Friday, March 20, 2009

We're the Only Ones Bursting Your Housing Bubble Enough

The Information charges that Culp purchased inexpensive homes, frequently in need of substantial repair and renovation, and then arranged to sell these properties at inflated amounts to persons who obtained mortgage loans based upon falsified mortgage loan applications.
I guess that means this "Only One" was "culpable"?

Oh stop groaning. You try this.

[Via Rick P]

We're the Fauxnly Ones Enough

New Orleans Police say look out for a man impersonating a police officer -- uniform and all!! He's preying on women and getting bolder by the crime. [More]
Insidious. How are we to know? He not only looks like a Big Easy "Only One," he acts like one, too!

[Via Mama Liberty]

UPDATE: Turns out he really WAS an "Only One" after all! The line gets blurrier.

You cannot make this stuff up.

Laughing here.

Blood Dancers Press for Advantage

Less than a day after Michael McLendon fired his last shot, gun control groups issued press releases that cited his murderous rampage through three Alabama towns as an argument for reviving the federal "assault weapon" ban. [More]
I guess they didn't get the letter.

[Via Carl S]

The Letter

To Eric Holder.

From 65 Democrats.

No new ban.

Let's hope they mean it, and will not be persuaded by future headlines and political incentives or pressures to change their minds. [More]

[Via W-3]

Illegal Doesn't Mean Unavailable

I looked at him and said, "I thought guns were illegal in Mexico." He chuckled... [More]
And it looks like the cartels might not be relying on gun stores and damned American gun shows?

Gosh--why would anyone lie to us about that?

[Via Whose Paranoid]

It's Ridiculous to Suggest

Its ridiculous to suggest that our bill includes any effort to make service a mandatory requirement. [More]
Yeah. What kind of ridiculous agenda-driven liar would suggest that?

[Via M.R. Jarrell]

Can We Pick and Choose Laws, Too?

Ron Bokleman asks a question I've asked before--if a government official can choose which laws to selectively ignore, can we do it too? [More]

Well, we know the answer I got...

What to Do

We may just find out for ourselves. [More]

[Via Mama Liberty]

That'll Teach Him to Obey the Rules!

According to a minute entry, Gottsfield concluded that evidence against Iknadosian was not sufficient to support conviction based on a technical legal issue. Because the gun buyers all were eligible to acquire firearms, he said, their deception did not amount to a "material falsification." Consequently, Gottsfield ruled, the evidence did not show felonious conduct by Iknadosian. [More]
So requiring purchasers to submit to required mandated background checks and jumping through all the hoops before completing their transactions is "a technical legal issue"? Y'know, if you're going to get in this much trouble for leaving a record trail of compliance, doesn't that create a powerful incentive to just go off the books altogether?

Hey, I wonder if he could get me some full autos and grenades I hear are all the rage in border area gun stores?

Gosh, all this hoop-de-doo--and when they get a guy, they can't even keep him!

[Via Chris K]

UPDATE: Vanderboegh has more.

Latest Whiskey Rebellion Casualty

Famed Appalachian moonshiner Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton, whose incorrigible bootlegging ways were as out of step with modern times as his hillbilly beard and overalls, took his own life rather than go to prison for making white lightning, his widow says. [More]
Who did he harm again?

[Via Plug Nickel Times]

Oath Keepers on G. Gordon Liddy Show

I understand just giving you a direct link is considered bandwidth theft, so go here and then scroll down the left menu sidebar to "03-18-09 GGL and Stewart Rhodes"

I don't know if there's a perpetual archive anywhere, so do it now before it goes away.

Credit Where Due

2AMusing thought it was important to emphasize. [More]

I agree. A lot of people did good, and they all deserve to be acknowledged.

Judge Blocks National Parks Gun Rule

Imagine Colleen Kollar-Kotelly and Sarah Brady alone together in the wilderness, having backpacked miles from the nearest ranger facility. Now imagine an immediate threat--one that's been stalking them with deadly intent--confronts them, confident it has the advantage. [More]
It may be hard to imagine this happening to them, but they'll do their damnedest to make sure if it happens to you, you'll be helpless.

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column looks at the latest national parks ruling. I also link to the latest from my fellow GREs.

Please share it far and wide.

This Day in History: March 20

May the subterfuges of Toryism be continually exposed and counteracted by that zeal and ability you have so long displayed... [More]

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Judge Says No Guns in Parks

A federal judge in Washington Thursday blocked enforcement of a Bush administration rule allowing people to carry loaded concealed weapons in national parks...

...The suit was filed by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, the National Parks Conservation Association and the Coalition of National Park Service Retirees. [More]
Colleen Kollar-Kotelly was a Clinton appointee to the federal bench, so it's no surprise she's a subversive anti-gun activist.

I'm sure the Brady's will be crowing. There will be a next step.

And ultimately, if we want to carry our guns anywhere, we will. It's simply a matter of do we want to badly enough.

Everyone has noticed the increase in trial balloons and probes on all kinds of gun fronts, right?

[Via Zachary G]

In Case Anyone Noticed...

...almost nine hours has elapsed since my last post.

I was up early to get my Gun Rights Examiner article written before taking youngest feral son Qusay to his tonisillectomy. He is fine, although I don't expect to see him screaming execution orders for at least the next few days. You wish you could take your kids' pain away and bear it yourself, but that's part of life they need to learn to deal with, and the pain meds and banana Popsicles do take the edge off. Anyway, he was a champ, very brave, and he's being stoic now. That's my boy.

I'm done in. Think I'll process the 200 emails waiting for me and maybe take a nap. That's it for today.

No Shortage of Gun Rights News

I'm playing catch-up with stories I have not had time to cover on Gun Rights Examiner because of breaking news. [More]

Among others things, I discuss the move to disarm pilots, the lie that Mexican cartels require Americans allow their rights to be infringed, the deployment of the Army after the shooting in Alabama, an upcoming Appleseed, an outrage at an Illinois school and the latest from Liberty Belles. Did I forget anything? Click on the dang link and find out.

You'll also find the latest from my fellow GREs.

Please read and share.

We're the Only Ones "Don't Call Me Norman, Call Me Chubsy-Ubsy" Enough*

A former Bellevue police officer fired for being overweight could be back patrolling the streets in a few months. [More]
Let's see--the Obese "Only One" did so poorly in shooting that his peers reported him? And he's deemed more gunworthy than you or I because he's been reinstated on a technicality?

Still, come to think of it, the way things are going, it may turn out to be advantageous if more of these guys can't shoot and can't physically perform...

* So you young 'uns know what I'm referring to...

This Day in History: March 19

The Non-commissioned officers and soldiers of Col: Dayton's Regt. whose Arms, and Accoutrements are in repair, are, upon a settlement, to have Credit in their accounts, for the sums stopped from them respectively, for said arms &c -- Such of the Arms as have been damaged, and can be repaired, are likewise to be accounted for, with them, making a reasonable allowance for the Repair; -- With this the men are to be made acquainted, as soon as possible. [More]

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

And You Owe it All...

...to NRA lobbyists and politicians. [More]

Now I know how SAF feels when they're not credited with helping in a lawsuit!

(Again andagain and again and again and again and again...)

That's OK, those of you who also led and/or pitched in. Some of us appreciate what you did. And we even recognized those politicians and lobbyists.

[Via JD]