Legendary actor, civil rights leader and political activist Charlton Heston passed away today, at the age of 84. He died at his home with Lydia, his wife of 64 years, at his side. Mr. Heston was loved by his two children, Fraser Clarke Heston and Holly Heston Rochell, and his three grandchildren, Jack Alexander Heston, Ridley Rochell and Charlie Rochell.
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From the Colorado Springs Gazette comes this report:
El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa wants more guns - not for his deputies, but for citizens. “Offenders in the jail system tell me they avoid crimes against people because they know there is a very high concealed-carry rate,” Maketa told The Gazette.
Read the rest of the story here
HatTip to Say Uncle
A business in Reno, Nevada was flying a Mexican flag above an American flag. This is a violation of the law, flags of other countries may only be flown at equal or lower height than the American Flag. Jim Brossard hard about it on talk radio and decided something needed to be done. He pulled down the flags and cut the American Flag loose and took it, saying “They’re going to have to fight me for it if they want this flag”.
See Free Constitution blog for more info.
Good for Mr. Brossard! We need to see more action like this taken against these people who thing they can take over our country. We welcome immigrants with open arms, but they need to respect our culture instead of forcing theirs down our throats.
And why isn’t the Reno Federal prosecutor filing charges against this business owner? Why does this business still have a liquor license? Hell, a business license for that matter.
Say Uncle is reporting that he received a note from Google AdWords that they wouldn’t run ads on his site because it was primarily about guns. BEcause of this I have disabled the adword sharing on GunBloggers.com — I don’t want to be responsible for someone’s ads getting pulled.
While I believe that Google is well within their rights to be as anti-gun as they want to be, I am disappointed that they are unable to make the distinction between legal and illegal activities. Makes you wonder just how Evil they could become…
Is life so dear,
or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me,
give me liberty or give me death!
- Patrick Henry at the second Virginia Convention, on March 23, 1775, in St. John’s Church, Richmond.
Patrick Henry was born on May 29, 1736, in Studley, Virginia. He was a brilliant orator and an influential leader in the opposition to British government. As a young lawyer, he astonished his courtroom audience in 1763 with an eloquent defense based on the doctrine of natural rights—the political theory that man is born with certain inalienable rights.
On his twenty-ninth birthday, as a new member of Virginia’s House of Burgesses, Henry presented a series of resolutions—the Stamp Act Resolves—which opposed Britain’s Stamp Act. The Resolves were adopted on May 30, 1765. He concluded his introduction of the Resolves with the fiery words “Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third—” when, it is reported, voices cried out, “Treason! treason!” He continued, “—and George the Third may profit by their example! If this be treason make the most of it.”
Read more about Patrick Henry here at the Library of Congress
The State of California is considering ripping another $500 (per child born) from the pockets of its over-taxed citizens. According to the San Mateo Daily Journal -
Every child born in California would get a $500 savings account to start building a nest egg for college or down payment for a home, under a bipartisan bill introduced Wednesday in the state Senate.
I just love this part
Under the bill, every child born in California after Jan. 1, 2008, would receive the money, regardless of their parents’ income or immigration status. Recipients would repay the state’s initial $500 investment once they turn 18.
Oh Joy! Not only are they going to steal your money and give it to your neighbor’s kids, but they’re going to give it to the illegal’s kids as well. I wonder what that’s going to do for the illegal population count in California… Will it increase? You bet! Any time you start handing out freebies to those who don’t earn it you attract more freeloaders. California’s infrastructure is already overwhelmed by the illegal immigrant problem, this will just be one more nail in the coffin.
Not to mention the typical socialist stupidity of taking money from one group and giving it to another. But I won’t rehash that right now.
Hat Tip goes to Random Nuclear Strikes and Knowledge Is Power
I’m not sure which is more pathetic — the news folks and their wall-to-wall coverage before they knew any facts, homeland security because these things were in place in 10 cities for two weeks before being discovered in Boston, or the marketing firm that dreamed up this miracle of modern marketing.
Read all about it here at Yahoo news
Turner Broadcasting, a division of Time Warner Inc. and parent of Cartoon Network, said the devices were part of a promotion for the TV show “Aqua Teen Hunger Force,” a surreal series about a talking milkshake, a box of fries and a meatball.
“The packages in question are magnetic lights that pose no danger,” Turner said in a statement. It said the devices have been in place for two to three weeks in 10 cities: Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Portland, Ore., Austin, Texas, San Francisco and Philadelphia.
According to this report from The Hill, police were ordered to fall back and allow anti-war protesters to spray paint slogans on the steps of the US Capitol building.
According to the sources, police officers were livid when they were told to fall back by U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) Chief Phillip Morse and Deputy Chief Daniel Nichols. “They were the commanders on the scene,” one source said, who requested anonymity. “It was disgusting.”
Approximately 300 protesters were allowed to take the steps and began to spray paint “anarchist symbols” and phrase such as “Our capitol building” and “you can’t stop us” around the area, the source said.
Digging for pictures of this one…
This comes in from Mr. Completely, some news from Dan McKown:
Then, if that isn’t enough; I too will actually be receiving an award. Many of you either heard or saw that I had received a commendation from our local chapter of the American Legion. Well they put me in for nationals and I hardly gave it a second thought. First, the award usually goes to soldiers and with two wars (or one war on terror) and a hurricane, there were plenty of opportunities for heroism, second; there are an enormous amount of American Legion halls across this country– I wouldn’t stand a chance!
Except for the fact that… I won.
On Friday, Dec. 15th 7:00ish (double check with me) I will be the American Legion 2006 HERO of the year! Wow. God just seems to insist on sharing his glory with me. Wow. Ceremony will be Friday at American Legion Post #138, 7515 Cirque Drive (56th turns into Cirque). Look for a 7-11, a drug store and a whole lotta flags!
Previously I wrote about Germany arresting a mother for home schooling her children, now the German authorities are dragging children from their homes and forcing them into state run schools according to this WorldNetDaily article.
Homeschoolblogger also has an update on this and on the previous arrests.
I’ve been a bit remiss in my posting chedule here as of late. Sorry about that. Maybe this will mke up for it. I spent Saturday at an undisclosed location with a bunch of the WA HTF (Hometown Forum) guys from AR15.com at their regular shoot/camp event. I only went for the day, and it was a heck of a time! There were well over 50 people there, uncountable guns of every variety, and friendly people everywhere. There was a bunch of Tannerite brought so we had our own short range Boomershoot as well!
My pictures can be found in the gallery, and other pics over at AR15.com WAHTF and more here.
In addition to the usual collection of AR-15’s we had 3 Barret .50’s, numerous M1 Garands, M14’s, a Thompson, P90, FALs and some others that I didn’t recognize and don’t remember the names of. I got to shoot several different ones for the first time, the Thompson being my favorite.
It was a beautiful day for Washington in September, the guys running the line did an excellent job and even though there were a few rifles that broke (watch out for the kind of ammo you are using, especially Adcom) there were no injuries.
The Detroit Free Press is reporting that students were suspended for wearing patriotic t-shirts commemorating the 9/11 attacks.
Lewandowski says he was only trying to be patriotic when he wore a homemade T-shirt featuring an American flag bumper sticker and the words “Remember 9/11″ to Lincoln Park High School on Monday.
Thinking about sending your kids to Public School? Don’t.
There is a new wave of copyright driven censorship sweeping across the net. You are probably not aware of guitar tab sites, used by musicians to learn how to play songs. These sites are no threat to the copyright holders, they are just trying to learn how to play their music.
From the Music Student and Teacher Organization (MuSATO):
A BBC web article dated 12 December, 2005, quotes US Music Publishers Association president Lauren Keiser as saying that unlicensed guitar tabs and song scores were widely available on the Internet but were “completely illegal”…and further that the owners of these sites should “be jailed”.
One of the remaining sites is Ultimate-Guitar.com, who are protected from the MPA’s flurry of shutdown letters because they are located in Russia. They are also actually paying royalies through the ROMS system:
Ultimate-Guitar.Com website is absolutely legal tablature archive which activity is based on a Russian Organization on Collective Management of Rights of Authors and Other Rightholders in Multimedia, Digital Networks & Visual Arts (ROMS)’ license. ROMS is the national Russian organization providing professional collective management of authors’ property rights and protection of interests of rightsholders in cases of use of their works in digital interactive networks, including the Internet.
And guitartabs.cc has this to say:
When you are jamming with a friend and you show him/her the chords for a song you heard on the radio, is that copyright infringement? What about if you helped him/her remember the chord progression or riff by writing it down on, say, a napkin… infringement? If he/she calls you later that night on the phone or e-mails you and you respond via one of those methods, are you infringing? I don’t know… but I would really like to know. If anyone has information on this, please email support@guitartabs.cc.
Apparently, the NMPA/MPA believes that the Internet may be on the foul side of the legality line they would like to draw here. For me, I see no difference. It’s teachers educating students and covered as a ‘fair use’ of the tablature. The teachers here don’t even get paid nor do the students have to pay this website to access the lessons.
I came across this Horror Film Commercial on the default google homepage today. This is how horror films ought to turn out!
Here in Washington State we have been ‘blessed’ with a very warm summer so far. In addition to the heat this week has been extra busy around the my1911 compound with the early arrival of Jesse Gunnar, who was expected around the end of the month. Instead he put in his appearance on July 3rd. Today the rest of the family was off to the previously scheduled baby shower so I took advantage of the absence of inquisitive little fingers to clean my guns and watch some not so family friendly movies (ok, I started off with some honey-do projects first).
There just seems to be something right about watching The Patriot and cleaning your guns, especially less than a week after Independence Day. I finished off with a salmon dinner while watching Black Hawk Down.
These are the kinds of movies that the movie industry should be making, not this continuous stream of remakes of old films targeted towards baby boomers suffering a mid-life crisis. They remind us of the sacrifices that are needed in order for us to maintian our Liberty. We have a duty to those who have fallen not to forget their sacrifices and to continue to resist efforts to enslave the free.
Tomorrow is the 4th anniversary of the barbaric attack on the United States by radical Islamic terrorists. Take some time to remember the innocent people that were killed in the attacks. Think about how far we have come since that day, and remember what you were feeling and thinking as you watched the towers collapse and thousands flee the churning gray cloud of debris. Remember the rescue workers who went up the stairwells as people escaped going down. Thank their families for their selfless service to the lives of others.
Think of how the response would have been different if AlGore had been president, how the world would be a different place today. I hope you realize that there are evil people who want to kill you and your family, no matter whether you support their cause or not. Understand that it matters who we elect to protect us from such threats, that your vote does matter and that the character of the person you elect matters. The true test of character comes not when things are good and easy going. They come when the Shit Hits The Fan. I think that Louisiana is discovering this the hard way, and that the country is damn lucky that GWB was in office when we were attacked.
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Here are images and an article on the 200 people (estimated) who were forced to jump from the towers. The fall lastet about 10 seconds and death was instant and merciful.
Here are the names of those who were killed
Well the votes are in, and they have chosen to memorialize the heros of Flight 93 by surrounding the crash site with a big red crescent. Yep, the symbol often associated with Islam and its radical fundamentalists who killed almost 3000 people that day 4 years ago. Is this what America has come to? A PC whipped country that doesn’t want to offend even our most barbaric enimies?zombietime has an excellent overview of the site with a comparison to the crescent moon. Michelle Malkin has a good roundup of link on this.
This decision should not be allowed to stand. Who was on the panel that chose this design? Were they all islamic clerics? Blind? Or just plain ignorant? You can email the NPS person in charge of this at FLNI_Superintendent@nps.gov or you can try their non-functional web contact form.
On a positive note, it sounds like the Discovery show on Flight 93 will be worth watching on Sunday night.
In Professor Williams’ latest essay he asks an essential question, ‘Will we defend ourselves?’. This is an especially good question in light of Wednesday’s sentencing of Ahmed Ressam where the judge gave him 22 years before launching into a criticism of the administration’s handling of terrorists.
This excerpt from the essay pretty well explains my view of how we should be treating terrorists -
During World War II, German soldiers captured not wearing their own army’s uniforms were lined up and shot. In 1942, a German submarine landed eight Nazi saboteurs on the beaches of New York and Florida. Two months after a secret military tribunal, convened by President Roosevelt, six of the eight were executed, even though they hadn’t killed or bombed anyone — just being here was enough.
For those of us who were around during World War II, can we imagine anyone, much less a government high official, having said, “The treatment of detainees is a taint on our country’s reputation, especially in Germany, and there are many questions that must be answered. These questions are important because the safety of our country depends on our reputation and how we are viewed, especially in Germany”? If you substitute “the Muslim world” for “Germany” in that statement, you have House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s, D-Calif., statement.
You can read the rest of the Professor’s latest essay here.
Prof. Walter E. Williams’ latest essay is about the dramatic increase on American Citizen’s dependency on Government.
William Beach has just written a report for the Washington, D.C.-based Heritage Foundation titled “The 2005 Index of Dependency.” Between 1962 and today, American dependence on government has more than doubled and shows little sign of abatement. The growth areas of dependency examined in the report are: welfare and medical care, housing, retirement income, education, and rural and agricultural services. The budgetary impact of dependency threatens perpetual budget deficits and high taxes, but to focus only on the budgetary impact is to trivialize the more devastating aspects of dependency.
You can read the rest here. He leaves us with this quote from Benjamin Franklin - “[T]he best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.”
Due to recent (loony) Washington State Supreme Court rulings people who killed children are walking free from their prison sentences. Essentially what the court ruled was that you could not convict someone of ‘felony murder’ in cases where intent to kill was difficult to prove. In many of these cases people beat, shook, kicked and threw children as young as 6 weeks old, actions which resulted in death.
I makes me sick that the system that is responsible for protecting the most innocent among us has now released these monsters back into society. Some of them may be re-tried under other laws, but others have already seved more time than they would have received for convictions such as manslaughter and will probably remain free.
