On the ridiculous advice on how to survive a sexual assault provided by the Illinois state police, Exador says in comments at Aunt B.’s:

If you are in need of any of the recomended items:

* nail file
* rat tail comb
* teasing brush
* pens and pencils
* keys
* anything rigid

You may get one from an Illinois State trooper; they carry them in their holsters.

Heh.

For getting the VA AG to cut off access to concealed carry permit holders records.

I was putting up the Easter decorations. I looked at Junior and asked her: Would you hand me that bag?

Without hesitation, she proceeds to take every thing in the bag out of it and hands me the empty bag.

I don’t use Flickr but a friend does. He posted some wedding photos that my wife wants to send off to winkflash to have some hard copies. Anyhoo, right click/save as saves the file as garbage. How do save local copies on flickr?

I didn’t know the Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency auctioned off confiscated stuff. Here’s the local list of goodies.

Anyone else tired of this “Two Americas” scam? What kind of people label their neighbors as “rabid”?

Elizabeth Edwards afraid of neighbor

She has never met `rabid Republican,’ but wouldn’t be nice

MIKE BAKER
Associated Press

RALEIGH –Elizabeth Edwards says she is scared of the “rabid, rabid Republican” who owns property across the street from her Orange County home — and she doesn’t want her kids going near the gun-toting neighbor.

Edwards, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, particularly recalls the time neighbor Monty Johnson brought out a gun while chasing workers investigating a right of way near his property. The Edwards family has yet to meet Johnson in person.

“I wouldn’t be nice to him, anyway,” Edwards said in an interview. “I don’t want my kids anywhere near some guy who, when he doesn’t like somebody, the first thing he does is pull a gun out. It scares the business out of me.”

But Johnson defended the occasion he brandished a gun, saying those on his land didn’t have the proper approval.

“I use the gun for protection, and I considered that an appropriate time,” Johnson said. “Sometimes you have to take drastic measures.”

Edwards views Johnson as a “rabid, rabid Republican” who refuses to clean up his “slummy” property just to spite her family, whose lavish 28,000-square-foot estate is nearby on 102 wooded acres.

Johnson, 55, acknowledges his Republican roots. But he takes offense to the suggestion he has purposefully left his property, including an old garage he leases for use as a car shop, in dilapidated condition.

Johnson said he has lived his entire life on the property, which he said his family purchased before the Great Depression. He said he’s spent a lot of money to try and fix up the 42-acre tract.

“I have to budget. I have to live within my means,” Johnson said. “I don’t have millions of dollars to fix the place.”

$21,000,000,000 in vote buying err pork, no problemo. Body armor for 21 year-old Lance Cpl. Alex LaRosa, paid for by parents.

Update: for reference, $21,000,000,000 will buy 5,675,675 Dragon Skin vests at $3,700 each.

In a surprise to no one, DC is appealing Parker:

Attorneys for the D-C government are expected to file an appeal tomorrow against a federal appeals court ruling that overturned the district’s strict ban on guns.

Mayor Adrian Fenty has said the city will appeal the decision. Attorneys plan to petition for the case to be reheard by the full U-S Court of Appeals for the D-C Circuit.

Putting aside the question of whether or not this gizmo is 1) necessary and 2) dumb, is it legal? I think it potentially creates a Short Barreled Rifle that could be subject to NFA Tax and background checks. It fits the definition.

Thoughts?

In other news, see what kinda dumb shit gunnies have to wonder about?

Light blogging, stuff to do.

Only outlaws will have Zoloft:

Supporters are rallying around a teenager who killed his grandparents and blamed the antidepressant drug Zoloft. Every week, Janet Sisk rises as early as 5 a.m. and drives nearly 100 miles to spend her Sundays with the boy who was just 12 when he murdered his grandparents in their sleep.

Via David, comes this advice from the Illinois State Police on dealing with sexual assault. They say don’t use guns because:

# Guns stolen from residences are a primary way of getting guns into the hands of criminals.
# Half of all the women that fire a gun trying to protect themselves shoot someone they do not want to

But police approved weapons include:

* nail file
* rat tail comb
* teasing brush
* pens and pencils
* keys
* anything rigid

Wow.

This passes for gun reporting.

The police put on their ninja gear, armor up, and get their guns to go on a drug raid. They find tomatoes. Oops.

Pat Wray:

This might be a good time to clear the air as well about the term “military assault rifle,” a term you use carelessly at best. The important civilian distinction lies not in such esoteric terminology, but in how fast and how much the weapon shoots, which brings us to the only important determination. Is the weapon semi-automatic? That is, does it shoot once each time the trigger is pulled? Or is it fully automatic, meaning that it continues to fire on one trigger pull until the trigger is released or the ammunition is expended?

Essentially all modern military assault rifles are fully automatic.

David Hardy offers his take:

Vote count: I’d be sure of Scalia and Thomas, fairly sure of Roberts and Alito. That leaves us with four probable votes and five unknowns. The litigator in me says those are pretty good odds… you have to lose all five unknowns to lose. Against that, you have to figure Breyer is probably a lost cause (the second amendment just isn’t Euro enough for his taste) and a friend who is a court watcher said that Souter displays negative body language when firearms come up. Perhaps, I dunno. Still, unless you lose five out of five, you win. With most appeals, you go in without the vaguest idea of the vote count.

HL talks about more Parker targets.

The WaPo leaves its hysteria at the door and does a non-doom and non-gloom bit on Parker.

To all

The latest victims of global warming.

And, yeah, I know weather does not equal climate. I just like saying that to annoy people.

Update: See what I mean?

Update 2: Now that’s funny.

The Second now has forward-facing car seats!

ABC wants to know.

Superheroes that suck: A poll.

Update: In good ol’ knoxviews.com fashion, the post was pulled from the front page because, err, I dunno why. Lame. As lame as Aquaman. Open, progressive* community, indeed.

The asterisk belongs at Open.

Ooh, delta elite.

Browning M1919A4 semi-auto rifle. Belt fed, even.

Your help is needed: Unskilled shooter needs handgun instruction in Nashville area.

Seriously, what’s your damn problem?

on guns.

An AR-15 on wheels, brought to you by The US Department of Energy.

Here.

The NRA on Parker:

Chris confirmed the NRA position is to do nothing which would damage Parker’s potential, nothing that would make the matter moot.

Brady Campaign supports workplace carry:

. . . an armed security guard responded immediately

No, that’s probably not what they mean.