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WYOMING ALERT! : HB-95/HB-113

February 15, 2010

HB-95/HB-113 Committee Times

Judiciary Committee hearing on both HB-28 and HB 95 – will be tomorrow at 8am Tuesday the 16th of February at the Capitol.

Judiciary Committee hearing HB-113 “Alaska-Carry Legislation” – will be later the same day at Noon.

Please be there and plan on attending both meetings.

If you haven’t sent your “formal” Letter of support for HB-95 to the Judiciary Committee do so by clicking here

To Real Liberty in Wyoming,

Anthony Bouchard
Executive Director
WyGO – Wyoming Gun Owners
Http://Wyominggunowners.Org/

1-866-970-1890

O.B.A.M.A. : An epic failure

February 15, 2010

“How could such smart people do so many stupid things? That question, or variations on it, is being asked in Washington and around the country about the Obama administration. The same people who directed the campaign that defeated Hillary Clinton and routed John McCain, a campaign that raised far more money and attracted far more volunteers than any before it, have within a year come up with a legislative program that is crashing in ruins and that, to judge from recent polls, has left the Democratic Party weaker than I have seen it in almost 50 years of closely following politics. … Team Obama failed to realize they were no longer running in Chicago or in the Democratic primaries or facing an electorate fed up with Republicans. And, more important, they failed to realize that vastly expanding government goes deeply against the American grain — and against the basic appeal of their successful campaign.” –political analyst Michael Barone

“If you’ve been paying attention to the left-wing punditry these days, you may be under the impression that the nation’s institutions are on the verge of collapse. Or that the rule of law is unraveling. Or maybe that this once-great nation is crippled and nearly beyond repair. You know why? Because the 40 percent (or so) political minority has far too much influence in Washington. Don’t you know? This minority, egged on by a howling mob of nitwits, is holding progress hostage using its revolting politics and parliamentary trickery. … President Barack Obama, after his agenda had come to a halt, claimed democracy is a ‘messy’ process — as if that were a bad thing. Actually, ‘democracy’ is not only messy but also immoral and unworkable. The Founding Fathers saw that coming, as well. So we don’t live under a system of simple majority rule for a reason, as most readers already know. The minority political party, luckily, has the ability to obstruct, nag, and filibuster the majority’s agenda. Otherwise, those in absolute power would run wild — or, in other words, you all would be living that Super Bowl Audi commercial by now. … [T]oday’s argument that the ruling party doesn’t have enough power is a reflection of a nearly spiritual belief in the wonders of government, not democracy.” –columnist David Harsanyi

“Government is taking us a long way down the Road to Serfdom. That doesn’t just mean that more of us must work for the government. It means that we are changing from independent, self-responsible people into a submissive flock. The welfare state kills the creative spirit. F.A. Hayek, an Austrian economist living in Britain, wrote ‘The Road to Serfdom’ in 1944 as a warning that central economic planning would extinguish freedom. … Hayek meant that governments can’t plan economies without planning people’s lives. After all, an economy is just individuals engaging in exchanges. The scientific-sounding language of President Obama’s economic planning hides the fact that people must shelve their own plans in favor of government’s single plan. At the beginning of ‘The Road to Serfdom,’ Hayek acknowledges that mere material wealth is not all that’s at stake when the government controls our lives: ‘The most important change … is a psychological change, an alteration in the character of the people.’ This shouldn’t be controversial. If government relieves us of the responsibility of living by bailing us out, character will atrophy. The welfare state, however good its intentions of creating material equality, can’t help but make us dependent. That changes the psychology of society. According to the Tax Foundation, 60 percent of the population now gets more in government benefits than it pays in taxes. What does it say about a society in which more than half the people live at the expense of the rest?” –columnist John Stossel

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h/t Texas Fred

Climate Change This Week: Blizzard Disrupts Bureaucracy

February 13, 2010

Granted, in Wyoming, we call it winter…

The Obama administration announced this week that it will unveil yet another bureaucratic brainchild: another new agency to study and disperse information about climate change to both the public and policy makers. Interestingly enough, the press conference announcing the agency was disrupted by the blizzard in Washington, DC, and had to be conducted via telephone.

The agency, which will be headquartered in DC, will have six directors throughout the country and will work with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. NOAA head Jane Lubchenco claims that its creation is crucial to making informed decisions regarding wind power, fishing industries and coastal community planning. But NOAA is known to be in the tank for envirofascists, and there is little reason to believe that this information will be accurate.

There is humor to be found in almost any situation, however, and Republican Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) certainly found it in the snow-covered streets of Washington. He and his family used some of the 32 inches of snow that fell on the city to make an igloo. The structure, placed strategically near the Capitol, was then fitted with a sign reading “Al Gore’s New Home.”

Meanwhile, the Department of Public Works is running out of places to put the snow, settling on an empty parking lot at the edge of town where they’re building a “snow mountain.” How appropriate — things have been piling higher and deeper in the Swamp for some time now.

Naturally, warmists such as those at Time magazine are blaming global warming for the snow, though they correctly point out that “Weather is what will happen next weekend; climate is what will happen over the next decades and centuries.” But then, curiously, the mag admits that “while our ability to predict the former has become reasonably reliable, scientists are still a long way from being able to make accurate projections about the future of the global climate.” And here we thought it was settled science.

Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto concludes, “It’s true that cold weather, while providing an occasion to mock global warming, does not disprove it. But the mocking would be far less effective had global warmists not spent the past quarter-century making a mockery of the scientific method.”

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Missionaries Charged With ‘Kidnapping’

February 13, 2010

It seems that the “Puma” candidate is a toothless pussy cat that can spout off quite well, if not colorfully as we noted HERE some time back. When it comes to doing her job though? It would appear that she is just to damned busy to give a growl about American citizens that need their government…

It’s always nice when governments have their priorities in order, especially in the wake of a devastating tragedy. The Haitian government has made theirs perfectly clear — it is more important to prosecute those participating in the relief effort than to save their own citizens.

After the Jan. 12 earthquake, people around the world stepped in to help. The United States (as usual) led the charge, both through government aid and contributions of time and money by private citizens. Ten Baptist missionaries were among them, risking their own lives to travel to Haiti and pitch in. On Jan. 29, these same missionaries were arrested and charged with kidnapping — despite their claim to have had the necessary papers in order — after they tried to bring 33 Haitian orphans across the border into the Dominican Republic. There, the missionaries told authorities, the children would have been placed in another orphanage better equipped to deal with their needs.

When the attorneys for the “Baptist 10” wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, asking for her intervention on their behalf, Clinton’s icy response demonstrated precisely where her priorities are — or more accurately, are not. “Obviously,” Clinton remarked, “this is a matter for the Haitian judicial system.”

The State Department has turned a blind eye to the missionaries’ fate (if convicted, they could spend the rest of their lives in a Haitian jail), stating that it would be “highly unusual” for the secretary of state to become involved. Americans traveling to other countries to serve the cause of humanity are now aware that their efforts may be met with similar mindless cruelty, their plight with a similar cold shoulder.

At the end of the day, the injustice being committed by the Haitian government, coupled with the lack of interest and incompetence of our own, is only going to hurt the Haitians and others suffering hardships around the world.

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Running scared: Thugs and the Tea Party

February 12, 2010

It is a sure sign of utter fear when people group up and attack another group. Such as the Tea Party rising up against government oppression.

Another version of that is when those opposed to what are the goals of the Tea Party band together. The difference being that the Tea Party people do everything right out in the open but those opposed try and hide. Read on…

A new Web site targeting the tea parties is a part of a complex network of money flowing from the mountainous coffers of the country’s biggest labor unions and trickling slowly into political slush funds for Democratic activists.

A seemingly grassroots organization that’s mounted an online campaign to counter the tea party movement is actually the front end of an elaborate scheme that funnels funds — including sizable labor union contributions — through the offices of a prominent Democratic party lawyer.

A Web site popped up in January dedicated to preventing the tea party’s “radical” and “dangerous” ideas from “gaining legislative traction,” targeting GOP candidates in Illinois for the firing squad.

“This movement is a fad,” proclaims TheTeaPartyIsOver.org, which was established by the American Public Policy Center (APPC), a D.C.-based campaign shop that few people have ever heard of.

But a close look reveals the APPC’s place in a complex network of money flowing from the mountainous coffers of the country’s biggest labor unions into political slush funds for Democratic activists.

Here’s how it works: What appears like a local groundswell is in fact the creation of two men — Craig Varoga and George Rakis, Democratic Party strategists who have set up a number of so-called 527 groups, the non-profit election organizations that hammer on contentious issues (think Swift Boats, for example).

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Trying to hide like that smacks of cowardice.

WYOMING: Urgent Alert!

February 12, 2010
URGENT ALERT!   URGENT ALERT!   URGENT ALERT!   URGENT ALERT!   URGENT ALERT!

THIS IS LIFE OR DEATH FOR JAGGI’S HB-95 WYOMING FIREARMS FREEDOM ACT – 2!!!

ALTHOUGH THE HOUSE HAS PASSED THIS BILL TO COMMITTEE, THE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, KEITH GINGERY, IS ESSENTIALLY PUSHING THIS BILL TO THE SIDE BY REFUSING TO PUT IT ON THE SCHEDULE.  GINGERY HAS OPTED INSTEAD FOR MILLER’S HB-28, A DRASTICALLY WATERED DOWN VERSION OF HB-95 WITH NO TEETH.

IF YOU DO NOT VOICE YOUR OPINION  —  PRIOR TO 8:00 AM TOMORROW MORNING —  THIS BILL WILL NOT EVEN BE HEARD IN COMMITTEE!  IT WILL BE DEAD ON ARRIVAL.

IT IS CRUCIAL THAT YOUR EMAIL GETS IN BEFORE 8:00 AM TOMORROW MORNING!!!

TO FURTHER THIS END, WE’VE DEVISED A FORM THAT CAN BE FILLED OUT QUICKLY.  IT WILL SEND YOUR PERSONAL EMAIL TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, AND AS WELL, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE COLIN SIMPSON SIMULTANEOUSLY.

HERE’S THE LINK TO THE FORM

IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT YOU TAKE A MOMENT OF YOUR TIME – NOW – TO SUBMIT YOUR OBJECTIONS TO THIS BRAZEN DISREGARD OF JAGGI’S HB-95 FIREARMS FREEDOM ACT – 2!!!

SINCERELY,

ANTHONY BOUCHARD

Executive Director
WyGO – Wyoming Gun Owners
http://wyominggunowners.org/
1-866-970-1890

Wyoming Representative Allen Jaggi HB 95 firearms freedom act with “teeth”

February 11, 2010

Hot on the heels of Utah the Cowboy State looks to wrestle the steer that is the Federal Government. This is about States Rights, pure and simple!

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HB 95 Wyoming Firearms Freedom Act -2

Don’t be confused by similar legislation, Miller HB 28 just doesn’t go far enough.

To see a comparison between HB 28 and HB 95  click here you will see Representative Jaggi (pronounced Ya-Gee) has introduced legislation with “real teeth”.

“As gun guy and someone that believes the federal government is out of control, I wanted to introduce legislation fitting to Wyoming” said Representative Allen Jaggi.

HB 95 Wyoming Firearm Freedom Act – 2 click here

This legislation is a combination of Alaska and New Hampshire’s Firearms Freedom Act containing both a penalties clause like New Hampshire as well as a defense clause like Alaska.

HB 95 has strong “Legislative findings and declarations of authority”. Also it amends the preemption to say “no other entity”, in essence backing up this legislation with law.

Email your legislator–
Place the following in subject line  – “YES on Jaggi HB 95 Firearms Freedom Act-2″

Join WyGO Today – Wyoming’s Fastest Growing Gun Rights Organization

Say it loud! He’s black,and he’s Proud!

February 11, 2010

Received in an email, read on..

I am black and I support the Tea Party!

Those words alone have sent reverberations up and down both parties. In fact, I’ve been called an “enigma”. For now, there are not too many blacks in the Tea Party. My friend, that is about to change! And you can be a part of that change!

I’ve just participated in a recent Tea Party event that coincided with the first ever National Tea Party convention in Nashville, Tennessee.

THANKS TO BARACK OBAMA…a “revolution” has begun!

This Tea Party movement is not necessarily defined by any one group, leader or politician. It is a GRASSROOTS action that is forcing both regular parties to change the way that they do business! Conservatism is NOT dead! It is being resurrected…..thanks to President Obama!

Level-headed, clear-thinking, patriotic Americans are disheartened by what they are experiencing through this current administration. The Reid-Pelosi-Obama agenda is doing permanent damage to the very fiber of our ideals as a great country.

CLICK HERE to assist me in getting the word out that a Black Leader supports the Tea Party Movement! We are setting up television and radio interviews, sending out information packets and visiting media outlets to help overturn the damages caused by President Obama. Your Donation to STAND will get this crucial, one-of-a-kind message out to a greater number of people and politicians!

Let’s do just a partial “checklist” of what I call the …“OBAMA DAMAGE FACTOR”:

  • A Christmas Day bomber (moments away from killing 300 people on an airplane in Detroit) is treated like an American citizen, instead of a terrorist that he is!
  • A $3.8 TRILLION DOLLAR economy-busting, yearly proposed budget.
  • Multi-trillion dollar deficits that our children and grandchildren will be paying and paying and paying.
  • More BIG GOVERNMENT at any cost. We have been warned by Moody’s that we are in danger of losing our Triple A credit rating. In the meantime, he is mortgaging our country to China.
  • Promise of acceptance of an open gay lifestyle in our military. As a U. S. Marine and Vietnam Era Veteran, it makes me angry that they are doing social experiments with our military at a time of when our national security is under constant threat.
  • “Big Brother” (government) overseeing our everyday life
  • Admitted communists, radical homosexual activists and even a transgender in leadership positions “czars.”
  • A hard hearted refusal to drop OBAMACARE (SOCIALIZED MEDICINE), even though the American people have made clear in election after election that we don’t want it!
  • An Air Force Academy that is dedicating its first circle of pagan worship for witches and warlocks (and the whole Academy was invited!!)
  • He says, “We are not a Christian nation!” But according to Obama, “we are one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.”
  • Obama has traveled the world denigrating our country by bowing and apologizing before thugs, dictators and despots. They should be apologizing to us and the world, not vice versa.

In short, President Obama is destroying our economy and culture, and undermining our military and national security.

CLICK HERE to help get the word out that a Black Leader supports the Tea Party Movement! We must STOP the damage being caused by President Obama. Your Donation to STAND will give this urgent message many new people!

I get ridiculed by many because I am black and do not support Barack Obama’s ideology. But this is not personal. I honor the office of the Presidency. I pray for President Obama to have a real change of heart. Unfortunately, his heart is hardened in pursuit of his radical and destructive policies. He has literally broken trust (and broken promises!) with the American people, even those who voted for him. For example, the promise of “transparency” has proved to be a joke, along with the promises he made about doing away with earmarks and keeping lobbyists out of his administration.

I CANNOT AND WILL NOT SUPPORT HIM JUST BECAUSE HE IS BLACK. I OWE MY ALLEGIANCE FIRST TO GOD AND COUNTRY, NOT TO A MAN OR MY RACE! HELP ME GET THIS MESSAGE OUT TO ALL THE OTHER RIGHT THINKING BLACK PEOPLE WHO ARE PERSECUTED FOR DISAGREEING WITH OBAMA. HELP ME TO LET THEM KNOW THAT THEY NEED NOT BE SILENT! WE WILL STAND WITH THEM!

I am a part of a small but growing number of blacks who support the grassroots Tea Party movement. At this past weekend’s first national Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Sarah Palin received a rousing welcome from a crowd of nearly 1,000 Tea Partiers as she sent a strong message of support for lower taxes, smaller government, transparency, energy independence and strong national security. She said, “I’m a big supporter of this movement. America is ready for another revolution!”

This is a movement—and a revolution—that cannot be stopped…..

They will forever OPPOSE the beliefs of President Barack Hussein Obama (and his cronies)! Help me to wipe out the “Obama Damage Factor”!

The American people are frightened by President Obama’s fiscal policies. Respected economists say his runaway spending and massive deficits could lead to economic collapse. I begin to wonder: “Why is he doing this to us?”

Many Americans suspect that he disdains our capitalist economy and wants it to fail. When it does, HE would then control everything!

He’s adding over $1 trillion in taxes, doubling the deficits President Bush left us and is making us a debtor nation to China and Japan. Given the proposed deficits in the next few years, every American family of four will owe—

CHINA ALONE….$10,000 per year!

You read that correctly. This is according to official government reports.

Please CLICK HERE to assist STAND to tell thousands more that a Black Leader supports the Tea Party Movement! We are setting up television and radio interviews, sending out information packets and visiting media outlets to help STOP OBAMA’S POLICIES! Your Donation will get this crucial, one-of-a-kind message out to a greater amount of people and politicians!

Help STAND to make a difference in our government! I receive negative communications every single hour because of my STAND for truth! Thus, the name of our organization, S.T.A.N.D.STAYING TRUE TO AMERICA’S NATIONAL DESTINY.

America’s national destiny does NOT include the over-bearing economic burden put on us by the socialistic Obama Administration. By the end of 2010 our deficit will be 77% of our Gross Domestic Product. Our interest due on the debt will soon be $700 Billion a year, more than the budget of the Defense Department. President Obama is either grossly incompetent or there is a method to his madness. Either way— WE MUST STOP HIS MARXIST CREED
AND RADICAL DOGMA
BEFORE THEY DESTROY OUR BELOVED COUNTRY!

My fellow patriot, it is way past time to take a very definitive STAND!

Our culture . . . our country . . . our defense . . . our security . . . our economy . . . our society as a whole is literally at stake. What many have fought and died for now hangs in the balance.

When I addressed and prayed at a Tea Party rally last week, I admonished grassroots Americans to support the Tea Party; more importantly, their objectives: EXPOSING corrupt and incompetent politicians—from the very top to the bottom!

I did not find any Nazis or racists there (as charged by the liberals!). I found Americans who love their country and are prepared to stand up for the values we believe in. WE DO NOT CARE THAT OBAMA IS BLACK; WE JUST WANT HIM TO BE RED, WHITE AND BLUE!

I am one of the most blessed people on earth to have been born a citizen of the United States of America. My forefather paid the price of slavery for me to be here. I love this country, and I do not like what President Obama is doing to it. The Tea Party offers tremendous hope of voting out people who are taking this country in an unconstitutional and ungodly direction. I support them whole-heartedly and I am urging all black Americans (as well as non-blacks whether Republican, Democrat or Independent!) who believe in the Judeo-Christian values which made this country great, to join with the Tea Party and their objectives.

CLICK HERE to assist me in raising up an army of Black Leaders who support the Tea Party Movement! Our new media communications will expose President Obama! Your Financial Investment in STAND will get this vital and unique message out to the greatest amount of people and politicians!

The 2010 elections present an opportunity to put the brakes on the Obama march toward socialism. Will you help me to bring a message of genuine hope to the black community that can change hearts and minds? All I want is common-sense conservative solutions and a government that abides by the Constitution. All I want is for us to judge each other by the content of our character, not the color of our skin. What happened to the post-racial President. It was a deception, but the truth has been exposed. Obama is one of our MOST racial Presidents, not a post racial President. Help me provide the leadership that will take us toward a truly COLOR BLIND SOCIETY.

Sarah Palin, the former Vice-Presidential nominee of the Republican Party also commented at the Nashville convention, “Only limited government can expand prosperity and opportunity for all. Freedom is a God-given right that’s worth fighting for.”

E.W. Jackson defends the Tea Party against Obama!

We are working very hard to bring people together across racial and cultural lines…to stand up for the values which made this nation great!

God bless you as you STAND up for America,

E. W. Jackson, Sr.

P. S. Please understand that the Tea Party is a grassroots movement, which I totally support. It offers tremendous hope of offering a viable alternative to the socialist ways of President Obama. Many liberal and selfish American politicians are taking us down an ungodly and unconstitutional path. That’s another reason why you should support STAND! I look forward to hearing from you.

YOUR donation will make a distinct difference! CLICK HERE to assist me in telling the liberal news media and true Americans that a Black Leader supports the Tea Party Movement! Help overturn the damage caused by President Obama. Your Donation to STAND will get this fundamental message to many others! STAYING TRUE to AMERICA’S NATIONAL DESTINY
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10th Amendment on steroids

February 11, 2010

The state of Utah isn’t passing toothless resolutions they are taking on the federal Government over states rights with a vengeance. I must say that several others have similar things on the board, however, the Utah position appears to be a no holds barred, knees and elbows approach to a fight that everyone knows will be coming.

Read on

SALT LAKE CITY — Guns made and kept in Utah would be exempt from federal regulations under a measure passed by the Utah Legislature Wednesday, despite concerns over an expensive legal fight at a time when the budget is already stretched thin.

Senate Bill 11 was passed by the Utah House 56-17.

The proposal mirrors one Montana signed into law last year that’s intended to trigger a federal court battle. The measures would allow guns made in the respective states to be exempt from federal gun registration rules like background checks and dealer-licensing.

The goal is to circumvent federal authority over interstate commerce, the legal basis for most gun regulation in the U.S.

In the process, it could lead to small arms dealers in the state operating with little to no oversight.

Sen. Margaret Dayton, an Orem Republican, has said her bill is part of a broader effort to send a message to Congress that the federal government is overstepping its bounds.

Rep. Stephen Sandstrom, R-Orem, said the bill isn’t just about guns. It’s also about state’s rights, he said.

The House sponsor of the proposal, Sandstrom said other states have similar bills in the works and he’s been speaking with legislators across the nation who are actively involved.

The bill now goes to Utah Gov. Gary Herbert. Spokeswoman Angie Welling said Herbert supports legislative efforts to reaffirm states’ rights, but is concerned about the possible legal costs that would go with constitutional challenges.

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Smell the coffee: ABC Poll reflects disatisfaction

February 11, 2010

I nearly fell out of my seat when I read the headline. An ABC / Wapo poll said what people have been saying since before the last election. From onerous taxation to the economy to obamacare and gun control the list is seemingly a mile long.

Figure it out big government types. We are mad as can be, and no, we will not allow ourselves to be disarmed, nor will we allow you to shut us up. We are fed up with neo-cons and neo coms telling us that we are all to stupid to know what is best for ourselves and our families. We are fed up with our sons and daughters being sent off to wars that are none of our business while at the same time leaving our nation vulnerable.

The United States is becoming Balkanized more and more each day and it can be directly attributed to the breakdown in our liberty and freedom,and that is due to the government. All three branches…

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