If it Sounds Too Good to Be True, It Probably Is

My dad is a Baptist pastor. When Jehovah’s Witnesses would come to our door, he would great them eagerly. Invariably one of them would introduce themselves, state that he was a student of the Bible and ask if they could come in and talk for a bit. Dad would get excited and proclaim, “Praise the Lord! I’ve been waiting for you all day.” JW: “What do you mean?” or “You have, why?” Dad: “I read this morning to beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing and you’ve finally gotten here!”

Former Washington D.C. mayor Marion Barry is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. He is playing a typical Democrat shell game straight from their fascist playbook. In what seems innocent and a good idea on the surface, he is laying the groundwork to confiscate legal firearms from law-abiding citizens. Here is the excerpt from the Washington Times:

D.C. Council member Marion Barry yesterday introduced legislation that would suspend the District's 30-year ban on handguns, providing gun owners a 90-day period to register weapons they would then be allowed to legally own. "We are in the midst of a gun-violence epidemic," said Mr. Barry, Ward 8 Democrat. "We need to see gun violence as an emergency in the District of Columbia." Mr. Barry's bill, which only applies to pistols, would allow D.C. residents with no criminal record to register guns for 90 days from the law's enactment. After the 90-day period, current gun restrictions would be reinstated.

While this sounds like a plan for amnesty of otherwise law abiding gun owners, Councilman Berry’s intentions are demonstrated further down in the article.

Mr. Barry, who served four terms as D.C. mayor, also referenced the recent shooting deaths of D.C. teenagers Cynthia Gray and Taleshia Ford, both 17, in urging support for the measure. "We all get outraged ... and we all go home," Mr. Barry said. "Nothing is done to get the guns off the streets of Washington, D.C."

But Washington D.C. is doing quite a bit to get guns off of the streets.

The District has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation and restricts ownership of most guns that were not registered before 1977. Privately owned rifles and shotguns must be kept at home and stored unloaded, disassembled or bound by a trigger lock or a similar device. Mr. Barry's proposal would increase the penalties for possessing an unregistered weapon in the District from a maximum of one year in prison and a $1,000 fine to 15 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. A second offense could result in 30 years in prison and a $20,000 fine, according to the bill. Mr. Barry, who was robbed at gunpoint in his Southeast apartment in January 2006, cited statistics that said police had confiscated 2,656 guns last year, with 51 percent of those weapons being seized east of the Anacostia River. A recent Metropolitan Police Department report on homicides from 2001 to 2005 states that 901 of 1,126 homicide victims, or about 80 percent, were fatally shot.

Obviously the egregious assault on the second amendment in the district has done absolutely nothing to curb the impulses of the violent debased in Washington D.C. Criminals know that the odds are in their favor that their victims will be unarmed. The reason that so many of the murders in D.C. are by gun is that honest citizens are abiding by the law and cannot defend themselves.

Kennesaw, GA passed a law in 1982 requiring gun ownership of its residents with some exemptions. Burglaries dropped 90%. Read that again…90%. Twenty years later, there was not one murder in Kennesaw. None. No fatal accidents, no outraged redneck neighbors having shootouts in the streets of their mobile home parks. No country clubbers shooting the poor for fun. Nothing of the sort. That has been the pattern for the entire period of the law.

Convicted felon and druggie Marion Barry wants guns off of the streets and out of homes. Once the guns are registered he will know exactly which homes to disarm so that the criminals can operate with further impunity. Washington D.C. needs to take a lesson from Kennesaw, GA. Arm your citizens legally and your crime will drop. Maybe Mr. Barry is more interested in helping his criminal buddies than the honest citizens he pretends to serve.

I'm Not Saying I Told You So But...

Ok, maybe I am. As the northeast is experiencing a bitter cold spell, we continue to see more claims on global warming. At the Vast Left Wing Media Conspiracy convention, this must have been voted the topic de jour for this year. But actual climatologists disagree. People who are not celebrities, or don't have million dollar grants at stake, whose livelihood doesn't depend on the scared and uninformed to re-elect them, say that it is hogwash.

Take a look. Climate change is a natural phenomenom and the heat and cold is caused by...the weather!

She Was NAVY

Didn’t they do this on revenge of the nerds? Louis Skolnick beds Betty Childs on the moon, remember? Stan Gable would be the third leg of the triangle. But the truth is far stranger than fiction.

It seems that a female NAVY Captain had the hots for a NAVY Commander. For you Army folks, that’s a female Colonel and male Lt Colonel. The fly in the ointment seemed to be an Air Force Captain whom the Commander had the hots for. Air Force Captains are actual Captains, not some sissified made up rank like the Navy. Anyway, the NAVY Captain decides to pull rank on this Air Force Captain and drives 900 miles to do it. She didn’t stop for restrooms, she wore a diaper. When she got there, she found the Air Force Captain and threatened her with a BB gun and pepper spray. Apparently the NAVY isn’t very high on real guns.

Air Force Captain calls the cops and the rest is NAVY history. You can’t make this stuff up. Oh yeah, the NAVY Captain and Commander are astronauts. I guess that those background investigations aren’t so in-depth after all.

Sorry to my NAVY buddies for poking you in the eye a little but this was way too easy.

I Have an Idea - Sit Down and Shut Up

John Edwards is being hailed today as a gambler, an edgy bold risk taker, a visionary. But actually he’s still a Democrat. This platform isn’t bold and it certainly isn’t new, it’s the same old Democrat playbook. By the way, it is the Democrat party. If you want the ick then look at their policies. Walter Mondale tried it. George Wallace did too. In fact, the last Democrat to actually campaign on raising taxes and win was F. D. Roosevelt.

Edwards’ strategy is to offer you something for free and then charge you for it. When I was a kid, we used to go to Dallas Cowboy games. There was a guy there named Whistling Ray. He walked around the stadium making bird calls, telling jokes and cutting up. You may have seen him fighting the Redskins chief whatshisname. He always won, just like the ‘boys. Ray would walk up to a guy selling pennants, take them away from him and start yelling “FREE PENNANTS! FREE PENNANTS!” Eventually some sucker would bite and ask for one. As Ray handed it to the man he would say “$2.75 tax!”

John Edwards is the Democrat version of Whistling Ray. He is touting universal health care as his new primary agenda item. Universal health care. You don’t ever have to pay for it. Just go to the doctor and he will take care of you. Never mind that in every country it has been tried, the system flounders due to bureaucracy and over use. Never mind that many patients wait six months to a year for a routine exam. Never mind that emergency doctor visits may take three months before you are seen in the UK.

No, John Edwards wants you to know that not only are we going to give you free health care at absolutely no charge, we are going to raise your taxes to make sure that the government can pay for it. No wonder the Democrats are all orgasmic over this one. They get universal health care to satisfy their socialist yearnings and a tax increase to sate their fascist genes. In one proposal, Edwards wants to intrude even more into your life. He wants to make you even more dependent on the Federal Government. Instead of weaning freeloaders from the national nipple, he’s thrown a little heroin in to make sure that your addiction for free stuff is fed. Then he sticks it to the “man” for your pleasure.

There is no such thing as a free lunch. While Whistling John is peddling his free pennants, watch out for the tax in the backend.