Invoking Hillary.

Nagin admits guilt and settles with the NRA regarding gun confiscations during the aftermath of Katrina.

He should be in jail.

I’m guessing Obama.

I kid.

Presser from the National Shooting Sports Foundation:

The Obama campaign in Indiana, on September 27, unlawfully obtained and made unauthorized use of a proprietary media list belonging to the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) – the trade association for the firearms industry. Sen. Obama used this list to e-mail a press release concerning National Hunting and Fishing Day.

Earlier today, NSSF sent a “cease and desist” letter to the Obama campaign demanding that they immediately stop any further unauthorized misuse of its proprietary media list.

The list contains the names and addresses of members of the media that attended the NSSF Shooting Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show (SHOT Show) – the world’s largest firearms trade show and the 23rd largest trade show of any kind in North America.

The list can only be obtained from NSSF and its use is tightly controlled by NSSF. Neither the Obama campaign, nor its operations in Indiana, obtained any rights from NSSF to use the list.

Looks like there are moles on our side too.

This didn’t take long, now, did it?

UPDATE: As quickly as it went up, it came back down. Image is still visible here, and I’ll also post below:

[For the hostile audience here at SayUncle, perhaps I should call it my “flaming bag of poo of the week.”]

This week, it comes from NYT Columnist Thomas Friedman:

Criticizing Sarah Palin is truly shooting fish in a barrel. But given the huge attention she is getting, you can’t just ignore what she has to say. And there was one thing she said in the debate with Joe Biden that really sticks in my craw. It was when she turned to Biden and declared: “You said recently that higher taxes or asking for higher taxes or paying higher taxes is patriotic. In the middle class of America, which is where Todd and I have been all of our lives, that’s not patriotic.”

What an awful statement. Palin defended the government’s $700 billion rescue plan. She defended the surge in Iraq, where her own son is now serving. She defended sending more troops to Afghanistan. And yet, at the same time, she declared that Americans who pay their fair share of taxes to support all those government-led endeavors should not be considered patriotic.

I only wish she had been asked: “Governor Palin, if paying taxes is not considered patriotic in your neighborhood, who is going to pay for the body armor that will protect your son in Iraq? Who is going to pay for the bailout you endorsed? If it isn’t from tax revenues, there are only two ways to pay for those big projects — printing more money or borrowing more money. Do you think borrowing money from China is more patriotic than raising it in taxes from Americans?” That is not putting America first. That is selling America first.

Sorry, I grew up in a very middle-class family in a very middle-class suburb of Minneapolis, and my parents taught me that paying taxes, while certainly no fun, was how we paid for the police and the Army, our public universities and local schools, scientific research and Medicare for the elderly. No one said it better than Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: “I like paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.”

I can understand someone saying that the government has no business bailing out the financial system, but I can’t understand someone arguing that we should do that but not pay for it with taxes. I can understand someone saying we have no business in Iraq, but I can’t understand someone who advocates staying in Iraq until “victory” declaring that paying taxes to fund that is not patriotic.

How in the world can conservative commentators write with a straight face that this woman should be vice president of the United States? Do these people understand what serious trouble our country is in right now?

H/T: KTK at Lean Left

Though you’d never know it:

The Sentinel:

I was all set to report on the Virginian Pilot story about the Norfolk City Council meeting last night…but, in the comments to that story, it was stated that Dan Moore was ARRESTED shortly after the meeting last night…for open carrying.

SIH:

District Judge Douglas Loughner ruled in Beaver County Court Monday that John Noble, 50, of 1063 Willowbrook Drive should stand trial on misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and disrupting a public meeting, stemming from the Sept. 29 rally for Democratic presidential running mates Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

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

Make 7.62 ice cubes.

Via Robb.

Democratic state Rep. Michael Kernell’s son David Kernell arrested in Palin email hacking case.

On substance, McCain was the winner, I thought. He knew his stuff. But his stuff seemed to target the middle. Quite a few conservative sorts did a double take at issues such as buying up mortgages and the healthcare question. The question becomes whether or not targeting the middle alienates the base. We’ll see.

On style, they were both pretty dull. They quickly went into talking points and Obama tended to stutter and say uh a lot.

Honorable mention: With the exception of leading one to believe that he wanted to pull out of Iraq on a timeline, I think Obama did a fairly good job on the foreign policy stuff. That was an area in which, frankly, I thought McCain would dominate. Obama held is own and was rather knowledgeable of the topic.

The press pretty quickly called it for Obama. But that is to be expected.

One of the things I keep reading from conservatives and the left both is that the race is over. Obama will win. I don’t see it. Still too early.

The Wonder Woman Costumes.

Wyoming’s Democratic Governor Dave Freudenthal:

“He’s in the right place with it,” Freudenthal said of Obama’s position on gun ownership. “He understands it as a right.

“Remember, rights are not unlimited. They come with certain responsibilities.”

As for NRA feedback or backlash for his support of Obama, Freudenthal said, “They haven’t said anything to me about it, and I don’t think they have a right to.”

If you don’t think they have a right to say anything to you, then I don’t think you understand rights.

Chris Cox in the WaPo:

The Post also claimed that an amendment Mr. Obama voted for in 2005 would not have banned hunting rifle ammunition, just because the amendment’s sponsor, Sen. Edward Kennedy, said it wouldn’t. But while pushing the same proposal in 2004, Mr. Kennedy denounced the .30-30 Winchester. Though the .30-30 has been one of the most popular hunting rifle cartridges for 113 years, Mr. Kennedy found it “outrageous and unconscionable that such ammunition continues to be sold in the United States of America.”

A look at some minor wording details in gun laws.

Seen at Ridefast’s place:

My student was wearing polarizing sunglasses. The rear lens on the EOTech is plane-polarized, necessary for the holographic aspect to work. When my student viewed his EOTech with his head upright, everything worked normally. But, when he turned his head while acquiring an awkward position, his glasses rotated enough to conflict with the polarization of the EOTech. The result was no light coming through the optic, and the shooter thus looking at a blank screen!

Never had that happen and I often shoot with an EOTech and sunglasses. Anyone else had that issue?

In Vegas:

In the case, ACORN submitted just over 1,800 new voter registration forms, and all but six of the 1,800 names were fake.

Some times they try: Educating the media on body armor and ballistics.

Most of the time, they do not:

But the semi-automatic ammunition used in one of the weapons would have been illegal under an assault weapons ban that expired in 2004

And:

Two men, one armed with a pistol and the other with what was described as a machine gun, robbed a Papa John’s pizza restaurant late Monday evening.

Heh:

Government plans are like breast implants. They look good at first but sooner or later they sag of their own weight.

Lightweight .50 Cal.

Saiga 12 Short Barreled Shotgun.

Cool photos. Via Joe.

I dig Brownells. They are my first choice when it comes to buying stuff because, at last year’s Gun Blogger Rendezvous, Larry showed up and told us a bit about what Brownells did with respect to activism. They contribute heavily to pro-gun products. Because of Larry’s talk, I tend to buy from them whenever I can. Now, Brownells is offering an affiliate program:

Brownells has just announced an affiliate program that will give a financial return to any firearms or tool related website owner. The program allows website owners to post Brownells text and banner advertisements on their site and receive a commission on any sales that result from the link.

Obama’s Constitutional Subversion.

Interesting email from Michael Grider at WVLT TV:

Covering Tragedy: A Town Hall Meeting

The East Tennessee Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists is honored to present “Covering Tragedy: A Town Hall Meeting” Thursday Oct. 23, 2008 at 7 p.m. at the East Tennessee History Center on Gay Street.

Representatives from WBIR-TV, WVLT-TV, WATE-TV, Citadel Broadcasting (WIVK-FM/WNOX-FM), and The Knoxville News Sentinel will sit on a panel and take questions from a moderator and the audience on the anatomy of a tragic and breaking news story. There will also be three guest speakers who will offer “the other side” of the story. Those speakers are Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church Reverend Chris Buice, Knox County Schools Superintendent Dr. Jim McIntyre, and Knoxville Police Chief Sterling Owen.

The panel will discuss the various considerations that go into an evolving news story. It’s often clear that the public which journalists serve, is unaware of what actually goes into the journalistic process, and it is our desire to promote an awareness of what journalism is and how it is undertaken.

The guest speakers will offer a few words before the panel discussion in an effort to frame the conversation with respect to two recent tragedies: The deadly TVUUC church shooting that killed two and the Central High School shooting that left one child dead. All of these speakers were not only thrust into the middle of highly stressful and emotional situations, but they were also forced to face a questioning media, with which some have more experience than others.

These speakers have been asked to talk about what role the media played in “their side” of the story. Were the media helpful? Were they a hindrance? How did these people balance the obligation they have to those in need with the responsibility to be open and truthful with the public?

Our goal is to generate a dialogue between the media, those involved in tragic situations, and the public. ETSPJ hopes to raise an awareness of the journalistic process, the needs of those directly dealing with a tragic situation, and the expectations of the members of the community who get their news from us, and live, learn and worship in our community.

Have at it, if you want to. I will note I keep seeing press accounts that say things like don’t expect fighting words or getting mean could be a mistake. What that translates to McCain, don’t talk too much about Obama’s past.

They do have an election to win.

Update: So far, McCain knows his shit. Obama is speaking in generalities.

Update: They both want to give me a puppy.

Update: Cut spending? Is it 1998 again?

Obama said watch how we use energy? Is it 1976 again?

Sharing the burden with other folks? Fair? Jebus!

Obama tactical mistake: dwelling on the tax stuff into the next question.

Good for McCain for just answering the question.

Climate change: Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Obama’s answers always require spending or investing.

Is healthcare a commodity? Yes. It is. Neither said that but McCain came close.

It’ll make you meep too.

Oh. Don’t have one?

Paul Helmke:

Having said this, I hope that one audience member will stand up and ask both candidates about the 100,000 gun deaths and injuries Americans suffer each year, and what they propose to help reduce this level of violence.

The problem is especially acute in a state like Tennessee.

I’m guessing this is not the state you’re looking for when it comes to gun questions.

Robert has video.

Sebastian notes the supposed NRA member who is supporting Obama is a fool. Yes, he is, if he thinks Obama is not a threat to gun rights. On other issues, you may like them but if you value gun rights, Obama is opposed to them. More here:

You know, I’d love to believe that Obama is cool with guns and hunting, but when the nation’s largest and most radical group that wants to ban hunting thinks he’s peachy, it makes this middle-aged redneck think that maybe Barack is full of B’crap and his “pro gun/hunting” spiel is just another con job spun by the King of Obfuscation. But that’s just me.

It’s not just you. Meanwhile, the American Hunters and Shooters Association is bashing NRA. Of course they are. It’s what the Democrat Leadership Council created them for.

Pure genius*:

Baring Arms Isn’t Right

The founding fathers bestowed many unalienable rights. They are most commonly known as part of the “Bill of Rights.” One of these unalienable rights is the second amendment of the U.S. Constitution — the right to bare arms.

Apparently, he starts off telling me I cannot forgo sleeves. And then, I can.

* I thought geniuses lived in bottles?

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