Gay cooties are coming to your town.

Alan Keyes is suing to prevent Barack Obama from becoming president by claiming the Big O is not a citizen. Xrlq says to call it frivolous is an insult to frivolity.

This infuriates me:

A father arrested after his 6-year-old daughter was fatally shot in their Washington state home allegedly told authorities he had been drinking double shots of vodka while cleaning his guns.

Court papers say Richard Peters told detectives he had asked his daughter, Stormy, to bring him the .45-caliber handgun Sunday. He said he must have pulled the trigger, and the girl fell to the floor. She was pronounced dead Monday.

Jesus, I have no words. Well, I will note that the state is pursuing first degree murder charges.

If it’s built before 1898. Seems the guy couldn’t be in possession of ammo, though. I wonder if that applies to blackpowder ammunition? I know that, federally, blackpowder guns, regardless of the year made, are not considered firearms.

With samples.

We must ban marshmallow guns.

Via Jay, it looks like the lefty blogs are saying we’re buying guns because we’re racists. Shocking. They note our fears of a race war, which is odd because all the blathering about race and civil wars came didn’t come from us. That came from gun nuts like Fatimah Ali and washed up feminists. You see, we must be a certain way or else their world view doesn’t jive. That and the fact they really don’t seem to believe in markets.

In another bit of funny, all-around rube Oliver Willis puts his DoubleStuf stained fingers to work to refer to an entire geographical region as rubes. Which is funny because he’s the first to cry bigotry over, well, anything.

So, if everybody knows it, is it really a codename?

BioDefense Corporation thinks the increase in gun sales could cause terrorism. Somehow, people buying guns will lead to an increase in potential for biochemical attacks. No, really.

People say to me Hey, Uncle, how was your weekend?

And I say Mostly uneventful, except for that negligent discharge.

This weekend, I negligently discharged a firearm. Everyone is OK, so no worries. I followed the four rules of firearm safety so no one was hurt. But even following the rules, it can still happen.

A bit back, I wrote of my Walther P22 that I was not a fan of the magazine disconnect safety. I said:

Get rid of the magazine disconnect safety. I cannot decock the pistol without a magazine inserted into the magwell. Why is that considered safer?

Well, it’s not safer. And, no, I am not blaming my negligent discharge on the magazine disconnect safety, rather stating that the magazine disconnect safety led to my actions preceding the negligent discharge. For those not in the know, a magazine disconnect safety essentially renders the trigger non-functioning unless there is a magazine in the weapon. This also means in the case of the Walther P22 that you cannot decock the firearm unless a magazine is inserted into the magazine well. Here’s how it happened:

I get the Walther, and check to be sure that it is clear. It is. No magazine and no round in the chamber. I don’t like to keep the pistol cocked so I set out to decock it.

I insert the magazine and rack the slide. I know have a loaded and cocked weapon. To decock the weapon, I point it at the ground. And, as I’ve done thousands of times, I place my thumb on the hammer to hold it in place as I squeeze the trigger to release the hammer, which will then be eased down by my thumb. Unfortunately, my thumb did not have as sure a grip on the hammer as it should have and I neglected to engage the safety. And I fired the gun. There was a bit of silence and then I finally realized I should say something so I said loudly that everyone in here was OK.

This occurred in front of my gun safe, in my basement. The weapon was aimed at the hard concrete floor (i.e., a safe direction with a sure backstop, as should be the case when handling any weapon). No damage either, except to the padding that covers part of our basement floor. It had a small hole in it. The concrete was mostly unscathed. It looked as though it had been barely scratched. I’m guessing the bullet disintegrated as I could only find a few shavings and a shell casing.

So, even if you’re familiar with handling a gun and have performed a task thousands of times, it still happens. But if you are mindful of the four rules of firearms safety and it happens, nothing and no one will get damaged. Except your ego. That was an eye-opener for me. No longer batting 1,000 in gun safety. And the fact that I felt like a complete moron.

My wife is still pissed.

Be safe out there.

In Anderson county, an Andersonville Elementary School kindergarten student was suspended for having a toy gun.

Fred Phelps and his merry band of retards came to protest. The audience just left. Rich was there.

Despite various attempts at banning lead ammo, seems consuming game harvested with traditional ammunition poses absolutely no health risk to people, including children, . From the National Shooting Sports Foundation.

Kinda makes these people look stupid: A North Dakota program that distributes venison to the needy will accept only deer killed with arrows, fearing that firearm-shot meat may contain lead fragments.

Remember, they’re only bad when we gun nuts do them.

Barack Obama:

Exxon-Mobil announced that it had made the greatest profits of any corporation in the history of the world: $14 billion in one quarter. That’s all your money.

Funny thing is, uh, it’s not your money. See, you exchanged your money for goods and services.

This time, from a feminist. That’s adorable. What’s with all these crazy idiots saying that if Obama loses, there’s going to be race wars and civil wars and violence in the streets?

In NYC, Party City was fined $500,000 for selling toy guns.

A Boston Globe editorial:

Incredibly, there is no minimum age to fire a gun in Massachusetts. All that is required for someone under 18 is parental consent and the presence of a licensed instructor. That is a massive loophole that has to be closed, especially when parents show such poor judgment about their children’s well-being. In this case, many more children could have been accidentally cut down.

You mean, like everywhere else? And there’s the misuse of loophole once again. Loophole seems to mean we think it should be illegal but it isn’t. Also, I’m sure some minors hunt in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts and this would end that. It would also end teaching proper gun safety and handling to children, effectively making it impossible to bring new shooters into the fold.

Also, it is apparently already illegal for those under 21 to fire machine guns in Massachusetts. So, let’s make it illegaler. I wonder if that restriction applies to those in military service?

But it’s all reasonable.

or basic math is racist and sexist!

In Chesapeake, the top scorers on a test to become a police officer included no blacks or women. Obviously, the test must be flawed.

Video of news anchor reader being surprised to learn that Lamar Alexander actually has a Democrat opponent this year.

This just in: All that voter fraud by ACORN that seems to consistently benefit the Obama/Biden camp is all due to whitey keepin’ you down.

A communist evokes property rights.

John Murtha: There is no question that western Pennsylvania is a racist area.

Joe Biden tells NBC I don’t “have any Joe the Plumbers in my neighborhood”.

Wow:

Well, I don’t know much about this terrorist group Barack used to be in with that Weather guy but I’m sick of paying for health insurance at work and that’s why I’m supporting Barack.

Amazing. First, Barack was not in a terrorist group. And saying so is just stupid. Next, that doesn’t matter because she can be bought and paid for even if she thinks he was a terrorist. Wow.

As Kat noted:

Let me tell you that the people I get to talk to every day want that government spending and government health care more than we do not.

So spread the wealth around.

Channeling Braisted, some quarterwit spouts off:

NRA now stands for National Republican Association

They’re all butt-hurt because the NRA did not endorse Barr. What about these endorsements:

The National Rifle Association endorsed Rep. Steve Kagen for Wisconsin’s eighth congressional district. Kagen, a freshman Democrat, is in a tight race against GOP challenger John Gard.

And:

Both of the top-of-the-ticket Democrats on South Dakota’s general election ballot have received endorsements from the National Rifle Association.

The criteria seem to be 1) pro-gun and 2) can actually win.

In how not to win.

participated passionately in the civil rights and antiwar movements = bombed stuff?

Self, If you ever decide to do something really stupid, make sure you think about appropriate attire first. And not something that screams Guilty!

Apparently: Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) says some congresspeople were told in private briefings that if they did not pass the bailout bill, circumstances would soon force the federal government to “impose martial law.”

So, is he calling blacks and Jews animals?

Man farts on officer. Charged with battery.

So Bush says uncle on executive compensation.

Ya know, there’s a reason people take these jobs: the money.

Over at Yahoo news, there’s a bit entitled: Why Buyers Aren’t Buying. You know, to address why people aren’t buying houses when prices are so low.

I had to do a double take.

I mean, would you loan these people money?

A case for bringing back the pillory. Or tarring and feathering.

Seen at David’s:

Students at Dos Palos High School protested Thursday — by wearing patriotic regalia to school — after a sophomore student was forced to remove a T-shirt depicting the American flag…

Earlier in the day, he was speaking with a local news station when an unidentified teacher walked up to him, ripped off the microphone clipped to his shirt and told him he was not allowed to talk to the media.

So, VP candidate Biden first said that paying taxes was patriotic. It’s also a good way not to have your life ruined by the IRS. In defending the comment, he said paying taxes is next to Godliness:

“Catholic social doctrine as I was taught it is, you take care of people who need the help the most,” he said. “Now it’d be different if you could make the case to me that by giving this tax cut to the very wealthy, everybody else was going to be better off. We saw what happened the last eight years when we gave that tax cut.”

However, Biden doesn’t look to take care of people, according to his tax returns. Money talks.

Seen at Pattycakes, on OJ:

“If it was anybody else, we would have arrested him that night,” Caldwell said. “Because of who he was, we wanted to make sure we had everything right.”

Wow.

Remember that crazy idiot named Fatimah Ali who said that if Obama lost there would be race wars? Well, her dumb ass is back. This time, though, her particular brand of stupid racism meets the other brand of stupid racism as she quotes some material by the white power crowd, who, unsurprisingly, seem down with the violence she predicted.

Braisted: Well, Al Gore, meet John McCain, inventor of telecommunications and the blackberry.

The difference being that no one claimed McCain invented the blackberry. Gore did claim he ‘took the initiative in creating the Internet’. Which is only debunked if you somehow think inventing it and taking the initiative to create it are substantially different. Or you don’t know what the fuck debunked means.

Seen at Rachel’s:

ISLAMIC law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases.

The government has quietly sanctioned the powers for sharia judges to rule on cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence.

Rulings issued by a network of five sharia courts are enforceable with the full power of the judicial system, through the county courts or High Court.

You have got to be fucking kidding me.

I get an email forwarded to me telling my to forward it to everyone I know. And I did that. No, I kid. The email says go to a bunch of websites and complain about how the local big oil conglomerate is shafting us all by gouging us. I respond back that, perhaps, the originator of the email should take an Economics 101 class. Or maybe read Rich Hailey.

BTW, this comment left there is presented without, err, comment:

I wonder how much oil companies pay a year to bloggers in order to have them make all kinds of excuses for price gouging. When Obama becomes President,the oil companies will no longer get these windfall profits because Obama will return that money to the hard working consumer. Gas will return to being a 1.25 a gallon because the oil companies won’t have an oil crony chimp in the White House who, when he isn’t having people tortured and carpet bombing civilians for fun, spends all hia time keeping his oil buddies rich.

Community organizer?