TMZ:
We’ve learned Michael Jackson was not the biological father of any of his children. And Debbie Rowe is not the biological mother of the two kids she bore for Michael. All three children were conceived in vitro — outside the womb.
Nothing to add. Just the headline.
Ol’ Joe has a long shot chance at landing a media/PR gig with a local firm that reps some of the big players in the boomstick market.
Yep, I may get paid to talk about guns.
This firm is really keyed into the New Media and Social Media, which is awesome. The Shack, which I generally have had to hide my involvement from employers, is now a job asset.
So, get thee hence.
Glenn mentioned the blog of unnecessary quotation marks and Apostrophe Abuse.
Now, I present There, I Fixed It, a tribute to ingenuity.
Dickipedia, a list of people who are dicks. A taste:
Joe Biden began choosing unfortunate ways to publicly describe minorities from his birth on November 20, 1942, a birthday he shares with one of the Smothers Brothers, Bo Derek, and that guy from Cyprus Hill.
Lots of folks shoot sporting clays. Not many do it with a bow and arrow:
A bit over at WATE on local restaurateurs on the guns in restaurants bill. And notes a few restaurants will be putting up signs saying they don’t want money from the law-abiding:
Patrick Sullivan’s, along with the Crown and Goose in the Old City, tell 6 News they plan to post signs.
Took the kids to their grandparents this weekend for some swimming. Junior swam all the way across the pool. Cool.
We got a new dog a few months back. Then, a bit back, we got another one.
Junior has always wanted a cat. Neither the Mrs. nor I were ever cat people. But Junior was persistent. So, we now have a cat. Well, I think we still have it. I haven’t actually seen it since about 6:00 yesterday.
We’re up to three critters.
Some gun bills in California are making life hard on gun shop owners. Accomplishing nothing but making their lives more difficult. Of course they do. That was the point.
Mary Mancini is glad that a gun bill may inconvenience law-abiding citizens:
Apparently, he’s [TFA's John Harris] upset because he carries his gun at all times and if Davidson County opts out of allowing permit-holders to carry in parks, he’ll be unable to cut through the grassy area on Church Street to get to his office.
Call the wahmbulance, Harris.
Our liberal radio host must take some sort of comfort in her side’s one small victory out of Tennessee’s recent passage of civil rights legislation expanding the right to self-defense. And that one small victory is Harris gets some exercise.
This is one of the reasons why on gun laws, except for this one, Tennessee has preemption and the state decides what the laws are. When the localities set up their own laws, it creates a patchwork of inconsistency that no one can keep up with. Say I carry in a park in my hometown, then go somewhere else where they opted out. I’ve broken the law for doing something that I’m accustomed to doing. It doesn’t make me a hardened criminal. Just a guy who doesn’t carry copies of the local ordinances around in my pocket. Who can keep up with it? Or, as Harris illustrates, you take a simple shortcut and find yourself running afoul of the law. But that simple point is lost on a simple mind.
Anyway, I actually like that various cities in the state are opting out of the bill. Because, and mark my words, next year a bill getting rid of that option will wind its way through the legislature.
$2.7B in tax breaks for an out of country Rum producer. And money to build NASCAR tracks. More here. Remember, if this didn’t pass, we were all gonna die. Or at least be poor.
It’s a trend nearly everywhere. Missouri has issued record numbers of carry permits too.
In Honduras, their supreme court ordered the military to depose the president for acting unlawfully. DC has a write up. It is interesting how our leaders are responding. Says Hillary Clinton:
the action taken against Honduras’ president should be condemned by everyone
And:
Obama says Honduras coup was “illegal” and Zelaya remains the president.
Wow. The statists support the state. Who would have guessed? I don’t know much about law in Honduras but the supreme court ordered the removal of the president. Not exactly as though there was a violent insurrection or overthrow there.
Chris explains exactly why I don’t do Facebook.
Police say a man and woman have been wounded while trying to figure out how to use their new handgun in their Washington County home.
Just a few years ago, Kansas joined the majority of states by betting concealed carry. Now, they’re moving to recognize out of state permits.
WizardPC in comments on John Harris being named lobbyist of the year:
Activist: Someone who gets involved.
Unregistered Lobbyist: Someone who gets involved with something the MSM doesn’t approve of.
Bernie Ellis, who had the TBI pay him a visit on bogus charges of terrorism over a comment he left online, is filing complaints against TN’s secretary of state. The comment that started it is here.
Glenn notes that the SecState’s involvement in Tennessee’s Official History is a bit ironic.
Tam reminds folks that no one has reciprocity with Illinois. And in Chicago, only gang bangers can carry guns. Also, Indiana has an interesting handgun carry permit structure.
Not sure what to think of this bit here. She says I shouldn’t shoot home invaders because they might be teenagers playing a game. Then blames a guy, who left his door unlocked, for the kid getting in his house. Now, it sucks that someone got shot. But if you’re uninvited and rustling around in someone’s house, it should not be a surprise that the homeowner may not approve.
As anticipated, Tennessee counties and municipalities have started to opt-out of the park carry law passed by the Tennessee General Assembly during the 2009 session.
Please contact your local officials and respectfully ask them not to create a confusing patchwork of laws that will close off local parks to law-abiding permit holders, who simply wish to be able to protect themselves and their families.
If you have any information on Tennessee counties and municipalities taking steps to opt-out of this important self-defense law, please contact the NRA-ILA’s State and Local Affairs Division. Contact information is provided below.
Email: state&local@nrahq.org
NRA-ILA, State & Local Affairs
C/O Scott Stevens
11250 Waples Mill Road
Fairfax, VA 22030Phone (703) 267-1217
Fax: (703) 267-3976
I’ve gotten word that they met the quota and Tennessee will now have NRA license plates.
Mr. C. reminds us it is two months away! If you’re going, make reservations. If you’re not going, you should try to go. It’s a good time.
Ignoring Known Gun Traffickers, Corzine Targets Gun Rights Instead
Of course. Gun control is what you do instead of something. After all, in NJ, aren’t the traffickers moving guns in to and not out of?
Guns in restaurants gets traction in AZ. So, they’ll be inundated with lies hysteria about blood in the streets from their local media.
extended to South Africa:
Police are intimidating South African gun owners and defrauding citizens of their lawful property, black firearm owners said on Thursday.
Chairperson of the Black Gun Owners Association of South Africa (BGOASA), Abios Khoele, said the police had “legalised” theft and fraud.
[...]
Khoele said members had been subjected to discriminatory and arbitrary rejections of applications, unacceptable delays and a lack of service delivery by the police in relation to the act.
He said the Ministry of Police had still not entered into discussions with BGOASA on its grievances.
Pic here. Made from iron bedposts; charge made of pieces of lead from curtain tape and match-heads, to be ignited by AA batteries and a broken light bulb.
Attorney Alan Gura is dragging the District of Columbia into the United States — and my, what a lot of work it is!
Indeed.
Tom Humphrey names the Tennessee Firearms Association’s John Harris Lobbyist of the Year. Well, Naifeh losing the gavel did open the floodgates.
Apparently H und K is now suing every manufacturer of Airsoft guns for copyright infringement
Gatling potato gun. A whole lot of video so just go to 4:15.
Guns from the Sanders Center at Texas A&M. Some interesting pieces there.
Some language in the park carry law in Tennessee allows municipalities to ban carry in their parks. Since some cities are in a rush to enact such a ban, I imagine preemption will be on the table next session. Meanwhile, the rep:
When election time rolled around everyone could be for the second amendment because their was nothing to vote for or against. Now, it will be a local decision and the local officials will have to go on record as some of them go into an election cycle. Will those people who said they supported the constitution still stay as strong as they once said they were or will some tunes change?
Copy of a letter I received from state Rep. Joshua Evans:
I encourage you to take the next step in standing up for our Second Amendment rights by opening the legislative complex to carry permit holders. As you know, Legislative Plaza and the War memorial Building are currently posted to prohibit law-abiding carry permit holders from carrying firearms into the buildings when coming
to visit their own elected representatives or to attend legislative sessions. Therefore, any law-abiding permit holder visiting the legislature must leave their gun in the parking lot. We must not be hypocritical in telling our permit holders we trust their judgment all across the state, but not in our workplace. I feel confident lifting this
ban would not affect the safety of visitors or ourselves while at the legislature.
I neglected to mention that yesterday was the one year anniversary of the Heller decision. But others remembered. SM:
y’all ought to join me in burning some powder this weekend. After all, the first anniversary is suppose to be the paper one. Let’s punch some holes in some targets!
And Reason has a round up.
Now, I know Jeff Cooper was kinda the man when it came to guns and tactics and such. But I never got the concept of the scout rifle. It does every thing OK but nothing great. Seems you would be better served with, say, an AK. Dropping the caliber to 5.56 just screams that you would be better served by an AR-15. But Tam seems to think they’re cool.
Michael Jackson has died. Everyone in Iran says that sucks.
Strip searching for Advil ruled to violate fourth amendment rights. Thomas dissented, which is inexcusable.
Via Greg, it looks like Nevada is dropping reciprocity after their audit of the handgun carry process of other states.
Nevada is weird. First few times I went, there was no reciprocity with TN. Last couple of times, there was.
The National Shooting Sports Federation to sponsor the event. Cool.
Also, Mark Knapp, Firearms Lawyer & Blogger, will be there.
Showtime presents a new original reality series about guns, and the people who buy them.
With trailer. Wonder if it will continue the trend of cable TeeVee helping with pro-gun attitudes?
The interviews indicated that gun-control laws would have had little effect on the study subjects’ criminal behavior. Most got their guns through a variety of ways, including borrowing, stealing and taking them by force, the professor said.
The book is underwritten by the U.S. Justice Department’s Project Safe Neighborhoods program.
Farrah Fawcett, who was probably responsible for the first time men who are now my age took an interest in women, has died.
I wonder if they’d use that term for more PC rights? I mean, polls pretty consistently show that about 3/4 of Americans think the Second Amendment gives them a right to own a gun, and the Supreme Court has said so, too. So how “divisive” is that, really?
As he would say, indeed.
The attorney whose research fabricated out of whole cloth a rebuttal to the claim that 40 states allowed lawful handgun carry in places where alcohol was sold (see here, here, and here) is heading up a lawsuit to thwart the law he misrepresented. And they’re still misrepresenting their findings:
“Our legislators were actually mislead by some slick lobbyists to believe this is common in 37 other states, and it is law, and it was just a flat lie, and they fell for it,” said attorney Adam Dread.
First, it is 41. The only one lying is you. Here’s the data you are relying on and why your assertion is false.
But, I’m glad you’re doing this instead of something.
Bob Herbert over at the Paper of Making Up The Record says we gun owners are just paranoid that Obama was going to enact gun control. So, obviously, his solution is to say we need gun control. Yeah, makes no sense.
Regarding Lamar Alexander’s inaccurate statements on the guns in national parks bill, Michael Silence and I were having an offline conversation. And I was still telling Michael that the Senator was wrong. And his spokesperson was wrong. Then, Michael quipped:
I just think it’s very cool a US senator has responded to a blogger
You know, that is pretty damn cool. So, hats off to Senator Alexander and his staff. You’re still wrong about the issue but at least you’ll address with bloggers.
Just like speaking your mind at a rally, leaving online comments critical of your government are viewed as terrorist threats by the powers that be. Fortunately, TBI disagreed.
The theme on blogs lately seems to be kids and guns. A topic I’m familiar, since I have some of each. One is loud, requires regular maintenance, and is expensive to feed. Wait, actually, that’s both of them. Anyway, Laurel notes that BabyCenter tells you:
Get rid of them — they’re not safe around children.
Well, I did not get rid of mine and they are not around children. You cannot wrap the world in Nerf and your children in bubblewrap. There simply is no way to make your little darlings perfectly safe. Sure, you get rid of the guns. Then you have a home invasion. Or your child can drown in a bathtub. Or die by eating household chemicals. etc. The trick to this parenting thing is, uhm, being a parent and no amount bubblewrap can make up for using your brain.
Meanwhile, Marko ponders toy gun control:
I know there are parents out there who refuse to buy toy guns for their kids.
As a responsible gun owner, I’m of two minds on the issue. On one hand, I don’t want to encourage or even tolerate picking up the habit of unsafe gun handling. On the other hand, I don’t believe in the “pretend it doesn’t exist” prohibitionist approach to anything—guns, drugs, sex, or what-have-you—because those methods don’t work.
He continues discussing options. Now, I never really thought much about the toy gun aspect. We have toy guns. Our toy guns are even the little Nerf guns that actually shoot the little foam padded suction cups. They’re great fun. The kids and their cousins have little war with them all the time. I did the same thing when I was a kid and I handle real guns safely.
I’ve not done it with my kids yet but their older cousins (who are 9) have been shooting (airguns) with me. Their parents, who do not own guns, wanted me to teach them gun safety and I said OK under the pretense they actually go shooting too. And they did. Had a good time putting holes in cans with a Gamo. A few months later when I returned from the GSSF match and had to clean my gun. My nephews were there. They wanted to watch. I taught them how to field strip a Glock. Their mom seemed less happy about that than about the air rifle. But one thing I didn’t do was go hide the gun and act like it wasn’t there after they saw me take it out of the truck.
Jack Lail on the Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Federal prosecutors who had made a broad request for user information of commenters on the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Web site backed down a bit
From TN Criminal Lawyer Blog: As you can see from reading the revised statute, the “guns-in-bars law” is not as sinister as many would suggest.
Glock is sponsoring the event. Kevin has donated a Para USA GI Expert. And now, Mr. C. reports:
I now have confirmation from Kerby Smith of Para USA regarding the pistol that Para USA is donating to the Project Valour-IT fund raising raffle to be held at the Gun Blogger Rendezvous.
Oh, and Alan Gura will be there.
Shaping up to be quite the event.
AC lets us know that when you are stripped of your civil rights without due process of law, that there’s a procedure for giving up those civil rights.
One of the authors of The Gun Zone left a comment here the other day. So, I’ve been perusing the site, including yesterday’s link to that nifty history of the 5.56 Nato cartridge. Today’s read is the 5.56mm FAQ v1.14. Good stuff.
How when some politico wants to raise taxes in a budget crisis, the first thing they evoke is cutting back on police. Yet, even though they’re never the ones to get the money, they’re the first ones cut.
A non-response to my post here has been posted here and here:
Senator Alexander’s letter is correct where it states that the Coburn Amendment goes further than state law.
The new Tennessee state law allows ONLY those with conceal-and-carry permits to carry in a STATE park. The amendment that Senator Alexander opposed allows anyone who can carry a firearm generally in Tennessee (conceal-and-carry permit or not) to carry a loaded firearm openly in a national park in Tennessee.
I did not say that he was incorrect regarding the bill going further than state law, because at the time TN prohibited park carry. So, he’s not addressing what I stated. And the only folks in Tennessee who can carry a firearm are those with permits. And those who carry into National Parks must comply with state law. So, his original assertion was wrong and his follow up is also wrong.
The big bill to allow the FDA to regulate tobacco causes about 500 job losses in Tampa.
Damn, we don’t even rate as the Great Satan any more:
Britain has replaced America as Iran’s “Great Satan.”
That’s the upshot of the announcement Wednesday that the Islamic Republic of Iran is considering downgrading its diplomatic ties to Britain, the country’s former colonial ruler.
Only fair, I suppose, since I refer to hit as Not So Great Britain. Now, we’re the Not So Great Satan.
And a call for action:
Gov. Perry will be calling a special session of the Legislature. It is possible that he might add the guns in parking lot bill to that session.
The Texas State Rifle Association is urging members to call.
Faced with a budget cuts, Guernsey County Sheriff Mike McCauley is looking at selling three 1920s Thompson machine guns.
Cities’ gun restrictions begin to topple:
Since last June, when the US Supreme Court struck down key parts of the District of Columbia’s gun-control ordinance, cities have seen the 20,000 local gun regulations enacted over the years begin to slip from their grip, one by one.
Good.
Via SIH, who notes past interactions with the author.
After record gun sales credited to the election of Barack Obama, it looks like gun manufacturer stocks are slipping. Signaling that the Great Obama Gun Rush is coming to a close?
Josh Sugarmann claims that the firearms industry is unregulated. Fortunately, many people know he’s full of it because they are buying guns and know what they have to through.
And Josh Sugarmann should know exactly how regulated it is since he is a licensed federal firearms dealer. He had to get licensed, pay a fee, and jump through hoops to become a merchant of death in that unregulated firearms industry. And he’s not even a manufacturer. Just a retailer.
Some politicos in DC are looking at putting an end to the arbitrary classification of knives by Customs. Good.
Of course it is. We’re picking up the tab for it twice:
There is a rich literature testifying to this phenomenon. A study last December by Milliman Inc., an independent consulting firm, commissioned by America’s Health Insurance Plans, found that underpayment by Medicare and Medicaid accounted for nearly an 11% increase in the health care costs of private plans. This means that on average a privately insured family is forced to pick up about $1,800 extra every year of the government’s slack. Private plans, all in all, are subsidizing government programs to the tune of $90 billion annually.
Kinda minimizes that claim about the percentage of dollars in Medicare that goes to care. Of course, Medicare doesn’t do R&D; deal with insurance companies; pay compliance costs; etc.
Meanwhile, free-marketers should support the public option? Only if you don’t know what a free-marketer is.
Thirdpower on Chicago politics:
I am SO going to scold my dead grandparents for continuing to vote for him.
A tale of stupidity and some advice on how to fly with firearms.
Sometimes, TSA isn’t the problem. Like that time I left my ammo in Reno.
The KKK in Tennessee seems to have a membership problem. So, they decide to send out flyers. In predominately black neighborhoods.
So, you find out that we’re going to send an unmanned vehicle to the moon. And you think that it’s pretty cool. And the reason we’d do that is probably because we can. Turns out, it’s so we can launch the first volley in our war on known extraterrestrial civilizations on the moon
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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