January 09, 2006

When Guns Attack!

Andrew Marra, writer at the Palm Beach Post is reporting that guns are traveling throughout the community, attacking people at will! Beware, people, guns are attacking people!

Fed-up Riviera Beach leaders, troubled by a recent spurt of assault-rifle attacks that left an innocent bystander dead last week

I have seen no pictures of these violent guns attacking people. There is no word on where these evil chunks of metal are based. It is apparently not currently known what sort of evil is causing these usually inanimate objects to shoot. There is also no word on how these things are moving about, since I've never seen any with legs or other mechanical parts for movement.

But that's ok, because the city officials have a plan. They can solve this problem of weapons assaulting people. Are you ready? Pay attention people, for if guns ever jump up and start attacking you, this may be the solution you need to save your life:

"We think we ought to be able to say we don't want handguns in this community," City Manager William Wilkins said.

Why are people this stupid allowed to breed?

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NC Lottery to Raise Property Taxes

Oh, this is a nice little tidbit you didn't hear about as the lottery supporters were working on their illegal passing of the lottery bill:

A full 14% of the profits from the lottery will go to counties with effective property tax rates above the state average

Yes, that's profits only, not taking into account the highest paid lottery director in the country and anything else that can fit into the "expenses" category, including the 7% of every single ticket that goes to the retailer.

So get ready for this line from county commissioners: "If we raise our property tax rate above the state average, we will get more money from the state for school construction to offset the tax increase."

Holy crap. It's going to be a massive race to see who can raise property taxes higher and faster than other counties -- because for those who are a little slow on the math, the higher everyone raises their taxes, the higher the average gets, and the higher everyone has to raise their taxes to get "above the average."

I sure hope those lawsuits that clearly outline how the lottery was passed illegally get through.

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Even Less Freedom in NC

In North Carolina, despite outward appearances, there is little freedom. For example, if you want to serve the sick and poor, you must ask permission. If the state denies you that permission, you may not serve and help the sick and poor, no matter your qualifications.

In this case, a hospital wanted to expand and build more beds to serve and help more people. The hospital was fully qualified and had actual real doctors, nurses, and (of course) administrators. They owned some land and wanted to build.

The state said no. The state determined that the hospital did not have a so-called "certificate of need" to build, so they would not be permitted to build. Nothing else mattered. Actual sick people who needed hospitalization? Nope, that doesn't matter to the state.

All that matters to the state of North Carolina is them retaining all power over all people all of the time. That's just incredibly wrong. There is absolutely no logical reason that a private hospital, with private funds, should not be able to build a new building. The state has NO business stopping them.

But they are.

No, this is not freedom in any sense of the word.

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January 08, 2006

New Neighbor #39

It's time again for the weekly New Neighbor feature here at Ogre's Politics and Views. Each week Ogre randomly selects a blog from the large Evangelical Blogroll over there on the right side. This week's Neighbor is:

Cowboyology


Cowboyology is written by Clint, a resident of the Great White North, in Toronto and Ontario. I was in Ontario once, a long, long time ago -- for a band competition...

The blog's purpose is to "SPUR one another on toward love and good deeds." Nicely done, Clint!

The blog layout is a standard blogger, but hey, black text on a white background works just fine, and has for a very long time. And throughout the text, there's various different pictures, including those of a barn owl. The blog appears to be updated pretty regularly -- at least a few times a week.

There's also a long post about UVA UVAM VIDENDO VARIA FIT. It's Cowboy Proverb #11, but you'll have to head over there to read what it means if you don't read Latin.

So go over there and have a read. Perhaps you'll find a new blog to add to your Blogroll -- I've added him to my list of Neighbors. And don't forget to leave a comment letting him know what you think about the place!

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Biblical Truth

I've been reading a bit lately (I read quite a lot, actually), and I've read a couple things that have really stuck with me. Here's a theological question for Sunday morning for you -- some people may have seen it before, but I just can't stop thinking about it:

Is something true because the Bible says it is (Christians believe on faith that the Bible is the inspired, authoritative word of God), or does the Bible say something is true because it IS true?

Or is there another answer?

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January 07, 2006

NC Gas Tax Increase

This past week, NC Conservatives presented the government with a petition asking that the recent gas tax increase, that will not be used for roads, to be repealed.

Don't look for it to happen any time soon...or later.

In order for the gas tax to be repealed, the Democrats leading North Carolina would have to agree to it. However, Jim Black, who has a personal checkbook that draws on tax revenues, is highly unlikely to support reducing the amount in "his" account.

The petition presented had over 22,000 signatures of NC voters on it, asking for the tax to be repealed. Check out the website for more facts about that "gas" tax and where the money goes. Then thank North Carolina Democrats for ensuring that you have to pay more taxes.

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Media Liars?

So...I have a question.

If President Bush, when discussing the war in Iraq, relied on sources of information that were inaccurate, but no one knew at the time were inaccurate, and said some things that may not have been correct, lied, then...

When the media announced that the miners in WV were alive, by relying on information that was incorrect at the time, even if it was not known, doesn't that mean that the media lied?

Now can we all run around repeating, "The Media Lied?"

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NC Legislature Smoke & Mirrors

In the legislator's minds, the North Carolina Legislature exists for one reason -- to spend money. To do that, of course, they have to TAKE money from someone who earned it. The government does NOT generate ANYTHING -- they are only capable of taking.

In recent years, doubling the state expenditures is not enough -- they want MORE to spend. After raising taxes literally over $20 million, they STILL don't have enough. So the state is now playing games with money to spend even more.

One way they are doing this was a big thing in Washington, DC before the Republicans took over in the 90s -- unfunded mandates. For those who don't remember those, it was when the Congress demanded that states spend money on certain programs, but then wouldn't provide funding for it -- in effect, forcing the states to spend money.

Now they're only bribing states, but that's an issue for another day.

That was stopped years ago by Congress. It would have been better stopped by repealing the 17th Amendment (which stopped states from electing US Senators which was a GOOD thing), but that's an issue for another day.

But now the state of North Carolina is doing it to it's counties. The state tells the county how much it WILL spend on Medicaid (medical care for the alleged "poor" which is actually better care than most people get who PAY and WORK for it), but do not provide the counties with the money to pay for it.

There's an easy solution, but one that won't be taken. Counties should just send the bill to the state or simply ignore them. What will the state do, arrest the county leaders? And then what? The state will have to pay anyway! Counties of North Carolina, take control -- tell the state to pay or get lost.

But, alas, no -- what will happen instead is that the counties will raise money to pay for it the only way they can -- through raising property taxes. Then the state will say that they didn't raise taxes and the county legislators will say that THEY didn't raise taxes either. And the working person? Well sorry, you're just screwed.

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January 06, 2006

Cat Crinkle Ear

As promised, a close-up picture of Ogre's cat's crinkle ear:

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(Linked to the Modulator).

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Mission: Impossible III

New preview images have been posted for the Mission:Impossible III movie. You can see them by following the link that's part of the image below.

For those who don't like Tom Cruise, you won't want to take a peek. As has seemed to have happened over the years, many of his later movies seem to be about him, rather than about the story. I'm hoping that won't be the case with this movie (to be released May 5 of this year) -- but the preview images do feature him.

I think it's for the draw. I'm betting the majority of my female readers at least find him non-repulsive to look at, even if they don't like him...

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Crinkle Ear

Does you cat have crinkle ear?

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Mine does. But no, that picture is not my cat. I'm still trying to get a good picture of his crinkle ear.

It's a weird thing -- apparently, according to the vet, if a cat shakes it's head too hard, the ear might slap against the skull too hard, causing a blood vessel in the ear to break. This causes a flow of blood into the ear, which twists the ear all out of shape.

Even after the blood is removed (naturally, by the body), the ear remains strecthed and twisted out of shape. Weird. Very weird.

So, anyone else ever seen crinkle ear? (I'll try and get some better pictures of my cat's ear later this evening for those who REALLY want to see it...)

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Mexico Attacks America

I know it's Friday, and I try and make things lighter on Friday, but sometimes it just doesn't work. Sigh.

So, have you seen any headlines in the news about Mexico attacking America? Well, they have -- and this isn't the first time. When bullets fly from a foreign country into America at American citizens and law enforcement, that's an act of war. Of course, in today's absolutely moronic world of "multiculturalism" (pronounced BULLSPIT), it's MEXICO who is outraged.

Folks, there is a war going on beyond the war on terror. America is being invaded by a foreign country. That country is Mexico. Mexico, with full knowledge and support of it's government, is invading and attacking America -- but it would be Politically Incorrect to say anything about it, so we continue sending cash to Mexico!

The enemy, led by Vicente Fox, is also demanding a "full investigation" into the shooting of a Mexican invader. One of the attacking force was killed by a defender in America and Mexico is outraged. This is not about race, this is about preserving America -- and there's a LARGE number of people who are against us -- including a large number already inside our borders.

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$150 Million for racists in Charlotte

The Charlotte City Council is preparing to give $150+ million to racists in Charlotte so they can rebuild a racist museum that prohibits free expression and exhibits unless you have dark skin color. And no, they don't have a plan to pay for it.

They will claim that the money for the Racist Cultural Center for Non-Whites will not be paid for with property taxes -- but that's exactly how the city gets their money. Once again, government ONLY gets money when they take it from productive citizens.

The city will claim that they will raise the car-rental tax to pay for it -- but that's $150+ million that will no longer be available to pay for needed things like police and roads -- so property taxes will have to be raised to pay for police (if the Democrat-controlled council will allow police, which is unlikely).

But don't worry -- to get the public's support of this huge cash payment to the Racist No-Whites-Allowed Heritage Center, the city will include in the vote millions more dollars to give to private businesses -- a minor league baseball team.

And why does the Cultural Center of Hating White People need more money? Because they're going broke because they can't raise enough money themselves in the free market to survive.

If you live in Charlotte and work, as I've told you before -- Get Out before you don't have enough money left to leave.

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NC Democrat Leader hates Workers

No, really. The leader of the Democrats in the North Carolina Senate clearly does not like people who earn money. In fact, he wants to punish them severely if they happen to have children.

Senator Marc Basnight said that people should pay tuition based on their incomes. So when you were trying to price a college for your child (or yourself), the first question you would be asked is, "How much did you earn last year?"

There's no word on exactly how much he'd penalize those who are productive in society, nor how much he would reward those who are lazy bums. However, this would certainly guarantee that students would have time to complete their "studies" -- NO ONE would work -- they'd only be penalized for working!

In case you forgot -- this is one of the very top elected Democrats in North Carolina showing you the real face of the Democrat Party in North Carolina.

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January 05, 2006

Marines in Iraq

A U.S. Marine squad was marching north of Basra when they came upon an Iraqi terrorist, badly injured and unconscious. On the opposite side of the road was an American Marine in similar but less serious state.

The Marine was conscious and alert and as first aid was given to both men, the squad leader asked the injured Marine what had happened.

The Marine reported, "I was heavily armed and moving north along the highway here, and coming south was a heavily armed insurgent. We saw each other and both took cover in the ditches along the road.

"I yelled to him that Saddam Hussein is a miserable, lowlife, scumbag, and he yelled back that Senator Ted Kennedy is a good-for-nothing, fat, left wing liberal drunk. So I said that Osama Bin Laden dresses and acts like a frigid, mean spirited woman!"

He retaliated by yelling, "Oh yeah? Well so does Hillary Clinton!"

"And, there we were, standing in the middle of the road, shaking hands, when a truck hit us."

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ACLU Blogburst

We at the Stop The ACLU blog and BlogBurst have been founded with the goal of bringing public awareness of the Anti-American activities of the American Civil Liberties Union. The fact is, the only thing about the ACLU that is American is the first word in the title of their organization. And this has been true since their founding.

We have been focused on the two prominent co-founders Roger Baldwin and Crystal Eastman; but the truth is that there were 7 others. People like Upton Sinclair and Clarence Darrow just to name a couple. But the most notorious of the founding "fathers" of the American Civil Liberals Union (no I didn't spell that wrong) was Elizabeth "Gurley" Flynn.

Ms. Flynn was the co-founder who ended up being the National Chairman of the Communist Party in the US. A devout Communist who made several trips to the Soviet Union after the denunciation of Communism by Roger Baldwin in 1940. A move which had motives other than those publicized.

The public appearance of the denunciation was to give the illusion of distancing active members of the Communist party from the ACLU. When in fact it was a statement meant to be felt by Josef Stalin. Stalin enjoyed the support of people like Baldwin in the United States before the outbreak of war in Europe. Baldwin and Eastman being the strict pacifists that they were, had a total opposition to the Soviet Union entering the war. But they also saw the Soviet-German non-aggression treaty as a crime against the good Soviet people. So Flynn expulsion from the Executive Committee was a farce.

Flynn was indoctrinated into the Socialist mindset by her parents. At the age of 16 she gave her first speech on socialism entitled "What Socialism Will Do For Women." A speech which subsequently got her expelled from high school.

At the age of 17 Flynn became an organizer for the International Workers of the World (IWW) and her career as a full time Socialist began. In 1920 she joined forces with Roger Baldwin, Crystal Eastman, Upton Sinclair, Clarence Darrow, Norman Thomas, Jane Addams, and John Dewey to form what we now know as the American Civil Liberties Union.

In 1936, Flynn joined the Communist Party in the United States. She wrote a feminist column for the Communist propaganda sheet the Daily Worker. Two years later, she was elected to the National Committee.

During World War II, Flynn worked tirelessly to get equal pay for women and establish day care centers for working mothers. Efforts which we here at Stop The ACLU applaud. Because contrary to the popular leftist belief, we here have strong feelings about the true equality of men and women of all races, creeds, and religions.

In 1942, she ran for Congress At-Large in New York and received only 50,000 votes.

After the war in 1948, 12 members of the Communist Party were arrested for plotting to overthrow the government by use of violence. Flynn attempted to gain their release but in 1951 she was arrested in a "second wave" of arrests and charged with violation of the Alien Registration Act and sentenced to 5 years at Alderson Women's Penitentiary.

During her sentence she wrote a book entitled The Alderson Story: My Life as a Political Prisoner (1955).

Soon after her release from prison in 1961, Flynn was elected National Chairman of the Communist Party in the USA. She made several trips to the Soviet Union where in 1964 during a visit she died. She was given a State Funeral in Red Square then returned to be buried with her subversive friends Eugene Dennis, Bill Haywood and the Haymarket Martyrs.

These are they types of people that we are dealing with. This is the type of beginning that the ACLU was given. This is why they have been focused on ending American traditions and changing the structure of our government as founded in 1789.

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Elite Legislators

You may have heard, way back in grade school, that The People of America were supposed to elect people to represent them in government. Heck, if you're under the age of 10, you might actually believe that happens. But, as Jake Jacobson points out, that's not even close to true.

How about a couple clips:

60 percent of the public regards the present level of immigration to be a "critical threat to the vital interests of the United States," compared to only 14 percent of the nation's leadership

When asked a specific question about whether legal immigration should be reduced, kept the same, or increased, 55 percent of the public said it should be reduced, and 27 percent said it should remain the same. In contrast, only 18 percent of opinion leaders said it should be reduced and 60 percent said it should remain the same.

70 percent of the public said that reducing illegal immigration should be a "very important" foreign-policy goal of the United States, compared to only 22 percent of elites.

Go read the rest.

You can see that we, the un-annointed, are too stupid to run our own country -- at least according to those in royal "elected" office.

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Web Designer Wanted: $500,000 Pay.

Who says government isn't any good at wasting money any more? The North Carolina government is going to spend half a MILLION dollars to build ONE single department's web site.

In the free market, this kind of site design might go for a couple hundred dollars. I know, because I've seen the site, and I know what I would bid to "revamp" the site. But no, it's not open for bidding.

They're also paying ANOTHER $500,000 to add a database to the site to list "vacant land and buildings." Apparently the state is not aware that there are already literally HUNDREDS of sites that already list those -- they're called Realtors.

But the Democrat-controlled legislature, in this "cash-strapped" economy, where they have "cut everything to the bone," managed to find $1,750,000.00 to give to friends of friends in the Department of Commerce to "improve the state's image."

It's crap like this that really makes you want to go over to the dark side. I mean, seriously, I could redesign that site in a few hours. I could add the database and make it incredibly impressive in a week or two. And I'd get $1,000,000.00 in taxpayer cash to do it.

But I'd have to sell my soul to the government and be buddies with the slime legislators in Raleigh.

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Ban this, Ban that, Ban Cellphones in NC.

Another moron, oops, I mean "esteemed college professor" has demanded that the legislature of North Carolina ban cell phone use in the car because it's "not safe."

Dr. Dave Kaber found that talking on the cellular phone lowered their math scores by as much as 20 percent -- evidence that he maintains proves they are distracting.

Yes folks, that's your tax dollars at work -- helping to pay the salaries of people who test things that everyone else on the planet knows is completely obvious.

This "doctor" supported legislation last year that would fine drivers $100 for talking on the phone (no estimates on the net income to the state for that one). But the legislation died in a committee. There's no word on when the ban and fine will be expanded to include French Fries.

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January 04, 2006

Upper Class Twit

Too much seriousness and sadness today. So, some silliness!

Congratulations, you're an outstanding upperclass twit! To be totally honest, people can't understand a word you say, and almost everyone hates you as you are a disturbance. But hey,
Congratulations! You're an outstanding upperclass
twit!


So, What Monty Python Sketch Are You?
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