Now He's After Your 401(k)

Review & Outlook: Now He's After Your 401(k) - WSJ.com: "How many times have you read financial-advice stories lecturing you to max-out on your IRA, save as much as you can in your 401(k), and even pay taxes now to change your regular IRA into a Roth IRA that will be tax-free until you die?

Well, be careful how much you save.

That's the message in President Obama's budget for fiscal 2014, which for the first time proposes to cap the amount Americans can save in these tax-sheltered investment vehicles."

Well, lemme see here. With an investment return lately of oh, say, 1% that means you're "rich" on investment income of $30,000 a year. Fr*ck.

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Jobs?

Jobs? Did You Say Something About Jobs? | Power Line: "Any port in a storm: the Obama administration would rather talk about anything other than the economy. Understandably. So it’s one damn thing after another. Michael Ramirez notes the administration’s most recent preoccupation:"

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The Real Background

Instapundit » Blog Archive » CLAYTON CRAMER: Background Checks And Murder Rates. “What is the statistical evidence of the effec…: "CLAYTON CRAMER: Background Checks And Murder Rates. “What is the statistical evidence of the effects of state mandatory firearms background check laws on murder rates? For states that adopted or repealed such laws after 1960 (when consistent and high quality murder rate data becomes available), an interrupted time series analysis shows that five out of nine states have statistically significant changes in murder rates, with three having higher murder rates during the background check period, and two having lower murder rates. Of the four states with statistically insignificant changes in murder rates, two had higher murder rates during the background check period, and two had lower murder rates during the background check period.”

Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 10:30 am"

What if we actually had background checks for politicians instead?

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Thieves At Work Stealing

The culture that is Washington: "The Senate has severely scaled back the Stock Act, the law to stop members of Congress and their staff from trading on insider information, in an under-the-radar vote that has been sharply criticised by advocates of political transparency.

The changes, if they become law, will exclude Congressional and White House staff members from having to post details of their shareholdings online. They will also make online filing optional for the president, vice-president, members of Congress and congressional candidates."

As Glenn is now reduced to constantly pointing out, "Laws are for the little people".

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O Big Docs And Blank Helicopters

Don’t be fooled. Gun confiscation has already begun in NY « Hot Air: "For all of our more liberal leaning readers who continue to ask “what’s so bad” about universal background checks before we’ve even seen the specifics, this is your answer. In New York, you can be placed on a “list”of people with no Second Amendment rights on the say so of any doctor who has questions. And it already happened to David Lewis. Thankfully, he’s getting his guns back… for now. But what is the larger effect of this if we put it on a national scale?

No, of course they're not going to confiscate your guns...

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Completely Predictable

Completely Predictable | Sumner Books: "As reported in my new book, “Completely Predictable,” the combined spending of federal, state and local governments actually exceeded the median household income for 2010, which is the latest year for which all relevant government data are available.

In fiscal 2010, according to numbers published by the Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), net spending by all levels of government in the United States was $5,942,988,401,000. That equaled $50,074 for each one of the 118,682,000 households in the country.

In that same year, according to the Census Bureau, the median household income was $49,445.

That means total net government spending per household ($50,074) exceeded median household income (49,445) by $629."

Sustainability.

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Too Late

Moonbattery » Open Thread: "Via I Can Has Cheezburger? on a tip from Jim S."

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Can You Guess Why There Were No Questions?

Guest Post: Survivor Of Communist Cuba Defends 2nd Amendment | Zero Hedge: "Some people know.  Some people have lived it.  Some people have experienced the consequences first hand.  And, for anyone with the intelligence to listen, this is what they have to say about gun control and the path to tyranny..."

There were no questions because he's just a "black helicopter" "gun nut" O course. That and the fact that it could cause their tiny little brains to consider firing the few neurons that haven't yet died from the assault of Newspeak.

This man understands more about the world in his pinky finger than the morons running this hearing will in their entire lifetimes.

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COTD: The One "Outing" Liberal Dems Are Terrified Of...

EXCLUSIVE: Adam Lanza's murder spree at Sandy Hook may have been 'act of revenge' - NY Daily News: "NOSEITALL15 minutes ago So Adam Lanza...

- was bullied at school
- was mentally unbalanced
- had a mother who accumulated deadly weapons of all sorts
- had a mother who encouraged him to fire deadly weapons
- played violent video games all day
- dressed in camouflage and acted out violent video games, and
- had access to firearms and other weapons.

So what do liberals propose as a solution? Taking guns away from normal, law-abiding citizens!

Funny, they never mention the liberals' push to de-institutiona­lize the mentally ill in the 1980s and 1990s.

These school shootings, which are surely great tragedies, are a tiny percentage of homicides in the US. Most gun violence is committed by liberal Democrats, in cities run by liberal Democrats.

What scares liberals the most is Democrats with guns in their cities. Liberals don't fear middle- or upper-income Republicans owning guns to protect their lives and property.

But of course, liberal Democrats can't come out and say that they fear their own constituents without losing an election, so they feign outrage at the NRA and Republicans. "

Bingo.

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English Parody? If Only...

Brits Shocked at Easy Availability of Knives | Power Line: "Is this a parody? No. It is straight reporting. If you ban guns, this is what you get: knife crime. It’s that pesky human nature again…"

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Day of the Ignoramus

Day of the Hunter - NYTimes.com: "PEOPLE who rhapsodize about the glory of hunting never mention what an unfair fight it is."

And the comments are even more ignorant. At least a few of them pointed out that what he did wasn't actually hunting.

Eric Blair's comments about pacifists prove once more eternal: "Pacifism. Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, ‘he that is not with me is against me’. The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle, while living on food which British sailors have to risk their lives to bring you, is a bourgeois illusion bred of money and security."

With moronic preeners like this in charge of shaping popular opinion you can just put a fork in us.

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Skeptic's Corner: Freeman Dyson

Freeman Dyson speaks out about climate science, and fudge | Watts Up With That?: "Freeman Dyson is a physicist who has been teaching at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton since Albert Einstein was there. When Einstein died in 1955, there was an opening for the title of “most brilliant physicist on the planet.” Dyson has filled it.

So when the global-warming movement came along, a lot of people wondered why he didn’t come along with it. The reason he’s a skeptic is simple, the 89-year-old Dyson said when I phoned him.

“I think any good scientist ought to be a skeptic,” Dyson said."

And don't forget Feynman's definition of science: "The belief in the ignorance of the experts."

Of course, if you RTWT you'll see that Dyson is saying it's silly to even think of the alarmists as experts.

So Feynman doesn't even come into it.  Ouch.

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The Sequester Parable

Bookworm Room » How the sequester works — an easy to understand analogy: "One day, Dad comes home and says, “Mom, the boss told me that, because of the recession, instead of getting my 4% annual raise, I’ll only get a 3% annual raise.  We’ll still be bringing in more money than last year, but not quite as much more as we had expected.  We may have to retrench a little.”

Mom is livid. “How dare your boss do that! You’ve been a great employee. Well, if we have to retrench, I’ll show him! And I’ll make you suffer too for working for such a cheapskate.”

Here’s what Mom does not do: Mom does not pay her mortgage or credit bills on time; she does not pay attention to turning out the lights; she does not make sure to buy food she wants and then use that food; she does not curb her occasional impulse clothes spending; and she makes no effort to pay attention to parking meters.

Here’s what Mom does: she tells the kids they’re never going to Disneyland again; she starts serving only Mac ‘n Cheese from a box; she only buys the family clothes from goodwill; and she constantly tells them that it’s not her fault that their lives have become so miserable. She’s just responding to Dad and his mean boss."

Heh. Captures it almost perfectly.

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Satiric COTD

Jake Tapper: Shouldn’t Obama and Bloomberg maybe learn the basics about guns before trying to regulate them? « Hot Air: "Does it use magazine clips?

BobMbx on April 5, 2013 at 5:31 PM

I had several high capacity magazines, but I used them all up last fall. With the ammo shortage and the bans, I can’t find any more full AR15 magazines. I am screwed.

tdarrington on April 5, 2013 at 5:34 PM"

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COTD: Thank You For Your Understanding

Armed Grandmother of 10 Gives Burglar Way More Than He Could Handle: ‘Did I Hit You?’ | Video | TheBlaze.com: "LT_SCROUNGE Posted on April 4, 2013 at 9:36pm I have a magnet on my fridge that says “Due to the current high price of ammo, warning shots will not be fired. Thank you for your understanding.”"

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Undocumented Democrats

Moonbattery » Term “Illegal Immigrant” Struck From MSM’s Vocabulary: "So if we can’t call illegal immigrants “illegal immigrants,” what do we call them? Jay Leno has a suggestion — “undocumented Democrats.” After all, their certainty to continue voting Democrat for generations to come in order to keep the welfare payments generous is why our rulers are effectively importing them to displace the native population."

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Whoops: Safety For Me But Not For Thee

Moonbattery: "Disgraced British propagandist Piers Morgan, best known for his ongoing jihad against the Second Amendment of our Constitution, lives in a mansion in Beverly Hills. Even countermoonbats like to protect their property. Here’s how Morgan protects his:"

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Hope, Change and Poverty

Hope, Change and Poverty | Power Line: "President Obama ran as the candidate of hope and change, but his regime has been one of unemployment and poverty. How a president with such a record could be re-elected is a mystery that historians will try to unravel for many years to come, but in the meantime, Michael Ramirez comments on the shocking fact that nearly one in six Americans is now living in poverty, courtesy of Obamanomics. Our golfer in chief really doesn’t seem to care that his policies have been a catastrophic failure:"

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Good Vacuous God

Did Obama tell a Democratic audience that a “fully automatic weapon” was used at Newtown? « Hot Air: "Either (a) O’s referring to a different shooting, which I doubt, (b) I missed a major update to the Newtown story, (c) he knows something we don’t, or (d) he has roughly the same mastery of gun fundamentals as magazine expert Diana DeGette. From last night’s DCCC fundraiser in San Francisco:

Now, over the next couple of months, we’ve got a couple of issues: gun control. (Applause.) I just came from Denver, where the issue of gun violence is something that has haunted families for way too long, and it is possible for us to create common-sense gun safety measures that respect the traditions of gun ownership in this country and hunters and sportsmen, but also make sure that we don’t have another 20 children in a classroom gunned down by a semiautomatic weapon — by a fully automatic weapon in that case, sadly.

Adam Lanza had an honest-to-goodness machine gun on him, not a Bushmaster semiautomatic? That’s … an important detail, but I haven’t heard it mentioned once in the news coverage I’ve seen about Sandy Hook."

These people couldn't wrestle their way out of a paper bag but they're certain I'm the one who's the moron. Fr*ck.

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If Only This Was An April Fools Joke

Why Do Americans Hate Their Government? | Power Line: "That sentiment doesn’t extend, of course, to the armed forces and a few other branches of the Washington tree, but–generally speaking–I detest the massive fraud, the trillions in wasteful spending, the borderline criminal enterprise, that is our federal government."

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