I guess Snopes needs its own, err, snopes.

Looks like toll roads are being looked into again for Tennessee:

While charging for highway access has been a common way to fund road building and maintenance in much of the country, most of the South has resisted the trend.

But that could change as federal funding for road projects dries up and states try to ward off gas-tax increases amid spiking fuel costs.

Tennessee has had substantial surpluses. Yet, they’re looking into this, increasing cigarette taxes (while also looking to ban smoking – and that’s just stupid), and taxing your propane for grilling. Even when they’re fat and happy, it’s not enough.

I say no thanks.

Shorty AR-15 in 22LR.

Mosin video.

If you were at The Dairy Queen in Maryville last night and heard a three-year-old yell I’m wearing panties today, that would have been us. However, the lady decked out in her Harley Davidson gear who said I am too was not us.

If Stacey Campfield is a libertarian, I must be an anarchist.

Sebastian wants some. Actually, I do too. Is there a decent shotgun that can serve as both a dove gun and (in the event I ever take it up) three gun?

Colt has introduced a telescoping / swiveling / folding stock for the AR-15. Check it out. I’m was trying to figure out if it could cycle a round when the stock is folded. It looks like it since it has an extension from the rear of the receiver.

This time, our governor wants to tax propane. As in the kind used this weekend to grill out by everyone. Ya know, I really liked Bredesen (voted for him twice) until he started this tax raising nonsense.

In an update to this post, Countertop comments that GOA is full of it.

NBC5.com:

A swath of protesters led by the Rev. Jesse Jackson descended on a Riverdale gun shop they said is funneling deadly weapons into Chicago, demanding that state and federal lawmakers toughen firearms laws.

Open since 1971, Chuck’s Gun Shop has become a target for gun activists who say it symbolizes the inefficiency of existing gun-control laws. They said Chuck’s is one of a handful of weapons stores that sit just outside Chicago and contribute to firearm deaths. “This is a state of madness,” Jackson told a crowd of about 1,000. “These laws create open season on innocent people.”

I found Chuck’s address here. I think I’ll call them tomorrow and order something they can ship (i.e., not a gun or ammo) in support of them.

Update: more at PGP, who notes: But pressed on his sources, Jackson admitted after the rally that he does not have statistics on the store.

So, a secondhand account of a self defense shooting on a message board on the internet v. a secondhand account reported in the press. Which do I believe more? Here’s a hint.

Holiday. Home with kids. Don’t expect much.

to carry in parks. There’s no crime there either.

But handguns serve no sporting purpose. And neither do .50 calibers.

Snarky remarky from email by JKB.

Circuit court of appeals: quit farting around.

The Nuge:

My wife on our spending habits:

Ya know, I can go blow over $1,000 on stuff over the course of a month. And that doesn’t bother me. But you will blow $1,000 all at once.

True. She tends to buy little things here and there (clothes, kids’ stuff, and knickknacks) whereas I’ll come home with, say, a new gun or a table saw or grill.

Update: I should note that my reply was Yeah, but I only do that about once every three to five months.

A short version:

I had just gotten my drivers license. Dad, now a beat cop for a couple years just before becoming a federale, says of drinking and driving (paraphrased, it has been 19 years):

There’s nothing like coming up to a car wreck and seeing some barely moving piece of hamburger meat begging please, help me, please and knowing there is nothing you can do. Not a thing. You feel helpless and they die. It gets worse when you realize it’s some guy’s boy and you gotta go tell him. Don’t ever put a cop through that, son. Ever.

What reminded my of that is this post by The Ambulance Driver.

Brits at their best:

From Saturday May 26th to Sunday June 3rd, thousands of people across the UK will try one of the most exciting Olympic sports during National Shooting Week. Shooting schools and clubs are putting on more than 200 open days across the country so the public can try shooting for the first time.

R. Neal has tagged me so, here goes:

1. Add a direct link to your post below the name of the person who tagged you. Include the city/state and country you’re in.

Nicole (Sydney, Australia)
velverse (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
LB (San Giovanni in Marignano, Italy)
Selba (Jakarta, Indonesia)
Olivia (London, England)
ML (Utah, USA)
Lotus (Toronto, Canada)
tanabata (Saitama, Japan)
Andi (Dallas [ish], Texas, United States)
Todd (Louisville, Kentucky, United States)
miss kendra (los angeles, california, u.s.a)
Jiggs Casey (Berkeley, CA, USA! USA! USA!)
Tits McGee (New England, USA)
Joe (NE Tennessee, USA)
10K Monkeys (Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA)
Big Stupid Tommy (Athens, Tennessee, USA)
Newscoma (Weakley County, Tennessee, USA)
Russ McBee (Knoxville, Tennessee, USA)
R. Neal/KnoxViews (Blount Co., Tennessee)
SayUncle (Blount Co., Tennessee)

2. List out your top 5 favorite places to eat at your location. (full disclosure: I don’t eat out much).

• Kaya -a Korean joint in West Knoxville. I recommend the pork bulgogi and all the kimchi you can eat. I spent part of my formative years near the Korean district on the island of Oahu. I learned very early to love Korean food. This place has good food and always reminds me of sitting at a restaurant in Oahu called Peach Garden when I was 8 years old with my family. Same small feel, same style of food.

• My house – Probably cheating but the meme says places to eat and not restaurants. I love to cook (see). And I cook it all. And I cook it on everything (grill, smoker, oven, stove, hole in the ground, you name it). And my family (immediate and extended) love to come by Casa de Uncle whenever I break out the grub. My wife says I make the best burgers on Earth. I dunno about that but they’re pretty damn good.

• Murphy’s Wings and Ale – Blount County’s little pub. $0.99 drafts and excellent wings. I recommend their Irish jerk wings which are tangy, hot and sweet. And they have a lot of premium beers on draft. The $0.99 is called Murphy’s Brew but their staff tells me it’s Miller High Life.

• Metro Pizza – The best pizza in Blount County.

• Oriental Cuisine – Good food and plentiful. I recommend the Vietnamese pork, which comes with an excellent vinegar based sauce.

3. Tag five others.

If you feel the need, dive right in.

Thanks, guys. Job well done.

The Tennessee State Trooper who got his pickle buffed* by local porn star Barbie Cummings has been fired, reports Michael Silence. Since then, Barbie’s blog has disappeared and been replaced by, well, a porn site promoting her. All I got to say is that Barbie Cummings is a marketing genius. Her new porn site is no doubt getting mad traffic from the news coverage and people Googling her up to see what all this is about. Well played, ma’am, well played. When she’s done doing porn, she could get a job in marketing.

* what, you didn’t think I’d use the same fellatio slang two days in a row, did you?

Update: BTW, how dumb is the cop? He took pictures. Didn’t take her to jail for the drugs. But gave her a speeding ticket anyway? Should have just let the speeding slide and maybe you wouldn’t be in the, err, pickle you’re currently in. Just sayin’.

Rudy Giuliani flip-flops on guns, proving that, yes, politicos will say anything to get elected:

Rudolph Giuliani Wednesday sounded open to letting anyone who’s not a criminal or mental patient carry a concealed handgun — even telling a woman who packs a piece in New York that it’s OK with him.

Giuliani later backpedaled — saying decisions on concealed-carry permits are up to the states — but his answer had been different to Julie Trevor, of Stowe, Vt., at a campaign stop. Trevor told Giuliani she gets nervous every time she enters New York while toting a concealed handgun she got for protection after her house was burglarized.

Does he still believe in the “densely populated area” exception to the second amendment? More:

“As far as I am concerned, you can have a concealed weapon,” he said. “The Constitution of the United States in the Second Amendment gives you an individual right to bear arms; that individual right is as strong as your individual right to free speech, free assembly, being safe against unreasonable searches and seizures.”

Outside the event, Giuliani said his test came from a recent federal court ruling overturning a tough District of Columbia gun ban, which set what he considered “reasonable” limits on gun ownership. He said he believes that individual states should decide who can carry weapons.

Well, at least he’s paying attention. He supports the right to own and carry guns but thought DC’s complete and total ban on possession of a functional at-the-ready weapon was reasonable? Or am I reading that wrong?

Sorry, Rudy, I ain’t buyin’ what you’re sellin’.

In comments, Countertop thinks I’m reading it wrong:

I think your reading that wrong. It sounds like he is saying he agrees with the DC Circuit, which set a reasonable standard for gun control to meet. NOt that DC had met it, but what the court said

Looks like there has been language inserted into the 300+ page bi-partisan* immigration bill for more gun control. Specifically, language that would classify gun shop owners & operators as criminal gangs in the event they committed two or more felonies. Sounds reasonable until you realize that minor paperwork glitches are felonies (such as putting a Y instead of spelling out Yes on a form). GOA has more.

* Any bill with the support of both parties is probably bad for the people.

A map of states looking to permit handgun carry on campus.

Ranked by state. Via Sebastian.

Wow:

Under Curran’s plan, the mayor could declare “public-safety-act zones,” which would allow police to close liquor stores and bars, limit the number of people on city sidewalks, and halt traffic during two-week intervals.

Police would be encouraged to aggressively stop and frisk individuals in those zones to search for weapons and drugs. […]

Nutter’s proposal also calls for curfews in crime-plagued neighborhoods.

This isn’t in Iraq, this is in freaking Baltimore. The adjudicated mentally defective err lunatics are running the asylum.

Update: Wow, perspective from PGP:

A couple of days ago, there were 15 shootings in 24 hours.

Maryland gets rated an A- from The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership.

In Connecticut:

The state Senate passed a controversial gun-control bill Wednesday night that could make failure to report the loss or theft of a gun within 72 hours a crime.

The bill is intended to reduce the volume of stolen guns used in violent crimes.

And how exactly will it accomplish that? I’m guessing it will not.