A few days ago, the Hadley Climate Research Unit got its happy little butt hacked, and somewhere over 60MB of data was exported (and is available here, if you want it). The Research Unit has admitted to the hack, and while they will not confirm whether or not [...]
What do 58 Senators, 251 Representatives, 891 state legislators, 38 state Attorney Generals, 42 district attorneys in two states, and various other civil rights, academic, law enforcement, professorial, conservation, and socio-religious organizations all have in common?
Every last one of [...]
Over at The Firearm Blog, Steve adequately puts to rest the theory that "high-capacity" firearms are a new and recent development.
I would point out that all three of those antique firearms were designed and produced in the 1859 to 1878 range, and were designed to carry between [...]
I really have to give Sergeant Singer credit for standing up and saying what he believes in:
The tragic results of victim disarmament were made real with the shooting at Fort Hood, Texas. If this were a moral and proper world, as soon as the suspect, Maj. Nidal Malik [...]When it comes to the Fort Hood mass murder, it would seem as though the only thing the anti-rights advocates of America can bring to the table is lies and more lies (which bear a striking resemblance to the first set of lies).
Really now... how hard [...]
Ok, my Google-fu is failing me.
For my readers in various other states in the Union, if your state allows concealed or open carry of firearms, and if your state further allows those who are carrying firearms to also consume alcohol, please send me the chapter and verse of the [...]
Seen last Friday at work: a SMART car... with a U-Haul hitch.
*blink*
... the hell? (Yes, I know, it is probably for a hitch-mounted bicycle rack, but still.)
[...]I really cannot blame Breda for going this route:
I am now and forevermore going to be deleting comments by mikeb302000 because all he ever does is come here and try to stir up arguments. This is not a person who wants a real debate, or who can be [...]There's been a lot of misreporting, assumptions, and insinuations about what actually happened with Restaurant Carry and what it means. I can't seem to find a PDF of Bonnyman's ruling yet, so anything in this post is my recollection of what happened. IANAL, YMMV.
' [...]I admit that I have not had a chance to read the entire idiotic ruling from Chancellor Bonnyman, but this is an interesting take on the situation, from someone who has more experience in the process than I do (and someone who is a lawyer, to boot):
It [...]
It followed me home!
What is "it"? Well, here is your first hint:
Now, I have to go relax from driving 20 hours out of the past 48.
[...]TN 39-17-1305(c)(3) is unconstitutional because it violates the due process clause.
Basically, Bonnyman ruled that its unreasonable to assume that the restaurant you're in serves meals 5 days a week, and its unreasonable to require you to ask if they do.
More later from other sources.
' [...]I got Internet, and there's other people with laptops here, so here we go. Refresh for updates.
1004 - Nikki Goeser and Mary Purcell are here in the gallery with me. We're waiting on the judge to come back in. Adam Dread notes "He's not here. I guess the NRA check'" [...]
In about 90 minutes the hearing on Restaurant Carry starts in Chancellor Bonnyman's courtroom. I'll be there, hopefully with the technical ability to provide updates. My netbook is kind of a lemon, and I don't even know if the Chancellor will allow such things in her courtroom.
At the very least, [...]
I just saw it--for sale--with my own eyes. No adjustable backstrap. Dunno about the recoil spring. It did have the stipling and the fish gill slide serrations which werent as ugly as I thought. Didn't notice an ambi mag release but I wasnt looking.
Guy at the shop said they've [...]
It is looking like Better Half and I will be headed up to Chicago this weekend by way of Louisville and Indianapolis on the way up, and part of Route 66 on the way back. If any fellow gunbloggers (or readers) want us to wave at them as we scoot [...]
Pardon me while I vent for a moment.
I was just having a conversation in the hallway with a couple of coworkers about finances and credit cards, and somehow Universal Health Care came up. The context was that Health Insurance Companies charge more for people in their 50's than people in' [...]
It would seem as though modern America is more like the Roman Empire of old than any of us originally thought... or have you not heard yet? Apparently, Christians are to blame for the recession.
I guess condemning Jews for financial problems has finally become passée.
[...]Oddly enough, when you shoot back at pirates, they tend to go the other direction. Quickly.
Who'd'a thunk (aside from anyone with a functioning brain), huh?
(Courtesy of Traction Control.)
[...]Not having the appropriate hardware myself, my opinions on this topic might be somewhat meaningless, but I cannot help but to echo the general "WTF" reaction to this news, as originally expressed by Wizbang and Free in Idaho:
Women in their 40s should stop routinely having annual [...]So I made my choice last night and went to the Metro Council meeting. They didn't talk about Guns In Parks, and I didn't get to talk to Sam Coleman about his reversal, so from a gunblogger prospective I chose...poorly.
However, I did get to see how those stimulus jobs [...]
Apparently this sticker is posted at Lili's Authentic Oriental in Pulaski, TN (a restaurant that will receive my business if I am ever in that particular town, which, unfortunately, seems unlikely):
We are winning.
[...]Today's bigotry-exposing word-replacement exercise subject is UBU52, a regular commenter troll at Robb's and Joe's places. Have you ever had a person loudly, obnoxiously, and rudely try to correct you on something, only to find out, in very short order, that the person in question is not [...]
Thanks to the culinary educational genius that is Alton Brown, Better Half and I (though mostly the former) were able to make our own miso soup last night. Well, strictly speaking, we had to forego both the katsuobushi and niboshi due to Better Half's allergies, so our [...]
Just when you think Comcast's suckage cannot get any harder...
As previously mentioned, Better Half and I have a contract with Comcast for cable internet and television. After doing the research, it would appear as though Comcast is our only option for both, with our sole other alternatives [...]
It appears that the Metro Nashville City Council will be reconsidering guns-in-parks:
Councilman Sam Coleman wants to allow guns in Metro's rural parks, so visitors to isolated parks could protect themselves.
The thing I find interesting is that Sam Coleman was one of the most vocal opponents of [...]
...even if your client asks you to never patch them. I've got something like 160 billable hours since November 1 because my client "didn't want to see popups" on some customer-facing kiosks. The popups they were complaining about were operating system updates being pushed out, so we stopped pushing updates [...]
It's the Army's fault, because they didn't take his accusations of war crimes committed by his patients seriously.
Yes, clearly the last resort of a "whistleblower" is mass murder. He couldn't have, you know, just flown to The Hague and started talking to the International Court or emailed someone at [...]
Speaking of irrational gun-lusting, I must have watched too much Star Wars as a child, because I really want one of these... and a matching pistol that shoots honest-to-God ray-gun-caliber rounds. Or one could just get the carbine and the required barrel, magazine, and main [...]
To continue with my linky-minimal-thinky posting trend for today, Joe Huffman weighs in on the open carry debate. You will want to read the whole thing, and check out the massive link-fest at the end, but his end sentence is a good take-away:
Let's not be so stupid as [...]A lot of states and cities have been making a lot of noise about how unsafe it is to drive while talking on a cell phone you are holding. Well, the facts are out - the real reason you do not want to talk on a cell phone while driving [...]
According to the anti-rights advocates of our world, things like this never happen, and even if they did happen, you should wait for the police to arrive, rather than try to defend yourself and your family.
I say, "To Hell with that," on both counts.
Home break-ins, robberies, burglaries, [...]
So what was the best of this year?
[...]To follow with a trend throughout the corner of the Cortex I frequently visit, today's quote comes from Roberta X:
I'm not going to hold debates here. I don't give a flying fuck what you think of me or my ideas and I most certainly won't accept addled "correction"' [...]Gratuitous Space Battles. I will let the game-designer speak for himself:
GSB is about what ships you design, and what you tell them to do. Your individual ship commanders have total autonomy during the chaotic battle that unfolds. This is not a tactical game, it is a strategic one. [...]Better Half and I managed to hang nine things on the walls of our apartment so far this week, with another two or so scheduled for today.
All that means is that we will find a house we could be happy with tomorrow...
[...]For more than a few months, our military commanders in Afghanistan have been requesting more troops in order to support the ongoing compaigns there. Those requests have, no doubt, been couched in very political and cautious language, but even so, the primary message of all of them have [...]
Imagine that you are high up in the chain of command of an activism and lobbying organization. Imagine that one of your representatives, operating in his official representative capacities, gave a video interview at some point in the past. Imagine that the said representative managed to thoroughly misquote an Amendment [...]
I am not sure which was worse in my dream - the zombies, or the clean-up robots (who mostly resembled a human-sized version of the Lost in Space movie's Robot) who could not differentiate between moving-but-mostly-dead humans and moving-but-still-living ones. At least the 'bots relied on melee attacks as' [...]
So, are they armed or not?
[...]When you realize how plausible it is, it stops being funny:
What if Barack Obama had been President on December 8, 1941?When you realize how plausible it is, it stops being funny:
What if Barack Obama had been President on December 8, 1941?As of five minutes ago, there were somewhere around 20 individuals waiting outside our local Applebee's (with an indeterminate number inside).
[...]As of five minutes ago, there were somewhere around 20 individuals waiting outside our local Applebee's (with an indeterminate number inside).
[...]The day is rapdily drawing to a close, so if you have not already, please thank a veteran for their service. Numerous soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and Coasties sacrifice so much of their time, energy, and lives to protect us, our country, and our way of life - a simple [...]
TriggerFinger points us to a rather troubling development in once-Great Britain:
All telecoms companies and internet service providers will be required by law to keep a record of every customer's personal communications, showing who they are contacting, when, where and which websites they are visiting.Tropical storms are much more tolerable from 400-odd miles away from where they made landfall, and not on the coast itself, or, even better, bobbing around on a bitty little ship as we try to steam through the bloody things...
[...]I am not a tactical operations expert, so my lessons-learned from the Fort Hood mass murder were relatively short, probably incomplete, and just the tip of a very large iceberg. On the other hand, Karl Rehn is somewhat versed in these kinds of matters, being a certified NRA [...]
It is a damned near-pathetic state of affairs when the families of our servicemen and women feel as though their military members would be safer in a war zone than at their own, American bases:
JOHN ROBERTS, CNN ANCHOR: And you're still scheduled for deployment in January?And yet, still nothing to report.
New date for the Restaurant Carry Lawsuit is November 20, I believe.
[...]In my mindless meanderings around the internet, I occasionally end up at places positively chock-a-block full of drool-worthy eye-candy, such as Blade Forums - I could absolutely spend hours at that website, digging through countless examples of beautiful tools and hardware that I could never hope to afford (or [...]
Here is some interesting, albeit frightening, trivia concerning our wonderful new enslavement health insurance bill:
According to Caleb, you could fit 3.41 copies of his Moby Dick into the bill.
Speaking personally, it would take 1.86 copies of my Atlas Shrugged [...]
Every one of life's experiences is an opportunity for us to learn, and while the mass murder at Fort Hood is undeniably tragic and unfortunate, it is also provides education to those willing to pay attention. So far as I see it, the two large take-aways are thus:
1.' [...]
As of last night, the United States Federal Government just took a massive step towards becoming the largest slave-owning entity in the history of mankind. Additionally, the United States House of Representatives just put a quantifiable, specific, monetary cost on being a citizen of America - $750 [...]
Many years back, a considerable number of "liberals", "progressives", Democrats, and other left-leaning individuals made copious quantities of hay over President Bush's delayed response to the 9/11 attacks, holding it up as evidence that President Bush was somehow involved in the attacks, did not care about the attacks, wanted [...]
Ok, the engineer in me has officially decreed this to be the coolest thing I have ever seen. The short story?
Local Motors announces a competition to design a car to meet a certain set of requirements.
People from around the world design up cars, and submit them [...]
So Better Half and I started watching the new series V a few nights back, and my only real gripe so far (aside from various engineering and physics qualms) was the acceptance rate. Yes, these aliens are human-looking. Yes, they get here speaking our languages. Yes, they talk some good [...]
Thanks to RideFast's reminder, my donate button off to the left has been updated to make use of the new GunPal system... which probably does not matter, since no one used the old one, but there it is.
[...]With winter storming Eastern Tennessee by force these days, one of the considerations Better Half and I will have for our future house will be window treatments. Window treatments? Well, in addition to blocking out sunlight, Peeping Toms, and other such things, a lot of pleated curtains these days [...]
It is something of a lengthy post, but you need to read this. There, but for the grace of God, goes America, and it would seem as though God's graces have been getting mighty sparce recently...
[...]It is something of a lengthy post, but you need to read this. There, but for the grace of God, goes America, and it would seem as though God's graces have been getting mighty sparce recently...
[...]For all of those veterans out there who are not yet members of USAA, this is your chance.
I am very pleased to let you know that USAA membership is now open to anyone who has honorably served in the U.S. military.For all of those veterans out there who are not yet members of USAA, this is your chance.
I am very pleased to let you know that USAA membership is now open to anyone who has honorably served in the U.S. military.Win:
In a surprising softening of Liberal policy, party leader Michael Ignatieff says penalties for violating requirements of the long-gun registry could be "decriminalized" as part of an effort to broaden its legitimacy in the eyes of rural Canadians.I very deliberately did not post or comment about the mass murder at Fort Hood's Soldier Readiness Center yesterday, simply because I am loathe to contribute to the wrong side of the signal-to-noise ratio - cutting-edge information is important, but I feel better presenting factual information.
First, let me [...]
ABC Radio reports something like "Republicans held an anti-healthcare reform protest on the Capitol steps." Turns out it was 10,000 tea party protesters. Those must be some steps.
A 40 year old Major with a very-clearly-middle-eastern name kills over a dozen and wounds over 30 in a Gun Free Zone filled [...]
What is up with birds and crossing roads? On the way home, day before yesterday, somewhere around 15 10-15 pound turkeys crossed my road. Traffic had to stop and wait, for quite some time, simply because the birds in question went from an unorganized grouping on one side of the [...]
You will have to forgive me if posting is somewhat light/sporadic today - we will be celebrating the fact that Better Half has put up with me for the past four years.
[...]1. When plugging in and turning on a crock-pot full of what would have been a future dinner on your way out the door in the morning, ensure the GFCI outlet you plugged it into had not tripped in the recent past.
2. When placing remarkably sharp, serrated bread knives [...]
RideFast points us to yet another reason why Better Half and I will never again live in Kalifornistan (as if we were having a shortage of those):
Starting Sunday, cash-strapped California will dig deeper into the pocketbooks of wage earners -- holding back 10% more than it already [...]Differences of opinion over things like politics, society, laws, and other similar items are to be expected, and even encouraged - otherwise, individuals' opinions will not be tested, improved, and verified. However, sometimes, some opinions express a deepseated set of beliefs that are simply intolerable, insurmountable, or otherwise irreconcilable between' [...]
Our own hoplophobes and anti-rights advocates must be getting a case of the vapors over this news from our neighbors from the frozen north:
Gun-control advocates say they are horrified and fearful that Canada's long-gun firearms registry is on the verge this week of being scrapped because the Conservatives [...]A few days back, I noticed this post over at Days of our Trailers, and was going to leave a comment... until I saw that MikeB302000 beat me to it. Staggered by the blind faith and insistence on unproven 'realities' in his comment:
Where are those guns [...]At least some politicians have the nerve to be honest about revenue cameras:
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick (D) on Thursday outlined his plan to reduce the state's $600 million deficit and help struggling municipalities by, among several other revenue raising measures, installing red light cameras. The governor's proposed fiscal [...]Does anyone else occasionally get confused by the fact that phone number pads and computer number pads are oriented differently? Why is that, anywise?
[...]I know we mentioned her before at this weblog, but Survival Mom is having a give-away over at her weblog, and while I certainly do not want to detrimentally affect my own partciular chances of winning, it is probably also already a lost cause, so go ahead and [...]
I am a little behind in publishing this news, and I apologize for that, but the unnamed-on-this-weblog individual who was convicted of kidnapping, robbing, raping, and murdering Channon Christian and of kidnapping, robbing, murdering, and facilitating the rape of Christopher Newsome was sentenced to death last Friday:
The [...]One of the lawyers that wants the government to prohibit carry permit holders from going in restaurants that serve alcohol is defending those restaurants for selling alcohol to minors.
Seems to me, the problem is the alcohol. Being that Mr Cheek is supposed to represent the interests of his [...]
If/when Better Half and I eventually get a garden, something tells me you will be able to see a set of these traipsing around its grounds...
I cannot help but to giggle uncontrollably every time I see the picture - I can only imagine how amusing they would be [...]
I will be perfectly honest - news like this makes me want to use remarkably colorful language to describe how I feel about it. Instead, I will simply state that I will not do business, ever, with any organization, company, corporation, or group which contacts me on the basis [...]
This is, quite possibly, the coolest chart ever.
[...]Yesterday, I spent a few minutes trying to deal with an inveterate liar - probably more time than he was worth, but the ordeal was not without its merits. In the process of digging up information to expose his lies for what the were, I stumbled across this rather [...]
I disagree with Clayton Cramer on a good many things (open carry of firearms and his perspectives on homosexuals, to start with), but his contributions to the pro-Second-Amendment side of the fence are without question. From his debunking of the liar Michael Bellesisles, to his continued maintaining of [...]
Drag Me to Hell: Is it heresy for me to find this more formulaically boring than amusing, or even scary?
[...][rant] I enjoy spirited back-road driving as much as anyone, especially when the roads are as twisty and turny as they possibly can be. I further understand and appreciate that those roads can be more than a little under-maintained, and that their lanes are often quite narrower than those found [...]
