Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Beyond Imagination
Daley couldn't imagine anyone wanting to hurt him. [More]Rep. Sam Crump doesn't want us to talk about this in plain terms. I disagree.
We can't be so fearful of appearing like apologists that we're afraid to discuss this. It's a dialog that is long overdue. We can have it and come to an understanding of realities, or we can turn our faces away and act shocked and helpless when things don't improve--and perhaps pass more laws in response that squeeze even tighter.
You're in a position to take this "war on words," Rep. Crump, and turn it into a discussion. True, you'll no doubt be shouted down and decried, but at least you'll have a clear conscience that you tried to speak the truth.
Providing that truth includes the term "economic fascism."
[Via ranamacar]
And the Rich Get Richer
On the day the new Congress convened this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a government agency that had just awarded her husband's real estate firm a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms. [More]I can understand why she's all for citizen disarmament.
I can see someone who had his life ruined by fascists tampering with the economy finding out the family home he put his life into that was foreclosed from under him is just another chip in the portfolio of swines whose manipulations created the mess...and then realize he and millions like him have been swindled pawns, and the odds of ever getting justice are...
But hey--Barack is going to give him $400...
And anybody who isn't grateful is just a filthy ol' teabagger...
What Do You Call College Conservatives?
"Haters." [More]
SPLC said it, I believe it, that settles it.
I love this part:
The democrats pushing this line alongside the Fifth Column neocon intelligentsia and pragmatic party loyalists wouldn't steer us wrong, would they?
SPLC said it, I believe it, that settles it.
I love this part:
The YWC’s agenda has some overlap with the platform of the Republican Party, but the group has defined itself in some ways as an opposition movement. The Republican party dodged red meat issues like immigration during the 2008 campaign, and its losses were in part a consequence of that, Saucier said. The YWC seeks to highlight the very issues that Republican groups have decided to place on the back burner, he said.Yeah, that's the problem. George Bush and John McCain were too extreme right. Right? We need to reach across the aisle in a spirit of bipartisanship and cooperation. Oh, and the perfect is the enemy of the good.
The democrats pushing this line alongside the Fifth Column neocon intelligentsia and pragmatic party loyalists wouldn't steer us wrong, would they?
Back Under the Baseboards, Ed
Rendell posits that if there was a "secret ballot" cast, his gun control schemes would easily pass congress. The insinuation there is that congress really wants gun control, but is fearful of facing their constituents after voting away their rights. [More]Scurrying from the light?
Isn't that what a cockroach does?
We're the Onl...
....uh...oops... [More]
I need to do more than read the headline...
And why this isn't a story about free pork chops is beyond me.
[Via Ed M]
I need to do more than read the headline...
And why this isn't a story about free pork chops is beyond me.
[Via Ed M]
We're the Only Ones Peeping Enough
Two FBI workers are accused of using surveillance equipment to spy on teenage girls as they undressed and tried on prom gowns at a charity event at a West Virginia mall. The FBI employees have been charged with conspiracy and committing criminal invasion of privacy...Teenage girls? Any of them legally minors? If so, is there any reason--aside from "Only One" status--that they're not being charged as felonious sexual predators, so that we can forever disarm them and track where they live online?
Gary Sutton Jr., 40, of New Milton and Charles Hommema of Buckhannon have been charged with the misdemeanors and face fines and up to a year in jail on each charge if convicted. [More]
[Via too many of you to credit]
We're the Only Ones Stimulated Enough
Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia wants to spend about $7 million in federal stimulus money to lease and staff a helicopter, buy a covert surveillance van and add machine guns to boats that patrol the Houston Ship Channel. [More]Let's see, it's Homeland Security lucre, so it can't be foreign pirates. Maybe there's a rightwing extremist threat? Because as we all know, these weapons of war are designed solely to kill as many human beings as possible and belong on the battlefield, not on our streets.
Oh, sorry, I was mistakenly referring to your and my semiautos, not to "Only One"-assigned "patrol rifles."
[Via Lane]
UPDATE: Whose Paranoid tells us about another toy that can be deployed against...what did the guy in shades call us?
Civilians.
I know the definition has been allowed to change through common usage over time to include pea...uh...law enforcement officers. I wonder who thought that was a good idea?
Savage Shooting Looks Like Fun
Funny thing about Knob Creek. Ordinary Americans have access to all kinds of firepower and yet 15,000 of them manage to get along just fine.Today's Gun Rights Examiner column covers a lot of ground, from a range in Kentucky to:
Maybe, just maybe it's not the guns...? [More]
- A "progressive" view of the Second Amendment
- Front Sight Correcting 20/20 vision
- Deceptive play dates
- Trouble in Oregon
- Anti-gun Facebook censorship
- Alaskan liberty
Tell a friend?
This Day in History: April 21
The Enemy, unprovided with Horses and Carriages or any means of moving by land, cannot go off the Island and penetrate the Country, and I should imagine that it would not require any great number, properly Stationed, to prevent their ravaging the Coast. [More]Wrap your mind around that. Washington regarded those who insisted--with force--that they were his lawful government--and fellow countrymen who sided with them--as "The Enemy."
It's a hell of a thing to drive a good man to consider, don't you think? How much abuse and disregard for his rights should one have to suffer before he does? That seems to be the question we're wrestling with, isn't it?