I think we are finally witnessing the end of the party of Reagan, thanks you jesus, what replaces it is still up in the air but I think it’s going to split into a christian lunatic fringe and the country club patrician fringe. The moderates are either going to become Independents or Democrats.

Palin/Jindal 2012!

Help me Daddy!

-Under the Bed Conservatives

I freely admit that I am a gun owner. I subscribe to several national gun magazines. I believe that they are the ones fanning the flames of the ignorant masses with their editorials and articles about how Obama will take away our 2nd amendment rights. How Pelosi is the main person behind an excessive ammo tax or registering any who want to buy ammo. That and the rethugs screaming hystericlly about Obama taking all guns and the MSM printing all this as breaking news are, I believe, the reason for the run on ammo. It is almost impossible to find. People are buying by the case and hiding it away so that the “govt” will not take it away from them.

Guns and ammo dealers fanning the flames of fear for PROFIT. Who’da thunk it?

Then we have the likes of Toby Keith and Ted Nugent firing up their right-wing audiences with the same shit.

Inhofe (R-Hydrocarbons)
AKA, ‘the dumbest senator evah’

I got a wingnut email this AM telling me the Declaration Of Independence has been repealed at the G20.

Here we go:
http://www.theabsurdreport.com…..y-at-g-20/

Gottah love (the idiocy of) those Dick Morris Reports!

Oh, please post.

-um- this is no small point, but, *says she gently* I don’t think either limpall or deadeye could fit under the bed. A crib, maybe…. and that’s more appropriate on so many levels….

Follow the money.

See if this works.

Goin’ up.

The “be afraid, be very afraid” has been the Rs headline mantra since 9/11. But the tendency is endemic in the party that runs on national security.

huh! lucky you?

all i have is an official rah rah repug membship card from the pawty gentry’s minions thanking me for my service.

Bet mine’s more valuable than yers. It’s real plastic, with raised goldenized letters ‘n everything.

Betcha yers disappears ever time the toobz git buzzed by shooter’s debunker imagitator. it also prolly has cooties. eeeewwwwww!

Could be right. They got in ZOMG THE MUSLIMS ARE COMING mode on 9/12, never stopped, and are now applying the scarycrazy to everything.

Tag, you win! na-na-na- na-na na-na!

They ran out of “crazy” a loooong time ago and moved on to “barking mad”. Not sure of the appropriate name(s) for the next stage(s)…….somebody better come up with a long list quick given the rate they’re running through them.

I don’t know when the GOP became a party of hysterics; I think in the early 1980s.
But I can’t imagine Eisenhower, or Goldwater, or even Reagan, giving voice to the kind of silly fear that comes out of the GOP today.

The GOP has to provide more than fear if they want anyone’s support or votes.
Right now, their pity party is just becoming not only sad, but dangerous.

They might be better off to read a bit of history and consider how their ancestors sailed wooden ships across the Atlantic to America, or how hard it must have been for some of those same people to clear land and figure out how to grow new kinds of food.
Honestly, to listen to the GOP, one would think that Americans are a bunch of crybabies and whiny little wimps.

Our history offers a far more engaging, hopeful perspective.
Here’s hoping a few more of those writers drop their hysterics and pick up a couple of books about whaling, or the early Hudson’s Bay traders. They face plenty of peril, and they didn’t bawl like a bunch of babies.

As dangers get objectively smaller, their rhetoric has to get louder and louder to maintain their edge (or so they think).

..more bed wetting hysterics about to occur..
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” Tally concludes finding 381 vote win for the Democrat, as Coleman prepares his final appeals
But does the Republican have a legal leg to stand on?…

Author and former radio talk show host Al Franken, the Democratic challenger for the U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota, will be the state’s next U.S. Senator, according to a final tally by the bi-partisan three-judge panel overseeing challenger Norm Coleman’s election contest against him.

The final tally of the remaining ballots was 198 votes for Franken, 111 votes for Coleman and 42 votes for “other.” When this is combined with the initial 225 vote lead, certified by the bi-partisan State Canvassing Board in December, it adds up to a 312 vote Franken victory, arrived at by both a transparent, post-election hand-count late last year, and the painstaking care exercised by the three-judge panel. “

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7049

I fear our OH state-level pugnits have the jump on ya. For going on 30-some years that we’ve lived here, they have routinely held circular firing squads wherein the leaders all chant together that supporting public schools ‘n democrats n’ stuff will make all the jobs go away to Michigan and mebbe even farther toward the edge of the earth, thus ruining a perfect dream of a repubble economy.

You forgot the one Maddow had last night. He’s also a Satanist – there’s proof if you just run his speeches backwards.

Or maybe that sentence omitted a “by someone who is” somewhere?

there’s proof if you just run his speeches backwards.

“I…buried…Paul…”

Dying industrial economy brought out the best in the Rs, huh? I imagine that if I still lived in Buffalo, where I grew up, I’d probably be hearing the same things from the Rs.

good “tell”. thanks.

BT, get ready for Part II.

From March..
****************
” Last Friday, anglers and hunters were notified that the National Park Service planned to make all lands under their control totally lead-free by 2010. No lead in ammo or fishing tackle. So, carry your now-legal CCW, but don’t load it!

The Department of Defense last Tuesday issued a directive that bans the sale of fired military brass to ammunition re-manufacturers. It would instead be destroyed and sold (to China) as scrap at 1/5 the price of useable cases sold to U.S. companies. If we let this happen, look for the already ridiculous prices of all ammo to triple. “

http://msfoa.tripod.com/GunNews_TidBits.htm

they have their own private world view – yeah, wouldn’t be surprised if Buffalo similar to s. OH.

If Pawlenty doesn’t certify, does that put the burden on Franken to sue?

Or Minnesotans to push for impeachment?

I believe the next step after “barking mad” is “full goose bozo,” but I could be wrong :)

There’s some kind of psychologica archetype involved with those who project that the poor people will storm their homes to take their food and that they must be armed to kill them as they enter the door (or window).

It’s probably been a recurring human nightmare of certain psychological types since the dawn of man.

Part 2..
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” So the question now remains, what will Coleman now do? He could honorably, and finally concede, but don’t hold your breath.

Based on statements made by his attorney, Ben Ginsberg, Coleman’s next step will be an appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court. Almost from the moment the three-judge panel issued its Feb. 13, 2009 ruling, Ginsberg had begun stridently claiming that the election was “fatally flawed;” that the strict standards applied by the court for the opening and counting of absentee ballots designated by Coleman in the contest had not been uniformly applied by election officials throughout the state with respect to the more than 280,000 absentee ballots that had been previously opened and counted. Referencing Florida 2000’s controversial U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Bush v. Gore, Ginsberg contended Coleman was denied equal protection. “

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7049

“Palin herself criticized proposed Obama administration cuts proposed to missile defense programs. “I am deeply concerned with North Korea’s development and testing program which has clear potential of impacting Alaska, a sovereign state of the United States, with a potentially nuclear armed warhead,” she said in the statement.”

Hell, that might just be the thing to clean up the gene pool in Alaska, too many booger eatin religious fundie sons of bitches up there and too much inbreeding…

Besides, you fundie sons of bitches already have a missle shield.. Doncha call it Gawd…. You can just pray it into existance and viola….. Safe and sound in your coats of many colors and your good book with all the begetting and stuffs…… Just think Toobs, along with that you can learn to lay your hand on the radio and steal.

‘It’s time for a REVULOOSHUN in this country to take it back from the commie fascist liberalislamobamobots!’

;>)

Hey BT. Looking at your post, it’s clear that it’s Obamas fault!

Alaska would certainly be the first place the North Koreans would attack- to disrupt the dog sled race.

Well, yeah.

look for the already ridiculous prices of all ammo to triple.

I’d love to see it go up 100 times current price; unfortunately the crazzzzzzzzzzes would continue to buy bullets in lieu of food….gotta keep yer priorities straight, you betcha.

So when did everything stop being Clinton’s fault? I iz SO confuzed!

How many rounds does it take to keep the heathen away from yer goods?

Don’t forget the Obama is the anti-Christ meme. I remember my wingnut sister making the same claim about Hillary back in the ’90s. I never figured out if she really believed it but that was her story and she stuck to it.

Don’t laugh. The programs aired on History channel and even Animal Planet were downright reminiscent of the drive-in movie fodder of olde, just this past weekend, and msnbc has its “be very afraid” nonstop junk every dang weekend, come heqq or high hooch.

Going door to door for schools, candidates, or whatever just boiled over my acceptable level of presumed basic safety vs.loony toonz whacker odds. I’m not that brave, nor that crazy.

BTW, the local gun shop deals only in cash. Don’t ask. No, we don’t have any guns in the house, and have no intentions of getting any.

It’d make for a good post/contest sometime when we need a few laughs at the Lake……’course we gotta be sure all the snarkiest pups show up to participate. *G*

Apparently, one can *never* have enough. :-(

And Gore and Kerry…

I think that’s right…it would seem that ten thousand rounds or so would do you about as much good as could be done- but how do you anticipate the number of hungry evil doers who will be at your door?

I have always thought that “The Little Red Hen” is the fairy tale that led to the Republican Party….

The Little Red Hen did all the work herself to make the bread for winter- but when winter came- the other lazy no goodnicks wanted some of it.

I think it takes something like 250,000 rounds for a U.S. soldier to kill one Iraqi.

Think I’ve been hearin’ the word fascist more in the last week than socialist.

How do you repeal the Declaration of Independence? It was a statement….. not a law

By the way, I laid into an NRA cold caller today.

I Said the NRA and the rest of the rightwing radio blabbers were merely fanning the flames of ingnorance and fear to gin up gun sales and tv and radio ratings. I told her she was responsible by being a paid cold caller too.

I kept at her until she hung up.

-GSD

Don’t know why the Rs don’t simplify the matter by calling the Ds the “ists”.

to the rethug mind, one can be both at the same time.

At this point, I cannot believe I was ever a Republican. (Heck, I’m *still* a registered Republican.) I’m shocked by even the latest statements from right-wingers (e.g., Gingrich) I *used* to respect. Either there’s been a GOP party purge by the Palindrones (e.g., pushing out the Buckleys of the world) or I was a moron well into adulthood. Or both.

Thanks for all the links. Last sentence of the Palin story.
The statement also stressed Palin’s request for stimulus funds for a commercial rocket launch facility owned and operated by a public corporation of the state of Alaska.

She wants stimulus money? Yes? No? Some of it? Most of it? Just a little? Lady, puh-leeze Go. Away!

I was thinking the same thing. WTF is Morris talking about? We’re English colonies again? That’s it!!!! Now we have universal healthcare!! What a sly move. Good one, Obama.

There was a time when it used to be respectable to be a R. But that was over a long time ago. Heck, my late rightwing business owner friend in VT switched to vote for Clinton because the national Rs were just too nutty and oblivious to obvious problems for his judgement. And too militaristic.

However long it took….you found the light and that’s what matters in the end.

OK. Weather raw outside so I’m off to cook for my freezer.

I had a right to life poll call last night (from 202 zip). The machine didn’t accept f&*cking idiot for a response.

The people who make up the base and run the modern Republican party are not conservatives but right-wing authoritarians. John Dean has written and spoken about this quite a bit and relied on the work of Bob Altemeyer who did extensive studies on the right-wing mind at the University of Manitoba. One of the key traits of a right-wing authoritarian is that their lives are governed by fear. Fear of the other, fear of the outsider, fear of being the outsider and not part of the group, etc. This helps explain the current hysterics from the right wing talk shows and the Republican party leadership. All they have left are the people whose lives are governed by fear, and to keep them agitated they need to constantly stoke their fears.

For what it’s worth:
Smith and Wesson Holding company is up over 100% YTD.
Sturm Ruger is up nearly as much.

Both have had the biggest part of their gains since Feb 19. I’m wondering what happened then – was that when wall street heard about the large increase in gun buying?

Anyone know any ammunition manufacturers stock symbols? DuPont is not a very good proxy even though they are a major manufacturer of ammunition components (powder and primers). I have some sense that ammunition manufacturers may be privately held companies, at any rate a cursory google search isn’t yielding any leads (although I did see that DoD is selling cartridge cases again after MT senators complained about reloaders losing a supply source and DoD losing a minor source of income).

What a scary way to live a life.

What about Winchester

I don’t care how bad things get; I refuse to store food in my bathroom. I mean, seriously. That’s just gross.

Yahoo finance is only finding a couple of Irish funds under the Winchester name.

I have a feeling they are privately held. Nope owned by Olin corporation, which is not just an ammunition producer. Chart looks similar to the S&P500 so far this year (a bit more volatile to the downside)

That doesn’t bother me none. ButI got no room what with the wife’s piles of National Enquirer, People and Star.

The NRA used to be not such a nut organization. But I have not taken them seriously… or rather I stopped listening to them at all after I received one of their organ magazines with a picture of Dick Cheney on the front cover.

That was a number of years ago and I finally realized they had left the land of safe and sane counsel. I cancelled my membership. Every so often they call me up and I relate to them their mistake in no uncertain terms in sleeping with Cheney. Bad mental images there, so won’t continue with that.

I own guns – have owned guns and learned how to use them since I was a young boy. I do believe it is one of my fundamental rights as a citizen of this great but battered country. I have ammunition in enough quantity and it and the weapons are all locked up in a GSA safe in an undisclosed location.

It really pains me to see our politicians and leaders – any of them, R’s or D’s or whatever, advocating and promoting fear as a response to adversity. I can only think at this point, that they want people to feel that way to support their nefarious and secret (because if you knew you would ridicule them and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law) agendas.

whew, got that off my chest…

I’m quite hopeful that he has finally got them really really mad!

Referencing Florida 2000’s controversial U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Bush v. Gore, Ginsberg contended Coleman was denied equal protection. “

IIRC, the Supremes went out of their way in Bush v. Gore to state that their decision in that case had no precedential value whatsoever.

Not worth the paper it was shat out upon.

Bet these are the same nutballs who went batsh*t over the world coming to an end for Y2K. Remember Y2K? The world was gonna stop because computers couldn’t go past that date Jan. 1, 2000? The nutball community…read…Republic Party folk… hoarded rice, bullets, water and canned goods because their church leaders… (here in the South, at least) told them to.

So now, in their basements next to the rotting 50 lb. rice bags, the rusting tin cans of beans and leaking plastic bins of water…. they put their cache of guns and bullets.

There’s stupid….and then there’s….Republic Party stupid.

F.N. Herstal & Olin each have pieces of the old Winchester according to Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_rifle

I Said the NRA and the rest of the rightwing radio blabbers were merely fanning the flames of ingnorance and fear to gin up gun sales and tv and radio ratings. I told her she was responsible by being a paid cold caller too.

I got a cold call from the NRA a few months ago. I told him the only way the NRA would get money from me would be when they pried it from my cold dead hands.

…because their church leaders… (here in the South, at least) told them to.

God loves guns.

If Jesus had been strapped, he coulda saved Himself a lot of trouble….

Does anyone think that what is surfacing now from the wingnuts and their sometime acolytes is a fear and paranoia born and nurtured by years of semi-suppressed racism and prejudice against non-whites?

With a black man as POTUS, some of their worst fears are being exposed for what they are, and right wingers, who seem constitutionally incapable of admitting error, are like trains hurtling down ever-shrinking, ever darkening tunnels.

The problem with a Beck is that he is one of them who is a bit more articulate than most and who has an outlet.

The problem with a Limbaugh is that he knows better, but makes his living pushing fear and paranoia for ratings and thus more money.

Do note that Bogus Ben Ginsberg does not have pro hac vice standing to speak for Norm Coleman in a courtroom in front of a judge. He had applied for it, but then withdrew the petition so he could continue to hold his bogosity-filled hallway presscons.

There’s a reason that Norm’s actual courtroom lawyers have, since Ginsberg set up shop, seldom talked about the case to the press. It’s because since they’re officers of the court, they can’t say things having to do with the case, either in court or out, that are materially bogus.

For anyone thinking of buying the stock of weapons/bullet manufacturers…

In 2004-2006, I asked myself this question about houses: Has everyone who wants to buy one already bought one? (I decided not to buy.)

Ask yourself that question about guns. And ask yourself about the disposable income of the demographic doing the most buying. (Although the GOP has plenty of high earners in its ranks, that’s not the group hoarding weapons.) How much demand has not yet been met? And how much of that demographic can afford prevailing prices in the face of record layoffs? (If there’s still demand but not enough disposable income to pay prevailing prices, then eventually prevailing prices will come down. When selling prices come down, profits and stock prices often come down, too.)

Maybe there’s a lot more upside to the gun makers. I don’t know. But, if I were thinking of investing in one, I’d seek information to help me answer those questions.

(I have no answers here. Just questions.)

At What Point Did Republicans Become the Party of Bed-Wetting Hysterics?

i think it was when the Democrats decided to be come the party of pro-corporate sell outs and beat the Republicans at their own game.

The problem with a Beck is that he is one of them who is a bit more articulate than most and who has an outlet.

The problem with a Limbaugh is that he knows better, but makes his living pushing fear and paranoia for ratings and thus more money.

Agree with everything in your post.

And Beck knows better as well. It’s simply about the cash.

If Limbaugh really gave a damn about Republicans, he’d stop alienating Independents, which he knows they have to have to be successful.

But since it’s all about ratings and cash, he rants and raves to constantly stoke the base. “I’ve got 20 millions listeners!”

Yeah, well that might sell pickup trucks, guns and chewin’ tobacky, but that’s about 40 million less than you’re gonna need to win a national election any time soon.

” “I don’t think [Cheney] is out of line, but he is dead wrong,” he told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “This administration — the last administration left us in a weaker posture than we’ve been any time since World War II: less regarded in the world, stretched more thinly than we ever have been in the past, two wars under way, virtually no respect in entire parts of the world.

“…I guarantee you we are safer today, our interests are more secure today than they were any time during the eight years” of the Bush administration.

Biden said former President Bush had not been fully aware of the country’s position in the world. “I remember President Bush saying to me one time in the Oval Office, and he was a great guy, enjoyed being with him. He said to me, he said, ‘Well, Joe,’ he said, ‘I’m a leader.’ And I said, ‘Mr. President, turn around and look behind you. No one’s following.’ People are beginning to follow the United States again as a consequence of our administration.”

Watch the full interview during the 6 pm ET hour of The Situation Room. “

http://politicalticker.blogs.c…..%E2%80%99/

Bald headed fart.

I’m not suggesting gun manufacturers are a good investment. They were at the start of 2009, now I’m thinking not so much.

The charts I put up just reinforce the message that people are stockpiling guns. Ammunition is a bit harder to get good numbers on, which is why I asked if anyone new of publicly traded pure play ammunition manufacturers.

one of the memes in the gun loving community is ammunition will have prohibitive taxes and/or regulation. There does appear to be a push for state by state ammunition restriction laws, this is something concrete that we should be part of discourse (not fear mongering) on both sides. Too much to hope for unfortunately – a search on ammunition registration brings up a lot of breathless “last straw” wingnuttery.

The thing all of these guys (Beck, Savage, Limbaugh, et al.) are selling is the adrenaline rush of anger.

Adrenaline rush is a highly addictive form of getting high. Gun manufacturers exploit it, for obvious commercial reasons.

It almost doesn’t matter what the issue at hand is, if these guys can get “their” public’s adrenaline surging by means of clever turns of phrase, that’s what they do, because, like Willie Sutton would say, “that’s where the money is.”

“At What Point Did Republicans Become the Party of Bed-Wetting Hysterics?”

1979.

Glad I could help.

So when did everything stop being Clinton’s fault? I iz SO confuzed!

It all depends upon the subject. Just Saturday I spoke with some friends who happen to be nuts and one of them was still going off on Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton over the Community Reinvestment Act and how that caused our current crisis.

They believe what they hear from their overlords. And then they repeat it.

I think it takes something like 250,000 rounds for a U.S. soldier to kill one Iraqi.

That would seem to indicate we’re definitely wasting too much money on some things and that we’re not spending enough on basic shooting accuracy training.

1967 crime,dirty hippies,uppity negros

Michelle Bachman/ Glenn Beck 2012

This is a serious reason that we better get some really good mental illness care in any type of new Health Care Plan that comes down the pike…………