Interesting Items by Alex Gimarc
Alex Gimarc <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, Jan 30, 2013
Interesting Items 1/28
Monday January 28, 2013
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Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy –
In this issue:
1. Ignore the Law
2. Combat
3. Inside the Cave
4. NLRB
5. Firearms
6. Hillary
1. Ignore the Law. The democrat rocket scientists infesting the political
class in NY fell all over themselves passing a new gun control law requiring
immediate registration of firearms, turn-in of newly illegal firearms, and
limits on size of magazines, expecting the firearms owning citizens of NY to do
the same thing following the new law. Early indications are that they aren’t
and they won’t, opting instead to simply ignore the new law and the idiots that
passed it without reading it. This would not be the first time that citizens
of NY ignored leftist legislation. In an article in Hot Air Monday, it appears
that NY smokers are working their way around unnecessarily high tobacco taxes
passed in 2008 and 2010 by smuggling cigarettes into the state. Jazz Shaw
writes that nearly 61% of all cigarettes smoked in NY do not have taxes paid on
them, meaning they have either been smuggled in from somewhere else or sold off
the reservations
where the taxes are not levied. One of the reasons that Prohibition was
repealed was that federal prosecutors could no longer get convictions under the
Volstead Act. It appears that the same dynamic is in place with cigarettes and
firearms in NY. Perhaps we are not nearly as close to the leftist nirvana the
Obamaoids want us to be as they think we are.
2. Combat. SECDEF Leon Panetta, on his way out the door, made a sweeping
change to current policy governing women in combat. While I thought they had
already done this in the 1990s under the Clinton administration, apparently it
did not go far enough for the Obamaoids. Panetta, acting without the support
of a single combat commander in the field, unilaterally determined that women
can now be part of all front line combat units from infantry to artillery to
Special Forces to Marines. As all of these have special and stringent physical
requirements, also expect the leftists in the Pentagon to write a series of
dual physical standards for the newly opened jobs, something that will go over
well with the men currently serving (/sarc). This is also typical of the high
handed actions we have come to expect from this administration in particular
and from the left in general – making an important decision as you slither out
the door, and do it
without any discussion, buy-in from those most impacted by it, or anyone else.
And most importantly, get a free pass from a supposedly objective media which
has in recent years turned into a full throated supporter of this
administration and the democrat party.
3. Inside the Cave. Bryan Preston over at the PJ Tatler posted a 10 meg pdf
entitled “Inside the Cave.” This was a 98-page document that detailed much of
the Obama IT effort. This effort was fully integrated into the campaign and
was used for fundraising, get out the vote, and micro-targeting of issues to
potential Obama voters. It also had a significant analytics component. About
30 – 40% of all campaign headquarters staff were technology, analytics and
digital IT people. The democrats set up a pair of training institutes in 2007.
One trained community organizers. The other trained analytics people. Both
were fully integrated into the 2012 campaign. While spending about the same
money as the Romney campaign, the Obama campaign had four times the people.
Most of these were heavy hitters, experts in their particular fields. Micro
targeting of ads was particularly effective. A friend of mine noted that the
typical minority
single mother in Cleveland would be watching Oprah, seeing a small, very
inexpensive series of ads every day terrifying her about the end of her world
as she knew it should Romney get elected. This sort of stuff worked and worked
well. The other thing they did was continually test their message. Most of
their fundraising e-mails, and their e-mail list was over 16 million people,
were tested, with as many as 18 different versions being tested before the
typical ad was sent. Testing on target audiences was also used to optimize web
sites, twitter, Facebook and other online ways the campaign contacted
supporters. The analytics effort was basically the polling arm of the
campaign, and they did it in house, with a continual rolling polling effort.
This allowed the campaign to be far more accurate in predicting final outcome
than those working the Romney campaign. They claim about a 3% delta due to the
growth of cell phone use and the end of
land lines. We here on the right have nothing approaching this. And we
better build one and build it fast, as it is the face of campaigns to come.
Here is the Preston article. The link to the pdf is embedded in the piece.
Enjoy.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2013/01/25/hey-look-at-how-the-obama-machine-crushed-the-romney-campaign/
4. NLRB. One of the things that the Obama WH has been doing is stacking the
agencies with political appointees that support his leftist point of view. The
higher level appointees need to be confirmed by the US Senate. Outrageous
nominees, like union lawyers appointed to fill open seats on the National Labor
Relations Board (NLRB) have received significant push back by conservatives in
the senate. It got so bad that Harry Reid refused to schedule hearings on
nominees so those seats went unfilled. It is possible for Obama to appoint
people to fill open seats while the senate is not in session. The senate took
this option away from the President during the Bush administration by refusing
to gavel out of session, opting instead for a series of pro forma sessions.
The NLRB is something of an odd duck, unable to function without a quorum of
three members. They are currently down to a single legitimate member.
Membership is supposed to be
balanced; with the president appointing those who agree with him, so the
direction of the body changes from pro union to pro business depending which
party is in office. In this case, due to resignations and failure of the
senate to hold hearings, the NLRB no longer has a quorum and can no longer hold
hearings and write pro-union rules. Obama did an end run and appointed three
people during the time of senate pro forma sessions, claiming that the senate
was not in session. Last week a federal appeals court found that these
appointees were illegal and that is was not up to Obama to determine whether
the senate was in session or not. The ruling also invalidates every single
ruling, opinion and rule written by the NLRB since those appointments were
made. The union lawyers infesting the NLRB announced that they would
essentially ignore the court ruling while they appeal to the SCOTUS. This is a
very big win for the rule of law and if upheld
shuts down one of the vehicles being used by this regime to shove forced
unionization down the throats of small and not so small businesses nationwide.
It could be very good news if upheld by the SCOTUS.
5. Firearms. Last week saw the effort to pass new gun control legislation,
rules and regulations percolate along nicely. Dianne Feinstein (D, CA) held
her assault weapons ban show, complete with her idiotic brandishing of a weapon
with her finger on the trigger. Online group coupon web site Groupon abruptly
suspended all firearms related traffic, angering a lot of their users. A huge
outdoor show in Pennsylvania was abruptly cancelled after it announced that it
would be banning the sale of modern sporting rifles (so-called assault
weapons). The word of the ban spread quickly among the public, vendors and
advertisers of the show, with a significant backlash. Over a few days enough
backers of the show pulled out that the outdoors show had to cancel and shut
down completely. Note to outdoors shows: your customers are not going to put
up with any obeisance to the Obama administration, political left or the media
regarding firearms. Why do
you think they are buying them in such numbers these days?
6. Hillary. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton finally gave her testimony on
Benghazi in front of the US Senate last week. It was a classic Clintonian
performance, full of lies, half truths, tears, and prevarications. All
questions and responses appeared to be fully known before they were asked with
the possible exception of Senator Ron Johnson (R, WI) who pushed Hillary on her
failure to do anything about the attack. She got sufficiently flustered that
she cried out “What does it matter….” when asked about the death of the CIA
operatives and State Department employees during the attack. What does it
matter? What does it matter? It matters that the CIA was running guns through
Libya to Al Qaida affiliates in North Africa. It matters that the WH got to
watch the festivities for over seven hours in real time and failed to make any
move to protect the lives of the Americans under attack. It matters that the
WH, State Department,
DoD and the UN Ambassador all spent weeks blaming the entire affair on a video
nobody ever knew existed. It matters that this administration arrested the
film maker as a political prisoner, convicted him of a parole violation and is
holding him in jail as I write this. It matters because we allowed Islamists
to murder Americans without doing a bloody thing about it. And finally it
matters because once again this administration projects weakness to the
Islamists, which will endanger us all the more as the weeks, months and years
pass. OTOH, the Joe Biden for President 2016 campaign got a nice sound bite
for anti-Hillary campaign ads in a few years.
More later -
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