Daily Archives: November 12, 2009

A racket suing the gov­ern­ment.  Ridicu­lous?  Yeah, but that was then.  Don Surber has a post which sug­gests it might be a pos­si­bil­ity today.

ACORN: We have the right to tax­payer money

NEW YORK — ACORN has been cut off by banks, the gov­ern­ment and most of its pri­vate foun­da­tion fun­ders, severely ham­per­ing its hous­ing oper­a­tions and rais­ing the pos­si­bil­ity that it will not sur­vive in its cur­rent form, accord­ing to a law­suit the group filed Thurs­day against the U.S. government.

The law­suit claims that Con­gress’ deci­sion to drop all fund­ing to the group and its affil­i­ates was uncon­sti­tu­tional because it puni­tively tar­geted an indi­vid­ual organization.

If Eliot Ness were around today he’d need a good lawyer.

For the whole enchi­lada go HERE.

I have read a lot of ques­tions being asked about Major Hasan. There have been ques­tions about whether Major Hasan was a ter­ror­ist or a dis­grun­tled worker or a maniac, even whether he may have been unduly affected by hear­ing unpleas­ant sto­ries and so was a vic­tim him­self. There are a few ques­tions I think take precedence.

If a man equates

a sol­dier who throws him­self on a live grenade to keep his unit from being slaugh­tered, and

a man who straps on a belt full of explo­sives, then:

What is he doing in the U.S. military?

What is he doing being a psychiatrist?

What is he doing being a psy­chi­a­trist in the U.S. Mil­i­tary about to be sent where he might end up coun­sel­ing peo­ple whose bud­dies may have been killed by guys with dyna­mite belts?

Have they changed the oath to “pro­tect and defend the Con­sti­tu­tion of the United States against all ene­mies for­eign and domes­tic if I don’t agree with their religion?

Sol­diers see, do, and suf­fer some ter­ri­ble things. How could the Army sub­ject a man with a psy­che dam­aged by such things to Major Hasan?

Specif­i­cally, in his new duty he was likely to coun­sel sol­diers who had been sav­aged by Mus­lims.  How, feel­ing that Mus­lims had a spe­cial duty to pro­tect each other, could he do his job?  How was it the Army felt he could do it?

Prob­a­bly more impor­tant to get very good answers to these ques­tions than to worry about what kind of label to put under him when he shows up on TV.

Demo­c­ra­tic Con­gress­man Zack Space has intro­duced leg­is­la­tion that throws a mon­key wrench into the Oba­macare debate. Space would cover ille­gal aliens — and then bill their home countries.

That’s right.  Send ‘em a bill!

Well, the coun­tries might want to know just who they were being asked to pay for, but that’d be no prob­lem.  Even if the peo­ple used phony names we could always find out their right ones by using their social secu­rity numbers.

H/T: Don Surber