Theft by government
IRS Warns Employers: Do Not Try to Avoid ObamaCare Insurance Mandate
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan:  Hobby Lobby, Chick-fil-A and various Catholic charities are the first order of business;  expect the IRS to use armed agents and have FBI, DEA, BATFE, and state police and local sheriffs or police – usually SWAT teams in full gear – to demonstrate “for the encouragement of the others” just how nasty it will be.  Consider these examples:

SWAT tries to take down Internet meanie; raids grandma instead
SWAT team throws flashbangs, raids wrong home due to open WiFi network
The IRS Paramilitary Raid of Mountain Pure Water in Arkansas
Small business paramilitary raids by IRS, DOJ documentary released
UPDATED: Feds indict local business owners

Mama’s Note: Since none of those items involve anyone – EXCEPT the “cops” – committing aggression, theft or harming another person in any way… there is simply no justification for any of it.

Crash of 2009 – EVIL CORPORATIONS’ minions
Chamber of Commerce CEO: New Taxes Will ‘Hurt Job Creation’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: No, really?  We have any idea just HOW?  Next thing you know, these greedy businessmen will be saying that taxes hurt the children, too.  And you know what?  THEY’RE RIGHT!

Seriously, we are now in the second or third phase of the Crash, just as the Great Depression went through several phases.  Every person earning a paycheck (at least, a legal paycheck) in the US took a cut on 1 January with the FICA back up, and then we add all the ObummerCare taxes and these “fiscal-cliff-rescue” taxes and it all flows down hill.  If Mr. and Mrs. Rich Snob, making $250,000 a year suddenly have an additional $10,000 in taxes to pay (amounting to something like 0.00002 percent of daily federal spending) and have to cut back, it is very likely Miz Cinderella, their housekeeper who works 2 days a week for $10/hour who gets to go find some other work (if she can).  Who wins?  The politicians and bureaucrats, of course.

EVIL CORPORATIONS’ minions
Chamber CEO Calls for Amnesty for Illegal Aliens Who ‘Meet Reasonable Conditions’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: All they want is SLAVES.  Peons to do all the grunt work and get paid minimum wage, to lay off more and more good American workers.  Actually, Mr. and Mrs. Rich Snob (commentary above) will not do their own housecleaning, they’ll go hire Constanza Guzmann, the 14-year-old daughter of a pair of border-jumpers, to do the work after school.  And since she is “undocumented,” they will only pay her $5/hour.  And leftovers.

In a previous commentary, I discussed a case where a border jumper was convicted and imprisoned for stealing an American citizen’s identity for more than a decade.  As far as the crime she committed, it doesn’t matter whether the criminal was a border jumper or born next door to the person whose identity she stole.  What DOES matter is (a) if the thief had been an American citizen, she likely would not have been tempted to steal the identity in the first place (not that it doesn’t happen all the time, I know).  But (b) if the thief had been an American citizen, the local and federal authorities would have taken the crime more seriously, been much more likely to prosecute more quickly, would likely have demanded some kind of restitution, and pushed for a more severe punishment.  An American would have been far less likely to have suffered only 18 months in jail and a “get-out-of-jail-free” card together with a free trip back to her original hometown.  This is similar to the situation in San Francisco, a “sanctuary city” in which a border jumper receives little or no punishment for traffic violations if they don’t have a drivers license, whereas an American will end up with thousands in fines and probably jail time if we DARE run a stop sign or do 5 miles over the speed limit and don’t have a driving permission slip.

Mama’s Note: Sounds like ANOTHER good reason to stay out of San Francisco. 🙂

Stupid government tricks
FDA Seeking Hard-to-Abuse Painkillers
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Ah, in the way that the EPA seeks detergents that can’t harm any part of the environment.  Is there ANYthing which is useful which cannot be abused?  Water?  How about water torture?  And you can die from too much of it.  Food?  Obesity, anyone?  You know there is not.

Mama’s Note: Just a thought… they might start by not creating and perpetuating quite as much pain as they do… But, once again, the fact that people might harm themselves with these things has nothing to do with it – except to serve as an excuse. Their only concern is gaining and keeping control, of people and everything else.

Her Majesty’s Subjects: War against religion
British Christians Await Top Court Ruling on Wearing a Cross at Work
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Who died and made Parliament king and god and everything else?  (Remember, in the UK, the supreme courts are all part of Parliament: the House of Lords.)  And IF these people are really christians, should they really care what the court decides if they sincerely believe that they must wear an external symbol of their faith?  Perhaps in knowing that they can make that reservation for dinner next month or will have to cancel it because they are locked up in the Tower of London awaiting burning at the stake?  The British dig their own grave deeper and deeper.  One man has predicted that the UK will have a pocket civil war in which Scotland, Wales AND Northern Ireland will all attempt to secede from England (not necessarily from the Crown, just Parliament) THIS year.  Things like this contribute to that possibility.

Mama’s Note: Again, it isn’t the symbol itself… it’s the need to control what people think and do. I sincerely hope the people of Scotland, etc. secede… but I can’t figure out how they’d do that from Parliament and not from the Crown. What any of them wants with a high maintenance old lady and her family helping to suck them dry… I’ll never understand.

Culture Wars: Homosexual “Marriage”
Marine Corps Orders Full Embrace of Same-Sex Couples
(CNSNews.com) The memo noted that spouses clubs and various other private institutions are allowed to operate on bases only if they adhere to a non-discrimination policy encompassing race, religion, gender, age, disability and national origin. “We would interpret a spouses club’s decision to exclude a same-sex spouse as sexual discrimination because the exclusion was based upon the spouse’s sex,” the memo said.

Nathan: REAL married couples are not supposed to do any PDA (Public Display of Affection) but the homos in their bogus “marriages” can.  Marines, there are many, many communities who can use your skills and dedication when you abandon the rotting stinking corpse that the White House and Congress has turned your service into.  Based on this logic, Boy Scouts must now be removed from bases because only boys can be Boy Scouts (Debby tells me that boys can now officially be Girl Scouts so there is no problem with THAT “fine” organization.  And Masonic Lodges, too, are out – simply having women’s auxiliaries is apparently no longer acceptable.  And for high schools operating on base, at least private ones (not sure about “public”ones) there will no longer be girls’ and boys’ basketball, volleyball, or even football: one-sex fits all.  I assume the signs on the toilets and the shower rooms will be coming down next.

EVIL CORPORATIONS
Shell may have moved Alaska offshore drilling rig to AVOID taxes
(Yahoo.com)

Nathan: I am SHOCKED.  Deeply SHOCKED that a massive multinational corporation would have used the fact that it MIGHT save money on TAXES as part of its decision in when and where to move an oil rig.  Why… this is even worse than if a former vice president of the United States would chose to sell his TV network to a bunch of Arabs in a hurry to avoid a change in tax law!  Why, of course no former (or present) VP of the US would ever THINK of such a thing.

Mama’s Note: Indeed… That billionaire who accepted Russian citizenship just recently said that it was not all about French Taxes… sure, sure… What I want to know is, why not? And not that I think he made a particularly wise bargain there either.

Chicago Teachers Union President: ‘Off With Their Heads!’
(CNSNews.com) Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis said union opponents “think nothing about killing us” and that “wealth disparity” in America today mirrors the 19th century when labor leaders then used to be “ready to kill,” to chop people’s heads off.

Nathan:  So because I (or you) oppose teachers’ unions (and all the rest of the government-run, tax-funded school system), we just want to kill them.  So they will be preparing to do an Iraq and preemptively kill US because the wealth is being concentrated in the 1%: government and its corporatist, elitist and technocratic allies.

Tyranny – Stupid government tricks – New Religions: Environists
EPA Levied a Record $252 Million in Fines in 2012
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: And this does not include state or local fines.  One article lists US EPA as the 10th most dangerous federal agency: I think I’d actually rate them higher: those goons who are “doing it for your own good” are always more dangerous than others, and the EPA is increasingly filled with true believers, not just do-gooders.

Stupid people tricks
Clinton: Father of the Year
(Politico) The group selected Clinton for his “profound generosity, leadership and tireless dedication to both his public office and many philanthropic organizations,” Dan Orwig, chairman of the National Father’s Day Committee, said in the announcement.

Nathan: HAAAAAAAHAAAAAHAAAA. I canNOT stop laughing at this – and based on the picture, he figures he snookered everyone.  What a JOKE.

Mama’s Note: Well, a very sick joke anyway. “Profound leadership?” Nauseating, but then I never paid much attention to these things anyway.

And speaking of getting snookered:

Abominable Act – Stupid government – Hoploclasts
Thank Goodness for ObamaCare: Hidden Amendment Prevents Gun and Ammo Registry
(Freedom’s Phoenix)

Nathan: Sorry, folks, but actually reading through that part of the Abominable Act, the restrictions ONLY apply to the Department of Health and Human Services and medical care providers – nothing to prevent DOJ or EPA or DHS or DoD from doing it.  And of course, it could be amended in a heartbeat to let the new “Surgeon General’s Corps of Health Protection Enforcers” do it instead – or as well.

Actually, two friends sent this to me 12 and 8 hours before Freedom’s Phoenix posted it, and one of them saved me the trouble of looking for this in the full copy of the bill/law I have kept on hand since it was passed.  One of them realized this very same thing (which is why he sent it).  This is therefore just a distraction.  And honestly, folks, tell me exactly how it would matter more than a wart on the end of Bill Clinton’s nose if this “law” DID have a prohibition.  The White House and its minions (and controllers) are already ignoring hundreds (if not thousands) of provisions of laws and bills Congress passed – this would just be one more.  Dictators don’t have to pay attention to legislators, whether they are called the Senate or Congress or Parliament or the House of Commons or Delegates or Burgesses or Lords, or the King’s Council or the Politburo.  As long as they pay LIP SERVICE to them and all the trappings of bogus democracy and republics, they can do anything.

Mama’s Note: Increasingly, they don’t even bother to pay lip service to anything that might restrain them. And that’s not going to stop until they run into a brick wall. It’s up to us to build one.

Theft by government
The Great Robbery of Wage Earners
(Laissez Faire)

Nathan: One more example of getting snookered:  most of us (unless we got a raise of more than 2% last year) have SMALLER paychecks in 2013 than in 2012, and this story details both the why and the response to it.