Circuit court of appeals: quit farting around.

The Nuge:

My wife on our spending habits:

Ya know, I can go blow over $1,000 on stuff over the course of a month. And that doesn’t bother me. But you will blow $1,000 all at once.

True. She tends to buy little things here and there (clothes, kids’ stuff, and knickknacks) whereas I’ll come home with, say, a new gun or a table saw or grill.

Update: I should note that my reply was Yeah, but I only do that about once every three to five months.

A short version:

I had just gotten my drivers license. Dad, now a beat cop for a couple years just before becoming a federale, says of drinking and driving (paraphrased, it has been 19 years):

There’s nothing like coming up to a car wreck and seeing some barely moving piece of hamburger meat begging please, help me, please and knowing there is nothing you can do. Not a thing. You feel helpless and they die. It gets worse when you realize it’s some guy’s boy and you gotta go tell him. Don’t ever put a cop through that, son. Ever.

What reminded my of that is this post by The Ambulance Driver.

Brits at their best:

From Saturday May 26th to Sunday June 3rd, thousands of people across the UK will try one of the most exciting Olympic sports during National Shooting Week. Shooting schools and clubs are putting on more than 200 open days across the country so the public can try shooting for the first time.

R. Neal has tagged me so, here goes:

1. Add a direct link to your post below the name of the person who tagged you. Include the city/state and country you’re in.

Nicole (Sydney, Australia)
velverse (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
LB (San Giovanni in Marignano, Italy)
Selba (Jakarta, Indonesia)
Olivia (London, England)
ML (Utah, USA)
Lotus (Toronto, Canada)
tanabata (Saitama, Japan)
Andi (Dallas [ish], Texas, United States)
Todd (Louisville, Kentucky, United States)
miss kendra (los angeles, california, u.s.a)
Jiggs Casey (Berkeley, CA, USA! USA! USA!)
Tits McGee (New England, USA)
Joe (NE Tennessee, USA)
10K Monkeys (Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA)
Big Stupid Tommy (Athens, Tennessee, USA)
Newscoma (Weakley County, Tennessee, USA)
Russ McBee (Knoxville, Tennessee, USA)
R. Neal/KnoxViews (Blount Co., Tennessee)
SayUncle (Blount Co., Tennessee)

2. List out your top 5 favorite places to eat at your location. (full disclosure: I don’t eat out much).

• Kaya -a Korean joint in West Knoxville. I recommend the pork bulgogi and all the kimchi you can eat. I spent part of my formative years near the Korean district on the island of Oahu. I learned very early to love Korean food. This place has good food and always reminds me of sitting at a restaurant in Oahu called Peach Garden when I was 8 years old with my family. Same small feel, same style of food.

• My house – Probably cheating but the meme says places to eat and not restaurants. I love to cook (see). And I cook it all. And I cook it on everything (grill, smoker, oven, stove, hole in the ground, you name it). And my family (immediate and extended) love to come by Casa de Uncle whenever I break out the grub. My wife says I make the best burgers on Earth. I dunno about that but they’re pretty damn good.

• Murphy’s Wings and Ale – Blount County’s little pub. $0.99 drafts and excellent wings. I recommend their Irish jerk wings which are tangy, hot and sweet. And they have a lot of premium beers on draft. The $0.99 is called Murphy’s Brew but their staff tells me it’s Miller High Life.

• Metro Pizza – The best pizza in Blount County.

• Oriental Cuisine – Good food and plentiful. I recommend the Vietnamese pork, which comes with an excellent vinegar based sauce.

3. Tag five others.

If you feel the need, dive right in.

Thanks, guys. Job well done.

The Tennessee State Trooper who got his pickle buffed* by local porn star Barbie Cummings has been fired, reports Michael Silence. Since then, Barbie’s blog has disappeared and been replaced by, well, a porn site promoting her. All I got to say is that Barbie Cummings is a marketing genius. Her new porn site is no doubt getting mad traffic from the news coverage and people Googling her up to see what all this is about. Well played, ma’am, well played. When she’s done doing porn, she could get a job in marketing.

* what, you didn’t think I’d use the same fellatio slang two days in a row, did you?

Update: BTW, how dumb is the cop? He took pictures. Didn’t take her to jail for the drugs. But gave her a speeding ticket anyway? Should have just let the speeding slide and maybe you wouldn’t be in the, err, pickle you’re currently in. Just sayin’.

Rudy Giuliani flip-flops on guns, proving that, yes, politicos will say anything to get elected:

Rudolph Giuliani Wednesday sounded open to letting anyone who’s not a criminal or mental patient carry a concealed handgun — even telling a woman who packs a piece in New York that it’s OK with him.

Giuliani later backpedaled — saying decisions on concealed-carry permits are up to the states — but his answer had been different to Julie Trevor, of Stowe, Vt., at a campaign stop. Trevor told Giuliani she gets nervous every time she enters New York while toting a concealed handgun she got for protection after her house was burglarized.

Does he still believe in the “densely populated area” exception to the second amendment? More:

“As far as I am concerned, you can have a concealed weapon,” he said. “The Constitution of the United States in the Second Amendment gives you an individual right to bear arms; that individual right is as strong as your individual right to free speech, free assembly, being safe against unreasonable searches and seizures.”

Outside the event, Giuliani said his test came from a recent federal court ruling overturning a tough District of Columbia gun ban, which set what he considered “reasonable” limits on gun ownership. He said he believes that individual states should decide who can carry weapons.

Well, at least he’s paying attention. He supports the right to own and carry guns but thought DC’s complete and total ban on possession of a functional at-the-ready weapon was reasonable? Or am I reading that wrong?

Sorry, Rudy, I ain’t buyin’ what you’re sellin’.

In comments, Countertop thinks I’m reading it wrong:

I think your reading that wrong. It sounds like he is saying he agrees with the DC Circuit, which set a reasonable standard for gun control to meet. NOt that DC had met it, but what the court said

Looks like there has been language inserted into the 300+ page bi-partisan* immigration bill for more gun control. Specifically, language that would classify gun shop owners & operators as criminal gangs in the event they committed two or more felonies. Sounds reasonable until you realize that minor paperwork glitches are felonies (such as putting a Y instead of spelling out Yes on a form). GOA has more.

* Any bill with the support of both parties is probably bad for the people.

A map of states looking to permit handgun carry on campus.

Ranked by state. Via Sebastian.

Wow:

Under Curran’s plan, the mayor could declare “public-safety-act zones,” which would allow police to close liquor stores and bars, limit the number of people on city sidewalks, and halt traffic during two-week intervals.

Police would be encouraged to aggressively stop and frisk individuals in those zones to search for weapons and drugs. […]

Nutter’s proposal also calls for curfews in crime-plagued neighborhoods.

This isn’t in Iraq, this is in freaking Baltimore. The adjudicated mentally defective err lunatics are running the asylum.

Update: Wow, perspective from PGP:

A couple of days ago, there were 15 shootings in 24 hours.

Maryland gets rated an A- from The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership.

In Connecticut:

The state Senate passed a controversial gun-control bill Wednesday night that could make failure to report the loss or theft of a gun within 72 hours a crime.

The bill is intended to reduce the volume of stolen guns used in violent crimes.

And how exactly will it accomplish that? I’m guessing it will not.

Via Kim, I am now using the Foxit Reader to read PDF files. Adobe Acrobat Reader is a big, fat chunk of bloatware that frequently crashes my browser or locks up during print jobs. Foxit is nice and small. Loads fast, doesn’t crash Firefox and generally is an all around superior product. And it’s free.

Well, it’s not disobedience if they’re not breaking the law:

Zach Doty is raising eyebrows by taking the Second Amendment for a walk.

Doty, who turned 18 last month, has been stopped by police twice in the past month after citizens spotted him with a loaded 9mm Glock pistol in a hip holster in plain view.

No citations were issued because Idaho code allows residents 18 and older to openly carry a firearm in public. To carry a concealed weapon, you must be 21 and have a permit.

The second time officers checked out Zach — on Sunday at Poleline and Greensferry — his 15-year-old brother, Steven, was carrying a .22-caliber rifle in a sling on his back. Again, there was no wrongdoing because teens 13 to 17, with parental permission, are allowed by Idaho law to carry a rifle.

The home-schooled brothers said they intend to continue to openly carry guns in public on a regular basis for self defense — both as a crime deterrent and to educate others that it’s the public’s right.

“I certainly don’t anticipate that I’ll need to use it, but I’d rather have it and not need it than to not have it and need it,” Zach said. “There’s no reason for me to hide a weapon.”

It ends with: I’m just trying to exercise a right that I have no reason to hide

A look at those sick people.

The Daily Puppy, with this cute pickle.

In my parent’s generation to be called a “classy broad” would be a compliment. It brings to mind Katherine Hepburn and Lauren Bacall.

Since this is politically incorrect week here at SayUncle, perhaps every week is, it is fitting to pay tribute to a classy broad who made me happy this week.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck is one classy broad. For a second there I thought she might punch Rosie O’Donnel right in the nose.

Who let the nannies in my state? The Tennessean:

Smoking would be banned in most workplaces, including restaurants and bars, under a bill that passed the Senate by a wide margin today.

After several revisions, the bill mirrors a proposal from Gov. Phil Bredesen to ban smoking in nearly all enclosed public places.

The market is doing a fine job of restricting smoking. And, of course, property owners have a right to decide what otherwise lawful activities they allow on their premises. I honestly never thought this would even come close to passing in Tennessee, which produces quite a bit of tobacco.

Via AC, who notes:

Just remember, limited government and libertarian types, Republicans did this to you. Three of the sponsors and obviously a good amount of those in favor voted to ban smoking from enclosed spaces.

I’d like to thank you, The Tennessean, personally for the fact that soon handgun carry permit records will likely be confidential.

The story so far: The local paper runs, err, well, I’ll just let Tam say it:

Standing in the checkout line at the grocery store last Saturday, I glanced down at the Knoxville News Sentinel in the rack by the register and was struck dumb. There at the top of the front page, above the fold, in the place usually reserved for things like War Was Declared!, Man Lands On Moon!, or Dewey Defeats Truman!, was something very much along the lines of Drunken Teen Prom Party In Suburbia.

And Tam says: wait, that’s really news?

The editor responds with: Uh uh, it was, like, so totally news and stuff.

And Dr. Helen joins the fun: Nyuh, uh. It’s like totally not news & stuff.

MKS of the paper defends his paper and has a poll asking the question: So, is it really like news and stuff?

Now, I’m no reporter but I gather that the primary business of the news is to sell the news (sell news = profit). Secondary to that is actually reporting the news. Is the story news? Sure. But is it front page Man Bites Dog, wall-to-wall, daily coverage news? No. It’s a blurb, at most. In the gossip section with pictures of cats. But can you blame the KNS? It was the most read story, even beating out UT football which is quite an accomplishment in Knoxville. And why is that? Well, because you’d rather read about that, or semi-hot teachers doing their students, or porn stars giving knob jobs to state troopers, or Paris Hilton’s jail cell as opposed to the state of trade relations with China, the US Attorney scandal, or that orders for durable goods are up 0.6%. They’re selling the news and you’re buying it. And you, frankly, don’t care about things that are particularly important.

Meanwhile, the Knoxville News Sentinel’s coverage of Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam belonging to an anti-gun group? None. I also recall some sort of property scandal covered here by #9 that’s also not news. But, hey, they gotta pay the bills.

VA Governor Kaine ran on a platform that was supportive of gun rights. Now, it looks as though those were empty promises:

Governor Kaine gave the panel investigating the Virginia Tech shooting incident its marching orders on Monday: Kaine let it be known that he expects the panel to recommend more gun control – including ammunition control!

First Kaine does not invite any gun rights groups to be on the panel, and now he’s telling the panel what he wants the panel to conclude.

The results of that panel, if it includes gun or ammunition control, will be tainted and should be dismissed as a farce on the people of Virginia.

Via PGP, who notes:

Kaine was the first leader to publicly excoriate those who would politicize the VT debacle; his comments seemed almost directly aimed at the Brady Campaign, who started asking for donations before the bodies of the deceased had even been released to their families.

Quite disappointing.

A video of a toddler wrestling a cobra. Ahh! Cobras. Cobras. Via the NITwit.

Oh, what? Like you’re not gonna click that?

Remember the kid who was charged with disorderly conduct over an essay he wrote? The charges have been dropped:

Prosecutors said they dropped the charges partly because the teacher at Cary-Grove High School in McHenry County didn’t want the case to continue.

I’d say the dropped them because they knew they were full of shit and that they’d get sued. Actually, I hope the kid sues anyway.

LAWNORDER: SPECIAL LANDSCAPING UNIT. Is it just me, or does he seem to be having too much fun landscaping?

NRA Presser:

Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen has signed into law the National Rifle Association (NRA)-backed “Castle Doctrine” bill (HB 1907) bringing common sense self-defense protections to law-abiding Tennesseans.

“Gov. Bredesen and Tennessee lawmakers recognize the value of ensuring that law-abiding citizens have the option and the right to protect themselves when criminals attack,” said Chris W. Cox, NRA’s chief lobbyist. “This is a victim’s rights measure that puts the law on the side of victims, who don’t have the luxury of time when confronted by a criminal. This law removes any mandate of forcible retreat set either in state statute or in case law.”

Between this and signing into law a provision requiring local law enforcement to sign off on NFA forms in 15 business days, one of our more pro-gun governors is a Democrat.

Update: Meanwhile, folks at the TFA say this is not a good bill.

Ben wants to know. I think:

It’s a tax on hope.

It’s a tax on people who can’t do math.

It’s a tax people actually stand in line willingly to pay.

Hell, I have almost five times that in just 22LR. Apparently, VA Governor is troubled that Virginia law allows any individual to stockpile ammunition with no way for authorities to monitor the cache. That’s a cache? Hell, the other day I gave 1,000 rounds of 40S&W I couldn’t use away.