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So while the good people of Colorado work to recall Democrat John Morse there is a lot of hysteria over the NRA “pouring money” into the ongoing battle there.

So what better time to look at the top donors in Colorado…. it isn’t what is typically portrayed but then again anyone who really pays attention already knows that.

With Kalifornia sliding off into a morass of debt and failure hords of screaming liberals are abandoning ship for greener pastures and the Rocky Mountain High. Unfortunately they seem to have learned little from their failure in Kalifornia and seek to enact the same doomed Utopian crap in their new homes – seems mostly Colorado and Texas because, you know – like – they have *jobs*.

Hopefully, the stalwart citizens can survive the invasion with the ideologies that made their states desirable intact. But I’m afraid it’s a numbers game and it doesn’t really take that much to tilt the scale.

In Spain registration leads to dog poop in your post box.

But that would mean Republicans who are already annoyed with Christie and his Obama-hugging antics would disown him.

via Chris Christie's Lautenberg Dilemma Is 2013-as-2016 All Over Again.

Seriously? There are Republicans left who’ve not already disowned Chris Christie? Wow….

From the Obvious department: Climate slowdown means extreme rates of warming 'not as likely'.

Now even though the BBC is pro- global warming prepare to have the Global Cooling Deniers claim the BBC is all wet and the people cited in the article weren’t peer reviewed or weren’t endorsed by Algore hisself.

BOHICA New Yorkers… NY Man Arrested for Having Nine Bullets Instead of Seven Loaded in Gun.

Apparently if you’re a black man and you beat up a white man for being in "wrong neighborhood" they just give you a ticket.

I have avoided “inside the beltway” of any major US city after dark for at least 2 decades.

Article 2, Section 1., Richard M. Nixon Articles of Impeachment:

“He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposed not authorized by law, and to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner”.

The progressive-leaning investigative journalism group ProPublica says the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) office that targeted and harassed conservative tax-exempt groups during the 2012 election cycle gave the progressive group nine confidential applications of conservative groups whose tax-exempt status was pending.

It is especially interesting the timing of President Obama’s remark:

“Still, you’ll hear voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s the root of all our problems, even as they do their best to gum up the works; or that tyranny always lurks just around the corner. You should reject these voices. Because what they suggest is that our brave, creative, unique experiment in self-rule is just a sham with which we can’t be trusted.”

But then I’ve always said the President’s comedic timing is great…

In what must be one of the most serious failures of leadership in his political career Bill Clinton has failed to broker a Led Zeppelin reunion.

And we wonder why the Middle East peace talks went no where…..

“The Second Amendment is a recognition of the danger of standing armies. Its purpose is to recognize that every citizen has the right to keep and bear the same type of basic arms as a soldier in a modern military. A militia embodies all able-bodied men over the age of sixteen. Therefore, a militia will always outnumber a standing army by at least twenty to one. If this militia is armed with weapons similar to those used by the individuals comprising the standing army, it will be impossible for that standing army to inflict the will of a tyrannical government upon the people. The Second Amendment is the guarantee behind all the other articles in the Bill of Rights. It is the ultimate guarantee that citizens in the United States will remain free.”

John Ross, Unintended Consequences, 1996

As the UK waits to see if they’re going to triple dip we are informed how “austerity doesn’t work” and how it’s caused more damage rather than fixed anything because government cut backs slows the economy further by removing money from the government ecosystem and slows the economy.

What they don’t talk about is that the European version of “Austerity” includes “increasing revenue” into the government which is itself a sham.

First, “increasing revenue” for the government is done by increasing taxes and fees. This removes more money from the economy the consumers could have spent elsewhere.

Second, removing consumer money from the economy means less money spent by the consumer which translates into less money to business, less payroll, less VAT and ultimately drives DOWN revenue into the government coffers thereby compounding the problem they’re supposedly trying to fix.

We hear this same language here, that we need to reduce spending and increase taxes to get the government’s checkbook straightened out. But don’t fall for it… I’m reminded of an Einstein quote:

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

But that’s what it is. So if we know this is what happens why do it? Think about what those motives could be for a moment…. there aren’t many options.