March 2, 2010 | Posted by Larry Smart “Atlas Shrugged” Sets New Record!
Atlas Shrugged Selling in Record Numbers
Atlas Shrugged on Floor Displays in Largest Bookstores
Record Number of People Listening to Atlas Shrugged
Over a Million Ayn Rand Novels in Classrooms This Year
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February 28, 2010 | Posted by Larry Smart Al Gore needs to be scrutinized by the Security and Exchange Commision. He and his company (Generation Investment Management) stands to make billions from the trading of Carbon Credits.
All the while criticizing other companies and governments for their large “carbon footprints”, Al Gore justifies his own use of private planes that guzzle fuel at rates far greater than commercial travel, and his several massive energy draining mansions, by saying that he buys “carbon offsets” to create a “Carbon-Neutral lifestyle”.
Who does he buy these “Carbon Offsets” from? He buys them from himself!
Who else is pushing this? General Electric (which also owns NBC… the biggest network shill for Obama) which stands to make billions from existing and future contracts on everything from energy production and transmission facilities, nuclear reactors, and the replacement of all incandescent light bulbs with those crappy, expensive, headache-inducing Compact Florescent Lights and LED Array lamps.
Gore Still in Climate-gate Denial | UNCOVERAGE.net.
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February 20, 2010 | Posted by Larry Smart YouTube - Oh Me – Oh My… Obama Caught in a Major ACORN Lie .
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February 20, 2010 | Posted by Larry Smart What’s amazing about this story is that you will find some people supporting the idea – people who will say that $300 is a fair price for having your life saved or your cat taken out of a tree, etc. These people are too stupid to realize that they are assessed taxes which are supposed to pay for 911. These taxes show up on ever cell and landline phone bill. They are too stupid to accept the fact that these funds are routinely misappropriated as are all the other monies sent to the State of California.
Fortunately, I think these people are a minority.
For the rest of us, it’s time for revolt!
Citizens to be charged $300 for calling 911 in Tracy, California….
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February 11, 2010 | Posted by Larry Smart During the past couple days, I was driving through northern Wyoming and Montana. During this time, I got to listen to Canadian news programs (programmes) on the radio.
An alarmingly large portion of the news was devoted to healthcare horror stories. I’d have to estimate that approximately 15-20 minutes of each hour of news was dedicated to discussions of horrific waiting times, problems with elective surgery, the governments’ strong desire to increase regulation of the few private practices, and such. Politicians and Bureaucrats complained of the need to increase funding by increasing taxes in order to reduce the wait times. (Why should failure be rewarded with more money????)
Brock Lesnar blames Canada for health woes – Minneapolis / St. Paul News – City Pages – The Blotter.
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February 10, 2010 | Posted by Larry Smart In a sane world, this would be found in The Onion or other satirical source. Unfortunately, this isn’t a joke!
American Thinker Blog: Crippled By Blizzard, DC Announces New Global Warming Agency by Phone.
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February 7, 2010 | Posted by Larry Smart reposted from:
http://attrition.org/technical/firearms/40_gun_control.html
40 Reasons to Support Gun Control
(Apparently derived from the essay by Michael Z. Williamson.)
(Also known as the proof positive that Liberals are not just stupid, but insane.)
1. Banning guns works, which is why New York, DC, and Chicago cops need guns.
2. Washington DC’s low murder rate of 80.6 per 100,000 is due to strict gun control, and Arlington, VA’s high murder rate of 1.6 per 100,000 is due to the lack of gun control.
3. Statistics showing high murder rates justify gun control but statistics showing increasing murder rates after gun control are “just statistics.”
4. The Brady Bill and the Assault Weapons Ban, both of which went into effect in 1994, are responsible for the decrease in violent crime rates, which have been declining since 1991.
5. We must get rid of guns because a deranged lunatic may go on a shooting spree at any time and anyone who would own a gun out of fear of such a lunatic is paranoid.
6. The more helpless you are the safer you are from criminals.
7. An intruder will be incapacitated by tear gas or oven spray, but if shot with a .357 Magnum will get angry and kill you.
8. A woman raped and strangled is morally superior to a woman with a smoking gun and a dead rapist at her feet.
9. When confronted by violent criminals, you should “put up no defense — give them what they want, or run” (Handgun Control Inc. Chairman Pete Shields, Guns Don’t Die – People Do, 1981, p. 125).
10. The New England Journal of Medicine is filled with expert advice about guns; just like Guns and Ammo has some excellent treatises on heart surgery.
11. One should consult an automotive engineer for safer seatbelts, a civil engineer for a better bridge, a surgeon for spinal paralysis, a computer programmer for Y2K problems, and Sarah Brady [or Sheena Duncan, Adele Kirsten, Peter Storey, etc.] for firearms expertise.
12. The 2nd Amendment, ratified in 1791, refers to the National Guard, which was created by an act of Congress in 1903.
13. The National Guard, funded by the federal government, occupying property leased to the federal government, using weapons owned by the federal government, punishing trespassers under federal law, is a state militia.
14. These phrases,” right of the people peaceably to assemble,” “right of the people to be secure in their homes,” “enumeration’s herein of certain rights shall not be construed to disparage others retained by the people,” and “The powers not delegated herein are reserved to the states respectively, and to the people,” all refer to individuals, but “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” refers to the state.
15. We don’t need guns against an oppressive government, because the Constitution has internal safeguards, but we should ban and seize all guns, thereby violating the 2nd, 4th, and 5th amendments to that Constitution.
16. Rifles and handguns aren’t necessary to national defense, which is why the army has millions of them.
17. Private citizens shouldn’t have handguns, because they serve no military purpose, and private citizens shouldn’t have “assault rifles,” because they are military weapons.
18. The ready availability of guns today, with waiting periods, background checks, fingerprinting, government forms, et cetera, is responsible for recent school shootings,compared to the lack of school shootings in the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s, which resulted from the availability of guns at hardware stores, surplus stores, gas stations, variety stores, mail order, et cetera.
19. The NRA’s attempt to run a “don’t touch” campaign about kids handling guns is propaganda, and the anti-gun lobby’s attempt to run a “don’t touch” campaign is responsible social activity.
20. Guns are so complex that special training is necessary to use them properly, and so simple to use that they make murder easy.
21. A handgun, with up to 4 controls, is far too complex for the typical adult to learn to use, as opposed to an automobile that only has 20.
22. Women are just as intelligent and capable as men but a woman with a gun is “an accident waiting to happen” and gun makers’ advertisements aimed at women are “preying on their fears.”
23. Ordinary people in the presence of guns turn into slaughtering butchers but revert to normal when the weapon is removed.
24. Guns cause violence, which is why there are so many mass killings at gun shows.
25. A majority of the population supports gun control, just like a majority of the population supported owning slaves.
26. A self-loading small arm can legitimately be considered to be a “weapon of mass destruction” or an “assault weapon.”
27. Most people can’t be trusted, so we should have laws against guns, which most people will abide by because they can be trusted.
28. The right of online pornographers to exist cannot be questioned because it is constitutionally protected by the Bill of Rights, but the use of handguns for self defense is not really protected by the Bill of Rights.
29. Free speech entitles one to own newspapers, transmitters, computers, and typewriters, but self-defense only justifies bare hands.
30. The ACLU is good because it uncompromisingly defends certain parts of the Constitution, and the NRA is bad, because it defends other parts of the Constitution.
31. Charlton Heston as president of the NRA is a shill who should be ignored, but Michael Douglas as a representative of Handgun Control, Inc. is an ambassador for peace who is entitled to an audience at the UN arms control summit.
32. Police operate with backup within groups, which is why they need larger capacity pistol magazines than do “civilians” who must face criminals alone and therefore need less ammunition.
33. We should ban “Saturday Night Specials” and other inexpensive guns because it’s not fair that poor people have access to guns too.
34. Police officers, who qualify with their duty weapons once or twice a year, have some special Jedi-like mastery over handguns that private citizens can never hope to obtain.
35. Private citizens don’t need a gun for self-protection because the police are there to protect them even though the Supreme Court says the police are not responsible for their protection.
36. Citizens don’t need to carry a gun for personal protection but police chiefs, who are desk-bound administrators who work in a building filled with cops, need a gun.
37. “Assault weapons” have no purpose other than to kill large numbers of people, which is why the police need them but “civilians” do not.
38. When Microsoft pressures its distributors to give Microsoft preferential promotion, that’s bad; but when the Federal government pressures cities to buy guns only from Smith & Wesson, that’s good.
39. Trigger locks do not interfere with the ability to use a gun for defensive purposes, which is why you see police officers with one on their duty weapon.
40. When Handgun Control, Inc., says they want to “keep guns out of the wrong hands,” they don’t mean you. Really.
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January 12, 2010 | Posted by Larry Smart Initial reports are coming in stating that a Northwest flight was grounded today due to “unruly” passenger(s) on board.
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January 7, 2010 | Posted by Ron So, a friend of mine on facebook posted a link to an NPR story about teen suicide involving trains in California. It’s a sad story of well intentioned people in Palo Alto who have set up watch at a train crossing where a number of teens have jumped in front of the 3:10 to Oakland. Rather than trying to address the root of the problem, which is “why do these kids want to kill themselves?”, they are going to be at the crossing, thus forcing the kids to find a different means to meet their maker. It’s a tragic story of good intentions adding a few more cobblestones to the road to Pandemonium, 9th Circle, Dante’s Inferno. But, I told you that story to tell you this one.
Scrolling down to the bottom of the article on NPR’s website I read a number of comments that expressed pretty much the same belief I hold, that this will only shift the location and/or method of the suicidal teen’s demise rather than prevent it. These are reasonable people with reasonable beliefs, including a comment from the mother of a suicide victim whose son sought treatment from a local hospital and was denied. A true American tragedy tale of the glaring inadequacies in our health care system especially when it comes to mental health. But then I spied a different kind of comment, one that had me consider a drive to Palo Alto for a 1 round bout with a Santa Fe locomotive myself.
Seems ol’ Chuck G here is, through thinly veiled innuendo, holding the Bush administration accountable for angst ridden California teens offing themselves via freight express. WHAT THE FUCK? I acknowledge the fact that the Bush White House will be enshrined by history alongside the Hoover and Carter administrations in the pantheon of shit American presidencies, but seriously… I mean for real. It’s like you strapped on the BT906 Anti-Personal Accountability Blame Thrower and went on a GTA style rampage with it.
Let me break it down for you Chaz. Suicide happened before W. Suicide is happening during the time of the great “hope” of America, the beloved Barack Hussein Obama. Suicide happened during Clinton’s tenure at the top, and Bush the First. Suicide happened during each and every presidency this country ever… fucking… had. EVER. People kill themselves in time of peace as well as in time of war. They chowed down on the small caliber blue plate special during times of hardship and times of prosperity. People of all races, creeds, sexual preference and religions have offed themselves. To hang the blame for a local uptick in the popularity of a way to snuff it on any presidency is stupidity on such a colossal level that it takes on its own perverse aura of majesty and wonder. It’s the Pyramids of Giza of utter lunacy, a beacon of mind-numbing idiocy to rival the Lighthouse of Alexandria.
Suicide is an act of personal violence, its causes unique to the individual. Vast in number, they typically feed and build upon each other in an orgy of despair. The person becomes mired in self-fulfilling prophecies of failure and regret, creating the requisite sense of hopeless desperation needed to drive one to end it. They are real and powerful, and painfully direct in their effect on the individual. While a suicide note may contain reference to geopolitical happenings as a trigger behind the victim’s demise, the truth in all cases is much more intimate–a screaming horde of personal demons. They are terrifying and they are Legion. World events are just window dressing, a final attempt of the despondent to give meaning to the act.
So, Charlie, your comment was a staggering display of “missing the point”, a stentorian battlecry of ignorance issued with the gusto (from the diaphragm I might add) only a political extremist can muster. Your hatred of Bush and your devotion to a septic ideology has blinded you to reality. You have proven to me once again that the Internet gives voice to those who would best serve the local community, and Humanity at large, by remaining silent. But we want you back, Chuck. I feel the conflict within you, let go of your hate. It’s fun here in the land of reason and sanity, so come, join our reindeer games.
And if this was just an attempt to troll, well played, sir. Well played indeed.
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January 4, 2010 | Posted by Larry Smart Las Vegas Courthouse Shooting Video
Las Vegas Courthouse Shooting Video
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