When you allow immigration without assimilation.
Warning: This is gruesome.
It’ll happen here, if we don’t change the way we handle those who want to move here from other countries. It has happened here…see also the Tsarnevs and Major Hassan…and countless Mexicans in the southwest on a smaller scale.
If we don’t do something about the situation soon, it’ll get worse.
Notice that it took armed police to stop them. No bystanders were, of course, armed.
Read this
Then call your Representatives and ask them to do it.
Stop it all until this gets worked out, and we have assurances that the guilty are punished, those associated are out of government service, and that it will never happen again.
As I said below. if each of us who called, wrote or emailed out elected officials over gun control would do the same for these scandals, we might just inject some steel into their spines.
So call, write, and email.
You can take the politician out of Chicago, but you can’t take the “Chicago” out of the politician. Intimidation is the Chicago Way. It works, as long as everyone lets it. As long as everyone accepts it as a way of doing business.
Lets look at a few things:
When the Obama administration revamped the dealer network for GM during the Auto bailout, the overwhelming percentage of closed dealers were conservative. Most of them were donors to the GOP or to conservative causes. No one really said anything, but we all noticed it.
Companies like Gibson guitars got hassled by, and shut down by the Justice Department. To this day, no one has stated exactly how Gibson ran afoul of the law. It has cost them millions of dollars and many jobs. Interestingly enough, they too are big contributors to conservatives.
The latest scandal is, of course, the IRS and their treatment of Tea Party and other conservative groups in their quest to follow the law regarding 501 tax exemption.
Now, I have no doubt that Obama can truthfully state that he gave no orders regarding the treatment of these (and other) conservative supporters by any of the arms of our government. I am sure that he never gave orders requiring that conservatives be hassled or held up to special scrutiny.
Remember though: King Henry II of England never gave any orders to have Thomas Beckett killed by his four knights either. While he may not have uttered the phrase “Will no one rid me of this meddling priest”, Historians do say that he questioned “What miserable drones and traitors have I nourished and brought up in
my household, who let their lord be treated with such shameful contempt
by a low-born cleric?”. Four knights took this as an order and killed Beckett with swords and knives.
The knights were not arrested by the king….their actions were, instead, ignored.
Notice any parallels with todays actions by the government, with Obama as the head?
We need to pressure the Republicans to MAKE THIS STOP. They are, at this time, making a lot of noise and spending a lot of our money with their “investigation”. At the least, people need to be in jail.
We need to pressure them to not, as they have in the past, made a lot of noise but , at the end, done nothing, but rather convene not only an investigation, but file charges and prosecute to the fullext extent of the law..
The persecution of conservative groups may well have had an impact on the election (and then again, with Romney running, maybe not). But squelching of dissent by the government, the damage to the political process, the stifling of free speech MUST STOP.
And while you, and I and all of our friends may lack the power to stop this, our elected officials do have the power. Sadly, I think that they lack the backbone.
If each of us that called them over gun control would call them over this debacle, we could inspire them to grow enough spine to stop this. If the response was as impressive as it was over gun control, they’d grow some backbone, just like they grew backbones over gun control when they heard from their constituents then. IF each of us took enough time, and called and wrote and emailed our representatives and Senators, we can make a difference. They like their jobs, and when we hold their feet to the fire, they do the right thing. We can make it happen.
It’s better than the alternative.
THen say a prayer for the folks in Moore, OK.
Mile wide tornadoes just hit the town again.
Link HERE
So our govenment gave asylum to the Tsarnev family….who turned on the country which gave them shelter, gave them money, and gave them freedom. They responded by hurting 200+ fellow citizens in an act of terror. They were granted political asylum, yet they have made frequent trips back to their homeland….Despite needing welfare to survive, they had the money for trips back to Chechnya.
Muslim terrorists are held to a different standard than religious Christians, apparently, when it comes to asylum.
Odd.
Why? Peaceful people coming to the US for a chance at religious freedoms….Isn’t there some history there? Didn’t the Plymouth colonists come for that reason?
Yet we give sanctuary to people who hate us instead…..
Marine reunited with his service dog he served with in Afghanistan.
Hats off to the Elks for stepping up.
Loyalty.
Require background checks on drivers (or purchasers) of automobiles?
Background checks for transfers?
Limits on horsepower (or cylinders)…Tire size or weight?
57 injured in parade crowd as car plows into bystanders.
We MUST DO SOMETHING!
I didn’t win anything, either in the Mega Millions nor the Powerball.
Guess I’ll have to go to work on Monday.
My congratulations to the winners, whoever they are.
We all know that EPA regulations that went into effect in 2009 made gas cans harder to use. Easier to spill, and generally a pain in the ass. We all know that the intent was to reduce evaporation, but in reality it make the cans harder to use and promoted spills.
Strike back.
You have an alternative to buying older gas cans at garage sales to have some containers that are actually useful:
Buy this: EzPour Spout replacement kit.
This thing rocks. Fits nearly any gas can. No more waiting for the “vent” in the nozzle to let air into the can, gurgling all the way…No more cursing the EPA as you wait for that 5 gallons of gas to slowly trickle out of the new style nozzle. No more sudden spills as your mower’s tank fills up and you try to remove the spout before the tank overflows….resulting in even more spillage and subsequent evaporation.
Now, regulations would, of course, prevent you from retrofitting any gas can made after January of 2009. I would never, ever suggest that all you need to install the vent is a small drill and a half inch spade bit (fluted bits will make holes that aren’t round in the plastic can) to make the included vent replacement fit into a new can. YOU SHOULD NEVER DO THAT. Never retrofit a vent onto a new can.
This is to replace your old spout and vent on your old can…Remember that. Not for use on newer cans. One wouldn’t want to run afoul of the EPA you know.
You can find them via mail order HERE, or find your nearest retail outlet HERE.
Remember, you can’t use these on newer gas cans even to make them less prone to spillage or to make them easier to use. While I am no attorney, I believe that that would be illegal. So don’t. Srsly. That would be bad.
[no liberals (or Gaia worshipping hippies)were harmed in the writing of this post]
Update: I finally received a reply from the company (Ez-Pour) and their products are made is China. Likely no plastics molding company in the US wanted to possibly run afoul of the EPA….
