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Entries from February 2008

The Orange Ribbon

February 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment

From the Washington Post: The Oscars are all about product placement, those delectable swag bags filled to bursting with Montblanc pens, with Heather Hyde jewelry, with Icelandic Glacial bottled water. Get a starlet to bust out the giveaway designer doggie duds on the next morning’s duty walk with Bruiser, and baby, you’ve made it. On [...]

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Tags: Dhimmitude · Media · The Left

Gore’s Global Warming Is Cooling

February 28th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Global warming fear-monger and Nobel Prize winner for saving the known universe, Al Gore, has often ranted how humans – especially those nefarious ones living in the US – are causing the planet to cook like a burned meatloaf. Anyone that has had the courage to publicly disagree with him have found themselves shut out [...]

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Tags: Global Warming · The Left · World

Robbery Stopped By Armed Citizen vol. #78,395

February 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

From WFAA-TV Dallas/Ft. Worth: Investigators say they were definitely going to rob him – possibly even kill him. But an 80-year-old North Texan wasn’t about to let that happen, so he took action. One of the suspects is in the hospital and both are facing charges. Two men obviously thought James Pickett, 80, was an [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Guns

Obama, Who Art Thou?

February 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Barack “He Who Walks On Water” Obama has some interesting tidbits from his life’s experience. See if you can follow along: STEP 1: The Weather Underground Organization was a violent U.S. Radical Left group consisting of splintered-off members and leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society which formed on the campus on the University [...]

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Tags: Election · Terrorism · The Left · The US

McCain’s Joke

February 27th, 2008 · Comments Off

All the media elite are in a tantrum because, ten years ago, then Senator McCain made a joke about Chelsea Clinton. Now that McCain and Chelsea’s mom are opponents in the Presidential race the media have resurrected the joke to show what an evil man McCain really is. According to the panty-wearing media it was [...]

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Tags: Election · Media · The Left · The Right · The US

The Savior Is Waiting: The Cult Of Obama

February 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Has anyone else noticed that this whole Obama-mania is starting to appear like a religion … or cult? Barak Obama, or He Who Walks On Water, often manufactures his appearances to be like church revival meetings. As is usually the case when Senator Obama speaks, people have been falling all over themselves to swoon over [...]

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Tags: Election · The Left · The US

Escaping Liberalism?

February 25th, 2008 · Comments Off

Hat tip to David Codrea at The War on Guns: The Heartland Institute put out an interesting article about how people are fleeing more repressive states. The Heartland Institute’s mission is to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems. Such solutions include parental choice in education, choice and personal responsibility in [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Employment · Government · Guns · Media · Money · Taxes · The Left · The Right · The US

Robbery Stopped By Armed Citizen

February 25th, 2008 · Comments Off

From the Houston Chronicle: Authorities have identified a man who was fatally shot while allegedly attempting to rob a man in a southeast Houston parking lot. Calvin Earl Taylor, 23, was shot several times by 36-year-old Keenan Procter, whom Taylor and Omari Duana Stephens, 24, allegedly attempted to rob in the 500 block of Gulfgate [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Guns · The US

Ruger LCP: 87,000 Sold In One Week

February 24th, 2008 · Comments Off

From The Down Range TV Forum: Hi folks, I just got off the phone with Ruger after checking on the response on the Ruger .380. Since the launch last Saturday, they have orders coming in in high numbers. Congrats to Ruger. It is so great to learn that the American industry is alive and well. [...]

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Tags: Guns

Map Of The State Amici In D.C. v. Heller

February 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off

From Concurring Opinions: Today thirty-one states, led by Texas, filed an amicus curiae brief in support of the respondent in the historic Second Amendment case of D.C. v. Heller. The Thirty-One States’ brief suggests that D.C.’s full-blown bans on constitutionally protected arms should receive strict scrutiny. 31 States Br. at 31-32. Rejecting the U.S. Solicitor [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Government · Guns · The US

2008 Presidential Second Amendment Opinions

February 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off

From CNN: Hillary Clinton Voted for a 10-year extension of the assault weapons ban. Voted for requiring extensive background checks at gun shows. Supports licensing and registration of handguns, mandatory trigger locks for handguns, holding adults responsible for their children’s use of guns, raising the youth handgun ban from age 18 to 21, limiting gun [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Election · Guns · The Left · The Right · The US

Public Service Announcement # 557,632

February 22nd, 2008 · Comments Off

Just because your tattoo has Chinese characters in it doesn’t make you spiritual or cool. It’s right above the crack of your butt. Exactly who are you expecting to read it? And it translates to “beef with broccoli”, you loser. That is all. Spread The Word:

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Tags: Strange/Funny

Illinois Politicians Told NIU Victims, “Shut Up And Die!”

February 21st, 2008 · Comments Off

From CRIME, GUNS, AND VIDEOTAPE: Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL–Illinois politicians gave Chicago’s Mayor Richard M. Daley what he wanted. They made it a felony crime for a law abiding citizen even those holding valid Firearm Owner Identification Cards to carry a handgun for simple self-protection. They’ve known for a long time that violent criminals [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Government · Guns · School

Middle School Issues Ban On Intentional Flatulence

February 21st, 2008 · Comments Off

From VillageSoup/Knox County Times: The Merriam Webster Dictionary definition for flatulence is brief: “flatus expelled through the anus.” And while it’s a natural bodily function, it seems some Camden-Rockport Middle School eighth-grade boys are taking it to new heights and making a game of seeing who can expel the loudest and grossest flatus. According to [...]

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Tags: School · Strange/Funny

Another Victim Of A “Gun Free” Zone, Vol. #32,051

February 20th, 2008 · Comments Off

From 11Alive.com: A student was shot in a cafeteria Monday [Feb. 11] during a high school gym class, and the suspected shooter was in custody, police said. The injured student, a male in the senior class, had at least two gunshot wounds and was believed to be in critical condition, police spokeswoman Monique Martin said. [...]

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Tags: Crime/Law · Gun Free Zone · School · The US