Assemblyman Bill Nojay has announced a rally in Albany to show support for Second Amendment constitutional rights.
The rally will occur on Thursday, February 28 from 10:30am to 12:30pm at the Legislative Office Building and Capital Park in Albany, near the corner of State and South Swan Streets.
You can RSVP to the Assemblyman at nojayw@assembly.state.ny.us
Sign up with County Clerk Cheryl Dinolfo to protect your privacy. You can obtain an "Opt-Out" form, under the state's new gun law, from the County Clerk's website. Completing the form and filing it means the Clerk's office must keep information about you, including your name and address, confidential. Go to: http://www.monroecounty.gov/clerk-opt-out-form
A Gannett newspaper in White Plains published names and addresses of permit holders in Westchester County, trying to marginalize innocent people by publicizing them like registered sex offenders. A handy directory for criminals wanting to steal guns, the map published by The Journal News led to several home robberies before the newspaper finally pulled it.
The incident led to the privacy-protection in the new law. The Journal News' sister publication, the Democrat and Chronicle, now complains, as in today's editorial, about the privacy provisions. Too bad. Let them whine to their sister newspaper.
How would D&C editors like it if someone published their home addresses and private information? Bet they'd be less interested in transparency all of a sudden.
Thursday's Democrat and Chronicle story about the coming snowstorm used a graphic from channel 2 in Buffalo, and linked to a video from the Buffalo station.
The same day's news that an Indian tribe wants to put a casino in Rochester broke in The Buffalo News -- nearly 12 hours before the D&C got around to it.
Recently the D&C changed its Section A, where it prints the world and national stories we all read on the internet the day before. It consists now of a generic USA Today insert, with a D&C wraparound page or two.
They still seem to produce locally Section B. That's where they print the Rochester and state news we all read on Rachel Barnhart's twitter feed the day before.
The slogan for the D&C's marketing effort to migrate readers to its website, in anticipation of ending print, is "Give It To Me Local." Owned by a company in Virginia, trending as illustrated by the examples above, the only thing local about the D&C is the damage it inflicts on this community through its corruption and its lies, documented over the years in this site and in the perception of discerning readers. "Give It To You Anal" is a more fitting slogan and a more truthful one.
So it turns out that William Spengler, the Webster murderer, was subject to gun control.
Convicted as a felon for killing his grandmother with a hammer (watch this page for our call for hammer control), Spengler was legally barred from owning firearms.
Yep, just ban guns and the killings go away.
A recent post by Jim Lawrence, D&C Editorial Editor, shows clear bias against recent Senate appointee Tim Scott.
This is unfortunate, as others in leadership at the D&C are trying to build an environment for healthy discussions on race. How long will the D&C stay in a position of having the personal bias of a few in leadership discredit the objectives of the establishment?
Lawrence acknowledges Scott's appointment, as "the first African American Republican senator from the South since Reconstruction," as a "major breakthrough." He continues:
Yes, Scott is a conservative . . . For me that isn’t a problem. . . But what worries me is that Scott is of the Tea Party ilk, and as such, he’s not even open to dealing with people who see the world differently. It’s telling, for instance, that Scott has refused to join the Congressional Black Caucus.Of course, hooking up with the CBC shouldn’t be a litmus test for black members of Congress, but someone with Scott’s conservative views should at least be at the table for discussions on issues affecting African Americans. In other words, this guy doesn’t sound like someone willing to work across the aisle.
Anyway, I’m going to do some more reading up on Rep. Scott. In the meantime, I’ll keep my fingers crossed that he isn’t someone the South Carolina GOP decided to keep DeMint’s seat warm until a special election is held in two years while trying to reap any benefits from appearing to be, let’s just say, diversity-sensitive.”
Rachel Barnhart names the names, and tells the story the Democrat and Chronicle hasn't the integrity to print.
Update: This is the second time in recent days that Rachel Barnhart has pointed out this topic:
I’ve always felt ... [Maggie] Brooks was held to a higher standard in the press than Democratic officials. If the parking ticket scandal had happened to the county sheriff’s and not city police, it would have been tossed into her scandal pile. But something tells me Mayor Tom Richards won’t be dinged. Democrats are guilty of some of the very same things identified with Brooks’ administration, but they’re not raked over the coals to the same extent. (Anyone want a piece of downtown land for $1 to build luxury condos?)
Seems to me that if Slaughter is so confident that she is the right person for the job, and she is confident that the polls that show her ahead are true, why is she going negative already? Slaughter, who I have interviewed during her last race while on the Board of Contributors at the D&C, struck me as out of touch and not understanding of issues facing folks from my generation. (Or most generations for that matter) She is an advocate for huge government and has yet to find a progressive idea that she doesn’t want to double down on. In her desperation to be politically relevant and to continue that $180k + income coming in she is going to try and use tactics that were less than successful for local Democrats before. Or, maybe, this is the year that Democrats don’t bother touting their own achievements and just try to say “that guy/gal is worse”. Obama certainly isn’t running on his record.
The office of Democratic State Controller and former Assemblyman Thomas DiNapoli, crony of Shelly Silver and Joe Morelle, played an "extensive" role in putting together the secret hush money deal to pay off a victim of sexual predator and Democratic Assemblyman Vito Lopez. Naturally, you'll never read about that in the Democrat and Chronicle, which is in hard-core story suppression mode.
That's the same Controller DiNapoli who Morelle and the Democratic organization are deploying to slime County government under Maggie Brooks.
The Democrat and Chronicle's report on City employees' exemption from red-light camera fines today makes the headline on Drudge. And it's not just the police. All City of Rochester employees are exempt. A red-light aristocracy!
What could illustrate better the bottomless sleaziness of the red-light camera racket?
This site has warned against the abusive money extortion racket represented by red-light cameras since their first consideration as a money making scheme by Rochester City Council. "We're going to make a lot of money," the then-President of City Council exulted after an early presentation to the Council by one of the red-light camera companies.
Can a local government selectively enforce a law that applies to all? We hope the answer is No. A suit challenging the practice would be a fine pro bono project for a civic minded attorney.
Until that happens, drivers should resist every possible way: pleading not guilty, demanding a hearing, making the City go through every step.
Let's make enforcement of this disgrace as difficult and expensive as possible for the greedy and slovenly government that enacted it.
Prior entries on the City of Rochester's red-light racket:
"We're Going to Make a Lot of Money" - 2/3/2010
Ka-Ching: To Collect and to Serve - 5/7/2010
The People Win One -- 7/30/2010
Red-Light Cameras: A Primer -- 8/6/2010
Hypocrisy from City Hall -- 9/29/2010
First, David Frum in The Daily Beast considering the standard-issue drivel about the Republican convention being "too white."
. . . why can't we just respect the fact that some of us have one set of beliefs - others have different beliefs - and let us all compete on voting day and may the best team win? Why do you liberals always have to be dragging race into it?
What you want is a country where everybody looks different, and everybody thinks the same. That's what you call diversity. No thanks. You work hard, you pay your way, you quit asking for handouts, and you're American enough for me - and you'll be up there on the podium with Bobby Jindal, Allen West, Herman Cain, and Nikki Haley as a leader of the one party in this country that isn't hung up on race.
Check out the video of the Democratic Convention considering an amendment to their platform to include reference to "God-given potential" and recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capitol.
Clearly it didn't get the 2/3 vote needed. And it sounds like it may not even have won a simple majority. Convention Chairman Villaraigosa is visibly flummoxed that the delegates won't go along with the change, asking for the vote three times. Then suffering the embarrassment of declaring a voice vote that sounded even as between ayes and nayes as a 2/3 majority!
