Saturday - January 19, 2008

Great, now I’m disenfranchized too.

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009715449

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h8JVYDPMFc1086Y2nkxaLPCjM7wwD8TUNHSO2

you can find more coverage over at Kim’s and Geek’s.

NJ went and passed a law that says the state’s 15 electoral votes are going to be given to whatever presidential candidate gets the most votes nationwide.
Doesn’t matter who you voted for, doesn’t matter how the votes totalled in NJ. Whoever gets the most nationwide, gets all 15 NJ electoral votes.
And it’s completely legal - the Constitution gives states the power to cast their electoral votes any way they choose.

NJ joins MD, who already has this kind of law. Illinois is expected to follow shortly.

I guess this will be called the “me too” law. After all, being popular is all that people want right? What a friggin load of shit.

This horseshit law is brought to you by the morons at the National Popular Vote Movement, who are still pissed off about Al Gore losing the 2000 election even though he won the popular vote. They just can’t wrap their pinhead sized brains around the concept of the Electoral College, and refuse to see that it balances voting power among the states, and actually gives each individual voter the most relative power. Nope, uh uh, get rid of it, cuz my first grade teacher told me “one man, one vote” and that’s all I will ever know. Glue sniffing asshats.

Hey sports fans: The NY Yankees play the Boston Red Sox for the World Series. Baseball, best of 7 games, right?

The scores for the games are
game 1: NY 85 Boston 2
game 2: NY 3 Boston 8
game 3: NY 1 Boston 4
game 4: NY 1 Boston 2
game 5: NY 0 Boston 6
game 6: NY 1 Boston 4
game 7: NY 1 Boston 3

If you applied the NJ law to baseball, the Yankees have won the series. That’s what the Electoral College is all about: winning the most GAMES, not getting the most RUNS. It’s that simple.

You know how long this law will last? It will last until the day after NJ gives it’s 15 Electoral Votes to a Republican candidate, at which point the nanny-state pinkos who make up most of this indigo blue state will scream like raped apes at the top of their shrill little voices ... that THEY were disenfranchised. What a bunch of leftist fucktards.

UPDATE Maybe NJ is just screwing with me?

From the official synopsis of the law:

The agreement becomes effective only after it has been enacted by
enough states to collectively possess the majority of the electoral votes
required to decide a presidential win – currently 270 of the 538
electoral votes.

So in other words, NJ passes a law that won’t take effect unless most (in an Electoral sense) other states also pass such a law. Pussies. Too fearful to boldly stand behind their own legislation, Governor “Seatbelts” Corzine and his Korrupt Krew of Kleptocrats^tm don’t even have the balls to follow the lead of Maryland. Nope, they’ll just wait around until all the other cool kids are playing, then they’ll jump in. Once again, the most important thing in life is being popular. Scaredy little cow teats {udder cowards}.

By enactment, New Jersey joins the efforts in other States to
reform the current system of electing the president and vice president
of the United States, as supported by approximately 70% of all
Americans.

Yeah right, by replacing one “70%” system by another “70%” system (see above link to Geek With a .45).  Or are they trying to say that 70% of all Americans feel that the EC should go bye-bye? Hey, 40% of that crowd of chowder chuckers think 9/11 was an inside job, and 32% are sure they’ve seen Elvis ... driving a UFO.

This agreement ensures that all states are competitive in
presidential elections, makes all votes important and equal, and
guarantees that the candidate who received the most popular votes
nationwide wins the presidency.

What bullshit. What it does, as expressly mentioned on the NPVM website linked above, is come up with a plan to “force” the candidates to come visit the state. Waa waa waa, we’re such diaper rash suffering little crack babies we’re incapable of watching a debate on TV, reading an article online, or perusing a newspaper. We have to have the candidates come visit us personally, or else we’ll hold our breath until we turn blue. Um wait, NJ already IS a blue state. Is that why?

“Makes all votes important and equal”. Eww, what’s this stuck to my shoe? It smells like more NJ Bullshit, and it is!! Currently, each state (and DC) gets 2 Electoral votes, and one more for each Congressman. Among the 10 most populus states (and NJ is wall to wall people), NJ actually has the 2nd lowest number of people per Elector Vote ... which means my vote in NJ counts a little bit more than some voter in California. So in the interests of “equality” NJ is downgrading the power of my vote. Gee, thanks a lot you lechers. In order to take back power from the eviil Federal Government by making a chicken-shit endrun around the Constitution, you’ve managed to give away the infinitesimal power advantage your citizens may have held compared to citizens of 8 other states. The other 41 state’s citizens already have more power, and they ain’t giving it up. Thanks again nitwits.

From the law itself:

(7) If, for any reason, the number of presidential electors
nominated in a member state in association with the national
popular vote winner is less than or greater than that state’s number
of electoral votes

This makes sense ... NJ puts in a clause to play CYA just in case they forget how to count all the way to 15. Holy shit.

, the presidential candidate on the presidential
slate that has been designated as the national popular vote winner
shall have the power to nominate the presidential electors for that
state and that state’s presidential elector certifying official shall
certify the appointment of such nominees. The chief election
official of each member state shall immediately release to the public
all vote counts or statements of votes as they are determined or
obtained.

Yup, if the NJ folks are truly THAT FUCKING RETARDED, then somebody else should do the picking for them. Hell, somebody else should be wiping their asses for them, then putting them back in their little soft, white, padded, quiet rooms and carefully locking the doors as they leave.

Posted by Drew458     on 01/19/2008 at 11:38 PM   
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   Wednesday - December 19, 2007

HOW’S THIS FOR REALLY CREEPY?

HOW’S THIS FOR REALLY CREEPY?

Mother kept baby’s body for 50 years
http://tinyurl.com/yteu9q

By Graham Tibbetts

Last Updated: 3:06am GMT 19/12/2007

A woman who had an affair with her married dance instructor kept the remains of their love-child hidden away from a disapproving world for half a century, an inquest was told yesterday.

Gladys Mary Briggs, who gave birth out of wedlock in 1957, locked the baby’s body in a suitcase and lived with it in her council flat for 50 years.

It was only discovered this year when council staff visited Mrs Briggs’s home after ill-health forced her to leave. They found the remains wrapped in cloth, enclosed with a copy of a newspaper of the time.

Mrs Briggs refused to reveal the baby’s identity to police and denied having given birth to him. She died three months after the discovery in January. The boy’s father, Godfrey Moorhen, now 102 and living in sheltered accommodation, has also refused to discuss the matter.

Mr Moorhen’s daughter told an inquest into the boy’s death at Reading, Berks, that she had been “absolutely shattered” by the discovery that she had a half-brother.

Patricia Clements said: “My father had an affair with Mary Briggs from 1944 until she died. Really, they were dancing partners.

“We knew that there was a baby. I was 20 when I found out and I am 76 now.” She had assumed that the boy had been given up for adoption.

Mrs Clements said she had tried to get her father to admit the dead baby was his but he had so far refused. “He was very worried about the consequences might be.”

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   Thursday - November 15, 2007

Sick bastards

via LGF, original article posted at Brietbart

A court in the ultra-conservative kingdom of Saudi Arabia is punishing a female victim of gang rape with 200 lashes and six months in jail, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

The 19-year-old woman—whose six armed attackers have been sentenced to jail terms—was initially ordered to undergo 90 lashes for “being in the car of an unrelated male at the time of the rape,” the Arab News reported.

But in a new verdict issued after Saudi Arabia’s Higher Judicial Council ordered a retrial, the court in the eastern town of Al-Qatif more than doubled the number of lashes to 200.

A court source told the English-language Arab News that the judges had decided to punish the woman further for “her attempt to aggravate and influence the judiciary through the media.”

Saudi Arabia enforces a strict Islamic doctrine known as Wahhabism and forbids unrelated men and women from associating with each other, bans women from driving and forces them to cover head-to-toe in public.

Last year, the court sentenced six Saudi men to between one and five years in jail for the rape as well as ordering lashes for the victim, a member of the minority Shiite community.

But the woman’s lawyer Abdul Rahman al-Lahem appealed, arguing that the punishments were too lenient in a country where the offence can carry the death penalty.

In the new verdict issued on Wednesday, the Al-Qatif court also toughened the sentences against the six men to between two and nine years in prison.

The case has angered members of Saudi Arabia’s Shiite community. The convicted men are Sunni Muslims, the dominant community in the oil-rich Gulf state.

Lahem, also a human rights activist, told AFP on Wednesday that the court had banned him from handling the rape case and withdrew his licence to practise law because he challenged the verdict.

He said he has also been summoned by the ministry of justice to appear before a disciplinary committee in December.

Lahem said the move might be due to his criticism of some judicial institutions, and “contradicts King Abdullah’s quest to introduce reform, especially in the justice system.”

King Abdullah last month approved a new body of laws regulating the judicial system in Saudi Arabia, which rules on the basis of sharia, or Islamic law.

What a sick and twisted outlook on life. This is a religion? Ha! This is a justice system? Like hell. What a disgusting farce.

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   Friday - August 17, 2007

Need Some Shoes?

In another idiotic attempt to “get guns off the streets”, Orlando is having a ”Kicks for the Kids” gun turn-in program today.

So any of you who has an old rusted hunk of junk “gun” and live near O-Town, go turn it in an get $50.  After all, it’s for the children™

ORLANDO, Fla.—In an effort to get guns off the streets of Central Florida, officials are offering residents a free pair of shoes or a $50 gift card if they turn in a gun.

The annual Kicks-For-Guns campaign is being held on Friday at the Florida Citrus Bowl in downtown Orlando. This year, Orlando police, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, Real Radio 104.1 and Rumba 100.3 are hosting the event.

Last year, 116 guns were turned in.

“We needed shoes more than we needed a gun,” a man who took his son to last year’s event said.

“I have two kids in the house. It would be safer not to have it there than to keep it for a memento,” Kim Ponder, who turned in her father’s revolver, said.

Of the 116 guns turned in last year, three were stolen, including a Tec 9 machine gun, police said.

The program promotes a no-questions-asked policy.

“For the person that’s not quite sure where that gun might of come from or they know exactly where it came from and they know it’s stolen, today is the perfect day (to turn the gun in). We just want the guns off the street,” Orlando police Chief Mike McCoy said.

Officials said they know the event will not to solve the violent crime problem in Central Florida but said it can make a dent in the problem.

Emphasis mine.  Read that again.  The officials know it won’t make a difference because all that gets turned in is crap and scrap.  It does nothing to “get guns off the street”.  All it does, in every case, is spend more of our tax money to see a bunch of junk get cut up and thrown out.

There was a thread on The High Road recently where an NRA kids shooting club got together and pooled a bunch of scrap “guns”, turning them all in to buy new guns and supplies for their club. 

Snark.

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   Monday - July 09, 2007

Measuring Glowball Warming

I told you before about the work of one Anthony Watts.  He is a former weather dude who is on a mission to make sure the government is measuring tempurature properly.  You see, they have monitoring stations all over the country, with very specific criteria for placement so as to minimize the impact of machines, blacktop and other man-made things on the measurements.

He has been documenting poorly placed monitoring stations for months now, but today’s takes the cake.

In traveling around California and Nevada to look at NOAA USHCN climate monitoring weather stations I’ve seen some odd things. I’ve seen temperature sensors near asphalt and concrete, sensors placed within feet of buildings and cars, sensors placed near air conditioner exhausts, and sensors that had barbeque grills in the vicinity.

Last Friday June 6th, I traveled to Santa Rosa, CA to the Press Democrat Newspaper, a wholly owned subsidiary of the New York Times, which according to NOAA, has the climate station of record for Santa Rosa.

I figured it would be a fairly straightforward survey, and that I’d probably find the temperature sensor near the back of the building by the parking lot, as I’ve found many others placed. I figured it would look a lot like our local newspaper, the Chico Enterprise Record, weather station. It is in the rear, in a bit of disrepair, missing some slats and part of its roof assembly, but otherwise ok.

But nothing prepared me for what I was about to find at the Santa Rosa Press Democrat.

This is why the whackos can claim “irrefutable evidence” of climbing tempuratures.

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   Monday - June 25, 2007

Oh Canada

Via Tam, we get this story:

Christopher Dick, 19, was charged with careless use of a firearm, possession of a dangerous weapon, unauthorized possession of a prohibited weapon and mischief after receiving a complaint of someone discharging.............

A Machine Gun?  An AR-15?  An Eeeeeviiiilllll Sniper Rifle?

......a pellet gun in the 700 block of Sherbourne Avenue.

A frookin pellet gun?  Good gravy.  What have they come to?

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   Thursday - June 21, 2007

Idiot Parents and Nanny Government

Family Not Allowed To Name Child ‘4real’

WELLINGTON, New Zealand

If your name is 4 real, everybody knows what it means. That’s the reason why a New Zealand couple want to name their son “4real,” with four being a numeral.

However, New Zealand’s Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages doesn’t want to grant the request, on the grounds that numerals are not allowed.

Pat and Sheena Wheaton said they decided on the name after they glimpsed their son for the first time during an ultrasound examination and were struck by the reality of his impending arrival.

The dad said most people have to look up the meaning of their names in baby books, but “with this name, everyone knows what it means.”

I agree with Neal Boortz when he says that parents are idiots for naming thier kids something “unique”.  Names like Shaniqua and Calasaundra do nothing for a person’s ability to be perceived as a bright, intelligent and productive member of society.  Yes, we should not pay attention to things like appearance and names, and everything would be based on ability, but in the real world, first impressions matter.  And your name makes an impression on those who meet you (or see your resume) for the first time.

That being said, I also feel strongly that .gov has no compelling interest in what I name my children.  Why in the world would these folks even need to ask permission from the “Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages” on what they can name their kid? 

Good grief, is everything about their lives managed this closely by the government?

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   Monday - June 11, 2007

The Day the Music Died

Via Wizbang, I found this fascinating account from Laura Lee Donoho of how an amuzement park dealt with a power failure. Apparently, one of the coasters was at the top of its apogee when the failure hit, leaving this:

Photo by Laura Lee Donoho

She says:

Suddenly, the music stopped and everyone was instructed by the lifeguards to get out of the pool. I heard someone say that the power in the park was gone. There was no electricity whatsoever. I looked over to the giant rollercoaster, the X-Coaster and there were riders hanging upside down right at the very top of the coaster. The crowd got quiet, everyone pointing up to the coaster.

Many of the people in the park started to leave. Others milled around, just watching the riders on the coaster dangling upside down, strapped only at their shoulders and feet. My daughter-in-law’s sisters had gone to ride on the Plummet Summit but turned around to come find us when the power went off.

We went up to a high point in the park to have ice cream and employees were emptying the ice machines of ice. Many people were talking about the frightening scene but I overheard some women talking about, of all things, Paris Hilton. I had escaped that non-stop coverage being too busy to watch the news.

After about forty-five minutes, (I checked my cell phone and it took more than thirty-two minutes to get those folks down) the crowd with us cheered when the twelve riders and their rides were finally released. But the coaster still had no power and the only way that they could stop the ride was to let “the cat die”, that is, to let the coaster go back and forth until it lost momentum and stopped.

Only one person was taken to the hospital but the park officials had been prepared for more injured riders because there were many ambulances and firetrucks waiting.

We all wondered what caused the power failure. The weather couldn’t have caused it. The day was cloudy but we had no rain. I admit to having a few disquieting thoughts about the situation. The park officials told us nothing and the employees dashed around talking on walkie-talkies, ignoring any visitor questions. What would happen if there were a terrorist attack? How would the park officials react to that? What about the people running around barefoot in their bathing suits? Would they mob the lockers or the changing rooms?

I used to work at Disney in Orlando, and we frequently talked about what it would look like if some neer-do-well came in and tried something.  It would not be pretty.

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   Tuesday - May 29, 2007

Cindy Gives Up

Via Michelle Malkin

I was the darling of the so-called left as long as I limited my protests to George Bush and the Republican Party. Of course, I was slandered and libeled by the right as a “tool” of the Democratic Party. This label was to marginalize me and my message. How could a woman have an original thought, or be working outside of our “two-party” system?

However, when I started to hold the Democratic Party to the same standards that I held the Republican Party, support for my cause started to erode and the “left” started labeling me with the same slurs that the right used…

The most devastating conclusion that I reached this morning, however, was that Casey did indeed die for nothing…

I am going to take whatever I have left and go home.

Who’s taking bets that we’ll hear something from this hag within a month?

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   Saturday - May 19, 2007

Barking Moonbat Of The Week

I’m a few weeks late on this one because I wanted to make sure Kookcinich hadn’t been kidnapped by space aliens again and forced to make insane statements - again. Unfortuntately, it seems as if “The Kook” is serious, or at least as serious as any babbling idiot can be. I really can’t understand why the good folks in Ohio keep sending this asshat to Washington unles it’s (a) to get him out of Ohio, or (b) to provide the rest of us with comic relief. Which is it, Ohio?

Articles of Impeachment To Be Filed On Cheney
(WASHINGTON POST)

Looks like he’s reached his boiling point. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), the most liberal of the Democratic presidential candidates in the primary field, declared in a letter sent to his Democratic House colleagues this morning that he plans to file articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney.

Kucinich has made ending the war in Iraq the central theme of his campaign. He has even taken aim at the leading Democratic presidential candidates in the field for their votes on authorizing the war. Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution gives Congress the authority to impeach the president, vice president and “all civil Officers of the United States” for “treason, bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

Sources tell the Sleuth that in light of the mass killings at Virginia Tech Monday, Kucinich’s impeachment plans have been put on hold. There will be no action this week, they say. Kucinich’s office had no comment on the Congressman’s “Dear Colleague” letter—which apparently was drafted over the weekend, before the school massacre—or on what the focus of articles of impeachment against Cheney would be.

But Kucinich shouldn’t hold his breath on getting anywhere with his impeachment plan. “We’ll see a Kucinich Administration before we’ll see a Cheney impeachment,” quipped one Democratic aide.

Here is the text of his letter ....

April 17, 2007

Dear Colleague:

This week I intend to introduce Articles of Impeachment with respect to the conduct of Vice President Cheney. Please have your staff contact my office . . . if you would like to receive a confidential copy of the document prior to its introduction in the House.

Sincerely,
Dennis J. Kucinich
Member of Congress

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   Monday - May 07, 2007

WTF?

It’s late and I need to be in bed asleep, dreaming of wild wenches and mountains of money. Instead I find myself sitting here, pondering the following story. I really don’t know what to say other than “the human race is doomed. DOOMED, I tell you.”

No other animal on the face of the planet (or within a hundred light-years of our little rock) could possibly conceive (pardon the pun) a concept as ludicrous as this.

Just when you thought you’d heard the absolute end-all consequences of Islamo-Freakism, the tricky little devils sneak up on you and throw you another curve ball that hurts your brain cells rather badly.

If you can’t make it past the ridiculous headline on this story without spewing your drink over your keyboard then you better not read the rest. It only gets worse. I’m going to go lie down now and pretend this story didn’t happen. Perhaps if I shut my eyes real tightly I can make it go away ....

Doctors Split On Hymen Repairs
(THE AUSTRALIAN) - May 08, 2007 12:00am

A debate is raging among doctors over Muslim women who ask for operations to reconstitute their hymens before marriage, and medical certificates stating they are virgins.

The controversy has flared in France, where gynaecologists say they are facing a growing number of requests from women desperate to avoid the repudiation that can follow the loss of chastity.

The phenomenon, which is also dividing doctors in other European countries, the US and Africa, is denounced by critics as a sign of social regression driven by Islamic fundamentalists.

Jacques Lansac, chairman of the French National College of Gynaecologists and Obstetricians, is leading the campaign against what he describes as “an attack on the dignity of women”.

He has also issued advice against hymenoplasty – a surgical operation that involves reconstructing the membrane usually broken during the first act of sexual intercourse.

“We get more and more women coming in and saying that their brothers or fathers will kill them if they find out they’ve slept with a man. But it’s important to say no, because if we don’t we’re giving in to the fundamentalists,” Professor Lansac said.

However, he said some doctors were ignoring his advice in the hope of protecting patients from being ostracised or beaten. Isabelle Levy, an author who studied the issue for her book Religion in the Hospital, said the search for chastity certificates and hymenoplasties stemmed from conflicting pressures among France’s five million Muslims.

“On the one hand, young Muslim girls born in France go out a lot more than they used to,” she said. “They are modern and they have adventures like other Europeans – which never happened in the past.

“But on the other hand, fundamentalism is spreading and these girls are getting sent back to their countries of origin to marry. And they will be rejected if it is found out that they are not virgins.”

- Yep, there’s more to this story if you can stop laughing long enough to read it ...

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   Wednesday - April 04, 2007

The World Is Going Insane, Part XXVII

Once again, I am speechless. With the help of lawyers, the inmates are truly in charge of the asylum ... and they’re getting paid well for it. I just don’t understand where this is going.

In case you missed the big party in Seattle back in 1999, thousands of mad hatter protesters rampaged through the streets of Seattle protesting during a meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO). They clogged the city streets, broke into shops and generally made a mess of the town before dozens of them were carted off to jail.

Now, seven years later with the assistance of the ACLU, the protesters who were arrested have won a $1 million lawsuit. Let me repeat that: they are being paid $1 million for getting arrested. If anybody out there can tell how this is happening in a modern, civilized country under a rule of law, I’d sure like to know because I want to organize a protest of my own and get paid off too.

Key quote below: “Nothing is going to replace the time spent in jail and the lost right to protest WTO but I feel good about the settlement because it shows the city and the police are willing to accept some changes in their training and we hope the police follow through and won’t do this again.”

Unbelievable. Simply unbelievable ....

Seattle To Pay WTO Protesters $1 Million
_{(SEATTLE TIMES) - Monday, April 2, 2007}

The city of Seattle will pay $1 million to WTO protesters who were arrested in Westlake Park seven years ago and will clear their records, in a settlement announced today.

The money will cover the plaintiffs’ legal fees, with the rest divided among 160 protesters, who will get roughly $3,000 to $10,000 per person, said Mike Withey, their attorney.

“We think the cash settlement does send a message that what Seattle did was wrong and we shouldn’t have been denied our constitutional rights,” said Ken Hankin, a Boeing engineer and one of the arrested protesters.

The $1 million will come from the city’s insurer, not taxpayers, Withey said. The city has already paid $800,000 to settle multiple claims involving police misconduct during the WTO protests.

Withey said today’s announcement “closes a chapter in Seattle history” because it marks the last of the legal cases stemming from protests and arrests involving 1999 World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle.

Seattle police officers will also receive training on why the department lacked probable cause for mass arrests, Withey added.

“Nothing is going to replace the time spent in jail and the lost right to protest WTO,” Hankin added. “But I feel good about the settlement because it shows the city and the police are willing to accept some changes in their training, and we hope the police follow through and won’t do this again.”

A federal jury ruled in January that the city was liable for unlawful arrests of the protesters. The jury also determined that the arrests did not violate the protesters’ free-speech rights because they were not made as a result of a city policy.

City Attorney Tom Carr could not be reached for comment on the settlement.

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   Friday - March 23, 2007

We Need a Storm

Just saw this over at Kim’s

Help Needed
Reader George K writes:

Kim,

I’m writing you today to ask for your help.  Not for money, just to help spread the word about the abuses of the AFT against law abiding gun dealers.  We need a “blogburst” or whatever they are called these days.

Red’s Trading Post in Twin Falls, Idaho (Idaho’s oldest gun store) is being shut down by the ATF over minor clerical mistakes.  The owners and staff at Red’s are like family to me.  They provided a lot of help and advice to me while I was setting up my own business, and continue to help promote my firearms classes.  Right now, this is the only way I can help them back.

Red’s has started an online petition asking for fair treatment of FFL dealers by the ATF.  As of this time, they have only received about 860 signatures.  This is unacceptable.  One of the silly “Impeach Bush” petitions that will likely go nowhere has almost 19,000 signatures!

Please understand that this petition is not about Red’s Trading Post.  It is about all FFL dealers.  Law abiding dealers across the nation are being shut down for trivial issues.  Small dealers usually have to close as the legal costs would bankrupt them.  (Red’s has already spent $20K in their fight) This also affects the average gun owner.  Where will you buy your guns when your local dealer is shut down?

Read about Red’s battle with the ATF here.

Sign the petition Here.

It’s in the upper 900’s now.  I want to see at least 3,000 by tonight. 

Go. 

Now.

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   Wednesday - March 21, 2007

D’oh!

I probably just cost the Skipper a lawsuit by using that title, but he’s on some sunny beach right now chasing grass skirts, so he doesn’t care. 

Overlawyered

That syllable is trademarked? D’oh!
Twentieth-Century Fox has a trademark for “the spoken word ‘D’oh’” (popularized by Homer Simpson’s annoyed grunts) though the docket indicates that they have not yet filed a statement of use; the USPTO kids’ page, however, indicates that that syllable, along with many other sounds, are trademarked.

H/T Michelle Malkin

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Not that very many people ever read this far down, but this blog was the creation of Allan Kelly and his friend Vilmar. Vilmar moved on to his own blog some time ago, and Allan ran this place alone until his sudden and unexpected death partway through 2006. We all miss him. A lot. Even though he is gone this site will always still be more than a little bit his. We who are left to carry on the BMEWS tradition owe him a great debt of gratitude, and we hope to be able to pay that back by following his last advice to us all:

1. Keep a firm grasp of Right and Wrong
2. Stay involved with government on every level and don't let those bastards get away with a thing
3. Use every legal means to defend yourself in the event of real internal trouble, and, most importantly:
4. Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere

It's been a long strange trip without you Skipper, but thanks for pointing us in the right direction and giving us a swift kick in the behind to get us going. Keep lookin' down on us, will ya? Thanks.

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