I received a request for a license for Modern Ballistics to be used on a computer in the U.K. that wasn't connected to the Internet.  Because the license mechanism includes information such as the processor type and the number of processors I can't just generate a license and send it to someone.  Since the guy is a private citizen and living in the beginnings of a police state I gave him a version of the program that doesn't require a connection to the net.  Furthermore I pointed him to this post about giving free entry to Boomershoot 2006 to British subjects which lead him to my Jews In The Attic Test.  He responded with:

Joe, Thank you for that. Love the Boomershoot. I'll start applying the Jews in the Attic test. Might have some effect on those over here who can't see the danger of more government controls.

Like I have said before, it's better to stop this sort of danger to humanity in someone else's country before it reaches ours.  I wish him and his fellow subjects all the luck in the world and if there is anything I can do to help them in their fight I'm honored to provide the assistance.

Former Washington D.C. mayor Marion Barry was robbed at gun point in his home--where guns are banned.  Alan Gottlieb has the appropriate response in this same article, but Barry is insane.  How can he push for tougher gun control laws when guns are already completely banned?

"It's time, to tell anti-gun city leaders like Barry that 'we've tried it your way, and it was a disaster; now let's try it a different way.' It is time for citizens in Washington, D.C. to once again be secure in their homes and businesses, and the only way to accomplish that is to make it possible for them to fight back," Gottlieb said.

"If the gun ban had worked, Marion Barry would still have his wallet," Gottlieb concluded.

Barry has vowed not to move from his home in Southeast Washington's Ward Eight, which he represents in the city council. Instead, he said he'll push for tougher gun control laws, the Associated Press reports.

Barry should read When Prophecy Fails--it describes his mental difficulties.

If it weren't for the obvious and justified distress these people are in I would just roll my eyes at their insanity:

SOUTH PORTLAND, Me. - Kelly DeCambra made her way through a seven-inches-an-hour snowstorm to a dingy Maine State Police garage where, among the brake parts, transmissions and a flat-bed tow truck, she hoped to find a fragment of solace.

It would come in the form of a Ruger .44 Magnum Super Blackhawk revolver, caked with blood and the memory of Ms. DeCambra's son, 21-year-old Lionel St. Hilaire, who was shot to death with it last year.

The mother had come to watch the gun that was used to kill her son be sawed into pieces in an acrid plume of white-hot sparks.

Ms. DeCambra's act of witness was made possible by a law Maine enacted in 2001 that requires handguns used in homicides to be destroyed when they are no longer needed for evidence. Before that, guns were often sold or auctioned by police departments to raise money for other equipment.

...

Maine's law came about because of Debbie O'Brien, a Kennebunk woman whose 20-year-old son, Devin, was shot to death in 1996. When she learned that the state police would probably sell the gun used to kill her son, Ms. O'Brien said her reaction was, "Oh, my God, the police are here to help you and the next thing you know they're turning around and selling a gun, making money off my dead son."

Ms. O'Brien lobbied for the proposed law, saying that she told the state police, "Look, if you need money, let's do bake sales."

"You're in hell," she said. "You're just struggling to have a life, and then I realized that would include the gun."

William Harwood, a gun control advocate in Maine, and Robert M. Schwartz, executive director of the Maine Chiefs of Police Association, said the original proposal was for all crime guns to be destroyed. But because of the state's strong hunting lobby, they said, the final law included only handguns used in homicides.

"To be candid," Mr. Harwood said, "the legislation had as much symbolic importance as it does deterrence."

But the symbolism is powerful, said Ms. O'Brien, who watched the .22-caliber handgun used to kill her son be cut up six years after his death.

"It was just a very important day for my husband and I," she said. "This was a weapon that changed our lives."

Yes, their thinking is distorted by the grief they are experiencing but to think that a gun would go to Hell because it was used in a homicide (note, not necessarily a murder) assumes not only that there is a hell, but the gun has a soul, and it was the active agent in the homicide.  You don't hear about people wanting cars, baseball bats, and kitchen knives used in homicides being destroyed where one would assume there is a similar amount of grief.  I think I see why this is important to them.  As Harwood, above says, this is about symbolism.  It's about the demonization of firearms.  It's about attributing motives and evil to a piece of metal as does O'Brien when she says, "This is a weapon that changed our lives."  These people need grief counseling not laws that take money away from the police.

You're in hell. You're just struggling to have a life, and then I realized that would include the gun.

Debbie O'Brien
Seeing Crime Guns Destroyed Gives Solace to Victims' Families
January 4, 2006
New York Times
[Odd, isn't it, that this seems appropriate to  some people?  Would cars involved in fatalities invoke a similar reaction?--Joe]

PSR believes that the only way to lower the number of unnecessary gun deaths is to get guns out of the home. Due to the combination of a fear of violent crime and the mistaken impression that guns offer a measure of security, more and more people choose to own guns. In order to stop the perpetuation of the myth that guns in the home offer protection, PSR is waging a campaign to educate the public about the true dangers caused by guns in the home.

 http://www.psr.org/home.htm (as of 11/13/98)

Physicians for Social Responsibility
1101 14th Street Northwest, Suite 700
Washington, D.C. 20005
Telephone: (202) 898-0150 Fax: (202) 898-0172
mailto:psrnatl@psr.org
[For those people that claim, "No one is trying to take your guns away."--Joe]

9-1-1 ain't 1911.

Ken Grubb
December 29, 2005 10:09 AM
WA-CCW email list
[1911 is a model of pistol particularly well suited to self-defense.--Joe]

Dale put up a picture of a pretty woman wearing a "Celebrate Diversity" t-shirt on his blog and the moonbats started barking at it.  Amazing.

Our friend the Count Randaccio-Lodi informs us that this business of "politically correct" communication has begun to affect the Italian language too. The Italian word for such talk is sinistrese, indicating its origin on the political left.

"Certain words are replaced by others giving a bad thing a nice sounding appearance (like gay for sodomite or progressive for communist). Trouble is that this game never ends since sooner or later the meaning catches up with the sound and a new word must be issued."

I know this curious affliction still afflicts the English-speaking world, despite its obvious foolishness, but I had not thought it had gone abroad just yet. We do not hear of it in German or French, but I suppose the time will come. 
   
Jeff Cooper
From Jeff Cooper's Commentaries
Vol. 4, No. 16
December 1996
[This is not something that originated in the U.S.  It's possible it has been around since humans had words.  I do know that I guy I know who came from Russia in the mid-'90s talked about his grandfather living under Stalin and they used the exact same phrase, "political correct speech", during that time.  I really don't have problem with it general as long as it doesn't end up being a crime of some sort, which it has in this country, to use the derogatory version.--Joe]

You would probably guess Georgia, Mississippi, or West Virginia, but this is from Utah:

SALT LAKE CITY The Utah Court of Appeals is upholding a judge's refusal to dismiss a sexual abuse allegation against a 13-year-old Ogden girl who became pregnant by her 12-year-old boyfriend.

The appeals court on Friday ruled that the law's "rigorous protections'' for younger minors include protecting them from each other.

The decision leaves the teens in the position of each being both a victim and a perpetrator in the same offense.

"The Legislature certainly may act to protect the health and safety of children, and may more vigorously protect those of more tender years,'' Judge Gregory Orme wrote for a three-member panel of the court, which made its decision "with some reluctance.''

The girl's Ogden attorneys, Randall Richards and Dee Smith, are considering an appeal to the Utah Supreme Court.

Richards pointed out that Utah law says minors under age 14 do not have the ability to consent to sexual activity.

"It's a paradox,'' he said. "How can they be old enough to commit an offense if they're not old enough to consent to it?''

...

Juveniles who are 14 or 15 and have sex with peers can be charged with unlawful conduct with a minor but the law provides for mitigation when the age difference is less than four years, making the offense a misdemeanor.

What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.

Henry David Thoreau
(1817-62), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist.
Journal entry, 23 Oct. 1852.

From CBC News on the Canadian gun registry program:

1995
Bill C-68, the strictest gun control legislation in Canadian history, receives Senate approval. It calls for harsher penalties for crimes involving the use of guns, creates the Firearms Act and also requires gun owners to be licensed and registered. At the time, the government says the registry would cost about $119 million, but the revenue generated by registration fees would mean taxpayers would only be on the hook for $2 million.

...

Feb. 13, 2004
Documents obtained by Zone Libre of CBC's French news service suggest that the gun registry has cost $2 billion so far.

May 20, 2004
The Liberal government, just days before an expected election call, eliminates fees for registering and transferring firearms. Ottawa will also limit its spending on the gun registry to $25 million a year, spending which has averaged $33 million a year and reached as high as $48 million. Licensing of gun owners and firearms will continue.

June 2005
In the 2004 Report of the Commissioner of Firearms on the administration of the Firearms Act, the Canada Firearms Centre estimates that the cost of running the registry for the year ending Dec. 31, 2004 was less than $100 million. The report says costs are continuing their downward trend and should fall to approximately $85 million beginning in fiscal 2005-2006.

You don't need an accounting or psychology degree to figure out these anti-gun people have mental problems.  Estimated to cost $2 million and it then comes in at 1000 times more at $2 BILLION.  The Liberal government says spending on the gun registry has never been more than $48 million per year.  This is AFTER it has been revealed in the previous nine years they have spent $2 billion--meaning that on the average they have spent over $222 million per year.

With that $2 billion they could have funded 1000 more cops or better yet it could have purchased guns and training for 2 million at risk people--such as the 14 women who were killed in Montreal in 1989 when they didn't have gun to defend themselves with and woman hating Muslim extremist Gamil Gharbi started shooting them.  It was that incident that initiated the push for the gun registry.  Instead of taking the appropriate, time proven, path of providing a means for people to defend themselves they let their bigotry and mental disorders cloud their thinking.  At last report the gun registry, at a cost of $2 billion, has only been credited with solving one crime.  So what do the Liberals conclude is the correct answer?  Why of course!  It's more gun control.  There is no need to have them answer Just One Question.  All you need is a body temperature I.Q. to come to the correct conclusion on these mental defects called Liberals.

"We're from the government & we're here to help you". If you ever hear those words I hope you've already started your draw.

Publicola
http://publicola.mu.nu/archives/2005/12/10/another_case_of_government_internment_camps.html
[While succinct and insightful in the literal sense I must disagree.  If they are at your door when you start your draw you started far too late.  See Why Boomershoot for a more practical approach.  At an absolute minimum you should engage from a block away.  Preferable would be a different neighborhood, city, or state.  And if possible a different country--which is part of why I support the war against the Islamic extremists.--Joe]

Tell me again why we didn't open the ANWR for more oil production.  Here is a important clue as to why we should:

PICTURE the families shivering in apartments without heating, factories grinding to a halt, frozen water pipes bursting in the depths of winter. Welcome to the new Cold War.

At 10am on Sunday, Russia is threatening to unleash the most powerful weapon in its post-Soviet arsenal: unless Ukraine agrees to a fourfold increase in the price it pays for gas, Russia will simply turn off the tap.

Nor is it just Ukraine under threat — the EU imports about half of its gas from Russia and 80 per cent of that comes through Ukrainian pipelines.

So when President Putin met Ivan Plachkov, the Ukrainian Energy Minister, in Moscow yesterday, there was more at stake than relations between the neighbouring states. Analysts fear the dispute could provide a foretaste of how Russia will use its massive oil and gas reserves as a foreign policy tool in future disputes with the West.

“Energy co-operation has replaced military might as the mainstay of Russia’s international credibility,” Chris Weafer, chief strategist at Alfa Bank in Moscow, said. “It is using its importance as an energy partner to pursue its geopolitical and foreign policy agenda.”

Radio Frequency ID--the chips they put in pets for identifcation (and some people want to put them in people) are everywhere.  They used for inventory control, shoplifting detection, and ID cards.  Here is how to make your own wallet that will block the remote reading of the devices in your pocket.

They should have taken care of this guy decades ago.  Apparently he was overlooked.  I'm of the opinion they should give serious consideration to correcting the oversight.  In any case that he is outraged is not something anyone should loose any sleep over:

The Palestinian mastermind of the Munich Olympics terrorist attack, which killed 11 Israeli athletes, says he is outraged at not being consulted for the Steven Spielberg thriller Munich. 

He also accused the director of pandering to the Jewish state and said the new film about the incident would not deliver reconciliation.

Mohammed Daoud planned the Munich attack on behalf of PLO splinter group Black September, but did not take part in, and does not feature in, the film.

...

"We did not target Israeli civilians," he said.

"Some of them [the athletes] had taken part in wars and killed many Palestinians. Whether a pianist or an athlete, any Israeli is a soldier."

They use the same sort of logic when they kill Israeli children--they would have grown up to be Israeli soldiers.

From Alberta Canada:

RCMP in Alberta have admitted they made a mistake in failing to respond to a 911 call made by a woman who was later found murdered in her home.

Brenda Moreside, 44, was found stabbed to death last February in her home in High Prairie, Alta., nearly 300 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.

The night she was killed, she called 911, complaining that her common-law husband was drunk and trying to break into her house.

She was told by police that they couldn't come because the man was breaking into his own residence and damaging his own property. Moreside was found dead in the doorway of her home 12 days later.

"The lack of attendance in this particular case was clearly an error," Supt. Marty Cheliak told a news conference in Edmonton Thursday.

Technically, she could have had a gun.  The problem is that the Canadian government has made it difficult, complicated, and time consuming.  "Just dial 911! It's the government's job to take care of your needs."  It is possible that there was a gun in the house and he knew she didn't have a clue as to how to use it.  Which is the reason my kids all took the NRA Personal Protection class.  If you really need to use a gun you need to use it NOW! So, the husband knew it was very unlikely she had a gun or that she didn't know how to use any gun that might have been present.

In any case this Neanderthal knew he could break in and kill her without concern of having his attitude forcibly adjusted by small pieces of metal traversing his brain at Mach 2.5--which reminds me of a Greg Hamilton quote.

From the U.K. and the News.Telegraph:

Police are searching for the man responsible for a the suspected abduction and sexual assault of a six-year-old girl who was taken from her bath and left naked in a nearby street.

...

"From her account, somebody has been brazen enough to enter her house, take her away undressed and then assaulted her in a manner which is clearly sexually motivated, and then leave her in this lane, in the dark, on her own," he said.

"I consider that individual to be extremely dangerous and that is why I am keen to trace that individual and arrest him."

The detective, who is leading the Northumbria Police inquiry, said examination of the scene and the victim indicated her account was true.

"I am satisfied that the report, as it was given to us, is real and is credible and we are seeking to trace a male who is not known to the girl, who has entered the house and taken that girl out to conduct a sexually-motivated assault," Mr Napier said.

Invasions of homes while the residents are home are rare in the U.S. but common in the U.K.  Sociologists and criminologists researching the differences found that criminals feared getting shot by a resident more than being arrested by the police.  This pond scum lowlife knew he would not get shot while committing this crime even though the residents were present and awake.  The odds of surviving such a brazen crime in political jurisdictions where the right of ownership of firearms is recognized without being thoroughly ventilated by high velocity lead poisoning is about 50%.  It is an exceedingly rare criminal that is so stupid that they will risk those odds of such a catastrophic failure of their victim selection process.

Modern totalitarianisms have been a stark reminder, but did not newly teach, that the kicked-in door is the symbol of a rule of fear and violence fatal to institutions founded on respect for the integrity of man.

Felix Frankfurter
Supreme Court of the United States
365 U.S. 167
Monroe v. Pape
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT
No. 39 Argued: November 8, 1960 --- Decided: February 20, 1961
[This SCOTUS opinion was written before the "War on Drugs" began.  Current politicians and judges should take this "stark reminder" to heart.--Joe]

He's clearly nuts.

Ry Jones
December 27, 2005
[Referring to this guy thinking government regulation could prevent abuse of a mandatory Universal Biometric ID and such a system was inevitable.  See also some of the on-line clashes I have had with him.  He is also my number one suspect as to the person that gave PNNL the 'tip' to look at my blog and websites and if true is probably a conspirator in this felony.  See about half way down on this page for more details.--Joe]

The offense always has the advantage in security.  Defense only has to make one mistake.  TSA is now appearing to go on the offense.  It should result in a big improvement in security:

The Transportation Security Administration plans to train screeners at 40 major airports next year to pick out possible terrorists by engaging travelers in a casual conversation to detect whether a person appears nervous or evasive and needs extra scrutiny.

The new security technique, already in use at some airports, adds a psychological dimension to screening by trying to find high-risk passengers based on how they act at checkpoints or boarding gates.

Passengers who raise suspicions will undergo extra physical screening and could face police questioning.

...

State police Sgt. Peter DiDomenica called the program "an antidote to racial profiling" that focuses on "objective behavioral characteristics." He said the program has curbed racial profiling "because we've educated people."

Behavior detection is routine in security-conscious countries such as Israel, where air travelers routinely face aggressive questioning.

U.S. Customs officers have long asked arriving travelers questions, often in random order. If a person gives "stumbling answers," that could indicate the person has fraudulent travel documents or plans to overstay a visa, Customs and Border Protection spokeswoman Kelly Klundt said.

Now if they would just do the research that I have been suggesting be done.