Thought of the day: wean people off of SNAPS

If the US Postal Service was the only entity allowed to accept EBT, and they were required by the Federal Government to sell EBT only food, the typical poor service provided by these Post Offices would be such a PITA no one would want to stay on food stamps for long.

California chases away another one: Toyota moving headquarters to Texas

Read 'em and weep, Sacramento. Your stupid decisions and excessive taxes and regulations have chased another 5000+ jobs out of state.

Toyota Motor Corp. plans to move large numbers of jobs from its sales and marketing headquarters in Torrance to suburban Dallas, according to a person familiar with the automaker's plans. 

The move, creating a new North American headquarters, would put management of Toyota's U.S. business close to where it builds most cars for this market. 

North American Chief Executive Jim Lentz is expected to brief employees Monday, said the person, who was not authorized to speak publicly. Toyota declined to detail its plans. About 5,300 people work at Toyota's Torrance complex. It is unclear how many workers will be asked to move to Texas. The move is expected to take several years.

Jerry Brown must think that the only things businesses care about is the humidity, but he's wrong.  You can't beat low taxes.

The automaker won't be the first big company Texas has poached from California.
Occidental Petroleum Corp. said in February that it was relocating from Los Angeles to Houston, making it one of around 60 companies that have moved to Texas since July 2012, according to Texas Gov. Rick Perry. 

Perry last month visited California to recruit companies. The group Americans for Economic Freedom also recently launched a $300,000 advertising campaign in which Perry contends 50 California companies have plans to expand or relocate in Texas because it offers a better business climate. 

Like these other companies, Toyota could also save money in an environment of lower business taxes, real estate prices and cost of living. 

Frank Scotto, Torrance's mayor, said he had no warning of Toyota's decision. He said he did know that the automaker planned a corporate announcement for Monday. 

"When any major corporation is courted by another state, it's very difficult to combat that," Scotto said. "We don't have the tools we need to keep major corporations here."
The mayor said businesses bear higher costs in California for workers' compensation and liability insurance, among other expenses. 

"A company can easily see where it would benefit by relocating someplace else," Scotto said.

The temporary reprieve California experienced by boosting taxes only lasts until everyone with money leaves.  After that it's adios muchachos.  My plan is to wait for California to go feral like Chicago, and then buy up Beverly Hills for a couple of hundred bucks.  Till then, I will laugh at the news and at astute cartoons like this.

More women are exercising their firearms rights

In Indiana, women holding handgun permits has increased by 42% in just two years!  I've always thought this was a good idea, for one main reason, stated by Carrie Lightfoot in the article.

"Women are moving into the role of self protector, when historically they were the protected," said Carrie Lightfoot, an NRA certified instructor and owner of The Well Armed Woman. "Life has really changed for women, and they are realizing that they must learn to protect themselves as the men in their lives and law enforcement can't be there."

The word from the folks on the ground is very good as well, lots of expansion. :)

Since its founding in 2012, The Well Armed Woman has grown to 183 chapters in 42 states with 4,600 paid members. 

Indiana has seven chapters, including three in the Indianapolis area at Beech Grove Firearms Range, Eagle Creek Pistol Range and Tim's Shooting Academy of Westfield. 

Not only is the program designed to equip women with gun knowledge and skills, it's a place for camaraderie. 

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Women who go to chapter meetings range in age from 21 to mid-70s. They are stay-at-home moms. They are professional women in the fields of healthcare, IT and law. Young has had pregnant women attend. She's had female members of a motorcycle club show up. 

Young's chapter has grown to 50 members since the first meeting in February. The monthly meetings have gotten so packed, she sometimes splits the class into two nights.

It's great that so many women are taking an active role in their own safety, and the safety of their families as well.  Train, train, train!  If you develop the muscle memory and good habits, you will never have an accident and you will be able to respond to threats.  Go for it! :)

Comms director for Everytown for Gun Safety "not against guns 4 self defense" in public.

In response to why ETFGS had armed security at a public rally, the Comms Director stated:

@erikasotolamb @Vegas_Whoa @DLoesch I am happy to read this! You should send out a press release, "Not anti-gun for self defense in public."
— Aaron Brooks (@MrBrooks912) April 27, 2014

Clearly this means they now support public carry, whether concealed or open, right? haha!

CGN Community dog rescue - play by play!

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Have you ever read a story like this???

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Originally Posted by Moemoe1 Okay, well on my way to work i see this chocolate lab sitting in the middle a field. No shade. Just dirt and a firehydrant next to the dog. This is the second day I see him just standing next to it. 4 times in 2 days, it seems like he is waiting for his owner to return. I bet his owner abandoned him their and the poor guy has no clue. I feel like approaching him and giving him some water but I'm not sure how it will react. I don't really want to contact animal control because I would hate for it to be put down what do you guys think I should do? The location is next to March Airforce Base by the street Iris. I don't remember the other one I'll try to see if I can remember the cross street. What would be the best animal rescue group to call to ensure this guy gets a good home? He's obviously an extremely loyal companion if he has been their for the past two days. Tomorrow if he is still their, I will try to approach him slowly and offer him some water and food. God knows how many days he's been their without both. I would [take her] if the place i live at allowed large dogs. I live in a condo and in order to have pets I would have had to mention it in the lease. I'm sure calguns has lots of dog lovers. I'm going to try to see if he wants to come with me tomorrow and leave him at my girlfriends. If will update tomorrow if he's still in the field. Hopefully this guy finds a good home.

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Originally Posted by Ronin2 OP... Are you going to do something? If not please PM me so we can communicate effectively. I will do something. Chances are time is running out....

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Originally Posted by Moemoe1 Okay, on my way to work I saw the dog. He's still sitting down next to the firehydrant going down heacock before you reach the street iris. Next to [March] Airforce field! I will try to get him after work. If anyone can go before I can please do so!

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Originally Posted by VictorFranko You don't think some a-hole chained him to the hydrant, out in the sun, do you? If he's chained out there with no water after work may be too late. Call a shelter............ Screw it, what town is this in? I'll call a local shelter..... Never mind. Moreno Valley Animal Services. Closed until 9:30. Message machine told me to call Riverside County Sheriff's Office to speak to an animal control officer after hours. Riverside County Sheriff's office message machine told me to call Moreno Valley Animal Control. A**holes!! If no one can get out there before 9:30, I will be calling the shelter at 9:30 sharp.

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Originally Posted by Ronin2 I will not be able to get there until after 1200

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Originally Posted by VictorFranko Check for my PM please. I don't want to call if you are planning on going there.......... I would go myself, but I'm up in Ventura area.

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Originally Posted by VictorFranko Latest News: Ronin2 is headed out to rescue the Lab within the next couple hours!

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Originally Posted by Moemoe1 Thank ronin! Please keep us updated!

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Originally Posted by VictorFranko Moe, can you pin down the location a little better and I will text Ronin the info. Right now he is headed for the intersection of Iris and Heacock. Maybe a corner such as NE corner or SW corner? Thanks

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Originally Posted by Moemoe1 Man I'm on my phone right now, it's going down heacock towards the street iris. He's in the middle of the field before hitting heacock! Message me your phone number I will try to pin it on my maps By gentian ave. and heacock!

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Originally Posted by Ronin2 I'm leaving Newport in 20 min or so.

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Originally Posted by VictorFranko Moe, narrowed location has been forwarded to Ronin.

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Originally Posted by Ronin2 I'm in route about 35 min out ? I have with me gloves, a large thick blanket, collar/leash, water bowl/water, treats, food, a fire extinguisher .....

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Originally Posted by VictorFranko Ronin must have been a Boy Scout, "Always Prepared" The fire extinguisher? You just never know when a chocolate Lab might spontaneously combust.

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Originally Posted by Moemoe1 Any updates???

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Originally Posted by Ronin2 I'm here. The dog appears healthy. It seems to be a female lab /?? Mix. Someone has left containers of food and water for it at the base of the fire hydrant. I approached to a lot of barking and threw some treats that it ate as I retreated. I have not approached the fire hydrant situation yet as the dog is protective of the food there. Will report back in a few. I will have photos to up load once I'm home regardless of how it turns out. SJF

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Originally Posted by Moemoe1 Thank ronin! Glad you found her! Kinda hard to see her from the road

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Originally Posted by Ronin2 I'm just sitting on the blanket I will use to try and capture the dog after she gets a little mor use to me... Trying to decide if I should try and capture her. While I'm a dog owner and not afraid, she is.... Body language ... Tail well tucked between legs and keeping her distance regardless of treats, water etc... Ill let the calguns members here help me decide...try and capture her or report to animal control

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Originally Posted by VictorFranko Here she is In first pic she does not look receptive, like you said, tail well tucked in. Looks like she's been there a little while anyway, I would think the local shelter must know about her.

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Originally Posted by Ronin2 She seems to have made the fire hydrant her home and locals are feeding her and forcing her water based on what I see, I'm willing to wait her out. She has been standing keeping her distance and barking at me the whole time. She must be wearing out... And I'm willing to wait a bit. She is sledging closer to me and the fire hydrant as I chat on Calguns. I have also situated myself upwind from her

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Originally Posted by Ronin2 Animal control just rolled up and she is a smart dog... She took off to five times the distance she kept from me.... Lol

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Originally Posted by VictorFranko

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Originally Posted by Ronin2 The animal control officer, Stephanie, said that while the shelter the dog would be taken to is a kill shelter, that being a Lab, as long as she is not aggressive if she is not adopted, the local lab rescue will take her. I will donate a few hundred $$$ to make sure she is not destroyed and keep tabes on her. I did the same thing ten years ago with a female pitbull and all her pups living near my dojo.. I was able to capture them, take them to my vets for de-worming and shots and then pitbull rescue for them all.

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Originally Posted by VictorFranko ACO is luring her closer with canned food.......

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Originally Posted by Ronin2 Animal control officer says she clearly is not aggressive. That's what makes her hard to capture. She said that the aggressive dogs are easy to get,.. They come right for you. The officer has to go to another call. I will hang out here, try to capture her if possible, until the AC officer returns with a partner and a box trap. One of the problems is that people have been feeding her and she isn't hungry enough to effectively use food as bait.

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Originally Posted by Ronin2 If she is adoptable I will get her and give her to kestryll as a gift from the calgunner community at large if he can take her.

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Originally Posted by VictorFranko Ronin, when you get home, let me know about this "sponsorship". I'll try and help with the $$, OK?

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Originally Posted by Ronin2 I appreciate it but truely, its ok. I retired at 42 from the investment fund business. Pay it forward with someone who genuinely can use the help. Thank you!

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Originally Posted by VictorFranko Latest update from Ronin: "No luck yet"

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Originally Posted by Ronin2 Well I just threw her a rope bone of my dogs and she picked it up and walked away and hid it behind a distant bush and came back without it... Lol

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Originally Posted by Ronin2 another calgunner S&W the thread and dropped by with his son and daughter. I can't remember his screenname but he has gone back home to get his lab mix to bring back and see if we can catch her while the play. She is bedding down now in the hole she dug next to the fire hydrant. If she falls asleep I will attempt to capture her. Unlike many"other people" , I'm not afraid of a dogs bite..... Till then I'm just sitting here in the truck about 20 ft away on the iPad

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Originally Posted by VictorFranko Animal Control is there now en force with a trap Poor girl looking for a little shade : (

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Originally Posted by Ronin2 They just set it. She doesn't venture far from the hydrant. Now its just a matter of waiting. She has gone most of the way in a couple times but not far enough to set the trap. She is one smart girl.

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Originally Posted by Ronin2 The AC Officers got her! She. Immediately went to into submission. I was able to pet her ... She was very sweet. Following AC to the shelter now. I am going to pay for all her expenses if they will let me. Which cal gunners are SERIOUS about adoption if they deem her adoptable? I will establish a claim for whomever ....

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Originally Posted by Ronin2 She will be available for adoption on April 30 @ 1555 hrs. Anyone interested in adopting her can contact me and I am willing to act as your agent in the matter. She was very sweet and submissive as soon as she was caught. She is in here cage, quiet and a bit nervous but in a much better place. I will post photos when I get home.... About a 1.5 hr drive for me back to the beach. Cheers and thank you all for your support and concern for a innocent little dog left by the road by another of the monsters that should be purged from society.

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Originally Posted by VictorFranko The catch The carry Safe and warm until she finds a good home

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Originally Posted by Ronin2 FYI... Calgunner "Onebadjack68" who saw the thread on this little dog and stopped by with his daughter and son to help this morning was hoping to adopt the dog. They were taking his son to meet a USMC recrituer!! Semper Fi! When seeing that the dog wasn't hungry and staying distant, Jack and his two children went home to get their male Lab to possibly help lure her into capture. They stayed and waited around for several hours as we tried to "take her into custody". They intend to adopt her as soon as her 7 day hold (in case an owner comes forward claim her) is up. Try as hard as I did, I was unable to pay any money towards her care. The shelter would only accept money from the person adopting the dog at the time of adoption. There was no way to place any kind of a "claim on her". They still need to process her and judge here fit for adoption and I am 150% certain she will pass muster. In any event, I intend to be there when she is released for adoption in case Jack and his family are unable to, I will adopt her as a foster parent until I can find a good home. That said, Jacks daughter was hoping to have taken her home today had I been able to catch her andihace no doubt they will give her a loving home and a good life. I will, upon her adoption, make a donation to the shelter which was impressive... Large clean and very attentive staff. While it is a kill shelter a shelter tech informed me that the work hard and successfuly minimize the number of animals euthanized. Needless to say, I will be making a phone call or writing a "atta boy" letter to the Animal Control officers superiors. I have to give a huge THANK YOU to Animal Control officer Stephanie Loraas and her two partners who worked this case all day with professionalism and clearly love and concern for the welfare of the animals they come into contact with. The dogs capture was all them. I also want to extend a big thank you to CalGunner "VictorFranco" for acting as a conduit for reports and posting of photos. He too is a dog animal lover and very concerned and empathetic this sweet, innocent young dogs plight. Thanks to you all who have expressed support they this ordeal. It's amazing what can happen when the good people come together for the right reasons. FYI to all the LEO's out there...while the dog barked and blustered, when captured she became immediately submissive and allowed the ACO's and myself to pet her immediately. While being taken to the truck, she urinated on the ACO...another submissive behavior indicating a scared, sweet dog, NOT a creature to fear and gun down!!! In fact she nev growled, barred her teeth or snapped at anyone once humans had their hands on her. (Given the rash of LEO' shooting family pets "barking at them", It's time we stop giving cowards and mouth breathers guns and badges IMHO simply because they can pass the background)

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Originally Posted by Ronin2 I overlooked thanking CalGunner Moemoe1 who was alert and aware of his surroundings on his drive to work and noticed the dog out of place and let us all know about it. He stopped by the site this afternoon on his way home from work to introduce himself to me and check on how things were going...THANK YOU SIR! Without you this sweet innocent creature's plight may have gone unnoticed until her death. I'm standing in Rifle Gear right now picking up a new weapon and in a good mood and my faith in humanity renewed thanks to YOU ALL. THANK YOU CALGUNNERS!

Thomas Jefferson's Letter to Samuel Kercheval

RTWT:

we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers. Our landholders, too, like theirs, retaining indeed the title and stewardship of estates called theirs, but held really in trust for the treasury, must wander, like theirs, in foreign countries, and be contented with penury, obscurity, exile, and the glory of the nation. This example reads to us the salutary lesson, that private fortunes are destroyed by public as well as by private extravagance. And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, and to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia, which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.

In other words, live within our means, not above our means, or soon we'll live beneath our means.  We've become slaves to debt, both private and public, and we cannot escape this if not a single one of our elected representatives or the majority of our voters decide to cut the unsustainable spending.  We need to cut $2 Trillion out of the annual budget, and maintain a $1 Trillion surplus to pay the national debt off in 30 years.  Well, it isn't going to happen.  Instead, we're going to experience an economic catastrophe unlike any thing this planet has ever experienced.

Trained economist whines about loan payments that "weren't explained to him"

DJ Cook, a college graduate holding a bachelor's degree in economics, is whining about his grad student loans.  He says that he "didn't realize what I was agreeing to when I was signing my student loan documents for graduate school because it had never been explained to me." 

Here we have a guy who earns a degree in Economics. He pays off his undergrad loans in 6 years while working various jobs, but then "discovers his passion is teaching," and goes back to school for a "teaching credential and a Master's degree in Education."  He's already college educated.  He's paid off his undergraduate student loans, so by any reasonable estimation should understand how the student loan process works.  So why is it that he's now claiming that he's been taken advantage of?

What happened to personal responsibility?  Why does anyone pay attention to these lying sacks of shit when they start whining and moaning about their student loans?  Borrowing means you have to return what you borrowed.  It's something you learn at the early age of, say, two.  Yet here he is, at the ripe old age of 36, still complaining that he, a trained economist didn't understand the difference between subsidized and unsubsidized loans.

I had no clue about the difference of borrowing from Sallie Mae or the federal government. I had no clue what the difference between subsidized and unsubsidized meant. I thought my loan repayments would be similar to my undergrad experience. One payment per month that could easily be paid off if I had a decent job. I knew a $36,000 education would take more time to pay off than my undergrad degree, but I didn't realize I was really signing up for four separate payments. This added up to about $400 in payments that I was not ready for.

And when things don't go his way in the employment market, he blames it on - I kid you not - "anti-teacher bigotry."

The erosion of respect for the teaching position in general allows potential employers (whether intentionally or not) to discriminate against former teachers using the logic that teachers in the U.S. are bad at their jobs and held up by their union, therefore former teachers are bad employees.

Then he claims that in six and a half years he's only paid down $2,000.  I think he still doesn't understand those loans, myself.  I just checked and if he's really signed up for $36k in loans at 6.8% interest, he would have paid off $20k by now. (FYI, with a $36,000 loan, 6.8% interest gives you a 'roughly $400 per month' payment ($414.xx) on a 10 year loan.  My guess is that he's missed a lot of payments, deferred the loans excessively, and is racking up late fees.  Honesty would clear it up, but this guy is chronically incapable of honesty.

He finishes off his editorial by expressing his jealousy over the wealth of others.  Spewing tired rhetoric of the communist class, he complains that capitalists are extracting wealth from the economy at the expense of everyone else; the 1% is hiding a depression by reporting record earnings!  Those evil capitalist dogs!

Taiwanese student is too petite for Yale's "medical professionals" - forced into weekly psych checkups

Apparently Yale has never seen a petite Asian woman.  They were so shocked when one walked in at five-foot-two and ninety pounds that they decided she must be crazy!  So they threatened her with "medical leave" (expulsion) if she didn't gain weight.  They also mandated weekly bloodwork and psychiatric voodoo to handle her "eating disorder."

What the fuck is wrong with people medical people?  They think they get to order anyone around and if they don't obey, watch out, they will ruin your life.  Fuck them.

Yale has threatened to kick out a 20-year-old history major because she's too thin. 

New Jersey native, Frances Chan, who is 5'2" and weighs 90lbs, claims she's been force feeding herself Cheetos and ice cream in an attempt to add flesh to her tiny frame after the Ivy League school became convinced she was suffering from an eating disorder.
Chan said the New Haven, Connecticut, college wouldn't even let up when her parents confirmed she, and the rest of her family, had always been naturally skinny and even sent in childhood medical records and had their doctor contact the school.

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Harsh: Yale has threatened to kick out 20-year-old history major Frances Chan, pictured, because she's too thin

'It felt really bad to be this powerless,' Chan told the New Haven Register. 'I ate ice cream twice a day. I ate cookies. I used elevators instead of walking up stairs. But I don't really gain any weight.'
She said the battle over her weight began in September when she noticed a lump in her breast and went to get it checked out.

"Too thin":

And for dessert tonight....

My wife made Chocolate Dipped Strawberries...