It's SATIRE (and NOT): BLACK WOMEN LOSING RIGHTS TO Name Their Children Stupidly

From Essence, this is Satire

BLACK WOMEN LOSING RIGHTS TO THEIR CHILDREN'S NAMES

(DETROIT)- In a decision that’s expected to send shockwaves through the African-American community—and yet, give much relief to teachers everywhere—a federal judge ruled today that black women no longer have independent naming rights for their children. Too many black children—and many adults—bear names that border on not even being words, he said.
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Few stepped forward to defend black women—and black women themselves seemed relieved.

“It’s so hard to keep coming up with something unique,” said Uneeqqi Jenkins, 22, an African-American mother of seven who survives on public assistance. Her children are named Daryl, Q’Antity, Uhlleejsha, Cray-Ig, Fellisittee, Tay’Sh’awn and Day’Shawndra.
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Cabrera’s ruling exempted black men because so few of them are actually involved in their children’s lives.

However, it might not be a bad idea:

From Gainseville, FL:

Woodland Park gets playground

"I like the slide because it curves," said 12-year-old Idylwild Elementary School student Shitavius Showers. "I also like it because its colors are orange and blue."

Quinishia Lewis was in awe of the new playground.

And from Decatur, IL:

Three, including 15-year-old, formally charged with murder

Shitavious J. Cook, 15, was arraigned Thursday morning on his charges, punishable by up to life imprisonment.

Who the hell names their kid ShitAnything?
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Media Bias Again

Just a little bit of bias evident in the MainStreamMedia. 

By way of Bob in L.A. at NOFP, who got it from Ace of Spades who got it from Via Networked blogs:who got it from.......
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A Black Woman Tells Other Black Women: Get Out of the 'Hood NOW

Last Call To Evacuate Black Residential Areas Before The “Peace Walls” Go Up

(Note: The author of this piece, Khadija Nassif, can be seen in numerous places on her blog denouncing "Faux News" and "racist" Tea Partiers.  She and I would probably be on the opposite sides of most political arguments.

She was a Black Nationalist, until she realized that Black Men were more of a threat than an asset to Black Women here. )

You can’t optimize your lifestyle when you are living in physical danger. It’s time to face the truth that it is no longer safe to live within the so-called Black community. It’s time to face the truth that the greatest danger to any individual Black person’s life is usually found inside Black residential areas.
Most of you know this in your hearts. You might not want to admit this out loud, but you know this is true....

I’m not saying to run to or from cities or suburbs. ... ...we must run from places where there are heavy concentrations of other Black folks...

I’m saying to flee to nonblack areas because nonblacks still have the will and the common sense to protect themselves and their areas from predators. Somewhere along the way during the 1960s, African-Americans became confused about the need to defend ourselves against predators.

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many African-Americans will defend and minimize any atrocity committed by Black predators. (For examples, see the many inappropriate responses to the R. Kelly case, the Dunbar Village gang rape case, the Hovey Street murders, and too many other outrages to mention.)

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As a result, most African-Americans have lost the common sense and will needed to uphold safety in our own areas. We resist anything likely to be effective in fighting violent crime.

Since African-Americans have become too confused to take the actions needed to safeguard our own lives, we need to “borrow” the benefits of other people’s common sense and will. We must flee to nonblack areas where the residents have the common sense and will to do what is needed to protect themselves against predators.

I’ve also said that you need to get out before the peace walls go up. The day will come when outside (i.e., White male dominated) law enforcement gets tired of even pretending to protect African-Americans from other African-Americans. We complain about police brutality when they do respond to what’s going on in Black residential areas. We complain when they don’t respond.

At some point, the police and the non-Black (White and emerging Latino) political elites that control them will decide to put up physical barriers around violent Black residential areas and call it a day. And have the police patrol the perimeter to make sure that the inhabitants stay inside those violent, crime-ridden neighborhoods at night.

That blog post is dated October 6, 2010; it precedes much of the awakening knowledge of the racist Black violence that is springing up all over the country.

I don't know if the "peace walls" will be as literal as Khadija imagines.  But, if the black mob violence against whites continues, something will be done.  And it will not be pretty.

The Knockout Game: Racial Violence and the Conspicuous Silence of the Media

By John T. Bennett

By now, almost everyone has seen one of the semi-amusing videos of black teen mobs rampaging through a store.  
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Most Americans have heard of recent violent  "flash mobs," which are the bands of black teens that attack mostly white victims and white businesses, as even the New York Times once noted....


But...There is also the "knockout game," which is stunning in its brutal simplicity and stark racial significance.
 
The knockout game involves "unprovoked attacks on innocent bystanders," according to police who have had to deal with it.  A retired officer explained, "Normally it was a group of black males, one of which would strike him as hard as he could in the face, attempting to knock him out with one punch,"
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The knockout game has claimed at least one life so far.  In St. Louis this year, 72-year old Hoang Nguyen was walking with his wife, Yen, when four "young people" attacked.  The attacker pushed the old man's face to the side to make a "clear target for his fist," recalled his wife. 
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Hoang succumbed to his injuries later that day.  A young black male, 18-year-old Elex Murphy, is charged with first-degree murder.
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In addition, a mob of young black males can be seen playing the game here.  The video shows the group attacking a young white man named Adam Taylor, who was left with internal bleeding, bruising of the brain, severe whiplash, and scratches on his face when he was beaten in Columbia, MO in 2009.


Sgt. Pizzo noted that the attacks fit a pattern: "black attackers on a white victim -- and the victim was often an older person walking alone."  In a thorough and sensible piece on the subject in a local arts and entertainment magazine, eight of the victims interviewed were white, one was black, and one was Latino.  All of the attackers, or "players," were black. 
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Local media outlets have failed to report on the racial aspect of the attacks.

A New York Times editor says that his paper will report on race "only if it's relevant to the story" or if readers would "learn something" from the description.  



The Chicago Tribune's editor, Gerould Kern, explains his paper's "approach" to concealing the truth: "We do not reference race unless it is a fact that is central to telling the story."  Of course, no guilt-ridden white liberal editor will ever admit that race is relevant, unless of course a white is attacking minorities.

The Los Angeles Times explains that the media will not report race because they don't want to "unfairly stigmatize racial groups."

The Washington Post ombudsman openly admits that the Times's staff  "worried about hyping a story that involved race" when blacks brawled on the Metro.  Instead of stigmatizing racial groups, the liberal media prefers to condemn minorities via low expectations and preferential, secretive reporting -- which only creates a cloud of ominous suspicion over the race issue.  But at least racial groups aren't being stigmatized.

A senior reporter from the Houston Chronicle admits, "We don't ever include race normally -- unless race is made an issue by other people."  In other words, if racial interest groups make something of the issue, race will become part of the story.  And we all know which racial groups advocate on their own behalf, and which one doesn't.

 
 

4 Black guys attacking a 72 year old man.  What a bunch of worthless chickenshits.

Guess what, you black asswipes?  "Liberal Guilt" is fading fast.  Ever notice how none of your Liberal friends live in the 'hood?

"CSA Pride", History and Ignorance

From the news:

Confederate flag causes race war

“We’re just standing up for what we believe in,” Wayne Matthews said.  He’s one of the students who helped pass out t-shirts before school Wednesday morning. His mother made 32 Confederate flag t-shirts and stacked them up in the back of her trunk.

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Matthews said this has nothing to do with race; it’s about his right to freely express himself. To him, the Confederate flag does not represent any one race. “It stands for people that believe in what the Civil War is about and it stands for Southern pride,” Matthews said.

The t-shirts bear a large image of the Confederate States of America (CSA) "Rebel Flag" with accompanying text:  "If this Shirt Offends You, You Need to Learn History".



OK, let's look at history:


A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union.

In the momentous step which our State has taken of dissolving its connection with the government of which we so long formed a part, it is but just that we should declare the prominent reasons which have induced our course.

Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery

So Mississippi "wins", by getting straight to the point.  The other seceding southern states take a little more time to get to the point - but it is the same point.

See:

 Confederate States of America - Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union

South Carolina self-righteously invokes the Declaration of Independence:

 We hold that the Government thus established is subject to the two great principles asserted in the Declaration of Independence;

That would be the same Declaration of Independence that states

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

But South Carolina conveniently skips that part, instead invoking the parts of the Constitition dealing with "rights" of slaveholders:

But an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery, has led to a disregard of their obligations, and the laws of the General Government have ceased to effect the objects of the Constitution....Thus the constituted compact has been deliberately broken and disregarded by the non-slaveholding States, and the consequence follows that South Carolina is released from her obligation.

Georgia and Texas take similar paths.

So they make a "legal" case for their secession, but it is all about slavery.


The secession of the southern states, and the subsequent creation of the CSA was about slavery.  Period. 

But slavery is the alleged "right" of people to own human beings.

There can be no such right.

No piece of paper, nor any other legalism, can create such a right.  It is a nullity. 

Since the owners were almost entirely white, and the slaves were almost entirely black - and the universal assertion was to the effect that this was correct due to the natures of the peoples involved - this is about race.


Matthews and his mother are both ignorant fools.

The South has many things to be proud of.  The CSA and the ensuing war shouldn't be among them.  The CSA flag has no place in polite - or sane - society.
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You want Racism? HERE is racism - BLACK RACISM!

BLACK MOBS 

BEATING THE CRAP OUT OF WHITE PEOPLE FOR FUN - OR INTIMIDATION

The "Main Stream Media" sometimes call them "flash mobs" - but these are not the flash mobs of years past.

Old-style flash mobs involved people - mainly white - converging on some place for harmless activities, such singing or dancing to silly songs.

But the current mobs are all Black - they may or may not use social networks or texting to coordinate their attacks - and their purpose is to beat the shit out anybody white.  (Occasionally, some other non-Blacks catch their wrath too.)

And the MSM is covering for them as best it can - refusing to report the race of the perps whenever possible.


Here is one of the more recent outrages, from Philadelphia, which seems "blessed" with an outsize share of these event, though they are occurring all over the country.

AN 84-YEAR-OLD [was] savagely attacked by four young punks

AN 84-YEAR-OLD ex-university official savagely attacked by four young punks during a walk in Wissahickon Valley Park earlier this week theorizes that the beating he endured was a cruel game of "get the old geezer."
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"I felt a real something to the head, a real blow to the head from behind," he said. "It knocked me to the ground; that was the biggie."

Shea said the four assailants continued to beat him for minutes while he was on the ground. He said they were black, appeared to be between 16 and 20, and three of them were wearing La Salle sweatshirts.
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The real "stunner" to Shea is that they left without trying to take his wallet, keys or cellphone.

 Much more to come.
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Media Bias Matters Very MUCH - and - Racism Redefined

This post comes from a running argument I tried to have with Liberals, nominally about the Tea Party and Republicans.

First for your consideration:

Few signs at tea party rally expressed racially charged anti-Obama themes

A new analysis of political signs displayed at a tea party rally in Washington last month reveals that the vast majority of activists expressed narrow concerns about the government's economic and spending policies and steered clear of the racially charged anti-Obama messages that have helped define some media coverage of such events.

Emily Ekins, a graduate student at UCLA, conducted the survey at the 9/12 Taxpayer March on Washington last month by scouring the crowd, row by row and hour by hour, and taking a picture of every sign she passed.

Ekins photographed about 250 signs, and more than half of those she saw reflected a "limited government ethos," she found - touching on such topics as the role of government, liberty, taxes, spending, deficit and concern about socialism. Examples ranged from the simple message "$top the $pending" scrawled in black-marker block letters to more elaborate drawings of bar charts, stop signs and one poster with the slogan "Socialism is Legal Theft" and a stick-figure socialist pointing a gun at the head of a taxpayer.
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But Ekins's analysis showed that only about a quarter of all signs reflected direct anger with Obama. Only 5 percent of the total mentioned the president's race or religion, and slightly more than 1 percent questioned his American citizenship.

{Emphasis added.}

You would never know this to watch the MSM coverage.


And you would never know it to talk with Liberals.  Combining Liberals and Blacks seems to produce  particularly toxic willful ignorance:



Morgan Freeman Sees Tea Party as 'Weak, Dark Underside of America'

Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman believes race relations within the United States are worse now than they were before President Barack Obama entered the White House. And he had no problem telling Piers Morgan of CNN just what he believed was the driving force behind the worsening relations: The tea party movement.

"Look at the -- look -- the tea partiers -- who are controlling the Republican Party, their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term. What's -- what does that -- what underlines that? Screw the country. We're going to do whatever we need to do to get this black man -- we can -- we're going to do whatever we can to get this black man out of here."

When the talk show host attempted to qualify, saying it was "not necessarily racist," Freeman forcefully interrupted, "It is a racist thing."

So, Freeman - and all the blacks and/or liberals who mindlessly agree with him - have redefined racism.

I thought that racism meant "The vile practice of judging a person or people by the color of their skin, rather than the content of their character".

But in the world of Liberals, especially Black Liberals, it now means: "Disagreeing with a Black person".

The only thing approaching facts that these folks can muster to bolster their opinions are the many pictures of racist signs allegedly from Tea Party events.  So the Liberal Media Bias feeds this psychotic fantasy nicely.

There is no arguing with these people, either; they are immune to facts, logic and history. 

When they wake up one day and decry real racism, they will discover, to their horror, that millions of Americans have been completely desensitized to any charges of racism applied to anybody - because the Black and/or Liberal axis blindly followed their leaders, who de-valued the word in the trivial pursuit of a temporary political advantage.


Here is the Tea Party sign those folks need to think about:

Not Quite Quote of the Day....

....only because I missed it by 3 days.


From Steve Sailer: Breaking News! Pakistan not actually on our side

But the point is that we must continue to engage with Pakistan because they are the front door to the real prize: Afghanistan, with its strategically crucial resources of gravel, scree, unbridged torrents, furious holy men, gay warlords, and Pashtun proverbs, such as "When the flood waters reach your chin, put your son beneath your feet."

Well, of course.  Why wouldn't we?

Scientists Do the Darnedest Things!

So I've been off of here for quite a while.

Here is an interesting nugget:

Lap dancers earn more when they are most fertile

“BECAUSE academics may be unfamiliar with the gentlemen's club sub-culture, some background may be helpful to understand why this is an ideal setting for understanding real-world attractiveness effects of human female oestrus.”
No doubt readers of The Economist are equally unfamiliar with this sub-culture, but for Geoffrey Miller of the University of New Mexico, who penned the words above in a paper just published in Evolution and Human Behaviour, such clubs are a field site as revealing of human biology as the Serengeti is of the biology of lions and antelopes.
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This theory is based on the idea that in evolutionary terms it benefits women to disguise when they are fertile so that their menfolk will stick around all the time. ...

However, this should result in an evolutionary arms race between the sexes, as men evolve ever-heightened sensitivity to signs of female fertility. Dr Miller thought lap-dancing clubs a good place to study this arms race, because male detection of female fertility cues would probably translate into an easily quantifiable signal, namely dollars earned.
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The results support the idea that if evolution has favoured concealed ovulation in women, it has also favoured ovulation-detection in men. The average earnings per shift of women who were ovulating was $335. During menstruation (when they were infertile) that dropped to $185—about what women on the Pill made throughout the month. The lessons are clear. A woman is sexier when she is most fertile. And if she wishes to earn a good living as a dancer, she should stay off the Pill.

Anything in the name of science.  Of course, one needs a standardized client, right?  Complete with subsidies from fed.gov!
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It's ALREADY in Free Fall

This image is of "Indoor Skydiving":

The lady shown is being pulled to the earth such that she would eventually achieve a "terminal velocity" of 120 mph downward.

But it doesn't happen in this case because a giant fan beneath her is producing a updraft of 120 mph, which balances the forces, so she gets to "freefall" in one place.  If the wind stops, she drops like a rock.

So what are we to make of this graph of the Monetary Base as manipulated by the Fed (courtesy of ZeroHedge)?

The first area in red is the "updraft" needed in Autumn of 2008 to prevent everything from falling down.

So what is the second area in red?  It is another updraft, in place NOW.  We are ALREADY in free-fall.
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The Fed is feeding the economy pure meth - and it is still standing still or worse.  When the meth loses its effect, or runs out, there will be pure hell to pay.
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A Droid 2 Is Like A Trophy Wife....

...after you marry her.

• It looks really nice.
  
• When it does what you want, it's wonderful.
  
• It's high maintenance.
  
• At random intervals, it becomes totally unresponsive for no visible reason.
  

My previous philosophy in phones was small, cheap, and simple-bordering-on-stupid. 

But I saw one of these on the train, and said, I want. 

So I figured: "Why not? It's not like it's real money anyhow - they're just Federal Reserve Notes.   Even if it was still dollars, it would be trash.  Might as well have some fun while I still can." 



It's got a slide out keyboard, so texting is merely painfully slow instead of agonizing. 

It's got GPS and turn-by-turn navigation so - assuming I stay where there is data coverage - I'll stop getting hopelessly lost every time I go anywhere I haven't been before.

It's got reasonably good speech to text capabilities.

The screen has very high resolution so that it makes very good looking text (albeit too small for me to read).


So far I've had to power-cycle it something like 3 or 4 times.  Twice because it locked up solid as rock after it finished playing an MP3.  Once be cause it locked solid while doing nothing in particular.  Once because I couldn't figure out how to see my contacts anymore.  (That was me dealing with the UI, which is sometimes baffling.)

Most of these required sliding out the keyboard and using the new 3-fingered salute shift-alt-delete.  That's because that sequence is more powerful than just holding the power switch - go figure.

Oh well.... time to buy more guns and ammo.  Don't even ask about the 1911 and hollow-points, however.  Sore subject.  Suffice it to say that  it will be visiting its maker.

I Can't Draw Muhammed...

...because I can't draw anything.  [deleted text was here]  Anything beyond a crude network diagram on the back of an envelope is beyond my artistic skills.


So this borrowed drawing will just have to do instead.  It says it all anyhow.

UPDATE: I took out some very offensive text in deference to my recollection of some seemingly totally  "Americanized" Muslims I have known.  The picture and this entry remain for the rest.  All you Jihadis ready to be martyrs - be careful what you wish for. - bobn 10/12/2010

I Got Your Recovery Right Here....

This graph from here at Jesse's Café Américain:

(click for larger image in new window)

And his pithy analysis:

The recent 'recovery' in the SP 500 deflated by gold is instructive. This should help those who see no recovery in the real economy, but were confused by the amazing spike in the US equity market. It was a monetary phenomenon.

 And his further analysis here of why banksters, especially Central Banksters, hate gold.

Enough "PC" Chatter

They aren't "undocumented workers".

They aren't "Illegal Immigrants".

They aren't even "Illegal Aliens".

They are INVADERS.

Their numbers are variously estimated at 12 to 20 million.  The U.S. military had 6 million troops in World War 2.

This is an invasion - they are the enemy - and those that support, enable, or aid them, in any way, are TRAITORS.

The crime of Treason is defined in the Constitution of the United States.  The penalty is frequently Death.

Congress and Obama need to really think  over iif it is worth what it will cost them going forward.
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I'm FAMOUS!

Armed and Safe says: "I believe that being despised by the despicable is as good as being admired by the admirable".

By that standard, I'm good!

The ADL, which is acting as a tool for the administration in the same usless fasion as the SPLC, has released a report, found here, entitled "Violent Voices:
Anti-Government Extremism Takes on New Intensity".

In Chapter "IV. Daring to Call It Treason", Page 9, paragraph 4, appears this:

For many, hanging seemed to be the most appropriate “solution” to the allegedly treasonous acts committed by officeholders. “The Liberals suffer from excessively short necks,” wrote “Bobn” on the Tree of Liberty Forums on March 24. “I propose that a simple solution exists.”

In this case I was specifically referring to the Democrats in Ccongress, not to all Liberals.

From ambivalent Liberal to Right-wing extremist in less than 2 years - who'd'a thunk?

I'm so proud I could just burst.

Note to the ADL: I'm Jewish. I voted straight Democrat for more than 20 years. But the current crop of Liberals in Congress are in fact treasonous, and they are just getting started.

2nd note to the ADL: if you've been paying attention, you might notice that the current administration, whose dirty laundry you carry, is no friend of Israel. Be warned.

If you need me, I'll be out buying guns, ammo, and canned goods.
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Lines Not To Be Crossed

These are perilous time. Let our "leaders" know that there are travesties they dare not commit.

[W]henever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any farther obedience and are left to the common refuge, which God hath provided for all men, against force and violence....
if a long train of abuses, prevarications and artifices, all tending the same way, make the design visible to the people, and they cannot but feel what they lie under, and see whither they are going, it is not to be wondered at that they should then rouse themselves, and endeavor to put the rule into such hands which may secure to them the ends for which government was at first erected
- John Locke, Second Treatise on Government

Since the thugs running the country have no respect for any rules, we have to look ahead to see where they could be going.

It's been said that we have 3 boxes to defend ourselves with: the soapbox, the ballot box and the cartridge box.

The soapbox has failed. The CONgress-critters and Executive ignored 9:1 calls against TARP; and they ignored 100s of thousands in the streets, and millions tying up their phonelines - along with numerous polls showing general opposition - on so-called Health Care Reform.

The Democrats are now making noises about the rest of their "agenda". I fear that the next thing up will be so-called Immigration Reform. This will involve amnesty for illegal immigrants. And if that also allows the Democrat-Statists to stuff the ballot box with 10 - 20 million votes, it ensures their dominance for decades, if not making us a de-facto 1-party country. Game over - we become strangers in our own land.

If the ballot box is denied us, there is only one box left.

So enfranchising those illegal immigrants - whose very presence in this country is a crime - must not even be attempted. That part of Immigration reform must not happen - even if other parts do. That one thing must remain inviolate. The first attempt at enfranchisement of illegals can only be seen as the path to tyranny, which any and every patriot is obliged to fight with all means necessary. This is not a threat. This is a warning - and a promise to our posterity.

I read a lot, and I believe that this might be the thing to push many over the edge. It is certainly in line with other indications.

The people of this country have reached their limit, as shown by the Rasmussen poll that just 21% of voters nationwide believe that the federal government enjoys the consent of the governed.

So that is a line that must not be crossed. In fact, it cannot even be approached.

And the other line that cannot be crossed is to try to remove the cartridge box. The guns and ammo are part of our natural birthright to self-defense. The 2nd Amendment affirms that that right shall not be infringed, for the very purpose of maintaining a free State:

This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty. . . . The right of self defence is the first law of nature - St. George Tucker, Blackstone's Commentaries 1:App. 300

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Obama's Cousin Disses Obamacare

Obama's cousin is a doctor, and the points he raises are nightmarish.

Saw this on Hannity, who linked to the text here, including this bombshell:

As one example, consider the implications of Obamacare's financial penalty aimed at your doctor if he seeks the expert care he has determined you need. If your doctor is in the top 10 percent of primary care physicians who refer patients to specialists most frequently - no matter how valid the reasons - he will face a 5 percent penalty on all their Medicare reimbursements for the entire year. This scheme is specifically designed to deny you the chance to see a specialist. Each year, the insidious nature of that arbitrary 10 percent rule will make things even worse as 100 percent of doctors try to stay off that list. Many doctors will try to avoid the sickest patients, and others will simply refuse to accept Medicare.

MaxedOutMama contributes more analysis, excellent as usual, here.
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Far-reaching and Potentially Devastating Ramifications

The title is a quote from Customs and Border Protection Area Port Director Rolando Suliveras Jr. on the seizure of 30 TOY GUNS.

Yes, Airsoft toy guns. Our tax dollars hard at work were, baby!

Of the same seizure, BATFE Special Agent Kelvin Crenshaw said the toys can be easily retro-fitted into dangerous weapons. "With minimal work it could be converted to a machine gun," Crenshaw said.

But everydaynodaysoff lists the problems with this "minimal work", highlights are:

• The WE TTI M4’s lack any sort of functional gas tube which is integral to an AR15’s operation
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• The stock trigger pack in the WE TTI cannot strike the firing pin of a AR15 bolt
• The body of the WE TTI lower is several mils thinner than an AR15 lower, and shims would be needed for any AR trigger pack to work
• ....one of the AR15 trigger pack retaining pins is impossible to insert without major modification, and the hammer isn’t operable with the WE TTI lower.

The Airsoft gun is a plastic toy that uses compressed air to shoot plastic balls. If you could actually get it to shoot real ammo, it would be far more dangerous to the shooter than to any target.

Other than that, no problems!

Note to the Federal Government: You just stay classy and competent like this. Staying on this path, you'll soon lose even the shallow claim to legitimacy you currently "enjoy".

Per Rasmussen, "just 21% of voters nationwide believe that the federal government enjoys the consent of the governed". And, same link, "Seventy-one percent (71%) of all voters now view the federal government as a special interest group, and 70% believe that the government and big business typically work together in ways that hurt consumers and investors. "

So, what happens when that 70+ percent of people - that believe that the Fe(de)ral Government is crapola - start acting on that, through disobedience, civil or otherwise? Once that happens, the results will be ugly.

"Far-reaching and Potentially Devastating Ramifications" indeed!


"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
- Claire Wolf, "101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution"

It just gets later every day.
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IowaHawk Soars Again

So I stroll out of the loo, real casual-like, with my nuts on fire, and headed back to my seat to blow out the fuselage.

How To Win Friends and Influence People

Rolling Stone addressing skeptics of Man-made Global Warming:





Wow, I just love it when they get all technical and eveything!

My answer:

ClimateGate! ClimateGate! ClimateGate! ClimateGate! ClimateGate! ClimateGate! ClimateGate! ClimateGate! ClimateGate!

Best IRC Q/A Ever!

Gotta love the enthusiasm:

<+FarmDad> ok a poll for the gals ... does the " Gspot " exist ?
<+breda> YES
<+Snigs> YES
<+Wing> YES

Solar is GOOD! NO, Solar is BAD!

Senator Feinstein nixes solar project in the Mojave - which had been fast-tracked by Bush. Really - I can't make this up!

Of course, DiFi has practically patented hypocrisy:

When asked earlier why she carried that .38 Smith & Wesson concealed in her purse while promoting gun control for the rest of us, Feinstein answered, “I know the urge to arm yourself because that’s what I did. I was trained in firearms. I’d walk to the hospital when my husband was sick. I carried a concealed weapon. I made the determination that if somebody was going to try to take me out, I was going to take them with me.”

Only a couple of months earlier, however, Feinstein has gone on 60 Minutes to announce, “If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an out-right ban…I would have done it.”

Newest Best ClimateGate One-liner

Courtesy of the mighty IowaHawk:

It's not really rocket science. Well okay, I suppose it's really not science at all.

Missing the Point

Today's EPA ruling - that so-called "greenhouse gases" are to be regulated by the EPA as hazardous atmospheric products - is *not* because of Copenhagen. Nor is it "in spite of" ClimateGate.

This potentially disastrous piece of mischief is because of ClimateGate.

'Cap and Trade' has been stalled in the Senate; with ClimateGate, it's chances of passage had probably dropped to nil. This went double for anything BHO brought back from Copenhagen - a treaty requiring 66 votes for Senate ratification was even more DOA than a bill requiring 60 votes for cloture.

With ClimateGate - with the wheels coming off the "scientific" facade of "Man-made Global Warming" - the administration knew that unilateral executive action was its last chance to impose its crippling, garbage-science policies upon the U. S.

Now is the time for real oversight - and a meaningful threat to use the power of the purse, to filibuster any appropriation bill that includes funds used to enforce this insanity.

And now is also the time to realize that jobs and the economy don't matter to BHO - only raw power, used in the nastiest way and for the nastiest purpose: self-perpetuation.
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Ouote of the Day

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

- C. S. Lewis

Those who have debated me, such as Carl at NofP, will know that I am suspicious of all concentrations of power - with some extra focus on big business, especially big money, which many Conservatives and especially Neo-Cons seem to rather blithely ignore. The copious recent evidence of the consequences of un-reined greed and malfeasance of Wall Street somehow leaves these groups unfazed and/or in denial.

But after watching the radical Liberals in action in Congress and the Executive branches the last 11 months, I'm beginning to see where C. S. Lewis is coming from. These people are just plain crazy.
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Irony Of The Day

They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers... call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order. - Frankin D. Roosevelt, 15 March 1941

Wonder if Obama/Pelosi/Reid have heard that one?

Best ClimateGate One-liner...

so far.

Phil Jones – ‘I did not have statistical relations with that data’

AGW Follies

A bunch of "scientists" tried to fake Global Warming and all I got was this lousy T-shirt.

Quote of the Day

"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."
- Claire Wolf, "101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution"

Make that 102: "Million Gun Owner March"

So, folks, what you doing 4/19/2010?

Nobels For All

Here's mine:

Available here.

Be sure to try the "Republican" option for maximum "humor".
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