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Presidential Bribery

Saturday, September 29th, 2012

You have got to be kid… you’re not. This is a real thing.

Cranky D’s utterly devastating comment over at Protein Wisdom:

So, the government is going to provide the funds to pay the fines they impose on the contractors for non-compliance with regulations written by the government.

This was attached to Darlene Click’s post of the National Journal article concerning—and honestly, I don’t know why there are not at this moment union riots all over the land—this act of bribery by the Obama administration:

The White House moved to prevent defense and other government contractors from issuing mass layoff notices in anticipation of sequestration, even going so far to say that the contracting agencies would cover any potential litigation costs or employee compensation costs that could follow.

Some defense companies—including Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems and EADS North America—have said they expect to send notices to their employees 60 days before sequestration takes effect to comply with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which requires companies to give advance warning to workers deemed reasonably likely to lose their jobs.

Why does King Zero want to do this? Because layoffs from sequestration, an automatic massive cut in Defense spending, would take place in January, the notices would, must go out, get this, five days before the election.

And, you know, the optics on that would not be all that positive.

As Light29ID at The Idiotarian Rottweiler points out:

If Obongo get reelected (God save our souls) he’ll just screw them anyway and they know it because there won’t be anyone or anything to stop him. He hates free market companies and he despises the military, and in particular, defense contractors.

This has got to be grossly, wildly, blatantly illegal. [update: And if it's not, there is no law; it is completely illegitimate.] It is a betrayal of the companies involved and the workers who voted for King Zero, if any. Plus, may I add, any company that falls for this deserves to go down in flames, and I am not being metaphorical here.

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Posted in B. Hussein Obama, Communism, Dammit!, Democrats, Economics, Government Idiocy, Liberals, Military, News Media, Press, Socialism, The Fall | 1 Comment »

Wirecutters

Saturday, June 30th, 2012

If I were condemned to live in New York City, I’d carry a pair of wire cutters with me wherever I went.
Mayor Bloomberg evades his own law against idling your car to keep the airconditioner running.

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Legislative Incompetence

Sunday, May 13th, 2012

Marooned in MA, aka Jay G, discusses this idiocy further here.

As I commented on the video, if we demanded the same level of regulation on lawmakers as they do on, say, hairdressers [see Code of Massachusetts Regulation 240-cmr-2.00] you’d be able to get their licenses pulled for malpractice.

Added to my daily feed.

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If I Wanted America to Fail

Sunday, April 22nd, 2012

Via Doug at Knowledge is Power.

Posted in B. Hussein Obama, Communism, Edumakashun, Fighting Back, Globular Warmening, Government Idiocy, Liberals, ObamaCare, Political Correctness, Socialism, The Fall | 1 Comment »

Not Fools

Sunday, April 1st, 2012

So, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources has decided that come April First, a particular kind of pig is an invasive species, that the pigs must be destroyed. That’s fine for actual, feral pigs. And the original order says,

Wild boar, wild hog, wild swine, feral pig, feral hog, feral swine, Old world swine, razorback, eurasian wild boar, Russian wild boar (Sus scrofa Linnaeus). This subsection does not and is not intended to affect sus domestica involved in domestic hog production.

[My emphasis.]

Problem is, not only is there is no real difference between sus domestica and sus scrofa, but any variety of pig that goes feral acquires unpleasant characteristics. It’s not the species or sub-species, it’s whether or not the animals are the subjects of husbandry.

My favorite part of the DNR regulation linked to above?

Other characteristics not currently known to the MDNR that are identified by the scientific community.
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AKA, “Any pig shit rule our tame whitecoats come up with.” And:

Possession of the following live species, including a hybrid or genetic variant of the species, an egg or offspring of the species or of a hybrid or genetically engineered variant, is prohibited….

In sum, Michigan DNR can come onto your farm anytime it wants, look at your pigs, under criteria that aren’t even known to it yet, and if it decides your livestock is in non-compliance, they get to destroy. Oh, and you won’t be compensated:

Indemnification cannot be paid to prohibited swine that are destroyed. Indemnification in statute is for livestock and invasive species are not livestock, and are therefore, not eligible for indemnification.

In fact, not only will you not be compensated, you will be stuck with the costs of destroying your livelihood.

The cost for enforcement of the order will depend on the level of compliance with the Order by April 1, 2012

Apparently, DNR has forgotten that farmers tend to be more than a little…independent.

I’m gonna bet that, with farmers saying openly that if DNR shows up with guns to destroy the pigs, the farmers will shoot back, DNR is going to back down, hard and fast.

I hope so.

Because if not, this may well be casus belli for the Second Civil War.

And across the state of Michigan, Department agents will discover that DNR also means, “Do Not Resuscitate.”

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I Predict: EPA Doesn’t Care

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

So, the Supreme Court gave the EPA an epic smackdown of their attempt to prevent the Sacketts from building their house on land zoned for residential use, despite proper permits and improvements (such as utilities) already in place.

In a sane world, the EPA would turn tail and never again darken the Sackett’s door. In a just world, the EPA bureaucrats who pursued this egregiously abusive case would be personally on the hook for the Sackett’s legal costs. They should also be up on criminal charges. (Ha! I’m dreaming, I know.)

Instead, I predict the EPA will effectively ignore the Supreme Court, in much the same way Chicago and Washington D.C. have ignored the Court in Second Amendment cases. Both cities have continued to place enormous burdens on citizens wishing to exercise their human right to keep and bear arms.

That’s what’s going to happen here. The EPA will make token changes in their demands, issue a raft of new regulations establishing courses of flaming hoops the Sacketts must jump through to obtain “variances” and “exemptions”, and continue to act as if the Sacketts want to manufacture nerve gas in the kitchen and enrich uranium in the garage.

Arm up, Mike and Chantell. The Reavers are still at your door, mark my words.

[update]

Oh, hey, never mind. “Epic Smackdown”? I should have glanced at the decision before posting.

From the slip opinion (10-1062):

Held: The Sacketts may bring a civil action under the APA to challenge the issuance of the EPA’s order.

Further:

Today we consider only whether the dispute may be brought to court by challenging the compliance order—we do not resolve the dispute on the merits.

That’s it. The Court didn’t tell EPA to eat Sackett shit and die. It didn’t void the $37,000 per day fines the Sacketts are racking up for non-compliance.

It just says the Sacketts can spend even more money they don’t have to defend their property in court. Up till now, their fight has been only and solely to get permission to be heard at all.

Go ahead, please. Try to explain to me why I should vote this fall. The more I see of shit like this, the more I understand: Voting isn’t a choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. It isn’t even about choosing your next slave master.

The entire Federal government is illegitimate. All three branches, top to bottom, it’s rotten.

I will not accord it the respect of voting for its public faces.

Let’s review the Five Boxes, shall we?

Soap Box: Public exposure in the news did not stop the EPA.

Ballot Box: How are the Sacketts supposed to influence elections to the point where they receive justice? Which elections should they influence?

Jury Box and Witness Box: the Sacketts just won a long and exhausting fight to avail themselves of these Boxes. What do they have left to actually use them?

Hint: I’ve only accounted for four Boxes.

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Churchill

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

Ann Barnhardt asks, Churchill or Chamberlain? in reference to Gang Obama releasing the 3/16/2012 Executive Order, which clarifies existing EOs alleging a presidential power to take command of the economy under certain circumstances, and reframes those powers to better reflect current Cabinet structure.

Barnhardt correctly points out that previous versions were bad enough, but the current President is so blatantly malignant that this Order amounts to harnessing a warhorse.

I’m following Churchill here, but I’ve been thinking that way for oh, ’bout three years now.

Get ready people, there’s a storm arising. I don’t think Obama really understands what he’s stirring up, who he will have to face, but if he starts the fight, it will be bloody.

I’m too old for this. I wish I’d understood this stuff decades ago. It may be too late now.

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“Life Insurance Policy”

Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

At least, that’s what Emperor Misha refers to Joe Biden as.

I don’t know, though. Biden in the Big Oval would be mighty entertaining, and a lot harder to keep under wraps.

Here’s Joe’s Latest:

You can go back 500 years. You cannot find a more audacious plan. Never knowing for certain. We never had more than a 48 percent probability that he was there.

Says Misha:

Nevermind D-Day, the Chosin breakout, Guadalcanal, Bastogne, you name it! Being dragged back from a golf game after almost a full day’s worth of trying to convince you to pull the trigger on the single most obvious “go” order in the history of our nation is, by far, the single most momentous, brave, almost foolhardily audacious decision ever made in the history of warfare!

But I have to wonder: is JB really that good a policy? I mean, at this point, there may well be a plan in effect to see to it that, if O gets capped by some idiot lefty, dissatisfied that The Won isn’t really a socialist, Joe assumes room temperature as well.

I mean, they really couldn’t keep up the pretense of competence anymore, could they?

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Turn Yourself In

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

I’m turning my self in to Obama’s snitch site, AbuseWatch.com.

What I posted there:

“Content of the attack or link:”

The truth. Plain and simple, the truth that Obama is an un-American traitor. Fortunately, he’s an incompetent traitor, the only thing that limits his damage.

It’s my own website, www.ricketyclick.com/blog, and I am proud to turn my self in. I consider it my patriotic duty to do so.

You cowardly bullies. Your arguments don’t work anymore, because your policies are failing, right and left. You’re left with falling back to the primary argument of progressives, socialists, and communists everywhere: “Shut Up”.
We won’t, though. We’ll never shut up.

What won’t we shut up about?

TSA. A direct frontal attack on the Fourth Amendment, offending and abusing American citizens with not a damn thing to show for itself but confiscated nail clippers and shampoo.

The War on Drugs, especially as personified by the DEA. Direct attack on the Fourth and Fifth amendments, with forays against the Second. The doctrine of “civil forfeiture” is especially vile. Shut it down, the whole shebang. Every single officer in the DEA should be arrested, tried, and jailed for treason and oath breaking.

The war on armed citizens. Direct, frontal attack on the Second Amendment. This very site bleats about “common sense gun control”, an ancient feeble wheeze belied by the thousands of onerous contradictory laws and regulations at every level of government, to say nothing of illegal actions by numerous law enforcement officers and other agents who abuse and arrest citizens exercising a basic human right. Common sense laws would not touch persons who have not been convicted of violent crimes. Personified by BATFX, another pack of oath-breaking traitors. Instantiated most recently in the murderous Gunwalker scandel.

And of course AttackWatch.com itself, trying to get Americans to inform on each other for the thought crime of speaking up about Obama.

“Let me be clear:” The above programs and agencies show the Federal government has gone rogue. Its agents no longer consider themselves bound by the Constitution or the law.

Cuts both ways, scum. If you don’t have to follow the law, neither do we.

Hey ho, you’ve got to go.

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“Gunwalker Guns Not ‘Allowed’”

Friday, September 9th, 2011

So says Lyle at The View From North Central Idaho.

If you believe the BATFE merely “allowed” criminals to buy the guns, you have to believe that there were regular, on-going attempts, by Mexican gangsters, to make huge purchases at U.S. gun stores, that these huge purchases were being regularly denied, and that the Mexican gangsters simply kept trying, failing, trying, failing, and then one day, all of a sudden, the gigantic sales start being approved, one and another and another, simply because our local dufi started pushing the green button instead of the red button. And nothing else.

Sorry; I can’t believe it. I say those purchases were engineered. Someone had to be in contact with known criminals, asking them, or ordering them, to come here and make those purchases and take delivery down south. Can we please stop using “allowed” or “let” when talking about this? It defies logic.

It certainly does. The Gunwalker scandal grows, and grows, and grows.

The adamant refusal of the press to examine it, to take it seriously, is a scandal in and of itself, quite possibly the more damaging one. It is clear, unequivocal evidence of deliberate complicity.

If other news channels continue to ignore it after Fox’s discovery of a third Fast and Furious gun hidden, covered up, at the scene of Brian Terry’s murder, I say that makes them culpable as well.

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