Monthly Archives: July 2008

Brady Campaign to Stop Car Violence

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Speaking of the Brady Bunch… I found this entertaining. There is much more but this should be enough of a teaser:



The Race Car Ban of 2006 bans all compact cars with two or more of the following racing features:

Four valves per cylinder
Aerodynamic spoiler or wing that protrudes conspicuously above the trunk lid or rear deck
Air dam
Hood scoop
Chrome exhaust tip
Levitation lights
Afterburner


The Race Car Ban would also ban the following race cars by name:

Honda Civic (all models)
Subaru Impreza WRX
Mitsubushi Lancer (all models)
Honda S2000
Volvo S40
Mazda 3 and Protoge
Toyota Corolla
Scion (all models)
Saturn Ion
Bentley Speed 8
NHRA Top Fuel dragster
Caterpillar D9
Boeing 737
Airbus A380


In order to reassure car owners, the bill’s sponsors included a long list of non-race cars that are not affected by the legislation:

BMW 3-series
Cadillac CTS-V
Cadillac Escalade
Chevrolet Suburban and Tahoe
Ford Edsel
Ford Model T
Ford Mustang (without wing and spoiler)
Ford F-150
Hummer (all models)
Jeep Cherokee
John Deere Tractor
Kenworth T2000
Sopwith Camel


The bill also makes it a felony to own a car manufactured after Sept. 14th, 1994, that has a fuel capacity of more than ten U.S. gallons of fuel.

Quote of the day–Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence

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Anthrax is not the only terrorist weapon sent through the mail. Congress must close the loophole that allows gun makers to evade federal regulation and sell untraceable assault weapon kits that terrorists and other criminals can purchase by mail and assemble at home. An assault weapon without a serial number is a terrorist’s dream.


Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence
Guns and Terror
Copyright 2001
[They are either ignorant or lying. The receiver of the gun (the part with the serial number) cannot be mail ordered and delivered to your doorstep. It must always be transferred to the retail customer though a face-to-face transaction with a FFL who does a background check. Even if it were possible what difference would that make to the terrorists we face? How would a gun without a serial number benefit them? And what sort of law do they think will prevent a terrorist from removing the serial number from guns that do have serial numbers? As near as I can tell these people either have crap for brains or they think everyone they talk to does. They dance in blood wherever they can find it and urge others to splash themselves with blood and participate in their delusions and perverse obsession with the destruction of liberty. They use whatever means will get traction no matter how misleading, deceptive, or useless to their implied goal of building a safer society.–Joe]

I get interesting phone calls

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Yesterday I received a call from Tim Woodward at the Idaho Statesman in Boise.


He said his column in the paper is about answering questions from the readers and he received a question about anvil launching. Was it an “Idaho thing?” A web search yielded Boomershoot and our anvil launches. He wanted to know more of the history. I told him what I knew and forwarded his email address on to the guy that does our anvil.


His column with the results of his research will appear on Sunday.

Quote of the day–esquared

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Despicable.


The ACLU joins the NRA as the advocates of cowards, sneak thieves and psycopaths. I challenge Mr. Peck to identify where in the 2nd Amendment or any Federalist Paper is found the right to bear arms for “self protection.”


You will soon be receiving the bloody shoes of the victims from across the nation.


The illegal guns that flood Cleveland and Detroit and Chicago come from your redneck gun shows and gun shops. I understand now why Nevadans need 8 or 10 guns: people this offensively stupid must have thousands of enemies. Add to that throng the families of the kids that get killed every day just because you need those pistols to feel like men. You’re pathetic weaklings.


It’s sad that when it comes to guns, what happens in Vegas bleeds throughout the rest of the country.


esquared
7:34 AM July 11, 2008
A comment to the article: Only in Nevada: ACLU opposes gun control–State affiliate bucks national stance, supporting the right to bear arms
[I think the article needs some comments to counterbalance those of this bigot. The ACLU blog post on the 2nd Amendment is up to nearly 1000 comments now with no significant sign of sympathy for their position.–Joe]

How Gun Control Lost

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Steve Chapman appears to have all his facts correct but overlooks what I think are the most important points. Yes, all the gun control laws failed to make people safer. Yes, shall issue concealed carry laws did no harm. Yes, legal scholars concluded the NRA was right all along. But that isn’t what made the difference. Facts and reason have never been the most significant factors in politics.

 

What made the difference was the gun grabbers getting their asses handed to them in elections. It started with the 1994 national election a month and a half after the so called “assault weapon ban” was passed and was sealed when Al Gore lost his home state in the 2000 election. From there it was still a fierce battle but astute observers on both sides could see, baring some major upset, who was going to win. September 11, 2001 came and both sides tried to take advantage of the event. Gun owners came out on top. The next major event, hurricane Katrina, proved such a disaster for the gun grabbers that there was no doubt which side had the momentum.

 

Another significant factor was the militia movement in the mid 1990s. It faded away in the late 90s when the ballot box appeared to be having the desired results. The politicians realized gun owners were preparing for war and dialed down their hate filled rhetoric. If the soap box and ballot box didn’t work the cartridge box was being readied for use. They heard the whispers from the gun ranges, gun shows and any other place where gun owners gathered. The shout of defiance had changed even though Heston still used the old one. And the new one was not said from the podium with the television cameras running. It was a deep growl which could only be heard if you were standing close enough. But the politicians got the gist of it anyway, “You can have my gun when you reanimate Your Cold. Dead. Hands.”

TSA goons

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Tam says she is going to drive to summer camp so the TSA goons won’t grope her and steal stuff from her luggage. Goons seems to be an accurate description of TSA behavior I see here. The text of the story is here. It was all over a bottle of contact lens solution.


I’ll bet they wouldn’t bat an eye over five pounds of flour or powdered sugar which would, if properly applied, bring down any commercial passenger plane in existence.


What TSA Really Stands For.

Quote of the day–M. Carol Bambery

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Amicae therefore contend that depriving women of the right to possess a handgun in the privacy of their own homes reflects at best an insensitivity to women’s unique needs created by their inherent gender characteristics. A handgun simply is the best means of self-defense for those who generally lack the upper body strength to successfully wield a shotgun or other long gun. To therefore deny half the population a handgun, as the District and the Office of the Solicitor General urge, evinces the “blindness or indifference” to women that only perpetuates women’s vulnerability to physical subordination.


M. Carol Bambery
Brief of amicae curiae 126 women state legislators and academics in support of respondent.
[About 70% of my firearms students are women wanting to get their concealed carry permits. As I have said before getting women out to the range is one of the things we must do to win the battle against the anti-gun bigots.–Joe]

Six years jail for sex on the beach

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Some countries take their prohibitions against sexual freedom very seriously. In some places you could get up to six years in jail for having sex with someone not your spouse in a public place:



A British businesswoman is facing up to six years in a Dubai jail after she was allegedly caught having sex on a beach.

Michelle Palmer, 30, was arrested on 5 July, along with another Briton believed to be a male tourist.

The Foreign Office confirmed that two British nationals had been arrested and the case was under investigation.

The Sun newspaper said Ms Palmer had been charged with having sex outside marriage, indecent behaviour in public and being drunk in public.


If you want to partake in Dr. Joe’s cure for everything I suggest checking the local laws first. Getting your daily dose in prison might not be as healthy or as pleasant as the stuff you get on the outside.

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Fail written all over it

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Son James sent an IM to me today with this link:



A senior government official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has expressed great interest in a so-called safety bracelet that would serve as a stun device, similar to that of a police Taser®. According to this promotional video found at the Lamperd Less Lethal, Inc. website, the bracelet would be worn by all airline passengers (video also shown below).


This bracelet would:



  • Take the place of an airline boarding pass

  • Contain personal information about the traveler

  • Be able to monitor the whereabouts of each passenger and his/her luggage

  • Shock the wearer on command, completely immobilizing him/her for several minutes

The conversation with James then went something like this:



James:
  may be taken out of context or blown out of proportion depending on what sources you consider credible *shrug*
Joe:
  My bet is I could smuggle a knife through security and get out of the bracelet before I ever got on the plane.
James:
  oh yeah, there’s all sorts of ways you could subvert the bracelet
  plus, the bad guys could figure out a way to set off the bracelets themselves, thus immobilizing any resistance!
Joe:
  And something that is going to immobilize a Sumo wrestler is probably going to kill an 80 year old little old lady with a heart problem.
James:
  yeah, basically the plan has FAIL written all over it
Joe:
  Another way to defeat the bracelet would be to wrap it in aluminum foil. You would disappear off of the location monitoring device and no radio or laser could trigger the shock.

Summer camp

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While some of the gun bloggers are off sweating at a summer camp in the North Carolina heat you should not feel sorry for yourselves. You should go to your own summer camp on the opposite coast during some of those same days (August 23 – 31):



This course will encompass how to patrol, recon, ambush, and raid, and will involve individual and small unit tactics, leadership, planning, operations orders, warning orders, and rehearsals.

One of the ultimate expressions of this was done during the Vietnam War and was know as MACV-RECONDO school . This school was set up by Project Delta (yes, the guys who later founded Delta Force) and then turned over to 5th SFG. This was the basis for LRRP/Ranger type operations in Vietnam. This course will be modeled after that school but with a modern backdrop and modern planning procedures.

There will be instructors from the actual Vietnam Recondo school along with modern experienced Rangers and Special Forces personnel. Outside of the military nothing like this has ever been offered before. Others have done fantasy camps, no one has run the real deal. Most active duty infantrymen never get a chance for this level of training!

This course will be a 24/7 immersion conducted out of a “fire-base” with large military tents and cots, in a training area of more than 800 acres. Food will be provided. The missions will go from very small unit recons, to two-element ambushes, to multi-element raids, with QRF or “hatchet force” operations as well. Basically, 5-6 man to full-class operations. All students will be involved in leadership and planning. This class is not just about tactics-the leadership and planning portions are as important as tactics, as is working as a team. Stress will be induced through the rapid pace: this is a learning tool for leadership and teamwork that cannot be overemphasized.


Do it now before a new administration declares this sort of thing to be a domestic terrorist training camp or some such thing.

Speak softer, I can’t hear you

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When I was little, got upset about something and was presenting my case with “the volume set to 11” my great Uncle Walt used to tell me, “Speak softer, I can’t hear your” and I would have to repeat myself without all the “enthusiasm” of my first explanation. His advice was good. But some members of congress are turning that sage wisdom against us. 10s of thousands of us had comments in favor of being able to defend ourselves with the best available tools in the National Parks and rather than listening to what was said they want to “get more input”.


The real story is the anti-gun bigots in congress are trying to delay the allowing of firearms in National Parks until their is a new administration in the White House. The Apex of the Triangle of Death has the details and what to do about it.

Kim has been accepted at the U of I

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Daughter Kim called me a few minutes ago to tell me she has been officially accepted at the University of Idaho.


Yaaaaahhhh Kim!


She plans to study accounting. She is smart and is good with math so this should be a good match for her.


Now I just need to get her connected up with Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. There is a conference in D.C. on August 1st that would be interesting for her to attend–if I could get her to leave her husband for a few days. Fat chance of that happening… Maybe she will participate in the empty holster days. That would be nice. But, more important than my political goals is for her to get the education she needs so she can get a good job.


Here is a picture of her just so you know who I’m talking about:


Quote of the day–Scott McNealy

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Microsoft is run by a very bright, very energetic, very healthy person who has very few outside interests — and he has a killer instinct.  I admire the guy — I think they ought to bronze him and break up his company.


Scott McNealy
[Bill has left the building. His last day at Microsoft was June 27.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Alan Gura

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That the colonists cared little about the prospect of having their guns seized is not the only ahistorical concept underlying Petitioners’ repudiation of the Second Amendment. Redcoats and Patriots alike would have puzzled at Petitioners’ notion that the Revolution produced an exclusive governmental right to operate an organized militia. The “well regulated militia” of the American Revolution operated not merely beyond the control of, but in direct challenge to, the King’s governors.


Alan Gura
Robert A. Levy
Clark M. Neily III
February 24, 2008
Brief on Writ Of Certiorari To The United States Court Of Appeals For The District Of Columbia Circuit.
[Sometime I should make a list of all the absurdities in the belief system of the anti-gun bigots that contributed to the Heller case. It would make for very amusing reading.–Joe]

Gun nuts pod-cast on Para/Blackwater summer camp

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Caleb and Squeaky will be pod-casting tomorrow night on the summer camp some of us are attending:



Talking about the recently released results of ParaUSA’s blogshoot contest, where 10 bloggers and one lucky reader will get to go to Blackwater’s state of the art training facility in North Carolina for a weekend of shooting with Todd Jarret.


Assuming I’m not on the road (I’ll be traveling back to the Seattle area tomorrow afternoon/evening) I’ll be listening.

Use it or lose it

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I’m not surprised but it’s nice to have the numbers to back it up:



There’s new advice for older men who want to preserve their sexual function: have sex, and have it often, researchers say.


In a study that followed nearly 1,000 older Finnish men for five years, researchers found that those who were regularly having sex at the start of the study were at lower risk of developing erectile dysfunction (ED) by the study’s end.


In fact, the more often the men had sex, the lower their ED risk.


The implication, say the researchers, is that men should be encouraged to stay sexually active into their golden years.


Dr. Juha Koskimaki and colleagues at the University of Tampere in Finland report the findings in the American Journal of Medicine. The study included 989 men who were between the ages of 55 and 75 at the outset.


Overall, those who said they had sex less than once per week were twice as likely to develop ED over the next five years as men who had sex at least once a week. Furthermore, compared with men who had sex three or more times per week, their ED risk was increased nearly four-fold.


This reminds me. At the reunion our classmate Les Schillings asked me how Barb managed to stay so young looking. I told him, “lots of sex” and you should have seen Barb blush as she explained “Joe’s cure for everything.” A half hour later or so John Anderson asked Barb how she managed to stay so young and she asked me to tell him. John responded with, “That doesn’t seem to be working for me. Maybe I need to be having sex with your wife.” I said that could be true and got a fresh blush out of Barb. I should have asked if he thought I could rent her out.

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I’m going to Gun Blogger Summer Camp

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I just got a call from Kerby Smith from Para USA, Inc. They congratulated me on being one of the top ten bloggers in their contest. Other winners include:



There should be three others as well. I expected Sebastian and Kevin but Sebastian says he hasn’t been notified and Kevin hasn’t posted anything about it the last time I looked.


Michael Bane (Update: with Bitter and Sebastian) will be attending as a video photographer, plus there will be some lucky voter that will attend as well.


In other news, Kerby said they just announced their new tactical rifle and they are opening up shop in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Quote of the day–Kerby Smith

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Dear Joe,


Congratulations, you were one of the top ten bloggers in the Para Gun Bloggers Contest.


Kerby Smith
Email sent Monday, July 07, 2008 12:24 PM
[Whooo hooo!!! I’m going to Virginia to train with Todd Jarrett! Thank you everyone! I really appreciate all the votes.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Nomen Nescio

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Have pity for the moderators here. I haven’t seen such a sh!tstorm descend on any one target since Jim Zumbo dined on his foot. Wow.


Nomen Nescio
Comment 285 at the ACLU blob post “Heller Decision and the Second Amendment”.
[Yup. The comments are moderated, probably to keep the spam out, and there are now 668 comments. I suspect there are a couple hundred more waiting for moderation. My count is two supported the ACLU, one was neutral, and 665 were negative. Plus there is a gathering storm in the comments to this post as well.–Joe]

Quote of the day–Greg Hamilton

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Plan A
Translation: Shooting “scumbag” in the chest.

Plan B
Translation: Shooting “scumbag” in the head.

Plan C
Translation: Shooting “scumbag” in the pelvis.

From the Greg Hamilton to English Dictionary by Meredith Robinson