Yes, this is a war...

...only we're too chicken-hearted as a nation and as a culture to come out and say it.

Soldier beheaded in Islamist terror attack on London street:

The BBC reported sources had told them the men were shouting "Allahu Akbar" as they carried out the attack and had filmed carrying it out. 

One witness, called James, told LBC radio: "We saw clearly two knives, meat cleavers, they were big kitchen knives like you would use in a butcher's, they were hacking at this poor guy, we thought they were trying to remove organs from him"

"These two guys were crazed, they were not there, they were just animals. They then dragged him from the pavement and dumped his body in the middle of the road.

Animals indeed.

When will we wake up and realize that it's the Muslims who are the problem here!!?? Not the Mormons, not the Atheists, not the Catholics, not the Baptists, but it's always the frigging MUSLIMS!!

Monitor the mosques for a start. Start translating each and every sermon in each and every mosque, examine every book in every Islamic school, and take real action when they start calling for violence, or dehumanize women, or encourage wife-beating, or compare Jews to apes. Take away their tax exempt status. If they're not citizens, deport them. If they are citizens, throw 'em in jail for breaking the law, because last time I looked, inciting violence was a crime.

And for the love of the Gods if they commit an act of terrorism, CALL IT THAT!! Stop pussyfooting around because you're afraid you'll be called an Islamophobe.

Islamophobia in the defense of liberty is no vice!

Just like the Federal budget...

From CBS in Washington:

At the elementary school, Obama watched a group of youngsters learn to write about their favorite zoo animals and quizzed them on simple arithmetic. When one girl had a hard time coming up with the answer to one equation, Obama said in a sympathetic tone that “subtraction is tougher than addition.”

Indeed. 

FBI can search GMail, Yahoo, Facebook without warrant

I might just have to consider moving my email to Outlook or Firebird. Thanks to the Tea Party Economist for pointing this out:

If you store your emails for over 180 days, the FBI says it can legally monitor them without a warrant. ... An FBI “Operations Guide” makes exemptions for any email that stored by a service provider for more than 180 days. It says: “[I]f the contents of an unopened message are kept beyond six months or stored on behalf of the customer after the e-mail has been received or opened, it should be treated the same as a business record in the hands of a third party, such as an accountant or attorney."

Because the emails aren't being stored on your home computer, but rather on a server somewhere out on the web, the FBI says it's not an invasion of privacy for them to read them.

That's like saying it's not an invasion of privacy for them to search your luggage because it's in a hotel room, rather than your house.

This is insane, and we need to stand up and tell the FBI to stop skirting the Constitution and honor our rights.

You want immigration reform? You get a biometric database of all Americans.

Kudos to Wired for bringing this one to light:

Buried in the more than 800 pages of the bipartisan legislation (.pdf)  is language mandating the creation of the innocuously-named “photo tool,” a massive federal database administered by the Department of Homeland Security and containing names, ages, Social Security numbers and photographs of everyone in the country with a driver’s license or other state-issued photo ID.

Yes, you read that right. A central database run by the Federal government that contains all your vital information, including your photograph. And you can't get a job unless your potential employer checks with this database.

And, as a by-product of such a check, the Federal government would then know not just where you work (which they already do because of income tax withholding), but where you've applied for a job.

That's right. You apply for a job as a mechanic at the local body shop, and the Federal government has to give its approval. If that doesn't share the living piss out of you, it should.

Where in the Constitution is that authority given to the government? I'm very sure I have a right to privacy. Didn't the Supreme Court say that I do in 1973? The 10th Amendment says I do by default, because nowhere in the Constitution does it say I don't:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

The American people should rise up and stop this insidious piece of legislation now. Stop the march towards control over every aspect of our lives from Washington. Big Brother would have drooled at the prospect of having these sorts of powers.

EU Wants to Criminalize Plant Breeding

No, seriously. According to a proposed regulation, it would be

illegal to "grow, reproduce or trade" any vegetable seeds that have not been "tested, approved and accepted" by a new EU bureaucracy named the "EU Plant Variety Agency."

Seriously. Something that humans have been doing for tens of thousands of years; cross-breeding plants, creating new strains of vegetables, fruits, and grains, will now be illegal unless it's approved by some bureaucrat in Brussels.

This compulsion to control every aspect of other peoples' lives has got to stop!!! 

The Left doesn't have a monopoly on Civil Disobedience...

From CNS:

Libertarian activist and radio host, Adam Kokesh plans to lead an armed march on Washington, D.C. this Independence Day.

Launched as a group on Facebook, the "Open Carry March on Washington" hopes to get 1,000 supporters to march into the nation's capital with loaded rifles.

The group plans to meet at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.  From there, they will march across the Memorial Bridge into Washington, D.C. and continue down Independence Avenue.

While Virginia permits open carry, Washington, D.C. does not issue any permit/licenses to carry a firearm.

The Facebook page states:

"This is an act of civil disobedience, not a permitted event. We will march with rifles loaded & slung across our backs to put the government on notice that we will not be intimidated & cower in submission to tyranny."

We Need Dice Control, and We Need it Now!

Just take a look at these stories:

Dice game takes violent turn (Springfield, IL)

Arrest made at dice game (Carbondale, IL)

Twenty-one year prison sentence for dice game killer (Westwood, OH)

Youth killed at dice game 4 blocks from President Obama's Chicago home (Chicago, IL)

Man killed in dice game (Rochester, NY)

The list goes on and on. Fortunately, while WAFF reminds us that dice games may in many cases already be illegal, it's clear that our current Federal, State, and local anti-dice laws are simply not working. What is needed is comprehensive dice legislation, starting by closing the so-called "Gencon loophole" where thugs can purchase dice at Dungeons and Dragons conventions without any sort of background check whatsoever.

Clearly when our Founding Fathers left open the door to games involving dice, theirs was an Eighteenth century perspective. At the time, with only the experience of knucklebones made from sheep bones, and primitive hand-carved wooden dice, they could never have foreseen the scourge of modern-day precision-milled and cast plastic and metal dice, which are capable of inflicting great injury if propelled with sufficient force.

I hope you will all join me in calling for a crackdown on dice and dice games so that our children can once more be safe whilst playing Monopoly.