Friday, October 22, 2010

GRE Round Up for October 22

Here's the latest from my fellow GREs:

Dave Workman/Seattle:
Kurt Hofmann/St. Louis:
Also check out these other Liberty-oriented Examiners:

NRA-PVF changes GA candidate's grade and issues endorsement!

I have a happy outcome to yesterday's column about a pro-gun candidate for the Georgia State Senate who was given a failing grade by the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund. They have changed her grade to "AQ" (based on her questionnaire response, as she has not held office to be rated on), and gone one step further and endorsed her! [More]
This certainly warrants a second Gun Rights Examiner column today. Thanks to those of you who joined in. To those of you who did not, please use this example to consider the potential of doing simple requested actions if enough join in.

And with that: Share the link?

We're the Only Ones with Alternate Travel Plans Enough

Two U.S. air marshals who arrested the wife of a Brazilian judge on a flight to Rio de Janeiro -- and were themselves arrested and had their passports confiscated by Brazilian authorities -- fled the country using alternate travel documents rather than face what they believed to be trumped-up charges, sources said. [More]
It actually sounds like they were in the right, and we know how corrupt and unjust foreign laws are.

So can "We the People" also skip out, and trust our government to take care of things for us? As opposed to, you know, upholding the foreign conviction to strip us forever of a right their only instruction on is not to infringe...?

Ha!

As I've noted before:
The unspoken danger, aside from the outrageousness of this intentional legal paradox, is the practical effect that foreign law trumps the Bill of Rights in the eyes of the court. Spreading the gospel in China is also equivalent to a felony, or violating Sharia "law" in Saudi Arabia...
It's the law!

Unless, you're an "Only One," apparently...


[Via William T]

Hear Ye!

McDonald on audio. Oral argument and opinion announcement. [Listen]

[Via Alan R]

We're the Fauxnly Ones...

3 men posing as ATF agents break into home, kill resident [More]
But your honor, I guess I've read so many news accounts about the "Fauxnly Ones" that I reacted instinctively in self-defense when they attacked me...how was I supposed to know, when anyone can get a badge--and it's not exactly like they were behaving any differently...

[Via William T]

Dropping Out

Why? [Read]

It Can't Happen Here

Remember this provincial bigot?

The one who's big rebuttal was:
How many incidences of violence where someone needed a gun to protect themselves in the 38 years of the fair have there been? Zero!

Well, lookee here:
Man in Jets jersey robs Manhattan Beach bank
Apparently a note and a green shirt is all it takes when you're disarmed and conditioned to give 'em what they want (hoping against hope what they want isn't you).

And look where it happened:


The yellow is the bank.  The purple is the area of the fair from the initial link (and, incidentally, the place where I first conceived the "Authorized Journalist" concept). The red is my old condo.

Many's the time I hitched feral then-toddlers Uday and Qusay to the stroller and made them haul loads of bricks up that hill...

Hey, I'll bet Sharon Tate thought she lived in a pretty safe neighborhood, too. I'll bet she and her friends had never seen anything like that there before...

All it takes is once.

"Kick Out the Uncle Tom Puppets"

Aaron Zelman takes the gloves off. [Read]

A Mugged Liberal

I'm afraid of guns. When you get right down to it, I abhor them. [Read]

They make her sick to her stomach...nauseated...

She still doesn't get it. Anybody trumpeting this as a turnaround victory, all I can say is don't trust this nitwit. She's still an idiot.  I'll bet she's against "assault weapons."

I found this telling:
I used to date a guy who owned a handgun and regularly trekked into the woods with his friends to shoot. I made him move the small gun safe from beneath the bed to another room before I'd agree to stay overnight.

And he didn't tell her to get lost?

Hopefully, his recollection of the "relationship" is more like Advance Sergeant Carl Harris'.

Rent

A single, 31-year-old woman in Michigan who posted a note on her church bulletin board seeking a "Christian roommate" to share her residence has been cited by the state for violating the Fair Housing Act by discriminating against those of other faiths.[More]
I guess all those men seeking men ads are illegal now?

I have an attic I've just decided to rent. I will only give it to an under-20 black Catholic Swedish hermaphrodite who speaks fluent Mandarin and has 20/14 vision.  If you don't fit into that category, you need to pay me more, based on a sliding scale of my prejudices. If I missed any opportunities to discriminate, let me know.

Anybody who wants to enforce an action against me now, bring it on.

I have a feeling it's going to take stupid bureaucrats who pushed the wrong person too far swinging from lampposts over smoldering ruins to convince these petty dictators to back off.  I hope they don't expect me with my guns to get involved and stop it.

"Alter and Abolish." You Know, Majority Rule!

But, he said, "Do I see our government today anywhere close to that point? No, I don't." [More]
Really? Not even a little close?

Remember Mrs. O'Leary's Cow?

Mr. O'Leary introduces us to his bull... [Read]

Don't step in it.

Is that a chess piece? Ew-w-w-w...

I'm not picking it out of there.

Why has Phoenix banned gun safety ads?

This is arbitrary tyranny.  It is nothing less than un-American, and Mariscal, who like all public officials took an oath of office attesting his fidelity to the Constitution, ought to be ashamed of himself. [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner column shows how even banning guns will not be enough.  The very idea must be eradicated from the public consciousness. 

That similar tactics (when perpetrated with no personal costs) have historically resulted in eradicating more than the public's consciousness seems not to have been considered here. So consider it.

Be a "force multiplier"?  Share the link?

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