Seen at KDT’s, this is disturbing on many levels:

A German judge has stirred a storm of protest here by citing the Koran in turning down a German Muslim woman’s request for a fast-track divorce on the ground that her husband beat her.

In a remarkable ruling that underlines the tension between Muslim customs and European laws, the judge, Christa Datz-Winter, said that the couple came from a Moroccan cultural milieu, in which she said it was common for husbands to beat their wives. The Koran, she wrote, sanctions such physical abuse.

Wow. Multicultural sensitivity at its most perverted. If it keeps up, society there will reach the point that it so culturally sensitive that it cannot survive.

Tock.

Just sayin’.

Update: I’m not advocating military action against Iran. But the whole Iran situation will come to a head. And this is one more step toward that.

Les has the lowdown. Seem kinda spendy.

I was the luckiest man on Earth. Me and the Mrs. exchanged vows. It doesn’t seem like it’s been that long but it really has. We have a good life with two wonderful kids, a beautiful home and a slightly annoying Politically Incorrect Dog. I wouldn’t trade it for any thing.

I love you, honey.

And no jokes about five years being the wood anniversary.

An open letter to gun store clerks. Heh. My response is usually: then why do you sell this shit?

Property rights. I love ’em. Seems in Texas, they’re pushing a bill that forces employers to allow employees to keep weapons in their car. Sebastian says that’s not cool:

It’s true that employers are preventing employees from exercising a right, but employers are generally free to do this. Employers may dictate how you dress, what time you come to work, what you may or may not say on behalf of the company, what you can or can’t say in the workplace or to customers.

Here’s where I disagree. And it’s not because I’m the gun-nuttiest gun nut of all time but rather it’s because of one simple thing: My vehicle is my property. No matter where I park it. It’s my little portable home. I control what’s in it. And my employer will not tell me what I can and can not have in it.

Banning them on-premises, however, is a different ball of wax.

Confessions of an ex-Zumbo.

Congrats to Jeff, Gunner and Gun Law News for their press coverage on the Zumbo affair! Not a bad piece.

As said before, I was contacted for the story. I told the nice lady I’d be happy to chat via email but that’s the extent of my talking to the press. And here’s why I don’t talk to the press. I might change my policy for foxnews since they did respect Gun Law News request to not be identified.

Apparently, sitemeter.com (sort of the standard for blog traffic measuring and what I use because my internal stats package picks up everything) is installing spyware or some such. You can avoid that by using various spyware removal programs or Firefox. You’ve been warned.

I’d dump it but it’s just so darn handy.

Thanks to Georgia Packing for the heads up. Jeff has more.

SKS mods. That’s a lot of work on an SKS right there.

The Editorial staff of the Knoxville News Sentinel has penned yet another in the series of “Can I carry your water Mr. Mayor” Editorials. Except this time it is a different Mayor, it is Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam. Bonus points for also carrying the water of the Knoxville Police Chief Sterling Owen IV.

The subject of this waste of ink and paper is how the defeat of a bill in the General Assembly that would require 5 second Yellow Lights where there are Red Light cameras is a victory for public safety. It is not a victory for the people, it is a victory for the revenuers.

C.E. Petro at “Thoughts of an Average Woman” has more as does Joe Powell at “A Cup of Joe Powell”. Over on KnoxViews a poll shows 97% of 77 respondents prefer a 5 second Yellow Light over a 3 second Yellow Light.

The Red Light cameras from RedFlex Inc. have been a stunning success. With over 62,000 violations the City of Knoxville and RedFlex are in the money with much more money just around the corner. Both the News Sentinel and the City of Knoxville know that increasing the Yellow Light duration from 4 seconds to 5.5 seconds reduces Red Light tickets by 96%. You can read the Virginia study here that proves just that. It also makes intersections safer, something that Police Chief Owen says he wants. Yet for some unknown reason he will not support a safe Yellow Light duration.

Which is worse in this Editorial? The glee the News Sentinel has that the bill was “properly killed”, or the closing line, “It would have been better for the lawmakers to seek those answers directly from city officials before trying to make a circus out of a serious traffic issue”? What kind of writer uses “properly killed” in an Editorial about public safety? The News Sentinel goes on to say, “The Tennessee Legislature certainly has better things to do than second guess and micromanage Knoxville’s decision to use traffic-light cameras to ticket speeding motorists.”

Let’s be clear about this. This is not “micromanagement”. The Tennessee Legislature had to step in because the Mayor and the Police Chief have put revenue over public safety. Yet the pressure from the public is beginning to show. The Sentinel quotes Police Chief Owen, “Owen said he was not necessarily opposed to a longer yellow-light time if it can have a positive effect on reducing accidents, although he acknowledged the matter was more for traffic engineering than law enforcement. Let traffic engineering follow it up, then, perhaps giving the benefit of any doubt to motorists and increase the yellow-light time where warranted.”

So what exactly does Police Chief Owen mean? Does he mean if enough people are hurt then the traffic engineering people will increase the Yellow Light duration? Do people have to get hurt for the City to do the right thing? We live in a place of unaccountability. Neither the Mayor nor Police Chief Owen have any accountability for public safety, only the few people in the City traffic engineering department? Wonder if those poor people in traffic engineering are under orders from high above?

It’s the fact you can’t stick them in a stripper’s garter.

Ever done something stupid? Who hasn’t?

Cheated on your wife?

Missing a finger because you didn’t see the sign on the mower that said don’t stick your finger by the blades when they’re moving?

Feeling a bit hypocritical because you travel the world by plane telling people to conserve energy while your residence consumes more energy than a household of 8?

Want to fine TeeVee stations for playing Girls Gone Wild commercials?

Feeling misunderstood for wanting the state to decide if God created the world?

No problem.

For the price of only $10, you can buy one Stupid Offset and it will completely erase the impact of one stupid thing you’ve done. It’s true.

Snake oil sold separately.

stile over at The Gun Blogs:

Although it wasn’t asked for he has my forgiveness. We are a community and like any community we can’t expect to get along all the time. Unfortunately, I can see this as a dividing line between the hunters who have their sport and the shooters. This is the time when we all have to be aware of the attacks that our way of life is coming under. Hunters are loosing lands that they can hunt on while shooters are having a hard time finding ranges due to closures. Why is this continuing to be an issue? Mr. Zumbo has apologized. Time to move on. Mr. Zumbo should take another chance and make himself heard again and his prior sponsors should give him the opportunity to do so.

I concur.

Update: Speaking of, Mr. Completely has invited Mr. Zumbo to the Gun Blogger Rendezvous.

What happens after a gun fight, from notes at the Front Sight Training Academy. Via KDT.

I always assumed that Alabama was a shall-issue state. Turns out it is not but, according to my sources, it may as well be. Chuck has more on how the local sheriff’s rule their fiefdoms:

Since Alabama is a hodge podge of separate county’s with different rules for issuing a state concealed carry, would you be willing to support a Alabama “shall issue” permit like Georgia, Florida and most other states?

In other Alabama news, I was unaware that Alabama is not particularly NFA friendly and that short barreled shotguns and rifles were banned there. There is, per subguns.com, a bill to remedy that. So, if you’re in Alabama, contact your congressmonkey.

Rustmeister gets emails from the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership. Seems they’re all spooked by Parker:

Last week, a Federal Appeals Court overturned Washington D.C.’s long-standing restrictions on handguns — a decision that endangers all of America’s gun laws.

This case is most likely headed to the U.S. Supreme Court and we have a tidal wave of work to do before it gets there.

This battle — to its very core — is the most important battle we have ever waged. We need your help today to build a strong Brady Gun Law Defense Fund to save America’s gun laws.

This fight is so critical to the safety and sanity of our nation that an anonymous donor has extended his challenge and will match dollar for dollar all gifts to this Brady Gun Law Defense Fund. Your gift will be fully tax deductible.

Gee, wonder who the donor is?

Just wow.

To Aunt B. whose play will be performed by real actors and stuff.

Capri pants: They are evil, and should be wiped off the face of the planet. Wear pants, or wear shorts. Pick a side, we’re at war!

Pics and video of H&K’s MP7A1 Personal Defense Weapon.

Opposition to Carolyn McCarthy’s new and worse ban on weapons that look like assault weapons from, and I am not making this up, dailykos bloggers. Good. See summary of the bill in question here.

WREG:

State lawmakers want to broaden civil liability protections for private citizens who hurt or kill someone in self-defense.

Multiple bills circulating in the Tennessee General Assembly are touting the ‘Castle Doctrine.’ The legislation’s language says it would “…provide immunity from civil liability for a person who uses lawful force in defense of self, others or property…” In short, a private citizen could not be sued by an attacker or the attacker’s family if the attacker is hurt or killed by the citizen’s lawful act of self-defense.

We have some cute photos of Junior in the bathtub. And she’s just adorable. These photos decorate our downstairs bathroom wall. Last night, I had The Second in the tub and was trying to get some cute photos of him to match. Trouble is that boys have dangling junk and it’s hard to take a photo where it’s not visible when they stand in the tub.

And baby boys crawling nude: not cute.

In Hendersonville:

Several teenagers were cited for firing air soft pellet guns in Hendersonville, because of the town’s tough stand on toy guns.

The teens claimed they never knew they were breaking the law when they gathered in a vacant school yard Sunday afternoon to shoot air soft guns at each other.

Several officers raced to the scene and cited the eight teenagers who had the store-bought toy guns.

Apparently, toy guns are illegal in Hendersonville. And no one knew that. Like everyone else, the kids assumed Hendersonville wasn’t run by idiots who decided to make kids’ toys illegal.

I said before that it will soon be stated as fact that the NRA was responsible for Zumbo’s loss of his job for saying something stupid even though that is not the case. What really happened is that a few message boards and blogs noticed it and left comments, sent letters, etc. and that resulted in Zumbo losing his job. The NRA, a full week after the fact, merely announced it was severing ties with the guy. But don’t let those facts get in the way when there’s hackery to be made by lying. Says Ray Schoenke:

Before today’s presidential candidates go courting the National Rifle Association for support (witness Mitt Romney’s sudden enrollment), they should be aware of the case of Jim Zumbo. One of nation’s most famous and respected hunting and outdoors journalists, Zumbo was professionally assassinated by NRA hysteria for simply uttering a single and — many hunters would say — reasonable point of view.

and

The NRA whipped up a frenzy on the blogosphere, where a rabid fringe element of the hunting community denounced Zumbo in the harshest terms, even attacking his patriotism.

Remember, the NRA had nothing to do with Zumbo’s firing.

Mr. Schoenke is either a liar; misleading intentionally to score political points; or a hack for an anti-gun group. Three guesses:

Ray Schoenke is the president of the American Hunters and Shooters Association, a former Washington Redskins football player and a lifelong hunter.

The American Hunters and Shooters Association is an anti-gun group that holds itself out as a pro-gun group.

And the media is happy to print the AstroTurf.

See past Zumbo coverage here.

Update: Apologies to Tam, who said:

they’ve been playing on astroturf so long that they don’t know grassroots even when fed a mouthful of divot.

Looks like a bill out there wants to change juvenile to person who is less than 21 years of age. And ban possession by a person who is less than 21 years of age of supposed assault weapons. Alphie has the skinny.

Cops in Ohio: We won’t enforce illegal laws. Good for them.

So, uh, what’s up with all the pro-freedom news lately?

ColtCCO is talking about gas piston systems in ARs. He even has two really cool animated images of how they work. Cool.

Looks like another radical judge went against 70 years of legal precedent to uphold that the second amendment does, in fact, guarantee a right to bear arms. In New Jersey. No, really. There really are snowflakes in Hell.