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Comments by Clarence Piner Jr
Wake up Americans Billionaires
are going to spend as much money as it takes to get rid of unions. Please
don’t’ allow them to get away with this non sense. They have been attacking
unions in the following states claiming that all they are doing is giving
people the right to work. No they are not what they are really after is getting
cheaper labor. All this new law in Michigan does is gives workers the “right to
work for less pay and benefits”. All you have to do is look at what governors
are doing all over the county states like, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Virginia,
Florida, and Pennsylvania most of these
states are swing states. If you don’t understand what that means let me explain
swings states are those states with large numbers of Electoral College votes
that how to really win the office of the President.
For the most part union labor
support progressives with their money, their votes and their time help getting
out other voters who vote for progressives. If Republicans can bust up that
support they believe by doing this they can weaken progressive’s supporters. If
you look at weaken the Progressive base by busting up union’s membership not
only does that happen but they are attacking the fabric of the middle class and
their social systems. Remember unions help to build the middle class that why
Republicans are trying so hard with their billionaire friends to destroy the
middle class. Unions have been at the forefront of all social changes to our
great social systems common called the “safety net”.
Some of you are saying why would
they do that? The middle class is where they get their customers and workers
from. Clearly, they don’t give a dam about the middle class only about their
bottom lines. They have been planning this for quite some time if they didn’t
the billionaires would not be supporting this very dumb idea. It seem to me
they are cutting off their nose to spite their faces. Their strategy is wrong
headed and in the end the people will get it after they wake up and destroy
this good old boy system.
Gerrymandering is the other
attack use by Republicans to steal elections. Progressive went to sleep in the
2010 election and forgot the underline effect that will have on elections for
the next decade and beyond. Republicans have setup elections maps where they
win and progressive lose no matter how many votes they get. By staying home on
what some call non Presidential elections progressives have got to grow up and
get to the poles and vote and if we don’t Progressive are going to eat dirt
from this point forward. I recall saying in 2010 on election night (America) we
are in trouble. Republicans governors running on job creation and what did they
really do turn to social issues, women rights, minority rights etc. I haven’t
seen any jobs, not one, they lied to get elected.
If Progressives don’t get organize
and on their toes all social systems will be gone because big money is out to
take control of everything. We have the power but most Americans have forgotten
that; it’s call the almighty dollar. Every time you make a purchase of a
particular item you vote for that item success in the market place. Keep in
mind these billionaires have been planning for quite some time by spreading
their money around because they were planning for the when they would have to
face the people. If you boycott one of their products in a segment they have
several others in the same market segment to take its place. Progressive have
been out maneuvered at every turn, I think they have trying to be Mr nice guy
while Republicans haven’t worried about being nice only winning at all cost. As
I look out on the landscape I don’t see any Progressives who have the stomach
for the fight to win this battle.
Republicans have been lying to
their constituents like cross ties on railroad tracks. I watched the 2012
election on election night as the election returns were coming in. I said
Americans are screwing up as they elected Republicans to office in all of the
states who were electing governors and state legislators. Progressives were to
busy to go to the polls in 2010 and its going to take us maybe fifty years to
correct the system if ever.
The elections decks have been
changed so Republicans can run the deck in every election race they choose to
enter. Republicans will do everything they can to control the political process
thereby remaining in power for as long as they care to. Republicans will do
anything and everything legal or not to have their way just as long as they
remain in power. Progressives have a real problem and don’t even know it,
Republicans are like “snakes in the grass” just laying and waiting for
unsuspecting Progressives to cross their path. Here is something else
Republicans are working on to change electoral college election system from the
way they were done in the 2012. In the future Republicans are planning to change
the system to reflect the way states are electing governors, state legislators
and Federal elections.
Gerrymandering of districts in
states will have a huge impact on all elections they have stacked people of
color in the same area and white voters together so they can minimize the
effect of voters in central city and other districts where people of color
live. Basically they are lumping like groups together so they can make sure
they win at all costs. I am told this allow them to win with fewer voters just
so you understand what this means by implementing all of these new changes if
these changes had been in effect in the last election President Obama would not
have won the last election. These guys are serially about stealing future
elections at all levels. In some cases they are able to get two votes for the
price of one. Republicans realized long ago that they couldn’t win elections on
their policies only on their lies or omissions.
As long as we are frozen in front
of our TVs and movies Theaters watching all of the nonsense movies and programs
big business are sponsoring to keep our minds off of the real problems. They
know by doing this with all of the things that’s going on in your daily lives
will keep you occupied thereby, allowing Republicans to do whatever they want
to screw up everything else. It’s my hope that someday soon the Americans
people will wake up and take back their political process and send Republicans
politicians to the wood shed.
Going over the Fiscal Cliff some
call it a curb: It not a cliff as some in the media has been stating. In my
opinion nothing will be done until after the New Year and the new congress is
sworn in. The Speaker of the house Boehner will get reelected as speaker. If by
some chance he doesn’t get reelected then all hell will break lose. Republicans
will be fighting over who they will elect as speaker. In one corner you have
the old guard and in the other you have the young Turks headed by Tea Party’s
Rep Paul Ryan who knows who will be the winner if it come to this.
Speaker Boehner relieved three
Tea Party Chairman from their Chairmanship and they are “Mad as hell”. I think
he showed them who the boss is and that their reward for not doing what he
wanted. This is how things works in our congress always has and always will.
The last time Republicans raised
taxes was 150 years ago to pay for the Civil war. During most of our history
when Republicans get us into wars they don’t know how or soon forget they must
be paid for. Just in case you don’t know what I am talking about the Iraq war,
Afghanistan war, Medicare perception drug bill and the George W Bush 2000 tax
cut for the rich that were extended by President Obama. None of this was paid
for. Our President seem to be afraid to take on Republicans they should be glad
I am not the President because if I were I would fight those guys to the death.
I realized that may not be the best medicine for the county. I would meet them
in the middle and we would fight from there over issues.
Getting back to going over the
curb; if you recall this curb is something congress came up with because they
couldn’t make a decision on our budget and paying the country debt or as some
has stated our credit card. The debt is money congress has spent as stated in
the paragraph above.
WHAT IS
BOEHNER’S ‘PLAN B’ STRATEGY & WHY DID THE WHITE HOUSE REJECT IT?
Posted on December 18, 2012 at
12:36pm by 
Becket Adams
Becket Adams
The White House on Tuesday
rejected House Speaker John Boehner’s backup tax bill, dubbed “Plan B,” saying
it “fails to meet President Barack Obama’s call for a balanced approach and
does not put enough of a tax burden on the wealthiest Americans,” Reuters reports.
“The president is hopeful that
both sides can work out remaining differences and reach a solution so we don’t
miss the opportunity in front of us today,” said White House Press Secretary
Jay Carney.
Boehner had called for a separate
bill to address only taxes. He wants lawmakers to extend tax cuts for people
making up to $1 million. He also called for entitlement cuts and a tax reform
debate next year.
“I continue to have hope that we
can reach a broader agreement with the White House” that would cancel a wave of
tax increases and spending cuts now poised to begin in early January, Boehner
told reporters.
But he said when it comes to
offering a package that balances tax increases with spending cuts, “The
president is not there yet.”
Here’s a video of Reps. Boehner
and Eric Cantor (R-Va.) introducing “Plan B”: For its part, the White House
(via Press Secretary Jay Carney) said “Plan B” doesn’t “ask enough of the very
wealthiest in taxes and instead shifts the burden to the middle class and
seniors.” Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck responded: “After spending months
saying we must ask for more from millionaires and billionaires, how can they
reject a plan that does exactly that?” Buck continued, accusing President Obama
of “moving the goal posts” and “threatening every American family with higher
taxes.”
And before the White House had
even rejected Boehner’s “Plan B,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.)
was already assuring the press that it would never pass the senate. “Speaker
Boehner’s ‘plan B’ is the farthest thing from a balanced approach,” Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid’s office said in a statement. “It will not protect
middle class families because it cannot pass both Houses of Congress.”
“Now is the time to show
leadership, not kick the can down the road,” Reid said. “Speaker Boehner should
focus his energy on forging a large-scale deficit reduction agreement. It would
be a shame if Republicans abandoned productive negotiations due to pressure
from the tea party, as they have time and again.”
In addition to allowing a tax
increase for million-dollar earners, the Boehner plan would have prevented an
expansion of the alternative minimum tax that would otherwise hit 28 million
middle- and upper-class Americans with an average $3,700 increase on their 2012
tax returns.
So,
yes, the Obama White House has rejected a plan that would’ve prevented an
increase in taxes on the middle-class.
The plan would have also extended
the current maximum 35 percent tax rate on inheritance, exempting the first $5
million. That tax rate is slated to rise to 55 percent on Jan. 1, with only a
$1 million exemption. Boehner aides said the call for a separate tax bill does
not mean the Republican is cutting off negotiations with Obama on averting the
full slate of tax hikes and spending cuts due to take effect next year. It’s
simply a “just in case” backup plan.
“In terms of logistics, the House
is tentatively planning to take up the ‘Plan B’ proposal later this week, as
early as Thursday. They would do it by amending a bill previously passed by the
Senate that tracked more with Obama’s original offer,” Fox News reports.
“Then, the House would send the bill back to the Senate — where it would likely
sit as a potential last resort in case Obama and Boehner cannot strike a deal,”
the report adds.
Follow
Becket Adams (@BecketAdams)
on Twitter
The Associated Press contributed
to this report. This post has been updated
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ONLINE GUN RETAILER ‘CHEAPER
THAN DIRT’ SUSPENDS FIREARM SALES
Posted
on December 18, 2012 at 3:25pm by 
Erica Ritz
Erica Ritz
Online gun retailer Cheaper Than
Dirt announced Tuesday that it will be suspending certain firearm sales
“effective immediately” pending an internal policy review. A review of
exactly what
remains
unclear, but the announcement has prompted swift reaction on the site’s
Facebook page.
Their Facebook message reads:
“Cheaper Than Dirt! is suspending
online sales of firearms effective immediately. We are reviewing our policy
internally, and will continue to be the leader in the outdoor industry with our
full line of gear and accessories.”
In less than 45 minutes, the message
already had thousands of comments:
There
are now over 8,000 comments in the two hours since the message was first put
up. And because the post comes amid the fierce gun control battle after
the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary last Friday– where 20 students and 6
adults were fatally shot– many are accusing the retailer of “selling out” to
the gun control crowd:
It should be noted, though, that
the company’s language does not specifically reference Sandy Hook or the
current gun control controversy. Dick’s
Sporting Goods, however, has made it clear that it is taking action
specifically because of the shooting. The retail giant announced Tuesday
that it would be suspending the sale of modern rifles nationwide in light
of the tragedy, declining to say exactly how long the suspension would last, or
which guns would be pulled.
TheBlaze reached out to Cheaper
Than Dirt for comment, but did not receive one.
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MAN
ATTEMPTS TO OPEN FIRE ON CROWD AT MOVIE THEATER, ARMED OFF-DUTY SHERIFF’S
DEPUTY DROPS HIM WITH ONE BULLET
Posted on December 17, 2012 at
10:28pm by 
Jason Howerton
Jason Howerton
With one shot, an off-duty
sheriff’s deputy took down a gunman who attempted to opened fire at a crowded
movie theater lobby during a late night showing of “The Hobbit” in San Antonio, WOAI reports.
Police say a gunman, identified
as Jesus Manuel Garcia,
chased patrons from the nearby China Garden Restaurant into the lobby of the
Santikos Mayan 14 movie theater at around 9 p.m. on Sunday. Garcia, an employee
of the restaurant, reportedly walked in the establishment looking for a woman.
When the woman, also reportedly a
restaurant employee, wasn’t there, Garcia pulled out a gun and attempted to
open fire in the restaurant but his weapon jammed. “It started at the restaurant and
then went into the parking lot and then into the movie theater,” Deputy Lou
Antu told 1200 WOAI news.
The commotion sent horrified
restaurant patrons into the movie theater lobby, but the gunman followed. He
again attempted to open fire, and this time his gun didn’t jam. Garcia
reportedly shot one man in the chest before Antu says an off-duty sheriff’s
deputy working security the theater shot him once, dropping him to the floor.
Bexar County sheriff’s Sgt. Lisa
Castellano reportedly chased the gunman toward the back of the theater. The
13-year department veteran cornered him after he ran into a men’s restroom and
shot him before taking his gun. “The
officer involved, she took the appropriate action to try to keep everyone safe
in the movie theater,” Antu added. Due
to the off-duty deputy’s bravery, the gunman was not able to make it into the
theater where he could have potentially taken many lives. The gunman and the man he shot
remain hospitalized, according to WOAI.
Police say a recent breakup set
off the man’s shooting spree on Sunday, MySanAntonio.com reports.
Jesus Manuel Garcia, 19, an
employee at a China Garden restaurant next to the Santikos Mayan Palace 14
theater, apparently became upset Sunday night after his girlfriend broke up
with him. He lashed
out by sending her a message saying he planned to go to the restaurant and
“shoot somebody,” said Bexar County sheriff’s Sgt. Raymond Pollard.
Pollard said the woman called to
warn restaurant employees, but by the time she saw his message, Garcia was
already outside the China Garden firing a Glock 23 at the front door about 9:25
p.m. If Garcia survives
his attempt at mass murder, officials say he will likely face a charge of
attempted capital murder as he allegedly shot at the San Antonia police car on
Southwest Military Drive as he ran from the restaurant and into the theater.
SHOULD AMERICANS LEARN FROM ISRAELI GUN LAWS?
Posted
on December 18, 2012 at 8:38am by 
Tiffany Gabbay
Tiffany Gabbay
In the wake of the brutal
shooting spree at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut,
that left 28 — including 20 innocent children dead — Americans are
searching high and low to make sense of what is indeed, a senseless tragedy. Of
course pundits and lawmakers alike have, just as they do following most
mass-shootings, politicized the event in an effort to call for stricter gun
laws. In fact, California Democrat Dianne Feinstein announced Sunday her
intention to introduce an
assault weapons ban bill on the first day of the new Congress in 2013.
“I’m going to introduce in the
Senate, and the same bill will be introduced in the House — a bill to ban
assault weapons,” Feinstein told her fellow panelists on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
The veteran lawmaker and liberal stalwart had previously called on the ban to
be renewed following this year’s other mass shooting at an Aurora,
Colorado movie theater. Needless to say, last week’s brutality has only
reinforced her stance.
While debates on gun restrictions
and laws are sure to abound, one writer for the Jewish Press made an
interesting point: Rather than favor an outright ban on guns and greater
restrictions of Americans’ Second Amendment rights, author Shalom Bear
suggested that the U.S. simply look to Israel and
its gun laws as a model to emulate.
Bear noted that Jewish people
have an obligation to fight calls for all out gun-bans as Israelis who live
under constant existential threat rely on guns for their very survival each and
every day. He also noted that “giving up the means and the right to defend
ourselves is the worst mistake we could make.”
“Imagine if Germany or Poland’s
Jews had been armed,” he then asked readers to contemplate.
So what, then, is the answer?
Many who visit Israel are likely
struck by the number of guns they see on the streets, carried out in the open
by everyday people. For Israelis, carrying guns is indeed a matter of survival,
but as the Jewish Press author notes, these guns are actually more difficult
to acquire in Israel than in the U.S. due to the country’s strict
vetting process.
That process includes screening
by government, law enforcement, trained professionals at shooting ranges and
even medical professionals through psychiatric evaluations — all of whom must
sign off on the person seeking a gun permit. What’s more, even those who
do successfully manage to obtain a license are only permitted to own one gun.
“Appearances aside, in Israel
there are fewer personal weapons per capita, and fewer homicides involving
guns, than in the U.K., which has very strong and restrictive gun laws,” the
author writes before adding that he believes one of the key differences between
America and Israel’s views on guns is the attitude.
“Even though Israelis watch the
same movies and play the same video games that glorify gun violence as
Americans do, Israelis, unlike Americans, are taught from a young age a mature,
respectful and structured interaction with their weapons,” Bear claims. “In
America, it’s considered a right to carry a gun, but in Israel, it’s considered
both right and a privilege.”
The author continues:
Keeping guns out of the hands of
law-abiding citizens is wrong and unconstitutional. But America must rethink
its gun laws and make them consistent for the entire country. They must include
a serious, complex vetting process, at least as demanding as the process one
must endure to receive a driver’s license. In fact, I recommend letting each
state’s DMV develop a process of educating and testing potential gun owners.
After all, in both cases, when providing a license to drive a car and a license
to carry a gun (and to register the car and gun), the state is empowering its
citizen to operate a potentially lethal weapon.
Like applicant drivers, potential
gun owners must undergo extensive, well structured training on the proper
handling, storage and use of their weapon, before being allowed to even buy
one, and repeat the process at every license renewal. And they must have a
qualified doctor sign off on them too. [...]
Also, the states must get rid of
the concealed carry requirement (for those that have it). It’s an idiotic idea
that is actually a result of American society’s veneration of weapons, and it
removes any visual deterrence it otherwise affords.
Once obvious targets for an
attacks, such as schools (think JCCs, and synagogues, too) appoint visibly
armed, well-trained guards, we will undoubtedly be seeing a reduction in the
number of massacres perpetrated in American schools and other public places.
At the end of the day there is
something to be said for Israel’s approach to emphasizing the immense
personal responsibility entailed in possessing and potentially using a
firearm. Perhaps looking to a nation so conversant in matters of self-defense
is one approach worth considering as Americans move forward and with hope past
senseless violence like the kind carried out at Sandy Hook Elementary and into
what is sure to be a more robust debate on the future of gun control.
PRIVATE EQUITY FIRM SELLS ITS STAKE IN GUN MANUFACTURER BECAUSE OF
SHOOTING: ‘WATERSHED EVENT’
Posted
on December 18, 2012 at 9:53am by 
Jonathon M. Seidl
Jonathon M. Seidl
NEW YORK (The Blaze/AP) — The
private equity firm Cerberus will sell its stake in a firearms company that
produced one of the weapons believed to have been used in the shootings at an
elementary school in Newtown, Conn., calling it a “watershed event” in the
national debate on gun control. While saying that it’s not its role to take
positions or attempt to shape or influence the gun control debate, Cerberus
said it is taking what action it can by selling its stake in the Freedom Group,
which makes the Bushmaster rifle.
On Friday, 20 children were
killed, 26 people in all, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in one of the worst
mass shootings in U.S history. The gunman, Adam Lanza, is believed to have used
a .223-caliber Bushmaster AR-15 rifle in the attack. The AR-15 is a civilian
version of the military’s M-16. Versions of the AR-15 were outlawed in the U.S.
under the 1994 assault weapons ban. That law expired in 2004, and Congress
failed to renew it under immense pressure from the gun lobby.
Cerberus, however, is distancing
itself.
“We are investors, not statesmen
or policy makers,” the company said in a statement. “Our role is to make
investments on behalf of our clients who are comprised of the pension plans of
firemen, teachers, policemen and other municipal workers and unions,
endowments, and other institutions and individuals. It is not our role to
take positions, or attempt to shape or influence the gun control policy debate.
That is the job of our federal and state legislators.” And it appeared some
investors were ridding themselves of shares in firearms makers this week.
Shares of Sturm, Ruger & Co. plunged nearly 7 percent in early trading
Tuesdsay. Shares of Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. fell more than 9 percent.
But that’s in stark contrast to
firearms sales, which have seen a spike since the shooting. Foxnews.com
offers some examples: The
Colorado Bureau of Investigation says it set a new record for single-day
background check submittals this past weekend. In San Diego, Northwest Armory
gun store owner Karl Durkheimer said Saturday “was the biggest day we’ve seen
in 20 years. Sunday will probably eclipse that.” In southwest Ohio, from dawn
to dusk a Cincinnati gun show had a line of 400 waiting to get in, said Joe
Eaton of the Buckeye Firearms Association.
“Sales were through the roof on
Saturday,” said Eaton. “People were buying everything they could out of fear
the president would try to ban certain guns and high-capacity magazines.”
The deluge of buyers had
officials working overtime. Background checks that normally took 15 minutes in
California took more than four hours, Durkheimer said. In Colorado, background
checks that normally take minutes turned into wait times of more than 12 hours,
said CBI spokeswoman Susan Medina.
“We had to call in extra staff,”
Medina said. “The wait times were high.”
The
CBI says it processed more than 4,200 background checks on Saturday, the day
after the Newtown, Conn., shooting. That surpassed the previous high of 4,028.
Nationwide, FBI data shows 16.4 million background checks were run in 2011. An
agency spokesman said Monday it did not keep daily numbers and would not have
figures for December until early January.
The New York firm said Tuesday
that it was deeply saddened by the shooting, and that it will hire a financial
adviser to help with the process of selling its interests in Freedom Group, a
major firearms manufacturer which, in addition to Bushmaster, produces
Remington Arms. A representative for Freedom Group could not be immediately
reached for comment. The announcement comes one day after the California State
Teachers Retirement System, a large pension fund, told The Wall Street Journal
that it was reviewing its $500 million investment commitment to Cerberus
because of the firm’s stake in Freedom Group.
A representative for the
California State Teachers Retirement System could not be immediately reached
for comment on Tuesday. Cerberus affiliates made an investment in Freedom Group
in 2006. The firm said that Freedom Group does not sell weapons or ammunition
directly to consumers, and that it does not believe that “Freedom Group or any
single company or individual can prevent senseless violence or the illegal use
or procurement of firearms and ammunition.”
Cerberus Capital Management makes
investments on behalf of clients that include the pension plans of firemen,
teachers, policemen, and other municipal workers and unions, endowments and
other institutions and individuals. Money made from the Freedom Group sale will
be returned to its investors, Cerberus said.
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