“Texas Democratic Congressman Ruben Hinojosa – a member of the House Financial Services Committee – filed for personal bankruptcy late last year.”
The eight-term congressman was forced to file for bankruptcy after Wells Fargo Bank won an arbitration hearing that found Hinojosa owed the bank $2.6 million. That left him with $2.9 million in liabilities against less than $1.5 million in assets.
If I put this in a novel, an editor would reject it for heavy-handed symbolism…
(Hat tip: Instapundit)
With snow and ice here in Austin, it’s been a bit of slow day. And what better for a slow day than some slow-motion gun porn?
I chanced across one of these researching information on the Lugar for a story I’m writing, and thought it provided a nice view of the Lugar’s feed and ejection mechanism, giving viewers a chance to see how it differs from the M1911’s mechanism for accomplishing the same thing. So I concentrated on videos that show mechanism cycling rather than bullet impact.
(None of these are my videos, I collected them off of YouTube, so I can’t take any credit (or any blame for the musical choices).)
The Lugar:
Here’s a M1911 Commander 45:
Here’s a cutaway animation of how an M1911 works:
Sig Sauer 22 and 9mm
Here’s real slow motion of an M16 and an M1911:
A Tanfoglio Gold Team (not sure the caliber, but similar vidoes have been for .38 Super):
Here’s a Thompson submachine gun (one of which I fired once upon a time):
A whole bunch of different guns:
Finally, here’s a dad teaching his son to fire a gun for the first time. His three year old son. On a minigun. BEST DAD EVER!
Terrified of the prospect of congressional Republicans that actually want to cut the budget, Senate Democrats have sent out an emergency distress call to lobbyists:
In an e-mail obtained by ABC News, a top staffer for the key Senate Appropriations subcommittee called for a meeting of lobbyists and interest groups that would be affected by expected cuts to the Labor and Heath and Human Services budget. The Jan. 24 meeting was attended by approximately 400 people, sources told ABC, and served as a “call to arms” for those determined to fight Republican budget cuts.
“One thing everyone should be able to agree on now is that a rising tide lifts all boats, and that a higher [Labor, Health & Human Services] allocation improves the chances for every stakeholder group to receive more funding,” the committee staffer for Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, wrote in an e-mail inviting people to the meeting.
So remember: When Democrats think about “stakeholders,” they mean the lobbyists that wallow up to the trough to feast on giant piles of taxpayer money. Actual taxpayers aren’t their concern…
(Hat tip: Ace of Spades)
And by “Tea Party” I mean “liberal protesters,” and by “Obama” I mean Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. But the rest is accurate.
Sure, these are just random far-left yahoos. But does anyone doubt that if the headline were true, those lone nuts would be cited on national news broadcasts as definitive evidence of “Tea Party’s racism”?
(Hat tip: Hot Air via Instapundit)
No, you can’t have a health care mandate. Not yours.
“Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional, and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void,” Vinson said.
Unpopular, untenable, and unconstitutional. No wonder Obama wants to declare the health care debate over. He’s losing it. Badly.