Founded in the land of the milky hottub, San Francisco, Craigslist will allow one to post all sorts of perversions  as long as they are politically correct. Want to post x-rated businesses? No problemo. Want a quickie in the town you are going to on business, or advertise your availability for such at a mutually, ahem..., pleasurable price? Hey, CL welcomes your post. Want to buy or sell those devil spawned things called firearms? No Way Jose! As a matter of fact, a rabble of semi-literate nazi posting police will flag your post in less time that it takes to say "Pelosi and the Fairness Doctrine", which is not as odd at it sounds as I suspect they are the same type of people. I tried to sell my Glock and had it flagged about 5 times so I put an invitation into my ad to contact me and express the concerns they had with my post of a legal item for sale. Somebody actually was brave enough to send me a reply:

YOUR GUN will continue to be flaged and flaged as long as you violate this PLEASE READ for you to post your add you had to argee to this by accepting the term so me and other are ready to flag all  we want (spelling and syntax as in original email)

    The PLEASE READ referred to is the CL list of things they deem acceptable to post (see above partial list) and thus gives all the nazi wanker wannabees carte blanche to say hasta la vista to my ads. (Does including three different language phrases in one sentence qualify one as multicultural? If so I take it all back.)
So, I replied to the semantically and spell-checking impaired CL censor as follows:

    Hi  I am glad you had enough courage to at least write a reply. CL guidelines are subject to challenge, but you are right, you can keep flagging (which is,by the way, spelled with two "g's") and I will keep re-posting until it is sold. You would not happen to be a liberal democrat, would you, one of those who preach tolerance and diversity, unless it happens to  conflict with your beliefs? You will  note that in my jurisdiction (per the CL statement) my gun is perfectly legal to be sold so I am completely within my rights to advertise it, and if pressed I could probably file suit against Craigslist to force them to change their posting regulations as  violating  both the Commerce Clause, and the First Amendment prohibitions against infringing on free speech.
    The Supreme Court held in Heller that the Second Amendment explicitly protects the right of an individual to keep and bear arms, therefore any laws or policies that materially impede the ability of an individual to use, own or purchase a legal firearm in a open market ipso facto  (by the fact  of it) can be found to infringe on the right to keep (own, and how can one own if one cannot freely buy?) and  bear arms. These types of laws and policies  are therefore unconstitutional.
    As a matter of fact, one of the Court decisions most near and dear to liberals, Griswald vs. Connecticut, (the precursor to Roe vs Wade) found that couples had a right to purchase contraceptives in an open and free manner, not because contraceptives were the issue, but because reproductive rights (the more fundamental right) could not be fully exercised in the absence of easy access to contraceptives. If my item for sale is legal, I have a right to advertise it, especially as the item in question is in a protected constitutional class (firearms). If you disagree with me, please run your reply through a spellchecker first, it makes it look more professional. Thank you for your time and reply! Brian
  
    And I never thought I would get to use Griswald to beat a liberal with, wonders never cease:-)
    Does anyone think I will get an intelligent reply? I don't either, but I DO think it is important to take the time to make principled stands on small things, or there will be no ground left to fight on for conservative principles that must be defended.
   Between Sharia appeasement policies, gay right's thought police, and the general liberal demagoguery that passes for political discourse, there are very few areas of American conservative life  not under a brutal assault.  We can survive this era, as we survived the Clintons (wait..., we still haven't finished with the Clintons, but that is the subject of another post) but we have to take up the fight instead of being appeasement weenies who live only for re-election. Speaking of about 85% of Republican Congress there, and being optimistic at that. The tree of Liberty must occasionally be fed by the blood of tyrants, idiots, traitors, liberal Democrats and RINO's (but I repeat myself), if it is to flourish. Let's start the metaphorical blood flowing!

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While I do not agree with all Pat writes, as I am not an isolationist, his analysis of Obama's speech has much merit. Consider, if you will, the kind of things Obama COULD have said, indeed were said by many prominent Democrats, and you get a feeling of maturity. Pelosi said her favorite part  of the event was Bush leaving on the helicopter and it felt "like a 10 pound anvil lifting off her head."
Others made childish chants and disrespectful gestures towards the outgoing president. Obama could have gotten up and reaffirmed to DailyKos and Moveon that he was, indeed, their man and given an Ayers type speech about how bad America is (the US makes  Ayers want to puke, but he is stuck in the US as news today said that Canada denied him entrance as too big of a security risk! Wish I could have seen that, but I digress) Obama made the type of speech no one would have expected during the primary, and one, incidentally, that would have kept him from getting all the fringe left votes necessary for him to win.
Of course he is liberalizing abortion funding and espousing gay rights: He believes in those things, and is acting consistent with his beliefs. While I do not agree with him, I expect nothing less of him.
You will note, however, that there were no calls to see Amadinejad without preconditions or any such campaign tripe. Obama will be known as the Pragmatic President, to the dismay of both the Left and Right. The left is going to be sorely disappointed in its more moonbat desires, and the Right will find most of its talking points co-opted into Obama's policies.
Unless Republicans can come up with another Contract with America, and another Newt to run with it, we are going to be a very marginalized party ( even tho I do have hope for Congressional gains in 2010 as the Dems there are feckless and have no control of their liberal impulses). The implosion of the Democrats is not going to come from the White House this time.

Reply to Why doesn't anybody dare say it? Israel Didn't Leave, It Lost By Jonathan Mark


I keep wondering what happened to the Israel that won the 6 day war..., did they win  because it was only six days long and the U.N. couldn't object enough in that time frame? I look at this late armed conflict as being purely political in nature, giving the current pols in Israel a chance to look brave and fierce under the the umbrella of the outgoing Bush admin, in hopes that it will sway enough Israeli voters to keep their party in power. This was a PR war for internal consumption, and you are absolutely right, Mark,  no Israeli goals were accomplished. The only way to rout Hamas is to make the Gazan civilian population cease giving the terrorists refuge and human shields to hide behind, which is what also saved the USA's arse in Iraq, the civilian population wanting something more than death (along with the surge!).Palestinians, regrettably, do not seem as smart as the average Iraqi and seem content to pursue the path of martyrdom, so I say Give'em what they want! Netanyahu has the best chance of doing so, is ahead in the polls, and is the main reason  Barak ok'd Operation Cast Lead. Might as well have been Operation Pass Gas for all the good it did, except it truly showed that Israeli politicians can humiliate themselves more than once every three years. Angry? I am outraged! I live in the US and am not a Jew, but for such a worthless bunch of leftist whiners I can find an exception to casting the first stone. When you place the lives of your citizens on the line for a political game, you deserve to be shot. Clean your own house first, Israel, then clear off the rest of the bloody terrorists with a hand of steel. Islam respects the strong, and little else..., just ask Bin Ladin.