Next step: fire the racist

Looks like the racist, blacks-only club in the Ann Arbor, Michigan, elementary school has been disbanded.

See? Sunshine is a natural disinfectant.

A good example of why unemployment shouldn't have been extended.

I've heard the administration claim that not extending unemployment benefits to nearly two years is inhumane. Michigan does well illustrating why extending said benefits is a fucking stupid idea:

But the fact that some seasonal landscaping workers choose to stay home and collect a check from the state, rather than work outside for a full week and spend money for gas, taxes and other expenses, raises questions about whether extended unemployment benefits give the jobless an incentive to avoid work.

Well, DUH! If money's coming in while they sit on their a$$es, then why should they break their backs doing landscaping work full time? Especially if the money's not too different.

The average landscape worker earns about $12 per hour, according to the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic Growth. A full-time landscaping employee would make $225 more a week working than from an unemployment check of $255.

But after federal and state taxes are deducted, a full-time landscaper would earn $350 a week, or $95 more than a jobless check. The gap could narrow further for those who worked at other higher-paying seasonal jobs, such as construction or roofing, which would result in a larger benefits check.

And get a load of this:

Members of the Michigan Nursery and Landscape Association "have told me that they have a lot of people applying but that when they actually talk to them, it turns out that they're on unemployment and not looking for work," said Amy Frankmann, the group's executive director. "It is starting to make things difficult."

Chris Pompeo, vice president of operations for Landscape America in Warren, said he has had about a dozen offers declined. One applicant, who had eight weeks to go until his state unemployment benefits ran out, asked for a deferred start date.

"It's like, you've got to be kidding me," Pompeo said. "It's frustrating. It's honestly something I've never seen before. They say, 'Oh, OK,' like I surprised them by offering them a job."

and this:

Some job applicants are asking to be paid in cash so they can collect unemployment illegally, said Gayle Younglove, vice president at Outdoor Experts Inc. in Romulus.

All in all, I think it may be time to simply cut the time someone can collect unemployment benefits to about twenty weeks. That's five months.

Otherwise, we're going to find out that everyone is taking the full two years that the government will permit them to.

Should that happen, we'll have the revolution that the Marxists want: nobody working, and everybody sucking on the government teat.

I am, unfortunately, not surprised in the least.

I'd determined, from the minute I realized we were entering a census year, that I wouldn't open the door to any census worker, identification or no. If one had claimed that they needed to speak to one of us, they could have yelled through the living room picture window.

The only census worker we've seen only wanted to ask if we knew if a couple of houses in our neighborhood were inhabited, and didn't ask us to even open the storm door.

Good enough. Because I find that my decision was the correct one.

A group of thugs impersonated census workers to break into a Texas home and kill one of the inhabitants. They spent two hours rifling the house, before driving away unmolested.

Another incident, this time with a real census worker, saw the man breaking into the home of a disabled woman to beat and rape her. He'd used his work with the census to choose his victim.

I don't know what's worse, the idea that Dear Leader was planning to turn the census over to ACORN, or knowing that these bastards weren't ACORN workers/volunteers.

I will say this: home alone or not, I never am out of reach of a pistol.

If anything else was calculated to make me oppose the pig in pearls...

...it's that she and Dear Leader go all the way back to Chicago.

Why does that bother me? Because it would bother any sane person that wasn't pro-corruption, and heavy-handed, violent corruption, at that.

Umm...hey, climate scientists?

What happens if the worst "assaults" on "settled global warming science" are perpetrated by Mother Nature herself?

Nice diversionary tactic.

Dimitri Medvedev, after following in his puppet master's footsteps in praising Stalin and his USSR for the past two years, has said something new:

"The Soviet Union was a very complicated state and if we speak honestly the regime that was built in the Soviet Union... cannot be called anything other than totalitarian. ...Unfortunately, this was a regime where elementary rights and freedoms were suppressed."

I'd give him a lot more credit, were it not that under his and his puppet master's leadership, Russia was heading directly down the same path. As it is, I suspect it's far more likely that Russia's current totalitarian leaders are trying to direct the world's attention away from what they're doing now.

"The year was 2085, and finally, everyone was equal."

Thanks to the covetous, race-baiter, nigger thugs that pose as civil rights activists.

The "Reverend" Al Sharpton probably thinks that "Harrison Bergeron" is a utopia. I cannot imagine how he thinks "social justice" is achievable when the government is used to smash everyone down to the same terrible standard of living.

True social justice is when everyone has the same chance to make something of themselves. It's up to the individual how much work to put into it. Equality of opportunity is not illustrated by perfectly equal results.

Al Sharpton's definition of social justice is my definition of theft and tyranny.

Who's the racist, now, bitch?

Because I'm pretty sure that it wasn't the whites, in this case.

Ann Arbor, Michigan: home of the school whose principal created a race-based club. No, the club wasn't for exclusively white kids, nor did it include all minorities. The club was for black students, and only black students.

And so was the field trip to see a black rocket scientist.

Seems to me that the nigger* son of a bitch is trying to turn all of the black kids under his authority into niggers.

*As Old Cat Man says, "Black people aren't born niggers--they earn the title.

Strict gun control laws yield the same results as gun-free zones.

Don't believe me? The People's Democratic Republic of California have some very strict gun control laws. And a man took a California-illegal gun--a so-called "assault rifle," of which every type is illegal in California--to an ex-girlfriend's house, and started shooting up her family.

Two of her family are dead: the ex-girlfriend and her brother. Her mother and father were critically wounded. The gunman was shot by a police officer with an AR-15 when he aimed his "AR-47" at the officer.

(First of all, I didn't know there was such a thing as an "AR-47." Second, what I saw in the picture was an AK-47, with a California-legal thumb hole stock, and an illegal 30 round magazine. The editors really need to proofread more carefully. And maybe know what they're talking about so they don't make such embarrassing mistakes.)

The two that are dead might not be were the gun control laws--which are only affect those who obey the laws in the first place--so stringent.

Bad idea.

Once they're able to regulate how fast internet users can access things online (meaning, your broadband can't advertise different speeds for different price levels), they'll start regulating content.

And then we're truly fucked.

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Why? Because everybody should have the chance to defeat the French!

Methinks the lady (and I use the term loosely) doeth protest too much.

Given the way Gibbs jumped all over Fox for one of their columnists' speculation, I can't help but wonder if he's trying to hide something for the administration.

In fact, it makes far too much sense for Dear Leader to have delayed reaction to the oil spill so that he could frame crippling our economy by refusing any more drilling as trying to save the ecosystem.

Except for one tiny detail: I don't think he's mentally capable of it. Maybe the ones that put the turtle on the post are, but I don't know that they've thought that far.

We're being tested, and tested hard.

How else do you explain this? And how do you explain it being called a "nonevent"?

Sorry, exploding luggage in an airport doesn't strike me as a nonevent. It strikes me as another failed terror attempt, or at the very least a test. And calling it a "nonevent" strikes me as someone trying to cover just how bad a job airport security is doing.

We are so fucked.

Gun-free zones=target-rich environments

A woman who worked at a university health center (double jeopardy, there) was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon.

When are we, as a nation, going to wise up and refuse en mass to tolerate the government's refusal to allow us to defend ourselves? When are we going to stop respecting the laws banning guns from certain areas, which does nothing but make us vulnerable?

I've said it before: only those who are law-abiding already are made vulnerable. Those who have harmful intent are going to ignore the "gun-free zone" rules as applied to themselves.

Or, no. Those with criminal intent choose to make their attacks in "gun-free zones" because they know their intended victims don't have the capability of fighting back.

Talk about bending over and spreading for the enemy!

Dear Leader has decided, in his infinite wisdom, to release details about our inventory of nukes!

I don't understand!

I thought Islam was the religion of peace! I thought those from the Middle East that came to our country to become citizens were the persecuted non-radicals! Why did this guy come from Pakistan, become American, then buy a vehicle for cash and steal plates for it to bomb Times Square?

Okay, I'm done with the sarcasm, now.

"Honey, I think being a lawyer might be a bit out of your reach...

How about we set you up for some vocational training, instead?"

The only other thing I could think of was "Huh. No wonder child predators are increasing in number." And that's just not funny.

We're facing worse than what we faced in WWII.

According to more than one source, many of the Japanese Americans living on the coasts and in Hawaii saw themselves as Japanese, not American. It's why everyone of Japanese descent living in America was rounded up and put into internment camps.

Yes, it was wrong. It was a violation of their civil rights--at least, it was for those who'd either been born here or gained citizenship.

It was also necessary, since enough were either spying or otherwise aiding an enemy during a time of war that it was difficult to pick out who wasn't.

I'm beginning to wonder if it's not time to do that with Muslims. I mean, how many sleepers are there in the U.S.? We don't know. We don't know where they are. We don't know what they have access to.

We do know that they want to hurt us. We also know that they see it as fully religiously justified. We know that almost all terrorist attacks within the last fifteen years or so have been related to Islam.

And we know that car bombs are a particularly favorite tactic. And we know that the Taliban has claimed credit.

It's a bit of a stickier situation--we don't have an officially declared war, they're a religious group not a group of immigrants from a single nation, and many Muslims are born U.S. citizens, and converted later. It may be necessary, regardless, to protect their physical safety.

I get the feeling that, if more of these attacks happen, and the public perceives that the current administration is not only not doing enough but hampering efforts to curb RIF terrorist attacks, we're going to see a lot of people arming up to play Cowboys and Hajjis.

Thank God for the first amendment.

You know, the one that reads "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"?

Because Christianity deems a great many things wrong that are accepted as commonplace behaviors in the modern world. Things like coveting anything that is thy neighbor's to the point that, if you can't have it (or something like it) you either get the government to steal his wealth to redistribute it to those who didn't earn it, or destroy it. Or sleeping around outside of marriage. Or blaspheming (which I define as doing evil in the name of your so-called "good" deity).

Or acting on homosexual urges.

Over in Britain, a Baptist preacher was arrested for discussing what the bible defines as sinful. They can't do that over here, yet, and it's thanks to that first amendment. The Brits have nothing like that protecting their God-given rights.

Somehow this sounds familiar.

"If we teach our children about gun safety, they'll get curious about guns."

Really? I suppose the same goes for teaching kids about safe sex.

It doesn't? We have to understand that kids will get curious about sex, and it's the schools' and parents' responsibility to teach kids to be safe around sex? Then, what's the difference between that and teaching children about being safe around guns?

I sense an ideological disconnect, here.