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Courier Journal Misses The Point Of Rand's Objection

The Courier Journal published an opinion piece in which they said this:

Dr. Paul — himself a physician — is trying to block Dr. Murthy’s confirmation as the nation’s top doctor because he has dared to suggest that “guns are a health care issue” and because he formed “Doctors for America,” which supports the Affordable Care Act.

But perhaps Dr. Paul, who is traveling a lot as a potential presidential candidate, has been too busy to follow the very real public health menace of firearms.

Say what? 

If a person owns a gun are they exposed to infection, a virus, dangerous levels of toxins?  How is a firearm a "public health menace?"

The answer is that they are not.  People who are hurt by the "USE" of firearms are hurt by the actions of people "USING" firearms.  Some of the people who are hurt by others through the use of firearms are the victims of criminal acts, the same as those hurt by knives, ball bats, pillows, and other items converted by a human into a tool of violence.

Other people who are hurt by firearms are hurt by negligent or reckless conduct of humans the same as those hurt by vehicles, fire, unattended buckets of water around babies, alcohol and other items misused in a way that causes injury.

No, Rand is correct to oppose this man precisely because he is likely a plant by the gun grabbing Obama administration who will require some sort of reporting in your medical records of all the guns you own, who will likely place "medical" restrictions on who can and can't own a firearm as a "public health" issue and who will serve Obama's ends of finding ways around the Second Amendment the same way he found his way around the "individual mandate" of Obamacare which forces people to buy a product in direct contravention of their individual liberty right to spend their money as they see fit.

The Courier taking this stance reveals that they are either as dumb as a box of hair, or complicit in the Obama plot to register firearms as a step toward confiscation. (see Connecticut) In either case they have clearlly established that their publication isn't worthy of respect.

CNN Reporter: "How Much Do You Criticize Obama Because He's Black?"

As a journalist you weigh, how much you should criticize the president because he's black?  REALLY?  The answer is you don't.  Being black is not subject to criticism.  Or was he asking is "how much do you give him a pass because he's black", the answer is "you don't" give him a pass because of skin color.

Black skin is a human organ.  It is not teflon.

 

Have You People Lost Your Freaked Out Minds?

Rational thought cannot explain what is going on in the world of politics today.  It's as if the American people have been dosed with seconal and mentally kidnapped.

The liberals are engaged in a perpetual rant that the republicans have waged a war on women.  This ridiculous claim is grounded primarily in the lie that only republicans oppose abortion.  Lots of people oppose abortion including many, many democrats.  But not all democrats.

Al Gore, one time democratic presidential nominee, is now calling for "fertility management", specifically in Africa, to control global warming.  Do you not know what he is saying?  This is right out of the Margaret Sanger eugenics playbook.  It's about forced population control, particularly among the dark skinned people of the world.  Snap out of it!  Remember what she said:

"Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race."

Pro choice my ass.  Isn't having a child a choice?  Isn't having as many children as you want a choice?  What are you people who support these loons thinking?

They are the ones who have an evil plan for the world.  They are the ones with a racist plot to limit the number of dark skinned people in Africa through "fertility management", and for what?  For their phony chicken-little screech about global warming?  It is now and always has been a front for controlling people.  How is it that my friends in the democratic party can't see this?

Is it because you have been mesmerized into thinking that George Bush was the great evil of our lifetime?  For God's sake wake up!

You allowed yourselves to be cursed with tunnel vision and believed that "The Bush Doctrine" was a one dimensional description of a war monger president who claimed the right to launch "pre-emptive strikes" even in nations that were no direct threat to the United States.  Forget for a minute that "The Bush Doctrine" was not the over simplistic concept that Charlie Gibson was high-fived about when he sneered at Sarah Palin.  Stop to look at how much farther than even what you THOUGHT George W. Bush was planning your own president is going in his slobbering lust for power:

In a video posted Wednesday at the Right Scoop, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told Senators the administration would seek UN or NATO approval for the deployment of U.S. forces overseas while deciding whether or not it would seek approval from Congress.

The statement shocked Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), who asked Panetta if he could "initiate a no-fly zone in Syria" without Congressional approval.

"Again, our goal would be to seek international permission and we would ...come to the Congress and inform you and determine how best to approach this, whether or not we would want to get permission from the Congress - I think those are issues we would have to discuss as we decide what to do here," Panetta said.

"Obama is bypassing Congress every chance he can to do whatever he wants. He did it in Libya and then never complied with the War Powers Act, and I’d expect he’d do that again. He is a totalitarian, it’s just that simple," notes the Right Scoop.[Examiner]

And the world of the crazy left in the media centers went all ape-ish over comments by Mike Huckabee in a speech to the Republican National Committee.  Huckabee said that "no co-pay" birth control is an affront to women suggesting to them that they can't get by "without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of government."

But Al Gore can call for the imposition of "fertility management" on an entire continent of Africans and the world just sits there blinking and nodding and drooling a little bit?

Have you people lost your ever loving freaked out minds?

Just go on, watch another reality TV show, buy what they are selling you, run up your credit cards, pretend that political debate and the future of our country are matters too far beyond your control to be bothered with, hope and pray that your unemployment gets extended, take advantage of every government benefit that comes your way and lay down on your face with your hands behind your head whenever you are told to do so.  It's all going to be okay.  Here's your medicine.

Now get off my lawn.

Look Hard And Find Double Standard In Comment On McConnell/Grimes By Lexington Media

Having read the Lexington Paper for many years I was at first surprised to read what appeared to be a relatively fair comment on the efforts of McConnell and Grimes  to "woo" women voters.  The paper began with a hard look at Grimes' and ended with a warning for McConnell.  But on further analysis it turns out that they were really only up to their old tricks.

On the surface their comment might appear to be an attempt to warn Grimes that she could be making a huge mistake by whining about the "Obama Girl" photo I posted a few days ago. 

In early September 2008, just days after Republican presidential nominee John McCain announced then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, a group of high-profile GOP women called a news conference at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul.

Carly Fiorina and U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., ripped into the assembled media for their sexist approach toward Palin...

America had its say, and Palin built a strong and loyal following. But on Nov. 4, 2008, exit polls showed that 60 percent of voters said Palin was not qualified to be president if the need arose.

Like Palin, Grimes has a lot of work to do to satisfy voters' questions about where she stands on the issues.

Last week, Grimes and her Democratic supporters expressed outrage after the National Republican Senatorial Committee promoted a picture of Grimes' head on the body of Amber Lee Ettinger, the so-called "Obama girl."

It's up to individual women to decide whether they were offended, but how much stronger would her hand have been had she been a forceful voice this summer when state Rep. John Arnold, D-Sturgis, was accused of sexually harassing three women staffers?

The GOP counter-attack persisted through the election.[Kentucky.com]

Okay, so they didn't give me direct credit for raising that issue in the first place by my series of posts on Grimes, but that's okay, at least they made my points, again.

After this tepid warning to Grimes they went on next to warn Mitch that he better watch his peezencues.

In Hillary Clinton's 2000 New York State Senate run, [Rick] Lazio, a Republican, walked from his podium to Clinton's, demanding that she sign a pledge against using so-called soft money in the campaign.

The Clinton campaign had been preparing the soil for a while, and it was ready to use the incident to turn Lazio's claims of strength into a charge of bullying. When he stepped away from his podium, Lazio might as well have stepped out of the race. The media and the campaign seized on the move as an example of his bullying, aggressive demeanor.

If McConnell takes one step in that direction, he is likely to find a backlash he has not seen before. Folks who decry and debate double standards, as McConnell's campaign did last week, usually have plenty of time to make their points after they've lost in November. [Kentucky.com]

While the warning to Mitch might sound a bit like fair play in reality they have taken a stand in favor of the successful use of fake outrage by Hillary and warned Mitch that in the future they will likely side with Alison and her use of the democratic playbook tactic of "-ism" politics.

Barack Obama was able to shame his critics by accusing them of "racism".  This year, and moving into 2016, women democrats are trying to play the same game only this time with charges of "sexism."

The Lexington publication didn't come right out and say it, but when using the examples of two prominent women, Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton, they seem to have endorsed Hillary's success at "ism" politics and denounced Sarah's attempts to call out critics who have lampooned her unmercifully in much more offensive ways than walking across a stage and asking politely for a signature.

Sure, the editorial looks fair on the surface, but in the end, and once again, the LHL is the one applying a double standard.

Landau Eugene Murphy Jr. 10 Million Hits, Rick Robinson Biography To Go Big Time

Northern Kentucky lawyer, author and political guru Rick Robinson has just this week published his newest book taking a completely different course from his earlier political thrillers and penned a biography of America's Got Talent viral singing sensation, Landau Eugene Murphy Jr.  I predict that Rick has hit the mother lode.

Landau took the world by storm with his win at the America's Got Talent program.  Having come from a little town in West Virgina where he had been washing cars for ten years, Landau had never auditioned for anything until he gave an amazing performance on stage before a huge audience.  He blew them away.

Since then he has become a monster star singing old favorites in his new package of long hair and youthful looks.

Robinson got the chance to meet and interview Landau after his publisher suggested that Rick write Landau's story.  According to Rick even a casual stop on a street corner in West Virginia for a photo shoot was enough to cause a traffic jam.

"You gotta remember, the media in West Virginia had little to write about that was good.  Landau has put them on the map again and he is their brightest star.  He is a sensation wherever he goes."

Here's Landau's audition from Youtube.  And below that is the link for Rick's newest book, out just this week.  I predict, that he has hitched his wagon to a rising star and his book will be the biggest thing for him yet.

 

More Americans Turning To Internet For News

I am very happy to have been recognized as the top Conservative website in Kentucky by the Washington Post and to have the growing number of readers which we enjoy. 

With so many other sources of news out there, thank you for reading the BluegrassBulletin.

The Truth About Debt Ceiling Buried By Egomaniacs

Here's the truth about the upcoming fight over whether or not to raise the debt ceiling.  We are not going to default on our national debt.  Anybody who tells you that is lying and trying to scare you.  The US Treasury brings in over $250 billion each month.  Our debt payment is $20 billion and by law must be paid first.  The President does not have the discretionary authority to not pay it first.

So why are we hearing all this stuff about collapse, default and the bogeyman coming to take you away?  Because politics has become theater for the egomaniacs of our nation.

The media finds a story and beats it to death in order to attract an audience which in turn gives them viewership numbers they can use to sell advertising.  That is television, radio, newspapers and most blogs in a nutshell.  It's all about getting money.

As it is with most politicians.  Oh sure, I know, the TEA party guys are all about principles and not politics.  Baloney.

They looked out over the political landscape and discovered an audience they could carve out for themselves, a niche so to speak,  from which they could raise money and get voted into $176,000 per year jobs with all kinds of perks not the least of which is having people jump to their feet and applaud every time they walk into a room.  They have staff members with a deep sense of loyalty whose only jobs are to make the boss look good.

This applies equally to the TEA party folks, the other republicans, the democrats, Libertarians and all others.  They have found  group to which they appeal for money, donations, volunteers and all of it is designed to get them in and keep them in office.

The media provides a free delivery system for their message and increases their notoriety.  Even though the Kentucky readers of this blog don't see Steny Hoyer knocking on doors in their neighborhood, you probably know the name and can picture in your mind kinda what he looks like.  The same holds true for Barney Frank, Barbara Boxer, Saxby Chambliss, Ted Cruz, Dick Durbin and many other names you know.  These people all have notoriety, a perk of office.

So when the press keeps the debate over the government shutdown on the top of the news for a few weeks don't be surprised if the people increasing their notoriety in the environment of that news cycle do little to put an end to in until the media moves on to some other topic.

And what's up next?  The Debt Limit increase.  More theater, more lies, more exaggerations and more confusion about what is really going on.

We aren't going to default on the debt.  And no, all those government workers who are being held up as such poor victims of the shutdown aren't going without pay.  They have been promised back pay when the shutdown is over so it has saved us nothing, cost them nothing, given them a paid vacation and cut down on whatever productivity the government has any chance of performing for a little while.

Why don't you hear the truth?  Because it doesn't sell as well as the hype.

The truth is being buried by egomaniacs.

Watch Sale Of Washington Post To Move News Away From Paper

The purchase of the Washington Post by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos brings to a dying industry the technical know how of a man who turned shopping in stores on its head.  If you can't get it on Amazon, you can't get it anywhere, and for the most part, Amazon has better prices, better service and better shipping options.

Oh sure, if you need a tool right now you can run down to Lowes and pick one up, but if you don't need it this minute, you can have it delivered to you virtually anywhere in the country by tomorrow and you won't be limited to the "in-stock" selections a the hardware store.

The same is true for almost any product out there which Amazon carries.  In fact, if it wasn't for Amazon I'd say book sales would be much more dismal.

So when people begin to compare what a left leaning, democrat donor like Bezos might do with a faltering newspaper, think digital delivery and a new era of online news.

Wake up GOP.  Compete or lose.

POLITICO Whips Flames For Grimes, Scores Points For McConnell

It's a political writer's dream:  The toughest most powerful republican in America being challenged by a fresh female face for a seat in the US Senate where Mitch McConnell serves as minority leader and could soon become the majority leader of that powerful body.  And POLITICO is whipping up those flames.

Alison Lundergan Grimes was 6 years old when Mitch McConnell started his Senate career, and she’s held elected office for not even two years.

But the fresh Democratic face could give the Senate minority leader the fight of his political life.

A once-bitterly divided state party is embracing Grimes, who rallied big and energetic crowds this week at her first campaign events following her botched July 1 announcement. The Kentucky secretary of state’s stump speech focused heavily on McConnell — she roused supporters with a stampede of attacks against the GOP leader’s nearly three-decade tenure in Washington.

And Grimes’s campaign comes as McConnell’s poll numbers are weak, he faces a primary challenge from a deep-pocketed businessman and he’s leading a group of Senate Republicans increasingly at war with itself.

And while they admit that this is shaping up to be the most closely watched race in the nation, they also hit the bulls-eye with this observation.

The Kentucky Senate race will be the country’s most closely watched contest of 2014, something that will be highlighted this Saturday when the candidates share the stage at the state’s annual Fancy Farm Picnic.

But the largely untested Grimes must also survive a formidable political machine McConnell has methodically built for the past three decades.

Grimes knows full well that the key to victory is to make the race a referendum on McConnell. She’s quick to attack McConnell for being the leader in a “dysfunctional” Washington, but she’s reluctant about revealing her own positions on issues such as abortion, taxes or gun control. Whether her own forthcoming policy views can pass muster with conservative Kentucky voters could very well be the biggest challenge of her candidacy.

And while Alison would like to think she can make this race all about Mitch, while keeping her distance from Barack Obama, the fact that she is unable to articulate a better agenda is in fact taking a page right from the Obama playbook.  She is running against the past, offering nothing for the future and hoping for that change, for change sake, will carry the day.

America, and more importantly Kentucky, knows we got a bad deal out of that strategy when Obama played it and therefore Grimes is banking on her obvious view that Kentucky voters are dumb enough to fall for it again.

It's going to take more than POLITICO to get her elected.  She better come up with some better ideas for the future, and quickly, or she's going to be pegged as "Obama-lite", and wrong for America.

Did Obama Send Signal To Start Race War?

Conservative talk radio hosts have speculated that President Obama by way of his public statements concerning certain political movements in the country, sent a message to the IRS to target TEA party groups and liberty groups and patriot groups without ever leaving a finger print on anything.

Now the president has made this part of a recent speech:

President Obama said that if economic prescriptions of the type he supports to increase economic growth and reduce “income inequality” are not adopted, then race relations in the United State may deteriorate further.

“If we don’t do anything, then growth will be slower than it should be. Unemployment will not go down as fast as it should. Income inequality will continue to rise,” Obama said in an interview published Sunday by the New York Times. “Racial tensions won’t get better; they may get worse, because people will feel as if they’ve got to compete with some other group to get scraps from a shrinking pot. If the economy is growing, everybody feels invested, ” he said. [WhiteHousedossier.com]

FoxNews contributor Charles Payne has publicly said that he believes Obama wants civil unrest.

 

It should be of great concern that the President is using words like this.  Some will hear him and consider that the President wants more trouble.  Is it possible that he is indeed trying to spark civil unrest, spark a revolution?

Add to this mix the hysteria surrounding the Zimmerman case which has already been cited as the source of numerous unprovoked attacks on ordinary citizens around the country.

Be alert, be aware, become engaged, be prepared.