Atlas Shrugs exposes jihadi activity in the U.S. and abroad, and addresses the political and social implications, etc., of the worldwide struggle against murderous practitioners of militant Islam.
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- Mood:congested
There's a new Blog that celebrates the M-14 (a/k/a the M1A by Springfield Armory). There's been talk that the M-16 (or AR-15 for civilians) does not do the job reliably... So this workhorse from the 1950s is back. With a new blog...
YouTube video of M-14 firing, ejecting, and reloading.
(Sorry, DC, you can't own one of these; they are forbidden to you. You can own one in Virginia and most other states of the U.S.)
- Music:"Short Skirt and a Long Jacket" by CAKE
Police: Uncle accidentally shot niece, 14, in Avondale [Arizona]
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Now how did this happen? He fired a gun through a closed door, assuming it was a burglar? Was he Superman? Could he see who was on the other side of the door?
NO?
Then "keep your booger hook off the bang switch" (keep your finger off the trigger until you can see your target and have decided to shoot the target)! He violated "The Rules"! Specifically Rule 4 ("Always be sure of your target"). Read them, heed them, live them. They may keep you (or someone you love) safe from harm! I have printed these rules out and placed them in two places in my home: one where I see them coming and going out of the home office, and one on the front of my gun safe.
You're only allowed to apply deadly force to someone if you are in fear of imminent death or grave bodily injury. The gent in the article linked above allegedly fired at NOISES in his garage? Thank God he didn't kill his niece.
Be safe and careful out there. As Spiderman said in the movies, "With great power comes great responsibility." (Probable Bible reference: Luke 12:48)
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I have wondered all along why my visitor count is low. I've had only about 1,400 distinct visitors, and I'd like many more.
How to increase my visitor count (readership)? IMPROVE THE PRODUCT! I told a friend of mine how the comic strip Dilbert(R) began as life just showing a dull guy's life in general (boring home life, dating, etc.). The writer/artist, Scott Adams, had a brilliant insight: He placed his e-mail address in the strip, and his readers started sending him suggestions or stories about their weird coworkers or nutty boss:
Adams cannily gauges his audience's reaction to new threads in the Dilbert saga by including his email address in the margin of each cartoon. As such, an avalanche of Dilbertesque anecdotes arrives in his inbox each morning from disgruntled employees all over the globe. Adams freely admits in Seven Years... to using many of these stories as the basis for his strips, producing the peculiar circularity of Dilbert imitating life imitating Dilbert. (Source: Spikemagazine.com)
Adams was smart enough to steer the strip along lines suggested by his readers, and it became the famous strip of today lampooning corporate culture...
"Dilbert" the strip and its worldview has its detractors, of course (see, for example, Tom Tomorrow's cartoon and print article and Suck Magazine: Office Despot). For an insightful but intensely intellectual look at "Dilbert" including references to French philosopher Michel Foucault, see Studies in Popular Culture, here by a Middle Tennessee State University professor!
Anyway -- all that is by way of introduction:
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In case you are interested in my future plans, I will be highlighting some controversial blogs for your reaction. Sample blog: In Mala Fide (in bad faith).
If you're a Dilbert fan, you'll want to check out Everything Dilbert at Amazon. C'mon, you know you want to buy stuff... (I get a small fraction of any sales -- it's the American way!!)
(Music in my head this AM: BETTER OFF ALONE by Alice DeeJay -- poppy, bright music, and somehow still sad...)
- Location:House pre-dawn 05:30 to 06:40
- Music:"Better Off Alone" by Alice DeeJay
If you're too young to remember the "survivalist movement" of the 1970s and 1980s, it still lives in the preparedness movement of today. Past leading writers included Howard Ruff, John Pugsley, Douglas Casey, Robert Ringer, and Gary North. All wrote important books that still have nuggets of wisdom; their timing on "the end of the world" was just off by about 20-30 years. Ringer and North have moved to the Web. Not sure about the others.
Now, you can read a blog novel in serial form called "The Day The Dollar Died." I found it here at Western Rifle Shooters Association, and the ongoing chapters (through February 2010, according to the author) can be found at Shenandoah (by a guy who blogs as JohnGaltFla) here. Note that all chapters (The Day the Dollar Died Series) are listed in the right border of Shenandoah's blog (it's a bit hard to find, but it's worth digging for. This is one compelling and scary series!
Keep your powder dry!
P.S. Latest chapter (Chapter XIV [14 for your public school graduates]) is here.
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Thanks to People You'll See in Hell, a new low in step-parenting:
Jurors found guilty Harve L. Johnson in the fatal beating of a two-year-old girl, Darisabel Benz. Darisabel was the daughter of Johnson's girlfriend, Neida Baez. Darisabel was bludgeoned to death with a videogame controller [and fists, boot, and cord] because she woke up at 5 AM every day.
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Sorry, Mr. Johnson, parenting is a tough job. And kids do keep weird hours. Sadly, Harve was not this little girl's dad -- he figured he didn't have to put up with her crying, so he decided to stop the crying.
The only good news is he's been sentenced to death.
In October [2009] the toddler's mother, Neida Baez, pleaded guilty in third degree murder in exchange for testifying against Johnson. She was sentenced to 5 to 10 years in prison.
Dear Readers:
My apologies to my male (and female) readers for seeming to bash men via the loaded (sex-stereotypical) title of the series I just ended at Part 11: Boyfriends and Ex-husbands Are Dangerous (BAEHAD).
Radical feminists would have you believe that only men batter women, but women do batter their significant others.
I'm changing the title of my domestic violence series to Unmarried Couple = Child Risk (a/k/a UC = CR) to reflect the fact that married couples don't kill their children at anywhere near the rate that unmarried couples do. The boyfriend (usually) in the unmarried couple won't have the same level of emotional investment in the human value of the child produced by his girlfriend and her (now gone) former boyfriend. This is yet again another argument in FAVOR of marriage; marriage works to protect kids.
Note, for continuity, I am continuing the numbering scheme from where I left off with BAEHAD...
So here is UC = CR, Part 12:
Nashville, Tenn., December 7, 2009: Jamal Shakir, 34, of Los Angeles, was sentenced today to 16 life sentences, to be followed by an additional 9 consective life sentences for multiple murders. [...]
One of the most grotesque murders involved a double murder and the shooting of a three-year-old child in both elbows. The child was found with the decomposing bodies of the murder victims in an Oklahoma City house about 1-1/2 weeks after the murders were committed.
According to evidence at trial, the child victim survived by drinking toilet water until she was found inside the home with the decomposing bodies of her pregnant mother and the mother's boyfriend.
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Terrific.
One more reason to marry the father of your children: He likely won't kill them.
One more reason to avoid criminal associates (or criminal family members).
Hope springs eternal... One of the original plaintiffs in the court case that eventually led to the lifting of D.C.'s handgun ban (Heller v. District of Columbia) is working on a new lawsuit to allow concealed carry in D.C.:
DC's Gun Carry Ban Challenged.
I sincerely wish him good luck with that lawsuit. It would certainly raise the cost of crime to criminals... If concealed carry passed on a wide basis, hoodlums would have to ask themselves, "Man, what if this guy I'm about to stick up has a piece?"
It would slow even more D.C.'s newly low murder rate (lowest in 45 years!!). Currently, only federally deputized VIPs, some business owners, security guards, cops, and ex-cops are allowed to carry firearms for self-defense (lawfully) in the District of Columbia.
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- Music:"I Got the Pistols, So I Got the Pesos" -- The Iguanas
The FBI has cautioned people to be careful about giving to people soliciting aid for Haiti in light of the horrendous earthquake that has killed an estimated 200,000 in the last week.
Some "charities" are run by con men! Only give money to organizations and never individuals, unless you happen to personally know an individual Haitian and you're sending her money and you thoroughly trust her. Do a bit of research on the organization you are interested in; one tool is Charity Navigator, which rates charities by percentage efficiency and a "star" ranking for quality charities.
Personally, I've given money to Mercy Corps, and I plan on giving soon to Doctors Without Borders. Do not give money to the American Red Cross; they have giant overhead, and have gone through numerous directors in the last few years and have had problems with alleged financial malfeasance. Charity Navigator gives ARC an overall rating of three out of four stars and en efficiency rating of just 54.62 percent. You can do better. Just my two cents on that one.
Also, there is a giant orphan "bubble" in Haiti that will need to be addressed. Who will step forward to adopt these thousands of children? Making things worse for these children is the possibility of HIV/AIDS; Haiti has -- like DC -- the highest rate of HIV/AIDS infection per capita.
I admire greatly the Israeli response to the Haitian earthquake. Israeli medical personnel delivered a field hospital (Think "M*A*S*H")and a large contingent of emergency medical responders. God bless 'em.
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Bonus Humor: With all the grim news these days, we all need something to smile at, right?? Here's a panda who fell off a slide. I'm pretty sure he's not hurt; those pandas are tough critters.
Snowflakes in Hell posted on a proposed law in the Maryland State House to allow residents of Delaware, Pennsylvania, or Virginia with carry permits from those states to carry concealed in Maryland.
Don't hold your breath, as Maryland's State House is very polarized (either very pro-gun or very anti-gun), and the general demeanor of Maryland government is very much a "nanny state" and anti-self-defense. Sad.
If you live in Maryland, contact your state legislators today to ask them politely to support HOUSE BILL 52.
Bonus Cheesecake: "Lobster Girl" courtesy of Reason.com (libertarian Web site). Who doesn't love a picture of a young lady kissing a lobster?
- Music:"This Guy's In Love With You" by Burt Bachrach and Hal David
[Photo, Alexandre Meneghini/Associated Press, New York Times]
The New York Times had a disturbing article on January 13, 2010: "When it comes to gore, Mexico's drug traffickers seem to compete among themselves for the title of most depraved.
"One will chop off the heads of victims. Another will string dead rivals from bridges or burn their genitals. Recently, hit men removed the face from a dead man and sewed it onto a soccer ball. On Tuesday, Mexican authorities announced the capture of one of those who they said had been active in this game of oneupsmanship, Teodoro Eduardo Garcia Simental [...] in Tijuana." [Emphases added.]
He trafficks marijuana and methamphetamine. His trademark was "boiling rivals in barrels of lye in what has become known as pozole, for the Mexican stew, the authorities said." Here's the link to that article.
My conclusion: If you use drugs (any illegal drugs), you are supporting this savagery. It should horrify you that human beings treat each other this way.
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For a genteel look at crimefighting, try renting or buying the video adventures of Lord Peter Whimsy, Dorothy Sayers' genius detective (circa 1920s). No torture or mutilation here, just an upper-crust English accent and good drama: Dorothy L. Sayers Mysteries - Gaudy Night
DCist blog reported in June 2008 that D.C. residents started visiting gun shops in Virginia and Maryland after the Supreme Court decision in "Heller versus D.C." reaffirmed D.C. residents' right to own registered handguns (and long guns) from a list approved by government.
Martin Austermuhle asked the $64,000 question: "Will gun shops open in D.C.?"
This is a question your humble author has asked himself. Is a gun shop a viable business worth attempting in the District? Regulatory hurdles are GARGANTUAN, and the possible profits may be skimpy.
Problems include:
-- Zoning,
-- The often-thorny issue of ANC (advisory neighborhood approval),
-- Insurance,
-- Existing gun laws that could make it very tough to open a store anywhere near schools, liquor stores, or bars.
I ask any D.C. old timers: Have gun stores **ever** existed in D.C.? And in what timeframe?
Mayor Fenty was quoted in the DCist story above:
"He said there have been no discussions about how or whether to proceed toward any new regulations on gun retailing. The District has had a couple of gun dealers [the author means FFLs, or federal firearms licensees, approved by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, a/k/a ATF] who were grandfathered in from before the gun ban went into effect in 1976."
Read the whole article at DCist.
Has anyone in my audience ever thought of opening his or her own business peddling guns? Now that handguns are legal again in D.C.... Will D.C. ever get a gun store?
January 5, 2009, update from DCist, here.
Your comments are solicited.
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Looking for a fun, non-"Twilight" supernatural series? Try Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files - The Complete First Season
on DVD from Amazon.com. Dresden is a wizard from Chicago who helps solve crimes that have a supernatural angle, sometimes with the help of Chicago police, and sometimes without... Also worth the effort: Reading (The Dresden Files, Books 1-3)
in a boxed set. - Music:Mozart Piano Pieces by Amy Filter (iTunes)
"Authorities in Florida say a man accused of using an infant to shield himself from a stun gun has been charged with child neglect.
"A Volusia County Sheriff's office charging affidavit says 39-year-old Jorge Garcia of Deltona [Fla.] held the infant in front of him and told a deputy to 'Tase the baby' when the deputy pulled out a stun gun, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported Monday.
"Garcia was charged New Year's Day with child neglect without great harma and resisting an officer without violence."
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Who taught him that holding up a baby -- any baby, yours, someone else's -- is the right thing to do to a deputy who responds to you yeling and acting irrationally? Hooooboy. Maybe he'll think twice about doing that when he gets out of either (a) the psych ward, or (b) county jail...
- Music:"You Oughta Know" by Alanis Morrisette
Louisville (KY)'s KY3-TV (12/21/2009) reported on its Web site that Neil Kramer pleaded guilty in federal court in Springfield, Missouri, to "transporting a minor across state lines to engage in illegal sexual activity. Investigators say Kramer met a 15-year-old girl at the Bull's Eye convenience store in Cabool, Mo., on Nov. 10, 2008, and took her to Louisiana, where they stayed in Kramer's RV for several days. Kramer and the girl had been communicating via text messages for about six months prior to their meeting in Cabool." The FBI was involved in this investigation.
Under federal statutes, Kramer faces a minimum of 10 years in prison without chance of parole, and a fine up to $250,000.
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My questions include: Why didn't the mom know who her daughter was texting? (You have to know who your child's friends are!) Where was this child's father?!
I don't know if this young woman was from a broken family or an intact family, but fathers who walk away from their kids are directly responsible for stuff like this -- also responsible are mothers who kick out their kids' nonabusive fathers...
If you're a men with a broken family (do I need to define this?*), check out the Good Men Project. It could turn your life around...*A broken family is one where you have a child or children, and you don't live with the woman and children. The U.S. Census definition of family is:
A family is defined as a group of two or more people (one of whom is the householder, the person in whose name the housing unit is owned or rented) living together and related by birth, marriage or adoption.
Call me middle-class, but being middle-class is how you stay out of the underclass.
Remember: Don't take drugs or abuse alcohol, finish high school, don't have babies out of wedlock, and get and keep a job, even a crummy one, and you have a 96 percent chance of escaping poverty.
Your comments are welcome here at DC Handgun Info.
- Music:"Five Short Minutes Alone" by Jim Croce
Good news for you and me: A murder suspect from California who earned a spot among the FBI's Most Wanted fugitives was caught Friday in South Salt Lake, Utah, authorities say.
Howell is suspected of killing his 34-year-old wife, Tammy Lynn Howell, August 24 at their home in Lake Los Angeles, California. Authorities allege Howell raped his 13-year-old stepdaughter following the killing, committing the crime in the same room as the girl's mother was slain.
From the MyFoxLA story, one more sick detail about this monster:
Detectives believe that before he married Tammy Lynn, Howell was arrested in 1987 for choking his girlfriend to death in Fresno.
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One more stepfather/boyfriend treating a kid like dirt... Marriage protects kids. End of story.
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Guys and gals, if you're getting romantically involved with someone, you owe it to yourself and your children to CHECK HIM OUT:
When in Doubt, Check Him Out: A Woman's Survival Guide
MArooned (a Massacusetts gun blogger) shows off his twisted sense of humor. A "tactical snubbie"!!!
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- Music:You Oughta Know by Alanis Morrisette
Anti-gunners often say, Guns are dangerous, and people should be forced to get a license to own/use them. Here is a thought-provoking piece about what it mean If Guns Were Treated Like Cars. (Copyright 2000 by Ron Miller, www.Stentorian.com.)
One of my favorites is:
4. You could carry in any State at any time because carry and possession of your gun is honored nationwide and is considered a basic American civil right.
[Automobile driver's permits and registration are honored among U.S. states due to long-established interstate compacts.]
Here's just two more points from another guy's take on if guns were licensed just like cars:
- Anyone could own as many guns, of whatever type, as they could afford, and
- "Shooter's Ed" would be a mandatory class in high school (which, actually, wouldn't be a bad idea.)
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