… can you see where things got stretched some? The sad fact is that liberals do not dare question what they are told. Lets put a few more memes up and see if we can spot a trend. Notice the comment on this one.

Here’s one more. I’ll add a few comments to it for fun

Hahahahahaha Liberals eat this kind of stuff up. But what happens when a liberal is faced with rational thought?

• Alan Peppers Wait a minute now, Since she made the part about shooting people up out whole cloth, that disqualifies her from any discussion.

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    Michelle Schneider Feldman You haven’t been trolling in the right places, Alan – those RWNJs certainly do threaten to shoot … assassination … murder … the whole thing. And not just about “shootin’ dem gubmint moroons who gonna take ma guns.”

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    Robert Williams What do you think all those comments about Second Amendment Solutions was?

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    Sam J. Barris Yeah, I can’t imagine where she would get something like that. http://www.dailykos.com/…/-Facebook-Christian-Militia…

    

    Daily Kos: Christian Militia Claims ‘Authority’ To Shoot And Kill Obama

    www.dailykos.com

    So now, Right-Wing ‘Christian’ extremists are making death threats against Presi…See More

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    Alan Peppers Let me see if I understand this? You are painting 50 plus million people by the facebook status of 1 nut. Am I understanding correctly? This site, the Daily Kos, posted an article meant to create division based on the facebook status of 1 nut. I mean really. I’m going to quote another poster right down from here. Scroll down and look, it’s the full quote, nothing taken out of context.

    ” I believe that mental illness of the sort I see in many radical right wing nuts in America today is an epidemic that is being spread by the propaganda of the Koch brothers and Fox News. I even firmly believe that both Koch brothers and Rupert Murdoch and most of his propaganda staff are infected with the insanity they have been spreading. You can se evidence of this insanity by the manner in which so many people on Facebook keep mindlessly repeating the same lies they hear on Fox and see in the media controlled by the Koch brothers and Murdoch.”

    Now let me tweak this to a right wing point of view.

    ” I believe that mental illness of the sort I see in many radical left wing nuts in America today is an epidemic that is being spread by the propaganda of the George Soros and MSNBC News. I even firmly believe that both George Soros and Media Matters and most of his propaganda staff are infected with the insanity they have been spreading. You can se evidence of this insanity by the manner in which so many people on Facebook keep mindlessly repeating the same lies they hear on MSNBC and see in the media controlled by George Soros and the Daily Kos.”

    Is one right and one wrong? Are both right or would believe that they are both wrong?

    My point of posting was to say that you can’t offer an honest debate and start it with hyperbole and rhetoric.

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    Nothing, nada, zip They scurry back to their little holes.

MY Congressman Is a Moron

Now don’t get me wrong, I like Jeff Duncan, Congressman for the 3rd District of South Carolina but to be honest he gets off track sometimes. I don’t know if he’s channeling Rahm Emanuel and not letting a crisis go to waste or if he’s pulling a Cloward-Piven, overloading the IRS with scandals but he has discovered that the IRS trains with guns and he wants some kind of answers.

Let’s see if we can figure it out from his Facebook post

Alright, while touring a federal law enforcement training center and knowing that the IRS had a law enforcement division, the congressman appears to be shocked or something that they were shooting semi-auto AR15’s just like you can buy at Walmart. In his effort to pander and create a crisis, he sounds just like an anti gun liberal talking about “That level of firepower and standoff capacity.” Good grief Charlie Brown.

One more time with that “Level of firepower” stuff.

The Gunslinger looks at… Ted Cruz, Obamacare and the Sleeping Giants

Ted Cruz

Ok folks, here’s a straight shot right down the barrel on our young Senator from Texas; sorry Ted but you’re just the latest in a long string of asshats.

Does that surprise you? It shouldn’t, because Ted being an asshat is par for the course. Lets take a quick look at all the heros and saviours that the people have screamed for over the last few years. See if any of these names ring a bell… Sarah Palin, Scott Brown, Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, Michele Bachmann and the list goes on. These are people that through simply saying words, not actions now but words, were carried to the top of Mt. Olympus… until they fell.

Back to Ted… How did Ted become an asshat? Well, he’s probably away’s been one, it’s just people never called him on it. He let the curtin start slipping when he staged that wacky filibuster with Rand Paul that did absolutely nothing except give them publicity. Now here is the latest tidbit showing that Ted is just another politician talking out both sides of his mouth.

Sen. Cruz Blasts the President: ‘Obama Is NOT Following the Constitution’

Ok now! Ted is all pissed that Obama made the decision to hold parts of Obamacare back a year. I can understand that. The law (Obamacare) was passed by the House, passed by Senate and signed by the President. Ted is absolutely right, the President does not have the Constitutional power to change laws to suit his fancy… BUT… Now here is the kicker on Ted… While blasting Obama, he and a bunch of other republicans think that they can simply not fund a law that was passed by the House, by the Senate and signed by the President. It doesn’t work that way. Ted doesn’t have the Constitutional power to change laws to suit his fancy either. The law says that Obamacare will be funded. So…

Listen, whether you love Obamacare or hate it, good or bad, it IS the aw of the land. now I don’t mean to be singling Ted out, as I said he’s just the latest in a long line but this story caught my eye. I could just as well be writing about my Congressman, Jeff Duncan; blah, blah, blah … defund… blah, blah, blah. Pass a bill in the House and the Senate and let the President sign it to repeal law or go on to other business. Don’t stand around like a bunch of hypocrites crying about what the President is doing while you’re doing the same thing.

If you want to shut the government down… go for it. we’ll shut it down over the debt, over the budget or over the NSA spying but if you want to shut it down because you just don’t like a law, then you sir are an asshat.

Obamacare

You know, in the last sentence of the Declaration of Independence, our founders pledged to each other their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor because they understood the enormity  of their undertaking. Failure meant death, it meant loss of land and money. It meant death and misery to all that they loved. Today, people are terrified of insurance.

I oppose Obamacare… but not for the same reasons that all of the battles have been fought over. I mean really… here we have republicans, mad as fire, spitting nails because the democrats have the gall to force someone to be responsible. If you’re like me you can’t count the times that you have been paying a hospital or doctor bill with the full knowledge that the person next to you was not going to pay crap.

Of course the liberal plan will be a disaster but thats not the point. The point is that the republicans picked the absolutely stupidest points to attack Obamacare on.

Are there death panels in Obamacare? Of course there are; just like with every insurance company in the world the yes or no decision falls somewhere. Sarah Palin (I’ll get to her another time) led people off on some wild ass idea of what the death panels were. Now a Gunslinger, while being fearless, understands the meaning of responsibility. In 2008, while preparing to have my right hip replaced, I did things that every responsible person should do; I signed a living will and a healthcare power of attorney.

How Sarah could twist one of the smartest, most caring things that you can do for your family into a terrifying death trap is insane. But the fact that people would actually believe her is a blight upon civilization. For an elderly person, a living will and health care power of attorney can be both frightening and confusing; if a family member brings it up it may create resentment and anger. Instead of a death panel, trying to get them to die, this talk by a doctor can be a blessing for a family.

There will be more on Obamacare as I go into the…

Sleeping Giants

If you’re unfamiliar with this term, it came back out during the summer of 2009. Congress was on their August recess and the libs were pushing the stimulus and Obamacare and the Townhall meetings were hot and heavy. People were adamantly opposed and were letting the elected weasels know it. In April of 2009 Rep. Senator Arlen Specter, fearing a loss flipped to a democrat and and began his pitch to the people. The people didn’t want to hear it and in one meeting a woman looked at Specter and said “You have awakened a sleeping giant.”

FEAR… the root of our division. People shout about the Constitution and this and that but it all boils down to fear. People who had never given politics the slightest interest were now suddenly activist screaming from the street corner. To say the least, the majority of these people were ill informed or misinformed and it remains so today. They fell in with the Ron Paul Wacko’s and the single issue voters and our political system is now in disarray.

I’m going to close this up by saying something that you may not want to hear…

In the November election of 2012, Barack Obama was elected President by the majority of voters. Like, don’t like it, it doesn’t matter, by electing him, they also voted in favor of his policies. People are talking about impeachment and jail and all this other crap but are simply looking at the symptom rather then the problem. The problem is the people who elected him. They can not be reasoned with to change their mind so they will have to be motivated to see things differently.

How do you motivate them? PAIN… that’s right. Let the pain of their own decisions destroy their liberal, socialist dream. I started off talking about the founders and what they had to lose and here we are crying over a little hardship. Suck it up, settle in and watch what happens. Until This happens we will be torn down year after year anyway so become a Gunslinger and not only face the world but challenge the world, fearlessly.

… of the Day!

Duty is the sublimest word in the English language. Every man should desire to do his duty, no man should desire to do less.  ~ Robert E Lee.

I Stand By The Door by Sam Shoemaker… a poem

I Stand By The Door by Sam Shoemaker

I stand by the door. I neither go too far in, nor stay too far out. This door is the most important door in the world. It’s the door through which men walk when they find God. There’s no use my going way inside and staying there when so many are still outside. And they, just as I, crave to know where the door is. And all that so many ever find is only a wall where that door ought to be. They creep along the wall like blind men with oustretched groping hands feeling for a door, knowing that there must be a door, yet they never find it.

So I stand by the door.

The most tremendous thing in the world is for men to find that door, the door to God. The most important thing any man can do is to take hold of one of those hands, and put it on that latch, the latch that only clicks and opens to that man’s own touch. Many die outside that door as starving beggars die on cold nights in cruel cities in the dead of winter, die for want of what is within their grasp. They live on the other side of that door. They live because they have not found it. Nothing else matters compared to helping them find it, and open it, and walk in and find God.

So I stand by the door.

Go in great saints, go all the way in. Go way down into the cavernous cellars and way up into the spacious attics in its vast roomy house, this house where God is. Go into the deepest of hidden casements of withdrawals, silence and sainthood. Some must inhabit those inner rooms and know the depths and heights of God, and call outside to the rest of us how wonderful it is in there. Sometimes I take a deeper look in. Sometimes I venture in a little further. But my place seems to be closer to the opening.

So I stand by the door.

There’s another reason why I stand there. Some people get part way in and become afraid lest God and the zeal of His house devour them. For God is so very great and asks all of us. And these people feel a cosmic claustrophobia, and they want to get out. “Let me out!” they cry. And the people way inside only terrify them even more. Somebody must be by the door to tell them that they’re spoiled. For the old life they have seen too much. Once you taste God, nothing but God will do ever again. Somebody must be watching for the frightened who seek to sneak out just where they came in, and tell them how much better it is inside.

The people too far in don’t see how near these people are to leaving, preoccupied with the wonder of it all. Somebody must watch for those who have entered the door but would like to run away.

So, for them too, I stand by the door.

I admire the people who go way in, but I wish they wouldn’t forget how it was, before they got in. Then they would be able to help the people who have not yet even found that door, or the people who want to run away again from God. You can go in too deeply, you can stay in too long, and forget the people outside the door. As for me, I’ll take my old accustomed place, near enough to God to hear Him, and know that He is there, but not so far from men as not to hear them and remember they are there too. Where? Outside the door .. Thousands of them. Millions of them. But more important for me, one of them, two of them, ten of them, whose hands I am intended to put on the latch. So I stand by the door and wait for those who seek it. I’d rather be a doorkeeper.

So I stand by the door.

… of the Day!