No, this is not The Onion Major crime in New York City inched up this year, and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Friday fingered the culprit: too many iPhones and iPads were being swiped. A rise in thefts of shiny Apple products accounted for the slight increase in the city’s annual crime index, a statistic that covers a number of felonies, including murder, grand larceny and robbery, Mr. Bloomberg said
December 2012
December 28, 2012
BREAKING NEWS: Parents discover table manners [Darleen Click]
I don’t know whether to be amused or depressed when the New York Times runs breathless articles on things I take for granted about parental responsibilities. The place is Chenery Park, a restaurant with low lights, cloth napkins, $24 grilled salmon and “family night” every Tuesday. Children are welcome, with a catch: They are expected to behave — and to watch their manners, or learn them. Think upscale dining with
December 28, 2012
“U.S. Taxpayers Will Continue to Pay More Than One-Fifth of U.N. Budget”
I guess when you’re trying to build a transnational progressive world government, “fair share” and “skin in the game” aren’t quite so big a rhetorical priority. Because shut up racists / agents of Zionism.
December 28, 2012
“Maybe the US Isn’t As Violent As We Think…”
Riffing off a UK Telegraph piece and its counterpart at Townhall, “Banning guns,” TPOL-Nathan at the Price of Liberty writes: […] the last 500+ years, [the US / colonies] have accepted and assimilated the malcontents of the other six continents: the mixing of cultures is expected to be often violent and with a good deal of rancor and resentment – the same reason that the UK’s four (or more) nations
December 28, 2012
“Michael Moore: ‘Calm Down, White People, and Put Away Your Guns’”
Michael Moore is down for the struggle. And some of his best gophers are black. So. CNS: Documentary-maker and liberal activist Michael Moore said the reason for mass shootings in the United States is largely due to fear and racism, and on Christmas Eve he pleaded, “calm down, white people, and put away your guns.” In ablog post entitled “Celebrating the Prince of Peace in the Land of Guns,” while
December 28, 2012
Trial balloons trailers
The key to running a police state in which, under the best case scenario, the police are still exponentially outnumbered by non-compliant citizens playing the civil disobedience role, is to make improvements on your ability to round up and transport large numbers of protesters — criminalizing them in order to take away some of their rights and, in more extreme cases, their votes. It ain’t black helicopters that are coming
December 27, 2012
Aww, how sweet! Jerry Rubin is after toy guns again [Darleen Click]
Part Deux Activist Jerry Rubin’s “Alliance for Survival” peace group is encouraging children and families to say “no” to guns with a “No Toy Guns Merit Award Project” in response to the Newton, Conn. shooting which left 20 children and six adults dead, the Santa Monica Mirror reported. The group will offer a personalized, frameable certificate to children and families that send the alliance a letter explaining “Why I will
December 27, 2012
“Sacramento resident kills would-be robber; 3 wounded in gunfight”
I wonder if the family protected themselves — and the other children over for a sleepover — with a musket? Wouldn’t want to have the capability of having more than 10 cartridges at your disposal against 3 or 4 armed intruders who collectively likely had at a minimum 30 rounds, right? I mean, who needs that?
December 27, 2012
Don’t worry. They aren’t coming for your guns, wingnuts. Until they are.
This is what a police state looks like: “Sen. Feinstein Posts Proposed ‘Assault Weapons’ Legislation — and It Includes Provisions on Handguns and ‘Grandfathered’ Weapons”: Last week, Sen. Dianne Feinstein promised to on the first day of new the Congress introduce legislation that would ban so-called assault weapons and certain types of ammunition. Now, the Californian senator has posted a summary of this legislation that would be introduced in 2013,