Snowflakes in Hell

Hillary Clinton and Chuck Schumer apparently think a million of my tax dollars are well spent on a museum dedicated to Woodstock:

$1 million for the Museum at Bethel Woods, which is dedicated to recreating the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival experience and will feature “An interpretation of the 1969 Woodstock Music & Arts Fair” exhibit in 2008, according to the museum’s website. The earmark is at the request of New York Senators Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer.

One of the sad disappointments that associated with the advances in medical science, is that the Baby Boomers are going to be with us a long time, and will have many more years to impose this self-absorbed crap on younger taxpayers as they start hitting their retirement years. If aging hippies want a museum dedicated to Woodstock, they can have a friggin bake sale, and raise the money themselves.

SayUncle has a good post up about the ATF getting smacked down by federal courts over the “one a machine gun always a machine gun” and their AOW regulations. What do to?

Well, probably not much. It would help, I think, if we had a President who was interested in getting the various federal bureaucracies, including the ATF, under control. I think, though, that there’s been too much proliferation of federal law enforcement in general, and it would be beneficial to eliminate some of them. As I’ve said before, if I were dictator for a day, I’d eliminate the ATF, FBI, and Secret Service and roll their functions and agents into the Marshall service.

I don’t think this would automatically solve problems, but it would present the opportunity to get some new leadership into the bureaucracy, which hopefully would effect change in the long run.

Posting might be kind of light around this holiday and on into the weekend.  I’m taking Thursday and Friday off, and will be spending it in Virginia.   Work is letting out early today, but I have a flurry of things I need to do before I go.   Getting vacation is painful for me, because there’s really isn’t anyone else in the company that can do my job.

Dave Hardy has the scoop.   California has passed the lead ammunition ban.   Looking at the groups that are behind it, it looks like a total “screw you” to hunters and sportsman courtesy of the California legislature.

Our government at all levels is out of control.   We have to do something or we won’t be a free people in a few decades.

Gun Law News warns us of a proposed OSHA rule that could do some serious damage to the ammunition manufacturers.   This is more evidence that Bush is asleep at the wheel in terms of controlling the federal bureaucracy.  Someone still needs to explain to me how this stuff is not violating separation of powers.