Read THIS.

Mind the dust.

that we have all sorts of images from videos of the “Brothers Kablamasov“, including(but not limited to before the bombing, the firefight, even the  FLIR from the helicopter monitoring the final capture, yet months after Sandy Hook we have not seen even on single solitary image of Adman Lanza at the school?  We know the school had video in the entrance and doorways, so why not?

Just Sayin’.

Of GE Capitol credit locations….

HERE

Choose where you go. Don’t give your money to GE.

Starve the beast.

Toldja about Lautenberg’s bill the other day. 

Make powder and other reloading components harder to get. (Explosives, doncha know…)

Reid has introduced said bill.

We shall see where it goes.

Of course, it wasn’t black powder or smokeless powder that the Boston bombs were made of.  But rather the guts of fireworks…

But that bit of reality won’t stop these folks from trying….

To stop doing any financing of gun shops and gun manufacturers. 

Hey, it is their money….Ge Capitol can decide who they lend it to. Free enterprise and all that. I actually have no issue with them deciding to stop providing financing for anything related to guns. I actually believe that they have the right to do so.

However, just like Bank Of America, we have the right not to do business with them. Choose not to feed the beast.

(I just a few months ago pulled $450K worth of credit card processing from BoA and moved to another CC processor when they bought the CC processor I was using…)

Choose who you finance things through. If you have something financed through GE Capitol or BoA, move that loan to another bank or finance company.

Don’t use any in-store credit card that is handled by or financed by either of these companies. (IIRC, at one time Bass Pro Shops in store credit card was handled by GE capitol.) I believe that Home Depot and Circuit City as well as Best Buy are also processed by Ge Capitol (My info may be out of date as I don’t use any of these in store cards any more),

Be aware that some auto loans are also done by both BoA and GE. Nearly half of the “No interest for a year” loans are too.

Take the time to find out who processes or finances any loans you have. Starve the beast. You also have the right to determine who gets your money…who has the privilege of charging you interest.

If you move a loan, write them (GE or BoA) a letter and explain why. Express your displeasure at their business choices.

Just as a point of information: Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, is a VERY VERY good friend of and crony of Barry Soetoro…..

I am sure that there is no connection to GE’s choice to stop funding anything related to firearms.

Even in (formerly) Great Britain.

The newspapers there can see it…

Yet our media, somehow, cannot.

Which would imply that they are either extremely stupid…..

Or….

They have an agenda…

HMMM

about the “sequester” and they aren’t liking what they are seeing.

The latest, the cuts to the Air Traffic Controllers, are affecting people directly, not where they can’t see, feel and experience things directly.

And soon, Parks, housing and schools will be affected.

THe pundits are calling for an end to the sequester, and a different budget.

But I think the American public is starting to see the games being played with their lives. The fact that the FAA is choosing to cut Air Traffic Controllers rather than levels of management, or reducing the bureaucracy is not lost on most people….and they know that they are being played by Barry and the Democrats….and they aren’t fooled.

Same with the cuts being made to border control, and the fact that the administration is using those budget cuts as an excuse to release illegals that have been caught and are currently incarcerated.

People will, I think, want harder choices made as things get more and more tight. As service are cut….People will want cuts made, and not to services that they expect from their government. Either social welfare programs cut or military..

I’m betting that those who pay taxes will prefer cuts to social welfare programs…and cuts to redundant government programs…and (one) sacred cow…Farm subsidies.

The Republicans would be smart to get in front of this, and publish a basic budget showing how  and what they would cut and what they would not.

Full page ads in newspapers. Show where they will cut waste and where they will not cut services for which we are paying.

Make Barry and the DNC, play defense. 

But I doubt that they will do so…..We call them the Stupid Party for a reason.

A ban of large fireworks…

And a limit on how many you can buy in a month.

Or possess in your home.

Because we all know that laws like that would prevent something like THIS.

We Must Do Something.

At least make blowing people up more illegaler…..

Here is a perfect example as to why the tactics used to find the Boston Bomber are a very BAD idea.

Any excuse to keep citizens in their homes via police order. An unconstitutional order.

What is next? Drug dealers? Speeders? JAYWALKERS?

Where (when) does it stop?

Cooperation with the police is not a bad idea. But a police state when the police decide that it is a good is NOT constitutional.

And I urge everyone to say “Enough!” when they try this in your town.

For all of my questioning about the way that the search for the Marathon bomber was handled, I do need to say that the cops had a difficult job. While I wonder why none of them ever questioned the constitutionality of the searches, and why they stopped and ID’d people who were OBVIOUSLY not the man they were looking for, apparently most residents felt that the officers were polite and decent.

This was, for all of them, a difficult and stressful job. Not one that most of us would have volunteered to do. There is a reason they get paid. The men who actually handcuffed the bomber had to be scared spitless that he would detonate himself as they approached. Big ball those guys have.

And yes, the cops flocked to the scene of every possible incident, as cops are wont to do. Yes, it looks like they all just want to “get in on the action”…and maybe that is a part of it. But remember, they do run TOWARDS the danger. Part of the way they react is their training. And sadly, their training for certain scenarios doesn’t always make sense, nor do they always use common sense.

BUT.

These police officers, even with their unconstitutional actions and with their sometimes foolish approach to the way they handled people…these men and women were still doing their level best to protect the citizens under their watch. They may have made mistakes and forgotten the Constitution, and we get the opportunity to judge them from the safety of our homes while they are out there doing their job. This does not excuse things, but it does go a ways to explaining it.

And again, while I and others may criticize them, and that criticism may be merited…and even useful…..These police officers did put themselves in harms way. They may not like the fact that we look from afar and criticize(or the fact that the criticism is sometimes dead on), but that does not mean that their work is not appreciated.

And they do deserve our thanks.

As George Orwell said:

“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would do us harm”