September 23, 2008

 

 

                                        - You Tube Video of Senator Joe Biden,

                                           talking about "job security" for United

                                           Mine Workers under an Obama

                                           Administration ( Courtesy of Ben Smith

                                          at Politico.com)

 

To All,

     United Mine Workers Union President Cecil Roberts, call your office....

 

Sleeping With The Enemy Update:

     If UMW President Cecil Roberts is to be understood correctly, over his ire at the NRA pointing out how antigun Barack Obama and Joe Biden are, one must realize that he has gotten the United Mine Workers to endorse a Presidential Ticket that is apparently hostile to coal mining, clean coal mining, and it's utilization for electrical generation in the Continental United States.

 

    Really.

 

     But the video above is clear in that Obama/Biden is more beholding to the "Boom, Boom, Out Go The Lights" Crowd over at the Earth Liberation Front than he is to coal miners just trying to do a little deer hunting in the fall.

 

     Which in turn begs a further question as to why certain unions that claim to represent union-members-cum-gunowners-and-hunters continue to side with the party of such gun-grabbers as DiFi, Chuck Schumer, Ted Kennedy, and (yes) Joe Biden?

 

    Didn't they get it when James Webb, before becoming Senator, wrote of the people of the Appalachians that the government would never, ever get their guns?

 

    Apparently not.

 

    And how is is that NRA "A-rated" Governor Brian Schweitzer of Montana, a proud Democrat who selected a proud Republican as Lieutenant Governor, can give a convention speech touting conservative principles, (presumably union) energy jobs, pro-gun, and the low tax success he has had in the Big Sky Country (to the sound of chirping crickets, no less) at the Democrat Convention in Denver, while at the same time advocating the election of a Presidential ticket that would sooner turn the family twelve gauge into manhole covers than trust the common man with a right guaranteed by the Constitution? (Note to Team Obama- Schweitzer admitted at the Democrat National Convention that his run for governor was the first time that he was running for elected office. It could be that this year's theme in politics should be about the success stories that common, "inexperienced" candidates have had in the real world.). Fortunately for the Second Amendment, the polls seem to indicate (and Team Obama, having withdrawn his advance teams, seems to concur) that Schweitzer will not be able to deliver Montana into the hands of those who have served with other gungrabbers, or who wrote legislation that disarmed the public willy nilly.

 

 

 

 

     Eventually, the issue may ultimately boil down to the eventual demands by an Out-of-Touch Democrat Leadership, based in Chicago now, that will trump the real interests of gun-owning union members (Note: Remember Tom Foley?).

 

    After all, if worst would come to worst, Appalachian residents would most likely hide the family scatterguns and deer rifles much as they have famously hid other items of import over the years. What is more, they would most likely be successful in opposition to the desires of city folks of who appear to be quite "anal" about making folks helpless in the face of adversity.

 

    And as for jobs, income in the wallet, and anything other than "spare change" in the pocket, well, that's what's welfare is for, no? So perhaps Roberts has carefully triangulated the issues quite finely, given what and who he is beholden to.

 

    It is fast becoming time for the gun-owners and hunters to realize that it's going to take more than a few pronouncements that Joe Biden owns a high quality Italian shotgun, or that Obama does not have the "votes" (yet) to confiscate firearms from those without the kinds of connections Obama, Biden, and even Steven Spielberg have, for them to be trusted with the fate of the Second Amendment.

 

    But let's call a pig a pig, in this case. Roberts knows that he sleeps with the enemy of Second Amendment rights when he got an endorsement for Obama last May (well before Hillary hosed Obama in such coal-mining states as West Virginia and Kentucky, no less). But if he is not careful, he may end up "sleeping with the fishes" (politically speaking, of course) if his membership ever realizes how much he has sold their firearms birthright down the creek just so that he can have a card-check voting system that bypasses union reform efforts from within. Stay tuned.

 

Links at:

 

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jMsnj1dSwcjNPJG3ngyGr7YEhhiAD93C0CB00

 

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Biden_No_coal_plants_here_

in_America.html?showall

 

http://www.umwa.org/index.php?q=content/cecil-e-roberts-president

 

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0508/United_Mine_Workers_

to_endorse_Obama.html

 

 

Existential Environmental Question Of The Week:

    Riddle Me This, oh Gurus of Greendom (This means all of youse guys at the American Ornithological Union)-

 

    What do thousands of domestic minks eat when they are suddenly let loose by an act of environmental terrorism?

 

    Why, just about anything they can get their teeth into, literally.

 

     Such is the story one finds today in the Salt Lake City Tribune, in a story written by Jason Bergreen and Steve Gehrke. (And folks thought that they had a problem with pike in Lake Davis.).

 

    Like, maybe endangered water birds, like plovers and such? (Kaysville, Utah, is north of Salt Lake City near Farmington, and just a stone's throw from those fine folks at the IRS branch in Ogden, Utah). Oh, the horror, the horror. It's gonna look like a Barnes video demonstration of their "Varmint Grenade", complete with that puce coloration on the faces of Utah birdwatchers, for the foreseeable future on the Salt Lake's eastern shore.

 

    So far, authorities have only captured 40-50 of the little coat lapels-with-appetites. In the meantime, game and non-game waterfowl just may be in for a rude awakening along the Great Salt Lake just before the upcoming duck season. It could be that Utah's DNR may have to adjust their bag limits a bit "downwards" at the last minute, unless a whole lot of mustelids are rounded up forthwith.

 

   On the plus side, it's not often that the local ladies can access the "raw materials" for such fashionable outerwear in their spare time (Heck, half of the women in Northern Utah could probably give Sarah Palin and Kimberly Rhodes a run for their money when it comes to putting lead on target...). Stay tuned.

 

Link at:

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_10534783

 

   

Respectfully,

 

 

Anthony Canales

SFVMC-NRA