Are these persimmons? I’m pretty sure they look like them and they look like the wiki entry pic.

From Home Life

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If so, what do you do with them?

I knew it wouldn’t go well but not that bad.

See if you and Obama are compatible!

Braisted:

Wall Street all of a sudden favors Government intervention into the economy, as evidenced by the 400 point spike at the Dow.

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.

Epic Gun Fail

As Tam said:

In business news this morning ZOMG WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!

So, basically, we have two huge companies and their performance sucks more than Metallica’s new album. The solution to the problem, if you’re a politician or a retard, is to bail them out. What that would mean is our government is going to buy something that nobody wants at a price no one wants to pay with money the government probably doesn’t have to spend anyway. This comes after two other big companies tank. Yeehaw, corporate welfare!

That’s the short term fix. These two companies are heavily regulated, one because it’s basically a quasi-government agency anyway and the other because it’s in a highly regulated industry and in NY. Under such oversight, these companies still failed. The long term solution, if you’re a politician or a retard, is more regulation! Yes because that worked out so well the first time.

In other news, LIBOR had a big one day decrease indicating that banks no longer want to loan other banks money. That means your small town bank may have an issue getting a float from a larger bank.

And in the case of one of the companies, Obama’s economic adviser made major bling running it. That’s a confidence builder.

For a sense of scale, DirtCrashr points out that the Enron collapse was to the tune of $65 billion. Fannie Mae is in at $6.5 trillion. And made a lot of rich Democrats richer.

In times like this, ammo is a good investment. Oh sure, it won’t make you any money but it provides you with some needed stress release.

Meet the guys that surf Al Gore’s Internets and get shirts that make fun of their messiah yanked:

Much of Barack Obama’s political success can be traced to a database listing contact information for millions of people, a tool that has proved invaluable in raising record sums of money and organizing a national volunteer network.

Now Obama’s presidential campaign is increasingly using the list to beat back media messages it does not like, calling on supporters to flood radio and television stations when those opposed to him run anti-Obama ads or appear on talk shows.

It did so as recently as Monday night, when it orchestrated a massive stream of complaints on the phone lines of Tribune Co.-owned WGN-AM in Chicago when the radio station hosted author David Freddoso, who has written a controversial book about the Illinois Democrat.

The latest use of the database, called the Obama Action Wire, is proving yet another new and potentially powerful tactic in the closing weeks of a campaign that has already been dominated by Internet-based messages and media.

So, that’s what a community organizer does.

And it seems that Sarah Palin has had her private email account hacked. By a student here in Tennessee, who is the son of a state representative.

Silence has the round up.

Adams Arms makes a Retrofit Piston Driven System for the AR-15.

At $500 though, I could just build another AR to carry around in case the first one jammed up.

Barack Pinocchio Obama asked his supporters to lie for him:

“And if they tell you that, ‘Well, we’re not sure where he stands on guns.’ I want you to say, ‘He believes in the Second Amendment.’

The issue is that he doesn’t. Never has. Did he fight for the gun rights of the law-abiding in Illinois? Nope. Did he sign on to the Congressional Heller brief affirming a right to arms? Nope. What did he do? Supported all manner of gun control.

Ohioans for Concealed Carry scored a victory:

In a 4-3 ruling, the Ohio Supreme Court has rejected the City of Clyde’s appeal in OFCC v. Clyde and ruled that Clyde’s ban on concealed carry in their parks is unconstitutional!

Reports were that Google-owned youtube was going to ban gun videos. That’s not entirely true:

The UK version of YouTube is going to remove videos of people using guns and knives to intimidate or frighten others? They are following a strong ?suggestion? from British leaders who believe their citizens must be protected from the internet. Wow?suddenly those facts aren?t nearly as sensational as the headline.

It is Google and they do shit themselves at the thought of guns. I wouldn’t be surprised if they did do such a ban at some point. But it’s not happened yet.

The Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Ownership has finally admitted what we knew all along: they really do want to go after law abiding gun owners. That’s rather odd since they’ve been telling folks for years that’s not the case. But now, it’s a category on their blog, right next to dancing in the blood of dead children.

Good:

A federal judge decided Tuesday that Jim?s Gun Jobbery of Fayetteville and the Jim?s store in Wilmington can keep their licenses to sell firearms.

Jim?s Gun Jobbery in Fayetteville and Jim?s Pawn & Gun in Wilmington sometimes violated regulations requiring dealers to closely track their inventory, U.S. District Judge Malcolm J. Howard said in his ruling. But he decided the violations were unintentional and made up only a tiny percentage of the stores? sales since Jim Faircloth went into business in 1977.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has been trying since 2005 to revoke the licenses of Jim?s, said to be the largest gun dealer in North Carolina. The ATF said the stores repeatedly lost track of guns in their inventory over an eight-year period and had not resolved the problem despite repeated warnings.

Good for the judge. This has been a pattern with ATF for a bit, shutting down dealers for clerical errors that comprised a minuscule percentage of transactions. Meanwhile, ATF can’t keep track of it’s own guns.

Interesting concept here:

The Palm Pistol is an ergonomically innovative single shot double action only defensive firearm chambered in 9mm that may be fired using either hand without regard to orientation of the stock. Suited for home defense, concealed carry or as a backup gun. It is also ideal for seniors, disabled or others who may have limited strength or manual dexterity. Using the thumb instead of the index finger for firing, it significantly reduces muzzle drift, one of the principle causes of inaccurate targeting. Point and shoot couldn?t be easier.

I seem to recall reading that palm pistols were pretty common at one point many decades ago.

Via David.

Looks like H&K made a Walther.

Some autoloading pistols over at Jay’s.

Defense Review has a piece on the rifle with lots of pics:

PTTR’s Manifold Injector System (MIS) (TM), which is located in the bolt carrier. Upon firing, gas flows through the tube inside the op-rod, and is expelled through the MIS. Para claims that this makes the PTTR “the cleanest running autoloading rifle in the world.” This is a rather bold claim, considering the plethora of gas piston/op-rod-driven tactical AR carbine systems a.k.a. tactical AR-15 carbine systems on the market.

The short film.

Shorter Paul Helmke: Waaaaaah!

No good for Tennessee Democrats.

Party above all, kids. Party above all.

I, for one, miss seeing Terrance & Phillip up at the top, there.

In no small part because it renders obsolete my SayAunt graphic, which I seem to have lost anyway…

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.

Alan Gura, lead guy in the Heller case on his fees:

And if we are such lousy lawyers, how did we manage to beat the city’s militia of lawyers, including three of the biggest of the “megafirms” in town?

That’s almost as good as his closer:

If the city doesn’t want to pay civil rights lawyers’ fees, it should obey the Constitution. Freedom isn’t free.

Yowza!

Michael Silence asks Any reason to keep a phone line at home?

Ya know, I still have one. Initially, it was for two reasons. We have a fax machine and a fancy alarm system. Now, the fax machine can be replaced with a wide variety of software or online services. The one we can’t seem to find an online replacement for is the alarm system. It communicates with our service, police, and fire all through the land line. Were it not for that, I would not have a home phone. That’s $70 month could be spent on ammo!

Obama and McCain talk guns and conservation.

Obama seems to be taking the Rudy Giuliani approach to guns. That is, he was all for gun control but has since changed his mind. And, like Rudy, he’s using the right terms. The question becomes whether it’s out of expediency and a desire to get votes or if it’s genuine. If he had signed on to the congressional Heller brief, it may have lent him some credibility that he really did find his pro-gun Jesus. He also displays his ignorance about firearms while stating his support for a ban on weapons that look like assault weapons. He’s either 1) confused that they do mean machine guns or 2) shilling all the propaganda he learned while on the board of directors at the anti-gun Joyce Foundation.

McCain unequivocally says he does not support a ban on weapons that look like assault weapons nor does he support a ban on regular capacity magazines.

Via R. Neal.

Update: More from Bitter.

Murdoc got a sampler and is looking to compete.

Mr. C. announces some free training at the Gun Blogger Rendezvous:

I just got an e-Mail from Dr. Ignatius Piazza, founder and head guy from Front sight Firearms Training Institute, and he had two pieces of good news for me. First, he will be donating a $2,000 dollar four day training course to the Gun Blogger Rendezvous for inclusion in our Project Valour-IT fund raising efforts. That will go on the list along with a new Hi-Point 9mm. pistol, a Dillon range bag (I think) and possibly some other stuff too!

To Curt and wife. His wife is about to have exploratory surgery.

More pink guns!

Pink is the new black.