“Address Gun Violence in Cities:  As president, Barack Obama would repeal the Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement to access important gun trace information, and give police officers across the nation the tools they need to solve gun crimes and fight the illegal arms trade. Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals who shouldn’t have them. They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof. They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent, as such weapons belong on foreign battlefields and not on our streets.”

A little over half way down this page:

http://www.change.gov/agenda/urbanpolicy/

Well I took advantage of the early voting that’s available at many of the public libraries around here and voted yesterday afternoon. I voted for the only common sense choice -Libertarian candidate Bob Barr.

It is said that insanity is repeating the same thing over and over & expecting different results. Clearly THAT concept applies to the current mess we are in politically and certainly economically. It’s time to try something truly different. It’s time to IGNORE the Democrats and the Republicans and vote for REAL CHANGE.

This is an open letter to Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity & Laura Ingraham. Now I’m not delusional enough to think any of the three would read my little blog so I will also copy and paste most of this to emails which they may or may not read. Perhaps one of their staff might? Either way the rant needs to be ranted.

I am totally disgusted and dismayed that all of the Big Three conservative talk leaders are to one degree or another defending/supporting the RINO John McCain. To be fair I should point out that Rush does this the least of the three & Hannity does this the MOST. It’s REALLY sick how much Hannity does it. All three of these conservative icons were some of the harshest critics of McCain and rightly so. McCain is NOT a Conservative. McCain is NOT our friend. McCain is NOT the answer for the country and is certainly NOT the answer for the Republican party. Rush, Sean and Laura were all against McCain’s awful amnesty bill and were certainly instrumental in it’s defeat. We all thank you for that. But just because the Republican party has turned it’s back on Conservatives and put up McCain as the nominee does NOT mean he is our “only hope”.

McCain is certainly NOT my “Only Hope”. I can’t vote for McCain and I won’t vote for McCain. It just isn’t going to happen. Perhaps America “needs” a Tax & Spend Liberal to win the Presidency??? Perhaps 4 years of that is the only thing that might bring the party and the country back to it’s senses??

In the meantime can we please STOP defending McCain at every turn?? He’s just NOT our guy. Thompson was our guy. Romney wasn’t really our guy either….but he was close enough. McCain isn’t even an option.

I will probably just “waste” my vote on Bob Barr. Better him than McCain.

News, where I get it and how it affects my view.

The best snippet so far:

I’m sure it’s a gun-stealing, terrorist sympathizer that kills babies by dipping them in lattes. – MightySpoon

I must say (though it pains me to admit this) they DO make some compelling arguments over there!

Last weekend my Father-In-Law gave me a big stack of Silver-Age comics for my birthday. Among them was this odd gem from 1964. Apparently it’s fairly rare as it doesn’t seem to be listed anywhere in ComicBase. of course I DO plan to add it. Anyway I thought this was good timing falling into my hands during this awful election year. Is there some special meaning here for all of us?

Rush Limbaugh’s Operation Chaos is a pretty risky course of action. As a Reagan Conservative (although this test thinks I’m an Economic Conservative/Social Liberal/Centrist) I can’t stand any of the three remaining choices! But I could not stomach Hillary Clinton as president. I just can’t stand anything about her. McCain is a RINO, Obama is incredibly liberal and may just tax and spend us into oblivion but I still would rather have either than let Hillary anywhere near the White House.

As much as I do enjoy (and usually agree with) Rush, please, PLEASE do NOT vote for Hillary in the primaries just to throw the Democrats off their game. It’s NOT worth the overall risk of another Clinton presidency.

Just DON’T DO IT!

Well I think this crappy “race” has gone on long enough for me to officially back someone. There is ONLY ONE true conservative that has a shot at the 2008 Presidential election and that is Fred Thompson. He is STRONG on guns:

I strongly support the Second Amendment of the Constitution, which protects an individual’s right to keep and bear arms. Gun control is touted as a major crime-control measure. But some of the places with the strictest gun-control laws also have high violent-crime rates. Disarming law-abiding citizens does not prevent crime. The answer to violent crime is smart, effective, and aggressive law enforcement. The real effect of these gun-control measures is to place onerous restrictions on law-abiding citizens who use firearms for such legal activities as self-defense, sport-shooting, hunting, and collecting. I am committed to:

* Strictly enforcing existing laws and severely punishing violent criminals.
* Protecting the rights individual Americans enjoy under the Second Amendment.

He’s also correct on taxes and many other issues. See here for more. I just hope he didn’t wait around too long for this to work out. I am afraid he has so I’m also listing my other picks in case he doesn’t make it.

If/when Fred is out then my picks would go like this:

1. Mike Huckabee – he’s charismatic and correct on a lot of issues. I also hear Chuck Norris will come to your house and KICK YOU IN THE FACE if you vote for any other candidate! His “fair tax” idea is intriguing but I worry a federal consumption tax may be a bit harsh on the lower middle-class and below folks.
2. Rudy Giuliani – he’s a cool guy (come on, he hosted SNL!). I like him a LOT. I think he would make a fantastic Secretary of State or something…BUT he is very liberal on a lot of the issues. He is pretty anti-gun and that is a HUGE show-stopper for me. But he is smart, likable and way better than Hillary or Obama.
3. Mitt Romney – If you watch the debates the guy just seems too “smarmy” to me. I don’t trust him. He is a John Kerry class flip-flopper. But alas he too is a better choice than Hillary or Obama.
4. John McCain – I just don’t trust the guy. He voted for that awful amnesty bill and he has a record of some rather nefarious dealings. But again he is a better choice than Hillary or Obama.
5. Ron Paul – I actually agree with an awful lot of what this guy says. Much of his beliefs echo my own libertarian leanings. The problem is the guy comes off as a world-class LOON when ever he speaks. For this reason and his sometimes racist commentary he just lacks credibility and is probably unelectable. Even with all that baggage I would STILL choose him over Hillary or Obama.