“Just spent the day doing my federal and state tax returns. The good news is I don’t owe anything. The bad news is that, for the first time in 40 years, I didn’t earn enough to owe any income tax.”
“So there are no conservative hate mongers huh? Maybe so, except for Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage and Glenn Beck, and right here in our lovely Valley of the Sun, Gov. Jan Brewer, Russell Pearce, Joe Arpaio.”
“Is Mark Kelly hiding something that should disqualify him from buying a gun?”
“The very fact that our duly elected officials in government keep telling us just how hard the ‘sequester’ is going to be on all of us is all the reason I need to believe that it isn’t going to change things all that much.”
“Do you think our Founding Fathers are rolling over in their graves right now?”
“The White House said that government employees will have their hours reduced by 20 percent, working only four days a week. The good news about this reduction in hours is that the productivity should not be affected. They can still get the same amount of paper-shuffling done. As a coworker once said while we were discussing productivity during a period of overtime work, ‘I find that if I pace myself, I can get just as much done in 10 hours as in 8 hours.’”
“If you eliminate all the murders committed by assault weapons, the murder rate would drop about 1-2 percent, but the law proposed in the U.S. Senate won’t even have that much effect. The really funny thing is there are statistics to back up my argument. We had 10 years of an assault rifle ban and according to FBI statistics, the affect was not measurable. You would save more lives by re-instituting prohibition to get drunks off the road.”
“In view of the recall attempt on Joe Arpaio by the lovers of illegal aliens who hate democracy and refuse to accept the results of any election that doesn’t go their way, why hasn’t any Arizona legislator introduced legislation to prevent a recall of an elected official within one year of the last time he was elected unless he has been found guilty by a court of a felony, not the court of opinions on one side of an issue?”
“Cities don’t need new laws to collect additional revenue. All they need to do is enforce existing laws. Jaywalking, bike riding against traffic or on the sidewalk, parking on the street with car facing the wrong direction, etc. The biggest money-maker would be handicapped parking enforcement, cars without placards being ticketed, ID-matching to people in the car and the placard number and ticketing motorcycles in the van-loading stripes. Those are some big fines just waiting to be collected.”
Spived posted at 11:12 am on Sun, Mar 17, 2013.
#1 Sorry to hear that.
#2 You are obviously one of the many that criticize every conservative without ever listening to them. Your ignorance is showing.
#3 If Mark actually believed the gun control pap he spreads, his conscience should have stopped him.
#4 We are still spending more than last year in spite of the sequester. So what cuts are necessary? Only the politically expedient ones.
#5 Most government workers could have their hours cut 100% without a loss of productivity.
#7 You could save more lives in a number of ways that don't involve violating their oath of office.
#8 A recall for political purposes does us all an injustice. Would a different sheriff get away with ignoring the law?
#9 I have no problem with enforcing traffic laws, but a lot more could be gained by instituting open and honest accounting of city funds.
truth posted at 4:31 pm on Sun, Mar 17, 2013.
That’s why Jeb Bush will never seriously challenge for the presidency—because to seriously challenge for the presidency, a Republican will have to pointedly distance himself from Jeb’s older brother. No Republican will enjoy credibility as a deficit hawk unless he or she acknowledges that George W. Bush squandered the budget surplus he inherited. No Republican will be able to promise foreign-policy competence unless he or she acknowledges the Bush administration’s disastrous mismanagement in Afghanistan and Iraq. It won’t be enough for a candidate merely to keep his or her distance from W. John McCain and Mitt Romney tried that, and they failed because the Obama campaign hung Bush around their neck every chance it got. To seriously compete, the next Republican candidate for president will have to preempt that Democratic line of attack by repudiating key aspects of Bush’s legacy. Jeb Bush would find that excruciatingly hard even if he wanted to. And as his interviews Sunday make clear, he doesn’t event want to try.
rockinroller posted at 4:55 pm on Sun, Mar 17, 2013.
Hey Gun Advocate: You make about as much sense with that post as if someone suggests killing all the gun owners.
Heck, while you're at it, push for eliminating all laws, since there's lawbreakers involved in anything that is "law".
Imagine: Advocating assault weapons because it won't cut down "that much" on mass murders.
Sheesh.
Spived posted at 6:31 pm on Sun, Mar 17, 2013.
Hey rockinroller: Assault weapons have been illegal since the 1930s. You have to have a federal firearms license to own one. What you ignorantly call an assault weapon (anything that looks scary) kills fewer people than most any other weapon. You want to stop a lot of killing - get rid of peer review for doctors. There is some real carnage there.
chatmandu002 posted at 11:44 am on Mon, Mar 18, 2013.
Vent #1: Everyone should have to pay some. Pass the Fair Tax act.
Vent #2: There are as many conservative "hate mongers" as there are liberal/progressive "hate mongers". The big difference is that 80% of the media is liberal/progressive and facilitates the liberal/progressive "hate mongering" more.
Vent #3: I am sure Mark Kelly will try to make some kind of liberal/progressive point farther down the road after buying his AR-15.
Vent #4: Sequester is hard now???? Just wait until the dollars collapses.
Vent #5: Rolling over and over and over and over.......
Vent #6: Only in government can you cut 20% of the workers hours and still get the same results.
Vent #7: It's not about the assault weapons, it's about crazy people.
Vent #8: They keep on subverting the process until it goes their way.
Vent #9: Red light cameras and speeding cameras. LOL
Accuracy posted at 12:42 pm on Mon, Mar 18, 2013.
VENT #2: “So there are no conservative hate mongers huh?"
You’ve got that right!
There’s the Liberals’ and the media’s bullying tactic – through hate, threat of force, and rhetorical intimidation. Liberal culprits that are playing the race, class, and sexism hate card; and all the while claiming to be victims.
Bluepoet posted at 1:37 pm on Mon, Mar 18, 2013.
#1-I pay taxes all year, and get a refund, too. This way, the government gets to use my surplus, for about 30 days, or as soon as I can file. Then, I get some back, and I get to play consumer..."high level" economics! Everybody's happy!
#2-As I said before, the hate is on both sides of the political fence. It is raised to the point of absurdity, and beyond. The media only reflects the sound bite, in the 24-hour cycle that passes itself off as news...If one attends a certain news channel more than another, they get to hear whatever reinforces their leanings.
#3-I think Mark Kelly already owns guns, so, are you advocating taking them away from him?
#4-Just as long as you believe yourself to be self-sufficient, you can afford to think government is not directly related to you, or your place in society. When services are cut arbitrarily, your smugness is about as long-lived as a roll of the dice, in a casino. Keep laughing...
#5-Our Founding Fathers are dead. It's just as possible that they are laughing uncontrollably, at our expense. And, just as plausible.
#6-I think of it this way--now, if I have to stand in a line to get some government service done, I will have to budget 20% more time to be put on hold. The rest of your japing, about productivity? Unless you are a small business owner, or working on a production assembly line, you are working about 4-5 hours out of every 8-hour day. That's in private industry. It's a bit disingenuous to point to public employees as being non-productive, in that light, is it not?
#7-I'm not very good at math, but even I know when I'm reading about math on par with a three-card monty game, sir! If you're going to discuss statistics, then it's not enough to simply post conclusions and forecasts, based on conjectures. Nice try, but it's not the card on the right...
#8-Recall the man, if there's firm evidence of his malfeasance. Otherwise, chalk it up to voter gullibility, and watch us all reap the whirlwind of elector's remorse...
#9-Yes, moar meter maids!!!