Two Trillion Tons

A song about Obama and the Democrats taxing and spending our way into a deeper deficit. It’s pretty catchy, Tennessee Ernie Ford would be proud!

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Michael Yon, again…

I’ve tried to give him the benefit of the doubt, but as they say: “Once is an accident, Twice is coincidence, but Thrice is enemy action.” What do you call four times?

After getting called on the carpet by his readers for shoddy reporting here (which I posted on), he sent out a butt-hurt email to his list about it, insisting he was being misquoted, even though he was being quoted verbatim:

“Interesting that the short dispatch on weapons to Mexico is resulting in such a torrent of comments.

My work is misquoted around the world every day, but nowhere as often as on my own site. Some readers seem to think that I wish to ban firearms in the United States, or that I claim that automatic weapons are flowing to Mexico.  Automatic weapons almost certainly are flowing to Mexico, which would explain how they got there.  But I didn’t write it.  Nor would an easy reading of the short dispatch reveal that I am calling to ban guns in the United States.  It’s just fascinating to see apparent gun-fanatics misquote a document that is just inches away on the same computer screen.  If they invest only that minimal level of attention to the guns they are apparently packing, it’s just a matter of time before they accidentally shoot themselves or someone else.  Attention to detail is an important component of gun safety.“

Thanks Yon, so we’re all fanatics now? Just because we disagree with you?

This was followed up with this post. Notice the forgone conclusion that it’s all our fault:

“How many of the guns in Mexico are coming from the United States?  Good question that will prove extremely contentious if the number of weapons proves to be high.

This transcript from CBS is from an interview between Bob Schieffer and President Obama.  It does not answer the question, but definitely poses it:

BOB SCHIEFFER:

16:53:23:00     Let me ask you about (COUGHING) something closer to home and that is Mexico.  You talked about sending more aid to the Mexican government.  But things down there are really serious, as you well know.  It’s my understanding that 90 percent of the guns that they’re getting down in Mexico are coming from the United States.  We don’t seem to be doing a very good job of– cutting off the gun flow.  Do you need any kind of– legislative help on that front?  Have you, for example, thought about– asking Congress to reinstate the– ban on assault weapons?

PRESIDENT OBAMA:

16:53:53:00     Well, I think the main thing we need is better enforcement.  And so– this week we put forward a comprehensive initiative to assist those– border regions that are being threatened by– by these drug cartels– to provide assistance to the Mexican government to make sure that on our side of the border we’ve got more personnel, more surveillance equipment.

Please click to view the entire interview.“

And now there’s this:

“Nobody seems to dispute that tons of weapons apparently are flowing into Mexico.  A big question is, where are they coming from?  The only casualties assured to occur are those people who are shot by the real guns from the questionable sources, and the truth.  There are almost certainly people within the U.S. government who would fit the facts to fit their agendas, and there are vast numbers of citizens who would do the same.  Iraq and Afghanistan provide stark international reminders of this on the global scale.  It seemed that every cranny of government and civilian political organizations, overtly lied or spackled over inconvenient facts that did not lead to pre-determined outcomes for Iraq, in particular.  Personally, I don’t trust any government, nor do I trust the amorphous “gun lobby” in the United States. All are filled with overt and hidden agendas.  Huge money flies around. Having grown up in America, I’m not sure which to disbelieve more: the government agendas, or the private agendas.  I grew up in the South, and was shooting and hunting as a young boy.  By my young twenties, I had become intimately familiar with perhaps a hundred types of small arms.  Having lived in places like Florida, North Carolina, California and Massachusetts, I am extremely well aware of the gun arguments — from various sides — and the high emotions surrounding them.  That intimate knowledge causes me to suspect the gun-fanatics as much as the anti-gun fanatics.  Neither camp can be counted on to tell the good, the bad and the ugly.  None are to be trusted with mere facts, even when actual facts can be found.“

Again with the names Michael.

I looked forward and appreciated your reporting in Iraq, bringing to light what the MSM would not touch, but you’re just plain wrong on this one, and instead of seeing the error of your ways, you’re just digging yourself in deeper into a hole from which there will be no credibility left.

Here’s another take of the issue and here’s another one.

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