Man, do I love The Daily Show:
How do you know if a Republican is applying a blatant double-standard? His or her lips are moving…
SayUncle adds: I assume Tom meant to link to this.
tgirsch adds: I actually meant to embed this, but I forgot that embedding doesn’t work here.
Lissa Kay and some other women went to the range, clinging to their bibles and guns. First time shooters to boot! Lots of pics. And some movies.
I was invited to go but, at the last minute, my day job intervened.
she faces questions over the firing of a longtime local police chief. After taking over as Mayor of the small town of Wasilla, Palin fired the longtime local police chief. The former police chief, Irl Stambaugh says he was fired because he stepped on the toes of Palin’s campaign contributors, including bar owners and the National Rifle Association … In his 1997 lawsuit, Stambaugh also alleged that his stand on restricting concealed weapons upset the NRA. “Mayor Palin has stated on several occasions that the National Rifle Association encouraged her to fire Chief Stambaugh because of his stance against the concealed weapons legislation,” the lawsuit claimed …”
And the press coverage seems sensationalist. I consider this to be a feature, not a bug. IIRC, Alaska (which now requires no permit to carry) issues permits for reciprocity with other states. Seems like the guy may have been disregarding the law. Anyone familiar with Alaska’s 1997 laws?
Over at DownRangeTV, Paul reminds us that the United States Practical Shooting Association national championship matches are about to start.
Gunner: I feel like I am losing my mind when the ‘unwashed’ hippies and I are on the same side of this issue.
Robb on that race war Obama minions are telling us is coming.
Here’s who he’s talking about.
Well, if one can be VP then one can open an adult business:
A woman has applied to locate a sexually-oriented business at 2642 U.S. 411 South in the city of Maryville, a move an adjacent business owner opposes.
This would be the first such business within the city limits.
Deborah Yantis wants to locate her business, Sunshine (sic) Video, closer to town, said Maryville Development Services Director John Jagger. Sunshine Video was previously located at the intersection of U.S. 411 South, Clover Hill Mill Road and Calderwood Highway in Blount County.
Looks like it’s under new ownership. You’ll recall the past owner’s issues with the local political machine.
To Aunt B. on home ownership, though she seems more enthusiastic about garage door opener ownership.
Email received just a bit ago:
I’m a journalist at [redacted] in Paris; I came across your blog looking for information on rifle use in the US. I’m actually doing an article about gun use for children – if or if not it should be allowed/ encouraged.
I was wondering whether you’d be interested in commenting on this subject? We need someone to defend gun use. It would be great if you learnt how to use a gun as a child and could explain the benefits, or if you have children who use guns responsibly.
My response:
We don’t ‘use guns’ and we’re not ‘gun users’. It’s rather like you’re inferring we have some sort of mental affliction similar to drug users.
We shoot or fire guns. We are gun owners.
We’ll see how it progresses from there. Anything you want to add, do so in comments.
Update: She has since apologized, not realizing it was offensive. On to the questions.
My brief review. You can download it here.
The good: It’s fast, clean and neat.
It also lets you use the hotkeys in wordpress (i.e., alt+A for hyperlink) this never worked in Firefox.
The bad (or Firefox ruined me): I want it to open items from a bookmark in a new tab. It doesn’t do that.
I also like to store my bookmarks in folders and opening all items in a folder at once. Can’t do that with Chrome, that I’ve found.
When you close the last tab, it closes the application. Not a fan.
I wish new tabs would be opened at the end and not behind the current tab.
Other: Not tried downloading yet so I dunno if it has a download manager or not.
Update: Also cool that I can resize text boxes in the browser. I do wish it would remember the size and keep it the same when I come back to the site.
Author faces ten years in prison for non violent firearms violations:
Prolific writer Peter Manso, author of, among other books, biographies of Norman Mailer and Marlon Brando, has been indicted on a dozen firearms charges by a Massachusetts grand jury and faces years in prison.
Did he brandish a gun in public? Threaten a neighbor with a drive-by shooting?No, the guns were all stored, quite securely, in his locked and alarmed home. In fact, police discovered the weapons only when they responded to a burglar alarm while the writer was away. Either the guns were in plain view — evidence that Manso expected no legal trouble for their possession — or else, as Manso’s attorney alleges, “Truro police searched Manso’s house illegally while responding to the alarm.” (The Times of London reports they were “in a cupboard.”)
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The main problem seems to be that Manso’s Firearms Identification Card expired after the passage of new legislation in 1998 — previously, FIDs lasted a lifetime; now they expire every six years. The new law has caused endless problems in the Bay State, since authorities have not been very effective about informing gun owners of the change. As the Globe reports, “In July 2002, a State House committee found that thousands of Massachusetts residents were probably unaware that they needed to renew fire identification cards.”
Gun control works (if your goal putting non-violent people in jail for a long time).
Residents here who buy a gun to keep legally at home, now that the Supreme Court has overturned the city’s ban on handguns, will find that a bureaucratic maze leads them to an unmarked door on Good Hope Road Southeast where Charles W. Sykes Jr. does business.
Mr. Sykes does not sell guns, but on Tuesday he is expected to become the only federally licensed dealer in Washington to serve as the transfer agent for the carefully controlled transactions that will put guns in the hands of district residents.
There are no gun stores here, and a resident who buys a gun elsewhere must have the weapon shipped to a licensed dealer in the district. Mr. Sykes’s permit will allow him to receive the weapon and, for a transaction fee of $125, he will ensure that the requisite paperwork is prepared for approval by federal and district officials before handing over the weapon to its new owner.
Mr. Sykes has been handling this kind of transaction since 1994 for security firms, police officers and the like. His enterprise, CS Exchange Limited and located in the southeast Washington neighborhood of Anacostia, is not listed in the telephone book, and he does not advertise. But his name is commonly known in local gun circles, and he can be found on the Internet.
Well, they could call Josh Sugarmann at the VPC. He’s a merchant of death, ya know.
Editorial page editor John Gibson of the Nashville Dog Trainer is retiring. His replacement will be Dwight Lewis, who was SayUncle’s Idiot of the Day just last month for 1) being bigoted toward gun owners and 2) accusing the NRA of lying about Obama’s record on guns while he was 3) lying about Obama’s record on guns.
The Obama fans are amusing. For instance, did you know that Palin’s pastor said that criticizing Bush can land you in Hell. Meanwhile, Obama’s pastor thinks that the government created AIDS to kill black people. Pick your flavor of crazy.
Kos scrubbed all the lame accusations about Palin from the site. Down the memory hole! Not shocking, it’s what commies do.
As long as they’re the kids of Democrats.
Wall to wall Sarah Palin’s daughter coverage. But we couldn’t talk about Biden’s daughter’s bar fight or Algore’s son getting pinched for DUI. Etc.
But it was OK for the nutroots to speculate that John Roberts small son may have been light in the shoes.
As insty noted: HOW THEY COULD HAVE KEPT THE PALIN PREGNANCY STORY OUT OF THE PRESS: Leaked it that John Edwards was the father
Received via email:
It has come to the attention of the Tennessee Fraternal Order of Police State Lodge that Middle Tennessee State University has decided on a policy not to let off duty officers carry their firearms on campus or in the classroom. I wanted to inform our members as well as all law enforcement that at this time I have directed the State Lodge Legal Counsel to research this issue.
It is my belief that there is State Law, and possiblely Federal and Case Law that not only gives off duty officers the authority to carry their weapon on a public campus but that officers are required to act in certain situations, on or off duty, to attempt to make an arrest. I would also submit that should a situation of an “active shooter ” on campus arise the actions taken by an armed off duty officer would save lives.
As I said our legal counsel will research the appropriate T.C.A.’s, Federal and Case Law and render an opinion. After we have received his opinion the State Lodge will then decide on a coarse of action to resolve this issue. I will keep you informed.
Another email states that MTSU’s policy may be illegal.
Site was mostly down for the last couple of hours. Seems back now.
Fatimah Ali on why we needs us Obama:
If McCain wins, look for a full-fledged race and class war, fueled by a deflated and depressed country, soaring crime, homelessness – and hopelessness!
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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