[Servant of the Cross]

Steyn ping.

[SIRTRIS]

>>>This is, declared NYU professor Jay Rosen, “the dumbest media story of 2012.” Why? Because, as CNN’s Howard Kurtz breezily put it, everybody knows David Gregory wasn’t “planning to commit any crimes.” CNN’s Howard Kurtz is off his game & dumb to boot. What's wrong w/ CNN these days, any check & balances going on there?

[KC_Lion]

To most media experts, a “high-capacity magazine” means an ad-stuffed double issue of Vanity Fair with the triple-page perfume-scented pullouts

Lols! I am not 4 sentence in and I already am cracking up at Mark Styen's Wit.

All good satire has truth in it and that is 100% right on!

[I want the USA back]

Just a minute. If Wayne Lapierre had held the same magazine, liberals all over would be calling for his conviction.

Liberalism = hypocrisy.

[556x45]

Intent in this case was possession, that was the criminal action. The lefties in congress specifically designed the law that way. Now one of their ‘useful idiots’ has become entangled in what was designed to catch us Bitter Clingers up short. Oh the drama!! Will be interesting to see how this plays out...keep watching page Z 99 for more details on how they sweep it all under the rug. Will be delightful to see the logically gymnastics used to let him walk but still vilify us Clingers. Te left is worthless!

[virgil283]

Thanks S/C---- Does it seem that we are headed for a two tier legal system, where you are prosecuted only if you aren't connected to certain political groups? This would be a way to keep out any who might challenge you in social or business ways . You see this in Latin America where the ‘unwashed’ are pushed down and not allowed to rise by denying the entrance into business or certain schools or even the opportunity to start a business thru endless permitting challenges...

[facedown]

Sometimes a society becomes too stupid to survive.

Or half of it, anyway.

[Corey Ohlis]

Why are only weapon-related items ever “brandished”?

[oldbrowser]

Sometimes a society becomes too stupid to survive. Eleven-year-old girls fined for rescuing woodpeckers, serving Marines put on the no-fly list, and fifth-generation family cats being ordered into separate compounds with “electric wire” fencing can all testify to how near that point America is.

Just think about that for a minute. Electing Obama for a second term pretty much puts a bow on it.

[LibWhacker]

Should David Gregory be treated more leniently than a domestic cat just because when Obama tickles his tummy he licks the president’s hand and purrs contentedly?

LOL!!!

America’s gun-crazed gun-kook gun culture

Thought Steyn was going to do one of his little pivots here and point out the people who really should be called gun-crazed gun-kooks are those one track monomaniacs who are insanely obsessed and preoccupied with guns; namely, elite leftists like Gregory.

[The Great RJ]

Gregory needs to be prosecuted under the District’s gun laws. He not only was in possession of the high capacity magazine, someone had to buy it and intentionally smuggle it into the District unless it was purchased illegally within the District. The NRA should be demanding Gregory be prosecuted for violation of local gun laws just like any law abiding NRA member would be for doing the same thing. To not prosecute Gregory would show the utter hypocrisy and absurdity of these gun laws.

[fella]

S O L O N The Lawmaker of Athens (died 559 B.C.) by Plutarch

Athens, unlike Sparta, was a money-mad commercial city. The constitution written by Solon mitigated the class struggle between rich and poor, and allowed for the growth of democratic institutions.

Solon was born into a well-to-do family of Athens. He worked as a merchant in the export-import trade, and he considered himself relatively poor. He did not worship money, as is evident from these poems of his:

The man whose riches satisfy his greed

Is not more rich for all those heaps and hoards

Than some poor man who has enough to feed

And clothe his corpse with such as God affords.

I have no use for men who steal and cheat;

The fruit of evil poisons those who eat.

Some wicked men are rich, some good men poor,

But I would rather trust in what's secure;

Our virtue sticks with us and makes us strong,

But money changes owners all day long.

Poetry was for Solon a way to entertain himself, and he also used poetry to give his ideas easy access to the minds of the Athenians.

The seven wise men of Greece were well-known, both to each other and to the general public. Anacharsis, who was one of these wise men, came to visit Solon in Athens. When Anacharsis saw Athenian democracy at work, he remarked that it was strange that in Athens wise men spoke and fools decided. Solon admired this man's ready wit and he entertained Anacharsis as his guest for a long time. Solon showed Anacharsis some laws that he was drafting for the Athenians. Anacharsis laughed at Solon for imagining that the dishonesty and greed of the Athenians could be restrained by written laws. Such laws, said Anacharsis, are like spiderwebs: they catch the weak and poor, but the rich can rip right through them.

[mylife]

Standard Steyn.
Keen eye and wit.

[Slings and Arrows]

"“Do you really think we want those laws observed?" Said Dr. Ferris. We want them broken. You better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick and you'd better get wise to it. There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now, that's the system Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Part 2, Chapter 3, Page 404

[Gay State Conservative]

Save for later

[Gritty]

Beautiful and right to the point!

[BwanaNdege]

Steyn’s command of the English language and of several others continues to enlighten and entertain me.

Here he describes the federal Fish & Wildlife officer issuing a $535 fine to “eleven-year-old Skylar Capo [who] made the mistake of rescuing a woodpecker from the jaws of a cat and nursing him back to health for a couple of days” as a “gauleiter”.

“Gauleiter” - What an apt term!

Definition of GAULEITER
1a : a district leader in Nazi Germany who served as a provincial governor
1b : a subordinate political official resembling a Nazi gauleiter in function or in autocratic manner
2: a person with an arrogant overbearing outlook or manner

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gauleiter

Ah, Steyn... Once again, out of the park!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The argument for letting him walk rests on his membership of a protected class — the media. Notwithstanding that (per Gallup) 54 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of the NRA while only 40 percent have any trust in the media, the latter regard themselves as part of the ruling class.

. . . which is precisely my point when I say that journalists do not respect the First Amendment as it relates to anyone outside their club.

And their “club” is defined by going along and getting along with the consensus of what is convenient for journalism as such. Which is how stories such as the Trayvon Martin case get fit into the standard "white-American-him-bad” template.

[GOPJ]

Check out link if you want to see Jay Rosen at his creepiest... (he’s probably worse in real life - but this offers a hint...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBFOmUXR080

[GOPJ]

Check out link if you want to see Jay Rosen at his creepiest... (he’s probably worse in real life - but this offers a hint...) New York Times folks in full bloom...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBFOmUXR080