Euros, Bankers, and Cyprots

So in the grand scheme of stupid, greedy, impulsive, and just plain "damn the consequences" ideas by stupid bureaucrats/bankers/politicians, the government of Cypress thought they could simply steal 10% of everyone's bank accounts overnight.   Because apparently stealing via inflation is simply "too bloody slow".

The government is now backpedalling faster than anyone has ever seen before due to two reasons, 750,000 pitchfork and torch wielding Cyprots who for some reason were stupid enough to think that money in Banks was actually safer than burred in you garden and the Russian Mafia who probably owns half the deposits we are talking about.

Does anyone really think the Russians are going to accept a 10% tax as the cost of doing business?  Let's put this in perspective, if the Russion mob decides to "disappear" you, you stay disappeared.  Finding Jimmy Hoffa would look like a game of Where's Waldo by comparison.

The only question now is whether the bankers who came up with this scheme can get themselves out of it before either the mob, or the Mob, gets a hold of them.

Oh and if it isn't obvious, this is going to do "Bad Things" to the value of the Euro which might actually in the end do the same thing by effectively taxing everyone who holds Euros via inflation.

Oh yeah, Europeans are going to be buying Gold and Silver, and it will take tremendous effort to prevent bank runs on the fiat held by Italian, Portuguese and Spanish banks. 

QOTD - Ted Cruz on Gun Control

From Senator Ted Cruz:

Washington politicians shouldn’t be taking advantage of recent tragedy to try to push an aggressive gun control agenda. Real assault weapons—machine guns—are already functionally illegal, and they have been since 1934. This proposal would have done nothing to prevent the terrible murders in Newtown, but it would limit the constitutional liberties of law-abiding citizens. And gun control doesn’t work – the empirical data overwhelmingly demonstrate that strict gun-control laws consistently produce more crime and more murders.

The Second Amendment exists to ensure that law-abiding Americans can protect their homes and families, and I look forward to helping lead the fight to defeat this bill and to protect our constitutional right to keep and bear arms. 

Hey Texas, got a few more of this guy, McCain is getting long in the tooth and isn't really conservative anyway.

Needs

Next time a leftist asks you why you "need" a semi-automatic with a 30 round "clip" look them straight in the eye and say:

"You're right, I don't need an AR-15.  Rosa Parks didn't NEED to sit in the front of that bus either." 

Take notes on exactly what shade of purple they turn.

Hat tip to "gromulin" on The Gun Counter for the idea.

Desert Shooting

Took the family shooting up by Sugarloaf today.  Not too busy, only had to go past about 8 occupied shooting spots.

Best thing about desert shooting, folks who don't police their brass.  Picked up almost 200 pieces of brand new .45 acp brass off the ground.  Lots of 9mm as well, haven't counted it yet, but I'm gueesing at least 300.

I think the kids might have had as much fun "brass-hunting, as they did shooting.

You want to have a Conversation?

So the so-called progressives want to have a conversation do they?  All right;  Let's have a conversation.  Let's talk about how every single mass shooting in the past decade except for one happened in a "gun free" victim disarmament zone.  The sole exception was the Safeway Parking lot shooting in Tucson where Laughner was actually stopped by a concealed carry holder who tackled the shooter for fear of hitting innocent bystanders.

Let's have a conversation about how in Israel the terrorists blow up school busses full of schoolchildren because mass shootings are too damn difficult because the teachers shoot back.  Let's have a conversation about how the "gun free schools act" has done nothing but create shooting galleries of live targets for any and every whack-job out there.

Let's talk about the fact that in every mass shooting that is answered by deadly force, the average body count is 9 times lower than when the shooter is unopposed.  Oh, and let's talk about how the police and the government you adore so much have absolutely no duty to protect you or anyone else.

Let's finally admit to ourselves that no matter how good it sounds in theory, Gun Control simply does not work, and have a conversation about real solutions. 

Real solutions like repealing the Gun Free Schools Act.  Real solutions like arming the 10's of thousands of teachers in this country who are military veterans.  Real solutions like training children how to resist an armed attacker and bringing firearms marksmanship classes back into the schoolroom.  Real solutions like insisting that business owners who post no firearms signs be held civilly accountable for doing so.

And while we are at it, let's also have a conversation about how at the end of the day, there will always be evil, and evil has never been stopped by a sign, or a prohibition, or a law.  Evil is only stopped by good men willing to use force to do so.

You want to talk?  Lets talk...

Pro Choice - On everything

Being a libertarian means being Pro-Choice.  Not necessarily on abortion, but rather on everything.

Pro Choice on being allowed to join a worker's union.
Pro Choice on being allowed to NOT join a worker's union.
Pro Choice on being allowed to worship the religion of your choice.
Pro Choice on being free not to worship any religion at all.
Pro Choice on whether to own a firearm (or not)
Pro Choice on... well just about everything.

I am waiting with baited breath to see how the far left is going to explain how "Pro Choice" means that the government has to pay for all the abortions one demands, but somehow does not mean giving people the choice to NOT join what is essentially a political organization under penalty of being fired.

Oh, and when they try to make a "free riders" argument, I am simply going to point an laugh since they never seem to care about free riders in ANY other situation.

Hey there Obama

So this morning I realized that "Obama" has the same number of sylables as "Delilah"

Yeah...

Hey There Obama"

 Lyrics (c) Mark Horning 10/12/2012

Hey there Obama, do you like bureaucrat City?

There's 12 million unemployed, Barrack, your party's sitting pretty

Here's a clue... Carter wasn't half as bad as you

I swear it's true

Hey there Obama, don't you worry about the budget

Fifteen trillion's a big number, that's the debt held by the public

That you made... Listen to my voice, you can't evade

Folks are afraid

Oh, it's what you do to me, With, this bad economy

On, no more prosperity, Oh, it's the economy

That matters to me

Hey there Obama,  times are hard, you can't avoid

But believe me, sir, it's hard to pay the bills while unemployed

Well times are rough... And your agenda makes things tough,

We've had enough

Hey there Obama, Bush left messes, fair to say

But big bailout spending made things worse, you did it anyway.

Don't your recall... That our economy is in free fall?

I've made my call.

Oh it's the economy, Oh, no more prosperity

Not your foreign policy,  No it's the economy

            12 million jobless seems bizarre. 

            They've lost their homes and lost their cars

            I really do not like that other guy...

            I'd like to pick you once again, 

            but hope is not a fiscal plan

            We let you have a chance and have a try,

            Obama I can promise you, that by the time you get through

            The States will never ever be the same

            And you're to blame

Hey there Obama, Change and Hope disillusioned me

Four more years of this and when you're done , the dollar would be history

Yes it's true.   You know that it's all because of you

We will vote however we need to.

Hey there Obama, we'll miss you

Farewell to you

Oh it's the economy, Oh Sinking in the sea

Oh just flotsam and debris, Oh it's the economy

That matters to me.

It's the economy.

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Edited because I missed a slant rhyme the first time. 

Free Advice for Rahm

Chicago Teachers make on average $76,000 not counting benefits.  That's more than most college professors make, 3 times what our state legislators make, and well within the upper 30th percentile of houshold incomes.  (top 10% if you have two teachers in a household)

They work 6 hr days, get three months off, and they are striking because a pay increase of 16% over 4 years isn't good enough for them.  So much for teachers being underpaid.

Here is my advice:  Emulate Calvin Coolidge, Emulate Ronald Reagan, fire every last one of the ungrateful wretches.  If you need someone to teach while hiring replacements have the Governor call up the Guard.  Any officer in the Guard has a bachelors degree and can probably teach better than these slugs anyway.