The lead-in to today’s Seattle P-I story about the future of proposed gun control laws in Olympia sounds good for gun rights advocates. But is it?

The true intent of the P-I is to build pressure on legislators to pass gun control legislation during the upcoming session DESPITE the fact that none of the proposals would have prevents Wednesday’s shooting at Foss High School or earlier high visibility shootings in King and Pierce counties.

We can expect to see more news articles and editorials in the coming weeks calling for passage of Seattle Mayor Nickels’ "reasonable gun control" agenda, an agenda that was first announced last May and was broadcast again the same day of the Foss HS shooting. Of course the interesting this is that while the mayor’s four point program has nothing to do with recent shooting incidents, it is identical to Washington Ceasefire’s gun control agenda.

Joe Waldron
GOAL Alert 1-2007 5 January 2007
[Mayor Nickels is aligning himself with the equivalent of the KKK and should be held accountable for this.--Joe]

Have you ever noticed that in winter driving conditions there appears to be a disproportionate number of four wheel drive vehicles in the ditch?

I'm pretty sure there's a lesson there.

Now there's a technical issue that I never considered until I got a 4WD pickup and experienced it myself.  When the old-fashioned 4WD is engaged, the front and rear drive lines are locked together-- they cannot rotate at different rates.  That's pretty much common knowledge (you can't turn a corner without one or more tires slipping) but it has another implication:  When you hit the brakes it is impossible for only one wheel to lock up.  Since the two drivelines cannot rotate differently, you either lock up one wheel on each axle or you lock up all four, i.e. your braking ability on ice is better with 4WD than it is with 2WD and no ABS.

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton
Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton
1887

Say Uncle has an interesting suggestion:

I think I’m going to start mailing highlighted copies of the fourth amendment to addresses in Tehran.

At GRPC 2000 I hinted at an alternative to this general idea in terms of email instead of snail mail. Now I present this idea with a little more detail.

You can send 1000 encrypted emails a day for less money than one letter to Tehran per week. And you probably don't need to send it to Tehran to get the attention of the spooks. Just sending encrypted email to Europe with interesting subject lines would probably be sufficient. From your own home here in the states you can set up a computer account in Europe pretty easily. You install program on that computer which automatically accepts email messages and replies back a few random minutes later with another encrypted email. You do the same with a few computers at home and the homes of your friends (or perhaps your enemies). Basically you have a bunch of bots talking about "interesting subjects" to each other with the contents encrypted.

There are some twists on this such as doing it in such a way you can find out if the snoops were successful in decrypting the mail and reading it. Another twist is to make it impossible for them to read it. Yes, there are unbreakable encryption methods--in general you have a terrible key distribution problem but in this case you don't have to actually open the email on the receiving side. Your bot just replies with another unbreakable email message with an interesting subject line. Hence the decryption key doesn't have to actually be delivered to the bot that receives it.

Of course this might result in you becoming acquainted with your local FBI agents on a first name basis no matter how innocuous the decrypted messages and no matter how much effort you put into hiding your identity. It just depends on the number of hours of laughter required to compensate you for the hours of laying naked on a concrete floor in the dark with buckets of cold water being thrown at you every few minutes.

Say Uncle says:

That said, the NRA should use the internet more effectively. It’s good to see that Wayne LaPierre has a blog. There is a very active gun-blogging community and the NRA should openly support those folks. Link to good blog articles from your news page, mention us in your magazine articles, offer discounted membership in NRA through our websites, and other things. Hell, I’ll even give you guys free ads.

I'm up for the free ads too. And not just for the NRA and NRA-ILA. I'll give free ads to the CCRKA, Firearms Coalition, GOA, JPFO, Mothers Arms, SAF, Second Amendment Sisters, and probably several others I forgot about or didn't know about.

Click on "Advertise here" to create the ad and then send me an email to get a code that will give you the free ad.

From our friend in Israel:

Friends:
The terrorists have begun killing each other.  The U.S. is racing to infuse millions of dollars into the Fatah terrorist group.  So whats new?
 
Have a good weekend.
Howard

The U.S. has been supporting Jihadist organizations in the name of "Middle East Peace" for decades, as has Israel, by the way.  Can there be any doubt as to why this problem goes on and on, with no end in sight?  What would have been the result if the Allies had adopted this same policy toward the Nazis, or the Imperial Japs?  Does anyone doubt what needs to be done to secure peace over there, or are we still trying as hard as we can to convince ourselves that the Jihadists just want to get along?

You must ambush, mine, raid and (carry out) martyrdom campaigns so that you can wipe them out. As happened in Iraq and Afghanistan, when the world’s strongest power was defeated by the campaigns of the mujahideen, troops going to heaven, so its slaves shall be defeated on the Muslim lands of Somalia.

Ayman al-Zawahiri
Osama bin Laden's deputy in Al Qaeda
Islamists dig in by the sea as Somalia requests world's help
January 5, 2006
[The Muslim consider any land which they have ever controlled to be "their" land. Even if they took it from someone else. For example they believe Spain and at least a large share of India is rightfully theirs as well as Somalia. Now these Islamic extremists have been pushed up against the sea by Ethiopian troops. American warships are patrolling the coastline preventing them from escaping via the water. I hope they start dropping artillery shells on them. Let them carry out their martyrdom campaigns against incoming high explosives.--Joe]

Every time we seize an illegal gun, we reduce the probability that someone will be killed, injured or unfortunately robbed at gunpoint.

Mayor Richard Daley
Daley: Democratic control could lead to stricter gun laws
January 4, 2007
Northwest Herald
[I am nearly certain Mayor Daley doesn't have a clue about probability or statistics. If he did then he would know his statement is false and that would make him a liar. Of course being a politician is frequently synonymous with being a liar so I have to acknowledge the possibility that Daley does know something about probability and/or statistics. Furthermore he can't even make sense in a prepared sound-bite. The guns he and his goons are seizing aren't illegal. It's the possession of those guns by certain classes of people that is illegal under Chicago law. Never mind those particular Chicago laws are illegal. The article in which he was quoted was about Daley's desire to make possession of even more guns illegal. His statistical basis for this objective was not addressed and for a good reason--it would not support his desires. Because of this one has to wonder what his real objective is. Daley needs to answer Just One Question.--Joe]

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) came about because of Hanford--the nuclear facility where we got the nuclear components for the worlds first atomic bombs. Those scientists and engineers at Hanford were gradually put to work on other projects. The scope increased to where today there is virtually no scientific or engineering task that is off limits for the people there. Although when I was there I worked, literally, a stone's throw from the Hanford reservation I wasn't part of Hanford. The name Hanford still persists in the vocabulary of the people as a synonym for more that what is, technically, not Hanford.

With that as background I now present you with Hanford News where the top story of today (and probably for several days but I just noticed it today) is the story of my lawsuit against Battelle who has the contract to manage the laboratory.

What is just as interesting to me is how I happen to run across the story. It was all because someone at another national laboratory, Los Alamos, happen to come visiting:

Domain Name		lanl.gov ? (United States Government)
IP Address		128.165.116.# (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
ISP		Los Alamos National Laboratory
Location		Continent  :  North America Country  :  United States  (Facts) State  :  New Mexico City  :  Los Alamos Lat/Long  :  35.8639, -106.2953 (Map) Distance  :  931 miles
Language		English (United States) en-us
Operating System		Macintosh MacOSX
Browser		Firefox 2.0 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Javascript		version 1.5
Monitor		Resolution  :  1680 x 1050 Color Depth  :  32 bits
Time of Visit		Jan 3 2007 2:12:13 pm
Last Page View		Jan 3 2007 2:12:13 pm
Visit Length		0 seconds
Page Views		1
Referring URL		http://www.pnnl.info/
Visit Entry Page		http://blog.joehuffm...Their Attention.aspx
Visit Exit Page		http://blog.joehuffm...Their Attention.aspx
Out Click
Time Zone		UTC-7:00
Visitor's Time		Jan 3 2007 3:12:13 pm
Visit Number		124,413

They came from my PNNL.INFO site. That's interesting! So I looked at the log files form that site and I watched, in real time, as five different people (well, five different computers anyway) from Los Alamos poked around. They found my site via a Google search (http://www.google.com/search?q=pnnl+wrongful+termination ). I did the same search and found the Hanford New story. One person did the search and the other four soon started hitting my site directly and some of them eventually visited my blog. How interesting.

I was chatting on line with my friend Sean (Sean, I told you 10 different IP addresses but there was a bug in the script that I used to count them) as I watched in real time as one person looked at my performance reviews at PNNL. Sean suggested, "Maybe he's a hiring manager." What a kick! I took Sean out to dinner after that.

What bugs me though is that the web browsing security at Los Alamos is no better than at PNNL. I was able to determine the exact computer name of each of the participants in their visit to my website. I can't do that with visits from any other company that I notice visiting me. Microsoft, for example, has proxies in place that prevent that. Even visits from private homes, such as from my family in Moscow, Idaho are impossible to resolve to a specific computer name. What is it with these, supposedly, high security facilities that they have such gaping holes in their security?

Beating Lyle to the punch line: They are government facilities. Do you expect competence?

When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.

Richard Nixon
As a boy (on the Teapot Dome scandal)
[Last respects were given to Gerald Ford today. Ford, of course, gave Nixon a pardon for one of the biggest American political scandals of the last 100 years. Politicians... you can't live with them and you can't shoot them.--Joe]

On the suggestion of "Al" I have updated Just One Question. It's now:

Can you demonstrate just one time, one place, throughout all of human history, where the average person was made safer by restricting their access to handheld weapons?

The previous wording was awkward and a bit ambiguous. This is much better. I did tweak it just slightly from Al's suggestion but still he deserves the credit for recognizing the poor wording and the appropriate correction. Thank you.

Update: Ry, in the comments, suggested even further improvements. I removed still another word after taking his suggestion. It's now:

Can you demonstrate one time or place, throughout all history, where the average person was made safer by restricting access to handheld weapons?

Someone from PNNL came visiting again a few minutes ago. But not for the usual reason. Check out the "Search Words":

Domain Name		pnl.gov ? (United States Government)
IP Address		130.20.105.# (Battele Pacific Northwest Laboratory)
ISP		Battele Pacific Northwest Laboratory
Location		Continent  :  North America Country  :  United States  (Facts) State  :  Washington City  :  Richland Lat/Long  :  46.3282, -119.3222 (Map) Distance  :  114 miles
Language		English (United States) en-us
Operating System		Microsoft WinXP
Browser		Firefox Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061206 Firefox/1.5.0.9
Javascript		version 1.5
Monitor		Resolution  :  1920 x 1200 Color Depth  :  32 bits
Time of Visit		Jan 2 2007 6:11:03 pm
Last Page View		Jan 2 2007 6:11:03 pm
Visit Length		0 seconds
Page Views		1
Referring URL		http://www.google.co...shington&btnG=Search
Search Engine		google.com
Search Words		kennewick brazilian wax washington
Visit Entry Page		http://blog.joehuffman.org/
Visit Exit Page		http://blog.joehuffman.org/
Out Click
Time Zone		UTC-8:00
Visitor's Time		Jan 2 2007 6:11:03 pm
Visit Number		124,192

Apparently Google gave them a hit on this post of mine.

This is so funny. Their computer security is so lax it's pathetic. If I still had someone, anyone, there that was willing to talk to me without fear of getting fired I could find out whose computer (I already know the computer name) it was that being used to look for a Brazilian wax job in Kennewick (just to the south across the river from Richland). I'll bet she (or he) would be embarrassed to have that info posted on the Internet. If it were one of the felons at the lab I'd post the computer name. But almost for certain it's not.

The Washington State Constitution provides that individual citizens of the state have the right to bear arms to defend themselves or the state, Article I, § 24.

The Washington State Constitution further establishes that citizens have the right to freedom of speech, Article I, § 5.

The Washington State Supreme Court has recognized the tort of wrongful discharge in violation of public policy. Gardner v. Loomis Armoured, Inc., 128 Wn.2d 931 (1996); Roberts v. Dudley. 140 Wn.2d 58 (2000).

The Washington State Constitution is a primary source to determine the public policy of the state of Washington. Roberts v. Dudley, Justices Alexander and Talmadge, concurring separately.

In advocating for the responsible use of firearms, Plaintiff engaged in conduct protected by both Article I, §24 and § 5 and in furtherance of the public good.

Upon information and belief, Plaintiff was terminated for exercising his rights guaranteed to him by the Washington State Constitution, in violation of the public policy of the State of Washington.

Matthew Bean
in Joe Huffman vs. Battelle Memorial Institute
Filed October 30, 2006
Benton County Superior Court
[I would like to say "Hi" to all the people from PNNL that have been visiting my blog and my PNNL.info website recently. Nice to have you stop by. I'm sure I'll be talking to some of you in person and while you are under oath sometime in the future. Have a nice day--while you still can. To my friends still there and scared about being called to testify--I think I can avoid that in almost all cases. In one case I might have to have one person testify about something embarrassing (to them) but I'll do my best to avoid it and then make it as bearable as possible if it's a necessity. To my enemies in this encounter, wherever you are, I have a BHAG post coming up that addresses my plans for you in greater detail.--Joe]

Well... sort of. There's only one outlet that actually ran it that I know of. I like their headline: Fired PNNL worker claims gun discrimination in lawsuit.

I just wish they had linked to my website that proves the case rather than just saying I "say" or "claim" something happened.

Oh well. It's not the public that matters that much. It's the judge and jury. And I got a 600% increase in traffic on that website from the newspaper story anyway.

Kevin has an update for his The Other Side posting. The doctor that inspired him to write the post to begin with responded. Well sort of responded. He just said:

Kevin, thanks for writing. I am all for individual rights but life is sacred. Too many guns end up in the wrong hands. Whatever reason, the youth of North Philly too easily obtain firearms which are designed to seriously wound. Furthermore, the folks who wrote the constitution also owned slaves. Times do change and we have not demonstrated that the masses, unlike you, can responsibly control firearms. Peace, JK

"Too many guns" "Wrong hands" "Too easily"

That's the problem with getting into debates with these people. They don't respond to any of your logic or the facts. They just chant slogans. Our side does something like what Kevin did, tearing the guys entire position to shreds, and he just chants his slogans again.

In the update Kevin tears him to pieces, again, but it's not going to do much good in the doctors case. It can do good for our side in that observers can see the emptiness of the "argument" the bigot presents and I am not going to discourage anyone from doing that. But for me, I'm tired of investing that much time into something that will just be dismissed with couple of sentences. This is why I came up Just One Question. Kevin actually used it in his original post and, of course, the doctor ignored it.

Oh, for your reading enjoyment, here's another good exercise in logic and facts.

Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
[This has also been attributed to Harold R. McAlindon. I am unable to find any dates for the life of McAlindon and I've never heard of him before today so I'm inclined to believe Emerson was probably first. Regardless, this is my plan in the New Year for dealing with the anti-gun bigots. There is no path in the legal world where I'm headed with PNNL. I hope to leave a trail of (figuratively) bloody bodies that others will follow in our fight to reclaim our freedom against the anti-gun bigots.--Joe]

It was almost exactly two years after I put Google ads on my blog that I got my first check a couple weeks ago. It was for just over $100. Today I enabled another Google ads block that is supposed to be better for video ads which I expect will be the "up and coming thing".

Maybe I'll get another check for $100 after only one year instead of two years. Certainly I won't be "quitting my day job" anytime soon.

I was given a book by a friend recently. Very interesting and entirely consistent with what I have been hearing from my lawyers. The book is You Could Be Fired for Reading This Book: Protect Your Employment Rights. I have a little bit of a problem with the phrase "Employment Rights". You don't have a "right" to employment. But other than that it's a good book. Perhaps I'm nitpicking but in my case certain individuals committed a felony against me in the workplace. The employer could have investigated when they became aware of it (that email went to everyone on this list) and corrected the problem and reported the felony to Federal prosecutors. They did not. That made them a part of the crime.

Lots of things in the book were surprising to me and others I have mentioned them too. Let's take some examples (not from the book but similar):

1. Suppose one of your co-workers gets upset because you correctly predicted that their approach to a problem would fail. And to make things worse with 1/3 of the budget gone you get the project turned over to you to "go ahead and do it your way." You then succeed and get high praise from the customer. This co-worker then tells the boss that you have been barking at the full moon and molesting small animals with shovels and rakes and implements of destruction. Your boss confronts you, you deny it, and without attempting to verify the story fires you and says it's for dishonesty--making it difficult for you to get another job.
2. Suppose you have personal website praising the wonderfulness of the Partridge Family T.V. show. You boss has a personal website praising the wonderfulness of the Brady Bunch T.V. show and thinks the Partridge Family is crap. He fires you and even tells you and your co-workers why he did it.
3. Suppose your boss is married and is having a sexual affair with one of her other direct reports (not her spouse) and he is also married. This subordinate apparently likes playing the field and starts making some advances toward you. You, not knowing of the affair, mention it to your boss. Your boss makes up a reason and fires you even though her having the affair with a direct report is grounds for termination of the boss.
4. Suppose your boss put in your performance goals for the next year that you must publish five papers in public research journals and contribute to one or more conferences in person. If you don't succeed you will suffer the consequences in your next performance review. Suppose he didn't bother to get your goals written up and delivered to you until nearly half way through the year. You question how this is going to be possible because all your current research has at least some aspect that is classified and not allowed in public journals. New projects that might be entirely unclassified won't be available until next year. Not to mention that the projects you are involved in were budgeted without money allocated for publication of papers or attending conferences and there is very little time to write the research papers and get them published. He assures you that the unclassified parts are acceptable to put in the research papers and you should "give it your best effort" in spite of the time and money constraints. You give a few hints about coming papers on your personal blog. Your boss reads your blog and fires you for not keeping company information private and possibly violating national security.

Now, take a guess and tell me which of the above you think are grounds for a wrongful termination lawsuit in the United States.

The answer in nearly all states, and particularly in Washington state, is none of the above.

Wrongful termination lawsuits are very hard to even get into court. There are a very limited number of things (for example sexual, racial, age, or religious discrimination) that will get you any traction at all. And before you can even get the case into court you have to have some evidence or testimony, other than your own, to make the case it was one of "those things". You can't make your co-workers (who know they would be fired if they did) testify under oath until much later in the legal proceedings. You can't demand internal documents that might collaborate your side of things until much later either. You have to have the evidence with you the last time you went out the door--which in itself could be considered valid grounds for termination if they found it out and used that as the basis for termination. That could ruin your chances of winning in court should you get so far as to have a jury hear the case.

And even just bringing a case against a former employer can make you unemployable. Future employers will be extra cautious about hiring "a troublemaker". In short wrongful termination cases are tough and risky. I'm doing it anyway. I have the evidence to get us into courts. My lawyer and I are nearly certain we can prove the facts. We just have to prove the law supports us. More on that after PNNL gives us their response.

Of all the people to be given the death penalty there probably aren't more than a few dozen in the last hundred years that were more clearly deserving than Saddam Hussein. Not only as punishment for his crimes but to prevent him from ever coming to power again. As long as he was alive their was the risk that he would be free and restored to power and take an incredibly bloody revenge.

Yet according to this report our European "allies" condemned the execution:

The United Nations, the Vatican and Washington's European allies all condemned Saddam's execution on moral grounds.

In my view the United Nations has no moral ground to stand on and should just shut their mouth and hide in the corner like they usually do. Or shall we talk about the sex scandals and/or allowing the genocides in Rwanda and the Darfur region of Sudan?

I'll give the Vatican a pass--partly because it's the Christmas season.

The Europeans are going to be learning their own lessons soon enough. The Islamic extremists who are taking over their don't have any qualms about executions and the "moral objections" of the Europeans to them being given the option to convert or die will probably result in some of their positions on morality being revised.

And these are women who deliberately seek out this mutilation:

WEALTHY Australian women are jetting to Los Angeles for the hot new trend in plastic surgery — genital "rejuvenation".

...

The doctor said surgery on the female genitals, which can include reshaping the outer genitals (labiaplasty), became the hottest trend in plastic surgery in 2006 in response to the popularity of Brazilian-style waxing.

"The extra skin women could hide before is now totally visible," he said.

I've been watching my web logs pretty closely lately and I ran across this today. It's got to be my favorite visit in the past couple of months. Notice the part in RED:

68.113.0.103 - - [31/Dec/2006:02:54:36 +0000] "GET /Report.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 22216 "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en&q=%22joseph+Huffman%22+pnnl&btnG=Search" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.9.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3"
68.113.0.103 - - [31/Dec/2006:02:54:36 +0000] "GET /_themes/pistol/sticharcoaltrans.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 10962 "http://www.pnnl.info/Report.htm" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.9.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3"
68.113.0.103 - - [31/Dec/2006:02:54:36 +0000] "GET /_themes/pistol/textbull.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 944 "http://www.pnnl.info/Report.htm" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.9.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3"
68.113.0.103 - - [31/Dec/2006:02:54:36 +0000] "GET /_themes/pistol/horizontal.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 1110 "http://www.pnnl.info/Report.htm" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.9.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3"
68.113.0.103 - - [31/Dec/2006:02:54:37 +0000] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 287 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.9.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3"
68.113.0.103 - - [31/Dec/2006:02:55:29 +0000] "GET /joeyouradumbass.html HTTP/1.1" 404 296 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.9.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3"
68.113.0.103 - - [31/Dec/2006:02:55:29 +0000] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 287 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.9.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3"
68.113.0.103 - - [31/Dec/2006:02:55:51 +0000] "GET /joe_your_a_dumb_ass.html HTTP/1.1" 404 300 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.9.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3"
68.113.0.103 - - [31/Dec/2006:02:55:51 +0000] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 287 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.9.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3"
68.113.0.103 - - [31/Dec/2006:02:56:17 +0000] "GET /Reinforcements.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 31153 "http://www.pnnl.info/Report.htm" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.9.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3"
68.113.0.103 - - [31/Dec/2006:02:56:17 +0000] "GET /images/JoeComputer.JPG HTTP/1.1" 200 29391 "http://www.pnnl.info/Reinforcements.htm" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.9.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3"
68.113.0.103 - - [31/Dec/2006:02:56:17 +0000] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 287 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.9.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3"

The part is red is a request for a file by the name of "joe_your_a_dumb_ass.html" which doesn't exist. It apparently was just a message for me. Further information on this person is available from http://www.geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm?GetLocation which yields Richland, WA. This is the home of PNNL and some of the bigots that committed the felony against me. Further information about this person is probably available from their ISP. Which nslookup shows as: 68-113-0-103.dhcp.knwk.wa.charter.com or Charter.com in Kennewick.

Probably the most telling is they are using a Macintosh computer. That narrows it down a bunch. I don't know for certain who it is, so let just call him or her "John".

John apparently has more than just a casual interest in my website. He spent the next forty three minutes reading my research notes and a bunch of other stuff. Then came back an hour and forty three minutes later to take a second look at the complaint we filed in court.

John, you probably had something to do with this or you wouldn't be so interested in my website and calling me names. As for being a dumb ass, I would like to suggest that you committing a felony was a lot more dumb than me making the details of the crime public. Time will tell who is the dumber of the two of us but it appears to me you have such a big start in the stupid department it will be difficult for me to even come close. Have a happy New Year John--while you have a chance. It's going to be tough once you start answering questions under oath. And another thing John, I know I have my share of spelling errors and typos but you should have said "you're" instead of "your".

With machine guns and flame throwers.

All perfectly legal and a good time was had by everyone. Except maybe the anti-freedom bigots reading about it at home.

Via Kevin.

One of the ways the anti-freedom people make progress is by asserting people like us are extremists, dangerous, and a "threat to society". While in fact just the opposite is true. Even if you don't want to take the time to assert (and/or prove) the anti-freedom bigots are a threat to society you can easily demonstrate the gun nuts (like me, Kevin, and his friends) are just ordinary people, are not extremists, and are only a threat to a tyrannical government. People, in general, want to be "in the middle" and "moderate". By pushing the envelope in the freedom direction you make it easier for the "moderates" to be further from the anti-freedom bigots.

Do your part and don't hide in the closet about it.

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

Sam Ewing
January 1991
Readers Digest Quote
[I never thought of it that way before but I wonder if gun control is an attempt by the government to gain more nerve and reduct the deficit.--Joe]

Christmas 2006 for Joe

Notice the toothbrush in the lower left corner from Barb? That is to counteract all the candy and jam on the entire left side of the picture from all her other relatives.

James got me me the blanket underneath everything that supposedly says "blanket" in binary ASCII but I haven't verified it yet. James also got me Obsession--The Movie and America: Freedom to Facism

I'm looking forward to testing out the Roomba from Barb. It's charging now.

I got lots of new music from Barb to keep me entertained on my trips to and from Seattle. Although I'll probably have just as much fun fantasizing about my future interactions with the felony bigots at PNNL on my long drives. The lawsuit being served is probably my favorite gift--even though I paid for it myself.

I've been told the new Battlestar Galactica series I got from Barb is better than the original one. James and I will be watching that in the evenings in Seattle just as soon as we finish off the Enterprise series.

I got all six of the flashlights from our daughter Kim and her fiancée Caleb. The LED one with the crank generator in the top right corner of the picture gets my vote for the best one.

The Boris Vallejo calendar was no surprise but then Barb has been getting one of those every year for nearly thirty years now. No reason to stop anytime soon.

The mug and the plate were hand glazed by Sara and Xenia respectively. That's an image of Enterprise on a star background on the mug.

Xenia has some pictures of the other pottery stuff she did for Christmas including a better picture of the Boomershoot plate.