Earlier this week, the Star Tribune ran an article regarding how gun sales have picked up since Barack Obama was elected president. I have tried, very hard, all week to write a column about this but every time I start typing, I start laughing. In fact, I laugh so uncontrollably that my hands and fingers fly around my office, gripping my stomach in the pain of losing oxygen, and I nearly pass out!
After I calm down, one word pops immediately into my head which accurately describes the people that are rushing out to buy weaponry.
SUCKERS.
The NRA and other gun lobbyists are clearly exaggerating Obama's anti gun stance to make more money. And they have a whole line of chuckleheads that are willing to believe anything they say. As Sue Fust puts it in the article:
The anti-Obama vitriol has been a fear-mongering tactic that encourages some very fringe folks who are paranoid and convinced that the United States government will really need to be overthrown one day by citizens with guns. This helps to sell firearms. It is therefore important for those selling guns who want to make money to either try to create new markets or increase sales to existing gun owners.
No shit. I guess Obama's line about clinging to guns and religion may have been more astute than originally thought. Thankfully, not all gun owners are are losing their marbles.
Considering all the problems the country faces, "you have to wonder how high a priority [guns] will be," Joel Rosenberg (local gun enthusiast) said. "It's going to cost millions of dollars" to institute new gun laws, "and how much political capital is he willing to spend right away? I'm telling people who ask, 'Don't do anything you wouldn't do anyway,'" he said. "If you were already thinking of getting a carry permit or ... a semiautomatic, well, maybe go ahead and do it."
No shit. And thank you, Joel for being sane.
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Let me guess - there is no bias at that newspaper at all right? That's why they are basically broke and you can renew your subscription for next to nothing.
I don't know much about the Star Tribune but I am curious how you thought there was bias there, rld. People down in Chicago are buying more guns for the same reasons. And the fact that there is more racism down here and essentially afraid of black people.
Jocularity…jocularity…I’m glad to hear you’re in such good spirits. I too have had a rather amusing week of it. Let me share…
Though I think the rush to buy up guns is a bit over the top, I didn’t find it particularly amusing, just premature. Obama will clearly make changes to infringe upon people’s rights, but he’s smart; it will be a slow, gradual move.
Many other things have struck my fancy of late. Which is good because I’ve been a bit down since the election (go figure). But I’ve decided to look at the brighter side and if the warm-up is any indication, this administration will be providing much amusement.
It started w/ what I thought must be a spoof. It just had to be. I was flipping channels one night and ran across an infomercial for Barak Obama commemorative plates. And another for coins. Perhaps they do this with every president, but it was cheesier than cheesy. Maybe I’ll get one for you for Christmas, Mark.
And the hypocrisy. The hypocrisy is absolutely delicious. Change you can believe in is really change to, well, same old Washington insiders. And the administration that touted its upcoming transparency is clamping down pretty tight about now. Oh sure, Obama’s private meeting w/ the President found its way onto the nightly news within an hour, which was, well, very transparent of him. (‘course I’m not sure I’m keen on our incoming President being quite so loose w/ information…lips, sinking ships and all…) And I really don’t think Obama was dumb enough to involve himself w/ Blago, but what is really funny is watching those who love(d) him so much and are coming to the realization that he is what he is, a career politician (though it’s a mighty short career isn’t it?) coming from one of the most corrupt political swamps known to man. And the believers clinging to the certainty that he traversed that swamp, pure.
The audacity and arrogance of the upcoming administration has also reached comic proportions. What kind of man has “Office of the President Elect” symbols made for his podiums? And the symbol that mimicked the Presidential Seal he used during the campaign that he had to take down?... I’ve commented on his autobiographies before. Autobiographies in general make me laugh because one must really think a lot of oneself to write one. But two? Before the age of 50?
Obama’s puppets aren’t doing so hot. The media, I mean. The NYT’s mortgaged their building. An article today asks, “Will the NYT’s continue to expose clandestine programs in the War on Terror now the Obama is President?”
And as one of those nuts who think global warming is a crock, it was riotous to see environmentalists urging the upcoming administration to make quick changes on global warming because the global cooling that is currently going on is killing their momentum. In accordance, the Senate Committee on Environment & Public works is readying itself for the upcoming summit in Poland. They’ve got their 50-some-odd scientists (who surprisingly are degreed in fields that don’t have much to do w/ climatology or geology) lined up against 650 scientists and Nobel Prize winners who are degreed in fields that actually have a lot to do w/ climatology and geology and are less apt to be led by politicians and celebrities. Meanwhile I’m shoveling snow at -10 degrees this morning wondering where that global warming is when I need it.
…anyway…just some of those mildly amusing things I thought I’d throw out because I was in the mood.
In the “Not so Funny” category…
The secret service is apparently throwing in the towel, not wanting to break a sweat when someone accosts the President. President Bush was once quoted as saying to someone who drove by and gave him the finger, “Not a fan…” Of course, one might ask that chap if he’d have been so bold as to throw a shoe at Saddam Hussein? What do you think?
And did you hear some nut tried to burn down Sarah Palin’s church? Would I be going out on a limb to say it’s a bit more of that liberal tolerance we’ve all come to love? What?...They’re bored with tormenting Mormons in California? …no evidence of this…just speculating.
Anyway, have a good week, all. I’m off to Washington to see if I can get in on some of this bailout money. I’m thinking w/ all the money the Democrats what to dish out to non-functional companies, people who shouldn’t have bought a big house in the first place, over-paid unionists and farmer’s who don’t plant their fields, I can probably sneak in a billion or so w/o raising too many eyebrows. I hear Barney Frank will be in charge of oversight for this so I should be ok. And if it all pans out right, drinks are on Dave!!
Merry Christmas!!
"but it was cheesier than cheesy."
I agree. It was really, really bad.
The NYT are Obama's puppets? Ah, the Kool Aid...
"one of those nuts who think global warming is a crock"
Actually, you have 10 percent chance of being correct that it is a crock because the theory only has 90 percent validity. 10 percent is not "nuts."
10%! That’s all I get? I’ve got Physics Nobel Prize winner Ivar Giaever in my corner and you’ve got a pudgy politician...come on; give me at least 20%.
I hope you seasoned your words well, as you will be eating them when McCarthy and Schumer propose permanent reinstatement of the AWB, and the Mighty O signs off on it.
And I shall happily eat this prediction if it doesn't happen between now and the next election.
Now we can debate which wine goes best with crow.
I tried a Chilean wine that was good recently...forgot the name.
So, I’m stuck in the snow & cold on a 2-hour drive home yesterday, as always, wondering where that global warming is when I need it. I’m flipping the radio between crumby music, talk radio and NPR (because, I’ve versatile, baby!) and am reminded that in order to encompass the greatest fear, it’s no longer simply ‘global warming’ per se, but ‘climate change’. Which is good for the greens because if this global cooling continues much more, or even it does get hot or really the weather is just any bit different today than it was yesterday but doesn’t fit their model, well, it still falls under this larger umbrella of climate change now…but I digress. So a special on NPR is talking about the holidays (not really Christmas, because, we don’t want those 5 Kwanza people to get all uppity) and the segment is on giving carbon offsets as stocking stuffers. I laughed out loud. That’s funny! Can you just imagine the Hallmark commercial w/ Mom, Dad & kids sitting by the tree & the open fire w/ their coffee & coco on Christmas morn, Mom pulls out the carbon credits and throws her arms around Dad in loving thank-you’s!…brilliant!
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