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An Ohio woman held a would-be burglar at gunpoint until police arrived, warning him, “if you move, you’re gonna go to the morgue.” Tammy Takach of Steubenville was sleeping Thursday morning when a noise in her home woke her up. She told WPXI-TV she grabbed her gun and went downstairs to find an intruder who’d … Read more
Or is it more a case of just “Curb Your Enthusiasmn“?
Staples, the Office Supply chain, has denied a local gun store its application to participate in a contest for small businesses. Yes, I know. A Town of about 
9 square miles with the population of Merrimack New Hampshire (Fremont Nebraska), happens to have (a least one) gun store in it run by two Army veterans; sounds like a small business to me. So why can’t this small business participate in a contest for small businesses?
Staples has rules for its contests and their bureaucracy appears to be as intellectually agile as any other. That is to say, not at all. In a denial letter to the gun shop, from staples, (excerpted here) we find the fly in the ointment.
Entry contains content that promotes alcohol, illegal drugs, tobacco, firearms/weapons (or the use of any of the foregoing); promotes any activities that may appear unsafe or dangerous; promotes any particular political agenda or message; is obscene or offensive; or endorses any form of hate or hate group.
But Staples not only sells “weapons”…it allows them to get into the hands of convicted criminals.
“We don’t let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?” —Joseph Stalin
UK Mail Online’s James Slack reported on the soaring gun violence sweeping the country. Slack wrote in his article entitled, “Culture of violence: Gun crime goes up by 89% in a decade,”
“Gun crime has almost doubled since Labour came to power as a culture of extreme gang violence has taken hold…In some parts of the country, the number of offences has increased more than five-fold.”
One satisfied customer am I. The peanuts I bought today…have peanuts in them. So any of you peanut allergy people who were thinking you might find some peanuts without peanuts in them. These are not the peanut-less-peanuts you are looking for.
…do they become the enemy? In Medford, Oregon recently, police arrested a man and confiscated his weapon for firing a warning shot to stop violent felon (wanted by the law) who was breaking into his home. No one, including the criminal, was hit by a bullet. Read on….
That used to be “Morally Straight” – kinda hard to be (or teach) as our society becomes more and more Secular – which is already leading to “situation ethics” or “relative morality”. This will result in a time there will be no absolute right and wrong – so how to hold people accountable for something that is obviously wrong but they simply say “No, it’s NOT!”?
There a tight connection between Cultural Marxism (aka Political Correctness) and being Morally Ambiguous in this case. Simple, really. Throw out the old religious tenets, which for centuries formed our moral foundation, and replace it with what ever we (Progressives) want it to be. After all, it’s what we do, we on the Left. How ELSE can we redefine Government in our own image if we don’t give society a new set of values that are favorable to us? We HAVE to pick off and subsume those institutions that promulgate those old standards. That way, OUR Government will be the only institution left that can dictate what is right and what is wrong.
Adding on from “Moral Ambiguous” is this snippet from Imprimis (emphasis mine, I urge you to go read the whole thing – GRTWT) explains it well:
The idea seems to be that moral views historically supported by religion—which of course means all moral views other than modern secular ones—are constitutionally suspect.
Even as our Constitution was built, in no small part, on values from our country’s Judeo-Christian heritage. We are starting to live that phrase “a prophet has no honor in his own country”.
Here we come to the unifying feature of contemporary challenges to religious freedom—the desire to limit the influence of religion over public life. In the world envisioned by Obama administration lawyers, churches will have freedom as “houses of worship,” but unless they accept the secular consensus they can’t inspire their adherents to form institutions to educate and serve society in accordance with the principles of their faith. Under a legal regime influenced by the concept of public reason, religious people are free to speak—but when their voices contradict the secular consensus, they’re not allowed into our legislative chambers or courtrooms.
Freedom of expression, freedom of speech? Only that which is allowed by Government which is to say, no freedom at all. Those Constitutional values…..
Grokster Susan has the list with the title of “All your water are belong to them….“; it is still GraniteGrok’s belief that the finger has been removed from the dike with respect to the right to private property concerning the water underneath one’s land and that this may well give the Taxaholics yet another revenue stream of taxing (you watch – 4% of income is a magic number) private wells and septic systems (either directly or via metering). Grokster Steve points out that the idea of New Hampshire-ites being taxed for the rainwater falling on their land has already been breached.
My concern, however, was with the evolving process of Legislators creating more and more “enabling legislation” that creates more opportunities for “UnDemocracy” – as Rich Lowry points out (reformatted, emphasis mine):
It is appropriate that the worst scandal of the Obama administration— the IRS targeting of conservatives — is a scandal of administrators and bureaucrats, of otherwise faceless people endowed with immense power over their fellow citizens and running free of serious oversight from elected officials.
They are the shock troops of the vast bureaucratic apparatus of the federal government. Its growth has been one of President Obama’s chief goals, and the one he has had the most success in achieving. He has greatly enhanced the reach and power of regulatory agencies that are an inherent offense against self-government, even when they aren’t enforcing the law in a biased way.
The administration’s corruption isn’t bags of cash or lies about interns; it is the distortion of our form of government by sidestepping democratic procedures and accountability and vesting authority in bureaucrats. The Administrative State…
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” —Gilbert K. Chesterton
Democrats like to promote themselves as change agents. Agents of change. And this makes them hip. Modern. Progressive. But nothing could be further from the truth.
Democrats promote the politicization of everything and by extension the bureaucratization of everything. To them government is the best arbiter of progress. But the process of making government the dispatcher of innovation has exactly the opposite effect. It creates barriers to entry, reduces choices, dries up resources or locks them away, and leaves a few cumbersome behemoths who plod along beside big government, benefiting from their shared monopoly on “progress.”
Turns out the administration and Democrat news peddling about the sequestration leveling utter destruction on our country is apocryphal nonsense, though its not because they didn’t try. And it’s actually a little disappointing.
Here I was ready to witness the collapse of a functioning society because government would have to spend a little less. Ready for neck tied government bureaucrats leaping from windows upon hearing that they’ve been furloughed and no longer able to afford their standard of living without a few days of their low 6 figured salaries.
Ready to marvel at the metaled gleam of congested runways below lazily collapsing spirals of jets gradually descending to the strips for a landing every two to three hours because adequate numbers of Air Traffic Controllers were simply unavailable to field requests for landings and takeoffs.
Not quite ready, but was accepting that the hospitals and sewage systems would be overflowing from the results of the massive consumption of food not receiving the proper safety inspections.
What do we get?
SB 11 was widely embraced by the New Hampshire House, which means there will be plenty of blame to go around. While we wait, let us reminisce about an effort back in 2010 to do one of the things we suggested that SB11’s broad language might empowers new intermunicipal water districts to do. From CNHT.org … Read more
Here’s something you probably have not seen yet.
The Washington DC Whiners are at it again, trying to get the NFL’s Washington Redskins to change their name. The Owner of the team is on the record claiming he’ll never do it, but the Capitol City PC Police just wont let up. But not everyone agrees. Speaking on Sirius XM NFL Radio’s “The Morning … Read more
The 7 year old (he is now 8) who got a two day suspension for chewing his Pop Tart® into the shape of a gun… When pressed by a CBS Baltimore reporter, though, (Joshua) Welch said, “When I was done, it turned out to be a gun, yeah.” …was awarded a lifetime membership to the … Read more
(Posters note: this is usually Skip’s territory, hopefully I’m not squatting… I’ll find out soon enough :0) [Well, more of a Notable Quote than a BlogLine, but I’m good! – Skip (hey – he asked!] ) What the mainstream media has yet to do is to connect the authoritarianism of the administration’s personnel with the … Read more
The scandal that wont go away keeps getting better. It looks like we can now speculate as to what Obama was doing while his Libyan Ambassador was under assault. Plotting his political out. Via Gateway Pundit: I think there is a bigger story here that will in time come out. The biggest scandal of all, … Read more
