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I have one question for all of your 2 that visit here.

There are laws to prevent the shooting of innocent people, there are laws to prevent robbery, there are laws to prevent battery,

Take a close look at the Illinois legislature these days, and you’ll find the reason why several promising gun control bills have been defeated in the House this month.
In the last couple of weeks, House Republicans from the suburban Chicago area prevented three key bills from moving forward in Springfield. In particular, 16 House Republicans from the suburbs voted against legislation that would have mandated criminal background checks on handgun sales, HB 758, and prohibited the sale of no more than one handgun a month.
In addition, they also voted against another important measure. Currently, Illinois law states that parents are required to safely store firearms so that they are not accessible to children and teens under the age of 14. Another bill would raise that standard to the age of 18.
We need to be absolutely clear about what happened here. This is not a planned uprising among Republicans in favor of specific pieces of gun legislation. It is, rather, a damaging blow against what voters want - a blow largely caused by phone calls and emails delivered repeatedly by the NRA. During this legislative session, House Republicans from suburban Chicago have made decisions on the gun issue based on calls from a vocal and intimidating minority.

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What do these people think will be accomplished with additional laws will stop law abiding people from getting guns to protect themselves when people that don’t abide by the laws we have now will just ignore in the future?

I just donated another $100 to NRA to stop these ignorant people….you should too.

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Ruling by politics isn’t a good thing. It never has been and is extremely anti American.

A California judge rejected a foster teen’s request for early enlistment with the Marine Corps — and a $10,000 signing bonus — reportedly on the grounds that the judge didn’t approve of the Iraq war.

Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Marilyn Mackel denied 17-year-old Shawn Sage’s request to join the military last October, according to a report in the Los Angeles Daily News.

“The judge said she didn’t support the Iraq war for any reason we’re over there,” Marine recruiter Sgt. Guillermo Medrano of the Simi Valley U.S. Marine Corps recruiting office told the paper.

“She just said all recruiters were the same — that they ‘all tap dance and tell me what I want to hear.’ She said she didn’t want him to fight in it.”

The kid is going to join the Marines in June- so the judge here had little impact.

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Muslims don’t wish to cause any trouble in the world. They have no desire to spread their religion of peace to any and all corners of the Earth. We have nothing to fear. Says who? Why…Muslims silly! That’s who. And since there have been no repeats of September 11th, we must believe and trust these people.

Leftard/Lemomcrat Rule Number One:
Terrorism at the hands of radical Islam is not a threat. Therefore any War on Terror isn’t real or viable or workable. No planes have been used as bombs since 9-11; no nuclear weapons have detonated over our cities. We’re…safe. We have nothing to worry about.

Meanwhile in all corners of the world a global effort is underway, by Muslims, to change the way of life for many free countries. It’s happening as I type…as you read this…as liberal governments of every nation choose to adapt and alter and surrender the values and tenants of freedom. All in the name of cultural respect, tolerance and good will.

In Australia, Muslim students (mostly Saudi citizens) asked Melbourne universities to adjust class times to fit in with their daily prayers. They also requested female-only recreational areas on campus.
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Meanwhile, on February 26, local officials in Zwolle, Holland decided to lift a ban on Muslim women wearing so-called “burkinis” in public swimming pools. The garment, also known as a hijood, leaves only the wearer’s face, hands and feet exposed.
[…]Closer to home, Harvard University announced new women-only access times at the student gym, to “accommodate religious customs that make it difficult for some students to work out in the presence of men.”

The other day I found an article about how Muslim med students in Britain are refusing to follow proven sanitary and infection control practices, perhaps adding to a huge problem with the spreading of diseases in Britain. The reason the med students are refusing to wash their lower arms after surgeries is because (guess…) it exposes flesh to members of the opposite sex.

What is going on with all this?

“It’s all part of the campaign of soft jihad,” wrote Roger Kimball, editor of The New Criterion. “Traditional jihad is waged with scimitars and their contemporary equivalents, e.g., stolen Boeing 767s, which make handy instruments of mass homicide. Soft jihad is a quieter affair: it uses and abuses the language and the principles of democratic liberalism not to secure the institutions and attitudes that make freedom possible but, on the contrary, to undermine that freedom and pave the way for self-righteous, theocratic intolerance.”

Is there anything a Muslim isn’t offended by?

Are they any places where they don’t demand some change or alteration? The CHIPS portion of Britain’s famous fish and chips have come under the eye of Muslim scrutiny, and it’s just ridiculous:

Senior Muslim figures have said that they are shocked that a number of Walkers snacks contain traces of alcohol and eating them is therefore against their religion.

Again I ask: Is there anything a Muslim isn’t offended by?

Is this sharia creep? And will we allow it to spread like an virulent, nasty disease? Europe is highly infected right now…it may be too late to eradicate this disease over there. Canada and Australia are on the brink, and America’s political will power is about to take a soft balled approach (if a Democrat is elected in November). Remember folks: There are no vaccinations and pills to cure this disease- Islam. Once it takes hold, it is like cancer. It spreads to all aspects of life; it feeds off damaged cells as it destroys the healthy ones…eventually it kills the whole being.

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In many ways, I’m going to miss President Bush.

I have issues with President Bush. I don’t agree at all with some of his policies. But when it comes to foreign policy and tyrant leaders in the world, he stands heads over tails taller than just about any other person. Especially Barack ObOmB.

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Out in Berkistan CA the city council has issued a clarification of their recent demand that the USMC leave the city grounds.

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - City council members who were criticized for telling Marine recruiters they don’t belong here have moderated their position, saying they oppose the Iraq war but support the troops.

The Berkeley City Council voted two weeks ago to send a letter to a downtown recruitment station advising the Marines they were not welcome.

After a marathon session that stretched into early Wednesday, the council decided against sending the letter, saying it recognizes recruiters’ right to be in Berkeley. The council members say they still strongly oppose the war and the recruitment of young people, but “deeply respect and support” the men and women of the armed forces.

Some on the council had pushed for issuing an apology. Others rejected that, saying they just wanted to clarify their position.

I have yet to see any letters telling the Code Pink Menopause Cows they are not welcome either. Oh wait…old hags wearing pink aren’t a part of the USMC…I stand corrected. The harassment of young people who wish to join the Military is Code Pink’s motto, the noisy protests and embarrassing tactics are A OKAY for Berkistan, we know. The quiet and orderly office a USMC recruiting officer is a royal taboo.

Code Pink for Peace, headed by Castro-loving neo-communist and perennial anti-U.S. activist Medea Benjamin, orchestrates the direct-action segment of the counter recruitment movement with the Ruckus Society, an off-shoot of the eco-terrorism group Earth First!

Benjamin’s history with the Ruckus Society goes back to the late 1990s when she helped it plan and execute the violent riots that occurred during the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Seattle, Washington. As part of Code Pink’s counter-recruitment drive Benjamin has enlisted the Ruckus Society to provide training camps for potential 18-22 year old counter-recruiters.

Ruckus Society training camps provide activists with the tools to organize street protests, shut down recruitment offices and avoid arrest. Those attending the camps are exposed to a constant barrage of anti- capitalist, anti-war, anti-U.S. propaganda. Ruckus also advertises its training camps through its front group, Not Your Soldier, a counter-recruitment organization whose website marquee features an angry looking young man reading a book titled, “History of U.S. Imperialism.”

Freedom. It’s what America is about. When the Pink Menopausal Cows scream and shout, people like me wonder just WHAT is being accomplished. A city like Berkistan is forever stained with the antics of it’s aged hippies and pot smoking citizens…I would be to shamed to live there. Really- are these anti American anti war groups doing any good? No. They are a huge waste of time and money. Maybe the goal is to keep a national spotlight upon the region? It’s a negative light that’s for sure.

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Most of you have heard about the pile of shit lawyer in Chicago that keyed a Marines Car just before he deploys back to Iraq? Right?

Marine’s car allegedly keyed by protester

By Andrew Tilghman - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Jan 8, 2008 20:00:06 EST

 

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McNulty was getting ready to go back to Iraq for a second tour a few weeks ago when he left a friend’s apartment building to find a stranger vandalizing his car.

The shiny, black, two-door car displayed a Marine Corps license plate and a couple of USMC stickers. When McNulty confronted the man, the Marine faced a tirade of “anti-war and anti-military” remarks, according to a police report.

Many of McNulty’s fellow Marines might be stunned to learn that the 26-year-old reservist didn’t punch the man in the face on the spot. Instead, he called the Chicago police.

“He wanted to let the system handle it,” said McNulty’s brother, William McNulty, in a telephone interview.

Police arrived moments later to find McNulty standing next to Jay Grodner, a 55-year-old attorney who maintains two offices in the Chicago area. Grodner denied scraping the car. He claimed his accusers were anti-Semitic and singled him out because he is Jewish. The police report notes that Grodner’s responses to police questions were “unreasonable.”

Well, this is the best part of all.

Though he might not be in the courtroom, McNulty might derive some comfort from the fact that the presiding judge is a former Marine. Circuit Court Judge William O’Malley was a lance corporal in the early 1960s and is known around the Chicago Courthouse for wearing a Marine Corps pin on his lapel and celebrating the Corps’ birthday each November.

Could be the end for this pile of shit lawyer. I know there are good people that are lawyers but how they allow people like this to remain is beyond me..

Fuck you Jay Grodner, Go to Jail!

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Do we really need to develop special “tools” and programs to tell people, and kids, they are…FAT??

Guess so.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - West Virginia is hoping that a little wheel can make a big difference in the state’s obesity problem. The wheel is a body mass index calculator, a low-tech tool that will be distributed to doctors across the state as part of a new effort to get physicians to recognize obesity early in their patients.

The largest provider of Medicaid coverage in the state, the health benefits group UniCare, began offering training Tuesday to doctors and their staffs in obesity prevention and body mass index measurement.

Note the key words: THE STATES PROBLEM WITH OBESITY. Since when is this a states issue?

West Virginia is the third-heaviest state in the nation. According to the state Bureau for Public Health, more than 30 percent of adults in West Virginia are obese. A national study earlier this year by the Trust For America’s Health ranked West Virginia second in the percentage of children who are obese.

Manchin has made improving the health of residents one of his primary goals. The governor has been lobbying federal officials to allow West Virginia to use some of its state Children’s Health Insurance Program money to do obesity screening for children in kindergarten and the second, fifth and eighth grades.

“That way, we can track them across a number of years and measure their progress, and our progress,” Manchin said.

Well that’s nice. What happens after this obesity screening? AND, please note here, the state wants to use money from the S CHIP program to fund this. WHAT ABOUT THE KIDS WITH NO INSURANCE?? The CHIILLDRENN???

It can be hard to tell if a child’s weight is a sign of early obesity or normal growth, said Sondike, who attended the program’s announcement.

“Kids can grow into their weight,” he said. “But if there is a risk of obesity, it’s a lot easier to stop it when they’re children than when they’re adults.”

At the training sessions, doctors will be given calculation wheels along with charts from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to help interpret the results.

Sondike said that while many doctors are aware of BMI calculations, one goal of the training is to make physicians think of it as a standard measurement for patients, like weight or blood pressure.

So we don’t really know if the fat kids are really fat. We do know children tend to carry their baby fat well into their teen yrs. Again I ask: What happens after this obesity screening?

For state government, the concern is the health of its residents, but it also a matter of dollars and cents. The state’s Medicaid agency spends about $100 million on obesity-related costs annually, while obesity cost the state Public Employees Health Insurance agency $93 million last year, about 18 percent of its budget.

Yep…and you know what? You can lead a horse to a water pond but you can’t force it to drink. You can tell people, including kids, they are fat but it won’t make them change their eating/exercise habits IF THEY DON’T WANT to change.

Most overweight people KNOW they have a problem…some choose to do something about and others do not. We cannot mandate or force them to follow our ideals of health and wellness.

These programs are a total waste of money.

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BWAHAHAH!!

Dennis the Menace Said:

PHILADELPHIA — Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich questioned President Bush’s mental health in light of comments he made about a nuclear Iran precipitating World War III.

“I seriously believe we have to start asking questions about his mental health,” Kucinich, an Ohio congressman, said in an interview with The Philadelphia Inquirer’s editorial board on Tuesday. “There’s something wrong. He does not seem to understand his words have real impact.”

Dennis the Menace also:

““…saw a gigantic triangular craft, silent, and observing him. It hovered for about ten minutes or so, and sped away with a speed he couldn’t comprehend. He felt a connection in his heart and heard directions in his mind.”

Now who is perhaps having mental health issues here? Hmm….

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Amnesty is sneaking up again.

Michelle Malkin:

Fresh off the S-CHIP debacle and their FISA retreat, the Dems look to the illegal alien tuition subsidy legislation known as the DREAM Act for redemption.

Time to take some action folks!

(October 22) By invoking Senate Rule XIV on S. 2205, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has paved the way for prompt (and ill-advised) floor action on the measure, Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin’s (D-Ill.) new stand-alone DREAM Act amnesty bill. The procedural move, made late last week, means that the DREAM Act may be brought to the Senate floor as early as Tuesday (October 23) without ever having been considered in committee.

S. 2205, which is cosponsored by long-tenured Republicans Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) and Dick Lugar (R-Ind.), is, essentially, the same amnesty offered up for consideration by Durbin as an amendment (SA 2919) to H.R. 1585, the Defense Department (DoD) authorization bill for fiscal year 2008. The Senate passed that bill October 1 without ever taking up the DREAM Act amendment or amendments concerning increased worker importation.

In this most recent iteration, the DREAM Act authorizes DHS to cancel removal for, or adjust to lawful permanent resident status (in other words, grant amnesty to), an alien who is inadmissible or deportable in cases where the alien demonstrated that he/she:

* has maintained continuous presence in the United States for five years and was not yet 16 years old upon initial entry, but is no older than 30 years of age;
* is of “good moral character” and is not inadmissible or deportable on certain criminal grounds or on the basis of being a risk to national security; and
* has been admitted to an institution of higher education, has attained a high school diploma, or has obtained a GED in the United States.

This ill-conceived proposal, which would grant amnesty to illegal aliens who satisfy these criteria as of enactment, also would be a rolling amnesty drawing more illegal aliens here in the future to apply for amnesty.

First off, we all know these illegals are NOT of good moral character- their mere presence here in the US shows us they have NO MORALS. Breaking laws is unethical…AND don’t be fooled by this rhetoric sounding as though it’s for the children. Bullshit. This faulty legislation is amnesty for all illegal immigrants and those who wish to USE the children in the game.

This latter revision would narrow, but would not close, a gaping loophole in this amnesty because any illegal alien up to age 30 can still walk into any U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office, declare that he is eligible, and be granted amnesty with minimal documentation of eligibility. That 30-year-old could claim that he illegally entered the United States when he was 15, but there is no requirement that the alien prove that he entered the United States at the claimed time by providing particular documents. The proposal would merely require him to “demonstrate” that he is eligible, which in practice could mean simply making a sworn statement to that effect. Thus, it would be an invitation for just about every illegal alien 30 and under to fraudulently claim the amnesty.

The Lemoncrats (TM) are trying to sneak this into vote as soon as tomorrow. We must counter this with phone calls to our elected reps ASAP.

Capitol switchboard - 202-224-3121.
NOW. And first thing in the morning. Let them know how you feel.

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When the (leftist) editors of the Denver Post call for Ward Churchill to be gone, we know Churchill’s time has come.

More than two years have passed since the waves of controversy first started lapping at Ward Churchill, the embattled University of Colorado professor. In that same time, other recognizable names tied to CU - Betsy Hoffman, Gary Barnett - have been relegated to history.

Yet Churchill remains.

That’s because the ethnic studies professor has been given the appropriate due process - and then some.

It’s never been easy to fire a tenured professor, which is good, but that time has come for Churchill.

The entire process is a waste of tax payers money. No where else do people get the opportunity to file grievances after grievance against the bosses, who have determined, many times, that you’re not a good employee. Colleges and universities are havens for the disgruntled and whacked out thinkers, the conspiracy theorists (AKA nutty professors) who pass off their own slanted imaginary ills as true fact.

“Professor Churchill’s conduct has clearly violated the University’s policies on academic freedom and is inimical to the University’s core academic mission,” Brown wrote in a 10-page letter to Patricia Hayes, chairwoman of CU’s governing Board of Regents. “The University cannot disregard allegations of serious research misconduct simply because the allegations were made against a professor whose comments have attracted a high degree of public attention.”

Churchill’s shoddy scholarship first came to light publicly after he gained notoriety for a controversial essay in which he likened some Sept. 11 victims to “little Eichmanns.”

Two very thorough peer reviews of his research and academic work found academic misconduct. The first investigatory group concluded that he intentionally falsified research, plagiarized and ghost-wrote articles that he later used as references to prop up his own research.

We had hoped Churchill would just go away after his disguise as a scholar was blown, but he has continued to appeal each ruling. CU’s committee on privilege and tenure recently split on whether to fire him. Two members advocated firing, but three supported suspension. However, the committee did agree that he engaged in research misconduct and that his conduct “falls below minimum standards of professional integrity.”

it should be noted that anyone who speaks the words Churchill did of the 9-11 victims WILL become a national embarrassment to the colleges and universities and other employers…and the scrutiny they receive will be well deserved. CU is no exception to this.
Free speech does come with responsibility…and sometimes this means one has to really consider what they wish to speak about. Ward Churchill made a decision, a choice. He didn’t like the reaction but he sure glowed in his hours of glory. The attention he got was very ego-fulfilling for him. Naturally people took an interest in his actual works, his writings and what not. That’s when people began to question the mans honesty…and integrity. People everywhere recognized the outright lies of Churchill’s works. This wasn’t and isn’t about free speech.

Ward Churchill just needs to go. To move on and suck his feathers and find some peace in a different environment. He does not need to continue to indoctrinate our youth with his brand of history. Now the governor of Colorado has even said it’s time for the fake Indian to go, too.

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Well cry me a river of big fat tears. NOT.

Cindy Sheehan says she is resigning as the “face” of the American anti-war movement.

In a letter posted on a liberal website Monday, Sheehan complained about the smears and hatred directed at her by liberals since she renounced her ties to the Democratic Party.

“Being called an ‘attention whore’ and being told ‘good riddance’ are some of the more milder rebukes [sic],” Sheehan wrote in a long letter posted on the DailyKos blog.

“I have come to some heartbreaking conclusions this Memorial Day Morning,” Sheehan wrote.

Good riddance you stupid cow. Now go back to the pasture and take care of everything you have neglected these past three years. Hopefully you can find some real peace and hopefully your son will stop rolling in his grave.

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This has gone on for too long. How much more time, effort and money is going to be put out for the one and only Ward Churchill, the freaky feather loving Professor of Ethnic Studies at Colorado University?

Citing “the good of the university,” CU President Hank Brown has recommended that embattled University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill be fired, although it remains an interim step in Churchill’s review.

Brown argued that Churchill’s work, which focuses on American Indians, showed “severe” and “deliberate” research misconduct that “seriously impacts the university’s academic reputation.”

If I were a student looking for higher education I wouldn’t go near CU…knowing it employs deceitful and totally whacked out professors like Churchill. I would want an education based on real and well documented fact, not fiction written to fill an agenda of hate.

And what is Churchill going to do? Take a wild guess.

Churchill, a tenured professor of ethnic studies who could not be reached for comment, told The Associated Press on Monday that if the regents follow through with Brown’s recommendation and dismiss him, he will sue in state or federal court.

For chrissake. Move on Ward. You’re popular, according to yourself. Surely you could get a teaching job anywhere, at any elite university in the country. Why bother continuing to cost the citizens of Colorado this expense? Do you think you’re worth it?
Most of your bosses don’t think so. The American people can differentiate a fraud from a free speecher claim. You fall under that fraudulent end of the spectrum…

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OUCH.

Ouch…but it’s pretty on spot, hate to say.

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The gall of this woman, to make this claim:

Hillary wants to build U.S. respect

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told voters here yesterday that President Bush has squandered the international good will and strong economic standing her husband, former President Bill Clinton, created in the 1990s.

“We’ve got to get back to where we can trust our government again,” the New York Democrat said while campaigning in the early primary state.

“Wouldn’t it be nice to have a government again that was respected around the world?” Mrs. Clinton asked a crowd at the Allen Temple A.M.E. Church. “I think America is ready to have a president … that will create alliances, not alienation, and I know America is ready for a president who will once and for all end the war in Iraq.”

Let’s give Hillary a refresher course on international good will…
Her husband’s ignorant policies towards foreign affairs (clouded by his own inter-Oval Office Monika affair) created the groundwork for the events that happened on September 11 2001. When American choses to please the world, America loses. The world hates the US and it doesn’t matter who our President is; as long as he (and hopefully not SHE) cowards down and hands out the cash, America is tolerated. What Hillary and her fellow Lemoncrat ilk don’t understand is that the world’s “freedom” loving nations put a price on that freedom…in the form of government oversights and economic regulation and “wealth” redistribution
(AKA socialism). The free world is scared of a truly free America, whose citizens won’t put up with bank rolling every brilliantly blind cure to every third world nation- created problem.

If the Lemoncrats take the White House, the world will once again be content with band aid solutions and superficial feels-good foreign policy. The political, moral and ethical culture of the US and the world will continue to go down it’s relentless mudslide into hell, and our enemies will carry out their attacks with our blessing, unintentional, of course. The Clinton’s will be personally responsible for much of this. Hillary has no shame, none. I AM ASHAMED OF HER.

Cross posted @ ARS

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I have a License To Murder.

My Gun.

I have a right to own it. To use it. To protect myself and my family.

Check this out:

“I object to the NRA giving criminals a License to Murder.”

Like burglers in the night, the NRA is sneaking into legislatures across the nation and passing laws that allow the gun guys to shoot anyone that they feel is threatening them– and to be guaranteed immunity from civil penalties even if they shoot an innocent bystander.

The hype. The lies. The misconceptions. (and they can’t spell for jackshit)

As Jeff says:

These are the traitors to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights who would sell our liberties down the toilet while working to protect the thugs, the mutants, the criminals that prey upon us.

Exactly.

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