Free Speech?

As if hating the Philadelphia Eagles weren't enough, here's another reason to hate on the city of brotherly love:

It looks like cash hungry local governments are getting awfully rapacious these days:

Between her blog and infrequent contributions to ehow.com, over the last few years she says she’s made about $50. To [Marilyn] Bess, her website is a hobby. To the city of Philadelphia, it’s a potential moneymaker, and the city wants its cut.

In May, the city sent Bess a letter demanding that she pay $300, the price of a business privilege license.

More here as well.

So much for free speech...

Max Michel, Jr

As it's shooting related, thought some of ya'll might enjoy my post on my photo blog about Max Michel, Jr at the recent Pro-Am in Tulsa....

Hi.

Just checking in. Been a while. How's everyone? Good? Glancing through the news today, I noticed that the President's Supreme Court nominee will likely make it past the Senate panel. I saw that Lindsay Lohan is going to jail (lead story on ABC "news" this morning). The President is having another vacation. The stock market is teetering on a depression-like pattern, housing starts are faltering, and the artificially-stimulated economic "recovery" is likewise stuttering.

How's that hope and change working out for ya, America?

Of course!

Now THIS is a good expenditure of NASA's funding.

NASA Chief: Next Frontier Better Relations With Muslim World

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his "foremost" mission as the head of America's space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.

Though international diplomacy would seem well outside NASA's orbit, Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama assigned him. He said better interaction with

So much for boldly going where no man has gone before....

Now that's funny, I don't care who you are!

I wonder, Mr. President... is that before your manicure, or after?
You gotta be kidding me!! Maybe he means he's gonna send a horde of lawyers in and give everyone a good talking to?

Now if any of the real men I know said they were going to kick someone's ass, step back bubba 'cause it's about to get ugly. But this man??

Totally and completely laughable. He's once again the laughing stock of the world.

What a turd

Come and take it

I cannot even begin to tell you how much this infuriates me.

Rule #1 with Obama's administration

It's always someone else's fault.

Obama administration says Emirates Airlines Dropped the Ball

Seriously, has this administration taken responsibility for anything?

So...

what do you do when fucking up the American economy isn't enough?

You try to fuck up the rest of the world, too.

The US is preparing to pivot from domestic regulatory reform to a push for a tough new international capital regime after the weekend’s G20 and International Monetary Fund meetings glossed over differences between leading economies.

Good God, man.

How's that change working out for ya?

Is the American press finally getting the message about the current regime?

A member of the press corps (or is that, corpse, Mr. President?)

asked for the meeting “to clear the air because in my 10-plus years at the White House, rarely have I sensed such a level of anger, which is wide and deep, among members over White House practices and attitude toward the press.

I mean really? Come on fellas. Surely you can't be surprised. Anyone with half a brain could see this coming. The Obama administration (and the campaign before that) have a fairly long history of getting rid of people and agencies they don't like as well as removing access for those that don't toe the party line.

Between kicking members of the press out of the recent (worthless) nuclear summit, ditching the press in a "historic" (yes, let's use that term, shall we?) first over a soccer game that never happened and not holding a press conference (rather than reading from his teleprompter and then scurrying off) in months - are you really surprised that the regime sees you as useful idiots?

And, in typical fashion for the regime there was lots of talk, but "no immediate global solutions."

How's that change working out for you?

Again?

In this image from Reuters, the caption reads: "U.S. President Barack Obama (L) greets China's President Hu Jintao at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, April 12, 2010."

I guess by greets, they really meant to say grovel. Seriously. Is there anyone this embarrassment of a president won't bow to? You'll note, of course, there is no reciprocal bow from the Chinese President...

More idiocy

Earlier this week, we were treated to video of a Democrat Congressman implying that additional Marines on the island of Guam would make the island tip over.



Today I've run across a video of another Democrat Congressman stating, on one hand that he doesn't care what the Constitution says about health care and on the other, confusing the Declaration of Independence with the US Constitution.



You know, I don't expect our lawmakers to be rocket scientists. But I would like to think that they are somehow doing more than just stealing my oxygen, as these two asshats obviously are.

Is it too much to ask for to have our lawmakers have something that even remotely resembles a brain?

Oh yeah, baby

The pacifier party

Once again, the dems running our country into the ground go into full panic mode because people are pissed off about the passage of the health care fiasco. They prove, yet again, that dissent is not allowed as long as a democrat is running the show.

We've already seen that if you disagree with the chosen one, then you are obviously a racist. If you disagree with health care reform, you're dangerous and threatening to Democrat lawmakers.

One of the stupidest and over-rated columnists I've ever seen in my life, Paul Krugman, is lamenting about the poor state of affairs. I was going to spend some time disagreeing with the dumbass, but the guys at Powerline do a better job of it here.

Michelle Malkin has done a great job in documenting all of the hatred that gets spewed from leftists in this country yet somehow gets ignored... So just remember that the dems are nothing but a bunch of lying, thieving hypocrites who are intent on maintaining power as long as they possibly can.

Rocking the VTAC

Picked up a very nice VTAC AR a bit ago and FINALLY had time to shoot it today. SWEEET rifle.


Felt bad for JR and let him shoot it as well. LOL.


S&W did a helluva job putting this rifle together!!

I guess

that everyone wasn't nearly pissed off enough with the Obama administration...

Obama looking to give new life to immigration reform

The basis of a bill would include a path toward citizenship for the 10.8 million people living in the U.S. illegally. Citizenship would not be granted lightly, the White House said. Undocumented workers would need to register, pay taxes and pay a penalty for violating the law. Failure to comply might result in deportation.

Seriously, what is wrong with these people? I guess they figure last summer's Tea Parties weren't quite bad enough politically for them, because if they thought that was bad, let's try amnesty this summer.

That pesky global warming

Global warming strikes yet again, trapping over 50 vessels in the ice...

More than 50 ships, including large ferries reportedly carrying thousands of passengers, were stuck in ice in the Baltic Sea Thursday evening, and many were not likely to be freed for hours, Swedish maritime authorities said.

Happy Birthday Texas

Pretty nice day when a Texas Senator reads Travis' letter on the floor of the Senate.

Your government at work

Gun Safety

I met some of my good shooting friends at the local private gun range yesterday for a little practice. As a member of the club, I've got access (on a first-come, first-served basis) to a number of bays. You can drive your car down to the bays and park there, which is convenient. While it's a private club, you have folks there who are casual shooters at best, and we've learned through experience not to assume that membership implies competence.

We got our range bags out and followed protocol on un-bagging and holstering our firearms, with one or more of us supervising each other. I think everyone there was a certified range officer. You can't be too safe, ya know?

In the next bay, the one on the end, a white SUV pulled up, and 3 guys got out, one of them older than the other two. The older guy was the club member, it turns out. We didn't pay much attention, but commented to each other to keep an eye out, until we had a feel for their gun-handling skills.

We got a pretty good feel rather quickly.

Attending to our business, we heard a "bang," followed by some deafening silence. We looked over and saw 3 very surprised faces at the tailgate of the SUV. We asked if everyone was okay twice, with no response. I walked over, and asked again. They replied in the affirmative.

The guilty party was standing there with what looked like a Keltec POS in .22 or .25, and he said, "I was unloading the gun." I replied that he had certainly accomplished removing one round from the gun, so let's see what's left, safely. The mag was still in, so I instructed him to remove that, then show me a clear gun, then pull the trigger, then bag the gun.

I asked where the hole was, and he pointed to the deck that covers the spare tire, which likely suffered a mortal injury. I can only assume the gas tank wasn't punctured, too.

I actually had to explain to this club member that we don't handle firearms in our cars at this club. Use the safe area - there's consideration for people who don't know how to handle firearms there, so if you DO have an accidental/negligent discharge, it's in a controlled environment, and hopefully nobody or nothing gets perforated in the process.

I don't know what responsibility, if any, I have as a member of that club to tell this guy to put his stuff away and come back when he knew what he was doing, so I just urged him to do the right thing, mind his muzzle and trigger, and don't shoot any of us. If it had been me, I'd have been too embarrassed to stay, but unbelievably, he stayed. Not only that, but I saw him explaining gun safety to the 2 others with him.

Moral of the story? Rather than the obvious gun safety lesson which, no matter how many times is repeated, is lost on so many people, I'd rather provide this advice: any time you're at a gun range with other people you don't know (and sometimes, when you are), don't assume that you won't get shot. Some stupid people own firearms, and don't know the first thing about safety. They're not mean or malicious, they're just ignorant. This can create a very dangerous situation. Don't feel bad about ratting out bad gun discipline to the local range officers. Don't enable bad behaviors at the range.