Five years of Left Wing Heartburn and free speech later...
via PowerLine
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Don't Leave America
...if you want Second Amendment Rights. Seems that Amendment is ignored in our Nation's capitol to the extent that merely possessing an inert shotshell, a shotgun round that can NOT be fired, gets one prosecuted.
(via Of Arms and the Law)
Thus, the single vaguely legitimate remaining charge for “unregistered ammunition” is the misfired shotgun shell that Mr. Witaschek has kept as a souvenir from deer hunting years earlier. The shell cannot be fired because the primer was already stricken and failed to propel it.
Of course, if you are a member of the "only ones" like David Gregory the prosecution will ignore their "law."
I guess Washington, D.C. is not in America.
(via Of Arms and the Law)
A Return To Blogging? Maybe.
It has been almost two years since I last put up a post... The reasons I stopped are many and varied. The biggest two reasons have since been more or less resolved here and here. I remember three or four years back combing through thousands of posts looking for any links I may have posted to clients of RightHaven on my personal blog and having to consult an attorney before that regarding posts on a chess blog I had regarding - of all things - chess politics. Now, RightHaven is a disgraced memory and the Ninth Circuit Court has recognized, as noted attorney William A. Jacobson writes, "I Got Rights."
I even starting catching flack at my former job (I worked for the nation's largest newspaper publisher) about my blog being competition. I left them last September so that's another reason gone.
In the meantime I've had fun keeping up with old blogging friends and new friends on Twitter and - very sporadically - on FaceBook. I keep reading that blogging is dead as more of us lose our attention span for anything more than 140 characters. Despite that, it seems almost everyone has a blog and even most traditional media types disseminate their wares via the blog format.
So, a return to blogging? Maybe. Who knows? Perhaps I need a bigger space than Twitter allows to vent my spleen. Then again, maybe not. Decisiveness is my middle name.
I even starting catching flack at my former job (I worked for the nation's largest newspaper publisher) about my blog being competition. I left them last September so that's another reason gone.
In the meantime I've had fun keeping up with old blogging friends and new friends on Twitter and - very sporadically - on FaceBook. I keep reading that blogging is dead as more of us lose our attention span for anything more than 140 characters. Despite that, it seems almost everyone has a blog and even most traditional media types disseminate their wares via the blog format.
So, a return to blogging? Maybe. Who knows? Perhaps I need a bigger space than Twitter allows to vent my spleen. Then again, maybe not. Decisiveness is my middle name.
Friday, March 16, 2012
An Interesting Question
From David Hardy:
An interesting question:
After President Obama apologized to Afghanistan for a soldier who cracked and killed 16 Afghanis, shouldn't he apologize to Mexico for the 300 deaths caused by Fast and Furious?
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
End of an Era
From FoxNews: After 244 years, Encyclopaedia Britannica ends sale of print edition.
I remember in the '70s when my dad was a salesman for Encyclopaedia Britannica. I still have a set he bought with "heirloom" binding in 1977. I also have a 1958 edition I picked up in the '80s. I recall as part of his sales pitch Dad would pick up a volume using one page to show how well made they were and how they would last.
I once had a library full of dictionaries, thesauruses, encyclopedias, and other reference works. Many are now gone and I haven't purchased any such in a long, long time. It's all on the web, you see... I may be alone, but I think our world is poorer for it.
I remember in the '70s when my dad was a salesman for Encyclopaedia Britannica. I still have a set he bought with "heirloom" binding in 1977. I also have a 1958 edition I picked up in the '80s. I recall as part of his sales pitch Dad would pick up a volume using one page to show how well made they were and how they would last.
I once had a library full of dictionaries, thesauruses, encyclopedias, and other reference works. Many are now gone and I haven't purchased any such in a long, long time. It's all on the web, you see... I may be alone, but I think our world is poorer for it.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Police Department Shut Down; 9-Year-Old Tasered
When is it appropriate to Taser a nine year old boy? Mt. Sterling, Ohio police decided the line was drawn when a nine year old boy wouldn't go to school.
Words fail me.
The incident occurred when Michelle Perry called police because her nine-year-old son, Jared, would not go to school. Authorities responded, and when the child became unruly, an officer used a Taser gun on the boy. Neighbors have described the child as "large for his age," according to The Columbus Dispatch, though they have chosen to remain anonymous.
Police Chief Mike McCoy has been suspended for not reporting the incident to city officials. Council President Lowell Anderson told the local paper that an investigation is currently underway. The entire department has been closed, and Sheriff Jim Sabin has been given authority to patrol the town.
Words fail me.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
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