Why guns and explosives?  Why would people want to do this?  Why do you do this?  What motivates you to put all this work into something that you frequently lose money on?

I've had those questions asked of me many, many times.  In public I almost always give answers that, while true, weren't entirely complete.  I'd give them this answer about evolution, human curiosity, action at a distance and creating a “magic kingdom“ for long range shooters.  I'd give them the psychology of intermittent rewards.  I would tell them about being able to get positive news coverage for gun owners because it was an unusal event with smart educated people from all over the country (really, it's essentially from all over North America). Or I would be flippant and give them “Ragnar Benson's“ quote about having a character defect if you didn't share our delight with explosives. Sometimes I would tell people who I figured I could trust with the answer to ask me again in private.  That was several years ago.

The politics of this country in regards to gun control have changed.  The turning point has been reached and we have a winning endgame in front of us.  There are still a lot of bigots out there that are trying to make gun owners into second class citizens and politicians that try to use fear of guns to increase their power.  But Federally things have improved in the last five years.  And even in some states like Washington where the Democrats got control of both houses and the governor's mansion no further restrictions have been implemented recently.  And there are means in place by which you can legally carry your loaded firearm for personal protection in nearly all states.  Alaska now has “Vermont style” concealed carry laws and a few other states are debating it in the legislature.  Even Illinois, a gun owners hell, is debating allowing people to carry concealed firearms.  The war is being won.  We need to keep up the pressure and push the bigots into political extinction rather than let them build up strength and attack us again but if we choose our battles carefully and don't slack off the victory is ours if we want it.  So, with that in mind I feel much more comfortable in revealing the main reason why I do this thing called Boomershoot.  Because myself and the people I enable will likely not be required to utilize in a life and death situation what we learn from “boomershooting“.  Hence it is unlikely that myself, my friends, and my family will be near the top of a list of people to “question“ in the near future after revealing the primary reason for Boomershoot:

If it ever becomes necessary to start shooting tyrants and “jack booted thugs“ in our country I want as many people on my side as possible.  And I want them to have the equipment and the skills to be able to hit head and chest sized objects many hundreds of yards away.

Boomershoot is about a “magic kingdom” for shooters.  The availability of this magic kingdom is a great motivator for people to aquire the skills and equipment necessary to accomplish the tasks that only a few years ago I thought could come within just a few years.  Do you know how long it was from the time Germany passed their “Weapons Control Act” (our Gun Control Act of 1968 was based on this Nazi law) to when they started the intial, then Final Solution?  The Weapons Control Act was passed in 1938.  Just two to three years from “reasonable” gun laws with the “sporting purpose” test to this (from of a poster I purchased from JPFO):

In Rwanda the time from blissful unawareness of impending doom until the slaughter began was measured in minutes.  There has never been a genocide without a prior implementation of gun control.  It's trival to come up with 60 million dead due to gun control in the 20th century.  Other estimates range as high as 200 million.  And it is the prevention of those sort of genocides that is my primary motivation.

When it comes right down to it, you probably won't shoot anybody that you morally don't believe deserves to be shot.  For the most part, your biggest problem will be pulling the trigger when you really need to rather than pulling it on someone that shouldn't be shot.  You need to envision the situations that you might need to shoot someone and make the decisions ahead of time.  Make your decisions independent of gender, age, and race. The little 12 year old blond kid, that looks a lot like you, with a gun demanding your tennis shoes is just as likely, or more so, to kill you as some dirty, fat, stinking, scraggly haired, scumbag.

Greg Hamilton
Self Defense Instructor
Nov. 19, 1995

A few years ago Alan Gottlieb (chairman of  Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms) introduced me to their “new hire”, Dave Workman.  Among his other duties it was Dave's job to write lots of press releases.  At the time I thought, “That's nice.  But what will that do for us?”  Since then I have learned a thing or two.  It turns out that if you, in essence, do the work of the reporters and the editors in writing up a story often times they will publish it.  It works much better than calling or writing the reporter and/or editor and trying to get them to write a story on a particular subject or complaining about they way they wrote the last story on your pet topic.  And even if they don't publish it they will read at least part of it.  You can influence a lot better when you are in communication with them.  If you “hide in the closet“ it is almost trivial for your opponents to define you and make you appear as a monster.  CCRKBA and The Second Amendment Foundation have been pumping out the press releases for some time now. And fairly frequently the releases will get picked up by the major news media.  They are making a difference.

When I worked for Microsoft in Redmond I would see Gottleb on a fairly frequent basis and although we would talk about the anti-gun bigots in those and other terms I would not see any public use of that term.  As Alan explained it to me the left had a monopoly on the term.  Only they could call someone a bigot.  It simply wasn't possible for someone to call someone on the left a bigot.  That has changed in recent years and it's good to see.  Here is the most recent example:

CCRKBA SAYS ARIZONA RESTAURANT ASSN. SPREADING ANTI-GUN BIGOTRY

Opponents to concealed carry reform in Arizona have stooped to anti-gun bigotry in their efforts to convince Gov. Janet Napolitano to veto legislation that would allow legally-licensed, law-abiding citizens to patronize restaurants and bars, said the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA).

"It is appalling that Steve Chucri, president of the Arizona Restaurant and Hospitality Association, would rely on a poll that essentially has 78 percent of Arizona residents practicing social bigotry against law-abiding gun owners, who prevent crimes almost every day somewhere in America," said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. "That's apparently the percentage of poll respondents who, according to what Chucri reportedly told the Arizona Daily Star, ‘oppose the idea of sitting next to someone at a restaurant or bar who is armed'.

"Fifty years ago," Gottlieb observed, "this kind of cracker mentality was directed at black citizens in Mississippi and Alabama. But whether it is prejudice against racial minorities or law-abiding gun owners of all races, it is still bigoted and just as insidious."

CCRKBA Executive Director Joe Waldron also found it objectionable that Chucri's group, in cooperation with the Arizona Tourism Alliance, Arizona Hotel Lodging Association and the Arizona Licensed Beverage Association, are sponsoring an advertising campaign against Senate Bill 1363 that promotes fear, if not outright hysteria, against legally-licensed citizens who simply want to enjoy a meal with their families, in a safe environment.

"We all remember the Luby's massacre in Texas several years ago," Waldron said. "That incident prompted citizens to demand concealed carry reform in the Lone Star State. Today, in Texas and more than 30 other states, legally armed citizens are welcome in restaurants, theaters and many other establishments. We're not sure why Arizona restaurateurs have such a low opinion of firearms owners in their state.

"Perhaps these business groups should have signs printed up with the message, ‘ If you own a firearm, we don't want your kind in here'," Waldron added. "Yet legally-armed citizens have proven for years that they are better behaved as a group than the general public, and they actually prevent crimes. It would seem to me that businesses would want such people as customers. In this case, it would appear that nothing is as blind as bigotry."

With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is one of the nation's premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.

[Rhetorical question alert.] What are the odds?  Analog kid reports:

 Sorry to leave you hanging today, but it is a week before Boomershoot and I am singing “The Broken Tooth Blues” and am off to the dentist.

I left work early yesterday afternoon because of a tooth I chipped the night before. I had the option of seeing my dentist at 3:30 or waiting until Tuesday.  All is fine now.  My dentist smoothed the chipped area (very small and on the back side of the tooth) and didn't even charge me.  My tongue, which seemed to seek out the only sharp object in my mouth, is healing and things are back to normal.

By now the British have fairly written into law the position that a personally owned firearm may only be acceptable for "sporting purposes." Teddy Kennedy used this idea in the 1968 gun law, despite the fact that we in America are protected, at least theoretically, by the Second Amendment, which has nothing whatever to do with sport. Various sorts of legislators are still at it, and the BATF takes the notion of "legitimate sporting purpose" seriously, even though this would appear to be obviated by the supreme law of the land. This is a fight in which we all must continue to participate. Self-defense has nearly come to be a misdemeanor on the face of  it in Britain, where the subject is conditioned with the belief that whatever happens he (or she) must not fight back. If the wimps prevail in the next election, you may be sure that America will then gain on Great Britain on the road to serfdom.

Jeff Cooper
From Jeff Cooper's Commentaries
Vol. 4, No. 9
August 1996

[Note that this was said in '96 and his concerns about Great Britain are now being realized. - Joe]

I have gone from bewilderment to amusement at the firearms situation in the UK.  I used to wonder why the population allowed the politicians to continue breathing as they confiscated their firearms.  It turns out that banning the real thing didn't make the crime rate go down. That shouldn't be a surprise to anyone that thinks about the problem.  If someone is willing to use illegal violence for some purpose then why would you think they will obey a law against owning a firearm?  And do you think a law banning firearms will be any more effective in reducing the availability to criminals than the laws against the use of recreational drugs?  Now the politicians are proposing to ban imitation guns and knives:

...new figures showed offences involving imitation firearms rocketed by 66% last year, Home Secretary Charles Clarke said he planned to launch a new consultation on a possible ban.

"We will introduce a flagship Violent Crime Reduction Bill within weeks of the General Election," said Mr Clarke.

"It will tackle the ownership and use of replica firearms and knives, propose tougher sentences for knife and gun crime, and new measures on anti-social behaviour.

It's reaching the point where the population shouldn't need firearms to remove these idiots from office.  The entire population should be laughing so hard the politicians flee the country in shame.

As Jason at Fish Or Man points out Boomershoot 2005 is getting down to the wire.  Not only in time (eight days) but in number of shooting positions available (seven).  And that doesn't include the number of entries that probably have been mailed but I haven't picked up at the Post Office in the last four days.  There have been some local newspaper articles show up which will almost for certain generate a flurry of late entries.  I have received phone calls about the articles but I haven't seen them yet.

Things are pretty much under control.  I'm late on ordering the staff t-shirts, but most people won't care about that and probably will get them just in time.  The cardboard boxes I use as target bodies should be waiting for me when I get home tonight.  And the only other thing I need (more blenders) I'll pick up at Costco tonight.

We are close enough in time to get some weather forecasts.  My son James will be pleased that his declarations about Boomershoot weather will likely be proven correct yet again:

Friday, Apr 29  Mostly cloudy, rain possible High: 72° F Low: 44° F
Saturday, Apr 30 Times of clouds and sun High: 62° F Low: 30° F
Sunday, May 1 Rain High: 54° F Low: 30° F

We'll see.  Ten days in advance is stretching things some and will almost for certain change some by then.

Doug Weil is wrong to assert that there is a positive relationship between a country's level of gun ownership and murder or other crimes. Such results are only possible when a very selective set of comparison countries is used. In many countries, such as Finland, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Israel, citizens own guns as frequently as Americans, yet in 1995 Switzerland's murder rate was 40 percent lower than Germany's, and New Zealand's was lower than Australia's. Finland and Sweden have very similar murder rates but very different gun ownership rates. Israel, with one of the highest gun ownership rates in the world, has a murder rate 40 percent lower than Canada's. When one studies all countries rather than just a select few, there is no relationship between gun ownership and murder. The televised debate that Weil refers to was sponsored by Handgun Control, they picked the participants, and they insisted that I be the only academic allowed to defend my study at that forum. He apparently forgets about the independent academics who flew to Washington at their own expense to support the integrity of my research. My data set has been made available to academics at 36 universities. No one has had any trouble replicating my results. Anyone who would like to see what Black and Nagin did (e.g., selectively throwing away 86 percent of the sample) should look at the January 1998 Journal of Legal Studies or see my soon to be published book (More Guns, Less Crime).

 John R. Lott, Jr.
 3/27/98
 Referring to an article entitled:
 Carrying Concealed Guns is Not the Solution
 by Douglas Weil, Sc.D.
 March 26, 1998
 From http://www.intellectualcapital.com/issues/98/0326/iccon.asp

Daughter Kim called about 30 minutes ago.  The interview went well.  She said she was really nervous though.  I used to go through that airport twice a week for several years. Barb had told me Sarah had called to talk to Kim and I remember Sarah.  I wasn't sure if she would remember me though.  It's been four years (almost to the day) since I last went through there.  I remember chatting with Sarah at the ticket counter just before I left for Seattle.  I said the computer business was sort of shaky right then and I could get laid off any time.  She told me to let her know if I needed a job.  I smiled and laughed.  I was laid off the next day and I haven't been back through that airport since.  Barb related this story to Kim last night when she went shopping with Kim for some clothes to wear to the interview.

One of the first things Sarah and Kim talked about was me.  Sarah wondered how I was doing.  She wondered if Kim was my daughter and figured it must be so when she saw the email address (Kim used joehuffman.org as the domain).  Kim brought Sarah up to speed on where I was working and why I wasn't going through the airport twice a week anymore.  They are interviewing 10 people and will be hiring two.  The odds aren't too bad.  I figure Kim has a 50-50 chance considering her looks and her personality.  Kim is still very, very excited.  I'm happy for her.

Of course, small arms are not the root cause of conflict in these and other regions. We cannot ease every tension or prevent every fight. But we can help make bad situations better by doing more to ensure that arms do not fall into the wrong hands. We can help governments that want help to keep dangerous weapons off their streets. And we can make it harder for the forces of extremism and hate to get the weapons they need to carry out their destructive designs.

U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright
Remarks on the Occasion of Receiving the
International Rescue Committee Freedom Award
New York, New York, November 10, 1998
[That philosophy is working well in the Sudan right now, huh?  And it worked well for Germany when they passed the Weapons Control Act of 1938 keeping guns out of the hands Jews. --Joe]

But Henry pushed my buttons one too many times.  See also his blatherings with Rolf.  Now I need to take a walk before I will be able to go to sleep.  And I have an 8:00 meeting with the Department of Homeland Security tomorrow too.  I hope I can sleep when I get back from my walk.  If I had my chemistry set here in Richland I would be tempted to detonate some reactive targets just for stress relief.

Another report is soon to be out and the results are as expected:

WASHINGTON -- Screening at U.S. airports is no better now than before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, according to a member of the U.S. House of Representatives who was briefed Friday about an investigation conducted by the Government Accountability Office and one by the Homeland Security Department. 

"A lot of people will be shocked at the billions of dollars we've spent and the results they're going to see," said Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., chairman of the House aviation subcommittee.

Improving the ability to find dangerous materials has been a top goal of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration since it took over the security task at about 450 airports in early 2002. More than 45,000 people were hired.

Oregon Rep. Peter DeFazio, the ranking Democrat on the aviation subcommittee, also was briefed on the two reports, which are to be released within a month.

...

The TSA, which did not immediately return telephone calls Friday seeking comment, has said in the past that the tests used to measure screener performance are much more rigorous than they were before the Sept. 11 hijackings.

Since then, screeners have been much more aggressive about seizing prohibited items. Each month, screeners confiscate about a half-million objects from passengers, including, on average, 160,000 knives, 2,000 box cutters and 70 guns.

Although they will claim they just need more money for training and better equipment the real problem is that it's an unsolvable problem from this approach.  There are better solutions available but they are politically unacceptable.

Daughter Kim called a few minutes ago and was very excited.  She has an interview with Horizon Air tomorrow morning.  If she gets the job she will spend three weeks in Seattle, starting on May 1, for training.  She will miss Boomershoot but I told her I hoped that happens.  She hung up after saying she wanted to get off the phone so she could jump up and down and scream.

At the NRA convention last week one news organization managed to take a few Ted Nugent quotes out of context and make him sound a bit on the extreme side:

HOUSTON (AP) - With an assault weapon in each hand, rocker and gun rights advocate Ted Nugent urged National Rifle Association members to be "hardcore, radical extremists demanding the right to self defense."

Speaking at the NRA's annual convention Saturday, Nugent said each NRA member should try to enroll 10 new members over the next year and associate only with other members.

"Let's next year sit here and say, 'Holy smokes, the NRA has 40 million members now,'" he said. "No one is allowed at our barbecues unless they are an NRA member. Do that in your life."

Nugent sang and played a guitar painted with red and white stripes for the crowd at Houston's downtown convention center.

He drew the most cheers when he told gun owners they should never give up their right to bear arms and should use their guns to protect themselves if needed.

"Remember the Alamo! Shoot 'em!" he screamed to applause. "To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want 'em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot 'em."

Of course almost every gun rights activist knows the NRA is the gun owners organization most likely to hand over our rights on a silver platter to victim disarmament crowd and cannot considered radical.  And even though I disagree with the philosophy of only associating with NRA members the world would be a safer and better place if the anti-freedom biogots of the world like Henry Boitel were in the mental wards rather than the Ted Nugents as Henry suggests would be appropriate.

Gun control? It's the best thing you can do for crooks and gangsters. I want you to have nothing. If I'm a bad guy, I'm always gonna have a gun. Safety locks? You will pull the trigger with a lock on, and I'll pull the trigger.

We'll see who wins.

Sammy "The Bull" Gravano
Washington Times, 9/3/99

As I said the other day I helped Barb's sister-in-law in making some pink smoke.  It was on the Chicago local ABC news today.  One of Katy's friends Anne left a comment on my blog and both she and Katy are in the video with the pink smoke.  That video will probably disappear in just a few days and I can't seem to find a way to save it.  So view it now if you are so inclined. 

NBC news has a slide show and video with purple smoke and Katy also.  The text is here.

Other articles include:

• ABC7Chicago
• CBS2Chicago
• U.S. Newswire

What Harriet Beecher Stowe did in 1853 [showing the horrors of slavery in Uncle Tom's Cabin] John Ross has done for today's struggle for individual freedom...Read it!

Aaron Zelman
Executive Director
Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership    
On the book Unintended Consequences

There are only nine shooting positions still avaiable.  I have the remainder of the target bodies (cardboard boxes) on order and they should arrive by next weekend.  Barb and I rented a motor RV for the kids to retreat from the rain and wind (assuming the weather is typical Boomershoot weather) in and for us to sleep in while there.  We probably will make it available to the press during the day too.

The event is now a Lewiston Pistol Club event instead of a Palouse Practical Shooters Club event.  You should see those changes on the web site soon.

Yesterday was a very long day for me.  I woke up at 3:30 but didn't have to get up until 4:15 (Mountain Time) to catch the 6:00 AM flight out of Albuquerque.  Martin (co-worker from PNNL) and I had dinner and then talked for four hours the night before so I didn't get much sleep that night.  Then the airport security was all screwed up (they should just get rid of passenger screening) and no one but law enforcement and TSA was allowed in the 'sterile' area (gate area) of the airport when I arrived.  Even flight crews had to wait while the dogs and people searched the area.  Some TSA person had left a door unlocked Friday night and they had to search for people, explosives, and weapons.  Our plane left the gate about 40 minutes late, and touched down in Salt Lake City just as our connecting flight to Pasco was scheduled to leave the gate.  They didn't hold it for us and we sat in the terminal for over three hours for the next flight.  Not as bad as it could have been, but it took another hunk out of my precious weekend time at home.  By the time I drove home it was after 15:00.

Barb, Xenia, and I picked up James about 16:30 to go to dinner and a movie in Pullman.  While waiting for our food to arrive he realized he had forgotten to sign up for classes the night before.  He barely had an appetite.  He was very concerned he wouldn't be able to get some of the classes he wanted.  After dinner we did some war driving for a bit but didn't find anything open and finally went home to get Internet access.  James signed up for classes and things looked good for the most part. He didn't get one instructor he wanted but everything else looked good.  We had cake and icecream and James opened his presents.  Then we went to see Sahara since we had missed the start of Phantom of the Opera. I liked the movie. It stretched your credibility a bit much in places but it was okay.

Happy 21st birthday James.

I didn't get to bed until 23:00 or so (Pacific Time) but I slept well and didn't get up until after 9:00 this morning.  I feel so much better now.

If it ever becomes times to shoot someone, do they need to be shot a little? Or a lot?  If that time comes you should shoot early and often -- until the threat is over.  If you shoot a "set", such as a double tap, you may stop shooting too soon.

Greg Hamilton
Self Defense Instructor
February 5, 1997

Sucks to be the good kid.

James Huffman-Scott
2004
Referring to all the money and attention given to his sister Kim.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

Katy once got upset hearing, from the other room, the sounds of a dynamite shoot video.  So when I got this call from her the other day asking how to make a particular type of pyrotechnic device I was just a little bit surprised.  I always figured she just tolerated me because I was married to her husband's sister.  I keep the guns and explosives away from her and try not to bring the topics up in her presence.  But she called me Tuesday and asked, “How can I make pink smoke?”  Not exactly in my domain of expertise but not all that far out either.  I told her I would research it for her and that I was pretty sure I could help her.  But what did she want it for?  How much smoke did she need?  How soon did she need it, etc.?  She has to have it by Monday because the local television crews were going to be there to film it.  Huh?  She explained--she and others think the Pope should allow women to be priests.  The conclave (did I get that right?) will release smoke to announce a new Pope has been selected.  Katy and friends want to release pink smoke as a form of protest.  Okay, that's a reasonable enough request.  It's probably not illegal even inside the city limits of Chicago.  And certainly, if done halfway right, no one will get hurt which is far more important to me that not offending the sensibilities of the city of Chicago.

I did the research and found a safe way for them even with their short time frame--but it will be violet instead of pink.  Pink is doable but they didn't have the time and expertise to pull it off.  Katy thanked me then sent an update this morning:

Joe,

Just had to tell you the latest before I run off to work!
I said “local”
Well….now it is national, CNN is coming! They want to see pink smoke!
Maybe international-maybe the boys in the Vatican in Rome will see us in Chicago.

WOC national contacted Skylighter and that is what we will use.
It won’t be pink but violet and violet is the color of stoles we wear! 

Thanks for your contact

Let us hope it is bright and shining on Monday.

Katy

So if CNN shows violet smoke on Monday you can thank, or curse, me for enabling them.

A resolution from the Idaho State Legislature has me a bit confused.  I suspect it started out 'straight' and amendments got added to make fun of it.  But I just don't know for certain.  A sample:

  5        WHEREAS,  the  State of Idaho recognizes the vision, talent and creativity
  6    of Jared and Jerusha Hess in the writing and  production  of  "Napoleon  Dyna-
  7    mite"; and
  8        WHEREAS,  the scenic and beautiful City of Preston, County of Franklin and
  9    the State of Idaho are experiencing increased tourism and economic growth; and
 10        WHEREAS, filmmaker Jared Hess is a native Idahoan who was educated in  the
 11    Idaho public school system; and
 12        WHEREAS,  the  Preston  High School administration and staff, particularly
 13    the cafeteria staff, have enjoyed notoriety and worldwide attention; and
 14        WHEREAS, tater tots figure prominently in this film thus promoting Idaho's
 15    most famous export; and
 16        WHEREAS,  the  friendship  between  Napoleon  and  Pedro   has   furthered
 17    multiethnic relationships; and
 18        WHEREAS,  Uncle Rico's football skills are a testament to Idaho athletics;
 19    and
 20        WHEREAS, Napoleon's bicycle and Kip's skateboard promote better air  qual-
 21    ity  and  carpooling  as alternatives to fuel-dependent methods of transporta-
 22    tion; and
 23        WHEREAS, Grandma's trip to the St. Anthony Sand Dunes highlights  a  long-
 24    honored Idaho vacation destination; and
 25        WHEREAS,  Rico  and Kip's Tupperware sales and Deb's keychains and glamour
 26    shots promote entrepreneurism and self-sufficiency in Idaho's small towns; and
 27        WHEREAS, Napoleon's artistic rendition of Trisha  is  an  example  of  the
 28    importance of the visual arts in K-12 education; and
 29        WHEREAS,  the schoolwide Preston High School student body elections foster
 30    an awareness in Idaho's youth of public service and civic duty; and
 31        WHEREAS, the "Happy Hands" club and the requirement  that  candidates  for
 32    school  president  present  a  skit is an example of the importance of theater
 33    arts in K-12 education; and
 34        WHEREAS, Pedro's efforts to bake a cake for Summer illustrate the positive
 35    connection between culinary skills to lifelong relationships; and
 36        WHEREAS, Kip's relationship with LaFawnduh is a tribute to e-commerce  and
 37    Idaho's technology-driven industry; and
 38        WHEREAS,  Kip  and LaFawnduh's wedding shows Idaho's commitment to healthy
 39    marriages; and
 40        WHEREAS, the prevalence of cooked steak as a primary food group pays trib-
 41    ute to Idaho's beef industry; and
 42        WHEREAS, Napoleon's tetherball  dexterity  emphasizes  the  importance  of
 43    physical education in Idaho public schools; and
 44        WHEREAS,  Tina  the  llama,  the  chickens with large talons, the 4-H milk
                                                                        
                                           2
                                                                        
  1    cows, and the Honeymoon Stallion showcase Idaho's animal husbandry; and
  2        WHEREAS, any members of the House of Representatives or the Senate of  the
  3    Legislature  of the State of Idaho who choose to vote "Nay" on this concurrent
  4    resolution are "FREAKIN' IDIOTS!" and run the risk of having the "Worst Day of
  5    Their Lives!"

From Periodic Journal of my wandering.

Update: I fixed the link to the bill.