Common Folk Using Common Sense

My rantings and ravings in this interesting world.

Common Folk Using Common Sense header image 4

Entries from October 2007

Notes About Zombies

October 31st, 2007 · 2 Comments

[my official Halloween post] Some zombies are dangerous to your life. Some zombies are dangerous to your liberty. Some zombies force you to defend yourself. Pray for an America without zombies. Purchase a zombie prevention device. zombieSpread The Word:

[Read more →]

Tags: Guns · The Left · The US

Happy Halloween

October 31st, 2007 · Comments Off

Vampires are mythological or folkloric beings that are renowned for subsisting on human blood or lifeforce, but in some cases may prey on animals. Although vampires have different characteristics depending on which lore one reads, in most cases, they are described as reanimated corpses who feed by draining and consuming the blood of living beings. [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Uncategorized

Man Uses Unfired Gun To Save Himself

October 30th, 2007 · Comments Off

From The Joplin Globe: Would-be robber flees after man pulls handgun A Joplin man reported thwarting a robbery attempt Saturday night in downtown Joplin with a handgun he was legally carrying. [-- name and address of victim removed by this blog to protect anonymity --], reported at 7:28 p.m. Saturday that after he obtained some [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Crime/Law · Guns · The US

Thompson Widens Lead In Georgia

October 30th, 2007 · Comments Off

From the Savannah Morning News: Presidential hopeful Fred Thompson has soared to a nearly 2-to-1 lead over his closest Republican rival in the latest statewide poll. In survey results announced Wednesday by Strategic Vision, the former U.S. senator from Tennessee led Rudy Giuliani, 39 percent to 20 percent. Thompson added 4 percentage points to the [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Election · Georgia · The Left · The Right

John Edwards Asks For More Of Your Money

October 29th, 2007 · Comments Off

From the Concord Monitor Online: John Edwards says if he’s elected president, he’ll institute a New Deal-like suite of programs to fight poverty and stem growing wealth disparity. To do it, he said, he’ll ask many Americans to make sacrifices, like paying higher taxes. Edwards, a former Democratic senator from North Carolina, says the federal [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Absurd · Election · Money · Socialism · Taxes · The Left · The US

Taser Report Clears UF Police

October 29th, 2007 · 2 Comments

From The Miami Herald: Andrew Meyer, the University of Florida student who was Tasered by campus police in September, may have staged the disturbance in an effort to disrupt the political forum at the Gainesville campus, a state police report concludes. The report from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, released Wednesday by the university, [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Crime/Law · Media · School · The Left

New Ruger SR9 Now Available

October 29th, 2007 · Comments Off

9mm Parabellum (9mm x 19) 17+1 Capacity 5.52″ H x 7.55″ L x 1.27″ W Weighs 26.5 oz. Striker-fired ignition “Semi-Double Action” trigger pull of 6.5 pounds SRP: $525 Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc., Southport, CT Spread The Word:

[Read more →]

Tags: Uncategorized

guN pr0n, w00t!

October 27th, 2007 · Comments Off

Spread The Word:

[Read more →]

Tags: Guns

Suspected Syrian Reactor Site Disappears

October 26th, 2007 · Comments Off

From the New York Times: New commercial satellite photos show that a Syrian site that Israel bombed last month no longer bears any obvious traces of what analysts said appeared to have been a partly built nuclear reactor. Two photos, taken Wednesday from space by rival companies, show the site near the Euphrates River to [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Israel · Military · Syria · Terrorism

Mitt Romney On The Second Amendment

October 26th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Unabashedly stolen from my Second Amendment compatriot Bruce at No Looking Backwards: Do you support gun control laws that… (a) …give police chiefs the power to deny a citizen his right to own a gun for having committed the grievous offense of losing a rented Blockbuster movie? (b) …give police chiefs the power to deny [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Election · Guns · The Right · The US

Moblogging Test

October 26th, 2007 · Comments Off

Posted by mobile phone:From Nokia 6102i Spread The Word:

[Read more →]

Tags: Blog

Don’t Bring A Golf Ball To A Gunfight

October 25th, 2007 · Comments Off

Hat tip to Emperor Misha I at the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ITEM 1: There is something called the “Day of National Concern”: Following the major school shootings of recent years, conversations have centered on what adults can do to keep young people safe from such violence. Such discussions have failed to honor – or even to [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Absurd · Crime/Law · Guns

To All Non-Pet Owners Who Visit Me And Like To Complain About My Dogs

October 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment

They live here. You don’t. If you don’t want their hair on your clothes, stay off the furniture. That’s why they call it “fur”niture. I like my dogs a lot better than I like most people. To you, it’s a dog. To me, he/she is an adopted son/daughter who is short, hairy, walks on all [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Dogs/Pets

Fred Thompson’s Border Security and Immigration Reform Plan

October 24th, 2007 · Comments Off

From Fred08: No Amnesty. Amnesty undermines U.S. law and policy, rewards bad behavior, and is unfair to the millions of immigrants who follow the law and are awaiting legal entry into the United States. Attrition through Enforcement. Adding “at least 25,000 agents” to the Border Patrol and doubling the number of ICE agents. Enforce Existing [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Crime/Law · Election · Immigration · The Right · The US

Quotes On Guns And Self-Defense

October 24th, 2007 · Comments Off

“The right of self-defense is the first law of nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest possible limits. … and [when] the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Guns