TSA Keeping Us Safe

I put my 87-year-old mother on an airplane this morning.  They took her aside and wanded/patted her down.

Not Following the Rules

See, you're allowed to scream for him... [Watch]

Hotmail Hacked

My Hotmail edress got hijacked and sent out what I must assume is a malware link to my address book.  Either that or someone is spoofing my email address.  I just changed my password and am doing a scan to see if anyone has gotten into my machine.

Sorry for the inconvenience--please know I surf responsibly, don't open suspicious links or go to sites unapproved by my McAfee site adviser, and also do regular Malware Bytes scans.

If you clicked on the link in the email you received, better scan your computer.

UPDATE: Malwarebytes scan:

 Now I'll do a McAfee scan.

UPDATE: Clean:

I sent out emails to everyone in my address book warning against the bogus emails--it looks like everyone got several of them because Hotmail kept telling me the messages weren't sent so I sent them again.

I'm not sure how this whole sorry episode happened--one person suggested it may be a Facebook app allowing it to access Hotmail, but I don't use that for anything but posting links.  Anyway, my productivity for the day has been pretty much shot.

A More Limited Scale.

Guns sure are a handy tool, for the brutal murderer or the wounded spouse or the depressed teenager who has been bullied at school...I am a gun owner, myself... [More]

Why?

[Via Scott J]

We're the Only Ones Capped Enough

If I think of all the times I--and every other kid I played with--shot cap guns at other people and each other when we were "former youths"... [Read]

It's what they were made for. It is such a different world...

[Via Kevin Starrett]

This Day in History: November 5

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Radio Sunday

I'll be on two programs today:

• Talking Guns with Kate Kruger, at 3:10 p.m. Eastern time (listen live)
• Armed American Radio with Mark Walters for the 10 p.m. Eastern time Roundtable (station list/listen live)

But before then, I have a ton of leaves to rake up--and quietly, lest I wake the young princelings...

‘Crime gun’ trace map withholds key data needed to draw meaningful conclusions

Note the widget doesn't tell the whole story--and that's a calculated decision. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes there are lies, damned lies, and interactive maps prepared by public radio weenies with an agenda.

Affecting the Outcome

So can you, "friend."

Why won't you?

What was Ambassador Steven's role in the Gun Running?

Good question.  Not that this administration will want to answer. [Read]

I don't have any real faith the next one will, either, assuming the get in.

[Via bondmen]

We're the Only Ones Securing the Blessings of Liberty Enough

Police are allowed in some circumstances to install hidden surveillance cameras on private property without obtaining a search warrant, a federal judge said yesterday. [More]

Why?

And I note this wretch was nominated by the "Vote Freedom First President."

The Smoking Gun

PJ Media picked up Matt Bracken's latest. [Read]

They Must Not Need Help All That Bad

Nonunion Ala. crews turned away from Sandy recovery [More]

The hell with 'em then.

When Human Targets Fight Back

"He felt like it was going to be easy especially when he saw me on oxygen and a woman. I can take her down, sorry," the victim said. [More]

Speaking of "sorry"...

[Via William T]

Easy to Believe

Feds Let Mexican Cartel Hit Men Kill in U.S., Senior Lawman Told Stratfor [More] 

Isn't that something? I don't have a problem in the world believing that conclusion without even reading the article. Which I recommend you do.

And then watch this video about U.S. troops and the Mexican drug war.

[Via bondmen]

Cause and Effect

Poverty causes gun crime [More]

Shoot. I wish my parents and immigrant grandparents had known about that moral "out" back in the Depression.  Heck, I even qualified back in college, when I was renting a closet in a house where my bed touched three walls, working a minimum wage part-time job and going to school full time. 

What the Commie-in-Chief is saying is more than the moral equivalent of blaming rape victims for being attractive targets.  He's justifying savagery and evil.  He's approving it.

In the Docket

Leonard Embody's case... [More] 

Here's the cert petition.

Will SCOTUS elect to hear it? I know many on "our side" put the guy down for being provocative, and others are worried that it's not the right case at the right time and will set bad precedent, but really, since when are self-designated Second Amendment activists supposed to side with "Only Ones" taking any of the people hostage at gunpoint for simply bearing arms?

There's something to be said for knowing what limits the courts think can be imposed. You can't push them if you don't know exactly where they are.

It's a Howl

Howling for Wolves plans to protest outside DNR headquarters in St. Paul Friday and at Lake Superior Plaza West in Duluth Saturday. [More]

"Howling for Wolves."

That's almost as funny as "Adopt a Coyote."

Aloha Oe

This is the first time a sitting NRA president has ever visited Hawaii in an official capacity. The Forum is inviting everyone to this unique free opportunity to the talk on 2nd Amendment issues of importance to all citizens. [More]

Hey, somebody asked him why they cheesed out on putting the squeeze on Romney, and what that means about their commitment...

Shooting Destination Night

Precision long-range shooting tonight on American Trigger Sports Network...[Details]