The Day the Earth Stood Still...

...managed to be even more offensive than the original subversive paean to UN rule/global disarmament.

What a piece of anti-human environmentalcase Hollywood crap. The only reason I saw it was to see if I could get a magazine piece out of it, and I just may be able to.

A Perfect Opportunity...

“No questions asked, no ID required,” assured the Rev. Ikenna Kokayi of the United African American Ministerial Action Council, which is spearheading the program.

That doesn't mean we can't ask a question of our own--like will you now accept responsibility for our safety?

This seems like a great way to introduce this card.

Anybody have contact with activist gun owners in San Diego who might want to try this and report on it?

[Via DJK]

Bugs

The U.S. military has been working for a while on tiny, buglike drones — to serve as miniature flying spies, Defense Department robot-makers say. But this video, from the Air Force Research Laboratory, shows that the military is also interested in turning these "Micro Air Vehicles," or MAVs, into biomorphic weapons that can lie in secret for weeks at a time — and then strike an adversary with lethal accuracy.

Coming soon, to a militarized police department near you.

Theoretical exercise: How would you defeat these things if you had to?

[Via Paul W. Davis]

We're the Only Ones in Pursuit Enough

Toronto Police were red faced both out of anger and embarrassment, after a suspect took off in one of their cruisers. An officer had been conducting a routine traffic stop...when a suspect suddenly jumped into the driver's seat, put it in gear and hit the accelerator, leaving the officer stranded at the scene.

And if the perp had escaped with the shotgun, and if it had later been used in a crime, the Canadian antis could have used that to bolster their statistics that guns can only be safeguarded in the hands of the "Only Ones"...

[Via Bruce Mills]

Weaponized Borats

Americans say that the Lithuanians are sort of a weaponized version of Borat, who think nothing of sauntering around a base in nothing but flip-flops and underwear. “They look like mountain men. They never shave, sometimes don’t bathe, and often roll out the gate wearing nothing but body armor and weapons. Not even a t-shirt,” an American soldier told me. The Lithuanians may be a little bit nuts, but the Americans love to have them around because Lithuanians love to fight, and when you need backup, you can count on them. That contrasts starkly with many of the NATO “partners.”

There may be a lesson in here somewhere...

[Via Peter G]

Urine His Yard...

...and ur up to no good...

Seems to me u got what u deserved.

[Via Zachary G]

Red Light District

Fullerton's red-light camera program violates a state law that bars cities from paying vendors based on the revenue their tickets generate, an Orange County Superior Court judge has ruled.

I used to drive through that intersection every day for years, to and from work, and to get to the freeway to visit customers.

I thought of several ways to monkeywrench the damn things but taking the profit out of "public/private partnerships" is the best solution of all...

Since revenue-sharing doesn't appear to be an issue, I don't think the same principles can be applied to these creepy fascist rope sellers, but there's gotta be some way to mire them down--that is, if the pure suckiness of their idea isn't enough. So far, it looks like they've made a lot of noise but no real headway.

If that assessment is correct, perhaps we should be encouraging the gunbashers to expend more resources into dead-end ventures...that'd be less they'd have to invest in more effective attacks.

Kind of like what I tried to do here, with "our man in the gun ban camp." Nobody's heard from that loser for a while, have they? Aside from his domain name being unused...?

Fighting Lies with Truth

Fighting crime with cash...

"Authorized Journalists."

Shall we see if they're redeemable?

Fox 13 and reporter Alcides Segui have missed a much larger story. If gun "buybacks" actually fight crime (and this totally dismisses the proven crime-fighting benefits some guns in private hands provide), that's big news--particularly since, per Don B. Kates and Gary Mauser in the Spring 2007 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, "the US National Academy of Sciences ... failed to identify any gun control that reduced violent crime, suicides or gun accidents." This was "from a review of 153 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publications, and some original empirical research. The same conclusion was reached in 2003 by the US Centers for Disease Control...."

So if you have authoritative information to contradict these findings, don't you have a responsibility to share it? Or, more likely, are your headline and story just the hysterics of biased incompetents masquerading as journalists?

Not that I expect an answer, but if I get one I'll share it.

In the mean time, feel free to join me and ask them a question of your own. They're going to continue misinforming the public with drek like this unless and until they get shamed out of it.

[Via Edmund M]

Partners in Crime

VPC Lauds Introduction of Blagojevich Bill to Ban "Pocket Rockets"...

The legislation would ban the future sale of handgun with an overall length of less than 71/2 inches.

A blast from the past...

This is the filth who would control you.

Treat it as such.

[Via A C Frechtling]

This Day in History: December 14

Your favor of the 11th. Inst. was handed me by the two french Gentlemen, Monsieurs Penet and De pleurne, for which I am exceedingly obliged to you. I have heard their proposals and plan, for supplying the Continent with Arms and Amunition, which appear plausible and to promise Success; But not thinking myself Authorised to Enter into any contract respecting the same and being not fully acquainted with the Measures Congress have adopted for procuring these Articles; I have prevailed upon them to go to Philadelphia and Recommended them and the Consideration of their plan to that Body, where the Matter will be finally agreed upon or rejected.