Seems that Chase Bank is open on President’s day (which, IMO, should still be Washington’s and Lincoln’s birthday, not a National Holiday that always falls on a Monday so that the Federal workers can get an extra long weekend)…

Now while I found this conveneient for by business banking, I asked the manager why they were open on President’s day, but not MLK day, as both were national holidays.

“we are closed on MLK day out of respect for Martil Luther King, and because it is important to our minority customers.”

Well, see, now we have an issue, dude. “cause I find it DIS-respectful that you are open today, as both Lincoln and Washington ARE PERSONAL HEROES OF MINE”

“yeah, we’ve heard it a lot lately. I’ll let you talk to my boss…..” and he proceeds to pull out his cell phone and call his boss…”yeah, another one”..and he hands he phone to me.

so I say my piece and he apologizes and I hang up.

Now here is the thing…

I really don’t care if the bank is open on either holiday. But if they are going to be closed for MLK day, then they really should be closed for President’s day….of open on both.

Why do they give more respect to a (admittedly brave) black preacher than to an abolitionist or to the founding father of our country?

I think it is for fear of being labeled racist….Else they wouldn’t bother to close at all.

Today is the 450th birthday of Galileo Galilei. (Go ahead, use Google, you’ll find lots of links and might learn something)…..Who believed in Heliocentrism in support of Copernicus…..That the Earth revolves around the Sun, rather than the other way ’round….And who was imprisoned by the Church because his beliefs were opposed to Church doctrine.

How many other doctrines held true today will be seen as transparently wrong years in the future? 

ETA: Read this and weep

So the Ninth Circuit Court chose to decide that Kalifonia’s restrictive handgun carry laws are illegal. Liberals everywhere are crying….and the rest of us are smiling.

But I have to ask:

Where has the rule of law been for the past 40 or 50 years? Why now are the decisions like this, and Heller and McDonald being adjudicated in the way that they are? Why were these laws allowed to stand in the past?

Where was the Judiciary in the years prior to this? No one chose to sue because the political climate of opinion wasn’t conducive to a favorable outcome for the pro-Second Amendment side….

So why have a judiciary at all if we can have courts who, with the changing of judges (who are, after all, human) who will rule one way on an opinion and the same (or similar) court choose to offer a different viewpoint at a later time?

Theoretically, our judges and court system should rule the same way each and every time….and once a ruling is made, that should be the law of the land…..But that isn’t so. Arguments change, but moreso the makeup of the judges and their opinions. Yet opinions and biases SHOULDN’T be a part of a judgeship. Nor should it (theoretically) have a bearing on the decisions made.

Yet it does.

And if judgements like McDonald and Heller and the most recent one can overturn previous and lower courts decisions, have we realistically got true Rule of Law? Or do we have Rule of Current Opinion? Rule of Current Political Climate?

Are our laws really that mutable that depending on the political climate they can change so radically? Is a decision made by a lower court 30 years ago so easily changed today? And if a lower court’s decision is overturned, should those judges be retained as Judges?

While i welcome these recent interpretations of our laws I fear that others of which I might not approve, can be overturned as well. We might not like those decision.

What I fear is instability in our way of life, caused by political opinion changes. Our laws should not be so mutable.

Most of them stayed home and let the storm happen …

But the rest of the denizens of the South can’t. 

Record delays in North Carolina, People stuck on the roads and unable to climb hills to go home.

Jesus Christ, I knew that it was going to be bad there..That there would be Ice and snow and other bad things……and I live a thousand miles or more away. WTF is wrong with these people?

And the media found a family (one would guess by ethnicity and demeanor that she was a welfare recipient) that had ALREADY run out of food…Of course.

It would seem that the southern people are living up to their reputation of stubbornness and stupidity.

I find that sad.

As you all know, Barry once again changed the law by decree.

(I thought we “Couldn’t wait to act!”)

But the real question is that, since Obamacare is the law of the land…no matter how unpopular, WHY isn’t it being implemented according to the way the law was written? Why does our president get to decide how and when a law will be implemented and enforced? (Hint, he shouldn’t…read that Constitution thing that I am always talking about).

Isn’t that the job for the, you know, LAWMAKERS? (for those of you who were stoned during Civics class(or whatever they are calling it these days)), the Prez doesn’t have this power. The power to make, and change, laws is in the legislative branch…The congress and the Senate…NOT the prezident.

Why isn’t congress stopping him from doing so? (and let us not get into the inequally applied law)

WHERE ARE OUR LEADERS?

Or has the NSA got enough on all of them after tapping their phones and reading their emails that they are willingly going along with Barry’s plans?

In a conversation last night, it was stated that “Police would never obey orders to disarm law abiding citizens just because some Government official said to”.

I laughed.

and laughed

and laughed.

Then I suggested he take a look at the aftermath of Katrina, where police officers from all across the country helped the local boys in blue keep “order”…..and part of that was the illegal searches and the illegal seizure of firearms…rifles, shotguns and pistols. All the while, looters took what they wanted from people unable to protect themselves form them.

All in the name of “Public Safety”.

Legally owned firearms.

That sobered him up a bit…He’s not so sure that the law will keep the Police at bay anymore.

Are you?

And it is gonna make electricity costs increase by over 80%.

But the Obama Administration and the EPA don’t care what it costs you, they are going to decrease the carbon dioxide emissions no matter what.

(this despite the fact that Volcanoes and other volcanic emissions will produce 98+% more carbon than these new technologies (that don’t work) will save…and that the rest of the WORLD doesn’t use them.)

“Today’s hearing shed further light on how grossly underdeveloped CCS remains and revealed the staggering cost increases American consumers and manufacturers will face if future power plants are forced to operate under EPA’s inane regulations,” Sheehan said. “DOE and EPA are wasting valuable taxpayer dollars by pursuing policies that will do nothing to build economic confidence and create jobs but everything to drive up energy costs and put hardworking Americans out of work.”

But the science is settled.

It doesn’t matter how much your electric bill goes up, We MUST DO SOMETHING…

’cause not only does the town have a cop with issues, but the rest of the Police department is willing to back him up.

Are cops being trained to be overreaching cowards these days?

Myself, if it were my dog…..well, let’s just say that my sister would “whisper in his ear”…

Via Knuckledraggin

Stop feeding the Beast:

Maryland lawmakers push to cut water and electricity to NSA headquarters.

Cut of the tentacles of the Beast…Starve it.

Not sure of this might actually work, or if it’ll even pass.

But it is a start.