The feds have raided marijuana facilities in California, some of which produce the drug for medical purposes in compliance with state law. I thought Republican administrations were supposed to be about the federalism?
It’s full auto-day. Well, yesterday was and since (as HL discovered here) I run a day behind, now yo know. So, go scroll for some MG goodness.
Is there a stereotype about black people’s lawns always looking like shit? Because I’m thinking about starting one.
Update: Ok, ok, fine. It’s in bad taste. It’s a joke, get over it. BTW, the Mexicans who live up the street have an immaculate lawn.
David Hardy notes a bill that requires registration of bloggers with more than 500 readers, and who comment on policy issues. Violation would be a criminal offense.
He has the text of the bill there.
Interesting read. Via David Hardy, who notes: Sounds a little as if the reporter wanted to write an anti-gun story, but came up with no material.
A couple of videos of defensive gun uses and commentary here and here. And more commentary here. You might learn something.
A while back, the US banned online gambling. Well, that’s not true. They banned banks from processing payments to and from sites that offer illegal gambling. Illegal gambling is undefined, of course. Excluded from the ban was horse racing and other gambling that rich people engage in but people like me who enjoy their $0.25/$0.50 no limit hold-em games are out of luck. Party Poker pulled from the US market and its stock price went from about $160 to less than $40 per share instantly. After the bill passed, yours truly pulled his money out of Party Poker.
The US Ban takes effect 270 days after the bill was signed. The bill was snuck into a larger port security bill under cover of darkness. The bill also cost the author of the bill his congressional seat. Seems people don’t re-elect dickheads. The bill is also why Bill Frist will not be our governor, count on it. Some poker sites fought on, like pokerstars and continue to allow US residents to play. Good for them but when the ban goes into effect, no US banks will transfer funds. Enter Neteller.
Neteller, which is not a bank, still offered money transfer services to gaming sites. Well, until this week because US agents arrested the founders of the site for . . . well, I’m not sure what for. The article states it’s for handling billions of dollars in illegal gambling proceeds. Well, that doesn’t exactly sound illegal if you take out the word illegal. And since illegal is undefined, I’m guessing it’s just bullying. Neteller has pulled itself from the US. This is devastating the online gambling industry:
According to gambling portal Gambling911.com, Full Tilt Poker depended on NETeller for 75 percent of transactions, and the world’s biggest site, Pokerstars, used NETeller for around 60 percent of wagers.
Speaking of the sex industry.
You’ll recall that some senator from our fair state wants to infringe on the first amendment (rather than let people exercise their right to change the channel) by fining TeeVee stations that air those girls gone wild commercials. Well, now this guy is getting some national attention for the same reason Tennessee usually gets national attention: Because someone is being stupid. Terry Frank says that:
I much prefer a State Senator getting national coverage for drawing attention to a worthy debate on obscenity instead of the ability of Tennesseans to eat road kill.
I’m gonna disagree. Sure, eating roadkill is stupid but it affects the people who eat it. This bill is stupidity that affects other people and their revenues. And, you know, free speech rights. These commercials air on cable channels that people pay for. Not the big three. People can change the channel or not buy cable.
And, of course, I’ll post about it. Any excuse to post images of women with stars on their nips:
Terry Frank tells us that Stacey Campfield wants to get rid of the tax on food and replace it with a tax on porn. Now, I’m all for getting rid of the tax on food. Heck, I’m all for getting rid of taxes in general. But this is a stupid idea. It’s stupid for a few reasons but the main reason is that porn is free. It’s true. Ever since Al Gore gave us the Internet, porn has been free. It’s everywhere. You can even Google it up. And it’s piped into your home for free without having to go to the local porn store and, you know, run into your boss or something.
It’s also stupid because I doubt there’s enough volume of porn to compensate for the amount of groceries bought. So, Stacey, here’s an idea: Cut the tax on food and cut spending. Novel concept! Stacey writes:
The items I am considering are magazine’s, videos (online, cable purchase or hard copy) or items that you have to be over the age of 18 to view or purchase due to sexual content. R rated movies will not be included. Strip club fees and purchases of services at strip clubs and Escort services will also be included.
Aren’t escort services illegal if they involve sex? And today’s funny comes from the News Sentinel:
Kristi Dunn, store manager of Inserection Adult Fantasy Store, 501 N. Broadway, does not think the proposed tax will be of much concern to the store’s patrons.
Ha! That’s funny.
Update: I’m not the only one.
Update 2: Since someone asked, they were reading this and this. My response is that at least they weren’t visiting my house this time. Heh. Hi, guys!
WBIR news coverage of the Term Limits debacle as various politicians give their thoughts as to the best way to handle the situation. Caution, you are entering a spin zone. You may need a good sense of humour and/or a sickness bag.
Reader Jack mails that the NY Sun has covered the Idaho mayor’s withdrawal from Bloomberg’s anti-gun group:
An Idaho mayor has dropped out of Mayor Bloomberg’s coalition against illegal guns, city officials said.
The mayor of Idaho Falls, Jared Mr. Bloomberg’s coalition in October, but withdrew earlier this month because of pressure from constituents and what he told a local news organization was a sense that the coalition had an ” agenda” of preventing guns from entering the hands even of law-abiding gun owners. The coalition is called Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
Mr. Fuhriman declined to comment for this article.
“I found there’s probably a little more of an agenda coming from Mayor Bloomberg’s office than I anticipated,” he told Channel 3, KIDK, on January 2. “So as I looked into it, I could see there was a conflict with the NRA and some of the beliefs we have here in Idaho.”
Politically Incorrect Dog is possessed. What’s more, we’re fairly convinced that he is possessed by the spirit of Politically Correct Dog, who passed away last year after battling cancer. Politically Incorrect Dog has taken on some traits he never had before but which Politically Correct Dog always had. Politically Incorrect Dog never much cared for treats nor was he ever inclined to beg for food. But Politically Correct Dog was all about some dog biscuits and begging for scraps. In the evening, Politically Correct Dog would hover around the cabinets where we kept the treats and whine until we gave him some. It was the evening routine. Politically Incorrect Dog would take the treats if you gave them to him but he never was much for begging for them. Recently, Politically Incorrect Dog as started to beg for his evening treats.
Also, Politically Correct Dog had the most bizarre habit of burying his head in the carpet while sticking his rear in the air when you’d scratch his head. Suddenly, Politically Incorrect Dog has started doing the same thing.
Politically Incorrect Dog has also started begging for food during dinner, which he never really did before but Politically Correct Dog did all the time.
Odd, indeed.
Via Ravenwood, Time magazine is looking at Tennessee’s Illegal Drug tax:
since the tax was enacted in 2004 it has netted Tennessee $3.5 million in extra revenue, 75% of which goes directly to the enforcement agencies that carry out the drug busts. Still, some opponents argue that adding such steep penalties on top of criminal charges amounts to a second punishment, and thus a violation of double jeopardy law. “Aside from this incredible acrimony and bill-collecting mentality,” says Knoxville attorney Gregory P. Isaacs, “you are divested of all your constitutional rights.”
For that reason, a Davidson County chancellor last summer ruled the tax unconstitutional, and stopped the state from collecting Robbins’ $1.1 million. But the Department of Revenue, confident the ruling will be overturned on appeal, is continuing with the assessments. Says Deputy Commissioner Reagan Farr, “It’s fine to have a criminal and a regulatory scheme running in tandem. We’ve made sure our statute is purely regulatory, not punitive.” But no matter how you define it, the bottom line for Tennessee is that crime pays.
Never heard the double jeopardy argument. I always looked at it from the taking property without due process of law angle.
Looks like they changed the sticker.
I have little to say today for some reason. But I will say this:
If I pass you on the right and you’re not making a left hand turn, you’re a fucking retard.
Oops. They don’t launch the cow:
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Lan Kosal smiles wryly as he breaks down the cost of killing a cow with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
For $555, Mr. Lan, an arms merchant, says he will take a client to a remote field in the Cambodian countryside to obliterate a bovine with the Soviet-era armament designed to destroy tanks and cause mass casualties.
Well, that’s just cruel. However, it does remind me of the time me and some friends almost convinced another friend that Tennessee was experiencing a cattle overpopulation problem and declared the month of March open cow season. Good times.
Various polls on gun issues. Notice that over time, the country is getting more and more pro-gun. Honestly, I would say that the poll is not very good because most people in the country simply do not know what current gun laws are. And 50% of people support a law which would make it illegal to manufacture, sell, or possess semi-automatic guns known as assault rifles. The phrasing of the question is stupid because they weapons are not assault rifles. And it confirms that not only do people simply not know gun laws, they also don’t know much about guns.
First is this, which Authorizes persons with handgun carry permits to possess firearms in all public hunting areas, refuges, wildlife management areas, and national forests managed by the state. I’m all for it.
Next, is this:
. . . some sportsmen want to amend Tennessee’s constitution to protect the right to hunt and fish. They’re concerned that animal-rights activists will use the courts to someday try to end all hunting and fishing here.
The proposed amendment is part of a national effort intended to ensure such rights. More than 10 states have constitutional protections for hunting and fishing, though some have had theirs on the books for centuries.
The right to arms is already in Tennessee’s constitution and, as we EBR types like to say, gun rights aren’t about hunting.
“Hey,” one of the officers asked, “aren’t you going to clean it?”
“Oh,” Murphy grinned as he snapped the box shut, “didn’t I tell you? The whole gun is non-corrosive, even under a salt water spray, and the lubricants are permanently fused into the metal. It’ll never need oil, and dirt can’t stick to any of the moving parts. Bury it in sand, dig it up, bang the butt on the ground once to clean it out, and it’ll work like a hundred-dollar watch.”
I’ll take two.
One of your fellow mayors against guns quit the group:
Jared Fuhriman, the mayor of Idaho Falls, has walked away from the coalition of mayors. He told a local newspaper that he was originally told that Bloomberg’s coalition was only going after “illegal guns.” But after doing his own research he said, “I could see there was a conflict with the NRA and with some of the beliefs we have here in Idaho.”
Well, Mr. Haslam, the research has been done for you. Yet you still belong to this anti-gun group. Not good for your future political aspirations in this state.
Update: A reader points out Haslam’s Wikipedia page which has links to my stuff and is a bit, err, biased. They also point out that Haslam’s people are quick to change it.
Some moron called up the Knox County Sheriff’s Department and told them that Les Jones looked like the killer in the Johnia Berry case. Of course, this is ludicrous because Les Jones is the webmaster for johniaberry.org, which is a site dedicated to finding the killer.
Upon reading his post, I found it odd that the KCSD didn’t Google Les Jones. A few minutes of reading, and they could have figured out that Les was the webmaster there. But then it occurred to me that if they Googled Les Jones, they’d know he was a gun nut. And, instead of a knock on the door, maybe they would have gotten all ninjafied on him.
Update: R. Neal says:
It’s hard to imagine, though, that they didn’t know who Les Jones was or that he, along with the Berry family, have at times been critical of the Knox Co. Sheriff’s handling of the case.
Having apparently solved all of Tennessee’s problems, Senator Doug Jackson wants to heavily fine stations that show commercials featuring 18 year-old chicks making out with other 18 year-old chicks. These commercials only come on at 11:30p.m. on Comedy Central, I know because that’s where I see them. That’s great. Let’s assail free speech because a couple of young blond hotties showing their tits with little computer-generated purple stars covering the nipples got Jackson’s temperature up. This bit is kinda funny:
Dickson Senator Doug Jackson said he got the idea after seeing commercials for “Girls Gone Wild” videos that show young women baring their breasts and acting out other sexual situations.
Let’s ban senators from watching TeeVee. Which is more offensive:
Or 
David Hardy has the text of the bill. Sebastian notes it will infuriate mayors of gun control utopias.
Damn. At least let the carcass that was Republican control get cold first:
On Thursday, the House of Representatives will vote on legislation to increase taxes for the first time since 1993. It took just 15 days of new found power for the Democrats to raise taxes. The first vote of the 110th Congress removed the 3/5 supermajority to raise taxes. The following day was a vote to enact a new rule requiring offsetting tax increases for every tax cut.
Yes, it’s all coming back to me now exactly why I hate those guys.
That’s the name of this piece on community gun ordinances encouraging gun ownership. My first thought was Wow, the NYT did something pro-gun? Then, I realized it was Glenn Reynolds.
Their spelling, not mine:
I’m wearin’
Fur pyjamas
I ride a
Hot Potata’
It’s tickling my fancy
Speak up, I can’t hear you
Upward Basketball. Some friends’ kids are in it. Not sure if you’re aware of it but it’s a religious group that does sports. They play basketball but do not keep score. I think that’s stupid because it is important that children learn there are winners and losers at athletic contests. A child should learn about the thrill they get from winning and the sorrow they get from losing. But that’s not what makes Upward Basketball stupid. See, they do man-on-man coverage and each man on the team is assigned a skill level and is given a corresponding colored waistband. People on the other team have corresponding waistbands assigned by skill level. And you are paired against the man with the same color waistband on the other team for man-on-man coverage. So, if you totally suck at basketball, then you will be paired with someone else who totally sucks at basketball. If you’re a little Michael Jordon, you’ll be paired with another little Michael Jordan. So, we don’t keep score because we don’t want to focus on winning and losing. But if you suck, we’ll put a waistband on you letting everyone know that you suck.
Update: From comments, Sailorcourt says it’s socialist basketball. Because It’s great for the players that suck. heh.
On the supreme court telling Knoxville that term limits apply, MKS injects some reality:
Don’t be naive in thinking this court ruling will bring political changes. What is currently business as unusual will soon return to business as usual. If you are giddy with glee right now, do yourself a favor and get over it fast.
David Hemenway (an anti-gun hack who asserted that folks who carried guns were more likely to indulge in road rage (despite the fact that there were no notable increases in instances of road rage after states passed concealed carry laws); and refused to release his data) is at it again. This time, the hack asserts that if guns in homes cause homicides. Well, that’s not what he says specifically but that’s the impression that he wants to leave you with. Turns out, he’s wrong as usual. Jeff has the full report. He also took the exact same data and came to an entirely different conclusion, noting that Hemenway’s use of controls was just a way to get the desired result.
During the past decade we’ve added a minimum of 30 million new firearms in public hands – at least 10 million of which were handguns. Since 1993 we’ve gone from 21 states with “shall-issue” or unrestricted concealed-carry legislation to 39. We’ve had an influx of “assault weapons” and “pocket rockets” – supposed engines of death and destruction far more lethal than the weapons available in the 60’s.
Yet homicides declined. Non-fatal firearm related crime declined.
Insty says: I’m pretty sure that these guys would call anyone who accepted grants from the NRA bought-and-paid-for. But the Joyce Foundation is every bit as biased as the NRA, and has a history of paying for scholarship that would be treated as a scandal if it were engaged in by pro-gun folks [...] If a drug company were as cavalier about science as these people are, its executives would all be in jail.
I hear the next study Hemenway is working on is entitled Guns: they shrink your penis.
It’s a Romney on guns post:
He’s retreating from his anti-gun past:
Romney says he still backs the ban on assault weapons, but he won’t say whether he stands by the Brady Bill. And after the gun show tour, his campaign declined to say whether he would still describe himself as a supporter of tough gun laws.
“He believes Americans have the right to own and possess firearms as guaranteed under the US Constitution,” spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom wrote in an e-mail. “He’s proud to be among the many decent, law-abiding men and women who safely use firearms. Like President Bush, he supports restrictions on assault weapons, but Mitt Romney has also worked with gun owners and sportsmen to ease the gun-licensing laws in Massachusetts.”
So, he’s not pro-gun at all. On the issue of anti-gun popularity, I thought this bit at the hotline was hysterical:
The Brady bunch has been reduced to an organization waiting for a tragedy to exploit with no one – other than Carolyn McCarthy [D-NY], who will publicly associate with them.
Indeed. Jeff says:
Like Kerry and Edwards and other fake, phony frauds, former MA Governor Mitt Romney is suddenly embracing gun rights as he lurches right in anticipation of a run for the Republican primary. Like so many other opportunistic politicians, he forgets that there’s a paper trail
And Bitter has a lot of the evidence from the paper trail.
What does Uncle say? Romney, fuck that guy.
They continue with their stellar performance, but this time, it’s coming from inside the agency:
Jay Dobyns is no stranger to dangerous adversaries.
Within days of becoming a sworn agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Dobyns was taken hostage and shot during a Tucson sting operation.
A year later, he was run over by gangsters in a getaway car.
Since then, he has gone undercover to bust bombmakers, murderers, drug dealers, gunrunners and prison thugs. Three years ago, he infiltrated the Hells Angels so completely that he was offered membership in the biker club.
Now, after nearly two decades of service, after being praised by ATF as a hero and earning national awards, the man known as “Jaybird” is battling his most formidable foe yet: his employer.
Dobyns, 45, is one of dozens of current and former agents to allege mismanagement and misconduct in the ATF, a federal agency responsible for enforcing America’s gun laws and preventing terrorist bombings. More than a dozen lawsuits, administrative claims, grievances, ATF documents and letters to Congress reviewed by The Arizona Republic accused administrators of betraying their own field investigators and operatives out of arrogance or incompetence.
A 2006 inspector general’s report also found that the agency was plagued by poor management and questionable judgment. The ATF director resigned amid the inspector general’s investigation. But agents, lawyers and experts say problems persist, and if left unchecked, a troubled agency will continue to spin out of control.
“The public needs to know,” said Kay Kubicki, a Detroit attorney and former agent who has represented about 25 ATF employees in cases against the bureau, winning half of them and obtaining settlements in some others. “This has a lot to do with homeland security.”
[snip]
In grievances filed with the ATF, Dobyns claimed the agency failed to protect him when he was threatened in the line of duty and then harassed him when he complained about the lack of security. He has submitted a multimillion-dollar claim alleging the bureau ignored death threats against him and his family.
According to a grievance Dobyns filed in May, ATF administrators sought to undermine his credibility by spreading false allegations that he was psychologically unfit for duty and a danger to himself or others. Dobyns alleged in that 83-page record that he was subjected to unwanted transfers, denied security, accused of fraud and blocked from getting a Medal of Valor.
In internal probes, the ATF has dismissed most of Dobyns’ complaints.
Dobyns’ allegations were lodged first in ATF grievances, followed by complaints to the Justice Department’s Inspector General’s Office, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and members of Congress. According to those filings, the conflict escalated as Dobyns challenged bosses, complaining up the chain of command.
Other bureau employees, some of whom have similar problems with the ATF, say Dobyns’ transformation from hero to scapegoat is just one example of mismanagement that pervades the agency.
There’s a lot more.
less than 1 percent of these criminals (0.7 percent) acquired their guns from gun shows.
David reports that Fincher is guilty in the machine gun case. Kevin has a bit of analysis on why this case lost and why these cases always will.
Update: I knew I read that title somewhere.
Looks like other officers have come forward and said that the officers involved in the raid lied to obtain the warrant that resulted in the death of 92 year-old Kathryn Johnston. Last week, I wrote why I was a gun nut. Well, this is one of those situations where if these two guys aren’t put in jail, someone should shoot their asses.
Wisconsin remains a holdout in the nationwide trend to allow people to carry concealed guns.
The Legislature should keep it that way.
The state has survived quite nicely for 134 years with a ban on concealed weapons. There is no compelling reason to now invite people to carry hidden firearms. In fact, there are compelling reasons to retain the ban.
Such as?
CCW has been passed twice in Wisconsin in the last bit. Both times, Doyle vetoed it. Back to their reasons:
•Concealed guns are trouble waiting to happen.
Err, no, they are not.
In Minneapolis in the spring of 2005, police apprehended Zachary Ourada shortly after he had shot and killed a restaurant doorman. The doorman had earlier asked Ourada to leave the restaurant because he was harassing women.
When police captured him, Ourada shouted: “I didn’t do nuthin’ wrong. I got a permit to carry that (gun).”
Sounds horrible, doesn’t it. Only problem is that the State Journal left out one major fact about the incident. You see, some of us covered the incident a while back, and Ourada was not carrying at the bar. He left, went home and returned 30 – 40 minutes later with a weapon before murdering the doorman. The implication is that some CCW permit holder blew some dude away while packing and that’s not the case.
He is. No doubt, he’s looking for items he wants to ban.
Or did he find his pro-gun Jesus in an election year? I doubt it.
Anti-gun hack David Hemenway and company are at it again. For history on Hemenway, clickity. I’d offer criticism, but Jeff already has.
The local newspaper wants you:
At the News Sentinel, we understand that because our readers never fail to write to us — in letters to the editor, in guest columns, in articles for the Perspective front and in our newest Saturday editorial page feature, Citizen’s Voice.
Although we printed about 2,400 letters and a number of guest columns in 2006, our limited space prevented us from printing more. Our cups, plates and e-mail — the route for the vast majority of our letters and columns — runneth over.
This year, we plan to provide another outlet for readers’ frustrations, joys, anger, advocacy and analysis. We are looking for community columnists for our Sunday Perspective front.
We welcome a variety of topics, but we will give greater weight to articles about local and regional issues, since we use syndicated columnists for national and international issues during the week.
So, if you want to write for them, get to it.
Years ago, I mentioned to Michael that they should do some rotating blogger column in the Sentinel. You know, one day some local blogger writes an opinion piece. Then pick a new blogger the next week. He said he’d run it up the flagpole. Never heard back from him about it. But if they want writers, there’s literally an infinite resource on the intertubes.
Britain’s advertising watchdog criticized Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana Wednesday for a campaign showing models brandishing knives.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), the industry regulator, upheld more than 150 complaints from people concerned that the stylized pictures glorified and condoned violent crime.
Oh Britain, what happened to you?
Fuck yeah. He has no shot whatsoever at winning but I would love to see him in a debate with the other nanny-state prick Republican contenders.
Libertarianism can’t work, you need only watch an episode of Cops.
I forgot I said that. Heh. Any hoo:
Every once in a while, Tom gets it in his head to make the assertion that a criticism of something is invalid unless the person doing the criticizing offers a better plan. Sorry, but that’s horseshit. I can tell you that something sucks and not have a better solution. For example, abortion sucks. Making abortion illegal sucks. They both suck. I have no solution for that problem but when someone says we should make it illegal, I point out all the problems that will create. And I do so without offering a solution to make everyone happy.
Apparently, I should give accolades and a Coca-Cola to someone because they have a plan, any plan. Even a bad plan. Let’s take a scene from any action movie where the hero is about to cut the red wire (or maybe the blue one). He’s got a 50/50 shot? He cuts the wrong wire and everyone dies. Well, good for him. He had a plan.
On the universal health care bit, I’m not a fan. I don’t want the same people who spend $900 on a hammer having any say in my medical decisions. Period.
And one more canard:
Nearly 50 million Americans without health care?
That’s horseshit too. Now, if he’d said 50 million Americans without health insurance, he may have a point.
He also says that libertarians have no solution to global warming. He’s right. And neither do you. Not one that is workable, any way.
Every once in a while I have to remind people that I am a crazy-assed gun nut. It’s even more fun with friends and family because, well, they never expect it. So, I sat down figuring I’d write some elegant, well-thought out, convincing piece on freedom, sovereignty, and responsibility that detailed precisely why I am a gun nut. I couldn’t do it, I wrote this instead:
I am a gun nut and proudly so. Some folks say it like it’s a bad thing. I don’t know why, we’re mostly harmless. It’s true. As I’ve said before, people don’t walk down the street leery of gun nuts (well, except in England). They walk down the street either not leery at all or leery of criminals.
What makes me a gun nut?
Not the number of guns I own. For someone who yammers on so much about guns, I probably own considerably less than the average reader here. I own the following: Ruger 10/22, a Walther P22, Kel-Tec 380, an AR in 9mm, Glock 30, an AR in 5.56. I think that’s it. Six firearms. I have a lot on my to buy list but they always get pushed back due to other priorities or whatever. And here lately, I’ve actually sold a couple of firearms. One, because I didn’t care for it and one because I was offered too much to turn it down.
It’s not that I like how they work mechanically or tinkering. I do that with other stuff and I’m not nuts about that. I like to do woodworking but I am not a woodworking nut. And I don’t blog about woodworking.
It’s not hunting. I don’t hunt.
It’s not the zen of target shooting. I zen playing cards, golf, and other activities as well.
So, what is it? I thought about it long and hard. And it’s this simple truth:
If you fuck with me bad enough, I’ll kill your ass.
Simple. Not elegant. But that truth is what scares the shit out of others and it’s that truth that makes people look at you like you’re crazy. It won’t be a NRA slogan any time soon. But it’s what you’re asserting when you claim to be a gun nut, whether you like it or not. Now, this is the part where some ninny chimes in with well, that’s crazy or you’re not going to make converts that way. They may be right, but it’s the truth.
Now, that is not to say that I’ll kill your ass if you cut me off in traffic or generally do me wrong. I’m talking like if you really, really egregiously fuck with me. I’m mean life-altering, I’m fucked in a major bad way kind of fucking with me. If you enter my home uninvited and intent on doing me and my family harm, I’ll kill your ass. But it goes beyond just petty criminals. By your ass, I mean all manner of yous and their respective asses. That is to say, be they individual criminals trying to cause bodily harm, nefarious bureaucrats with nothing better to do, or tyrannical governments. I’ll kill their asses if they egregiously do me wrong.
If you, say, lie about a crucial piece of investigative work that lands me in jail, I’ll kill your ass. Or if you prosecute me for a crime that I’m probably innocent of based on scant evidence and for political posturing, I’ll kill your ass. If you try to take my house, I’ll kill your ass. If you arrest me and charge me with a non-crime out of revenge or to teach me a lesson, I’ll kill your ass. Sure, I’ll exhaust every legal manner with which to fight these abuses first but, at the end of the day, if I get royally fucked, I’m willing to kill their asses.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to kill anybody. I just realize that some things call for it. And that is what makes me a gun nut.
Since the CMP will be selling some carbines soon, everyone is getting excited. Les has all kinds of stuff on the M1 Carbine.
There was a reason I didn’t like Democrats. In the last six or so years, I couldn’t quite recall why. The guy I voted for in 2000 (but not in 2004) was spending like a drunken sailor, growing the government, and anti-gun like his daddy. And generally doing all the things that I thought I hated the Democrats for. So, I sort of forgot why I didn’t care for Democrats. But Ted Kennedy reminded my why.
As most all 2nd Amendment active people know, when an anti-gun person says something, it is usually an exaggeration, or it contains some hidden methodology that the American public would not normally associate with their wording, or it is just flat out wrong. So when I came across an interview with The Brady Campaign’s Paul Helmke, I read it and asked myself, “Which of those three choices is this?”
Tam:
Besides, they generally want to let me keep my guns, so if they get too annoying in the future I figure I can always shoot them.
Fire arms score high as cause of children’s deaths
…
Here’s a list of some of the major causes of childhood injury and death.
1) Motor Vehicles
2. Fire and Burns
3. Choking and Strangulation
4. Poisoning
5. Falls
6. Fire Arms
And by scoring high, they mean they happen to be on this list where they cut it off. After all, from 1999 to 2004, accidental firearms deaths accounted for fewer than 1.7% of accidental deaths among children under 14 in Tennessee.
In comments about the new made-up handgun, Sailorcourt says:
I looked up the Maryland Code. They actually do criminalize possession of “assault pistols” but the affected weapons are identified by model. Colt revolvers are not on the list.
Armed with this information, I emailed the author of the piece yesterday and asked her about it. She replied that it was the editor’s fault. The editor called her at 7:00pm and requested that she put in “those details”. She said that the two named weapons were the ones that the attorney general’s office “mentioned from the warrant they had at their fingertips”.
I responded that the phrasing indicates that the two named firearms are examples of “assault handguns” and that the paragraph implies that their mere possession indicated criminal activity. I further mentioned that, out of the 143 firearms seized, the most “scary” ones they could come up with to specifically name were two revolvers?
She has not, at this point, responded to my second email.
Aunt B. says broccoli cheese soup makes her happy. Well, here’s my recipe, which is easy, fast and tasty:
super easy, fast and tasty
2 cups frozen or fresh chopped broccoli
1 medium onion, diced
1/4 cup flour
1 to 2 cups milk depending on desired thickness
14ish ounces of chicken stock (homemade or from a can)
Pepper to taste
1 cup of grated American cheese (or Velveeta – am I the only one concerned about a dairy product that isn’t refrigerated at the grocery store?)
In a large pot, bring to light boil onions, broccoli and chicken broth. Reduce heat and simmer for 8 or so minutes. In bowl, combine flour, pepper and milk mixture. Stir milk/flour mixture into broth/veggie mixture. Stir regularly for several minutes to allow mixture to thicken.
After mixture has thickened, gradually stir in cheese. Cook until all cheese melts. Good stuff!
Assault handgun. Apparently, they’re also known as revolvers. And what’s the hubbub about:
Mr. Winik said his client did not willfully violate Maryland gun laws.
“This case involves Mr. Vaisman’s failure to properly perform paperwork and administrative functions required by firearms laws,” he said.
Heh:
An Iraq war veteran who drew national attention when he ran for Congress criticizing the president chased three men who had crashed into a fence outside his home, then guarded them with an assault rifle until police arrived, according to police reports.
[snip]
According to a police report, officers were called to Hackett’s home on Nov. 19 after a car crashed into a fence and sped away. The officers arrived to find three men lying face down near their car and Hackett with an assault rifle slung over his shoulder.
“He said he had done this about 200 times in Iraq, but this time there was not a translation problem,” the police report said.
Hackett told police later that he was carrying a civilian model of an AR-15 and that one round was in the chamber but the safety was on. He said he never aimed the weapon at the men or put his finger on the trigger.
Think the Knox County School System has problems? You don’t know what real problems are. Take for example this story from St. Paul, Minnesota.
I wish Junior would realize that my morning dump is not a team sport.
Subgunner Walther1 on the ATF’s recent compliance plan for the Akins Accelerator:
The ATF could use this as the mechanism to insure (sic) who has AA devices and then only allow amnesty registration by those that sent in the springs
Or should I just start digging a hole in the back yard for my poor fucking dog?
By the way, in my daughter’s history class yesterday, she was the only one who raised her hand when the teacher asked who was against gun control.
Seems The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Ownership’s Paul Helmke is kickin’ out the propaganda. Helmke is all googoo over David Hemenway’s book that says to treat the gun issue as a health issue.
What’s that? Hemenway sounds familiar to you? Of course it does. He’s the anti-gun Harvard hack who asserted that folks who carried guns were more likely to indulge in road rage. This despite the fact that there were no notable increases in instances of road rage after states passed concealed carry laws. And, of course, Hemenway refused to release his data. He also has provided some rather questionable numbers to the press.
Anyway, back to treating guns has a health issue: No. I don’t buy it, in the same way I don’t buy forced smoking bans on restaurants. It’s an issue of personal responsibility and freedom. That said, Hemenway’s thesis regarding treating guns as a health care issue is bogus. He neglects to take into consideration the between 750,000 and 2,000,000 defensive gun uses that occur annually.
Bitter tells us that chicks are big spenders. I know, I have 16,000 pairs of shoes taking up closet space to attest to that.
I’ve yammered on before about how the NRA isn’t all that popular with us evil black rifle types. Well, now hunters aren’t too pleased with them either:
After years of close association with the Republican Party and hard-nosed opposition to federal land-use regulation, the National Rifle Association is being pressured by its membership to distance itself from President Bush’s energy policies that have opened more public land for oil and gas drilling and limited access to hunters and anglers.
“The Bush administration has placed more emphasis on oil and gas than access rights for hunters,” said Ronald L. Schmeits, second vice president of the NRA, a member of its board of directors and a bank president in Raton, N.M.
Some EBR folks are upset because they cater to the fudds. The fudds are upset because they aren’t fuddy enough. I think we EBR folks need to have a sitdown with the fudds.
The paper of making up the record quotes yours truly and Ben. But not about any of that fine gun related Bloomberg stuff but about the fact NY smells like ass. Or NY smells like NJ. Same thing.
Here’s a link to their ruling, which is nothing new. It should be noted that if this ruling stands, it’s not a far stretch to assert that any semi-automatic firearm can be classified as a machine gun.
Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them in. In this document, they give instructions and ask that you mail them the spring. Not only that, you should also inform them who you sold yours to in the event you no longer have it.
So, is a simple spring now a machine gun? Wouldn’t surprise me since a shoestring is.
BANGOR, Maine (AP) — The Bangor City Council approved a measure Monday that prohibits people from smoking in vehicles when children are present.
When the law goes into effect next week, Bangor will become the first municipality in Maine to have such a law. Similar statewide measures have been adopted in Arkansas and Louisiana and are under consideration in several other states.
Aaron Prill of Bangor told the council that the ordinance was a “feel- good option” that was not intended to protect children but rather to “moralize” against smokers. Most smokers have enough common sense not to smoke around children, he said.
There is a whole lot of “moralizing” going on. I should call Mom and tell her she was a child abuser. Except she would smack the taste out of my mouth.
Stephen Colbert, who is apparently funny again:
Sir, we have lost the war on drugs when we withdraw from the war on drugs. While we’re still in it, we haven’t lost it.
Now listen up, America, you got a pretty good record in wars against, you know, actual countries. But abstract ideas are really kicking your ass. The War on Drugs, Poverty, Terror, Christmas, Science, Fat, etc., don’t look like they’re going all that swimmingly. So, let’s stop these various Wars of Words and recognize that they’re generally wars on freedom or wars on our brain cells.
Here.
BTW, one of these days I’m going to find some actual pornography from 1911 and fool you all. You’ve been warned.
With my nose. Seems that NY can never take responsibility for anything that happens to it. Their gun problem? Blame Georgia. The fact the place smells like ass? Blame New Jersey:
A mysterious gas-like odor that covered much of Manhattan, had residents flooding emergency call centers with worried queries and caused rail disruptions most likely emanated from New Jersey, a city environmental official said Tuesday.
According to the figures published in Vol. 10, No. 5, of Small Arms Review, Texas has 53,018 items on the NFRTR, with the next closest state being Georgia with 41,773. Texas barely edged out Virginia for MGs with 21,980 vs. 21,951. As for AOWs, only California, with 3,493, beat out Texas’s 3,413. Only Virginia had more SBRs (3,525) than Texas (2,033), but a few states had more than Texas’s 5,019 SBSs. Texas had far and away the most silencers with 20,573, which accounted for 39% of Texas’s NFA items (bettered by only Idaho (imagine that), where 46% of all NFA were silencers).
Interesting. I wonder why Cali has so many AOWs? I guess it’s all they can get there?
There are so many laws that it is impossible to NOT be a criminal.
I don’t think I can possibly disagree with that statement. Heck, I was a criminal all the way to work this morning. But, traffic violations aside, I’d say gunner is absolutely correct. I’m not a hardened criminal or anything. Just a regular guy. I listed before a rundown of laws I’ve broken:
When I return home from work, the wife and Junior meet me on the road in the subdivision about 50 yards from my house. The reason is that Junior likes to drive. What this means is that she sits in my lap and holds the steering wheel while I pull into the garage. That’s probably borderline child abuse. I’ve been known to put trash directly into my city-supplied trash receptacle without placing said trash in a bag. A bag for a box just seems wasteful. I have an item made in Cuba in my home. Junior’s weight had fluctuated at around the 20 pound mark for a while (sometimes she weighed 20 pounds, sometimes 19 pounds). We didn’t weigh her on a daily basis so she may have been illegally in a forward facing car seat a few times until her weight was consistently above 20 pounds. She was, however, of the legal age of one year. After all, once the Doc said she’s above 20 pounds, we switched car seats. One of my dogs made a quick lap around the neighborhood when the Mrs. or I somehow neglected to secure the latch on the gate of our fence. We have leash laws. I made a copy of a movie and loaned it to a friend. Seen Porn on Al Gore’s Internets. I sprayed a chemical pesticide inside my garage to take care of a particularly nasty looking critter of the biting variety. Using it in a manner inconsistent with its labeling is a violation of federal law. Participated in a football board. Played poker.
As I said, those are just the ones I can think of. There’s probably more.
In a story about an otherwise not funny situation, the gun nut brings this bit of funny:
If you are driving through the northeastern states, obey all firearms-transportation laws (It won’t help; most cops don’t know what they are, but I’m supposed to say this), do nothing to attract attention to yourself, and have a lawyer with you at all times.
I found it odd when I read over at BusyMom’s that there are actually online allowance managers. Allowance is in parents give their kids allowances.
I guess you can wrap any concept up in a webpage and someone will buy it.
For the first time in at recent memory, Ohioans have a pro-gun Governor sitting in the Bexley Governor’s mansion. And for the first time in recent memory, that governor is not a Republican.
Reader Sebastian (no not this one, the other one) now has a blog called Snowflakes in Hell. Well, more importantly a blog that’s not on live journal, which means it’s readable now. For his inaugural post, he takes a girl shooting evil black rifles. With video.
Below is the letter from John Emison the President of Citizens for Home Rule to Hon. Robert E. Cooper, Jr. the Attorney General of the State of Tennessee. We are very fortunate to have such an excellent citizens group to stand up for the property rights of all Tennessee citizens.
Hon. Robert E. Cooper, Jr.
Office of the Attorney General and Reporter
POB 20207
Nashville 37202-0207Dear Attorney General Cooper:
I am writing you in support of a recent Knox County Commission resolution urging your office to investigate a questionable annexation referendum conducted Nov. 7 in Knox County.
There are troubling issues associated with this referendum and I bring two of these issues to your attention. First, the City of Knoxville contracted to pay $2 million cash to a developer based on the outcome of this so-called referendum. I believe this agreement is an illegal inducement which was clearly intended to affect an election result. Second, the referendum was designed for a single voter who is now admitted to be an employee of a subcontractor to the developer, thus under duress or the appearance of being under duress. There are numerous other serious questions including the legitimacy of the voter’s residency who was a night watchman at the development, and whether the Direct of the Tennessee Division of Elections and/or the Knox County Administer of Elections overstepped their authority.
I urge you to conduct a full, complete, fair, and independent investigation of this matter and to publish the results publicly. Nothing less than the integrity of the election process is at stake. Citizens have every right to expect that neither money nor political bosses taint the ballot box, and at present it seems that both, in fact, did.
Kindest regards,
John A. Emison
President
Citizens for Home Rule, Inc.
While ripping some of my CDs this weekend, I became depressed. See, there’s this one particular CD that kicks ass. I still listen to it a whole lot. I realized, when Windows Media Player put the album info out there, that this album will turn 13 years old this year.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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