Even The VP Can Get SOMETHING Right!

While I am agreeing with the president (at least in his previous position on Sequester), let me make this a Red Letter Day and agree with the vice President1

Biden said that if you want self protection, forget an AR-15 — get a double-barrel shotgun.

Absolutely correct, and I wrote that several months ago. There is absolutely nothing as intimidating as looking down the business end of a double-barrel, 12 Gauge shotgun — and nothing that can give as much confidence as holding the operating end of a double-barrel 12 Gauge shotgun loaded with 00 Buckshot.

You don’t have to be a good shot — you can even be a terrible shot and nervous to the point of shaking, in fact it probably would help from a defense standpoint because the person on the business end does not ant a nervous trigger finger on something as awesome as a double-barrel1

(Let me admit that neither side of a double-barrel wants that trigger pulled — the business end because it means almost certain death, and the operating end because of the ensuing mess. Do you have any idea what it costs to have a really messy death cleaned up? You can pay cash for a C Class Mercedes for that cleanup!)

 

Obama being taken to the woodshed by the WaPo Editorial Board? Priceless

First, this is not my first rodeo.

I was one of the debaters for Prop. 13 — heck I even asked such a dangerous question of Roger Hedgcock from the floor during his opposition speech that he came off the stage and shook his finger in my face!

(Yes, Roger – in a previous life, as a politician – OPPOSED Prop. 13!)

There was such REAL fear among politicians that Prop. 13 would pass that they threatened to close fire stations and police stations.

Now, they didn’t believe that, but they SAID that.

Prop 13 passed, and the apocalypse did not occur — to my knowledge not one fire or police station closed because of Prop. 13.

(And Roger became a born again tax cutter!)

So, forgive me if I do not believe that Sequester will hollow-out the military or cause “First Responders” to be laid off en masse.

I commend the Washington Post for its editorial on Sequester.

The Sequester was President Obama’s idea! He supported it!

In this case, I support the president, at least in his previous position.

Let it happen!

Moving In The Right Direction

The Virginia Assembly joined with the Virginia Senate in denying welfare recipients using their EBT cards in strip clubs, tattoo parlor s, casinos.

Amazingly, both Senate and Assembly votes were Unanimous!

Perhaps reality is getting through. (O.k. I don’t think so, either.)

Not QUITE The Inquisition — But Close Enough!

Let me admit that I had not heard of the Magdalene Laundry problem, but in its own way it is just as much a PR problem for the Catholic Church as the Priest sex abuse of boys — although not quite so damaging to the victims.

I would not have known of the problem had not the Prime Minister of Ireland not publically apologized yesterday .

It seems that from 1922 until 1996, some 10,000 girls and women were placed in virtual slavery under Catholic Nuns in laundries across Ireland, working long hours without pay. Some of the girls and women were placed there by courts, and some were just homeless waifs — and some even credit the laundries for turning their lives around — but the system was admittedly severe. One described life as “work and pray.”

That life was so severe as to cause the Prime Minister to call the system a stain on the national honor, but actually the Irish priests abused boys also, so the Irish Priests were equal opportunity abusers.

I guess the international abusers do not rise to the level of the Inquisition, but too close for me.