Page Nine

D.C. v. Heller

"The lawsuit that saved the Second Amendment."

Links to Alan's analysis and eyewitness reports (he was there).

Alan's new book: The Heller Case: Gun Rights Affirmed!

Muslims Get Booted

The lamestream media told you:

A meat packing plant in Nebraska has fired at least 86 Muslim workers for walking off the job to conduct prayers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Mohamed Rage, a spokesperson for the Muslims and one of the people fired, says 150 were fired. A spokesman for the plant says the company, Swift, told the workers that if they walked off they would be fired, a fact the Muslims dispute. The plant employs 2,500 people, with about 20% of them Muslims, many immigrants from war-torn impoverished Somalia.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Showing spine that hasn’t been seen in some places in years, a meat-packing plant in Nebraska refused to cave in to Muslim segregationist demands, and fired scores of religious followers insisting on special treatment for a month that would disrupt orderly business practices. In other parts of the country, virtual quislings have caved into Muslim demands, for example providing segregated swimming times (Harvard) and public foot baths for Muslims (just Google it), in what numerous observers see as a carefully orchestrated attack on American values, using American values to advance Muslim causes, Muslim culture and Sharia law.

Tags: meat packing, Ramadan

Chicago War Deaths

The lamestream media told you:

“CHICAGO (CBS) — 125 Shot Dead In Chicago Over Summer; Total Is About Double The U.S. Troop Death Toll In Iraq

“An estimated 125 people were shot and killed over the summer. That's nearly double the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq over the same time period.

“In May, cbs2chicago.com began tracking city shootings and posting them on Google maps. Information compiled from our reporters, wire service reports and the Chicago Police Major Incidents log indicated that 125 people were shot and killed throughout the city between the start of Memorial Day weekend on May 26, and the end of Labor Day on Sept. 1.

According to the Defense Department, 65 U.S. soldiers were killed in combat in Iraq. About the same number were killed in Afghanistan over that same period.

In the same time period, an estimated 247 people were shot and wounded in the city.”
You can see the maps yourself.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

In a story almost without precedent, CBS identified Chicago’s high murder rate as almost totally gang related and geographically isolated. In modern America, that would mean these are war deaths in the War on Some Drugs, and not “gun deaths” as the media likes to frame the argument, to vilify firearms and create public fear.

With surprising candor, CBS announced, “Gang and gun violence continue to be the dominating threat on our streets," according to a police e-mail to CBS. "Up to 60 percent of the shootings are gang related. More than 90 percent of the offenders have criminal histories and up to 80 percent of the victims have criminal histories."

It’s unclear how the police concluded that only 60% of these crimes are gang related, when 90% of the shooters have criminal records and 80% of the victims do too. It’s also a fairly typical police distortion to suggest gun violence is the dominant threat “on our streets” when these gangland rubouts happen “on their streets,” and normal citizens generally only get to see it on the news from the “bad” neighborhoods. Look at the maps. Comparing Chicago’s rubout rate to the wars against Islamofascists is just bad reporting, from the town that has virtually banned guns (unlike Iraq and Afghanistan) and spawned Barack Obama.

Jury Rights Day

The lamestream media told you:

Nothing.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

A fully informed jury is a bedrock principle of American freedom. Simply put, a jury of your neighbors (“peers”) has the power to decide the facts in a case if you’re charged, and the righteousness of the law you’re charged under. If legislatures pass laws that are unfair, your neighbors (those pesky peers again) can let you go, even if you’re guilty under the facts. It’s an ideal check on the system -- prosecutors stop bringing bad cases, and legislatures stop the bad laws. It’s elegant, ingenious, a beautiful thing.

This played out swell in failed attempts to convict people helping slaves escape pre-civil war (deemed a crime), or catching grandmas with wine in the bathtub (during prohibition). The roots are in the trials of William Penn (Sep. 5, 1670) and John Peter Zenger (1735). The court told the juries to convict, and they refused (and were imprisoned for their audacity!). What good is a jury if it can’t make up its own mind?

Today, judges are determined to keep juries in the dark, won’t reveal excessive punishments awaiting minor offenses, give out checklists requiring convictions, and call fully informed jury actions “jury nullification,” a derogatory term meant to keep power away from juries and in judges’ hands. It’s a horrific abuse of power.

To combat this, three states have declared Jury Rights Day on Sep. 5th, to let the public know they, not the court, can decide the fate of a person charged, as it should be. The most recent declaration came from the great state of Alaska under... Governor Sarah Palin. Last year, in 2007.

Read Vin Suprynowicz’s marvelous piece on Jury Rights Day, and visit the fully informed jury association to educate yourself about this bulwark of liberty.

Do note however that if you are in a juror pool and talk up fully informed juries, they won’t let you sit on a panel. I did mention it’s a horrific abuse of power, right?

Heller’s Suit Expensive

The lamestream media told you:

Nothing.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

The District of Columbia is being sued for $3.5 million in legal fees, the cost of bringing the successful Heller gun-ban case against the city, to restore people’s civil rights. Taxpayers may have to foot the bill for the city’s arrogant denial of rights to its... taxpayers.

"Certainly this money would be put to better use if it were allocated to proven crime-reduction measures like adding more police officers and prosecutors,” said National Shooting Sports Foundation senior vice president and general counsel Lawrence G. Keane. The city apparently would prefer to squander its limited funds -- forcing Dick Heller to sue them again -- to get them to obey the Supreme Court’s ruling. The hubris of these people is just over the top.

Tags: D.C. v. Heller, National Shooting Sports Foundation, Lawrence G. Keane

Heller Citings Growing

The lamestream media told you:

Nothing.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Lawsuits and court cases post-Heller have been piling up. UCLA prof. Eugene Volokh has been keeping track, and tabulating the results. I’ll post a review of the cases soon. An initial glance doesn’t look good -- as predicted, bad guys are using Heller to try to skate, and courts are finding that Heller allows them to go to prison, with accompanying language that doesn’t hold rights in very high esteem (even though bad guys do deserve punishment).

Tags: Eugene Volokh, D.C. v. Heller

Palin Gets Booked

The lamestream media told you:

A new biography on Sarah Palin is now available and here’s the book’s author, with some softball questions aimed at her. FOX TV.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

How did anyone get a book out on Sarah within two weeks of her appearance as a VP candidate? Being in the book publishing business, that’s, well, impossible.

The book by Kaylene Johnson actually came out in April, by a small press in Washington state (Epicenter) that specializes in books about Alaska. The 7K run of the hardback was called, “Sarah: How a Small Town Girl Turned Alaska's Political Establishment on Its Ear.”

After the announcement, the book went through a facelift and was rushed out over the Labor Day weekend by a print-on-demand outfit (Lightning Source) that paid workers overtime to work the holiday weekend, and “Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned Alaska's Political Establishment Upside Down” was now a 40K-unit paperback available nationally. Tyndale House took over distribution and put 250K copies into print. That’s how. Thanks to the Southern Review of Books for the details. Other Palin books are reportedly in the pipeline.

My latest book, “The Heller Case: Gun Rights Affirmed!” is due off press this week and has attracted no attention from lamestream media, though large advanced orders have been placed by most major gun-rights groups in the nation, and is still available at a pre-press discount.

Tags: Sarah Palin

Miller’s Gun Ban

The lamestream media told you:

Dennis Miller, speaking on FOX, thinks he’s pro-gun, and that everyone should be able to get a gun permit, but it should be as hard to qualify for as a pilot’s license.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Of all the elitist claptrap I have to put up with in preparing these reports, this just beats all. The testing for a pilot’s license is extreme. The idea that exercising your rights should require an extreme test or else you forfeit your rights is bizarre, and Mr. Miller just babbles on thinking he’s bright. Note that CCW permit holders, many of whom must endure a lightweight test before they can exercise their rights, are five times below the national average for committing crimes.

Dangerous BATFE Changes

The lamestream media told you:

Nothing.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

BATFE has announce a plan to allow licensed firearms dealers to maintain their required “bound book” record of all gun sales electronically (in computers). On one hand, this is a relief from the stone-age approach of handwritten records dealers are burdened with by law, will save time, and reduce the likelihood of errors, a frequent government excuse for attacking gun dealers. On the other hand, the potential for gathering the now-computerized data into centralized federal registries of gun owners is a potentially catastrophic abuse of gun rights, and a goal feds have been seeking unsuccessfully for decades.

Although some industry leaders are praising the development, alert gun-rights activists are not so sure. The software approved for an electronic “Acquisitions and Dispositions” book must satisfy “certain ATF requirements set forth in the ruling signed by Acting Director Michael Sullivan,” according to NSSF, which said in a statement, “NSSF would like to congratulate ATF, and in particular the leadership of Acting Director Sullivan, on helping to reduce the paperwork burden on industry.” The true contents of software programs cannot be discerned by average computer users.

The stated requirements in the program include the ability to search, and out-of-business records will fall into the hands of BATFE as they do now. Dealers have in the past been able to request electronic record keeping, now it will be simply available.

At the urging of industry leaders, BATFE plans to launch an “E-Form 4473,” heightening activists’ fears, and presumably easing the collection of data by the feds. No word on safeguards or concerns over the potentials for abuse has been made by any of the usual suspects. Gun Owners of America has informed the Uninvited Ombudsman they are looking into the matter.

Tags: BATFE

Party Gun Platforms

The lamestream media told you:

Very little about the candidates position on RKBA, besides exclaiming that Sarah Palin is a moose hunter.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

The Democratic National Committee official party platform on its position on gun control is not far from Obama’s:

"We believe that the right to own firearms is subject to reasonable regulation, but we know that what works in Chicago may not work in Cheyenne. We can work together to enact and enforce common sense laws and improvements -- like closing the gun show loophole, improving our background check system, and reinstating the assault weapons ban ..."

The Republican National Committee party platform position on gun control is different world, here’s a piece:

"Gun ownership is responsible citizenship... We condemn frivolous lawsuits against firearms manufacturers, which are transparent attempts to deprive citizens of their rights. We oppose federal licensing of law-abiding gun owners and national gun registration as violations of the Second Amendment. We recognize that gun control only affects and penalizes law-abiding citizens, and that such proposals are ineffective at reducing violent crime."

In other news, pro-gun Democrats must have a conflict between their stance on human rights, and the Dem party rules for Town Halls, where “Submissions must not... (iii) contain profanity, pornographic, or sexual content, content promoting alcohol, illegal drugs, tobacco, firearms, or weapons, hateful content of any kind (including racism, sexism, etc.), content that promotes violence or harm to another living creature, or any other offensive, obscene, or inappropriate content...."

Brady Schemes Exposed

The lamestream media told you:

There are many good ideas for cutting “gun deaths,” according to a Freakonomics quorum run by The New York Times. “Let’s put aside for a moment the standard discussions about the right to bear arms,” quotes the piece, which goes on to discuss novel ideas -- but not the demographic reality that 80-90% of gun deaths (omitting suicide) are related to the War on Some Drugs, making them actually war deaths.

Among the suggestions: rewards for snitching on illegal possession, increased parental involvement, garnishing wages to pay victims, elect gun-death-reduction politicians, tipping the Supreme Court away from its current pro-rights stance, and other ideas.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Anti-gun-rights crusader and Brady gun-ban hero David Hemenway, a Harvard professor of “health policy,” has developed plans for gun bans and rights restrictions that will skirt the Heller gun-rights findings and attack the rights of the public, with little or no effect on crime. He is being hailed as a champion in some dark circles opposed to the right to keep and bear arms. The plan is fiendishly simple:

Create the National Firearm Safety Administration, which could quickly occur if anti-rights candidate B.H. Obama wins the presidency (see Obama’s unbroken anti-gun-rights voting record). It would mimic the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in some respects, with stunning power in a loosely controlled agency’s hands.

Massive funding would be poured into the new agency to study crime, firearms injury and deaths, and “public health problems due to firearms,” with no mention of self defense, crime prevention, legal justifications or lives saved. Hemenway draws analogies about air bags and seat belts for proposed requirements on firearms “for safety.” The agency, he says, should have a broad “mission to reduce the harm caused by firearms” while ignoring the good that guns do.

Hemenway says, “The agency should require safety and crime-fighting characteristics on all firearms manufactured and sold in the U.S. It should ban from regular civilian use products which are not needed for hunting or protection and which only endanger the public. It should have the power to ensure that there are background checks for all firearm transfers to help prevent guns from being sold to criminals and terrorists.

“The agency needs the resources and the power (including standard setting, recall, and research capability) for making reasonable decisions about firearms... Similarly, each specific rule regulating the manufacture and sale of firearms should go through a more scientific administrative process rather than the more political legislative process. It’s time to take some of the politics out of firearm safety.”

The cleverly crafted plan would move the constitutional right to keep and bear arms out of the legislative process and representation of your elected officials, where your voice can be heard, and into the hands of bureaucrats and agenda-driven insiders immune to your desires or fundamental rights.

The Democrat party, frustrated in its constant failed attempts to eradicated your rights, once again is handed a deceit-driven scheme for accomplishing their nefarious, freedom-defeating goal.

Off the radar but still on the drawing boards, Dennis Kucinich’s proposed U.S. Dept. of Peace would likely get new life under Obama too, along with a $10 billion budget, hundreds of permanent new federal bureaucrats, and control over everything from animal “rights” to women’s issues and firearms, along with sinister influence over the U.S. military.

Tags: National Firearm Safety Administration, David Hemenway

Corrections: Shot-put and Obama

I reported that Olympic shot-put records for women are 15% inferior to men (60-foot vs. 70-foot throws), contradicting the politically corrupt myth that men and women are equal. Thanks to Rick D. of Arizona for noting that women get to use lighter shots than men too, making the deception worse. This helps hide the inequality of the sexes, perpetuates the lie of equality, makes men look less capable than they are (or makes women look more competent than they deserve), and is just one more bias the news perpetrates on the public without compunction, regret or ethics. How much lighter? A lot: Men throw 16 pounders, women toss a mere 8.8 pounds -- and still throw 15% shorter. Discus uses dual standards as well. High schools have a similar double standard. I didn’t say men are superior, the Olympics did. And it’s OK -- don’t deny the difference, celebrate it.

Although I was correct that B.H. Obama’s 64-page policy guidelines don’t mention “gun” in any form, he has sent letters (which have since been discontinued) to people asking for that information. Two readers sent copies. It ain’t pretty -- leans on all the things we need to do to stop filthy guns, while mouthing hollow support for 2A:

From Barack Obama:

Dear Friend, Thank you for contacting me about gun laws and the Second Amendment. I appreciate hearing from you on this important issue. Americans broadly agree that guns must be kept from those who may pose a threat, and that the rights of legitimate hunters and sportsmen should be protected. We must work to ensure that guns do not fall into the hands of criminals or the mentally ill through an effective background check system. We also have to strike a reasonable balance between public safety and sportsmen's rights. I will continue to work for effective gun laws, including reinstatement of the assault weapons ban that the last Congress allowed to expire, and effective law enforcement. I will also speak out against the culture of violence that traps so many of our young people. Thank you again for contacting me on this important issue.

Sincerely, Barack Obama
Paid for by Obama for America

Obama’s unbroken record of anti-rights votes on guns are documented here.

Carry State Clarifications

The lamestream media told you:

Nothing. In fact, they never provide this crucial information to the public, perhaps because only half of all American homes have firearms.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Chris Bird, author of the exceptional Concealed Handgun Manual, reports: The NRA says there are 40 right-to-carry states. That includes Vermont which does not issue licenses so you don't need a license to carry open or concealed. Alaska is a shall-issue state but you don't need a license to carry in the open or concealed under current law. The state has kept the permit process going for Alaskans who want reciprocity with states in the Lower 48.

There are three other states – Alabama, Connecticut and Iowa -- that the NRA considers right-to-carry because they say permits are almost always issued to law-abiding residents. I have no quarrel with Connecticut and Alabama but I do not count Iowa as I have talked to people in one state gun-rights organization and they say it depends on which county you live in. Some counties issue few if any licenses.

So I say there are 36 states that have mandatory issuance if a person qualifies: AK, AR, AZ, CO, FL, GA, ID, IN, KA, KY, LA, ME, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NM, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WV, WY.

I use the terms license and permit interchangeably, though states are generally dedicated to the word they've chosen. Also note that some states issue permits for concealed weapons that include more than just a handgun, some issue licenses for concealed handguns only, or for any possession, or for a specific firearm listed on the permit. In my home state of Texas, the CHL is for a revolver only, or for semi-auto and revolver, at your choice.

For information on how the wonderful firearm licensing laws attack and diminish your right to keep and bear arms, read this and this.

Tags: concealed handguns, NRA, right-to-carry states

Socialists Endorse Obama

The lamestream media told you:

Francoise Hollande, the head of France's Socialist Party, has endorsed Barack Obama for U.S. president, and promised "to work for the senator's victory," in the words of the Associated Press in an unbylined article.

The article goes on to say, "but he (Hollande) acknowledged that the French Socialists' endorsement could end up tarnishing Obama's image in the eyes of the American electorate, given the way some voters regard socialism."

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

The AP has once again reported on an event without identifying who is speaking. The words quoted above are the AP's, probably a paraphrase or summary of Hollande's actual words, not provided in the story. The accuracy of such pseudo quotes is anyone's guess, darkened by AP's failure to identify the writer who framed the remarks. Newspaper editors nationwide ran the piece anyway.

Most disturbing is the editorial comment at the end, concerning, "the way some voters regard socialism." Whether this is Hollande speaking, or even worse, the AP itself, it is a reprehensible distortion of reality that portrays socialism in an almost neutral light.

Socialism is an avowed arch enemy of the American way and personal freedom, not dependent on how "some voters" view it. It detests capitalism, profit and free markets, the very strengths that have made America great, and which have led more people out of abject poverty than any other system in the world. The socialist system disparages any sense of private property, a linchpin of American economic principles and historical success.

Socialism is a politically designed rather than naturally evolved system, dependent on a dictatorial ruling class, state ownership of property, and the subjugation of individual people for the benefit of "the masses," or the "collective," as defined and managed by the rulers. Modern attempts at imposing socialism routinely end in utter failure, with the collapse of the Soviet Union a prime example and the debacle of Castro's Cuba close behind.

"Some voters" and most of the awake world recognize socialism for what it is, a way to defeat individual liberty, freedom, and turn "the working class" into a political tool for elite leaders with a death grip on power.

The AP should be ashamed of itself for the shoddy deceptive anti-freedom reporting. No correction has been made or is expected.

Tags: Barack Obama, France, Francoise Hollande, socialists

Bar Coding People

The lamestream media told you:

The good news is that 90 to 95% of the people from New Orleans have reached the evacuation areas, and have voluntarily taken wrist bracelets with bar codes on them so they could be safely evacuated, according to FOX news, 8/30/08.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Just think about that.
Bar codes for people.

Tags: New Orleans, bar codes

Olympics Threaten Equality

The lamestream media told you:

The best athletes in the world assembled in China for their moment on the world stage.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

The Olympics held in communist China have provided mathematical proof that men and women aren't equal, to the chagrin of feminists and other reality deniers on the political left.

All the top acrobatic gymnasts were girls, mostly little girls. All the top muscle gymnasts were young men. There was no crossover. Reports omitted mentioning the inequality, even though they showed it for the world to see, knowing many people cannot connect the dots. The fastest "people" in the world are black men, a fact you're not supposed to mention in polite company. Whites are inferior when it comes to such things. Whether blacks, like whites, are also inferior in some areas was unclear according to leading experts.

The most striking numerical difference was in shot-put, where the world's top women peaked at about 60 feet and the men couldn't exceed about 70 feet, a roughly 15% difference. Knowing they're unequal, they're allowed (required, actually) to participate in segregated competitions. No segregation charges have been filed.

Although a sense of justice and morality demands that people are entitled to equal treatment under law, the idea that men, women and the races are equal is pure nonsense. The solution is obvious. Instead of denying the obvious, celebrate the difference.

Tags: Olympics

Olympic Deception Recap

The lamestream media told you:

Little.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

By now even closed-minded TV viewers know that the only reason they could see the Olympics at all was because the Chinese dictators shut down industry and vehicle traffic for weeks so the air was at least partially transparent.

What many couch potatoes have not recognized is that nearly everything they watched had already happened, the results were known, and the timing of the event they saw was completely artificial and managed.

NBC did a great job of hiding this primary fact by refusing to put "Live" and "Recorded" on any of the broadcasts. This made it seem more real, a cool deception that enhanced enjoyment at the expense of honesty.

Did you notice that the smoke cleared immediately after fireworks displays? That's because as soon as the flash ended production crews spent hours editing the recordings.

Did you notice that team scores advanced, like, a real lot, between commercials? That's because production crews edited out large chunks of the game so you didn't have to stay up late and watch the whole boring thing.

Did you wonder how so many thousands of people could "volunteer" their time for nine months to practice for the spectacular opening and closing ceremonies? That's because dictators can command the presence of anyone they choose, for as long as they choose, under any conditions they choose, and if you argue, you know you can be simply killed.

Did you wonder what it would be like to face an army of those one-size-fits-all nattily dressed synchronized people? That concept wasn't lost on the dictators strutting around on the "world stage" created by the media. The communist dictators fielded more "entertainers" than machine guns have belts.

Did you notice they were all good looking? That's because unattractive ones were weeded out of the "volunteer" corps and sent home.

Did you notice how the entire staging of the ceremonial events deemphasized the role of individuals, and how the main thing that mattered was the coordinated effort of the collective whole? That communist principle was at the heart of the design.

Do you think any free society could even come close to matching the scope or spectacle the dictators were able to muster? Could a free society even mount the will and financial resources to assemble, house, clothe, feed and control that many people for that long?

Tags: China, Olympics, Communism

Convention Drunkenness Omitted

The lamestream media told you:

The Democratic convention and the Republican convention, repetitively, blah blah blah.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Through a mechanism that is not clearly understood, no reporting emerged from any of the lamestream outlets, on the drunken debauchery that typically symbolizes national political conventions.

Local bars often redecorate in preparation for windfall profits from overweight, overtired and overtly outrageous delegates sucking down liquor as fast as they can.

Numerous corporate sponsors host happy hours that last into the wee hours, as they ply their future influence-wielding doorknobs with liquor and food.

Anyone who watches youth TV knows that the younger set in both parties are large scale users of every drug known to man, just like in college dormitories and high school campuses. No news of the sickly sweet smell of pot emitted from news reports, though it undoubtedly emitted from cars, alleys and hotel rooms.

Causes for the blackout are under investigation.

Tags: Democratic convention, drunkenness, Republican convention

Convention Ugliness Unparalleled

The lamestream media told you:

The political parties are busy on the world stage, so smartly decorated, with their four-day historic political convention... more after this word from (soap, cars, phones, banks, etc.) many of whom paid the parties to put on the show.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Signaling the virtual collapse of any remaining vestige of reporting left in "news" programming, convention coverage uniformly failed to mention that no news or significant developments came out of the massive, multi-million dollar four-day hijacking of prime time "news" for political party partying.

CNN reliably served as cheerleader for the Democrat's convention, with mind-numbing praise heaped on every aspect of the completely scripted show. Equally predictable, FOX news led non-stop naysayer aspersion-casting vacuous verbiage against the Democrats. The dichotomy was stunning and absolute.

Switching channels on the Dems seamlessly produced adulatory adjectives (CNN) and pejorative ones (FOX). The broadcast networks predictably produced adulation for the Dems, as is their SOP, and condemnation of the GOP, to no one's surprise and a rapidly decreasing viewership.

The Republican convention was preempted by a day of bad weather 1,500 miles away, which they took in stride. Reports of reporters snickering behind closed doors about the weather-induced handicap could not be confirmed at press time. The stark dichotomy of coverage reversed instantly for the GOP convention with FOX heaping praise and CNN and the networks lambasting the woman who dared to run with the older guy whatsisname.

Tags: Democratic convention, Republican convention

Political Convention Redux

The lamestream media told you:

The conventions are an amazing spectacle, and we're so happy to be here, and here is democracy at work, and it's so obvious that one candidate is so much better than the other candidate, our pundits have all these opinions about everything and basically believe the same things, more after this word from our sponsors, who are also sponsoring the conventions.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Am I the only person who's noticed that virtually 100% of the reporting on the Dem convention has been either a) speeches written by teams of people that don't reflect what the individual doing the delivery might otherwise say, and b) empty opinions of people who think their opinion is worth more than the air it takes to mouth it? Have you noticed the Rep's staged virtually the same thing?

Where is the reporting? Where are the reporters who tell you why the speech writers selected the words, and who the writers are? Why do the reporters pretend the speeches are expressions of the speakers? Where is the analysis of the accuracy of the statements being made? Why are the reporters so enthusiastic about the scheduled, managed, massaged, staged and pretend acting they are covering?

When a candidate says he'll give all Americans a check if you vote for him, why doesn't someone point out that paying for votes is immoral, corrupt, reprehensible and, um, a criminal act? Why doesn't someone even ask where the money is coming form? (Hint: the government can only give you money it has already taken from you, or print paper money that is worthless and devalues the money they haven't taken from you yet.)

Do note however that in an attempting to demean Sarah Palin, media reports "exposed" the rumor that she was actually writing her own convention acceptance speech, a fact that struck lamestream reporters as somehow distasteful or improper, instead of honorable, noble and honest.

Tags: Democratic convention, Sarah Palin

Election Avoids Guns

The lamestream media told you:

The gun issue may have caused both John Kerry and Al Gore their presidential election bids. President Clinton specifically attributed Gore's loss to the fears of gun owners, costing the great award-winning environmental champion the humiliating loss of his own home state and the election.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Despite a monumental Supreme Court case on the subject, and quiet rumblings about how guns are a factor in presidential races, the news media is maintaining an eerie silence on the topic of guns, gun rights, gun control and even the Olympic winners of the shooting contests (Great Britain, Germany, China and Russia were big winners, American Kim Rhode took her 4th career Olympic Medal, getting Silver in Women's Skeet).

The media however continues issuing its routine national "news" reports of many minor local gun-related crimes, creating a false impression that gun violence is random (it is highly localized in "bad" neighborhoods), an intrinsic value of firearms (it is largely related to the federalized war on some drugs), and that guns should be outlawed since outlaws use them (the same as outlaws use getaway cars, stolen cash, knives, clubs, liquor, cigarettes, soft drinks, tattoos and everything else).

The media's highly favored candidate, African American B.H. Obama, has no published platform position on firearms. Read it for yourself. His opponent, John McCain, has a strong pro-rights position posted.

Posted platforms and performance are not always an exact match, but the difference is startling. Obama did recently publicly deny that he would take away your guns, and denied his anti-rights record of gun-ban laws he's supported, and that if gun confiscation is why you won't vote for him, change your mind, he said.

Tags: John McCain, Barack Obama