Tuesday, May 04, 2010

"United Amalgamated Union of Lone Wolves and Isolated Extremists"

To quote Mark Steyn. More:
Whenever something goofy happens — bomb in Times Square, mass shootings at a US military base, etc. — there seem to be two kinds of reactions:
a) Some people go, "Hmm. I wonder if this involves some guy with a name like Mohammed who has e-mails from Yemen."
b) Other people go, "Don't worry, there's no connection to terrorism, and anyway, even if there is, it's all very amateurish, and besides he's most likely an isolated extremist or lone wolf."
Unfortunately, everyone in category (b) seems to work for the government.
'Cause if I didn't laugh, I'd cry.

And Jonah Goldberg on liberals' no longer repressed hope that a "teabagger" whacks someone.

Saturday, May 01, 2010

It's May Day!

Let the rioting commence!

Seriously though, I hope everyone stays safe out there.  I wish these lefties would take their own advice about working folks into a lather with misinformation.  It's shocking to see how many people think they can be jailed for six months if they leave their driver's license at home.

Every article I've read on the topic includes a sentence like this:
Arizona's new law that allows police to ask people on the street for proof of their immigrations status has energized some protestors, LA Weekly reported.
This is, of course, untrue, especially since the recent clarification:
... lawmakers have removed “lawful contact” from the bill and replaced it with “lawful stop, detention or arrest.” In an explanatory note, lawmakers added that the change “stipulates that a lawful stop, detention or arrest must be in the enforcement of any other law or ordinance of a county, city or town or this state.” “It was the intent of the legislature for ‘lawful contact’ to mean arrests and stops, but people on the left mischaracterized it,” says Kris Kobach... “So that term is now defined.”

The second change concerns the word “solely.”  In a safeguard against racial profiling, the law contained the phrase, “The attorney general or county attorney shall not investigate complaints that are based solely on race, color or national origin.”  Critics objected to that, too, arguing again that it would not prevent but instead lead to racial profiling.  So lawmakers have taken out the word “solely.”
I don't know how he narrowed it down to just 10, but Byron York as a list of the Top 10 dumbest things said about the Arizona immigration law.

                              Shamelessly Stolen from Ace of Spades

Papers Please!

According to Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, "nobody but the Nazis ever asked anybody for their papers."  Too true.  Americans are completely unused to showing documents... unless they:
  • fly in an airplane
  • travel overseas
  • get a job
  • rent an apartment
  • buy a house
  • open a checking account
  • get something notarized
  • apply for a library card
  • rent a car
  • buy smokes or alcohol 
  • write a check
  • get pulled over by the police
  • go to the doctor/emergency room
Just the exceptions that prove the rule, I guess.