3 Boxes of BS

That’s right boys and girls, it’s no longer your property that you have a right to do as you want with, it is now a potential revenue stream for the city of Dallas.

City managers have floated the idea of charging $5, as a way to help balance next year’s tough budget…

Jasso and Caraway estimate the fee could bring in $500,000 next year, and they recommend the money go toward senior dental services, cultural affairs programs, graffiti removal and animal services.

Think about that for a minute.

You would  no longer be allowed to sell your stuff, on your property, when you want to without giving a cut of your money to the city.

Oh, and they get their cut before you sell a single item. Heck at least the mob waits until you’ve sold things.

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Instead of Jerseys for the kids

The system was introduced Tuesday. When at the school, students will wear a jersey that has a small radio frequency tag. The tag will send signals to sensors that help track children’s whereabouts, attendance and even whether they’ve eaten or not.

How about they just run them through a line and give them one of these.

I’m starting to rethink my political affiliations; I can really see joining the “Party Of NO”, of course, I would have to put a sentence enhancer in front of NO

Or Our Federal Government at Work Slacking off?

Really, folks — let’s think about our priorities here.
Federal agents have identified people in the country illegally, good.
They’ve processed the paperwork to start the deportation court proceedings, good.
Then the Obama Administration makes a decision to review those cases, Uh-Oh.

The Department of Homeland Security is systematically reviewing thousands of pending immigration cases and moving to dismiss those filed against suspected illegal immigrants who have no serious criminal records, according to several sources familiar with the efforts.

Every time I think the Obama Administration can’t do anything else to leave me dazed and confused, they prove me wrong.

Gonzalez said DHS attorneys are conducting the reviews on a case-by-case basis. However, he said they are following general guidelines that allow for the dismissal of cases for defendants who have been in the country for two or more years and have no felony convictions.

In some instances, defendants can have one misdemeanor conviction, but it cannot involve a DWI, family violence or sexual crime, Gonzalez said.

Given how often cases are plea bargained down, charges dismissed; this really doesn’t give me a warm and fuzzy sense of comfort.

Patterns of criminal behavior usually don’t just stop and change for the better so I’m a little concerned about such a generous criteria being used.

I wondered why the administration would do something like this, then I read these two paragraphs.

Gonzalez called the dismissals a necessary step in unclogging a massive backlog in the immigration court system. In June, there were more than 248,000 cases pending in immigration courts across the country, including about 23,000 in Texas, according to data compiled by researchers at Syracuse University.

In a June 30 memo, ICE Assistant Secretary John Morton outlined the agency’s priorities, saying it had the capacity to remove about 400,000 illegal immigrants annually — about 4 percent of the estimated illegal immigrant population in the country. The memo outlines priorities for the detention and removal system, putting criminals and threats to national security at the top of the list.

So instead of stepping up our ability to remove people who are in the country illegally, let’s put a cap on the number of people we deport each year….a paltry 4%????

I don’t see any other conclusion for this other then it is a step in the process to grant amnesty to illegal aliens.

Maybe the should take the time, energy and money being spend on BackScatter Vans and add a few more people to ICE or even change the law removing firearm licensing requirements and add those people to immigration control.

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Amendment IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

It isn’t just when it is convenient for the government to get a warrant, it’s all the time.

AS&E’s Reiss counters privacy critics by pointing out that the ZBV scans don’t capture nearly as much detail of human bodies as their airport counterparts. The company’s marketing materials say that its “primary purpose is to image vehicles and their contents,” and that “the system cannot be used to identify an individual, or the race, sex or age of the person.”

And the Airport Scanners weren’t supposed to be able to get that much detail or store images either — why don’t you try pulling the other leg!

“From a privacy standpoint, I’m hard-pressed to see what the concern or objection could be,” he says.

How about until there is sufficient enough evidence that I’ve committed a crime what is in my car, my house or on my person is none of your frakkin business Bub???

Technology will always advance but the principles of privacy and limited government reach will always remain the same.

That is why the fight for our rights has to be fought now and every day.

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There is an increase in problems at night with small gangs roaming around looking for the right prey…

Incidences of “wilding” have increased and people have talked about it on the controversial unofficial blog of the Chicago Police Department, (see More Wildings) www.secondcitycop.blogspot.com

Great blog/site if you’ve never read it.

Coming back to the John Hancock to pick up my car at around 9PM, I noticed several little bands of four to five juveniles walking around sizing up people as they walked down the streets. Luckily we were already in our car, but I could sense that these “gangsta wannabes” were up to no good.

Have you heard about the incidents of “wilding”?

Most people haven’t, even in Chicago — it isn’t getting much coverage.

Wouldn’t you like to have more then a little bitty can of pepper spray with you if approached by 4 or 5 “gansta wannabes” ?

Chicago police say they responded to a fight, the assault of a jogger, and a gang-related shooting all within about three hours Monday night along the lakefront between Fullerton and North Avenues.

Six teens and two adults were arrested.

Most people would, but seeing how this is Chicago — forget about it.

Too bad average citizens don’t have the same rights as the law enforcement officers do

Do you now need a .357 Magnum to walk down the Mag Mile? Maybe a compact .45 or a high-capacity 9MM “just to be on the safe side” is more what you should have. Even the police are telling each other that they better “carry large caliber” off-duty and not be caught unarmed.

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Some hoplophobes just keep getting better and better, New York City Michael Bloomberg definitely fits into this category.

The hike has already touched off a court battle, but Bloomberg called for Paterson to flex some frontier justice.

“I said, you know, get yourself a cowboy hat and a shotgun. If there’s ever a great video it’s you standing in the middle of the New York State Thruway saying, you know, ‘Read my lips — The law of the land is this and we’re going to enforce the law,’” he said.

That’s right boys and girls, in addition to the normal violent nature of anti rights advocates — Mayor Bloomberg now comes with Racsim.

The Seneca Nation resolution says it quite nicely

The Seneca Nation passed a resolution Saturday condemning the comments. They said the mayor was taking “contradictory positions” by targeting the tribes while at the same time expressing support for constitutional protections of those looking to build a controversial Islamic center near Ground Zero.

“Mayor Bloomberg’s cavalier attitude and inflammatory remarks, by which he encourages armed conflict as a means for resolution, evidences tremendous disrespect,” the resolution said. “Mr. Bloomberg’s hypocritical support of constitutional protections, only when they don’t impact the New York City budget, coupled with his uneducated and uninformed statements on the issue, serve to fan the flames of aggression, and undermine the potential for peaceful resolution of these matters, while perpetuating a long dormant policy of Indian termination which dates back to the days of General Custer’s failed battle of Little Bighorn.”

Side note to the members of the Seneca Tribal Council — if you are ever in the area; I’d like to buy you dinner. The wording of that smackdown is terrific.

Glad to see we gun bloggers aren’t the only ones who sees the hypocrisy in people like Mayor Bloomberg.

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Sometimes I just wonder if the people involved every realize how truly inane and down right petty they appear.

The desire to make the world safe has lead to a truly astounding example of governmental overreach.

Fairfax County fire investigators charged Tegee Rogers, 33, of Herndon, and Justin Fedorchak, 39, of Manassas, with manufacturing an explosive device, setting a fire capable of spreading, and burning or destroying a meeting house. They also were charged with several state fire code misdemeanors.

Two fire-breathing bartenders face up to 45 years in prison each for performing flaming bar tricks.

That’s right boys and girls — for performing a trick that’s been around for centuries — they are being charged with felonies.

Jimmy’s Old Town Tavern owner Jimmy Cirrito said his bartenders have been entertaining his customers — by juggling bottles of alcohol and spitting out streams of flames using matchbooks and lighters — for more than a decade and no one’s complained. But shortly after midnight on July 24, two of his longtime employees were hauled out of the Herndon bar in handcuffs and charged with three felonies each plus other misdemeanors

Then we have the other end of the spectrum —The person 2nd in line to the office of the presidency if President Obama resigns said this:

But Pelosi did more than pick a side, she also took an opportunity to question the motives of those who opposed the mosque, “There is no question that there is a concerted effort to make this a political issue by some,” said Pelosi, “and I join those who have called for looking into how is this opposition to the mosque being funded? How is this being ginned up?”

If there is no question of a concerted effort Ms. Pelosi, present your evidence!

Until there is evidence properly presented, your call to look into the funding is a classical example of fascism.

fascism (usually uncountable; plural fascisms)

A political regime, having totalitarian aspirations, ideologically based on a relationship between business and the centralized government, business-and-government control of the market place, repression of criticism or opposition, a leader cult and exalting the state and/or religion above individual rights

May I take this time Ms. Pelosi to inform you that I oppose the building of the cultural center/mosque?
At the same time I completely agree with President Obama’s statements

“As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country,” Obama said, weighing in for the first time on a controversy that has riven New York City and the nation.

“That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances,” he said. “This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable.”

Muslims do have a right to practice their religion. Muslims have a right to build on private property — but President Obama completely misses the point that they shouldn’t build the mosque there.

I’m tired of hearing how we have to be ‘sensitive’ to every other religion, culture, concept and idiotic piece of nonsense without even a shred of that sensitivity being returned to us.

I completely oppose the building of the mosque and if Ms. Pelosi wants to investigate me she’s welcome to try.

Just remember

TITLE 18, U.S.C., SECTION 241

If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same;…
They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

It’s called the Freedom of Speech — something you’ve should have learned in elementary school, much less the years you’ve spent in Congress!!

(edited in response to on the mark comment left by K. Erickson — Who by the way is celebrating 1 year of this blogging thing – Congrats Sir)