We're the Only Ones Employing Enough

The regional director of Homeland Security, Customs, and Border Protection was charged today with repeatedly hiring illegal immigrants to clean her Salem home after one cleaner wore a wire during an undercover investigation.

Lorraine Henderson is the director of the Port of Boston, overseeing 190 armed federal officers...

I don't even have a smart-aleck "Only Ones" remark for this one. I'm too occupied channeling H.L. Mencken.

And It's Completely Legal

Residents from the Milwaukee neighborhoods of Riverwest and East Side are scheduled to meet Wednesday to discuss printing their own money...

And it's completely legal.

As long as communities don't create coins, or print bills that resemble federal dollars, organizations are free to produce their own greenbacks—and they'd don't even have to be green.

Really?

What if they're "gold, silver, or other metal"?

The Gift of Violence

Another was wrapped in brown paper, like a present ready to give the gift of violence.

Gee, no editorializing in a "straight news" story there, eh, "Authorized Journalist" Tammy Stables Battaglia? Nice to see The Free Press adhering to such rigorous ethical standards...

And who better to bare our throats to than--not just "Only Ones"--but Detroit "Only Ones."

The thought strikes though--incinerating all those guns, putting all that toxic particulate in the environment...I have to wonder if OSHA regulations for ensuring health protection of employees doing the incinerating are in place, if EPA standards for pollution are being followed, if carbon credits are being purchased from Al Gore...:)

Are the guns classified as hazardous materials/hazardous waste? As such, are the labeled with appropriate MSDS tags and documentation, and has proper training been conducted to ensure hazards are known, precautions are taken, records are created and maintained...?

It would be funny to sic the feds on them for potential environmental "crimes"/Clean Air Act violations, wouldn't it? Anybody knows how, run with it.

Maybe we could get the environmentalcases to do our heavy lifting for us...possibly Earth First could send in some smokestack sitters...?

Cleaning Up...

...after the party in San Benito...

In exchange for his resignation, the district attorney's office will not file criminal charges against Maldonado pertaining to an October incident in which he let a friend fire his county issue weapon.

I wonder if my new BFF deputy Gus Reyna will keep good on his promise to treat my doing the same thing "like any other case," meaning there will be no arrest and prosecution? As a show of good faith, I'll even promise never to be a constable.

[Via Bruce W. Krafft]

So?

"A Micro Uzi is made by and for the Israeli Armed Forces and is intended to meet the operational needs of Israeli Special Forces," the prosecutor said in a news release.

"It is not a hunting weapon."

And your point is?

[Via Steven K]

Interior Announces Final Firearms Policy Update

Everybody's trumpeting the great victory, and many of you have sent me this news.

I haven't done much with it because it personally does not make one bit of difference to me.

This Day in History: December 6

We, therefore, in the name of the people of these United Colonies, and by authority, according to the purest maxims of representation, derived from them, declare, that whatever punishment shall be inflicted upon any persons in the power of our enemies for favouring, aiding, or abetting the cause of American liberty, shall be retaliated in the same kind, and the same degree upon those in our power, who have favoured, aided, or abetted, or shall favour, aid, or abet the system of ministerial oppression. The essential difference between our cause, and that of our enemies, might justify a severer punishment: The law of retaliation will unquestionably warrant one equally severe.

Statement of HS-Precision

To Our Valued Customers:

H-S Precision has received comments relating to individual testimonials in our 2008 catalog. All of the testimonials focused on the quality, accuracy and customer service provided by H-S Precision.

The management of H-S Precision did not intend to offend anyone or create any type of controversy. We are revising our 2009 catalog and removing all product testimonials.

Sincerely,

The Management of H-S Precision

[Via Oregon Firearms Federation]

We're the Only Ones Giving Testimonials Enough

Three city police officers - two active, one recently resigned - were indicted Wednesday on charges they lied in court testimony or on police reports in two incidents.

Oh, like they're the "Only Ones" who have ever done that...

[Via Mack H]

We're the Only Ones Gangsta Enough

“He said, “I’ll kill you,’” Kevin recalled.

Kevin said Hanley held the gun sideways “gangland” style rather than upright as police officers are trained. “The creepy part was how he held the pistol, like you see in a movies,” he said.

"The Only Ones" does kind of sound like one, doesn't it?

[Via Al N]

More 'Gun Control'? Oy Vey!

I'd planned on talking about the second sponsor of the Mayors Against YOUR Guns conference, the National Council of Jewish Women. I know you're just dying to meet them--or could be if they have their way.

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column...

Tell a friend.

I Hope I Can Get One...

...before they're discontinued.

I was broken-hearted when my campaign memorabilia order got canceled.

[Via Joe G]

A Coincidence

Memphis police identified the body of transgender woman Duanna Johnson lying in the street near Hollywood and Staten Avenue early this morning.

Police believe Johnson was shot some time before midnight on Sunday. No suspects are in custody at this time.

Hmmm...

It's probably not even fair of me to speculate. I just wish I had more reasons for trust...

[Via Jacob M]

Rick Levin's Anti-Gun Wit

Oh, Rick, you're so clever in your put-downs, and so well informed!

Here, have one of these. No charge, man, you earned it.

[Via The Bitter Clinger]

An Unusual Tactic

Though drugs were not involved in the Blackwater shooting, the Justice Department is pondering the use of a law, passed at the height of the nation's crack epidemic, to prosecute the guards. The Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 law calls for 30-year prison terms for using machine guns to commit violent crimes of any kind, whether drug-related or not.

So, depending on the circumstances, resistance to gun confiscation could result in drug charges?

I guess if it comes to that, it won't really matter.

Given enough opportunities for innovation, I suppose all kinds of unusual tactics might emerge.

[Via TZ]

We Did it to Ourselves

As Tonto asked when the Lone Ranger informed him they were surrounded by Indians, "What you mean we?"

[Via Featherless Biped]

When Irish Lies are Piling

Glock, the gangster's favourite gun, to be banned from Ireland next year...

There are currently 1,900 legally held handguns, up from a handful in 2004.

And what does one have to do with the other?

The Minister understands there is no connection between gangland crime and legally held handguns. But he is concerned about the proliferation of handguns in society.

Oh, I see. You can get away with disarming the peaceable citizens. Gangsters might fire back.

I'd suggest maybe the citizens might do the same, but that would hardly be pra...naaah, I don't want to start a fight.

[Via Mike H]

We're the Only Ones Adding to Your Labors Enough

Jennifer Davis was stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic on Nov. 18, her contractions just 3 minutes apart. Her husband, John, was trying to appear calm for his wife's sake, driving in the breakdown lane of Route 2. They pulled up behind a state trooper to ask whether they could continue using the lane to reach the next exit, near Alewife Station.

Not only did the trooper say no, he gave them a $100 citation for driving in the breakdown lane, made them wait for their citation while he finished writing someone else's ticket, and even seemed to ask for proof of pregnancy, Jennifer Davis said.

I wonder if this...this "Only One" had ended up under the front bumper, dragged and smeared along the breakdown lane, if a justifiable defense of life argument could be made? Naw, this is Boston, after all.

And note once again how our wonderful "Authorized Journalist" watchdog media lets us know the names of everyone involved except the fascist pinhead on the public dole. I'm informed I did not read far enough into the article--Trooper Michael Galluccio.

And save your explanation of the rules, "State Police spokesman DavidProcopio." God, if my job required me to go out there and justify this kind of crap, I hope I'd have the basic human decency to just hang myself.

[Via MacEntyre]

One Rifleman at a Time

Here's another testimonial for Appleseed.

[Via Ron W]

Stunningly Idiotic

I'm a gun owner. I have handguns, rifles and shotguns. I hunt, and my son hunts. I believe in the Second Amendment. However, I don't believe in this insane law, and it should obviously be repealed in the very next session.

You're also a well-to-do democrat contributor/John Edwards supporter.


Does that make you Fuddingly idiotic?