Category: USA

March 10, 2009

A Little Clarification…

… on all that Obamassiah gun control mumbo jumbo

February 7, 2009

Rights and Privileges

Rights, privileges… what’s the difference? Far too many of us don’t know.

This presentation (by a Libertarian named Michael Badnarik) discusses the topic in the context of the American Constitution but it’s still some damned good food for thought for us north of the border.

Be warned: this thing is damned loooooooonnngg, so grab yourself a coffee/beer/whatever first. Here’s part one of seven:

And here’s part two:

December 15, 2008

Safety, My Ass

Filed under: Good Stuff,Government,USA — Dennis @ 3:04 pm

Somehow I get the sneaking suspicion that this has more to do with the mayor making the rest of the bums look bad. I’m not usually one to get very interested in what’s going on south of the border, unless it actually has something directly to do with my own country, but I’m about to make a bit of an exception here.

Working her tail off until the wee hours of the morning? I dunno about you, but that’s what I look for in a civic leader. But hey, we can’t have that sort of thing going on now, can we? After all, it might send the wrong message.

A message like, “Hey, if the mayor’s working her arse off at all hours, why can’t the rest of those bums on council do it too?” And God knows we can’t have the unwashed masses going around expecting those elected clowns to actually work… it’d be the end of bureaucracy as we know it. 😯

SOUTH EL MONTE, Calif. (AP) — Fed up with the nocturnal work habits of its mayor, a California city council has approved a curfew limiting how late she can work at City Hall.

South El Monte council members say they have safety and liability concerns for Mayor Blanca Figueroa, who frequently works until the wee hours of the morning. She must now leave the building by 11 p.m.

The mayor — a self-described night owl — calls the restriction petty. She says she needs to stay late because her daytime schedule is filled with meetings and her inbox is overflowing with letters from residents affected by the worsening economy.

The L. A. Times has some more on it:

Politicians are criticized for many things. Putting in too many hours at the office is not usually one of them.

But in South El Monte, a city of about 20,000 residents east of Los Angeles, the City Council has lodged just such a complaint against its most powerful elected official. Council members say Mayor Blanca Figueroa spends too much time at her City Hall office. So on Tuesday, they gave her a curfew.

The City Council, on which the mayor sits, voted 4 to 1 to prohibit its members and city staff from working in City Hall after 11 p.m. City officials, including City Manager Anthony Ybarra, admit that the ruling was primarily directed against Figueroa, who often works late into the night. “It’s a matter of security, safety and liability,” he said.

Mayor FigueroaFigueroa, who has been mayor since 1997, is incensed. [MSM-ese for “totally pissed” -D]

“In my opinion, it is an unfair policy,” she said. “My job is 24/7.” The mayor said she needs the evening office hours to do her job properly. She said she spends most of her days in meetings, so it is at night that she catches up on e-mails and paperwork. She does not have a fax machine or a copier at home, she said.

Figueroa said her workload has increased in the last six to eight months. She blames the worsening economy. “I have more work to do now than ever,” she said. “If I let it go by, it piles up.”

If her round-the-clock schedule makes her a workaholic, she says, so be it.

“Do I have a private life? No. Even on Thanksgiving I was here,” she said proudly. “I’m mentally exhausted, but it is my service to serve the city.”

Now, I normally have some serious moral reservations about the whole idea of human cloning, but in this case…

If you see this lady, buy her a drink!  Just make it a coffee, or something like that — she’s gotta work late…

November 10, 2008

Lie Through Our Teeth?

YES, WE CAN! (via Gun Owners Resource)

In a move that should surprise absolutely no one who has two brain cells to rub together, United States President-Elect, Senator Bananafanafofama from Chicago has promptly backpedaled on his consistent claims throughout the campaign that he “supports the Second Amendment.”

The American NRA-ILA — God knows we could use a noisy bunch like that up here, but that’s another rant — is reporting on the latest (of many more to come, no doubt) bucket of cold water thrown on the American public’s sense of personal liberty by the Obamites:

Obama Announces Gun Ban Agenda Before The Final Vote Count Is In

Friday, November 07, 2008

Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign slogan, “the audacity of hope,” should have instead been “the audacity of deceit.” After months of telling the American people that he supports the Second Amendment, and only hours after being declared the president-elect, the Obama transition team website announced an agenda taken straight from the anti-gun lobby–four initiatives designed to ban guns and drive law-abiding firearm manufacturers and dealers out of business… [read the whole thing here -D]

Now, before anybody out there (especially any Americans reading this) even thinks about hooting and hollering about how they didn’t see this coming: STFU!

You all knew exactly who and what Obambi was: a typical Leftist, statist, social-engineering Democrat who never met a problem that more bureaucracy couldn’t solve and who wouldn’t trust an average citizen to wipe his own backside with any competency. And he got elected anyway.

So why am I bothering with this? It’s simple, really. If there’s one thing that history has shown, it’s that American Leftbot idiocy has a habit of slithering across the border and making trouble up here. And decent Canadian gun owners have enough problems already.  Look for things to get worse…

November 4, 2008

So Let The Bastard Die, Already

Well, I guess my break’s over. It was kind of nice while it lasted but seriously folks, this isn’t what I wanted to come back to.

In yet another perfect example of the judiciary asshattery goodness that we’ve had kicking around ever since the Supreme Court’s Singh decision back in ’85, some child-molesting yankee bag of maggot shit has gotten himself bagged in Winnipeg and promptly gone and uttered the magic word: “REFUGEE!”

To make a long story short, Troy Greenbank tried to have a threesome with a woman and her ten year old daughter and got caught. So, naturally, he ran like hell for the Canadian border:

Greenback has no connection to Canada and told police he came north because it was the easiest direct route from Missouri in his attempt to seek asylum on charges he knew were coming. He also wanted a chance to “start over.”

Go to hell, asshole. You want to start over? Do it someplace else. And just what excuse is it that he’s using to try and stay here, you wonder?

Troy Greenbank, 29, faces up to 50 years behind bars if convicted in his home state of Missouri, but is now seeking to fight deportation and to obtain refugee status and protection from the Canadian government. He claims he will probably be killed in prison if returned to the United States to face justice.

Boo hoo. Can’t have that now, can we? Because everybody knows that what this world really needs is more diddlers walking around hogging up air that the rest of us could be breathing.

The girl’s father then learned of the arrangement and called police after discovering the sex toy Mr. Greenbank allegedly bought her.

Greenback is scheduled to return to court in Winnipeg on Friday for another detention review. He is being held in protective custody at the Winnipeg Remand Centre and is on 24-hour suicide watch, based on his statement that he has made previous attempts on his life.

Two final things to think about today: (more…)

September 12, 2008

Speaking Of Americans…

Filed under: Politics,USA,Video — Dennis @ 12:26 am

Now THIS is what I call an attack ad…

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