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March 15, 2012 by

Today is the day that pools at commercial establishments such as hotels and motels must have a permanent wheelchair lift so as to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. This is going to be enforced by the Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section of the Department of Justice. Many hotels and motels will probably be closing off access to their pools until they can comply with this mandate for fear of being sued by DOJ. In other words, no one swims, able bodied and disabled alike.

However, as Tam notes:

Fair’s fair, and here in America, we’re all about “fair”. It’s one of the founding principles laid out in the Monroe Doctrine by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King. I remember that from school.

Ah, yes, fairness.

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March 1, 2012 by 1 Comment

The quote of the day comes from Jim Shepherd of The Outdoor Wire. As I noted a while back, Dan Richards, President of the California Fish and Game Commission, is the target of a jihad by Humane Society US for his successful mountain lion hunt in Idaho. Now they have gotten 40 Democrats in the State Assembly to join in their call for his resignation.

Forty legislators (all Democrats) have sent Walters a letter telling him he should resign. The letter says “Your actions raise serious questions about whether you respect the laws of the people of California, and whether you are fit to adequately enforce those laws.”

Seriously, guys, are you serious? This is the same gang of legislators that has effectively run California’s finances into the ground while passing enough dopey feel-good, eyewash legislation to keep succeeding legislators (and litigators) busy for the next millennium trying to restore some sort of fiscal sanity.

The photo that started a firestorm. Courtesy Western Outdoor News.
But Richards’ trip to another Idaho has, as they say, “offended the sensibilities” of these forty moral stackpoles of the people.

Remember, the hunt was completely legal.

I’m certain they’ve also called for the resignation of all the members of the State Assembly who have ever traveled to Las Vegas or Reno to go gambling (or gamboling with the occasional lady or gentleman of the evening). Not to mention the legislator who said she had a brain tumor that made her shoplift, or the Lieutenant Governor who had a little error in his personal moral compass.

If the same standard of scrutiny this gang of 40 moral compasses applied to Richards, a guy who went hunting-legally, were applied to the all government officials, the Assembly of California (and most others) would dismiss for the lack of a quorum (not to be confused with a Quram – we wouldn’t want to offend anyone).

What is that old saying about people in glass houses and rock…

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February 23, 2012 by

The quote of the day comes from Tam. After driving past dead strip malls and boarded-up restaurants, she notes that the stock market has rallied on news of (another) Greek bailout.

Meanwhile, the TeeWee talking heads are cooing at the Dow passing 13,000 again. Investors, they say, are excited about yet another Greek bailout. Let me get this straight: Germany has taken out another cash advance on its maxed-out credit card and given it to its deadbeat cousin, Greece, who swears that this time they’ll use the money to get a haircut and a job, instead of wasting it on hookers and blow again, and investors take this as a good sign?

Every time I hear the words “Leading economic indicators are…” come out of a newscaster’s mouth these days, I expect them to be followed by “…from the planet Mars.”

As a ,  I have to say I agree with Tam. Despite the mainstream media playing up the spurious numbers coming out of the Obama Administration, I don’t see glad tidings on the horizon either.

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February 11, 2012 by 1 Comment

The Today Show ran a new feature called The Rossen Report where their so-called investigative reporter Jeff Rossen was shocked(!) to find that people used the Internet to advertise guns for sale. Tam applies a industrial-grade smackdown as only she can do.

I demand that we close the Going Wherever You Want Loophole! If we checked everyone for government issued photo ID as they walked out their front door, we could prevent sidewalks from being superhighways for criminals, but the ACLU has vowed to fight any such legislation.

That’s about the level of logic on display here, wherein some de-beaked, cage-raised Manhattanite makes the discovery that the barbarians in far-off free-range America, ‘way across the Hudson, are allowed to sell their personal property to each other without going through an orgy of forelock-tugging and Mother-may-I down at the cop shop.

Suck it, media boy. I know this may come as a shock to you, but hardly anybody’s even listening to you anymore. Maybe the steady hemorrhage of Nielsen ratings has caused an hypoxia-inducing vacuum in the studio, but even non-president Al Gore can tell you that you’re on the wrong side of history on this one; I’m sure you have him on speed dial down there at msnbc, so call him and ask him.

For another fisking of this (non) story, can be found on YouTube here.  The last time anyone paid any attention to Jeff Rossen was when he appeared in Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine. Of course, it wasn’t serious attention.

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February 7, 2012 by 2 Comments

I have bad sinuses and suffer from chronic allergic sinusitis. Because of this and a desire to actually breath, I take Sudafed (pseudoephedrine) every day. Not just some days but every day. This means I have to subject myself to being treated like a potential meth lab operator a few times a month. It pisses me off each and every time and I curse the politicians who have imposed this on people like me.

Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit, has an appropriate punishment for these politicians.

I think these people should be exposed to toddler snot, then locked in a freezing basement with a bag of ragweed pollen tied over their head until they develop a proper appreciation for the consequences of their policies. Judging by what I’m reading in comments, quite a few allergy sufferers agree.

I couldn’t agree more.

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February 4, 2012 by

The quote of the day comes “Jazz Shaw” at Hotair.com who calls Mayor Michael Bloomberg the Nanny State King for his anti-smoking, anti-salt, anti-trans fat, and anti-gun efforts.

After discussing the Super Bowl ad by Mayor Mike and Mayor Mumbles (as Weer’d calls him) for their group of Illegal Mayors, he makes this comment about concealed carry in the Empire State.

It may come as a surprise to some readers to learn that you actually can get a concealed carry permit in New York legally. However I believe you’re likely to see an actual Bigfoot in the Hudson Valley before you find one of those permits.

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February 1, 2012 by 1 Comment

The quote of the day comes from Townhall.com’s Katie Pavlich who calls them as she sees then with regard to the behavior of the Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Although Cummings claims he wants to bring justice to the Terry family for his murder, which was a direct result of this recklass (sic) program, he has done the opposite by using the scandal to promote new gun control measures, implying ATF should be given more power and as a chance to blame President Bush for using the “same tactics” that were used during Fast and Furious for other programs during his time in the White House. During Bush-era “gunwalking” programs, the Mexican government was informed and cooperating with ATF to interdict and follow guns into Mexico. During Fast and Furious under President Obama, Mexican officials were left in the dark as 2500 guns were delivered to the hands of ruthless cartel members thanks to DOJ and ATF officials.

Note to Cummings: Your cover-up is showing.

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January 8, 2012 by 1 Comment

The Students for Concealed Carry on Campus can be depended on to put things in perspective – and with snark and sass!

Brady Campaign lighting candles inside churches today to remember victims of gun violence. Of course, fires claim five times as many lives by accident every year than firearms, so let’s hope they don’t drop one.

And like the good students that they are, they provide backup validation of their claim here. They point to the bottom of page 19 and the top of page 20 as the place to find the relevant data.

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January 7, 2012 by

The quote of the day comes from an open letter by Alan Gottlieb and Dave Workman of the Second Amendment Foundation to Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the City of New York which appeared in the Canada Free Press (and perhaps other papers).

Mr. Mayor, when your gun laws are so crazy that even a member of the city council is compelled to admit it, you’re in trouble. When you perpetuate such laws and pretend they are sensible, you’re in denial. When you defend laws that persecute honest citizens; laws that epitomize the term “infringement” and clearly violate the Constitution, you’re in the Twilight Zone.

New York is not a city-state, but part of the United States. The Constitution applies there as it does in the rest of the nation, from Fairbanks to Fort Lauderdale. It is time for you to admit that.

New York is not Renaissance Florence and Michael Bloomberg is not Lorenzo de’ Medici no matter how much of a Prince he considers himself.

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January 4, 2012 by

The quote of the day comes from a comment made on Professor William Jacobson’s excellent blog Legal Insurrection. The comment from “El Cid” was made in reference to a post about President Obama using a recess appointment to put former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray in as head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Bearing in mind that back in 2008 Obama never hesitated to remind one and all that he had taught Constitutional Law as the University of Chicago Law School, El Cid’s comment puts it into perspective.

One can safely say, that the sole purpose of Obama studying the Constitution, was to undermine the document.