Via Michael Silence, the Humor Satire Community has some good stuff:

Michael Jackson To Celebrate At Chuck E. Cheese

U.S. Senate Apologizes to Dead People for Not Making Murder Illegal Enough

Speaking of communities, I think NZB needs to set up a Gun Blogging Community.

Michael Silence has an update and roundup to the gay camp story.

Xrlq, looking at the rules of the program, says:

Probably the most disgusting of these rules is Rule #9, which not only requires participants victims not only to put up with the abuse they’re subjected to day in and day out, they’re expected to like it and to thank their tormentors for the favor

Also, Egalia has much more.

Like most things on Al Gore’s internets there’s probably a little embellishment, but I still found it amusing:

I turn around every time I see them. I just do a 3-point turn on the road. It’s a free country, right?

Provides me with hours of entertainment. I get the watch them get all excited, running and diving into their cars, they burn rubber, fishtailing, lights flashing…

Then they pull me over and I don’t let them search, either. They get really annoyed at me when they ask why I turned around and I say, “oh, I forgot something at home, so I turned around to go get it.”

Sure, it wastes a lot of my time, but it lets a lot of other people go on with their day because usually it breaks up the roadblock because all the coppers have to chase me down — and I get entertainment because I refuse to allow them to do anything or intimidate me.

I’ve even had them threaten to arrest me, but when asked under what charges, they always hesitate and come back with something like “obstruction of justice.” I just laugh and they get more annoyed.

This was over at The Gun-Toting Liberal [yes, we do have those – ed.], a new addition to the blogroll.

The Christian Science Monitor, which is usually full of crap, has a fairly well-balanced piece on Denver’s pit bull ban:

Even supporters of the ban, such as Councilwoman Boigon, say that the problem does not include all pit bulls. But they note that generations of breeding the animals to be fighters have imbued the dogs with unpredictable violent tendencies.

“This is a strategy we have for managing a breed that is being encouraged to be aggressive,” she says.

The Humane Society of the United States opposes breed-specific bans such as Denver’s because the organization says many factors, including how the dogs are treated, determines violence.

“Breed is one part of what can go into whether a dog will bite,” says spokeswoman Stephanie Shain, “but pulling out that one piece of five or six things just does not make sense.”

Statements by some city officials that indicate pit bulls are favored by drug dealers and gang members have also stirred debate that the ban unfairly targets minority pet owners.

“We hear that a lot,” Kelley said of the racism charge. “We get pit bulls from all over the city. Nobody is targeted. The majority of pit bulls we pick up are a result of people calling us.”

They also note that more than 150 dogs have been put down. These dogs were, in some cases, taken by force from their owners. And Denver also has a Doggie Underground Railroad to get dogs out of the city:

They have passed out flyers and made phone calls to inform dogowners of the rescue network and potential safe houses until dogs can be relocated. If an animal control officer comes to the door before that, owners are urged to ask for a search warrant.

Volunteers estimate they have driven or referred about 20 pit bulls to the Mariah’s Promise Animal Sanctuary, including Zena and Dias’s own pet, Gryffindor.

It’s not uncommon for the powers that be to forget the public use portion of the fifth amendment but when they claim that the benefit is considered just compensation, they’re really reaching:

Kruses didn’t take $5,000 offered; now city says project benefits will be only payment

The city took the property to install a sewer:

Even though [city officials] offered the Kruses $5,000 for the property late last year hoping to avoid an expensive condemnation process – an offer the Kruses rejected – Water Resources Program Manager Ted Nitza said a cash payment now would be “inappropriate because we feel the benefits of the project (to the Kruses) exceeds the value of what was taken.”

It seems my hosting provider didn’t renew my domain name on time, so we were down for a bit. But we’re back.

Caught that show Hit Me Baby One More Time where they get some one (or two) hit wonders and have them do their hit and then later they do a new song. Let me tell ya that Wang Chung doing a Nelly tune absolutely rocked. Of course, being white, the guys from Wang Chung sped it up but that’s what white people do with music.

The Commissar is looking for RINOs but not the kind you’re thinking of. He writes:

For the past few weeks, I’ve been looking around for more secular conservative, or moderate blogs. RINO’s, if you will. Are RINO’s an endangered species? How can Conservative bloggers who might not want to drink the Party Kool-Aid on every single issue (ESCR, Schiavo, small government, fiscal responsibility, senatorial compromises, free markets/trade, just to name a few) find each other? Maybe you’re just concerned about rhetorical excesses by “our side.” Neo-libertarians and ‘little l’ libertarians welcome too.

He has created the RINO community at TTLB, which has a lot of new blog related features you should check out.

The new group of Raging RINOs advise that you not drink the party Kool Aid. Of course, I think the name Vast Moderate Right Wing Conspiracy has a better ring to it.

Walther P22 listed as an assault weapon.

For the last two years, the Walther P22 has been legally sold under California state law, recognized by the state’s DOJ Automated Firearm System. Now, they contend that the weapon meets the ambiguous restrictions identifying assault weapons, and as a result have issued an ultimatum to owners of the weapon located in the state that if they do not send the firearm back to the manufacturer for modification they will face criminal prosecution.

In August of 2006, Tennessee will have a sales tax holiday. This will be that special time of year where, for an entire weekend, the powers that be acknowledge that sales taxes in Tennessee are ridiculously high and people need a break. If you buy a car during the holiday, you could save a few thousand bucks.

I, of course, advocate buying some guns. But they won’t be exempt because, as with most tax benefit schemes, those without children in school will probably get screwed:

Tax-free items will include clothes and school supplies costing $100 or less, and computers costing $1500 or less. The sales tax holiday does not include software, fashion accessories or sports equipment.

Guess that means no cars, too.

For Kevin:

Of course, the obvious is that current Senator Robert Byrd was a Kleagle in the KKK. Not just a member, he was management.

Dick Gephardt sought endorsement from white rights groups.

Chicago Alderman Dorothy Tillman, formerly of Pensacola, said the law will “lead to open war on black males.”

And the opening salvo of this speaks for itself.

See how easy that is? 10 whole minutes of Googling. Yet, it doesn’t prove that there’s any sort of institutionalized racism in the Democrat party just that there are instances of it.

The House voted to restrict provisions of the PATRIOT Act:

Advocates of rewriting the USA Patriot Act are claiming momentum after the House, despite a White House veto threat, voted to restrict investigators from using the anti-terrorism law to peek at library records and bookstore sales slips.

Good.

Obvious:

The public’s image of the Supreme Court has eroded over the past few years, with just over half of those in a new poll saying they have a favorable view of the high court.

Well, let’s see. In the recent past, the SCOTUS has:

Killed the federalism and states’ rights (states’ rights is a racist codeword by the way, and that makes me a racist), while kissing the commerce clause good-bye.

Continued killing the fourth amendment. Just repeal it already.

Ignored guns by refusing to hear a variety of cases. Yet, finds the time to tell the ninth that it needs to take a pro-gun ruling back.

Its refusal to address those being detained who were not charged with crimes.

Killing the first amendment in the name of campaign finance reform.

The Supreme Court, often thought to be the last hope, merely shills for the powers that be.

Update: Yeah, killed the commerce clause was not appropriate. Corrected.

Kevin is hosting a debate with a supposed gun control moderate. Go here and scroll.

There’s a push in Columbus to ban weapons that look like assault weapons. This bit is particularly scary:

The proposal is geared toward taking high-powered, semiautomatic assault weapons off the streets. Anyone who bought the firearms before the ban took effect would have 90 days to register them.

Why on earth would they need to be registered? And here’s their criteria for a weapon that looks like an assault weapon:

The new Columbus proposal defines an assault weapon as a semiautomatic rifle with a detachable magazine with any of these five components: a protruding pistol grip, a grip for the nonshooting hand, a thumbhole stock, a shroud covering a hot barrel and a muzzle brake to reduce recoil.

That may be the stupidest definition I’ve seen. The NRA convention for 2007 is in Columbus. They’re threatening to pull out.

A good idea: In Frisco, the local Humane Society is paying people $10 to bring their Pit Bulls in to be neutered.

Meanwhile, Xrlq notes another pit bull attack and wagers:

Once again, watch for ample coverage of the fact that the pit bull was a pit bull, and relatively sparse coverage of the fact that the dog had a history of aggressive behavior, and sparser coverage still over whether or not he was neutered (the smart money says he wasn’t).

And, I’ll add, the smart money says the dog wasn’t socialized properly.

Update: Xrlq was correct.

USA Today on blogs (particularly blogs getting people fired):

Blogs are proliferating as fast as a computer virus

The Buffalo News is continuing its all-anti-gun-all-the-time nonsense. LOU MICHEL, SUSAN SCHULMAN and DAN HERBECK misleadingly write:

…the NRA in recent years has succeeded in getting the nation’s assault weapons ban repealed…

The ban was not repealed. It contained a sunset provision to expire on its own after ten years. Additionally, the NRA wasn’t particularly active in its sunset. But, I’m pretty sure they knew the fix was in.

This is a reminder that the contest for designing some line art for my gun projects is still on. Submit your ideas!

I commented that the senate measure to apologize for the Democrats filibustering laws to make lynching a federal crime 100 or so years ago was nothing but a Dog and Pony show (none of the current congress monkeys were around then and this measure will bring no one back). And I stand by that. It’s a pointless resolution designed to garner some publicity. Though it passed unanimously, my understanding is that only six senators were present and there was a voice vote.

Now, the partisans with Ds after their names are equating non-sponsorship of the measure as racist. They are even stating that if you didn’t sponsor this bill, then you are pro-lynching. That is probably the stupidest thing I have ever heard. I share the Commissar’s position. This is nothing more than hateful propaganda. It is vile and disgusting. Now, I expect hacks like Kos and Atrios to engage in such vile, hateful rhetoric. Since they don’t have a branch of government, rhetoric’s all they got. However, when people whose opinions I typically respect play into the asinine propaganda that non-sponsorship equals pro-lynching, it makes me sad.

Thoughts of an Average Woman maintains a list of bigots and attempts to chide Alexander into supporting it. While I support efforts to get senators to act on the will of the people, calling him a bigot is shameful and despicable. Meanwhile, Lamar responds:

There is no resolution of apology that we can pass today (Monday) that will teach one more child to read, prevent one more case of AIDS or stop one more violent crime

I also tend to share La Shawn Barber’s view:

In light of the serious problems we face in the world and our own country, I think this apology is one of the dumbest, emptiest, most politically correct pile of rubbish I’ve heard about in a long time.

We’ve got fanatics trying to kill us all in the name of their god and hiding among us. We’re being taxed to death taking care of deadbeats and criminals, while President Bush is sending even more of our money to brutal dictators in Africa. And the Senate apologizes for failing to pass anti-lynching laws 100 years ago?

Kevin pushes the lynch mob meme too by listing them. He also points out the original sponsor was trying to get away from his racially insensitive past.

If the senate wants to apologize for this crap, that’s what press releases are for. Or each individual senator can go on TeeVee and make an announcement. Trotting out the dogs and ponies is a waste of time.

Update: And I should point out that the senate leader killing a roll call vote is equally asinine. Senators should place their names on what they vote for. Accountability is such a novel idea in government.

Online pics translated.

Brutal Hugs tells us about Gay Camp:

Apparently gay camp is more like fat camp. In fat camp, kids are shamed into eating less. In gay camp, they’re shamed into eating less cock. It’s where you send your kids to have the queer beaten out of them.

Here’s one of the Gay Camp kid’s blogs.

Also, the Republic of T rounds up the issue.

On this whole gay camp thing, at first I thought it was sad but found it to be mildly humorous that parents think this gay thing can be treated like obesity (note to my gay readers: this week, is being a gay a lifestyle choice or biological? I always forget). Anyway, I don’t think you can scare the faggotiness out of gays and why you would try to, I don’t know. The kids are confused enough at that age anyway without going to a manly, man re-education center (do they spend their days chugging beers, watching football and hitting women? Or participate in activities aimed at strengthening wrists?). Try, say, talking to your kids. If the kid has no problem with being a homo, then the problem is with you, I would think.

Then again, I do often meet people who claim that they like gay people and have no problem with them. However, if they found out their kid was gay, they’d probably throw a full-fledge manly, man hissy-fit. And there’s also the people who have no problem with gays other than the fact that gay people give them the willies. And, of course, there are raging homophobes who think the gay mafia is trying to turn all their kids into pillow-biters.

You’re not going to scare the gay out of your kids. Either man-up and talk to your kids about it or shut up.

Update: Just realized this is occurring in Tennessee. Another embarassment for the state.

Jeff has the latest. Apparently, the Buffalo news continues to be all anti-gun, all the time. The slammed gun traffickers and a guy who makes inexpensive guns (remember, there will always be a cheapest gun).

There latest is on the supposed gun show loophole. Guys, the unlicensed, private seller is just a regular Joe engaging in lawful commerce.

The California DOJ, after giving approval [you mean they have to give approval? stupid nanny-statists! – ed.], have now demanded the recall of an assault weapon. This assault weapon is the dreaded Walther P22. It is a 22 long rifle target pistol. The reason is because the barrel has threads on it and someone may put a (gasp!) flash suppressor on it.

I seem to have lost my dog and pony. See, they do this little show. Can you help me find them?

Nevermind, there they are.

The local Board of Education has banned the Confederate flag at events:

The Rebel flag will no longer be allowed at any Maryville school system events.

The Maryville Board of Education voted on first reading to ban flags, noisemakers, sirens, whistles, laser-pointers and hand-held signs Monday night during its monthly meeting.

“This would prohibit bringing in any kind of flags,” Director of Schools Mike Dalton said.

The exemption to this policy will be equipment, approved by the principal and Dalton, used by groups such as cheerleaders and the flag team.

The no-flag policy eliminates the use of a symbol long associated with the school system but one that has caused growing concern over the years.

The local high school is known as The Rebels. I wonder if they’ll change the name. This comes in light of recent race related crimes in our area, some of which occurred at schools. This policy seems a bit overreaching though:

The event safety policy also prohibits any action “associated with oppression, hate, or anything else that may cause other students, parents, visitors, constituents, school district employees, spectators, or any other individuals to feel uncomfortable based on race, color, creed, gender, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religious belief/non-belief… This includes verbal, non-verbal, and physical acts.”

Bubba’s back from wandering the earth.

Heartless Libertarian predicted this a week ago. Since the Supreme Court has stated in Raich that there are no states’ rights and the commerce clause is a big, fat wet blanket capable of covering every aspect of every thing ever to exist, they have now remanded the Stewart case (where the guy made homemade machine guns that were not involved in commerce and the Ninth Circuit said that was OK) back to the Circuit. TriggerFinger has some analysis and, with respect to hearing Stewart on Second Amendment grounds, notes:

A pure 2nd Amendment challenge is unlikely to succeed in the 9th Circuit.

David Hardy is extensively covering the issue as well:

There are similarities and distinctions between the two cases. On the one hand, given that the medicinal pot case says you must consider the entire of the economic activity and not just the defendant’s actions, or what was legal activity, it undercuts the original Stewart rationale. It’d be a safe bet that there is enough illegal commerce in full auto to pass any likely commerce test.

And a note to David Hardy, there have been two crimes (excluding violations of the NFA) that I know of committed with NFA registered machine guns. In 1988, a police officer in Ohio killed an informant with a registered submachine gun. Note this was after the 1986 Hughes amendment to ban transfer of new machine guns to civilians. And the other case occurred in 1992 when a doctor used one to kill another female doctor he had been stalking (again, after the 1986 ban on real assault weapons).

Matt has more.

Update: Kevin says:

It’s pretty obvious that the Supreme Court just told the 9th Circuit, “No homemade machineguns. To hell with limited powers.”

Ayup.

Via Jed comes the legal guide for bloggers.

Robert has finished up his nice looking AK-74 (henceforth, referred to as the dyslexic AK). Nice looking gun.

Me and a buddy are about to embark on the AK building project. By my calculations, it goes like this:

Parts Kit (which includes compliance parts): $125 (IMPORTANT UPDATE: Robert points out in comments that you still need to add two more US made parts to be 922 compliant. He recommends gas piston, pistol grip, or muzzle brake. The kit below does have more compliance parts.)

Receiver Flat: $13.

Grand total of $138. Or we could get the evil black variety with folding stocks and other goodies that scare people for $75 more.