Congressman Jason Chaffetz is in hot water on social media because he had the audacity to suggest people need to prioritize their spending on necessities over luxuries. 

Good god, what a monster.

He should have listened to Michelle Obama when she blamed the obesity epidemic of the poor on “food deserts” where grocery stores don’t want to invest in low income high crime neighborhoods.

I lived in a poor area of South Dakota and watched the poor buy Doritos, snack cakes, Mountain Dew, microwave meals, etc., with EBT.

I on the other hand, spent my money on milk, eggs, bananas, apples, chicken breast, etc.  At the same Wal Mart.  I found buying ingredients and cooking  them was cheaper.  A big bag oh Fuji apples cost less than the big bag of Doritos.  A pound of chicken, jar of sauce, and box of pasta was $8 and lasted four days.  But it was my money I was spending so I had to be mindful of my purchases.  

I thought that the poor who bought junk food bought junk food for the same reason they were poor.  Bad decision making skills, putting short term pleasure over long term benefits.

Silly, conservative me didn’t know it was because the poor are victims of capitalism… or something.  

I guess what we really need is both socialized health care AND allow people to use government benefits to buy iPhones.  Heck, the Apple Store should accept EBT or else it’s racist. 

Poor people shouldn’t suffer the negative effects of their own decisions.   Thinking otherwise shows your privilege.

This worked out well for the housing market in 2012, didn’t it?

I’ll be happy if we get Open Carry this year. To me is the biggest bump on the road and if we clear it, I foresee a lot of other bills come our way.

DATE: March 4, 2017
TO: USF & NRA Members and Friends
FROM: Marion P. Hammer
USF Executive Director
NRA Past President

SB-646 and SB-616 by Sen. Greg Steube will both be heard by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, March 7, 2017, between 4:00-6:00pm.

SB-646 Open Carrying by Sen. Greg Steube removes the criminal penalties for violations of the open carry law and prohibits a person who has a concealed firearms license from being arrested and charged with a crime if their firearm becomes exposed to sight of another person.

SB-616 Courthouse Carry by Sen. Greg Steube allows a concealed firearms licensee to temporarily store a firearm with courthouse security when entering a courthouse and provides for return upon departure.

Please EMAIL the following Senate members IMMEDIATELY and URGE them to SUPPORT SB-616 & SB-646

IN THE SUBJECT LINE PUT: SUPPORT SB-646 & SB-616 in Senate Judiciary Committee

(To send your message to all just Block and Copy All email addresses into the “Send To” box)

steube.greg@flsenate.gov,
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bracy.randolph@flsenate.gov,
flores.anitere@flsenate.gov,
garcia.rene@flsenate.gov,
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powell.bobby@flsenate.gov,
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These Senate Committee members need to hear from you. Please email them IMMEDIATELY.

In case you have not heard, there is a new super hero and he is named The Stick Man, basher of Antifa Heads.

But since the fights happened in Berkeley, enemy territory, he is under arrest:

And Kyle Chapman is facing several felony counts.  A legal defense fund has been set up for him if you feel you like to contribute.

Now to the point I wanted to make: Berkeley police finally got off their collective asses and arrested somebody but only after Pro Trump people started to defend themselves.  And the sad part is that this was observed clearly by the media and it was so blatant that at least one station reported on it.

And as satisfactory and recommended as it is to return violence to those who seek control by it, we have to understand that in some locations, we are viewed as the pests by the government officials and that Antifa is simply doing the job that “needs to be done” without involving a congressional inquiry on the use of Law Enforcement in Civil Rights’ violations.

The Democrats subcontracted Bull Connor’s job to unpaid Interns.

PS: Ninety Miles has a great video with more on the Berkeley fights

I caught this Twitter exchange between Bette Midler and Shannon Watts on Twitchy.

Ah yes, when TWO organizations that fight for civil liberties team up and fight for the rights of people to retain their Constitutionally protected rights from being taken away without due process, they are wrong, because guns.

This exchange really shows just how ideologically fixated these people are.  There is no room at all for understanding, the ACLU engaged in heresy and must be punished.

The fact that the NRA and ACLU didn’t just arm a bunch of crazy people never crosses their mind.  A disability advocate explained in Vox why, despite being anti-gun, why he supported this action.

Having someone on Social Security Disability who wants help managing their finances is not indicative in any way of being potentially violent.  All the Obama rule did was stigmatize people and deny them their rights.

Funny thing is, this isn’t the first time in recent history that the ACLU and NRA buddied up to take on an Obama usurpation.  The ACLU and NRA were on the same side regarding just how bad an idea “No fly, No buy” was because it restricts rights without due process.

See a theme here?  You shouldn’t be able to lose a civil right without a judgement against you.  Checking a box on a Social Security form and setting up a designated payee is not an adjudication of mental illness.  Having some bureaucrat put your name on a watch list is not a conviction of criminal activity.  You shouldn’t lose your rights for either reason.

But in Bette Midler’s and Shannon Watts’ world, anybody that sides with the NRA is in the wrong.

Maybe, if Hillary runs for mayor of NYC, the NRA should endorse her and make a big show of donating to her campaign.  Maybe the congestive dissonance of that will get Shannon Watts to stroke out.

Slate published a stupid piece about how if the US was really concerned about stopping violence it would ban white men.  Why?  Because stupid Progressivism, that’s why.

Tucker Carlson debated Mark Hetfield, a refugee advocate, about the Trump Travel Ban 2.0.  Hetfield’s argument was, there hasn’t been a history of terrorism from the six nations named in the travel ban so it is discriminatory.

I know I’m a nobody from Flyover country, but here is what I see, and why I support the travel ban 100% and think it should be expanded.

ISIS has been successful in hiding its fighters among refugees going to Europe.  ISIS admits this with pride.

Terrorism, terrorism, terrorism, whatever.

When I read about what is going on in Syria, every single day I read about ISIS chopping the heads off Christians.  In fact, there have been so many public beheading in Syria, Google can’t keep track of them all.    Don’t forget, a couple of years ago two Muslims beheaded a British soldier in England on video.

Is it too much to ask that people who come from a culture in which beheadings in the  streets is normal NOT be relocated to the US?

These people butcher other Muslims like animals and make videos about it (Warning).  I don’t want them here.

I don’t think it makes me a bigot to want to keep the head choppers and throat slitters as far away from me a possible.

Not to mention, the argument that the “Muslim ban is a gift to ISIS” is the worst think I’ve ever heard.  “If you don’t let us in to your country, we will kill you” isn’t a refugee policy, it is a hostage tactic.  That line of thought should be an automatic disqualifier.

I don’t think this makes me a terrible person.  Just an American that wants to see America stay beheading free.

This was the first Far Side I ever saw in a copy of The Tennessean way back then. I cut it off and taped it to my apartment’s mailbox that afternoon. The next day I heard the mailman laughing while doing his drop. To this day is my favorite.

I kinda miss Mr. Larson. He did appeal to a lot of people’s twisted (and I mean twisted) sense of humor.

I was raped on campus at Florida State University. He had a knife and I had pepper spray.  You can read how well that worked for me.  Campus carry is important to me; it is personal for me.  It is time for Florida Republicans to let us defend ourselves.I never thought I would have to write this letter. I thought that after the amazing wins the Republican party gained this past election on a local, state, and national level, that our constitutional rights would not only be protected but we would revise all the laws that seek to unreasonably restrict those rights especially those that pertain to the second amendment.Yet here we are. I am writing this only days before legislative session starts officially on March 7th in Florida and the only thing that I have seen come out dealing with gun rights are sloppy bills from supposedly pro-gun Senators and Congressmen and a deep state of apathy and division within the Republican Party in measuring how they will deal with those bills.

Source: It’s RINO Season and it’s Time to go Hunting for Florida Republicans

All Pressures are needed.