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National Insecurity Twofer
Source: PIG News Wire [04/29/11]

Korrectness Trumps National Security, Again
It was called NSEERS (National Security Entry-Exit Registration System) and it sounds likes a damn good idea. Cutting to the chase, NSEERS required that individuals from 20 'predominantly Arab' countries must register with Uncle Sam when entering and exiting the USA. It also required an extra inspection at the port of entry for those potential Islamikazes who are traveling on a non-immigrant visa.

In these Jihadikaze-ravaged times, it sounds like a wise precaution. Nearly 10 years after the 9/11 attack, the Jihadikazes - the bulk of whom are young Arab males - are still determined to attack us here on the home front. Despite the on-going need for this extra layer of security, the Jihadikaze coddling asshats in our midst, finally managed to get the program scuttled.

Apparently, the Department of Homeland Stupidity is more worried about tykes who need to be gate groped, than it is about screening individuals who hail from Jihadikaze-infested countries. They made that official, this week, when, giving in to pressure, they dumped the NSEERS program. I feel safer, already.

Arming The Islamikazes in Our Midst
The good news is that Uncle Sam keeps track of individuals who are suspected of having ties to terrorism. The bad news is that, 'suspected of having ties to terrorism' doesn't disqualify them from purchasing a firearm.

In 2010, more than 247 individuals on the 'suspected of having ties to terrorism' list purchased firearms.

In 2009, approximately the same number of people on the same list purchased firearms here in the USA.

If this bothers you, join the club. Believe it or not, it also bothers at least one Elected Tormentor, U.S. Senator from New Jersey, Frank Lautenberg. He's making noises about getting the law changed.

Parting shot: In theory, I'm onboard, when it comes to keeping firearms out of Jihadikaze hands. HOWEVER, since Lautenberg is a Demoncrat, I worry that a bill to disarm Jihadikazes, is a Moonbat ploy to scuttle the 2nd Amendment and disarm We the People.

Then & Now - Red Shed Edition
Source: PIG News Wire [04/22/11]

As usual, the MSM Barack Suckers are ignoring and/or excusing The One's blatant hypocrisy on signing statements.

Then: a 2007 interview with Boston Globe scribbler Charlie Savage.

"While it is legitimate for a president to issue a signing statement to clarify his understanding of ambiguous provisions of statutes and to explain his view of how he intends to faithfully execute the law, it is a clear abuse of power to use such statements as a license to evade laws that the president does not like or as an end-run around provisions designed to foster accountability," Obama told the Globe.

The president told Savage he would "use signing statements to nullify or undermine congressional instructions as enacted into law."

"The problem with [the Bush] administration is that it has attached signing statements to legislation in an effort to change the meaning of the legislation, to avoid enforcing certain provisions of the legislation that the president does not like, and to raise implausible or dubious constitutional objections to the legislation."

Obama said that Bush's use of signing statements 1,100 times was a "clear abuse of that prerogative."

"No one doubts that it is appropriate to use signing statements to protect a president's constitutional prerogatives; unfortunately, the Bush Administration has gone much further than that," Obama said.

Then: a 2008 press session.

Obama responded to a question asking if he would promise not to use signing statements by saying yes and blasting Bush's efforts "to accumulate more power in the presidency."

"That's not part of his power, but this is part of the whole theory of George Bush that he can make laws as he goes along," Obama said. "I disagree with that. I taught the Constitution for 10 years. I believe in the Constitution, and I will obey the Constitution of the United States. We're not going to use signing statements as a way of doing an end-run around Congress."

Now: Barry's signing statement on the 2011 spending bill does what he pummeled Bush 43 for doing.

Barry's signing statement implied that he would ignore some parts of the bill, including, especially, the part that defunded Barry's czars.

That sounds like he's "doing an end-run around Congress" (violates his 2008 rant).

That also sounds like he's using a signing statement " to evade laws that the president does not like or as an end-run around provisions designed to foster accountability" (violates his 2007 rant).

Hypocrisy? You bet, but it isn't the first time and it won't be that last, for Barack "Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire" Obama.

A Perfect Storm of Suckage
Source: PIG News Wire [04/22/11]

This week, The One perpetrated a stink fest to discuss immigration reform. In other words, they met to find a way to give amnesty to all those future Demoncrat voters/recipients of Uncle Sam's largess. And who, you ask, did he invite?

I can't give you all the names of the 70 invitees, and I doubt that it matters. No doubt, the usual Colonista groups were present and accounted for, but the less said about them, the better.

The names which spawned the title for this rant are:

America's infamous race hustler, Rev. Al Sharpton

Big Apple steaming load, Mayor Mikey Bloomberg

Mexifornia's all-time WORST Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger

A top cop, Bill Braton, who always put politics ahead of police work, as the Sanctuary City of Angels police chief.

As usual, Barry kicked the can down the road, voting 'present', again, by asking the attendees to 'keep the immigration debate alive.

Barry, dude, the immigration debate is very much alive. Your problem is that you don't want to hear what We the People have to say about it.

Blowback's A Bitch
Source: PIG News Wire [04/22/11]

Full of themselves and IT, Empire State Legicrats passed a 2009 law to 'close a loophole' which allowed 'indoor camp programs to operate without oversight. The coordinated assault by Legicrats and the bureaucrats subjected such endeavors to the job for life bureaucrats in the New York State Health Department.

Buried inside the mountain of Health Department red tape are numerous PIG-worthy goodies:

* A list of supposedly risky recreational activities - which includes more perilous pursuits like archery, scuba and horseback riding....

* The risky recreational activities also included headline-spawning jaw droppers like freeze tag, whiffle ball, kickball, dodgeball, capture the flag, steal the bacon and red rover:

* Any program that offers two or more organized recreational activities - with at least one of them on the risky list - is deemed a summer camp and subject to state regulation. (That 'summer camp' label makes them pay a $200 registration fee and mandates that they provide full time medical staff.)

By midweek, the Health Department was beating a hasty retreat, as reported by none other than El Rushbo himself:

Story #3: New York Blames Ex-Gov Paterson for Wiffle Ball Ban

RUSH: Wiffle Ball is back! It's back in summer camp in New York. "New York state health officials have yanked a set of proposed guidelines for what were initially deemed risky day camp games like tag, Red Rover and kickball. Health department spokeswoman Claudia Hutton says the rules and lists of games and activities were sent out to municipalities and other camp operators under the previous" regime. So Mrs. Hutton is blaming a blind black guy, the former governor, David Paterson, for these rules. "She says that after a review spurred by a lawmaker's questions Friday and subsequent news reports, they've been judged too detailed and amount to micromanagement."

So they weren't wrong, they were just "too detailed." She said yesterday "that that the department will continue gathering information during a comment period that ends May 16 and will formulate new safety regulations that are broader." So Red Rover and Wiffle Ball will be allowed now at summer camp. But I guarantee you this: If there had not been any report, what happens is this was reported and parents and everybody else reacted in utter outrage. Who the hell do you think you are...? Wiffle Ball? No Wiffle Ball? That's dangerous? It's plastic, for crying out loud!

You couldn't hurt anybody with a Wiffle Ball if you tried to, and you'd have to work pretty hard to hurt somebody with a Wiffle Ball bat so now the bureaucrats in this current regime in New York blame "the previous administration" David Paterson. And there's nothing wrong with the guidelines except they were too detailed, but people found out. They promised to put the rules back in later when nobody's looking. I mean, this is. This is what they would get away with if they were able to. These people are only acting shamed in that they were caught, not because they think that this was outrageous in the first place.

Is this the final answer from the state Health Department? I doubt it. At most, it's a temporary retreat, until the level of outrage abates, after which it will be business as usual in 'it's for the children' land.

Land of Lincoln Lunacy
Source: PIG News Wire [04/15/11]

With their state on the same track to oblivion as Mexifornia, the Legicrat Loons shrugged off that red ink nightmare and fiddle that bitter truth away with a lively Fat Nazi tune. Following a trail blazed by other Moonbat infested enclave, the Illinois House decreed that, starting in 2013, food served in restaurants and cess-school vending machines will be free of that bane of Food Nazi existence: trans fats.

Although many cities and counties have passed bans, if the bill passes the state Senate and Gov. Pat Quinn signs it, Illinois would be only the second state in the nation to pass such a measure. The first was California. If it becomes law, restaurants would not be able to serve food with trans fats starting Jan. 1, 2013. The ban also would apply to vending machines in public and private schools.

The latest version of the legislation also suggests "a goal" of eliminating all food containing trans fats in schools and state facilities by 2016. (Chicago Tribune)

How bad is it in Barackatopia? The vote - 73-43 - wasn't even close. Attention PIGster Swino: get out while you still can.

Uncle Sam's Airport Gate Goons Target Children.
Source: Steaming Loads [04/15/11]

Are there known terrorists lurking in our nation's airports? You better believe it, and they ALL seem to be wearing TSA badges. Based on several well-publicized events, TSA takes particular delight in picking on tykes. I guess they get a thrill scaring the tykes right in front of parents who are powerless to interfere. It's doubly infuriating since these are the same asshats who let burka clad Islamikazes sail on through, because checking THEM would be - GASP - profiling.

I guess I missed the memo that warned of 6 year old wenchlet terrorists. Shame on me. It still seems like TSA is 'searching' everyone - nuns, seniors in wheelchairs, infants, etc. - except those most likely to be a terrorist: Mecca Maniacs - usually male - between the ages of 20 and 40. I might have more confidence in TSA if it wasn't part of Jihad Janet's cabal.

Here, for your edification, are the pertinent facts about the latest TSA child mauling obscenity:

The family of the 6-year-old girl who received a pat down at airport security in New Orleans said today there needs to be a different screening process for children.

"We struggle to teach our kids to protect themselves, to say 'no, it's not ok to touch me in this way in this area," the girl's mother, Selena Drexel, said. "Yet here we are saying it's ok for these people." If we don't find other ways we're making them more vulnerable, she said.

Drexel and her husband, Dr. Todd Drexel, of Bowling Green, Ky., appeared this morning in an exclusive interview with "Good Morning America."

A video of the couple's daughter going through the screening went viral on the Internet, getting thousands of views on sites like YouTube. It shows a TSA agent rubbing the young girl's inner thighs and running her fingers inside the top of the girl's blue jeans.

The Drexels said they stood powerless, watching as their daughter was patted down.

"I did ask for alternatives, I asked for her to be rescanned," Selena Drexel said. "They just refused and said they were going to do what they were going to do."

Selena Drexel said she could only speculate as to why the 6-year-old was selected for the pat down. She said that the TSA supervisor made it clear "non-verbally" that there would be trouble if she caused a fuss.

The girl's father said that while his daughter was polite and respectful during the screening, she broke down into tears afterwards.

"Initially she was just confused," Todd Drexel said. "She really didn't understand what she had done wrong." He said he and his wife struggled with how to explain to their child what had happened after teaching her previously it was not ok to be touched in certain places. "Now she's been pat down in a public setting, in an airport." (ABC)

When I broached this topic on FaceBook - responding to someone else's posting - I got hammered by the Kool-Aid swillers who seem to be 'in' on this new threat. Tyke Terrorists? Seriously? I've heard about the 'terrible twos', but this is a new one on me.

The wenchlet, in this case, wasn't manhandled, that much, but it had to freak her, having some stranger maul her. Another instance, one including an 8 year old lad, surfaced, after this one, and, in that case, the TSA pervert, reportedly, coped a feel, and THEN SOME, of the lad's nads.

Why is the TSA so diligent with those least likely to be terrorists and so predictably lax with those most likely to be terrorists, Islamikazes? I don't have an answer, but I do have a prediction. Sooner or later, some old school dude is going to snap, when he watches some dreg of society, groping his wife, daughters, and sons. Sooner or later, some TSA asshole is going to get his, her, hisher, or its ass stomped. When that happens, I will be the one cheering, while he starts collecting money for a defense fun.

Unhand our kids, TSA assholes.

More Food Nazi Fun & Games
Source: PIG News Wire [04/08/11]

New rules of Federal Food Nazi engagement are in the works, despite the fact that the FDA's top Food Nazi - deputy commissioner for foods, Michael Taylor - admitted that their newest outburst of nagging won't solve the problem. Why, you ask, are they determined to ramp up their nagging? Because it amuses job for life bureaucrats to torture the ones who pay their salary: We the People.

This round of Food Nazi fun involves more labels, the usual 'don't eat that, lardass Sparky' nagging.

In the latest attempt to gain ground against the nation's epidemic of obesity, the Food and Drug Administration proposed rules Friday that would require some restaurant and fast-food chains to post the calorie content of standard items on their menus.

The rules, which are subject to another round of public comment before they take final form, would also apply to vending machines, coffee shops and convenience and grocery stores. But they would not apply to movie theaters, bowling alleys or airlines. (L. A. Times)

Will these warning labels - AKA calorie info - make a difference when it comes to diners? Probably not, but it will nibble at the bottom line of food wrangling capitalists, who will need to waste employee time posting and updating the labels. Furthermore, it will make food wrangling capitalists an inviting target for lawsuits by civilian Food Nazis who will, invariably, accuse an eater with deep pockets of deploying deceptive information.

Messiah Barry $hores Up His Base
Source: Steaming Load [04/08/11]

The 'official' name of this stinker is the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP). It's one of those things buried in Obamacare that the Boxtox Bitch promised we'd discover, after DeathCare was signed, sealed and delivered. Besides, who is going to notice this $5 billion dollar slush fund in a behemoth legicrap turd whose real price tag is over a trillion dollars (a 1 followed by a dozen 0s).

In theory, the money from this slush fund helps the designated entities (companies, states, labor unions) pay for the health insurance of early retirees, until they are eligible for Medicare. In practice, these stolen taxpayer dollars shore up The One's political base. That's proven by the recipients of these bribes...payoffs...subsidies.

The United Auto Workers ($206,798,086), General Electric ($36,607,818), GM-Government Motors ($19,002,669), Teamsters (at least $6,000,000). Furthermore, millions of dollars when to these key Obamunist supporters: the United Mine Workers, United Food and Commercial Workers, the AFL-CIO and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME).

These firms were also allowed to swill from the taxpayer funded trough: AT&T ($140,022,949), Verizon ($91,702,538), IBM ($12,989,690).

The most newsworthy entities on the receiving end are CBS ($722,388) and the Washington Post ($573,217). Granted, it's not big buck$, compared to the other handouts, but the amount isn't the point. The essential fact here this: the Obama Regime is using OUR money to pay for favorable press, during the forthcoming Oval Office Derby.

Barry Obama is a steaming pile of political shit who is using money stolen from We the People to buy a second term in the Oval Office. His bribes, the entities that accept them, and Barry himself, are rancid butt bullets who must be flushed out of our misery, NOW.

MARCH 2011

More Brit Food Nazi Lunacy
Source: PIG News Wire [03/31/11]

Throughout J.O.E., those pernicious pests, the Elected Tormentors on the Local Councils, are obsessing on salt. Their last frontal assault on salt occurred a couple years ago, when these Nanny State Nitwits painted a pettifogging bull's-eye on the lowly salt shaker. How? You're going to be thrilled.

In 2008, the Nanny State Nitwits - I am not making this up - had the number of holes in salt shakers reduced from 17 to 7. Leaving nothing to chance, they ordered thousands of the new, approved, salt shakers, then passed them out to fish and chips wranglers plus assorted other 'take out' eateries. Game, set, match? Nope.

Fast forward to the present, and the Nanny State Nitwits are, once again, painting a bull's-eye on salt. This gem is called the ASK program and it's all about 'out of sight, out of mind'. Under this scheme, the new Nanny State blessed 7-hole salt shakers are deployed on serving counters or tables. Unless they ASK for a salt shaker, the patrons of chips shops, cafes, restaurants, take outs, and curry houses must make do with the amount of salt deployed by the food wrangler.

Since this story was published during April Tomfoolery, it might be an April Fool's Day hoax, but I doubt it. I know that the 2008 Jihad against 17-hole salt shakers is real. I'll let you make the call on this one, PIGster Sparky.

Another Federal Assault on Capitalists
Source: PIG News Wire [03/31/11]

From the day Bush 41 signed it, the American's With Disabilities Act has been a shyster's wet dream. That's why I call it by its proper name 'The Shyster Full Employment Act'. As bad as it is - and it SUCKS - the Obama Regime made it worse. How? You're going to be thrilled.

Until now, when an employee wanted to play ADA bingo, the burden of proof was on hin, her, himher, or it, because they had to prove that their condition constituted a 'disability' which required $$$ and/or coddling from the relevant employer. Those rules of engagement were scuttled by the EEOC, which just made this shyster assault on capitalists much easier.

The ADA, originally passed in 1990 and updated by Congress in 2008, originally defined disability as "a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity."

When a worker satisfies the definition, employers must provide reasonable accommodations. For years, employers and employees have clashed over who truly qualifies for the sometimes-costly modifications to workplace duties and schedules. Attorney Condon McGlothlen says the new regulations could have a profound impact on that debate.

"Before, perhaps 40 million people were covered by the ADA. That number will increase significantly," McGlothlen told Fox News. "Some people might even say that a majority of Americans are covered as disabled under the law."

EEOC Commissioner Chai Felblum said the agency worked hard to find compromise between the business and disability communities, and she's optimistic the new regulations provide the right balance. "These are workable guidelines that will help people with disabilities, and it will be workable for employers," Feldblum said.

Although the new regulations cannot classify any condition as a disability per se, there is a list of maladies that will be viewed that way "in virtually all cases." The list includes: autism, diabetes, epilepsy and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Overall, lawyers for employers say the regulations shift the burden of proof in disability claims. (Fox)

This Shyster Full Employment Act is one steaming pile of crap that really is "George Bush's fault". It's one of the reasons I am an independent, and not a Republican.

Racial Bean Counting In Indy
Source: PIG News Wire [03/31/11]

If you're a Hoosier and you're losing sleep over the diversity disparity in the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD), you can stop mainlining those sleeping pills. That's right, where's my diversity, Sparky, the long awaited Public Safety Personnel Diversity Task Force report is done and it says exactly what you expect in a report by the chronically-oppressed, career Ethnocrats, and knee-jerk Korrectniks.

The smoking gun in this diversity drama is, as usual, U.S. Census data: Indy's population is 28% Melanin Enriched, but the IMPD is only 13.5% Melanin Enriched. I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you. I shocked that this 'finding' took more than the 10 - 15 minutes it would take a complete moron to access Census Data via the Internet.

The task force report, in the hands of Mayor Greg Ballard for more than a month, suggests a quicker hiring and weeding out process to identify quality candidates and eliminate recruits who won't make the cut. Integrity will be emphasized, too.

"We actually believe that they went out (in the past) and tried to increase the numbers of minorities on the police force and then got minorities that were qualified but a lot of them may not have had the integrity and that's why we've lost a few," said Rev. Willoughby. "We want everybody to know that the African American community believe we have people in our community that have integrity and those are the kind of people we want on the police force and promoted in our department."

The task forces supports a return to the "80/20 policy" that based 80% of the department's promotions strictly on testing, seniority and record scores while allowing the chief the flexibility to file out the ranks with other candidates, often minority, that would be promoted above those higher on the list. (Fox affiliate)

Attention Indiana PIGsters, 'some are more equal than others' is now in play. If you need that confirmed, one of the task force Ethnocrats, Rev. RichardWilloughby (task force co-chairman) will hammer the point home. Among other things, he's hot to trot on a 'banding'' system which would treat a 92 score the same as a 98:

"In the banding system its not just the score you get on a test," said Rev. Willoughby. "Its personality. Its integrity. Its communications skills. You have to bring all of that in there and when you put it all together the guy that got 90 might be better than the one that got 100. The guy that got 100 might just be good at taking tests but he can't do the job that you need done."

Affirmative action hiring? You better believe it, whitey need not apply, Sparky.

Nanny State News
Source: PIG News Wire [03/25/11]

Down East Heroics
It has been a fixture in the lobby of Maine’s Department of Labor headquarters, since 2008, but now it has overstayed its welcome.. ‘It’ is a large mural which shows several memorable moments in Maine’s labor history: a 1937 shoe mill strike in Auburn and Lewiston and “Rosie the Riveter” at the Bath Iron Works. If you want to see ‘it’, you better get there fast, because Maine Governor Paul LePage has ordered its removal. He has also ordered name changes for conference rooms in the building which are, at present, named after pro-labor icons like Cesar Chavez.

Why is he doing it? His reasons sound just fine to me, although ‘because I can’ would also get ‘er done:

LePage spokesman Dan Demeritt says the mural and the conference room names are not in keeping with the department’s pro-business goals and some business owners complained. (AP)

According to the Libertards at AP, ‘worker advocates’ called the moves ‘mean-spirited’ and provocative. Blah, blah, blah, Bite Me.

Land of Lincoln Boondoggle?
With all of the city’s problems resolved, and having nothing better to do, the Elected Tormentors in Wheeling (Illinois) fumbled around at the bottom of the ‘to do’ barrel. Did they find anything? Yup. They found several things.

First they found a burning need for a bike-pedestrian path that will link to several other bike paths in their patch of Illinois. They also found a price tag for the new path, which will run from the Des Plaines River to an overpass on I-294: $1.2 million in dead presidents. Happily ever after? Not yet.

The other thing they found slithering in the bottom of the ‘to do’ barrel is a poisonous snake - the eastern massasauga rattlesnake - that calls the area adjacent to the bike path ‘home’. Since the critter is ‘endangered’, the bike path is now turning into a wriggling mass of rattlesnakes whose presence diverted the bike path into environmental impact study limbo.

This story has it all: money-squandering Elected Tormentors, greenie weenies, and an endangered rattlesnake. If it all comes together, as planned, it will result in Darwinian Deselection, when the rattlesnakes evict some careless bike path users from the human gene pool.

Bordering On Insanity
If you depend on the MSM for your news, you heard that Jihad Janet deploying a border enforcement ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner at a conference on border issues. According to Janet, all those rumors about Mexican drug punks invading the Southwestern United States...all those stories about the Mexican drug punk murder spree spilling over the border into the USA are bull crap. Yeah, right.

What you didn’t hear from Jihad Janet, or her MSM propagandists, are some of the inconvenient truths about America’s disastrously porous border with Mexico. You didn’t, for example, hear any of Senator John Cornyn’s (R-Mexas) comments at the same conference:

“It’s not just that we’re seeing immigration across our southern border from countries like Mexico — people seeking to work and provide for their families,” said Cornyn, a member of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on homeland security and terrorism. “Indeed in the last year alone — where 445,000 individuals were detained at the southwest border — 59,000 came from countries other than Mexico.

“These included 663 individuals from special-interest countries like Afghanistan, Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen and four countries that have been designated by the U.S. Department of State as state-sponsors of terror — Cuba, Iran, Syria, and Sudan,” Cornyn said.

After delivering his remarks at the 15th annual U.S.-Mexico Congressional Border Issues Conference, Sen. Cornyn told reporters he asked the Director of National Intelligence whether the apprehension of the 663 individuals was national security vulnerability. “He said yes it was, so we need to do more,” Cornyn said. What the Obama administration is doing to secure the border more is “obviously not enough,” he added. (CNSNews)

Why didn’t Jihad Janet mention the Jihadikazes sneaking into the USA from Mexico? Why indeed. In the Obama Regime, when the truth hurts The One’s re-election chances, mum’s the word.

Parting shot: This inconvenient truth-avoiding pact between the MSM and Jihad Janet puts a whole new spin on ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’.

Fiddling & Other Elected Tormentor Games
Source: PIG News Wire [03/18/11]

Because He Can
The Korrectnik term for the malady in question is "chemical sensitivity". The PIGish term for these egregiously sensitive twerps is stinkaphobics. They’re those bundles of joy who complain that they’re hypersensitive to anything, everything, from air fresheners, pesticides, perfumes, aftershave, shaving cream, and anything else that gives of a distinct aroma.

Unless they’re particularly convincing, my instinctive reaction is ‘bite me’, but, at least one Nevada state Legicrat, is ready, willing, and eager to ‘feel their pain’:

Democratic Assembly Paul Aizley, from Las Vegas, presented his bill Monday. It would set restrictions on pesticides, fragrances, and candles to accommodate people with “chemical sensitivities.”

Opponents are raising quite a stink. They argue that the bill would prohibit candle light dinners — and weddings. From a very practical standpoint, others argue that air fresheners are a necessity in public bathrooms.

But supporters said air fresheners cause headaches and asthma attacks. (Fox Radio)

Apparently, this Demoncrat Elected Tormentor views every petty bump on life’s highway as a nail that needs to be pummeled with the coercive power of the Nanny State. This is NOT a legitimate Nanny State concern, cradle to grave coddler, Sparky.

Shameless Red Shed Hypocrisy
Wednesday’s Red Shed schedule was a case study in blatant Elected Tormentor hypocrisy. The top item, the one touted with suitable Red Shed fanfare, was a ceremony during which The One would ‘accept an award from the Freedom of Information Day Conference recognizing, “his deep commitment to an open and transparent government—of, by, and for the people” (according to a press blurb). There was, as Matt Drudge, and others, pointed out, an inconvenient truth lurking in The One’s Red Shed schedule.

According to his public schedule, Obama has four behind-closed-doors meetings from 10 a.m. to 3:05 p.m.: his daily briefing, a talk with the USAID administrator, a session with senior advisers, and a huddle with his defense secretary. All of the meets are in the Oval Office, and all of them are “closed press,” the White House says. (Politico)

During the open government venerating ‘Sunshine Week’, accepting this openness award, was the only event on The One’s Wednesday schedule that wasn’t closed to the press. That’s hypocrisy on a mind-warping scale, and, as originally planned, it was record shattering, when it comes to ‘shameless’.

When the blowback reached critic mass in cyberspace, an image conscious Red Shed beat a hasty retreat, by cancelling the award ceremony.

PIGish kudos go out to Matt Drudge and all the other bloggers who turned up the heat on the Red Shed hypocrites.

Enriched On The Taxpayer’s Dime
Source: PIG News Wire [03/11/11]

If you’re ‘feeling the pain’ of those Cheesehead public employees, get over it. If you’re thinking that ‘the man’, those ‘penny pinching’ Elected Tormentors, are making them work for slave wages, get over that, too. Why? I’ll give you two compelling reasons.

Milwaukee (Wisconsin, DUH)
Those ‘outraged’ public school teachers, who helped make the streets of Madison unsafe for rational adults, aren’t the tragic victims of Nanny State oppression that they claim to be. For example, in 2011, as reported by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the ‘average’ pay for a Milwaukee Public Schools teacher is $101,091 ($59,500 in salary, $41,591 in benefits). Two years earlier (2009) the average pay for an MPS teacher was $86,297 ($59,095 in salary, $30,202 in benefits).

You’ll notice that the biggest increase was on the benefits side, which is one of the primary reasons that Governor Scott Walker’s 2010 election platform promised to rein in out of control public employee benefits, by limiting public employee collective bargaining perks. FYI: even with the newly enacted restrictions, the Wisconsin public employees have MORE collective bargaining rights than their federal counterparts.

Madison (Wisconsin, DUH)
In Madison, ground zero for the union thug temper tantrum, Madison.com uncovered some interesting news about the top earners, on the city payroll. Using 2009 data, this cyberspace speed bump reported these fun facts about the top 20 city wage earners.

* 20 city employees earned more than $125,000 in 2009.

* The top wage earner, John E. Nelson, earned $159,258, including $109,892 in overtime and other pay. What does he do for the city? If you’re thinking Mayor, City Councilman, or top bureaucrat, get over it. John Nelson drives a bus for Metro Transit. He’s one of 7 bus wranglers who made more than $100,000, a group which includes Greg Tatman, whose $125,598 take also puts him in the city’s top 20 wage earners for 2009.

* Metro Transit’s general manager, Chuck Kamp, earned less than Nelson and Tatman: $118,690.

* Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz’s $112,880 didn’t qualify him for the top 20.

* City Comptroller Dean Brasser trailed John Nelson with $151,551.

* Madison Police Chief Noble Wray also trailed John Nelson with $143,585.

Tell me, again, how Wisconsin’s public employees are selfless Nanny State minions who accept chump change to ‘serve the public’.

Nanny State Nitwit News
Source: PIG News Wire [03/04/11]

Illinois
With nothing better to do, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is using gun ownership to paint a bull’s-eye on certain Illinois denizens. Why? Because, last September the AP submitted a Freedom of Information Act request for the names of all Illinois residents with Firearms Owner Identification cards - FOID.

The Illinois State Police said not ‘no’, but ‘hell no’, justifying their refusal by stating that ‘releasing the information would be an unwarranted invasion of privacy prohibited by the state's open records law and that its disclosure would endanger the lives of gun owners’ (Chicago Tribune).

Ignoring the well reasoned refusal of the state police, one of Attorney General Madigans, a public access counselor, fired off a letter, rejecting the state police’s position, freeing AP to get as many law abiding Illinois citizens killed as their Libertard hearts desire.

My ‘issue’ with the state police is their assertion that blabbing the FOID info would endanger the lives of gun owners. I respectfully disagree. If I’m a desperado and I have a list of all the gun owners in a given neighborhood that I want to rob, how would I use this FOID info? I would eliminate all houses where a resident had a gun, and concentrate on the homes of those who didn’t. Why take a chance on getting shot, when you know for a fact that just down the street is a home without any of those troublesome firearms. That’s the one to rob, because, you KNOW, thanks to the state’s Attorney General and the AP that when you break in there, you’re the only one who will be armed and dangerous.

Mexas
With the state’s legal denizens demanding that their legislature do something about the border jumping scumbag tidal wave that’s threatening to engulf the state, a ‘tough’ immigration bill was a given, for the ongoing legislative session. There are, in fact, several immigration bills under consideration, but it’s the one initiated by Republican State Rep. Debbie Riddle that has everyone yammering:

As proposed, House Bill 1202 would create tough state punishments for those who "intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly" hire an unauthorized immigrant. Violators could face up to two years in jail and a fine of up to $10,000. (CNN)

Is this the end for Juan the Gardener, and his squeeze, Maria, who cleans your house? It sounds that way, but State Rep Riddle’s bill has a ‘heart of gold’ where Juan and Maria are concerned. When she put her bill together, she included a clause which has tongues wagging from the panhandle to the Rio Grande. What clause? I refer to the clause which explicitly excludes border jumping scumbags who are hired ""for the purpose of obtaining labor or other work to be performed exclusively or primarily at a single-family residence."

Does this mean Mexas is going soft of border jumpers? I’ll let you decide, after you read about some other proposed bills:

* One bill makes English the official language of Mexas, putting and end to multilingual state documentation.

* One bill affixes an 8% surcharge on money wired from Mexas to Central America.

* One bill requires police officers to ask EVERY PERSON THEY STOP what their citizenship status is.

Is Mexas soft on border jumping scumbag invaders? Not as far as I’m concerned.

FEBRUARY 2011

Nanny State Nitwits
Source: PIG News Wire [02/25/11]

Kansas
Believe it or not, Kansas was also the scene of a confrontation between tantrum-throwing union thugs and state Legicrats. In this instance, the Legicrap which set off a union thug rampage is a bill in the Kansas House of Representatives that would put an end to automatic deduction from paychecks for union political causes. If you need ‘union political causes’ translated, I’ve got it covered: the union steals money from its membership then uses it to purchase union coddling Elected Tormentors of the Demoncrat persuasion.

Doing their best to intimidate the Kansas Legicrats with thinly veiled threats, the union thugs lived down to their richly deserved reputation for brutish behavior. The Topeka Journal served up these examples of union thug civility:

House Speaker Mike O’Neal, R-Hutchinson, said the vocal crowd crossed the line by engaging in salty commentary outside of the House chamber and by shouting inside the chamber when the paycheck bill came to a vote.

“There were comments of sexually explicit nature directed at both female legislators and female staff,” O’Neal said. “That’s the most disrespectful display from the gallery I’ve seen in 27 years I’ve been here.”

He said two union sympathizers attempted to intimidate a male House member into voting against the measure, which was passed 75-46 and forwarded to the Senate.

Unwilling to ‘suffer in silence, the Kansas Republican Party hit the organized tyranny assholes with some rhetorical chin music:

The Kansas Republican Party fired off a news release blasting “union thugs” who “brought their street tactics to the Kansas House” where they offered a “taste of the bullying tactics being employed by unions across the country.”

“This conduct has no place in Kansas, especially not in our Capitol,” said Amanda Adkins, chairwoman of the state GOP. “Unfortunately, this only provides a glimpse into the ‘negotiation’ style preferred by these agitators.”

If the unionized assholes choose to act like rabid dogs, they should be treated accordingly and suffer a rabid dog’s fate.

Cleaning House in Providence
For the usual reasons, Providence (Rhode Island), a city with a population around 175,000, is facing a dire fiscal situation.The usual reasons? Yup. In addition to nearly emptying its rainy day fund, the city’s officials managed to overspend budget last year, by a whopping $57 million. Desperate times call for desperate measures? You better believe it, Sparky.

How desperate are Providence officials Mayor Angel Taveras? You be the judge:

The school board of the state's financially troubled capital city has voted to send termination letters to all of its nearly 2,000 teachers after city officials said the move would give them "maximum flexibility" to make budget cuts.

State law requires school departments to notify teachers by March 1 if they'll be laid off the following school year.

Providence teachers received notices of potential layoffs before the board met Thursday night and voted 4-3 on sending termination letters. The notices don't mean the teachers will lose their jobs, but the vote means some of them could at the end of the year. The vote give the city the opportunity to terminate as many teachers as it deems necessary for budgetary reasons, but the city hasn't indicated how many that could be. (Fox News)

Fire ALL the teachers? Bold new concept. Mexifornia’s rational adults should try to arrange something like that, before the CTA (California Teachers’ Association) finishes flushing the no longer ‘Golden’ State down the crapper.

Elected Tormentor Adventures
Source: PIG News Wire [02/18/11]

Heads We Win, Tails You Lose
In Bean Town, one of the games that Elected Tormentors play involves finding excuses to give governnment minions a day off. A Boston Herald news story calls them ‘hack holidays’, so I’ll play along. Two prime examples are "Evacuation Day" and "Bunker Hill Day".

In bygone years, Suffolk County honored the holidays by giving workers in state offices and Boston municipal offices the day off. Rational, Bay State, adults wanted to put the hack holidays out of the taxpayers’ misery and they thought they got ‘er done, during the 2010 legislative session, but that proved to be wishful thinking.

Instead of eliminating the holidays, some devious Elected Tormentors, pulled a fast one. A last minute addition to the final Bay State budget bill kept the two holidays on the books, then added insult to injury by requiring that state and municipal offices in Bean Town, Revere, Winthrop and Chelsea stay open on those days with "appropriate" staff levels. So what? So plenty, because 7,200 unionized, Bean Town workers - along with state and municipal workers in the aforementioned cities - will be paid double-time to work on the two hack holidays. In other words, the state Legicrats made matters wor$e.

As expected when the cow squeeze hit the rotating cooling device, everyone ran for cover. Nobody is willing to take ‘credit’ for this tax payer funded ‘gift’ to government workers in Suffolk County. Everyone, however, is ready willing and eager to finger someone, anyone, else as the guilty party. Yeah, I know...it sounds like public employee coddling to me, too.

Campbell County Thrills Smoke Nazis
Smoke Nazis in this Kin-Tucky county were kicked in the nuts, recently, when county commissioners voted 3-1 to repeal a smoking ban that was imposed last December. The newly elected commissioners got ‘er done, after testing the prevailing political winds in a series of "contentious" meetings.

The commissioners voted, after hearing rank and file citizens explain that eateries and adult beverage emporiums should determine their own rules of smoking engagement. Other rational adults indicted the ‘secondhand smoke is more dangerous than firsthand smoke’ whoppers which Smoke Nazis try to pass off as ‘science’.

The blowback must have been impressive, because the commissioners also announced that, in the coming days, weeks, they will paint an Elected Tormentor bull’s-eye on other smoking bans.

Going To The Dogs in Manassas
Elected Tormentors in this Virginia town are blazing a trail into uncharted territory. The problem, according to a city councilman, John Way, is unattended mutts, who are making life too thrilling for John and Jane Q. Public. Councilman Way reported an incident where a Manassas woman had to jump onto a car to escape a pair of unattended pit bulls. Councilman Way had a similar encounter, while walking his mini mutt, a dog day that left his mutt folded, spindled and mutilated.

What, if anything, does John Way plan to do about rampaging mutts? He and his Elected Tormentor cohorts have two ideas in play. One proposal would impound and sterilize any dog that is caught running loose 3 times, in 2 years. Another proposal would mandate that only a responsible adult would be allowed to walk the family mutt. Our friend Johnny boy thinks the human holding the leash must be capable of controlling the mutt.

Is Johnny boy taking care of personal business by making it a ‘public policy issue’? Perhaps, but it’s too soon to tell.

Elected Tormentor Fun & Games
Source: PIG News Wire [02/11/11]

Jihad Janet Sounds The Alarm
The problem with having a complete and utter moron like Jihad Janet Napolitano in charge of the Homeland Stupidity Department is determining those once in a million moments when she gets one right. Most of the time her pronouncements aren’t that Earth-shaking, so there’s no down side to ignoring her hot air.

Jihad Janet is a moron, but even morons blunder into the truth, from time to time. On the off chance that she has a clue, here is Jihad Janet’s latest pronouncement:

Radicalized U.S. residents willing to carry out attacks with “little or no warning” have helped create one of the biggest terrorist threats in years, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said today.

“The terrorist threat to the homeland is in many ways at its most heightened state since 9/11,” she said in prepared testimony for a hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee in Washington.

Al-Qaida affiliates and allies increasingly are trying to recruit Westerners or those with ties to the U.S. and Europe, Napolitano said. The recruits include Pakistani immigrant Faisal Shahzad, who tried to set off a bomb in New York’s Times Square in May, she said.

U.S. intelligence officials are monitoring the actions of allies such as the Haqqani network, Harakat-ul Jihad Islami, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and al-Shabaab, which have signaled more of a willingness recently to conduct attacks outside of their regions, said Michael Leiter, director of the National Counterterrorism Center.

“The past two years have highlighted the growing breadth of terrorism faced by the United States and our allies,” Leiter said in prepared remarks. (NewsMax)

I don’t doubt the fact that Jihadikazes are planning to attack America on the home front. I would, however, prefer to hear this from a more reliable source.

Toll Booths In a Lather Over New Tax
According to the hyperventilating Fox News headline, Mission, Kansas, is taxing church attendance. Like so many News Nitwit stories, the headline is deliberately deceiving. Is the city taxing churches? Yup. Is it a tax based on attendance? Not exactly. As usual the truth is more complicated than that.

Mission’s Elected Tormentors did pass a new tax and it does apply to Toll Booths...BUT, it also applies to residences and business, too. It’s called a "Transportation Utility Fee" and it’s an interesting variation on a ‘road use’ tax.

Instead of taxing cars on the road, the city taxes residents, businesses and churches for the number of times their driveway is used. For residents, the tax is a flat rate of $72 a year. For an outpost of capitalism like Target, the tax can reach $60,000 or more, annually. In theory, the money collected is used for public works projects. In practice, it could be used for anything.

A driveway use tax? That’s a new one on me.

Governor Brewer Takes The Fight To Uncle Sam
Tired of being on the receiving end of Uncle Sam’s heavy handed shit, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer launched her counter attack:

There are 5 counts . . . . and here is a summary (my notes) from the press conference.

1/ failure to achieve operational control over the Mexico/Arizona border.

2/ failure to protect Arizona from invasion and Arizona says invasion not just limited to other countries to invade but applies to people and secured border.

3 / failure to enforce immigration laws . . . . and their failure causes national security risks . . . abuse of discretion that Fed only enforce the law they want to and they should enforce all.

4/ declaratory relief about reimbursement for Fed govt’s failure to pay for incarceration of prisoners (illegal).

5/ under 10th amendment . . . powers not delegated to the Fed, are reserved to the people and while control of border is fed responsibility, when criminals cross border illegally and commit crimes, it is a state responsibility and the Feds are interfering with the state to fulfill its responsibilities. (Some Blogger - via our e-mail)

Thwarting Darwin
Source: PIG News Wire [02/06/11]

From sea to shining sea, Nanny State Nitwits are spawning Legicrap that will, they opine, save the richly deserving from reaping what they sow. It’s not a ‘bold new concept’, because we’ve been down this road too many times to count. The D.C. Clown posse continues to dabble in automotive design. On the state and local level, Elected Tormentors dabble in nutrition - transfat bans, limits on sugar, calorie counts on menus, bans on ‘junk food’ in government buildings, etc. National, state, and local Elected Tormentors don a ratty junk science lab coat when they tilt such notorious windmills as Global Warming and Secondhand Smoke.

Afflicted with a ‘herd mentality’, Elected Tormentors from New York to Mexifornia, and numerous pit stops in between are gearing up for a new Darwinian-friendly pestilence: distracted walking/jogging. What, in the wide, wide, world of sports is THAT? I’m glad you asked.

If you like to take a stroll, or go jogging, or ride your bike, while listening to your iPod, yammering on your cell blight, or entertaining yourself with any other terror of technology which feeds your brain through your ears, you’re the object of this new Elected Tormentor obsession, distracted pedestrian Sparky. In theory, the distraction makes you walk in front of a vehicle and are forcibly evicted from the gene pool.

Here’s how a Nanny State cabal near you might be saving you from Darwinian deselection:

New York: ‘In New York, a bill is pending in the legislature’s transportation committee that would ban the use of mobile phones, iPods or other electronic devices while crossing streets — runners and other exercisers included.’ (NYT)

Oregon: Pending Legicrap would ‘restrict bicyclists from using mobile phones and music players’.

Virginia: A pending bill would ban bicyclists from using a "hand-held communication device".

Mexifornia: A pending bill would fine bicyclists $20, every time they are caught using a cell phone, blackberry, or any other hand-held terror of technology.

Is Darwin working overtime to cut down distracted pedestrians and/or bicyclists? Not exactly. Nationally, the rate of pedestrian fatalities increased ‘slightly’ for the first time in four years, during the first six months of 2010. Is that the reason for this Nanny State Nitwit outburst? Probably not. As usual, the reason boils down to full of themselves and ‘it’ Elected Tormentors dicking with Darwinian deselected ‘because we can’.

Nanny State Nitwitdom
Source: PIG News Wire [02/04/11]

Hawaii
From our ‘because they can’ news desk, I bring you the fetid facts about a Legicrap stinker that’s under consideration in the Hawaiian legislature. It’s called HB432. What, exactly, is HB432? The copy of the bill that’s posted official site for the Hawaiian legislature serves up this ‘holy crap’ eliciting prose:

It shall be unlawful to sell, attempt to sell, or offer for sale a toy gun to a minor under eighteen years of age… Any person who violates this section shall be subject to a fine of not more than $2,000, imprisonment of not more than ninety days, or both. (Liberated from Moonbattery)

That’s right, PIGsters, Hawaii’s Elected Tormentors have written a bill that makes it a ‘go to jail, go directly to jail’ offense to sell a toy gun to anyone under 18 years old. If you sell little Johnny that squirt gun, you’re slammer bound.

If this is a prime example of critical thinking in Hawaii, it explains, to my satisfaction, how Messiah Barry got so f**ked up.

Washington D.C.
Some documents on the WikiLeaks website exposed the dirty little secret behind the "New START" treaty that Messiah Barry negotiated with the Ruskies. In his mindless zeal to render America defenseless, Barry plunged a knife in the back of our stanch ally, the Brits. How? How indeed...

When the Ruskies applied some pressure, Messiah Barry sold the Brits down the river, by giving the Ruskies detailed information about every Trident missile that the USA supplies to the Brits. I’ll let the London Telegraph do the heavy lifting on those fetid facts:

Information about every Trident missile the US supplies to Britain will be given to Russia as part of an arms control deal signed by President Barack Obama next week.

Defence analysts claim the agreement risks undermining Britain’s policy of refusing to confirm the exact size of its nuclear arsenal.

The fact that the Americans used British nuclear secrets as a bargaining chip also sheds new light on the so-called “special relationship”, which is shown often to be a one-sided affair by US diplomatic communications obtained by the WikiLeaks website.

A series of classified messages sent to Washington by US negotiators show how information on Britain’s nuclear capability was crucial to securing Russia’s support for the “New START” deal.

Although the treaty was not supposed to have any impact on Britain, the leaked cables show that Russia used the talks to demand more information about the UK’s Trident missiles, which are manufactured and maintained in the US.

As long as the Obama Regime has a stranglehold on our government, our friends are in more danger from Uncle Sam than our sworn enemies.

Parting shot: When the history of the Obamunist Error is finally written, it will expose the ugly truth about a man, who hated the country he led so much, that he did everything in his power to destroy it. Is this the most corrupt administration in American history? You better believe it, Sparky.

JANUARY 2011

Stop Touching Me!
Source: PIG News Wire [01/28/11]

Like many, if not most, airline travelers, Jesse Ventura - former governor of Minnesota - is pissed off about the on-going Gate Rape perpetrated by the TSA goon squad. How pissed is he? He’s pissed enough to get lawyered up and file a lawsuit in Federal Court.

The basis of his lawsuit is a venerable dose of Founding Father wisdom called ‘The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States’:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Jesse’s suit names Jihad Janet Napolitano, TSA Administrator John Pistole, along with the Department of Homeland Stupidity and the Transportation Security Administration. In addition to charging them with a violation of his 4th Amendment rights, Jesse insists that the egregiously intrusive searches are : "unwarranted and unreasonable intrusions on Governor Ventura's personal privacy and dignity . and are a justifiable cause for him to be concerned for his personal health and well-being." At minimum, he wants an injunction which compels these goons to leave Jesse alone.

Jesse’s header into TSA hell began in 2008, when he had hip replacement surgery. That’s when he got the titanium implant which sets off airport security scanners. Until recently - November of 2010 - Jesse’s encounters with the TSA were nothing special. His implant sets off the alarm, after which a TSA twerp would scan him with one of those handheld wand gizmos.

In November, the onset of Gate Rape was a game changer for frequent flier Jesse. Like every other American traveler, Jesse was subjected to that humiliating, unnecessarily intrusive invasion of his privacy. He wants them to knock it off, and I don’t blame him.

Give the bastards hell, Jesse.

Hell Freezes Over
Source: PIG News Wire [01/28/11]

Hell has, apparently, frozen over, because, moments after Messiah Barry’s lame TSA joke - during State of the Union rant - flopped, the ACLU painted a rhetorical bull’s-eye on Shecky Obama. The fun started while Shecky O was touting the virtues of that notorious boondoggle, high speed rail:

“Within 25 years, our goal is to give 80 percent of Americans access to high-speed rail, which could allow you go places in half the time it takes to travel by car. For some trips, it will be faster than flying – without the pat-down.”

"Faster than flying - without the pat-down." It's lame, but otherwise harmless, unless you're in the "I'm offended" business. The foul aroma signals the ACLU's grand entrance.

Humor challenged to an alarming degree, some twerp at the ACLU fired off a Tweet:

“President Obama makes funny about TSA pat-downs, but the violations of the Constitution are NO JOKE!”

The good news is that Barry - or Barry’s speech writer - is aware that We the People hate this TSA Gate Rape bullshit. The bad news is that joke writing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has reached an alarming new low.

Nikki Haley Takes On Unions
Source: PIG News Wire [01/28/11]

South Carolina’s new Governor, Nikki Haley, is our kind of Elected Tormentor. With the echoes of her swearing in ceremony still reverberating, Governor Haley has come out swinging. In the process, she thrilled the snot out of the labor union ‘organizers’.

This week, the International Association of Machinists teamed up with the AFL-CIO for a lawsuit aimed at neutralizing Governor Haley and her Director at the state’s Department of Labor, licensing, and Regulation. At minimum, the union thugs want the state to ‘remain neutral’,when it comes to union arm-twisting, coercion, and bribery...uh....‘organizing’.

"Remain neutral"? Good luck with that, because, when it comes to letting unions slither into her right to work state, Governor Haley isn’t the ‘remain neutral’ kind of gal:

“There’s no secret I don’t like the unions,” Haley said when asked about the litigation. “We are a right-to-work state. I will do everything I can to defend the fact we are a right-to-work state. We are pro-business by nature. I want us to continue to be pro-business. If they don’t like what I said, I’m sorry, that’s how I feel.” (Gateway Pundit)

The cow squeeze hit the rotating cooling device, when Governor Haley nominated a seasoned warrior in the battle against unions, Catherine Templeton, to run South Carolina’s labor agency. The union thugs set their hair on fire, when Governor Haley opined that Catherine Templeton’s union-fighting background would be needed in the fight to keep labor unions out of her state.

Both women seem up to the challenge that lies ahead, when they get in the trenches to keep one of the state’s top firms - Boeing - safely out of union hands.

“She is ready for the challenge,” Haley said at the time. “We’re going to fight the unions and I needed a partner to help me do it. She’s the right person to help me do it.”

For her part, Templeton said: “In my experience I have found there is not one company that operates more efficiently when you put another layer of bureaucracy in. … We will do everything we can to work with Boeing and make sure that their work force is taken care of, that they run efficiently and that we don’t add anything unnecessarily.”

The Free State of PIG congratulates South Carolina voters for their selecting a fighter like Nikki Haley.

Don’t Text Me Bro
Source: PIG News Wire [01/16/11]

If you’re a text-a-holic PIGster who lives in San Antonio, Mexas, We the PIGs have thrilling news for you. The city’s texting ban while driving is now in effect. For those of you who can’t take a hint, or managed to miss this one, here are the pertinent particulars:

San Antonio's new ordinance prohibits using a “hand-held mobile communication device to send, read or write a text message, view pictures or written text, whether transmitted by Internet or other electronic means, engage in gaming or any other use of the device, besides dialing telephone numbers or talking to another person, while operating a moving motor vehicle.”

The texting ban applies to drivers who are stopped in traffic, according to the ordinance. The ordinance prohibits drivers from using cell phones for anything besides calling — even when stopped at red lights. An exception exists for public safety personnel during the course of their official duties. (Express-News)

If you press your luck and get busted, keep your wallet handy, because the fine can be as high as $200. Unless you have money to burn, just say ‘no’ to texting while driving.

Parting shot: Talking on a cell blight while driving is a distraction, but it’s nothing compared to the distraction of texting while driving. If you MUST communicate with someone, talking is marginally safer than texting.

Piling On
Source: PIG News Wire [01/16/11]

In the wake of the Tucson massacre, the usual Nanny State nitwit suspects are ready, willing, and eager to ‘fix’ it, with more Nanny State red tape. This week, two East Coast political hacks - RINO Emeritus Rudi Giuliani, and Libertard Moonbat, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell - painted a Nanny State bull’s-eye on America’s mental health system, plus some other ‘contributing’ factors.

Both men opine that somebody had their head up their ass, when they allowed a notorious nutjob like Jared Loughner to buy a gun. Rendell thinks all the warning signs were there, but somebody ignored them. His proposed solution:

* A reinstatement of the Federal assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004.

* A ‘debated’ on the ‘need’ for bullet clips that hold 33 rounds - Moonbat speak for ‘ban them’.

* The creation of an ‘early detection system’ to prevent raving lunatics from purchasing a firearm.

RINO Rudi favors ‘adjustments’ that ‘balance’ a sovereign individual’s 2nd Amendment rights with keeping guns out of the hands of lunatics like Jared Loughner.

There’s an elephant in the room that both men choose to ignore. The name of the elephant is Sheriff Claude Dipshit. Long before the shooting, Jared registered on the Sheriff’s radar, several times, but he never did anything about it. If he had taken action, there would be a justice system paper trail to document how twisted this punk is. When Jared went to purchase his firearm, a routine background check would bump heads with this documentation, raising a life-saving red flag.

Presumed Guilty In Pennsylvania
Source: PIG News Wire [01/16/11]

This looming, home invasion, adventure started inside the D.C. beltway, with an edict from Uncle Sam’s EPA. The EPA decreed that water districts in America take all necessary steps to prevent their clear water system from draining into the sewage lines. The same edict also mandates that water districts take the necessary steps to prevent ‘Sanitary Sewer Overflows’ - keep sewage from draining into their clear water system. It’s a tall order, a very tall order.

It’s impossible to know how many water districts were hit with this Federal ‘get ‘er done’, but we do know about one of them: the Coplay Whitehall Sewer Authority (CWSA) in Pennsylvania. Faced with a Federal ‘you’re guilty until you prove your innocence’ edict, CWSA is passing that ‘presumed guilty’ mindset along to its customers. They were informed that inspectors would be arriving on their doorsteps to conduct a mandatory inspection of their home, business, and/or any other structure which is connected to the CWSA water network.

The following tidbits from a WND story reveal the devilish details about the CWSA’s letter to its water clients:

The letter to homeowners said the district was served "with a United States Environmental Protection Agency Administration Order which requires elimination of all Sanitary Sewer Overflows (SSOs) and the elimination of all clear water from entering each respective municipality's sanitary sewer system."

"The Administrative Order carries severe penalties and fines if compliance with the Order is not achieved," the letter said.

"In order to meet the requirements of the EPA Order, the CWSA finds it necessary to conduct door to door inspections of all properties connected to the CWSA system to ensure your property is not contributing clear water discharges to the sanitary sewer systems."

The letter warned that "failure by the CWSA to comply with the EPA order will result in fines and penalties levied against the CWSA which in turn will be passed on to CWSA customers through increased sanitary sewer rates." (WND)

Are these EPA mandated home invasions an anomaly, or, are they a harbinger of things to come? How long before other Federal agencies give themselves the differently Constitutional power to conduct illegal searches? Is this a warning sign that America is already heading down the road to tyranny? I don’t know, but the idea is now in play.

Big Brother Is Here?
Source: PIG News Wire [01/14/11]

For a variety of noxious reasons, Uncle Sam - AKA Big Brother - is ready, willing, and eager to establish dominion over cyberspace. The One seems to be promoting a race between several Nanny State entities - the FCC, the National Security Agency, the Department of Homeland Stupidity - to see which of them will rule the Internet. While they were eying each other warily, another contender slipped past the others to stake a claim on cyberspace.

The new contender is the U.S. Commerce Department which has teamed up with The One and his White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, Howard Schmidt. Together they put a new - innocent sounding - concept in play: an Internet ID for every American. The full name of this Internet power grab is ‘the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace.

An Internet ID would, the proponents insist, give cyberspace travelers a ‘Trusted ID’, one that they could use wherever they roam on the Internet. Among other things, this would eliminate the need for each individual to wrangle multiple identities and passwords. A one-size-fits-all identity would simplify many things. It would also allow Big Brother to watch an individual cyberspace traveler’s every movement, making it much easier to fill in all those blanks on an individual’s dossier at Nanny State HQ.

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke tries to dispel the Big Brother is watching elements in this new scheme with this song and dance routine:

“We are not talking about a national ID card. We are not talking about a government-controlled system. What we are talking about is enhancing online security and privacy and reducing and perhaps even eliminating the need to memorize a dozen passwords, through creation and use of more trusted digital identities.” (CBS News)

It’s a nice sales pitch, dude, but I’m not buying it.

Second Amendment Hit by ‘Friendly Fire’?
Source: Steaming Loads [01/14/11]

Unhinged by the Tucson Massacre, New York Congressman Peter King (R-NY) went over to the dark side, this week. Detaching himself from his VRWC moorings, Congressman King joined the Demoncrat stampede that seeks to trample our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

Moonbattery, served up these pertinent particulars about Congressman King’s Darth Vader moment:

The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee wants to ban people from carrying weapons within 1,000 feet of federal officials at public events.

Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) said he would propose a bill in the coming weeks that would ban the carrying of guns within that range for the president, vice president, members of Congress and federal judges.

King made the announcement accompanied by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an outspoken advocate for tighter gun restrictions.

How do we know Congressman King has gone over to the dark side? He paired up with Michael ‘confiscate all firearms’ Bloomberg. Congressman King is flirting with PIG’s legendary "flush him out of our misery". Get your head out of your RINO butt, dude.

Elected Tormentor Fun & Games
Source: PIG News Wire [01/07/11]

A 1917 Notion
Spearheaded by Congressman Steve Scalise (R-La.), 29 Elephant Clan members of the U. S. House sponsored some legicrap that paints a ‘you’re outta here’ bull’s-eye on Messiah Barry’s 39 czars. If passed, the bill would force Messiah Barry to throw his czars under the bus. Speaking of the ‘bus’, it must be getting crowded under there; I hope there’s room for all of them. If this keeps up, The One might need to get a much bigger bus.

For those who obsess on such things, here’s how this czar-busting Legicrap defines a czar:

“a head of any task force, council, policy office within the Executive Office of the President, or similar office established by or at the direction of the President” who is appointed to a position that would otherwise require Senate confirmation. (The Hill)

Is it 1917 all over again? Will the Red Shed be transformed into a czar-free zone? When we know, you’ll know.

San Fran Nan’s Record Shattering Numbers
Motivated by the Botox Bitch’s deranged drivel about the fiscal frugality of her Speaker of the House tenure, CNSNews dispensed these inconvenient truths about San Fran Nan’s tenure:

* She was the 52nd House Speaker, and during her tenure, she piled up more debt than the first 49 speakers combined.

* During Pelosi’s 1,461 day reign as Speaker, our national debt increased by $5.343 trillion ($5,343,452,800,321.37) or $3.66 billion per day ($3.657,394,113.84)

* When she grabbed the gavel on January 4, 2007, Uncle Sam’s national debt was $8,670,596,242,973.04. When the Speaker’s gavel was wrested from her hand on January 4, 2011, the national debt was $14,014,049,043,294.41.

If that’s San Fran Nan’s idea of ‘frugality’ and ‘fiscal discipline’ I don’t even want to know what she considers out of control spending.

DECEMBER 2010

Your Government At Work
Source: PIG News Wire [12/31/10]

An Ingenious Idea
A Lone Star State Elected Tormentor, State Rep. Tyron Lewis (Elephant Clan), has a spiffy idea that should keep border jumping scumbags off the Mexas welfare rolls. He filed a proposed law, that would redefine a welfare recipient as an ‘employee’ of the state. So what? So all American employees must meet prevailing federal guidelines.

In this instance, the Nanny State’s red tape serves a purpose. For example, like all job applicants, the welfare recipients/employment applicants must fill out an I-9 form. What’s that? It’s the standard form YOU filled out to prove you’re an American citizen or a legal resident of the USA, when accepting a job offer. If you don’t pass I-9 muster, you’re not going on the payroll. If State Rep. Lewis gets his law passed, a welfare applicant must prove they’re here legally, before they get money from their ‘employer’, the state of Texas.

If this gem becomes law, it would apply to Aid to Families With Dependent Children, Medicaid, the state’s nutritional assistance programs, or the state’s CHIP health insurance plan for children. Since it is built upon existing federal law, the proposed law makes a smaller, more elusive target, when the chronically offended asshats set their hair on fire over it.

Nicely done, State Rep. Lewis. Very nicely done.

Not So Fast, Flashing Lights and Siren Sparky
If you need an ambulance ride in Edmonton (Canada), because you need a fast ride to a medical facility, I have thrilling news for you. Due to an epic brainfart, the proper authorities have black flagged high speed ambulance trips on Edmonton’s highways and byways. Henceforth, these emergency responders must obey ALL TRAFFIC laws.

You can let the siren blare and turn on the flashing lights, but it’s a waste of time, because, under the new rules of engagement, you’re just another vehicle in traffic. If you press your luck and drive under ‘old school’ rules, the cops are going to pull you over and give you a traffic citation. Asinine? Hell yes. Par for the course in Cana-DUH? You better believe it, Sparky.

Portland Heeds Its Wake-Up Call?
Source: PIG News Wire [12/31/10]

After mulling the close call the city had with home-grown Jihadikaze terrorism, Portland (Oregon) Mayor Sam Adams is, belatedly, starting to ask the relevant questions. His actions are motivated by the plan hatched by a local Jihadikaze - Mohamad Osman Mohamud - to set off a large car bomb during the city’s annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony. Thanks to the feds, that plan was thwarted, but it made the mayor rethink a prior decision to cut the city’s links to the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force. It was a politically expedient move, at the time, but times have changed.

Mayor Adams put the idea - should Portland rejoin the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force - on the table, recently, via an open letter to Portland denizens, in which he proposes town hall kind of meeting, where the idea will be discussed:

The letter says Adams will open the forum, then participants will gather in groups of 10 to 15 to discuss the following questions:

• What do you think of when you think of terrorism in the city of Portland?
• What do you perceive as being good about working with the federal government on terrorism?
• What are the concerns regarding joining the JTTF?
• What are the concerns regarding not joining the JTTF?
• What are Portland’s strengths and weaknesses that should be considered in this matter?

The original work plan developed by Adams calls for a number of other public forums on the issue before the council makes a decision on Jan. 24. (Portland Tribune)

Will these rain-soaked libertards go over to the ‘gasp’ dark side, or, does some Jihadikaze need to kill some of them, before they’ll pull their heads out of their ass when it comes to Jihadikaze perpetrated terrorism. We’ll find out in January 2011, after these town hall meetings.

Stay tuned...

Sheriff Babeu Goes On The Offensive
Source: PIG News Wire [12/24/10]

Pinal County (Arizona) is infested with heavily armed drug punks from south of the border which Jihad Janet Napolitano refuses to defend. Faced with a dirty, but necessary, job that the titanic turd running our Homeland Stupidity Department refuses to do, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu just announced his plan to go on the offensive against the drug punks who invade his county from Mexico.

Sheriff Babeu’s offensive is the latest bold move from a man who isn’t ready to surrender the part of America he’s assigned to patrol. Leaving the cut and run to that gutless wonder, Jihad Janet, Sheriff Babeu laid out his plan:

"We're sending out three different teams of eight to fifteen deputies in each that are heavily armed, even with sniper teams, out to the desert at all hours of the day and night," Babeu said.

Typically, deputies would sneak up on smugglers before arresting them, but Babeu says not this time. "We're going to wait until these cartel members come on through and we're going to announce ourselves in Spanish in this known drug smuggling corridor. That this is the Sheriff, drop your weapons, you're under arrest," Babeu said. (KGUN9-TV)

I know what you’re thinking and you’d be right, if all Sheriff Babeu planned to do was talk the invaders into submission. In this case, talk is only the beginning:

"I've given specific instruction, no less than lethal force is going to be used. It's all lethal force only and we go into that environment knowing that we're likely expecting an armed threat from these people."

PIG salutes Sheriff Babeu, for his determination to do the job that the Americans assigned to the task won’t do. Jihad Janet and that Dumbo-eared Colonista Commie in the Red Shed might be willing to surrender to the border jumping scumbag invaders without a fight, but Sheriff Babeu and his deputies are made of sterner stuff.

When The Truth Hurts...
Source: ABC [12/24/10]

Motivated by the TSA’s heavy handed, Gate Groping, antics, a 50 year old pilot with a decade of airline flight experience, decided to tell ‘the rest of the airport security story’. He got it done, by shooting vidoes of San Francisco International Airport's security shortcomings. He kicked it up a notch, on November 28, when he posted his material on 6 YouTube videos.

An ABC affiliate in Mexifornia described the pilot’s YouTube expose this way:

The YouTube videos, posted Nov. 28, show what the pilot calls the irony of flight crews being forced to go through TSA screening while ground crew who service the aircraft are able to access secure areas simply by swiping a card.

"As you can see, airport security is kind of a farce. It's only smoke and mirrors so you people believe there is actually something going on here," the pilot narrates.

Video shot in the cockpit shows a medieval-looking rescue ax available on the flight deck after the pilots have gone through the metal detectors. "I would say a two-foot crash ax looks a lot more formidable than a box cutter," the pilot remarked.

Did the feds rush in to plug the security gaps that the pilot showcased in his videos? Not exactly. The primary focus of their knee jerk reaction was the pilot himself. Three days after he posted his videos, the pilot got the feds’ response, when 4 federal marshalls and two Mexifornia sheriff’s deputies goose-stepped into the pilot’s life. When the dust settled, the pilot, who had been deputized by the TSA to carry a gun in the cockpit, had his federally-issued firearm confiscated. At the same time, the sheriff’s deputies compelled the pilot to hand over his state-issued concealed carry permit.

A few days later, on December 6, the pilot got a missive from Jihad Janet’s tribute to incompetence, informing him that the TSA was ‘reviewing his deputation status’. In addition to that, the TSA might hammer him with fines for telling the world what a complete and utter sham airport security has become under that steaming load of incompetence, Jihad Janet Napolitano.

Save Bambi, Get Fined
Source: PIG News Wire [12/24/10]

This random act of kindness toward one of Mother Nature’s critters began around 5 p.m., when a citizen called 911 in Baltimore County (Maryland) to report a deer trapped in the icy Patapsco River. In due course, a Baltimore County fire crew arrived and so did a Maryland Natural Resources Police officer. Is there a Bambi rescue in the offing? You bet, but it happened despite the aforementioned proper authorities not because of them.

While the proper authorities dithered, discussed and delayed, two men who were watching the endless yammering, decided to do what needed to be done, by themselves. Predictably, the proper authorities tried to talk them out of it, citing the danger and their lack of life vests. Undaunted, Jim Hart and Khalil Abusakran ventured forth to save Bambi.

"I saw something moving. I saw them trying to break the ice," said Jim Hart, 46, who lives in Carroll County. He said was driving by and felt compelled to stop to see what was happening.

Khalil Abusakran, 33, from Baltimore County, said he was also driving by the scene when he noticed that people were throwing rocks and sticks at the deer, causing Abusakran to get his rubber boat from his van to rescue the deer.

"The deer was stuck and couldn't get up off the ice," he said.

Abusakran and Hart then went out into the water, which they described as about 10 feet deep. Hart said they had to work to break the ice using their oars and shovels. The two men were finally able to break open a wide enough section of ice to free the deer.

Abusakran said he later noticed that he thought the deer was pregnant. He released her into Baltimore Highlands Park. (Baltimore Sun)

Were the proper authorities suitably impressed? Not exactly. The Natural Resources officer issued each of the Bambi rescuers a $90 citation for not having a personal flotation device with them. Full of himself and it, the Natural Resources officer bragged, afterwards, to the press about forgoing a more serious charge of disobeying a lawful order from a duly sworn officer. What a dick!

I’m pleased to report that our heroes plan to fight the $90 citation, despite the fact that many people have contacted them, with offers to pay the fine. Neither man is interested, especially Khalil Abusakran, who did, in fact, have life vests in his boat, per state regulations. Moreover, he told the Natural Resources officer that, repeatedly, but that nitwit wasn’t in a listening mood.

Jihad Janet’s Globally Warmed Brainfart
Source: PIG News Wire [12/17/10]

Unwilling to be left out during a recent Red Shed yammerthon on "environmental justice", Homeland Stupidity Moonbat, Jihad Janet Napolitano, made a pitch for a piece of the Globally Warmed action. It makes perfect sense, now that she has the border mess resolved to everyone’s satisfaction.

The new broom in her witch’s closet is called the "Climate Change and Adaptation Task Force", and it’s a tribute to Jihad Janet’s unbridled ambition.

Napolitano explained that the task force was charged with “identifying and assessing the impact that climate change could have on the missions and operations of the Department of Homeland Security.”

According to the former Arizona governor, the task force would address specific questions, including:

“How will FEMA work with state and local partners to plan for increased flooding or wildfire or hurricane activity that is more serious than we’ve seen before? What assistance can the Coast Guard bring to bear to assist remote villages in, for example, Alaska which already have been negatively affected by changes up in the Arctic?”

The findings from the Homeland Security Department (DHS) also asked: “(H)ow can we focus on how climate change is going to affect our rural citizenry including those who live along our boarders both northern and southern?” (CNS News)

Given her AMAZING results regarding border enforcement, We the PIGs can’t wait to see how majorly Jihad Janet will f**k things up in the name of this Globally Warmed brainfart. Let the games begin.

Federal Reserve Grinches
Source: PIG News Wire [12/17/10]

The bank examiners from the Federal Reserve were channeling their inner Grinch, when they arrived in Perkins (Oklahoma) last week. Since it had been four years since their last invasion, the minions at the local banks had probably forgotten what a pain in the ass a job for life bureaucrat can be, when it comes to enforcing the devilish details of all those asinine Nanny State regulations.

This time around, the federal pests veered off the usual accounting-related path, and ventured into some unexpected territory. The regulatory speed bump that has their panties in a wad is this government gibberish:

‘...the discouragement clause of Regulation B of the bank regulations. According to the clause, "...the use of words, symbols, models and other forms of communication ... express, imply or suggest a discriminatory preference or policy of exclusion."...’ (KOCO)

So what? So plenty, because these job for life pests interpret it to mean, in the bank’s case, that they can’t deploy anything which would offend and/or discriminate against the differently Christian. In the case of a Perkins bank, it meant the following items had to be expunged from the money emporium: the Bible verse of the day, including the one on the bank’s Internet site; the crosses at the teller’s windows; the buttons that say "Merry Christmas, God With Us".

Admittedly this isn’t garden variety Grinchiness, but it’s close enough to me, and I’m the decider, in these cases.

Parting shot: The bank sought the help of at least two Oklahoma Legicrats, U.S. Congressman Frank Lucas, U.S. Senator James Inhofe, so this fight might not be over.

UPDATE: The two Legicrats came through for the bank. They turned up the heat until the regulators beat a hasty retreat:

The outcry forced Fed officials to reverse the action, clarifying that the personal religious items displayed by bank employees in Perkins, Okla., did not violate a provision of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.

A spokesman for Inhofe said Fed officials returned to the bank Friday to inform employees they could put the religious items back on display. (The Hill)

DeathCare Takes A Legal Hit
Source: Hambo’s Hammer [12/13/10]

The America we knew and still love, got a temporary stay of execution, today, when a Federal judge deemed a key part of DeathCare unconstitutional. Our nation is still on life support, but, thanks to this black robe, America lives on, to fight another day.

U.S. District Court Judge Henry E. Hudson found that Congress could not order individuals to buy health insurance.

In a 42-page opinion, Hudson said the provision of the law that requires most individuals to get insurance or pay a fine by 2014 is an unprecedented expansion of federal power that cannot be supported by Congress’s power to regulate interstate trade.

“Neither the Supreme Court nor any federal circuit court of appeals has extended Commerce Clause powers to compel an individual to involuntarily enter the stream of commerce by purchasing a commodity in the private market,” he wrote. “In doing so, enactment of the [individual mandate] exceeds the Commerce Clause powers vested in Congress under Article I [of the Constitution.]..." (Washington Post)

If you think this legal battle over DeathCare isn’t a life and death struggle for America, get over it. If the black robes rule that the Nanny State can order We the People to buy a product, as a condition of living in America, that’s the end of our inalienable liberty and the beginning of tyranny. If the Nanny State can coerce you into buying healthcare, it can order you to buy ANYTHING. It can tell you to do ANYTHING, because it would have unlimited power over us. It would, in essence, put America back to square one, an intolerable condition which spawned the American Revolution.

Heath & Safety Goes Crackers in J.O.E.
Source: PIG News Wire [12/10/10]

They’re called ‘Christmas Crackers’ and they’re a venerable Christmas tradition in J.O.E. If you need the basics, I’m up to the challenge. Part noisemaker - they produce a small bang when pulled open - they’re also a surprise package which might contain a small toy, a trinket, a motto, a joke, a colored paper hat, etc. Typically they’re opened before dinner, after dinner, or at a Christmas party. It’s all quite harmless, especially the ‘bang’, as shown in this Wikipedia write-up on the subject:

Christmas crackers or bon-bons are an integral part of Christmas celebrations in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. They are also popular in Ireland. A cracker consists of a cardboard tube wrapped in a brightly decorated twist of paper, making it resemble an oversized sweet-wrapper. The cracker is pulled by two people, and, much in the manner of a wishbone, the cracker splits unevenly. The split is accompanied by a small bang produced by the effect of friction on a chemically impregnated card strip (similar to that used in a cap gun).

No harm, no foul, sums it up nicely, unless you’re a Brit Health & Safety Nazi with nothing better to do. The H & S killjoys just jammed a regulatory spanner into the works, by classifying Christmas Crackers as "category 1" fireworks. What, exactly does that mean? It means buying your Christmas Crackers just became a bigger pain in the ass:

Britain's retailers are being forced to demand age-identification from shoppers seeking to buy Christmas crackers because of new health and safety legislation they have branded "daft."

Under the pyrotechnic articles (safety) regulations of August 2010, Christmas crackers have been classed as "category 1" fireworks, which means they have an age restriction of 16 and cashiers have to check the age of people buying them. (Reuters)

If a store gets caught violating this H & S edict, the store faces a hefty penalty. Furthermore, the individual cashier is looking at a 5,000 pounds ($7,848 in dead presidents) fine, plus 6 months in a Graybar, if they’re caught selling these harmless noisemakers to someone under 16 years old, and/or failing to ask for a proper I.D. before ringing up the sale.

Health & Safety runs amok? You better believe it, Christmas Cracker afficionado Sparky.

Nanny State Nuggets
Source: PIG News Wire [12/10/10]

Devilish Pay Freeze Details
This week, The One announced - with thunderous MSM toady fanfare - a two-year pay freeze for Federal employees. It was touted as a bold cost-cutting move that would compel Federal workers to feel the pain of the Great Recession. There’s just one pesky problem with that ‘time to tighten our belts’ scenario. It’s a load of Prompter Punk crap.

Yes, there will be a freeze, but it’s not their pay that’s frozen. In fact, during the two ‘pay freeze’ years, the 1.1 million Federal employees will get more than $2.5 billion in raises. Confused? You won’t be after you read this tidbit from the Federal Times:

Congress is expected to approve Obama's proposal, which cancels only cost-of-living adjustments for two years. Regularly scheduled step increases for the 1.4 million General Schedule employees — who make up two-thirds of the civilian work force — will continue. The size of those increases ranges from 2.6 percent to 3.3 percent and by law kick in every one, two or three years, depending on an employee's time in grade.

As fun as that sounds, it gets better, because the cost-of-living freeze doesn’t apply to all the tentacles of the Federal octopus. Furthermore, the pay freeze doesn’t paint a money saving bull’s-eye on performance bonuses.

Belt tightening? Nope. Feeling our pain? Nope. Smoke and mirrors to hide ‘business as usual? You better believe it, Sparky.

The Nightmare Act
It rolls out a red carpet to citizenship for border jumping invaders who colonized our nation at a young age - before age 16. If they jump over a few ridiculously low hurdles, they - and there are MILLIONS of them - qualify for Nightmare Act coddling. Hurdles? They needed to fly under the INS radar for at least 5 years. They also need to get a diploma from a Colonista friendly American high school. It’s kids’ stuff, literally.

During the first six years, the immigrant would be granted "conditional" status, and would be required to graduate from a two-year community college or complete at least two years towards a 4-year degree, or serve two years in the U.S. military. After the six year period, an immigrant who met at least one of these three conditions would be eligible to apply for legal permanent resident status. During this six year conditional period, immigrants would not be eligible for federal higher education grants such as Pell grants, but they would be able to apply for student loans and work study.

If the immigrant met all of the conditions at the end of the 6-year conditional period, they would be granted permanent residency, which would eventually allow them to become U.S. citizens. (Wikipedia)

The DREAM Act (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) is part of the new Colonista scheme, which grants amnesty in small increments. It’s time for We the People to flush this amnesty crap out of our misery, permanently.

"Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act"
It's Michelle Antoinette’s Fat Nazi scheme to render Little Johnny and Moonbeam too weak from hunger to resist their neo-Marxist indoctrination. This is another prime example of the Nanny State sticking its nose where it doesn’t belong.

It gives Uncle Sam - via his Department of Agriculture - the power to dictate, in great detail, which foods are, and aren’t, allowed in American cess-schools. This federal Food Nazi law even includes that ubiquitous school fund raiser, the bake sale. Johnny still can’t read, but it doesn’t matter, because, revolted by the approved lunchroom swill, he’s feeling too puny to pick up a book.

It's time to flush this Federal Food Nazi crap.

Nanny State Nitpicking
Source: PIG News Wire [12/01/10]

Despite the well-documented fact that Uncle Sam can’t keep his own house in order, he keeps ignoring his own shortcomings so he can create problems where none exist. This week, Uncle Sam decided to flex his muscles with an 800 page set of roadway rules called ‘the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices’. What’s that? It’s a pain in the ass for every town, large and small, in the USA.

Some of the most asinine requirements involve street signs, including one that banishes street signs where the name is ALL CAPS. Under these Nanny State regs, your local government must change street signs, as follows:

-- Should increase the size of the letters on street signs from the current 4 inches to 6 inches on all roads with speed limits over 25 miles per hour. The target date for this to be completed is January 2012.

-- Install signs with new reflective letters more visible at night by January 2018.

-- And whenever street name signs are changed for any reason, they can no longer be in ALL CAPS. (ABC)

Doesn’t the Federal Highway Administration have better things to do? Apparently not. If they have that much spare time, they might want to take a gander at a venerable ‘mind your own business’ American gem called the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Foaming Foolishness In Colorado
Source: PIG News Wire [12/01/10]

The focal point of a recent Denver Post news story is a Denver adult beverage emporium, The Celtic Tavern. In this case, the watering hole is standing in for adult beverage emporiums throughout Colorado. The Celtic Tavern, like all the others, are in the regulatory bull’s-eye, due to the strength of certain brewskies they sell. I know what you’re thinking, and you’ve got it backwards.

The Celtic Tavern’s regulatory sin isn’t selling brewskies that are too strong. It’s just the opposite: some of the beers it sells, like The Celtic Tavern’s signature stout, are too low, when it comes to alcohol content. It fails to meet or exceed the 4% alcohol by volume (3.2% alcohol by weight) standard. Why is that an issue, at this late date? Why indeed.

In Colorado’s Byzantine regulatory scheme, only convenience stores and grocery stores are allowed to sell the brewskies which clock in below the 4% by volume threshold. All other adult beverage purveyors - eateries, bars, and liquor stores - must sell brewskies that are at or above the 4% limit. In theory, these inexplicably asinine restrictions have been in place for years, but they were never vigorously enforced. Those days are over.

If you smell some influence buying and selling at work, give yourself a cookie. Earlier this year, the convenience stores mounted an impressive campaign in the state capitol. When the dust settled, the convenience stores’ lobbyists had pressured their bought and paid for Elected Tormentors in the state legislature into making some changes. Starting in 2011, the 4% by volume line of demarcation will be vigorously enforced.

This kind of asinine bull crap is what Ayn Rand had in mind when she stated: Regulation is corrupt and corrupting. In other words, rather than try and compete for the customers in the marketplace, convenience store operators invested in some Elected Tormentors. In exchange, the convenience stores got a competitive advantage due to new regulatory enforcement regime. You can call that anything you want - bribery comes to mind - but don’t you dare call it capitalism.

Parting shot: The Celtic Tavern and similar watering holes never had a chance, because the convenience store chains have sufficiently deep pockets that allow them to meet the Elected Tormentor’s asking price.