Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Fellow blogger and friend Tim Daniel gets published again...

You might know him as the Left Coast Rebel. Tim is a great blogger and a great American! I'm proud to blog rank and file beside him.

Tim wrote an excellent piece for The Daily Caller....

From California to New York state, Arizona’s illegal immigration law has been making headlines. In what is perhaps a last ditch effort, the state chose to enforce border security and stop criminality that comes with undocumented immigrants.


But last Friday residents thousands of miles away in New York witnessed something similar but quite different: an aggravated, disheveled, undocumented senior citizen.


70-year-old Representative Barney Frank, (D-MA) was heading out to New York’s Fire Island. The New York Post reported that the Massachusetts congressman failed to contain his exasperation when a ticket clerk at the local dock rejected his request for a $1 discount ferry fare to the island. Frank did not possess the necessary Suffolk County Senior Citizens ID to take part. Something quite fascinating then unfolded.


The New York Post recounts a witness claiming that, ”Frank made such a drama over the senior rate that I contemplated offering him the dollar to cool down the situation.” One can imagine the horror of a Congressionally-pampered power broker confronted with a simple, everyday incident like this. Barney Frank lost his cool and that says it all.


And so the story unfolds. In many corners of our society a seemingly trivial incident like this from a man of such high authority would bring pause for no concern. Perhaps, instead – a laughing matter, or an excuse to muse over the representative’s strange proclivities, personality and arrogance.


But the story of the $1 discount fare points to much, much, more.

Read the rest here.

3 comments:

Left Coast Rebel said...

Thanks, Hack! I tip my hat to you too...

Ron Russell said...

Hack, haven't been around for a while, but then I suppose you know how that it. You are listed on my TOTUS blog and just added you at my Obama Cartoons blog at http://obamacartoon.blogspot.com I get a good bit of traffic there, if fact more than at TOTUS although Totus is a PR5 site whereas Obama Cartoons is only a PR4 site. I'm trying my best to get it up with google and would appreciate a link back there. Visit it and maybe link if you like.

Hack said...

You got it Ron! Thank you!