Notes from the Resistance...
"I was amazed that they managed to read the same plate wrong three times in a row," he said...The DMV told Eyewitness News they are considering dropping Q and zero from license plates because of the mix-ups.
When in doubt, dumb down and inconvenience everybody else.
Did you hear the one about the atheist Sunpass employee who didn't believe in "Dog"? Or how about "Look, up in the sky! It's a bird. It's a plane. It's 2perman!"
[More from "The Only Ones" Files]
I have written in the past about the BATFE's own record keeping: here and here. Since the ATF demands 100% compliance out of dealers, it is only natural to look at how their own record keeping compares.
That's how he described the president's decision not to renew the ban on assault rifles.Talk about no understanding, not only of what actually happened, but of the concept of enumerated powers. Both on the part of this boob and on the part of the "Authorized Journalist" whose head it went right over.
He's back after a hiatus of many moons, and he's continuing with the important task of keeping an eye on what the young skulls full of academic mush are saying about RKBA:I couldn't stay away for too long, you know. This weekend, I've added three new posts, all covering campus discussion on RKBA issues:
From Yale:
http://madhatter907.blogspot.com/2008/02/warming-back-up-on-campus-editorials.html
A few from UW-Madison:
http://madhatter907.blogspot.com/2008/02/rkba-campus-round-up-12.html
And a few from my alma mater, UT-Knoxville:
http://madhatter907.blogspot.com/2008/02/rkba-campus-watch-121.html
There is a bill in Idaho that has been suggested, Senate Bill 1381, that
(1) "Repeals and adds to existing law to provide for preemption of all regulation of firearms by a county, city, constitutional corporation,agency, board or any other political subdivision of this state withexceptions."
And there have been the usual articles online regarding the bill's provisions for Universities and Colleges and firearms. With one side always ignorantly saying guns make things worse and that they are "uncomfortable". The other side always saying that it's only people with special government permission(CC Permits)that will be carrying, and that those that do have proven themselves worthy to the state in order to exercise their KABA rights.
2)The latest news is that the bill has been pulled for "re-tooling". The one outraged thing is this:.."Even before taking public testimony, McKenzie told the committee he was dropping colleges and universities from the bill. He agreed to the change at the urging of Gov. Butch Otter and university and college presidents."
(3)I have e-mailed our Governor to ask his reasoning behind this "urging", if it is in fact true. I will post online about it when I get a response.
1.) http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1381.html
2.) http://media.www.arbiteronline.com/media/storage/paper890/news/2008/02/14/Opinion/Will-We.Have.Guns.On.Campus-3209691.shtml
3.) http://www.idahopress.com/news/?id=3818
An amicus brief in support of Washington D.C.'s handgun ban dealing with the historical issues in the case was filed by fifteen professional academic historians. One would expect such a brief to be historically accurate, address the Second Amendment in its proper Bill of Rights related context, and include the most relevant figures, statements, and actions for understanding any historical issues in the dispute. However, any such expectation is left largely unfulfilled in the historians' brief.
One would expect that, if one expected this particular group of agenda-driven manipulators to be more interested in truth than Marxist social engineering. We are told those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. When historians betray their trust and obscure and rewrite that past with present motives, it is a very special type of betrayal, an act of treason against all humanity.
David E. Young does a fine job deconstructing the deception, albeit he mostly treats it as error, omission and failure. Not being part of the "respectable" academic community, I'm under no restraints to conclude that no one, not even 15 professional academics, could be this obtuse. The only explanation is one of premeditated sleight of mind to promote their ideology, rather than solid scholarship to pursue the truth.
Incidentally, if you don't have Young's book, "The Origin of the Second Amendment," you're missing out on one of the finest, most comprehensive resources available. It is among the most highlighted and dog-eared tomes on my shelf.
[Via Of Arms and the Law]
The late freezing Weather having formed some pretty strong Ice from Dorchester point to Boston neck, and from Roxbury to the Common, thereby affording a more expanded and consequently a less dangerous Approach to the Town, I could not help thinking, notwithstanding the Militia were not all come In, and we had little or no Powder to begin our Operation by a regular Cannonade and Bombardment, that a bold and resolute assault upon the Troops in Boston with such Men as we had (for it could not take many Men to guard our own Lines, at a time when the Enemy were attacked in all Quarters) might be crowned with success; and therefore, seeing no certain prospect of a supply of Powder on the one hand, and a certain dissolution of the Ice on the other, I called the General Officers together for their opinion...
