Notes from the Resistance...
"I was amazed that they managed to read the same plate wrong three times in a row," he said...The DMV told Eyewitness News they are considering dropping Q and zero from license plates because of the mix-ups.
When in doubt, dumb down and inconvenience everybody else.
Did you hear the one about the atheist Sunpass employee who didn't believe in "Dog"? Or how about "Look, up in the sky! It's a bird. It's a plane. It's 2perman!"
[More from "The Only Ones" Files]
I have written in the past about the BATFE's own record keeping: here and here. Since the ATF demands 100% compliance out of dealers, it is only natural to look at how their own record keeping compares.
That's how he described the president's decision not to renew the ban on assault rifles.Talk about no understanding, not only of what actually happened, but of the concept of enumerated powers. Both on the part of this boob and on the part of the "Authorized Journalist" whose head it went right over.
He's back after a hiatus of many moons, and he's continuing with the important task of keeping an eye on what the young skulls full of academic mush are saying about RKBA:I couldn't stay away for too long, you know. This weekend, I've added three new posts, all covering campus discussion on RKBA issues:
From Yale:
http://madhatter907.blogspot.com/2008/02/warming-back-up-on-campus-editorials.html
A few from UW-Madison:
http://madhatter907.blogspot.com/2008/02/rkba-campus-round-up-12.html
And a few from my alma mater, UT-Knoxville:
http://madhatter907.blogspot.com/2008/02/rkba-campus-watch-121.html
There is a bill in Idaho that has been suggested, Senate Bill 1381, that
(1) "Repeals and adds to existing law to provide for preemption of all regulation of firearms by a county, city, constitutional corporation,agency, board or any other political subdivision of this state withexceptions."
And there have been the usual articles online regarding the bill's provisions for Universities and Colleges and firearms. With one side always ignorantly saying guns make things worse and that they are "uncomfortable". The other side always saying that it's only people with special government permission(CC Permits)that will be carrying, and that those that do have proven themselves worthy to the state in order to exercise their KABA rights.
2)The latest news is that the bill has been pulled for "re-tooling". The one outraged thing is this:.."Even before taking public testimony, McKenzie told the committee he was dropping colleges and universities from the bill. He agreed to the change at the urging of Gov. Butch Otter and university and college presidents."
(3)I have e-mailed our Governor to ask his reasoning behind this "urging", if it is in fact true. I will post online about it when I get a response.
1.) http://www3.state.id.us/oasis/S1381.html
2.) http://media.www.arbiteronline.com/media/storage/paper890/news/2008/02/14/Opinion/Will-We.Have.Guns.On.Campus-3209691.shtml
3.) http://www.idahopress.com/news/?id=3818
An amicus brief in support of Washington D.C.'s handgun ban dealing with the historical issues in the case was filed by fifteen professional academic historians. One would expect such a brief to be historically accurate, address the Second Amendment in its proper Bill of Rights related context, and include the most relevant figures, statements, and actions for understanding any historical issues in the dispute. However, any such expectation is left largely unfulfilled in the historians' brief.
One would expect that, if one expected this particular group of agenda-driven manipulators to be more interested in truth than Marxist social engineering. We are told those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. When historians betray their trust and obscure and rewrite that past with present motives, it is a very special type of betrayal, an act of treason against all humanity.
David E. Young does a fine job deconstructing the deception, albeit he mostly treats it as error, omission and failure. Not being part of the "respectable" academic community, I'm under no restraints to conclude that no one, not even 15 professional academics, could be this obtuse. The only explanation is one of premeditated sleight of mind to promote their ideology, rather than solid scholarship to pursue the truth.
Incidentally, if you don't have Young's book, "The Origin of the Second Amendment," you're missing out on one of the finest, most comprehensive resources available. It is among the most highlighted and dog-eared tomes on my shelf.
[Via Of Arms and the Law]
The late freezing Weather having formed some pretty strong Ice from Dorchester point to Boston neck, and from Roxbury to the Common, thereby affording a more expanded and consequently a less dangerous Approach to the Town, I could not help thinking, notwithstanding the Militia were not all come In, and we had little or no Powder to begin our Operation by a regular Cannonade and Bombardment, that a bold and resolute assault upon the Troops in Boston with such Men as we had (for it could not take many Men to guard our own Lines, at a time when the Enemy were attacked in all Quarters) might be crowned with success; and therefore, seeing no certain prospect of a supply of Powder on the one hand, and a certain dissolution of the Ice on the other, I called the General Officers together for their opinion...
Clinton told an audience she supported gun rights, two days after a student opened fire on the campus of Northern Illinois University, killing five before turning the gun on himself. Clinton said she believed in getting guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill even as she favored protecting the rights of law abiding gun owners.
"I've gone hunting," she said. "I know you may not believe it, but it's true. My father taught us to shoot."
Clinton told reporters later she had once shot a duck in Arkansas, along with "a lot of tin cans, targets and some skeet."
OK, so here are my questions: Would there still be a record warehoused away somewhere to see if she pulled a hunting license? And if she didn't, isn't a violation of state migratory waterfowl regulations also a federal violation?
And won't someone please email PETA and express outrage, outrage I say, over this shameless exploitation and encouragement of animal murder just so she can pander for the brutal blood sport vote?
So what would a cop on the street look out for?"Homegrown Terrorists" is my Rights Watch column for the April 2008 issue of GUNS Magazine, on sale now at domestic newsstands throughout the Republic.
“Defenders of the US Constitution against federal government and the UN (Super Patriots),” read the very first point in the very first category, “Right Wing Extremists.”
“Groups of individuals engaged in paramilitary training,” it continued.
People in crowds behave just like sheep, scientists claim, by blindly following one or two people who seem to know where they are going.No duh.
"Even more striking, that study found that even when we are shown a faster route, we still prefer to stick with the old one and tell others to take the long road too..."Yeah, tell me about it.
But after Thursday's shootings left six dead and another 16 injured at Northern Illinois, Koehler contacted County Administrator Peter Austin and had the item taken off the agenda...
"Both of my sons were teaching assistants in the same lecture hall where the tragedy took place, so it hit me pretty hard," Koehler said.
It is not clear when, or if, the anti-gun control resolution will come before the full board.
No one would be able to buy cigarettes without the permit, under the idea proposed by Health England...
"The senior government advisor putting this idea forward is not only adding to the red tape and bureaucracy we already have in this country.
"He is openly bragging that he wants to make the form as complex as possible to fill in."
What a sadistic, twisted martinet that sick little "government advisor" is. Why should such an obvious and despicable pervert have any sway over peoples' lives? The UK nanny state is damn near complete, if my "grasp of British culture" is firm.
By way of disclosure, I used to be a heavy cigarette smoker. I'd tried quitting many times, for years. What finally provided the motivation was my wife discovering we were expecting a child 18 years ago--I figured I owed the kid a father, quit cold and never looked back, although I do still enjoy a good cigar on weekends.
But the anti-smoking fascists are also gaining momentum on this side of the pond, to where, in many states, it's no longer a choice of restaurants and bars to allow the market or--gasp--the owner to decide based on customer demand or proprietary interest. And now it's moving into people's homes, people's cars...all with the heavy, coercive hand of the state putting a big "do as we say or else" behind their usurpation of free human choices. Because we can't be trusted to run our own lives, you see.
I've talked before about "ATF Night," a pro-RKBA monthly dinner we used to have in California (so named because we enjoyed adult beverages and cigars during the event and discussed firearm rights). The restaurant spent a quarter million dollars on a "Cigar Room," with special ventilation in a room apart from the main restaurant, so they could host gourmet dinners with fine wine and cigar tastings. Thanks to the intrusive state, we could no longer enjoy the "T" part of why we were getting together unless we wanted to huddle outside--not a pleasant prospect on a cold or wet evening.
The Nazis just can't stand to think anyone might be enjoying themselves doing something they disapprove of. And they're so intent on promoting their vision of healthy lifestyles, they'll destroy anyone who gets in their way.
Ultimately, just like with guns, it boils down to "Be safe and healthy according to our dictates or we'll kill you."
Sunshine, anyone?
James Picket may be 80, but he's no pushover. The North Texas man proved that when a couple of guys up to no good knocked on his door last weekend and tried to mess with him.His "saving grace," we are told, is the gun he kept in his pocket.
A top Hillary Clinton adviser on Saturday boldly predicted his candidate would lock down the nomination before the August convention by definitively winning over party insiders and officials known as superdelegates, claiming the number of state elections won by rival Barack Obama would be “irrelevant” to their decision.
Ah yes, the party of the people.
Orwellian, ain't it?
A woman who was patrolling to keep her neighborhood safe nearly became a crime victim herself when someone opened fire on her.And now, she says, she's armed.
A man has filed suit against the city of Winter Springs, accusing two of its police officers of mistaking his home for someone else's, hauling him outdoors without clothes and shooting dead his Rottweiler.I wonder if the minimum wage pizza delivery guy could find the right address, where the highly trained "Only Ones" could not? I mean, it's not like the city of Winter Springs has property/parcel plans on file or anything.
Arriving at Albany, NY on February 17, 1778, Lafayette found that the expedition was disastrously lacking in money, food and soldiers. Residents of upstate New York (who ought to know) considered it foolhardy to lead an expedition to Canada in the dead of winter, and the British and Canadians already knew of plans for the expedition and were preparing against it.
Check out the latest from other Gun Rights Examiners:
Austin: Howard Nemerov
Charlotte: Paul Valone
Cleveland: Daniel White
DC: Mike Stollenwerk
Denver: Dan Bidstrup
Los Angeles: John Longenecker
Milwaukee: Candace Dainty
Minneapolis: John Pierce
National: David Codrea
St. Louis: Kurt Hofmann
