Category: Politicians Suck

Looks like the folks in New York State are in for some trouble, because local town officials in Massena, NY are demanding people erect fences and put alarms on inflatable pools.  I think this is a fine idea.  Pools kill far more kids each year than guns, and if I have to lock up my guns, they should have to lock up their pools!  Don’t these parents know that having a pool more than doubles the risk of your family experiencing a drowning accident?  If we’re going to be ridiculous, we might as well go whole hog.

Well, if you don’t have a pro-gun record, and you’re running for a Senate seat in Colorado, you can always just make up false pro-gun legislation you’ve supported to get the news media to run a pro-gun story about you.

The speaker of the Tennessee House lied about having a concealed firearms permit.  Patrick Murphy, who is my Congressman, claims to have one, even though he signed onto McCarthy’s HR 1022 assault weapons ban that would outlaw most semi-automatic firearms.

In Pennsylvania, there’s no way to verify a claim of having an LTC, but I think it’s safe to assume that any anti-gun politician claiming to have a concealed firearms permit is lying to you.

Apparently Americans for Prosperity was planning to take their “Hit Air Balloon Tour” right over Al Gore’s house in honor of his ever growing energy consumption.   Seems they had the permits all lined up, and out of nowhere, the permits got revoked:

Sure enough, just a few hours before our event was scheduled to kick off, the Nashville Parks and Recreation Department has been in touch, claiming that the permit they approved doesn’t allow us to launch our balloon from the city park where we’re holding our event — even though we told them repeatedly exactly what we planned to do.

Roy Wilson, the director of the Board of Parks and Recreation, has even reportedly told one of our staffers on the ground that Nashville police officers will be on hand and will physically restrain members of our crew if they attempt to launch the balloon.

And if that weren’t enough:

UPDATE 3:00 pm Eastern time: Roy Wilson at the Nashville Parks Department must not have liked our earlier post, since he just completely revoked our permit — even though his department’s own rules state that he can’t do that unless we break a law or one of the department’s rules, which we haven’t done and have no intention of doing.  Then he hung up on our legal counsel.

In the meantime, good news to report — we’ve secured a private location for this afternoon’s event.  We’ll be in a field at the corner of Sneed and Vaughn Roads — just about a mile and a half from the original event location.

You’d almost thing that someone didn’t want to deal with being publically embarassed.  After all, he’s Al Gore.  He’s hunting down and trying to kill manbearpig.  Who are we little people to queston the great one?

Did I say guns?  I meant dogs.  Eric has a follow up to the post we linked to yesterday.

“I think eliminating vicious dogs is as important to reclaiming our cities as controlling gun violence and making sure our young people are going to school,” says Yates.

Tyrone Yates is as big a proponent of gun control as he is rounding up people’s pets and exterminating them.  You know, if you change two letters in his first name, I think you can come up with something more appropriate.  Tyrant Yates — yeah, that’s better.  I continue to be amazed that people will vote to keep power hungry politicians like this in office.  And yet these are our big city politicians.  It’s almost like people in big cities like having government run their lives.

A government that goes around invading people’s homes to snatch away family pets and exterminate them has crossed the line and lost any claim to legitimacy it might have.  In sincerely hope that other politicians in Ohio aren’t interested in perpetrating a crime like Tyrant Yates proposes.

From Tam:

And there they were, being blatantly threatened by this gerrymandered race-baiting footsoldier of the class war, this remora on the flank of Leviathan, this vacuous sinkhole of consumption that does nothing but suck in tax dollars and shit out red tape and misery. In a perfect world, they wouldn’t have sat for that. In a just world, they’d have stood as one and walked from that room and let little Maxine foam away at her tinpot Trotskyite fantasies.

Read the whole thing.  The only thing that disturbs me more than that Maxine Waters said this was that I’ve heard so much of it from people, I’m frankly getting sick of it.  Oil company greed is not responsible for high prices.  Anyone with even the most basic understanding of economics can wrap their heads around that.  Yet you hear from a lot of people, even people with PhDs, that oil company profits are obscene.  Well, we have a shortage of petroleum products, and the profits are a signal to the market that we need more resources put into growing energy supplies.  If the politicians remove the profit, what we’ll have is ever rising prices, and if they monkey with that, shortages.

Still want to stay home in November?

Go straight for the form letter without even reading what your constituent was talking about.

Apparently politicians in Chicago are worried that people might be having entirely too much unregulated fun.  Clearly something must be done about this!