During last year's Occupy Wall Street protests, Obama expressed sympathy with calls for more "green" policies from the self-styled advocates for the 99 percent. So far, however, the environmental agenda has overwhelmingly favored the 1 percent.
Consider the Obama administration's subsidies for electric vehicles. To start with, there is the $7,500 credit for the car itself. Add to that the recently expired $1,000 credit for installation of a 220-volt charger.
And on top of these, the government has thrown more than $3 billion at the Chevrolet Volt alone -- which totals out to $250,000 per vehicle. Not only do these credits go to corporate giants like General Motors, they subsidize cars for the wealthy.
The Volt sells for about $40,000, while the Fisker Karma sells for $100,000 -- well above most Americans' price range. That means that the federal government is again working to benefit the rich so they can drive cars that ease their environmental conscience.
And for what? If 6 million wealthy Americans buy these cars, as the president hopes, it will reduce oil consumption nationwide by less than 1 percent.
OK, so Obama's environmental policies are subsidizing the rich, but they're helping the poor, too, right? Wrong. In fact, nearly every environmental policy hurts the poor the most.
Last year, Americans spent more on gasoline as a percentage of their income than they have for 30 years. Yet that hasn't stopped the president, cheered on by his environmentalist allies, from rejecting the Keystone XL oil pipeline or restricting offshore oil permits.
... according to the Mayans the world will end next December (2012). Interestingly, apparently Nostradamus predicted the same thing. We don't know if the apocalypse will happen, but there are certainly a lot of strange things occurring around the world. Frankly, we don't know if the impending doom predicted by the Mayans, Nostradamus, or any other prophet of doom is true, but there are a lot of preppers who are taking extreme measures to prepare themselves should a real calamity occur.As an added benefit, silver bullets will kill werewolves, vampires, and maybe even zombies. How cool is that?
... it occurred to us to combine the needs of preppers with gun owners to create precious metal ammunition - a novel way to protect yourself, your family, and your money.
Whether or not the apocalyptic prophets are right, tumultuous economic conditions will inevitably continue to nudge investors to invest in precious metals – especially gold and silver. Considering the penchant of investors in emerging economies like India and China to buy gold, which is a deeply rooted cultural status symbol in those nations, the gold market will continue to thrive as the world spirals towards the apocalypse next December. Consequently, gold and silver bullets will probably increase in value as more people begin to prepare themselves and their families to survive in a post-apocalyptic world.
Moreover, if the apocalypse doesn't occur your precious metal ammunition will still be worth more than you paid for it, and if the world does end you can hand over your investment to any thieves - through the barrel of a gun at +/- 1000 ft/sec.
Simply put, the end of civilization doesn't come around too often, and it presents a unique opportunity to do things we've never done before. Things like shoot valuable precious metals out of our firearms to protect our other precious things.
President Barack Obama plans to propose sparking job growth by injecting more than $300 billion into the economy next year, mostly through tax cuts, infrastructure spending and direct aid to state and local governments.Sound familiar?
Starting shortly after taking office in 2009, Obama announced a series of programs that were designed to help the troubled housing market turn around, an effort initially estimated to cost $75 billion.But not to worry, America! We're assured that the new program is much better thought out.
However, only about $3 billion has been spent on the administration’s housing programs as of the end of last year. That total is projected to grow to about $8.6 billion by 2017, based on the number of borrowers who are currently enrolled, according to the Treasury Department.
President Barack Obama will trumpet the new mortgage refinance rules announced today by the Federal Housing Finance Agency — but his administration admits it has no idea how many people they will help.Well, okay, maybe "assured" was the wrong word. But at least we know that the uncertainty is significant.
... Gene Spelling, the director of the National Economic Council, told reporters Monday that it is "uncertain" how many more Americans will now be eligible for refinancing.
He added that it's also uncertain how many homeowners who are eligible will take up the program — but maintained that the rules change is still "significant."
Michael Scott Moore ... was reportedly captured by Somali pirates over the weekend while he was traveling to central Somalia to research for his book about Somali pirates.(H/T JWF)
The LA Times reports that Moore was on his way to the airport when 15 men in two SUVs kidnapped him... The U.S. State Department issued a statement expressing concern for Moore, who is a Los Angeles resident, and his safety. His captors have threatened to kill him unless a ransom is paid. A specific amount was not specified.
A blindfolded child is let up to some poor helpless papier-mâché animal hanging off a tree by a string. They have a stick or a bat in their hand, and they proceed to whack the animal with all their might. Other children are cheering on the fight. When the piñata is broken open, candy spills out. Everyone rushes to grab as much candy as they can. It's every kid for them self.Words fail me ... almost.
Doesn't sound like such a good party game when it's put like that, huh?
Piñatas are not a good idea for your child's party. Children should never hit anything with a stick...
People carefully teach their children, from the first time they playfully hit as a baby, that hitting is wrong ... But then children are allowed to hit piñatas to the breaking point. Then they get candy; they are rewarded for violent behavior!
As for the candy that spills out afterwards, each child is quickly grabbing as much as they can. Whatever happened to sharing? Not to mention that all that candy isn't that great for your child's health. And what about the shy kids, or the kids who aren't pushy? They end up with much less than everyone else. Is that how they're rewarded for their better behavior?
So what are some better alternatives? There are now pull-string piñatas...which get rid of the hitting element. Your child pulls a string and the contents of the piñata fall out. That way, your child can have the experience of having a piñata at their party, without the violence. Fill it with healthy snacks or toys. Have a set number of toys or snacks inside and tell the children before hand how many of each thing they can each pick out. Or have a set number of the same kind of thing for each child, and have the birthday child pass out the toys/snacks to each of the other children. If you really want the children to have the experience of all grabbing after the piñata contents, let them, but at the end, observe each child and see if anyone seems to have not gotten as much. Then find a kid or kids who got a lot and ask them if they would like to share with the kid/kids who didn't get enough.
A local rancher driving down a country road noticed a man using his hand to drink water from the rancher's stock pond.
The rancher rolled down the window and shouted: "Sehr angenehm! Trink das Wasser nicht. Die kuehe haben darein geschissen."
Which means: "Glad to meet you! Don't drink the water. The cows have crapped in it."
The man shouted back: "I'm from New York and I'm down here campaigning for Obama. I can't understand you. Please speak in English."
The rancher replied: "Use both hands."
German police say a thief was in for a surprise after making off with a red plastic box from the back of a station wagon.Let's do the math. At the Discount Condom King 100 condoms sell for $24.95, with free shipping and a free vibrating ring tossed in for good measure. That leaves $235 worth of seven wooden penises, or around $33 per woodcock (sorry, all you bird lovers). That seems a little steep. Plus there's all those splinters to worry about.
Inside were seven wooden penises of varying sizes, 100 condoms, and instructional material for sex education classes at a local counseling center.
Police in Goettingen said in a statement that the material is worth about $260...
Man plans. God laughs. In his State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama presented what he called the blueprint for an economy that's built to last. The future may hold different designs.
Take the president's plan to save taxpayers $500 billion over the next decade by cutting defense spending. Let it be noted that he has at least found one area of government spending that he is willing ... no, is eager to reduce. The problem is that there are no others.
In an era of real bureaucratic austerity, every government department, agency and program — including the Pentagon — should be subject to cuts. President Obama, however, lays down the budget ax when he's finished with defense.
The president said Tuesday night that even with those cuts, his strategy will allow the United States to stay one step ahead of its adversaries. Perhaps.
The Obama strategy is predicated on the belief that the security challenges the United States will face over the next decade can be met with a much smaller military and, specifically, much fewer ground forces. North Korea, Iran, an Arab world roiling with revolutionary change or some unforeseen threat from the next “failure to connect the dots” may determine otherwise.
The Obama economy of the future envisions a world in which the expectation of increasing global harmony will allow the United States to safely reduce defense spending from 4.5 percent of gross domestic product last year to 2.7 percent in 2021. That would be its lowest share of GDP since 1940, for those seeking an ominous historical analogy.
Here it's worth remembering John F. Kennedy's admonition that “only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed.”
The Obama economy of the future also envisions a world in which national debt evidently does not matter. In his address to a joint session of Congress in 2009, President Obama said it was time to “make hard choices to bring our deficit down.” He made none.
In his State of the Union address in 2010, he said the U.S. government had to live within its means like cash-strapped American families and warned, “If I have to enforce this discipline by veto, I will.” He didn't.
Last year, he declared, “We have to confront the fact that our government spends more than it takes in.” A month later, he submitted a budget with a $1.2 trillion deficit.
On Tuesday evening, the president offered only a throwaway mention of the national debt, a debt to which he is on track to add an unprecedented $6.2 trillion in only one term. He suggested using half a presumed peace dividend to pay down the debt, a plan so lame that Associated Press fact-checkers called it a “budgetary sleight of hand.”
While the defense budget, which accounts for 20 percent of the federal budget, is set to decline to a historic low, the Congressional Budget Office estimates entitlement spending, which accounts for 42 percent of federal spending, will continue to grow from 9.9 percent of GDP in 2010 to 12 percent in 2021. About this, the president of hard choices and vetoes said ... nothing.
President Obama calls this evasion of responsibility his “Blueprint for an America Built to Last.” Would you accept a blueprint for a home that offers only partial shelter against the elements, costs more than you can afford, will leave your children paupers and has a $16.2 trillion hole where the foundation should be?That pretty much sums things up. Now if only the clowns running for the republican nomination would quit beating each other up and focus instead on Barry's record we'd all be a lot better off.
The headline pretty much says it all, doesn't it? John Wessling and Anson Ainsworth, radio show hosts in Houston, pass along this incredible story of bitchiness and greed. Jason Elia, a television writer living in Nashville, went to the trouble of getting Super Bowl tickets for himself and his girlfriend and was even going to propose to her at the game, but life got in the way. He was diagnosed with bladder cancer and upon hearing the news, his girlfriend apparently dumped him on the spot.Reminds me of my second ex-wife...
Now, she still wants the tickets because she claims they were purchased with her in mind...
John F. Baker Jr., a retired Army master sergeant who was awarded the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War for rescuing wounded soldiers from an ambush and leading a daring counterassault, has died at a hospital in Columbia, S.C.Tunnel rats were either the ballsiest or the craziest - or both - soldiers I ever met. I've jumped out of perfectly good airplanes without a second thought, but there's no way on God's green earth you could get me to crawl around in those cramped, booby-trapped
On Nov. 5, 1966, Baker's unit was tasked with reinforcing a group of American soldiers pinned down near Dau Tieng, close to the Cambodian border.
As the U.S. soldiers advanced ... the jungle erupted in enemy fire. Camouflaged machine gun positions spit bullets that whizzed by Baker's head. Mortar rounds thumped the ground. Snipers in the trees picked off Americans hiding on the ground.
Baker ran toward the front with another soldier and helped destroy two enemy bunkers.
During the attack, the other soldier was mortally wounded. Baker killed four enemy snipers before carrying his comrade away from the ambush.
Returning to the battle, Baker was blown off his feet by an enemy grenade but recovered to make repeated trips through withering fire to evacuate wounded American soldiers...
As his Medal of Honor nomination was considered, Baker spent the rest of his tour as a “tunnel rat.” Armed with a flashlight and pistol, he explored the spider- and scorpion-infested subterranean network used by Viet Cong guerrillas.
Returning home in August 1967, Baker served as a drill instructor. One day, he was told he had an urgent phone call. It was President Lyndon B. Johnson on the line, inviting him to the White House to be awarded the Medal of Honor, the military's highest decoration for valor.I was intimidated enough by my drill sergeant - a short, stocky, fireplug of a man who didn't talk or yell. He growled.
According to his citation, “Baker's selfless heroism, indomitable fighting spirit, and extraordinary gallantry were directly responsible for saving the lives of several of his comrades, and inflicting serious damage on the enemy.”
Joining Baker at the ceremony in the East Room was his company commander, then-Capt. Robert Foley, who also was awarded the Medal of Honor for bravery during the same battle that November day in 1966.
Foley, who retired from the Army as a lieutenant general in 2000, stood 6-foot-7 and played basketball at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Johnson told Baker and Foley they reminded him of the cartoon characters Mutt and Jeff.The mental image of Foley and Baker as Mutt and Jeff adds just the right, light touch to a sad yet inspiring story.
The Canyons School District overrode the students top choice of a cougar mascot for their high school that is to be completed in 2013.The school mascot will instead be "the Charger," which to me also connotes an aggressive woman prowling the mall in search of her prey.
Would-be Corner Canyon High School students chose the Cougars as their mascot — a name principal Mary Bailey said carries an ugly connotation that is disrespectful to women.
In popular culture, the cougar is a sexually aggressive middle-aged woman who attracts younger men.
Let me just get this out of the way upfront: I had an orgasm in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner.I just bet you won't be the last, darlin'. If they did a similar study for men there'd be a waiting list.
I participated in a study at Rutgers University where scientists measured the activity in my brain as I self-stimulated to an orgasm.
I wasn’t the first woman to participate in one of these studies - and I won’t be the last.
Time and time again, I’m asked how I managed to have an orgasm in an fMRI scanner. But that’s not the right question. The important question is why I had an orgasm in an fMRI scanner.Actually, the important question is "Why not"?
(The answer is) ...to help further our understanding of orgasm and human sexuality. When I say I came for the science - I mean it.Give her credit. She's got a sense of humor.
Treasury Secretary Geithner yesterday declined to answer a key question about the president’s proposed “Buffett Rule”: How many millionaires and billionaires pay lower tax rates than middle-income families?Gee, I wonder why he might decline to answer. Could it be that the rich already pay their fair share and more? Naw...
The answer: not that many.So obama's much-heralded 30% tax rate for the rich will amount to less than a 1% increase. That'll go a long way towards reducing that pesky deficit
The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center has crunched the numbers and found that Warren Buffett and his secretary are the exception to the rule. For the most part, the wealthy pay a significantly higher percentage of their income in taxes than middle-income workers.
The key numbers: this year those earning over $1 million will pay, on average, 29.1 percent on federal taxes. Those earning between $50,000 and $75,000 will pay 15 percent.
There were 236,883 taxpayers who earned more than $1 million in 2009. That’s less than two-tenths of one percent of all filers.Oops. There goes the argument for raising the capital gains tax rate.
The Top 400 tax filers – the very richest Americans – do pay a lower rate of just 18.11 percent of their total income. Why? Many of them are hedge fund managers and people like Buffet — their income is pegged to how much their investment fund grows. For some reason, this income is counted as so-called “carried interest” (even though it is not interest at all; it’s more like a performance bonus) and is taxed at the lower 15 percent capital gains rate.
It’s a loophole for hedge managers, pure and simple. But while it may be an outrage that these uber-rich hedge fund managers pay such a low rate compared to the rest of us, there are just not many of them out there.
But the top 400 tax filers represent a tiny sliver – just .00028 percent of all filers. The vast majority of those earning over $1 million a year pay at a higher rate, which is why the average tax rate for this group, according to the Tax Foundation, is 29.1 percent of taxable income. And, yes, this number includes income taxes, payroll taxes and capital gains taxes.
The Top 400 tax filers – the very richest Americans – do pay a lower rate of just 18.11 percent of their total income. Why? Many of them are hedge fund managers and people like Buffet — their income is pegged how much their investment fund grows. For some reason, this income is counted as so-called “carried interest” (even though it is not interest at all; it’s more like a performance bonus) and is taxed at the lower 15 percent capital gains rate.So do the right thing and fix the problem - revise/simplify the tax code. Diddling around with tax rates is treating the symptoms while ignoring the festering pus-filled cause of the infection.
It’s a loophole for hedge managers, pure and simple. But while it may be an outrage that these uber-rich hedge fund managers pay such a low rate compared to the rest of us, there are just not many of them out there.
Nobody seems to ask the question why dividends and capital gains are taxed at preferential rates. The simple answer is that they have already been taxed once, and their seeming tax breaks are applied to income being taxed a second time.In other words, the corporation (hopefully) generates income, which is taxed at the corporate level. The individual invests in the corporation, using money that has already been taxed at the individual level.Any dividends or capital gains resulting from the corporation being successful (which, keep in mind, is not a given) are then taxed again. An example:
Dividends are paid out of after-tax corporate income that already has been taxed at rates as high as 35%. Capital gains are generated by income from investments, which come out of savings. The savings come from income that already has been taxed but not spent.
A millionaire rock star who squanders all his income on high living is taxed once. An entrepreneurially minded rap star who prudently sets aside some earnings and invests them in enterprises that make headphones or fashions, which create wealth and jobs, is taxed a second time on the dividends and capital gains that may eventually be generated.So would someone please explain to me how taxing the investor and the entrepreneur will create jobs?
Whatever they (the 1%) do, they won't stand still. Rich folks have the flexibility to rearrange their affairs, unlike working stiffs. So, they pick up stakes and move from high-tax states to low-tax domiciles. And they have accountants, lawyers and other advisers whose livelihood depends on helping their affluent clients keep what they have out of the clutches of the tax collector. That only stimulates income for those advisers instead of the economy at large.That last point bears repeating. The simplest and most effective way to ensure 'fairness' in our tax system is to throw out all the special interest provisions, deductions, and exclusions that make the existing tax code unintelligible. The 2011 U.S. tax code is 72,536 pages long, and growing. Someone who has the wherewithal to hire a stable of accountants and tax attorneys is obviously going to find loopholes and deductions that are beyond the reach of the average taxpayer.
The alternative is to scuttle the present abomination of a tax code and replace it with a broad, simple one that captures more income at lower rates and with fewer exclusions. That was not on the agenda of the State of Union, however.
But with the president delivering his State of the Union speech to Congress Tuesday night, let’s pause here to take as hard look at the real state of America, by the numbers, using only cold, hard facts.
Warren Buffet’s Burlington Northern Santa Fe LLC will benefit greatly by Barack Obama’s decision to nix the Keystone Pipeline from Canada.This is one of those times I wish I was wrong...
For sale is a 4oz. bottle containing water taken from a pool in Miami Beach, Florida in which Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes swam in with daughter Suri on July 17, 2011. There is a very limited supply of this special water. The water has been refrigerated to ensure freshness and quality. The winning bidder will receive a 5x7 print of Tom swimming in the pool with Katie Holmes by his side as a certificate of authenticity. The bottle is hand painted and shows a cross to mimic the effect of a bottle of Holy Water. But this cross also bears four gold rays coming from behind, which can also be considered the symbol of Scientology. Additionally, you can consider the cross to represent the letter "t" as in Tom.What, you ask, might one do with said H2O? The seller has a few suggestions.
Tom Cruise water can be used in rituals, potions, or perfumes. It can be dabbed behind the ears or on the wrists for good luck. You can place some of it around the hearth of your home or baptize your baby with it. The possibilities are endless!The starting bid for a 4-oz bottle of Tom Cruise water is $20. I'd much rather pay $4 for a 12-oz bottle of Shiner...
Far be it from me to go all contrary to the expectations of America's youth. Plus, the1. Party week.
2. The first week of classes, during which all time is wasted by reading through the syllabus.
... The Washington Times reports, citing unnamed sources, that the U.S. Navy may be trying to cut one of its 11 carriers to save money.While doing so would certainly save money, it would place more stress on the remaining carriers and crews. Deployment times would be lengthened. Repair and refit times would be reduced. Our ability to project force and influence events would be degraded.
Congress has mandated by law that the Navy maintain 11 carriers. But the Pentagon is also under orders from the Obama administration to cut $488 billion from its budget within the next 10 years, Rowan Scarborough reports in the Times.
Cutting a carrier, along with the other forces that make up and support a carrier battle group, could save the Navy billions of dollars, according to the Times report.
The USS Gerald R. Ford was supposed to help secure another half century of American naval supremacy. The hulking aircraft carrier taking shape in a dry dock in Newport News, Va., is designed to carry a crew of 4,660 and a formidable arsenal of aircraft and weapons.China has also built up its submarine force, to the extent that a Chinese submarine surfaced in the middle of a U.S. carrier group.
But an unforeseen problem cropped up between blueprint and expected delivery in 2015: China is building a new class of ballistic missiles designed to arc through the stratosphere and explode onto the deck of a U.S. carrier, killing sailors and crippling its flight deck.
When the U.S. Navy deploys a battle fleet on exercises, it takes the security of its aircraft carriers very seriously indeed.
At least a dozen warships provide a physical guard while the technical wizardry of the world's only military superpower offers an invisible shield to detect and deter any intruders.
That is the theory. Or, rather, was the theory.
American military chiefs have been left dumbstruck by an undetected Chinese submarine popping up at the heart of a recent Pacific exercise and close to the vast U.S.S. Kitty Hawk - a 1,000ft supercarrier with 4,500 personnel on board.
By the time it surfaced the 160ft Song Class diesel-electric attack submarine is understood to have sailed within viable range for launching torpedoes or missiles at the carrier.
According to senior NATO officials the incident caused consternation in the U.S. Navy.That last line is a classic example of British understatement (the news account is from a U.K. paper).
As for the F-35C, reports have begun circulating that the aircraft the military says is "the most affordable, lethal, supportable and survivable aircraft ever to be used by so many warfighters across the globe" won't be able to land on aircraft carriers, apparently because its tailhook is too short and is situated too close to its landing gear for the plane to properly grab the arresting cables that enable planes to land on aircraft carriers.Let me make this perfectly clear. I am not an expert on either aircraft carriers or airplanes. But I do have, IMHO, a little bit of common sense. And unlike many of the weasels currently wasting oxygen in Washington D.C., I'd like to ensure that the United States maintains its military advantage over current and future enemies.
The report was first seen last week on the website aviationintel.com and was backed up by a report in London's Sunday Times that has been picked up by press across Britain.
Aviationintel.com reported that the design flaw is not fixable because there's just not enough space on the belly of the F-35C to move the tailhook back.
I am contacting you to voice my strong opposition to SOPA, and any other form of government meddling with the Internet.
The Internet, electronic commerce, and the underlying businesses have dramatically grown and prospered precisely because of minimal government interference and intrusion. The last thing we need, especially in these turbulent economic times, is more ill-conceived government regulation.
Please stop pandering to special interest groups. Let the free market flourish.Feel free to cut-and-paste away...
If you defend your family and property from a knife-wielding druggie in Massachusetts, you’d better be prepared to also defend yourself from the justice system, too.What a bad ass! Most reasonable people would say "Good for McKay," bare-handedly defeating a thug armed with a knife and club. But we're not talking about reasonable people here. We're talking about the bozos who keep electing various
(Anthony) McKay is the young father who, seeing a local druggie breaking into his truck and stealing the tools he uses to pay the bills, confronted him, subdued him and held him for the police. When the police arrived, they found the bad guy had a knife, a billy club and — thanks to the unarmed McKay — a broken jaw.
Instead of thanking McKay for helping get an armed criminal off the streets, Swampscott officials charged him with a felony.Yes, you read that right. The good guy stops some criminal lowlife from breaking into his truck and stealing his property - and remember, the perp is armed and the 'victim' isn't - and the good guy gets booked for a felony.
As a Swampscott police spokesman said at the time, “We don’t urge anybody to fight back. We want them to call us.”I literally cannot think of anything to say in response to such lunacy. I guess MA cops want you to roll over and expose your belly in a show of submission.
Thanks to pressure from readers of the Boston Herald and others, McKay will not be prosecuted. But the Essex County District Attorney’s office has made it clear that they are not supporting your right to self defense ... the Essex DA insists the decision to decline to prosecute the case does not mean they think the police were wrong in arresting McKay...
In other words, McKay is lucky that the media made an issue out of this outrageous prosecution. Otherwise he could have spent five years in prison instead of working and paying the bills for his three young children.Martha Coakley is the Attorney General of Massachusetts. She also ran for the U.S. Senate in 2010 to fill the seat formerly held by the
Who can possibly think this is the right way to run a state? Well, Martha Coakley once said, “In Massachusetts we try and discourage ... self-help.”
If Essex DA Jon Blodgett had dropped the charges and acknowledged McKay had done nothing wrong, that would send the message to future crooks that the law is on the good guy’s side.
Instead, Blodgett refused take sides. He and his spokesman have also refused repeated requests to answer questions about this case. All of which leaves us wondering:
If I see someone breaking into my car or garage, or stealing my property right out of my yard, am I supposed to call the police and just watch them steal my stuff?
I put that question to three local attorneys and got three different answers:
Wendy Murphy told me, “The standard in Massachusetts is you cannot defend yourself unless you’re going to die.”
Joe Flaherty told me, “You have the right to confront them and stop them ... but you don’t have the right to use force.” When I asked what I could do under Massachusetts law, he said, “You could scream and yell at them.”
Yeah, that’ll work.
Meanwhile, former Governor’s Council candidate Bob Jubinville said, “If it’s me, I grab a baseball bat and head out. But if a client asked me what to do, I’d say ‘Call the cops and hope they show up fast.”
So, I asked him, if I’m a crime victim trying to protect my property in Massachusetts, is the state on my side?
“Absolutely not.”And I'm a lucky man for living in the Great State of Texas, where the right to self-defense is not only tolerated, but celebrated.
Anthony McKay, you’re a lucky man.
