Aunt B. thought it was a good idea to have some. So, she wrote some.
I’ve had terms of use and a contact page for a while in full smart ass glory. But, all you lawyer-type readers out there, it begs the question: Do these things really matter or provide any level of legal protection at all?
I guess I need to a link policy and privacy policy too.
That’s what insty calls it. Here it is. Simpler version: Ooh, pretty.
We just bought a plasma on Sunday. Should be here Wednesday. I was sort of disappointed as the the mantle above the fireplace (which I had a media slot put in) was about 1.5 inches too short for the 50 incher. We got the 42 incher.
Here’s my bizarro psychology: Back in 2000 when me and the Mrs. decided to live in sin, our first major purchase together was a big screen TeeVee. Not just a big screen, the biggest screen. We bought a 60 inch projection set (a month later, the 72 inch came out and I was pissed). This was when HD was not as popular and we saw no point in that kind of bling for 4 HD channels. We still have that TeeVee in our rec room. It’s a great TeeVee, with a good picture. Honestly, me and the Mrs. really like that TeeVee a whole lot. But a part of me kinda wishes Junior would throw a hammer through it or something so I can get a plasma for the rec room.
I love East Tennessee. Even the County Commissioners are strapped:
My good friend Greg “Lumpy” Lambert who is also a Knox county commissioner had a little run in today that ended with guns being drawn. I happened to call Lumpy today and got the full story. Lumpy does used car sales for a real job. A customer came and wanted to purchase a car for about 10k. Lumpy was happy to sell but got a little concerned when the person had little interest in having the car checked by a mechanic.
The customer went out side to smoke a cigarette. Lumpy went outside to tell him it was time to do some paper work. When the man came back in Lumpy had a bad feeling and had his hand on his gun he keeps on him at most all times. The man started to pull his gun…..Bad move. Lumpy does quick draw competitions for fun and had his gun pointing down the criminals throat before the criminal had his own gun half drawn. After some harsh words the criminal dropped his gun.
The main reason that people carry handguns is for protection. The question now is will the firearm you have do the job?
A woman was released from the hospital a day after she was shot in the head six times in an attack police blamed on her ex-husband, Brazilian media reported Saturday.
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Doctors could not explain how Pereira survived the attack. The .32-caliber bullets didn’t break through her skull and didn’t even need to be immediately extracted, doctors said. Pereira also was shot once in the hand.
I hear a lot of guys suggest smaller calibers for the ladies. Nice, but does it leave them underpowered?
Here, Tom says:
Are some people finally going to stop calling it [McCain-Feingold] the “Incumbent Protection Act?” Because from where I sit, it looks like it did a piss-poor job of protecting incumbents
Really? Well, let’s see:
Consider that there were 435 races in the House and Senate with an incumbent trying to retain his or her seat. Only 26 – 6% — of challengers in these races have won. That’s pretty low for a “throw the bums out” election. Pending the outcome of three or four yet-to-be-determined races, this year’s 94% incumbent reelection rate appears to be slightly higher than the 90% rate of 1994.
So, it’s more like throw a small amount of the bums out. So, yeah, in a year supposedly marked by fed up and angry voters, only 6% of politicians lost their jobs. It’s a higher incumbency rate than the Republican Revolution. If that ain’t protecting incumbency, I don’t know what is.
Make your own here. Meanwhile, putting your losers in charge seems to be working.
Tam’s book should be a better seller though.
Update: OK, one more:
I’ve been highlighting a lot of the good. Michael Bane says not so fast:
I got a quick bulletin from Jim Shepherd at The Shooting Wire, the only guy in this business with more (and sneakier) contacts than moi, that elements of the gun control agenda WILL be in the Dems’ “First 100 Hours” Pelosi action plan
Folks, if that’s the case, the only thing that can stop it is from within the Democrat party. Don’t count on Republicans, they couldn’t even stand up to one another.
Update: Countertop says nyuh-uh:
Heck, what your gonna find is that no anti gun legislation is getting through the senate – indeed we might even be able to move pro gun legislation through (and withstand filibusters). No matter what the Nancy Pelosi House does, they will have to contend with this simple fact.
I would offer that Digby has hit upon something important here. Southern conservatism and its self-centered agenda has been thrust into the national spotlight, and undeservedly so. He argues (convincingly, to my eye) that not only has that agenda been repudiated in this electoral cycle, but also that the Democratic Party has demonstrated conclusively that a majority can be held without the South.
Yes. Make sure the first thing you do is abandon that thing that put you guys in power. Your guys ran in the south, west and other red states by acting, well, red. Period. Remember, your guys here in Tennessee hate gay cooties too. They cannot win unless they do. And that’s just how it is. Follow this guy’s advice, and you’re out in two years.
Remember this guy’s advice.
I’d heard rumors that the 45GAP would become a police cartridge pretty quickly. It is in NY now:
New York State Police Superintendent Wayne Bennett announced today that the New York State Police has purchased 5,400 new Glock pistols to replace older Glock models that were called into question following the death of Trooper Andrew J. Sperr on March 1 in Chemung County.
The state police have purchased the new model Glock 37 which is a .45 G.A.P. caliber after what Bennett called careful consideration by a special committee.
Side note: I did read up on Sperr (cliff notes here). Not sure that a different weapon would have made much difference.
Update: looks like Claire McCaskill isn’t that pro-gun.
She’s pro-gun rights, pro-death penalty and wary of big government waste.
Meet Claire McCaskill, the senator-elect from the generally conservative state of Missouri. She’s a Democrat.
Like many of her freshman Democratic colleagues in the Senate and the House of Representatives, McCaskill defies the long-standing stereotype of Democrats as the party of San Francisco liberals. Consider:
• Sen.-elect Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, calmly and resolutely against abortion rights.
• Sen.-elect Jon Tester of Montana, a flat-topped farmer and butcher who loves his guns.
• Sen.-elect Jim Webb of Virginia, a virtual compendium of alpha-male machismo who wore combat boots on the campaign trail and served as President Reagan’s secretary of the Navy.
• In the House, freshman Democrats include Heath Shuler of North Carolina, a member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
• All three new Democrats from Indiana oppose abortion.
Each of them is pro-gun too.
Rich has planned one for the local bloggers:
BlogFest Friday, Nov 17 6:30PM until whenever, at Barleys in the Old City.
Someone once said that to find bias in the press, one need only look at the adjectives or other descriptive words. The British press becomes a bunch of hysterical ninnies when it comes to guns:
Chilling haul of 400 guns handed in for Jessie firearm amnesty
A frightening haul of guns, rifles and crossbows containing enough firepower to supply a small army has been handed over to police following the gangland murder of schoolboy Jessie James
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But what is even more terrifying is that, until several weeks ago, these weapons were sitting in British homes and carried by homegrown criminals.
In other news, some folks in Britain turned in their guns whereas I bet not one gang member in did.
Just wanted to remind everyone of Jane’s Law:
The devotees of the party in power are smug and arrogant. The devotees of the party out of power are insane.
A Chuck Schumer staffer is reading. Hello. Now, go shut that fucking guy up before he ruins it for your party.
R. Neal to Democrats in Congress:
Please don’t do anything stupid for the next two years. Thank you.
Since I’m no longer smoking, I’m experiencing Dysgeusia, which means that my sense of taste is changing. Dysgeusia can be caused as a side effect of the medication Chantix (which I am taking and recommend for quitting smoking) and as a result of quitting smoking in general.
I used to drink my coffee strong, black and with sugar. Now, I take it a bit weaker and with cream. Odd. I had a beer earlier this week and it wasn’t that good. Of course, that was likely because it was shitty beer and not due to Dysgeusia. Still, I’ve had no urge to drink a beer since, even the good ones.
And, suddenly, I love the cinnamon. Seriously. Red Hots, Hot Tamales, and those cinnamon gummy bears rule.
A minced oath is an expression based on a profanity which has been altered to reduce or remove the disagreeable or objectionable characteristics of the original expression; for example, “gosh” used instead of “God”
I still think it’s fudging stupid.
Congrats to Ben for his group’s victory:
Future property tax rate increases would have to go to the voters under a Metro Nashville referendum on Tuesday’s ballot.
Supporters of the ballot measure outnumbered opponents by a strong margin.
Oh, where to start. Well, may as well get the angry stuff out of the way first. On the pending push for another assault weapons ban:
Some of you are making the assumption that there WILL be a grandfather clause in AW Ban 2.0. I can’t look up sources here at work but I do remember a few of the major gun-grabbing people stating the next AW ban won’t have the loopholes in it the first one did. I believe that one of the top gun grabbers made mention of ” no grandfathering ” any of the guns that were part of the original or any of the ones made after the ban – again, I’m at work and can’t look it up.
To which Kevin opines:
if Joe is right and an AW Ban 2.0 carries a “Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them all in” clause, on the date that bill becomes law, I become an outlaw.
I disagree. I’ll happily turn them in. Ammo first.
Oy. $300 for a lousy SKS… when did that happen?
Counter notes that Chuckles Schumer wasted no time:
To that end, he sketched out an expansive federal agenda: Teaming up with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on gun control, passing new tax incentives for urban job programs, and redirecting federal money to New York in return for the outsize tax collections that the federal government makes here.
Note to Democrats: shut that guy up, or you’ll be out in two years.
They had learned the NRA’s brutal lesson that you can’t be elected running on an anti-gun agenda. So they kept their anti-gun views to themselves throughout the campaign.
Once elected, they turned over control of your gun rights to the Schumers, Kennedys, Feinsteins, Boxers, Pelosis and Conyers of Congress.
That’s why Tuesday will be recorded as the first day of an ominous future for Second Amendment freedom.
And among the things you can expect to see are some really onerous gun-control bills.
Whoa, you say. Haven’t the Democrats learned that backing gun control is bad for political longevity? Why yes, says I, but they don’t care. They have to do it. It’s in their genes.
Is it pledge season or something? The VPC says:
In the wake of the Republican party losing control of the U.S. House and amidst key Senate losses, the National Rifle Association (NRA) has suffered its “biggest election disaster in nearly 15 years” according to the NRA’s own election materials. In its magazines and in member communications leading up to the 2006 midterm elections, the NRA repeatedly warned that its “pro-Second Amendment House of Representatives” was at stake. And in a direct-mail appeal sent out in July 2006, the NRA’s Political Victory Fund declared that “you and I could be headed for our biggest election disaster in nearly 15 years” if democrats were to take control of one or both Houses of Congress.
I think the pro and anti gun lobby both are a bit over excited, when GOA is the voice of reason:
What impact, if any, will the transformational 2006 Congressional Election have on Second Amendment rights?
While election 2006 may have been a referendum on many things (the President, war in Iraq, Jack Abramoff, Mark Foley for example), it does not translate into greater support for gun control at the grass roots level.
If anything, gun control was notable as a non-issue in this election. In compiling the GOA rating, researchers could hardly find a congressional candidate with any stated position on gun control on campaign websites.
That’s not to say many of the newly elected will not support the anti-gun agenda; just that they recognize open support for gun control will cost them at the polls.
Republicans got what they deserved, but did we? Err, no.
Cam notes that the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership is giddy:
The Brady Campaign is saying that last night’s results mean Americans are in favor of gun control.
David Kopel looks at the election and the second amendment:
The Second Amendment has emerged from the biggest Democratic victory since 1974 with relatively little damage.
Over at The Gun Blogs:
while our gun rights might not be under fire, we have other issues that could impact us
JR A Keyboard and a .45 says expect a ban on weapons that look like assault weapons and talk of the non-existent gun show loophole.
Some thoughts I’ve seen around (not all of them I agree with but it’s interesting to see what people think):
Heh:
The Republicans lost and the Democrats won for the same reason — they distanced themselves from their base.
When the Democrats were in charge.
A commenter here opined that We pulled a Spain…... I don’t think that’s the case at all but I’d say quite a few conservatives do.
The Quote of the Day comes from Chuck:
If the Republicans buy into the bipartisanship bull, then they had better get used to being backbenchers
In 2004, President Bush and the Republicans lived by Iraq. This year they died by Iraq.
Libertarians score more than the margin of victory in Montana.
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Being the evil, earth-raping capitalist that I am, you’ll find it odd that I drive a vehicle that takes ethanol-blended gas. Until recently, I didn’t even know there places in the Knoxville that sold it. Well, there are. Here’s a list.
Everyone knows that this past election was different but so far no one has put their finger on what it was that made it different. It was the Internet. Actually an Internet site, it was YouTube. The Internet has been around for a long time but until this election the Internet was not a player.
Many people felt the 2000 Presidential Election would be when the Internet would be seen as a vehicle of change. But it wasn’t time yet. Something was missing.
So it was a slam dunk that the 2004 Presidential Election would be the Internet Election. But it wasn’t to be.
The reason? People don’t like to read. They would rather watch. The solution was YouTube. In the advertising world they measure impressions. In Television news Karl Rove and James Carville types worry about the news cycle. So what happens when impressions multiply beyond comprehension and news cycles are extended indefinitely?
Mistakes are amplified and exaggerated.
That is what happened in this election. For George Allen it was macaca. For John F. Kerry it was a bungled joke about education and Iraq. For Harold Ford it was the “Memphis Meltdown” and the “bimbo ad”.
In the days before YouTube these “impressions” and “news cycles” where very brief. After all, do people make a video tape of these moments and exchange them with their friends? Of course not, too much trouble. But YouTube changed everything. Hook your TV up to your computer and pesto chango you have a file you can upload to YouTube for FREE. Then you can link it to any number of Blogs for FREE.
The politicians were caught flat-footed. Most mistakes can survive a limited number of impressions and a short news cycle. But what do you do when you say macaca and it never ends? You lose. That is what happens.
But the YouTube phenomena is not just for elections. All across this country every City Council meeting, every County Commission meeting, every State Assembly meeting, and every meeting of the United States Congress is now a potential YouTube adventure.
YouTube is the inverse of Big Brother. The citizens now control the picture. We the people control the image, we control the horizontal, we control the vertical.
A new revolution has begun and politicians should be warned. We are listening to and watching every word you say.
Clued in by reader Ron, I found this:
Tester has won Montana, by most accounts. Notice the jab about the PATRIOT Act and guns. More Democrats like this please.
A little birdie told me that the phones at one of the prominent makers of evil black rifles has been busy for the last several hours.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Republican officials say Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is stepping down.
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Earlier today, a spokesman for Rumsfeld said he’d given no indication that he would step down in the wake of Democratic election gains. The spokesman said Rumsfeld would work with Congress on Iraq but added that the focus on stabilizing the country will remain the same.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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