February 3, 2009

 

 

Groundhog Day

 

                    - Video of Staten Island Chuck biting the hand that

                        wants to put him on a diet, ban his salt, and disarm his

                        furry little tucchus.

 

To All,

    Apparently kudos are in order for the smart NRA staffer who signed Staten Island Chuck up for a Life Membership. Perhaps with a few more donations from a grateful membership, Chuck can be upgraded to Benefactor.

 

In other news:

 

Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others Update:

     Face it- Sheriff Sandra Hutchens has apparently made Orwell's "Animal Farm" required reading among the NKVD types she imported into the Orange County Sheriff's Office Senior Management Staff.

 

     What else could explain their exchanging of derogatory emails about a large number of citizens, activists, and even Orange County Supervisors that took the time to attend an Orange County Board of Supervisor's Meeting? ( Budget increase, what budget increase?)

 

    Or, for their failure to grok that emails sent on publicly-perked Blackberries might just be accessible to the public through the PRAR process? (Calling Rosemary Woods- Please call 714-647-7000, they might just have a gig for you...).

 

    Or that the famously thick hides of such practiced public servants as Janet Nguyen and Chris Norby can only resist so much scorching before they decide to extinguish the source of the fire now billowing from Sheriff Hutchens' office.

 

     What is clear is that Hutchens and her winged monkeys have failed to understand that age-old motto of the political classes ("...when one finds oneself in a hole, the first step is to stop digging..."). Whether that little idiosyncrasy will translate into political change in the OC Sheriff's Office in the next election will remain to be seen. Stay tuned.

 

Link at:

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/sheriff-hutchens-meeting-2297673-activists-county

 

 

 

Career Interruptus:

     Fox News has announced that former Senator-cum-gun-banner Tom Daschle has withdrawn his name for nomination to be Health and Human Services Secretary to Presidente-Supremo Barack Obama (Tom Daschle could have been in charge of the CDC, among other things.).

 

     Daschle has apparently fallen afoul of the same failure-to-pay-taxes problem that caused Treasury Secretary Timothy Geitner some discomfort, and has caused Nancy Killefer to withdraw her name from nomination as "chief performance officer" under the Obama Administration (Killefer was apparently on the IRS Oversight Board back during the Clinton Administration, and has had a number of tax problems in the past.).

 

     Hopefully this will slow down the proposed damage to 17% of the US economy that Daschle was supposed to be shepherding through the Congress in the form of National Health Care. Perhaps if the nation's tort bar could be made to understand that a truly National Health Care could involve extending sovereign immunity to the nation's medicos, in exchange for government-backed salaries and a 40-hour work week, this major campaign plank of the Obama Campaign can be sent to the circular file. Stay tuned.

 

 

Links at:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/02/03/daschle-withdraws-nomination-health-human-services-secretary/

 

http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2009/02/02/daily38.html

 

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1870541,00.html

 

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9646DBG0&show_article=1

 

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OWYxZmVkOWIzMTk1YzFiM2RkNjhhYjI3YTg1OWRlNWQ=

 

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-goldberg3-2009feb03,0,49616.column

 

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MTg0Y2I2MjY4MjE4NTllNmNiOTcwNmI5YTEwOTNlOGE=

 

 

Psycho Job Killer, Quest Que Se?

     Quinn Hillyer writes at DCExaminer.com about the soon-to-be-in-effect rule banning lead and pthalates from products used by children 12 and under.

 

     It seems that a whole bunch of small stores, second hand stores, electronic stores, and (yes) fishing tackle and sporting goods stores may be, at the least, banned from selling products to and for children enjoying traditional outdoor activities.

 

    Period.

 

    That appears to include a goodly portion of the fishing weights and crappie jigs out there have lead alloy in them. Or that the venerable .410 and .22 long rifle cartridges used at Boy Scout camps and youth shoots have lead in them. Transfer is transfer, and children under the age of 12 may just be banned by rule from handling such mundane items.

 

    Of course, it takes a Congress led by Nancy Pelosi to come up with such a rule in the first place. But those who have been concerned that bullet bans will become the latest front on disarming the American people now have been partially vindicated in focusing in on what would normally seem to be an unrelated political action (ie. consumer product safety). Whether this will eventually cause a ban on other lead-related jobs (After all, lead industry workers can bring lead residues home. Also, those who sell "Class A EQ" biosolids to fertilize home gardens might just find that their products are not welcome across the Fruited Plain. Sort of makes one wonder what Mayor Villaraigosa is going to do with all the sh....er, manure being generated by the Hyperion Treatment Plant). Is it any wonder that Congress has a 17% approval rate?

 

Link at:

http://www.dcexaminer.com/opinion/columns/QuinHillyer/Quin-essential-Cases-Unleaded-economy-could-fuel-huge-job-losses38850787.html

 

 

 

 

 

Back From The Brink?:

     Kevin Duchschere reports from the Minneapolis "Red" Star Tribune that a 3 judge panel in Minnesota has ruled that up to 4,800 "rejected" absentee ballots (possibly including military ballots) may be considered in the recount to determine the fate of the last remaining Senate seat in the current Congress.

 

     While the Court granted Al Franken's motion to limit the review downward from some 11,000 ballots, Duchschere notes that the court did allow more than the measly 650 that Franken was willing to let in (Kind of brings new meaning to the old Donkey Slogan, "Count Every Vote").

 

     It remains to be seen if the remaining ballots will some how overcome the lead Franken has built up with his own batch of ballots seemingly discovered out of thin air. But it will be interesting to see if Minnesota will step back from the brink, and elect a politician that has more dignity than an erstwhile comedian-in-Pampers with "tax issues". Stay tuned.

 

Links at:

http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/38890229.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUac8HEaDiaMDCinchO7DU

 

http://townhall.com/blog/g/853c3fff-af1e-4b45-8569-b594129fd5d3

 

 

 

 

Respectfully,

 

 

Anthony Canales

SFVMC-NRA