My right to keep and bear arms includes a Springfield XD Service Model. It has a smooth trigger pull and is quite accurate past 100 feet. Remember, a gun is like a credit card - don't leave home without it.The Snarky Files. Snarky means several things. I prefer the definition of "sharply critical." Here's my take on some news stories this past week. No real news here, just snark.
Great Guns!
Gun Owners of America reported that the National Park Service (NPS) gun ban was repealed. Thanks go to Tom Coburn of Oklahoma for sponsoring the bill.
For decades, law-abiding citizens have been prohibited from exercising their Second Amendment rights on NPS land and wildlife refuges, even if the state in which the land is located allows carrying firearms.Obama is expected to sign the bill into law but only because it is attached to the bill with Congress' taking over and regulating the credit card industry. As one congressional liberal put it:
Anti-gun Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) whined that a "very good" credit card bill had been "hijacked" by the Coburn amendment.McCarthy has it backwards. In this case, the hijacking protected a very good constitutional right against a very bad regulation bill.
Teacher Immorality
Arizona seems to have a rash of pedophiles in the classroom. Here are three (count 'em, three!) recent cases:
Note that two of these teachers were coaches at the same school, Apache Junction High School. The male teacher molested a young girl, then the replacement female teacher molested another young girl. Is this the future of liberalized education? What are these "teachers" thinking? For some ideas on why this happens, see my posting Liberals, Nihilism and Education - An Abusers Guide.A Carson Junior High School math teacher accused of molesting a female student is contemplating a plea agreement that could send him to prison for 12 years.
Prosecutor Maryvonne Harbulot offered to drop two molestation charges against Jeffery Schenck, 35, if he agreed to plead guilty to two counts of attempted child molestation, she said in Maricopa County Superior Court this week. Under the plea, Schenck would face 12 years in prison and lifetime probation. (AZCentral.com)
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A former Apache Junction High School girls basketball coach admitted sending flowers to one of her students before engaging in sex acts with the girl in the gymnasium's restroom, recently released court records show.
"I did it all," Raeanna L. Jewell told Apache Junction police, according to court records that reveal new details about her relationship with the student. (AZCentral.com)
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Jewell had replaced coach Jason Beck as the coach of the girl's junior varsity basketball team. Beck was arrested Feb. 3 on charges of sexual conduct with a 15-year-old girl. A Pinal County grand jury indicted Beck on Feb. 11 on the same charges as Jewell, sexual conduct with a minor and luring a minor for sexual exploitation. (AZCentral.com)
I won't make the obvious jokes about Apache Junction. The town has a reputation to keep despite it's long and sordid history.
Paid Vacation
How about this for your big-government-is-trying-to-take-over-our-lives file? Florida Democrat Alan Grayson, apparently envious of Germany's socialism, will file a bill to require businesses with over 100 employees to offer a week's paid vacation. (Politico)
Beside the obvious government interference with businesses in America (not that businesses can operate in any way whatsoever without federal and state interference), the unintended consequences of this bill could very well be the straw that broke the camel's back. Businesses are already going under, especially in the current economy, because of big government mandates, and all Congressman Grayson can do is try to mandate more ways for businesses to spend money? Doesn't anyone in Congress realize that every government mandate encumbers the consumer? From mandated health care, to safety mandates, to wage increases, to price fixing, to energy taxes, to paid vacation - all of these increase the cost of doing business. How much more can the common people bear the mandates of government?
Michael Moore single-handedly contributes 9.7% of the world's greenhouse gasses.Michael Moore
My favorite poster child for the liberally handicapped is at it again, this time making a "documentary" about the current recession - or as liberals put it, the "economic crisis." In his upcoming movie, he will blame the wealthy (except for him, of course), George Bush (because, hey, everything's George Bush's fault), and corporate greed (because, hey, everything that isn't George Bush's fault is the fault of corporate greed).
The downside to this movie lies in all of the terminally befuddled Americans who will watch this movie and believe it to be the gospel truth instead another of Michael Moore's fictions.
Fooling the People
In a lucid moment, the residents of California refused to blame the usual suspects for their own economic woes (rich people, George Bush and corporate greed) and correctly identified that the biggest strain on the California economy was its statist government headed up by the RINO liberal-in-chief, Arnold Schwarzenegger.
With overwhelming majorities, Californians voted against five ballot measures to increase taxes.
This leaves the state government with few options, except to downsize:
Rejected by voters and rebuffed by the federal government, the Schwarzenegger administration told California lawmakers on Thursday that they must find $5.5 billion in new cuts to the state’s budget, which already has a $21.3 billion deficit, in order to remain solvent. (New York Times)A Tea Party indeed. Way to go Californians!
Nancy Pelosi Update
Nancy Pelosi, who lied to protect her hinder parts for her two-faced attack on the CIA and waterboarding, is still not out of the woods yet.
Republicans continued an all-fronts assault on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday for accusing the Central Intelligence Agency of lying. (SFGate.com)Note to House Republicans: You're attacking too little, too late. You should have stuck to your conservative guns a long time ago, before you lost the trust of your constituencies. Then maybe we wouldn't have to put up with Nancy Pelosi at all.
Nancy Pelosi should resign as Speaker.
Anti-Marriage
Two state anti-marriage bills (AKA anti-gay marriage) are on hold, throwing the gay activist faction into a frenzy of activity and spending. (So sorry for your recent money losses Tim Gill. The economy's bad for everyone.) These bills are designed to neuter marriage by redefining it to include same sex couples.
The legislators of New York now contemplate putting the bill on the back burner after they realized that their state economy was tanking and they probably should take on more important issues to help out their state. (CapitalNews9.com)
In New Hampshire, the legislature struck down the anti-marriage bill, which included appropriate protections of religion (enforced, of course by the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution). Apparently, religious liberty isn't what gay activists have in mind when they argue in favor of same sex marriage:
We all know that gay activists are against bullies of all kinds (especially in our schools) and advocate against bullies, evidently even when the bully is on the same political side as Governor Lynch is in New Hampshire.State Representative Steve Vaillancourt, a gay Republican from Manchester, was a leading voice against the amendment securing religious liberties, saying that the House should not be "bullied" by the governor. (Reuters)
Let me point out, however, that the New Hampshire legislature refused to pass the anti-marriage bill when the governor introduced religious protections against gay activism. Should we not suspect a group of people who openly say that they won't step across the boundaries of religion, yet refuse to back up their words with action?
Yes we should suspect the actions. In this case gay activist actions speak louder than their overly-shrill words. Gay activists are after religion and our religous heritage in the US.
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