Life in 3D

Cop or Soldier

Scary when you can’t tell the difference.

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?

The Pot is Calling the Kettle Black???

I understand that the word for this would be chutzpah

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration accused Iran on Thursday of entering into a “secret deal” with an Al Qaeda offshoot that provides money and recruits for attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Treasury Department designated six members of the unit as terrorists subject to U.S. sanctions.

The U.S. intelligence community has in the past disagreed about the extent of direct links between the Iranian government and Al Qaeda. Thursday’s allegations went further than what most analysts had previously said was a murky relationship with limited cooperation.

After allowing the ATF to sell guns to the Cartels, many of which have landed in the hands of MS13, one of the most violent gangs in the United States as well as arming the Sinaloa cartel, not to mention the fact that the State Department has also been helping arm the Zeta cartel the Obama administration is pissing and moaning that Iran is doing something bad.

So how is Iran arming terrorists different and/or worse than our own government arming narco-terrorist??  Oh, because one wants to kill us and the other wants to kill us too??

Maybe they should clean up their own act in Washington before doing too much chest thumping over what other other countries are doing.

Gee, What a Shock

The Feds have no comment about how a couple of convicted felons were able to purchase over 300 firearms WHILE THEY WATCHED ON CLOSED CIRCUIT TV!

In the latest chapter of the gunrunning scandal known as Operation Fast and Furious, federal officials won’t say how two suspects obtained more than 360 weapons despite criminal records that should have prevented them from buying even one gun.

Under current federal law, people with felony convictions are not permitted to buy weapons, and those with felony arrests are typically flagged while the FBI conducts a thorough background check.

However, according to court records reviewed by Fox News, two of the 20 defendants indicted in the Fast and Furious investigation have felony convictions and criminal backgrounds that experts say, at the very least, should have delayed them buying a single firearm. Instead, the duo bought dozens of guns on multiple occasions while federal officials watched on closed-circuit cameras.

When asked about the breakdown, Stephen Fischer, a spokesman for the NICS System, said the FBI had no comment. However, ATF Special Agent John Dodson, who worked the Fast and Furious investigation, said NICS officials called the ATF in Phoenix whenever their suspects tried to buy a gun. That conversation typically led to a green light for the buyers, when it should have stopped them.