"Absolved" Graphic Connector

A few of you using different browsers like Firefox and Safari have written and told me you're having trouble connecting to the esnips Word file I posted, so I changed the "Absolved" book graphic in the left margin to go to a post containing all currently-published chapter links.

This'll be easier for me to maintain as new chapters are released, too, and it really is the simplest solution--if I knew what I was doing, I'd have thought of it first. Fortunately, the world gives us stunningly beautiful people a pass on brains.

Just click on the book picture in the left margin and it should magically transport you, which is about as close as I can come to explaining what will really happen.

DC REJECTS HELLER!

District residents can start registering their guns today. But at least one very high profile application was already rejected.

Dick Heller is the man who brought the lawsuit against the District's 32-year-old ban on handguns. He was among the first in line Thursday morning to apply for a handgun permit.

But when he tried to register his semi-automatic weapon, he says he was rejected.

Bottom line, they said as far as handguns, they were only going to accept revolvers...in other words, the bottom feeders don't want their employers to have "bottom loaders."

Somebody needs to kick their bottoms.

This should be interesting...

[Via Ed D]

We're the Only Ones Who Can't Get Started Without Our Caffeine Enough

A police lieutenant in Daytona Beach was fired over accusations that he threatened slower emergency response times if he was not given complimentary specialty Starbucks coffee drinks...

Garvin is accused of saying, "If something happens, either we can respond really fast or we could respond really slow. I've been coming here for years and I've been getting whatever I want. I'm the difference between you getting a two-minute response time, if you needed a little help, or a 15 minutes response time."

So, depending on whether or not you submit to my extortion, you could describe our response time as "tall, grande" or "vente." In other words, I'm the "Only One" who will let you, your employees and your customers (that is, the people who employ me) die as my revenge if you don't allow me to commit armed extortion that we'd arrest anybody else for...

[Via Mark G, Ed D, RCB, and Stephen S--gee, I step away from the computer for an hour...]

Do You Need Help, Little Man?

PETA Activist + Fake Animal Test Lab = HILARIOUS!!

No wonder these loons want us to empathize with the Zargonians. This is about how useful they'd be if they ever needed to act in defense of themselves or others: screaming hysterically and cowering in terror.

Here's the thing--this is not the complete video--that has been removed from YouTube over copyright issues--but in the actual segment, at one point this unmanly, hypocritical coward wanted to have men "with guns" come back and take care of things.

Funny how principles slide when it's his apparently well-used hind end on the line.

As a side note, one of these days these idiots are going to punk the wrong victim and get somebody shot.

Silly Love Songs

The result, "Headed Home," is a lilting ballad that even its author can't repeat without tearing up. The lyrics, he said, refer to Kennedy's heroic return to the Senate where Kennedy has served for almost 46 years and Hatch for 32.

"Heroic"?

Showing up to nudge the economy another step toward collectivism is "heroic"? The language has really been cheapened that much, or are the "Authorized Journalists" just at it again?

If this doesn't validate Quigley, I don't know what will. You'd think Hatch would know better.

I think a word from Sir Paul would be fitting now that we're all feeling the treacly, cloying love:

You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs.
But I look around me and I see it isn't so.
Some people wanna fill the world with silly love songs.
And whats wrong with that?
Id like to know, cause here I go again
I love you, I love you,
I love you, I love you...

If you'd like to send Teddy a silly love song of your own, well, that's why we have "Comments" enabled here...

We're the Only Ones With Job Security Enough

The Chicago Police Board made the correct decision in suspending — and not firing — an officer who was videotaped beating a 60-year-old man handcuffed and shackled to a wheelchair, a Cook County judge has ruled.

Gosh, he had "a stellar law enforcement career," made "a terrible mistake" and he's "remorseful." The poor man is the "Only One" who has suffered enough. Why, you might even say he's the victim here.

The excuse-making only serves to enrage.

This is why they need the National Guard.

We're the Only Ones Unbiased Enough

The judge replied, as judges there often do: "I find Officer Kanapsky's testimony to be credible. He is an unbiased witness."

But the officer is not really unbiased. The more tickets he writes, the more overtime he gets. Last year, Kanapsky spent so much time in court he increased his pay by $21,000.

Really. Who would ever believe an "Only One" would be motivated by more money. For himself. To buy stuff with. And live better.

It defies belief.

[Via Stan C and Michael G]

Give Me Liberty

My recommendation: Buy it. Now.

Blogonomicon gives us an update on the Patrick Henry speech as performed by JohnLitel.

He shared with me via email how moved he was by this, which means I have every expectation that we will be as well.

Precipice

And so we must expect that, in the societal disturbances -- from individual crimes of theft to roving gangs to racial strife -- that may attend our coming crisis, it will be the armed citizenry that once again shoulders the burden of defending our loved ones, our homes, our property and our communities.

Mike Vanderboegh thinks we're in for some interesting times...

Hectoring and Bossing

If a person imagines his wisdom and privilege are sufficient to tell you what you may say, how much you can eat, and how to raise your children, chances are excellent that he is what we would call in common parlance a "liberal."

That pretty much sums up the nanny-staters. At least the ones too stupid to recognize the tyranny they're enabling.

[Via Bruce Mills]

Meanwhile, Over at the Hog Butcher for the World...*

Seizing upon the controversy enveloping Mayor Richard Daley over Chicago gun violence and city policing, Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Wednesday he's holding discussions with his State Police and Illinois National Guard officials about any crime-fighting role they can play.

What, you mean the ban on handguns (except for aldermen) isn't working? And the only way we can ensure peace and freedom is to take another step toward martial law?

But don't worry--this isn't (technically) a violation of posse comitatus. That only applies when they've been federalized. Never mind that they serve in a dual enlistment capacity as reservists.

At the risk of crying Katrina, let me just observe that the citizen militia as envisioned by the Founders--you know, that anachronism that's "necessary to the security of a free state"--is nowhere to be found in this mix, and that's by design.

Which means we will neither be secure nor free. But plenty of opportunities to ratchet up the controls will sure present themselves.

[Via Mack H and Brian F]

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Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Sarah Brady Paradise

'I repeated that the only people being photographed were my own children. She said I could be taking pictures of just any child to put on the internet and called me a pervert. We immediately left the show.’

See, you need to learn a lesson from our open carry experiences here, old chap.

If you'd been wearing a uniform, everyone would have assumed you were authorized.

[Via Zachary G]

We're the Only Ones Not in it for the Money Enough

City police officers in one Florida county will have unrestricted authority to make traffic stops outside of their jurisdiction beginning Aug. 1.

"We're stressing that revenue-producing is not the purpose here," he said.

How much is that bridge again?

But fine. Let's take him at his word. It's for a nobler purpose.

Heck, we saw that same "everybody benefits" rationale for allowing "Only One" nationwide concealed carry. Except when they have cause to think twice...

You know what we really need: nationwide jurisdicition. Say, how about a federally-directed national police force, with jurisdiction everywhere? It would sure help get rid of some of those pesky regional pressures when people don't know who you are, where you come from, where you live...

Thulsa said it, I believe it, that settles it (16:45 into the video):

We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.

Except, as Bob Unruh reports in WorldNetDaily, now he's trying to make it look like he didn't say it. And the "Authorized Journalists" are playing right along.

But in any case, when The Lightworker uses the term ""civilian national security force," I think it's a pretty safe bet to assume two things: He's not talking about the citizen militia of the Second Amendment, and he's got bigger fish to fry than traffic revenues.

[Via Avg Joe and Matt L]

This Day in History: July 17

We, reposing special trust and confidence in your patriotism, valor, conduct, and fidelity, do, by these presents, constitute and appoint you to be General and Commander in chief, of the army of the United Colonies, and of all the forces now raised, or to be raised, by them, and of all others who shall voluntarily offer their service, and join the said Army for the Defence of American liberty, and for repelling every hostile invasion thereof...