FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Oct. 5 (DaddyBear Press International) — A new Florida law that bans local speech control means Fort Lauderdale officials must allow speeches at parades and other public events, city officials said.The state law imposes fines on public officials who enforce local speech laws, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Wednesday.The city, in response to the new state law, changed a local ordinance that forbids speeches at parades and local events. Now, speeches are allowed but newspapers are not, the report said.“Sometimes the Legislature does things I don’t agree with, but they passed a law and we are complying with that law,” Mayor Jack Seiler said.The city also dropped an ordinance that makes it illegal to go to church within the city limits. City Attorney Harry Stewart said the state will instead use a state law that prohibits the reckless conduct of religious services.The Broward County Commission voted Tuesday to seek legislation allowing the county to keep its local speech regulations, the newspaper said.
Fort Lauderdale to allow speech at parades
Posted by daddybear71 on October 6, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/10/06/fort-lauderdale-to-allow-speech-at-parades/
Quote of the Day
- “I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.“
- ―Obi-Wan (Ben) Kenobi, Star Wars
- In Memorium of Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Computers, the company which introduced me to computers.
Posted by daddybear71 on October 6, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/10/06/quote-of-the-day-44/
Thoughts on the Day
- Waiting until the day of a security audit to address issues that were pointed out to you a month ago does not make for a happy DaddyBear.
- Calling DaddyBear into a jury selection on a Monday afternoon, followed by calling him back the next morning to tell him if he’s on the jury, followed by sending the jury home 5 minutes after announcing the selection doesn’t do much for DaddyBear’s attitude either.
- When you are openly hostile to the judge as you are being considered for a jury, please remember that 12 of us are going to have to deal with the damage you leave behind.
- It is never a good sign to see two uniformed police officers leaving a courthouse carrying a baby wrapped in a police coat.
- There must be a way to mathematically model the relationship between a given location’s distance from the center of a city and the number of flashing ambulance and police lights that you see as you drive. I see maybe one policeman and one ambulance a week out in my sleepy little area. I swear their density grows logarithmically as I get closer to downtown.
- To the nice lady in the Subaru Forester with all the peace signs and COEXIST stickers: you’re going to miss that finger when it gets broken off by a side mirror.
- If I can hear you eat while I listen to Metallica on my headphones, your mother just didn’t raise you right.
- The left turn lane is for turning left people. It’s not a passing lane so you can make a right turn sooner.
- The work is done when it is done. Asking me for a status report every 5 minutes is not going to hurry it up.
- Being married to an Irish redhead is sometimes like being Inspector Clouseau and paying your servant to try to kill you so you keep your edge.
- Coming home to Eskimo and Butterfly kisses, eating a warm meal, and making banana bread is a great way to end a very long day.
Posted by daddybear71 on October 5, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/10/05/thoughts-on-the-day-19/
How Meta
Fox News is reporting on the lack of reporting on guns after the landmark Heller and McDonald cases didn’t bring blood to the streets of America.
They remark on how in Chicago and Washington the crime rates, specifically for murder and robbery, have declined at a faster rate than expected since gun control laws were struck down, but little to no mention of that is found in most news reporting at the national level.
If you pay attention to the MSM and you have a gun freedom twist to your rifling, this should come as no surprise to you.
Here are a few other things that aren’t exactly being shouted from the rooftops by our village criers:
- Project Fast and Furious, AKA GunWalker – Yes, Fox puts out information on it regularly. And CBS has mentioned it, but it’s definitely a page 3, under the fold kind of coverage. The death of federal agents at the hands of foreign smugglers armed by the government should cause someone to be shrieking in large bold letters on page 1 of every newspaper in the country. Brian Williams should be sputtering in rage and profanity on the NBC Evening News. Nancy Grace should forget about the latest blonde cutie to go missing after a night of drinking to demand answers. Nixon was impeached for obstructing the investigation of a burglary. Clinton was impeached for lieing about an extramarital affair under oath. Obama gets glamor shots of his backswing after his Justice Department perpetrated an act of war against a good neighbor that led to the death of American citizens.
- Campus Carry – This is the first article I’ve seen on the subject on a national news platform.
- TJIC and others who have their civil rights arbitrarily violated because some pissant decided they didn’t like the cut of their jib.
And the list goes on and on.
Look, the media has been in the bag for the left leaning part of our society since well before I was born. We have to take that into account in everything we say or do that might be reported in the worst possible light. We have to expect that things that are important to us are going to be kept quiet unless we kick and scream for equal time. Our reporting has to be better and more accurate than theirs every time, all the time. It’s just the way the game is played.
But I don’t have to like it.
Posted by daddybear71 on October 4, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/10/04/how-meta/
An Assumption
A man, along with an accomplice, has been charged with a string of robberies, mostly of barbershops in Louisville.
Something tells me his list of places to rob didn’t include my barber:
“We are the safest barber shop in town, cause everybody here has a conceal carry permit,”
There’s something really nice about a barbershop with deer and boar heads on the walls, a haircut finished up with hot lather and a straight razor, advertisements for gun manufacturers and shooting ranges next to the door and cash register, a display of gun belts and leather holsters, and knowing that each and every barber in the place is carrying something that goes bang. Plus, every so often they give away a gun, which is always nice.
Posted by daddybear71 on October 4, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/10/04/an-assumption/
Never Leave a Man Behind
On October 3 and 4, 1993, Operation Gothic Serpent, also known as the Battle of Mogadishu happened. U.S Army Rangers, Delta Force, and helicopters from the 160th Special Operations Air Regiment began the day on what should have been an easy snatch and grab mission. By the time the sun set the next day, 19 Americans would be dead, 91 would have been wounded, and 1 would be a prisoner of war. History was made that day in a way that no-one could have imagined when the helicopters lifted off.
When the Somalia relief mission was announced, our brigade commander came through our battalion looking for people who could speak Italian, French, or Arabic. He didn’t even ask if anyone spoke Somali. Volunteers who were accepted were sent off to augment the combat forces as translators. This was the first of the “Christiane Amanpour Operations” where political leaders reacted to CNN programming showing people suffering by sending in combat troops. See also Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo. We all thought the U.S. was getting involved to save people from starving. None of us thought that Presidents Bush and later Clinton would let the mission creep into determining who would have power in that little country. It was that mission creep that led to Gothic Serpent.
Anyway, I was a Russian/German linguist, so my volunteering was graciously turned down. I later had to have a moment of irate counseling with our company clerk who told my wife that I’d tried to volunteer, causing a moment of irate counseling from my wife when I got home that evening. I should have known at that exact moment that being married to her and being a soldier were mutually exclusive concepts.
When the Battle of Mogadishu happened, we watched CNN for details, because information from official channels was a few days behind. Several members of my unit had been sent, but none of them took part in the fighting until the relief column finally got in on the second day of the battle. Luckily, none of the were hurt.
Somalia should have been a wake-up call to us. It was the first hint that the Middle East and Northeast Africa would be a problem for us as we assumed the self-assigned role as the sole remaining superpower. Unfortunately, we didn’t see it for what it was and continued preparing to refight the Korean War and Operation Desert Storm until 2001.
The men who fought in Mogadishu fought in a way that their fathers and grandfathers did in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam: cut off against numerically superior foes with little to no support. Almost all of the technological advantages American forces normally enjoy were gone, and they survived only because they refused to stop fighting. No matter what they were before the fight, they were heroes by its end. These warriors fell back on training and mutual support when the world fell in on them. We owe them and all like them a debt that I fear can never be repaid.
H/T to Miguel at Gun Free Zone for reminding me of the date.
Posted by daddybear71 on October 4, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/10/04/never-leave-a-man-behind/
Ruining It for the Kids
Researchers at the University of Alabama have reported that overzealous adults do a lot to ruin the experience of sports for children. They suggest that kids need unstructured play at young ages, and shouldn’t specialize in one sport until age 15.
They aren’t telling me much that I didn’t already know. Little Bear wanted to play teeball in the spring of first grade, so his mother and I signed him up for the league near her home. This was the year after a local team had won the Little League World Series, so every coach had championships in their eyes as they worked with their teams.* The head coach and assistants on Little Bear’s team were absolute jerks. All but two of the kids on the team hadn’t done much but play catch before, but they were expecting them to know when to throw to first base. The other two were coaches kids, who had obviously been worked aggressively since the time they could pick up a ball. Little Bear was the smallest and youngest member of the team, and the coach was continually screaming at him from the dugout to pay attention and stop playing with the grass, or kicking up the dirt, or whatever it is that young boys like to do when they’re bored by the frenetic pace of teeball. Little Bear wanted to quit after the third game, but I got him to stay through the entire six week season. That was the last time he wanted anything to do with sports.
Coaches and parents have to walk a fine line between pushing young kids to help them excel and being too harsh. Kids in sports need to be taught discipline, but making 1st graders take a lap because they forget to throw the ball home when there’s a runner on third base is a bit too much.
I’ve also seen parents who put so much emphasis on sports in order to position their child for a scholarship and possibly a professional career. That’s all well and good if a young man or lady is in high school, but some start the lectures in grade school. Pressuring kids to perform and excel at a level so much above their age almost always backfires.
Sports at that age should be about fun, learning, and exercise. Adults who make it about winning and nothing else need to get a grip and join an adult league.
*This isn’t an exaggeration. I overheard a meeting of several coaches where they discussed specific players of all ages that they wanted to groom in order to create a new superteam.
Posted by daddybear71 on October 3, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/10/03/ruining-it-for-the-kids/
News Roundup
- From the “Blasphemy!” Department – A man in New Orleans has put a sign depicting President Obama in diapers in his yard. Protesters, including former mayor Ray Nagin, have gathered to try to get him to take it down. A bright spot here is that the police have refused to force him to take it down. Score one for the 1st Amendment. Apparently political lampooning is off limits now. It’s not like anyone ever put up signs making President Bush look like a chimp or anything.
- From the “No Kidding?” Department – A study asserts that 1 in 25 people in management are psychopaths. The authors suggest that if a person works for a boss that is charming, manipulative, and feels no guilt for using people as speed bumps for public transportation, they should find other employment. If only 4% of bosses are psycho’s, why is it that my percentage is so much higher? There’s a chestnut about how the common thread in all your bad relationships is you, so it must be my fault that at least half the people I’ve worked for were of the pulling-wings-off-flies demographic.
- From the “Snacking Ursine” Department – A bear in British Columbia strolled into a pizza restaurant, ate a pizza at the counter, and then left. I guess the problem is that he didn’t leave a tip. Officials say to be on the lookout for a bear with garlic breath and looking for a cold beer.
- From the “Don’t Mess With Nona” Department – An 88 year old woman in Italy ran off a thief the other day by yelling at him that he should be ashamed of himself and that he should go out and get a job. My image of this is an old, bent woman wearing all black beating a young man about the head and shoulders with her cane while yelling in rapid Italian. Too bad she didn’t have a gun, because this would have been a great addition to the DGC.
Posted by daddybear71 on October 3, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/10/03/news-roundup-81/
Thought for the Day
I can’t stand this indecision
Married with a lack of vision
Everybody wants to rule the world
–Tears for Fears, “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”
Posted by daddybear71 on October 3, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/10/03/thought-for-the-day-61/
An Open Letter
Dear NFL Players,
Look, you’re not soldiers, and I don’t expect you to stand at attention and render a hand salute when the national anthem is being played. If you want to put your hand over your heart, or sing along, or just stand respectfully for a few minutes while the nice lady sings, that’s just great.
But do us all a favor: While someone’s singing the Star Spangled Banner, please lay off with the head shaking, shrugging, rolling of the eyes, and mugging for the camera. It’s just trashy, and I expect better of men who are being paid small/large fortunes to play a child’s game. If your mama didn’t raise you right and you don’t know how to show a little respect, I am always available for a little remedial training.
Thank you,
Daddy J. Bear
Devoted Football Fan
Posted by daddybear71 on October 3, 2011
https://daddybearsden.com/2011/10/03/an-open-letter-4/
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