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Only in Obama’s America: Man prosecuted for shooting bear to protect his young children

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 16 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Headlines, Progressives at September 1st, 2011 - 12:02 pm

This is about where we are with these imbecilic libturd lunatics running the asylum- The life of a female grizzly bear, endangered species or not, is more important than protecting the lives of two young children after it entered their backyard where they were playing and their father shot and killed it.

Not guilty plea entered in federal case of shot grizzly

Officials, many in community question prosecution of father

A Boundary County man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to unlawfully killing a female grizzly bear in his yard.

So many friends and family members showed up to support Jeremy M. Hill at his arraignment that the hearing was forced to move into a larger room at the U.S. Courthouse in Coeur d’Alene. Hill, 33, faces one charge of killing a grizzly – a federally protected species.

Supporters said that Hill, a father of six, acted responsibly in shooting the female grizzly on May 8, which appeared with two cubs in the yard of his home near Porthill, Idaho, while his children were playing outside.

“It seems unjust to me that someone would be charged when they were protecting their family,” state Sen. Shawn Keough, R-Sandpoint, said after the hearing. “I’m at a loss to understand why the U.S. government is pursuing this in the manner they are.”

After shooting the grizzly with a bolt-action rifle, Hill contacted the Idaho Department of Fish and Game.

“Jeremy did the right thing, he called Fish and Game,” Keough said. “I think that prosecuting this case really sets back the grizzly bear recovery effort. … People are saying, ‘Boy, if that happened to me, there’s no way that I’d report it.’ That’s a human reaction.”

Hill’s wife and six children – the oldest is 14 and the youngest is an infant – attended the arraignment. The family declined to comment.

A jury trial has been scheduled for Oct. 4. If convicted of illegally killing a federally protected species, Hill faces penalties of up to a year in prison and fines of up to $50,000.

The Hills’ Porthill home lies between two federal grizzly bear recovery zones – the Selkirk zone to the west and Cabinet-Yaak zone to the east. Roughly 100 grizzlies are believed to inhabit the zones, which include parts of Idaho, British Columbia and Montana.

Grizzlies are a controversial topic in Boundary County, where protecting their habitat has led to Forest Service road closures and some timber harvest restrictions. In recent years, a collaborative effort called the Kootenai Valley Resource Initiative has worked to reduce conflicts between people and bears.

Ronald Smith, chairman of the Boundary County Commission, said he’s dismayed that Hill faces prosecution. County commissioners support grizzly bear recovery efforts, saying a recovered population will ease land-use restrictions, but charging Hill doesn’t make sense, Smith said.

“Jeremy Hill … has been falsely accused of a crime that did not happen,” Smith said in a statement. “… We feel that at all costs, this man has the obligation and responsibility to protect his children. This is not some flagrant or malicious act.”

Assistant U.S. Attorney Nancy Cook declined to comment on the case.

Community members raised $19,558 for the Hill family last week at a 4-H animal sale in Bonners Ferry. Hill’s 14-year-old daughter, Jasmine, was selling a pig she raised named Regina. Bidders bought and sold Regina 15 times, with the final bidder giving the pig back to Jasmine Hill, saving it from a trip to the butcher.

“It was a statement – we’re with you, Jeremy,” said Rob Pluid, of Bonners Ferry, who helped organize the continuous bidding.

Accounts for the family have been set up at Mountain West Bank, Wells Fargo and Panhandle State Bank, said Donna Capurso, chairwoman of the Boundary County Republican Central Committee.

Meanwhile, Boundary County commissioners sent letters to Idaho’s congressional delegation and state legislators, asking for support for Hill. They also issued a news release, saying that Idaho Fish and Game officials had recommended against filing charges in the case, and that local U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials had concurred.

Chip Corsi, Idaho Fish and Game’s regional manager, declined to comment on his agency’s stance on charges, but said: “He had three grizzly bears in close proximity to his kids, family and livestock. He had reason to believe there was a threat.”

Joan Jewett, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Portland, said she couldn’t comment on the case specifically. In general, however, “we do an investigation and turn over our information and evidence to the U.S. Attorney’s office and the U.S. Attorney makes the decision on whether to prosecute or not.”

If you think 5000 new high paying, high tech jobs would be a good thing to the Obama administration, you’d be dead wrong

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 51 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Economy, Elections 2012, government, Politics, Progressives, Socialism, Transportation, unemployment, Unions at August 25th, 2011 - 11:30 am

I haven’t ranted about something that has really teed me off in awhile, but this has me steaming mad…and it should make you mad also. But unfortunately, it probably won’t surprise you.

As with almost everything that liberals claim they’re for, don’t listen to their empty rhetoric and platitudes, but rather, watch what they do if you want to get, as they say in court, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Take, for instance, Boeing Corporation, one of our nation’s oldest and most respected companies, and the largest exporter of American products to foreign markets, namely, its airplanes.

Its newest plane, seen above, is the 787 Dreamliner, and Boeing has orders to build over 850 of them, worth a whopping $165 billion dollars, but it’s three years behind schedule building them due to a myriad of reasons, mainly getting the thousands of parts being built by sub-contractors from around the world.

Boeing is now ready to start building the airplane, which will be the most fuel-efficient commercial airplane ever built, resulting in amazing environmental performance, and it will also the quietest commercial airplane ever built. And as for the “cherry on top of the cake”, the airplane will use 20 percent less fuel than any other similar plane currently being built.

Nothing its only current competitor (E.U.-based Airbus) in the commercial airplane design and building arena has rivals this extremely high-tech and fuel-efficient airplane, which explains why about 850 have been ordered by airlines all over the world, including most U.S.-based carriers.

So, in an attempt to catch up on the backlog of building these fuel-efficient planes, which the airlines want as soon as possible, with jet fuel prices being sky-high (pun intended), Boeing decided to build a second plant, in addition to its main airplane-building plant in Everett, Washington.

This plant would create, at a minimum, 5000 high-paying jobs for skilled employees assembling these planes, at a time when we have record-breaking unemployment and a dismal economic picture for the foreseeable future.

We also have a President, Barack Obama, who claims to care so much about creating jobs for American workers that he went on a bus tour throughout the heartland of America (on a Canadian-built bus) to push American companies to create more jobs for the American people.

I emphasize the word “would” for a good reason. Like I said at the top, don’t listen to liberals, like Obama, and their empty rhetoric, watch what they actually do, if you want to get the whole story. And the fact of the matter is the Obama administration is fighting Boeing tooth and nail, in an unprecedented way never before seen by any Presidential administration in decades, to stop the company from building this plant and creating the 5000 jobs that would go along with it.

So about now you’re probably asking yourself why would this President, and his administration, who all claim to feel the pain of the American people desperately needing and wanting good, high-paying jobs, not want Boeing to build this plant and create all these badly needed jobs?”.

The reason is a simple one if you use (warning: oxymoron alert!) liberal logic. You see, they’re not the right kind of jobs! Only in the (warning: another oxymoron alert) mind of a liberal could the creation of 5000 new, good high-paying jobs be a bad thing, especially during these extremely tough economic times, be worth fighting against by any and all means necessary.

You see, Boeing built this plant (and finally opened it in June, defying the administration and the National Labor Relations Board) in North Charleston, South Carolina, which is a right to work state, meaning that the unions that represent the Boeing workers in Washington, and have a nasty reputation for calling for their people to walk off their jobs and strike if Boeing doesn’t succumb to their extortion, would not represent these workers. The jobs would be high-paying non-union jobs.

And that is the problem and the only reason why the Obama administration, through the auspices of its National Labor Relations Board, which Obama has packed with union thugs who have donated millions of dollars to him and the democrats, are fighting Boeing every step of the way, and for the first time in modern American history, are trying to keep a privately-owned American company from opening a plant where it sees fit. This is truly unprecedented stuff.

As with all things liberal, its not about the jobs, it’s about them being the right kind of jobs. Just like with most liberals its not good enough just to be a black person or a female or any minority, you’ve got to be the right kind of minority- a female or black liberal to actually count.

And because this administration in particular, and the democrat party in general, are beholden to the union goons and their millions of dollars that are given to virtually only democrats in every election (even though a lot of their members are Republicans and resent this), Obama and his NLRB are still fighting against this plant, even though it’s already up and running.

And not only is the Obama administration fighting against these excellent jobs being created in South Carolina, which has double-digit unemployment rate that exceeds the national average, and also the highest black unemployment rate in the U.S.A. (and a lot of these new jobs would go to minorities), but the man Obama recently appointed to head his jobs-creating task force, Jeff Imelt, the traitorous CEO of General Electric, just proudly announced that his company, GE, is going to partner with communist China in building commercial airplanes in China, built by Chinese workers, to directly compete against Boeing and its American workforce.

So the next time you hear Obama or any liberal rant about the need for American companies to create good, high-paying jobs for American workers, like the disgusting race-baiting black liberal congresswoman Frederica Wilson from Florida, who claimed that the high black unemployment rate is due mostly to racism, take it with extreme skepticism, and think about all the excellent, high-paying jobs in South Carolina that Boeing wants to create, and that Obama and the democrats are fighting against every step of the way, by any means possible.

Seven Reasons Why Liberals Are Incapable of Understanding The World

by Bob in Breckenridge ( 4 Comments › )
Filed under Communism, Cult of Obama, Democratic Party, government, Headlines, History, Liberal Fascism, Multiculturalism, Political Correctness, Politics, Progressives, Socialism at August 23rd, 2011 - 2:36 pm

I could also give you seven reasons (at a minimum) why liberals are morons…but this one just about covers them all- “Liberalism is the philosophy of the stupid”- Mark Levin

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil. — Charles Krauthammer

7 Reasons Why Liberals Are Incapable of Understanding The World

Even liberals who’ve accomplished a lot in their lives and have high IQs often say things on a regular basis that are stunningly, profoundly stupid and at odds with the way the world works. Modern liberalism has become so bereft of common sense and instinctually suicidal that America can only survive over the long haul by thwarting the liberal agenda. In fact, liberalism has become such a toxic and poisonous philosophy that most liberals wouldn’t behave differently if their goal were to deliberately destroy the country. So, how does liberalism cause well-meaning, intelligent liberals to get this way? Well, it starts with…

1) Liberalism creates a feedback loop. It is usually impossible for a non-liberal to change a liberal’s mind about political issues because liberalism works like so: only liberals are credible sources of information. How do you know someone’s liberal? He espouses liberal doctrine. So, no matter how plausible what you say may be, it will be ignored if you’re not a liberal and if you are a liberal, of course, you probably agree with liberal views. This sort of close-mindedness makes liberals nearly impervious to any information that might undermine their beliefs.

2) Liberals sources of information are ever present. Conservatives are regularly exposed to the liberal viewpoint whether they want to be or not. That’s not necessarily so for liberals. Imagine the average day for liberals. They get up and read their local newspaper. It has a liberal viewpoint. They take their kids to school, where the teachers are liberal. Then they go to work, listen to NPR which has a liberal viewpoint on the way home, and then turn on the nightly news which also skews leftward. From there, they turn on TV and watch shows created by liberals that lean to the left, if they have any political viewpoint at all. Unless liberals actively seek out conservative viewpoints, which is unlikely, the only conservative arguments they’re probably going to hear are going to be through the heavily distorted, poorly translated, deeply skeptical lens of other liberals.

3) Liberals emphasize feeling superior, not superior results. Liberalism is all about appearances, not outcomes. What matters to liberals is how a program makes them FEEL about themselves, not whether it works or not. Thus a program like Headstart, which sounds good because it’s designed to help children read, makes liberals feel good about themselves, even though the program doesn’t work and wastes billions. A ban on DDT makes liberals feel good about themselves because they’re “protecting the environment” even though millions of people have died as a result. For liberals, it’s not what a program does in the real world; it’s about whether they feel better about themselves for supporting it.

Click here to read the other four reasons libs are incapable of understanding just about anything that normal people can.

We’re Still Fighting WW2

by 1389AD ( 71 Comments › )
Filed under Anti-semitism, Cold War, Communism, Multiculturalism, Nazism, Nuclear Weapons, Political Correctness, World War II at July 18th, 2011 - 8:30 am

Combat

by Hesperado

Someone recently remarked, in a comment at the Gates of Vienna blog:

“There is no more need of the UN – WW2 finished over 60 years ago.”

That got me thinking.

WW2 may have ended over 60 years ago — but the PC MC West (particularly in Europe) is still fighting WW2: that’s why we can’t begin to fight WW4.

Did I leave out WW3, my reader might ask at this point? No: WW3 was admittedly an unusual war where, although it did have its share of regional proxy battles, such as various guerilla conflicts in Latin America, Africa, and of course the gold standard of proxy wars (the Vietnam War), as a “Cold War”, no general military assaults and invasions took place. Nonetheless, it was a global conflict with the potential for horrific casualties using nuclear weapons.

However, PC MC in its revisionist history, stuck in a framework of perpetuating the WW2 paradigm — and enjoying mainstream dominance throughout the West in the post-WW2 decades up to the present — has ruled the entire Cold War a paranoid delusion pursued by excessively Communist-phobic right-wingers.

PC MC’s persistent WW2 paradigm thus has tended to undercut and airbrush out of existence our protracted victory in WW3, which began with the entirely legitimate activities of Joe McCarthy and the HUAAC in the 50s and ended with the policies of Reagan in the 80s.

Indeed, the PC MC mentality that derides the seriousness of (or even vilifies those who took seriously) Anti-Communism during the Cold War, is the very same mentality that now derides the seriousness of our concern about Islam. In fact, I have found that PC MC types often explicitly draw this exact comparison: “You’re paranoid about Muslims just like in the 50s we thought there was a Communist under every bed!”

Principally (and more acutely in Europe and the UK), the PC MC WW2 paradigm is based upon preventing “another Hitler”. I have no problems with trying to prevent another Hitler. The problem is how we define what this “new Hitler” will be. According to PC MC, it will have to be a white racist who hates Ethnic People.

The PC MC paradigm, stuck in WW2 mode, is thus directly preventing us from seeing the danger of Muslims, because by that paradigm the New Hitler cannot possibly be an Ethnic People (which is how PC MCs think of Muslims). Even to begin to go down that slippery slope toward thinking such bad things about Muslims is to end up becoming precisely the monster we hope to prevent: “another Hitler” — for the “next Hitler”, according to that paradigm still seeing the world through World War 2, would have to be a white racist “right-wing” Western demagogue, and his followers white racists (who, naturally, are assumed to be potentially a far greater danger than are Muslims). No other possibility is permitted within the Ideological Box of PC MC.

And if you try to point out the mountains of data indicating otherwise (i.e., Muslims all over the world publishing and vociferating militant hate speech — including the worst most chilling sort of brazen Jew hatred — when they are not invading, slaughtering and torturing non-Muslims or insufficiently “pure” Muslims out of supremacist motivations), then you yourself become suspect as an enabler of the specter of a “new Hitler”. And your concern, if voiced or published, threatens to be categorized as the thought crimes of “hate speech” which must be nipped in the bud — in order to prevent “another Hitler”.

Conclusion:

Thus, the bitter irony and bizarre paradox: Our dominant and mainstream paradigm throughout the West, whose raison d’être is to prevent a new Hitler is — precisely by doing so in the way it does so — positively enabling the next Hitler to rise up and eventually wreak as much, if not more, havoc as the original one did.

Further Reading:

For a more detailed analysis, see my older essay:

The Four World Wars: An Interesting Dynamic