Village People Redux? Mikey Bloomberg's Post-Mayoral Career?

 

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Res Ipsa File: Of Guns & Vaginas

Res Ipsa Loquitur

Andrew "Benito" Cuomo Announces New Program: "Swatting" for Fun & Profit

Self-identified proud Progressive, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has  announced a tip hotline to rat out "illegal" gun owners. Anonymous tipsters will be paid $500 to report anyone who they merely suspect may illegally posses a firearm.

Never mind that such a system is ripe for potential abuse by vindictive ex romantic partners or disgruntled former employees or vicious left wing bloggers like Brett Kimberlin who revel in "Swatting" their political and ideological enemies. Also never mind that police may arrive armed to the teeth for a complete non-event and end up killing an entirely innocent human being a la Amadou Diallo. Do any of you liberals remember the late Mr. Diallo? Ya, I didn't think so.

H/T to Christopher Fountain of Journal News Online Gun Map Blowback fame who opined on this subject here. I urge you to read it. Chris delves into the character deficiencies of the Progressive mind.

Connecticut's Democrat Party: A House Divided

Yesterday, March 14, 2013, Colt Arms, a legendary Connecticut firearm company that has manufactured firearms for over 175 years in this great state, bussed 400+ of its employees to Hartford to impress upon the state's Democrat majority legislature the faces of those people who are at most economic risk should the democrats pass into law the most draconian anti-gun bills now pending before the state's legislature. With one or two exceptions, the proposals would do exactly NOTHING to reduce the possibility of - never mind prevent -  another mentally ill person from murdering his own mother so he could seek to out do the insane murderer of Sandy Hook Elementary's staff and students.

Scanning the crowd of Colt workers in the video above, what is most immediately obvious is the racial, ethnic and sex diversity of Colt's work force. Most of Colt's jobs are blue-collar union manufacturing jobs.

For some time now, Connecticut's Democrat Party has been a two caste hierarchy with college and grad school educated liberal elitists providing the management of the party and filling out the party's candidates for higher statewide and Federal office while the balance of the Party's rank and file have consisted mostly of blue collar workers who are very often union members. But more recently, the hyper-educated "Progressive" and very wealthy elitists of Fairfield County have gained a much firmer grip over the Party in both operations, policy, agenda and decision making. In reality, these two groups could not possibly be more divergent in their respective economic interests, although the elitists have been successful - until now - in veiling over those clear clashes in interest.

In the immediate aftermath of the disaster at Sandy Hook, the opportunistic Fairfield based elitists pushed fast and furiously to ram through an extremely restrictive gun control package that would - if it is passed - effectively ban for sale in Connecticut the very firearms that Colt and several other Connecticut manufacturers make and have made for years in this state. In so doing, the Fairfield elitists have thrown the blue collar workers of this state under the bus.

Colt's owners and employee's have made it clear that they do not believe Governor Malloy's promises to exclude Connecticut's gun manufacturers from the effects of his dream "progressive" gun-control legislation will have any effect in protecting the company from the inherent negative effects of his gun control package, properly pointing to the economic damage already done to Remington's New York State operations in the wake of proudly "progressive" Benito Cuomo's evisceration of gun rights in that state due entirely to a growing nationwide boycott of New York State gun products. Who are the people most immediately hurt by Cuomo's laws? The blue-collar workers who will be losing their jobs.

God, isn't it wonderful to be a narcissistic progressive? You never have to live with the consequences of your own actions; that's for the little people to suffer.

Res Ipsa File: Stupid White Female Proggy

The Times they are a-Changin: Rand Paul's Filibuster Fallout

Rand Paul has captured the positive attention of Republicans and Democrats alike, meaning the voters, not his fossilized senior Senators, who it appears are enraged that Paul has left them looking like idiotic saps for having been played by Obama, and boy were they ever.

Here's a relevant stanza from an old Dylan song that brings home the message that the fossils need to internalize right NOW!

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

UPDATE:

Here's a link to the Washington Time's piece on McCain's snit-fit. The commentary does not reflect a high degree of admiration for the Old Guard.

A Video Commentary on the Mental Midgetry of the Vice President

H/T "Walt"

Cognitive Dissonance and the Liberal Mind

Very interesting piece by Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe on the failure of the 1998 Massachusetts draconian gun control law to bring about the results that the Bay State's "Best and Brightest" legislators assured the public would flow from their brave efforts:

After the 'toughest' gun law, gun crime rose

In 1998, Massachusetts passed what was hailed as the toughest gun-control legislation in the country. Among other stringencies, it banned semiautomatic "assault" weapons, imposed strict new licensing rules, prohibited anyone convicted of a violent crime or drug trafficking from ever carrying or owning a gun, and enacted severe penalties for storing guns unlocked.

"Today, Massachusetts leads the way in cracking down on gun violence," said Republican Governor Paul Cellucci as he signed the bill into law. "It will save lives and help fight crime in our communities." Scott Harshbarger, the state's Democratic attorney general, agreed: "This vote is a victory for common sense and for the protection of our children and our neighborhoods." One of the state's leading anti-gun activists, John Rosenthal of Stop Handgun Violence, joined the applause. "The new gun law," he predicted, "will certainly prevent future gun violence and countless grief."

It didn't. 

 Read the rest HERE

I wonder if somewhere in Massachusetts there's a Bush they can blame it all on.

R.I.P. Ed Koch....

Rest In Peace

Edward Irving Koch

December 12, 1924 – February 1, 2013

 “I’m the sort of person who will never get ulcers,” ..... “Why? Because I say exactly what I think. I’m the sort of person who might give other people ulcers.” 

And this is why people on my side of the political divide could like, admire and respect Ed Koch, even as we adamantly disagreed with him.

Note to Jeff Zucker: Congratulations on your new job.

Jeffrey Zucker:  Just a note to wish my sincere congratulations on your new gig at CNN. I see you're making some changes... Here's a heartfelt thought on your lineup's ratings problems.

As you likely already know, it appears that campy show-person RuPaul topped your network's "star" Piers Morgan by 20K viewers last Monday night. In case you don't want to buy out Pier's contract just now, you can at least more than double the show's audience by hiring RuPaul as Piers' co-host effective immediately. At the very least it would offer excellent comic relief.