We're the Only Ones In Plain Enough View...

A car prowler got away Tuesday night with the badge and gun of a Clackamas County deputy.

The sheriff's office says the off-duty deputy parked outside a dance studio on Lake Drive in Milwaukie. She went inside on personal business, apparently leaving her purse, containing her badge, gun and other items, in plain view inside the car.

There must be something about that superior training the "only ones" receive that causes stuff like this to happen. In all my years of gun ownership, I'd have never thought to leave my stuff sitting in my unattended car for all the world to see. I guess that's the difference between us ordinary people and professionals...

MMM Gallery Continues to Build

Gallery IV continues to build.

Fodder has managed to post both Vidkun and Marty, Steamdragon has posted some family photos, Civis Proeliator helps a neighbor to the south, and Jeremy H enjoys "successes all around."

The plan is to post these and more to the new gallery on Million Moon March Monday.

UPDATE: In my haste, I forgot to add the Captain...

UPDATE UPDATE: I already added the Captain's new entries yesterday. Someone around here isn't getting enough sleep.

Getting Out the Vote--Uganda Style

President Yoweri Museveni's legal adviser was pictured on Friday armed with an automatic pistol during a fracas over voting in the northeast of the country...The independent Monitor newspaper said its photographer John Emojong was beaten by Odoi after he took the picture, and then arrested by police officers under the lawyer's command...Elsewhere in Tororo district, the Monitor said Museveni's legal assistant "fired bullets, assaulted people and hunted down suspected Kenyans, who turned out to be Ugandans".

What are we fighting to bring to the world?

Oh, yeah, democracy.

Doc Muzzles Nixed

Doctors can continue asking patients whether they own and safely store firearms.

The Senate Education and Health committee, known for defeating controversial bills, voted down legislation that would have made it unlawful to routinely ask patients about firearms.

I'm likely to start another debate like the one that's going on over here, but I fear a state with the power to tell a doctor what he can or can't ask a patient more than I fear a doctor asking me about guns.

There are plenty of private ways to deal with a medico sticking his nose where it doesn't belong--from firing him and getting a doctor who isn't a bleater, to presenting him with a little questionnaire that ought to knock him back a few steps...