Kids Play With Toy Gun, Parents Lectured by Local Cops

The Truth About Guns
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A near pants-soiling situation for local law enforcement took place on the highways of Southern California earlier this week when a motorist spied what turned out to be a toy M16 in a passing minivan. Seven – yes, seven – police and sheriff’s department units soon took up the chase. One can only assume the local SWAT unit was already engaged on another call…

From the latimes.com blog:

When authorities caught up to the vehicle in a park-and-ride in Chino Hills, they saw two boys in child safety seats. On the lap of one of the boys was the plastic green-camouflage rifle, its orange tip flagging it as a replica.

But simply chalking the situation up to a call by an overly-sensitive onlooker in another vehicle wasn’t in the cards. No, the local yokels had to make sure the innocent kids and their parents knew they were the real problem.

With no real weapon to worry about, the responding officers gave the parents a lecture about how their children need to be careful when playing with a pretend firearm.

Yes, indeedy. Never mind that it’s perfectly legal, even in California, to own an actual AR. As long as you have the properly neutered magazines, that is. Also never mind that that the two tikes were perfectly within their rights to play with their plastic gun in their parents’ car if they damned well pleased.

“We take that pretty serious,” said Deputy Warren Toy, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. “We definitely educated [the parents] not to point even a toy gun at somebody because you never know if the other person had a real gun and would seek to engage.”

Thanks, Deputy Dawg. We’re quite sure mom and dad will be careful to keep junior’s toys safely hidden at home from now on so as not to offend polite society and prompt another full-on cavalry charge. Maybe now you can run along and dig up a sense of humor.

"Statesmen, my dear Sir, may plan and speculate for Liberty,

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but it is Religion and Morality alone, which can establish the Principles upon which Freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People in a greater Measure than they have it now, They may change their Rulers and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty. They will only exchange Tyrants and Tyrannies."
-- John Adams, Letter to Zabdiel Adams, as quoted in Letters of Delegates to Congress: Volume 4 May 16, 1776 - August 15, 1776, (21 June, 1776, page 279 )

Congress and Secrecy

Taki's Magazine
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Andrew P. Napolitano

You know this story. Congress cannot get its act together, again. It is facing a government shutdown by this Saturday, again. It has retreated to secrecy, again. It seems redundant and ridiculous to say “here we go again,” and yet that’s what’s happening.

Congress, which is charged and authorized by the Constitution to write the federal laws and to decide how to spend the people’s money and to keep public records of all its deliberations, has simply declined to do so. In establishing the debt supercommittee—which consists of six representatives and six senators—Congress is violating the Constitution by keeping its work and deliberations from you. Every hour at Fox News, our intrepid Capitol Hill producers inform us of who is meeting with whom to discuss what—not among members of the House or Senate, but among members of the supercommittee. Try to find that in the Constitution, and you won’t succeed.

This is what has become of the world’s greatest deliberative body. It is hiding from you. Its members are supposed to be working for you. The government is the servant of the people. As revolutionary as that sounds, it is the principle underlying both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.

“Both political parties stand for Big Government.”

Some of you have sent me very funny emails asking why I often ask if the government works for us or if we work for the government. Now, you have the answer. The government calls the shots. Both political parties stand for Big Government. Few in government really want it to be subservient or transparent. The government treats us as if we have unending piles of cash from which it can extract what it wishes; and it treats us as if we work for it.

It is the height of arrogance and of disrespect—for you, for the Constitution and for basic principles of personal liberty in a free society—for the government to work in the dark. Indeed, the Founders feared secret government because they had suffered so heavily under the Privy Council.

The Privy Council was not the king, and it was not the Parliament. It consisted of a dozen of the king’s most trusted advisers—some of whom were members of Parliament—who really ran the British government when we were its colonies; and the Privy Council met in secret. To assure that the new government here would not do to Americans what the British had done to the colonists, the Founders wrote into the Constitution the obligation of Congress to meet in public, to keep a public journal of all it does, and to be the only entity in the new government that can write laws, regulate behavior or tax events.

Our representatives in the House and in the Senate have made a mockery of our Constitution. The secret supercommittee—around which have swirled all sorts of rumors about raising taxes and increasing regulations—has effectively become the Congress. Once it reports whatever it has agreed to, Congress cannot debate that report. Congress cannot publicly discuss that report. Congress cannot amend that report. Congress can only vote that report up or down. This modern-day Privy Council has robbed you of your representation in government and the transparency guaranteed by the Constitution.

What can we do about this? We can continue to challenge the government, and we can throw out of office any member of Congress who favors secrecy over freedom.

Folklore

The chart brings it all too clearly into perspective.
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Jaded Haven
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The unconstitutional Super Committee failed to reach a reasonable consensus, massive partisan convulsions ensued.

Tissue paper discussions were ripped to thin shreds behind a privileged set of closed doors, cutting a significant slice of the budget or shorting tax revenue were never up for serious consideration.

Philip Klein writes it best.

As the clock ticks toward next Wednesday’s deadline for the “super committee” on deficit reduction to come up with $1.2 trillion in savings, it’s looking increasingly likely that the panel will fail. Though that’s theoretically supposed to trigger automatic cuts in defense and Medicare spending, those won’t kick in until 2013. In other words, lobbyists for defense manufacturers, hospitals, drug companies, etc. will have a year to fight any cuts.

Just to give you a sense of how pathetic a “super committee” failure would be, I created this chart, which shows how small the $1.2 trillion in cuts members are having so much trouble finding would be relative to the $44 trillion the federal government is projected to spend over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

The super committee was never intended to be more than a pretty show horse.

Grifting the american taxpayer is how these people earn their living.

See If YOU Can Spot The Common Denominator.....

Difficult, I know........
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The Feral Irishman
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About 50 people (liberal newspeak) simultaneously shoplifted from a Silver Spring, Md., 7-Eleven Saturday night. "STORY"

Week 7 of flagging the VMFA

Southern Nationalist Network
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Today marked the 7th week of flagging the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the grand opening of “Mummy – Secrets of the Tomb” at the museum. The crowds were large, especially in the afternoon, and we had the opportunity to speak with more people than ever. In fact, often several of us were engaged with different folks at the same time! Response was overwhelming positive, with most people we talked to in favor of returning the flags.

First time flaggers Brian Atkins and Douglas Whitehair drove in from Hadensville and received a warm welcome!

It was a busy week for us, with a new blog post on Monday, which led to a TV interview Tuesday and much publicity for our efforts! Eight flaggers came out today and flags were flying in the breeze for all to see! The weather was a bit chilly, but did not deter those who were standing for our ancestors and our flag!

Nine year old Virginia flagger Grace Lewis shares a flagging story here.

Our cause is gaining momentum, but we need to keep up the pressure,
PLEASE…call (804) 340-1500,
email: director@ vmfa.museum (without the space),
or write: Alex Nyerges, Director
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
200 N. Boulevard
Richmond VA 23220-4007,
and tell theVMFA to return the flags to the Pelham Chapel, and if you are able, join us on the Boulevard!

Contact Susan Hathaway vaflagger@ comcast.net (without the space) for more information.

RETURN THE FLAGS!
RESTORE THE HONOR!

Carolina Beach Music: Lee Dorsey - Holy Cow

Russian News Anchor Gives Middle Finger Salute While Mentioning Obama

Charleston Voice
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During a news broadcast on Russian TV, an anchor was speaking about Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s appearance at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. Shortly after, the anchor mentions U.S. President Barack Obama’s involvement with APEC — the only odd thing to note, however, is that she says Obama’s name while simultaneously saluting with her middle finger.

Did your Congressman sign the anti-tax increase pledge?

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"Wake Up America."

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