Time for swim lessons.

Took Fourth Power Alpha down to the creek on the 4-wheeler. During a rousing game of "Sink", he lost his balance and became the object of the game. The current was just a bit to strong for him to stand back up as he started drifting downstream resulting in an impromptu daddy rescue. So with one very wet little boy and me w/ some soaked boots we headed back home amidst giggles on how mad momma was going to be.

The look we got when we arrived home made it even funnier. Then Fourth Power Bravo announced how much fun it would be when she 'accidentally' fell in at which point she was told if there were any 'accidents' there would be no more rides for her.

Ah, the joys of parenthood.

Right to Peacably Assemble is Despicable and Shameful

According to Brady Endorsed Illinois Rep. Jan Schakowsky, yet her husband, convicted of multiple counts of tax violation and bank fraud, is a 'good man'.

More at War On Guns.

More public support for gun control..

Remember that MO house bill that got the Campus Carry amendment added to it? Well, it didn't do as well when it came up for the final vote.



It lost 8 votes of support to pass with only 105-50-8.

Looking over their shoulders

Amidst another "Mexican Canard", Josh Sugarmann drops this little steamer into the Huffpo bowl:

this is the organization that for years to infiltrate the gun violence prevention movement

Which means they're still paranoid that there might be more but they just don't know. Could it be someone in the office? One of the people they've communicated with via internet?

Generating this level of stress made everything Mary did worth it.

Of course Josh is always wont to mention that his people do the same things.

Let's Get Ready To RUMBLE!!!

French nab 11 pirates as threats mount on US ships

MOMBASA, Kenya – A pirate gang that launched an abortive attack on a second U.S. ship loaded with food aid said Wednesday they were singling out American vessels and would kill their crews

An escalation of hostilities is the only way this will end. "Giving them what they want" only encourages them more.

Double Standards

The group "Students for Gun-Free Schools" is holding a 'walkout' tomorrow to protest a bill that would allow concealed carry on campus. The organizer of the walk-out, VT alum John Woods , according to an interview in the Daily Brown Herald, "found it ‘personally upsetting’ that the Virginia Tech shooting is quoted as a context for the introduction of the bills.”

The hypocrisy is overwhelming as the SGFS, on the front page of their website, uses the VT tragedy and other high profile shootings to push 'reasonable, common-sense' gun regulations mixed in w/ the usual attacks on permit holders.

I wonder where Mr. Woods' outrage is over the Brady Campaign using VT victim family members to advocate bills that had nothing to do w/ VT or their call for $32 to 'fight the gun lobby' the very day it happened.

I would also like to note that the Students for Concealed Carry on Campus FaceBook page has three times as many members as the SGFS. Telling, isn't it?

O-Day +82: Playin' with the Big Boys..

Now that Obama is in office, he gets to see just how much fun it is to juggle paying back his political supporters, supporting US allies and dealing w/ a UN hostile to said supporters and allies.

The White House has indicated for weeks that it would boycott the conference unless significant changes were made to the draft text. This position has been cheered by the Jewish community, but other minority organizations, notably the NAACP and the TransAfrica Forum, expressed concern, arguing that the forum was a uniquely important opportunity to address world racism.

Who is more important to his re-election? Which political stance will get thrown under the bus?

"I guess I just hate you!"

The Armed Schoolteacher relays a 1st-hand account of Rev. Snuffy's latest adventure in grassroots activism.

It went so well that the good Rev. came up w/ a plan to occupy the Governors office to get some attention for his less than 100 followers. The Capitol Police recommended otherwise.

Read the rest.

Blogroll Additions

The Survivalist Blog

21 Guns, Salute

The Stoopid, It Hurts

Huffpo links to the Newsweek "Assault Weapons on the Back Burner" article.

The range of comments show another reason why public support is swinging in our direction. Gun Controllers are unable to have any sort of discussion w/o referring to NRA members as 'hillbillies' or 'retarded', have no idea what an 'assault weapon' is, are unable to refrain from making the usual small genitalia remarks, and even hope for terrorist attacks on the US so they can blame the NRA and pass gun bans.

These are the voices of 'grassroots gun control'. Gotta love 'em.

The Church of G.O.D. (Gun Owning Disciples) is let loose upon the earth

For those who saw the original G.O.D. post, I apologize that it has taken me this long to launch, but work has had me mad busy lately and my evening time is usually taken up with another project of mine.

For those who don’t know what I’m talking about, a brief recap.

First off, I made a boo-boo when I stated that the SCOTUS ruled that peyote use by Native Americans was protected by the 1st Amendment. The case(Employment Division v. Smith) originated in Oregon, my home state, and details can be found on Wiki. The Oregon supreme court ruled that it was protected but was overturned by the SCOTUS in 1990. The jist of it is that individual states can place restrictions on religious actions, not religious beliefs, and that since peyote was ALREADY prohibited for all Americans, Constitutional muster is okie-dokie.

But, no matter for our purposes.

The concept is simple. The true defenders know that the 2A is the last check and the last balance after all others have failed or have been unjustly removed from the chess board. I can’t take your king, defended by your queen, with a lone castle, knight or bishop. But give me 10,000 pawns, and I will own you.

If the possession of firearms is legal today, which it is, then adopting their use in a religious/spiritual context should be protected against future encroachment under the 1st Amendment. I have no doubt that when the antis get wind of this movement, they will falsely claim that we worship guns, death, dead babies, insert whatever other insanity you wish. The Church of G.O.D. is not about worshiping any form of weaponry; we worship freedom and liberty and merely hold sacred the natural right to self-defense.

The 2A has stood alone for long enough, isn’t it about time the 1st Amendment repaid its debts? Let us protect the 2nd by exercising our 1st just as we protect the 1st and all the others by exercising our 2nd. Attacking the 2nd Amendment has been an easy whipping boy for far too long. Let us see what the antis do when forced to disparage the 1st Amendment as well.

So here goes… You can contact me at kaveman1@centurytel.net and join the Church of G.O.D. Send me an email and I will reply with my home address. Then send $12.00 and your address and the church will send you a certificate of membership. The only requirements for church membership is that you obey the 4 basic rules of gun safety and act as an ambassador for all law-abiding gun owners wherever you travel. This $12.00 investment is a lifetime membership. Eventually, I will have my own blog dedicated to matters of the church, but any orders generated through DOOT will be evenly split between myself, my buddy here in Oregon and Thirdpower for his generosity in allowing me to launch on an established forum. My only other request is that you help spread the word in whatever fashion you deem fit.

Certificate is 8.5” X 11” and is on high quality matte paper and is high quality ink. I should know, I made it.

Brady Oops.

Via Kaveman, it appears the Brady's saw the words "bloodbath" and "Paul Helmke" in the same article and assumed the usual media bias. So they linked it:


But what does the article actually say?

But I've learned since: Guns — all 280 million of them in this country — are not the problem.

Whatever the issue is — and even if there are all these people lying dead from gunshot wounds — guns are not the problem.

It took me years to grasp this concept. And in the past few weeks, when gun-toting mass murderers have raged across the land, I'll admit the lessons came particularly hard.

etc.

Is this an official Brady position now? Or perhaps they have their own Mary McFate working w/ them.

The author has taken a tongue in cheek tone so far as to make all the arguments against gun control for us while belittling his own cause.

Ignorance is Brady Bliss

A comment on the Brady Bunch Facebook page:

Legislation to deal with gun manufacturers' negligent oversupply to the market... have to hit both supply and demand side of this problem.

Now assuming she meant legislation 'is needed', one then wonders how the industry is 'oversupplying' the market when ammo manufacturers are running 24-7 and still can't keep up while backorders for ebil black rifles are counted in months.

Obviously someone either doesn't understand grade-school supply and demand or they are remaining willfully ignorant. However this is a Brady supporter so they're not mutually exclusive.

As is Brady SOP, pro-gun comments get deleted allowing the hoplophobes their own echo chamber to ramble on about guns getting up by themselves and shooting people and how we need to ban machineguns.

Not as good as they hoped..

Then:

We Win, They Lose. Now, Let's Get To Work
-Paul Helmke, Nov 18, 2008

Last year at this time, I said that America was turning a corner on the gun issue, and the watershed events of 2008 confirmed that prediction.
-Paul Helmke, Jan 9, 2009

Now:

Poll: Fewer Americans support stricter gun control laws
-CNN: Apr. 8, 2009

"The National Rifle Association essentially has a stranglehold on the congress."
-Senator Dianne Feinstein



Hee Hee

But we're keeping the leg....*

US: Saddam's chrome AK-47 being returned to Iraq

NEW YORK – Federal customs agents say a pearl-handled AK-47 that belonged to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and was in the hands of the U.S. Army is being sent back to Iraq.

*Free patch to the first one who correctly names the reference.

We have a winner.

And Nobody Noticed?

Dad smashes daughters phone after $4,700 phone bill arrives.

What gets me is this girl sent over 300 text messages a day during school hours. 37 an hour for two months. And not a single one of her teachers noticed.

Her grades went from A's/B's to F's during the same amount of time yet the parents apparently weren't called, no conferences scheduled to find out why, etc.

Was her school really that oblivious?

Public Opposition to Guns

Is so high that the Missouri House just voted 106-41 to add a Campus Carry Amendment to HB668, the expansion of Castle Doctrine.

Brady Campaign Vs Gallup

Paul Helmke states that Gallup polls are biased and unreliable.

Instead he feels we should rely on polls conducted by anti-gun groups showing overwhelming support for gun control that has shown to have no bearing in actual voting trends or activism.

What they're really afraid of is not the fact that the poll was taken last October but that the trends over the last 15 years has shown a steady decrease is support for their cause.

They're really starting to slip in the blood of their Dance Macabre.

Kurt has more on Examiner. Digg it baby.

Update:

CNN just conducted a new poll and found similar results to Gallup. I guess they're biased now to.

"Now, a recent poll reveals a sudden drop -- only 39 percent of Americans now favor stricter gun laws, according to a new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll."

O-Day +76: Stimulating the Economy?

By threatening 90,000 tech jobs?

So prop up and/or take over failing businesses that haven't been able to keep up with modern society by spending hundreds of billions of dollars we don't have but at the same time push to make the defense of this nation stagnant while hostile nations across the globe are working feverishly to catch up and surpass us and put tens of thousands of additional workers out of their jobs.

We are so screwed.

Pointing Fingers...

The blame game continues....

911 worker didn't warn Pittsburgh police of guns

PITTSBURGH – The mother of a man charged with killing three Pittsburgh police officers told a 911 dispatcher he had weapons, but the dispatcher didn't relay that information to officers, the official in charge of county dispatchers told a newspaper.

Inexperienced 911 operator
possible prohibited person
'ebil gun lobby'
neo-nazi

Wonder when they'll start looking at the clothes he wore.