If any citizen wants to possess arms, let him join the Party.
Adolf Hitler
[Stalin restricted access to weapons to those in the party as well.–Joe]
Author Archives: Joe
PNNL interrogatories due next week
I just got a call from my lawyer. He said the felons at PNNL/Battelle will ship their interrogatories to us on Monday. We should get them Tuesday or Wednesday.
Depositions start on April 12th.
I’m really looking forward to seeing their responses. Things are looking good at this point.
This is what happens in places without guns–Case XX
The rampage began around 9 p.m. when Garvin went into a pizzeria, asked for a menu, then shot an employee 15 times in the back, Bloomberg said. Police identified the victim as Alfredo Romero, 35.
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Garvin fled after the shooting, and police who heard the shots radioed information about the gunman. Pekearo and Marshalik approached the gunman, who fired at them.
One of the officers ordered Garvin to drop a bag full of weapons. He did, but then he led them on a chase before turning on them, and shot Marshalik in the back of the head.
Police released surveillance footage that showed Pekearo ducking behind a car before he was fatally shot as Garvin hovered over him.
Had Pekearo and Marshalik, unarmed police auxiliary, or any of the dozens of other private citizens present been able to shoot back Pekearo and Marshalik would likely be alive today. It’s even possible Romero would have survived. But this is New York City where private citizens are not allowed to carry personal protection tools such as guns.
Quote of the day–Mac Johnson
According to the Washington Post, which upon hearing of the decision had a small editorial seizure it called “A Dangerous Ruling,” the court’s plain reading of the Bill of Rights has given “a new and dangerous meaning to the 2nd Amendment.” Apparently, when the Post reads the amendment according to the ancient and safe interpretation (which goes all the way back to the 1970s) all it sees is:
The Population of the nanny State, being composed of irresponsible rednecks, rejects, and retards, must not be allowed to have Arms.
Mac Johnson
Court Rediscovers 2nd Amendment, Liberals Fear Other ‘Rights’ May Soon be Found
March 15, 2007
[I added nine new quotes to my quote database from this article. I love making fun of stupid behavior from people that think they are smart.–Joe]
Quote of the day–Stop the NRA
Last week, a Federal Appeals Court overturned Washington D.C.’s long-standing restrictions on handguns — a decision that endangers all of America’s gun laws.
This case is most likely headed to the U.S. Supreme Court and we have a tidal wave of work to do before it gets there. This battle — to its very core — is the most important battle we have ever waged. We need your help today to build a strong Brady Gun Law Defense Fund to save America’s gun laws.
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The threat to all our gun laws is truly unprecedented.
From: StoptheNRA [mailto:advocacy@stopthenra.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 7:11 AM
Subject: Activist Judges Threaten US Gun Law
[When I read “endangers all America’s gun laws” I hear the equivalent of “endangers the existence of the KKK”.–Joe]
Quote of the day–Jacob Sullum
The Washington Post called this ruling “radical.” I suppose it is, in the sense that it goes to the root of what the Framers wanted to protect.
Jacob Sullum
March 14, 2007
Second Wind for the Second Amendment A federal appeals court revives the right to keep and bear arms.
[Yup. You are an extremist if you insist the Constitution should be interpreted literally instead of whichever way the political wind blows this week.
Thanks to S2 for the link.–Joe]
Inconvenient news
This is just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. A sample:
“Nowhere does Mr Gore tell his audience that all of the phenomena that he describes fall within the natural range of environmental change on our planet,” Dr Carter wrote. “Nor does he present any evidence that climate during the 20th century departed discernibly from its historical pattern of constant change.”
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Professor Easterbrook disputed Mr Gore’s claim that “our civilisation has never experienced any environmental shift remotely similar to this”. Nonsense, Professor Easterbrook said. He flashed a slide that showed temperature trends for the past 15,000 years. It highlighted 10 large swings, including the medieval warm period. These shifts were up to “20 times greater than the warming in the past century”.
This is mild stuff compared to what I heard when I listened to the audio book version of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism). Gore isn’t so stupid that he doesn’t know he is trying to sell “snake oil”. My guess is that he wants to use this issue to gain power for him and for the socialists of the world. Don’t let him or his followers get away with it.
Can he hear what he is saying?
Yeah, I know, I shouldn’t expect logical thinking from Jesse Jackson. But does he think nearly everyone will overlook the inconsistency?
This new right-wing judicial activism is yoked to the extreme right causes of the National Rifle Association, the anti-choice lobby and the corporate boardrooms. They are prepared to trample the laws enacted by democratically elected legislatures to implant their policies from the bench. The U.S. courts are now packed with these ideologues. And the decision last week shows that the civilizing advances of recent decades — in civil rights, gun control, workers’ rights, women’s rights — are now at risk from this marauding horde.
He is in favor of (some) civil rights, workers’ rights, and women’s rights, but not 2nd Amendment rights. And that is the only one of his enumerated set that is clearly and explicitly guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. He’s got mental problems.
Did I get a visit from Judge Laurence H. Silberman?
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I saw the wmd.gov domain name and wondered what that might be. So I visited http://www.wmd.gov. I looked at the bottom of the page and saw the “The Honorable Laurence H. Silberman”. I thought, “Hmmm… where I have seen that name before?” Then it was “OMG!”.
It was Silberman who wrote the Majority decision in the D.C. Parker case. I quoted him here and here last week. The next day I quoted Paul Helmke, who my visitor was searching for, here. Helmke is President of the Brady Bunch and had issued a news release complaining that the opinion given by Silberman was “judicial activism”.
So… someone browsing from the domain wmd.gov, where Silberman is the co-chairman, did a search of blogs for the name “Paul Helmke”, who criticized Silberman. It’s not “proof” but it’s a plausible hypothesis that Silberman visited my blog.
If the hypothesis is true I hope he was pleased with what I said about Helmke.
North Idaho extremists
Yes, it’s true. We have extremists in North Idaho. The extremist Jessica Bryan teaches English at North Idaho College in Coeur d’Alene. Here is what she is alleged to have said on the first day of class:
…Bryan said on the first day of class that “George Bush was elected president because people in this country can’t read” and said Feb. 12 that “I believe in the death penalty … . First we line up everyone who can’t think and right behind them, anyone who’s ever voted Republican.”
As former Lewiston Tribune editor Bill Hall once said about extremists in Idaho, “Just because you are tolerated doesn’t mean we’re glad you came.”
Quote of the day–Greg Hamilton
Multicam works very well. It is the best overall camo I have ever seen.
Greg Hamilton
February 1, 2007 6:09 PM
http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/insightstraining/
Images of Multi Cam camouflage.
[Hamilton is a former Army Ranger and now trains all branches of the military (and law enforcment and private citizens) in unarmed as well as armed combat.–Joe]
Quote of the day–Christopher Horner
Kyoto was about hobbling America’s economy to give socialist Europe a fighting chance. When considers Europeans cries about Kyoto it’s critical to remember the dream of the environmentalists is global governance.
Christopher Horner
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism)
[Horner makes a very good case, using their own words, that the real motivation behind Kyoto is not prevention of global warming. He also makes a good case reducing man-made CO2 cannot have any effect on the climate but can cause a lot of economic harm. Required reading for anyone that has a Gorebot to deal with.–Joe]
Xenia is an artist
Xenia redesigned her website. Wow. Our little artist.
She showed me her “progress report” this weekend. It was her grades so far this semester. She got an A+ in sculpture, a couple A’s, and two A-‘s. Barb and I have no idea where she gets the artist stuff from. And with me being an engineer… I joked with her about that A+ in an art subject and said something like, “You’ve got to do something about that. I’m so embarrassed that you got a grade like that.” She gave me “the look” and said, “You’re not my father!” So I told her, “You’re grounded for a month for getting the two A-‘s.”
Quote of the day–Paul Helmke
The 2-1 decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Parker v. District of Columbia striking down the District of Columbia’s handgun law is judicial activism at its worst. By disregarding nearly seventy years of U.S. Supreme Court precedent, two Federal judges have negated the democratically-expressed will of the people of the District of Columbia and deprived this community of a gun law it enacted thirty years ago and still strongly supports.
Paul Helmke
President of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence On DC Circuit’s Ruling Striking Down DC Handgun Law
[Judaical activism? What chutzpah! He is the same type of person that would bemoan blacks being allowed to vote after a judge declared it a right guaranteed by the constitution.–Joe]
Quote of the day–Laurence Silberman
To summarize, we conclude that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. That right existed prior to the formation of the new government under the Constitution and was premised on the private use of arms for activities such as hunting and self-defense, the latter being understood as resistance to either private lawlessness or the depredations of a tyrannical government (or a threat from abroad).
Judge Laurence Silberman
March 9, 2007 in a decision that concluded the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right in the case of:
SHELLY PARKER, ET AL., APPELLANTS versus DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND ADRIAN M. FENTY, MAYOR OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Quote of the day–Laurence Silberman
Tellingly, we think, the District did not suggest what sort of law, if any, would violate the Second Amendment today—in fact, at oral argument, appellees’ counsel asserted that it would be constitutional for the District to ban all firearms outright. In short, we take the District’s position to be that the Second Amendment is a dead letter.
Judge Laurence Silberman
March 9, 2007 in a decision that concluded the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right in the case of:
SHELLY PARKER, ET AL., APPELLANTS versus DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND ADRIAN M. FENTY, MAYOR OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Quote of the day–Abraham Lincoln
Prohibition… goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man’s appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes… A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
Abraham Lincoln
[This applies to recreational drugs and mere possession of firearms and their accessories as much as it does to recreational use of alcohol.–Joe]
PNNL not motivated
According to my calculations PNNL/Battelle was due to respond to our interrogatories last Saturday. My lawyer said Monday. Yesterday I asked if they had responded. I got the following response:
I gave them a 2-week extension. Pretty standard courtesy. I routinely ask for extensions myself. (You are a high-end motivation client.)
I’m not surprised. In addition to being used to working on government contracts with (sarcasm alert) all the motivation that requires they know that I’m going to be turning over all the appropriate material to federal prosecutors. I’m sure it’s hard to work up much passion about delivering evidence which might earn you a honeymoon in prison with a new spouse who rents you out by the quarter hour to the person with the most cigarettes.
Hey guys, you can delay it by a few weeks but you aren’t going to be able to delay it past the statute of limitations. Bend over and take it like a man.
Green sex
No, this is not about following up on Captain Kirk’s example of sex with green alien women–although I can see that having an exotic appeal.
Tree Hugger magazine (yes, the magazine actually exists) is advocating green sex. Check these articles out:
- How to Green Your Sex Life
- How To Buy A Green Sex Toy
- Sustainable Sex Toys: Just in Time for Valentine’s Day!
- How to Buy Green Lube
I can see how the mantra “reduce, reuse, recycle” needs some modification in dealing with condoms. And I don’t have any problem with the advice to shower with a friend but they are also advocating turning off the lights. What!!!??? How are we going to see anything on the video tape afterward?
Quote of the day–Gun Guy
Guns don’t stop criminals any more than they stop crime. All gun owners have a fantasy in their head that whenever they’re threatened with their firearm, they’ll heroically pull it out, shoot at exactly the right time, and save the day. But reality just doesn’t follow that idea– firearms are much more of a threat to everyone around them then [sic] some kind of mythical protection against evil.
Gun Guy
Guns Don’t Stop Crime– They Attract It
Email March 5, 2007
[If “Gun Guy” was really correct then police departments and the military would have no use for firearms. I can only think of three reasonable explanations for what this guy says: 1) Mental problems; 2) He’s actually on our side and is mocking the anti-gun bigots; 3) He can’t get a real job and has to make up this kind of crap to make a living.–Joe]