Friday, October 31, 2008

Rest in Peace

So state officials have been dragging their feet for 2 months, and negligently endangering the public, who can’t be expected to know there are circumstances that trump the “official” sign mandating their helplessness? That’s inexcusable and shameful.

The State of Ohio has finally gotten around to taking the NO GUNS signs down from highway rest stops. So now you can finally do your business in peace.

"Rest in Peace" is today's Gun Rights Examiner column.

Tell a friend.

Sunday Gun Talk

Tom Gresham has invited me to be a guest on his radio program, Gun Talk, this Sunday during the 2:00 pm hour (EST). Tom, of course, is a nationally recognized figure, quite famous in the gun community. You can read his bio here.

I was on his show a few years back and had a great time—the guy is a gentleman and the kind of host who makes it easy to converse. What will we talk about on Sunday? Per Tom:
This'll be fun. Lots to talk about. Election, Cooper, the media, gun owners who get it and those who remain clueless about the election and the continued efforts to strip them of their rights...We'll take calls and make it something between a Round Robin and a free-for-all!
You can find radio stations throughout the Republic here. If there’s nothing local, you can also listen over the Internet via Live Feed.

I hope you can join us, and I hope some of you call in and get through. The number is 866-TALK GUNS (866-825-5486).

I’d love to talk with you. As Tom says, this’ll be fun!

This is It

From the Tom McClintock campaign, via email:

Dear E-Team:

Thanks to the outpouring of your support, we've been able to nearly match Nancy Pelosi's Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in spending this week as they desperately try to keep Charlie Brown's efforts afloat. Make no mistake though, they will pour in every penny they have in the hopes of derailing our campaign between now and election day. We have maintained our lead all though this onslaught and I am confident that with your continued support, Pelosi and Brown will not succeed.

Today is the last day of the campaign to make radio and TV purchases for the short time remaining before election day. Will you help me with your emergency last-minute contribution of $250, $100, $50 or even the legal maximum of $2,300 to stay on TV and radio?

Thank you for all you have done. With your continued support, we are poised for a convincing victory on Tuesday.

That's a Lot of Green to Paint the Town Red With

The city’s Department of Consumer Affairs reached a $500,000 settlement with retailer Party City Corp. Wednesday over the chain’s sale of illegal toy guns.
See, they need to be painted in "Furious Mike."

Too bad Party City doesn't have a prominent anti-gun CEO. For some reason they don't get fined for stuff like this--even when the unvarnished evidence is clear for all to see.

[Via David H]

We're the Fauxnly Ones...

A man impersonating a police officer pulled a gun on a Gillette woman Thursday morning after stopping her on State Highway 259 between Midwest and Interstate 25...

Thursday morning's incident is the third in less than a week in Natrona County involving someone who approached a driver while apparently posing as a law enforcement officer.
It's getting harder and harder to tell the legitmate highwaymen apart from the fake ones these days...

[Via Mama Liberty]

We're the Only Ones Particularly Satisfied Enough

It's a form of recycling that many local law enforcement agencies find particularly satisfying, because it ensures that those guns will never resurface in a criminal case.
I notice the Camden County "Only Ones" haven't offered their guns up for manhole covers...I guess because cops are so much smarter and better than the rest of us, it's no problem with their guns being "on the street," right?

And speaking of melting steel, "Authorized Journalist" Allison certainly deserves to hear from anyone sick and damn tired of anti-gun propaganda masquerading as news.

[Via Joe G]

"But"-Watching in Twin Falls

Ryan Horsley, manager of Red's Trading Post in Twin Falls, says sales of assault-type rifles, such as military-style AR-15s, have jumped, far outselling traditional, bolt-action hunting rifles.

"It's really unpopular to say you are not a fan of the Second Amendment, so what you have to look out for are the 'buts,' " Horsley told The Times-News. "What you often hear is a candidate saying something like, 'I support the Second Amendment, but we need to ban certain guns.' "
Indeed. And the biggest stinkers always seem to have the biggest "buts."

BUT it's always nice to see an uptick in preparedness planning...

[Via Avg Joe]

And There Was War in Heaven

Mike Vanderboegh and Jeff Knox are squaring off. WRSA has posted all links to the discussion thus far.

I'll have some comments as I find the time. Miles to go before I sleep and all that. It may be tomorrow.

Heat generated so far notwithstanding, they've both made points I believe are important to understand and consider. I'll explain when I pick up on this again.

We're the Only Ones Mixed Up Enough

The mixup on Tuesday started when a customer saw the clerk's arms raised and saw McQueen with a gun, and thought the store was being robbed.
Well, it was...

When "Only Ones" collide...

[Via John G]

Be Vewy, Vewy Quiet--I'm Destwoying My Company---heh-heh-heh-heh-heh-heh...

Rifle maker bounces boss who supports Obama
We already knew that, of course, but it gives me an excuse to post this:

We're the Only Ones Docked Enough

A Jacksonville police officer who punched a man during a possible road-rage fight in April won't face criminal charges, but he forfeited 10 days of pay, authorities confirmed Wednesday.
How many think if one of us, in a fit of road rage, followed a Jacksonville "Only One" home and started punching him out in his driveway, that the worst consequences we'd suffer would be having our pay docked?

Anybody think this might be a good way to have an instant death sentence invoked, one where no department procedures were violated?

10 days pay. I guess, in a way, the city of Jacksonville just determined what the life of a citizen is worth.

[Via John G]

Turn In Your Deer Rifle And Your 12-gauge Shotgun To The Texas Department Of Gun Control

That is an order that will never be given by a Democratic government. Democrats will protect Americans’ Second Amendment right to own firearms, and will keep guns out of the hands of criminals and terrorists by fighting gun crime, reauthorizing the assault weapons ban, and closing the gun show loophole, as President Bush proposed and failed to do.
And when the democrat government issues that order, how many men like me are you willing to kill in order to implement your ban on semiautos and other disarmament schemes Barbara Hudson, you genius? Because I won't obey them.

Get this straight. I don't care about your damned grilled bacon-wrapped dove breasts, which actually sounds like something that ought to be kept private between you and whoever will have you. Do you think Liberty was purchased with blood, powder, lead and steel so that you damn treasonous Fudds could eat venison backstrap smothered in gravy around a campfire, and then crap it out on Rights that were once paid for in human lives?

You stupid woman.

W-3, who sent me this story, wanted to share his thoughts:
I can’t believe the ramblings of this poor brainwashed rabid b****. The majority of the her so-called “gun crimes” are innocent actions that left wing democrats have over the past few years converted into criminal acts. These people have created the crises they now want to fix by throwing more and more legal citizen gun owners into jail. Barbara Hudson may not have any intention of attempting to get legislation passed by the Texas Legislature but her statements make it pretty obvious that her agenda includes action against our inalienable rights allegedly protected by the 2nd Amendment on the federal level, and the feds don’t give a Big Rat’s Ass about our state and local laws. You will be declared a criminal and/or terrorist by federal legislation regardless of Texas statute. And, when you are killed or arrested by the unconstitutional standing acronym army of federal agents your firearms will be confiscated, never to be seen again, and you will become a statistic in their democratic war against gun criminals and terrorists.

It's really hard to believe that crap like Hudson wrote actually came out of a Texas woman's brain. It’s hard to believe that otherwise right thinking Texas Democrats are buying into this agenda out of party loyalty. I refuse to be a member of the flock - Democrat or Republican. When it becomes obvious that the group with which I identify is traipsing off in a direction that is detrimental to the Republic and is threatening the inalienable rights of American citizens, I will “jump ship”.

Henry David Thoreau is quoted as having said, “Any fool can make a rule and all the fools will follow it.” In that vein, any fool can establish an agenda and all the fools will follow it.

Barbara Hudson along with other poor misguided democrats must spend the majority of their time seated in the lotus position, humming, "Obamamamamama Obamamamamama Obamamamamama ........"

Even though I live a few hundred miles from Blanco County I'm actually ashamed to share air with someone who so obviously appears to be a descendant of some damnyankee carpetbagger. [ Yeah, Add hominy and grits]

If it proves out that the media is correct, and they probably are as the media usually determines the results of so-called democratic elections, the Obama messiah and the rest of his brainwashed minions will manage to achieve control of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the united States government. And, you will more than probably lose more by “due process” than just your rights ?protected? by the 2nd amendment.

You are aware, aren’t you, that the government can take anything it wants from you by using “due process”? If your government wants you dead, you will die and the standing acronym army won’t look back or hesitate, except to add your ears to its coup along with Ms Weaver’s, those of the 80 Waco folks’, the Wounded Knee victims’, Sherman’s civilian victims’, and a multitude of others’.

NOW is the time to purchase a handgun, a shotgun, an AR-15 (or similar rifle), and plenty of ammunition. BEFORE the unthinkable occurs.

Oh, Wow, Man, This Power Trip is AWESOME

An initiative in Massachusetts to decriminalize the possession of an ounce of marijuana has stirred up some hypocritical public posturing on the issue.
Funny, how they get a power fix, and yesterday's liberal-minded become today's blue-nosed puritan fascists.

Tell me being able to wield the coercive might of the state isn't the most mind-altering high of all--and the most dangerous and deadly. Very few users can take a hit off that blunt and not pick it up again and again, sucking in even more every time...

A Cutting Edge Proposal

Politicians in the city of Worcester, Massachusetts -- Wormtown, to those of us who attended college there and ruined our hearing listening to punk bands at Ralph's -- propose to ban the possession in public of knives with blades longer than 1.5 inches.
Because--you know--we can't be trusted but they can. Or something.

I do have to give District 3 Councilor Paul P. Clancy Jr some credit, though. How anyone could make the kinds of moronic public statements he has and not be laughed and pointed at every time he appears in public is a pretty neat trick. It's almost like his constituents are more ridiculously ignorant than he is.

We're the Only Ones Cheaper by the Dozen Enough

Campus Cop Charged With Stealing Donuts
Cop lifts $300 worth of pastries
Does this arrogant, dim-witted "Only One" realize what a stereotype he is, what an embarrassment and a joke?

Where do they find these moronic, low-grade losers?

And why do brilliant academic minds consider them more worthy than the rest of us?


[Via Matt Maynard, John G, Plug Nickel Times]

Operation

OPERATION BOARD GAMES | Feds charge political power broker William Cellini with conspiring to shake down a Hollywood producer for $1.5 million for a Blagojevich campaign fund...

What an operation. And it is a game to the manipulators.

But I'm not laughing when I hear about "republicans," and rich ones at that, conspiring with democrats to undermine our rights, which is what Blago's all about.

Someone must have removed my funny bone.

If I'd had time this morning, I'd have reworked the graphic, replacing the joke body part names with words like "Ethics" and "Morality." Except, realistically, you'd need to reverse the way the game is played, and put those things into the holes.

This Day in History: October 31

As many Officers, and others, have begun to inlist men for the Continental Army, without Orders from Head Quarters; The General desires, that an immediate Stop be put thereto; that the inlistments be return'd; and that no person for the future, presume to interfere in this matter, 'till there is a proper establishment of Officers, and those Officers authorised and instructed in what manner to proceed. Commissions in the new Army are not intended merely for those, who can inlist the most men; but for such Gentlemen as are most likely to deserve them.