It's official. Your CCW is void at the Iowa State Fair.
We are waiting for a response from Iowa State Patrol Captain Gary Nieuwsma who announced the ban after some Craigslist comments made him or his bosses nervous. The question is: What is the statutory authority for voiding CCWs?
The situation is particularly silly in that the cops announced that there will be no metal detectors, just "no guns" signs. So Honest Abe will leave his piece locked in the trunk outside the gates. Thugeye will giggle and slip his Lorcin in his sock.
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I think I know what the captain's answer will be. Since shall-issue became law eight months ago, local officials have discovered a workaround. With the active encouragement of Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, they have banned CCW carry in many public places through a tortuous interpretation of the trespass laws.
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There is some history behind this nincompoopery. The forces of law and order are under intense pressure from the corn dog lobby to make sure everyone feels safe there on the gritty East Side.
A number of fights/assaults/mini-riots broke out last year just outside the fairgrounds. People at the scenes said aggressors tended to be non-white, the victims Caucasian, and one police officer reported the perps were crowing about "beat whitey night."
Before the official spin machine got going, the sergeant in charge of public relations for Des Moines police publicly quoted the street cop's "beat whitey" report. She lost her job. Since then the city, the county, and the state have spent gobbillions of dollars producing report after report saying, "Nope. Nothing racial here. Move along, folks." (I carefully add that we've also experienced something like "beat blackie nights" in these parts. There's slime at the bottom of both barrels.)
h/t Between Two Rivers
Aug 16, 2011
Why we're broke
It's almost another of those throwaway stories, a ho-hum piece about a politician riding in a parade, tossing great gobs of candy to kids on the curb.
This time the politician is one Barack Obama parading through the Heartland on his nice new bus (reported cost $1.1 million and guess who's paying).
But I must be confused because His Obamaness swears the trip is not political. He says it's a "listening trip."
Okay. I'm listening, and what I hear is a one-day total of more than $362 million to (a) make life sweeter out here in Bucolia because he really loves us or (2) buy off some more of us hick voters. The money goes build new unemployment offices, hire doctors, help hospitals buy computer gizmos, and set up meetings between people who want to borrow and those who want to lend. And so forth.
The president is not being entirely forthcoming about the niggling detail of where the money comes from. Our Chinese Visa card? Faster presses at the bureau of Printing and Cartooning?
It would disrespectful, even crass, to quiz Mr. Obama about what earthly good the handouts will do for anything other than his campaign to remain publicly housed.
He doesn't even tell us how he swung the million-plus loan for the bus. Maybe a nothing-down deal from Ally Financial (nee GMAC)?
This time the politician is one Barack Obama parading through the Heartland on his nice new bus (reported cost $1.1 million and guess who's paying).
But I must be confused because His Obamaness swears the trip is not political. He says it's a "listening trip."
Okay. I'm listening, and what I hear is a one-day total of more than $362 million to (a) make life sweeter out here in Bucolia because he really loves us or (2) buy off some more of us hick voters. The money goes build new unemployment offices, hire doctors, help hospitals buy computer gizmos, and set up meetings between people who want to borrow and those who want to lend. And so forth.
The president is not being entirely forthcoming about the niggling detail of where the money comes from. Our Chinese Visa card? Faster presses at the bureau of Printing and Cartooning?
It would disrespectful, even crass, to quiz Mr. Obama about what earthly good the handouts will do for anything other than his campaign to remain publicly housed.
He doesn't even tell us how he swung the million-plus loan for the bus. Maybe a nothing-down deal from Ally Financial (nee GMAC)?
Aug 15, 2011
The Tenth Amendment
Mitt Romney has learned that the Tenth is useful if you're trying to squirm through charges that your Massachusetts health-care horror was the president's instruction manual for Obamacare.
Mitt is still having trouble with snickering citizens who say, "Oh yeah? You mean govermentalized medicine (or anything else) is okay if we just
do it one state at a time?"
Politicians love selective reading of the Constitution. Yep, the final article of the Bill of Rights does say powers not delegated to the feds "are reserved to the states...". They tend to ignore the final words: "...or to the people."
That leads to the Mitty view that it's fine to jail your citizens for refusing to buy health insurance, just as long as it's a state prison rather than a federal one.
Oh well, at least that act of the GOP follies is reminding folks there is such a thing as the Tenth Article of the Bill of Rights. Maybe something will happen to call attention the Ninth.
Mitt is still having trouble with snickering citizens who say, "Oh yeah? You mean govermentalized medicine (or anything else) is okay if we just
do it one state at a time?"
Politicians love selective reading of the Constitution. Yep, the final article of the Bill of Rights does say powers not delegated to the feds "are reserved to the states...". They tend to ignore the final words: "...or to the people."
That leads to the Mitty view that it's fine to jail your citizens for refusing to buy health insurance, just as long as it's a state prison rather than a federal one.
Oh well, at least that act of the GOP follies is reminding folks there is such a thing as the Tenth Article of the Bill of Rights. Maybe something will happen to call attention the Ninth.
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