Boulder is a Stoopid Place

Read about the school of hate in northern Virginia over at Joanne Jacobs.

Pathetic. If he ever wants to leave Ohio, I’m sure Boulder will welcome him with open arms, heck probably even a parade.

Hat tip to Powerline among others.

Hugh Hewitt’s column at Townall.com has Justice Scalia’s dissenting opinion…

America is at war with radical Islamists. The enemy began by killing Americans and American allies abroad: 241 at the Marine barracks in Lebanon, 19 at the Khobar Towers in Dhahran, 224 at our embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi, and 17 on the USS Cole in Yemen. See National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, The 9/11 Commission Report, pp. 60–61, 70, 190 (2004). On September 11, 2001, the enemy brought the battle to American soil, killing 2,749 at the Twin Towers in New York City, 184 at the Pentagon in Washington, D. C., and 40 in Pennsylvania. See id., at 552, n. 9. It has threatened further attacks against our homeland; one need only walk about buttressed and barricaded Washington, or board a plane anywhere in the country, to know that the threat is a serious one. Our Armed Forces are now in the field against the enemy, in Afghanistan and Iraq. Last week, 13 of our countrymen in arms were killed.

The game of bait-and-switch that today’s opinion plays upon the Nation’s Commander in Chief will make the war harder on us. It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed.

So the solution is to “take no prisoners”?

So now we need to know what the meaning of “and” is. The City of Boulder is taking the owner of the Pearl Street Tavern to court regarding smoking on their outdoor patio.

So why is it called the “Indoor Air Act” if it controls smoking on a patio? My best guess w/o doing any research, because it isn’t worth the time, is that the patio is too close to the building. At anyrate, keeping in mind that a “cigar bar’ is grandfathered in and can have smoking inside or outside the establishment, the Daily Camera summarizes the issue as follows:

The question of whether Sonn’s business qualifies as a cigar bar comes down to the meaning of the word “and.”

The Clean Indoor Air Act, which the state Legislature passed in 2006, defines a cigar bar as an establishment that “generated at least 5 percent or more of its annual gross income or $50,000 in annual sales from the on-site sale of tobacco products and the rental of on-site humidors.”

Nobody disputes that the business sells enough cigarettes and cigars at the bar to qualify. But the two sides disagree about whether Sonn needs to rent space in his humidor to meet the legal standard.

So the concern is:

1. Does “and” mean the combined sales of both tobacco products and rental of on-site humidors

OR

2. Does “and” require that sales from BOTH tobacco products and rental of on-site humidors are required.

The City of Boulder point of view is given by the environmental control officer…

A Boulder environmental enforcement officer said Sonn needed to both sell enough tobacco and rent out humidor space to qualify as a cigar bar. Sonn’s lawyer said the statute only requires bar owners to meet the tobacco-related financial threshold, which can — but doesn’t have to — include humidor rentals.

The article goes on to say both sides report case law. Frankly I find it crazy that the City would believe both sources of income are required. But of course this is the same City that wants to tax free coffee.

Further information can be found in this previous Daily Camera article.

Read the Pajama’s media report on Muslim “no-go” areas in Britain…

In February this year, Christian evangelists Arthur Cunningham and Joseph Abraham were doing what Christian evangelists do: handing out Bible extracts. They were stopped by a representative of the law, threatened with arrest if they carried on preaching in “a Muslim area,” and warned that they might get beaten up if they came back.

Where did this incident take place? Saudi Arabia, Iran, or Pakistan, where Christian preaching is forbidden and apostates persecuted? No, this “Muslim area” was in Alum Rock, Birmingham, England. That’s right — England, cradle of free speech; England, a country with an established, if enfeebled, Church, and where seventy-five percent of citizens (at the 2001 census) describe themselves as Christian.

Britain, we have a problem!

West Midlands Police have not apologized, and instead of sacking Naguthney immediately, they have merely given him training on the nature of “hate crimes.” Such craven appeasement of Muslims is not unprecedented: it was the West Midlands Police force which tried to prosecute Channel 4, whose excellent TV documentary Undercover Mosque revealed the open sedition and hatred of the West preached in our mosques. That prosecution failed, but for now West Midlands Police must be seen as accomplices, albeit perhaps unwitting, in the jihad against our country.

Mr. Cunningham and Mr. Abraham have fired the first shots in the counter-jihad: they are demanding a full and unreserved written apology from West Midlands Police, and have given notice that they regard this incident as a breach of their convention rights under the 1998 Human Rights Act. They are supported by the Christian Institute pressure group, and by Christian Voice, which plans to leaflet the area this weekend.

Good luck with that “counter-jihad”. After your done saving Britain, you can save Canada from their Human Rights kangaroo court.

Earmark moratorium fight?

Not all Republicans are committed to rebuilding their brand of less government and more economic liberty, but a unilateral ban on earmarks would dramatically accelerate their path to redemption. They need to make the hard decision.

Bold mine. The fact that this is a “hard” decision boggles my mind.