Leftist obsession with vilifying the National Rifle Association and passing pointless laws banning law-abiding citizens from owning firearms has reached a new level.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday to declare that the NRA is a “domestic terrorist organization.”
This is yet another example of why the place is often referred to as "Granola City" - those who aren't fruits or flakes are nuts.
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(Natural News) As illegal aliens and wealthy foreigners continue to flood their way into California, driving the state to the point of reaching maximum capacity, some lawmakers there are proposing a “solution” that would effectively eliminate all single-family zoning – meaning no more detached housing for Californians, and plenty of high-density apartments and condominiums instead.
Oregon's legislators are proposing the same thing, and I understand they're considering it in Washington as well. It seems unlikely that illegal aliens have much to do with the trend, however; in the Portland area, they mostly head to outlying towns such as Woodburn and Hillsboro. It's more likely related to our Democrat politicians' desire to feel good about themselves - they hate cars, so they constantly prattle about creating "walkable" environments. This involves stacking people into lab-rat cages. In Portland, they've even passed a rule that allows developers to build multi-story lab-cages with zero vehicle parking. But the cages have their very own bike racks.
That's the plan: you either bike, walk, or take public transit to get from point A to point B and back to your cage.
For more related news about this leftist push towards high-density “smart” living, the endgame of which will mean that Americans no longer have a right to property ownership, be sure to check out Agenda21.news.
"Considered unsustainable under this plan: middle class lifestyle, single family homes, private vehicles, meat-eating, air conditioning, appliances, dams, farming, etc."
And the Lefties are jumping aboard. Want a bit of a yard, or just some privacy? Tough.
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Cruz called on federal law enforcement to investigate and bring legal action against Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler who reportedly called on police officers to stand down on Saturday.
Well, that's Portland's supposed mayor for you - his response to every riot and brawl precipitated by Leftist thugs here is identical every time: "Let the thugs run wild." And this idiot's planning to run for a second term as mayor!
Some media outlets claim that little do-nothing Teddy is "under fire" due to his inaction. That's not good enough; he should be set on fire.
At least we'd get something useful out of him then.
U.S. Ambassador to Germany Ric Grenell, who is openly gay like Ngo, tweeted, “Where is Mayor @tedwheeler?” “This is unacceptable. I am outraged. This violence from intolerants must stop. Portland leaders must be held to account,” Grenell tweeted again later.
I suppose that if there's any good to have emerged from this, it's that Teddy's incompetence is now receiving the national attention he so richly deserves.
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No worries; chances are that it's already on the books as a federal offense:
In America’s early days, the law was fairly simple. The Constitution specifies just three federal crimes: piracy, counterfeiting and treason.
Since then, however, the number of no-no’s has expanded by the millions, encompassing everything from how many beers you can drink while riding a bike in a national park (zero) to what shape margarine pats must be served in restaurants if they aren’t clearly labeled as margarine. (For God’s sake, triangles! A Hartford, Connecticut, restaurant owner was arrested in 1952 for serving square pats of margarine.)
Because watery ketchup isn’t really ketchup at all, the government regulates how thick the sauce must be.
The flow rate is measured by an instrument called a Bostwick consistometer. Basically, the ketchup is allowed to flow down a trough and an observer measures how far it can travel in 30 seconds. Any farther than 14 centimeters and it ain’t ketchup.
Ketchup that’s too runny must be slapped with a conspicuous “substandard” in 12- or 14-point type, according to the Feds.
And the government even regulates how to spell ketchup. Turns out there are just three permissible spellings: Ketchup (definitely!), Catsup (Ok, sure) and Catchup (sorry, wut?).
Statute 18 U.S.C. § 336 makes it a federal crime to issue “any note, check, memorandum, token, or other obligation for a less sum than $1” in lieu of money.
Title 21, Part 139, of the Code of Federal Regulations sets rigid standards for the specifications of noodles — though on just four varieties.
It requires macaroni to be tube-shaped and have a diameter between 0.11 and 0.27 inches.
Monkeying with the weather is strictly prohibited.
The rule has its origins during the Vietnam War, when the United States spent millions trying to figure out how to create downpours over strategic enemy sites.
When that information leaked in the press, Congress enacted 15 U.S.C. § 330a, which says that “no person may engage, or attempt to engage, in any weather modification activity in the United States” without notifying the secretary of commerce. Violators could be slapped with a fine of up to $10,000.
Swiss cheese must have holes developed throughout the cheese; failure to manage that is a violation of federal law.
I firmly believe that for every new law that goes into the books, two should be removed.
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Klamath County is in eastern Oregon. It’s high desert, on the eastern side of the Cascades, land veined with ice-cold trout streams, dotted with tiny ranching hamlets, and dyed deep red politically. It's a great place to go if you don't want to be found, as the County is roughly the size of the state of Connecticut. It's also not the place to be when trouble arises, as it almost inevitably does.
The social contract is not a buffet—if you opt out because you want absolute freedom, you have to accept that no one will come to save your ass when trouble starts.
Not a lot has changed since the days of the Old West.
There are perhaps three cops in the whole place, so you're pretty much on your own.
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Police raided the home and office of a freelance journalist Friday morning as part of an ongoing investigation into a leaked confidential police report containing salacious details about the death of late Public Defender Jeff Adachi.
Freelance journalist Bryan Carmody told the San Francisco Examiner that his home and office were raided by police and FBI agents because he had obtained a copy of the police report, and sold information from that report to the press following Adachi’s death on February 22.
They confiscated his cell phones, computers and a copy of the police report from within his office safe.
“They have completely shut down my business,” said Carmody, who has operated as an independent stringer for Bay Area and national television stations, including Fox News, CNBC and CBS Evening news.
Carmody said that police and FBI agents attempted to enter his home at 8:30 a.m. using “a sledgehammer.”
“They were in the process of breaking my gate down at which time I woke up and let them in,” said Carmody, adding that the authorities entered his home with guns drawn and searched “my entire house from attic to garage.”
Police confiscated more than 100 personal items, including his cell phone, computer, hard drives, cameras, tablets, six pay stubs from news organizations and a copy of the leaked police report, according to the search warrants obtained Saturday by the San Francisco Examiner.
First Amendment advocates on Saturday said that the seizures were a violation of Carmody’s journalistic protections, such as those afforded under California’s shield law to maintain the confidentiality of sources.
David Snyder, a journalist and First Amendment lawyer who heads the First Amendment Coalition, said that “anybody is protected under the First Amendment to publish a leaked document as long as they did not participate in the unlawful getting of the document.”
“A journalist can’t break into a file cabinet to get confidential records or hack into or participate in hacking into a computer,” said Snyder.
All Carmody did was verify the information he was given, then peddled the story to several news outlets - which is pretty much what independent journalists do.
Sledgehammer? Guns drawn? Handcuffed the guy for over seven hours? Yes, it seems like the cops way overstepped there.
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California is considering a proposed law that is nothing less than an attempt to jail innocent priests. California Senate Bill 360 seeks to change its law to force a priest, when he hears of sins in the confessional regarding sexual abuse, to make a choice. He must choose to either maintain the confidentiality of the sacrament and face possible imprisonment or to betray that confidentiality and violate his deepest conscience and the laws of God and the Roman Catholic Church. No priest I know would choose the latter.
First they came for the Catholics....
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According to politicians, activists and so-called “journalists” in the radically far-left metropolis of Portland, Oregon, the city is currently suffering from a wave of anti-LGBT violence perpetrated by “bigoted white men.” But according to the investigative work of an actual Portland journalist, Andy Ngo, this oft-repeated claim appears to be a false narrative. In a piece for the New York Post published Saturday, Ngo recounted how this narrative came to be and how it’s since spiraled out of control, transforming the already radical city into a hotbed of dangerous anti-white paranoia and brownshirt-styled vigilante justice.
Might be time to buy more ammo, white boy. Increasingly, it looks as though it may be needed here in ever-"tolerant" Portland.
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Between 2016 and 2018, the number of millennial women — defined by Pew Research as those born between 1981 and 1996 — who prioritized dating someone with similar political opinions than having good sex increased from 27 percent to 42 percent, the dating service found, according to the New York Postthis link opens in a new tab.
An increase was also noted in millennial men, with the amount increasing from 23 percent to 30 percent.
Since 2004, OKCupid’s data shows that the number of young people who preferred to date along party lines increased by 165 percent. Meanwhile, the amount of people who placed high value on having a fulfilling sex life decreased by 30 percent.
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Colorado’s Civil Rights Commission announced Tuesday that it will dismiss its latest charges against cake artist Jack Phillips. You might remember Phillips from his victory at the US Supreme Court last summer.
After the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Phillips, the Colorado Civil Rights Commission decided to attack him on this new charge. Instead of watching another case slowly creep through the courts, attorneys at the Alliance Defending Freedom went on the offense, suing the bureaucrats for their anti-religious bias.
Well if that's the way they're going to play, the bureaucrats decided, then they'll just take their ball and go elsewhere.
They really don't see why the guy and the attorneys backing him don't just play by the bureaucrats' rules, but having been burned badly during the last dance, they've decided not to do-see-do with those folks again.
Finally, bureaucrats have some sense pounded into them!
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