Power, whether vested in the many or a few, is ever grasping, and, like the grave, cries, "Give, give!"

Abigail Adams
Revolutionary War patriot and wife of John Adams
[This is why we have the enumerated powers of the Constitution.  This is supposed to limit the powers of both the many and the few.  Sadly, these days the Constitution is almost entirely ignored and the powers claimed by government have far exceeded the limits imposed by that tattered document.--Joe]

I just stumbled (with the help of Joel Rosenberg) onto something very interesting.  The bigoted "Gun Guys" (and their Orwellian named Freedom State Alliance umbrella organization) I mention far too frequently are supported by a $650,000 grant (over 18 months) from the Joyce Foundation.  This grant money is to Mark Karlin & Associates:

To support the continued efforts of its Freedom States Alliance, a project to promote financial self-sufficiency and effective media, public, and policy-maker education efforts among gun violence prevention groups, especially those in Illinois and Wisconsin.

I have often wondered how, with such small memberships, these anti-gun groups can afford to do what they do. Now we know. I wish I could get $400K/year to run some pro-gun websites and blog about gun rights.

To further emphasis their Orwellian nature read the Freedom States Alliance news release:

“But the energy we're seeing from communities that are rising up against the gun lobby is amazing.  Yes it will take time to take back our country held hostage by gun violence, but if it's one thing Americans are good at, it's fighting for our freedom. We're here to declare our freedom from gun violence and our Internet strategy is going to carry that message like never before.”

"Fighting for freedom" by attempting to ban guns.  You can't get much more Orwellian than that.

Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta just resigned. Now if they would just get rid of the rest of the Mineta minions.  These anti-gun bigots made it extremely difficult for airline pilots to carry firearms and in general have no clue about airplane or even security in general.  As Michelle Malkin says, "Finally."

The great object is that every man be armed.  Everyone who is able may have a gun.

Patrick Henry
In the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution

Brady Campaign Dismisses Influence of College Gun Clubs.  It sounds like a sour grapes story to me.

This picture was sent to me by Red.

It's not that I have any great love for the repressive, socialist pit of Chicago but I am glad they arrested these threats to humanity before they blew up the Sears tower:

MIAMI — Seven people were arrested Thursday in connection with the early stages of a plot to attack Chicago's Sears Tower and other buildings in the U.S., including the FBI office here, a federal law enforcement official said.

As part of the raids related to the arrests, FBI agents swarmed a warehouse in Miami's Liberty City area, using a blowtorch to take off a metal door. One neighbor said the suspects had been sleeping in the warehouse while running what seemed to be a "military boot camp."

The official told The Associated Press the alleged plotters were mainly Americans with no apparent ties to al-Qaida or other foreign terrorist organizations. He spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to pre-empt news conferences planned for Friday in Washington and Miami.

Miami U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta said in a statement that the investigation was an ongoing operation and that more details would be released Friday.

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The men slept in the warehouse, said Tashawn Rose, 29. "They would come out late at night and exercise. It seemed like a military boot camp that they were working on there. They would come out and stand guard."

She talked to one of the men about a month ago: "They seemed brainwashed. They said they had given their lives to Allah."

Just last Friday I talking to someone that grew up in Lebanan and he used the same phrase in regards to the Muslim extremists, "brainwashed".

I was going to comment on this but Jeff did a better job that I would have.  I've commented on her so many times before I would just be repeating myself.

These are not the usual sort of Darwin stories of people too stupid to live.  This is entirely different.  They people are too mentally whacked to have sex.

First this nut case from England:

Hunt, who made his fortune with his eponymous television fishing series, last month tearfully confessed to cheating on his wife in a tabloid newspaper interview and later on his radio station. Hunt said he paid up to $1000 a week for sex...

...

"But there were no regular payments. There was a sum paid, when I handed over the notes and tape - a taped conversation, little love notes, Christmas wishes, notes to help me buy a car - I was asked to hand them over, which I did," Ms Hood said.

"I was offered a sum (to end the relationship) but it wasn't $50,000."

She said she had been questioned by police and the prostitutes collective after the story broke and that the revelations had shattered her life.

However, she was happy to reveal intimate details of their mostly public encounters in which she remained clothed but he would strip naked.

"He would arrange to meet me - usually in a laneway - always somewhere public ... I believe he got off on the fact that we might get caught," she said. "I was to look him straight in the eyes and to breathe on him.

"I would tell him he was wonderful, then he would work himself into a state of excitement, shouting: 'Oh my God, you are going to kill me; you're going to give me a heart attack'. "He was affectionate, very touchy-feely leading up to this. Then he'd either, in the car or out of it, depending on how cold it was, fling off all his clothes. The more public, the greater the danger and the more exciting Rex apparently found it," Ms Hood said.

So he paid large sums of money for sex but never got around to actually having sex--he just took his clothes off.

Next we have the entire nation of Japan that is dying off because having a relationship is "tiresome":

MORE sex. That's what one expert says is needed to solve Japan's baby shortage.

"Japanese people simply aren't having sex," Dr Kunio Kitamura, director of the Japan Family Planning Association, was quoted as saying by the Japan Times, an English language daily.

An association survey of 936 people between the ages of 16 and 49 showed 31 per cent had not had sex for more than a month "for no particular reason" – a condition known as "sexless".

"As much as subsidies and welfare programs are important, sexlessness is also a critical issue in this problem."

Japan's fertility rate – the average number of children a woman bears in her lifetime – fell to an all-time low of 1.25 last year. Demographers say a rate of 2.1 is needed to keep a population from declining.

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44 per cent of the people who said they were not having much sex felt that having a relationship with the opposite sex was "very tiresome" or "tiresome".

Their is a technical term used to describe the end point these sort of behaviors lead to--extinction.

It's already against the law to commit violent acts against innocent civilians.  More laws and/or treaties won't help.  Allowing civilians to defend themselves is the only effective way for civilians to be protected.  Just the opposite of what the U.N. bigots are trying to accomplish:

Amnesty International, Oxfam International and the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) are pushing for a treaty to "protect civilians from armed violence."

Those three groups -- which have formed a coalition called the Control Arms Campaign -- say their goal is to reduce arms proliferation and misuse -- "and to convince governments to introduce global principles to regulate the transfers of weapons." They are urging the United Nations to impose a "binding arms trade treaty."

These guys want guns to remain in the hands of the governments.  And governments were the biggest perpetrators of violence against innocents in the last century and I expect they will be in this century too.  The right to keep and bear arms is an inalienable right.  It can only be infringed, not granted or denied.

Alan Gottlieb, of course, gets in right (in the same article):

Had it not been for America, all of Europe might be speaking German. Were America not the 'great arsenal of democracy' that President Franklin D. Roosevelt described in 1940, the world would be a far different place, and the sanctimonious bureaucrats at the U.N. might instead be working in labor camps.

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We have done much for the U.N., and in return, the organization has hosted despots, tyrants and dictators whose record of human rights abuses, aggression and genocide speaks for itself.

Refuse to be a victim.  That's something our TSA apparently doesn't understand.  China is teaching their flight attendants to do some serious ass kicking.  I think I'd add an on-board pig to start the clean up before the plane reached it's destination though.  Allowing the passengers to be armed is also high on my list.  What we have now is just a joke.

If this ever happens to me or anyone I care about I will utilize 20 pounds of HE to demonstrate my displeasure with their toys.  Anyone that tries to stop me will have their bullet riddled carcass used for charge confinement.  The video of THAT will then be posted on the Internet.

The right to private property is the Englishman’s right to his castle. This looks to me like the point where Labour has overstepped the mark into behaving more like a dictatorship than a democratic government.

I think anybody whose property is seized under this law should go straight to court to see if a judge thinks it should stand.

Robert Whelan
Representative of Civitas
From Homes of the dead to be seized by the state
June 17, 2006, Daily Mail
[Perhaps Mr. Whelan is using English understatement because in my viewpoint the English politicians started behaving like a dictatorship when they started putting restrictions on firearms.  And when they seize the property of the dead, remove the contents, and rent it out for their own gain it's way past the point of "seeing a judge things it should stand".  It's time to exercise your right to keep and bear arms.  But the people are just now realizing they waited too long to do that.  HT to Ry for pointing this out.--Joe]

Lyle (and I think Meredith) wanted a penis cake. Enjoy.

{Thank you Xenia for the link.}

...there's no reason to have a gun around in the first place. A gun isn't used to protect anything. It's used to kill.

Your Gun Guys Daily Update
June 21, 2006
Email from The Gun Guys
[This nutcase must think all policemen carrying guns are government assassins.  This is a reminder that most anti-gun people have mental problems.-Joe]

Barbarism:

BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 20 — The American military said today that it had found the remains of what appears to be the two American soldiers captured by insurgents last week in an ambush south of the capital, and a senior Iraqi military official said the two men had been "brutally tortured."

Major General William B. Caldwell IV, the American military spokesman, said "the remains" of what are believed to be the two Americans were found near a power plant in the vicinity of Yusefiya, about three miles from the site were they had been captured by insurgents.

General Caldwell declined to speak in detail about the physical condition of those who had been found, but he said that the cause of death could not be determined. He said the remains of the men would be sent to the United States for DNA testing to determine definitively their identities. That seemed to suggest that the two Americans had been wounded or mutilated beyond recognition.

Maj. Gen. Abdul Azziz Mohammed Jassim, the chief of operations of the Ministry of Defense, said that he had seen an official report and that he could confirm the two Americans had been "killed in a very brutal way and tortured."

"There were traces of torture on their bodies, very clear traces," General Jassim said. "It was a brutal torture. The torture was something unnatural."

If those are the rules they are playing by then we should play by the same rules.  Unless they surrender and/or cooperate with allied forces our treating of their dead, wounded, and captured "with respect" makes us appear weak to them. Our rules of war lower the "cost" for them to be at war with us.  The lower the cost for them the longer we will be at war and the more dead of our own we will have to endure.  We need to raise the cost.  Feed them to the hogs and prevent them from getting their 72 virgins.  We need to maximize their cost in every way we can.

This barbaric act will virtually ensure that no more U.S. soldiers will be taken alive or at least conscious.  They will fight to the last bullet and last ounce of strength.

We announce the good news to our Islamic nation that we executed God's will and slaughtered the two crusader animals we had in captivity. And God has given our Emir, Abu Hamza al-Muhajer, the good fortune of carrying out the legitimate court's command in person.

Mujahedeen Shura Council
A group linked to al Qaeda
CNN June 20, 2006
U.S.: Two missing soldiers found dead
[The Geneva and Hague Conventions do not apply to these Muslim extremists who do not abide by it themselves.  We need to start feeding them, dead or alive, to the hogs.--Joe]

The gun registry registers legal guns. Gangsters don't register their guns.

Tony Warr
June 18, 2006
Toronto's deputy police chief
Gun Control System Targeted in Canada

Ms. Cuiker made a slip of the tongue (or pen) and said the following in an LA Times article about the Canadian gun registry:

Although it doesn't directly address the problem of illegal handguns, the registry helps create a culture in which guns are seen as dangerous...

As gun rights activists have been saying for years, they want to demonize us.  It's not about saving lives or facts, these laws they want passed are about demonizing gun owners.  It's about creating the appearance of danger in spite of the facts.

If you want a gun, you can get one in a day, a couple of hours maybe.  The gun registry hasn't made any difference on that.

Andrew Bacchus
Founder of Toronto's Vice Lords gang who is now working with Breaking the Cycle, a gang-exiting program
June 18, 2006
Gun Control System Targeted in Canada

To hell with the 72 virgins.  I don't want to be a martyr if that's the case.  Give me three good whores.

Marty Smith
June 17, 2006

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

Abbie Hoffman
[I admire his insight, his energy and his ability to accomplish things even though many of his goals were misguided.--Joe]

You just have to be thankful he wasn't an underwear bomber.

Bruce Schneier
TALES FROM THE CRYPT(OGRAPHER)
Bostons weekly dig
In response to a comment about the TSA requiring the removal of shoes at airport "security" check points because there was one Islamic extremist that tried to blow up a plane with a bomb hidden in his shoe.
[Bruce agrees with me that existing airport "security" is less than worthless.  Read the article.--Joe]

It's the knife culture that is out of control!  Not the gun culture!  And it's in the anti-gun bigot Bloomberg's city too:

NEW YORK — Police suspect a knife-wielding homeless man went on a rampage, stabbing four people in a bloody 12-hour span, including two Canadian tourists, before police finally nabbed him early Wednesday.

Kenny Alexis, 21, was taken into custody about 4:15 a.m. outside a fast-food restaurant in midtown Manhattan shortly after the two Canadian women were stabbed, police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.

The women were identified as Melanie Carrier, 22, and Audrey Perrier, 25, both of Montreal.

Carrier remained in hospital Wednesday afternoon, awaiting surgery on her lower back, police said. Perrier was treated and released.

The other two victims, a man from Texas and another man not identified, were in hospital. All of the victims are expected to survive.

Police say Alexis had in his possession the knife used in the attack on the two women and investigators were attempting to link it to two separate subway ambushes that took place earlier.

They complain about "silencers" and "high capacity guns" but they don't seem to realize a knife is a lot like a suppressed (very short ranged) gun you don't have to stop and reload.

I've updated the Bomb Help 2005 web page.  There are a lot more I need to put up--including a bunch from 2006.  I just haven't gotten around to getting their email and my responses on the website.  I just hadn't felt like responding to these clueless twerps for the last year.  I'd look at their messages and draw a blank so they just queued up in my "Bomb help" folder until today.  Then I sort of cut loose when a new one came in today.  Altogether, I think there was 23 of them I responded to today. The people on the Bomb Help Fan Club email list probably thought I was spamming them. 

My favorites from this batch are here:

• A little fun
• Enemy at school
• big 1s

Oh, I'm getting responses back from some of them too.  This could be lots of fun.

Ry has put up a video documenting some people with their first experience. They seem to like it. I know I do. It's safe for work in all but the most bigoted of work environments.

Overtime has both it's advantages and disadvantages.  The increased pay is nice but the extra hours are seldom fun even if you enjoy your work.  In this case I'm sure it literally sucks:

BERLIN: Sex workers in Berlin have gone into extra time at the World Cup and are doing double shifts to cash in, a German newspaper said on Wednesday.

“Berlin’s hookers are groaning - all brothels are creaking at the seams,” mass daily Bild reported. “In some establishments the girls already have to put in double shifts owing to the World Cup,” the paper added, saying clients were virtually queuing up to get in to the host nation’s ‘Freudenhauser’ (literally, joy houses). One taxi driver was quoted as saying he had taken a fare from four would-be customers of some of the capital’s estimated 8,000 prostitutes.

“But they were turned away. The places are too full.” German police said last week there were no signs of forced prostitution being on the rise. Be that as it may, with around a million fans having come over for the month-long football showpiece and with prostitution legal in Germany, supply is clearly meeting demand. Bild quoted Josephine Conte of Berlin’s upmarket Bel Ami establishment, one of 400 “joy houses” in the city, as saying demand had gone through the roof and that her employees were having to put in “special shifts.”

She explained: “We have VIP reservations right through to the end of the tournament. Sometimes we don’t know where to put all the men!” According to ‘Joy’, a 21-year-old woman doing the morning shift with seven colleagues, “the guys come for a massage as they want to relax before the game.” But “the guests must be patient with waiting times of up to two hours,” according to Conte. It’s hard work, says another ‘Joy,’ a blonde aged 23 who says she sometimes puts in a 16-hour day, though some of that is on call after a regular shift.

“We are earning as much in one day as we normally would in a week. “But after the World Cup I’ll need a holiday.”