Monday, January 05, 2009

Buy, Buy, Buy

More and more Americans are becoming increasingly aware of the storm that is brewing on the horizon, a storm driven by the possibility of a complete economic collapse. [More]
This is too scary. It makes me too uncomfortable even acknowledging such things, let alone contemplating them...

So I think I'll feel better if I just ignore it.

Say, what time does "Dancing With the Stars" come on...?

[Via Ron W and Zachary G]

We're the Only Ones Connected Enough

The sheriff of Ohio's largest county has given pay raises to his niece, his son's best friend and one of his own friends after laying off 21 employees from their jobs.
Not just "Only Ones"...

Connected
"Only Ones"...
[T]he raises were given based on merit and on the advice of his top subordinates.
Right, boss. Great choices, as always! Say, are you losing weight? More coffee?

Give Me Liberty

Blogonomicon has put together a very cool pictorial summary of a 1936 short film about Patrick Henry's famous speech, starring John Litel. [More]

We've talked about this before...

Related Reading: "The Historical Works of John Litel"

Welcome the New Cleveland Gun Rights Examiner

Daniel White has taken over the column for Cleveland. You can bookmark his main page here.

He introduces himself in his debut column.

Today, he looks at Ohio's senseless ban on carrying in restaurants that serve alcohol.

I hope you join me in congratulating Daniel, and in making his column a regular place to visit.

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This Day in History: January 5

I have the honor to inform you, that since the date of my last from Trenton I have remov'd with the Army under my Command to this place. The difficulty of crossing the Delaware on Acct. of the Ice made our passage over it tedeous, and gave the Enemy an oppertunity of drawing in their Several Cantonments, and assembling their whole Force at Princeton. Their large Picquets, advanc'd towards Trenton; their great preparations, and some Intelligence I had received, added to their knowledge that the first of Janry. brought on a dissolution of the best part of our Army, gave me the strongest reasons to conclude that an attack upon us was meditating. [More]

Sunday, January 04, 2009

The Riddle of Steele Part Two

Michael Steele is currently leading in the poll.

Let we who have had enough of anti-gun RINOs change that.

I put in for Ken Blackwell.

I understand Saul Anuzis gave a GOA interview, but I haven't listened to it yet--I've just been too busy to look, so feel free to educate me.

Ditto for all the other candidates. Anybody gets any dope on 'em, chime in.

For right now, please go and vote and knock Steele out of the lead.

[Via David R]

Ask the Candidates

I want an unequivocal statement from each candidate on the right to keep and bear arms. I should note that Mr. Blackwell looks good*, and Mr. Steele's bizarre advocacy that "society should draw line" about the right to own semiautos** makes him about as acceptable to gun owners as Barack Obama.
And to think it almost didn't get posted due to objectionable language!


Hey, look--go here, and then go here.

Do you really want the RNC to select its chair without significant input from gun owners?

I really don't get it--I'm accused in some quarters of being a Threeper Terrorist, yet here I am trying to effect a political intervention and everyone else is apparently silent or oblivious.

Even more frustrating--it would appear counting on regular readers to spend one lousy minute doing something like this is apparently too much to ask. It truly makes me question if I'm wasting my time here.

Will you go here, right now, and submit your own question? Because we're out of time--the debate is tomorrow.

Or will you just throw sand on the idea and tell me why it's not worth even a moment of your time?

UPDATE: 45superman reminds us to vote for pro-RKBA questions to increase the likelihood of their being asked.

UPDATE 2: I put out a plea on Examiner.com.

Please help spread the word on this.

UPDATE 3: The neocons like Patrick Ruffini want us to think mere "policy" like the 2nd Amendment is not important because the Chair has no say in that. BULL. The GOP as a party must take a pro-Bill of Rights stand starting at the top. If they don't, the hell with them. If I want a democrat, I can vote for a democrat.

If the GOP becomes the Party of Ruffinis, it can just die.

Gun Talk Radio Reminder

I'll be on Tom Gresham's Gun Talk Radio today... [More]
I hope you can join us.

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Making the Grade

North Dakota experienced only two murders in 2008. Both were stabbings. [More]
Which probably explains why the Bradys consider ND gun laws such a grave threat to public safety...

Compare that, to say, the most anti-gun city in the Brady's Number One state...

What's amazing is how such stark reality has no effect on fanatics.

What Samuel Sutter Thinks

Does carrying a gun illegally make you a danger to the public?

Bristol District Attorney Samuel Sutter thinks it does... [More]
Thing is, Samuel Sutter wasn't there--with "a person" I know very well--who lived in LA, where "ordinary" citizens can't get "permits"--but who defied the law and saved his family from multiple assailants--simply by producing his "illegally"-carried handgun and causing them to retreat without his having to fire a shot.

He was no danger to the public. The people he scared off were.

My same "friend" had earlier taken to carrying a gun--"illegally," and knowing and resenting like hell being forced to make a choice that involved risk of punishment and being treated like a criminal from those whose only legitimate function is "to secure the blessings of Liberty." He did so on advice from two police officers who were responding to a death threat against him--officers who let him know they couldn't protect him, they couldn't respond to an attack until after-the fact.

But Samuel Sutter works in an environment where he has regular police protection. Samuel Sutter has the status and connections that turn "may issue" into "shall issue."

And don't get me started on "illegal" possession of "high-capacity guns."

If it were up to Samuel Sutter, my "friend" and people like him would be dead.

Samuel Sutter is, in essence, a state-sponsored terrorist. Samuel Sutter can go to hell.

And the thing is, if the punishment is increased, so too will be the desperation of an otherwise peaceable citizen to escape the "legal" consequences. What kind of "justice" system pushes good people to the breaking point for simply defending their lives?

WRSA Grid-Down Medical Course

Lancaster, PA - February 7-8

This two-day (16 hour) course of instruction will prepare the motivated outdoorsman to treat life-threatening and function-threatening medical conditions in the wilderness without access to classical EMS and medical resources. [More]
Good stuff to know when there are no other options...

Meanwhile, Over in Sarah Brady Paradiso

Felice Anno Nuovo! [More]

And I'm sure you were wondering...

[Via Fimvit]

This Day in History: January 4

During the American Revolution, the Queens Bridge was used by both the American and British forces. At this spot in what is now known as Boundbrook on January 4, 1777, General Washington made the decision to abandon any intention to attach New Brunswick. Instead he moved his troops to Morristown for the winter, thus ending the victorious Trenton-Princeton campaign. [More]

Saturday, January 03, 2009

A Temporary Inconvenience

Citizens in Luzerne County, PA have had their rights put on hold:
Because of county personnel cuts, the Luzerne County Sheriff’s Department will not accept gun permit applications for two weeks.
[More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner column...

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We're the Only Ones Barring Enough

Should Burris appear in Washington without that certification, armed police officers stand ready to bar him from the Senate floor, said a Democratic official briefed on Senate leaders' plans.
George Wallace was a democrat when he barred blacks from entering a public building too, wasn't he?

As much as I don't like Burris, I'd urge him to defy them. After all, Blago hasn't been convicted, and he's actually within the legitimate scope of his powers to make this appointment...

Can you imagine the urban reaction if Burris got arrested for resisting the "Only Ones"?

Shattered hope can bring about some pretty terrible change...

[Via Mack H]

The Next Generation

Anatoli Isaikin, the Director General of the state arms exporter Rosoboronexport, met recently with the creator of the Kalashnikov rifles, the head of the Izhmash Company, Mikhail Kalashnikov. The meeting’s objective was to look into developing a new generation of AK-100 series rifles. [More]
Meanwhile...

Meanwhile, Still Across the Pond in Sarah Brady Paradise...

Britain is becoming a nation of worriers... [More]
There, there.

You know what you blokes need?

Collars.

If you just obey, everything will be fine.

We promise.

[Via Avg Joe]

Meanwhile, Across the Pond in Sarah Brady Paradise...

Electronic monitoring has been used to track wildlife, stolen cars and criminals confined to their homes and jobs, but in what may be a sign of things to come, politicians in one British community propose to fasten monitoring devices to some of the local senior citizens to monitor their movements, cut costs and -- presumably -- keep the old-timers out of trouble... [More]
Oh, I get it.

Collars of obedience.

Paul Mulshine, Authorized Journalist

The type of person who can't even keep track of the number of times the letter "N" appears in a two-syllable word is not the type of person who is going to offer great insight into complex issues. [More]
I'm professional and you're not. And you can't even pronounce "pundit."

So there.

My, aren't we sophisticated and superior?

That must be why I've compiled an entire category of "Authorized Journalist" examples detailing bias and ignorance about the gun issue that is repeated over and over and...

And tell me that's the only issue where they push an agenda and get it so consistently wrong. You know, what this elitist characterizes as "doing what we in fact do amazingly well, which is to quickly analyze and report on complex public issues."

You credentialed flacks for the police state had your chance and blew whatever trust you had along with the establishment rulers you serve. Watchdogs turned into lapdogs a long time ago.

And now the fascist dinosaur propagandists want a bailout? At our expense?

Why not? It's been a public/private partnership all my life anyway, at least ideologically. Just one thing: As long as we're considering a form of national socialist journalism, can we call the resulting enterprise something like "Der Stürmer"?

[Via Luke O]

We're the Only Ones A-Hunting-We-Will-Go Enough

A sheriff from northeastern Tennessee faces managed to bag a deer and a citation for hunting without a license in one trip into the woods. [More]
Be vewy, vewy quiet.

I'm being an Onwy One.

Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh...

[Via Carl S]