Interesting items by Alex Gimarc
Howdy all, a few Interesting Items for your information. Enjoy – In this issue: 1. Suppression 2. ObamaCare 3. Benefits 4. Gun Manufacturers 5. Otters 6. 3D Printing 7. Rubio 1. Suppression. One of the techniques used by the left over the last decade has been an intentional suppression of conservative turnout during elections. It started out accidentally in 2000 with the last minute dirty trick that leaked GW Bush’s DUI the Friday before the election. At the time, Bush had positive momentum and was a couple percentage points ahead in the polls. The story got the attention of a number of hard core evangelicals who had questions about Bush’s wild youth and they stayed home, almost handing the election to ManBearPig (algore). I ran across a blog post describing the technique and along with it the problem and opportunity facing those of us on the political right. Unfortunately I cannot find the article to link to it. Will do so if I come across it again. The problem we have is that a number of us on the right carry our convictions on our sleeves, and refuse to vote for anyone if they do “X”, “Y” or “Z.” The left has no such problem, as they only care about winning and defeating those of us on the right. When our voters hold those single issue positions, which they do on a wide array of issues from abortion, to school choice, taxes, guns, social security, Medicare / Medicaid, etc.; they essentially hand a loaded gun to left wing political campaigns, post a target on their chests, and cry out “shoot me now.” Last year some unknown but not insignificant number of Paulians decided to play the game. End result? Between 3-4 million conservatives stayed home because Mitt Romney was not sufficiently conservative on one issue or another or that the party itself was overly beastly to poor Laup Nor (Ron Paul) himself during the state and national conventions. This is the height of idiocy and conservatives bloody well better grow up. There is no perfect candidate, just as there is no perfect man or woman (there was one once, but it has been a couple millennia since his last visit, and we managed to crucify him for preaching the wrong things). All the left has to do is research and post some story about a candidate straying from orthodoxy during the campaign season to keep these single issue purists from going to the polls. And they do it well, as it has become an integral part of their campaigns these days. The best we can hope for is an 80% agreement with our views. The goal in all of this is to simply win the election and keep the democrats out of office. They will say and do whatever they need to do to win, suppressing conservative turnout while scaremongering their side to record turnouts. Throw in a well oiled election fraud machine and you have the vehicle that wins a lot of elections they shouldn’t even be competitive in. Solution? Someone who agrees with you 80% of the time is not your enemy and is someone you ought to support. 2. ObamaCare. Two more conservative governors in swing states caved in on ObamaCare’s Medicare expansion over the last couple weeks. Rick Scott (FL) and John Kasich (OH) both announced they would take the free money and expand Medicare in their states. Both are also up for reelection in swing states that narrowly went for Obama. Kasich has heavy union influence that has already defeated reform proposals. Scott has a state with a lot of immigration from the Northeast, particularly NY. Republicans comfortably control both legislatures, and may be able to override the decisions to implement ObamaCare, giving both governors political cover during the campaigns. 3. Benefits. The Pentagon announced that they would be offering identical benefits to same sex couples that they do to married ones. This is blatant discrimination in favor of homosexuals and lesbians as the social engineers in the Pentagon refuse to offer the same benefits to opposite sex couples living together without benefit of marriage. This discrimination may provide a vehicle for opponents to at least muddy the waters a bit demanding the new rules be blocked as they discriminate against straights. At best this sort of lawsuit will only kick the can down the road a bit and waste some time, as the social engineers on the left will not stop. At least we can maximize the contradictions and Alinsky them a bit (holding them to their own standards). 4. Gun Manufacturers. Firearms and related equipment manufacturers are fighting back against the new gun control laws making their way through state legislatures. A number of companies are located in NY, CT, with the latest being CO, which is the current ground zero for legislation. A number of companies nationwide have refused to sell product (firearms, accessories and ammunition) to NY state law enforcement or other agencies. Several are threatening to move out of state. In CO, Magpul, one of the largest manufacturers of magazines and accessories, is threatening to move out of state should the democrat dominated legislature pass new gun control legislation. Given that there was significant legislation passed in the aftermath of Columbine. Beretta in MD, is considering moving to friendlier climes. Governors in gun-friendly states have been gleefully making the rounds and inviting these companies and the jobs they produce to move out of unfriendly blue states. CT Senator Richard Blumenthal sniped back at a MS legislator who made a public offer to Colt and Marlin to move out of state to MS. This is going to be a lot of fun. Makes you wonder how the thugocracies in charge in the blue states are going to survive if nobody will sell them ammunition or firearms. The free market is indeed a wonderful thing to behold. And this is the free market at work. 5. Otters. Alaska State Senator Bert Stedman proposed legislation that would pay a $100 bounty for every sea otter killed in Southeast Alaska. The proposals addresses a problem that the otters, which are federally protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, have recovered in numbers since their low in the 1960s, and are now sufficiently numerous that they are decimating crab and other shellfish populations in Southeast Alaska. Of course all the usual suspects, including the feds are clucking their disapproval and promising all manner of doom and gloom and threats of arrest should this legislation pass and hunting begins. Stedman has a point, as one size fits all federal mismanagement of wildlife here in Alaska is rampant. But I believe he does not go far enough. If it is time to pick a fight with NOAA over marine mammal management and protection, why stop at the sea otters? Why not expand the discussion to the fraudulently listed as endangered polar bears, bearded seals, ringed seals; all listed as endangered over the last decade under the junk science of manmade global warming making all Arctic Ocean ice disappear? Another example would be the listing of Cook Inlet belugas as endangered after NOAA allowed native whalers to cut their numbers by 50 – 75% over the course of a couple years in the late 1990s. The feds do the damage and Alaskans get to suck up the fix to federal malfeasance. So if this legislature intends to pick a fight with the Department of the Interior over endangered species and proper management wildlife, let’s go for the whole enchilada, and take control of all management of plants, animals, birds, molds, spores and fungi residing in Alaska back to Alaska. The feds neither know nor care about what is going on up here and their one size fits all worldview has only served to make things worse. 6. 3D Printing. The new technology of 3D printing discussed a few weeks ago in the context of loss of control over manufacture of high capacity magazines for firearms, has unfortunately come to the attention of the Obama administration. As of this writing I am unable to decide if their interest is in controlling the already uncontrollable manufacture of weapons or is simply another vehicle to funnel taxpayer dollars into the pockets of Obama cronies and democrat campaign donors. I would guess the latter but cannot prove it yet. On the other hand, we do have the problem of the broken patent system being used to shut down innovation this field. Much like Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other high tech companies have used the patent process to limit innovation of their competitors; we are starting to see the same thing used by new 3D printing companies to limit their potential competitors. I expect the natural reaction would be to take everything open source and simply dump everything out on the web and force the patent holders to do something about it, which will be impossible over time. 7. Rubio. Senator Marco Rubio (R, FL) gave one of the responses to Obama’s STFU speech. During the response, he got dry mouth and took a sip of water. The leftist sycophants working for the cable channels jumped on the faux pas with both feet and attempted to ridicule him via replaying the clip of the sip of water over and over. CNN ran it over 200 times in the days following the speech. You see, Rubio is Hispanic and conservative and must therefore be destroyed. Rubio has fought back, not being seen without a bottle of water, which he smiles for the camera while regularly partaking. He is laughing at the media and they can’t stand it. A sense of humor will go far, especially when aimed at the leftists in the media. Nicely done. 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