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Mike on prez plans - no Bloomin' way

After spending a week on immigration, global warming, evolution and other hot-button national issues, Mayor Bloomberg made yet another national pronouncement yesterday: He's still not interested in a run for the White House.

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Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Ahem. Um, gee, that's too bad. Think of the fun we'd have lambasting this poor excuse for an upright sapien. Mayor Mike is the latest NY Daily News liberal darling because RodHam has been making fence-sitting noises as she prepares for her stab at the Oval Office. But maybe, just maybe, she might convince him to be her Vice Presidential candidate and that'd be the most hilarious thing to hit the media since Blazing Saddles. And with just a few more lesbian-billionaires in the country, they'd win hands down.

Yawn. More Hillary As Goddess Flummery From John Podhoretz

"Unless she does something to disrupt her own progress, or unless something happens in the world that makes her candidacy untenable, Hillary will be the Democratic nominee. And there's no doubt she will be a tougher candidate to defeat than Al Gore, whose message of onrushing global doom isn't exactly the kind of optimistic promise of a better future that resonates with voters.

Thus this Democratic fantasy of salvation from Hillary Rodham Clinton may also the fondest wish as well for Republicans and conservatives who want to keep the White House in GOP hands come 2008."

J-Pod is pimping a new book featuring The Hillary Is Coming, The Hillary Is Coming, to counter Gore's The Sky Is Falling, The Sky Is Falling, because there's big bucks in scaring the country in the same manner the first Ring movie did.

But if Hillary withstands the vetting process then the fix is in. A corrupt lawyer, and an AS corrupt, meddlesome, and incompetant First Lady, the thing from NY doesn't stand a snowballs chance in hell of withstanding the same sunlight that evaporates all such soap scum. Besides, to win the Presidency you've got to be attractive to middle of the roaders, and attractive she ain't. Short dumpy old women with screechy voices and bad variations of the Moe Howard hairstyle don't make the best of impressions on nationwide television, but that's the choir NOW was created to preach to so she will raise tons of cash.

Online Gaming Addiction

"Moon Sung Hoon, a 31-year-old Web page designer who spends about five hours a day inside PC baangs (rooms), said he paid $800 in an online auction last year for a virtual sword.

But doctors cite a growing toll on Korean family life. M.H. Kim, a 37-year-old homemaker in Seoul, forced her 14-year-old son into treatment at a private clinic two months ago. The boy had slipped deeper and deeper into his computer games as he entered junior high school."

Online gaming addiction has reached epic proportions in South Korea, where 10 people died in 2005 from gaming related causes. Ten percent of those from 9-39 are borderline addicts, and while things aren't getting any better, at least the country has realized this national health problem and hospitals and care centers have responded by focusing upon this, the latest addiction. As a longtime video game devotee I can understand the attraction, as well as the addiction, but I was most likely too old and had too much real work on my hands to waste time on a path to such a jones. Combining the siren call of the online experience itself with the sheer pleasure of being a virtual master of the universe is apparently a difficult thing to just say no to.

We' don't have such a problem here, and won't, at least not for a while. 75% of South Koreans have high-speed internet access compared to about 33% of the U.S., but when it becomes cheaper and/or our more liberal state governments force the issue of providing free access to the underprivileged, then stand by to stand by.

Interesting article and worth a look see

Ruminations Upon A Desultory Philippic

The other day while driving, Linda Ronstaaaaaadts anti-love song Different Drum was playing on one channel of the radio, and I had just switched from some liberal jibber-jabber, so thoughts did collide.

We speak of someone dancing or heeding the rhythm of a different drum, but it can safely be said that modern liberal thinkers would have nothing to do with so odious an instrument. Loud, brash, unruly, and a quick glance is all it takes to see that one could obviously harm oneself while flailing away at the skins, and it is somewhat shocking to know that such contrivances can be had by virtually anyone, and without a permit.

Small and cowardly thinkers are best served using tom-toms, or perhaps even bongos.

Different they are, indeed. But drummers? Never. Those that set the bar so low simply must be called Different Toms in deference to such rigid thinking that is the very essence of self-limitation at its saddest level. Some stoop to conquer, others because the upright position is simply too painful, and, after all, they are not worthy.

Marines To Stand Court Martial...

I won't apologize for any of the following, nor say that it did or did not happen. That's for a military court to decide.

"An administrative inquiry overseen by Army Maj. Gen. Eldon Bargewell found that several infantry Marines fatally shot as many as 24 Iraqis and that other Marines either failed to stop them or filed misleading or blatantly false reports.The report concludes that a dozen Marines acted improperly after a roadside bomb explosion killed a fellow Marine, Lance Cpl. Miguel Terrazas."

Nothing in the full story tells me much, other than some people believe that the use of force was excessive. Were I to have been there as a senior NCO, the rules of engagement would be pretty much the same as in all wars. If someone is unarmed and as long as they understand and follow your instructions, then your first thought is to determine if they should be allowed to go their way, or held for questioning, but always treated with due respect. That's the problem in fighting an enemy without a uniform, but all civilians must be protected. On the other hand, if you are in a fight and an unidentified civilian fails to follow instructions, then kill him. If the shit has hit the fan you are not there as a referee. Nor as a policeman. Give all the benefit of the doubt but only once. We don't issue summonses, and the situation must be under YOUR control at all times.

And I strongly disagreee with the statement attributed to the Commandant of the Marine Corps, who reportedly said:

...Marines should overcome the tendency "of becoming indifferent to the loss of a human life" in their dealings with Iraqi civilians.

It may have been taken out of context, and I hope that is the case. Killing demands a certain measure of indifference or sane people could not do it for a living. We do NOT want weepy Marines. Now or ever.

Give Me Strength, Lord...

Robertson Says He Leg-Pressed 2,000 Pounds photo

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson says he has leg-pressed 2,000 pounds. The feat is recounted on the Christian Broadcasting Network Web site, in a posting headlined, "How Pat Robertson Leg Pressed 2,000 Pounds." Robertson founded CBN and is host of its flagship...

That's not all that much. I once saw an ant move a twig that had to weigh 20 times it's own weight, and if one insignificant little insect can do it then so can another.

If It's Friday Then It's Time For: Where's The Pentagon Spending Alla Our Money...

Say hello to the Isomer-Grenade. 2 kilotons worth. That's if the science proves do-able. If it works, the only problem the Pentagon envisions is in finding someone with a really-really-really strong throwing arm.

Hey, psst....

Randy Johnson can still throw close to 100 but can't get major league hitters out, so maybe they could offer him a new job.

Gunfire In The House....

Breaking News...

House police are investigating reports of gunfire in the parking lot. Cable stations are blowing hot air and little else at this point in time.

We'll be back if it warrants more bloviating.

AND MORE

The whole fiasco began with a phone call. No one claimed they saw anything, just some loud noises, and it seems that some detweiler mistook the sounds of construction work for gunfire.

Gee, and here the Brady Bunch was readying a TOLD YOU SO response, and this frigged up their day but good. Was kinda fun watching the cops scurry about while the cable news teams made mistake after mistake because nary a one of them knows shit from shinola about anything. Anyone else remember a time when news people weren't total fricking retards? I do admit that seeing that tons-of-fun D.C. police sergeant spokescow waddle her way to and from the microphone WAS starting to make me ill, so it's good they wrapped this up.

Gun-loving goon gets 25 years in shooting

"Trigger-happy thug Damian Henry, whose violent history with cops goes back years, finally got some serious jail time yesterday.
Henry was sentenced by a Brooklyn judge to 25 years in prison for shooting up an East Flatbush restaurant last June - firing the same gun used to kill Police Officer Dillon Stewart seven months later.
Henry, 25, was not charged in the cop killing, but earlier this month a jury found him guilty of attempted murder in the gunplay at the Tropical Paradise Restaurant.

It was his first felony conviction, despite a string of arrests after clashes with cops - including allegedly firing an Uzi at police outside a Brooklyn club in January. In 2003, he was acquitted of shooting a rookie cop."
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The headline tells the real story, just as headlines are supposed to. Gun loving. That's his crime. Forget the fact that this bad actor spent most of his life robbing, and beating, and yes, shooting at people, because the story is about guns or the authors would have told the truth.

25 years for attempted murder never gets past an appeals court, no way, no how. Particularly since this was Henry's first felony conviction. A weepy judge reduces the sentence down, WAY down, so if he's a good boy while behind bars Mr. Henry spends may 3 years in the slammer and is back on the streets. He know this, every minority criminal in NYC knows this, and even the NY Daily News knows this. As shills for liberal Mayor Bloomberg, The News will jump on any story about guns and feature the tool as the real criminal because that's the Loon agenda. Mr. Henry is only a bad man because of society's deficiencies, and without the guns he would not have been able to commit such crimes, so punishing HIM, really punishing him is out of the question.

The Loons Never Sleep: "Facilitated Communication" Once Again Rears It's Ugly Head...

"Facilitated Communication." That's when someone sits down with an autistic child or adult, and "helps" them communicate their thoughts and feelings via a keyboard or similar device. Was all the rage in Australia, then brought to the states in the early 90's. Funny thing was, if the faciliator was shown one object and the autistic person a different object, then guess which one was communicated? Bingo.

Time and again, Facilitated Communication was proven to be a sham, an unholy sham that saw conmen preying upon the helpless. Some kids got Doctorate degrees in College by bringing along their Facilitators, but in truth never even learned to actually read or write. Parents went to jail for child abuse when a Faciliatator was angered or displeased, and all sorts of incredibly horrible deeds were done via this bogus "science".

But...it's baaaaaaaaack. Time Magazine, that paragon of Loon-atic virtue featured a cover story that harkened back to the bad old days when the gullible actually believed in such nonsense, and here's the whole story. It's lengthy, but fairly inclusive and worth the time to understand how totally fucked these nutcases truly are:
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"The cover article of Time magazine dated May 15, 2006 was entitled, “New Insights Into the Hidden World of Autism.” The article began with the story of a 13-year old profoundly autistic girl whose language was “limited to snatches of songs, echoed dialogue, and unintelligible utterances” and who was “most likely retarded.” However, a few days before her 13th birthday, Hannah was introduced to a communication technique known as facilitated communication. This is technique whereby a “facilitator” helps stabilize an autistic person’s hand and arm so that they are able to type a message on a keyboard. On that day, the girl was asked by the facilitator, “Is there anything you’d like to say, Hannah?” Hannah, with the assistance of the facilitator, then typed out, “I love Mom.”

A year and a half later, Hannah is working her way through high school biology, algebra, and ancient history.1

If you are skeptical of this claim, you have good reason to be. Facilitated communication is a technique originally developed in Australia to assist individuals with physical limitations such as cerebral palsy to communicate via a keyboard. The technique was introduced in the United States in 1990 by Dr. Douglas Bicklen, a professor of special education at Syracuse University. While facilitated communication was never intended for use with autistic children, Bicklen believed it had the potential to provide a means of expressive communication for uncommunicative autistic individuals. Bicklen believed that while autistic children understood language, they were unable to express their thoughts due to a type of developmental apraxia that impaired their ability to control voluntary movement. It was their inability to express themselves, according to Biklen, which often masked the autistic individuals’ true cognitive and linguistic abilities.2

Like 13-year old Hannah, parents of autistic children in the early 1990s found that when assisted by a facilitator their autistic children demonstrated extraordinary abilities. Five and six year old autistic children were writing complete sentences. Others wrote poems and short stories, while autistic adolescents successfully completed high school and college courses despite never having been taught to read or write or having demonstrated such abilities.3

Public schools around the country spent millions of dollars to hire and train facilitators. Parents made plans to have their child’s facilitator accompany them to college. Parents, teachers and therapists did not question the validity of the facilitated communications. They believed facilitated communication was a breakthrough technique that completely redefined autism. The messages their autistic children typed, such as Hannah’s “I love mom,” was all the validation many parents would ever need.

However, some began to doubt the validity of the facilitated communications and began to ask difficult questions. Why would a child be able to successfully communicate with the assistance of a facilitator at school, but not at home with his or her own parents? How could a child demonstrate extraordinary literacy, writing grammatically correct sentences, when they had never been taught to read or write? How could a child type a message on a keyboard while they were staring at the ceiling? And most importantly, were the facilitated communications real? Were the autistic children authoring these writings, or were the facilitators?

The question of whether the facilitated communications were real took on increased urgency when accusations of child sexual abuse began to surface around the country. As a result of these accusations, autistic children were removed from their homes by child welfare agencies while their parents were charged with child sexual abuse.

One of the first investigations of the efficacy of facilitated communication resulted from one of these sex abuse accusations. A profoundly autistic adolescent girl had accused her parents and grandparents of sexual abuse. The girl’s facilitated communication skills were subsequently evaluated by Dr. Howard Shane, a speech pathologist and expert in augmentative communication. He first showed the adolescent girl and her facilitator a picture or object. The typed messages that followed correctly identified the picture or object both had seen. However, when the facilitator and child were shown a different picture or object, the message typed out on the keyboard was consistently what the facilitator had seen. It soon became apparent that it had not been the adolescent girl who had authored the accusations, but rather the facilitator.
Individual case studies were followed by larger controlled studies that sought to determine the validity of facilitated communication. These studies typically included autistic as well as moderately and severely mentally retarded individuals—precisely those individuals whom Bicklen and facilitated communication advocates claimed needed facilitated communication in order to express their hidden thoughts.

In a well-controlled 1996 study, for example, the efficacy of facilitated communication was assessed in 12 individuals ranging in age from 7–36. Six of the participants had a diagnosis of autism, while six had severe to profound cognitive impairments. All subjects had demonstrated unexpected literacy once they began using facilitated communication. The facilitators in this study were those who had demonstrated the most success with each subject. Four of the facilitators were the subject’s mothers, two were special education teachers, two were resident assistants, and one a teacher’s aide. The amount of time each facilitator had been facilitating with each subject ranged from six months to two years.

The subjects were assessed in a familiar environment. The subjects or their facilitator were allowed to stop at any point if they felt uncomfortable. The subjects were presented with either an auditory or visual stimulus, and were then asked to identify that same stimulus. When the facilitators were unable to see or hear what the subjects saw or heard, the autistic subjects’ unexpected literacy via facilitated communication was no longer evident.4

In a 1995 study, the subjects included 18 preschool through secondary students diagnosed with autism. All were nonverbal or had extremely limited verbal-expressive abilities. The student’s teachers attended a two-day training session on facilitated communication taught by Douglas Bicklen. After a 15-week period during which the teachers used facilitated communication on a daily basis with the students, the students’ ability to communicate using facilitated communication was evaluated. Several students demonstrated the ability to correctly respond to requests and questions when the facilitator knew the answer. When the facilitator did not know the correct answer, however, none of the students were able to respond correctly.5

In a 1993 study with 21 elementary and secondary autistic students, the researchers found no support for facilitated communication and concluded that “no client showed unexpected literacy or communicative abilities when tested via the facilitator screening procedure, even after 20 hours of training.”6

A 1994 study examined the facilitated communications of 19 developmentally disabled adults ranging in age from 23–50. All the subjects in the study had been successfully using facilitated communication in their day treatment facility. The study required the individual via their facilitator to identify the color, shape, and the number of shapes they saw on a card. When the facilitator did not see the same card shown to the subject, no subject was found to perform at levels that exceeded chance.7

In a 1996 study of 14 students with autism, none of the students were able to produce functional, typed communication following 10 weeks of instruction in the use of facilitated communication.8

These studies, along with many others, failed to validate the claims of facilitated communication advocates.9 The empirical data was clear. It was not the autistic children who were authoring the typed messages, but their facilitators. The results of the scientific studies prompted the American Psychological Association in 1994 to adopt a resolution that stated, in part, that “facilitated communication is a controversial and unproved communication procedure with no scientifically demonstrated support for its efficacy.”

Parents, their relatives and friends, teachers and therapists had all had wanted to believe that the facilitated communications were real. Any caring, empathetic person would want them to be real. Unfortunately, the scientific results were unequivocal.

What were the costs of uncritically accepting these facilitated messages? False accusations of sexual abuse were made, parents were investigated for child sexual abuse (some were even jailed), children were placed in long term foster care, families were torn apart, millions of public school dollars were spent to hire and train facilitators, and years of schooling were wasted as autistic children sat in advanced classes rather than learning the life skills they would need.

This recent Time magazine article will undoubtedly be eagerly devoured by the parents, relatives, friends, therapists, and teachers of autistic children. Despite the overwhelming scientific evidence accumulated over a decade ago that clearly demonstrated that facilitated communication is an illusion, a minority of parents of autistic or severely mentally impaired children have continued to believe in the technique. Whether advocates of facilitated communication will one day succeed in bringing facilitated communication back into the mainstream is unclear, although this recent article is certainly troubling. The history of facilitated communication, however, should remind us of the significant costs that are often incurred when we, as a society, uncritically accept what we want to believe to be true based on emotion, rather than accepting what is based on fact."

Found This Over At Pat's Joint, Then Took The Silly Thing For Myself

You Are 82% American

You're as American as red meat and shooting ranges. Tough and independent, you think big. You love everything about the US, wrong or right. And anyone who criticizes your home better not do it in front of you!

How American Are You?

82% my ass. Betcha some frickin Loons had a hand in designing this.

Knights Of The Dumb Table

Britain is, Once Again, Safe From Marauding Bands of Klingons

Misha has the scoop on the UK's attempt to rid the streets of senseless acts of violence commited by aliens.

For real. It's modern Britain and you couldn''t make this shit up if you wanted to. Just take a look at the serious face this man has on. How in the name of all that's holy did he manage to heft that thing and not laugh his ass off is beyond me. Sort of reminds me of the time Kirk fought Spock when the Vulcan was going through a serious case of the hots during pahn-far time of the month. You don't think this Bobby is really on the prowl for some green bitch, do ya?

Nah.

But That Wasn't The Half Of It...

Now remember...I had 6 shots remaining. So I said what the heck. For the first two, I was leaning a little against the wall on my lefthand side, so I took a breath and got down and dirty. The head of the target was pristine so I lifted my aim, braced fully against the wall, and fired the lowest hole you can see on the target. Kept squeezing...SLOWLY now, real slowly, and the last of the 6 was the high one up and a little to the right.

6 shots. 25 yards. 3/4" group. Yes, that is not possible. Yes, you can call me a liar, but I'm really not dumb enough to try and fool anyone with such a target because no one who knows shooting would believe that a compact gun could shoot like that. It did. Shit happens. I have never in my over 40 years of shooting had an under 1 inch group @ 25 yards from a pistol or revolver with such a short barrel. Maybe a $3000 gunsmith special in a Ransom rest, using match ammunition. It's possible, but not likely. 5 of the shots went into a hole under half an inch, and that's plain crazy. I want those bullets back. I'm awful sad I shot them now because they were self-defense rounds I was checking for feed, fire, and fling, and I'll never, ever find ammo that accurate again. Not world class hollowpoints. Not from a bone-stock G-27. And certainly never at that distance.

Once again, they were Federal HST .40 caliber hollowpoints. 180 grains. I'm ordering some more from Streichers online tonight ($16.00 for a box of 50), and I know damn well the accuracy fairy didn't linger long enough at the factory for any more of these suckers to be around, but like I said, they were giving me 2 and a half to 3 inch groups all afternoon at that distance, and that's plenty good for any concealed carry firearm.

We shot the Ruger GP 3 incher as well, and the Double-Tap 158 grainers were cranking out at a hair over 1400 fps. Lisa and I were focusing getting the rounds in as small a group as possible at 25 feet, and the gun and ammo did really well. Lots of big ragged holes, and the recoil wasn't so bad she wanted to stop, not at all. I carry that gun sometimes, was pleased with the ammo, and to my hands the recoil was negligible. 6 rounds in a smidge over 3 seconds produced 2 inch groups, and if I ever need better than that I've gone and done something really, really stupid.

Not a bad day at the range.

Let the flames begin.

Lucky Shots

Okay so I had 8 rounds left. Federal HST, .40 caliber. 180 grains. Chronographed @ 1005 fps from my Glock 27. We'd been shooting a while, and I realized I had one target that wasn't made holy yet, so I hooked it up and cranked it back to 25 yards. First shot was the one below the X, so I adjusted and of course went high and left. Now, that's an inch and a half. I can't shoot that small a group at that distance, and neither can a G-27 with a 3.5" barrel, so they were lucky shots, with all the stars aligned just so. Give a high-5 to the ammo because it was dead-on all day.

All was not well on the southern front. The mainstream media continued to portray illegal immigrants as poor souls just wanting a piece of the American Dream, but brave journalists began telling the truth. The outrage grew, with the Loons not understanding that this was not something we had been aware of, as they asked..."Why now? Why THIS Administration, this Congress?

Bounties placed upon Sheriff's by the drug cartels might be something to have a look at. No? How's about kidnapping, extortion, and a white slave trade? 80% of all illegal methamphetamines comes to America through the California and Arizona borders, and the Loons response was to place restrictions upon over-the-counter sales of cold pills.

Doesn't GET more amazing than this.

Californian Wins Immigration Journalism Award

Coverage of Southern Border Highlights Serious Problems WASHINGTON (May 2006) --

Sara Carter of the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin in Ontario, Calif., has been named the recipient of the 2006 Eugene Katz Award for Excellence in the Coverage of Immigration. This award, presented since 1997 by the Center for Immigration Studies, is intended to promote informed and fair reporting on this most contentious and complicated issue.

Traveling frequently from California to Arizona and Texas and Mexico, Ms. Carter broke story after story related to the dangerous conditions all along America’s southern border. Rare has been the week in the past six months that Ms. Carter hasn’t appeared on a cable news program discussing her latest scoop. It was Ms. Carter who broke the story that our government was alerting Mexico City to the locations and membership and other details of the Minuteman Project civilian border-watch group.

She also first brought word of bounties being placed on the heads of sheriffs’ deputies along the Texas border by Mexican cartels. The body of her reporting over the past year is an important example of how the public interest can be served when even a relatively small media outlet devotes appropriate resources to coverage of our nation’s immigration crisis.

More information on the Katz Award, including information on the previous years’ winners, is on line at http://www.cis.org/articles/Katz/katzintro.html

The inspiration for the award was Eugene Katz, a native New Yorker who started his career, after Dartmouth and Oxford, as a reporter for the Daily Oklahoman. In 1928 he joined the family business, working as an advertising salesman for the Katz Agency, and in 1952 became the president of Katz Communications, a half-billion-dollar firm which not only dealt in radio and television advertising but also owned and managed a number of radio stations.

Mr. Katz was also a member of the Center for Immigration Studies board until shortly after his 90th birthday in 1997. The Center benefited greatly from his wise counsel, and the board and staff developed an affection for him that went well beyond business matters. He passed away in March 2000 at the age of 93. # # #

For more information, contact John Keeley, (202) 466-8185 or jmk@cis.org

More Beating The Dead Horse Time In Loonville...

Libby Told Grand Jury Cheney Spoke of Plame

Vice President Cheney was personally angered by a former U.S. ambassador's newspaper column attacking a key rationale for the war in Iraq and he repeatedly instructed his former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, to "get all the facts out" related to the critique, according to excerpts from...

How DARE he! Imagine the gall of that Cheney in asking Libby to get to the bottom of the lies that Mr. Plame was spreading all over town! Dammitall, if the media is forced to publish just the truth then where will all the innuendo-only writers find work?

And don't EVEN tell me that there's a passle of Mexicans just waiting to jump into them jobs...

If 'Lost' Left You Shaking Your Head...

That's okay. The castaways on Gilligans Loon Island did what they always do; set out to find something and get caught by The Others. For, what's that now, the zillionth time?

They can't shoot for shit, left their own little spot on the island knowing full well that they were walking into a trap, and STILL managed to be darted into submission. But at least we didn't have to watch the incredibly ugly fat boy go down with 40 or 50 knockout needles embedded in his acres of ass.

The button wasn't pushed, and that resulted in a lot of shitty special effects that featured little except flying forks and aluminum pots and tin cans being swept away in a physics-from-hell scene straight from Bad-Science 101, so Locke was right. All that was missing was one of those flags that pop out of toy guns and say "BANG", but maybe they'll feature that next season.

Some crazy Russians stopped playing chess long enough to phone Desmond's ex that they'd registered a electro-magnetic anomoly, but she'd told Des that when someone is rich they can find anyone, so we all knew that was coming, too.

Here's the 'official' version of last night's travesty, as told by Loon-Media apologists:

My Way News - 'Lost' Finale Leaves Viewers Less Lost

The Gun-Grabbers Never Rest

It's troublesome. Constantly beating the same dead horse can be boring, but if we don't keep up with the lies of liberal gun-grabbers then they've got us right where they want us. Complacent. Tired of fighting the same old battle, day in and day out.

Rust never sleeps and neither do the Loons. They'll scream about evil guns then fight to free criminals who've slaughtered the innocent.

Guns, you see, can't vote. But the friends and family and neighbors of murderers can.

Michael Daly is the NY Daily News mouthpiece for gun control. He's a tree-hugger, 2nd Amendment destroyer par excellance, and in todays issue of the big newpaper in the biggest city in America, he weeps. The essay is barely readable, as it flails to make sense of nonsense, but the tone remains the same as always. Criminals in less restricted cities, illegally sell guns to other criminals from NY.

There are plenty of laws against this, but enforcing the law means sending minorities to jail, and, minorities being minorities, they'll continue to try for the easy money so why tempt them? To the Loon-atic way of thinking, the only way around all of this is to ban what they steal and sell.

Sort of like saying that stolen cars, and drunk drivers kill the most people so lets ban all cars. And better yet, lets also ban alchohol. That of course WOULD solve that particular problem, now wouldn't it? But oops, we tried the booze-ban deal and all THAT did was create organized crime as we know it today. Make something illegal, and criminals will get rich giving the people what they want.

Enforce the existing laws, and make the penalties more severe. In NY you must be caught with over 15 guns on your person to be charged as an illegal gun dealer, and why not make that ridiculous number a LOT lower? ANY illegal weapon you are caught selling makes you a dealer, and you face the same sentence as the big boys. Sure, there will remain the hardcore that continue to traffic in illegal weapons, but there will be one helliva lot LESS of them.

And many of the problems in NY and Kalifornia were of course created because of the ridiculous laws against the ownership of firearms by perfectly legal citizens. Because none of us can be trusted with power, the Loons wish to take such power away. Makes us more beholding to them for protection. Forget that the vast majority of illegal handguns in our big cities are purchased by otherwise law abiding people who want to avail themselves of their Constitutional right to keep and bear arms. Focus on the crooks and the murderers. Send them away for a very long time. Execute them when their crimes are so heinous as to warrant society's hard solution.

Read some of Michael Daly's call to disarm. Then take a long shower to wash away the mental stench.

Staring Down The Barrel Of The NRA's Evil Lobbyist

George Will On Dangerous Ballots

"In 1906, the year before a rabbi in a Passover sermon coined the phrase "melting pot" during torrential immigration from eastern and southern Europe, Congress passed and President Theodore Roosevelt signed legislation requiring people seeking to become naturalized citizens to demonstrate oral English literacy. In 1950, the requirement was strengthened to require people to "demonstrate an understanding of the English language, including an ability to read, write and speak words in ordinary usage in the English language."

Hence, if someone needs a ballot written in a language other than English, that need proves the person obtained citizenship only because the law was not enforced when he or she sought citizenship.

So one reason for ending ballots in languages other than English is that continuing them makes a mockery of the rule of law - including even the prospective McCain-Kennedy law that pro-immigration groups favor. It contains several requirements that those aspiring to citizenship demonstrate "a knowledge of the English language" or "English fluency" in order "to promote the patriotic integration of prospective citizens into the American way of life" and into "American common values and traditions." How can legislators support both language like that and ballots in multiple languages?"

They can't. Politicians being politicians, they want to have their cake and eat it too, and hoping that no one notices such two-faced standards of ethics they whistle past the graveyard knowing full well that the weak-kneed will see them as being comprimisers and not thieving SOB's who'd court the Mexicans just to stay in office.

Every time I have asked someone in politics why spanish remains necessary for people who by law are required to speak English as part of citizenship, I am told that it is nothing more than a courtesy. We had a different explanation for that way back when. When second and third generation Irish, and German, and Italian immigrants would say that their forebears learned English because they wanted to be Americans first, and the spanish wished to remain spanish. And to heap epithets describing lazy spanish speaking peoples is not what I want to do, but that is what they were described as being. Many, many, NY'ers would not enter a business establishment unless the proprietors spoke at least SOME English, as this was the symbol of becoming an American, and particularly right after WWII this was an important thing. Patriotism ran rampant, and one could of course retain the lingo of a mother or fatherland, but no English, no business.

Then the liberals began working the streets. They assembled the spanish speakers into voting blocks and, as time passed, these became powerful entities that had to be catered to. Gone, but not forgotten was the premise that you speak English or you admit a disdain for the American way of life. But, ever since the spanish-speakers had those marvelous rallies a few weeks back, Americans are becoming more and more angered by the unmitigated gall of these hand-me-outs.

The slumbering giant was awakened. The backlash is still simmering and has not reached epic proportion, but you'll notice that there haven't been any such parades of hatred for the real America since. And thats what it's all about, and forget what the Loons want you to believe. The spanish do not wish to be part of the American culture. The spanish want all of the benefits of being American, but do not want to become American.

Liberal politicians successfully assembled the blacks into voting groups, and now wish to add illegal immigrants to the list of peoples handed a crutch and told they're too weak to walk on their own. But the giant is now awake and it isn't going to be as easy for them this time around.