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Like in the 70s?

Posted by The New THOMA$ REPORT on Saturday, July 19, 2008 2:20:27 PM

Not even close! Many liberals (and their dupes who have been "conditioned" to believe their lies) think so. One thing we don't have now is price controls. Another is the threat of gasoline shortages. I remember carrying around two five-gallon cans of gasoline in case I couldn't find a place to gas up. Dangerous? Maybe. But I was young and foolish, and I BELIEVED much of the propaganda the liberals were putting out then (as now). Just for info: I never had to use that gasoline and it "went bad" after a while. And I was driving a Chrysler, which was a little like driving a city block. (Which means the rumors of a gasoline "shortage" were as phony as the liberals' other lies. What bothers me about today is the possibility of having to suffer "Jimmy Carter's second term" if Barack Obama gets elected with a big Democrat majority in Congress. (Café Hayek)

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"We Need More Studies"

Posted by The New THOMA$ REPORT on Saturday, July 19, 2008 2:18:18 PM
That's the standard operating procedure for bureaucracies to use in delaying progress anywhere. Of course, many of those "studies" are conducted by "friends" of those bureaucrats (and are paid out of public money). Nobody seems to be able to successfully argue against such "studies." That's because those bureaucrats "talk in platitudes" and never say anything concrete, so it's hard to answer them except to insist they be more specific, which I do. But still I can't "pin them down" on anything concrete. They're very good at obfuscating the issue, any time. So the best I seem to be able to do is make them look like the fools they are. (Common Sense)
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"Poking the Supremes in the Eye"

Posted by The New THOMA$ REPORT on Saturday, July 19, 2008 2:16:01 PM
Washington, DC just lost the power to ban guns to a Supreme Court decision that gave them a "resounding slap" and told them the Second Amendment acknowledged the PERSONAL, not the government right to bear arms for self defense. So now they're making an "emergency ordinance" that does pretty much the same thing as the original, struck down ordinance does, but this time "for emergency purposes." This is like a "stick in the eye" of the Supreme Court. What they hope will happen is that they will be able to enforce this ordinance until the Supremes "take notice," in about ten or twenty years, thus "nullifying" their ruling. “The court struck down the city’s trigger lock requirement, and ruled that it is unconstitutional to require that firearms be rendered inoperable at all times in the home.” What the hell is the use of having a firearm in your home if it is unusable? Can they ask the criminal to wait while they make it operable before he commits his crime? Boy, are politicians stupid! And they think we are, too! (CCRKBA)
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Obama's "Special Interests"

Posted by The New THOMA$ REPORT on Friday, July 18, 2008 8:10:25 AM
He SAYS he'll "get rid of the special interests." But will he get rid of his own "special interests?" There are many people in Chicago benefiting from the subsidies Ethanol development enjoys,  even though it makes much more of an "energy footprint" to make Ethanol than it ever did to make gasoline from oil. Yet his friends still sponsor legislation and regulations that make it nearly IMPOSSIBLE to find, and refine gasoline from oil. Will "special interests" ever be gone from [politics? No. Only the "special interests" of "the other side." That's the way it works in Washington, and elsewhere. (Common Sense)
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I knew it Would Happen

Posted by The New THOMA$ REPORT on Friday, July 18, 2008 8:08:35 AM
When I quit smoking twenty years ago after smoking for 45 years, I didn't do it because I believed the "anti-smoking Nazis' " propaganda about "second-hand smoke." I did it because I foresaw what was coming and I wanted no part of it. I've always said they would find a way to stop people from smoking in their own homes, and now they've done it. The court upheld it, and other judges (themselves anti-smoking Nazis) will use this ruling to back up their own rulings against smoking ANYWHERE. It will spread across the nation like wildfire, and soon NOBODY will be able to smoke, ANYWHERE. (To quote a dead author the government murdered for his views) Never mind it's "nobody's business if you do." If they don't like the smell, no matter how slight, they BAN it. Never mind a now-suppressed WHO (World Health Organization) report that said second-hand smoke was NOT dangerous to anybody's health. And in Belmont City (California, where else?) they've banned smoking ANYWHERE in the city. (Denver News 7) 
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DC Flouts Supreme Court

Posted by The New THOMA$ REPORT on Friday, July 18, 2008 8:03:52 AM
Now that the Supremes have said DC's ages-old gun ban is unconstitutional, DC is now trying to pass a NEW one that reads much the same way, which they hope will stand until the Supremes get around to declaring THAT one unconstitutional in 10 or 20 years. Then they'll pass another ordinance and hope the Supremes will again wait fifteen or twenty years to get around to declaring it unconstitutional. This is how local governments "get around" their ordinances and laws being declared unconstitutional. (Hometown Annapolis)
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