Bad Boys!  Bad Boys!  Whatcha Gonna Do?

So, my parents call me the other day from California, and my mother asks me, “Have you heard?  Gun sales are going up since Obama was elected.”

No, I haven’t heard, Mom.

“I feel so unsafe!”

Needless to say, I haven’t told my mother that *I* am a CCW holder.  Nor have I told her that we (*GASP*!) have guns as well.

I find it funny that the left is so afraid of people owning guns.  Why?  What are they worried about?  That people will accidentally kill them with a gun?  I dunno.  I’ve driven in L.A., and I personally feel I’m more likely to get killed in a car accident in L.A., with thousands of people irresponsibly driving, than I would be in Texas with thousands of people who own guns.

What else could worry lefty gun-control freaks?  Are they worried that people are so irrational that they’d just shoot someone who disagrees with their ideas?  Hm.  Paranoid, ever?

No, my husband and I did not purchase guns after the election.  We purchased the rifle 3 years ago.  We also purchased handguns about 4 months ago.  I love that silly little lefties think people only purchase guns because one is a 2nd amendment right freak — “clinging to one’s guns and religion.”  The Supreme Court has already made it clear that individual gun ownership rights are not going to be taken away.  Or did people miss that bit of news in their rabid campaigning for Presidential candidates who are all the same?

I’m guessing that people in New York are going to wish that they purchased guns as well.  Since, apparently, due to New York overextending its state budget, the mayor of NYC decided to lay off cops.

What a strange world it is, when a city doesn’t not have enough money to pay police officers to protect the city’s people, but still has money to pay artists to make a bunch of useless, unpainted, tall metal structures — funded by the NEA* (our tax dollars hard at work).  Frankly, I don’t want my tax dollars going to support “art” that looks like someone just drilled a bunch of holes in metal and put Light-Bright lights behind them.  At least citizens of New York can hide behind these kinds of wonderful sculptures, if they get mugged.  Perhaps the lights will blind the muggers, and allow their victims to escape unarmed.

*”James Yamada’s Our Starry Night is part of the Public Art Fund program In the Public Realm, which is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts; and in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.”

Quick Lesson in Why the Stock Market is Dropping

I find it amazing that journalists can be so dense in not understanding why the stockmarket is falling.  People who are on the verge of retirement, and who are still letting their 20-something-year-old kids use their parents’ credit cards, know that capital gains tax is going to shoot through the roof under the Obama administration and a near-fillibuster-proof Democrat Congress.

People who have saved money all their lives, so that they can retire and still afford electricity, running water, food, and a little bingo on the side are seeing it all being taken away from them in the form of capital gains taxes.  (Which Obama has plainly announced he will increase. . . . because after all, only “rich” people have stocks, right?)

Faced with that, old folks can either pull their money out now, while taxes are low.  Or they can wait until Obama increases taxes, and see more of it go to the government.  It only makes sense, they’re selling now.

By selling now, they hope they can rescue a little bit of their retirement funds before they get taxed to death.  And still afford to let their 20-something-year-old kids continue to use their parents’ credit cards.  The same 20-something-year-old kids who turned out in droves to elect the candidate whose political party is hellbent on forcing their parents to go broke.

It’s hilarious to watch people wonder what is going on.  It’s so obvious, and yet people still don’t get it.

Four legs good.  Two legs bad, people.  Just keep chanting that, and you’ll be happy.

Accentuate the Positive, Eliminate the Negative, Latch on to the Affirmative, Don’t Mess with Mr. Inbetween

I find it hilarious that the news media is elated that stocks in the Asian market are going up after the announcement that Obama is going to be President in January.  What’s even funnier is that they fail to mention that the NYSE is going down.

At least China is happy!

‘Gotta love it when people who don’t understand supply-side economics have been running the government since 2006.  The abolishment of U.S. production is your baby.

Here We Go Again

I‘m really glad to see that so many people actually did vote this year.  I know so many people are relying on President Barack Obama to instigate the change they so badly want.  I wish they understood, however, that change doesn’t come from government.  It comes from people.  Just changing one’s President will not change one’s income, nor one’s education, nor one’s health.  Some people in California will still be paying exhorbitant taxes.  They will still be paying outrageous amounts for their mortgages.  They will still continue to drive (and guzzle gas) for 30 minutes or more to get to work.

Things won’t change unless they change in the home.

That being said, I think the new First Family is going to be a refreshing change of pace from all the negative news about Bush for the last four years.  I know the media will not dare to say anything bad about them.  (Or would they?  On second thought, I’m sure they eventually will.  Assholes.)

What a lovely First Family!

Voting Ignorance Into Office

I find it amazing that Biden is so articulate.  How can someone so articulate say something that makes so little sense?

This video reminds me of a conversation I had with a girl who was voting for Kerry 4 years ago.  She said we were in Iraq for “free oil.”  I asked her, “If we plan to get free oil by invading Iraq, why aren’t we invading Venezuela, too?”  Her answer:  “We own Venezuela?”  Oh we do?  So that’s why they can strike for higher oil prices, eh?  Seriously, I have yet to meet a Democrat who fully understands economic issues.

And Biden clearly doesn’t either.  And what level of delusional is he, that he actually thinks he can control China.  China is already outstripping us in terms of production.  Therefore, it’s almost surreal to watch Biden proposing that we hobble the U.S. even more by abolishing one of the largest sources of energy in the U.S.

At least we’ll all be “clean.”  Or as clean as one can be without electricity or running water.

I suppose I better put in more hours at work, so that I can pay for everyone else’s electricity bill for the next four years.  (Not.  You’ll see me retiring early before I pay more taxes to support this kind of economy-killing bullshit.)

It’s really quite laughable that Biden is essentially proposing to make an airplane fly without wings.