‘Cause this keeps happening. 

As far as I can tell, the feds are either hiring totally incompetent people to run these checkpoints or they are testing to see how many people can be herded sheeplike into giving DNA sample and even blood samples because the “checkpoint” is manned by people dressed like and acting like policement, and because “real” police are directing traffic.

Yes, I am sure that they told each and every person diverted into the checkpoint that the stop and subsequent sampling was “voluntary”. I bet that there were signs and such making sure that everyone knew that there was no issue of you refused….

Is it? Are most people going to think it is voluntary when a person wearing a uniform asks you in an intimidating manner to open your mouth and takes a cheek swab? Or in a stern manner tells you that they are going to take a blood sample?

Yeah, you and I might not be willing to give up such samples, but Joe the “low informatin voter” might not be sure that he CAN refuse without being arrested…and Suzy Homemaker will likely be too afraid to resist, even if she is aware that there is no legal reason for the search.

Two things if this happens to you:

“warrant”

“am I free to go now?” 

followed by:

“Lawyer”.

Larry Lujack, the WLS DJ, died yesterday.

I grew up listening to him on WLS…listening to his “Animal Stories” and the music he played.

Comrade Karl (He of the hats). (one of which I proudly won)

In it, he links this post and suggests that it reminds him of me…

Do you think he is right? 

I can’t verify this, so…..

But if true, then this puts Senator Marco Rubio well into the “Just plain fucking no way” category.

Rubio takes $10K Obamacare subsidy for insurance paid to him because he is a Senator.

perhaps he thought no one would notice his hypocrisy?

Hat Tip: Fat in Indiana

So you are on your way home from you wedding reception… driving down a snowy 2 lane highway and you see a car in the ditch up ahead…

You stop to help.

Then your life is over, and your new wife is a widow.

Be safe out there. You never know when it’s gonna come at you.

SO the Republicans…Not, BTW, Conservatives, have made a deal with the Devil in order to prevent sequestration cuts from happening early next year.

Yeah, like that will help our Republic.

No real spending cuts, just paper trimmings of the mythical future spendings.

I was gonna buy a new gun in January and put it on my Visa card, but I changed my mind……did I cut $650 from my budget? Not the way I look at it. Nor will Visa see it that way either.

The GOP leadership may well have had good reasons to do what they did, but they have not articulated those reasons to me. And until they do, and as long as that weasel Boehner exists as Speaker of the House and gets to rant about how Conservatives and Tea Party types are making his job harder, the GOP will get Zero support from me.

Yes, I understand that the budget is always a compromise, and that there has to be give and take on both sides. But perhaps they need to learn how to negotiate. Capitulation without getting something in return isn’t negotiating….it is surrender. You have not negotiated, you have turned your back to the opposition and bent over and raised your skirt.  And you want to compromise on Illegal Immigration/Amnesty as well?

I see no real cuts in government, only cuts in future growth that may or may not ever really happen.  I don’t see the deficit being slashed, nor do I see the debt being reduced. All I really see is smoke and mirrors and lies and deceit. And above all, I see more funding for Nanny State government programs and zero reductions in the welfare state/entitlements” that are choking this country and our culture to death. We already saw the cuts in Military spending, but not the cuts on the other side.

So I say this to the GOP and to the Republican candidates: No more choosing the lesser of the two weasels evils. I no longer believe that you will actually fix things….No more support in any way. You’ll get nothing from me unil you begin REPRESENTING me and my kind. I’ll not vote for, nor support, nor allow your campaign to use my property for election signage, nor in any way help you to prevail against your only-slightly-worse opponents as I have in the past… I may well do all I can to oppose you where possible. For you have abused my trust and chosen to sup with the devil.

And that, for me, puts you beyond the pale.

(if the bill passes, that is)
And I HATE South Carolina.

But if this passes, I may have to consider it.

I’d rather live there a free(er) man than in another state as a subject of Washington D.C. 

Maybe Indiana will follow suit. States rights (10th amendment) may well be decided based upon this law if it passes.

We shall see.

Sure will be thumb in the eye of Barry though, won’t it?

H/T: Cordite in the Morning

In other nondisclosure news, the House Oversight Committee turned up letters Wednesday showing that HHS ordered the private contractors partly responsible for the Healthcare.gov fiasco not to cooperate with congressional investigations or hand over documents. For no pertinent reason, HHS reminds them that they signed contracts obligating them not to share information with “third parties.” 

So what, exactly, are they hiding? 

I didn’t win the big Powerball jackpot last night.

Now I gotta go to work.