In a school, a bunch of eight year olds build a town of Lego’s. The town, as is the natural order of things, becomes capitalist with the kids trading Lego pieces and various kids owning various property and Lego’s and such. The teachers then freak out what with all this free market idealism and stuff. The teachers, as it always happens in these cases use the threat of authority to turn the kids into communists. I shit you not. The whole thing can be read here. Some themes they re-educated the kids about:

Collectivity is a good thing

Shared power is a valued goal

Moderation and equal access to resources are things to strive for

And that is how we create kids that will grow up and vote for Obama.

A push for a ban on weapons that look like assault weapons in Nebraska.

I did not see the eclipse. It was cloudy.

Whether you think it’s real or not and whether we can stop it or not, can we agree on one thing: Global warming has jumped the shark! First, it killed the Lochness monster and now it’s putting snakes on a plane:

As climate change warms the nation, giant Burmese pythons could colonize one-third of the USA, from San Francisco across the Southwest, Texas and the South and up north along the Virginia coast, according to U.S. Geological Survey maps released Wednesday.

Montana has a history of telling the feds to bugger off. Their legislature condemned the Patriot Act; they asked politicos for federal office why they think they’re exempt from campaign finance laws; and introduced a bill a while back telling the feds to get out of their gun permit and drivers’ license process. And they kicked around a law that said firearms made in Montana weren’t subject to federal law.

Well, now they’ve gone and impressed me again with their Heller brief:

A collective rights decision by the court would violate the contract by which Montana entered into statehood, called the Compact With the United States and archived at Article I of the Montana Constitution. When Montana and the United States entered into this bilateral contract in 1889, the U.S. approved the right to bear arms in the Montana Constitution, guaranteeing the right of “any person” to bear arms, clearly an individual right.

There was no assertion in 1889 that the Second Amendment was susceptible to a collective rights interpretation, and the parties to the contract understood the Second Amendment to be consistent with the declared Montana constitutional right of “any person” to bear arms.

As a bedrock principle of law, a contract must be honored so as to give effect to the intent of the contracting parties. A collective rights decision by the court in Heller would invoke an era of unilaterally revisable contracts by violating the statehood contract between the United States and Montana, and many other states.

I’m with Robb with two Bs, I need to find work there.

It’s amusing watching the Democrats come undone during the primary. It will only get more amusing. Heck, they’re even rehashing some of the old school Republican criticisms of one another.

Did you know that Hillary is really the one winning? I mean, if you have stupid colored glasses. I, personally, would love to see the super-delegates override the will of the people so I can mock the hypocrisy forever.

Hillsy is even making a push to change the rules. Everywhere, trial lawyers are licking their chops. And I thought McCain was a blow to Republican cohesion but they seem to be coming around.

And guav says that Hillsy is getting ready to swift boat Obama, which is amusing because the only retractions that came from the swift boat story came from Kerry. How can you swift boat a man with no significant legislative accomplishments? Particularly, when you’re a woman with no significant legislative accomplishments?

The Democrats are fielding candidates, who, like Seinfeld, are about nothing.

I’m not a fan of McCain. But at least the man has done something. I mean, not anything particularly great. And come the general, he’ll be bringing that up.

Update: Tom, no doubt furiously googling, notes that I am incorrect in asserting that the only retraction from the Swift Boats came from Kerry. Seems one guy retracted a statement. There you go.

In Memphis, some psychopath walked right through a restraining order and murdered some poor woman.

Via Richard Thompson, who notes: If there is any good that comes from Charlene Gaither’s heinous murder, then it’s the increased awareness that restraining orders are basically useless.

Castle doctrine passes in West Virginia Senate. Unanimously.

Apparently, dividing up argument time is a contentious issue in the case.

Shorter version: we can’t put our work online or people will realize what we’re up to.

Else, it shatters their worldview. You seen, any grassroots pro-gun activists must get wheelbarrows full of cash from the gun lobby. They have to believe it. Even though the exact opposite true and the cash flows from the Joyce Foundation to astroturf anti-gun groups. Here’s a list of money flowing. Another case of anti-gun projection.

Rustmeister has the latest.

Heh.

Dr. Helen has a look.

But the ASW338LMis a pretty neat looking rifle.

And editorial says he wants to use California as a model for the rest of the nation. You know, California where they went door to door confiscating firearms. And where some firearms will soon be non-existent because you can’t transfer them even upon death.

I think I would sell that to Dyson to be used in a commercial.

Over at Bitter’s.

One shot, one satellite blown to bits. They must have used a 50 caliber sniper rifle assault weapon Saturday night machine pistol.

No, it was a missile.

David E. Young has a piece on the case at History News Network.

Hoplophobia? Imagine What Your Life Would Be Like Without It…

Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot.

We loves us some McCain. Kinda cool how keeps being all maverick and stuff. Giving his own party hell. Hehehe. Oh, shit, he might win! Get on it, stat.

There’s enough stuff there to criticize McCain about that the sensationalized bit of hooey in that bit seems, well, petty. I mean, seriously, that’s it? It’s like something I’d see written at World Net Daily about Obama.

Headline screaming at Yahoo.com: Is Obama unstoppable?

Well, an object at rest cannot be stopped.

Update: Ya know, with no legislative accomplishments, he could be pandering to the Libertarian vote?

Another update: say, can anyone name a Hillary legislative accomplishment? I mean, other than pork.

Sebastian has more:

Transparent as in we hire a lobbying firm to anonymously set up a web site to push for model legislation, and to lobby key legislators that have been quietly bought off, in order to be able to skim off the top of every one of the eight billion rounds of ammunition produced each year.

Recall that in Tennessee, Reginald Tate & Larry Miller pushed for a bill like this recently.

It’s for a good cause. John has the skinny!

One of the biggest lies often told. In fact, the whole bit is one lie after another. I think it’s safe to assume that the American Hunters and Shooters Association is giving up any possibility of having credibility with gun owners.

Self,

With all this talk about how it’s difficult to tell toy guns from real ones, if you see a gun-shaped object then it is in your best interest to assume it is a gun and act accordingly.

Sincerely,

Self

Update: Confederate Yankee has more.

Bureaucracy may have killed a baby.

A while back, a couple of bozos in TN were pushing legislation to serialize ammunition. Then, the lame idea started showing up in other states. Turns out, the push to do this is likely coming from the lobbying firm of Ammunition Coding Systems, who ultimately pays for the site, and who conveniently produces the system that does this type of encoding.