NY ASS[emblyman] seeks to nationalize spleens

… hearts, kidneys, livers, and doubtless brains and genitals.

Of course, your guts have already been nationalized, given that you can’t sell them. This is “for your own good” as a market in organs would allegedly mean that you’d wake up one day in a bathtub full of ice, missing your left kidney. We forbid the sale of babies, too, and have “streamlined procedures” so that unwanted children can be adopted. Nevertheless, one regularly reads of babies being yanked live from their mother’s womb, with the mother generally ending up dead.

But this is a further wrinkle. So far, you still own your guts enough to be able to take them to the grave. And theoretically, under this law, you can still do so, if you opt out. But as Soja says, “It really is the Vampire State.” . I wonder if they’ll be claiming the blood, too?

Angel Adams and her 15 children

Last week, she said she had a right to have as many children as she wanted, even though she couldn’t support them.

Adams’ comments about social welfare agencies not doing enough to help was widely criticized during the past week. She doesn’t currently have a job. Her children were fathered by three men, including one who is in prison.

This woman is absolutely correct: she has a natural right to produce as many children as she pleases…and the natural responsibility to feed them. And if she doesn’t,  Nature has a natural right to take its course. None of that creates an obligation for the rest of us to feed her children. And if it takes the sight of babies dying in the streets to convince these brood sows of that, then that’s what it takes.

It’s a crime to be a criminal

As footage of the protest rolled, Nguyen explained: “The law makes it a crime to be an illegal immigrant.”

Well, duh! That’s perfectly true, if by “the law” we mean “American immigration law in general” rather than “this new Arizona law.” Migratory peoples aren’t “illegal immigrants” unless there’s a law making them illegal. Which there is, and has been for a long time.

All we have to do is adopt Mexican immigration law, and it will all be perfectly fair.

Sauce for the goose…

OK, we’ve had the arguments about the AZ immigration law that it just repeats parts of the US Code, that we all have to show ID, etc. And I have no problem with what I know of the law.

But to liberals, I ask: if it’s bad to have to show your documentation, then why are you being such racists about it?  If it’s bad for possible illegals, it’s bad for us all. So be consistent, and oppose it all. Don’t have to show your ID to vote, or to drive a car, or to board a plane, or buy beer, or any of the 101 “your papers, please!” experiences the average Joe goes through in a day.

Or is your problem that this might work, and there won’t be any more bus help for posh events in Chicago?

David Paterson: doomed to fail

“Whether the governor is David Paterson or Rick Lazio or Andrew Cuomo or Superman, we don’t have a structure that empowers a single leader to get his or her state out of a major conflict,” said Mr. Paterson, who isn’t running in November. “It’s kind of like being in quicksand. You can move around a lot, but it just makes the problem worse.”

That’s true. Statewide, they don’t have a citizenry that will do what needs to be done.  Maybe after the spiky-haired mutants rampage through Manhatten, it can happen. But as Brecht said, the folks in Albany need to dissolve the people and elect a new people, because those people aren’t going to get-r-done.

A few fries short of a Happy Meal

That best describes Ken Yeager, the Santa Clara County supervisor who wants to ban the inclusion of a toy in any restaurant meal that has more than 485 calories, more than 600 mg of salt or high amounts of sugar or fat — which includes all Happy Meals.

Let’s overlook for a moment that this is a slap at the parenting skills of every parent in the county, that it’s a violation of right-of-contract, and that it’s fundamentally mean-spirited to take toys away from children. Yeager cuts to the chase:

“We’re responsible for paying for health care in the whole county,” Yeager said. “We pay close to $2 billion annually on health care, and the costs have done nothing but rise.” A big part of the increase, he said, is costs related to obesity.

Follow the Benjamins. This is why Obamacare is such a disaster. Once your toe is in the cannibal pot, you claim control of the guest list, and over portion size.

If this guy still has a job next election, you will know (as if there were any doubt) that California is hopeless. The Ecotopian Revolution can’t come too soon.

War crimes from the Cold Civil War

I had sort of assumed that the Massacre of the Innocents at Waco was basically unplanned, that the Fibbies went in there to “finish things off” because they were looking bad, and didn’t think too much about strategy. My bad: look at this post at Volokh:

The plan Reno approved and took to President Clinton for approval contemplated the children choking in the gas unprotected for forty-eight hours if necessary, to produce the requisite “maternal feelings”. By taking aim at the children with potentially lethal gas, their mothers would be compelled, according to the FBI plan repeatedly defended by the Clinton administration afterwards as “rational” planning, to flee with them into the arms of those trying to gas them.

The effect of CS gas on an unprotected infant exposed for only two to three hours is discussed in the report; in that case report, dating from the early 1970s, the child’s symptoms during the first twenty-four hours were upper respiratory; but, within forty-eight hours his face showed evidence of first degree burns, and he was in severe respiratory distress typical of chemical pneumonia. The infant had cyanosis, required urgent positive pressure pulmonary care, and was hospitalized for twenty– eight days. Other signs of toxicity appeared, including an enlarged liver.

Why do I get the feeling that I am reading testimony from the Nuremburg trials?
H/T: New Paltz Journal

He takes after his mom

OK, this is scurrilous gossip, and I’m about the last person who should be spreading it, but apparently public policy is not the only area where Obama doesn’t measure up.

Snitker makes ballot in Florida

At a press conference this morning, Libertarian Party candidate Alexander Snitker, 34, an office supplies salesman, announced he has met the ballot requirements to run for the U.S. Senate — the first Libertarian candidate in Florida’s history to do so.

Snitker says his goal is to raise $2 million for the race, or about 10 percent of the other major candidates, Gov. Charlie Crist, former House Speaker Marco Rubio and Congressman Kendrick Meek.

The echo-chamber Republicans at AoSHQ are whining away, because they’re afraid of Rubio losing votes. You’d think they’d be happy, considering what an accomplishment this is:

Florida: The ballot access laws for third parties and independent candidates have been very severe ever since 1931. Since 1931, there have been only two third party candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives on the ballot and only one third party candidate for the U.S. Senate. There has not been a third party or independent candidate on the ballot for Governor of Florida since 1920. Currently, a filing fee of 7% of the annual salary of the office is also required unless the candidate is a pauper, while a third party or independent candidate for any statewide office (other than president) needs 196,255 valid signatures — no independent candidate in any state in the U.S. has ever successfully complied with a signature requirement greater than 134,781 signatures.

Whip o’ the morning

Rock on, Chuck [Schumer], rock on. You make that whiny thimble-headed gherkin from Minnesota who was foisted upon the upper chamber look positively deep-fried in gravitas by comparison.