The third time is the charm, I guess. Following two demonstrations of utter idiocy (re: Death penalty too harsh for for child rapist and bestowing habeas rights on Guantanamo detainees), the Nine Robed Arbiters Of All Things finally get one right: Court: A constitutional right to a gun

Answering a 217-year old constitutional question, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to have a gun, at least in one’s home. The Court, splitting 5-4, struck down a District of Columbia ban on handgun possession. Although times have changed since 1791, Justice Antonin Scalia said for the majority, “it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct."

Exactly. Had the Court ruled the other way, the Second Amendment would have been voted out of the Constitution by a panel of nine.

The good news:

Held:

1. The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home. Pp. 2–53.

...

2. Like most rights, the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose ... The Court’s opinion should not be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms...

3. The handgun ban and the trigger-lock requirement (as applied to self-defense) violate the Second Amendment. The District’s total ban on handgun possession in the home amounts to a prohibition on an entire class of “arms” that Americans overwhelmingly choose for the lawful purpose of self-defense. Under any of the standards of scrutiny the Court has applied to enumerated constitutional rights, this prohibition...would fail constitutional muster. Similarly, the requirement that any lawful firearm in the home be disassembled or bound by a trigger lock makes it impossible for citizens to use arms for the core lawful purpose of self-defense and is hence unconstitutional....

Had the Washington D.C. gun ban been allowed to stand, cities and states across this nation — with the full assistance of powerful, Leftist anti-gun organizations accompanied by their armies of lawyers — would slowly have begun enacting their own bans, with the eventual terminus of a nationwide gun ban, an ipso facto elimination of the Second Amendment.

Gun-fearing pussies across the nation would have seen to it.

You know this to be true. And so do the four dissenting liberal jesters.

This attempt to rewrite even a portion of our Constitution through a simple nine-person vote is tantamount to Treason.

Without the Second Amendment, all other Amendments — even the Constitution itself — are not worth the paper they are written on.

The U[seless] N[itwits] once again rolls over to their Islamic masters. In yet another imbecilic, anti-freedom maneuver, the UN sets about its merry and usual path of disemboweling freedom by cutting out the middle-man, removing all pretense, and going after free speech rights: Free Speech Dies at the UN.

The war against free speech is advancing rapidly: Associated Press reported Thursday that “Muslim countries have won a battle to prevent Islam from being criticised during debates by the UN Human Rights Council.” Council President Doru-Romulus Costea explained that religious issues can be “very complex, very sensitive and very intense…This council is not prepared to discuss religious matters in depth, consequently we should not do it.” Henceforth only religious scholars would be permitted to broach them.

Islamic religious issues (his words, not mine) are not very complex at all. Complete and total submission to a brutal, overbearing, and primitive semi-political complex (under the false guise of religion), or die.

See? Nothing very complex, very sensitive and very intense in that at all, is there, you bumbling idiots. No religious scholars needed to figure out the obvious, especially when Captain Obvious is punching you in the face, eh?

With this total and moronic capitulation by the pussies at the U.N., barbaric Islamic nations are free to continue the now-acceptable (via the outlawing of opposition) acts of female genital mutilation, stoning, child marriage and other sub-human and inhumane activities that keep their societies firmly anchored in the Mesozoic Era.

In the name of religion.

What the hell? I don't think I can recall a more evident mockery of common sense in the history of this planet. Well, second only to a tribe of people falling for the bullshit line of some egotistical, bloodthirsty bastard who called himself "Teh Proffit of Allah" (was that the first gathering of the U.N. [sub]Human Rights Council? Could have fooled me!).

Screw the U.N. They have long outlived their usefulness. I am both surprised and disappointed that the U.S. has not yet seen the slippery slope the U.N. is already heading down — head first and rapidly gaining speed.

In rebuttal, I offer up the following suggestion to the U[lulating] N[arcissists], next time you question the G-d-given rights held by Americans, please remember your very own words: This council is not prepared to discuss religious matters in depth, consequently we should not do it.

I, for one, will not submit.

UPDATE

A question came to mind after I posted this. That question is: Would the U.S. be given the same favorable protection of their own religious barbarity were they still practicing the drowning, stoning, hanging, and other atrocities against accused witches (and the associated lack of due process that went with all that)?

The latest Jihad Watch video tells you what you need to know.

Well done, Robert Spencer.

I am tempted to watch the clock to see how long it takes pansy-assed YouTube to take this video down because it may be seen as "hate speech" to those who wish to silence us — including the feckless PC-robot fucknozzles at YouTube.

Rage warning... Put down anything you are holding, now.

I'm sure we have all heard the story of the father [biological only] who stomped his little 2-year-old son to death. The SFGate has an article that attempts to unravel the limits of common sense: Inaction in boy's killing called justified.

The headline alone angers me. But the story is even worse. It is no more than a sissy journalist's attempt to rationalize and vindicate those who did NOTHING while a little boy is viciously murdered. It's almost as if this journalist is of the [wrong] opinion that we citizens should be meek little robots who only rely on our master's for assistance whenever one of us performs erroneously.

Did I really read this article correctly? The police say that bystanders who stood sheepishly by — deer in the headlights — for seven minutes as a lunatic stomped his 2-year-old son to death were JUSTIFIED in letting the boy die without raising a finger to help?

The town of Turlock and much of the rest of the nation was shocked when a 27-year-old man beat and stomped his 2-year-old son to death on a rural road. But what was nearly as stunning for many people was that none of the motorists and their passengers who stopped and saw the attack tried to tackle the man.

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Bystanders are justifiably scared and confused in such situations, the experts said Wednesday, and they lack the experience needed to respond with force. They can also be mesmerized by shock.

[Emphasis mine — Ed.]

Yep. I read that just about right. So, let me ask one question.

What … The … Fuck? What the hell has happened to our society where we can brush off weakness, and torpidity — doing NOTHING to save an innocent life — as ACCEPTABLE behavior? What kind of pussies has our society turned into? That's a rhetorical question. One look at our abjectly wimpified education system and you know more than you need — no playing Tag! We don't keep score because it might bruise some feelings! Don't spank your children!

One of the witnesses, Deborah McKain of nearby Crows Landing, said she was the first to pull up to the beating scene with her boyfriend, a volunteer fire chief who is 52, as well as her 20-year-old son, her son's wife and her son's male friend. They called 911 at 10:13 p.m., police said.

Four people arrive on the scene. Four on one. And one of the four is is a volunteer fire chief (who, after this little shenanigan should forever be banned from "serving and protecting"). Four against one sets up some pretty good odds that the boy could have been saved, had there been one pair of balls among them.

I was a volunteer fireman. I know for a fact that the chief is supposed to be a take-charge kind of man, able to make quick (and correct) decisions under extreme stress, able and willing to risk life and limb to save others. Not this dufus. I certainly hope no houses in his district ever catch fire, because Chief Thumb-In-His-Ass might be "frozen in fear", too shocked to do anything to save a life.

Over the next seven minutes, McKain said, Aguiar kicked his son at least 100 times as he calmly stated that he needed to "get the demons out" of the boy.

[Again, mphasis mine — Ed.]

Seven fucking minutes? Four people were frozen in sheer terror for seven minutes? Unable to move? Unable to rush the bum? Unable to draw a gun and blast the raging shitbag to hell? [Sorry. I forgot. These are the extra special breed of pussies we are talking about, here — The Kalifornia kind. Guns are too scawwy].

People who are second-guessing her and her family can "never know until they're in that situation," McKain said. "We would have loved to knock his head off, too, but we had nothing to knock it off with."

Yes. Yes you did, you bipedal sack of human waste. Four people. That's eight fists plus eight feet of justifiable homicide versus one cluefucked goblin. Any one of you could have ended the seven-minute show in a matter of seconds.

But you didn't.

Because not one of you had the guts to do a damned thing. Fuck You.

There is NO EXCUSE for these spineless wonders standing with their thumbs up their asses waiting on the police to arrive. May they all rot in Hell.

Hat Tip to Drudge.

The title of this link says it all: They Can’t Even Manage A Cafeteria, Yet They Want To Run Health Care.

HA!

This one is just too good to pass up. Seems that a large number of Senate Democrats have a point at which they stop being so union-friendly - when it comes to their own palate. There’s a great story in today’s Washington Post about the Senate voting to privatize the Senate dining halls and affiliated food service establishments.

The reason? The food and service were awful, and the place was losing millions.

Losing millions... of your taxes.

If managing their own restaurant is so much of an enigma for our Congress-critters that they are forced to surrender under the pressure, it can't be that difficult to extrapolate the absolute clusterfuck they will perpetrate with your health care.

Scary, ain't it?

During a House debate on the idiocy known as the Lieberman-Warner Screw America, Rep. Rohrabacher dons the "Armor of Common Sense" and wields the mighty "Louisville Clue-Slugger". With surgical and savage blows, Rohrabacher hardly breaks a sweat as he pulverizes the hideous beast called Glowing Bullshit Whore-ming into a puddle of steaming, reeking alarmist bodily refuse.

It's a long read. Be prepared (that means get a drink, maybe two). Here's some obligatory tidbits.

I would like to point out that before the introduction of cattle, millions upon millions of buffalo dominated the Great Plains of America. They were so thick you could not see where the herd started and where it ended. I can only assume that the anti-meat, manmade global warming crowd must believe that buffalo farts have more socially redeeming value than the same flatulence emitted by cattle. Yes, this is absurd, but the deeper one looks into this global warming juggernaut, the weirder this movement becomes and the more denial is evident.

One of my favorites:

I’m sorry, fellows. Do you really think the world is filled with morons? When it comes to bait and switch, used car salesmen are paragons of virtue compared to this global warming crowd. Excuse me. It’s not the “global warming” crowd now; it’s the “climate change” crowd. Of course, they don’t want any of us to own automobiles; so what the heck. They can act like used car salesmen because there will be more jobs for them as being advocates in the climate change arena.

We just need to ask ourselves, if a salesman gives a strong pitch and claims something that is later found to be wrong, totally wrong, when does one stop trusting that salesman? Then if he starts playing word games, changing the actual words that he’s using about the same product rather than just admitting an error, isn’t it reasonable to stop trusting him?

And on Gore's trickery:

Specifically, let me note that the film [Inconvenient Truth — Ed.] portrays a huge cracking and breaking away of a large portion of the polar ice cap. I have not seen the film, but I am told the scene is awesome and somewhat overwhelming, leaving the audience feeling that they are witnessing a massive occurrence, and this massive occurrence, of course, Mr. Gore conveniently ties to human activity, the human activity he wants to regulate and of course the human activity that he will profit from if we have this carbon credit scheme instituted by the various governments of the world.

Unfortunately, that view of the breakaway of the ice there in the Arctic is a total fake. It is not National Geographic footage of a huge breaking away of a portion of the ice cap. It is not firsthand, grand photographic evidence of the ice breaking. Instead, what the audience is looking at is an example of special effects. It was not the ice cap that was being looked at. It was Styrofoam. That’s right. Styrofoam.

Go. Read.

You're still here? Git!

If the D-Day invasion had occurred today, how would it be presented to the boob-tube sheeple of America by today's completely pussified, America-sucks, Left Media? Here is one thought (and it's pretty damn close):

The only thing missing was the reporter/interviewee sarcastically wondering where the Shock-n-Awe was. Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering Kaboom!

Today we recognize the 64th anniversary of D-Day, the first step in the liberation of Europe. Please take a moment to pause and remember those who willingly gave all in the name of liberty for others.

Somebody took the leash off the Imperial Rottweiler today. And it was a good thing. Misha rips into everyone who even entertained thoughts of novelty, apology, or guilt over the fact that B. Hussein Obama would be a good political candidate because he is [*GASP!*] black: Alright, Children, You’ve Had Your Fun Now

Why are so many of my fellow Americans so enraptured with joy and self-congratulation because of this nomination? Well, if you ask most of them I’d say, based on the nauseating column inches so far devoted to the subject, that “it’s because we’ve nominated a black man! Look at us! We’re wonderful!”

And…?

“And nothing! Look! He’s black, and he’s running for president! Look how un-racist we are! Yay us!”

Au contraire, mes amis. That, in itself, is one of the most sickening displays of racism that it has ever been my distinct displeasure to behold.

Think about that for just a moment. To choose someone (not just political candidates) where one of the primary qualifiers is nothing more than the color of their skin — in an effort to show just how un-racist you are — defeats the entire purpose of ending racism. In fact, it serves only to nurture more racism.

Perfectly stated.

It’s time to crawl out of the high chair and, on top of that, it really is a rather pathetic spectacle, watching allegedly intelligent people celebrating their own colorblindness by proving that they’re about the most anally color-obsessed fuckwhistles that this world has ever seen.

Bang on.

Speaking of color... Misha's polished and refined use of the invective is especially... well... colorful. (I couldn't resist)

Otherwise known as Pop Goes The Dumbass.

Hamas militant killed in explosion in Gaza City. The only difference between this incident and normal splodeydope behavior? Thankfully, no Israeli civilians were included in the list of casualties.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- An explosion in the house of a Hamas militant killed him and wounded 16 of his relatives and neighbors, health officials said Saturday.

Doctors say two are in critical condition.

How unfortunate that the Islamofuckwit couldn't manage to take out a few more of his mass-murdering buddies

The Palestinian Interior Ministry says it's investigating the cause of the blast at the home of Hamas activist Nader Abu Shaban.

Investigating the cause? The tell-tale spray of blood, tissue, and bones should present a very clear picture of the case. Don't you think?

Allow me to provide some alternative scenarios:

(a) During prayer ritual, victim did not maintain a safe distance between himself and the asshole in front of him after a previous night's meal of beans, broccoli, and crab cakes.

(b) Inflatable camel sex toy backfires while being "blown up".

(c) How many Mentos can you fit in a bottle of Coca-Cola?

(d) The evil Jooos! (the most likely outcome of the Paleoswinean "investigation").

Hamas officials say Abu Shaban was handling explosives just before the blast.

Duh. Ya think? It's not wise to rub your feet on the rug while handling volatile material, ya know.

The seemingly gleeful Islamic over-abuse of Canadian "hate speech" legislation — and the associated buffoonery of the Canuck-ian "Keystone Kourt" Human Rights Council — in the case of Mohamed Elmasry vs. Mark Steyn/Maclean’s is being live-blogged by two very generous bloggers:

Andrew Coyne   and   Ezra Levant

It is truly saddening, and nigh terrifying, to think that our neighbors to the north have allowed such an establishment as this farcical Human Rights Council (pronounced "Hurt Feelings SS" to grow into the totalitarian, extra-Constitutional monster that it has become. Some of the BS they are allowing as evidence is quite bemuzing.

If the United States stoops that low, the time for a new form of gummint will have already long past us by.

Grab a fresh beverage, click the links, and go read what amounts to the saddest, most frustrating, and sometimes bafflingly stupid comic strip you will ever read (not the bloggers' words, but the things they are reporting).