We're the Only Ones Unrated Enough

Police agencies from coast to coast are furious with a new website on the internet. RateMyCop.com has the names of thousands of officers, and many believe it is putting them in danger.

Huh.

They're not "furious" when "Authorized Journalists" list names of concealed carry permit holders.

They're not even "furious" when college students rate their professors.

But try to establish a "Consumer Reports" of sorts for public serv...uh, excuse me, "The Only Ones," and, why that's outrageous!

Not to worry. It looks like the site is down. The Google cache version contains no information, and even The Wayback Machine can't access it.

Maybe Dave Meyer had a message passed along to them.

Freedom of speech. It's what distinguishes us from a tyranny!

[Via Jeffersonian and Zachary G]

UPDATE: Cowed into silence?

Fincher Oral Arguments Audio File

1. Go here:
http://www.ca8.uscourts.gov/oralargs/oa_Bypa.html

2. Enter "Fincher" in "Last Name" field. Click "Search."


3. Click "Play" for Hollis Wayne Fincher.


We'll see if an upcoming ruling in Heller changes the whole paradigm of this case. Naturally, the government is arguing it won't.

Hopefully, my sources can explain Fincher attorney Quentin Rhoades' repeated use of the word "privilege" when speaking about RKBA. It may just be a necessary tactical legal deference to existing precedent in that circuit, but I nonetheless found it disturbing.

[Via Stewart Rhodes and Paul W. Davis]

Tales of the Gun

Liberty Belles has a click-through ad on their home page to buy The History Channel's "Tales of the Gun" DVDs.

If you do it through there, I guess they get a commission. I'm not sure if they get anything for just clicking on the ad--the ones I'm familiar with have terms and conditions saying you're not allowed to ask people to do that or they'll DQ you.

I need to steal their idea and the crumbs from their mouths and do that here. I was expecting by now I'd be able to build that indoor pool, what with how wildly popular "shall not be infringed" advocacy is with gun owners and all. But I actually think we've got one of those situations where what I'm paying out in electricity use negates ad revenues coming in. Then if you factor in calorie consumption, I'd say we're looking at a net loss.

"A Straight Shooter"

That's actually pretty remarkable considering how far he leans to the left.

Not These Nitwits Again

Unfortunately Codrea is not one of the 'clued in' ones and was actually backing Silviera-style efforts (i.e, idiocy in courts). He came to Calguns awhile back and tried to create some drama here and then left.

Whatever. It doesn't surprise me.

What's in a Word?

The El Mirage boy, who was celebrating his 10th birthday in the Tonto National Forest, remained calm even as he was attacked by the animal...

Paul's uncle reportedly took up his pistol and shot the lion, which was an older female, then loaded it in the family's truck and took it to Smith's home in Glendale.

That would be "National Forest" as opposed to "National Park."

If this had happened in the latter, the Bradys, the VPC , the "green-blooded" parasitic dotards, and the usual gang of idiots would require the boy's birthday to also be his death day--enforced with "Only One" arms if you disobey.

Because, you know, there's no place for guns in the sacred wilderness, where ordinary people who have them are invariably there to either shoot up other campers or poach.

Another Failed Test

https://www.frontsight.com/handgun-quiz.asp?

Nicki proves she's smarter than me. And from her credit comment, I guess Breda is, too.

Big deal. My kids are, too. Just ask them.

Actually, I just couldn't get through the test--there were too many questions where I would have to answer "Neither."

1: I don't go to the races or the opera, 2: I hate polo shirts and only wear suits when it's situation-appropriate (wore 'em too many years in the corporate world), 3: OK, I prefer eating at home, that's one, but 4 & 5: I don't see a 1960 Austin-Healey 3000, so forget it, 6: All the Bonds are anti-gun and the "Raiders" sequels didn't live up to the original, 7: Those "actresses" have a lot of gall calling themselves that in light of some of the greats from the past, 8: What is this--a choice of numbers rackets? 9: Tomorrow (actually, now it's today) I'd like to kick the wife's be-hind at Scrabble, especially since she beat me by over 120 points last night, but it was all luck, 10: Why not just send me to hell and be done with it? 11: I want "Only Ones" nowhere near me, 12, 13 & 14: Skip the foods--some day I'll talk recipes, 15. If you stranded me on an island with either one of those freaks I'd take my chances at sea with sincere sharks, 16: OK, family, 17: Can I tell him what I really think of him? 18: Credits, 19: Dependable--and as I get older, I expect I will be (that's an incontinence joke--if I have to explain them they just don't work), 20: I don't know--maybe buy them some food. I once gave the most filthy and crazy looking homeless guy I'd ever seen 10 bucks because it was Christmas Eve and a couple of "Only Ones" rousted him out of the parking lot and told him to move on--I made sure they saw me do it and wished him a Merry Christmas. I walked away feeling like the angels were smiling. He probably went out that night, fortified with newly-purchased rotgut, and strangled someone under a bridge. 21: A good and rational woman, 22: A good and rational man, 23:Good Lord, do I look like I want a life in hell? 24: Barbecue, and I do the grilling, 25: What's the line from "Family Guy"? Shallow and pedantic.

So yeah, a spiked club. I think that fits with the cultural alienation. An assault club, designed to be swung from the hip to brain as many people as possible...

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