Open Letter to Google

I received a comment in my open letter to my new pal Zhou Wenzhong asking people to visit the "Open Letter to Google" blog and leave their own thoughts.

I did, and encourage you to do so as well.

At last count, there were 232 posted comments. Be nice to increase that a thousandfold and more...

Please spread the word and urge other blogs to inform their visitors.

Tags: Google, China

PROOF...

...that if Mayor Bloomberg's plot to disarm all of America except "the authorities" succeeds, shootings of NYC police officers will cease.

[Thanks to HZ]

Tags: gun control, police

Guess What Day This Is?

First, it's oldest son Uday's 15th birthday. As youngest son Qusay said when he was but a jihoddler, "Yappy Birthday!"

Oh, and it's also Second Amendment Saturday.

An Enemy of the People: An Open Letter

Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong

Embassy of the People's Republic of China in the United States

Dear Ambassador Wenzhong,

May I call you "Zhou"?

I have come across an insidious attack against the People's Revolution that you must be made aware of! An American website, Blognomicon, has been posting subversive counterrevolutionary propaganda with intent to undermine the legitimate and beloved-by-the-people's government. This includes altered photographs doctored by enemies of the Class Struggle to mask the insidious attacks on the People's Revolutionary Army by the reactionary traitors of the Falun Gong cult.

Please notify Google-China that such breaches in the ability of the Party to protect the workers and peasants from Western cultural hegemony must cease immediately!

Oh, and by the way: Sorry about this. I was thinking improperly, but I have since been reeducated.

Yours in the glorious struggle...

Tags: Google, China

Crime and Punishment

A township officer who left his AR-15 rifle behind at a Butler County high school received a three-day unpaid suspension and will have to undergo more training before he will be allowed back on the SWAT team, his chief said Friday...A student who was on his way to basketball practice at the school found the gun and alerted the coach.

I'm sure if it was you or me who left that AR-15 on school grounds for students to find, the authorities would be equally tolerant and understanding, don't you think?

Tags: police, rifle, school

Garbage In, Garbage Out

A gun crime review team used E-Trace, a computer database managed by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, that can trace the serial number on a weapon to dealers, manufacturers and registered sellers, to shed light on the exchange of illegal guns in the Bull City...

While E-Trace can help investigators locate the gun's original dealer and, in some cases, records of sale, state laws do not require individuals to keep records of private gun sales, Mihaich said.

For that reason, he said, it's difficult to get a grasp on where the guns in Durham are truly coming from.

"We're trying to tighten up how we do that statistically. There's some [statistics] we just don't track because the information isn't there," Mihaich said.

Translation: Well, we have this fancy computer system and all these people working it, but it's really pretty much a make-work boondoggle unless we can use it as a foot in the door to stump for a full-blown gun registry. And then it still won't do anything but tell us who the people who obey us are...

Just what we need. More federal "gun control" harassment of We the People, courtesy of the NRA-backed Project Safe Neighborhoods...

Tags: gun control, NRA

We're the Only Ones Non-Alcoholic Enough...

The results of a Washington, D.C.-based FBI probe came down Friday, clearing agents of any wrongdoing in the controversial Nov. 7 slugfest between two Bears players at the shooting range. Sources said alcohol had been served after the shooting practice.

The probe found no evidence that alcohol was mixed with guns. But FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert Grant announced he will still ban the use of alcohol by any future group using the FBI's North Chicago shooting facility.

"He was not suggesting any impropriety ... he just wants to make sure an incident like this will not happen again," FBI spokesman Ross Rice said.

Translation: After investigating ourselves, we didn't do anything wrong. And we're banning alcohol at the range even though we didn't do anything wrong, as a way of making sure that we don't not do anything wrong again, even though we didn't the first time. Do anything wrong, that is.

Got it?

Boy, am I glad their internal investigation proves they didn't do anything wrong. I guess I was kind of judgmental when I posted on this before, huh?

So kudos to the FBI for figuring out that guns and booze don't mix. Perhaps their example of innovative government safety leadership will spill over into the private sector some day...

Tags: gun, FBI, Chicago Bears