We're the Only Ones Going Public Enough

Olmsted Township police chief charged with public indecency

Rangers say McNeeley was partially undressed, kneeling on the ground. [More]

Really? Because that gives me a dilemma when I go to the Olmsted Township "Only Ones" Service Department website.

I can't decide if I should then click on "Values & Principles" or "Citizen Satisfaction Surveys."

The Same Objectives

Sailors and Marines along the beach at Mayport began moving the crowd away from the water Saturday afternoon as the amphibious assault vehicles approached across the waves...

During the past week, the troops - Marines from the U.S. and six countries in Central and South America, as well as soldiers from Canada - worked together at Camp Blanding, fast-roping out of helicopters, firing weapons and sharing tactics...

"The only difference in identity" said Lt. Col. Jorge Garcia of Colombia, "is in the color of the uniforms. We have the same objectives." [More]

Really?

You're all Oath Keepers?

This, of Course...

...refers to this.

I'd appreciate some backup from WarOnGuns regulars. And anyone else who wants to join me in throwing "any chair in a bar fight."

Looks Like Some of Us Won't Be Going to the 2A Blog Bash?

Interesting "coincidence" here.

The following topic opened just yesterday in our Examiner.com Google discussion group under the title "Would the Gun Rights guys explain this to me?" It was posted by one of their conservative columnists in Arizona:

I recently signed up to attend the 2nd amendment blog bash <http://www.2ablogbash.com/> thinking it would be a good opportunity to network with other AZ bloggers as well as bloggers interested in gun rights, and learn more about the issue.

Because I'm not a dedicated gun rights blogger, I was asked to provide my bona fides, and so gave them links to my resume and main website. Even though I've been a blogger since 2003, live a mile from the AZ border, worked on the Marine base for three years and spoke at Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum Council in 2005, I was still denied access.

Their reason?

They think poorly of Examiner gun rights guys, so therefore I can't be counted on to behave myself in public. Sheesh!

Since the Gun Rights Examiners I've read all seem to be decent people, I really don't get this. So maybe some of you can give me the skinny on this direct -- don't want to bother the main list with my petty issues.

THX!

Imagine that! They think poorly of all the GREs? There are now 14 of us, you know, all of us our own people representing our own views. Do they even think poorly of the GREs repeatedly invited back to Cam & Co.? Or just of me? And they'll take that out on one of the writers in any of 60 venues across the nation because of it? Talk about guilt by association.

Besides, since when have I been known not to behave myself in public? The Bashers have never met me in person.

Wanting to get to the bottom of things, I went to their site and registered. And wanting to go with a friend of mine, I got Mike Vanderboegh to register. That was this morning.

Imagine my surprise when I invited another friend to register and we found that in the ensuing moments since Mike and my registration, the sign-up form had... disappeared. What you get instead is an "Error 404 – File not Found" message.

And imagine my surprise when I noticed the following new announcement (that does not yet appear on the home page I just took a screen shot of):

2009 Registration Closed

Registration has now been closed. Following the Mitt Spammers, Sarah Stalkers, and an email I received warning me that people were asked to submit fake registrations, I have been forced to close it early. The demands on the server and my time to sort out the real from the fake are just too high.

Really? And it just now came to a head? And I shouldn't take it personally, despite what a complete stranger to me said on our Examiner board? What a relief!

But no one else from this point forward will be admitted, right? They don't have time even for people they know are real? I mean, Mike and I have the receipt from our apps--they know we're not Mitt Munchers or Sarah Spitters or whatever they call them. And we got ours in before they closed the gate.

Look, I never go where I'm not welcome. If they don't want me to attend, all they have to do is say so. But what about the innocent AZ Examiner who got her application in before the conveniently sudden decision to stop taking applications--and was summarily rejected because I'm thought poorly of? What's the deal with that?

Maybe Bitter, who is running this, would like to weigh in? Assuming the demands on her time to sort through some questions and comments here aren't just too high?

We're the Only Ones Reprehensible Enough

Prosecutors have cleared an off-duty Miami-Dade police officer whose high school pal, after a night of drinking and partying together on South Beach, grabbed the officer's gun and fatally shot himself in the head.

Officer Francisco Fernandez's conduct was ''reprehensible'' for allowing his drunk friend, Miguel Angel Martinez, to play around with his loaded Glock pistol on June 16, 2008, prosecutors said in a final memo released Tuesday. [More]

Not just an "Only One."

A Miami-Dade "Only One."

[Via Carlton R]

We're the Only Ones Light-Fingered Enough

A Scituate police officer has been placed on leave after he was charged with shoplifting from a Weymouth Stop & Shop where he worked part-time. [More]

Obviously more trustworthy than you and me. That's why he's an "Only One" and we're not.

[Via Ron Bokleman]

And Now a Word on Control...

...from someone who has publicly demonstrated his utter inability to control himself. [More]

Spitzer, you moral defective, if there was any justice you would be behind bars, not because I believe what you did with a whore should be a crime, but because you made a career out of persecuting people who did no worse.

That you are free while others involved did time merely shows us there is none. And tell us more names aren't known--protected names.

That you presume to control men like me is beyond offensive. That the fascist press and so many politicians agree with you, and that your subversive message is given a far-reaching voice and tacit approval by so many, shows how dangerously degenerate much of the culture has become.

Dangerously degenerate, and disgusting, Eliot. Just like you.

There's a funny unintended consequence, though. When I realize that's what the opposition consists of, and then look to some of the friends I have made, you won't believe how much hope it gives me, Eliot.

[Via Bill Hicks]

What's a "Dubloon"?

Kent McManigal can tell you.

He can even sell you some. [More]

Think They'll Keep Us in Our Houses?

Or take us to a "treatment facility"? [More]

If it's the latter, we can bring our guns, right?

And if any of this actually materializes, what role do you think the government played in enabling things?

[Via Jeet]

Where is ACORN when You Really Need Them?

How would you rate Obama's first 100 days in office? [More]

[Via Avg Joe]

Does Bill Cosby Agree with Idi Amin Henchman that 'Brave' Somali Pirates 'Had No Choice'?

The message is clear, but what the heck does Bill Cosby have to do with genocidal tyrant apologist Bob Astles, or the message promulgated by the Black Star News?

Just this. It's publisher/editor-in-chief, Milton Allimadi, proudly proclaims he "co-founded The Black Star News in 1997 with some savings and with seed money from Camille and Bill Cosby."

Since he bears partial economic investment responsibility for inflicting these people on us, and since the message they promote appears in direct contradiction to the one he preaches, I don't think it's out of line to ask Mr. Cosby if he wants to continue having his name associated with this paper. I think it's fair to ask him and how he likes his "seed money" being used to poison minds in the community he is trying to help with this kind of obscene, hateful nonsense. Because supporting Amin is obscene, as is showing public respect for and promoting the opinions of a twisted creature who does. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner revisits an anti-gun black newspaper, where their columnist, a former aide to a notorious Ugandan butcher, insists the Somali pirates are gallant mariners on a quest for justice.

Also read an alert from Oregon and get the latest from my fellow GREs.

I hope you tell your friends about this one, and join me in sending Bill Cosby an email asking him if he approves of what his investment is promoting.

This Day in History: April 29

I shall be obliged, if you will, agreeable to the requisition therein made, order out one thousand of the Militia of your State, to continue in service, Four Weeks from the time they join the Army. I mention four Weeks, because I think by your late Militia Law, you cannot insist upon their Service for a longer term at one time. But if it can be prolonged, I could wish it might be for six or eight Weeks. [More]