Snowflakes in Hell

I got excited when I read this headline.  But then I realized they were talking about real snowflakes.  The article goes on to detail Biden’s pathological lying.  I still can’t believe that Obama picked this guy.  He’s lucky the media is in the tank for him.

From Clayton Cramer, describing the fact that the Senate bailout plan contains an excise tax exemption for wooden arrows:

I suppose that we can more cheaply train our kids to become a nation of bowmen this way, so as to overthrow this corrupt and foolish government in a carbon-neutral way.

Clearly the nations economic health would have been imperiled if it wasn’t for this much needed stimulus for the wood industry.

Looks like a federal grand jury has indicted a New Jersey Democratic Party boss, and one of their attorneys in scheme to defraud local governments.  The Republican Party in New Jersey should starting feeling better now.  Maybe this is how the GOP will start winning again in New Jersey… all the leading Democratic politicians will be in jail on corruption charges.

Most Americans aren’t very good at geography, but I would expect that when you’re Governor of Virginia, you’d know which states Virginia does and doesn’t border.

So the Obama/Bayh bumper stickers were a leak to distract folks. It looks like it’s Joe Biden. So, like I did with Bayh, let’s look at Biden’s record. We don’t have to go far. Remember the YouTube debates where he said a gun owner was not “mentally qualified” to own guns for simply asking a question.

1. He takes pride in writing gun bans.
2. He’s F-rated with NRA - the worst among almost all of the most talked about candidates.
3. NRA highlights his recent threats to gun owners via his work on his Senate committee:
   

   NRA has been tracking the U.N.`s gun-ban activities for well over a decade, and thanks to the Bush administration`s appointees to the U.N., the U.S. position on any global gun-ban treaty has been consistent and uncompromising: Hands off the Second Amendment rights of American citizens!

   However, all that could change, now that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee–which approves or rejects our U.N. representatives and assesses international treaties for possible ratification–is chaired by anti-gun U.S. Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware.

   Like Schumer, Biden is rated “F” by the NRA Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) for his countless votes against firearm freedom. Like Schumer, Biden voted to expose the lawful firearm industry to crippling lawsuits; to extend and expand the Clinton gun bans; to allow a ban on most hunting-rifle ammunition; and to deny the free-speech rights of groups like the NRA during elections.

   Now, as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden can use his power to sabotage pro-freedom nominees for U.N. ambassador–as he did with Second Amendment defender John Bolton–and bully fellow senators into accepting whatever gun-ban treaty the U.N. concocts in the name of fighting international terrorism.

4. Needless to say, he didn’t sign on to the Heller brief and doesn’t support efforts to reform DC’s gun laws.

Biden is bad news all around for any gun owner. Pair him with Obama, and it’s a far left gun ban ticket.

Now that Drudge has likely leaked the identity of Obama’s running mate, there are a few things gun owners should know about him.

1. NRA rated him as D- in his last election.
2. One reason is because he’s a liar. Take this example:
   

   Sen. Bayh pledged last year [2004] to support legislation to block frivolous lawsuits against the firearm industry, and NRA sent a letter to Indiana members encouraging them to thank him. Sen. Bayh failed to honor his pledge and voted for the Reed amendment to completely gut S.397. When the Reed substitute was soundly defeated 63 to 33, Bayh voted against final passage of the bill.

3. Bayh refused to sign on to legislation that would honor the Second Amendment rights of Washington, DC and would not sign on to an amicus brief in Heller with more than 54 of his colleagues in the Senate. It would seem he considers some to be more equal than others - a theme I’m sure Obama loves.
4. He doesn’t support concealed carry reciprocity across the country, as evidenced by his refusal to sign on to S.388. Nor did he join a majority of his colleagues in supporting honoring state laws on firearms possession in National Parks through letters to the Department of Interior.
5. He beat Paul Helmke’s ass in a landside - the largest a Democrat has ever won in an Indiana statewide election. No word on if that speaks to Paul’s suckitude or Bayh’s appeal. Based on what we see in the gun world, likely the former.

At the rate John Edwards has been digging, he’s sure to make it before the closing ceremonies.   Bitter points out why John Edwards doesn’t know when to just shut the hell up.  Over at Volokh, Jim Lindgren points out that Edwards says he was 99% telling the truth when he lied.  I expect next he’ll try to tell us that the reason he cheated was because his cancer ridden wife is just too sick to take care of his manly needs.

Considering what John Edwards has said about this whole affair, I would remove all kitchen knives and blunt objects from the Edwards’ house.  You have to figure, she doesn’t exactly have much to lose.  I don’t know if, at this point, to many people would blame her.

I might complain about Mayor Nutter, but at least he’s not this guy.  Nutter I think is often misguided, but I don’t think he’s a crook.  That’s certainly an improvement over Philadelphia’s last Commander-in-Cheat.  Definitely an improvement over Detroit.  You know things are bad when even Philadelphians are saying “Damn, I’m glad I don’t live there!”

Looks like Senator Stevens has been indicted in a corruption probe.  If the Republicans lose, and lose big this November, they will have only themselves to blame.  That’s not to say the Democrats are any better, given money in freezers, and a presidential candidate that hails from the city that put the “C” in Corruption.  But it makes me wonder:

The indictment released Tuesday said the items included: home improvements to his vacation him in Alaska, including a new first floor, garage, wraparound deck, plumbing, electrical wiring; as well as car exchanges, a Viking gas grill, furniture and tools.

I’m in the wrong line of work.  I just need a new patio roof and patio.  If that is Senatorial level graft and corruption, I figure a nice state level position would be enough to weasel a new patio out of someone.

They are actually talking about banning kitchen knives in the United Kingdom.  I just don’t have any extra commentary.  I don’t even have a category for something this friggin insane.  Do they make a straightjacket that would fit around the entire Palace of Westminster?

Looks like the folks in New York State are in for some trouble, because local town officials in Massena, NY are demanding people erect fences and put alarms on inflatable pools.  I think this is a fine idea.  Pools kill far more kids each year than guns, and if I have to lock up my guns, they should have to lock up their pools!  Don’t these parents know that having a pool more than doubles the risk of your family experiencing a drowning accident?  If we’re going to be ridiculous, we might as well go whole hog.

Well, if you don’t have a pro-gun record, and you’re running for a Senate seat in Colorado, you can always just make up false pro-gun legislation you’ve supported to get the news media to run a pro-gun story about you.

The speaker of the Tennessee House lied about having a concealed firearms permit.  Patrick Murphy, who is my Congressman, claims to have one, even though he signed onto McCarthy’s HR 1022 assault weapons ban that would outlaw most semi-automatic firearms.

In Pennsylvania, there’s no way to verify a claim of having an LTC, but I think it’s safe to assume that any anti-gun politician claiming to have a concealed firearms permit is lying to you.

Apparently Americans for Prosperity was planning to take their “Hit Air Balloon Tour” right over Al Gore’s house in honor of his ever growing energy consumption.   Seems they had the permits all lined up, and out of nowhere, the permits got revoked:

Sure enough, just a few hours before our event was scheduled to kick off, the Nashville Parks and Recreation Department has been in touch, claiming that the permit they approved doesn’t allow us to launch our balloon from the city park where we’re holding our event — even though we told them repeatedly exactly what we planned to do.

Roy Wilson, the director of the Board of Parks and Recreation, has even reportedly told one of our staffers on the ground that Nashville police officers will be on hand and will physically restrain members of our crew if they attempt to launch the balloon.

And if that weren’t enough:

UPDATE 3:00 pm Eastern time: Roy Wilson at the Nashville Parks Department must not have liked our earlier post, since he just completely revoked our permit — even though his department’s own rules state that he can’t do that unless we break a law or one of the department’s rules, which we haven’t done and have no intention of doing.  Then he hung up on our legal counsel.

In the meantime, good news to report — we’ve secured a private location for this afternoon’s event.  We’ll be in a field at the corner of Sneed and Vaughn Roads — just about a mile and a half from the original event location.

You’d almost thing that someone didn’t want to deal with being publically embarassed.  After all, he’s Al Gore.  He’s hunting down and trying to kill manbearpig.  Who are we little people to queston the great one?

Did I say guns?  I meant dogs.  Eric has a follow up to the post we linked to yesterday.

“I think eliminating vicious dogs is as important to reclaiming our cities as controlling gun violence and making sure our young people are going to school,” says Yates.

Tyrone Yates is as big a proponent of gun control as he is rounding up people’s pets and exterminating them.  You know, if you change two letters in his first name, I think you can come up with something more appropriate.  Tyrant Yates — yeah, that’s better.  I continue to be amazed that people will vote to keep power hungry politicians like this in office.  And yet these are our big city politicians.  It’s almost like people in big cities like having government run their lives.

A government that goes around invading people’s homes to snatch away family pets and exterminate them has crossed the line and lost any claim to legitimacy it might have.  In sincerely hope that other politicians in Ohio aren’t interested in perpetrating a crime like Tyrant Yates proposes.

New Jersey politicians don’t seem to want to allow oil companies to price gasoline differently in different markets.  If New Jersey outlaws zone pricing, the end result is going to be shortages of gasoline in some areas, and surpluses in others, which won’t get evened out through the price system.  New Jersey already regulates the frequency at which gasoline prices may increase, which causes prices to fall more slowly than in the rest of the country.

Maybe the oil companies should just take a lesson from Ronnie Barrett, and tell New Jersey that if they don’t want to have a free market in oil, then fine, they don’t get any.  Maybe then the voters there will have some motivation to change the smelly political diaper.

From Tam:

And there they were, being blatantly threatened by this gerrymandered race-baiting footsoldier of the class war, this remora on the flank of Leviathan, this vacuous sinkhole of consumption that does nothing but suck in tax dollars and shit out red tape and misery. In a perfect world, they wouldn’t have sat for that. In a just world, they’d have stood as one and walked from that room and let little Maxine foam away at her tinpot Trotskyite fantasies.

Read the whole thing.  The only thing that disturbs me more than that Maxine Waters said this was that I’ve heard so much of it from people, I’m frankly getting sick of it.  Oil company greed is not responsible for high prices.  Anyone with even the most basic understanding of economics can wrap their heads around that.  Yet you hear from a lot of people, even people with PhDs, that oil company profits are obscene.  Well, we have a shortage of petroleum products, and the profits are a signal to the market that we need more resources put into growing energy supplies.  If the politicians remove the profit, what we’ll have is ever rising prices, and if they monkey with that, shortages.

Still want to stay home in November?

Go straight for the form letter without even reading what your constituent was talking about.

Apparently politicians in Chicago are worried that people might be having entirely too much unregulated fun.  Clearly something must be done about this!

The left overuses this term, but this eight grade girl from Detroit really gets it.  She’s talking to Monica Conyers, wife of Congressman John Conyers:

How I wish I were disgustingly rich, because I would offer that girl a free ride to wherever she wanted to go.  Not only did she challenge Mrs. Conyers with poise, she didn’t hold back.  Pretty clearly an incident like this should be the end of Monica Conyer’s career, but this is Detroit.  If there were 1000 more little eighth grade girls like this, it would give me great optimism about the future.

Hat Tip to Hit & Run

New Jersey may want to tax fast food:

The thought of taxing a Big Mac or a Wendy’s burger came up at a New Jersey Hospital Association meeting where Gov. Jon S. Corzine was asked if it could be an option to help fund struggling hospitals. At the meeting, he reportedly called it a “constructive suggestion.”

A spokesperson for the governor, however, told CBS 2 on Wednesday:

“The governor is open to reasonable solutions to help solve our financing problems, but there are no plans for any fast food tax.”

So, New Jersey, How’s that one party rule treating you?  As a side note, the medical community are starting to get awfully meddlesome.  Do we really want these guys suckling at the government teat more than they already do, so they have even worse incentives to demand government force us to be healthy, or else?

Apparently it’s illegal in Illinois to have a secret compartment in your car.  Outrageous.  The law itself can be found here.  Looks like it makes the vehicle subject to forfeiture, and its owner subject to a class 4 felony.

Looks like the new Guv can’t keep his pistol properly secured either.

In a way that would be familiar to David Codrea, Elliot Spitzer had a reputation for abusing his office to silence critics.  While perusing Classical Values, I came across this blast from Spitzer’s past:

Last April, The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed piece by me titled “Mr. Spitzer Has Gone Too Far.” In it I expressed my belief that in America, everyone–including Hank Greenberg–is innocent until proven guilty. “Something has gone seriously awry,” I wrote, “when a state attorney general can go on television and charge one of America’s best CEOs and most generous philanthropists with fraud before any charges have been brought, before the possible defendant has even had a chance to know what he personally is alleged to have done, and while the investigation is still under way.”

Since there have been rumors in the media as to what happened next, I feel I must now set the record straight. After reading my op-ed piece, Mr. Spitzer tried to phone me. I was traveling in Texas but he reached me early in the afternoon. After asking me one or two questions about where I got my facts, he came right to the point. I was so shocked that I wrote it all down right away so I would be sure to remember it exactly as he said it. This is what he said:

“Mr. Whitehead, it’s now a war between us and you’ve fired the first shot. I will be coming after you. You will pay the price. This is only the beginning and you will pay dearly for what you have done. You will wish you had never written that letter.”

No doubt Mr. Whitehead will have the last laugh at this petty and vindictive tyrant.  The people of New York should be ashamed for ever electing this man governor.