I finally have completed adding everyone who requested to the TTLB Gun Blog Community. Give it a couple of hours and, if you see that you’re not on the list and want to be, let me know. I’d be happy to add you. A note:
This is designed to be for gun bloggers (i.e., people who regularly blog about guns) not a community for people who just also happen to be pro-gun and usually talk about other stuff.
Yesterday was National Ask Day where nannies encourage you to ask other parents if there are guns in their home presumably so you can shame them into admitting they’re bad people for having guns. David has his response. As does Bill Quick (via Kathy). They also ask doctors to ask the same question. My responses vary when asked the question. So, the top 5 SayUncle responses to Do you have any guns in your home when asked by a hysterical nanny:
5 Do you have a warrant?
4 Yes. Don’t you have the best tool to defend my child when she’s at your home too?
3 No, but the kid has, like, fifteen.
2 Yes, a couple of super soakers, which I hear are good for getting the sand out of your vagina.
1 Yeah, what do you need?
A bunch of folks protesting pending cuts in TennCare decided to protest by doing a sit-in at the Governor’s office. Sharon and Egalia are shocked that the police won’t allow the protesters food or water (and supposedly medication). It’s cruel, they say. It’s also effective protester control. You don’t very well want a protest lasting forever so you don’t let them call up the local pizza delivery joint.
Anyway, you’d think these protesters would have had enough foresight to pack a lunch (or at least their meds). Protesters in this country have a history of not being particularly, uhm, sharp. And Sharon is upset that the employee’s in the office can eat there. Of course they can, just like almost any other office with a break room in the country.
The protesters and others seem disappointed that this hasn’t ended in arrests, which would draw more publicity. Of course, it hasn’t. The governor doesn’t want to be known as that guy who has sick people arrested. However, he’s not going to give them coffee and donuts so they can stay indefinitely.
Kim provides another reason not to have your name associated with your blog.
Update: Another reason: If you do come clean, you make the local paper.
In an update to this post in which I said some California cops are upset to learn that the law applies to them too, I must take it back. I have correspondence from Mr. Duffy in which he states that he is in fact on the pro-gun side of things.
44 A bunch and counting! I am happy to report that the Gun Blogger Community over at TTLB now has several members. We even have a snazzy logo. Members are listed below. Any gun blogger wishing to join, drop me a note in comments or email me at the link in the top right corner of this page. Open to any pro-gun blogger.
Update: Growing quickly and I think I’ll stop counting until the smoke settles. Also, the tentative list is below the fold for now until it settles.
There’s a blog that deals with Eminent Domain in Ardmore, PA. Give it a read. I do find it odd that the blog generally opposes eminent domain but is all for historic preservation. In my mind, property rights are property rights and they include the power to keep or dispose of. After all, if we wait long enough, all property will be historic.
David reports some California cops are upset to learn that the law applies to them too.
Rich (who also knows my secret identity – say, is there anyone who doesn’t?) on anonymity:
When you create an internet identity, it becomes a character you play. Put enough work into it and it takes on a life of it’s own. You may find yourself saying and doing things you’d never imagine saying or doing in the real world. The freedom is exhilirating (sic), but like everything, there is a downside as well. Anonymity brings not only the freedom to say virtually anything, but also removes accountability, or at least pushes it step or two away.
And this can be a bad thing.
As I said before, I say nothing here I wouldn’t say to someone’s face. As for accountability, I am accountable to my readers. I don’t find this ‘yeah, but you’re anonymous’ schtick particularly convincing.
Apparently, it’s catchy. I’ll get one eventually, after I build all those ARs, a couple of AKs and an M1A. I’m not immune, I just have black rifle disease instead.
Another case of abusing eminent domain to take property from one private party to transfer to another:
A developer wants to buy a downtown Hollywood building that he says is critical to his multimillion Young Circle project, but the owner doesn’t want to sell.
Now, Hollywood leaders are considering using their legal muscle to take the property on behalf of Southern Facilities Development, which has a deal with the city to build retail space and about 200 condos above the historic Great Southern Hotel.
I am pleased to announce the Gun Bloggers Community over at the Truth Laid Bear. I have added everyone under the guns section of my blogroll and a few RTB members who do some gun posts to the list.
Entry into this community forum is open to all. Feel free to submit yourself by emailing me (click link in the top right corner) or leave a comment to this post. In the event you are not added immediately, don’t panic as it takes a while for the change to take effect. Also, if your site doesn’t have a RSS or XML feed, I don’t think it will work for you.
Thanks to TLB for setting this up.
Update: Oh, and I do ask that, if you’re a member, you link prominently the the Gunblogger Community.
The Commissar, who now is going by Stephen, rounds up the RINOs.
the RINO community page is here.
In light of Bubba’s outing and a few emails from folks on the subject, I feel the need to address this anonymity business. If you think this is the post in which I come clean, divulge a lot of stuff and reveal my alter ego, forget about it. Fat chance that will ever happen prominently on my blog for a few reasons:
1 – I don’t want my name associated with this site merely due to the big pain in the ass it could be. I don’t want people Googling me up and finding this place. I don’t want to meet people about town and have this ‘oh, you’re that guy’ conversation. I don’t want to turn away potential clients or other business people with whom I may disagree.
2 – I have a lot of guns. I don’t want someone figuring that they could track me down, break into my home, and score some stolen weaponry.
3 – I also, in the event I annoy the Hell out of someone, don’t want my family to feel the heat for this stuff.
People with this conception that I must be some anonymous shit-slinger out there hurling insults with no possibility of retribution who has something to hide are wrong. I try to keep it civil and clean and only occasionally call people idiots. I say nothing on this blog that I am ashamed of and I say nothing that I wouldn’t say to the faces of the people I criticize. Ask people who know me, I am pretty much an asshole in real life too. That said, there are plenty of people who know who I am (Bubba for one), including a local TeeVee guy. In the event I did something particularly stupid or grotesque, they could out me. I’m not completely anonymous but more pseudonymous.
Les (who also knows me) makes a very good point:
Anyone thinking of blogging anonymously should think about this situation and how they’d handle it. If you’re not prepared to do what Bubba did and reveal your identity when it’s being used as leverage against you, then you shouldn’t blog anonymously.
Indeed. But it wouldn’t be in a manner prominently displayed here. People who get criticized often (as in Bubba’s target in this instance) display a superiority complex over the fact that the person doing the criticizing is anonymous, as though that anonymity denotes a lack of credibility or something. Why? If someone is making legitimate points, address those points and not the fact you think some anonymous shit-slinger is hiding behind the keyboard flinging feces at you.
I noticed this in my pre-blog days when I commented over at the Metropulse’s blab. People would get snooty when I argued with them and fall back on the ‘oh yeah, well people know who I am.’ I don’t care who you are, I care about the point you’re making.
Or as Michael said:
I didn’t know until today who he is. But I know him through the quality of his blog. I could have found out. I know people who know him. I never asked who he is. I saw no compelling reason to out him. The question was even posed from time to time at the KNS whether we should try and out him, and the answer always came back to, “why?”
Also, let me alleviate this romanticized notion that I could potentially be someone important: I’m not. I’m just some regular Joe with a house in a subdivision. I’m nobody you’ve ever heard of. SayUncle is obviously not my real name. But SayUncle is very real and not going anywhere. I’m no coward and, in the event I get under your skin, drop me a line and we’ll talk. I got nothing to hide.
“Some gun laws have been repealed, the assault-weapon law expired, and many new gun laws have been enacted by Congress,” Korwin notes. “All told, we have 40 more statutes, for a total of 271 federal gun laws, a 17% increase in the past decade.” That is the true measure, Korwin says.
Alan Korwin is from Gunlaws.com.
Alphie has a good post on the supposed housing/real-estate bubble and its pending burst. I tend to disagree that there’s only normal growth in Tennessee. The supposed bubble has been very good to me personally. Like all good things, however, it will not last forever. The trick is to be prepared and, then, you could potentially benefit from it. A few things on the burst:
If you’re not in the game now, I’d say don’t bother. It has probably already peaked. It’s capital intensive to get into and directly tied to interest rates. Those rates are rising (though slowly) and short term loans can get you as they tend to be variable. Long term rates may not be worth it if they come with substantial closing costs. Also, material costs are rising (particularly concrete) and that combined with high rates aren’t good for anyone.
Be prepared for the burst. The smart money is in building up your capital, waiting for the burst, and buying up stuff on the cheap. Then moving into the renter game (see below).
Part of me is also inclined to believe the press is making this call way too early. My personal experience indicates that the trend will continue for a while longer, at least in East Tennessee. Cheap starter housing is becoming a thing of the past and houses that were formerly considered second to third homes are now considered starter homes. People don’t buy 1,100 square feet houses these days. The rental market for cheaper living is still around and a burst of the bubble would add fuel to this market. If people stop buying, they still need a place to crash.
This financial advice is worth what you paid for it.
Despite giving DiFi early air time in the piece, this is not a bad piece on the assault weapons ban (at least by California newspaper standards):
Feinstein said that the expiration of the ban she fought hard to get in 1994 “will have deadly consequences on the streets of America.”
But has it really made much of a difference? Are the streets less safe?
There is no hard evidence one way or another.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has no statistics that would show whether there’s been an uptick in sales of assault-style weapons, and the Department of Justice has no statistics that would show whether there’s been an increase in their use in crimes
Err, wouldn’t that last paragraph there be the evidence you were looking for in the second to last paragraph? More:
Gun manufacturers say their shops are busy, but only because the 10-year ban created pent-up demand for weapons with features that weren’t available.
“It’s changed our market a bit,” said Mark Westrom, president of Armalite, an Illinois company that produces the military-style weapons.
But Westrom said the company is not selling anywhere near the volume that many gun-control advocates had forecast.
“It’s a non-story,” he said.
Ayup.
Billll in comments:
Has anybody noticed that, based on news reports from around the world, that the terrorists weapon of choice is the automobile?
Or something. The Geek reports that the NRA busted the Brady campaign in a bald-faced lie. That isn’t unusual as I catch them lying all the time. However, this is lie in front of Congress:
On March 15, 2004, the “Brady Campaign” testified before the House Judiciary Committee in opposition to H.R. 800–“The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act”–federal legislation that would protect law-abiding firearm manufacturers from reckless, predatory, and potentially bankrupting lawsuits.
During testimony, the group attempted to bolster its argument by introducing a letter that listed five Nevada law enforcement officials who purportedly lent their names to the Brady’s effort to thwart the bill.
The Bradys and another anti-gun organization–the “Million Mom March”–even posted the opposition letter on their websites as a way to garner key support for their gun-banning efforts.
But, as it turns out (and not surprisingly), the Brady Campaign apparently added the sheriffs’ names to the letter without their knowledge or approval!
But, just like when CNN broke the law to peddle 50 caliber hysteria, nothing is likely to happen to them.
Not quite but look for more lines blurred between squatting and legitimate domain registration.
I’ve shown before my homemade magpulls in which I cut pieces of bicycle inner-tube and stretch them across the base of my AR mags. Well, here’s a new twist (heh!) on making them yourself.
Via Gunner.
A wannabe journalist at the local not-so-alt-weekly Metropulse named Brian Conley was threatening to out Bubba’s secret identity. Bubba beat him to the punch and published the info at his blog to indicate he wouldn’t be threatened by some little piss ant.
Anyway, the action was uncalled for and The Metropulse will no longer serve as packing material here at the Uncle house. And I will not support businesses that advertise there.
The Carnival of Cordite is up, rounding up the gun blogs. Guess they didn’t get my email.
Gov. Phil Bredesen on Thursday traveled the state to formally sign a law allowing $25 million in lottery funds to fund a voluntary pre-kindergarten program in Tennessee that he hopes will one day be a national model.
This first installment is expected to be about 300 classrooms for some 6,000 poor or at-risk 4-year-olds. That would triple the number of children already served by a state pilot program, but still represents only a fraction of the estimated 37,000 disadvantaged pre-kindergartners in the state.
“We are going to continue growing this program to the point where every child in our state — every 4-year-old whose parents want to them to be in a program like this — has access to it. That is my goal,” the governor vowed.
We can’t get TennCare squared away, the scholarship money from the lottery is projected to fall short, and there will soon be calls (again) for an income tax. And what do we do? Spend more money on an unnecessary program. In a few years, we’ll be trying to find the money to save this failing program.
A ban proposed by James Moran to prohibit the export of 50 caliber rifles out of the country was killed. Speaking of Morans, the author of the piece (Andrew Taylor of the Ass. Press) writes:
The National Rifle Association and its allies in the House beat back an effort Thursday to restrict gun manufacturers’ exports of high-powered, .50-caliber rifles that can bring down jet airliners from a mile away.
So, Andrew Taylor you Moran, what do you press guys do? Just go to some anti-gun site and take their word for any ridiculous claim they make? Its almost impossible to hit a target that is a mile away, particularly when it is traveling over 400 MPH.
I concur:
“Perpetuity”. What a horrible word to be used by our government.
This Gitmo thing really disturbs me. I tend to think that if you’re going to hold someone that they should be accused of a crime or, since it’s a war, a war crime. Frankly, the Republican party leadership in this regard frightens me.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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