[This whole deficit thing is really getting ridiculous. Increasingly, it looks like we are going to be fed very vague numbers and promises from both sides of the Congressional aisles, ending up with a worsening of our Grecian downwards spiral, not meaningful reform. Between the Democrats and the RINOs, we are doomed! – JS ]
BS Meter > Bob Beckel reported 1600 minors killed by firearm accidents per year: In 2000, 174 children (0-18) in the United States died from unintentional firearm-related injuries. Unintentional injuries are usually caused when children play with guns or are hunting.
Vegas mogul blasts Obama as “greatest wet blanket to business … job creation in my lifetime”: Steve Wynn knows what a bad bet looks like. One of the acknowledged visionaries of modern Las Vegas and gaming worldwide, Wynn has built his fortune on widely-dispersed disposable income and the copious leisure time not just of the wealthy …
Gerald Seib of The Wall Street Journal predicts: "What's now most likely to unfold in the next two weeks is a series of symbolic votes on partisan proposals that will fail, merely illustrating the capital's inability to come together in the crunch, followed by the passage of a plan that may end up amounting to the bare minimum necessary to get past a crisis point."
The plan that "may end up amounting to the bare minimum necessary to get past a crisis point" is the McConnell proposal, which would raise the debt ceiling in three installments and be matched by spending cuts to be named later. Carl Hulse reports on this "legislative magic trick."
WOW! > The head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says that the Justice Department is trying to protect its political appointees from the Fast and Furious scandal by concealing an internal "smoking gun" report and other documents that acknowledge their role in the program.
The SEIU is telling workers to "disobey laws" as part of a series of tactics it recommends using against employers who resist unionization efforts.. [Who’d a thunkit? – JS]
Quote(s) of the Day > "There exists a law, not written down anywhere but inborn in our hearts; a law which comes to us not by training or custom or reading but by derivation and absorption and adoption from nature itself; a law which has come to us not from theory but from practice, not by instruction but by natural intuition. I refer to the law which lays it down that, if our lives are endangered by plots or violence or armed robbers or enemies, any and every method of protecting ourselves is morally right." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Quote(s) of the Day > "Eight days after taking over the reins of his country, a beloved leader urged everyone to turn in their arms - “There is no longer an enemy,” he said. A slogan, “Arms—What For?” appeared throughout the nation. Thirty days later he ordered his militia to turn in their arms. Promised elections are cancelled, the loved leader becomes a tyrant and his people lose all rights, including freedom of speech and press, becoming a totalitarian state for the next 35 years. For those Americans currently willing to agree to have some of their rights curtailed for temporary security, I’d urge them to look south -- to Cuba."
-- Yvonne M. Conde
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