Do You Now Own, or Have You Ever Owned, a Gun?

The Politico reports on a curious addition to the Obama transition personnel questionnaire for potential appointees to the new Administration.
Tucked in at the end of the questionnaire and listed under “Miscellaneous,” it reads: “Do you or any members of your immediate family own a gun? If so, provide complete ownership and registration information. Has the registration ever lapsed? Please also describe how and by whom it is used and whether it has been the cause of any personal injuries or property damage.”

The answer to these questions should be “None of your business.” “Ditto.” “N/A” and “N/A”

Most people don’t live in liberal fascist cesspools like NY and Chicago, where everything they do that is not PC, requires registration and governmental approval.

Paul Light, professor of public service at New York University, said there was no such question for potential appointees when President George W. Bush took office in 2000. (emphasis added)
“It kind of sticks out there like a sore thumb,” Light said.
He expressed uncertainty over why it was included but surmised it was out of an abundance of caution, a desire to avoid the spectacle of a Cabinet-level or other high-ranking appointee who is discovered to have an unregistered handgun at home.
“It’s the kind of thing that, if dug out, could be an embarrassment to the president-elect,” Light said.

Just who would discover they have an unregistered handgun? The local police certainly won’t be checking. Makes one wonder what kind of PC check this is, since registration is not a mandatory federal condition YET.

Protesters denied access to attorneys, forced to march in leg shackles, ACLU charges

The ACLU issued a stinging rebuke to the Denver Police Department Wednesday, alleging that the department may have violated laws and constitutional rights of protesters arrested outside the Democratic National Convention.

In the letter, obtained by RAW STORY, the ACLU revealed that the police refused those arrested access to attorneys. Police did not let detainees use phones unless they posted their own bonds, and even failed to provide shoes, in one case marching a protester into court in bare feet and leg shackles, according the ACLU. [snip]

The horror of it all, the ACLU in tears, get out the compassion kit. These passionate patriots, protesting the Donks and their insufficiently fascist socialist policies merely exercised their civil rights. They’re just carrying on the time-honored tradition of rioting to get one’s way, poor waifs.
These bozos are hell bent on destroying the Constitution with the the ACLU enabling them. The only civil rights considered are theirs, everyone else’s be damned. What they don’t like is getting the very police treatment they wish to inflict on the rest of us through a change in government “style.”

An improvement to the show: truncheons on noses and foreheads in the evening. Remember how worried the idiots were that the powers were going to unlimber a “crap cannon” on them; one that would loosen their bowels uncontrollably. Just what is needed for these situations.

Nothing more than asymmetrical warfare; that’s how they treat it, tender them what they desire. The only fools left then will be the ones inside the convention.

Don’t believe this is the Donk direction?

Is America Ready To Send its Political Opponents to Jail?

That is why it’s particularly troubling that the Obama campaign has filed a criminal complaint against the people behind an ad being run that links Obama to avowed terrorist William Ayers.

Per Ben Smith’s Blog at Politico:

It’s worth noting that this isn’t the first time Bauer has called for criminal investigations and prosecutions into donors to independent groups critical of Obama, including one supporting John Edwards and another supporting Hillary Rodham Clinton. His words did have the effect of scaring their donord and consultants, but haven’t yet appeared to result in any prosecution.

So it appears to be a standard stratgy of the Obama team to threaten their political enemies with prison for being disrespectful of Obama. This is a tactic that is reminiscent of third world countries like the ones the Obama relatives are involved with in Africa.

Not to mention the Socialist countries of the Soviet Bloc and the fascists demonstrating outside.

The Prince of Wales has warned that the world faces a series of natural disasters within 18 months unless urgent action is taken to save the rainforests.

In one of his most out-spoken interventions in the climate change debate, he said a £15 billion annual programme was required to halt deforestation or the world would have to live with the dire consequences.

“We will end up seeing more drought and starvation on a grand scale. Weather patterns will become even more terrifying and there will be less and less rainfall,” he said.

“We are asking for something pretty dreadful unless we really understand the issues now and [the] urgency of them.” The Prince said the rainforests, which provide the “air conditioning system for the entire planet”, releasing water vapour and absorbing carbon, were being lost to poor farmers desperate to make a living.

Getting rid of these pesky trees is job one; where else can we plant enough corn for more ethanol. Preventing these peasants from wasting this space growing corn for food needs to be relegated to the UN. £15 billion is sufficient to keep the unwashed in line.

I’ll bet “Ole Bonnie” Prince Charlie paused between chukkers to spout this drivel.

Contrary to law, truth isn’t a defense against the PC idiots.

Brigitte Bardot on trial for Muslim slur

PARIS (Reuters) - French former film star Brigitte Bardot went on trial on Tuesday for insulting Muslims, the fifth time she has faced the charge of “inciting racial hatred” over her controversial remarks about Islam and its followers. [snip]
She has been fined four times for inciting racial hatred since 1997, at first 1,500 euros and most recently 5,000. [snip]

Obama on small-town PA: Clinging religion, guns, xenophobia

Mayhill Fowler has more from Obama’s remarks at a San Francisco fundraiser Sunday, and they include an attempt to explain the resentment in small-town Pennsylvania that won’t be appreciated by some of the people whose votes Obama’s seeking:  [snip]

‘And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations’…

This is the BObama that is, not the polished suit on the stump.

Holly weird produces so much trash, for a change let them produce a real “Truther” movie.

The script is finished.

The smiley faces are a nicer touch and more becoming, don’t you think?

This clown has the density of an aerostat.

Barack Obama has put his religion back into the headlines, trumpeting the power and salvation of faith and asking a church audience in South Carolina to help him become “an instrument of God” and join him in creating “a Kingdom right here on Earth.”

YES, headed by King Obama I of course.
Why not a crucifixion to start the creatin’.
You’re tight, I have no intention of making nice to these idiots and their putative godhead.

But the Democratic contender’s talk on Sunday of breaking down religious and political differences has some critics questioning the Illinois senator’s own beliefs — and those of the man identified as his spiritual adviser — and whether his messages of spiritual inclusion and tolerance have remained consistent. [snip]

Obama has written and spoken about being inspired by the preaching of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., and his calls to “spur social change.” [snip]

Baptized in Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ, Obama has been an active member for two decades, regularly attending services with his family under Wright’s spiritual mentorship. [snip]

“If Barack Obama has really submitted himself to his church like he’s claimed, why does he have a different expression of faith from his own pastor?” asks Anthony Bradley, theologian and research fellow at the Acton Institute in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Aaahhh, because it’s convenient at the moment?

Presidential candidate condemns words but not ministry of former pastor

Translation: Don’t say this till after I’m elected.

In another sermon, delivered five days after the 9/11 attacks, Wright seems to imply that the United States had brought the terrorist violence on itself.

“We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York, and we never batted an eye,” Wright says. “We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is brought right back in our own front yards.”

In a later sermon, Wright revisits the theme, declaring: “No, no, no, not God bless America — God damn America!”

This is what one gets from the politics of inclusion; all the assorted misfits and mental defectives in one coop.

Michelle Obama thesis was on racial divide

Michelle Obama’s senior year thesis at Princeton University, obtained from the campaign by Politico, shows a document written by a young woman grappling with a society in which a black Princeton alumnus might only be allowed to remain “on the periphery.” Read the full thesis here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4.

“My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‘blackness’ than ever before,” the future Mrs. Obama wrote in her thesis introduction. “I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong. Regardless of the circumstances underwhich I interact with whites at Princeton, it often seems as if, to them, I will always be black first and a student second.”
[snip]

Of course, she feels this way; one becomes infected with this reaction as a product of Affirmative Action. Facilitating this along is the estimation of the “helped” by the Progs. Admittance without their beneficence is unfathomable, so they must be inferior.
Whether or not she actually necessitated AA is not in debate here, I have no personal information speaking to the subject. In the Progressive world however, presumption is a claret mark.
Affirmative Action is the yellow star in Germany, a categorization; Fascists insist on taxonomy.

Earlier this week, commentator Jonah Goldberg remarked on National Review Online, “A reader in the know informs me that Michelle Obama’s thesis … is unavailable until Nov. 5, 2008, at the Princeton library. [snip]

Care to speculate why?

His Disturbing Pattern

Senator Obama recently gave us a disturbing foretaste of the contradictory doublespeak we could expect under an Obama presidency.[snip]

Speaking of his determination to do “whatever it takes” to end gun violence, Mr. Obama acknowledged that the Second Amendment secures an citizen’s right to keep and bear arms. [snip]

It’s a disturbing pattern that’s starting to emerge in Mr. Obama when he announces a principle or a goal, but then endorses policies that are the exact opposite. It’s political doublespeak. It’s Orwellian. In fact, it’s Clintonian.

Look for this pattern across the board. This is how he’ll empower private markets, by increasing government control. He’ll preserve our private market health care system, by having government take it over. He’ll lower taxes, by raising them. He’ll cut government, by increasing government spending. He’ll create jobs, by raising taxes and fees on business.

He’ll protect our results in Iraq, by abandoning that country. He’ll defeat the terrorists, by stopping attacks against them and sitting down to negotiate. He’ll support our allies in Pakistan, by invading them with military force. He’ll do whatever it takes to stop threats to our nation, by immediately announcing that he’ll never use our ultimate weapons and by stopping our government from listening in on terrorists’ phone calls.

I hope nine months is enough time for the Americans to catch on to his rhetorical sleight of hand. Mr. Obama has shown what he thinks of your Second Amendment rights by endorsing the D.C. gun ban last week. [snip]

Hmmm, what was that prior post on Fascism?

As the Donks roll on to the convention, the Woodchuck believes you need to meet the mentors of the candidates.

Think not, check the candidate’s backgrounds

It has been only 20 years since the USSR teetered, then fell. In that short time, we’ve moved to install that disgraced one party system as our own.

Observing the RINO primaries held so far, in particular to the dramatis personae posing as republicans, it is no wonder the NYT lauds both party (sic) as the radiant future. At the state level, the entrenched money takers are grabbing the lobbyist’s cash, promising all sorts of favors in exchange for the plunder. it is no wonder the NY Times lauds both party (sic) as the radiant future. At the state level, the entrenched money takers are snatching the lobbyists cash, promising all sorts of favors in exchange for the plunder. You will find the intimates managing both party (sic) seek only the power of office, none of the honor of serving.

When challenged over this philosophy, sneer the poobahs, “We need to be in preeminence to effect “change.” Given what we receive as change from these self-anointed, discerning the difference twix Tweedledee and Tweedledum is nigh on impossible.

No one in the GOP ranks carries any real creds to separate them from the gaggle of mutables.

Perhaps Kucinich is the only one who has the conviction of held position. He’s seen the Mothership at least, maybe even ridden in it.

More collectible posters and campaign buttons are here at NER. We offer a head start on filling up your kitchen junk drawer.

Last time the Woodchuck ID’ed the GOP and gave you the new GOP Logo. the crashing silence from the RINO’s indicated acceptance of their new symbol.

Well, Chuckie’s new DNC Logo more aptly describes the manifold (two) socio-political philosophies of the dark side.

Presenting: The New DNC

The Problem With Boys

By Marty Nemko

What changes would you recommend if I told you that African-American children were:

four to eight times as likely to be drugged with Ritalin and other stimulants, which pediatrician Leonard Sax, calls “academic steroids.”

reading much more poorly than are other students.

five times more likely to commit suicide.

two and a half times as likely to drop out of high school.

severely underrepresented in college and even more so among college graduates, thereby locking them out of today’s, let alone tomorrow’s, knowledge economy.

You’d likely invoke such words as “institutional racism” to justify major efforts to improve African-Americans’ numbers.

All of the above statements are true except for one thing: I’m not talking about African-American children. I’m talking about children of all races, indeed half of all children, half of our next generation: boys. [snip]

See if this article gives you the warm fuzzies.
It should make you put a Katuscha right into an editor’s bunghole and teachers’ lounge.

Nemko is co-president of the National Organization for Men: www.orgformen.org. He holds a Ph.D. in education from the University of California, Berkeley and subsquently taught in Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education. He is also a Contributing Editor at U.S. News & World Report.

Legislature: Campaign finance put on fast track

In the interest of clarity, I’m not using a Venn Diagram to show who in the legislature are Fascist. If one belongs to the Progressive, the Jackass, the RINO, or the Liberal parties or any party of Big Government, you are so tainted.
Now with the term fascist comfortably defined, and individuals properly tarred, understanding why insuring incumbency through campaign finance reform is their cause cèlébre.
The first primary contest in any election is raising money. When the state controls the size of the contributions to a potential candidate, they control who runs against the incumbent.

With an election just 10 months away, the Legislature’s first order of business in the session that opens today is to rewrite and vote out a new version of a campaign finance bill that Republican Gov. Jim Douglas vetoed in May.

“I’m looking for it to be the first bill we actually move,” said Democratic House Speaker Gaye Symington of Jericho. [snip]

Rule #1—Fascists do not work. From the beginning, they seek political office, raising taxes to pay for growing government larger. Since this is so exhausting, they never have enough money for campaign funds.
A product of work is money. People with money usually are self-sufficient, not prone to donating to any party of Big Taxes and do not reliably vote. (Of course, they vote, but not the fascist mindset, which makes them unreliable.)
To counter this proclivity requires strict campaign finance controls, in which the amount of money given in campaigns “equalizes” the field and promotes incumbency. Is it not any politician’ desire to stay in office where one can exercise control over the electorate?

Rule #2—All fascists are nanny staters; all nanny states elect fascists.

Understand, fascists believe no one is capable of monitoring their self well-being. From smoking to trans-fats, everyone needs the kindly guiding hand for the overseeing state.
To reach this end, they must be in power in sufficient numbers. Keeping vetoes of unpopular legislation from occurring requires total control of the legislature. The simplest method is to kill off the campaign money, a partial birth abortion to democracy.

Lawmakers tried but failed to override the governor’s veto in a special one-day session in July. The House tally came up one vote short. Now legislative leaders say they will move a new version within the first weeks of this session so new rules on campaign contributions could be in effect for the fall election. They are rushing because some candidates — including Douglas — are already raising money for their campaigns. [snip]

Gov. Douglas said the bill would have set contribution caps too low, making it hard for challengers to raise the money they would need to take on incumbents. [snip]

Rep. Christopher Pearson, P-Burlington, said he and other Progressives would be uncomfortable increasing contribution limits significantly…

“We are well on record being concerned with the impact of money in politics,” Pearson said. “I don’t think Vermont is well served having national party money pour in at the last moment.” [snip]

“I do want it to take effect in 2008,” Symington said.

Of course she does, why take a chance on losing.