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Harrison Ford will apparently be in the next Star Wars film, set to release in 2015. They still probably won’t have Han Solo shooting first.
Obama has been able to use the same dishonest strategy over and over for the last few years, but nobody in the media is willing to call him on it. The most recent example of this is the messaging over the sequestration, which Obama is trying to characterize as doomsday, including three hour waits at airport security. The worst effects will be the 800,000 civilian defense employees who will be furloughed and the defense contractors who will have to cut their workforces because of the stupidity of the cuts being split equally between defense and domestic spending. Meanwhile, the Republicans are once again proving how worthless they are in their messaging, while actually coming up with an idea to let Obama have more power over making sequester cuts.
Lawmakers in Colorado were debating a bill to prohibit concealed carry on college campuses (which has helped to prevent crime since it was first allowed in 2004), and Democrat state Rep. Joe Salazar says that guns aren’t necessary for women to protect themselves from rapists because there are whistles and call boxes. Another Democrat lawmaker says that women should just learn judo and use the buddy system, and yet another said that women can protect themselves with ballpoint pens. A rape survivor wishes that she had been allowed to carry her gun to defend herself. Village Idiot Joe Biden says that a shotgun is the best way to defend one’s self. If you’re ever in Virginia Beach, a pizza shop is offering a 15% discount to gun owners, so that’s probably the safest place in town. Law enforcement officers in the San Francisco Bay Area are encouraging fighting back against active shooters, which only matters if individuals are actually allowed to carry.
Colorado isn’t the only place trying to limit individuals’ rights to carry. In Washington State, a gun ban includes a provision allowing county sheriffs to search the homes of current owners of so-called assault weapons. The sponsors claim that is a mistake, but that’s a lie. The police chief of Chicago says that the Second Amendment is a danger to public safety, and the L.A. County Sheriff uses concealed carry permits as political payback to his friends and donors.
Gun dealers are reporting shortages of ammunition due to people stockpiling.
Senator Rand Paul says that voters are ready for a more libertarian Republican candidate in 2016. He’s right, and that’s been the case for a while, but the problem is that the candidate has been his father. The AP is trying to harm Paul, by running an incorrect headline saying that Paul thinks voters want to round up immigrants. Senator Paul also returned $600,000 of his office operating budget to the Treasury.
Secretary of State Jean-Francois Kerry says that the biggest threat to the United States is Congress, and that it really is a shame that foreign aid programs don’t have their own Grover Norquist-type figure. He should have just skipped being vague and blamed Republicans.
The White House leaked an outline of an immigration proposal, which Senator Marco Rubio called “dead on arrival.” Meanwhile, the USDA is reassuring immigrants that being on food stamps will not harm their chances of becoming citizens. In reality, with this administration it would probably help their chances.
Current retirees are facing a much more uncertain future than their parents, due in part to the economic downturn and in part to the fact that there are just fewer working people to pay taxes to subsidize their retirements.
While health insurance rates are set to go up under ObamaCare and businesses are cutting employees and health insurance for the employees they have left, conservative governors are giving in on the Medicaid expansion part of the bill.
Facebook got a multi-billion dollar tax break last year. This is why people hate the tax code, and why we desperately need tax reform.
Only 27% of Americans are satisfied with the way things are going in the United States today. What the hell is wrong with that 27%?
Environmentalists rallied against the Keystone XL Pipeline on a freezing cold day in Washington, DC last Sunday. Most of them admitted that they have no problem with issues like blackouts that would result from not having reliable sources of energy. Meanwhile, gas prices are up 51 cents in the last two months, thanks to environmental regulations and one of their preferred alternatives, biofuels, is destroying grasslands in the Midwest. Oh, and don’t tell the Breathers, but the scientific consensus is gone on man-made global warming.
The Tea Party Patriots sent an e-mail with Karl Rove dressed in a Nazi uniform. Has the Tea Party finally jumped the shark?
The White House Press Corps is upset that they did not get access to Obama during his recent golf vacation in Florida. After being Obama’s willing lapdogs for the last 6 years, they have no room to complain about that.
In what was a close runner-up for the Schadenfreude of the Week, a woman claims that she was fired for voting for Obama. Elections have consequences, lady.
An Ohio poll worker is being investigated for voter fraud after voting as many as six times in 2012. But remember, there’s no need for voter ID laws, and they’re really just racist plots to keep minorities from voting.
Democrat Senator Mary Landrieu, who supports higher taxes on you, has not paid tax penalties for her DC mansion.
An Illinois State Senator wants to ban anonymous website commenters.
The US Postal Service is going to launch a new apparel line.
Thousands of boxes of Girl Scout cookies are just destroyed every year.
Yes, women really do talk more than men.
The IRS wastes millions of dollars on unnecessary Blackberries and other technology.
The SCOOTER Store was raided in a federal Medicare fraud probe.
If you have to pass gas on a flight, apparently it’s best to just go ahead and let it rip.
Surfing the internet for long periods of time can cause withdrawal symptoms similar to coming down from ecstasy.
The state of Massachusetts is going to allow students to use restrooms and sports teams not of the gender to which they biologically belong, but to which one they feel like identifying with.
A man was arrested after taking pictures of himself and his kids playing with a manatee calf.
In this week’s Sign of the Downfall of Western Civilization, we really are pushing towards Idiocracy, as human intelligence is decreasing. In an update to last week’s, Maker’s Mark has decided not to water down their bourbon.
This week’s Schadenfreude of the Week is a hippie and lifelong Democrat who is worried about the effects of higher taxes on his business.
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