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Amusingly, The Brit Gets Shot Down By A Pair Of 22s

That Morgan feller from England who yammers on constantly about the need for us to adopt gun restrictions (if he loves them so much, why doesn't he go back home?) had a couple of 22-year-old college gals on, and they filled him in on why they bought AR-15 rifles. As one succinctly put it, "I want to have enough ammo to get the job done without having to reload".

Sen. Cruz Vs. The Godfather

The freshman Senator certainly doesn't shy away from the truth, telling Chicago mayor Rahm exactly how it is:

“[Y]our city’s longstanding policies stripping citizens of their constitutional right to keep and bear arms have, in turn, produced some of the very highest crime and murder rates in the nation,” Cruz wrote to Emanuel, whom he suggested is pushing “a partisan agenda” at the expense of Chicagoans.

“Regardless, directing your attack at legitimate firearms manufacturers undermines the Second Amendment rights of Texans, Cruz added. “In the future, I would ask that you keep your efforts to diminish the Bill of Rights north of the Red River.”

Hey, but one of last Friday night's seven murders in Chicago was a stabbing; no gun was involved. See? Rahm's having an effect!

 

As Expected

Barky's spending $2 million in taxpayer cash to fly to Las Vegas to give a speech on his vision of what to do about illegal aliens - which, of course, he could have given from D.C, but that wouldn't have been expensive enough. In his view, it's open borders, instant amnesty, and homosexual couples scoot to the head of the line.

Marco Rubio, meanwhile, takes heat for being part of the "Gang of Eight" who've roughed out some areas of agreement on the subject which includes no language referring to a "pathway to citizenship" but refers, rather, to "earned legal status" - in other words, a "pathway to citizenship".

Jennifer Korn, executive director of the Hispanic Leadership Network, the center-right group that sent the talking points on Monday: "It all means the same thing, but the way you say it matters."

She's got that right.

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Um, why is Obama spending $1.6 million of taxpayer dough for Vegas amnesty speech?

Clark County: Kill "Socialist" Light Rail?

That's what the representative from the Portland State Sustainable Development Center (formerly Portland State University), Tommy Potiowsky, suggested last Thursday at an economics get-together in Vancouver, Washington:

"You need to get over the notion that light rail is a socialist scheme to undermine family values," Potiowsky quipped to the more than 400 members of Clark County's business and political establishment at the event.

Ha ha, ho ho, hee hee - clearly, the boy needs to get out of the development center and into the real world occasionally. As far as he's concerned, you have to be a commie-fearing hick to oppose something as inordinately expensive (and shiny) as light rail.

C-Tran area residents, however, voted down a local sales tax increase to pay for operating "their share" of the crime train, and the wider range of Clak County residents followed on by electing to their County commission a man who's made his objections to light rail abundantly clear. Taking her cue from the two votes, U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Camas, supports the bridge project without rail transit.

Her views are important: Congress isn't keen on funding projects that lack the support of a local representatives, and Herrera Beutler sits on the House Appropriations Committee and its transportation subcommittee.

What Porklanders like Tommy fail to comprehend is that, unlike in Porkland, the political climate north of the Columbia River isn't all about building monuments to sustainable crime - and at any cost; elected representatives there actually listen to their constituents, and majorities have said time and again that they don't want Porkland's bad decisions foisted upon them. They'd be happy with a new bridge for vehicles, and wouldn't be averse to Bus Rapid Transit. They see no reason to spend an additional $1.3 to $1.5 billion purely to satisfy the arrogant "visions" of Porkland politicians.

Former Porkland mayor Sammy Adams did the process no favors with his repeated insistence that a new I-5 bridge be "iconic" and his declaration that the bridge would either carry a crime train into Vancouver or it wouldn't be built at all. Way to win friends and influence people, there, Sammy. Last week, Tommy merely reinforced the perception that Porkland's Leftists have delusions of superiority.

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Miami Herald Building - Ground Zero For Weirdness

You may recall the incident last year in which police shot and killed a naked guy who was high on bath salts and was busily eating the face off a homeless man he found sleeping on a walkway across from the Miami Herald building. There must be some bad mojo about the place, because the building was back in the news a couple of days ago.

This time, an unknown number of black helicopters were buzzing the Miami airspace, firing machine guns. Okay, they were firing blank rounds, but nobody knew that at the time. And once again, a lot of the activity was centered around the Miami Herald building.

If you don't like Dave Barry's columns, there are other ways to show your displeasure.

Reality Bites

A young man who voted for Barky "finds out what's in it". Say, about that free health insurance....

Ah, youthful exuberance!

Porklanders Keep Electing Her

Porkland Democrat state legislator Ginny Burdick lets her hair down:

Laughing at Liberals scores again with some great footage. You can tell that she considers herself far superior to gun owners.

Waiting In The Wings

Oregon legislators are gearing up to take on the issue of studded tires once again, as two Democratics have separate bills calling for imposing additional fees on tire dealers who sell or install studded tires. Citing damage to roads attributed to the safety devices, the Representatives believe that users should pay more for the privilege of safely arriving at their destinations in inclement weather, and perennial nanny Mitch Greenlick of Portland wants users to have to obtain a permit to deploy such tires, as well.

Both Representatives believe that chains or technologies now used in production of all-weather tires are sufficient for navigating hilly roads in icy conditions; others believe that studded tires provide the best traction under such conditions, although chains and all-weather tires are generally adequate in simple snow.

Chains are problematic because they're difficult for many people to install - particularly those with infirmities - and even when properly installed, one broken link can result in thousands of dollars in repair costs as the now loose end bangs around the wheel well and fender.

Moreover, proper installation in freezing weather may leave some drivers scratching their heads: I once encountered a woman whose car was spinning merrily along - going nowhere - on a frozen Terwilliger off-ramp. Oh, she had chains installed, all right. But her car was a front-wheel drive model.

Without delving into speculation regarding her sex life, it seemed clear that she could have used some good studs.

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Wall Streeters On The Move

The high tax rates in New York and New York City have finally motivated the previously unthinkable: smaller hedge-fund managers and other financial companies are pulling up stakes and moving to tax-friendly Palm Beach, Florida - and larger organizations considering expansion are setting up shop there, as well. Tax-happy New York Democrats are faced with an exodus of their own making, much as what tax-happy Democrats in California are witnessing as companies relocate from the state and take their jobs with them.

Doubtless to their amazement, Democratics on both coasts are finding that former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was entirely correct when she spoke of running out of other peoples' money. Refusal to face reality carries consequences.

And Palm Beach doesn't even have streetcars.

What, At This Point, Is In A Name?

Democratics looking to oust Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell are reaching into the Kentucky TEA party activist movements who wish to accomplish precisely the same thing. Soros-funded Lefty organization MoveOn, together with a Democrat superPAC, have offered to fund and to share organizing expertise with TEA partiers in an effort to weaken or eliminate McConnell in the next primary.

Sarah Durand, president of the Louisville Tea Party, said Democratic donors and activists have told her that they’d be willing to spend seven figures in a GOP primary to help a candidate willing to challenge McConnell. Durand said the challenge for tea party groups is to recruit a candidate who wouldn’t hand the seat to the Democrats, even though, she said, tea party leaders across the state are not satisfied with McConnell’s three-decade tenure in Washington.

Sometimes the stupid - it burns.

While it's one thing to acknowledge that a life-long politician is almost certain to have hung around well past his pull-date, it's quite another to accept funding and "advice" from Leftists. If the TEA partiers in Kentucky take them up, they're really no better than the 30-year incumbent. Only an idiot would believe that the far Left would offer such resources out of the goodness of their collective heart.

They may be out for many things, but one thing is certain: they aren't out to help.

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