Looking for a reason to admire Herman Cain and despise Newt Gingrich?
Search no further than the land of the tall corn where our economic base grows in rows, where our corn and bean producers have, for a century and a-half, cultivated an image of sober, god-fearing, rugged individualism.
And so they endorse* for President of These United States, ta-da, conservative Newt Gingrich.
Newt Gingrich earned straight A’s on agriculture, energy, trade and other policies measured by the Iowa Corn Growers Association.
They love Newt because he promises to give them all they want of other people's stuff. And I do mean all they want. He is the agripimptorian of the GOP Class of '12.
By contrast, the Row Crop Royalty hates Herman Cain without even referring to off-field boffing. Herm gets a "D" for telling the Corn Growers' Association to put on big-boy pants and quit whining like a 16-year-old unwed mother of three on the south side of Chicago upset because she doan get enough from the welfare.
Our Ron Paul sits in the back of the room with Herman. He also earned a "D" despite not returning the questionnaire. The cornies said they evaluated such refusniks by checking their records and public statements. Paul, of course, has taken several subversive positions, including the radical notion that you should be permitted to put gasoline in your tank.
Just for shidts and grins, I suppose, the corn growers also graded His Ineptness, the sitting president. Barry got a "B," tied with Mitt Romney.
N.B. -- To absorb the full flavor of all this, a guy should take time to click through the links in the news story and on the corn growers candidate report card where you can read the questions and candidate answers. If the corn growers implicit demands don't read like an Acorn wish list I'll kiss your arse in a crop circle and let you take aerial photos with a long lens.
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* “ 'This is a tool for farmers and voters, not an endorsement,' (said) Corn Growers president Kevin Ross..." Kevin, that's bullshit and you know it.
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Showing posts with label Politics Common-dense gun laws. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Politics Common-dense gun laws. Show all posts
Dec 1, 2011
Feb 14, 2011
Fancy that: Merchant of Death to Advise Obama
A veteran Ruger executive is about to join the Obama team.
The Ruger news release:
Kim Pritula, Director of Export/ATF Compliance & Security, has been appointed to the President’s Export Council Subcommittee on Export Administration (PECSEA).
Sounds okay to me. She's been with Sturm Ruger some 30 years, helping the bosses navigate the Kafka novels which make up ATF and other Washington rules about who can sell what to whom. But maybe it would have been better if the Ruger flack had ended the release right there, because:
“Kim has a very unique talent and passion for export regulation and plays a critical role in the Sturm, Ruger organization,” said Ruger President and CEO Mike Fifer.
Well, I'm pleased for you, too, Kim. It is a personal achievement. However the quote your PR guy made for President Fifer begs a point some of us find important. Is it actually a good thing to hold "a passion for export regulation?" We libertarian scallywags tend to think of regulation as, at best, a sometimes necessary evil to be treated about like a spitting cobra sharing your howdah.
It would be picky these less-literate days to sigh over your "very" unique talent and passion. Better we should spend our effort finding another word to mean the only one in the world -- a new one that will serve until public relations guys and advertising copywriters start loading it up with modifiers until it, too, deteriorates to just another word for "somewhat unusual."
Anyway, it's nice to know someone from the firearms industry is functioning in high councils of government, so congratulations.
(My spies tell me the Tune-In is still the most pleasant bar on Capitol Hill.)
The Ruger news release:
Kim Pritula, Director of Export/ATF Compliance & Security, has been appointed to the President’s Export Council Subcommittee on Export Administration (PECSEA).
Sounds okay to me. She's been with Sturm Ruger some 30 years, helping the bosses navigate the Kafka novels which make up ATF and other Washington rules about who can sell what to whom. But maybe it would have been better if the Ruger flack had ended the release right there, because:
“Kim has a very unique talent and passion for export regulation and plays a critical role in the Sturm, Ruger organization,” said Ruger President and CEO Mike Fifer.
Well, I'm pleased for you, too, Kim. It is a personal achievement. However the quote your PR guy made for President Fifer begs a point some of us find important. Is it actually a good thing to hold "a passion for export regulation?" We libertarian scallywags tend to think of regulation as, at best, a sometimes necessary evil to be treated about like a spitting cobra sharing your howdah.
It would be picky these less-literate days to sigh over your "very" unique talent and passion. Better we should spend our effort finding another word to mean the only one in the world -- a new one that will serve until public relations guys and advertising copywriters start loading it up with modifiers until it, too, deteriorates to just another word for "somewhat unusual."
Anyway, it's nice to know someone from the firearms industry is functioning in high councils of government, so congratulations.
(My spies tell me the Tune-In is still the most pleasant bar on Capitol Hill.)
Jan 10, 2011
Here we go again
A guy wishes we could let some of the Tucson dust settle before we begin what I suppose will need to be an epic defense of rights guaranteed by Amendment Two.
Not that our adversaries will take a deep breath and do a bit of thinking . The most usual of suspects, Carolyn McCarthy, is on the home stretch to orgasm with her new opportunity to decide what sorts of rights should be sacrificed in the wake of the Tucson madness. Right now.
Good politics, there, Congresswoman. Your plan to get your new bill filed today or tomorrow represents a sterling example of trying to draft carefully thought-out legislation.
And then, in the same Politico report, there's:
Pennsylvania Rep. Robert Brady, a Democrat from Philadelphia, told CNN that he also plans to take legislative action. He will introduce a bill that would make it a crime for anyone to use language or symbols that could be seen as threatening or violent against a federal official, including a member of Congress.
Which is ill-advised unless we decide we must indict a certain high federal official for promulgating a symbol of death -- officially defined as such by federal authorities -- from and in the White House.
Photo credit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/craxxi/3287463155/
Not that our adversaries will take a deep breath and do a bit of thinking . The most usual of suspects, Carolyn McCarthy, is on the home stretch to orgasm with her new opportunity to decide what sorts of rights should be sacrificed in the wake of the Tucson madness. Right now.
Good politics, there, Congresswoman. Your plan to get your new bill filed today or tomorrow represents a sterling example of trying to draft carefully thought-out legislation.
And then, in the same Politico report, there's:
Pennsylvania Rep. Robert Brady, a Democrat from Philadelphia, told CNN that he also plans to take legislative action. He will introduce a bill that would make it a crime for anyone to use language or symbols that could be seen as threatening or violent against a federal official, including a member of Congress.
Which is ill-advised unless we decide we must indict a certain high federal official for promulgating a symbol of death -- officially defined as such by federal authorities -- from and in the White House.
Photo credit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/craxxi/3287463155/
Dec 11, 2010
Arm the Iowa Hawkeyes
A Fort Madison Democrat by the name of Gene Fraise is the new chairman of the Iowa Senate Judiciary Committee. Among other things, this means he's the crisp-suited critter who can pretty much decide what public safety matters the other 49 senators can and can not vote on.
One proposal would amend the state Constitution to recognize the right to use arms for personal defense and, perhaps, depending on final wording, defense of your property.
Senator Fraise finds this chilling. "I've always felt like we've got to be real careful about what we start sticking into the constitution," he said.
Danged straight, Senator. For instance, sticking all that stuff about freedom of speech and privacy rights and what-all into constitutions has caused all sorts of inconvenience for senators and presidents and so forth. It makes the proles uppity.
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Adding a 2A style amendment to the Iowa Constitution is part of the liberty wish list for the 2011 session. The askings include a move to adopt the Alaska/Arizona/Vermont philosophy. (By what right does a state have any business whatsoever hamstringing a right guaranteed by the federal Constitution?)
Never mind, says Senator Fraise. "At first blush, I'd say I don't think we want to go down that road, but I'm open to looking at it, with reservations." Translation: "Not a prayer, John Q. Any such thing gets lost in my blushing drawers."
One proposal would amend the state Constitution to recognize the right to use arms for personal defense and, perhaps, depending on final wording, defense of your property.
Senator Fraise finds this chilling. "I've always felt like we've got to be real careful about what we start sticking into the constitution," he said.
Danged straight, Senator. For instance, sticking all that stuff about freedom of speech and privacy rights and what-all into constitutions has caused all sorts of inconvenience for senators and presidents and so forth. It makes the proles uppity.
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Adding a 2A style amendment to the Iowa Constitution is part of the liberty wish list for the 2011 session. The askings include a move to adopt the Alaska/Arizona/Vermont philosophy. (By what right does a state have any business whatsoever hamstringing a right guaranteed by the federal Constitution?)
Never mind, says Senator Fraise. "At first blush, I'd say I don't think we want to go down that road, but I'm open to looking at it, with reservations." Translation: "Not a prayer, John Q. Any such thing gets lost in my blushing drawers."
Another proposal would forbid cities to water down Iowa's new shall-issue law by restricting concealed or open carry in parks and public buildings. That gets city commissars nervous. For instance, Keokuk Police Chief Thomas Crew said "the last thing his city needs is irritable people openly carrying weapons when paying their parking tickets or handling other city business."
May I make a constructive suggestion, here, Chief? Thank you. Stop doing so much petty crap that tends to make so many of your subjects irritable.
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It's early in the lawmaking circus, so I of course have no idea how all this will end. But the GOP -- pretty libertarian on gun rights, if on little else -- recaptured the house, 60-40, and closed the senate Democrats gap to 24-26.
And Republicans in the upper house are led by a fellow whose sentiments are not in doubt.
"Senate Minority Leader Paul McKinley, R-Chariton", ... bought his wife a .38-caliber gun for their wedding anniversary.
May I make a constructive suggestion, here, Chief? Thank you. Stop doing so much petty crap that tends to make so many of your subjects irritable.
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It's early in the lawmaking circus, so I of course have no idea how all this will end. But the GOP -- pretty libertarian on gun rights, if on little else -- recaptured the house, 60-40, and closed the senate Democrats gap to 24-26.
And Republicans in the upper house are led by a fellow whose sentiments are not in doubt.
"Senate Minority Leader Paul McKinley, R-Chariton", ... bought his wife a .38-caliber gun for their wedding anniversary.
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