California considering banning black cars

Because of carbon emissions, they argue that because the black paint absorbs heat, drivers use more A/C, and contribute to the Global Warming Hoax.  California is quickly becoming a modern liberal fascist state, the UK of the US,

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Shocka! Liberal Policies Hurt The Little Guys.

In this case, it's a janitor in Seattle who has saved his money and wants to upgrade his house.

The price tag: nearly $15,000 for a 60-foot strip of asphalt.

Seattle officials admit Barajas is an unintended target of a year-old city ordinance meant to force developers to provide infrastructure improvements in the city's 22 designated urban villages. Although the ordinance was directed at developers and not a private homeowner tearing down an existing house to build anew — and the sidewalk likely will be the only one on Barajas' street for years, if not decades — they say there's nothing they can do to waive the requirement.

"This is sort of a rare instance," said Bryan Stevens, a spokesman for the city's Department of Planning and Development. "... It may feel like a sidewalk to nowhere, but others will come."

That may be so, but spending thousands of dollars on a sidewalk — one unlikely to have much impact on pedestrian safety — is "like throwing away money," Barajas said.

Given the slow pace of development in his neighborhood, Barajas' sidewalk may have to be replaced by the time others come to the block.

Barajas, a janitor for King County Metro since 1990, and his wife, Maria, a housekeeper at a downtown hotel, have saved for 12 years to afford the down payment on their $250,000 construction loan.

"I just want something to live comfortable after I retire," said Barajas, 61, adding that the new house will be his teenage daughter's inheritance.

The financial sting of building a sidewalk is all the more painful because Barajas wouldn't need one if he lived on the west side of 32nd Avenue South, instead of the east side. That's because the western boundary of the MLK at Holly Street urban village is the center line of Barajas' narrow residential street.

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New lefty hobby discovered!

Bankrupting the Palin family.  I just know that Excitable Andi is somehow involved with this.

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How Long Before The Deciders Decide That Hugo Chavez Is A Bad Guy?

I mean, calling Dear Leader these words? That's definitely a no-no.

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama was at best an "ignoramus" for saying the socialist leader exported terrorism and obstructed progress in Latin America.

"He goes and accuses me of exporting terrorism: the least I can say is that he's a poor ignoramus; he should read and study a little to understand reality," said Chavez, who heads a group of left-wing Latin American leaders opposed to the U.S. influence in the region.

Chavez said Obama's comments had made him change his mind about sending a new ambassador to Washington, after he withdrew the previous envoy in a dispute last year with the Bush administration in which he also expelled the U.S. ambassador to Venezuela.

"When I saw Obama saying what he said, I put the decision back in the drawer; let's wait and see," Chavez said on his weekly television show, adding he had wanted to send a new ambassador to improve relations with the United States after the departure of George W. Bush as president.

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Did they stop by Chris Dodd's house?

Imagining TEH OUTRAGE!!!! had Bu$hitler supporters done what the Obamatrons are doing over the next four years will probably give us ulcers, but it's our job:

A bus tour to the Connecticut homes of AIG executives organized by a small party of activists angered by bonuses paid to staff of the bailed-out insurer drew more reporters than protesters on Saturday.

In the tour, dubbed "Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous," protesters took a bus that picked up passengers in Hartford and Bridgeport for a 2-1/2 hour trip to see the swanky homes of American International Group executives in exclusive Fairfield County and to AIG's Wilton offices.

The event was organized by Connecticut Working Families, a small liberal political party.

And had this been, say, a group of conservatives brownshirt thugs on a bus tour of the homes of Hollywood leftists who didn't like [insert policy decision here]? FASCISM!!!1!one!!eleventy1!!1!

Oh, and this is rich...

"It seemed like a fun thing to do," said Brian Mills, a 23-year-old student, before an organizer shooed away reporters, telling them to speak with "designated speakers."

Whatever happened to freedom of the press? If Helen Thomas gets moved back a couple of rows, we're living in Nazi Germany all over again, but reporters aren't supposed to speak to anybody but the official Party Line spokespropagandists?  Not a problem.

It's gonna be a fun four years.  I say that because I plan on drinking a lot and pointing out this hypocrisy.  The other shit will probably be scary as hell.  Thus, the drinking.

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National Park Service to shut down Springfield Armory historical site?

This cannot be permitted, to deny the American public access to our history like this is criminal.

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Shocka! Enviro-Wacko Is No Fan Of Democracy

Remember when Rush said that the Green movement was the home of displaced Communists? Well, it appears as though we may have found one more, and it is none other than that guy from NASA.

James Hansen, a climate modeller with Nasa, told the Guardian today that corporate lobbying has undermined democratic attempts to curb carbon pollution. "The democratic process doesn't quite seem to be working," he said.

Speaking on the eve of joining a protest against the headquarters of power firm E.ON in Coventry, Hansen said: "The first action that people should take is to use the democratic process. What is frustrating people, me included, is that democratic action affects elections but what we get then from political leaders is greenwash.

"The democratic process is supposed to be one person one vote, but it turns out that money is talking louder than the votes. So, I'm not surprised that people are getting frustrated. I think that peaceful demonstration is not out of order, because we're running out of time."

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More fun with authoritarians

They're proposing a regulation that would force anyone who grows or produces food or food products, then transports them for sale to register with a new bureaucracy, and submit to a bunch of different tests, submitting all kinds of samples and keep all kinds of records, even beyond what is required already. 

This bill is going to cover nearly everything, and would probably put a lot of family farms and small businesses under.  This would leave most of the food production in the hands of a few major corporations...which are of course fairly easy for the government to take over.  Thought the state taking over the financial system and housing market was scary?  Just wait till they move to take over food and medicine.

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"A nation of cowards"

Why isn't this bigger news?  And why isn't Attorney General Eric Holder being questioned about it?

(Yeah, I know, both are rhetorical questions.  Also, RAAAAAACISSSST!!!)

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Things We Missed During The Rush Debate

I know. It's been mentioned before. But look at the level of coordination that goes on between the White House and liberal blogs. And the fact the Politico reports it is in and of itself newsworthy.

The “8:45 A.M. call,” as it’s referred to by members, began three weeks ago, and it marks a new level in coordination by the White House’s allies at a time when the conservative opposition is struggling for a toe-hold and major agenda items like health care reform appear closer than ever to passage.

The call has helped attempts to link the Republican Party to radio host Rush Limbaugh, and has served as the launching ground for attacks on critics of Obama’s policy proposals. It springs from a recognition of what was lacking in the Clinton years, said Jennifer Palmieri, the senior vice president for communications at the Center for American Progress Action Fund, one of the groups hosting the call.

“[CAP President John] Podesta’s and my experience was in the White House during the Clinton years, and we didn’t have a coordinated echo chamber on the outside backing us up,” she said. “There’s a real interest on the progressive side for groups to want to coordinate with each other and leverage each other’s work in a way I haven’t ever seen before.”

The call is hosted by Progressive Media, a project of the CAP Action Fund and the Media Matters Action Fund. The project began last year as a launching pad for attacks on John McCain, but failed to raise money for television advertisements, and served in the later days of the presidential campaign as a platform for disseminating opposition research critical of his policy plans. White House officials do not take part in the calls.

The calls are led by its top staffer, Tara McGuinness, who will also head Progressive Media's "communications research and analysis war room" to wage spin and policy wars throughout the day, Palmieri said.

The call has proved particularly effective at coordinating attacks on critics, said Jacki Schechner, the national communications director for Health Care for America Now, a labor-backed alliance of groups that support Democratic efforts to expand health care.

Shocka! Media Matters is in the middle of this?!??!111eleventy!!! I mean, the fact that they attack Limbaugh the same day the the White House, Olbermann, and others do must have been a mere coincidence.

I could insert some snark about how Allah and his defenders acted during this, but they are not going to budge, and seem to just get more defensive when called out. So I won't.*

*And yeah, I'm being a bit passive-aggressive, but so what?

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What We Are Fighting

Look, my dislike of Powerline is well known. Their arrogant hissy fit after Pawlenty didn't win McCain's veepstakes was well known, and actually made Allah appear dignified and desirous of victory.

But, when lefties steal Hinderaker's credit card number and post it on that wikileaks site simply because he gave money to Norm Coleman is bullshit.

Quoth John H:

It's impossible to say whether Wikileaks hacked Coleman's site and is now making the information public out of frustration at lack of publicity, or whether a different Democratic Party group did the hacking and passed the information off to Wikileaks to be illegally disseminated. I replied to Wikileaks' email asking for a name and telephone number and saying that I would like to interview them; needless to say, I didn't get a response. Like so many leftists, they prefer to hide behind a cloak of anonymity.

A week or two after the liberal hacking of Coleman's site took place, I got a notice from my bank that my credit card numbers had been stolen and patently improper charges were being rung up. As a result I had to cancel that credit card and get a new one. I didn't know it at the time, but it appears that in all probability, I was one of the victims of the Democrats' hacking of Coleman's web site.

Just another day in contemporary American politics. Liberals break the law, violate their opponents' privacy, either commit or facilitate theft, and meanwhile assure the rest of us that they did all of this because of their moral superiority.

Again, I will not retract anything I have said/written during the Rush Limbaugh fiasco, but while we have been tearing at each other, assholes like wikileaks have been getting away with criminal behavior.

Maybe some perspective is in order.

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About those "Chicago Tea Parties"

Um, you might not want to schedule one for the National Mall in Washington or in Times Square...

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Democrats readying selves for full court press against the Second Amendment

Reichsführer Holder is starting to beat the drum,

"I think closing the gun show loophole, the banning of cop-killer bullets and I also think that making the assault weapons ban permanent, would be something that would be permitted under Heller,"

Oh, and Gillibrand?  Just came out in favor of repealing the Tiahrt Amendment.  Don't kid yourselves, the supposedly pro-2nd Democrats will mostly roll over when it's time to vote, as will a few of the Vichy Republicans.

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Philly journalist Mike Mallowe's snivel: We need to ban guns, the Constitution be damned!

He declares that the vermin who shot and killed that Philly police officer didn't kill the officer, the gun he was using did.  Yeah, this journalist really is that pathetic.  He completely ignores the fact that this guy, and pretty much all the vermin who have shot Philly police in recent months have been career criminals who shouldn't have been out of jail in the first place.  So let's see what he says about the court ruling that declared Philly wasn't above the law, and couldn't supercede PA state law,

Philadelphia has already tried to change the law so that it can enforce its own gun codes inside the city limits. The city lost in the courts because the monumentally well-financed gun lobby came in as a freind of the courts to fight the move. They trotted out the same tired excuses: hunters are law-abiding citizens, guns don't kill, criminals do; we have the guarantee of the Second Amendment.

No, the city lost because it's full of dumb fucking Marxist vermin who decided they'd make an political statement by passing a fascist ban you knew full well would get smacked down unceremoniously in the courts for being counter to PA gun laws and our Constitutions (PA and Federal), as much as it probably pained the judge to do.  You smacktards knew going in what PA state law is, and you knew what you were doing was futile, and you went ahead with it anyway, and wasted money that could have gone to better fund the struggling Philly PD, or some other worthy project.  It isn't the gun lobby's fault Philly is full of Marxist retards.  You want to ban guns, run your little gulag the way you want?  Split off from the rest of PA and join up with Jersey.  Get the hell out! You'll be much happier, and so will we. 

This line is a classic,

This is a news flash for that gun lobby: Back when they wrote the second amendment, Americans were still burning women as witches

Philadelphia needs the power to ban the sale and possession of hand guns once and for all.  

No, Philly needs to STFU and STFD, I'm tired of Philly bitching and moaning and trying to muscle the rest of the state around.  I'm more than happy to let Philly turn into a 3rd world Marxist hellhole turn into more of a 3rd world Marxist hellhole, but you aren't going to drag us with you, which we know would be the inevitable outcome of giving you vermin an inch.

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Shocka! The O-Bots Hate Rick Santelli Of CNBC!

This screed by a Marin County liberal is fairly pedestrian, except for this line, that is popping up more and more in liberal discourse.

Cuba. Oh, dear. Yeah, it’s fun, and colorful and the rant makes for a lot of Twitter and blog buzz. But digging a little deeper, the rhetoric/hysteria a la Fox News is damaging to national discourse.

As for this “moral hazard” business, all I can know for sure is: in my neighborhood of very modest Marin County homes, the mortgage crisis has hit the Hispanic households the hardest. They work hard. They weren’t buying luxury homes. Sure, there were a few speculators. But mostly, they just wanted a little piece of the American dream, especially good schools for their kids and closer proximity to their work.

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How the government is going to compromise your medical record privacy

Access to this knowledge isn't going to be abused, oh no, people with political axes to grind would never try and use private information as a political tool, never ever. 

Seriously, no good can come of this.

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They're not all right-wing rednecks in Oklahoma

Especially a couple of Oklahoma City police officers, who pulled over a guy with a sign on his truck that said "Abort Obama Not The Unborn", claiming it constituted a death threat against the president.

Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed and the sign was returned, but the guy still received a visit from the Secret Service.

Number of Google hits for "abort Obama" that don't pertain to this story*: 857
Number of Google hits for "abort Bush": 1030

Anyone care to hazard a guess as to how many of the "abort Bush" links earned the authors a Secret Service visit?

*I did a search that omitted truck, car, sign, and "Oklahoma City", and still saw a few hits pertinent to the story, but narrowing it down further might have eliminated some valid "abort Obama" links.

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The One opposes reinstating the Fairness Doctrine

Why, of course He does!  That's because he will shut down talk radio using localism instead. 

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Some weekend reading

I've been looking around trying to come up with posting material, there isn't a whole lot out there, but this is a pretty good commentary on the situation we find ourselves in.

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State Department looking to cut off ammunition supplies?

Check this shit out,

A report making the rounds in Canada that says officials have it on "good authority" that our State Department may be on the verge of cutting off all imports of certain calibers of ammunition.

Ammos listed for this rumored ban include the .50BMG, 7.62x39mm Soviet, 7.62x51mm NATO, .308 Winchester, 5.56 NATO and .223 Remington. Additionally, we're hearing that an expansion of this proposed ban might be broadened to include the 6.8mm SPC, 9mm Parabellum, .40 S&W, and .45 ACP- among others.

In other words, State Department officials may be floating a trial balloon to see if there are howls of protest, or whimpers of compliance. Canadian elected officials who have directed this information to me say the move seems to be motivated by "emboldened" anti-gun officials who think they have a kindred spirit in President Obama.

So, all you hunters and sportsmen who bought the Democrat bullshit about "protecting hunters and sportsmen," how you feeling now?  Pretty damn stupid?  You ought to, you dummies, almost all that ammunition is commonly used for hunting and sporting in North America, the pistol rounds are all among the most commonly used in the world. 

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