If you’re from a certain geographical region, you’re a racist.

Who’s the bigot again?

Anyone who is surprised by this has obviously never dealt with the Internal Revenue Service:

The IRS has acknowledged that Jamey and Lora Costner of Newport are victims of identity theft and Congress has called on them to testify. Nevertheless, this young couple are being harassed yet again by the IRS for back taxes on income they never earned at a place they never worked (Koch Foods). This time, the feds have already taken $467 from Lora Costner’s $401K fund to pay the debt they don’t owe.

The monkeys push the buttons. It doesn’t matter if you have a valid concern, legitimate reason or other issue. IRS collects. The monkey just pushes the buttons.

Sebastian:

The Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate for Governor of Delaware, who’s a dyed in the wool gun hater, has a blog that allows comments.  Be polite.  Be concise, but let?s put some pressure on.  Let him know gun owners are watching.

DC council has approved new gun laws to comply with Heller. It’s quite obviously an attempt at preventing congress from stepping in. Congress needs to intervene on this one.

David E. Young emails that he will be attending the event.

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.

Criminals dressed as cops have been known to raid houses. Now, fake cops pull a person over and rob them.

Seems Sarah Brady is a bit spooked by Sarah Palin:

Dear Chuck,

Sarah Palin makes me nervous. The NRA gave her its highest rating during her run for Governor. In a candidate questionnaire for Governor, she equated gun control as being as much of a threat to families as drugs and gangs!

With the Republican nomination of lifetime NRA member Sarah Palin for Vice President, the NRA has just what it’s looking for to keep its White House office open.

Looks like their fears are compounded by the fact that Sarah Palin may drive more women into the shooting sports: Is Sarah Palin’s Gun Hobby Catching on with Rhode Island Women?

Well, I hope so.

Every day, I wake up. Every day, categories disappear.

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.

David E. Young, in comments:

The problem for controllers is that they cannot see the forest for all the trees (the militia for all the armed citizens).

Indeed.

A shooting in Chicago.

Looks like H.R. 6691 could be discussed today.

So, as mentioned before, the American Hunters And Shooters Association has endorsed Obama (no surprise since that is what it was set up to do). So, AHSA shill Ray Schoenke takes to the radio to tell everyone why hunters and shooters (who those crazy AHSA directors like to call whackos and extremists) should not fear Obama. So, why does he talk about taxes and not guns:

“It’s important to me that our next President protects our Second Amendment rights to own guns and defend ourselves,” says Schoenke. “Barack Obama and John McCain will both make sure we can keep our guns. But what about keeping our jobs? Barack’s got a real plan that invests in creating jobs here at home and cuts taxes a thousand bucks for working families. John McCain? I saw a lot of cheap shots in my day, but McCain’s false attacks on Obama are just a fake to hide the ball. His plan sells out American workers. McCain will keep giving tax breaks to companies that ship our jobs overseas. And he’ll look the other way while China breaks our trade deals. It’s the same old Bush playbook. Look, when the coach loses eight years in a row, you don’t bring him back for a ninth season! We just can’t afford more of the same.”

And here I thought they’d have a rousing discussion on their favorite shotgun loads.

Ouch.

Being one of the few rich and special people to get carry permits in NYC has it’s privileges.

Update: Great minds and all that.

Update 2: And $0.50 is a felon. He can’t even lawfully handle those guns.

So, Barack Grrrl power! Obama likes to yammer on about equal pay. Too bad he pays his female staffers less. McCain actually pays women more.

Maybe it’s merit?

Or does McCain just hate men?

Helicopters, Humvees, flash-bangs, breaking out windows during a police raid for the crime of . . . . bouncing checks.

I shit you not. Granted, he bounced a large number of them and engaged in fraud. But that’s not a tactical-Tommy crime. No ninja gear required.

Trap shooting.

In the local paper, a local says, well, I’m not sure what her point is as it’s not spelled out very clearly. There are about six paragraphs of peace, love, and dope. And the rest seems to just be spewing random anti-gun tidbits that are poorly understood. So, I’ll try to address the points I think she’s trying to make. But the title is Sandra Rini says we should rethink term “Militia” , so we’ll go with that.Says Sandra, after quoting the second amendment:

This outdated provision from a Congress that never envisioned the modern military we have today is more fiercely protected than any other amendment in the Bill of Rights. America has more guns in the hands of private citizens than any other nation; an estimated 300 million. And the National Rifle Association boasts that we add 4.5 million annually.

I know. Those darn outdated provisions. We don’t really need a third amendment either, since it never comes up. And those dumb founders never envisioned that there would be advances is technology. That was just crazy talk back then. So, we should limit your right to speak only to pen, paper and a printing press since they didn’t imagine that Al Gore would give us the Internets. And all the amendments seem to be under attack these days (except maybe the third, which we’re not using so it should be repealed too).

And there is, of course, Sandra’s inability to read. After all, it’s pretty clear from the amendment that the the right to bear arms is not tied to militia service. You can get a grammar lesson here. And the fact that the supreme Court recently ruled exactly that. She goes on:

If another country invades the U.S. or our own government turns on its citizens (the things a Militia was intended to guard against), those 300 million guns may as well squirt water for all the impact they’ll have against such an attack.

The militia was intended to do that. And to quell rebellions. And to, if necessary, be a police force. Regarding guns not impacting an invading force, has she heard of a country called Iraq?

Six paragraphs of peace, love and dope omitted because you got better things to do.

And:

America’s first Congress ensured the future of the militia in the Bill of Rights with the Second Amendment.

Two centuries later, our well-regulated militia is called the National Guard, and the states provide the arms.

Sandra should maybe try doing a bit of research. She’d then realize that the militia is comprised of:

(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.

No need to rethink militia since it’s pretty clearly defined in USC. But we can’t have facts getting in the way of all that peace and love. And:

The security of the states is debatable; the safety of its citizens a fading memory.

Why is it you seem to think citizen safety negatively correlates to my right to keep and bear arms? Particularly, when there’s no such indication supported by, well, anything credible.

Sadly, we’re in the midst of a gun epidemic that kills 30,000 Americans every year.

Her number is, of course, misleading. More than half are suicides.

And the Second Amendment lives on.

And as long as I breathe, it will.

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.

Crime report is out. Thirdpower has a look.

The American Hunters and Shooters Association has endorsed Barack Obama.

Of course they did. That’s what they were created for.

Some say the party is over:

Breaking up is so hard to do. Judging from the Democratic Party platform, remarks from presidential nominee Barack Obama and his selection of anti-gun Sen. Joseph Biden as a running mate, the long, transparent courtship of gun owners by Democrats is over and instead of a goodbye kiss, there was a slap in the face; the political approximation of a domestic assault.

I dunno. I think it’s more a regional issue. Time will tell.

DC cries a river.

Guy doesn’t break the law and will not be charged. Guns not returned.

Have you ever spent more on the optics than on the gun?

Well, I do have a Ruger 10/22 with an EOTech on it.

Once again, wordpress ate my categories.

You win this round, readership. You have your monkey.

At least five of you have emailed to say you miss the monkey.

Working on changing the hyperlink color since it strains peoples’ eyeballs.

And the mouseover hyperlink effect is on its way out too.

The new design loads nice on the crackberry in that the content loads first as opposed to sidebars.

Anything else?

Update: Better?