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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Rep. Hank 'Tip Over' Johnson: '€˜Free Market Way of Thinking Doesn't Work'
[Breitbart] Thursday on the House floor while speaking against the Sunshine For Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act, Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) decried the "free market way of thinking."

Johnson said, "There has been a movement over the last 30, 40 years to turn people against the government. This mantra is that government is too big, we don't need any rules to govern human conduct, let everything work itself out and the free market system will make it rain for everybody. Well, we've seen after 30, 40 years of practicing that free market way of thinking, that it doesn't work."

He added "This is what this legislation is about--is gutting the rule-making process. This is one of many attempts--incessant attempts--by my friends on the other side to try and cut government and so that their friends in big business on Wall Street can make it rain for the rest of us. But they don't make it rain for anybody but themselves."
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/09/2016 03:49 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Personally, I believe that "Progressivism" is a conspiracy by second raters to grasp social/economic positions that, otherwise, would be totally unattainable for them.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/09/2016 4:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Big business loves big GIVERnment. And did Hank notice that GIVERnment has grown exponentially the last 30, 40 years? I think big GIVERnment is winning; not losing.
Posted by: Airandee || 01/09/2016 5:23 Comments || Top||

#3  BTW, the company store enthusiastically supports the minimum wage hike, but no longer sells so-called assault weapons.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/09/2016 8:36 Comments || Top||

#4  When your perspective is power and control (and graft), you can't comprehend a 'free market'. The natural environment of a 'free market' is chaos, it's natural selection. By its own environment, there are winners and losers. Things break and something else takes its place or picks up the pieces and it gets rolling again. There is no perfect, there is only better. Central planning and control have demonstrated repeatedly that it is not a better alternative.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/09/2016 8:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Grom, you think they're as high as second rate?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 01/09/2016 10:07 Comments || Top||

#6  The third raters do it for free.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/09/2016 10:37 Comments || Top||

#7  Then where'd all that wealth come from that you want to rob, Tip?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 01/09/2016 11:07 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Do you know the gun owners in your circle?
From Fred's AO
[BaltimoreSun] It's inevitable when my husband and I visit family these days that the subject of violence in Baltimore comes up. Often, I'm the one who raises it. But when it came up last week on a trip to see my parents in Georgia, I got my back up. I thought of the 11-hour drive south and the billboards we passed along I-81 boasting guns for sale ("A Glock for Christmas"!), and of the story my brother-in-law, who lives in Florida, told of a neighbor stopping by to shoot the breeze in his suburban driveway, a handgun holstered at the man's waist as their kids played nearby.
Gotta love Freedom...
I'm less afraid of the criminals wielding guns in Baltimore, I declared as we discussed the issue, than I am by those permitted gun owners. I know how to stay out of the line of Baltimore's illegal gunfire; I have the luxury of being white and middle class in a largely segregated city that reserves most of its shootings for poor, black neighborhoods overtaken by "the game." The closest I typically get to the action is feeling the chest-thumping vibrations of the Foxtrot police helicopter flying overhead in pursuit of someone who might be a few streets over, but might as well be a world away. But I don't know where the legal gun owners are or how to ensure that their children, no matter how well versed in respecting firearms, won't one day introduce that weapon to my daughter.
Yeah, cop helos overfly you just for the purpose of chest thumping, all because you have the "luxury" of being white. You need to get out more, and by that I don't mean the the Whole Food cooperative in your neighborhood. I suggest you introduce your daughter to firearms so that she will not be afraid and will learn about their use and safety. Who am I kidding? She wants to protect her daughter by taking guns away from people who are no threat to her.
And so, as President Barack Obama announced plans this week to tighten background checks for gun buyers and increase gun tracking and research, I thought, that's all well and good, but how about adding something immediately useful: a gun owner registry available to the public online — something like those for sex offenders. I'm not equating gun owners with predatory perverts,
Yes, you are.
but the model is helpful here; I want a searchable database I can consult to find out whether my kid can have a play date at your house.
Draconian gun laws in Baltimore will ensure your precious' play date will not be ruined by the presence of firearms.
Avoid all such problems (what if one of the parents of that other child smokes(?!) or has snacks containing gluten(?!?!)) by always having the play dates at your house. Granted, that greatly ups the mess factor, you'll have to double the amount of snack foods you have on hand, and you will actually have to stay home to watch over them, but that way other children's stupid other-thinking parents will never cause your little darling a moment of worry.
Before the 33 percent of U.S. households containing a gun (half of which don't secure them) gets too worked up, they should know that it would likely include many of my relatives and their friends. My parents grew up in small town Minnesota, and hunting was a regular part of their lives before they left for other states, and it still is for many they know. My folks were taught how to handle guns and use them safely. But that doesn't do much to allay my fears; it's the simple presence of the weapon in the home and the possibilities it presents that terrify me.
The 2nd Amendment was written so that we might all enjoy tasty venison, and not against the actions of a growing and increasingly hostile government. All that directing governments to make you "feel safe" will accomplish will be to place you on the front lines of any action to counter government attempts at registration and confiscation. My suggestion: either buy a gun, or learn to duck.
U.S. toddlers were accidentally shooting people — including themselves — at the rate of one per week last year. More than 21,000 Americans committed suicide with a firearm in 2014 (nearly twice the number of gun homicides), while 586 people were accidentally killed with guns (10 percent of them age 15 and younger). And most of the guns used in the last 15 unpredictable mass shootings — including San Bernardino;
jihadis
Umpqua, Ore.;
suicidally depressed
and Marysville, Wash., where a 15-year-old used his father's Beretta to kill four fellow high school students
girl problems
— were purchased legally. The mother of the Umpqua shooter, who killed nine people at a local community college, had even bragged online a decade ago about her son's "knowledge in this field" of firearms. So much for safety training.
"Safety training" is a two step process. Just providing the data isn't enough. The individual has to accept and follow the rules of safety. That they don't is no one's fault but the shooter's.
My only exposure to guns has been to legal ones. I remember as a teen-ager spending an afternoon with a couple of boys who were showing off after school, firing a family gun in the backyard and play aiming at one another. And I fired a .22 caliber pistol several years ago as a reporter covering handgun-carry regulations in Maryland; I still have the paper target practice sheet taped to my cubicle to flaunt my bullseye. There was a definite rush to handling the weapon, and I could see the attraction of target practice as a hobby. But the risk to owning the gun isn't worth it to me.
Re-evaluate, then. Guns aren't going away, but you could be if you fail to buy and learn to use a gun.
Guns in the home are far more likely to be used accidentally, in suicides or family disputes than in self defense, according to studies based on anecdotal evidence. (Perhaps Mr. Obama's improved research will show for sure.) And I'm pretty certain that if I'd had a gun the one time I was the victim of a violent crime (in upstate New York), the outcome would have been a lot worse than it was, with the firearm turned against me in short order. Instead, I was able to scream and break away from a mugger with a dull knife trying to force me into a vacant lot between rowhouses.
A 9mm or .45 Caliber "rape whistle" would help, I suspect.
Three years ago, a New York newspaper published a map online showing who owned guns in two counties outside of New York City. The backlash was swift and wide, with the most legitimate complaints being a fear of theft, which the paper said never materialized, and concerns about identifying where law enforcement lived. (I'm willing to compromise by including the officer's name, but not address, in my database.)
Golly. That's big of her.
Much of the response, though, was made up of comments like this one: "so, should we start wearing yellow Stars of David so the general public can be aware of we are??"

Gun owners may feel picked on, but they are not a persecuted class. They are individuals who have chosen to keep in their homes an object whose chief purpose is to injure or kill, whether in self defense or otherwise. The rest of us should have a right to know it's there before we — or our children — enter.
Gun owners because they are in such a minority are a persecuted class with the political class and the government nearly constantly demanding registration and confiscation. An open database of gun owners doesn't help the cause of freedom, but does help the control of governments over firearms.
Tricia Bishop is The Sun's deputy editorial page editor. Her column runs every other Friday.
So how have The Sun's sales and profits been doing? Trending downward like almost all the paper'n'ink news retailers in America?
Posted by: badanov || 01/09/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  An article written by a committee.

Nothing more than a regurgitation of talking points. Is Tricia actually a live human being?

Undoubtedly, Tricia believes in the wonderful concept of diversity. How she's able to square this with not allowing her kids to play with the children of gun owners requires suspension of reality.

One more thing, Trish - at what age will you stop trying to control your daughter from trying to see what firearms are all about? Fifteen? Eighteen? Thirty-six?
Posted by: no mo uro || 01/09/2016 6:22 Comments || Top||

#2  I want a searchable database I can consult to find out whether my kid can have a play date at your house.

How about you use a phone and just ask?

This lady has also advertised to any burglars that her house is not dangerous to break into.

Wadda moroon.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 01/09/2016 9:51 Comments || Top||

#3  BrerRabbit, I think you're on to something.

How about, instead of registering gun owners, we register non-gun owners. Sort of a list of all gun-free zones. Tricia could put her name up there so people wouldn't be afraid of her.

If the name you want to search is not on the list than you can assume that they have a gun and act accordingly. That work for you, Trish?
Posted by: AlanC || 01/09/2016 10:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Too much work AlanC.

Just plant a sign in her front lawn saying "This is a gun free zone" and let nature take its course.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/09/2016 13:07 Comments || Top||

#5  ohhhhhhhhh

Who lives in the suburbs of the city of B?
Spongtrish Wetpants!
Absurd and yellow and boarish is she?
Spongtrish Wetpants!
If collectivist nonsense be something you wish
Spongtrish Wetpants!
Then drop your two bucks and buy the BS
Spongtrish Wetpants!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/09/2016 15:12 Comments || Top||

#6  Liberals despise those that don't think like them.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/09/2016 23:34 Comments || Top||


This Week in Guns, January 9th, 2016


By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com

The standoff in Oregon will be going into its sixth day on Saturday. The latest is from Thursday when Harney County Sheriff David Wade met with Ammon Bundy and offered safe passage from the wildlife refuge in exchange for simply leaving. The offer was rejected.

The occupation has split Patriot groups into opposing camps.

Let's face it, folks. This has not been anyone's finest hour. From Hollywood celebrities demanding a bloodbath, to Patriots even on Rantburg suggesting direct machine gun fire to resolve the standoff, to others waiting to see what happens.

My thinking is that the people who now occupy the wildlife refuge have done more to bring attention to the out-of-control federal judiciary in Oregon than any other actions I have seen or read about since the Bundy Ranch standoff two years ago

Did you know about the Hammond family 2 weeks ago? I hadn't, but now the occupiers have got the attention of leftist and mainstream media nationwide. How it will play out or benefit the cause of freedom, I have zero idea, but it is better than just holding a march in Burns, Oregon, then leaving the area.

It is being reported in the American newspaper of record, the UK Daily Mail, that the occupation is being conducted by a intergalactic rogues gallery of ne'er do wells, malingerers, liars and drinkers. Little doubt exists that they could have done better, but to my mind that is not the issue. Even if one of the purported leaders of the occupation really is a federal confidential informant, I seriously doubt his handlers would want him to set up another standoff the government will lose.

That said, there is a problem. At the moment the occupiers have plenty of supplies, but not enough warm bodies. The problem is you can't get competent people with military experience to help out operating under the auspices of individuals who have have falsely claimed military experience. Oathkeepers dealt themselves out of this action from the very beginning, but I doubt even second thoughts will result in more shooters with military experience appearing in Oregon. If new bodies do show up, they will likely be untrained shooters with no military experience. And word is, elsewhere in the West several militia groups ordered their members to stand down.

It's a shame, but entirely understandable.

I have yet to hear any of demands from the folks occupying the wildlife refuge in Oregon, so whatever their plan is they are keeping it to themselves.

There is donations information, but from what I have read, they are doing fine in that department.

Loads.

Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:

Prices for pistol ammunition were mixed, while prices for rifle ammunition were mostly steady.

Prices for used pistols and for used rifles were mixed.

New Lows:

None

Pistol Ammunition


.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Quality Made Cartridges, Store Brand, FMJ, Brass, Reloads, .25 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Quality Made Cartridges, Store Brand, FMJ, Brass, Reloads, .25 per round (From Last week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (3 Weeks))

.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, +.02 Each After Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammunition Supply Company, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammunition Planet, Oak Island, FMJ, Brass, Reloads, .21 per round (From Last Week: -.01 Each)

9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: J&G Sales, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Cased, .18 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: J&G Sales, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Cased, .16 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged)

.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: +.02 Each After Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .28 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: J&G Sales, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .25 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks))

Rifle Ammunition

.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Munire USA, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .26 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .22 per round (From Last Week: -.03 Each After Unchanged (3 Weeks))

.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Ammunition Supply Company, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .37 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: J&G Sales, Tulammo, steel cased, FMJ, .34 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks))

7.62x39 AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Munire USA, Wolf WPA, steel case, FMJ, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: TrueCaliber.com, Wolf WPA, steel case, .23 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (6 Weeks))

.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds (10 Box Limit): Munire USA, Aguila, RNL .08 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 325 rounds (5 Box Limit): Target Sports USA, Aguila, RNL, .08 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks))

Guns for Private Sale
Rifles


.223/5.56mm (AR Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $551 Last Week Avg: $551 (=) ($616 (39 Weeks), $476 (15 Weeks))
California (185, 194): Del-Ton: $550 ($650 (49 Weeks), $400 (18 Weeks))
Texas (223, 233): American Tactical Omni Hybrid: $580 ($700 (44 Weeks), $350 (39 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (99, 133): Mixed Build: $525 ($700 (38 Weeks), $300 (26 Weeks))
Virginia (133, 150): Windham SRC: $600 ($750 (44 Weeks), $480 (4 Weeks))
Florida (298, 312): Mixed Build: $500 ($650 (28 Weeks), $380 (40 Weeks))

.308 NATO (AR-10 Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $960 Last Week Avg:$990 (-) ($1,359 (38 Weeks), $820 (14 Weeks))
California (45, 43): CMMG: 1,000 ($1,700 (4Q, 2014), $850 (23 Weeks))
Texas (54, 48): DPMS: $1,000 ($1,500 (4Q, 2014), $800 (22 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (23, 25): Palmetto State Armory PA10: $900 ($1,500 (44 Weeks), $700 (15 Weeks))
Virginia (44, 43): DPMS LR-308: $1,050 ($1,650 (27 Weeks), $800 (10 Weeks))
Florida (71, 62): DPMS Sportacle: $850 ($1,500 (4Q, 2014), $500 (14 Weeks))

7.62x39mm (AK Pattern Semiautomatic) Average Price: $529 Last Week Avg: $509 (+) ($626 (40 Weeks), $450 (25 Weeks))
California (46, 43): WASR 10: $599 ($700 (42 Weeks), $320 (4Q, 2014))
Texas (46, 49): WASR: $600 ($750 (42 Weeks), $350 (3Q, 2014))
Pennsylvania (41, 41): I.O: $400 ($750 (49 Weeks), $375 (34 Weeks))
Virginia (59, 48): Yugo M70AB2: $545 ($625 (45 Weeks), $350 (47 Weeks))
Florida (64, 70): Czech VZ-2008: $500 ($650 (38 Weeks), $300 (4Q, 2014))

30-30 Winchester Lever Action Average Price: $409 Last Week Avg: $389 (+) ($489 (46 Weeks), $296 (28 Weeks))
California (8, 8): Mossburg 464 SPX: $425 ($500 (23 Weeks), $180 (30 Weeks))
Texas (19, 21): Marlin 336W: $400 ($550 (45 Weeks), $300 (1Q, 2015))
Pennsylvania (13, 15): Marlin 30AS: $400 ($450 (48 Weeks), $250 (4Q, 2014))
Virginia (10, 6): Marlin 336: $450 ($475 (4 Weeks), $250 (6 Weeks))
Florida (16, 19): Mossberg 464: $370 ($500 (44 Weeks), $250 (30 Weeks))

Pistols

.45 caliber ACP (M1911 Pattern Semiautomatic Pistol) Average Price: $449 Last Week Avg: $433 (+) ($450 (44 Weeks), $350 (17 Weeks))
California (174, 156): Ruger 1911: $500 ($600 (46 Weeks), $300 (24 Weeks))
Texas (163, 163): Taurus 1911: $430 ($600 (4Q, 2014), $325 (20 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (139, 140): Regent 1911: $350 ($550 (36 Weeks), $300 (30 Weeks))
Virginia (130, 130): Rock Island Armory: $549 ($550 (38 Weeks), $250 (4Q, 2014))
Florida (281, 291): Palmetto State Armory: $415 ($475 (49 Weeks), $250 (43 Weeks))

9mm (Beretta 92FS or other Semiautomatic) Average Price: $306 Last Week Avg: $355 (-) ($336 (41 Weeks), $268 (19 Weeks))
California (133, 130): Jennings Nine: $300 ($450 (46 Weeks), $200 (9 Weeks))
Texas (193, 201): EAA Witness: $300 ($355 (45 Weeks), $200 (18 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (182, 181): Diamondback DB9: $210 ($350 (4Q 2014), $200 (25 Weeks))
Virginia (151, 162): EAA: $425 ($425 (2 Weeks)), $250 (25 Weeks))
Florida (350, 359): Smith & Wesson Sigma: $295 ($375 (4Q, 2014), $220 (18 Weeks))

.40 caliber S&W (Glock or other semiautomatic) Average Price: $335 Last Week Avg: $355 (-) ($368 (35 Weeks), $300 (3Q, 2014))
California (77, 82): Glock 22: $399 ($425 (19 Weeks)), $250 (4Q, 2014))
Texas (95, 101): Smith & Wesson SD40VE: $300 ($425 (4Q, 2014), $250 (4 Weeks))
Pennsylvania (63, 67): Smith & Wesson SW99: $300 ($350 (26 Weeks), $250 (46 Weeks))
Virginia (65, 63): Taurus Millenium: $325 ($450 (35 Weeks), $275 (1Q,2015))
Florida (134, 136): Ruger P94: $350 ($400 (46 Weeks), $200 (19 Weeks))

Used Gun of the Week: (Pennsylvania)
Colt Single Action Army (1980 Model) Chambered in .44-40

Chris Covert writes for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com and on Twitter .
Posted by: badanov || 01/09/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thanks for the round-up badanov. Excellent points concerning Oregon.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/09/2016 16:59 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
Dhaka-Islamabad farce
[DAWN] RELATIONS between Pakistain and Bangladesh seem to be on a downhill course with both countries expelling each other's diplomats. The senior Bangladeshi diplomat, expelled by Islamabad recently, had to be a woman, because last month Pakistain recalled Farina Arshad, the political secretary at its high commission in Dhaka after Bangladesh accused her of having bully boy links. Although there is much speculation in the media, we are still in the dark about why the Bangladeshi diplomat was asked to leave the country. While Islamabad can legitimately claim to have simply reacted to the provocation by Dhaka, both governments need to sober up and ask each other -- and themselves -- in what way their tit-for-tat expulsions will promote mutual ties, or lead to a more stable South Asia.

That Prime Minister the loathesome Sheikh Hasina
...Bangla dynastic politician and current Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She has been the President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She has once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia show such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums..
Wajed came to power through an election that was deemed controversial by many is indeed Bangladesh's internal matter. What is cause for concern, however, is her obsession with the past in a manner that neither advances her country's image abroad nor promotes internal peace and reconciliation. The execution of a number of Bangladeshi nationals after trials that fell far short of international judicial standards has also strained ties with Pakistain and added to, instead of lessening, the acute polarisation in Bangladeshi politics and society. In contrast, the people of the two countries have shown a more positive attitude, in fact friendlier sentiments, towards each other, as is often evident in Pakistain-Bangladesh cricket matches. With Islamabad and New Delhi making determined efforts to not allow acts of terror, such as the one at Pathankot, to derail the grinding of the peace processor, it is time the leaderships in Dhaka and Islamabad also made fresh efforts to halt the downhill slide. There is every reason for us to plead with Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
and Ms Wajed to end what is a thoroughly unnecessary diplomatic crisis. The next Saarc summit in Islamabad provides an excellent opportunity for the two to meet on the sidelines and sort things out.
Posted by: Fred || 01/09/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Government
America Doesn't Have a Gun Problem, It Has a Democrat Problem
[Sultanknish] America's mass shooting capital isn't somewhere out west where you can get a gun at the corner store. It's in Obama's own hometown.

Chicago is America's mass shooting capital. There were over 400 shootings with more than one victim. In 95 of those shootings, 3 or more people were shot.

2,995 people were shot in Chicago last year. Shootings were up, way up, in Baltimore. With an assist from Al Sharpton and #BlackLivesMatter, Baltimore beat out Detroit. But Detroit is still in the running. Chicago, Baltimore and Detroit all have something in common, they're all run by the party of gun control which somehow can't seem to manage to control the criminals who have the guns.

The murder rate in Washington, D.C., home of the progressive boys and girls who can solve it all, is up 54%. The capital of the national bureaucracy has also been the country's murder capital.

hese cities are the heartland of America's real gun culture. It isn't the bitter gun-and-bible clingers in McCain and Romney territory who are racking up a more horrifying annual kill rate than Al Qaeda; it's Obama's own voting base.

Gun violence is at its worst in the cities that Obama won in 2012. Places like New Orleans, Memphis, Birmingham, St. Louis, Kansas City and Philly. The Democrats are blaming Republicans for the crimes of their own voters.

Chicago, where Obama delivered his victory speech, has homicide numbers that match all of Japan and are higher than Spain, Poland and pre-war Syria. If Chicago gets any worse, it will find itself passing the number of murders for the entire country of Canada.

Chicago's murder rate of 15.09 per 100,000 people looks nothing like the American 4.2 rate, but it does look like the murder rates in failed countries like Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe. To achieve Chicago's murder rate, African countries usually have to experience a bloody genocidal civil war.

But Chicago isn't even all that unique. Or the worst case scenario. That would be St. Louis with 50 murders for 100,000 people. If St Louis were a country, it would have the 4th highest murder rate in the world, beating out Jamaica, El Salvador and Rwanda.

Obama won St. Louis 82 to 16 percent.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/09/2016 08:15 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:



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Two weeks of WOT
Sat 2016-01-09
  Philadelphia police officer ambushed 'in the name of Islam'
Fri 2016-01-08
  ISIS Man Executes His Mom
Thu 2016-01-07
  Iran says Saudi-led airstrike hit Iranian Embassy in Yemen, but no damage seen
Wed 2016-01-06
  1 US soldier killed, 2 wounded in Taliban attack in Helmand
Tue 2016-01-05
  44 ISIS Bad Guys die in battles near Fallujah
Mon 2016-01-04
  38 die in Kurd, ISIS battles in Raqqa
Sun 2016-01-03
  Fierce Fighting Erupts Between Afghan Forces, Taliban In Marjah
Sat 2016-01-02
  Death sentences for nine 'hardcore terrorists' in Pakistan
Fri 2016-01-01
  New Year's Eve terror attack thwarted in NY
Thu 2015-12-31
  ISIS executes 40 civilians in Ramadi
Wed 2015-12-30
  Blue on Blue: 38 Bad Guys die in bombing attack in Nangarhar
Tue 2015-12-29
  North African al-Qaeda says top figure killed in ambush
Mon 2015-12-28
  Iraqi airstrike kills ISIS Top Dawgs
Sun 2015-12-27
  Syrian Rebels Mourn Loss of Leader, Name Replacement
Sat 2015-12-26
  One Killed as Bomb Blast Rocks Ahmadi Mosque in Bangladesh

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