Through Ricketyclick, I found this interesting civics literacy quiz.  Go see how you compare to most of the college freshman and seniors today. I missed 4 questions, for an A. I missed 19, 27, 36, and 58.  It’s a sixty question test. I sometimes wish you had a pass a basic civics test to vote, but there’s probably no way to do that without it getting abused.
Category: Politics
I Reject Your False Messiah!
Crap like this scares the hell out of me:
Dismiss it all you like, but I’ve heard from far too many enormously smart, wise, spiritually attuned people who’ve been intuitively blown away by Obama’s presence – not speeches, not policies, but sheer presence – to say it’s just a clever marketing ploy, a slick gambit carefully orchestrated by hotshot campaign organizers who, once Obama gets into office, will suddenly turn from perky optimists to vile soul-sucking lobbyist whores, with Obama as their suddenly evil, cackling overlord.
Here’s where it gets gooey. Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in a new way of being on the planet, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help us evolve. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul.
The reverence of Ronald Reagan that you get from conservatives can get kind of old sometimes, but you will never hear something like this from a Republican or libertarian. We do not worship our politicians. We don’t want them to help us find a new way of being. We do not want them to help us evolve. Generally, we want them to leave us the hell alone to live our lives. Obama can try all he wants, he doesn’t speak to my soul. He is just a man. Repeat after me lefties: he is just a man.
I’d say thanks to Instapundit, but now I will have to spend the rest of the night trying to restore my faith in humanity.
Pro-Gun Bills Up for Vote in Senate
Looks like HB 1845 is going to be up for a vote in the Senate Judiciary Commitee next week. This includes the provision allowing carrying of firearms into Pennsylvania State Parks, prevents confiscations in the event of a state of emergency, and allows for sheriffs to issue emergency LTCFs for people who’s lives are actively threatened.
Let’s get this onto the floor and up for a vote in the full senate, so that we can get this on Rendell’s desk.
An Afternoon with ATF
Philadelphia Continues Its Lawlessness
First they pass gun laws which are illegal, now the Sheriff of Philadelphia has apparently refused to do one of his key functions, which is to foreclose on houses:
With the economy soft and thousands of Philadelphians delinquent on their mortgages, Sheriff Green this spring refused to hold a court-ordered foreclosure auction. His move raised eyebrows on the bench and dropped jaws among lenders and their attorneys, who accuse him of shirking his duty to enforce legal contracts.
When I was shopping for a house, at the height of the sub-prime business, I avoided it because it looked like a stupendously bad idea. Why not lock in a low interest rate for 30 years? If you didn’t think carefully, or read the fine print, why should you be able to evade responsibility for your mistake?
And before you say I don’t have a heart, and don’t care about poor people, how do you think those poor people are going to fare when no one will lend them money for mortgages, or other loans, because banks decide that making loans in Philadelphia is too risky because the law doesn’t apply there?
On Milestones
A lot of folks have mentioned that it’s momentus that for the first time we’ve nominated an African American to head up a major party presidential ticket, and I agree. But we’re not really past the whole race thing until doing that isn’t momentus, and, in fact, the person’s race isn’t even a campaign issue. We’re not quite there yet.
Vote for Obama
I’ve Got the Answer
It’s called security theater. It shows the guy inside that the police are serious, that he can’t win, and that he should just give up. It’s also very very fun to get decked out in surplus military gear and take the surplus M113 the feds gave you as part of their homeland security program for a ride. I mean, they gave it to the department right? Might as well use it!
Legality of DC Police State Checkpoint
Europeans Misunderstand America
They think the next election will be a blowout for Obama, and that America is a force for evil. I wonder if anyone sought out the opinion of european jews for that poll, well, at least the ones that europeans didn’t kill or drive off the continent. There’s plenty of evil to go around in this world, and Europe sure as hell isn’t exempt, and damn sure doesn’t get to look down on us.