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I have covered Sunshyne Video many times, a local porn shop who has been given a hard time by local authorities. Well, now they have (WARNING link is not safe for work) a blog. One story is (AGAIN not safe for work): Wife Arrested for Having Sex With Another Woman, but not letting husband join in.

Via NIT.

Update: Somehow I missed it but (AGAIN not safe for work) Sunshyne has closed up their store.

Update 2: David says in comments they are not closed. The post linked above mentioned they’d closed the retail store but the web site is still up and running. Sent David an email to clarify.

Last Update: Uncle so stupid. They were closed for a holiday, as mandated by law. I didn’t pick up the smarmy, which is odd because I’m usually good at being smarmy.

Can I get an AR-15 lower and upper receiver made out of transparent aluminum:

In Star Trek IV there is made mention of transparent aluminum. Very cool idea, huh? Well… science and engineering have nearly caught up with that science fiction material. It’s aluminum oxynitride that the US Air Force is testing for transparent armor:

Cool.

For some reason the Knoxville City Council Candidate Forum tonight at 7:30 PM at West High School has received little public notice. The event is sponsored by League of Women Voters. This is curious because Knoxville News Sentinel Editor Jack McElroy will be present with other local media representatives on the panel that will ask the questions of the City Council Candidates. If you are one of the less than 12 % of registered voters that give a damn about this election you may find the Forum entertaining.

The Knoxville News Sentinel has a Politics Section in the paper but for some unknown reason this off year City Council election is not “news worthy”. Neither WATE nor WBIR have had much coverage over the election. I wonder if the lack of coverage of this election has any relationship to the voter apathy?

Metro Pulse has given their endorsements but who really cares about the Metro Pulse these days? The consolidation of power in Knoxville continues unabated, as the voters have not turned out in record numbers in early voting. This election may set a record for low voter turnout.

Over at http://www.knoxblab.com in the Forum section there is some lively debate on potential questions to be asked of the City Council Candidates. Much of them centering on the dreaded red light cameras, the Candy Factory debacle, the perpetual kissing of the City Mayor’s behind, and environmental concerns.

Katie Allison Granju is a moderator on the panel and is requesting questions from the public. You can drop her an email at kagranju@gmail.com or go over to http://www.knoxblab.com and join the fray.

Is that Chuck Schumer has issues with her. Apparently, Feinstein takes issue with her as well. I’d consider both of those good things.

Update: Guess you take the good with the bad:

Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers pledged support in 1989 for a constitutional amendment banning abortions except when necessary to save the life of the mother, according to material given to the Senate on Tuesday.

“If Congress passes a Human Life Amendment to the Constitution that would prohibit abortion except when it was necessary to prevent the death of the mother, would you actively support its ratification by the Texas Legislature,” asked an April 1989 questionnaire sent out by the Texans United for Life group.

Miers checked “yes” to that question, and all of the group’s questions, including whether she would oppose the use of public moneys for abortions and whether she would use her influence to keep “pro-abortion” people off city health boards and commissions.

And with that, I can see her nomination caving. The senate may get all nuclear over this one. Of course, if some of the conservative dissatisfaction with the Miers’ nod manifests itself, that option may not be enough.

Messing around with Google Ads so if you see the template jump around, don’t panic. Also, even better than the ad revenue I may make is watching to see what Ads pop up on a particular post. When the post has questionable content (like one of my posts on gun porn or strippers), it displays a public service announcement.

Update: $0.16 in two hours. That’s $0.08 per hour. I’m rich, bitch! Anyone want to buy my Powerball tickets? I don’t need that pesky $340M anymore.

Michael Silence notes:

Spring Hill aldermen are facing a decision over whether to go after do-it-yourself enthusiasts who violate an ordinance banning construction work on Sundays.

According to city code in this Nashville suburb, no construction work of any kind can be done on Sundays. Spring Hill aldermen are now debating just how strict that ordinance is.

And why you may ask:

“What about Seventh-day Adventists?” Alderman Charles Raines said. “They go to church on Saturday.”

On Sunday, you should be in church, you Godless heathen. That, for example, is why you can’t buy booze on Sunday in my hometown. If the ACLU wanted an establishment case folks would get behind, this is it.

Jed links to a Brady Center game that educates people about guns. Looks kinda dumb to me but I didn’t get too far.

Looks like Stacey Campfield is back and has again enabled comments (and maybe pasted to code wrong).

As if to prove the UN is losing it’s grip, it gets Mugabe to address a hunger conference. Why not just put Libya on the Human Rights Commission? It gets better:

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe on Monday railed against U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, calling them “unholy men” and “international terrorists” bent on world domination.

Mugabe departed from his text at a ceremony for the 60th anniversary of the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to accuse Bush and Blair of illegally invading Iraq and looking to unseat governments elsewhere.

“Must we allow these men, the two unholy men of our millennium, who in the same way as Hitler and Mussolini formed (an) unholy alliance … to attack an innocent country?” he said, occasionally gesticulating for emphasis.

As long as the UN gives relevancy to these sorts, it will continue to become less relevant itself.

Anyone heard from Ravenwood? Site’s been down a couple days.

Update: Nevermind, he’s back with pictures of Paris Hilton screwing.

Kevin reports that in Cookeville, TN buying 1,000 rounds of ammo makes you a drug suspect (it’s an older case as the article is from 2002):

While it is not necessarily illegal to possess such ammunition in that quantity, detectives working this case have reason to suspect “it is drug related,” he said.

Necessarily? I don’t think it’s ever illegal. I buy my rifle ammo 1,000 rounds at a time all the time. See, I go to Ammo Man and get my 7.62X39 and 5.56X45 ammo in thousand round lots to save some cash. I buy my 45ACP, 22LR and 9MM at Wal-Mart because they have the best prices I’ve found. In Cookeville, that makes me a suspect and not a guy trying to save a few bucks. More details:

“Our detectives did not wait for somebody to get hurt, but took a proactive stance and moved to track down this ammunition,” Honeycutt said.

The arrest of Mendoza was the first result, and more arrests are expected, he said.

When the officers and DTF and ATF agents arrived at Mendoza’s residence last Friday about 11 a.m., they found him there with his girlfriend, and he was arrested without incident, Honeycutt said.

But he made no statements, Honeycutt said.

Allegedly, he had a handgun and methamphetamine, and his arrest was based on those items.

But the officers did not find the 1,000 rounds of ammunition.

“So it is still a very, very active investigation,” Honeycutt said this morning.

He praised the work of the Cookeville Police detectives and the “excellent cooperation” of the ATF and the Drug Task Force.

Mendoza was taken to Nashville, where he will be arraigned in federal court.

No, not here but Head has some for you.

David Hardy notes:

The media once again goes out with a story that repeats whatever an official wants to tell them. In this case, an ATFE agent saying that (1) lots of criminals buy guns at flea markets (last study I saw indicated a bit over 1% do, the same as with gun shows) and (2) they’re driving from NY to Kentucky to get around NY’s gun laws.

The media are quite happy to repeat talking points.

The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act is no doubt wanted because of stupid lawsuits like this one from a Brady Presser against Cary Jewelry & Pawn:

In November 2003, Van McQueen and Matthew Grant went to Cary Jewelry & Pawn to buy a firearm. McQueen planned to purchase a firearm as a straw buyer for Grant, because Grant was a felon prohibited from buying guns, and in return Grant promised to buy McQueen a beer. McQueen was mentally deficient and was obviously intoxicated, and the shop’s clerk refused to sell him a gun. Three days later, McQueen returned to the pawn shop with Grant, again wanting to buy a firearm. Although his home address was a local mission, McQueen had $120 in cash to buy the weapon. This time, even though the same clerk who had seen McQueen intoxicated three days earlier was on duty, the shop completed the all-cash sale. McQueen then transferred the shotgun to Grant, who used it to shoot Investigator Tucker in the face, killing him. Grant was arrested, convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Investigator Tucker.

I see no evidence that the dealer violated the law. This lawsuit’s only purpose is to put the gun dealer out of business.

Ricky notes that Boortz has taken on Tennessee Reps. Lincoln Davis and Zach Wamp. On Zach Wamp:

I’ve told you that the FairTax would be the biggest transfer of power from politicians to the people since the Constitution was ratified. This may be the true reason Wamp is so opposed. When he ran for his seat in the Congress he promised to serve for only six terms and then resign. Well .. his time is up, and he’s now telling voters that he “made a mistake” when he made that promise.

He’s not going to quit after all. In fact, he sees himself as part of the new leadership in the Congress. What we may very well have here is a congressman who has become addicted to the prestige and power that comes with serving in Washington. This love of political power will be a primary influence on many elected officials who stand in opposition to meaningful tax reform

On Davis:

So … here is another congressman who simply hasn’t read the bill.

Reaganite on Ted Kennedy’s attempt to rescue some fishermen:

Sen. Kennedy’s 0 for 2 in Water Rescues

Ouch. Via Ace.

Kevin notes a twist to the upcoming National Ammo Day:

On the afternoon of Nov. 19, at 3:30PM Central time or as close as practicable, a bunch of us (me included) are going to go to our local WalMart and buy as much of the Winchester white-box or Remington value-packs of ammo as we can afford – preferably every bit in stock, in our preferred caliber(s). We’re kind of interested to see if it rings any bells anywhere.

I cheat a bit because, as I’ve said before, whenever I am at Wal-Mart, I pick up a box.

A while back, comment spam was huge. I implemented controls for that. Then, trackback spam became huge and I again implemented controls for that after going months with trackbacks disabled. Months ago, my referral logs became useless due to referral spam. Now, various other blog measures are getting inundated with spam. I’ve found blogpulse and blogsnow to be getting hit regularly with linky spam, wherein some blog is setup to pimp a product and links to everyone it can. So, when you go check out who is linking to you, you are exposed to the crap.

About the only decent measure of readership these days seems to be Technorati, Google Blog Search, and Sitemeter.

Update: Just Johnny on Splogging:

I thought it would be commercial advertising in RSS feeds that dampered the growth of Insta-blogs; it now appears that the culprit will be spam based blogs infesting our favorite blog-regators like technorati and google.

Do we now need spam filters and virus protection for our RSS feeds?

J.J. Horner, who is from my hometown, has a blog. It’s already a success since it’s getting spam. Here, he ponders the establishment clause and the ACLU’s interpretation thereof.

So, I assume that everyone can agree that 23 does not equal 21. This whole naming convention for hurricanes has always bugged me but now it seems the math is off. People keep calling Wilma the 21st storm/hurricane/weather anomaly/whatever this year. But W is the 23rd letter of the alphabet. Do we skip letters?

Update: OK, d in comments says we skip Q and U. That was fast.

The supposed Toledo race riot was pretty heinous. But check this out. Actual headline:

White Supremacists Riot in Toledo, Ohio

But what really happened:

Protesters at a white supremacists’ march threw rocks at police, vandalized vehicles and stores and cursed the mayor for allowing the event.

Mayor Jack Ford said when he and a local minister tried to calm the rioters Saturday, they were cursed and a masked gang member threatened to shoot him. At one point, the crowd reached 600 people, officials said.

[snip]

Ford blamed the rioting on gangs taking advantage of a volatile situation. He declared a state of emergency, set an 8 p.m. curfew through the weekend and asked the Highway Patrol for help.

Doesn’t sound to me like the white supremacists were the ones rioting. It seems the white supremacists got what they wanted. Malkin has a round up.

World Net Daily has picked up on the story about Mike Wallace appearing at an anti-gun fundraiser.

Blake, guest posting at Nashville is talking, has posted some gun porn. Here’s his AK in 223 and here’s some more gun pics.

I’ve mentioned the supposedly staged teleconference president Bush participated in. SGT Ron Long was there. He says it wasn’t staged but they had a rehearsal.

Via Mr. Completely.

The media, who were all aghast at a supposedly staged teleconference by the president, aren’t above staging stuff on their own:

In one of television’s inadvertently funny moments, the NBC News correspondent was paddling in a canoe during a live report about flooding in Wayne, N.J. While she talked, two men walked between her and the camera _ making it apparent that the water where she was floating was barely ankle-deep.

Staged news? Who’d have thunk it?

Update: Jeff has a pic.

The latest round up of secular conservatives is up over at Politechnical.

Never been a fan of Colts. Don’t get me wrong, they’re fine guns but they are way overpriced. You can get plenty more gun for plenty less money. Tam wonders why top gun makers are located in states not particularly friendly to gun owners. Meanwhile, our local gun maker of note, Barrett Rifles, has gone to bat for gun rights plenty of times.

Johnny Dobbins asks:

How would you feel about a US Army private telling you, at gunpoint, that you no longer have rights afforded you by the constitution? His authority given to him by our elected leaders.

I’d feel like shooting back.

James links to this Google map of UFO sightings. Neat.