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There's an upcoming trial in New York City involving a gun shop owner who was sued by the city. But in this trial, lawyers for Mayor Bloomberg are asking the judge to ban any reference to the Second Amendment during the trial.

What the hell? We're supposed to be a nation of laws, and these LAWyers want any mention of the supreme law of the land barred from a legal proceeding?

The trial is set to start May 27. It actually involved a gun shop here in our home state of Georgia called Adventure Outdoors. New York City is claiming that this store is responsible for a disproportionate number of firearms recovered from New York City criminals. This isn't the only gun shop New York City is taking to task ... this is just one of 27 out-of-state gun shops being sued by New York City.

In this case a motion has been filed for Judge Jack Weinstein not to allow the store's lawyers to argue that the suit infringes on any Second Amendment rights of the gun store or its customers. Bloomberg's lawyer who filed the motion is seeking a ban on "any references" to the amendment. The brief says, "Any references by counsel to the Second Amendment or analogous state constitutional provisions are likewise irrelevant."

We're talking Bill Ayers here. In Obama's words, "just a guy who lives in my neighborhood." Right. A guy who lives in his neighborhood and who likes to stomp on the American flag. There's a picture going around the Internet showing Ayers standing on an American flag. This was at the same time Ayers and Obama were serving together on some foundation board, and while Ayers was helping Obama with his state senate campaign. Help like that I wouldn't need.

Is this man being paid by the Clinton campaign or the McCain campaign? Has to be Clinton ... McCain doesn't really appear to be ready to fight that hard for the presidency.

The more we hear from this jerk the more we understand his deep hatred for this country and all that it stands for. He compares the U.S. Marine Corps to Roman Legionnaires. He compares the U.S. Flag to the Al Qaeda Flag – and who knew they had a flag? Did you know that the United States is a terrorist nation? Why it must be, because Jeremiah Wright say's it is so! Then after 9/11 he comes out with that line about America's chickens coming home to roost. He credits that line to the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and points out that the ambassador was white and "not a black militant." It turns out that our Ambassador never made those comments at all. What's the deal? A lie or a mistake?

Then suddenly Jeremiah Wright becomes not just a black pastor ... he becomes the black church in America! He told that crowd at the National Press Club yesterday that this isn't an attack on Jeremiah Wright, it's "an attack on the black church!" Who knew! Can this man's ego get any bigger? Now he's the black church? Look; a lot of you have attended black churches, and you most likely didn't hear any of the venom spewed by Jeremiah Wright. Fact is ... he's just one angry preacher from Chicago who is enjoying his 15 minutes of fame and is just by-God determined to turn it into something more. I wonder what speaker's bureau he has signed up with.

The teacher's unions constitute the greatest long-term threat to our nation. These teachers are so afraid of competition and losing their tax-payer funded salaries, and they have little invested interest in actually producing a knowledgeable generation of competent students. Because of teacher's unions we have little chance of getting any competitive influences working in our vast government education bureaucracy. Without competition there is no excellence. Government education was iffy to begin with, teacher's unions have only guaranteed failure.

 An adjunct fellow of the Manhattan Institute has compiled some of the most comprehensive research on how immigrants and illegal immigrants are really affecting America. Here are some of the lowlights.

American taxpayers are coughing up more than $9,000 a year in cash or benefits to each immigrant this country. One third (and I think this number is low) of those immigrants are illegal. So there are 37 million criminal immigrants in the United States. This means that the national cost of immigrants and illegal immigrants in this country last year was more than $346 billion – twice the fiscal deficit. The author of the research, Edwin S. Rubenstein, says this is because "Immigrants are poorer, pay less tax and are more likely to receive public benefits than natives." Wow. I'll alert the media.

When it comes to the financial burden on our government schools, 3.8 million immigrants – I'm guessing the majority are illegal -- are enrolled in the most expensive government classes – non-English speaking. They are the most expensive because they require schools to hire specialized teachers, to train those teachers, and absorb the administrative costs. It is estimated that $1,030 is spent on each immigrant or illegal in government schools ... that's about $3.9 billion.

Want more on that government education you are so in love with? Of the 48.4 million government school children in this country, 19% are immigrants or children of immigrants. But get this, in the next few years, immigration will account for virtually all increases in government school spending.

So how about all of those criminal aliens sitting in US jails? It costs US taxpayers $1.5 billion to incarcerate 267,000 criminal aliens in federal prison for a year. Even worse, since prisons are overcrowded, 80,000 to 100,000 criminal aliens have been prematurely released back onto the streets. These criminals impose heavy costs on their victims. The research estimates that the loss of income and property, hospital bills and emotion suffering at the hands of immigrants and illegal totals $1.6 million per victim.

Many people will try and tell you that immigrant households don't receive government benefits ... not so. Almost 25% of immigrant households receive Medicaid. Compare that number to the number of native-born Americans that receive Medicaid – 14.8%. Hispanics account for 19.2% of Medicaid enrollment, even though they are only 13.7% of the population.

And here's something that few people will talk about – immigrant workers actually depress the wages received by native-born Americans. This causes a $100 billion shortfall in federal tax revenue. If the labor force from immigration increases by 10%, this reduces the wages of native-born Americans by over 5%.

Lovely, don't you think? Yet we can't get the politicians in Washington to do anything really meaningful about the invasion.

OIL NEARS $117 A BARREL ...

The first thing we should do about the oil situation is Drill in ANWR Tap the known reserves of oil and natural gas off the West coast of Florida Develop ways to use the oil shale from the Western United States Develop coal gasification techniques Build more refineries Build nuclear power plants Something else And our "friends" the Saudis are balking at increasing production. So while they continue to screw with us on oil ... let's be sure to respond here in this country by:

1. Refusing to drill in ANWR for more oil in the very portion of ANWR that was set aside for the purpose of drilling for more oil.
2. Refuse to tap the known reserves of oil and natural gas off the West coast of Florida because, after all, we certainly don't want tourists in Florida to catch sight of a drilling rig 25 miles off shore now do we?
3. Refuse to develop ways to use the oil shale from the Western United States.
4. Refuse to develop coal gasification techniques.
5. Refuse to build any more refineries in the United States.
6. Listen to the anti-nuke moonbats and continue to delay building some nuclear power plants.

And while we're doing all of these things let's make sure to keep the subsidies for ethanol at a ridiculous high so that we can take more land out of food production to grow more corn to be turned into an alternative fuel. We burn more than a gallon of fossil fuels to produce a gallon of ethanol .. so this sounds like a good bet to me!

Oh ... and let's continue to call the Saudis our friends and kiss their sandy butts at every possible opportunity.

There you have it folks. Barack Obama believes that taxes serve purposes other than raising revenue for the legitimate operations of government. He also thinks that taxes should be used to make things more "fair." In other words .. to take from the people who are making too much money and give to the people who are making too little. Or, as some of Barack's communist heroes might say, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."

Are you ready for a United States where politicians determine how much of the money you earn it would be fair for you to keep, and how much should just be taken and given to someone else?

If you are ... then Obama is your man!

And now for a bit of insensitivity ... A fatwa has been issued in Dubai to immediately ban the printing of names on labels of sample bottles. Are you with me here? This means that if your name is Mohammed and you go to the doctor for a checkup, the doctor can't ask you to pee in the cup and put your name on the label. These are the little bottles provided at hospitals and laboratories. And why are they so concerned about names on these medical bottles? Because the Dubai Islamic Affairs Department does not want the 99 names of the Almighty God printed on a bottle containing urine or stool samples. This is offensive to Islam because it desecrates the glorious names of God.

Blowing your ass up in the middle of a group of women and children isn't offensive to Islam.

In Phoenix, Arizona the mayor and the police chief are at odds with one another over illegal immigration. In fact, the mayor is so upset with the crackdown on illegal immigrants that he has asked the FBI to investigate whether the county sheriff has violated any civil rights laws. He makes no mention, however, about the laws that were broken by the illegals who came to this country. The crimes committed by the soldiers of the Mexican invasion don't seem to bother Mayor Phil Gordon.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio believes that mayor is completely disconnected from the people he represents. My guess is that the Sheriff has this one right. So now the Mayor is going to Washington to try and turn the public against the raids. The Arizona Ecumenical Council and American Jewish Committee have determined that the sheriff's patrols are evoking a "police state atmosphere" and detaining people on the basis of a racial profile and dehumanizing innocent people.

God forbid we should ever try to enforce the laws in this country.

These qualities of hospitality, patriotism and endurance are exactly what Californians need to hear about Pennsylvanians. And when he spoke to a group of his wealthier Golden State backers at a San Francisco fund-raiser last Sunday, Barack Obama took a shot at explaining the yawning cultural gap that separates a Turkeyfoot from a Marin County. "You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them," Obama said. "And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

From the Huffington Post Blog, I can't beleave they posted a Anti Obama story with the vidio and tape of Barack Obama calling small town America a buch of racist gun totting hicks.

I grew up in small town Pa, and they are not anti-immigrant they are anti-ilegal alien hell half of the people I know from Pa, are the sons and daughters of legal immigrants. This is the final nail as far as I am concerned that Barack Obama is nothing but a socialist racist who like his preacher does not like white people.

Get the word out because the major media will not report this story so far it's only been on CNN Lou Dobbs Tonight. Read and listen before you let this Anti American win the White House.

These qualities of hospitality, patriotism and endurance are exactly what Californians need to hear about Pennsylvanians. And when he spoke to a group of his wealthier Golden State backers at a San Francisco fund-raiser last Sunday, Barack Obama took a shot at explaining the yawning cultural gap that separates a Turkeyfoot from a Marin County. "You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them," Obama said. "And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

From the Huffington Post Blog, I can't beleave they posted a Anti Obama story with the vidio and tape of Barack Obama calling small town America a buch of racist gun totting hicks.

I grew up in small town Pa, and they are not anti-immigrant they are anti-ilegal alien hell half of the people I know from Pa, are the sons and daughters of legal immigrants. This is the final nail as far as I am concerned that Barack Obama is nothing but a socialist racist who like his preacher does not like white people.

Get the word out because the major media will not report this story so far it's only been on CNN Lou Dobbs Tonight. Read and listen before you let this Anti American win the White House.

Yesterday the Florida legislature passed a measure that would allow most Florida residents to take guns to work. Naturally, they must have a permit to carry the weapon, but it will allow workers to keep guns in their cars for self-protection. Thus, businesses will be prohibited from banning guns kept in locked cars on their private property. And it will apply to not just employees but customers and invited guests to businesses.

Boca Raton Democrat Ted Deutch had this to say about the bill, "This is an attempt to trample upon the property rights of property owners and attempt to make it more difficult to protect the workers in a workplace and those who visit our retail establishments."

What dog squeeze. Look ... these workers have to leave the safety of their employer's parking lot and head home .. then drive back in the morning. On the way to or from work they might have to go into areas that are not, shall we say, exactly safe. They're entitled to defend and protect themselves from predators. I'm sorry, but the individual right to self defense trumps private property rights.

Notice that she's down here near the end of the Nuze. That's because she is finished. Done. Cooked. Toast. She can only get the nomination by stealing it .. something that, of course, is not at all beyond the Clintons.

So now there are really only three questions about Hillary that generate any interest at all:

1. When this is over will she finally end that sham marriage to whatshisname.
2. Will she become the Senate Majority Leader.
3. In four years will the voters of New York, realizing how they have been used, kick her out of the Senate.

We'll watch and report.

Stolen from some fark thread

American Airlines is having a bit of a problem as a good portion of their fleet is grounded while some wiring problems are corrected. And why are these wiring problems being corrected? For safety, of course. So the Fox News Channel cameras head to an airport to get the reaction of some of the passengers who were inconvenienced by the delays. In short order they stumble onto some bleached blond who says: "They're not thinking about us at all ... the passengers. I'm never going to fly American again."

Hey, you twit .. .these delays are for safety. Your safety. It is precisely you they are thinking about when they inspect these airplanes. Next time take the damned bus.