I guess because of those maundering bands of snowmen toting guns .... H/T Drudge
KING, N.C. -- Authorities lifted curfew and alcohol restrictions in King on Sunday, but said a state of emergency declaration remained in effect until Monday. Authorities said the state of emergency declaration would continue until Monday 9 a.m., barring any unforeseen circumstances or severe changes.
Effective Sunday afternoon, alcohol restrictions and a curfew were lifted. All other remaining restrictions would continue until Monday, said Paula May, King police chief. Curfews and alcohol restrictions are fine in an emergency; that's a traditional government power. Other restrictions included a ban on the sale or purchase of any type of firearm, ammunition, explosive or any possession of such items off a person's own premises. That is NOT a traditional government power.
Also on Sunday, the emergency shelter established by the American Red Cross at West Stokes High School was closed. "We appreciate the support and cooperation of everyone with our efforts to keep the citizens of King safe," May said.
The state of emergency was declared Friday due to severe weather.
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OK, so all you have to do is watch the Weather Chanel and base your booze and bullet purchases on the forecast; Fair to partly drunk for the next 24 hours, increasing to totally random auto fire by tomorrow night.
What's next; the Audi green pooleece commercial v. 2. 0 where the cops come before the storm to take your stuff?
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next up: Chief of police looking for work. The public is in no mood for nonsense of this sort, and are going to be enraged long after the snow has melted.
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I find it difficult to comprehend the suddenly realized need in the middle of a blinding snowstorm to procure new supplies of guns and bullets. Surely anyone who needs either that badly already has a stash. On the other hand, how on earth is the arresting officer to know whether the car spun out on the road was in the process of fetching milk for the kiddies or cherry bombs?
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The police were stopping cars and searching them, without warrants. Of course, when four or five armed cops surround your car and "ask" if they can search it, most people will agree rather than risk further "encouragement".
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Had a big argument with Mrs. Uluque about what Trancredo meant when she heard him say the other night on ABC that illiterate people voted for Obama. It seems she knows people who voted for Obama who also know how to read and write. "They're not illiterate," she said, "they just wanted change."
But what kind of change? Did they really want socialism? That's what I like to ask these people. Do they even know what socialism is?
There are different kinds of illiteracy. We know that a lot of otherwise intelligent people are computer illiterate. I think what Trancredo was saying is there are otherwise intelligent people who are blissfully unaware many of the political issues facing us these days. They are the political illiterate. I'm not an expert myself but I do know that you can't overcome that kind of a problem by watching Katie Couric or scanning the headlines of the daily rag because they're just not gonna tell you much of anything.
whimper. If only Trancredo had a deeper voice. Then even Mrs. Uluque would listen to him. He says the right things but he just doesn't have the gravitas.
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No...no, I think he meant that they couldn't read or write. And a measurable percentage probably couldn't.
Leftist 'Heroes' often do pull that block of votes.
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I know, I know. bigjim and Excalibur your points are well taken. I'm not arguing that we don't have illegal aliens and dead people voting for Obama. But here in Kaliphornia you meet actual people who have been to actual colleges (I know, they're Kaliphornia colleges with liberal arts degrees, but still...) who actually voted for Obama. I know these people read because I've caught them myself with the LA Times. You see people driving Priuses with Obama bumper stickers. I'm pretty sure these people know how to read and they're not illegal or dead either (at least from the head down they're not).
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But what kind of change? Did they really want socialism? That's what I like to ask these people. Do they even know what socialism is?
I've asked numerous people those exact questions. The ones that will answer generally say they did not want socialism. They are also rarely ever able to define what socialism is.
The ones that will admit they wanted socialism (and there have been a few) admit that from what they have seen so far they do not like it, and don't want anymore. And then, some of the people I ask these questions of become quite hostile.
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Smart is usually considers analogous to IQ. There are IQs in many areas but tests only look at a subset of about 4 classes. Of these 4 somehow the average of 100 is arrived at.....
Then you consider the bell curve.... somebuddy like Tom is about 140ish on the bell curve ...
that means.... 99 percent of the people are dumber than him and %70 of the people dam sure look dumb to him. Dumb being conflated with stupid and illiterate... Yeah... most of the voters will seem illiterate to Tom.
Folks at at the 160 or higher point on the bell curve realize it's just a curve... there is no right or wrong just grey.... but don't see that the rest can't see their view...
At 200 + these folks only have small bits in common with the rest of the human race. We are all morons to them.. If you can play them a fair game of chess or something they will appreciate you as they feel for that instant of the game some commonality with the human race ...
Let's be honest ... were all human... and therefor nutz on some scale or other....
"Did you know that California has twice the population of New York, but five times as many welfare cases? Thirty-two percent of all welfare caseloads in America are here in California."
Ronald Reagan singled out what he called a "welfare queen" for abusing government aid. Newt Gingrich pushed welfare reform as part of his Contract With America.
Now, Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner, the top Republican candidates for California governor, are bringing back welfare as a key issue in their quest for primary votes. Welfare's high-profile role in the race became clear last month when Whitman, the billionaire former CEO of eBay, unveiled her first issue-specific radio ad.
"Some people worry that we're creating a welfare state," Whitman says at the start of the spot. "The fact is, California is the welfare state."
Poizner, another ultra-wealthy former Silicon Valley CEO, has made tightening welfare rules a key part of his plan to balance the state budget. Like Whitman, Poizner proposes cutting lifetime welfare limits to two years from five.
"Welfare is an example of where we're spending, in my opinion, several billion more than we should because we don't enforce the work rules and our benefit structure is too high," Poizner said in an interview. "I just don't think it should be a magnet."
Whitman declined to participate in an interview on the issues in the governor's race.
The candidates' decisions to highlight welfare match public opinion polls that have shown Republican voters particularly dislike aid programs.
In a June 2008 Field Poll, Republicans picked public assistance as the top spending area they'd be willing to cut compared with four other areas, such as higher education and health care. Only 13 percent of Democrats chose public aid as the category they'd be most willing to cut.
"At least among Republican voters, it's not tricky to talk about welfare cuts," said Jack Pitney, a political science professor at Claremont McKenna College. "There's one basic difference between the parties, and that's Republicans are a lot less likely to spend money on social programs than Democrats."
Welfare advocates point out that, until the recession, state welfare rolls had already been declining. The state's caseload has since climbed to 540,475 in September from a low of 454,956 in July 2007.
"CalWORKs (the state welfare program) has been a shrinking program, not a growing program," said Frank Mecca, executive director of the County Welfare Directors Association of California. "The strong insinuation that CalWORKs is a big contributor to the budget deficit is completely wrong."
The CalWORKs program is budgeted at $5.3 billion for the next fiscal year, with about half of that coming from federal sources and the other half paid by the state and counties, according to the state Department of Social Services. General fund expenditures proposed for the next fiscal year amount to $82.9 billion.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has already proposed making cuts to CalWORKs that include lowering grant levels and eliminating aid to legal, non-citizen immigrants who have lived in the country for less than five years.
In the radio ad, Whitman argues that all recipients should be required to work, saying, "If they don't, they lose their benefits." Asked why Whitman used welfare for her campaign's first issue-specific ad, press secretary Sarah Pompei answered, "There will be many different proposals for how to accomplish these goals" of cutting spending.
Poizner has estimated that his plan for overhauling CalWORKs and reducing caseloads would save the state $3.35 billion over 18 months. The plan would divert much of the federal money that the state receives for welfare to other social services.
What both candidates point out is that the state claims about a third of the country's welfare cases while holding about a tenth of the total U.S. population.
One key difference is the fact that California offers a "safety net" many other states don't for children whose parents have lost their benefits.
Whitman doesn't mention in her ad that about 40 percent of welfare recipients in the state are children.
Poizner has proposed cutting aid to the entire family when the adult recipient doesn't follow program rules.
"We're concerned about making sure that kids are taken care of but we're also concerned that adults might be using their children as a way to get at welfare benefits themselves," Poizner said. "There's a lot of fraud in the system because of exploiting kids."
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"Did you know that California has twice the population of New York, but five times as many welfare cases? Thirty-two percent of all welfare caseloads in America are here in California."
LA is also home to the largest homeless population, and everyone knows drug-addicted people can't possibly work. I know, let's legalize them! (sarc)
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has already proposed making cuts to CalWORKs that include lowering grant levels and eliminating aid to legal, non-citizen immigrants who have lived in the country for less than five years.
I take it these legal non-citizen immigrants on the dole are refugees sent and vetted by the UN. WFP donations are down so expect more to arrive soon. And again, Islamists don't allow women to work, even in aid distribution.
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The ugly little secret is that California has no intention or ability to stop becoming even more of a welfare state, collectively, as the default of the state government and concurrent city and county defaults will force the Obambi administration to prop up the state with other states money. Make no mistake, California is going banmkrupt, perhaps within a year or two, and when it does, what do you think this administration is going to do?
Rather that leave us to our fate (and God knows I'm trying to get out of here before it happens, Uncle Sam will pick up the tab.
Want proof?
The State Senate, in a state with an 81 billion dollar revenue stream this year and 102 billion in expenditures, teh State Senate PASSED a statewide universal health care bill that has an annual cost of $200 billion! Can you possibly need more proof of how insane the Democrats in this state are?
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See also PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > ITS NOW MATHEMATICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO PAY OFF THE US NATIONAL DEBT.
IIUC the USG must change the Federal Reserve system + stop self-destructive deficit spending practices, but it'll will still take a long Long L-O-N-G LLLLLOOOONNNNGGGG time for the US to gener recover from the extensive damage already wrought - IS AMER WILL TO CHNAGE + ENDURE WHAT MUST OCCUR STRONG ENOUGH!?
ALTERNATIVE > LITTLE-TO-NOTHING CHANGES AS PER PCORRECT, GOOBERMINT-N-POL WAFFLECRAT-HAPPY "SPEND, SPEND, SPEND" FOREVERMORE RESULTING IN EVENTUAL USSR-STYLE IMPLOSION OF AMERICA [2030-2050].
Lest we fergit, OBAMA BUDGET > US$1.0 will be worth US$0.25 Cents + US$0.01 US Penny come 2020 = US$0.26 Cents, of which the USG will have to spend US$1.77 to match the same Dollar FMV.
"SPEND, SPEND, SPEND" YEAR 2020 = US$0.26 Cents will continue to lower, while the US$1.77 goes higher - THE USG CANNOT CATCH UP, + CANNOT AVOID ANY SORT OF HYPERINFLATION-N-WORSE ECON PRESSURES, ERGO "JUSTIFIED" ANTI-US, ANTI-DMEOCRATIC, ANTI-CAPITALISM/FREE MARKET, ETC. NATIONAL-GLOBAL SOCIALISM-GOVTISM BY DEFAULT/DEFINITION.
COMMIES + TOTALITARIANS WIN > its only an issue of how RADIC ISLAM = GOD-BASED SOCIALISTS-GOVTISTS will react to the SECULAR COMMIE "VICTORY".
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The starting point, aides said, would be with the proposals that passed the House and Senate.
Ok, so Oflim-flama asks Republicans How do you guys want to lower costs"? But, at this point, tort reform, drug importation, and insurance portability across state borders are all off the table. You ever get the feeling the President may not really be genuine in his outreach?
Patrick Kennedy's outburst seems less reflection of Brown's candidacy than projection of the eight-term congressman's own woes. In May of 2006, Kennedy infamously crashed his headlights-off Mustang into a Capitol Police barrier. Appearing drunk to some officers at the scene, the congressman claimed he was "late for a vote" -- at 2:45 a.m. Kennedy nevertheless avoided a field sobriety test and received a ride home. The obligatory rehab stint followed, which was followed by yet another one last June. Atop bouts with cocaine, alcohol, and OxyContin, Kennedy has battled bipolar disorder.
Kennedy's bizarre behavior may have finally overshadowed his name and fortune. A poll released last week by Providence's WPRI-TV reported Patrick Kennedy's disapproval ratings at 62 percent throughout Rhode Island and 56 percent within his district. Rhode Island state representative John J. Loughlin II, a well-funded Scott Brown-clone who has hired several of the key operatives behind the Massachusetts Miracle, announced his candidacy against Kennedy on Thursday. Should the National Guard veteran win, it would mark the first Congress without a Kennedy in almost a half-century.
Even the colorful Buddy Cianci, the ex-con "Prince of Providence," mulls a run for Kennedy's seat. "Patrick is definitely, in my opinion, beatable. He's not as strong as he used to be," the former mayor of Providence told the Boston Herald last month. "He's had a number of problems that have distracted him from the business of governing and legislating."
That's a nuanced way of saying that Patrick Kennedy is a joke. And in the midst of a 13 percent statewide unemployment rate, few Rhode Islanders find it funny anymore to send a mentally-ill recovering drug addict to the House of Representatives for another term.
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Camelot was a myth to begin with, both the King Arthur version and the Jackie Kennedy version.
Tried to get John Kass's article on the passing of Ted Kennedy, which has some interesting points on the matter; and am getting an error message from the Tribune website. Try again in a day or two.
Gov. David Paterson met privately with key Democratic leaders about his re-election plans as questions swirl around the state capitol about a variety of unproven accusations involving the Democratic governor's personal conduct.
Paterson campaign spokesman Richard Fife said the weekend meetings and calls had nothing to do with the accusations but were "routine re-election campaign calls."
"The governor started making calls two weeks ago to step up his campaign effort and get ready to officially announce his re-election campaign," Fife said. "The calls were - and are - going well ... And then look what happens - a coordinated effort to stop him and spread rumors."
A Democrat close to the situation, though, said the meetings included discussions about whether Paterson would resign or announce he will not run because of the unsubstantiated claims in the whisper campaign surrounding the governor's behavior. The Democrat spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.
One recent New York Post article about the accusations drew a denial by Paterson's spokeswoman and a strong rebuke by the superintendent of state police.
"Perpetrating lies about the governor, his family and troopers who diligently perform their duties is a disservice to the citizens of New York," said state police Superintendent Harry J. Corbitt, a career trooper appointed to the top post by Paterson.
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It's the Chicago way. Obama has said that he doesn't want Paterson to run. The rumor mill is just getting started.
I have no particular affection for Paterson. He inherited a mess not of his own making.
On the other hand, I despise Andrew Cuomo (and his father). Andrew was, according to some sources, one of the leading causes of the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac meltdown, starting when he was Secretary of Housing under Clinton.
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The Democratic nominee for Illinois lieutenant governor has dropped out of the race less than a week after winning the nomination amid a political uproar about his past.
Scott Lee Cohen announced his decision Sunday night at a Chicago bar.
The pawn broker and owner of a cleaning supplies company won the nomination Tuesday. Since then, it has become widely know that he was accused of abusing his ex-wife and holding a knife to the throat of an ex-girlfriend.
The girlfriend herself had been charged with prostitution. He also admits using steroids in the past.
Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn, who would have been paired with Cohen on the November ticket, U.S. Rep. Danny Davis and Sen. Dick Durbin all had urged Cohen to leave the race.
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Too bad. The election would have been amusing.
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For a president who ran on uplifting themes like change and hope, Barack Obama spends an awful lot of time scolding Americans about how he hopes theyll change.
He has advised parents to "replace that video game with a book and make sure that homework gets done." He has urged members of Congress not to read blogs or watch 24-hour cable news. And hes challenged lobbyists, lawmakers, bankers, journalists, insurance companies and other heads of state to do a better job.
Hes prodded people to get off the couch, eat healthier and exercise more. Hes even suggested Americans buy stocks, U.S.-made cars and energy-efficient light bulbs, while cautioning them not to max out their credit cards.
At times, having Obama in the Oval Office is like having a really powerful Dr. Phil around.
But lately, Obamas tsk-tsking has gotten him into some trouble. At the very moment hes trying to recover his declining popularity and revive his party heading into the November elections, even some Democrats worry that he risks coming off not as the inspirational figure who galvanized the electorate in 2008 but as the embodiment of a dour Democrat that turns off some voters.
Dee Dee Myers, a former White House press secretary under President Bill Clinton, pointed out that, while Obama has long promised to tell people the truth even when it hurts, he needs to strike a balance.
"Part of what people liked about him during the campaign is that he talks to the American people like theyre grown-ups -- you dont have to pretend that you can eat ice cream and lose weight in order to be president," Myers said. "He did that during the campaign by appealing to hope. ... I think little of that has been lost."
Added Democratic strategist Paul Begala, another Clinton veteran, "You got to be careful about that stuff, or you become a scold."
Obama drew criticism for his unusual finger-wagging at Supreme Court justices as they sat in the House chamber during his State of the Union address. He also used the speech to once again press Congress to go public with its earmarks. And Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, Obamas fellow Democrat, recently told him to "lay off Las Vegas" when Obama urged fiscal restraint by explaining, "You dont blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when youre trying to save for college."
The White House says Obamas admonitions, whether to the Supreme Court about campaign finance law or to Congress about pork-barrel spending, are simply part of his drive to change the ways of the capital.
"A central part of the presidents vision for bringing change to Washington is fulfilling one of his earliest campaign promises: telling people not just want they want to hear but what they need to hear," said Josh Earnest, White House deputy press secretary.
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Considering how many of the dolts in his base never miss D'oprah, it's appropriate.
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After Obama told Senate Democrats to turn off the computer and the TV, Reid said he took the presidents advice.
Mr. President, youve told me, suggested: Dont pay any attention to the blogs, dont listen to talk radio, dont watch cable TV, said Reid. And I follow that advice pretty good.
No wonder Senator Fossil Reid is out-of-touch, he has no comprehension of what is happening in the world.
Harry, does somebody read a newspaper to you before you go to work every day ?
Hark! have those gales of laughter, Chinese accents
The Obama administration is proposing a new agency to study and report on the changing climate.
Also known as global warming, climate change has drawn widespread concern in recent years as temperatures around the world rise, threatening to harm crops, spread disease, increase sea levels, change storm and drought patterns and cause polar melting.
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Jane Lubchenco, head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, planned to announce Monday that NOAA will set up the new Climate Service to operate in tandem with NOAA's National Weather Service and National Ocean Service.
NOAA recently reported that the decade of 2000-2009 was the warmest on record worldwide; the previous warmest decade was the 1990s. Most atmospheric scientists believe that warming is largely due to human actions, adding gases to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas.
Researchers and leaders from around the world met last month in Denmark to discuss ways to reduce climate-warming emissions, and a follow-up session is planned for later this year in Mexico.
"More and more people are asking for more and more information about climate and how it's going to affect them," Lubchenco explained. So officials decided to combine climate operations into a single unit.
Portions of the Weather Service that have been studying climate, as well as offices from some other NOAA agencies, will be transferred to the new NOAA Climate Service.
The new agency will initially be led by Thomas Karl, director of the current National Climatic Data Center. The Climate Service will be headquartered in Washington and will have six regional directors across the country.
Lubchenco also announced a new NOAA climate portal on the Internet to collect a vast array of climatic data from NOAA and other sources. It will be "one-stop shopping into a world of climate information," she said.
Creation of the Climate Service requires a series of steps, including congressional committee approval. But if all goes well, it should be finished by the end of the year, officials said.
In recent years, a widespread private weather forecasting industry has grown up around the National Weather Service, and Lubchenco said she anticipates growth of private climate-related business around the new agency.
While most people notice the weather from day to day or week to week, climate looks at both the averages and extremes of weather over longer periods of time. And understanding both weather and climate, and their changes, are vital to much of the world's economic activity ranging from farming to travel to energy use and production and even food shipments and disease prevention.
Atmospheric scientists have long joked that climate is what you expect and weather is what you get. But greenhouse warming is changing what can be expected from climate, and researchers are seeking to understand and anticipate the impacts of that change.
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Mr. Karl has been accused of politicizing a government (CCSP) report on temperature trends. His role in the CRU emails (climategate) has not been fully explored.
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Also known as global warming, climate change has drawn widespread concern in recent years as temperatures around the world rise, threatening to harm crops, spread disease, increase sea levels, change storm and drought patterns and cause polar melting.
Don't forget to throw in the plague of locusts and all other maladies know to man--Except the data was fudged; the scientific process was corrupted in favor of the political process. G-d almighty; just what we need another frigging governmental agency (sarc).
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Here is a link to all the things that have been blamed on global warming.
NumberWatch is a website that tries to combat some of the pseudo scientific hysteria in the world today.
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Time to gas up my snow-blower. We're getting another foot of global warming tomorrow.
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Since Cap 'n' Trade 'n' Steal is dead in congress, this is a blatant effort to do it all through presidential fiat. Not laws, but regulations with the same effect. And since new regs can be declared almost instantly, even if hundreds are thrown out in court, they can be instantly replaced with new, even harsher ones. Then wait two years for the next court hearing.
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Did the author write this with a straight face? Does he think his readers are completely unaware of the string of scandals surrounding AGW "science"? You wonder why the MSM is dying.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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The Democratic nominee for Illinois lieutenant governor has dropped out of the race less than a week after winning the nomination amid a political uproar about his past.
For a president who ran on uplifting themes like change and hope, Barack Obama spends an awful lot of time scolding Americans about how he hopes theyll change.
