Turkish Muslim Group Accuses Lego Of Raaaaacism

By William Teach January 24, 2013 – 7:14 am

It’s been awhile, but they finally found something to be outraged about. What is it? This

(Telegraph) Austria’s Turkish community said the model was based on Hagia Sophia mosque in Istanbul and that the accompanying figures depicted Asians and Orientals as people with “deceitful and criminal personalities.”

The Turkish Cultural Community of Austria released a statement calling for Lego to apologise for affronting religious and cultural feelings.

The anger was provoked by “Jabba’s Palace”, a model of the home of Jabba the Hutt from Lego’s Star Wars product range based on the blockbusting series of science fiction films.

Jabba’s domed home and accompanying watchtower bear, according to the statement, an unwanted resemblance to Istanbul’s great Hagia Sophia, and another mosque in Beirut.

Good grief. Get over it. They won’t

As an indication of the anger felt over Jabba’s Palace, the organisation said it was considering taking legal action against Lego for inciting racial hatred and insulting human dignity.

I wonder if Lego can sue the organization for stupidity and being annoying?

Jammie Wearing Fools wonders when the riots will begin.

Read: Turkish Muslim Group Accuses Lego Of Raaaaacism »

Posted in RoP, Unhinged Tools | 11 Comments | Trackback URL

Feinstein To Introduce Evil Looking Gun Bill Today

By William Teach January 24, 2013 – 6:56 am

Which will go nowhere, but, will give the anti-gunnites a chance to bloviate

(USA Today) California Democrat Dianne Feinstein will begin her fourth full term as a U.S. senator much as she started her Senate career: fighting for a ban on assault weapons.

Feinstein’s new bill, which will be introduced Thursday in the Senate, among other things proposes to:

  • Ban the sale, transfer, importation or manufacturing of about 150 named firearms, plus certain rifles, handguns and shotguns fitted for detachable magazines and having at least one military characteristic.
  • Strengthen the 1994 ban by moving from a two- to a one-characteristic test to determine what constitutes an assault weapon.
  • Ban firearms with “thumbhole stocks” and “bullet buttons.”
  • Ban the importation of assault weapons and large-capacity magazines.
  • Ban high-capacity ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 rounds.

The bill would grandfather in weapons legally owned on the day of enactment and exempts over 900 specific weapons “used for hunting or sporting purposes.”

We’ve discussed this previously, and what DiFi’s bill would do would be to outlaw virtually every mean looking gun with a pistol grip, most which are used for “hunting or sporting purposes”, but will leave the exact same weapons, sans pistol grip, legal.

“I became mayor as a product of assassination,” she told USA TODAY.

While county supervisor and mayor, Feinstein said, she saw “up-close and personal the death and destruction that these guns carry with them.”

“I have watched these incidents from 1966, which was the first one, the Texas bell tower, and watched it go through school after school, business after business, law firm after law firm,” she said. In 1966, former Marine Charles Whitman killed 14 people and wounded 32 others while shooting from atop the tower on the University of Texas campus in Austin.

But it was a mass shooting at a law firm in a San Francisco high-rise in 1993 that began her long push against the availability of assault weapons; the first version became law in 1994 and expired in 2004.

I have news for you, DiFi: Whitman used guns that would be exempt from your ban. Regarding the assassination of Harvey Milk which let you become mayor, Dan White used a .38 caliber revolver and brought 10 extra rounds. Your legislation would make no difference. As for the 1993 shooting, Gian Luigi Ferri was clearly nuts. But, facts are not necessary when a Democrat is trying to make an end run around the 2nd Amendment and disarm the public.

Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.

Read: Feinstein To Introduce Evil Looking Gun Bill Today »

Posted in 2nd Amendment, Democrats | 8 Comments | Trackback URL

Anyone Else Having Problems With Site Using Firefox?

By William Teach January 23, 2013 – 10:53 pm

All of a sudden I started having problems with the way this site acts this morning using Firefox. When I click a link or attempt to enter the administration page, I see the correct URL in the browser bar but only get the main page. Works fine in Opera and IE, as well as different browsers on my Android. Anyone else having problems with Firefox access?

Read: Anyone Else Having Problems With Site Using Firefox? »

Posted in Uncategorized | 6 Comments | Trackback URL

Some See Nanny Bloomberg’s Soda Ban As Racist

By William Teach January 23, 2013 – 3:02 pm

It seems that another group thinks the big sugary drinks regulation is a Bad Idea

(WRAL)  Opponents of the city’s limit on the size of sugary drinks are raising questions of racial fairness alongside other complaints as the novel restriction faces a court test.

The NAACP’s New York state branch and the Hispanic Federation have joined beverage makers and sellers in trying to stop the rule from taking effect March 12. With a hearing set Wednesday, critics are attacking what they call an inconsistent and undemocratic regulation, while city officials and health experts defend it as a pioneering and proper move to fight obesity.

The issue is complex for the minority advocates, especially given obesity rates that are higher than average among blacks and Hispanics, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control. The groups say in court papers they’re concerned about the discrepancy, but the soda rule will unduly harm minority businesses and “freedom of choice in low-income communities.”

Nope, sorry, these groups tend to vote overwhelmingly for Democrats, like Bloomberg and Obama, who push these types of Big Government Nanny State policies. Now they can suffer the consequences of that support. Elections have consequences.

Read: Some See Nanny Bloomberg’s Soda Ban As Racist »

Posted in Democrats, Liberal World, Nanny State | 5 Comments | Trackback URL

If All You See…

By William Teach January 23, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil cat sucking up Gaia’s resources, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Yid With Lid, who’s celebrating his 7th blogoversary. Congratulations!

Read: If All You See… »

Posted in If All You See | 10 Comments | Trackback URL

Surprise! Mafia Heavily Involved With “Green” Energy In Italy

By William Teach January 23, 2013 – 11:08 am

Would anyone be surprised if this was happening all over, at least in terms of organized criminal syndicates?

(Washington Post)  Inside a midnight-blue BMW, a Sicilian entrepreneur delivered his pitch to the accused mafia boss. A new business was blowing into Italy that could spin wind and sunlight into gold, ensuring the future of the Earth as well as the Cosa Nostra: renewable energy.

“Uncle Vincenzo,” implored the businessman, Angelo Salvatore, using a term of affection for the alleged head of Sicily’s Gimbellina crime family, 79-year-old Vincenzo Funari. According to a transcript of their wiretapped conversation, Salvatore continued, “for the love of our sons, renewable energy is important. . . . it’s a business we can live on.”

And for quite awhile, Italian prosecutors say, they did. In an unfolding plot that is part “The Sopranos,” part “An Inconvenient Truth,” authorities swept across Sicily last month in the latest wave of sting operations revealing years of deep infiltration into the renewable energy sector by Italy’s rapidly modernizing crime families.

Shockingly, much of this revolves around the massive taxpayer funded subsidies readily available and ripe for fraud. And a good way for organized crime to launder their money, BTW.

Read: Surprise! Mafia Heavily Involved With “Green” Energy In Italy »

Posted in Energy | 7 Comments | Trackback URL

American Optimism Lowest Since 1979

By William Teach January 23, 2013 – 8:19 am

Surprise!

(CBS DC) Fewer than four-in-10 Americans (39 percent) rate the US in a positive manner – the most negative feedback the country has produced since 1979.

A new Gallup poll finds that Americans are as negative about the country’s prospects as they have been in more than three decades. Americans are more upbeat in their predictions of where the U.S. will be in five years (48 percent positive), but this is the lowest rating since an August 1979 Gallup poll was conducted.

The negativity about the current state of the US has a politically partisan split – Republicans stated that the country’s best days have already passed and Democrats say the best days have not happened yet. Seventy-five percent of Democrats gave positive reviews of how the nation will be five years from now, but only 15 percent of Republicans were positive – a 60 percent partisan gap.

Independents break 48% for 5 years from now, and 39% now.

Democrats are apparently enthused that 5 years from now they’ll still be unemployed and living off the government teet, as the economy stagnates much like Europe and America’s debt is in the $20 trillion range.

Read: American Optimism Lowest Since 1979 »

Posted in Barry Obama, Democrats | 1 Comment | Trackback URL

Prepare For The ObamaCare Sticker Shock

By William Teach January 23, 2013 – 8:02 am

We haven’t discussed the idiocy of ObamaCare lately, legislation which the majority of Americans still despise. But, it’s still out there and ready to cause havoc

(Forbes) A California insurance broker, who sells health plans to individuals and small businesses, told me that she’s prepping her clients for a sticker shock. Her local carriers are hinting to her that premiums may triple this fall, when the plans unveil how they’ll billet the full brunt of Obamacare’s new regulations and mandates.

California is hardly alone. Around the country, insurers are fixing to raise rates by double digits. They’re privately briefing politicians in Washington on what’s in store. Those briefings are leaving a lot of folks up and down Pennsylvania Avenue jumpy.

What’s gives? President Obama, after all, said he’d prevent these sorts of prices. His new health law gave state regulators the power to block premium increases. It even created a federal agency to oversee insurance rates. But these bureaucrats are spectators to the price hikes. They’re mere wallflowers. Even in the bluest of states.

Their silence is the best evidence of who is culpable for the increases. It’s the policymakers. It’s Obamacare. The President is accepting the premium hikes as an allowable consequence of his healthcare policies.

Seriously, who would have thought that a 2,700 page Bill which has create well over 13,000 pages of rules and regulations from the Central Planning Office (remember, it took 18 pages to define “full time” and the IRS released 159 pages to cover the tax rules) would cause costs to skyrocket? And we haven’t even really seen the writings from the States yet. So, what is the Obama admin to do about this?

Well, he can go after the insurance companies, forcing them to eat the costs, which will put the companies out of business. Which seems to be a part of what the legislation attempts to do. He can regulate the costs doctors and hospitals charge, which will reduce service. We’ll see rationing along with medical professionals and health care providers shutting down. Welcome to ObamaCare.

Crossed at Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU.

Read: Prepare For The ObamaCare Sticker Shock »

Posted in Barry Obama, Healthcare | 8 Comments | Trackback URL

We’re Saved! Wake School Board Considers Putting Unarmed Guards In Schools

By William Teach January 22, 2013 – 2:26 pm

Will the job include training in yelling “oh, shit” and “run away!”, along with how to dial 911?

(WRAL) The Wake County Board of Education is expected to vote Tuesday on a proposal to put one unarmed security guard at each of the district’s 105 elementary schools.

If approved, the measure would cost $835,000 for three months or nearly $2.4 million for a year for a contract with AlliedBarton Security Services. The company already provides security for some of the schools in the district.

Look, I’m not disparaging the folks who work for AlliedBarton, it just seems silly to pony up $2.4 million for security that won’t be able to stop an armed maniac.

“We’re trying to take some proactive steps to keep our schools safe,” he said. “There aren’t any threats being posed, but we have some issues around access with some of our elementary schools. They are not covered in the same way as our middle and high schools.”

Sounds more like the Democrat majority on the Board are trying to show that they are “Doing Something.” The vote is at 330pm today.

Read: We’re Saved! Wake School Board Considers Putting Unarmed Guards In Schools »

Posted in 2nd Amendment, Democrats | 11 Comments | Trackback URL

If All You See…

By William Teach January 22, 2013 – 1:00 pm

…is an evil cow causing the planet to boil, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A Man, A Dog, And A Gun, with a post on the two types of gun culture.

Read: If All You See… »

Posted in If All You See | 3 Comments | Trackback URL
Pirate's Cove