Obama, gun control, and the law of unintended consequences

Guns, by definition, shouldn’t be in the hands of civilians,  neither outlaws nor good law-abiding citizens, period. Gun ownership should be a state monopoly, period. Civilians should be kept very far away from guns, period.

That said, in the field of gun control I was expecting something cleverer from President Barack Obama, a true reminder of his touted wit and sharpness. But no, as far as the conservative media outlets let us know, the Obama administration is breaking all-time records for guns sales. I know this isn’t making look Obama good, but if the progressives really want to curtail the gun sales boom, an open debate must take place in the mainstream media.

Why? You might not know, but open and under radar efforts have failed to produce a real impact in this phenomenon, except in Chicago. Eric Holder is in boiling water ever since his Operation “Fast and Furious”, initially designed to prove the link between American arms sellers and Mexican gangs, backfired spectacularly by providing these gangs sophisticated weaponry they wouldn’t have had otherwise.

And there have been a scarcity in guns lately, indeed. But it is only because guns manufacturers just can’t keep up with the huge demand of firearms and ammunition.

The big irony in all this is that Obama would have kept the gun market away from this unexpected frenzy just by doing nothing. The road to hell is paved with good intentions (and is full of guns).


Guns manufacturers must really heart President Obama.

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Food Nazis regulate US Lunchrooms

Top Level USDA Reps Showing Up in US Lunchrooms I’m a progressive. Progressives want to improve society, making it less unfair, more egalitarian. Period. So, finding that the US Department of Agriculture is checking lunchboxes and verifying menus at school cafeterias is outright fascistic to me!

Last Monday a top United States Department of Agriculture representative showed up at a school in Richmond, Virginia to arbitrate bake sales and tater tots.

Now the state knows better than everyone else in matters of school food and needs to enforce (bleurgh) healthy food policies everywhere… for our children, no less.

This reeks so of Hitlerjugend...

This is an utter waste of resources.

This does not solve the unemployment crisis, unless you count the Food Police as an improvement.

This does not solve the dependence on fossil fuels and the energy crisis either.

This does not solve climate change issues.

This does not solve the American median income decline, nor the income inequality of Corporate America.

Persuasion is one thing and enforcing is really another.

The US Government is very short of mandating people to exercise and eat healthy. Tomorrow will be something else than healthcare. We may not like it, but it would be late anyhow. They are doing this — forcing us to do this, for our own good. They know better, we don’t.

We’re plain dumb. We’re cattle. We should follow and obey.

“Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us”, said Leo Tolstoi. “The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own government”, said Martin Luther King, Jr. The Obama administration has failed to oversee this and prefers to ignore the forsaken promises of unity, rejoicing in exercising raw power against its people.

You may see goodness in a government controlling children’s food; I see power overreach and the death of liberty.

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Obama will be reelected in 2012. Deal with it.

It’s really hard being the only liberal in the sipmacverse. OK, Paul Maršić is a moderate, granted. But the rest of bloggers belonging to the sipmac team are barely disguised copies of a raving, lunatic Dr. sipmac, April Camus notwithstanding. The blog’s now a year old but as a liberal, I had very little to rejoice about.

Until now. I don’t need to be a fortune teller, but I guarantee you that Barack Hussein Obama will be reelected in 2012. Right-wingers like Dr. sipmac will never acknowledge this, but deep in their hearts they already know they cannot avoid a crushing defeat.

Republicans and conservatives think the 2012 election will be a cakewalk because of the deadbeat economy, and that the electorate will hold Barack Obama accountable of the mess they have created. Even if this were true, the GOPers have forgotten to implement the most indispensable thing to win an election: a viable candidate.

Sorry, but even if Romney secures the nomination, he will lose to Obama just because he’s an android. Uncharismatic, dull politicians have nothing to do around a charismatic one like The One. If Newt Gringrich and Michelle Bachmann could get rid of their kooky personalities, they would still have to deal with their lame political foundations and their own peccadilloes (there are plenty of them). Rick Perry became rapidly entangled in his own prejudices and his blatant presidential incompetency. Jon Huntsman tries to look like the Barack Obama of the GOP… right when we still have the original Obama. It does not make an ounce of sense…

Palin would secure the nomination and we could be planning the burial of the GOP.

As for Herman Cain, the Republicans blew their only chance to make the competition interesting. I’ll tell you a little secret: the parallels between Obama and Cain are striking. One made his fortune in the private sector, the other in the academia and the public sector. Both were relatively inexperienced at the beginning of their big breaks. It would have been a truly ideological, colorless debate if Mr. Cain could have kept his pants on. Now the very possibility of it is gone forever.

There is a real void in the Republican Party, and because of this void, moderates and independents will cast their lot with Obama’s reelection. I’m not a fan of predictions, but seldom have I seen things so clearly. Republicans and conservatives, let’s face it: You’re going to lose. Barack Obama will be a two-term president.


Deal with it.

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If you're unemployed for more than two years, please don’t expect a new job

It doesn’t make any sense. From those who brought the logic that only employed people can apply to loans, now we’ve got the logic that only employed people can apply to jobs. That means, if you’re on the dole for two years or more, you should consider yourself damaged goods. And screw you, Jack.

Fortunately, Obama’s new jobs bill has a lifesaving provision for those unfortunate enough to be discriminated for being too unemployed: the banning of 15-employee or more businesses from the benefits of the new law, plus the right to make the big fat el lawsuit-o.

There is no free market babble that can justify this injustice. But as expected, business advocates say it is irrational to expect jobs creation with such provisions, but hey, is there another way to dissuade big and small businesses of incurring in such an insane practice without such a threat?



I thought so. Pass this bill!

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Huffington Post: Arianne laughs, her minions take another one for the team (and the liberal cause)

The awful truth

Huffington Post: A journalistic race to the bottom - latimes.com. It's a good thing that Arianne Huffington is becoming a major player in the news-and-entertainement bussiness. Good thing too remember, like Nikki Finke is doing right now, that all the things you are doing on the net are forever (She merely trashed the HuffPo, forecasting a very short life for the $1 Million-investment-now-turned-a-$ 315 Million-adquisition-by-AOL). Too bad when everybody in the bussiness notices you are 100% dead wrong without any reasonable possibility of denial. The bad, ugly, unredeemable thing is the way Ms. Huffington manages her empire. Hiring journalists for next to nothing, specially when they are desperate enough from being fired elsewhere... well, where's your sensitive heart of gold, champion of liberalism Arianne?

The Huffington Post is a brilliantly packaged product with a particular flair for addressing the cultural and entertainment tastes of its overwhelmingly liberal audience. To grasp its business model, though, you need to picture a galley rowed by slaves and commanded by pirates. Given the fact that its founder, Huffington, reportedly will walk away from this acquisition with a personal profit of as much as $100 million, it makes all the Post's raging against Wall Street plutocrats, crony capitalism and the Bush and Obama administrations' insensitivities to the middle class and the unemployed a bit much.

That was not very known in the internet until now. But it is being known. People will see you as a hypocrite. They will turn their backs. You will lose your precious money.

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Bridging the Enthusiasm Gap: Obama and the Conventional Wisdom

"Soon after the New Year, perhaps as part of the State of the Union, Obama should announce that he favors an end to affirmative action as we know it. Instead of race based affirmative action, he is throwing the support of his administration behind the idea of economic-based affirmative action- -- and he might include his support for proposals that illustrate this new approach such as universal school vouchers based on family income (which Reich advocates in his book)."


That's something I would like to support. A more universal affirmative action, based on income: brilliant! I wish something like this would be taken into serious consideration by the Obama Administration, with a simple set of rules, not a 3,000 pages manuscript. Anyway, count me in.
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