Are your rights being violated

Posted on August 22, 2013 by Phil Kadath

The Wife listens to NPR in the mornings while getting ready for work.

A couple mornings ago I was listening in while she was getting ready and heard something very wrong. I will need your help with this because I’m not sure what to do with it.

It was an NPR piece on California’s gun confiscation program. (though they’re not calling it that). Basically, the state is going through their backlogs of criminal and metal health records and cross checking this list with their list of registered firearms owners to see who needs their door booted in. They then send a crew of armed individuals with gun and badges to do the deed.

I knew about it and I am sure that you also knew about it. So I was only half listening so as to not get my blood pressure up too high before sunrise. And then I heard this:

They are all people who at one time purchased firearms legally, but have since run afoul of the law, Yo says. “Such as maybe a felony conviction, mental health commitment, they received a restraining order, domestic violence restraining order — some type of a misdemeanor conviction that prohibits them from possessing firearms.”

Beginning In 2007, California officials began collecting names from court records, medical facilities and lists of known or wanted criminals, then cross-referenced them against the federal instant criminal background check system for gun-buyers. The list is updated every day.

I could not rewind the program so I went to the website and found the article to confirm what was stated.

My confusion is as follows: Did the NPR reporter, Richard Gonzalez, get this wrong and he actually meant the California program that approves/disapproves firearms transfers? Or is he correct and the State of California and the NICS are swapping information?

We need an answer to this, and sooner would be better than later. How would I go about this?

Posted in Order of the imperial upraised middle finger. | 4 Comments

Speaking Truth to (Those Wanton Of) Power

Posted on August 22, 2013 by Phil Kadath

mr505kUtWg1sv0giso1

Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments

For your mancave

Posted on August 21, 2013 by Phil Kadath

Because Fawkin’ Rock N Roll

marshall-amp-fridge-xl

Clicken to embiggen.

You can find it here

Posted in Kewel! | 1 Comment

When you have to lie this badly

Posted on August 21, 2013 by Phil Kadath

You should just give up.

The CSGV has made a video, supposedly re-enacting the confrontation between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin using some of the actual 911 audio.

Except they haven’t. They have dramatized something that never happened between those two individuals while playing the actual 911 audio over the top of it.

Watch it yourself and see if you can see where they slide decidedly away from reality.

mqaj0eVQ3j1rgg24zo1

The CSGV hope that this video of non-reality will sway public opinion in their campaign to deny people the right to stand their ground against a life-endangering threat (which for the upmteen-millionth time was not a factor in the trial of Zimmerman).

But what’s a little lie when you’re just trying to deny people their right to self-defense?

Posted in Evil walks the earth | 2 Comments

Beating them to the punch

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Phil Kadath

The Republicans are going to be pushing a fight over funding the government later this Fall. They are basically giving the President a choice: Funding the government or funding Obamacare.

The media, of course, is going to abuse the Republicans for “holding the government hostage”, etc., and otherwise try and ruin any part of the party’s reputation they can.

However, it looks as though the Obama Administration and the Democrats are doing the Republican’s work for them

Unpublished Congressional Research Service Memo: Obama Administration Has Missed Half Of Obamacare’s Legally Imposed Implementation Deadlines

Here is the graph from the article.

ACA-deadline-compliance

You should go read the rest.

The Democrats not only know that implementing Obamacare before the mid-term election will cost them votes, but also that the law as it currently is will never work because they didn’t read the damn thing.

Even the Chicago Tribune, Obama’s hometown paper, is saying that Congress needs to put Obamacare out of its misery and try again.

Posted in Dare To Be Stupid | Leave a comment

Some people hate a winner

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Phil Kadath

This Librarian is going about this entirely wrong

Tyler Weaver calls himself “the king of the reading club” at Hudson Falls Public Library. But now it seems Hudson Falls Public Library Director Marie Gandron wants to end his reign and have him dethroned.

The 9-year-old boy, who will be starting fifth grade next month, won the six-week-long “Dig into Reading” event by completing 63 books from June 24 to Aug. 3, averaging more than 10 a week.

He has consistently been the top reader since kindergarten, devouring a total of 373 books over the five contests, according to his mother, Katie.

“It feels great,” said Tyler, an intermediate scholar student at Hudson Falls School. “I think that was actually a record-breaking streak.”

His younger brother, Jonathan, 7, won second place two years in a row now, completing more than 40 books this time.

…..

Gandron further told the reporter she planned to change the rules of the contest so that instead of giving prizes to the children who read the most books, she would draw names out of a hat and declare winners that way. She said she can’t now because Katie has come forward to the newspaper.

This kid dominates the contest? How? Is he taking all the books? Why can’t the other children muster the ambition to keep up? And who really cares if some of the other children get discouraged? Their parents should be reminding them that there are other favorable consequences to competing other than winning.

There are at least a dozen other ways the Librarian could go about this. Why can’t she ask Tyler to help promote the contest? Hell, it would probably take up some of his available reading time.

But no. She has to murder a child’s joy because it makes her uncomfortable to keep handing out awards based on merit. Because reading is not a skill that should be encouraged in the Obamanation.

Posted in Freaks, Mutants, and Morons | 3 Comments

Why no charges?

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Phil Kadath

If you or I did this, we’d be labeled “Defendant” in a heartbeat.

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has abandoned a unique and ambitious plan to persuade rich countries to pay his country not to drill for oil in a pristine Amazon rainforest preserve.

Environmentalists had hailed the initiative when Correa first proposed it in 2007, saying he was setting a precedent in the fight against global warming by reducing the high cost to poor countries of preserving the environment.

“The world has failed us,” Correa said in a nationally televised speech. He blamed “the great hypocrisy” of nations who emit most of the world’s greenhouse gases.

“It was not charity that we sought from the international community, but co-responsibility in the face of climate change.”

The guy was demanding $7.2 billion or he would cut down some trees, build some roads and put a few holes in the ground. The majority of the sane planet told him to go drill himself. His final total was $13 million cash and $116 million in promises.

Which I’m sure he will not return.

The eco-socialists already let people pay penance for their imagined “sins”, now they’re standing behind blackmail. Is it rationalizing murder that comes next or just violent assault?

Found via Samizdata

Posted in Rampant Eco Socialism, The Global Warming Death Cult | 2 Comments

RNS Quote of the Day: 08/19/13

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Phil Kadath

Can you sense a theme today?

The best government is the one that charges you the least blackmail for leaving you alone.

Thomas Rudmose-Brown

Posted in Quote of the Day | 2 Comments

Ayup

Posted on August 18, 2013 by Alaska

I Am A: Chaotic Neutral Human Wizard (6th Level)

Ability Scores:
Strength-11
Dexterity-9
Constitution-12
Intelligence-18
Wisdom-11
Charisma-17

Alignment:
Chaotic Neutral A chaotic neutral character follows his whims. He is an individualist first and last. He values his own liberty but doesn’t strive to protect others’ freedom. He avoids authority, resents restrictions, and challenges traditions. A chaotic neutral character does not intentionally disrupt organizations as part of a campaign of anarchy. To do so, he would have to be motivated either by good (and a desire to liberate others) or evil (and a desire to make those different from himself suffer). A chaotic neutral character may be unpredictable, but his behavior is not totally random. He is not as likely to jump off a bridge as to cross it. Chaotic neutral is the best alignment you can be because it represents true freedom from both society’s restrictions and a do-gooder’s zeal. However, chaotic neutral can be a dangerous alignment when it seeks to eliminate all authority, harmony, and order in society.

Race:
Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like.

Class:
Wizards are arcane spellcasters who depend on intensive study to create their magic. To wizards, magic is not a talent but a difficult, rewarding art. When they are prepared for battle, wizards can use their spells to devastating effect. When caught by surprise, they are vulnerable. The wizard’s strength is her spells, everything else is secondary. She learns new spells as she experiments and grows in experience, and she can also learn them from other wizards. In addition, over time a wizard learns to manipulate her spells so they go farther, work better, or are improved in some other way. A wizard can call a familiar- a small, magical, animal companion that serves her. With a high Intelligence, wizards are capable of casting very high levels of spells.

Find out What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be?, courtesy of Easydamus (e-mail)

Posted in Academia and Other Nonsense | 1 Comment

Sunday Funnies

Posted on August 18, 2013 by Phil Kadath

There is a reason they are called Bigots.

mrebkkd4k51rw5dlyo1

Posted in Have Gun, Will Travel | 4 Comments