Rep. John Murtha,(D)--PA, one of the most "ethically strained" members of Congress just passed away today.
It's not for me to judge, but this, following so closely on the heels of the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy, makes me wonder if we're not seeing some sort of divine housecleaning where our government is concerned.
I'm just saying... but if I were a politician who wasn't doing right by the people, I might consider changing my ways. These things always seem to come in threes, ya know. Meantime, I wouldn't be getting onto airplanes with the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Alan Mollohan, Charlie Rangel, or numerous other members of Congress.
On a serious note, my sincere sympathies go out to the Murtha family.
Showing posts with label Ted Kennedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ted Kennedy. Show all posts
Monday, February 08, 2010
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
when guns are outlawed, only felonious friends of Democrats will have guns
"Do as we say, not as we do" Example #647.
With our gun rights constantly under assault by Democrats (joined by a few traitorous Republicans), it's interesting to say the least that there is at least one group of people--other then themselves--who the Democrats seem to want to keep armed: drug-dealers with felony records.
Yep. In Delaware County, Pennsylvania, police were called to a rental car agency when employees there found a gun in a rental car that had been returned. Police determined that the car had been brought back by a guy named Andrew Cuff, and they discovered that Cuff was a convicted violent felon who was not allowed to own guns. They raided a garage of his and found more guns, narcotics, and $27,000 cash.
Normally this would not be very noteworthy, except that the gun in the rental car had been bought by and was registered to Edna Stockley, a Darby Borough Councilwoman and member of the Democratic Party. Police also found paperwork in her name for another gun, and when asked where it was, she first stated that it was in Cuff's garage, but then brought it into the police station herself.
The question now is what will the state Attorney General's, office do about this? This is a state well-known for tolerance of corruption by elected officials. But you can help by e-mailing Attorney General Tom Corbett's office at this link and voicing your support for a proper investigation and full public disclosure.
Personally I tire of Democrats telling us that we have to give up OUR guns in the name of public safety, all the while die-hard gun-banners like Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY)and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)own handguns and have permits to carry them, or have bodyguards armed with submachine guns like the late Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Chappaquiddick) did. Now we have a Democrat going into gun stores and buying multiple pistols then giving them to a drug dealer and convicted violent felon, all the while undoubtedly waiting for her chance to vote out of existence your guns and mine if given the chance.
In a related story, we now have a bill that has been passed in California which will end the ability of anyone in that state to order ammunition via the internet, phone or mail and have it delivered by UPS like the rest of us do. This bill, AB 962, now sits on the Governator's desk awaiting his signature or veto (or becoming law automatically if he does neither.) If it becomes law, I wonder how many Democrats will violate it either by using their political connections to get ammunition for their own guns or by selling or otherwise transferring ammunition to their felon or illegal alien friends and supporters. It is California, after all, and Democrats aren't exactly known for abiding by the laws that they impose on the rest of us.
EDIT: I had previously identified A.G. Tom Corbett as a Democrat, but a commenter pointed out that I was misinformed. I checked, and shame on me--I was. My apologies to Mr. Corbett.
With our gun rights constantly under assault by Democrats (joined by a few traitorous Republicans), it's interesting to say the least that there is at least one group of people--other then themselves--who the Democrats seem to want to keep armed: drug-dealers with felony records.
Yep. In Delaware County, Pennsylvania, police were called to a rental car agency when employees there found a gun in a rental car that had been returned. Police determined that the car had been brought back by a guy named Andrew Cuff, and they discovered that Cuff was a convicted violent felon who was not allowed to own guns. They raided a garage of his and found more guns, narcotics, and $27,000 cash.
Normally this would not be very noteworthy, except that the gun in the rental car had been bought by and was registered to Edna Stockley, a Darby Borough Councilwoman and member of the Democratic Party. Police also found paperwork in her name for another gun, and when asked where it was, she first stated that it was in Cuff's garage, but then brought it into the police station herself.
Darby Borough, already ravaged by gun violence, was rocked yesterday by news that a convicted felon may have been in possession of handguns registered to borough Councilwoman Edna Stockley.Stockley has been interviewed by the police several times, and she keeps giving inconsistent stories when asked to explain how her gun wound up beneath the seat of this drug dealer's car. She's also now blaming the police and her political opponents for the release of this story, again without explaining how this gun and possibly one other that was bought by and registered to her wound up in the possession of this criminal that she's apparently shacking up with.
Andrew Cuff, 52, who has aggravated assault and firearms convictions, was arrested yesterday after police had searched his Mulberry Street garage last week and found two shotguns, drugs and $27,000 in cash.
But they also discovered gun paperwork - filled out by Stockley - for two 9mm pistols, said Darby police Chief Robert Smythe.
One of those guns was found last week under the driver's seat of a car that Cuff had returned to Enterprise Rent-A-Car in Philadelphia, Smythe said. Cuff's criminal record prohibits him from possessing a firearm.
The company turned the gun over to investigators from Philadelphia's gun-violence task force, who determined that it belonged to Stockley. She told investigators that it fell out of her purse when she was in the rental car with Cuff, Smythe said.
When asked about a second 9mm she owned, Stockley first said it was in Cuff's garage, but later brought it to police and said her brother – a borough constable – had it, according to Smythe.
Smythe said his department is not investigating Stockley because it would be a conflict of interest. He said that the case was turned over to the state Attorney General's Office. But the attorney general's spokesman, Kevin Harley, said last night that his office is not investigating Stockley.
Stockley, a Democrat elected in 2007, did not return a message left on her cell phone yesterday.
Paula Brown, Darby's former mayor and Stockley's political ally, denied Smythe's claim that Cuff is Stockley's boyfriend and accused Darby police of targeting Stockley because she has been critical of the department's payroll practices.
Smythe said politics played no role in the investigation.
"At some point in time," Smythe said, "she has to explain why she doesn't have the guns that are registered to her."
The question now is what will the state Attorney General's, office do about this? This is a state well-known for tolerance of corruption by elected officials. But you can help by e-mailing Attorney General Tom Corbett's office at this link and voicing your support for a proper investigation and full public disclosure.
Personally I tire of Democrats telling us that we have to give up OUR guns in the name of public safety, all the while die-hard gun-banners like Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY)and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)own handguns and have permits to carry them, or have bodyguards armed with submachine guns like the late Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Chappaquiddick) did. Now we have a Democrat going into gun stores and buying multiple pistols then giving them to a drug dealer and convicted violent felon, all the while undoubtedly waiting for her chance to vote out of existence your guns and mine if given the chance.
In a related story, we now have a bill that has been passed in California which will end the ability of anyone in that state to order ammunition via the internet, phone or mail and have it delivered by UPS like the rest of us do. This bill, AB 962, now sits on the Governator's desk awaiting his signature or veto (or becoming law automatically if he does neither.) If it becomes law, I wonder how many Democrats will violate it either by using their political connections to get ammunition for their own guns or by selling or otherwise transferring ammunition to their felon or illegal alien friends and supporters. It is California, after all, and Democrats aren't exactly known for abiding by the laws that they impose on the rest of us.
EDIT: I had previously identified A.G. Tom Corbett as a Democrat, but a commenter pointed out that I was misinformed. I checked, and shame on me--I was. My apologies to Mr. Corbett.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Ode to Senator Kennedy
I really wasn't going to go here since everyone else on the internet is already writing about the passing of Ted Kennedy, but I changed my mind and will write a few words simply because everyone else is doing it. Like the death of Michael Jackson, this is becoming an event that is part circus and part train-wreck, and no one can look away no matter how badly they want to.
First of all, I do want to extend my sincerest sympathy to the Kennedy family and close friends. a death is still a death, and it's hard for those left behind.
That said however, I never had any reason to agree with Edward Kennedy politically. Be it military spending, government spending in general, the nuclear freeze, tax cuts, immigration, or almost any other issue important to me and most Americans who understand what this country is supposed to be about, was always on the wrong side of the issue. He tirelessly championed on behalf of illegal aliens, welfare recipients and union fatcats, but only when he could give them things that the rest of us would have to pay for. In fact, Ted Kennedy will never be remembered for his personal charitable giving; he only gave freely when it was our money in his hand. In fact, anything that the people wanted was irrelevant if it came at a cost to him. Take, for example, the time that his neighbours and constituents fought to get a wind farm built off-shore in Nantucket Sound to break the area’s dependence on coal-fired power plants. The project ultimately succeeded but it did so not with the help of Ted Kennedy but in spite of his opposition. He and the rest of the Kennedy clan fought it and worked hard to scuttle it despite overwhelming public demand because it would have been built in an area where the Kennedy family liked to go sailing and yachting. Talk about bourgeois.
Politically, he was the anti-Reagan. He fought to put government in charge of everything and worked to eliminate concepts like self-reliance, personal responsibility, and any stigma associated with being a worthless welfare recipient.
Beyond that, I also cannot forget that it was he who destroyed the integrity that used to surround judicial appointments to the Supreme Court and other federal courts by politicizing the hearings and attacking Judge Bork personally in an effort to keep that highly-qualified jurist off of the Court for purely partisan reasons. That outrageous conduct by Kennedy changed the very nature of the nominating process and it's become the norm today. Supreme Court nominations have never been the same since, and we now get second-tier justices like Sotomayor as a result. Thanks, Senator Kennedy. He was also slanderously vicious towards other fine Americans, notably President Reagan, Ed Meese, and Lt. Col. Oliver North. Kennedy, when he had a microphone in front of him and a political target in sight, was seldom nice or kind.
And politics aside, I can't help but remember him as a guy who had no personal sense of ethics.
--He got caught cheating at Harvard, and was subsequently expelled.
--He ran away from a drowning girl and left her to die in his car while he hid for ten hours without even calling 911 because saving his political career mattered more.
--He staggered drunkenly around a Palm Beach estate with his pants around his ankles and now-Rep. Patrick Kennedy in tow as his nephew William raped a woman there.
I'm sorry, but the guy was not Mother Teresa, nor was he Ghandi. He was just a man, and deep down, not a very good one. And had his last name been “Smith” or “Jones” or anything besides “Kennedy”, odds are good that his public career would have ended in a jail sentence long ago. I can’t lie and say that I’ll miss him because I think that he did a lot more harm than good. 47 years was way too long for him to run amuck in the Senate the way that he did. It's also notable that in all that time, his colleagues never saw fit to nominate him to any substantial leadership post. Kind of tells us what those who knew him best really thought of him, doesn't it?
If there’s any justice in the next world, when Ted Kennedy gets to the pearly gates, he’ll find that St. Peter has gone to lunch and Mary Jo Kopechne is filling in for him.
First of all, I do want to extend my sincerest sympathy to the Kennedy family and close friends. a death is still a death, and it's hard for those left behind.
That said however, I never had any reason to agree with Edward Kennedy politically. Be it military spending, government spending in general, the nuclear freeze, tax cuts, immigration, or almost any other issue important to me and most Americans who understand what this country is supposed to be about, was always on the wrong side of the issue. He tirelessly championed on behalf of illegal aliens, welfare recipients and union fatcats, but only when he could give them things that the rest of us would have to pay for. In fact, Ted Kennedy will never be remembered for his personal charitable giving; he only gave freely when it was our money in his hand. In fact, anything that the people wanted was irrelevant if it came at a cost to him. Take, for example, the time that his neighbours and constituents fought to get a wind farm built off-shore in Nantucket Sound to break the area’s dependence on coal-fired power plants. The project ultimately succeeded but it did so not with the help of Ted Kennedy but in spite of his opposition. He and the rest of the Kennedy clan fought it and worked hard to scuttle it despite overwhelming public demand because it would have been built in an area where the Kennedy family liked to go sailing and yachting. Talk about bourgeois.
Politically, he was the anti-Reagan. He fought to put government in charge of everything and worked to eliminate concepts like self-reliance, personal responsibility, and any stigma associated with being a worthless welfare recipient.
Beyond that, I also cannot forget that it was he who destroyed the integrity that used to surround judicial appointments to the Supreme Court and other federal courts by politicizing the hearings and attacking Judge Bork personally in an effort to keep that highly-qualified jurist off of the Court for purely partisan reasons. That outrageous conduct by Kennedy changed the very nature of the nominating process and it's become the norm today. Supreme Court nominations have never been the same since, and we now get second-tier justices like Sotomayor as a result. Thanks, Senator Kennedy. He was also slanderously vicious towards other fine Americans, notably President Reagan, Ed Meese, and Lt. Col. Oliver North. Kennedy, when he had a microphone in front of him and a political target in sight, was seldom nice or kind.
And politics aside, I can't help but remember him as a guy who had no personal sense of ethics.
--He got caught cheating at Harvard, and was subsequently expelled.
--He ran away from a drowning girl and left her to die in his car while he hid for ten hours without even calling 911 because saving his political career mattered more.
--He staggered drunkenly around a Palm Beach estate with his pants around his ankles and now-Rep. Patrick Kennedy in tow as his nephew William raped a woman there.
I'm sorry, but the guy was not Mother Teresa, nor was he Ghandi. He was just a man, and deep down, not a very good one. And had his last name been “Smith” or “Jones” or anything besides “Kennedy”, odds are good that his public career would have ended in a jail sentence long ago. I can’t lie and say that I’ll miss him because I think that he did a lot more harm than good. 47 years was way too long for him to run amuck in the Senate the way that he did. It's also notable that in all that time, his colleagues never saw fit to nominate him to any substantial leadership post. Kind of tells us what those who knew him best really thought of him, doesn't it?
If there’s any justice in the next world, when Ted Kennedy gets to the pearly gates, he’ll find that St. Peter has gone to lunch and Mary Jo Kopechne is filling in for him.
Monday, March 26, 2007
Do as we say, not as we do?
In what's currently being described as "breaking news", US Capitol Police today arrested Philip Thompson, aide to Virginia's Democratic Senator Jim Webb, after he was caught bringing a loaded, unregistered gun and spare ammunition into the Russell Senate Office Building. Per News Channel 8, Thompson does not have a permit to carry a concealed weapon, but even if he did, no one is allowed to carry or possess a firearm in the District of Columbia. The last time that a legislative aide was arrested for this, it was also a Democratic Party staffer. That one was an employee of Senator Ted Kennedy.
What is it with these Democrats? They force gun control down everyone else's throats but then they ignore it when it comes to their personal actions. They want all of us unarmed while they and they alone carry guns? Hypocrisy, thy name is Democrat.
What is it with these Democrats? They force gun control down everyone else's throats but then they ignore it when it comes to their personal actions. They want all of us unarmed while they and they alone carry guns? Hypocrisy, thy name is Democrat.
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