Exactly one day from mentioning them on my blog, I am the number seven Google for titties. Gotta be a record?

Update: Oh, and clicking on a Google for titties is probably not safe for work, for you people that need to be told that.

Via Bill, one of Tennessee’s reps is blogging, Stacey Campfield. One post in a week? Not a good start.

And, despite typos (like I’m one to talk), his office confirms it is his blog.

Triggerfinger has the latest on the DC gun rights case.

Jeff has the latest.

GOPUSA notes that the law to prevent people, who may not be terrorists but are on a terror watch-list, from buying guns could open up the door to back-door registration of gun owners.

Hilleary, fresh off his defeat in the run for governor of Tennessee, has announced that he will be a candidate for Frist’s soon to be vacant seat. Hilleary will likely get the backing of the local Republican machine would be my guess. His ties to former (and disgraced) governor Sundquist may be almost forgotten now. The mayor of Chattanooga, Bob Corker, will also be in the race. Ed Bryant, a former congressman, is also in the race. Beth Halteman Harwell has also formed an exploratory committee to look at the race.

Bryant has apparently gotten into the blog game, unofficially. Blogging for Bryant is the unofficial Bryant blog. And the unofficial Blog of the 2006 Senate Race.

Kudos to local politicos for getting into the blog game. Too bad more haven’t done so.

As for my endorsement: Not Hilleary!

Maybe I’ll run as a write in candidate. Can a pseudonym be elected to public office?

I think it’s pretty clear that the Democrat in the race will likely be Harold Ford, Jr.

The bill restoring the rights of the residents of DC to keep and bear arms is making a comeback.

The fifth amendment specifies that owners of land taken by the .gov for public use receive just compensation. How just is just? A bill in Indiana may specify that said compensation is 150% of assessed value. I don’t find it unreasonable that just compensation include potential earnings on property as well.

I have been truly encouraged by some recent media coverage of guns (twice in a week!). Now, Deb notes a story in which the reporter goes out of their way to explain that a semi-automatic is a semi-automatic:

The common misconception is the “semi-automatic” is equal to some high powered assault weapon, but any number of weapons, small or large caliber, can be semi-automatic.

“When you hear semi-automatic rifle a lot of people assume it’s a high powered rifle but that’s not always the case” says Longview gun expert Craig Clotz .

Excellent.

Bruce has the skinny. Aren’t papers supposed to check that stuff? How hard is it to Google someone’s name?

Ricky has correspondence from a regular reader who is serving in the middle east and who was anti-Bush. Worth the read.

It’s odd what search engines pick up on. I am the #1 Google for mmmmmm.

Phelps on Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell:

If these two knuckleheads are so influential, why is it that I only hear about them from liberals?

Anarchangel on how to make your Glock not suck. I actually like the Glock stock trigger, though it could be smoother. I like the trigger pull because it is consistent, minimal creep, and reliably predictable. It is probably the easiest pistol out of the box for someone to get adequate trigger control with.

That said, I’d like to smooth it up but would not want to lighten the pull.

Say you’re a student at a school. You find in your book bag a BB gun that you’re not supposed to have. You do the right thing and tell school officials about. Your reward:

A district-court judge in Yadkin County ruled yesterday that 11-year-old Micheal Beam should remain in the group home where he was placed after he found an unloaded BB pistol in his book bag and reported it to school officials.

I thought schools were supposed to encourage kids to do the right thing. Not punish them for it.

Local pressure continues to threaten Sunshyne Video 2 here in Blount County:

A temporary injunction prohibiting Sunshyne Video 2 from selling any adult items until its owners obtain a license was granted in Blount County Circuit Court.

The store had stopped selling adult merchandise March 3 after owners David and Kristie Anderson received a restraining order. The store has continued to sell general merchandise, however.

Friday’s hearing was to determine whether the restraining order, sought by the Adult-Oriented Establishment Board, should be changed to a temporary injunction until the store obtains a permit.

And the Good Ol’ Boy networks strikes again:

David Anderson said he represented himself Friday because he could not get any Blount County lawyers to take the case because it involved Blount County government. Anderson said he did not object to the restraining order, but was confused by part of it.

Maybe he should call the ACLU? IIRC, my understanding is that Blount County recently set up this sham of a board (I say sham because it’s only purpose apparently is to harass Sunshyne Video) to approve licenses for adult oriented businesses. The law seems fairly clear to us laypersons but the legal establishment seems content to make people jump through arbitrary hoops while not answering questions:

Anderson asked Young why he could not sell any adult items when the law defines an adult store as one that offers sexually oriented material “as its principal or predominate stock or trade.” Anderson said after the hearing that he has 8,500 general items in stock and less than 2,800 adult items.

The judge didn’t answer and the guy can’t get legal help. They established this board and the owner of Sunshyne did not file for a permit. Rather, he added to his general merchandise so that the majority of his business would not be adult oriented. That doesn’t matter apparently as the GOB’s seem intent on making Mr. Anderson’s life hard. At this point, it looks like a vulgar display of power to get the guy to buy a permit and that’s the real obscenity here.

Next to get Concealed Carry: Nebraska. The legislature has made it a top priority:

Legislative Bill 70, to allow some motorcyclists to go helmet-free, and LB 454, to allow people to carry concealed handguns with a permit, are among 79 bills that individual lawmakers and legislative committees gave priority status for the 2005 session.

And then there were three. Once the last three no-issue states in the union offer concealed carry, gun rights types should start targeting the nine may-issue states to convert them into shall-issue. CCW map can be found here.

DiFi has introduced a bill that would re-establish the ban on guns that look like assault weapons:

Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation Monday to re-establish the federal assault weapons ban, which expired last September after Congress did not reauthorize it.

Feinstein, D-Calif., was the author of the original 1994 ban on the manufacture and importation of at least 19 types of common military-style assault weapons [Outright lie, these weapons are not military style, which would denote that they are machine guns – Ed.]. She got an amendment through the Senate last year to extend the ban, but it was killed when the piece of legislation it was attached to failed after lobbying by the National Rifle Association.

Feinstein announced bipartisan co-sponsors Monday: Republican Sens. John Warner of Virginia and Mike DeWine of Ohio, and Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York. But getting the bill through the Republican-controlled Congress will be an uphill battle.

Good ol’ Rinos. More:

“We know the ban worked. We voted for its renewal in the Senate last year. Yet, it was allowed to expire,” Feinstein said in a statement. “This failure will have deadly consequences on the streets of America. It is time to re-establish the ban and help make our communities safer.”

It worked? At what? Restricting the right of people to own guns? It had no effect on crime, as attested to by the Centers for Disease Control and the Justice Department. And these deadly consequences would have likely come to fruition by now but have not.

It’s never to early to get on the horn and start calling your senators and reps to tell them to oppose this nonsense.

Gunlaws has the skinny on HR1195. The purpose of the bill is:

To increase public safety and reduce the threat to domestic security by including persons who may be prevented from boarding an aircraft in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, and for other purposes.

This bill will prevent people on terror watch-lists from passing the NICS background check conducted when they buy guns. In other words, without any conviction of a crime, a person’s rights will be denied.

Affirmation:

Alphapatriot links to the Citizens’ Self-Defense Act of 2005, which gives everyone the right to keep a gun in their home for defense.

He states that this act is Partially Reaffirming the Second Amendment. Doesn’t the existence of the second amendment reaffirm the second amendment?

All smarminess aside, the bill notes that defensive gun uses are beneficial and has other justifications, such as the fact that courts ruled the police have no obligation to protect individuals.

Alphie also has a roundup of some gun stuff in Tennessee.

Thomas has the skinny on The Count Every Vote Act. On paper, it looks like a good idea but I have issues with the fact it would essentially federalize a lot of state functions.

I’m no fan of baseball but I’m less a fan of Congress. It seems that Congress (having solved every problem, ended all crime, stopped terrorism, made us all completely safe, cured disease, brought peace to the Middle East, ended the Sudanese Genocide and addressed campaign finance reform) wants to investigate baseball for steroid use.

This is nothing more than showboating and grandstanding. I want my money back.

Via Michael Silence, the local GOP has started a blog. The Dems have had one for a while but you’d think they’d spring on a domain name, or something.

Joe Huffman notes that a woman’s nomination into the Florida Women’s Hall of Fame is creating a controversy because the woman also happens to be the former president of the NRA.

Isn’t that a hoot.

GOB and land grabs in NY. Lobbygow is on it.

Paul has it! It’d be nicer if someone automated it. Heh.

Or more to the point, only they won’t have to fill out paperwork. Ravenwood notes the push to allow judges to carry weapons to defend themselves in light of the judge being shot in Atlanta last week. I’m all for it. In Georgia, it’s pretty easy to get a carry permit and that’s what the judges there should do. I think in Tennessee, judges can carry without getting a permit. They also get a license plate that says they’re a judge and use it as license to disregard traffic laws.

However, the push Ravenwood refers to is in Illinois. There’s a lot of gun stuff happening in Illinois these days.

Triggerfinger links to the actual report that notes the NICS doesn’t stop people on the terror list from buying guns. Of course, the NICS wasn’t set up to do that.

Montana, which has been awful snippy with the Federal government lately, continues to poke the Feds with a pointy stick. Gunner notes that Montana politicos have asked the feds why they think they’re exempt from campaign finance laws.

I realize that the Lebanese protests are an important world event. However, this is how the blogs and media are covering (heh!) them.

Lebanese hooters answered an opposition call for a massive protest to demand a full Syrian troop withdrawal.

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