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A tea party group's vow to march with guns in a Fourth of July parade has caused panic in a small Colorado town.
The Southern Colorado Patriots Club announced that its members would march with guns in the annual Independence Day parade in Westcliffe, Colo. to "make a statement that we still believe in our Constitution" to protest new gun control laws in the state, the Denver Post reported. A flier distributed by the group urged members to come to the parade with unarmed rifles.
"All rifles welcome especially the evil black ones," the flier read.
The announcement prompted the Custer County Chamber of Commerce, the event's sponsor, to cancel the parade as nervous citizens circulated a petition to stop the club. Donna Hood, president of the chamber, abstained from the vote to cancel the parade but told the Post that the matter has "polarized this community in a week." The parade was ultimately saved when the Town of Westcliffe agreed to pick up the sponsorship tab.
You know I am ALWAYS amazed that these dipshits think that carrying around assault rifles and pistols on their hips impresses ANYBODY over twelve years old.
I mean if you want to let others know that you are a terrified little man with a tiny penis, couldn't you just have a t-shirt made or hand out business cards informing people of your shortcomings?
I mean why scare parents just trying to enjoy a day out with their children?
I suddenly find the timing of my stepfather's vasectomy and his obsession for guns fitting.
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ReplyDeleteWhen Sarah Palin Supported Amnesty
Her 2008 support for “a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants” would seemingly fall under the definition she has for amnesty today.
Former vice presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has been a vocal critic of Republicans, Democrats, and President Obama alike on immigration reform, denouncing efforts to create a pathway to citizenship for millions of undocumented workers — despite her previous support for just such a pathway.
Palin’s switch from supporter of a citizenship pathway for the 11 million undocumented workers to ardent opponent has been on full display in recent days and weeks.
“A matter of a lack principle and respect for the rule of law,” Palin said about Republicans supporting immigration reform Saturday on Fox News. “This was an absolute betrayal of working-class Americans who do respect the rule of law and legal immigrants who have come here and stood in law, and paid their dues if you will, and become new Americans.”
“It’s an absolute betrayal of the will of the people and the rule of the law,” she added.
“You’ve just abandoned the Reagan Democrats with this amnesty bill,” Palin recently wrote on her Facebook page. “You disrespect Hispanics with your assumption that they desire ignoring the rule of law.”
“Hope it was worth 30 pieces of silver,” she said of Marco Rubio of getting a call from Obama. (Rubio wasn’t available, so never spoke to Obama.)
For all of Palin’s recent tough rhetoric on immigration, the former governor of Alaska expressed support for immigration reform during the 2008 presidential campaign according to video and a transcript an October 2008 interview with the Spanish-language channel Univision. The type of immigration reform Palin supported would surely fall under her current definition of “amnesty.”
“There is no way that in the U.S. we would round up every illegal immigrant — there are about 12 million of the illegal immigrants — not only economically is that just an impossibility but that’s not a humane way anyway to deal with the issue that we face with illegal immigration,” Palin said.
When asked if she supported “a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants,” Palin responded that she did.
“I do because I understand why people would want to be in America. To seek the safety and prosperity, the opportunities, the health that is here,” Palin said. “It is so important that yes, people follow the rules so that people can be treated equally and fairly in this country.”
Palin said that while she did not support full “amnesty,” she supported the pathway to citizenship but that undocumented workers would have to wait behind legal immigrants, as the Senate bill recently passed also states.
“No, I do not. I do not. Not total amnesty. You know, people have got to follow the rules. They’ve got to follow the bar, and we have got to make sure that there is equal opportunity and those who are here legally should be first in line for services being provided and those opportunities that this great country provides,” Palin said.
The video of the interview is posted below; however, it is dubbed over in Spanish. A transcript is attached.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/when-sarah-palin-supported-amnesty
Well, see. It's in Spanish, so that couldn't be Sarah talking. That durn liberal Spanish station must has mistransbobulated what she said, dontcha think?
DeleteSarah Palin's 'Libertarian Streak' Doesn't Impress Libertarian Party
ReplyDeleteFormer vice presidential candidate and Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska, openly mulled leaving the Republican Party in a Saturday interview on Fox News, citing her "libertarian streak." The Libertarian Party, frequently a refuge for renegade Republicans, isn't sure that she would be a good fit – and the Reform Party, too, says it has "zero interest" in Palin.
"[W]hile a few of Sarah Palin's views are aligned with those of the Libertarian Party, her pro-interventionist foreign policy, her support of the 2008 Republican-led bailouts, her loyal support of Big Government Republicans, her social conservative agenda and her lack of concrete backing for any serious downsizing of Big Government runs afoul of the Libertarian Party's goals and most Libertarians' views," the Libertarian Party's executive director, Carla Howell, told U.S. News.
Palin could conceivably find a home in the Constitution or Reform parties - but the Reform Party, which had its heyday in the 1990s, is entirely uninterested.
"The Reform Party would probably have zero interest in Sarah Palin," Reform Party Chairman David Collison told U.S. News. "The primary reason is that we are not really as closely aligned with the tea party as people would think."
Collison said his party aspires to be viewed as centrist, and embraces activists affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement. "Palin would basically torpedo that," he said.
U.S. News was unable to reach a representative of the Constitution Party - a generally right-leaning party that in 2012 nominated former Virginia Rep. Virgil Goode, a Democratic-turned-Republican congressman, as its presidential candidate.
Over the weekend, Palin responded to a question about whether she would consider starting a new "Freedom Party" with radio host Mark Levin.
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"I love the name of that party – the 'Freedom Party,'" she said. "And if the GOP continues to back away from the planks in our platform, from the principles that built this party of Lincoln and Reagan, then, yeah, more and more of us are going to start saying, 'You know, what's wrong with being independent,' kind of with that libertarian streak that much of us have. In other words, we want government to back off and not infringe upon our rights."
She added: "I think there will be a lot of us who start saying 'GOP, if you abandon us, we have nowhere else to go except to become more independent and not enlisted in a one or the other private majority parties that rule in our nation, either a Democrat or a Republican.'"
It's probable that Palin – the 2008 Republican Party vice presidential candidate – won't actually leave the party. Ahead of the 2012 presidential election there was speculation that Palin might bolt the GOP to run as an independent, but that never happened. Instead, she offered GOP nominee Mitt Romney a tepid endorsement one day before the election.
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http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2013/07/01/sarah-palins-libertarian-streak-doesnt-impress-libertarian-party
Sarah Palin’s misreading of polling data
ReplyDelete...Given how many variables can affect a national election, it is sometimes foolhardy to suggest one group or another swung the election. For instance, President Obama and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney split 49-49 percent among heterosexuals, while Obama overwhelmingly (76-22 percent) won the votes of gays. But just focusing on that fact would ignore the efforts made by Obama to reach out to other groups to build his winning coalition.
Palin’s comment, posted in response to bipartisan passage of a comprehensive immigration bill in the Senate, struck us as interesting because it assumed Romney lost the so-called Reagan Democrats and that Hispanic voters do not favor a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. What do the data show? (We were assisted by Scott Clement, analyst at The Washington Post’s Capital Insight, in finding some of these data.)
The Facts
First of all, there have been a whole series of polls asking Hispanics about their views on overhauling immigration laws. Excluding advocacy polls with loaded questions, there is a consensus that Hispanics overwhelmingly support a path to citizenship. Here are two key samples:
Voter exit poll, 2012: 77 percent of Hispanics believe illegal immigrants should be offered a chance to apply for legal status.
WSJ-NBC poll, April 2013: 82 percent of Hispanics either strongly favor or somewhat favor a pathway to citizenship.
The 2012 exit poll of voters also found that Americans, by a margin of 65 to 29 percent, believe illegal immigrants should be offered a chance to apply for legal status. The WSJ-NBC poll found 64 percent of all Americans favor a pathway to citizenship.
Okay, so a core part of Palin’s assumption is just simply wrong. What about her notion that the loss of “working class voters” in swing states cost the GOP the election? That is a bit more fuzzy, in part because it depends on the definition of “working class” — Clement says there are a dozen different ways to define the term — but Palin’s reasoning is also debatable.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/sarah-palins-misreading-of-polling-data/2013/06/29/4f164476-e0ed-11e2-8ae9-5db15d3c0fca_blog.html
So I'm awaiting her tweet and FB posts today denouncing Kasich and Perry for infringing on the rights of women with their draconian vaginal probe/shutting down women's health clinics bills. Come on Sarah, show off that 'libertarian, freedom loving independent' streak, willya?
ReplyDeleteOops.I forgot. She has a streak of a different color running down her back.
DeleteCaution!!! Don't get too close to Sarah! Even though she's orange in color, dressed in pink, with a yellow stripe down her back, she's still a skunk with an unwiped ass.
DeleteDon't they make Depends with a deodorizing smell like the kitchen trash bags with the fresh citrus scent? It might lighten Toad's load to not have to carry around a can of Glade and the Industrial size container of Lysol, along with Sarah's purse, her lego Snap-On fake tits, her crack pipe and her flask of vodka. Not to mention her wig tape, snorting straw and meth, and current copy of National Enquirer do she can answer "What do you read?" in her next national interview.
Palin/West 2012 I stand with Sarah. Upwind of course. I'm no fool.
Not being able to (nor wanting to) see the gun-penis relationship, I do, however see a strong and direct belly - gun relationship. This must account for much shooting of oneself in the foot.
ReplyDeleteDon't blame you for not wanting to see it, but the Bushmaster ad clearly demonstrates a gun-penis relationship.
DeleteI noticed that those packing guns are also packing big bellies. Coincidence? I think not.
DeleteThey NEED the guns because their bellies are so big, they haven't seen their own penises (penii?) in YEARS. Their guns give them something hard and smooth to stroke while they think about ways to regulate women's lady parts.
DeleteWe're Fat Rednecks and We WILL Shoot Your Ass!
DeleteTeabaggers For Palin 2008, 2012, 2016...
Colorado’s Magpul to drop 1500 magazines from the air over “A Farewell To Arms” event -What could possibly go wrong?
ReplyDeleteToday is the day – come one; come all!
Colorado’s (soon to be Wyoming’s) Ayn Randian fire arms accessories manufacturer, MagPul is sponsoring ”A Farewell to Arms” event today at Glendale’s Infinity Park .
The event advertises – FREE to the first 1,500 over 18 yr old attendees at the gate , a Magpul 30 round capacity magazine and at 5:00 pm, 1,500 more will be dropped from the air as the crowd awaits with angst and anger. What could possibly go wrong?
“A Farewell to Arms” is a wake, of sorts, being held by the seething, the angst ridden and the poorly informed in response to Colorado’s new safer and saner gun regulations going into effect July 1, 2013.
Magpul has been huffing and puffing and threatening to blow the State House down since the bills were introduced. They threatened to move if the bills came to a vote, then if they were passed, then if they were signed into law (the only thing we didn’t see was actual footage of them holding their breath until they turned blue and stomping their feet) and finally, the big, bad boy is moving just up the road where they can sell their wares just across state line to anyone who wants to venture over that line and buy them an illegal clip.
The hunting boycott called earlier in the year, after the passage of Colorado’s sane gun regulations, seems to be going poorly. As reported in an article on FreakOutNation, earlier this Spring, the call for hunters across America to boycott Colorado seems to be failing with the reports that applications for hunting permits have actually gone up since the advertised Boycott .
According to Denver Post columnist Scott Willoughby:
…”Rather than dusting off cobwebs and playing solitaire, the employees of the Parks and Wildlife department are busy handling over 468,000 applications for its 2013 big game season. Instead of experiencing a loss, applications have increased by 17,000. , the influx of online applications actually crashed the department’s servers. “
To be fair, the Tea Party Gun Owners of Colorado, backed away from the boycott about a month in, with a statement that the boycott could harm the hunting industry, which went against their pro-business views.
Instead, Magpul and a sheriff’s organization as well as 2 disabled gun owners have filed lawsuits in Colorado and Federal courts claiming the 2nd amendment is under attack and that the outlawing of large magazines is against the ADA (that claim is that a disabled person needs a bigger clip to defend himself – uh…huh?).
Tea Party groups and NRA backed organizations are demanding a recall of state representatives supporting the will of the people.
Meanwhile, back to the Farewell event – it is a farewell – to large capacity gun clips, irresponsible gun sales and Magpul…bye-bye
And to Glendale – I hope the ambulances are warmed up and the hospital ERs have been alerted …something tells me there may be a few concussions and errant gun shots stemming from Infinity Park event.
http://freakoutnation.com/2013/06/29/colorados-magpul-arms-dealer-plans-drop-1500-magazines-from-the-air-over-a-farewell-to-arms-event-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/
... and not a single one of those attending has ANY IDEA that "A Farewell To Arms" was written by Hemingway! Just sayin'...
DeletePS. I read all of his novels in the original English, while I was a teen in Germany, where English was my second language. Wonder if any of those guys can reciprocate? Didn't think so!
An air drop of magazines? What could possibly go wrong? Did you ever see the famous episode of WKRP in Cincinnati? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg
DeleteAs God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!
That has to be the stupidest ad I have ever seen. Really? Cant they see that the message is that to be a man you must have an assault rifle. Otherwise you are limp and impotent.
ReplyDeleteLes Nessman would be pleased. Much better than turkeys falling from the sky.
DeleteAt least these bagger bright lights (or is that dim bulbs?) might still want Sarah Palin because no one else does: http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2013/07/01/sarah-palins-libertarian-streak-doesnt-impress-libertarian-party
ReplyDeletei think that every pregnant woman in any state that has the vaginal probe law should go demand their free sonogram and their free prenatal care. When they're declined, I think the ACLU ought to file a discrimination suit.
ReplyDeleteIt's like the "Lord of the Rings" - The spirit of the Confederacy endured, much like the spirit of Sauron endured. He was presumed to have been vanquished, but then his spirit revived.
ReplyDeletePresident Obama, much like an unwitting Bilbo Baggins, discovered the evil ring of power which unleashed it's malevolent force. My husband is saying this as I type.
Obviously, we're fans of Tolkien.
But really? Some power has been unleashed. I guess it would be the power of fear, paranoia and the fact that an African/American man is sitting in the White House.
Agreed!
DeleteTypo in your headline; it's "morans". [snerk]
ReplyDeleteSo I'm assuming these Tea Partiers would be totally cool if say... the Black Panthers marched alongside them, with their unloaded firearms?
ReplyDeleteI don't think Depends makes strong enough briefs for that scenario.
Oh well, seems that I am all into the "Agreed
Deletemode!
Sounds like a reasonable and fair suggestion.
DeleteCan I take pictures????? Please, please????
So the sponsorship of the parade changed but the gun nuts are still marching? Even if the county sheriff is going to double-check that they are unloaded, that makes it different how?
ReplyDeleteCounty sheriff double-check to see if they're loaded? How dare should government interfere with their right to be assholes!
DeleteSeriously, someone should check them, because it wouldn't surprise me if some would come with bullets in their guns (their argument: never know if a crime would occur), which sets up the perfect scenario: bullets in gun, gun drops, gun fires toward viewers.
Freedom's just another word for frightening small children in public places.
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