I think contraception is disgusting — people using each other for pleasure.
Joseph Scheidler
Director, Pro-Life Action League
August 11, 1985
Chicago Tribune,
[See also other “interesting” quotes that give credence to The Handmaid’s Tale view of politics.–Joe]
Via Say Uncle I found out some college professors will call the police if you advocate exercising your Second Amendment rights to defend innocent life:
On October 3, 2008, Wahlberg and two other classmates prepared to give an oral presentation for a Communication 140 class that was required to discuss a “relevant issue in the media”. Wahlberg and his group chose to discuss school violence due to recent events such as the Virginia Tech shootings that occurred in 2007.
Shortly after his professor, Paula Anderson, filed a complaint with the CCSU Police against her student. During the presentation Wahlberg made the point that if students were permitted to conceal carry guns on campus, the violence could have been stopped earlier in many of these cases. He also touched on the controversial idea of free gun zones on college campuses.
That night at work, Wahlberg received a message stating that the campus police “requested his presence”. Upon entering the police station, the officers began to list off firearms that were registered under his name, and questioned him about where he kept them.
They told Wahlberg that they had received a complaint from his professor that his presentation was making students feel “scared and uncomfortable”.
That’s all it takes to have someone call the police on you? And furthermore the police didn’t tell the bigot, “Get over it.”? What if a student had announced they were gay? That could have made some people “scared and uncomfortable”.
I wonder if the college has some sort of policy against “creating a hostile environment” that could be applied to Professor Anderson.
You can’t underestimate the power of fear.
Trica Nixon
[I was inspired to post this one after reading Jeff’s post and this line in particular, “If hoplophobe describes a fear of guns, what’s the Latin word for fear of pro-gun voters?”–Joe]
How would you deal with someone that got everything exactly backward? When they want the car to stop they step on the accelerator and when they want to go they step on the brake. Instead of washing their hands before meals they soil them in the most foul manner possible. They put water on the campfire that is keeping them warm and they put gasoline on the Christmas tree fire in their living room.
I would have to conclude they are insane. And unless there are some sort of drugs or therapy available for their condition they should be locked up for the protection of themselves and others.
But that’s doesn’t appear to be an option in this case where the political leaders of D.C. are demanding Congress commit an unconstitutional law and object to the a law that brings them in line with the constitution on another matter:
D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) and D.C. Council members disagree with that conclusion. They furiously protested the firearms amendment.
“The District of Columbia leadership is fully united in its opposition to unwarranted amendments that would dramatically damage the District’s carefully revised gun law and expose the District to great harm through the undoing of its laws,” D.C. Council President Vincent C. Gray and Council Member Phil Mendelson, chairman of the council’s public-safety commission, said in a letter to Congress released yesterday.
In a statement after the Senate’s vote, Ilir Zherka, executive director of D.C. Vote, a lobbying group, said the city has passed a “significant hurdle in our fight for full democracy for DC residents.”
But he added of the gun amendment: “If anything, this amendment has strengthened our resolve to continue to fight for the rights of Washingtonians. Congress repeatedly treats the District as a testing ground for flawed, dangerous legislation. This has to stop – and we’ll keep fighting to ensure that the bill signed into law is not tainted by this amendment.”
The Brady Campaign is now pointing out the rate of fire with a semi-auto firearm can approach the rate of a fully automatic firearm.
One has to assume this fact will be used to argue that semi-auto firearms should be treated like fully automatic firearms. In other words newly manufactured firearms of this type should banned from sale to private citizens and the ones currently in circulation should be heavily taxed and licensed.
Just wait until they find out that in the hands of an expert revolvers and lever action rifles can be fired as fast or faster than a semi-auto in the hands of amateur. Soon they will be calling bolt action rifles and single shot pistols the “weapons of choice” for drug runners, mother rapers, father stabbers, and father rapers.
Earlier this month I asked if anyone had questions for Patrick Leahy when he came to speak to people at Microsoft. I then live blogged about his appearance.
Early next month Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal will be speaking to a group I plan to be a part of.
Any questions you want asked? This is assuming I’m aggressive enough to get my question(s) presented.
Background on Governor Jindal:
See also Say Uncle’s comments about him as well as Tam’s.
Update: After thinking about it while I was taking a shower if I were fairly certain he would get the reference to both books I would be inclined to ask Tam’s question:
Why does the GOP insist on offering me The Handmaid’s Tale as its cheery alternative to the Democrat’s promise of 1984?
Update2: This post is being attacked via spammers every few minutes. I’m turning off comments for now. Send me an email if you want to make a comment and I’ll post it for you.
Update3: The meeting has been canceled for now:
We received word this weekend that President Obama is travelling to Louisiana on March 5th – to meet with Gov. Jindal and tour Katrina recovery efforts. This unfortunately means that he will not be able to travel to the NW for meetings this week. Governor Jindal is very sorry to make this last-minute cancellation, but we look forward to working with his staff to find a new date for his visit in the future.
Idaho has this reputation for being a bunch of anti-federal government crazies, but I don’t think that’s particularly deserved. I mentioned last February that Montana officials had warned the Supreme Court that Montana joined the Union on the understanding that the Second Amendment protected an individual right, and they might have to rethink that situation if the Court ruled wrongly on D.C. v. Heller (2008). Fortunately, the Court got it right, so there was no need for Montana to seize the Air Force missile silos there, and become the world’s lowest population and density nuclear power.
Anyway, it appears that the Montana legislature is preparing for the Obamination of restrictive federal gun control laws.
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Adding to the amusement of this is that those who were upset about the Raich decision (and they were right to be upset, even if it was for a very stupid cause: marijuana) will have to admit that if California has the right to legalize marijuana that doesn’t move across state lines, free of federal intervention, then Montana has a similar right to tell the federal government that guns made in Montana are exempt from federal rules.
Clayton Cramer
February 25, 2009
Those Pesky Montanans
[Although I probably am as amused about this as Clayton people don’t “have to admit” anything. I literally know a person that will insist to your face that “the fence line is over there and has always been over there” even though you could break a leg stepping into the ancient fence post hole in front of you and get tangled in the rusty barbed wire as you fell. This same person also convinced a judge that it was legitimate self-defense after a neighbor caught him sitting on his ex-wife pounding on her face who was flat on her back on the sidewalk (had it been me that caught him the judge would not have been required to make a decision). Some people are just reality impaired and/or have an infinite capacity to lie.–Joe]
Kris tells me he is going to attend Boomershoot as a spectator and wondered if this would be an appropriate lead pusher for the event:
The original design intent is described as:
Designed as an equalizer for inconceivable and unpredictable lane changes, and other traffic related anomalies perpetrated by the cell phone using, motor home/SUV driving morons in Florida imposed on the rest of us. The below pictured machine was designed for that purpose.
Each mini gun fires at a rate of 3000 rounds per minute (6000 total). During initial test and evaluation it was demonstrated that a single 2 second burst would, and did blow a 40 foot RV with tow car clean off the road, leaving an open and unobstructed route ahead. It will vaporize an SUV in seconds! Tests further indicated that after two or three RV’s/SUV’s in a row were eliminated, or “friggin smoked”, others voluntarily pulled off the road and thus became a “non threat.”
I told him it would be welcome but the accuracy of the lead on target was far more important than the quantity.
But perhaps we can create a special Boomershoot event for this class of toy if there is enough interest out there. See also these variants.
From reader Rob who makes reference to a previous post of mine when he says, “Abnormal behavior?” and sent me this picture:
When a non-technical person says, “reset” I have to examine the context carefully and frequently ask more questions. They could mean anything from closing an application and restarting it to unplugging the computer without going through a graceful power-down process.
“I often think of this as an economic reset. It’s not a recession from which you recover,”
I think this is much closer to someone else yanking the power cord from the wall on your computer while it is still running than simply closing an app then trying it again. I just hope the computer doesn’t catch on fire and the electrical wiring in the building fuses into a blob of molten metal during this “reset”.
The anti-gun people are celebrating yesterdays Supreme Court decision:
Gun control advocates hailed the ruling as a good sign following the Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, a 2008 decision that defined the Second Amendment as covering an individual’s right to possess weapons. That decision was the first time the Court had ever ruled so broadly on gun rights.
But the Heller ruling suggested that some reasonable restrictions to gun ownership would be allowed. “That’s a good sign that Heller is the limited ruling we thought it was,” said Daniel Vice, a senior attorney at the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
They may be overlooking something. The Second Amendment was neither briefed or mentioned in the case. Hence, if my understanding of judicial process is correct, the court could not bring the Second Amendment or the Heller decision into the discussion. Thus, if someone else challenges the Lautenberg Amendment on Second Amendment grounds we could end up with a completely different decision.
Go ahead and dance Mr. Vice, your day to whine may be coming yet.
I think it is altogether possibility that all freedom in America will be killed in the name of public safety.
Wendy McElroy
February 24, 2009
Modern day Committee for Public Safety
[It’s obvious on the gun laws but it extends way, way beyond that. Just think about the regulation of all industry. A business can be fined and or prosecuted if they
Enumerated powers were supposed to protect us from this sort of thing. What happened and how do we regain our freedom? Sebastian doesn’t have the answers but formulating the problem sometimes helps.
As you all know the downturn we are operating in is more severe and global than anything we have seen before.
We are in the midst of a phase of history in which nations will be redefined and their futures fundamentally altered. Many people will be under extreme pressure and many companies mortally wounded.
Rupert Murdoch
February 24, 2009
Peter Chernin’s little shocker
[Risk and opportunity abound. Keep your eyes open for both. I’m listening to The Black Swan which appears to be applicable to the times as well.–Joe]
Does anyone think it is “abnormal behavior” to read a book in public? How about putting a bumper-sticker on your car in favor of (or opposed to) a candidate for political office? How about requesting a lawyer before being questioned by the police? Or insisting on a warrant before the police search your home?
In all of the above the people of the United States are guaranteed these rights by the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. So why would someone in their right mind say:
In case you haven’t noticed, the pro-gun lobby is working overtime to normalize abnormal behavior. Let us ask you a handful of questions.
Would you be willing to:
- Sip hot chocolate with your toddler at Starbucks while a fellow patron openly displays a gun at the table next to you?
- Attend a church service with your entire family knowing that the fellow parishioner sitting next to you has a handgun tucked in his belt?
- Stand in line at a bank to make a deposit as two men enter with baseball hats on and what appear to be guns in their pockets?
- Board a crowded bus with your newborn child with upwards of 5 other passengers carrying concealed weapons?
“Abnormal behavior”? Exercising a specific enumerated right in public is “abnormal behavior”? Perhaps in the Peoples Republic of China, Massachusetts, or Chicago. But it is a right. All of the above activities seem perfectly normal to me. I don’t know what his problem is. Is he one of those that didn’t want n***ers in the same restaurant with him too? Maybe he doesn’t want Jews handling his money either. And blacks need to sit at the back of the bus and give up their seats to good white folk too.
The only conclusion I can reach is that the guy isn’t in his right mind. He is the one exhibiting abnormal behavior. He must have mental problems, is a blatant bigot, or both. It’s time we treated these people as the bigots they are and condemn them to the political dustbin of history.
Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.
Richard M. Nixon
[Nixon was right–examples abound from Chicago to the Whitehouse (have you paid your taxes recently?). And as a country that celebrates diversity we elect them to office to represent us.–Joe]
I went to a steel match today and shot with both my .40 STI and the Gun Blog .45 by Para. I’d been practicing with the .45 a lot more than the .40 because I wanted to learn how to shoot it reliable. I did pretty well with only a couple times getting the grip slightly wrong and not getting the grip safety fully disengaged. What was a little disturbing however was that I did better with the .45, which has a double action trigger, and a sight radius a full inch shorter than my .40.
There is another variable however. I always shot the stage with my .40 before the .45. So I had the advantage of practice on that particular stage before shooting with the .45.
I don’t know if it means anything or not. More tests are needed. But here are the results for your examination:
Lewiston Pistol Club Steel Match | |||||||||
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Place | Shooter | Class | Showdown | Pendulum | Smoke & Hope | 5 to Go | Roundabout | Total | Time Down |
1 | Adam Mcintosh | Limited | 15.54 | 19.55 | 11.11 | 17.44 | 11.55 | 75.19 | — |
2 | Don W | Limited | 19.78 | 22.23 | 12.65 | 18.20 | 14.06 | 86.92 | 11.73 |
3 | Roger Watson | Limited | 16.78 | 21.86 | 13.97 | 22.76 | 17.69 | 93.06 | 17.87 |
4 | Todd Dow | Limited | 20.94 | 23.16 | 14.82 | 22.95 | 16.01 | 97.88 | 22.69 |
5 | Joe Huffman (.45) | Limited | 18.58 | 26.06 | 15.28 | 22.45 | 16.07 | 98.44 | 23.25 |
6 | Joe Huffman (.40) | Limited | 19.18 | 33.1 | 14 | 22.85 | 14.83 | 103.96 | 28.77 |
7 | Erik Elzea | Limited | 21.34 | 30.67 | 15.40 | 19.93 | 20.42 | 107.76 | 32.57 |
8 | KW Hipps | Limited | 31.49 | 24.59 | 13.90 | 22.51 | 17.73 | 110.22 | 35.03 |
9 | Roger Watson | Revolver | 22.71 | 35.62 | 16.17 | 22.69 | 17.60 | 114.79 | 39.6 |
10 | Jason Ewing | Limited | 23.79 | 32.13 | 17.44 | 23.72 | 20.10 | 117.18 | 41.99 |
11 | John Grimes | Limited | 29.60 | 30.64 | 21.01 | 43.11 | 27.15 | 151.51 | 76.32 |
12 | Caleb Frederick | Limited | 78.67 | 94.57 | 22.48 | 87.54 | 43.08 | 326.34 | 251.15 |
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Son-in-law Caleb was handicapped by using my old Ruger P-89 which hadn’t been cleaned, lubricated or fired in several years. It jammed on nearly every string of fire and many times more than once in a single string. I showed him how to clean it when we got home, gave him a key to the range, a 1000 rounds of ammo, and told him to do some further testing.
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Edward Abbey
(1927 – 1989)
[For some reason this struck me as perhaps describing our political and economic future. Dangerous but yet full of opportunity.
But then on a physical front I’m suspicious that our universe is actually a black hole with an event horizon several billion light years across and we are rushing toward the singularity at the speed of light on the time axis. So, in the long run, it doesn’t matter even if we do get off this planet and out of the solar system everything we know will be ripped apart down to the sub atomic particle level eventually anyway.
Have a nice day.–Joe]
A couple weeks ago I confirmed the reservation for the Saturday dinner location and the caterer. It is NOT at the usual place. It is a block or so down the street at 330 Michigan Avenue (VFW Building).
Earlier this week I confirmed the dates for caterer for the on-site food. Breakfast and lunch will be available Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Yesterday I put in a request for quote on delivery of 275 pounds of potassium chlorate. One of the three main ingredients in Boomerite.
A few minutes ago I ordered $500 worth of cardboard boxes, labels, and zip-lock bags.
I should have picked up some small plastic gloves (some of the women making explosives have small hands) when I was out shopping with Xenia for her wedding supplies earlier today. I’ll get those another time.
I still need some more ethylene glycol (again for Boomerite).
Son-in-law Caleb says he is going to make the stakes used for holding the targets from some old pallets he got for free.
I really should start printing out badges since the event is full and I have all the names. The few new people from the probable cancellations can be put on one page of badges a few days before the event.
I think everything is under control for another great event.
It’s quite wonderful. If you’d told me at 28 that this would be happening, I’d never have believed it.
It’s great sex, but it’s not with my husband. To be absolutely honest, he’s the last man on the planet I’d want to have sex with.
Philippa
Age 48
Sex and the older woman
[Interesting. Barb and I knew a woman that told me essentially the same thing. The woman’s husband was nice looking and as near as Barb and I could tell a great guy in every way. But the woman said she found sex with him repulsive and she proceeded to have affairs with numerous other men. Barb and I severed contact with them after the woman told me of bringing some married officer from the Pentagon to her home to have sex with in the living room while her husband and infant child were upstairs asleep. Not only was she on some sort of path to self-destruction but it was risking national security by making the officer vulnerable to blackmail.–Joe]
Someone at the U.S. Treasury department is checking out the proposed (and making good progress) Montana law telling the Feds to stuff it on guns that don’t cross the state border.
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