John Edwards copy of the Constitution: An easily entertained population, being necessary to the feelings of a warm and fuzzy electorate, the right of the people to download porn and games, shall not be infringed.
But now someone’s gonna tell me that really means only the state can have computers.
Update: Pattycakes: As far as I’m concerned, he’s 0 for 6 on this one. It’s worth pointing out that Edwards is a lawyer. Must have slept through con-law.
Our young, they taste like chicken.
It’s not just gun nuts but moonbats too.
Update: My sentiments exactly.
Update 2: Looks like people in comments are calling for Brittney’s job over a little copying and pasting. It’s a bit ironic that the criticism of bias is coming from the left when B-Ho has been accusing NIT of being biased the other direction for a while.
Total haul: 404 cellphones, 69 iPods, 23 other electronic devices, two knives and one imitation gun.
An insider notes: Raids like the one that took place at MS 54 on Manhattan’s Upper West Side have become a routine part of the ongoing effort to control cell phone use in school. The police show up with metal detectors in the morning when the kids are first coming to classes and conduct a search, confiscating any banned items.
So, we have the armed police enforcing school policy? Well, it’s NY. Guess you gotta acclimate them to the nanny early.
Guess who they’re talking about when they say a billionaire, Boston-grown evangelist for the nanny state?
Gonzales expands the ATF. And proposes a law:
As part of today’s announcement, the Department of Justice proposed the Violent Crime and Anti-Terrorism Act of 2007, a comprehensive package including violent crime legislation that amends and strengthens existing laws to ensure that federal law enforcement agencies are able to successfully investigate and prosecute many types of violent crime. The proposed bill will improve existing criminal laws to close gaps and strengthen penalties, provide greater flexibility in the penalties that could be imposed on federal firearms licensees who violate the Gun Control Act, and restore the binding nature of sentencing guidelines. The bill also includes provisions that strengthen laws pertaining to drug enforcement, terrorism and child pornography.
And, yes, I know. The ATF was absorbed into the Justice Department. But it’s original purpose was to collect taxes as part of the treasury.
against politically incorrect dogs:
How many newspapers have reported the CDC report (from 1998 that’s 10 years old at this point) as a source stating that 32% of reported deaths caused by dogs from 1979-1997 (or most common is the 51% caused by Rottweilers and pit bulls and their mixes). Of those, how many have actually read the entire CDC report that then notes that they find the report to be inconclusive because their stats are subject to breed mis-identification, because they come from newspaper reports that are often biased, that it is unclear how to count statistics by crossbred dogs and even if all of those issues are resolved, the numbers are meaningless without knowing the total numbers of dogs by breed to put them into context?
Read it all.
In an update to overall crime being up, seems the WaPo may have left out one of the more important reasons:
Criminologists told the [Washington Post] that gangs and the release of large numbers of prisoners were in part responsible for the rising crime.
They’ll make a website about anything and include a hot girl. Via the mad man.
In other news, this is probably one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. Via Mr. C.
Council votes for guns in city parks
Jackson City Council members voted 7-2 Tuesday not to support a resolution that asks state legislators to kill a bill that would give some residents the right to carry a firearm onto city-owned property.
Tony Black, director of the city’s Recreation and Parks Department, brought the resolution before the council. Black told council members that a proposed state law would allow gun owners with state-issued concealed weapons permits to bring firearms into city parks and public recreation facilities.
Good.
Or, as I like to call them, target generators.
I kid, I don’t actually shoot birds. Well, the flying ones. You know.
Update: And, to be clear, I’m pointing out that I don’t like birds. Not that I shoot Mexicans.
Noted Poker Authority Ed Miller is giving some away. Go leave a comment, if you want a shot at one.
The right to hunt and fish in Tennessee:
At least five Chattanooga-area state representatives say they support an effort to amend the Tennessee Constitution to protect the rights of hunters and fishermen.
The House is scheduled to vote on House Joint Resolution 108 this week. Three readings are required. The first reading took place today.
I guess all this indoctrination goes both ways:
A Metro Nashville middle school teacher with a long history of opposing gay bias was suspended without pay for asking a black student how she would feel if he called her by a racial slur.
Well, that’s gay.
The government is working on the idea of your cell phone working for them.
American cell phones can already check e-mail, surf the Internet and store music, but they could have a new set of features in coming years: the Department of Homeland Security wants them to sense biological, chemical and radioactive material.
I say have fun, and rest your phone on this at night.
In the city, my the city:
A handful of protesters were asked to leave the front entrance of the Maryville Municipal Center Monday after setting up shop to confront visiting U.S. Sen. Bob Corker about the Iraq war.
According to Maryville Police Chief Tony Crisp, city code requires a permit for such a protest and the group did not have one. It’s a matter of safety for the protesters and citizens around them, Crisp said — especially with one of the city’s busiest intersections around the corner and the fear of distracted drivers.
They certainly can protest, “but we want to do it in a manner where they’re safe and other people are safe,” he said.
Seems that’s the buzz here lately, so we’ll do more. Via NIT, comes this:
So I have no fear of indoctrination. I’m afraid of people who allow themselves to be indoctrinated. Grape Flavor-Aid, anyone?
Indeed. However, I think the best thing for students and your kids is for them to be made aware that disagreement (polite, of course) with their academics is acceptable, if presented well. I personally had two political confrontations with teachers. Once, I wrote a paper. I took the opposing view than the one taught in class. I was given a D. I’d never before (or since) received a D on anything. I thought it was a decent paper. I took it to the department head, who concurred. I received an A. Then a story that I’ve written about before wherein I told my professor that I would use real words and not made up hippie words like ne and give peace a chance. In a post on Speaking Ill of the Dead:
This professor was an ideologue. For example, he had the class watch a movie on abortion that was blatantly biased toward the pro-choice side. People left in the middle of it (it was particularly offensive to any pro-lifers who may have been there) and reported him to the department head.
He also told us that when we turned in a paper, we couldn’t use the words he or she. We had to use the non-sexist word ne. I forgot the rule for his and her. Obviously, ne wasn’t an English teacher. I had written a paper and turned it in and I, while referring to a specific person who was matter-of-factly female, used the word she and her quite often. Ne tried to ding me some points for doing so but I sought out the department head and created a stink about how teachers shouldn’t allow their preferences to affect proper English.
Now, ne wasn’t an asshole. He add (sic*) various little socio-political idiosyncrasies that were annoying. Ne was ideologically obtuse. Ne allowed his ideology to consume his professional life and ne wanted to exert his influence on his students and mandate they be exposed to his worldview and that they comply.
To his benefit, ne encouraged me to think by pissing me off.
Coincidentally, the department head agreed with me again. And, you see, there’s the rub. I had no issue with these guys making me think or challenging me. I took issue with the notion that I was being punished for not going along. That’s where it is dangerous. Address ideas, make your case, but be fair. That goes for the students too.
I am happy to report I was never asked to undergo counseling.
* See AC, I even sic myself.
So, Vanderbilt equates safe storage with locked up, tied to a rock and thrown in a river:
Many parents who own firearms do not keep them locked up, nor do they keep the bullets locked away separately, according to a new survey conducted by a Vanderbilt University Medical Center researcher and her team.
Well, why would they? Assuming that people have weapons for self-defense, they probably have a desire to have one at the ready. I do. All of my weapons save two are locked up in a safe. One is locked in the glove box of my truck. The other is in the house, in a location that little people cannot see, nor can they get access to. And I even have one of those wall safes with the push buttons for when company comes over. More:
More than 3,700 parents across the country were surveyed for the research. While fewer parents reported having a firearm in the home than in previous studies (23.3 percent as compared with 35 percent), 49 percent reported the firearm was not locked up and 20 percent said the bullets were not locked away separately.
Well, we gun owners tend to lie about guns in the home when some schmuck asks us to do a survey.
Only a third of the parents in the survey reported their firearms were stored according to recommendations from safety experts.
Sorry but to any gun owner out there, don’t listen to safety experts. Listen to gun experts if you want real advice that will save your life and the lives of others. Safety experts will typically tell you not to have a gun (see?), which is not conducive to safety but more political posturing. So, take it with a grain of salt. Anti-gun hacks like Matthew Miller are not safety experts. They are hacks. Take your gun advice from someone like Col. Cooper or Massad Ayoob. Or your local firearms instructor.
More (with snarky remarky):
The survey also found that:
Parents who were raised with firearms in the home were less likely to store firearms safely. (again, you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means)
When families had older children, they didn’t store their long guns — such as rifles — as safely as families with children just 2 to 5 years old. (because at that point, I hope the kids are out shooting)
Owners is rural areas, even if they owned guns for recreation, stored their weapons as unsafely as people in urban areas.
Looks there’s a move in Vermont to secede from the US:
Disillusioned by what they call an empire about to fall, a small cadre of writers and academics hopes to put the question before citizens in March. Eventually, they want to persuade state lawmakers to declare independence, returning Vermont to the status it held from 1777 to 1791.
Neither the state nor the U.S. Constitution explicitly forbids secession, but few people think it is politically viable.
Maybe not but I thought the Civil War kinda settled all the debate on that topic.
Yet, still no viable third party? 32.9% of us are not affiliated with a major party.
For the second year in a row after record lows, crime is up:
More murders and robberies in 2006 sent U.S. violent crimes higher for the second straight year, the FBI said Monday, with the increase blamed on gangs, youth violence, gun crimes and fewer police on beats.
The FBI reported that the number of violent crimes nationwide went up by 1.3 percent last year, following a 2.3 percent increase in 2005. That had been the first rise in four years and the biggest percentage gain in 15 years.
And the cities:
Cities with big increases in the number of murders included Orlando and Miami in Florida; Oakland and San Diego in California; Phoenix, Arizona; Corpus Christi, Texas; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Reno, Nevada and Little Rock, Arkansas.
I’m sure this microstamping business will fix Oakland and San Diego.
Pants-shitting hysterics about guns from a newspaper in Cali. Remember, this bill could:
But then, restriction is the point. Not common sense. I’m guessing police would be exempt. And, if they are, there’s a good reason for it.
Update: Another idiot named Bill Cavala:
Legislation that would require “micro stamping” of cartridges from semi-automatic weapons (which typically eject their spent cartridges after firing) hasegendered (sic) virulent criticisms from the usual suspects.
Their basic argument is the same they have used for decades. They posit a brilliant criminal who will think of ways to evade the laws, leaving only us dumb honest people to get entangled in a “legal web”, unconstitutional bureaucracy and so on.
Yeah, ’cause no criminal would buy a gun out of state. Nor would they think to get a revolver.
Cali’s got some of the strictest gun laws in the nation. But they still have a gun crime problem. Gun control: what we do instead of something.
The Tennessean thinks a shooting shines light on deadly force laws:
Jefferson Bilbrey, who worked as a clerk at Shell Market, at 197 Haywood Lane, was released on bond this week after his arrest on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of Richard Huddleston. Surveillance video shows Huddleston stealing beer and ball caps from the store moments before the shooting.
But Bilbrey, 45, violated the law by chasing Huddleston out of the store and shooting him dead March 10 as the unarmed 22-year-old tried to climb into a car near the gas pumps, police said.
Based on the description, I buy the police version. And that would not be protected under Tennessee’s pending self defense bills, which is self defense and not property defense. The rest of the Tennessean’s article has nothing to do with this shooting.
As a kid, I watched those shows about lions and them killing critters. And I thought to myself Self, those critters are 1) large; 2) have horns; and 3) there’s a ton of them. Why not fight back?
Long video. The epic battle of lions v. buffalo; then lions v. crocodile; then lions v. buffalo again.
Apprently, Monster Pig was a domesticated pig. Reportedly, he liked to be hand-fed sweet potatoes. The alleged hunt occured on a hunting preserve. Doesn’t sound much like a hunt to me. The kid who shot him and his father say they were both under the impression that it was a feral hog.
It’s true. Red Envelope sells, well, I dunno what you’d call their specialty but basically it’s stuff that’s cool but you’d never really buy for yourself. Anyway, my wife’s on this picture kick and as a gift, I bought her this nifty little frame set from there. So, I filled out all their online stuff. So, they send me junk email like every day. They also send my monthly specials/catalogs/flier to my home and my office (where I had stuff shipped). Constantly. It never ends. Ever.
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
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