California has passed a new milestone on its way to becoming a Totalitarian State of the Idiotic Kind. Adam Carolla has a few things to say about the new restrictions on using frisbees and footballs at the beach (language warning) :
California has passed a new milestone on its way to becoming a Totalitarian State of the Idiotic Kind. Adam Carolla has a few things to say about the new restrictions on using frisbees and footballs at the beach (language warning) :
Why would any sensible person remain a resident of California?
I suspect the simple instance that Carolla and Dennis Miller are on air is that they have a constituency….
“never got a job from a poor guy”
About sums it up.
Y’know, with a little re-wording, someone with only moderate talent could use this as the basis for a rant against Turncoat Toews’ Internet Gestapo Bill.
Isn’t it strange that the hippies who held up their fist yelling “don’t trust the man” during the counter culture revolution are now in public office and have become the “man” x 10
I watched this a while ago. He does an excellent job showing these morons exactly why California is dying. Because of their insanity. Making the World safe for neurotics along with control freaks.
Its for the Childrem
Ron Paul is our only hope. Adam Corolla is right. “I’d like to vote for Ron Paul” he said at the 6:40 mark. Adam Corolla is bang on with his nanny-state big government Romney-Obama welfare dystopia.
And Ron Paul is our only hope. Option B is the USA turns into a part of “western Europe”.
We really shouldn’t laugh because Califubar is in the advanced stages of bureaucratic despotism, we have our own concerns.
As the one poster here mentioned the red Tories are about to spy on all internet users and there is another bill in the works to use warrant surveillance on people of interest (like those who criticize government?). You still have to watch your back if you are an enemy of big government and police state repression of civil liberty. But this crap is happening all over the former democratic west and it’s the natural result of big government doing what big government does – protects and feeds itself first and designs in total continuity of agenda. That agenda favors the political class over the people.
The Germans and Japanese got stung as well as the Russians and Chinese, now it’s our turn. Time for the people of democratic nations to deal with the inherent bureaucratic tyranny of big government.
Hint: we aren’t doing so well, respect for civil liberty in the UK and Europe are gone and the US republic is in death throes (unless a miracle happens in November) and Canada is well along the way to bureaucratic despotism and may well die of apathy.
@occam – Precisely, sir.
It is all about revenues…to quote from an article by VDH “If I were to use a cellphone while driving and get caught, the state might make an easy $170 for five minutes’ work. If the same officer were to arrest the dumper who threw a dishwasher or refrigerator into the local pond among the fish and ducks, the arrest and detention would be costly and ultimately fruitless, providing neither revenue from a non-paying suspect nor deterrence against future environmental sacrilege. We need middle-class misdemeanors to pay for the felonies of the underclass.
Well all the Global Warming / climate change hype will be quickly lost when Greece defaults in the next 1-2 months , perhaps followed by Spain , Italy or Portugal … that should really raise the frustration level in the Global Warming community.
… oops sorry wrong thread.
Another case of legislated responsibility. Folks that haven’t the cajoles to say “excuse me, but do you want to toss the football a bit further down the beach because the wife is working on her tan”. Now they can dial 911 and have a SWAT team take the fun out of the beach.
I’ve never understood why I, as a responsible adult, can’t take a bottle of wine or a few bottles of beer to the beach [legally]. Instead of using logic and prosecuting those who actually offend from their drunken behaviour, instead the Lowest Common Denominator approach is used and EVERYONE is banned. Childish totalitarian stupidity.
It truly is the drip, drip, drip of the progressives as they incrementally take your freedoms away. The carbon tax, the curly bulb, the eco taxes, the low flow toilets, no ball hockey on the street, no smoking within 2 miles, sorry kms of anything living, green energy, smart meters, helmets if you walk anywhere, 400% liquor taxes….arggh.
Kinda makes you want to go play Frisbee on the beach with 10,000 friends, don’t it?
Don’t forget LA County’s “War Room”, they can all sit in there and watch 10,000 frisbee players giving them the finger and shiver in their little blue suits.
Robert W said: “…EVERYONE is banned. Childish totalitarian stupidity.”
Nope. Windfall taxation opportunity. -WE- are the stupid ones. We put up with this since the 1930’s.
The bottom line is that Progressives hate jocks.
That said, cue the complaints about obesity from the Left.
It is my scholarly opinion now that America should re-elect the Obutthole Administration and all the people of his ilk whenever possible.
America cannot vote its way out of what is coming. California and other dhimmicrud states are hopelessly bankrupt. It would be better for everyone for the current lefty leaders to go out in a blaze of idiocy and put a final, painful end to their ideology and ‘progressive’ dogma.
America will not heal as long as leftists have a say in gov’t.
Joe Weider’s marketing image of the weakling getting sand kicked in his face by the muscle bound beach bully practically launched bodybuilding’s popularity into the stratosphere in the 1950s.
Liberal solution of course, 60 years later, is to make everybody a skinny weakling.
Who pay attention to rules like that? There’s a whole lotta non-compliance with the “laws” in California, especially stupid-ass ones like no frisbee or no dogs – and even no bonfires. Maybe they have more beach Cops down in SoCal but I never seen that up in NorCal.
nothing means anything to the politicially correct ‘progressives’ except taking away everything that means pride in anything except ‘gay pride’..that can stay.
I’d like to ask a small personal favour of SDA readers in support of men and women that put it all on the line…
This has to be an early April Fool’s joke …and a bad one.
There are far too many ‘politically correct’ lunatics in charge of things that never did anything in their life except write politically correct drivel.
I EARNED the coin with that slogan on it and I still carry it today.
I know what it meant to the men that carried it and died with it in THEIR pockets.
These desk jockeys don’t.
find the page, add your name.
and more importantly…pass it on.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Keep-Initial-Success-or-Total-Failure-in-EOD-School/268526679884116
Navy removes ‘insensitive’ motto from EOD school
February 13, 2012 9:37 PM
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EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE — The phrase “Initial Success or Total Failure” has long served as the unofficial motto of explosive ordnance disposal technicians in the U.S. military.
Until recently, the slogan hung on a wall at the Naval EOD school at Eglin. It was removed after senior EOD leaders decided the words were insensitive.
“It holds some potential insensitivity and implies that our fallen and wounded EOD warriors have somehow failed,” said Joy Samsel, deputy public affairs officer at Naval Education and Training Command in Pensacola. “We don’t want to do that to families.”
Samsel said the EOD school has never had an official motto and has no plans to adopt one.
Rear Adm. Michael Tillotson, commander of the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command, took issue with the slogan and said that “to imply that failure is an option is unacceptable.”
“Throughout history, many EOD techs from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, other U.S. government and civilian agencies, as well as foreign partners, have lost their lives or been wounded in the line of duty,” he said. “To imply that they failed is insensitive and disrespectful.”
But the decision to remove the slogan has sparked confusion and anger across the EOD community and other active and former military personnel.
A Facebook page dedicated to keeping the motto alive has drawn responses from former EOD techs and EOD supporters from across the country including Maryland, Tennessee, Texas and Kentucky.
“The motto is not about the individual, it is about the mission, and when you are dealing with an explosive device you generally get one shot to render it safe,” Will Pratt, a former Army EOD technician, wrote in an email to the Daily News.
“When you start making changes to an explosive device, you are either going to shut it off or set it off, hence initial success or total failure. This does not mean that the technician is a failure by any stretch of the imagination. ”
Pratt said the military has lots of unofficial mottos and that “Initial Success or Total Failure” is included on the Navy’s EOD memorial in Washington, D.C.
He added that he hopes the Navy won’t allow Tillotson to “destroy a tradition that was there long before him and will be there long after he is gone.”
First Sgt. Joseph Smith of Fort Hood, Texas, said the removal of the motto “is beyond most EOD technicians’ comprehension.” He said he has never heard any complaints about the motto from EOD techs or their families.
Some local citizens also questioned the removal of the slogan.
“I don’t see any problem with that at all,” said Carl “Tank” Shireman of Navarre, a retired Navy officer. “I don’t know where that’s coming from.”
Shireman said he has “the utmost respect” for EOD technicians.
“These guys, they go up and stare death in the face,” he said. “They’re incredibly brave.”
Time for an “Occupy Beach” movement…
Rich Fisher:
You mean Charles Atlas. I know cause I took his course after that guy kicked sand in my face and stole my girl friend.
After I finished the course I went back to the beach and kicked sand in my girl friend’s face.
The neo-fascists are at it again. Why is anyone surprised? Remember, “What EVERYBODY doesn’t want, NOBODY gets”.
Ghost of Ed, that was funny! Chuck would be proud!
Speaking of taking away freedoms…
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays-paper/licence+snoop/6148203/story.html
“Never got a job from a poor guy”
90 percent of the jobs come from small business and they are far from rich.The rich are screwing the poor trying to keep them down.If you have money you wont need the banks, or you might set up a business to compete with their Monopolies. The rich keep their status quo with government support by off shoring your jobs and passing stupid laws we don’t want, lip service about lowering taxes wont address this problem.
What’s next? That you won’t be allowed to GO IN THE WATER at the beach. Don’t you know how many people drown? Or get attacked by sharks or jellyfish? Or stub their toe on a submerged rock? Or get cold when they don’t come in when their parents call them?
“90 percent of the jobs come from small business and they are far from rich.”
Yeah right. Tell that to Obama and Biden. $200,000 — easily exceeded by a small business — makes them “rich”.