Operation Fast and Furious

Finally, someone’s saying it out loud;

Your Department has made an enormous error in judgment. It instructed federally-licensed firearms dealers to illegally sell at least 2,000 guns that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) intended to be trafficked to drug cartels in Mexico. The results of this error in judgment have implicated the United States in well over one hundred deadly crimes and the deaths of two federal agents.
This not only raises serious questions about your ability to serve as the head of the Justice Department, but also begs the question of why an anti-gun Administration would knowingly force licensed firearms dealers to sell guns to violent criminals. I raise this because Operation Fast and Furious — if the facts of this case had not come to light — would have been used by this Administration as another false argument to attack law-abiding American gun owners.
The American people deserve to know if your Department had any intent to link the legal purchase of firearms here in the U.S. to crimes committed near our southern border. Operation Fast and Furious funneled firearms legally purchased at gun shops in the U.S. to known criminal syndicates to prove these syndicates have access to legal purchased weapons. This is a deliberate attempt to vilify and attack the millions of gun owners in America who value our Second Amendment and have never broken the law.

h/t G

CWB: The “Don’t Try Anything Cute” Order Of 2011

Privy Council Office;

His Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, pursuant to subsection 18(1) of the Canadian Wheat Board Act, hereby directs The Canadian Wheat Board to conduct its operations under that Act, while the Bill entitled Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act is being considered by Parliament, in the following manner:
(a) it shall avoid extraordinary actions or commitments that would be contrary to the best interests of The Canadian Wheat Board if that Bill is passed by Parliament and receives royal assent; and
(b) it shall credit profits or gains referred to in sections 8, 33.01 and 39.1 of the Canadian Wheat Board Act to the contingency fund established under paragraph 6(1)(c.3) of that Act, unless a different disposition of those profits or gains is required under that Act.

Related: Facts, Lies and the House DebateI am utterly amazed that Mr. Goodale, the author and architect of the current CWB Act, would actually take the position that an Act that he wrote was meant to bind future governments to this policy, which would mean they can’t repeal the Act. Are we really supposed to believe that was his intent?
UPDATEOpen letter from Henry Vos who has just quit as a CWB director.

The CWB’s decision this week to launch a legal challenge against the Federal Government over the proposed changes to the CWB ACT, when it is clear to everyone that it will not change the outcome and would not change the timing of the government action, is simply wrong.

But Glenn Beck Is The Crazy One

The tolerant left;

That’s one side of what people want, right, cause that’s not the only thing people want. they also want to take the bank out of his f****** tower and string him up in the public square.. That’s not that’s not just the crazy left, that’s everyday folks talking about their experiences.
This is America, right? We want to talk about ‘We’re the 99%” as if we’re also not the 99% who also loves Transformers 4, right? As if this is the 99% who also doesn’t feel passionate anger. “All we want is our little appropriate piece of the pie and we just want to be friendly.“
And the capitalists know that’s not the case. If you want to read what the capitalists think about this you can go and look at what Glenn Beck says. He’s got a better analysis than most people on the left have about where this can go and how threaten—

This Is Not Your Grandma’s Humane Society

MyCentralJersey.com;

When kind-hearted citizens pull out their checkbooks to make a donation to the Humane Society, we’re certain they picture their dollars buying kibble for stray dogs or blankets for abandoned kittens.
We’re just as certain they don’t donate money assuming it will be used to print slick marketing materials that will be used only to generate more donations.
But, according a story in Monday’s editions, that’s exactly what happened to most of the money sent to the Humane Society of the United States.

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