Norman Thomas socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America said this in a 1944 speech:

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of “liberalism,” they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” He went on to say: “I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform.”

Well guess what… IT’S HERE…


And tomorrow the All Barack Channel will provide you a four hour infomercial on it! Of course there is no bias here… nope, not a bit, just toe the line. Why no, there will be NO ads that don’t agree with the purpose of the infomercial. Sigh…


William Warren hits the nail on the head with this cartoon!

An interesting fact is that the new health care bill has those with paid health care being taxed WITH THE EXCEPTION OF UNIONS! They were specifically given an out to prevent the union employees being charged… Why oh why am I NOT surprised by this…

HERE is the link. Read it an weep!

“Baucus has proposed the tax threshold on health care benefits be set higher than the cost of policies available to federal employees and he has proposed exempting until 2013 those plans negotiated as part of union contracts.

“It’s a means of making sure that unions are foursquare behind any reform bill that comes out,” said Henry Aaron, a health care policy expert at Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. “

In addition to all this, Congresscritter Frank Lautenberg, (d) NJ has a new way to get guns away from us…

“Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2009” would give the Attorney General to right deny someone their Second Amendment rights without having been convicted, or even charged, with any crime; simply by adding their names to a terrorist watch list. And BINGO one will find himself or herself prohibited from exercising their constitutionally-protected rights, and will have a LONG uphill battle to get their names removed from the watch list…

I know one guy that has been trying for three years, still on it…

On yet another note, day before yesterday was the final day for comments on revocation of ruling letters under 19CFR Part 177. Now I know you are wondering whatinthehellishemumbling about now…

AGENCY: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security.
ACTION: Notice of proposed revocation of four ruling letters and revocation
of treatment relating to the admissibility of certain knives with spring-assisted opening mechanisms.

(read any switchblade or one handed opening knife)

It is now CBP’s position that knives incorporating spring- and release-assisted opening mechanisms are prohibited from entry into the United States pursuant to the Switchblade Knife Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1241–1245.

Soooo… Napolitano is taking another shot, and going around Congress not through them…

The above sentence is the key point in the document and, I believe, is a big enough loophole to drive a Mack Truck through…

It absolutely depends on how some faceless bureaucrat decides to determine what is a release assisted opening mechanism. Is it the button on the blade? Is it index opening feature (on a Kershaw for example)? Beats the hell outta me…

And it will be interesting to see if there is any public notice of it’s adaption, or whether we will be getting smacked up against the wall by CBP when we come across the border and probably charged with a felony possession…

Break- Break-

The entertainment industry lost the ultimate second banana today- Ed McMahon, Brig Gen, USMC, Ret. died today. Rest in peace Sir, rest in peace…

That is all.