“What I did after police killed my son.” The food insecurity lie. 12 graphs showing why people get fat. Oh, Canada. What you’ve reduced your people to. Airhorns? Seriously? Airhorns against thug barbarians? (H/T L.A.) Couple of weeks ago I linked to Ryochiji’s farewell to his Serenity Valley cabin as he prepared it as best he could against approaching fires. Good news; his cabin survived. Barely, but it made it. Yep, that would be about par for the course for U.S. surveillance priorities. Um … I’m really not sure why various news media keep presenting this as amusing. I know…
Category: Guns and Gun Rights
Of course.
The Second Amendment Foundation just announced on its F*c*b**k page that it has subsumed the once-great Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership. (Thank you, digidavid, for reporting the news.) Carl-Bear has the first take. And a sadly true take it is. I knew a couple of days ago that the JPFO board was in the process of signing and that it was just a matter of sending paperwork to SAF’s lawyers. That shoe has now dropped. I’ll have more to say later, but for now thank you for everything you did to try to prevent this. Thank you for…
Tam? Tam, where have you gone? Your blog was one of the stones on which the gunblogosphere was built. Doctors getting fed up with their profession. No surprise. Not really news. But an interesting perspective from a physician. “Who owns your children?” Bayou Renaissance Man asks after last week’s case of a family subjected to an international manhunt for disagreeing with their son’s doctors. What do you know about MaidSafe? Is this the future of communications privacy? (H/T PB in comments) Teacher arrested over school shootings — that he wrote about in novels. David Codrea notes that we don’t know…
Well, did you enjoy your Labor Day? Or your Labour Day, for you in furrin parts who have enough leisure time to sit around adding extra letters to your holidays.
Did you spend sufficient time honoring (or is that honouring?) your public-sector overlords?
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I laboured all weekend — drywalling until I got worn out, then going outside and painting the house to relax. I got covered in powdery gypsum, then in latex paint, then in that gooey white joint compound that always seems to drop in fat, heavy, gelatinous glops no matter how careful you are with it. I cussed a lot and enjoyed every minute of it.
Yesterday morning we were at 400-some signatures (toward a 500 goal) on our petition to keep JPFO from falling into SAF’s clutches. Thanks to old friend Elias Alias and the power of Oath Keepers, we are at 1,016 early this morning as I write this! Great-soul Elias and the members of the Oath Keepers email list did this on their own. Amazing thing. Since I’m persona non grata with the JPFO board, maybe a few of you would like to send them the petition link. Their email addresses are in the original post about the SAF deal. Update on the…
This has been the most terrible week I’ve had in many a year. The last two weeks, really, as I first kept the JPFO secret I thought should be revealed, then went ahead and revealed it.
All week I’ve felt as if every time I turn on my computer something with huge claws and teeth is going to lunge out of the Internet and eat me.
And here all this time everybody thought Carl Bussjaeger was a principled radical. But here he is, suggesting a compromise on gun rights! Except … well, it’s a compromise that makes a lot of sense. —– And a gentle suggestion for concerned JPFO members If you’re a JPFO member and you really, really object to the SAF merger you might start independently exploring your options. Emails have been good. Petition signatures, too. But so far there’s no sign any of that is going to prevent the travesty. Smart people are trying. But ruthless people with lawyers on the payroll have…
This is a screenshot of the top of Gunbloggers.com this morning. Gunbloggers is a great, useful site and I’m pleased to steal from it often. 🙂 But the reason this is remarkable is that it’s normally only a rolling aggregation of blog posts. I’ve never, ever seen crucial news bannered like that on Gunbloggers before. I don’t know who owns or operates Gunbloggers (and a whois search was unrevealing) and that’s embarrassing just now. But thank you! Bannering that link was a fantastic thing for you to do. —– What’s developing here — unsurprisingly, I suppose, but still revealingly —…
Though I officially quit JPFO on Thursday, I promised one last article. (A freebie; no more JPFO paychecks for me.) It went online today: Aaron Zelman: In praise of an uncompromising bastard. ‘Scuse the French. There will never be another like him and the gun-rights movement is poorer for it. —– Sign the petition to keep sellouts and compromisers from looting Aaron’s life work!
Friend reminded me of this article, which must have been one of the last things Aaron ever wrote. Does this sound like SAF thinking to you? Me, neither. This is pure Aaron, whose spirit will never be confined by Gottliebian wishy-washiness. Gottlieb has now stated that JPFO will be operated as an independent. However, he also cited KABA as an example of his fabulous preservation of “independence.” And we all know how well that went. Independence? Can Gottlieb spell I-R-O-N-Y? Read Aaron’s article. Do you see Gottlieb even tolerating such words? Wonder, too, what’s going to happen to the invaluable…