In Knoxville we laugh at cities where the Waffle Houses are more than 30 feet apart.

If you have a physical disability, DC doesn’t want you armed.

Bitter has more on the Clear Channel billboard thing.

There’s a pretty ugly local election for judge in my county. Apparently, the local papers have been pretty incompetent on the issue. Incompetent is one word. Partisan hacks would be another. But I digress.

Also, we have the battle of the douchebags. See, we got us a state senate race going on. The incumbent is Ramond Finney. Despite his tendency to be a bit embarrassing, he’s mostly harmless. And Finney does have the NRA endorsement.

His opponent is Doug Overbey, whose cheesy mug you see all over the city, my the city. Overbey is running on a conservative leadership platform and pointing out that he’s a lifelong Republican, 100% pro-life, and all second amendment rights.

Unfortunately, Doug Overbey lost all credibility on two of those claims when he crossed party lines to vote for Jimmy Naifeh as speaker of the house. Jimmy Naifeh, you’ll recall, is our lying speaker of the house who keeps abusing his power to kill pro-gun bills.

I’ll be voting Finney.

Consider the source.

Xrlq on the Nobel Peace Prize.

The New York Times once used Gatling Guns to defend itself.

Irony.

This guy is an asshat.

Stops a 50.

Looks like the NRA is pushing the Second Amendment Enforcement Act. Good. The Hill notes that NRA is pressuring conservative Democrats to put up or shut up:

The National Rifle Association is putting the election-year squeeze on conservative Democrats, demanding that they buck their leadership to support a bill to erase more of the District of Columbia’s gun laws.

Democratic gun rights supporters will risk losing their A-plus rating if they don’t sign a discharge petition to be filed Wednesday bringing the gun-rights bill directly to the floor.

It will be the first time in more than 20 years that the NRA has “scored” a discharge petition in determining the grades it gives lawmakers before the November election, said spokesman Andrew Arulanandam.

Hats off to NRA for that one. Put the pressure on. Typically, gun bills are avoided like the plague in election years.

Wilmette votes down handgun ban.

Like IPSC and E-Postal matches but for Airsoft.

Who knew:

The buy-back program was challenged last week by Dr. Carl Bell, a psychiatrist and president and CEO of Chicago’s Community Mental Health Council, who said at a City Council hearing that the guns being turned in “don’t work in the first damn place.”

Drugs, my anti-WOW:

We’re here, we’re . . . well, you get the idea.

Japanese kid playing Crazy Train on a guitar that is way too big for him.

Or, rather, sad panda. Josh Sugarmann is taking it pretty hard. After all, he founded his group to ban handguns and was told No, bad kitty!

In Michigan, the onerous safety inspections of handguns are about to be history.

The only two saving graces for your campaign as far as I’m concerned is that of supreme court judges and that you’re not Barack So a pirate walks into bar Obama. But there was this third thing I was holding out for. It was that your Vice Presidential choice would not suck. Let’s face it, you’re kinda old.

The rumors are that you’re looking at Mitt Romney as your Veep pick. Now, I don’t like Romney. At all. The guy is even more of a Democrat than you are. So, why do you insist on making the already daunting task of getting hammered, holding my nose and voting for you even more miserable?

If you do pick Romney and are elected, I hope we make some major strides in life extending technology.

Not sure why but I was exposed to all this feminism at once. So, you get to suffer for it.

First up, KAG on Why We Still Need Feminism:

Democratic candidate for Property Assessor Andrew Graybeal referred to me as “darlin’” in discussing his planned appearance with me.

Yes, he called me “darlin’”

OMG! Darlin! When will the oppressive patriarchy end! Actually, I think this shows why most view feminism as a joke.

Speaking of feminism as a joke (via AC):

Just like every year except 1984, the list of serious contenders for the Democratic VP spot appears to be another boring list of people with penises.

Yes, the most important aspect of the selection of a Veep is their genitalia. Which is why Obama would be better off picking Paris Hilton over a statesman like, say, Russ Feingold. I bet Egalia would just be absolutely giddy if McCain picked Condi Rice, right?

And lastly, a decision to take responsibility for your own safety is a decision to leave the feminist sisterhood (via SM). Now, listen up, sweetie. I understand. I mean, guns are tools for self-defense. And, well, women aren’t so good with tools. No, kidding aside, seems those who want to empower women are OK up until the point you actually want to, you know, empower women.

Did they find a shoulder thing that goes up?

NY Post:

An outspoken Long Island gun owner’s home was raided by Nassau County detectives, who seized two dozen weapons he lawfully owns just one day after Rep. Carolyn McCarthy’s office made a 911 call about him.

Freeport resident Gabriel Razzano claims he was targeted in the spring raid for his “unpopular” political beliefs.

Nice.

Did you know that movie trailers can’t show a gun pointed at the audience?

Breda gets her Ruger 10/22 on.

Unbreakable fighting umbrealla. Via Insty.

I’d love to see that business plan.

So, it looks like the Moms Against Guns group held itself out as a non-profit in order to get free billboards in Philly. Turns out, they’re not a non-profit and mislead Clear Channel Outdoor. The group is self-funded.

Ah, the ethics of anti-gunners. Once again, lying to win.

Oh, nevermind.

heh.

SF Mayor:

“[NRA is against] anything that restricts the opportunity for a guy who gets cut off in traffic from pulling out a hand gun and almost assassinating an entire family, as was the case a few days ago in San Francisco, where three people were gunned down. That somehow that is appropriate and wonderful and that person celebrated his freedom to carry a loaded pistol.”

Never heard of ’em.

Via Dr. Helen, Reason Mag ranks the top 35 most populous cities by their relative nannyism.

Strangely, the supposedly least nanny city is experiencing population growth.