We're the Only Ones Employing Enough

The regional director of Homeland Security, Customs, and Border Protection was charged today with repeatedly hiring illegal immigrants to clean her Salem home after one cleaner wore a wire during an undercover investigation.

Lorraine Henderson is the director of the Port of Boston, overseeing 190 armed federal officers...

I don't even have a smart-aleck "Only Ones" remark for this one. I'm too occupied channeling H.L. Mencken.

And It's Completely Legal

Residents from the Milwaukee neighborhoods of Riverwest and East Side are scheduled to meet Wednesday to discuss printing their own money...

And it's completely legal.

As long as communities don't create coins, or print bills that resemble federal dollars, organizations are free to produce their own greenbacks—and they'd don't even have to be green.

Really?

What if they're "gold, silver, or other metal"?

The Gift of Violence

Another was wrapped in brown paper, like a present ready to give the gift of violence.

Gee, no editorializing in a "straight news" story there, eh, "Authorized Journalist" Tammy Stables Battaglia? Nice to see The Free Press adhering to such rigorous ethical standards...

And who better to bare our throats to than--not just "Only Ones"--but Detroit "Only Ones."

The thought strikes though--incinerating all those guns, putting all that toxic particulate in the environment...I have to wonder if OSHA regulations for ensuring health protection of employees doing the incinerating are in place, if EPA standards for pollution are being followed, if carbon credits are being purchased from Al Gore...:)

Are the guns classified as hazardous materials/hazardous waste? As such, are the labeled with appropriate MSDS tags and documentation, and has proper training been conducted to ensure hazards are known, precautions are taken, records are created and maintained...?

It would be funny to sic the feds on them for potential environmental "crimes"/Clean Air Act violations, wouldn't it? Anybody knows how, run with it.

Maybe we could get the environmentalcases to do our heavy lifting for us...possibly Earth First could send in some smokestack sitters...?

Cleaning Up...

...after the party in San Benito...

In exchange for his resignation, the district attorney's office will not file criminal charges against Maldonado pertaining to an October incident in which he let a friend fire his county issue weapon.

I wonder if my new BFF deputy Gus Reyna will keep good on his promise to treat my doing the same thing "like any other case," meaning there will be no arrest and prosecution? As a show of good faith, I'll even promise never to be a constable.

[Via Bruce W. Krafft]

So?

"A Micro Uzi is made by and for the Israeli Armed Forces and is intended to meet the operational needs of Israeli Special Forces," the prosecutor said in a news release.

"It is not a hunting weapon."

And your point is?

[Via Steven K]

Interior Announces Final Firearms Policy Update

Everybody's trumpeting the great victory, and many of you have sent me this news.

I haven't done much with it because it personally does not make one bit of difference to me.

This Day in History: December 6

We, therefore, in the name of the people of these United Colonies, and by authority, according to the purest maxims of representation, derived from them, declare, that whatever punishment shall be inflicted upon any persons in the power of our enemies for favouring, aiding, or abetting the cause of American liberty, shall be retaliated in the same kind, and the same degree upon those in our power, who have favoured, aided, or abetted, or shall favour, aid, or abet the system of ministerial oppression. The essential difference between our cause, and that of our enemies, might justify a severer punishment: The law of retaliation will unquestionably warrant one equally severe.