Malkin has details on on the gaggle of left-coast moonbats determined to embarrass themselves, neglect and abuse their own children, and generally crap on the military with their anti-American spastic fits.

There’s a simple solution to it. Vote on it. Don’t want the military? Shove it on a ballot, ask the people if they want them out. You organize enough votes to get a majority to vote for “military withdrawal” from your state, then pull ‘em. Temporarily close the bases, divert the shipments to other locations, yank all Guard troops, and you’re on your own, you sniveling, thankless brats.

Next time there’s a disaster - whether manufactured by islamo-thugs or nature, you go ahead and figure it out on your own. Earthquake? You fix your own roads. Mt. Ranier blows it’s top? Good luck. Raining zombie frogs with an insatiable appetite for brain-chow? See you later.

I have less than zero patience for people who are so quick to crap on the individuals who volunteer themselves to both protect and defend this country - regardless of whether the current administration is putting them to best use. I only hope some day the kids in those pictures grow up to realize how stupid their parents are.

Success of health care plan could cost states millions

BOSTON – Those overseeing Massachusetts’ new health care law have been so successful in enrolling people in subsidized health plans that the state may need millions more to pay for the program.

An outreach effort by local advocates, state health officials, and hospitals and insurance providers has put Massachusetts on the path to enrolling as many as 180,000 people by the end of June.

That could put the program short by about $146 million.

What a great twist to open with. “Hey! GREAT news! Turns out we’re SO successful that we’ll have to … you know … fund this thing now. And so we’re going to … uhh … pillage your bank account. Yay for collectivism!”

And where’s the money going to come from? Since … you know … you’re REQUIRED to “purchase” the health insurance, that means you’re not paying extra taxes. They wouldn’t make you pay for healthcare twice, right?

Right?

Just a teeny little taste of what would happen if Hillarycare makes it to the White House. I can just see the press conference now, “We didn’t expect so many individuals without health coverage to enroll. The failure of the previous administration to blah blah blah, means that we’ll have to look at ‘alternative measures’ of blah blah blah, to fund our National Healthcare. Ultimately we have to make sacrifices for the greater good of all …“

Gah. Just the thought of it … makes me sick.

Over at Blogonomicon, you can catch details about Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace

I’ve never seen it, but a spoof of ’80s horror movies set in a hospital with an abundance of firearms sounds right up my alley. I like strange shows and movies.

It got me thinking … what’s my all-time favorite television show that features firearms. The Rifleman is before my time, really, and I never really got hooked into 24. No, I’d say my all-time favorite was a short-run (two seasons ‘86-’88) television show called, “Sledge Hammer.” It wasn’t as plainly ridiculous as Police Squad. It wasn’t serious either. It was just … goofy. Loose cannon cop talks to his magnum, shoots first, asks questions later. I mean really, what’s not to like? Particularly with the tagline, “Trust me, I know what I’m doing.”

Here’s a little piece of advice from Mr. Hammer …

Don’t miss the Teaser either. “That no-good yogurt-eatin’ creep!”

They sure wouldn’t make a show like that nowadays …

Via The War On Guns

Boston police are launching a program that will call upon parents in high-crime neighborhoods to allow detectives into their homes, without a warrant, to search for guns in their children’s bedrooms.

Via Dictionary.com:

   police state
   –noun
a nation in which the police, esp. a secret police, summarily suppresses any social, economic, or political act that conflicts with governmental policy.

Via Drudge: First-grader suspended over drawing

Okay, okay … it’s in Oregon. Those people wet themselves at someone’s desire to keep themselves alive through force if necessary. That doesn’t make it any less stupid though.

Two things stand out for me here. First:

The drawing was inspired by an episode of “The Simpsons,” Weathers said. In the television cartoon, a character displays a drawing of a student being shot by a gun.

First-graders should not be watching The Simpsons. Second-graders should not be watching South Park. Just like Third-graders should not be watching Jackass, etc. etc.

Next:

Weathers said he owns a handgun, but he keeps it in a safe in a storage facility.

“I do own a .357, but my son’s never even seen it,” he said.

Well there’s your problem right there. That’s ridiculous. First of all, what friggin’ good does it do you locked up in a storage facility? Second, nobody should be afraid to show a gun to a kid as long as you’re not posing in front of the mirror, holding it sideways, and talking about popping a cap in someone’s ass.

Stop. Don’t touch it. Get a grown-up right away. Right after my son turned five he had those three simple steps memorized. Even at a young age you can get kids to understand that it’s serious, it’s not something to play with, and that it can be dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing.

But as a parent, you have to de-mystify it. If you’ve got a 7 year-old playing Grand Theft Auto, then it’s your fault as a parent if they show a complete lack of respect and understanding. If you’re not teaching them and engaging them, there’s nobody to blame but yourself.

Any time my son wants to see the gun, I’ll show him. He’ll ask questions, and I answer them. Then I put it away and his curiosity is completely satisfied. And every time I show him, I check it three times and tell him out loud what I’m doing just as I make sure he can see what I’m doing. First, no bullet in the chamber. Second, nothing in the magazine and the magazine is ejected. Then I check it again. Then I check it again, and at that point he’s seen me do it, he’s seen how careful I am, and if he wants to see it up close in a safe condition, that’s fine. Drill it in their little heads, and then show them what happens when you’re NOT careful:

It’s a shame this kid had to get suspended, but there’s blame to go around in plenty of different directions. Should he be suspended over a drawing? No. For threatening other kids? Well, then you’ve got a discipline issue to deal with. The drawing has much less to do with the story than the Mail Tribune would like to recognize.

It is a chimerical idea to suppose that a country like this could ever be enslaved. How is an army for that purpose to … subdue a nation of free-men who know how to prize liberty and who have arms in their hands?

Theodore Sedgwick - Revolutionary Soldier and Framer of the Second Amendment in the First Congress

Thanks David Hardy for this one …

Rendell to personally push gun bills before Pa. House panel

Oh, goody, goody gumdrops, I haven’t fisked something in at least the past 24 hours. Buckle up, it’s going to get bumpy!

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Gov. Ed Rendell, hoping to inject fresh drama into the stalled debate over gun control in Pennsylvania, plans to personally address a House committee considering several bills he says are crucial to reducing gun violence.

Oh, EXCELLENT! Philly is going to be so much better once they continue to restrict law-abiding firearm owners. Nothing says, “reduction in violence” like making someone wait a month to legally buy a pistol!

An appearance by a sitting governor before a committee is so rare that some of the longest serving legislators and staff members could not remember another such time.

Probably because it hasn’t been necessary until Rendell first f***ed up Philly with his policies, THEN handed it to Mayor Street to f*** it up, who then turned it over to Mr. Nutter to f*** up. There’s a Democratic gang-bang if I’ve ever seen one. Unfortunately it’s the citizens of the city that birthed this Country’s liberty, freedom, and principles that are bent over and forced steady squirts of collectivist intrusion in what amounts to an ass-pounding so harsh that having a piping-hot motor oil enema aggressively administered with nothing less than a stiff, rusty wire brush would seem like a day at the spa.

At Rendell’s request, Rep. Thomas Caltagirone, D-Berks, the House Judiciary Committee chairman, will bring up three bills for a vote Tuesday after members listen to the governor.

Can ordinary citizens speak up as well? Or is Rendell only willing to play by his own rules? You know what … nevermind that question.

Rendell, a former Philadelphia mayor, makes the appearance on the heels of a spate of shootings of police officers in his hometown, one of them fatal. Officer Chuck Cassidy was shot in the head when he walked in on a doughnut shop robbery Oct. 31 and died the next day. A suspect was arrested days later.

Oh for crying out loud here we go again.

Here are the bills (via Sebastian and thanks Say Uncle):

* HB 18, which basically destroys our state’s preemption law

* HB 22, which limits gun purchases to one gun per month
* HB 29, which requires the reporting of a lost or stolen firearm to police under severe legal penalties. This bill has the potential to trap unaware gun owners who are victimized by crimes.

Rendell and other mayors from around the state maintain that the bills are critical to stemming a rise in gun-related crimes.

This is where journalists (okay, it’s the AP, our standards can’t be set TOO high) are complicit in allowing readers to be consistently lied to.

The impression is given here that Officer Chuck Cassidy’s killing could have been PREVENTED had these measures gone through. Nothing could be further from the truth.

John Lewis (ID’d by Police, mind you, and IN CUSTODY AND LET GO by Police in connection with the murder he committed - misled because he didn’t have a spider tattoo that ended up being incorrect information), was a convicted drug dealer and high-school drop-out who stole his Mom’s 9mm (UPDATE: See Sebastian’s comments below) standard issue pistol (she is a corrections officer on the Philly prison system) and committed this murder apparently before she got home and found the gun missing.

Tell me again, Gov. Rendell - and the AP - how in the hell could “reporting a stolen firearm” have helped prevent this? How would making him wait a month to buy a pistol made a difference?

He’s a convicted dealer. He was in police custody AFTER the murder and let go. Gun control has nothing to do with it. This case was a failure on so many levels. A failure of public school. A failure of the Police. A failure of his own Mother. Most of all, it’s a failure on behalf of the State Government for using a tragic event to push an agenda that would not have made a difference.

However, the governor faces a steep challenge with the bun bills. The Legislature has opposed tougher state gun-control laws, and the National Rifle Association opposes the bills.

That’s because they won’t work. They don’t work anywhere. Bills like these restrict law-abiding citizens. Criminals aren’t restricted because they don’t care about the laws. If they did, John Lewis wouldn’t have murdered the cop because, you know … murdering cops is (I think) illegal. Maybe. So is stealing guns from your Mom. And holding up a Dunkin’ Donuts. Oh, and don’t forget stealing aforementioned perished cop’s sidearm after you shoot him in the head. And fleeing to another state in order to evade the police after committing a felony - well … multiple felonies.

Damn it! Not enough laws to prevent that sort of behavior! Yeah, and maybe I’m a Chinese jet pilot.

And it’s interesting that the AP makes a teeeny little typo here, calling them “bun bills”. That’s about right though, because all of this stinks like a fetid posterior.

John Hohenwarter, an NRA lobbyist, said curbing gun violence will require tougher enforcement of existing gun laws and expanding outreach to troubled youth.

Dude, don’t even bother. These are democrats and this is a problem that exists on so many levels, not least of which is a race-based issue, which means that if you’re bringing it up - you risk being labeled a smug racist.

Similar versions of all three bills met defeat in the House last fall. One of those bills, which would require gun owners to report lost or stolen firearms and create a state police database to track the missing weapons, was rejected by the committee on June 27. The measure was struck down by a 17-11 vote, with the help of five of Rendell’s fellow Democrats.

Just wait until he gets in front of the crowd and starts barking from his moral high jackass horse.

Another bill would outlaw the purchase of more than one handgun every 30 days in Pennsylvania.

Which is about as stupid and senseless a waste of time those taxpayers may ever pay for. Criminals don’t buy guns at Dick’s Sporting Goods.

The third bill would let Philadelphia write its own firearm laws, and would allow any other county or municipality to do the same, if local voters approve. Currently, only the state Legislature can write such laws.

So it would essentially give Philly the power to completely and totally crush itself and rocket to the top of the violent crime charts! That’s Philly! Coming in at #21 … with a bullet.

Thank you, Mr. Quick!

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