Saint Kennedy was assinated 50 years ago, Get over it!

Yes Ladies and Gentlemen the man who gave us the "Bay of Pigs" and the "Cuban Missile Crisis" died 50 years ago. Sorry to sound so flippant but in reality the democrat party bosses wouldn't give this guy a second look nowadays. There is more I would say but the guy's dead so I'll leave it be.

Still think we don't live in a Police State

Armed agents seize records of reporter, Washington Times prepares legal action

Maryland state police and federal agents used a search warrant in an unrelated criminal investigation to seize the private reporting files of an award-winning former investigative journalist for The Washington Times who had exposed problems in the Homeland Security Department's Federal Air Marshal Service.
Reporter Audrey Hudson said the investigators, who included an agent for Homeland's Coast Guard service, took her private notes and government documents that she had obtained under the Freedom of Information Act during a predawn raid of her family home on Aug. 6.

The documents, some which chronicled her sources and her work at the Times about problems inside the Homeland Security Department, were seized under a warrant to search for unregistered firearms and a “potato gun” suspected of belonging to her husband, Paul Flanagan, a Coast Guard employee. Mr. Flanagan has not been charged with any wrongdoing since the raid.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/25/armed-agents-seize-records-reporter-washington-tim/#ixzz2irImPtTZ

 

1956 Forradalom

The translation gets a little muddy but you get the idea.

TORN FROM THE FLAG is a documentary about the 1956 Revolution.

The California Hot Rod Reunion 2013

Live Streaming all weekend long. at BangShift.com

The Weekend's Schedule:

Friday, October 18
Reunion Opens ………………………………………………8 a.m.
Tech Inspection – All Classes ………………...…8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Qualifying & Exhibition Runs……………….…8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Nostalgia Funny Car – Qualifying Session 1 ……………..1 p.m.
NostalgiaTop Fuel Dragster – Qualifying Session 1 ……...2 p.m.
Secure Track Activity………………………………………...5 p.m.
California Hot Rod Reunion Reception – Doubletree ...7:30 p.m.
Saturday, October 19
Reunion Opens ………………………………………………8 a.m.
Tech Inspection – All Classes ………...........…8 a.m. – 10 a.m.
Qualifying & Exhibition Runs – As Called........…………..8 a.m.
Nostalgia Top Fuel Dragster – Qualifying Session 2…..12 noon
Nostalgia Funny Car – Qualifying Session 2 …………….1 p.m.
Nostalgia Top Fuel Dragster – Round 1 ………………..3:30 p.m.
Nostalgia Funny Car – Round 1………………………….4:30 p.m.
Honoree Pres. & Twilight Memorial at Starting Line......5:30 p.m.
Push Start Cacklefest Parade & Presentation …………....6 p.m.
Secure Track Activity………………………………………7:30 p.m.
Sunday, October 20
Reunion Opens ……………………………………………..…8 a.m.
Chapel Service …………………………………………….8:30 a.m.
Eliminations – As Called ………………………………....….9 a.m.
National Anthem & Pre-race Ceremonies ……………..10:45 a.m.
Self Start Cacklefest……………………………………….…11 a.m.
Nostalgia Funny Car – Round 2.immediately following Cacklefest
Nostalgia Top Fuel Dragster – Round 2 ……........……11:30 a.m.
Continue Eliminations – All Categories As Called.....…..12 noon
Exhibition Runs – Throughout The Day – As Called
Final Elimination Runs – All Categories ……………..........4 p.m.
Winner’s Circle Awards Presentations ……………………..5 p.m.
Reunion Closes ………………………………………………..6 p.m.
Schedule subject to change

Vets Storm Memorials in D.C.

Three stories at Drudge:

Veterans Storm Memorials

Remove Barricades, Bring Them To White House

Police In Riot Gear

19th Annual Byron World Power Wheelstanding Competition

Get over to dragzine.com they have 493 photos of American iron doing what it does best! And yes that is an  AMC Gremlin on the back bumper!

You just opened a giant industrial size can of Woup-Ass you stooge!

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Vengefulf little prick isn't he

Unnecessarily shut down  by the pillow-biting metrosexual in chief (taken from breitbart.com)
1. Treatments for Children Suffering From Cancer
2. The World War II Memorial  
3. Furloughed Military Chaplains Not Allowed to Work for Free
4. Business Stops In Florida Keys 
5. Obama Blacks Out Sports, Entertainment Programming to Overseas Troops 
6. Obama Closes D-Day Memorial 
7. Obama Tries to Close Privately-Funded Mt. Vernon 
8. Obama Closes Over 100 Privately-Managed Parks That Cost No Money to Run 
9. Obama Closes Self-Sustaining Colonial Farm It Hasn’t Supported Since 1980 
10. Obama Tries to Close State-Run Parks in Wisconsin 
11. Obama Closes Vietnam Memorial 
12. Obama Closes Privately-Owned Hotel, Police Block Parking Lot 
13. Park Service Ranger: 'We've Been Told to Make Life As Difficult For People As We Can' 
14. Obama Forces Residents Out of Private Homes 
15. Acadia Park In Maine Shut Down 
16. Historic Restaurant Open During Last Shutdown Forced to Close 
17. Obama Shuts Down a Road Tha Goes Through CO Park:
18. Residents Plan Protest of Cape Hatteras Closing 
19. Obama Blocks People From LOOKING at Mt. Rushmore 
20. Crucial USDA Websites Taken Down 
21. St. Louis Gateway Arch Closed 
22. Park Shutdown Bounces Rowers from Potomac
23. Thompson Boat Center Closed In DC 
24. Obama Closes Military Commissary 
25. Arizona Offers to Fund Grand Canyon, Obama Says 'Drop Dead'  
Just imagine what he could shut down when he (or some other Democrat psychopath) is in charge of the nations healthcare!
           

Why I like racing

Because

 Football, Basketball, Baseball, and Golf

Only Require ONE Ball

Friday NHRA Maple Grove Highlights

Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock, and Pro Stock Motorcycle

In case you wanted to see a 3 second car.

John Force (who else) First FunnyCar in the 3's

Jonh Force runs a 3.987 @ 323.50 MPH

MOHNTON, Pa. — John Force powered to the first 3-second run of his unprecedented career to take the Funny Car qualifying lead Friday in the Auto-Plus NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway.
The 64-year-old Force, a 15-time series champion, drove his Ford Mustang to a run of 3.987 seconds at 323.50 mph, and earned six bonus points to move into a tie for the series lead with Matt Hagan. Force is coming off a victory Sunday in Madison, Ill.
"I'm excited right now," Force said. "(Crew chief) Jimmy Prock is throwing hardball right now. We feel really good about a run like that."
Force's daughter, Courtney, was second at 4.025 and 329.42 — the highest speed in Funny Car history.

Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2013/10/04/2821490/john-force-leads-funny-car-qualifying.html#storylink=cpy

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Obama sits for a portrait during shutdown

Photographer Tony Powell is, according to the Washington Post, a "renaissance man." He's known for his choreography, painting, composition, and graphic design along with his photography. But it's certainly odd that on October 2, two days in to the government shutdown, Powell announced that he would be holding a Thursday photo shoot with President Obama via Facebook.

Breitbart.com

Resist (Our Senior Citizens show us how it's done)

A new wave of veterans were forced to move barricades at the WWII Memorial in Washington Wednesday morning to gain access during the government slimdown, a spokeswoman from Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., told FoxNews.com.
The WWII veterans, from Ohio, Kansas and Missouri, arrived at the memorial one day after another group relied on the assistance from elected officials to move the barricades to allow access. Parks police did not prevent the first group from entering, nor did they interfere with Wednesday's group.
The veterans vowed to make the trek to D.C. regardless of the situation in Washington. When asked how they were going to visit the World War II Memorial when it’s closed, Ian Drake, a WWII veteran, said the group will "find a way in, one way or another. We might have to climb or something. It's no problem. Well work it out when we get there."
The veterans are traveling as part of Honor Flight , a program that enables World War II veterans to partake in an expense-paid trip to view the memorial.
"A lot of my old comrades were lost in World War II," Ian Drake, a WWII veteran told the station. "Eighteen of 100 in my graduating class were lost in World War II, so it's important for me to show my respect at the memorial."

Yesterday -

 With bagpipers playing "Amazing Grace," nearly 200 veterans from Mississippi and Iowa swept past barricades and security guards at the World War II Memorial in Washington in order to keep a commitment to visit the site, which was closed today due to the partial government shutdown. The veterans, in their 80s and 90s, were accompanied by Rep. Steven Palazzo, R-Miss., a former Marine who earlier vowed not to let the National Park Police keep them from a planned visit to the open-air monument.
"Well, I would have been so down-and-out if I got all the way up here and wasn't able to get in," Navy veteran Oscar Leroy Russell, 90, who is blind after he suffered a stroke, told FoxNews.com.   

"I’m not going to enforce the 'no stopping or standing' sign for a group of 90 World War II veterans. I’m a veteran myself.” 

- U.S. Park Police officer

Some veterans on hand wiped away tears when they saw a crowd waving the American flag as they came out of their bus.
"These men and women didn't cower to the Japanese and Germans," Palazzo said. "I don't think they're about to let a few National Park Police stand in their way."
Palazzo, who was joined by several other members of Congress, moved the barricades at the memorial and police did not try to stop the veterans' access.
"I’m not going to enforce the 'no stopping or standing' sign for a group of 90 World War II veterans," a U.S. Park Police officer, who declined to give his name, told The Washington Post. “I’m a veteran myself.”
The veterans are traveling as part of Honor Flight, a program that enables World War II veterans to partake in an expense-paid trip to view the memorial. Tuesday's trip is the second-to-last flight, with the last scheduled for November. But prior to their arrival early Tuesday, there was fear that the government shutdown and federal worker furloughs would mean no access to the monuments on the National Mall.
But with lawmakers leading the charge, the American military heroes, some in wheelchairs, surged into the memorial.
"It's better to ask for forgiveness than permission," Palazzo said. “We lined the veterans up along the  blockade, we saw an opening and we took it."
Joe Cleveland, of Union, Miss., told The Mississippi Press that he would "be thinking about the many battles that have been fought and thanking all those who were willing to go fight for our country."
Palazzo noted his grandfather, Manuel McCarty, served in World War II at Guadalcanal and Okinawa. Palazzo was 7 years old when his grandfather died and said he sees his grandfather in these veterans.
"I only have a couple of memories of my grandfather," said Palazzo, who has taken part of Honor Flights before. "But each time I see these men, I envision how he'd be."
 "This is the best civil disobedience we've seen in Washington in a while."

Good for them!

 

A group of World War II veterans in an Honor Flight group Tuesday knocked over barriers imposed during the government shutdown at the WWII Memorial in Washington, D.C., to get inside.
As part of the federal government shutdown, national parks are closed. But the group of veterans continued to the monument Tuesday, as reported by Stars and Stripes reporter Leo Shane:

The happy story Here

This government no longer represents the American people!

DHS ADVISER TO PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS: "YOU INCITED MUSLIMS"

For years, I have warned of Obama's pro-jihadist appointees in his administration. The American people would be outraged if they knew. But the media is part and parcel of the  islamization of the American foreign policy. Blaming the Coptic Christians in Egypt for Muslim oppression, persecution and slaughter is akin to blaming the Jews for the Nazis.

The idea that Christians incited Muslims to slaughter in Egypt is manifest in the sharia. Chrstians have incited Muslims by not converting to Islam.

Read the rest of this despicable act at Atlas Shrugs

GET YOU FOOT OFF OF MY DESK YOU CONTEMPTUOUS PIECE OF SHIT!!!!!

By putting his foot on that desk he shows his utter contempt and hate for the people, and the traditions of the great nation of ours!

UN DIPLOMAT: JIHADISTS MAY HAVE USED GAS -- NOT ASSAD

The West is being manipulated. Why would Assad use chemical weapons when he is winning? Why incur the wrath of the Western powers when he has the upper hand? Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood are playing the West like a fiddle.

Syrian Rebels Used Sarin Nerve Gas, Not Assad's Regime: U.N. Official By Shaun Waterman, Washington Times

Testimony from victims strongly suggests it was the rebels, not the Syrian government, that used Sarin nerve gas during a recent incident in the revolution-wracked nation, a senior U.N. diplomat said Monday.

Atlas Shrugs (again)

Folks I think we are being lead in the path of supporting Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood by a man who once stated "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction." 

"I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction." Obama

Who else recalls the hoops George W. Bush had to jump through to go into Iraq? Who else remembers the endless documentation from every US intel agency and the intel from our allies across the world concerning Saddam Hussein's WMD? Years of intel. And majority validation by Democrats and Republicans (who can forget Hillary?)

And still Bush was monstrously vilified.

Now we have a puffed-up, truly great phony going into Syria without knowing who is using chemical weapons. Or whose chemical weapons? The WMD the Democrats didn't exist? Saddam's? These? These?

The rest of the story at Atlas Shrugs

The Sad State of Public Schools

 

Shamelessly stolen from iowntheworld.com

Pamela Geller Gets Fan Mail

Lioness of Judah,

I am back in Afghanistan.  There is no mission, no strategy. The Muslims have us pretty well figured out. They ask, ask and ask. We then give, give and give. The commander to balks at the cycle? He is replaced by someone who will go along. The Afghans are great allies--- so long as we bribe them with goods, services, and money. They turn when we leave. Just recently, an advisor team was ordered away from an Afghan Uniformed Police team in the south because, as higher headquarters claims, they were fully trained and operational independent of ISAF help. Just the other day, the chief of police for that team was caught on our drone assets delivering a Humvee-full of weapons and ammunition to a Taliban member who is targeted for death. Of course we did not drone strike him because, after all, this is what winning looks like.

Read the rest at Atlas Shrugs

All Too True

For the Next 1200 days

Douche bag in Chief

I keep having this dream

Douche Bag in Chief II

Happy Independence Day

Marines Lose One Hot Meal a Day at Camp Leatherneck

Marines at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan will lose a key daily meal starting Saturday, causing some to forgo a hot breakfast and others to work six-plus hours without refueling on cooked food, according to Marines at the base and Marine Corps officials.

The midnight ration service — known there as “midrats" — supplies breakfast to Marines on midnight-to-noon shifts and dinner to Marines who are ending noon-to-midnight work periods. It's described as one of the few times the Marines at Leatherneck can be together in one place.

While no Marine at Camp Leatherneck agreed to speak on the record, many are privately angry about the hit on base morale.

The Rest Here

Meanwhile

Illegal Alien Baby Machine Has Been on Welfare for 20 Years!

The Rest Here

Jesse Ventura is a Delta Bravo (I wonder if he will sue me for that)

If you’ve has seen the movie Predator, Jesse Ventura’s character says, ” you lose it here, you’re in a world of hurt.”  He was commenting about the almost suffocating environment of the jungle.  Now, it seems that he has lost it, and he’s inflicting unnecessary pain on the wife of a slain American hero.The Daily Mail reported on May 31 that Ventura is suing the widow of Navy Seal Chris Kyle because his feelings got hurt after reading the deceased sniper’s book.

Ventura initially filed the suit against Chris Kyle, the SEAL who had the most confirmed kills in American military history, because Kyle said that he knocked Ventura to the floor during a fight outside of a bar.

Ventura, now 61, has now refiled the suit and against Kyle’s wife Taya after Kyle was killed in February when he was shot by a former soldier who allegedly had PTSD.

The Rest Here

New Press Secretary

The Psychological Difference Between Men and Women in 1:42

In Observance of Memorial Day

Smart cars are dumb

The more things Change the more they stay the same

Compare and contrast

What a wuss!

Too true

http://thelookingspoon.com/

Good Dogie

MOROCCO: Look what happens when Muslim scum start throwing rocks and bottles at two German Shepherds out walking with their owner

Stolen from, barenakedislam.com

Impeach his muslim ass now!!!!

Over the course of the last month, while Americans were distracted with the threat of nuclear war on the Korean peninsula and the devastation wrought by the Boston bombings, President Obama was quietly working behind the scenes to craft laws and regulations that will further erode the Second Amendment.

Congress, and thus We the People, may have unequivocally rejected federal legislation in March which aimed to outlaw most semi-automatic rifles, restrict magazine capacity, and force national registration, but that didn't stop the President from ceding regulatory control over firearms importation to the United Nations just two weeks later. What the UN Arms Trade Treaty, passed without media fanfare by 154 counties, would do is to restrict the global trade of, among other things, small arms and light weapons. Opponents of the treaty argue that loopholes within the new international framework for global gun control may make it illegal for Americans to purchase and import firearms manufactured outside of the United States.

More about this asshole here

R.I.P. Iron Lady

Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, the grocer’s daughter whose overpowering personality, bruising political style and free-market views transformed Britain and transfixed America through the 1980s, died Monday after a stroke, her spokesman said in a statement. She was 87.

The first woman to lead a major Western power, Mrs. Thatcher served 11¹ / ₂ uninterrupted years in office before stepping down Nov. 28, 1990, making her the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century. 

Infuriated by Britain’s image as the “sick old man of Europe,” she set out to dismantle Britain’s cradle-to-grave welfare state, selling off scores of massive state-owned industries, crushing the power of organized labor and cutting government spending with the purpose of liberating the nation from what she called a “culture of dependency.”

On the world stage, she collaborated closely with her friend Ronald Reagan to modernize Europe’s anti-Soviet nuclear shield by deploying cruise and Pershing II missiles in Britain, a costly and controversial enterprise that some analysts would later say contributed to the breakup of the Soviet Union. Mrs. Thatcher then joined Reagan’s successor, George H.W. Bush, in repelling Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, counseling Bush not to go “wobbly” on her.

She fought her own war as well, dispatching an armada to retake by force a colonial outpost off South America — the Falkland Islands — after it was invaded by Argentina in 1982. At the same time, she negotiated the end of Britain’s lease over another colonial relic, Hong Kong.

The rest of the story here

Mark Kelly is a DOUCHEBAG!

Mark Kelly's campaign against "assault weapons" such as the AR-15 rifle has sparked a local backlash. On March 13, a Tucson, Arizona radio host published a photograph of former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords holding an AR-15 rifle at a gun range. Giffords has since confirmed that the photograph is authentic.

What is wrong with this picture? Absolutely nothing, and prior to the aggressive progressive opportunistic fear mongering in the wake of Sandy Hook, this picture would have raised no eyebrows and garnered little public attention.

However, in response to the exploitative political scheming of Mark Kelly, persons connected to Congresswoman Giffords released this photo in response to what they perceived to be her husband’s hypocrisy.

The rest of the story here

Street Racing in L.A.

This is about 2 years old but you get the idea.

The World's Fastest Street Machine!

6.95 E.T. at over 209M.P.H. in the Quarter Mile.

CORPORATIONS PROFIT OFF $75 BILLION FOOD STAMP INDUSTRY

On Fox News' Hannity on Friday, Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President Peter Schweizer and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon exposed how politicians and corporations have used the country's food stamps program, which is meant to temporarily supplement the nutrition of Americans facing hard times, as a profitable jobs program.
The rest of the story here

I wish I could say I'm shocked but I'm not!

The title says it all

This is why this country is going to the dogs.

The Looking Spoon

Why democrats are stupid Assholes # 6754

Everyone of these Cocksuckers voted to ignore the 2nd amendment.

So much for defending the Constitution from all enemy's Foreign and Domestic.

Damn I missed it!

I'm going to have to remember next year.

This Bitch should have assumed room temperature 32 years ago why is she still stealing peoples oxygen?

Oh Look, The Human Slop Bucket Speaks

Madonna is the latest artist to criticize the Boy Scouts' ban on gays, and she did so in a colorful way, appearing in a Boy Scout uniform at the GLAAD Media Awards this weekend.

At the awards, sponsored by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Saturday in New York City, Madonna, there to present an award to talk-show host and CNN-anchor Anderson Cooper, joked on stage that she wanted to join the Boy Scouts but was rejected.

"I think that's f-ed up," she said. "I can build a fire. I know how to pitch a tent. I have a very good sense of direction. I can rescue kittens from trees."

Madonna subsequently declared, "I think they should change their stupid rules."

The group last month decided to delay its vote on whether to lift the ban on gays until May to allow for more time to review the policy.

Carly Rae Jepsen and Train recently pulled out of the Boy Scout Jamboree because of the organization's stance on gays.

Madonna didn't just address the Boy Scouts at GLAAD's awards show. She also spoke out against bullying, discrimination and acts of violence.

"I can't take this sh- anymore," she said. "That is why I want to start a revolution. It's 2013, people. We live in America, land of the free, home of the brave? That's a question, not a statement."

Madonna presented Cooper with the Vito Russo Award, given to "openly lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender media professionals who have made a significant difference in promoting equality."

Dear media peoples,

That is not a Boy Scout uniform, it is a cub scout shirt with all the patches in the wrong places.

And who really cares what a washed up has-been has to say about anything anyway?

The sad part is, with this administration I wouldn't doubt it.

Karzai Accuses U.S. of Taliban Collusion

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was greeted on his first visit to Afghanistan since taking office by suicide bombs, threats and Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s accusation that the U.S. is colluding with the Taliban.

As Hagel prepared to leave a U.S. military compound in Kabul on March 9, a Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Ministry of Defense, and another suicide bomb detonated in Khost province. Yesterday, Karzai said that those attacks, which together killed 19 people, aided U.S. goals. A joint Hagel-Karzai press conference at the presidential palace was canceled for what Pentagon officials said were security reasons.

the story here

Where do these morons come up with this shit?

Douche Bag Hugo Chavez Dead (Good)

Analyst estimates Chavez family fortune at around $2 Billion 

Criminal Justice International Associates (CJIA), a risk assessment and global analysis firm in Miami, estimated in a recent report that the Chávez Frías family in Venezuela has “amassed a fortune” similar to that of the Castro brothers in Cuba.

According to Jerry Brewer, president of CJIA, “the personal fortune of the Castro brothers has been estimated at a combined value of around $2 billion.”

“The Chávez Frías family in Venezuela has amassed a fortune of a similar scale since the arrival of Chávez to the presidency in 1999,” said Brewer in an analysis published in their website.

Brewer said that Cuba is receiving about $5 billion per year from the Venezuelan treasury and in oil shipments and other resources.

“We believe that organized bolivarian criminal groups within the Chávez administration have subtracted around $100 billion out of the nearly $1 trillion in oil income made by PDVSA since 1999.”

Why having a BIG GIANT FAG for president is a bad idea!

Two Russian nuclear-armed bombers circled the western Pacific island of Guam this week in the latest sign of Moscow’s growing strategic assertiveness toward the United States.

The Russian Tu-95 Bear-H strategic bombers were equipped with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles and were followed by U.S. jets as they circumnavigated Guam on Feb. 12 local time—hours before President Barack Obama’s state of the union address.

Air Force Capt. Kim Bender, a spokeswoman for the Pacific Air Force in Hawaii, confirmed the incident to the Washington Free Beacon and said Air Force F-15 jets based on Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, “scrambled and responded to the aircraft.”

“The Tu-95s were intercepted and left the area in a northbound direction. No further actions occurred,” she said. Bender said no other details would be released “for operational security reasons.”

The bomber incident was considered highly unusual. Russian strategic bombers are not known to have conducted such operations in the past into the south Pacific from bomber bases in the Russian Far East, which is thousands of miles away and over water.

John Bolton, former U.N. ambassador and former State Department international security undersecretary, said the Russian bomber flights appear to be part of an increasingly threatening strategic posture in response to Obama administration anti-nuclear policies.

“Every day brings new evidence that Obama’s ideological obsession with dismantling our nuclear deterrent is dangerous,” Bolton said. “Our national security is in danger of slipping off the national agenda even as the threats grow.”

More here

If registering weapons became mandatory...

Senator Ted Cruz: Doing what he was sent to Washington to do (What a concept)

The traditional stance for a freshman senator is to hold back a bit. Being reticent and deferential are not qualities that come naturally to those who manage to win Senate seats, but most new senators choose, as much as it clashes with their instincts, to tamp down.

Not Cruz.

Since being sworn in fewer than two months ago, the 42-year-old tea party darling has:

●been one of three senators to vote against confirming fellow Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) as secretary of state.

●expressed "deep concerns" with a bipartisan immigration-reform blueprint crafted by, among others, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla).

●introduced his first bill, to "repeal every last word of Obamacare."

●tangled with Rahm Emanuel over the Chicago mayor's "bullying campaign" to have the city's pension funds divest their investments in gun manufacturers.

Most notably, Cruz - a Princeton debating champion, Harvard Law School graduate, law clerk to the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and Texas solicitor general - trained his formidable rhetorical skills on two targets: gun-control proposals and President Obama's nominee for defense secretary, former senator Chuck Hagel, a Republican.

Cruz has taken the wear-their-scorn-as-a-badge-of-honor approach with his liberal critics. As he told Glenn Beck last month, "I view all of that as a sign that maybe we're doing something right."

Read more here

Numerous Firearms Manufacturers Refuse to Sell to Govt

While the President and the rabid left continue to pursue a ban on semi-automatic firearms, manufacturers are fighting back by refusing to sell to government agencies that support the President’s plan.
Illinois Gov. Rahm Emannuel tried to pressure Bank of America to stop doing business with firearms companies. Viewed as perfectly acceptable behavior by a large portion of America, firearms manufacturers copied the tactic and returned the favor.
Larue Tactical, Olympic Arms, Templar Custom, Extreme Firepower and now RAM Arms have vocalized that they will not sell their products to government agencies that support the President’s position on gun rights.
The President believes that ordinary citizens do not need shotguns with more than 5 rounds, pistols with more than 10 or rifles with more than 10. The math is a bit fuzzy as most murders are committed with handguns containing relatively few rounds. The number of rounds is actually irrelevant. In fact, the gun is irrelevant – apparently, when someone decides to kill someone else, they prefer baseball bats or choking the life out of them over guns.
The number of gun crimes committed by lawful gun owners is infinitesimal - yeah, like, near non-existent compared to the total. I know, who wants facts when emotion can lead us to a final decision?
Oddly, criminals get guns that the lawmakers in Chicago, New York and LA have banned.  How is that possible? They made the law, certainly that means everyone will follow it?
Sarcasm aside, many firearms manufacturers have decided to answer the government’s unconstitutional overreach by refusing to sell government agencies arms or ammunition. As the President says, the people should come first – and so they shall.
The firearms and ammunition manufacturers have been clear that they will sell to law enforcement officers who need equipment and support citizen’s ability to defend themselves during the several minutes (10+ on average) that it would take police to get there. Think about what an assailant could do to you or your family  in 10 minutes…
If government departments or law enforcement officers believe that the President has the best answers to violent crime, they may find themselves without anyone to supply them.
RAM Arms is a manufacturer of firearms and a retail sporting goods outlet. RAM’s CEO Richard Mitchell said in a Facebook post:

“While RAM Arms supports our Deputies and Police Officers with every ounce of our hearts, we will not be selling patrol shotguns, ARs or other equipment or ammo to government agencies that support the President’s version of violent crime prevention. As Chicago has proven – his plan doesn’t work and only disarms the innocents.
Individual LEOs that support a citizen’s right to defend themselves with arms are always welcome.
If you haven’t actually thought through your gun rights position, we cannot ethically sell you much of anything.”

“WE DON’T WANT YOUR BUSINESS,” Gary Shade, president of an Apple Valley custom firearms shop, e-mailed Rybak and the Minneapolis City Council on Tuesday.

Shade doesn’t currently do business with Minneapolis cops but wants to make it clear he won’t in the future since “your mayor believes he can bully gun manufacturers with threats of no business.”

“When your police run out of ammunition, or need service parts for their firearms look elsewhere,” Shade wrote.

Shade’s letter said he is joining with Olympic Arms and LaRue Tactical in restricting sales to police departments or cities that support Obama’s “unconstitutional” gun control plan or are “affiliated with the Fraternal Order of Police.”

In an interview, Shade said he sells to other police departments, but only sent the letter to Minneapolis because of Rybak’s strong comments. 

H/T Eddie, Enemy of the State