NAKED at Mayfair Mall!!!

Ok, now that I have your attention, its not really naked....only half naked....and it's not even people their bitching about, it's mannequins.
I know this shouldn't suprise me but it still does. It seems that a couple of Wauwatosa residents, Stan and Betty Zurawski, find the mannequins in Victoria's Secret window offensive in their lingerie. I guess they show too much skin....er...fiberglass.

Quoted in the JS as saying "I would hope people would see that this isn't what we want here," said Zurawski, who made an unsuccessful bid for Wauwatosa mayor in 2000. "I'm not a prude, but I find this offensive."

The couple, members of the group Tosans for Responsible Government, says they want Mayfair Mall to prohibit stores from displaying or selling "offensive" items - from thongs at Victoria's Secret to sex toys at Spencer Gifts and T-shirts critical of President Bush.

I guess they get to decide what's offensive for all of us? Who would have thought a lingerie store would have mannequins dressed in lingerie in their store window....?? I don't really consider half naked fiberglass dummies to be that erotic...hell, if they were I would be at Mayfair right now!

You know what offends me?? These self righteous, better than you puritans, who have nothing better to do with their boring little lives than act like they know whats best for everyone and try and regulate what we all are exposed to because they don't like seeing a pair of panties on a damn mannequin. Since your offensive to me does that mean we can rid you from society so everyone isn't exposed to your bullshit?

How about only trying to control you own damn life and shop somewhere else if the naughty underwear scares you so damn much. If the t-shirts with the anti Bush slogans are so terrible for ya, don't shop their either!!

You have the freedom to shop or not shop anywhere you want......and so do I untill assholes like you try and infringe on my rights.

Concealed Carry Law To Be Shot Down Again?

Concealed Carry Law is back in legislation in this great state of ours. Of course you can expect it to be another losing vote. Wisconsin seems to be content to be one of the only 4 states that do not allow their citizens this constitutional right.

Editorials in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel like This Piece Of Crap are one of the catalysts that fuel the ignorance of the democratic sheep in this state that are too damn lazy to do some simple searching for facts but instead choose to blindly follow a continuously bias rag that masquerades for a "news"paper in this town.

It is SO easy to do a simple search for crime statistics in the 46 states that do have a concealed carry law, before and after their law was passed, to see what the effects were instead of assuming the liberal legislators are correct. Guess what, they aren't.

How about starting with The Federal Bureau Of Investigation website that shows that an FBI Uniform Crime Report concluded that "violent crime rates are highest in states with laws limiting or prohibiting the carrying of concealed firearms for self-defense."
You can have all the laws you want banning citizens from carrying a weapon and your not going to reduce the amount of gun violence. Wanna guess why? Because criminals, by definition, don't obey the law! Also by definition, law abiding citizens won't have a means to protect themselves because our democratic leaders won't allow us to.

Democrats argue that if we have a concealed carry law we will have more gun violence, higher murder rate, vigilante justice, more crime....among a few. They spout this drivel out of misguided emotion and the overwhelming need to protect everyone from theirselves instead of from proven Facts, Statistics, and Crime Reports from the 46 states that have passed this law and what the results there have been.
Not one of the 46 states has legislation pending to revoke their concealed carry law but all 4 of the states without this law have legislators actively pursuing getting the law passed.

I have a suggestion for those who do not think that the passing of this law, and putting in the mind of the criminals that their intended victim may be armed, will not serve as a deterrent to violent crimes:

Put a sign in your yard saying “I oppose guns and you will not find one in this house.”

I'll put a sign in my yard saying "This property protected by Smith and Wesson."

Let's see who they decide to rob first.
~Gate~

Streetside Memorials?

Lately in the new has been alot of talk about the memorials that are put up by surviving family members of homicide victims (92 in Milwaukee now but thats another rant) and/or accident victims.
Store owners and private citizens alike complaining that these memorials are an eyesore, gathering places for trouble, not taken care of and against the law.

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Of course the family members are understandably grieving and use these memorials as a way to deal with it.

So who's right? Should they be allowed? Because of the law the city could just go in and remove them be it a bit harsh.

I'm a bit torn but I believe I lean a bit towards not having the memorials on the city streets. Personally, I would tend more towards putting a memorial to a loved one in a cemetary instead of the site where they were gunned down. Putting these memorials up obviously hasn't had a detering effect on the amount of shootings in this lovely city. I can honestly tell you that if someone got killed in front of a store that I owned I would not want a big memorial on my sidewalk to look sloppy and remind all my customers what a wonderful neighborhood they are shopping in.
Could be why there is a standing city ordinance against putting things like this on the streets.

So what do you think?
If I had to decide the issue I would have to say leave the memorials in the cemetaries where they belong and concentrate on cleaning up your neighborhoods instead of putting up reminders that you haven't.
~Gate~

The Reason Racism Will Never Die

Anyone see this crap on the news?

This interview with Minister Nashim Nzinga of the Black Panthers? (Not sure why he is a Minister but hey, if Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton can call themselves Reverand, why not. ) This idiot, and those like him, actually believe that:

1. The Jews knew all about the events of 9/11 BEFORE they occured.
2. There is a "mothership" that hovers above the earth.
3. The white people intentionally blew up the levee in New Orleans to kill black people.

First thought? No way anyone could be that stupid, right? Wrong...

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Now where do ya think they may have gotten such crazy notions? Why it was Louis Farrakhan, (insert big surprised look here) who is "One of the most significant African-American leaders in modern times", according to Eugene Kane of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal. Now "THERE'S" someone to lookup to eh?
If your not familiar with Eugene Kane he is an editorialist for the Sentinal. He is one of those guys who like to put a racial spin on EVERYTHING. One of his most current ramblings of racist bull is from Sept 17th titled "Katrina exposed prejudice that can't be ignored" where he spouts off about a story of a suburb (Gretna) that would not allow large crowds to come across the bridge from New Orleans after all the violence. They were quoted as saying "If we had opened the bridge our city would have looked like New Orleans does now, looted, burned and pillaged."
From this Kane twists it and says "For me, the bridge in Gretna is more troubling than individual acts of greed" and "It represented what many have been saying since the floodwaters came to New Orleans to wipe away all denial: Poor folks didn't matter; if they were black and poor, they were really out of luck." So basically it boils down to looting is ok and there were no white people risking their lives voluntarily to save poor black people because they don't matter. Get a grip on reality Eugene.
Hell we can't even call those people who have driven from their homes with only the clothes on their backs, unsure if they will ever be able to return, and forced to build a new life in a strange place, refugees because the Jesse Jackson said "It is racist to call American citizens refugees."
"Refugee" implies that the displaced storm victims, many of whom have been black, are second-class citizens.
Oh, and lets not forget Al Sharpton saying "if they have been wealthier and whiter they would not had to wait 4 days"
Give me a freakin break. Have these "leaders of the black community" noticed that the majority of the people who did not evacuate are black? That when you turn on a TV all you see is black people being rescued? That the majority of the rescuers are white? That the majority of the looters are black? How about a little honesty here, even if it doesn't further your cause.
Which brings me to the subject line of this rant. Their "cause" is to keep racism alive. Racism will never die because the "leaders of the black community" keep it alive by spouting ridiculously fabricated bullshit. Wanna guess why? Oh, I don't know, maybe cause they would all be out of a damn job if they didn't keep the up the facade that everything bad that happens to a black individual is due to racism.
~Gate~

The Creation

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