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Why you are wrong on Amendment 1, the “Gay Marriage Amendment” (language warning)

Posted on May 2, 2012 by | 12 Comments
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Are you voting for or against the “Gay Marriage Amendment?” The latest iteration of this amendment is here in North Carolina. It reinforces NC State law that bans same sex marriage from being recognized. That State law could be overturned by the NC State Supreme Court on whatever grounds that they might dream up, kind of like how the US Supreme Court made up some silly reason why they should overturn laws against birth control. All they really have to do is squint hard enough to find an umbra or penumbra under an emanation and they can twist the Constitution into saying whatever they want to say. With this Amendment, the NC courts can’t overturn that law.
So, Yes, the State should recognize same sex marriages or No, they should not?
WRONG! You are so fucking WRONG!
Before we have a discussion of which side to take in an argument, we need to carefully explain both positions. We basically have two sides
A.      The State has the power to determine who is and is not lawfully married, and can not extend that to persons of the same sex.
B.      The State has the power to determine who is and is not lawfully married, and it can, must, shall extend that to  persons of the same sex.
You’ve got to chose one side or the other, right?
Fuck no you don’t! Look at the premise! Where did the a government functionary wielding a pen get the power to declare my marriage to my wife valid? Who gave that asshole the power to say anything at all about my relationships? Fuck him, his wife, his boyfriend, and everyone he ever knew! Get the hell out of my personal life!
When you start from false premises, you cannot possibly arrive at correct conclusions no matter what you end up deciding. The NC requirement to have a marriage license appears to date from 1871. So this State bumped along for 100 years in and out of the Union and for another 50 years prior as a colony without it being required for an official to issue a piece of paper calling a marriage valid.  Does anyone know what was happening in the 1871 time frame? Can you figure out what they were trying to achieve with this paperwork requirement?
In this we have two sides who are both arguing that the State has a power. I don’t believe that the State should have that power. Instead of having the reasonable argument of “should the state have the power to decide what is and is not a valid marriage” we are stuck arguing who gets in to the tent. It’s a classic way that statists convince two groups to fight each other while increasing the power of the statists.
-Some will argue that we need marriage licenses to prove to the IRS that you should be filing married rather than single.
Fuck you, fix the tax code.
-Some will argue that we need marriage licenses so that employers will pay for your spouse’s health care.
Fuck you, pay and benefits are a private contract between you and your employer. Figure it the fuck out without involving a bunch of assholes in the State House.
-Some will say we need marriage licenses to prevent too close of relatives from marrying or too many people from getting married to each other, or people of the wrong sex from getting married to each other.
Fuck you, MIND YOU OWN GODDAMN BUSINESS.
That’s the long and short of it. Get the fuck out of my personal life. You are too much of a pussy to do it yourself (this is a gun blog, you can work out for yourself what the consequences would be) so you send a government agent to be a snoop for you. Well double fuck you, you nosey coward.
All you gay people who want to get married so you can live just like me, go fuck yourselves. You are just getting suckered into propping up a bureaucracy. You aren’t getting a marriage, you’re getting a piece of that bureaucracy. Hold hands, declare to one and all that you are married, and set up shop. Get the necessary legal paperwork together naming each other as beneficiaries and get some health care powers of attorney done up. Then enjoy irritating the assholes who disapprove. Stick it to the Man! (that’s not what I meant!) If you need firearms training so you can handle those who do more than simply disapprove, let me know.
All you anti-gay people who want to make sure that none of the fags get to live just like me, fuck you too. The asshole statists who want all power and permission to flow from them have suckered you into arguing FOR statists. You have accepted that those assholes have the power to determine what is and is not a valid legal relationship. You added to their power and subtracted your own. YOU GOT PLAYED, Fucker! Don’t you feel stupid?
Here’s the deal. I’m married because I chose to stand before my family, my wife’s family, and our friends and declare that I was married. My wife is married because she made the same declaration at that same time. It pisses me straight the fuck off that some shithead in the government thinks that the stupid piece of paper we signed constitutes a marriage. I don’t see his stupid ass paying the bills or cleaning the toilet around here.
If two people wish to have a  relationship, that’s their business. If seven people want to set up a household together, raise their kids, pay their bills, and have wild group sex every Tuesday, that’s also their business. (assuming they leave the kids out of the group sex part) Mind your own fucking business.
You know, so many problems can be solved if people would just remind themselves that they should just
MIND YOUR OWN FUCKING BUSINESS
No one is dying. No one is being enslaved. No one is getting raped, robbed, or tortured. It’s not a crime, so keep your nose out.

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Low flow toilets are a plot against marriage

Posted on February 21, 2012 by | 3 Comments
My tinfoil hat rant of the month.

People like to tout the difference in voting patterns between men and women. Women are more likely to vote for liberal (usually Democrat) candidates while men are more likely to vote for conservative (usually Republican) candidates. What they generally miss is that the gap actually exists between married women and single women. The unmarried women are more likely to vote for liberal candidates.

Low flow toilets were mandated in the Energy Policy Act signed by George H.W. Bush in 1992. Rather than use the previous norm of about 3.5 gallons per flush, they now use 1.6 gallons per flush. I think that this was one of the most self defeating laws ever signed by a Republican.

I think that low flow toilets are an insidious plot against marriage because they don’t work very well. A man goes to do his business and flushes the toilet. Generally he gets out quickly, trusting that any competent engineer would have designed a toilet that properly moves the waste products out of the bowl and into the sewer. Men trust that the guys with the slide rules and the green eyeshades know what they are doing and generally have more important things to do that supervise what is essentially water flowing downhill. Unfortunately, what really happened was that the toilet engineers were overridden by bureaucrats who thought they knew better. The bureaucrats decided that it was a moral imperative that they reduce the amount of water being used to flush the toilet.  Men, being unlikely to feel the need to supervise their household conveniences, got blindsided with this.

The practical effect of the reduction of water flow is that for the last 20 years, as these toilets have been phased in, men have caught hell for not flushing the toilet. Their wives get angry because there’s a little floating present left behind in the bowl. Now this won’t end a strong marriage, but it could add stress to an already shaky one. When spread over a few million marriages, who knows how many were negatively affected?

I think that the environmentalists, who have always been part of the far left in America, realized a long time ago that by adding stress to already shaky marriages, they could grow the number of divorced women, who are more likely to vote for liberal candidates.

It’s a plot, I tell you! A plot!

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Who can afford a a Chevy Volt anyway?

Posted on November 6, 2011 by | 19 Comments
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Via Instapundit, a North Carolina home was damaged in an electrical fire that started at or near the Siemens electrical vehicle charger and Chevy Volt in the garage.

Sounds bad, but that’s not what I want to talk about.
I couldn’t do $800K worth of damage if I burned down my house, my neighbors house, and the apartment building behind us, and this was just the damage from a garage fire! You can see from the videos at the link that the home is still standing.
As a reminder, Chevy Volts get a tax incentive of $7,500, and cost about $41,000. Does a person who lives in a home big enough to suffer $800,000 worth of damage really deserve $7,500 worth of our tax money just to buy an electric powered a coal powered car?
Tax credits like this merely take from those too poor to afford a coal fired white elephant and give to those that already live in mansions.

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Turn off your 4-way flashers you idiot! (Language Warning)

Posted on September 24, 2011 by | 8 Comments
We need to find and identify the Patient Zero in this new outbreak of automotive stupidity. And then we need to kick his ass until his nose bleeds.
What am I talking about? I want to know who thought up the stupid fucking idea to turn on his or her 4-way flashers when driving in the rain. This has got to be one of the dumbest ideas in motoring since the Corvair. If you’re one of those assholes who likes to turn on your 4-ways while driving in the rain, let me enlighten you. 4-way flashers are fucking annoying. They grab your attention and force you to look at them. Now combine that with the fact that you are keeping up with traffic, and I can’t pass you. Now I have to look at the God damned things for the next 10 miles until I can safely pass you. In the rain.
Here’s a fucking clue. If it’s raining, and you’re worried that no one can see you, turn on your fucking headlights. It’s written in the damned law that you need to turn on your headlights. If you turn on the bright white lights in the front, the red lights on the back come on automatically! It’s like fucking magic! And they don’t annoy the shit out of the poor sap that has to follow your dumb ass down the rain soaked highway at 70 miles an hour!
Yesterday I had to drive from Columbia, South Carolina all the way to Butner, North Carolina. It rained hard until I got to about the Greensboro, North Carolina area. That’s about 200 miles. I lost count of the number of assholes who thought 4-way flashers were a neat idea. Two fuckheads stood out as the worst offenders, the dumb ass in the Prius, and the raving asshole in the Mercedes.
The Prius driver didn’t bother with the headlights. I mean, it’s mostly dark, and raining cats and dogs, why would you need headlights? Just turn on the 4-ways and blind everyone, making the drive even more unsafe!
The Mercedes pilot was probably an attention whore. The 4-ways were just another way to get people to look at him. It was raining hard. I was driving the speed limit and was passing people. This brain surgeon was running up the highway in the driving rain at 5 to 10 over the speed limit and weaving in and out of cars, rocking the 4-ways, passing us all. I kept hoping to see him slide off the road so I could laugh at him. No luck. As he passed me, I got a big dopey grin from his dog, hanging his head out of the open rear windows. In the driving rain. At 75-80 miles per hour. I hope the driver dies in a fire.
News flash fuck-o’s, 4-way flashers are used to signal emergency conditions. If you are driving SIGNIFICANTLY slower than the speed limit, turn them on. And if you aren’t a trucker going up a steep grade, GET THE FUCK OFF THE HIGHWAY! If you can’t keep up, get off. If your engine dies, or your car is in some way disabled, go ahead and hit the flashers. Then get off the highway. If you have to pull over in an unsafe location, turn on the flashers. It makes it easier to see you and avoid hitting you. It also tells the cops that you need help. But if you can keep up with the flow of traffic, TURN THOSE DAMN THINGS OFF!
Tell all your friends. Tell all your enemies. Post this to Facebook. Turn off the 4-way flashers in the rain. If there was any justice in the world, cops would pull you over for that and treat you like you were Rodney King. You are a positive hazard to everyone around you. Stop it NOW.

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Campaign finance laws are *(&%^*% (*Video*)

Posted on September 16, 2011 by | 1 Comment
“Controversial!”  “Divisive!” Oh Noes!!!

Controversial NC election fliers linked to anti-public school religious activists [Headline from far leftist "Institute for Southern Studies"]
Someone please explain to me what is “controversial” about saying that leftist school board candidates are leftist.
But that’s not the worst part.
How cool is that? Nowadays you don’t have to send out thugs with baseball bats to “re-educate” your opposition, you can send the State Board of Elections.

(Official Language Warning!)
Hey Martin! Go and fuck yourself. You took a hit, and now you are crying to your mommy the State Board of Elections like a little bitch. As for the State Board of Elections, you can go and fuck yourselves as well. If someone wants to give their opinion on a candidate (or a bunch of Leftist candidates bent on destroying the education of children) then it doesn’t matter if it cost them $99 or $101. They don’t have to give you their name and register their “contribution” with you assholes.
As for the Republican opponents who wring their hands and call it “divisive” and “too political,” stop being such pussies. You are running for office. It’s divisive. It’s political. Your opponents are leftist duchebags who want to force little kids to get up early to ride busses all over the district for “diversity” instead of FIXING THE DAMN SCHOOLS. Their attitude is “Fuck fixing the schools. Let’s just make sure that enough white students get the same shitty education that the black students get. At least then it’s not racial.” Maybe a better solution would be to fix the shitty education that the black students are getting. Spreading shit around isn’t a solution to too much shit.
This is why “Campaign Finance” is better named “Thought Police.” The sooner we get this shit overturned the better.

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September 11

Posted on September 11, 2011 by | 2 Comments
Never forget…
Never forgive.

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My letter to the Garner Town Council

Posted on June 30, 2011 by | 6 Comments

Further UPDATE: Read the Garner PD press release here:

UPDATE: 6-30-11 12:36pm: I just received this email from Hardin Watkins, the Town Manager of Garner. Please take the time to read his response:

Mr. Sorrentino-
Thank you for your message regarding the incident on Nallane Drive here in Garner yesterday.   I’m responding on behalf of the Town of Garner and our elected officials that received your message earlier today.
There are a number of details that have been left out of the reports on NBC 17.
The Town has a self-defense clause in our Ordinance. Section 18-1(d) states: “The provisions of this section shall not be construed to prohibit the lawful discharge of a firearm by any lawful officer in the discharge of his duty or by any person in the lawful defense of persons and property.” 
At this time, the police investigation seems to indicate that Mr. Whitaker was not shooting in self defense. 
Our Police Department is acting appropriately.  The NBC 17 report and some Facebook posts make some assumptions/statements without having all of the facts of the case.
The key points that I’m able to share at this time are:
1) The Town has a self-defense clause in our Ordinance;
2) All questions about the investigation into this case should be directed to the Police Department – Lt. Wayne Moore is the Department’s public information officer.
Please bear with us as we work on the investigation.  The Town will share information at the point in time that the investigation is complete.
-Hardin
Hardin Watkins
Town Manager
Town of Garner, NC

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I have sent the following email to the entire Town Council of Garner, NC.

Dear Mr Mayor, Madam Mayor Pro-Tem, and Town Councilors,
I am writing you to express my shock and outrage that a citizen of Garner was cited today for “discharge of a firearm within town limits.” According to NBC17, Perry Whitaker used a shotgun in defense of his home and his life after being shot at by two intruders in his house.
This ordinance apparently does not have an exception for self defense, just an exception for law enforcement officers. In addition to being completely unacceptable, it is also unconstitutional. DC vs. Heller established that a person has a fundamental right to own a pistol in his home for self defense. McDonald established that this right is enforceable on States and localities. It would be impossible to argue that a person has a right to own a gun (in this case a shotgun) for self defense, but does not have the right to shoot that gun in self defense.
I will be attending the next Town Council meeting on July 5th, and I intend to speak on this topic. I will expect that the Town Council will introduce a bill to modify this ordinance to make a clear exception for self defense. I will also expect to hear that the Council has explained to the Chief of Police that it is totally unacceptable to cite anyone in Garner for defending him or herself with a firearm.
I have blogged about this incident, and I will blog about your future actions in this case. I look forward to reporting that you have taken immediate steps to reform this foolish ordinance and rescind the totally unwarranted citation issued to Mr. Whitaker
Respectfully,
Sean D Sorrentino
An NC Gun Blog
www.ncguns.blogspot.com
I am very pleased that I was able to express myself calmly and without recourse to foul language.

I have removed the previously posted email addresses.

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The Town of Garner, NC says NO to self defense (*Video*)

Posted on June 30, 2011 by | 11 Comments

Further UPDATE: Read the Garner PD press release HERE

UPDATE: 6-30-11 12:36pm: I just received this email from Hardin Watkins, the Town Manager of Garner. Please take the time to read his response:

Mr. Sorrentino-
Thank you for your message regarding the incident on Nallane Drive here in Garner yesterday.   I’m responding on behalf of the Town of Garner and our elected officials that received your message earlier today.
There are a number of details that have been left out of the reports on NBC 17.
The Town has a self-defense clause in our Ordinance. Section 18-1(d) states: “The provisions of this section shall not be construed to prohibit the lawful discharge of a firearm by any lawful officer in the discharge of his duty or by any person in the lawful defense of persons and property.” 
At this time, the police investigation seems to indicate that Mr. Whitaker was not shooting in self defense. 
Our Police Department is acting appropriately.  The NBC 17 report and some Facebook posts make some assumptions/statements without having all of the facts of the case.
The key points that I’m able to share at this time are:
1) The Town has a self-defense clause in our Ordinance;
2) All questions about the investigation into this case should be directed to the Police Department – Lt. Wayne Moore is the Department’s public information officer.
Please bear with us as we work on the investigation.  The Town will share information at the point in time that the investigation is complete.
-Hardin
Hardin Watkins
Town Manager
Town of Garner, NC

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UPDATE 6-30-11 11:45 AM:
I have just spoken to the Town Manager, Hardin Watkins in his office. There is an exception in the Town ordinances for defense of self and property. Mr. Watkins confirms the email I was sent by City Councilman Gra Singleton.

Section 18-1 (d) states:” The provisions of this section shall not be construed to prohibit the lawful discharge of a firearm by any lawful officer in the discharge of his duty or by any person in the lawful defense of persons and property.”

There is more to this story than I can currently report. I will update later, in this post and as a separate post, as to the particulars as they are officially released. The bottom line appears to be that the reporter was incorrect when he reported that there is no self defense section. I have left the email addresses below the post, but I have blacked them out. Highlight them to read. Just don’t send them any emails unless it is to thank the Town for being polite and helpful to a blogger who turned up in their offices demanding answers.

More will be released later.

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Can you explain this? There is a town ordinance that makes it illegal to discharge a firearm within the town limits of Garner. Unless you are a police officer. Apparently that even includes self defense.
I am trying to express my feelings about this without using a string of profanity.
I am having trouble coming up with anything to say that will not cause my mother to drive 12 hours to wash out my keyboard with soap. You can bet that I will be at the next town meeting demanding that this unconstitutional infringement on my right to self defense be immediately repealed.
I will try to express myself in that town meeting without screaming obscenities at the Town Council.
No promises, though.

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Read the UPDATE above the post before sending any emails to the Town.

UPDATE: Town Meeting July 5th at 7PM.


Town of Garner
900 Seventh Ave.
Garner, NC 27529



I have removed the previously posted email addresses. I will still be attending the Town Meeting, though I now intend to say thank you to the Town Council and their administrative staff for their professional handling of this sitution

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Another stupid fix for a problem that is already solved

Posted on June 28, 2011 by | 1 Comment
This is totally off the normal topic of guns, and North Carolina gun politics, but I read this story today and I have to offer my opinion.
The French are stupid. In addition to surrendering to basically everyone since Charles Martel defeated the Moors at the Battle of Tours, they have conducted a long term campaign to cause numbness and pain to the nether regions of bicycle riders. Yes, it’s true. That stupid diamond shaped bicycle that should have been banned as unsafe at any speed in the early 20th Century has been retained as a torture device for your private parts solely to please the world cycling federation, the UCI.
Have you noticed that no matter how high tech the bikes are in the Tour de France, they still look basically like a standard diamond frame bike? That’s because the UCI bowed to the pressure of the manufacturers of “standard” bicycles in 1934 and banned a much better solution, a pedal powered two wheeled machine that was slaughtering them in bike races. To this day, these bikes have been banned in competition.
Now we have people who can point to scientific evidence that the standard seat on a diamond frame bike causes numbness, pain, and “performance issues.”
Robert Brown is an officer in the Seattle Police Department’s bicycle patrol, which lacks the sleek machines and tight jerseys of the Tour de France. But Mr. Brown has something that could be more important to both male and female cyclists: a no-nose saddle.
Like most cyclists, Mr. Brown at first didn’t see any need to switch from the traditional saddle on the mountain bike he’d been riding full time for five years on the force. When researchers at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and Safety offered new noseless saddles intended to prevent erectile dysfunction, he quickly told his supervisor, “No problems here!”
But then, after trying the new saddle, he felt the difference. His weight rested on his pelvic bones instead of the crotch area, which formerly pressed against the saddle’s nose. During his sleep, when he wore a monitor, the measure known as “percent of time erect” increased to 28 percent from 18 percent.
  
Oh, wow. So they took a bike seat and cut the nose off it. This is the latest in a long line of seat modifications touted to minimize the damage caused by the unnatural and unsafe position caused by sitting on a diamond frame bike. There is a much better solution available.
As soon as you guys decide that you aren’t going to be the next Lance Armstrong, maybe you should consider riding a bike that owes its design considerations to something other than a flawed ban from a European bicycle racing governing body. And yes, you can finally have a bicycle seat that has room for your entire butt.

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Time to crime – 5 days

Posted on May 15, 2011 by | 1 Comment
If there ever was a crime that makes me wish I had my very own version of the Ace of Spades HQ Flaming Skull ™ or maybe the JayG Rage-o-Meter, it’s this one.
You’re saying “so what? We realize that you get mad when service members are victims of crime, but that happens all the time, why this one specifically?”
FIVE DAYS EARLIER!!!!!! WTF!!!!!
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Somebody please explain to me what the fuck is going on. This asshole just got out of prison five days ago, has a gun, and shoots an American soldier in the chest right in front of his wife, all to steal a mother fucking car! I don’t want this asshole in jail, I want him delivered to Fort Bragg, hogtied, with a note stapled to the back of his head that says “I’m the shithead who shot SFC Henry, please feel free to express your displeasure.” I want the 112th Signal Battalion (Special Operations) (Airborne) to use him as an object lesson in what happens if you get too close to the emitter on their microwave satellite dishes. I’d like the Special Operations teams that SFC Henry supported to take this miscreant onto the roof of a building and chuck him off repeatedly while the spouse support group holds up signs rating each throw for distance, hang time, and style. When they are done with him, I want the police to have to ID the body by DNA testing.
Hell, even his female passenger was a piece of shit! She didn’t get any jail time for conspiracy to commit Robbery with a Dangerous Weapon! She’s a Class E felon!
If some shitheel can’t mend his ways after 16 months in jail to the point that it only takes him 5 days to shoot someone, steal his car, and get caught for it (thank God for whatever LoJack type thing the SFC had on his car) then to hell with him. Literally.

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