ATTN HUNTERS AND FISHERMEN; EXACTLY HOW FISH & GAME WORKS

 Original author unknown, but this is truly epic.

 

A State Department of Fish and Wildlife sends a letter to a home/landowner asking for permission to access a creek on his property to document the decline in a certain species of unheard of frogs.

 The property owners' response in the second letter is EPIC.

Letter from Dept. Of Fish & Wildlife:

Dear Landowner:

 

WDFWR Staff will be conducting surveys for foothill yellow-legged frogs & other amphibians over the next few months. As part of this research we would like to survey the creek on your property. I am writing this letter to request your permission to access your property.

 

Recent research indicates that foothill yellow-legged frogs have declined significantly in recent years and are no longer found at half their historic sites. Your cooperation will be greatly appreciated and will help contribute to the conservation of this important species.

 

Please fill out the attached postage-paid postcard and let us know if you are willing to let us cross your property or not.

 

If you have any concerns about this project please give us a call. We would love to talk with you about our research.

 

Sincerely

Steve Nemel

Conservation Strategy Implementation Biologist

 

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RESPONSE FROM LANDOWNERS:

 

Dear Mr. Nemel:

 

Thank you for your inquiry regarding accessing our property to survey for the yellow-legged frog. We may be able to help you out with this matter.

 

We have divided our 2.26 acres into 75 equal survey units with a draw tag for each unit. Application fees are only $8.00 per unit after you purchase the "Frog Survey License" ($120.00 resident / $180.00 Non-Resident). You will also need to obtain a "Frog Habitat" parking permit ($10.00 per vehicle).

 

You will also need an "Invasive Species" stamp ($15.00 for the first vehicle and $5.00 for each add'l vehicle) You will also want to register at the Check Station to have your vehicle inspected for Non-native plant life prior to entering our property. There is also a Day Use fee, $5.00 per vehicle.

 

If you are successful in the Draw you will be notified two weeks in advance so you can make necessary plans and purchase your "Creek Habitat" stamp. ($18.00 Resident / $140.00 Non-Resident).

 

Survey units open between 8 am. And 3 PM. But you cannot commence survey until 9 am. And must cease all survey activity by 1 PM.

 

Survey Gear can only include a net with a 2" diameter made of 100% organic cotton netting with no longer than an 18 in handle, non-weighted and no deeper than 6' from net frame to bottom of net. Handles can only be made of BPA-free plastics or wooden handles.

 

After 1 PM. You can use a net with a 3" diameter if you purchase the "Frog Net Endorsement" ($75.00 Resident / $250 Non-Resident).

 

Any frogs captured that are released will need to be released with an approved release device back into the environment unharmed.

 

As of June 1, we are offering draw tags for our "Premium Survey" units and application is again only $8.00 per application.

 

However, all fees can be waived if you can verify "Native Indian Tribal rights and status".

 

You will also need to provide evidence of successful completion of "Frog Surveys" and your "Comprehensive Course on Frog Identification, Safe Handling Practices, and Self-Defense Strategies for Frog Attacks."

 

This course is offered on-line through an accredited program for a nominal fee of $750.00.

 

Please let us know if we can be of assistance to you. Otherwise, we decline your access to our property but appreciate your inquiry.

 

“Let’s Go Brandon!”

 

Sincerely,

 

The American Citizens!

 

GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY DEMONSTRATED

Remember back in the day when you sent letters and packages via snail mail and they took an inexplicably long time to ever get there or simply disappeared altogether? I used to imagine them ending up on some desert island with Tom Hanks and a soccer ball. Now, thanks to the wonder of the internet and tracking numbers, I can see what really happened.

On March 16th I sent Ben a package 1st Class mail from my hometown in Montana to his in Iowa. From there it went, as usual, to Billings and then on to Des Moines, who sent it back to Billings, who promptly sent it straight back to Des Moines, who then sent it to Denver. Now, on the 25th, it is for some reason in Cheyenne, WY. That little package is getting one hell of a tour of the country and I'm not even trying to predict where it will go from there.

Only good ol' fed.gov could possibly attempt to prove that the shortest distance between two points is a tetrahedron.

Slowly

GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN BULLSHIT

Normal Government Function

Government Function During Shutdown

Anyone willing to scrape off a little bit of the golden patina left by the MSM (who themselves have spent billion of dollars trying over the past few years to disprove the old adage "No matter how much you polish a turd, it's still a turd.") can find the real stories behind the the Obongo Regime's "Campaign of Pain" Government shutdown. It really boils down to petty harassment and childish tantrums incited by the current administration aimed directly at annoying the hell out of John Q Citizen so Barry S and the Tax & Spenders on the Hill can get their way and keep right on behaving in the same fiscally suicidal manner that (along with a lot of that turd polishing) keeps them in power. 

And what better harassment can the government inflict upon the average taxpayer than screwing with the National Parks? Yes, it's deliberate, spiteful and penny ante, but what else can you expect from Sodom on Potomac? About the best explanation I saw was an interview with an NPS Ranger who flat out said they had been given orders "to make life as difficult for people as we can." What? You thought government public servants were here to do something crazy like, oh, I don't know, serve the public? Get real.

Somehow I'm not terribly surprised that even the Taliban has a better grasp on the government shutdown than the MSM and the drooling, slack-jawed zombies who still listen to them. "In a statement released to AFP, the terrorist group accused American lawmakers of 'sucking the blood of their own people.'" I didn't even bother to go look at Pravda's or Putin's take on this, as I already knew it would be more accurate and realistic than all three major US networks and CNN combined. Geez, some days I almost miss the Cold War.
 
In case you were wondering how we got to the point where our poor, starving, bedraggled little Federal government cannot afford to keep the National Parks open (except, of course, for special cases like Immigration Reform Rallies protesting that the government isn't giving away enough money to non-US citizens), The Waste List is a terrific help in showing us the subtle differences  between "essential" and "non-essential" government spending. The following handful of examples is just a microscopic portion of what our own Washington royalty deems as "essential government spending" which cannot possibly be cut.

1. The IRS is about to pay out $70 million in bonuses even though discretionary bonuses are supposed to be cancelled due to the sequester. And if these reward  "bonuses" are distributed in any way like the Forest Circus does theirs, the might as well call it, "Worthless Quisling Bureaucrats passing big wads of money back and forth to stroke each others' fragile egos and assuage their guilt for never having done any actual work during their entire careers."

2. The Obamas have to take another trip to Africa because...well, they need to, just trust us. Cost to the US taxpayer; $100,000,000. You could buy an entire country in Africa for that. On the bright side, at least the First Family is too chintzy to tip the help. If they did, it would cost the taxpayers half again as much. As it is, we taxpayers already shell out $1.4 billion a year to keep the Obamas in the royal style they've become accustomed to, although Michelle still thinks the Whitehouse is a bit like a prison. I say "royal style" because the Brits only spend a trifling $58 million on their entire royal family.

3. Hat's off to "Shotgun Joe" Biden for his frugality with the taxpayers' money in these times of crises. When he and his staff spent a single night in Paris, the hotel billed the taxpayer $585.000.50. Joe and his posse then really tightened their belts and got the cost of their single night in a London hotel down to a mere $459,388.65. Way to go, Joe!

4. The US Senate has been doing their part all along. For the past fifteen years, they've only spent a miserly $5.25 million on haircuts. 

5. To make sure America's domestic animals are as neatly coiffed as our politicians, in 2012 Congress alloted over a half a million dollars "to promote specialty hair and beauty products for cats and dogs."

6. We can't afford a single new metal folding chair in the waiting room at the VA hospital, but the Obama Administration is giving his homies in the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt sixteen General Dynamics F-16 Falcon fighter-bombers (window sticker price $19 million a pop) and two hundred M1-series Abrams main battle tanks ($8.5 million apiece). The new Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has at least expressed his grateful appreciation for the gifts "Thank you Infidel Yankee Pig Dogs for these wonderful killing machines that will help us slaughter all non-believers with impunity. Today we butcher the few remaining Christians in our midst, tomorrow the Jew Devils in Israel. Although we may have to ask for more of your Yankee Imperialist weapons before we come to eradicate you, the Great Satan, as well. Allah Akbar!" With friends like that...

7. Speaking of expensive military gear, we're planning to abandon 7 billion dollars worth of it left on Afghanistan's plain. Much of this involves million-dollar MRAPs that are being reduced to scrap metal and sold to Afghan versions of Sanford & Son for pennies on the dollar. This is in perfect keeping with the Obama Administration's policy of keeping "high-powered military-style assault weapons" out of the hands of those violent drug gangs; unless, of course, it's the US Government itself giving high-powered military-style assault weapons to violent Mexican drug cartels. Just think, if not for our current administration, those vicious gangstas might be legally purchasing .30-40 Krags or Model 1903 Springfields from the CMP to use in their drug wars and drive-by shootings.

8. Last but certainly not least, and a prime example of why satirists, humorists and snarky bloggers who have to try to make up outrageous shit on their own are rapidly joining the ranks of the unemployed..."The National Institute of Health has spent more than $5 million on a website called Sexpulse that is targeted at 'men who use the Internet to seek sex with men'....the website 'includes pornographic images of homosexual sex as well as naked and scantily clad men' and features 'a Space Invaders-style interactive game that uses a penis-shaped blaster to shoot down gay epithets.'"

Talk about unfair. I could have eaten the mushrooms off of half the cow pies in Park County Montana and washed them down with a gallon of tequila and still not have been able to come up with something that ludicrous as a high dollar fed.gov program.

So the next time your elderly tour group gets bludgeoned, maced and handcuffed by Park Ranger SWAT Gestapo working overtime because "we" can't afford to have the National Parks open, I urge you to call the President. Tell him you support his petulant bullying, demand that he raise your own household taxes by at least 50%, and encourage him to spend, spend, spend with no restraint. It's not like the government is just going out and pissing away your hard-earned money. No sirree, Bawb; it's for the future, for the parks, and, of course, for the children. Think about it. If the government doesn't pay for them to have video games where they can shoot giant laser penises at gay epithets, who will? 

Gov't Shutdown!

Saw this on Facebook and had to laugh!

OBERGUPPENFUHRER OF STUPID: SHEILA JACKSON LEE TO HEAD UP DHS?

photo: Sodahead

Well, we thought the so-called Patriot Act and the formation of the Department of Homeland Security were really bad ideas when Bush Jr. and Company foisted them upon us in the holy name of “sacrificing freedom for security.”

The existing myriad of heavily-armed and semi-unaccountable alphabet soup agencies had all the pieces to the 9/11 puzzle beforehand but the various bloated bureaucracies were all too busy fighting each other over budgets, power and turf to put the pieces together. Well, that and the CIA’s employees were too busy sewing mandatory “Diversity Quilts” to be out gathering intelligence on terrorists.

Shrub’s obvious solution was to create yet another, even larger and more complex heavy-handed bureaucracy so that all the various intelligence agencies could gather under one big Police State umbrella while they squabbled over budgets, power and turf.

Then along came Mr. Socialism himself, Barack Hussein Obama, who did everything he could to make DHS larger, more powerful, less accountable and utterly inefficient. He appointed as Obergruppenfuhrer of the Homeland Security one Janet Incompetano. This choice apparently stemmed solely from her qualifications of (a) having a vagina and (b) being a Liberal.

Obergruppenfuhrer Janet jumped right on board the popular Obama "more-power/less-accountability" bandwagon; she worked hard from the beginning to make DHS virtually irrelevant against actual terrorists, but a huge threat to American citizens and their rights. She immediately made the use of the word “terrorism” verboten in her domain; we only had to worry about “man-caused disasters”. She even ruled out the use of the word “terrorist” until she herself needed to use the word to label American military veterans. Muslims terrorists were pretty much ignored so that Janet’s Gestapo could concentrate on the perilous threat of “Rightwing Extremists” which, under DHS guidelines, went from being just veterans to basically anyone who did not contribute directly to Barack Obama’s campaign. She was never worried about the open floodgates masquerading as our border with Mexico since illegally crossing the border is, again according this attorney's own words, “not a crime per se.” Janet did rake those pesky Canadians over the coals, though, for letting all those 9/11 hijackers into the US, the total number of whom actually came through Canada being...zero.

Even though she and her ever more powerful groping TSA minions slaved away, and again I quote directly, “24/7, 364 days a year” to keep us all safe, that 365^th day when things were left wide open almost proved tragic. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, cleverly concealing his dangerous rightwing extremist tendencies under a cloak of radical Islamic hatred, was not on any no-fly list or security alert even though his own father, chairman of the First Bank of Nigeria, had personally warned the United States Embassy about his son’s terrorist radicalization. He was able to purchase a one-way ticket in Yemen, with cash, booking a seat specifically over the aircraft’s fuel tank, declaring no baggage, and casually referring to fellow travelers as, “Imperialist Yankee spawn-of-Satan Infidel pig-dogs!”, boarded Northwest Flight 253 unsearched and unflagged by security. Likewise, his transfer in Amsterdam set off no alarm bells. Umar got to the terrorist one-yard line, attempting to detonate the bomb he had concealed in his pants as the plane approached Detroit. Fortunately, his bomb misfired, burning instead of exploding, and civilian airline passengers had to wrestle him to the ground and detain him themselves.

As the story unfolded, Janet patted herself on the back and assured the American flying public they were still perfectly safe because, “The system worked." In fact, she later claimed it worked, "…like clockwork.” Perhaps she meant that it worked like the clockwork in the fizzled bomb in Umar’s underwear.

Her system “worked” just as well in Boston, perhaps not exactly like clockwork, but at least like a “$700 billion security failure.” Sure, maybe the CIA and Russian Intelligence agencies had warned about the terrorists in question, maybe they’d traveled freely back and forth from the US to hotbeds of Muslim terrorism where they disappeared for months at a time, maybe other members of the family were already on terrorist lists, and maybe they’d even posted their terrorist fantasies and intentions on facebook, to include home-made music videos such as I Will Dedicate My Life to Jihad!

But DHS had bigger fish to fry, keeping an eye on veterans and Catholics and the like, and just didn’t have time to look into the matter until after the terrorists actually set off their bombs. Then DHS was all over it like stink on shit, reacting almost instantaneously to close the barn door after the horse was gone, locking down the entire city of Boston in a Martial Law Police State with 9,000 armed agents. Despite flooding the streets with armored vehicles and heavily armed men, shutting down all work and transport in the city, conducting warrantless searches at will, and practicing safe gun handling techniques not seen since the Three Stooges movies, the younger terrorist managed to escape. It finally took the sleuthing skills of an ordinary citizen going out into his backyard to have a smoke (he was later fined by the EPA and the Health Nazis for that) to find the remaining terrorist for the jackboots. Once he was located, the well-trained, professional and calm government agents (who are the only people responsible enough to keep and bear arms) managed to engage in a two-hour gun battle with the terrorist and expend over 200 rounds before discovering that the no one was actually shooting back and that the 19-year-old jihadist was himself unarmed.  

That latest success being seen as a career-crowning achievement she could not hope to top, not even by being completely unable to account for more than a million foreigners who have entered the US, Janet decided recently to step down from her DHS Obergruppenfuhrer position to make room for some new blood in the administration.

Many breathed a sigh of relief. Surely, not even Barack Obama could come up with a new Obergruppenfuhrer worse than Janet. Think again. Being put forth by the Congressional Black Caucus as the top pick for Obergruppenfuhrer II is none other than Texas Congresscritter Sheila Jackson Lee. Oh Sheila is, to put a fine point on it, pretty much a complete moron. This is the woman who doesn’t know the difference between Korea and Vietnam, even when giving a lengthy speech on the subject, and who, perhaps more alarmingly, doesn’t know the difference between the Moon and Mars. Mixing up a country or two I can see, but entire planets?!?!

Oh Sheila is right in line with Janet when it comes to ferreting out the real Enemy of the State. That enemy was not Venezuelan Commie Dictator Hugo Chavez, whom she wanted our country to sell F-16s to. It was not rogue state terrorism-sponsor Syrian President Bashar Assad, whom the Congresscritter invited to come speak in Texas. It certainly wasn’t Assistant Attorney General Tom Perez when he ran the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division which, “...perversely abused the civil rights of Americans, abused the fiscal trust of the taxpayers and abused the rule of law.” Among his other accomplishments, Perez could find no wrong-doing in Black Panthers conducting voter intimidation at the polls, and was noted for fighting tooth and nail against individual states who sought voting law reform, to include seeking to purge the voter rolls of dead people. Not allowing the deceased to vote was a big violation of their civil rights, according to Perez. Especially in Chicago. It should come as no surprise that Oh Sheila led the charge to defend this Great American against the racist Republican slurs besmirching his integrity.

No sirree, Bawb. Sheila knows the real threat to this country is Whitey and his racism and, as a former slave herself, she knows about it personally and intimately. “I stand here as a freed slave because this congress came together!” Sheila’s only apparent strength as a black leader is her ability to…convincingly, mind you…accuse anyone or anything of being racist. She has railed against incipient racism (and I’m not making this up) found in hurricanes, Pepsi commercials, Secret Service agents, a balanced budget and of course those Tea Party bastards, who are obviously extensions of the KKK because they wear, “…uh, clothing with a name.” Sheila or Barry going on about “clothing with a name” strikes me as rather like the pot calling the kettle black. Ooops, using that old expression is now a racist Hate Crime. I supposed I can expect a DHS tank through my front wall very soon.

It’s bad enough that Oh Sheila is dumber than a box of rocks, but we must also add to the volatile mix arrogance, conceit and narcissism…hey, I guess I am starting to understand what Barry might see in her. Year after year, Lee has beaten her 534 Congressional colleagues hands down as “the Worst Boss in Washington” and also enjoys the highest turn-over rate in staffers of any Congress-critter. One former staffer said working for her was like serving a tour in Iraq and another said, “People don’t tell the worst of the stories, because they’re really unbelievable.” Oh Sheila’s favorite pet nickname for staffers, oft repeated and at the top of her lungs, is, “You stupid motherf*****!”

A few more direct quotes from the queen show that while no one else might think much of her, she has more than enough admiration for herself to go around.

“I’m Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee! Who do you think you are?”

“You don’t understand. I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen!”

“Don’t you know who I am? I’m Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee! Where is my seafood meal! I know it was ordered!”

“What? What did you say to me? Who are you, the Congresswoman? You haven’t been elected! You don’t set up meetings with me! I tell you! You know what? You are the most unprofessional person I have ever met in my life!”

Whoa! Down, Sheila! That last quote kind of puts us back in the pot calling the kettle black territory again.

Yikes! An armored DHS MRAP carrying a heavily-armed SWAT team just crushed the front deck on my house. I gotta go! But I guess we can conclude from this that “the system” will still “work like clockwork” under a new Obergruppenfuhrer, even one as dumb as Oh Sheila.

MORE CHICAGO MAYHEM...CALL OUT THE NATIONAL GUARD!

 Tanks in the streets of Baghdad: "Nazis! Gulags! Pol Pot!"

Tanks in the streets of Chicago: "It's for the children!" 

We glanced briefly at the wondrous DEMOCRAT Utopia that is Chicago just last time. Now things have gotten so bad there that Black Panther racist felon Illinois DEMOCRAT Congresscritter Bobby Rush has called for an "emergency summit" with other Illinois DEMOCRAT leaders while Illinois DEMOCRAT Congresscritter Monique Davis has called upon Illinois DEMOCRAT Governor Pat Quinn to deploy the National Guard to Chicago to, "Save the children." 

Maybe it's just me, but I seemed to notice a recurring theme in the previous paragraph, but it escapes me at the moment.

Anyway, if the DEMOCRAT powers-that-be in Chicago do call out the National Guard, anyone in the military knows you must have a unified and clear-cut chain-of-command for the military to do its job. Let's check out the DEMOCRAT links in that chain of command should the Guard roll tanks into Chiraq.

Commander-of-Chief (his words, not mine): DEMOCRAT President: Barack Hussein Obama

Senator: DEMOCRAT Insider-Trader Dick "Turban" Durbin

House Representative: DEMOCRAT Jesse Jackson Jr. (Unless he's in prison before the Guard deploys.)
 
Governor: DEMOCRAT Pat Quinn (originally catapulted into office from Lt. Governor when his predecessor DEMOCRAT Governor Rob Blagovich was sent to prison.)

Illinois State House Leader: DEMOCRAT Mike "Your Pension is My Pension" Madigan

Illinois State Attorney General: DEMOCRAT Lisa Madigan (daughter of guess who?)

Chicago Mayor: DEMOCRAT Rahm "Deadfish" Emanuel

Well, now that we have that all cleared up, what could possibly go wrong with the likes of such leaders at the helm? Roll the tanks!

CHICAGO HAS PROBLEMS? CAN'T BE POLITICIANS; GOTTA BE GUNS!

 Chicago Politics: Blame the Guns!

The Liberals have all the answers. Just ask ‘em and they’ll tell you. Better yet, don’t even bother to ask. The politicians and the MSM and academia and Hollywierd will still tell you anyway.

This being the case, you would think these “Wizards of Smart” would have a great big “I Love Me Wall” emblazoned with evidence and stories of an endless parade of blinding successes. You know, in places they have controlled politically for decades, where they firmly hold the purse strings and have basically had it all their own way to implement their grand Utopian Liberal designs as they’ve seen fit. Wonderful, safe, homey places like LA, Detroit, New York, Atlanta, St. Louis, Boston, Philly, Washington D.C. and the good ol’ Windy City itself, political spawning ground of the likes of Barack Hussein Obama.

You’d think Chicago in particular would be a veritable Garden of Eden by now. The political machine there has not elected a Republican since 1927. For a period of about half a century, there was actually a little-known city statute that no one could become mayor unless his last name was “Daley”. This was Illinois’ Royal Family, the poor cousins of America’s Royal Family, the Kennedys, but they all worked together to advance Leftist causes.

Chicago had already earned itself quite a name in politics even before 1919. In that year, a bunch of absolutely scary-looking women with hatchets who you’d think would have been all in favor of drunk guys as their only hope of ever getting laid, exercised their new found power of the vote to help force through Congress the Volstead Act, aka Prohibition. It was about as successful as every other instance in which a highly vocal minority with political clout rammed their personal views down everyone else’s throats, including those continuing power plays going on at this very moment. The main unintended consequences of Prohibition were the creation of organized crime as a major power in the US, a vast increase in the law enforcement power of the federal government, and yet more political corruption, with Chicago proudly leading the way. The King of the Gangsters Al Capone was the de facto ruler of Chicago, where he and his opponents used the new-fangled motor car and Thompson submachine gun to create the drive-by shooting, a proud tradition still carried on by Chicagoans to this day. Capone’s downfall indirectly came from politics; he was busted for tax evasion in 1931 for listing Chicago’s last GOP mayor, William “Big Bill” Thompson, and numerous other city and police officials as “dependants” when he filed his taxes. Such was the corruption in Chicago during Prohibition that even Detroit, not yet a unionized Muslim caliphate in those days, merely received an “honorable mention” when Michigan State Police busted a speakeasy in that city that netted the mayor, the sheriff and the local congressman.

With Chicago now firmly and apparently permanently in Democrat hands, FDR’s New Deal of the 1930’s, LBJ’s Great Society of the 1960’s, and BHO’s “Change” of 2008 all pumped gargantuan amounts of federal tax dollars into the city’s coffers, as opposed to the merely gigantic amounts of those lean years in between. When federal money proved insufficient to enact their wondrous improvements to society, the Chicago political machine merely taxed the living shit out of “their own”. Their own now includes basically every working person in the entire state of Illinois (which is not, BTW, officially “one of those states in the middle.”) It is not a symbiotic relationship. It’s more like something you’d see on MST3K, a bad 1950’s B horror movie, The Giant Mutant Tick From Hell. Chicago political power grows just for the sake of growth (the ideology of the cancer cell), sucking its host dry while at the same time infecting it with the Liberal equivalent of Lyme’s Disease.

The socialist Left has basically had free reign in Chicago for decades, having taken possession of all the power and all the money they could possibly squander to instigate all their favorite Liberal-Socialist panaceas. Yes, they “led the way” in reforming Chicago society into the peaceful and prosperous Utopia it is today. For instance, great forward-looking educational reformers like Terrorist Bill “Boom-Boom” Ayers, now Education Secretary Arne “Sandy” Duncan, Jesse “Shakedown” Jackson and Barack “Not Me” Obama, among others, brought significant changes in Chicago’s public education system. Of course they were backed up all the way by the Chicago Teachers Union.

Among other quality improvements, these people sought…not even making this crap up…the collection of student’s biometric data, Radical Math for Social Justice, an all-gay Social Justice Solidarity High School, forced/bribed school affiliation with “external partners” (ACORN), Restorative Justice, to “raise political consciousness” in students and to make education the “motor force of revolution.”

Alas, with a measly $2.9 billion a year budget, Chicago’s publik skools just didn’t have the funding to make any real strides in education. The Chicago Teachers Union President Karen “Fat Bastard in Drag” Lewis recently blamed CPS’ unending disastrous failures on “racism” and “rich white people.” This was a stunning revelation, as she had formerly been blaming bankers, capitalists, standardized testing, charter schools, a “culture of fear” and Rahm Emanuel for all the dismal failures which occurred on her watch. With leadership like that, it’s no wonder Chicago high school social studies teacher Jason Spoor (not making it up!) proudly displays portraits of Che Guevara and Karl Marx in his classroom.

As a result of all their hard work and spending, Chicago schools are a disaster and, according to the alarmists who say only spending more taxpayer money can fix anything, teetering on the abyss of a one billion dollar budget deficit. Chicago recently set another new standard with the largest single mass school closing in US history, shutting down no less than 53 of their vaunted educational paradises this year.

Working almost as well as their education reforms have been Chicago’s long standing frothing-at-the-mouth attacks on the Second Amendment. Chicago boasts some of the strictest gun control laws in the nation. By 1982, Chicago had already effectively banned private ownership of handguns…all firearms needed to be registered by law, but the city would not register handguns unless they had already been registered prior to 1982. Illinois is now the only state in which no citizen can legally carry a concealed handgun. In Chicago you must obtain an Illinois state FOID (Firearms Owners Identification) card ($100, renewed every 3 years) and a Chicago Firearm Permit ($100 x 3 years) to buy even a single box of ammunition…”Achtung! Vere are your papers?!?!” I’m not sure where you would find a gun store to buy that ammo…Chicago prohibits the sale of firearms within city limits. You may only possess your registered ($15) firearm within your own dwelling…you can’t legally take it out in the back yard or the garage or anything. That weapon cannot be a banned “assault weapon”, nor can it hold more than 10 rounds and yes, barrel shrouds are included in the law as being evil. Chicago’s gun laws actually prohibit museums from displaying old, unloaded firearms.

Why Hell, with all those gun control laws Chi-town must be just about the safest place in the world, right?

Er, not so much; Chicago enjoys some of the highest homicide rates in the country. Go figure. Chicago boasted in excess of 500 murders last year alone; Ireland couldn’t produce that many bodies even combining the two bloodiest years at the height of The Troubles. The residents of this gun-free Liberal Utopia celebrated Father’s Day weekend with 41 shootings resulting in 5 deaths. More recently, they took advantage of the long 4^th of July holiday weekend to squeeze in 72 shootings resulting in a dozen dead. Statistically, it’s safer to walk the streets of Baghdad, which has led to Chicago being referred to as “Chiraq.” Denizens of Detroit are incensed that Chicago earned such a nickname while they’re stuck with “Little Mogadishu.”

Predictably, Mayor Rahm Emanuel led the charge of politicians and media hacks screaming that only more gun control can possibly stop the violence.

Fred Zamberletti of the Minnesota Vikings once actually said, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing year after year and expecting different results." The phrase has also been attributed to others, such as Benjamin Franklin or Albert Einstein, but may have come from Narcotics Anonymous. New York Magazine even made an extraordinary Evel Knievel-like leap to attribute it all to lesbian novelist Rita Mae Brown in an attempt to discredit Mitch McConnel when he dared use the quote to criticize the Obama Administration’s endlessly repeated failed policies. And why not? They certainly couldn’t have written an article defending Obama’s policies on their own merits.

Just as they can’t argue that all the continuing success of Chicago’s present gun control laws will lead to even more success if they pass more of them. Instead, they’ll just mince statistics that Chicago’s homicide rate isn’t all that bad and Chicago’s gun control efforts are a failure because we haven’t inflicted those laws on the entire country yet.

Just as Prohibition had the unintended consequences of creating and empowering the Mafia and gangsters like Al Capone, Chicago’s gun laws have also had the side effect of making inner city gangs who are already running virtually unchecked even more powerful. Their victims have been stripped of any means of self-defense. All the police can do is come by later and draw a chalk line around your bullet-riddled corpse. In reality, the Leftist political powers-that-be in Chicago don’t really want the police to crack down on gangs. The more fear and foment in the streets, the more willing the surviving populace is to vote still more power and money to the government which, in this case, means the uber-Liberal ruling elite who’s been in power for decades and plans to remain right there.

I think THIS GUY put it pretty well: “It’s as if they live in some alternate universe – apparently, none of the city’s politicians have ever watched the History Channel’s illuminating series, “Gangland” which makes it abundantly clear that inner city gangs (including Chicago’s) are as heavily armed as ever. In fact, these street thugs merely laugh at gun laws, even boldly showing their guns to the interviewer, right on camera!”

By Rahm Reasoning, vicious criminals who don’t give a damn about murder, assault, robbery, rape, extortion, drug dealing, pimping and umpteen other gun laws will somehow suddenly be stopped cold in the tracks by just one more additional gun law. “Zoinks!” they’ll say, or words to that effect. “You know, I didn’t mind breaking all those other laws, commandments and basic social mores and brutalizing and killing people, but the fact that I might violate Chicago Gun Law #374.2 really shakes me up. I think I’ll give up my lucrative life of crime, throw my gun in the river, and take up a part-time minimum wage job at a convenience store so I can afford to pay my fine for not having health care insurance!”

Yeah, good luck with that.

THE TERRORISTS HAVE ALREADY WON

Coming soon to a neighborhood near you.

First accelerating after 9/11 with the Bush Administration and the odious, misnamed Patriot Act and creation of the Department of Homeland Security, and then re-doubling again with the beginning of the reign of the untouchable Barack Obama, the federal government has been usurping power, demanding money, and trampling upon American rights at an unprecedented rate. Fed.gov has dozens, nay hundreds of agencies, employing millions, a giant jumbo-sized serving of alphabet soup. Most of these agencies are supposedly tasked with keeping our citizens safe or protecting the rule of law or both, quite often redundantly via multiple agencies.

Recently, every last one of them failed us…disastrously…again.

          One of the few things the Constitution tasks specifically to the federal government is the important mission of securing our borders. They do not, sometimes through incompetence and now increasingly through malfeasance originating within the federal government itself, instigated for political gain by men and women in the highest elected offices in the country. Our borders were wide open to two Muslim “political refugees” coming from a Chechen enclave in Kyrgyzstan. Chechnya remains the hottest hotbed of Islamic terrorism in Europe; at the time the bombers emigrated, the capital city of Grozny still lay in ruins after a months-long war between jihadists and the Russian Army. Just like our borders, the doors of Cambridge University, an elite institute of “learning” barred to the vast majority of American students, swung wide open for one of the two future terrorists.

          Through the years, the terrorists couldn’t help but to leave clues concerning the direction they were taking. In various netherworlds, vast, expensive and redundant government entities look down upon us all in Orwellian fashion, listening to our conversations, monitoring our every activity on-line, seeing what we purchase, following the GPS on our automobiles, keeping track and, perhaps more importantly to them, keeping score. They constantly demand more and more access…for instance, the IRS said just weeks ago that they do not need a warrant to intercept and read your personal email…to the last remnants of personal privacy, a right of the citizen ostensively protected by the government. All of these powers failed to notice as the bombers posted YouTube videos glorifying bombings in the name of Allah or songs like “I Will Dedicate my Life to Jihad!” or links to known radical jihadist clerics. The powers that be were too busy at the time working with the military and “intelligence sources” like the SPLC to develop profiles of real terrorists, such as “Roman Catholics” or “Evangelical Christians”, to put on government watch lists.

          The Russian Army fought another war in Chechnya against jihadists, this one leaving the confines of Grozny and spreading across the entire country. The American government, press and people did not seem to notice. A Russian intelligence agency contacted the American government, voicing concerns over ties between one of the bombers and Chechen Islamic terrorist organizations.  The American FBI found nothing of concern. Afterwards, one bomber flew out of the United States to visit “Russia”, after which he disappeared into Chechnya and Dagestan. A half a year later he came back through American Customs and Immigrations, DHS, FBI, TSA, etc. to find wide open arms and no questions, even though he was still not traveling as an American citizen.

The government agency charged with alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives does not prosecute over 99% of the criminals caught in the act of attempting to illegally purchase firearms and knowingly allowed thousands of firearms into the hands of Mexican drug cartels where they have been used to inflict some 400+ Mexican and American deaths. It should come as no surprise that this same agency also fail to notice or prevent the terrorists from building their bombs with what a recent police report now says were “military grade” explosives.

After the bombs went off, when the première federal government law enforcement agency had identified the bombers, at first they would not release photographs of them for fear of being politically incorrect. Initially, the only description they would cautiously release was to refer to the bombers as “dark-skinned”. Perhaps had their faces and descriptions been known and released earlier, the police officer who approached them while they sought to plant more bombs at the MIT campus might have been more cautious and not been shot to death by the “boys”.

They hijacked an SUV belonging to some citizen the government obviously failed to protect and fled MIT, tossing bombs out the window, severely wounding one of the pursuing police officers. The older bother was fatally wounded by police in the chase. The younger escaped.

A major American city of some three million people is besieged, not by the bombers or by an invading army, but by the government agencies still “protecting” them. Businesses are forced to close, transportation grinds to a standstill, people are imprisoned within their own homes, again not by the bombers but by the government. An army…9,000 law enforcement agents of various types, complete with armored vehicles mounting machine guns and covered by an umbrella of helicopters…march like Gestapo through residential neighborhoods of quiet, law-abiding citizens, entering homes and conducting warrantless searches at will, or pulling entire families from their homes on a whim, with no regard for the 4^th Amendment and any of the other “safeguards” the government says will protect us. The terrorist remains at large despite the massive curfew and manhunt.

 


LiveLeak.com - Family ripped from their home at gunpoint; Police storm the property looking for terrorists

 Ooops. Sorry. Wrong number. Our bad.

When an average citizen is finally allowed by the government to leave his own house, he goes to smoke a cigarette in his own backyard and thus tracks down the lone fugitive that nine thousand heavily armed trained government professionals could not.

In response, the well-conditioned sheeple of Massachusetts cheer the government which failed them every step of the way.

If you believe now that we need still more laws, more government agencies, more government agents, more military weapons in the hands of same, more taxes to support their growth, less privacy and fewer Constitutional rights, then yes, the terrorists have already won.