"Available only through this special offer..."
Some bright entrepreneur is offering Barack Obama coins. I guess people are into all kinds of collectibles, but good grief...
Barack Obama's inspired millions of Americans with his meteoric rise...
He gave America new hope.
I don't know what the announcer should be pointed and laughed at for more: His cheesy voice or his cheesy message.
Regardless--people are into this kind of stuff, don't ask me why. But if the economy really tanks, they may just find they have nothing to put on those collector's plates, and how little worth those dolls or pins actually retain in hard times, where the real value will be reaped by those who've amassed tangibles like precious metals, or, say, primers, and are willing to barter.
Still, to each his own, and if it brings you joy, who am I to be judgmental? But I do have a question regarding fundamental fairness:
Why did the feds raid Sunshine Mint and steal all their Liberty Dollars?
And ask yourself why the one with the illusion of value is apparently "legal," and the government considers the one with actual value not to be.
There's a metaphor in here somewhere...
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Opposition builds against Holder
The Washington Post is reporting growing resistance to the attorney general nominee:
"The attorney general nominee, Mr. Holder, has got serious questions to respond to with regard to his role in the . . . pardons at the end of the Clinton administration and some other matters," McConnell said yesterday. "Beyond that, I don't anticipate trouble for the new president's nominees."
I hope those "other matters" include the Constitution and Bill of Rights, Sen. McConnell.
In related non-developments, NRA management remains silent on the matter, despite NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris Cox's assertion that:
NRA Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) endorsed 23 candidates for the U.S. Senate, of whom at least 14 were victorious...
And we can't even ask one of those to put a hold on Holder...?
Knox on Gun Talk
The Firearms Coalition's Jeff Knox talked yesterday about the Holder nomination and why it's important for gun owners to oppose it on Tom Gresham's Gun Talk Radio. You can listen to the program here.
Now go do the right thing...
Speaking of talk radio, congratulations to Los Angeles Gun Rights Examiner John Longenecker, whose book, "Safe Streets in the Nationwide Carry of Concealed Handguns" is being featured by Dr. Laura Schlessinger.
Now go do the right thing and get a copy.
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- Cleveland Gun Rights Examiner: The importance of continuing education
- Los Angeles Gun Rights Examiner: Platforming liberty, 2009
Comments
"...if the economy really tanks"
David, don't you know that the economy has no chance of tanking now??? Last week, I was sent the latest Zogby poll to take. One of the questions was asking about what I thought was going to happen with the economy after Obama takes over. The choices were (paraphrasing):
A: Improve rapidly
B: Improve slowly
C: No change
D: I don't know
Since there was no option available for me to give my personal opinion that it is going to continue to decline, there must be absolutely no possibility of that happening now that the Chosen One is in office.
Well David, it seems obvious why the worthless gimcrack is considered legal and the Liberty Dollar was not. One of them promoted the idea of a free people in liberty, the other just worships a man who has no such subversive ideas.
I believe just the very idea of liberty is out of fashion in our society today, it certainly is, in our political arenae. Hence the attacks against anything smacking of personal individual autonomy.
If history is added to the very flats/coins that were taking, those flats/coins were the Ron Paul silver flats.
I wonder if Alfred E. Newman's face was on the flats/coins, where they have still been raided and had their legal property taking from them.
hey someone told me my velvet Elvis portrait is valuable. I think I'll get a few more and start my own gallery.
The New England Mint, eh? These coins appear to be masquerading as united States $1.00 and $0.50 pieces, are they not? Has this apparent counterfeiting scheme, perpetrated by a mint not connected with the federal government, been reported to the Treasury department? And will this group of presumed crooks be treated the same as the Sunshine Mint crooks?
Well I'm not sure about coinage, but I did hear that now we have Obama on his way to the White House, this nation will finally have a President we can put on the food stamp.
Reading these comments actually gives me some hope in a dreary time. The spirit of Edward ("Always pull up survey stakes") Abbey, turned properly as it should be against the biggest corporate leviathan in history*, seems to be alive and well out there in the bushes. Monkeywrenchers III!
It continues to be sad, to me, that we must forsake organizations like the NRA that have such potential to do constructive work, by their sheer numbers and visibility, but at this point it is well clear that they are just not interested in enforcing a definition of "liberty" that would have been anywise acceptable to Thomas Jefferson. This is disheartening and sad, but that does not make it untrue.
Defending the organization becomes more and more impossible with each opportunity they blow off. Refusal to resist a *proven* sanctimonious tyrant like Eric Holder (where's a spittoon when you need one?) waives any claim to principle, no matter how anyone may try to "educate" us otherwise.
Judging from their correspondence with me, I must conclude that NRA is more interested in selling me life insurance than in actually enforcing proscriptions on government interference with human rights. I get regular information about deals on life insurance, but nothing but excuses when it comes to drawing the line. Rubicon in the rearview, indeed!**
Take even the briefest look at recent history. No compromise, ever, will be good enough for the disarmers--and it's really reaching to call it "compromise" anyway, when all we do now is slow down the bleeding while doing nothing--NOTHING--to force the guy sawing our foot off to, you know, STOP.
The victim disarmers continue to exploit those useful idiots who want to "find a middle ground", siccing them like obedient lapdogs on the principled, while never giving an inch themselves, and in the meantime continue to attack every last peaceable option available to us. Mark that. Every one.
In short, what NRA does not understand is this: At this point in history, I don't need someone to play a rigged game on my behalf. I need someone who will do to ride the river with.
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*That would be government, lest there be any confusion.
**With apologies to William Norman Grigg, from whom I first heard this sadly appropriate locution. (If you don't know about WNG, please remedy that. His grasp on the problem rivals even David's, and that is saying something.)
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