Category: Boneheads

I’ve meant to blog about this, but I thought I’d do some linky-no-thinky instead. The City Troll has as good a write up on the incident as I would have done. Sestak is a class A bonehead, and this incident just reinforces it.

… when you can just look like you’re fighting crime.  That’s my take on Philadelphia Police Commissioner Johnson’s latest stunt of putting more police brass out on patrol for four hours a week.  I’m not sure how this helps, but at least it’ll be four hours a week he won’t be begging for new guns laws, which won’t help either.

No doubt Commissioner Johnson will be carrying his service pistol with him on this public relations stunt, because the city is dangerous, after all.  But that’s something he wants to deny us ordinary peons.

Tyler Cowen gives us a snippet from Benjamin Barber’s New Book “Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole“:

There is actually [sic] a restaurant in New Jersey called Stuff Yer Face, and fast food generally is about stuffing your face: about nutrition, fueling up, taking in the calories, food as instrumentality, eaters as mere animals responding to biological imperatives.

I’m maybe 50 minutes away from New Brunswick. I think I will make it a point to go there so I can be infantalzed and swallowed whole. Their website has corrupted me into thinking their strombolis sound rather appetizing. I think washing it down with a beer, chosen from their large selection, is most definitely feeling like a biological imperative as well.

Thanks for the tip, Benjamin Barber. I’m always looking for new and fun places to eat. Stop by if you like.  I’ll buy you a beer.  Then explain to you the many ways you can go to hell for having the audacity to and gall to presume that your fellow citizens are nothing but a bunch of infants who can’t make rational decisions for themselves.

Someone go explain to this guy that you hunt birds with shotguns and not rifles, and that the vast majority of us that have so called “assault weapons” use them for competitive and recreational target shooting, and not for poaching bald eagles.

It’s amazing these people don’t even bother to learn anything about the people they malign.  I think it’s important to counter a lot of these bogus arguments, but we have to be polite and keep to the facts.  If you just insult people, no one will take you seriously, and you’ll just give them more reasons to justify their hatred of our community.

Bitter attracts her very own token Animal Liberation Front teenage terrorist. I have to admit, I’m kind of jealous. The best I’ve done is some loser from Minnesota and a Brady staffer who didn’t even have the decency to appear menacing.

I’m going to guess that the kid’s parents are probably whack jobs too, because if I were that uppity as a teen my parents would have put the smackdown on me.

But it doesn’t seem like a terribly good idea to me to go throwing threats, veiled or otherwise, around the gun blogosphere, a demographic which is decidednly more heavily armed than some countries.

I’ve heard a lot of theories over the past few days about what would motivate Marion Barry to propose lifting the DC gun ban.  I think Gun Law News came up with the most probable sounding:

Having spent 35 years in the D.C. area, I always had the impression that Barry was running on about 20 watts – not the brightest bulb in the pack. My suspicion is that Marion has sourced a gun for himself and just wants to be able to register it. Unfortunately, he is probably a prohibitted person due to his criminal convictions.

I have to agree here folks, setting up people for later confiscation, or trying to eliminate standing for the Parker case, I think is giving the former Mayor way too much credit.

A ranch or cabin in the middle of nowhere is really starting to look like a more attractive option than living anywhere near New York City.  From Slashdot:

New York State Senator Carl Kruger is looking to institute a $100 fine for using electronic gadgets while crossing the street. Citing three pedestrian deaths in his Brooklyn district as the main driving reason he believe Government has an obligation to protect its citizens.

That’s three people who won’t be able to pass their defective street crossing genes onto future generations.  My mother always taught me to look both ways before crossing the street.  When I was in college and commuted to school via rail, and listened to headphones, I knew to take them off and listen for the Amtrak trains that zoomed past a 100MPH before crossing the tracks.  Of course, today you can’t do that, because they put up fences to stop you.  You have to go the long way around now, whether you want to risk it or not.

I have one basic philosophy when it comes to my relationship with governemnt: leave me the hell alone.   I’ll pay my taxes, leave other people to their quiet enjoyment of life, serve in the military if called on, do jury duty, and all those things we have to do as part of a society.  But don’t start looking out after me.  I can do that just fine on my own.  If I want to cross the street while talking on a cell phone and risk getting hit by a bus, that’s my damned business.  Life is risky, and sometimes people make bad choices.  There’s nothing government can, or should, do about that.