What Gun To Purchase: Consider the 9mm Pistol for Self-Defense?
The sections on hollow points and practice are well considered.
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Bay Area Houston: Still paying for the toll roads How conservatives sneak in tax increases - toll roads that have been paid for get escalating tolls. Bay Area Houston: Still paying for the toll roads Gary Permalink on 6/18/2013 1 comments Monday, May 27, 2013
Oh Wow! Flashback to GeoCities http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/content.php?theme=2&music=9&url=elemming2.blogspot.com#.UaMvYNLVDTo Gary Permalink on 5/27/2013 Thursday, May 23, 2013
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Monday, April 22, 2013
Armed and Liberal I have been doing a lot of looking into guns recently and this is a good article. Saturday, April 06, 2013
USA All government spending vs. GDP
Here is the share of all government USA spending as percent of GDP. 2010 to 2013 is under Obama's leadership.
Wednesday, April 03, 2013
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Thom Hartmann Debunks INSANITY of Supply-Side Reaganomics! (Video) - Americans Against the Tea Party Thom Hartmann Debunks INSANITY of Supply-Side Reaganomics! (Video) - Americans Against the Tea Party
A true progressive with an intimate understanding of economics, Thom Hartmann is one of our go-to guys for explaining how TEApublican policies have completely destroyed our economy time and time again.
Thom introduces his video this way,
Demand creates jobs. Help the people and they will demand new and better products. Increasing supply without demand doesn't work. Gary Permalink on 3/26/2013 Wednesday, December 05, 2012
Move Over Simpson-Bowles…There’s a New Plan in Town Move Over Simpson-Bowles…There’s a New Plan in Town A very Clinton like plan not very complicated. Current policy is current taxes, current law is what happens after the temporary Bush tax cuts go away. From The Center for American Progress which drew upon some of the Clinton policy experts. Sunday, November 18, 2012
Naomi Klien seems radical to many in the US, she's just from Canada "I actually had a child five months ago in a public hospital and never got a bill. Seems pretty amazing." Gary Permalink on 11/18/2012 Friday, November 09, 2012
Move to Facebook going well More and more followers. Ran an advertising campaign for Obama in swing states in what seemed like persuadable demographics with 98,000 favorable impressions the last week. Just wrote a comment on Ace of Spades blog where he is shocked, shocked that The Romney campaign is lying and saying their untested GOTV day of the election campaign didn't totally fail. Might as well add it here. Imagine that, a campaign known for unprecedented lying is still lying. Meanwhile I had the loosest* connection to the Obama campaign and received email and Facebook messages election day about contacting particular friends on Facebook in battleground states and see if they had voted yet. Go to my Facebook page for frequent news and comments for liberals and anti-authoritarians. http://www.facebook.com/EasterLemming Gary Permalink on 11/09/2012 Tuesday, November 06, 2012
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Thursday, November 01, 2012
Alternate Universes For most polls this election has a simple story. Obama lead from the beginning, had a bad first debate where suddenly Romney seemed credible and they were tied, and Obama has been inching and trying to claw his way back up and now leads by less then a point. This is shown by all nearly all polls. I am only going to exclude two pollsters out of dozens to show this. There are two pollsters who have strong Republican leanings and were not very accurate in the 2008 and 2010 elections compared to others. Rasmussen is known as a Republican lean poll and is the only one who excludes cell phones and weights its polls according to what it thinks the turnout by party will be. Gallup has a long history but has become very conservative and has been criticized for recently overweighting the South on national polls, some wrong methodology, and using a likely voter model that induces big swings that makes sure that Gallup polls are often talked about. Unfortunately because of their conservative bias and frequency these are the pollsters Republicans and conservatives almost exclusively use, when they aren't criticizing all polls and not recognizing the science behind polling. Here is the conservative poll story using just Gallup and Rasmussen. The polls varied often after Romney got the nomination with both sides having leads until early summer where Obama got the lead and kept it until the first debate. After the first debate Romney took the lead has been increasing his lead almost daily until it is now four points. Because of their methodologies and recent history I go with the average of all the other pollsters and think the Gallup and Rasmussen polls have it wrong. Gary Permalink on 11/01/2012 Surprise! A Romney adviser is lying about ObamaCare Run Everybody! Avik Roy is Coming! Someone paid by the Romney campaign promotes himself as a healthcare expert and goes on popular website to write articles about how expensive Obama is going to make insurance. Just carefully reading his latest articles, coincidentally aimed at very close swing states, should reveal to anyone his blatant lies. This link at a non-profit goes into a bit more detail on how Avik Roy transforms a 1 to 3% cost increase into a 55 to 85% increase. Please hurry and let Romney's Lying Express be over. Gary Permalink on 11/01/2012 Wednesday, October 10, 2012
More Texas Republican Voter Fraud I am turning over my post today to Jacob Limon of the TDP. True the Vote and the King Street Patriots Get Caught With Their Pants Down - Confirm They Are Only Concerned With One Kind of "Voter Fraud" The Republican candidate for County Commissioner in Fort Bend County voted in the general elections in both Texas and Pennsylvania in 2006, 2008, and 2010. In all three cases, he voted by mail in Pennsylvania and then fraudulently voted in person in Texas. Bruce J. Fleming of Sugar Land, age 60, is the Republican nominee for County Commissioner in Precinct 1 in Fort Bend County. His financial disclosure records show that he owns a homesteaded property in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, along with his homesteaded property in Sugar Land, Texas. Records from Bucks County show that a Bruce J Fleming with the same birth date and property address as the Bruce Fleming in Fort Bend County voted in Bucks County in the last three general elections with a mail ballot. He also voted in person in Fort Bend County in those same three elections. Bruce Fleming is running against Fort Bend County Democratic incumbent county commissioner Richard Morrison. Fleming remains on the voter rolls in Pennsylvania although he registered in Texas in July of 2006. It also appears that Fleming’s wife, Nancy, voted in both elections in 2010. Ironically, Catherine Renee Engelbrecht, President of the radical rightwing True The Vote and King Street Patriots lives and votes in the commissioner precinct in which Fleming is running. Fort Bend County records show that Engelbrecht voted in the Republican primary and in the runoff election that gave Fleming the Republican nomination. Obviously, Engelbrecht and True the Vote are unconcerned about the most common form of voter fraud – ballot by mail. Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa said, “Here is Ms. Engelbrecht gallivanting around the country drawing attention to herself about imaginary voter fraud while her own Republican county commissioner candidate is a serial fraudulent voter. This is not voter fraud in her backyard. This is voter fraud in her living room.” “Why should we take True the Vote seriously when they are not at all concerned about real voter fraud? They simply want to deny voting rights to Democrats. Ms. Engelbrecht needs to true the vote in her own house before she attempts to deny votes to honest voters across America,” Hinojosa continued. “We do, however, take True the Vote seriously. We believe they are seriously dangerous to democracy.” “Additionally, I call on Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott to quit wasting taxpayer money on wild eyed conspiracy theories about voter identification and pay attention to real voter fraud in Texas by Republicans. This is a third degree felony, and would be a second degree felony under current Texas law. Let’s see if Greg Abbott has any money left after his losing battle in Texas courts to restrict honest voters. I challenge Abbott to prosecute this crime against the decency of the State of Texas,” Hinojosa concluded. Unfortunately we know by now that Abbott is not interested in voter fraud. Abbott is only interested in suppressing the voter of students, the elderly and minorities. The Texas Democratic Party sued King Street Patriots after the 2008 election for their illegal tactics and won. The case is on appeal now before the Austin Court of Appeals. It is a shame that only one political party, the Texas Democratic Party, will stand up for all voters in Texas no matter how they want to vote. Nevertheless, TDP will continue to pursue vote suppressers in public and at the courthouse until we leadership in state government that believes in democracy. #### Jacob Limon I see that Juanita Jean's first broke the story. UPDATE - Flemming confesses to committing a felony - voter fraud. He didn't mention the tax fraud of claiming two homestead exemptions Gary Permalink on 10/10/2012 Monday, October 01, 2012
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