(Sarah Palin. Image: Wikimedia Commons)
I wish you could see the banner next to the message screen on my laptop. It startled me when I dragged my butt out of bed this morning to discover that the clocks had moved on me- the aware ones, anyway. The dumb ones still were telling me I was where I had been yesterday, not progressing forward with the vanguard of time.
The banner ad caught my attention. I was so happy that the political stuff had gone away. I had grown weary during the endless campaign of seeing Michele, or Barack or Mitt gazing at me, 24 x 7. I sort of hoped it was one of those racy images of the former GOP governor that were Photoshopped during the McCain campaign, but no such luck.
Wait, maybe I can copy it and past it here:
I was interested. Do we have petitions against the exercise of free speech these days?
This particular Banner is sponsored by some folks who call themselves the DGA Action committee, and if they are alarmed at what the former governor of Alaska is saying, then there must be something up.
I have not heard from Ms Palin since the media trashed her so unmercifully, and I had never heard of the DGA at all. If the Democratic governors are concerned, the viral nature of this must be hitting a nerve.
I poked around and discovered that the DGA was founded in 1983 as an “an independent voluntary political organization organized to support Democratic governors and candidates across the nation.” They provide resources to help articulate and deliver messages consistent with progressive policies and candidates, and hold conferences and stuff.
They note that there are twenty Democratic governors, versus 30 for the GOP, though I think they are fudging a bit, since one of the ones they count is Lincoln Chafee, an independent in Rhode Island.
Maybe he caucuses with them, and though he considers himself more progressive. I don’t know. I did want to find out what Ms Palin is saying that got the Govs so out of sorts, so I looked.
This is what Ms Palin said on her Facebook page last week- the link is here. http://www.infowars.com/sarah-palin-feds-are-stockpiling-bullets-for-civil-unrest/
“Sarah Palin has warned that the federal government is “stockpiling bullets” in preparation for “civil unrest,” adding that America is “finished” if it cannot deal with its debt problem.”
The hot former Governor went on to remark, “If we are going to wet our proverbial pants over 0.3% in annual spending cuts when we’re running up trillion dollar annual deficits, then we’re done. Put a fork in us. We’re finished. We’re going to default eventually and that’s why the feds are stockpiling bullets in case of civil unrest.”
Well, heck, I thought. That is exactly why I am stockpiling stuff. It is only prudent. I mean, did you notice the purchase of 2,717 up-armored fighting vehicles by our friends at DHS? I drive past their fancy new campus at the former St. Eliabeth’s home for the Insane in DC all the time. It is huge, and almost co-located with DIA’s HQ at Bolling.
Now, I love a good conspiracy as much as the next American, but Hans Guderian only needed 2,000 panzers to take out France in 1940, so the number does give one pause.
And then there is all that body armor and the 7,000 fully automatic assault rifles required by the Department, and the weird targets featuring images of elderly people and pregnant women and the whole drone thing and that Army Field Manual about setting up detention camps (FM 3-39.40 Internment and Resettlement Operations) .
Whew. Thankfully, Secretary Napolitano had a minute to clarify things after released all those undocumented detainees in Arizona and Texas due to lack of funds. That was before the dread Sequestration, remember. Anyway, she had a functionary named Peggy Dixon come out and explain that the ammunition was “bought in bulk to save money and were for training purposes only.”
Except for maybe the 450 million rounds of hollow point bullets, which are not only more expensive but not customarily used for proficiency training. Anyway, I relaxed once Ms Dixon explained everything. I mean the wars are about over, and the Department is probably just laying in a stock and providing jobs before the tank production lines shut down.
I wish people would just relax, like I do down on the farm. What on earth could we have to fear from our own government of laws with the protection of the Constitution?
And it was a great farm day yesterday. My CAG LSO pal from our CVW-5 days in Japan stopped by with his lovely bride- they are looking for the place to flee from the city and were headed for Charlottesville to poke around but I convinced hem to stop here. Then, the Russians came over for dinner.
Temperatures soared almost to sixty the last time I remembered to look at the thermometer I hung on the tree by the front gate. The snow is dematerializing, and there was not a black helicopter in sight.
I am sorry I saved the big news to the end of this.
The huge story is that the toilet that had been sitting in proud isolation on the field across from my front fence is gone.
I sort of miss it and wonder where it went. Stockpile against the ravages of the new low-flo models?
None of the new environmentally-friendly things seem to work, from washers and dryers to dishwashers. Who are they supposed to be friendly to, actually?
Everyone seems to be stockpiling something these days. Nothing to worry about. The banners tell us so.
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