But the *law* will keep you safe

SayUncle:

...a man with a gun and restraining order against him (illegal) violated that order (illegal) and shot his family (also, illegal).  Why, if only one more law could make it a bit more illegal, then it would never happen.

Via: Tam

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Tuesday morning web troll

RX offers up today’s (well, alright, yesterday’s) rhetorical question:

Why, when the Left made various attacks on the character and fitness-for-office of Condeleezza Rice, were they not a lynch mob?

Because it was them doing it?  Nothing new there...

Speaking of “interesting Times,” Seven Layers of Editors, Part mcmlxii:

Commenters... suggest the sentence is not outright deceptive, but perhaps “sloppily written.”
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I don't think that is just due to “sloppiness.” I think the sentence was edited and tweaked and sanded-off at the corners to permit just that [ambiguous] reading.

Because, you know what?  If they had just quoted the highly-quotable language of the petition -- no Deciding, no Gatekeeping, just the actual words -- this misreading wouldn’t be possible at all.

So why didn't they go with best evidence?  Why go with a sloppy paraphrase when the actual words in the petition are brief, clear, and completely to the point?

When the MSM does more work than it actually has to, I think that’s for a reason.  They are lazy, and if they’ve chosen to do the additional work to badly-paraphrase a document when the actual quote was short and involved less work in publishing, I think there’s a reason they suddenly roused themselves from stenographer mode.

More at kausfiles.com.

I'll take “Knaves” for $200, Alex:  Some post-racial rhetoric from Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope:

This was a lynch mob...  both Jones and the Barack Obama are black...  it was enabled by race...  crack is not just a drug -- it is a drug used largely by black people...  reminds those Americans who are still uncomfortable with Barack Obama that we have a black president...  He said it, though, in the language of his own community -- and that, at the end of the day, was his crime...  put back on the plantation...  next time we sense this happening we don’t fight back harder, faster, and in a way that calls a mob a mob, racism racism, and an attack on the president an attack on America.

Assuming this isn’t just the usual Lefty Oratorical Overkill (admittedly, a big assumption), does this mark Pope as a fool (for actually believing that the opposition to Jones was solely- or even primarily- about race), or as a knave (for playing the race card for lack of any real arguments)?
One encouraging sign:  The extent that Pope gets taken to task in the HuffPo comment thread.  Elsewhere: More on Trust.  Related: Judgment Day.  LATER (15:40): Jeremiah Wright is heard from.

Hey, Baron (“My meeting, My rules.”) Hill!

At town hall meetings on the health care issue, most Americans say it’s more important for those in Congress to listen rather than speak.

Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters nationwide say that it’s more important for Congressmen to hear the view of their constituents rather than explain the proposed health care legislation.
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The desire for Congress to listen may stem from the fact that voters believe they understand the legislation better than Congress.

Because more of them have read it.  (Rasmussen, via Crucis)
LATER (16:45), related: Baron Hill’s “This Is My Town Hall Meeting... I Set the Rules” Blow Up Goes Viral

R.S. McCain’s executive summary of the weekend’s Ace-Charles Johnson contretemps:

Any argument between a man and a woman will eventually reach the stage at which the woman’s key point is, “You are a bad person for disagreeing with me.”

In response, the man's argument becomes, “Why don't you shut your stupid mouth and fix me some biscuits?”

Which was essentially what Ace was saying to Charles.

Shot by shot: Ping. Pong. Ping. Pong. (Again). Ping. Pong. Ping. Pong.

Welcome back, all!

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Before that Labor Day trip...

Charles G. Hill answers your automotive questions.

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