There is nothing worse going into a public restroom and finding wet stuff all over the seat. For crying out loud people, can’t you lift the dang thing up!!! Barring that, try wiping it down after you are done dribbling all over the place. It’s disgusting. You know someone is coming in behind you. Show a little courtesy!
Occasioned by the fall an apple…
I think this is going to be a title of my posts that are essentially “Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene” as Thomas Sowell would say.
The title comes from the the book by Stephen Hawking called a “Brief History of Time”
In it there is a discussion about Sir Issac Newton and how he was “Occasioned by the fall of an apple” while contemplating things on his mind.
People are sporting loads of Obama08 stickers, and yard signs and what not. He is the candidate of change and has the “Audacity of Hope.” What seems to be getting lost in the gushing of the mainstream media is that there is not a single new idea or any hope that things tried in the past are going to work this time. In April 1979 then President Jimmy Carter said,
“Unless we tax the oil companies, they will reap huge and undeserved windfall profits,” Carter declared in a nationwide address. Americans had a right to recapture some of that windfall and put it to good use. Carter suggested that the revenue be earmarked for mass transit, oil price relief for poor families, and the development of alternative energy sources.” (Thorndike)
Does this sound familiar? This is just one example of the utterly dishonest campaign being run by the Obama. He also says he would be ready to meet with our enemies. So did Neville Chamberlain,
Some times in life we have to stand up for what is right, and not act like dhimmi’s as former President Carter does when he takes it upon himself to deal with a terrorist organization like Hezbollah, who is directly connected to Iran. (Shihri)
What keeps the survivors of the cyclone which struck Myanmar from rising up against the military junta that is preventing the world from rushing aid into help the people? (Associated Press) They should oust the so-called leadership which inflicts this kind of suffering on the people of the nation and assist the world aid organizations in helping distribute the supplies of aid/food/water/sanitation which are piling up as I write this.
C.
P.S. I am having some kind of trouble getting my links to work in this posting. If you go to Tifosi1f1.blogspot.com the links do work there, for the citations and references.
Boats. Made out of wood. In Olympia. What more is there to be said? A little heavy on powerboats, but the boats were all so nice to look at. I love other people’s wooden boats, let someone else do the work to keep one up….
I found this over at SayAnythingBlog.com. It is a conservative political blog from North Dakota. Credit goes to Rob Port and ‘Pilgrim’ on this one. Check out the site, it is really good.
Lawyers for Mayor Bloomberg are asking a judge to ban any reference to the Second Amendment during the upcoming trial of a gun shop owner who was sued by the city. While trials are often tightly choreographed, with lawyers routinely instructed to not tell certain facts to a jury, a gag order on a section of the Constitution would be an oddity.
“Apparently Mayor Bloomberg has a problem with both the First and the Second amendments,” Lawrence Keane, the general counsel of a firearms industry association, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, said.
The trial, set to begin May 27, involves a Georgia gun shop, Adventure Outdoors, which the city alleges is responsible for a disproportionate number of the firearms recovered from criminals in New York City. The gun store’s owner, Jay Wallace, says his store abides by Georgia and federal regulations and takes steps to avoid selling firearms to gun traffickers. Mr. Wallace’s store is one of 27 out-of-state gun shops sued by New York City, and the first to go to trial.
Their reasoning that the Second Amendment should be ignored in the lawsuit on out-of-state gunshops?
City lawyers, in a motion filed Tuesday, asked the judge, Jack Weinstein of U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, to preclude the store’s lawyers from arguing that the suit infringed on any Second Amendment rights belonging to the gun store or its customers. In the motion, the lawyer for the city, Eric Proshansky, is also seeking a ban on “any references” to the amendment.
“Any references by counsel to the Second Amendment or analogous state constitutional provisions are likewise irrelevant,” the brief states.
Many Americans believe that the Second Amendment provides an individual the right to own a gun. Others believe that it provides no right to private gun ownership, but gives states the power to keep militias.In a recent court deposition, Mayor Bloomberg said he believed “the Second Amendment of the Bill of Rights gives you the right to keep and bear arms.” But in a recent brief to the Supreme Court, lawyers for Mr. Bloomberg argued that the amendment “was not intended to vest armed power in citizens acting outside of any governmental military effort — either federal or state.”
Yikes!
That’s one of our elected representatives telling a court that the Second Amendment is basically meaningless and can be ignored in a trial about…..the Second Amendment.
Pretzel liberal logic at its best.
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What this video shows is the intolerance of the left in our nation. It is especially prevalent on college campuses. I do not know what college this was filmed. The people who organized the pro life demonstration, seem at least on the film to have gotten permission, from the school allowing them to stage the scene in the video.
Along comes some intolerant fascist liberal, who says they don’t have the right to disagree with abortion. Not only that he feels his freedom is being diminished because someone else exercises theirs. So what we have is a sophomore college student that has literally no grasp of what constitutional rights we are afforded, who and how they can be exercised and no understanding of the point the demonstration is trying to make. He is up set that someone who had or may be considering an abortion might be tremendously affected by the demonstration. Isn’t that the point? To get them to re think their decision, and thus not kill a baby?
In the Blow back section of the column on HotAir many people were saying, ‘what does it prove’ why don’t they do something else, and on and on. That is the point, it very clearly is effective and useful to point out that abortion actually kills a person, no matter how much the leftist moon bats try to claim otherwise. Perhaps it is a liberal arts school, who knows!
This video was found at Hotair.com
C.
I lifted this from Olyblog, and while I cleaned it up a bit, I claim no responsibility for the formating of Bohmer’s burbling. Can you believe this man is a professor at a state funded college? Gotta love Evergreen sometimes. It’s bozo’s like Bohmer that give that place a bad name and attract the moonbats.
“Reflections on May Day, 2008 in Olympia May 3, 2008
The planning for the Olympia May Day and the resulting rally and march were a very worthwhile effort to connect the anti-war movement and GI resistance to the immigrant rights struggle within the context of the celebration of May Day–International Worker’s day. I am very appreciative and supportive of the centering the May Day rally and march around the Sanctuary City proposal, possibly the first such proposal in the country that calls for a city to be a sanctuary for both GI’s and immigrants. We need to connect issues and movements more as happened on May Day in Olympia. The rally and march was an excellent way to put this proposal for Olympia as a sanctuary in the public consciousness, the organizers of the May Day event deserve a lot of credit for this. Sadly the message was lost to much of the Olympia community because of the actions of a few, none of whom as far as I know were involved in organizing the May Day event. The issue of graffiti on the Capitol walls or breaking bank windows is not primarily an abstract or moral issue of right or wrong, and some of the discussion has been focused on that. I do think that the rock throwing was morally objectionable because bank employees and customers were in the two banks and could have been injured when the rocks were thrown. My main criticism of the graffiti and window breaking is rather, that it is bad and wrong strategy and tactics within the context of 2008 Olympia. How do these acts by a few, a self-appointed vanguard, build the anti-war or immigrant rights movement? They don’t!! If a response is that they build some other movement, e.g., Black Bloc, that is opportunist as one is using other movements to build one’s own. No respect was shown to the organizers of the event, e.g., going into the Capitol and writing on its walls, when the announced plan was to have a rally on the steps. No respect was shown to the May Day marchers, which included both immigrants and children, to the trashing of the banks so close to the march. I understand the anger and rage against this oppressive economic system and share it. However, what does screaming at the police accomplish or breaking some windows at two banks? This anger is counterproductive and self-indulgent if it strengthens what we are trying to overcome. In the short-run, the anti-war movement here is weakened. These actions of property damage are not understood or supported by the overwhelming majority of Olympia residents and that is relevant in assessing it. Also relevant is the alienation of many of the marchers and organizers. Isn’t one of our objectives to gain public support? Instead let us use this rage productively and in a cooperative way with others activists and progressive and radical groups–not to sabotage, even if unintentionally, what others are doing–instead to build social movements that can stop this war, gain amnesty for immigrants and eventually, revolutionize this country. We need to develop a plan, a system of accountability, so that our demonstrations or direct actions are not hijacked by a few who have different goals, tactics from what is agreed on by the organizers and participants in our actions. I urge that those few who broke windows at the two banks or writing on the walls of the Capitol to reflect on their actions and apologize to the organizers of the May Day event. At the same time, it is important to remember that the six people who were arrested on Thursday are innocent until proven guilty and may not have been involved in the breaking of the bank windows–so let us not take the police version as fact. My hope is that all of us learn from what happened on Thursday, May 1st, 2008 so that we can move forward together to “Tear it Down, and Build it Up”.
In solidarity,
Peter Bohmer”
Read the bit I bolded. Guess Bohmer works for free? I’m sure he could never take part in the horrible economic system we currently have here.
I’ll bet he cashes his paycheck at a bank or credit union just like everyone else. Probably has a nice bourgeois house and drives some sort of vehicle too.
Bohmer is a freak of nature. This isn’t the first time he’s opened his mouth and the decent people in Olympia have cringed, and it won’t be the last.
In the last 6 months there have been three riots or violent acts committed under the shield of “non violence” or “empowerment”.
I’m sick of it.
I’m tired of hearing people call for “sanctuary” for illegal aliens or military deserters.
In all fairness the “mainstream” Olympia activist community has done a pretty decent job of being non violent. But there are enough wing nuts in Olympia (and now they are coming here from other places!) to cause problems. Add this to an unwillingness of the City to really crack down on violent protesters, it is a recipe for disaster.
Me, I’m just buying more ammo, and hoping Olympia doesn’t have a major disaster before I get the centerboard replaced in my sailboat. When Oly goes, I want to be en route to Whidbey Island, not trying to get the heck out of here. Olympia is a powderkeg, and someone lit the fuse on May Day.
So May Day or International Workers Day, or Celebrate Socialism Day, whatever, but of course here in Olympia we had riots. What fun!
Images and videos from The Olympian may be viewed here.
Not only was their a ‘march’ to support workers rights or something, it was an opportunity for the communists/socialists/liberals to demand that Olympia become a sanctuary city. Going one better than other cities in the county they also want to be a safe place where war protesters can hide from the law, and military personel can desert from the military branch they chose to enlist with. (We have all branches very close here, USAF,USN,USMC,USArmy) These people who took to the streets to march and give speaches and generally disrupt people trying to actually work and go about thier lives, they want to remake this city in a fashion they feel is ’safe’ and ‘fair’ and equal. But that is not what the result would be of course. Usually people are smart enough to understand that we have the rule of law for a reason. What no city needs is foolish policies which directly contradict federal law. One can make the argument that an unjust law is no law at all. If you believe that, fine, but having laws which make it a crime to desert the military to break a contract you have made voluntarily, is a just law. Laws which establish a rule of law for those outside our nation, establish a border and a regulated means by which you can enter our country legally is also just.
No what these fools want is to alter society into an a moral circus of chaos. Olympia has a culture which is ultra progressive, and is continually in direct conflict with the police, sheriffs, and elected government. We saw this in November when the military tried to move equipment to Fort Lewis through the port and resulted in riots. We saw it when a person assulted another at a “Dead Prez” concert and they attacked law enforcement and did $50,000.00 worth of damage to a patrol car.
The protesters activly supported those who dressed in black, hiding thier faces attacked banks, and the state capitol. They went to city hall to demand release of those who were arrested. We even have reporters in our local fish wrap… er… newspaper who report that some poor pedestrian just trying to pick up their bicycle was hit with a baton by an officer and hit with three ‘pepper bullets’. We here in Olympia have people who have posted comments on this blog like Robert Whitlock, who believe that these criminals are just ‘expressing themselves’ but they supposedly abhor violence. We have people, and a lot of them who will pretend the problem was just a minor subset of people in a larger group. What they deliberatly try to obfuscate is the fact that the larger group give explicit and implicit permission for this behavior. Did any of the people try to perform a citizens arrest, when the windows at Bank of America were smashed? How about when the capitol was vandalized? Not a single instance or report have I been able to find on line. I have seen the Moon Bat Left try to perform a citizens arrest on a truck driver leaving the port with a load of military equipment. They will do it if they disagree with whom they are arresting. But if they agree with the action, the issue, the motivation, or the ‘feeling’ they don’t intercede.
C.
There is lots of info out there, look at the TheOlympian.com. I will post more later as I get time.
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