TV Update: five million people agree with The Phantom.

That's five million eminently sensible people out there, let me tell you. Broadcasters and networks are increasingly worried about GUYS LIKE ME who have just unplugged the television.

A growing number of [people] have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don't even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. These people are watching shows and movies on the Internet, sometimes via cellphone connections. Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from 2 million in 2007.

Because this is an AP story and the AP couldn't find the truth about where their own ass is with both hands and a flashlight, the story is making this all about "new technology". Yeah, new like DVDs and newer than VHS tape, but yet completely the same thing. New like video broadcast on the Intertubes instead of on the airwaves, yet still broadcast.

Its not about the cost of cable, the commercials or the time stuff is on, thanks to TiVo and a host of other widgets you can record whatever anybody broadcasts and watch  when you want commercial free. Its not about any of those technical details.

It is purely and simply about what's on TV. Television is a pure Leftist/Statist/Socialist monoculture, philosophically speaking. If you're not a pureblood raging Liberal, TV seems increasingly stupid. Oh, and a lie. They're lying and not even pretending not to these days.

Furthermore, its boring. Horribly, stunningly, crushingly boring. All the TV shows have the same plot lines. The same jokes. The same situations. Gays are always good and funny, women are never fat, white males are stupid and boring, skinny 110 lb  women can punch out 250lb male weight lifters whose necks have a larger cross section than the woman's thigh.  Guns are bad, except for the purely gratuitous shootout in every single f-ing episode.  A random nerd can hack NORAD in ten seconds or less right before the commercial break and save the day. Et cetera.

Right now, today, there are YouTube comedy series run by -kids- that have more subscribers than CNN has viewers. Three or four university students hack together a comedy skit every week or two, and they get more eyeballs every day than a whole freakin' national news network. This is not because the students are such peerless geniuses, you may be sure.

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Ontario justice system working as planned.

When four punks pull an armed home invasion, wound their victims and have a stand-off with the cops, then spend only two years or so in jail, what is the result out in the World where you and I live?  This is:

TORONTO - Brandi Liles was stunned to learn two of the four Toronto gang-bangers who held her and a former boyfriend at gunpoint nearly eight years ago are dead.

The Windsor woman learned late Monday afternoon that Michael Nguyen, 23, one of the home invaders who changed her life forever, was gunned down at Yorkdale mall over Easter weekend.

And until she spoke to the Toronto Sun a short time later, Liles had no idea Qoheleth Chong, 23, was shot dead four months ago.

"I'm shocked," Liles, 34, said, admitting she has "mixed" feelings about the killings.

"The victimized part of me feels relief, but I also can't help but feel it's just a shame," she said. "I feel sorry for their moms."

Liles wasn't surprised to learn a third home invader, Rowan Atkins, has been busted twice on gun charges since he, Chong and Nguyen — who were only 16 and 17 at the time of the home invasion — were released in 2008 after spending only two years and seven months behind bars.

That's what happens. The sons of beeotches keep doing their usual until they either die or do something to somebody -important-.  At which point the brain-dead liberal judge will allot them a proper jail sentence.

Nice these two got waxed, troubling that one of them got it in the middle of Yorkdale Mall on Easter Sunday. Kinda hard on the bystanders, eh?

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Connecticut: Republicans fold like a paper bag.

Connecticut state law makers propose a -bipartisan- bill on gun control that is pretty well exactly what we have here in CanaDuh. License to posess a firearm, license to buy a firearm, license to buy ammunition, registry for gun owners, registry for guns, and special super-duper "education" courses to take if you want the licenses.  Also they get to decide what gun you will buy, nassssty black guns are banned.

Important note for our US friends, tell all the celebrating liberals you know that Canada's crime rate has been utterly unaffected by twenty years of this, and we still have mass shootings up here. Yes, we do. 

Additionally, all the paperwork surrounding the gun issue makes it no fun anymore. You keep your stuff in a closet and don't tell -anyone- what you've got. You don't go hunting and you don't go to the range, because if you do there's more forms to fill out and some apparatchik will be sneering down his/her nose at you the whole time. I have not been shooting in Canada since 1992, because its just not enjoyable anymore. The threat of arrest and jail hangs over everything like the stink of a rotting corpse.

I go shooting in Arizona instead, where you can still go to the range and shoot without having Big Brother demand your papers.

I think the important thing for Americans in this debacle is to realize, finally and for all time, that the Republican Party is no less statist and socialist than the DemocRat party. The whole RINO thing is a myth. The name "Republican" now officially means "Pink Underwear Socialist". That would be the kind of socialist who continues to pretend he wants a smaller government during election season, but pours the coal to it after the election is won. Full steam ahead on the USS Titanic, baby.

Anyone who wants a smaller government and more personal freedom is advised to take note and make your voting plans accordingly. Doing a Tea Party takeover of the Republican Apparat would seem to be Job One, looking at things from Canadastan.

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Another Liberal speaks his mind!

Wow, there's just an outbreak of truthiness going on all over the place. This time the liberal in question is State Rep. Joe Mitchell, D-Mobile Alabama.  Check it:

Eddie Maxwell sent a mass email to state legislators at 10:54 p.m. on Jan. 27, warning them that even attempting to introduce a gun control bill was, in his opinion, a violation of state law.
Mitchell responded from his public, ALHouse.gov email account at 11:59 p.m., telling Maxwell:

Stay classy, kids!

"Your folk never used all this sheit to protect my folk from your slave-holding, murdering, adulterous, baby-raping, incestuous, snaggle-toothed, backward-assed, inbreed, imported criminal-minded kin folk."

"That's not the type of reply I expect to receive from a state legislator," Maxwell replied...

Gotta agree with Eddie Maxwell, not what you expect from a politician. You know that's what they think, but what you expect is for them to send you some bland form letter made of bafflegab: "Thank you for your letter, we value your blah blah blah sooo sleeepy zzzzzzzz... "

But since Bloomberg has been going around saying what he actually thinks, which is that he's the king and that we should all shut the hell up and do what he says, now liberal apparatchiks are bustin' out, baby!

Rage on, brave liberals! Tell us what you really think!

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Wow, UberLiberal says what he thinks!

Michael Bloomberg, dishing the TRUTH, baby!

"I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom," Mr. Bloomberg said, during an appearance on NBC. He made the statement during discussion of his soda ban — just shot down by the courts — and insistence that his fight to control sugary drink portion sizes in the city would go forth. "We think the judge was just clearly wrong on this," he said, on NBC. "Our Department of Health has the legal ability to do this. … [They're] not banning anything." 

THERE YOU HAVE IT my friends, the naked, unvarnished truth. Bloomberg thinks its his God given right to sort out you stupid peons and make sure you do it right. Same guy who wants to disarm your hopeless red-neck self also thinks you drink too much pop, and he thinks your wife is a lazy slut who feeds your kid baby formula instead of breast feeding like she's supposed to.

So friends, a message from Michael Bloomberg:

"HEY peons! Shut up and get back to work paying those taxes, b1tchez!"

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Jim Carry: Dumb? Or Dumber?

Jim Carrey getting himself in trouble on Twitter:

yep, that's classy.

Now, I don't know who does Jim's PR these days, but whoever it is needs a smack. While it may seem that everyone in the entire world hates guns from inside the HollyWeird fishbowl, the truth of the matter is that the majority of Jim Carrey's audience is out there buying guns and ammunition at record rates these days. Apart from revealing himself as one more media millionaire with the moral acumen of a garden snail, he's also seriously damaged his own business. What gun owner is going to go see a movie staring a guy who says they're worthless?

This has the potential to be a career crushing meltdown on par with Jesse James cheating on Sandra Bullock, or Tom Cruise going after Brooke Shields for taking anti-depressants. The media won't play it that way, but I'm thinking the box office will. I'd say boycott the SOB, but I haven't seen one of his movies in years anyway.

As one Ontario boy to another Mr. Carrey, I'd get out there and apologize as hard and fast as I could if I were you. Y'all are on the wrong side of the horse this time, cowboy. Bet it kicks.

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Washington Post: propaganda at its best.

Another day, another piece of anti-gun propaganda in the American liberal press. This time the Washington Post throws their hat into the ring.

"How many people do you know who have been shot?"

"I was blown away," Hartley says. There were people he had been friends with for years without knowing they had been victims of gun violence. His number went up to 13.
As I read through the postings, I realized how lucky I was that my number is only one: Mark Hummels. Mark and I went to graduate school together at the University of California at Berkeley. Mark was a friendly guy with an easy smile who managed to be hardworking and laid-back all at once. He left behind a wife, two children and many, many friends.¶
I decided to take Hartley's question to people around Washington. About half the people I spoke with said their number was zero and they felt fortunate. Others revealed numbers reaching into three digits. For some, the number changed as they started thinking back, remembering incidents they had long put out of mind.
Here are some of the experiences of nine Washington area residents (portraits taken by Matt Girard):

The piece wanders predictably down memory lane, tugging the heart strings and stoking the moral outrage furnace with every fulsomely related incident. Completely information free, 100% emotional blackmail.

Personally I've met three people who have been shot. One accidentally shot himself through sheer stupidity, the other two were drug dealers/users in New York. Dangerous lifestyle, pretty much begging for it. All three were alive and kicking last I knew, although the two druggies are almost certainly dead by now. Its been 15 years or more, that's longer than the life expectancy of the average dirtbag in Yonkers NY.

What does that prove? Nothing. Its just happenstance. If I worked at the ER in Cook County Hospital Chicago, I'd know -hundreds- of people who had been shot. Because that's where all the shooting happens. Chicago.

Then there's this:

Gun deaths shaped by race in America

Yeah. No shit, Sherlock. Now, one would think that the bald fact that black people in large US urban centers are doing most of the shooting would make bad propaganda, but the Washington Post thinks otherwise apparently.

Gun deaths are shaped by race in America. Whites are far more likely to shoot themselves, and African Americans are far more likely to be shot by someone else.
The statistical difference is dramatic, according to a Washington Post analysis of data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A white person is five times as likely to commit suicide with a gun as to be shot with a gun; for each African American who uses a gun to commit suicide, five are killed by other people with guns.

This is still the same old crap, despite the sugar coating of "data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention." Guns cause blacks to shoot each other, guns cause Whites to shoot themselves. Correlation equals causation.
 Wet roads cause rain.
Plus that other, awesome proof: In 100% of shooting deaths a gun was present. Thank you Sarah Brady for your contribution to public life, the tedious tautology.
Just how sciency is that sugar coating? Lets take a look who got quoted.

• "Daniel Webster, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research in Baltimore."  aka, a full time member of the anti-gun propaganda industry.
• Harvard anti-gun propaganda.
• "Janett Massolo, who is white, works at a suicide-prevention center in Reno, Nevada."  aka, some liberal lady.
• "Shanda Smith, who is black," and a member of  "Survivors of Homicide Inc."  aka, some liberal lady.
• "Sean Joe, an expert on suicide and violence at the University of Michigan."  Linkage to Mr. Joe's web page. 'Nuff said.
• "Eleanor Hamm works at the statewide suicide hotline for Colorado, which has high rates of gun ownership and suicide. Her suicide-prevention program is accredited by the American Association of Suicidology." aka, some lady.
• "Lanny Berman, executive director of the American Association of Suicidology." aka some guy with a title from some outfit nobody ever heard of.
  
• Oh, plus "a fact sheet from the NRA". aka the author couldn't even be assed to make a phone call. Because why? Because its horse shit, that's why.

There is no intention here to present a factual, scientifically sound picture of firearms and violence in the USA. The intention is to sell the reader on gun confiscation as a cure-all for what ails America. Can't go out at night? Ban guns!  Wife left you? Ban guns! Can't get a job? Ban guns! Banning guns will solve all problems, ease all pain, assuage all worries!

There's a name for guys who peddle cure-alls in public. They're called snake-oil salesmen. Hucksters. Shills. Hawkers. Pitchmen. Also, if a bit more bluntly, lying assholes trying to make a buck off the rubes without doing any actual -work-.

Just remember that when you read this newspaper. EVERYTHING you read in there is written by guys who lie with malice, forethought and intent, who's purpose is to fool you into doing things you wouldn't do if you knew all the facts.

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