Life in 3D

We are SOOOOO Lazy

Dear Reader says so

Obama said it’s important to remember that the U.S. is still the largest receiver of foreign investment in the world and things like stability, openness and innovative free market culture are attractive. He also said there are a lot of things that make foreign investors see the U.S. as a great opportunity – like stability, openness, our innovative free market culture.

“But we’ve been a little bit lazy, I think, over the last couple of decades. We’ve kind of taken for granted — well, people will want to come here and we aren’t out there hungry, selling America and trying to attract new business into America, Obama said.

He then went on to say things his administration has done like setting up Select USA that organizes government agencies in an attempt to make it easier for foreign investors to set up a plant in the U.S.

Uh-huh.  It’s always us plebeian workers who are sitting on our ass or out playing golf while Dear Reader must carry us on his broad shoulders into the future because we are to lazy to walk there ourselves.

It couldn’t be that we aren’t getting investments from outside, or inside, our own country because we have had a Congress that has created a labyrinth of bureaucratic rules that no sane person could ever make sense of, or because we have regulatory groups like the EPA, NLRB, and OSHA that create their rules from ideology rather than rational thought processes like a normal human would – no, that can’t be it.

I will also bet that the “Unicorn and Rainbows” legislation that is Obamacare – whoops, the Dems don’t want to use that phrase anymore - the “United States (you won’t have any) healthcare plan – yeah, that didn’t kill any job at all, did it?  Bet it’s just made foreign investors say “Damn, let’s get a piece of that action.  I mean, look how well Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have worked out!  What could go wrong with this?”

I will also bet someone’s money, not my own – not that dumb, that the payoffs to Democrat supporters and bundlers commonly known as the “Stimulus Package” didn’t hurt anything either, right?  I mean, it’s not like businesses and people aren’t going to have to pay off the debt that our government created by spending worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave.  Hell, I knew to stop drinking when I was out of cash – Congress isn’t that smart and Obama is on the bottom of THAT bell curve.

It’s not like Boeing had created 1,000 jobs in South Carolina before they were sued by the NLRB.  The reason?  They weren’t union jobs.

You know, things like that wouldn’t make a company reconsider expanding, or even investing, in the American marketplace.  When the rules of the game keep changing in the middle of the game, how many people will really want to play?

JUST Like the TEA Party

Except the TEA party never threatened people or caused property damage to a private business…. Otherwise, they are just like us.

“I’ve been told, ‘Watch your back!’ 10 times,” Stacey Tzortzatos, owner of Panini & Co. Breads, located across from Zuccotti Park, told The Post yesterday.

She and her employees are terrified by the constant threats, which she said began after she demanded the protesters stop using her shop’s restroom as a place to bathe every day.

The final straw came about two weeks ago, when the demonstrators broke a bathroom sink, flooding the shop, and clogged the toilet — setting her back $3,000 in damages.

But hey, they aren’t making outrageous demands, right?

And on Friday, she said, a crazed squatter burst into the shop and demanded that workers fill a 10-gallon container of water.

When they refused, “he banged it on the ground and started yelling” and threatened the staff, she said.

“He said he was entitled to have it for free.”

OK, well, it’s not like things are so bad that the police had to get involved.

“I have the police in here 10 times a day, [and] I’m the bouncer. I’ve been called the spawn of the devil. “It’s unbelievable what goes on in here every day, ” Tzortzatos said.

Of course, all of these problems would go away, or at least be diminished, if the people of New York were allowed to actually defend themselves, but since they have a Mayor that no only supports these protesters even though he is one of the people they are protesting about  (the word “useful idiots” comes to mind – and I don’t know if I mean the mayor, the protestors, or both) but is also a radical, anti-gun nutjob means that this situation will just keep getting worse until someone is killed and then they will just try and blame it on the right.

Keep your guns clean and your ammo dry, I think there’s an even rougher road ahead.

***UPDATE***

Yep, just like us… uh-huh, sure.  This time in SoCal

Coffee cart owner Linda Jenson and hot dog cart operators Letty and Pete Soto said they initially provided free food and drink to demonstrators, but when they stopped, the protesters became violent.

And according to one city councilman, bodily fluids were used in the attacks.

“Both carts have had items stolen, have had their covers vandalized with markings and graffiti, as well as one of the carts had urine and blood splattered on it,” said Councilman Carl DeMaio.

Color Me Shocked

Well, not really.  The Fudd who wrote the  “I’m a gun owner but… article” turns out to be an anti-gun mayor.

From – Shall Not be Questioned

Yep, if you can’t find a real gun owner to support your cause – make one up.  Standard lefty tactics in action.

Fear Factor

No, not me, this reporter – if you want to call him that.

With concealed carry laws in effect, I can’t be too lax about casual encounters anymore. I have to remind myself to be aware of any sudden movements or suspicious behavior by individuals while in public space.

Even driving back and forth from home to work takes on a new relevance. I have to make it a point to be more courteous to fellow motorists and exhibit extreme road courtesy in all situations.

You can’t be flipping anybody off in the age of concealed carry, that’s for sure.

Hate to tell you this, but a lot of holsters will do a very good job of tucking the firearm in so you won’t have that bulge. Also, the people who would be acting suspicious or having “sudden movements” are probably the bad guys and (I know, this will be hard to hear) they won’t be CC permit holders.

Thankfully, the “No Weapons Allowed in the Building” sign has been posted at my job, which was a great relief for some of us who write the kind of stories that occasionally get the public agitated.

(Thanks, boss!)

Yeah, because we all know those “No Weapons” signs are like a magic shield that makes anyone with a weapon incapable of entering the building.  Look how well it worked out at Virginia Tech.

I’ve traveled to many of the states that allow concealed carry – you probably have, too – and can attest to the fact the law doesn’t contribute to any greater or lesser sense of public safety.

Most times, you don’t even think about it.

Pro-gun advocates insist concealed carry laws lead to a decrease in crime, but statistics don’t bear that out in any discernible way. Apparently, there aren’t a lot of stories about concealed carry “heroes” rising up to stop crime.

Really??? I would love to know what stats you are looking at, because the ones I’ve seen show that the more we protect ourselves the more crime goes down.   But I am sure it’s just an aberration that crooks don’t target people when then think those individuals are armed.

I’ve heard all the arguments, but I’m still not sure why any ordinary citizen would feel the need to carry a gun in public for self-defense. What also doesn’t make sense to me is the idea that having more guns will make us safer instead of the other way around.

Uh-huh.  Heard all the arguments have you and yet you still can’t understand how a 102 lb woman would be safer when she is armed from Joe Biden’s 200 lb rapist than if she just tried to scare him of with a police whistle and a cell phone?  Are you sure you are competent to be functioning in society without a keeper then because it’s pretty damn obvious to me and a lot of other people.

Face it, you don’t trust yourself to handle a firearm and so you don’t think anyone else should have one either.

Well, I’m afraid that’s one fear you’ll either have to get over, or you can move to that gun free, crime free  paradise of Chicago.

H/T to Sebastian