Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Typical NJ...
Jeez, what's good about this?
College students must pay for and carry mandatory GPS cell phones.
For starters, you have a government school mandated requirement for a piece of technology that can spy on you, which also happens to be a monopoly, because the equipment is available from precisely one vendor. I mean, are they intentionally training the subject of NJ to be dependent and monitored 24/7/365, or what?
People: your cellphone isn't necessarily your friend. It is a remote corruptible device capable of locating your position and listening to your conversations without your knowledge.
It's for their own good, naturally.
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"What it does is allow students to have an extra pair or group of people watching over them when they're going from one location to another," Montclair Police Department Chief Paul Cell said.
The positive impact is already being felt across campus.
"It makes me feel comfortable," MSU freshman Ricky Bodtmann said. "I guess if people want to feel safe."
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It's also not a reasonable substitute for a good sidearm. Remember, when seconds count, the cops are minutes away.
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Monday, November 26, 2007
Least Objectionable Taxby EgregiousCharles
Given that some taxes are necessary, the one I like best is the capital gains tax. This is a tax not on your productivity like income tax, nor on trade like sales tax, but on lending (and thus, on borrowing and indebtedness). Capital gains or usury does not seem to me to be a necessary component of the free market, and indebtedness is the most powerful force I know of that to distort a free market beyond the ability of the 'invisible hand' to compensate (as in the Great Depression). It's also the mechanism for capitalism to produce enormous gaps between rich and poor, without correspondingly enormous gaps in productivity. Anyone else have thoughts?
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Saturday, November 24, 2007
A Dating Failure Accidentally Discovers How to Succeedby EgregiousCharles
This is a very personal guest post, so I'd like to make it very clear that this is EgregiousCharles not the GeekWithA.45 writing. EgregiousCharles is the one that was the dating failure.
Anyone who knew me in college would tell you I'm not the best guy to take dating advice from. Anyone who knew me in high school would tell you I'm the worst guy to take dating advice from. In high school I had a record of zero dates with a further zero even close to getting a date experiences. For a certain period in my life, however, most (more than 50%) of my unattached female acquaintances showed signs that they were interested in dating me, and one who wasn't observed that women were "eating out of the palm of my hand". And for only $9.95 you too can learn my secrets! Just kidding.
Since then I've thought a lot about what was going on there; it was very puzzling to me. It certainly wasn't some clever scheme of mine. In fact, it was when I was trying my best not to get involved with any women (and I'm lucky I was less than perfectly successful, that being when I met my extraordinary wife.) Basically what I stumbled across was the reason egotistical jerks are often popular with the opposite sex; and it doesn't require being an egotistical jerk. It's the same thing that made some really cool guys I knew popular.
My first wife had left me, and I learned a lot at divorcée support meetings about how you should stay away from dating for years after losing a spouse. (I can't remember the ratio now, something like one year for every four years you were married.) During that time you are extremely vulnerable to bad decisions; also if you can't live happily on your own, you can't live happily with any other human. I took this to heart, and I did learn to live happily single. And when I met women, I kept firmly in mind that I was NOT trying to pick them up. This backfired.
What I didn't understand was that the attitude I had used when I was trying to pick up women was the biggest turn-off. I tried to show what a great potential husband I'd be by treating any woman I found attractive like a princess; like a wife should be treated. I didn't realize that this is extremely creepy, especially when you've just met.
Treating a wife of many years like a princess is not creepy; after a few years of marriage it is very difficult but very welcome. At that point, you know her with her many human flaws. Treating your wife like a princess speaks about your love and your willingness to forgive.
If you've just met a woman, however, she knows you don't know her. She knows that all that fawning is only because she has the right parts. It indicates nothing about your ability to love in the long run, but everything about your present desperation. You are basically saying that you are a big loser who would be incredibly lucky if she were even to pay attention. And remember, she has no reason to doubt this conclusion.
Trying consciously to stay single, I was projecting an attitude that said I was fine on my own and didn't need the woman I was talking to, which is very attractive. Most of us know subconsciously that someone who is unhappy alone will be unhappy with us, too. (In a marriage this changes; then a spouse wants to feel needed. Even though you were happy before, a spouse wants to feel like they have changed your life for the better in an irreplaceable way.)
Another thing that made me attractive at that time was that I was freed of was shyness. I am a shy person, but I've come to realize it's not simply a character trait but a character flaw. It is social cowardice, and no kind of cowardice is attractive. Shyness isn't the opposite of conceit or braggadocio. Modesty is. Shyness is the opposite of courage. Since I had nothing to gain when talking to women, I lost my fear of losing; fearlessness is easily mistaken for courage. I was no longer crippled by fear of rejection or other social awkwardness.
And not being so afraid of social awkwardness, I became a lot more fun than I had been before.
The reason that many conceited jerks are popular is that their vices masquerade as virtues, similarly to the way that my resolution masqueraded as the same virtues. Being egotistical the jerks don't broadcast a message that says they are desperate losers (even if they really are). They aren't afraid of rejection because they don't care about the particular woman they're approaching, feeling there are more fish in the sea. And they don't fear attention which makes them more fun and exciting company.
The reason the cool guys were popular is that they in fact had the virtues.
Since men are supposed to make the approach in dating, all this applies more to men; but I have no doubt it applies to women in many ways as well.
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Posted By: EgregiousCharles
A Seasonal Reminder...
For my brethren and sistren in arms.
As the weather turns colder and the bulky coats and gloves come out of storage, remember to reality check your carry gear against your winter wardrobe.
Make sure your presentation and draw works with your various coat combinations, and also ensure that all your administrative and combat handling is unimpeded by your gloves.
This is a public service message, brought to you from the good folks @ FreedomHouse.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Regarding Rendell's Spanking At The Hands of The House Judiciary Committee...
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Friday, November 23, 2007
Grand Slam...
The Munchkin Wrangler belts another one out of the park.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Happy Thanksgiving!
"I have a wife to love, kids to raise, a job to do, and a Republic to save..."
-gwa.45
What am I thankful for?
I have an AWESOME wife, AMAZING kids, the most INTERESTING job, and in all of human history, the Republic in question is the most WORTHY of saving.
I also have a small pile of stout, honorable and worthwhile friends, the likes of which are not easy to come by.
I also have a couple hundred maybe a thousand Readers who come by, reminding me that we're not all alone in this.
It's all good.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Another Golden Moment From the Judiciary Committee...
I see that my co-pilot has shared a nice slice from Harrisburg, so I thought I'd offer one that appealled to me.
The format of the meeting did not allow for debate, lest the whole thing go on for days and weeks. Each member was alloted two minutes to make whatever comments they wanted, and before each bill was put up for a vote as to whether it would be released to the floor or not, members could ask questions pertaining to the nature of the bill.
Before the vote on whether PA would go back to the badly failed experiment of letting Philadelphia and other municipalities invent their own gun laws, one representative, (like Egregious Charles, I forget who) stepped up to the podium and asked an ingenious series of questions that torpedoed both that proposal, and the gun rationing proposal.
The interplay was between the rep, and the counsel who was reading and interpretting the bill for the committee. I re-create it here from memory, all quotes are reasonable approximations:
Representative: "Am I to understand that if this bill is enacted, and the referendum vote enables the municipality to make their own gun laws, any municipality could then make any gun law they want?"
Counsel: "Yes."
Representative: "You mean, for example, they could make a one gun a month law?"
Counsel: "Yes."
Representative: "But they wouldn't need to stop there, would they? They could make a one gun a year law?"
Counsel: "Yes."
Representative: "One gun every ten years?"
Counsel: "Yes."
Representative: "One gun per lifetime?"
Counsel: "Yes."
Representative: "Ew. Well, in that case, I'm voting NO."
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
HB29's sponsor demonstrated why it's a bad lawby EgregiousCharles
When I was telling my wife about the way the Judiciary Committee meeting went, she pointed out something very interesting.
HB29 requires reporting lost or stolen guns within 24 hours. Reporting a stolen gun is not intended to prevent crime in itself, it's intended to provide a way to prosecute straw purchasers who buy them, resell them and then say they were stolen if they are traced. A committee member (I don't remember which one) said he'd support it if it had some language preventing prosecution of gun owners who hadn't been informed of the law. He pointed out to the sponsor, Rep. Jewell Williams (D), that they'd discussed adding an amendment to this effect months before. Rep. Williams acknowledged this and they discussed how they had planned to require inclusion of a notice with every handgun sale. He moved to table the amendment to add the language he'd forgotten.
What my wife pointed out that I missed at first was this. Rep. Williams wants to make a gun owner who forgets to report a stolen gun within 24 hours a criminal; but he had had months to add language exempting people who were ignorant of the requirement, and only remembered when it was too late.
What fine or how much jail time do Rep. Williams and other supporters of this bill think that omission deserves?
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Posted By: EgregiousCharles
Squelching a False Meme...
There's several variations floating around:
"If Heller comes back with a strong positive ruling that the second amendment protects an individual right, the NRA will be put out of business."
and
"The NRA does not want SCOTUS to rule positively, because it will be out of business"
seem to be the main variants.
I left this comment over at Bob Krumm's blog, where he explored possible impact of the Heller decision on Elect-A-POTUS 2008:
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The question as to whether the 2nd protects an individual right of arms is only one of several essential questions that need to be answered to fully clarify the amendment.
In the event of a strong, unambiguous ruling that the right protected belongs to individuals, far from “being put out of business”, the NRA will be busy beavers for at least a decade in all the followup litigation that will explore the rest of the questions, which includes “what arms are protected?” (Miller says it’s military guns…go figure…) “What constitutes infringement?”, “What is the balance between infringement and the states interest in the power of the police?” and, perhaps most interestingly given the judicial construct of selectively incorporating the bill of rights with respect to the States, “Is the second enforceable against the states?”
No, the NRA will most assuredly NOT be put out of business, given the narrow way in which the supremes have framed one central question.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Game On!
Well, SCOTUS will take on Heller, and hear arguments on the carefully re-worded question that gets to the first of several essential point of 2A to be clarified in the coming years.
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"Whether the following provisions, D.C.
Code §§ 7-2502.02(a)(4), 22-4504(a), and 7-2507.02, violate the
Second Amendment rights of individuals who are not affiliated
with any state-regulated militia, but who wish to keep handguns
and other firearms for private use in their homes? "
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All signs are hopeful in this regard. Given that there is only one possible answer to the question that is consistent with America, the only real remaining question is whether the court will simply firmly establish the answer directly, or if not, then through what means it shall be established.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
A Day Victorious, A Day To Remember...
Well, gang, I'm pretty pooped, so I'll be pretty brief.
After 3 hours of sleep, I rolled out, met up w/ Dave Markowitz and Egregious Charles, and we 3 kings trucked out to Harrisburg to make personal appearances at the House Judiciary Committee meeting at which Fast Eddie planned to strongarm the legislature.
Along the way, we hooked up with THR's Bullfrog Ken, and a pile of other good folks who came of their own accord to see to it that Article I, Section 21 was not messed with.
Fast Eddie blabbed for about 45 minutes, pounded the desk, emoted heavily, yanked dubious numbers out of his ass, and played very fast and loose with the few facts he brought, stringing true things together in false ways. Any one of us could have written the speech, which included the classic highlights, "It's for the children", "If it saves just one life", "common sense gun control". There where the classic routine smears on License to Carry Firearms holders, (Rough quote: "From Jan to Oct 1995, before state pre-emption, we issued just 700 permits. After pre-emption came into effect, we were forced to issue 4000! And in the next year, murder jumped X%!", implying a nonexistent relationship between murders and LTCF holders)
After listening to him campaign for his 4 laws ("Local control, ie: no pre-emption, gun rationing, duty to report stolen guns, and enhanced sentences for shooting at cops), I can really see how, at first blush, the uninformed might fall for his recommendations.
After he'd finished his rant, he grabbed his notes and fled, and two beats after that, all the various police beings he'd brought with him for decoration fled as well.
Then, the committee votes were called to see if the bills he was campaigning for would be sent to the house floor for further action.
Long story short, that doesn't fly around here.
This. Is. Pennsylvania!
I really shouldn't have worried. Level headed Pennsylvanians possess the common sense not to enact desperately stupid and inneffective laws.
A little bit later in the program, I'll put some pictures up of Eddie's posterior and more mundane tourist snaps for y'all to see.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Monday, November 19, 2007
Public Service Announcement...
This PSA from the CCRKBA has more actionable content than previous, but similiar announcements from the NRA.
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URGENT ACTION: TELL PENNSYLVANIA HOUSE MEMBERS TO OPPOSE HB 22, HB 18 and HB 29
Anti-gun rights Governor Rendell plans to take an unprecedented step and personally attend Tuesday’s PA House Judiciary Committee meeting to attack gun owners and our constitutional freedoms by forcing bad legislation (HB 18, HB 22, and HB 29) out of committee. You need to act now!!!
Please contact members of the Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee today and keep it up through Tuesday morning.
ASK THE MEMBERS TO OPPOSE HB 22, HB 18 and HB 29.
The Committee Votes are scheduled Tuesday November 20 at 10:00 AM.
Phone numbers, fax numbers and email addresses are at the end of this message. PLEASE USE THEM.
At the request of anti-gun rights Governor Ed Rendell (D), the Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee has tentatively scheduled a meeting for Tuesday, November 20 at 10:00am, to vote on several anti-gun measures. The package of bills include a one-gun-a-month limit, a requirement for individuals to report lost or stolen firearms or be criminally charged, and legislation that would overturn Pennsylvania’s current preemption law that stops local cities from passing new anti gun rights laws.
House Bill 18, sponsored by anti-gun rights State Representative Dwight Evans (D-Philadelphia), would further provide for limitations on the regulation of firearms and ammunition by local municipalities. State preemption regulating firearms was enacted by the legislature to avoid the possibility of thousands of separate anti-firearm laws across the Commonwealth. Without preemption there would be a myriad of local firearms laws making compliance impossible for law abiding gun owners. In addition, this proposed legislation may also be in conflict with Article 1, Section 21 of the Constitution of Pennsylvania which states "The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned."
House Bill 22, "one-gun-a-month" legislation, sponsored by anti-gun rights State Representative John Myers (D-Philadelphia), will prohibit law-abiding citizens from purchasing more than one handgun at a time, and impose a 30-day waiting period between single handgun purchases.
House Bill 29, "Lost or Stolen Firearms” legislation, sponsored by anti-gun rights State Representative Jewell Williams (D-Philadelphia), would make it a crime to fail to report the loss or theft of a firearm to police within 24 hours of discovering the firearm missing. This proposal would criminalize victims of crime and is ineffective.
The following organizations are on record as opposing this legislation:
Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
Allegheny County Sportsmen's League (ACSL),
Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs (PFSC),
Pennsylvania Sportsmen's Association (PSA),
National Rifle Association (NRA),
Gun Owners of America (GOA),
Second Amendment Sisters (SAS),
Pennsylvania Rifle and Pistol Association (PR&PA),
Pennsylvania Gun Collectors Association (PGCA)
Lehigh Valley Firearms Coalition,
Philadelphia Federation of Sportsmen's Club,
Pennsylvania Gun Owners Association (PGOA)
Unified Sportsmen of Pennsylvania (Unified)
National Association of Firearms Retailers (NAFR),
Pennsylvania State Fish & Game Protective Association,
The Pink Pistols
OpenCarry.org
Pennsylvania Firearm Owners Association (PAFOA)
National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSA)
Western Pennsylvania 30 Caliber League, Inc
Firearms Owners Against Crime (FOAC) the largest gun owners Political Action Committee (PAC) in Pennsylvania will record any support for any of this legislation, now or in the future, as an anti-gun vote.
It is imperative that you contact the following members of the House Judiciary Committee TODAY through Tuesday to strongly encourage them to OPPOSE this package of anti-gun rights bills! PLEASE focus your efforts on the Committee Leaders and then the ‘Uncommitted Group’ and then the listed ‘Pro-2nd Amendment’ group.
Representatives listed below are Committee Leadership
State Representative Thomas R. Caltagirone (D-127), Majority Chairman
106 Irvis Office Building
PO Box 202127
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2127
(717) 787-3525
Fax: (717) 772-5401
tcaltagi@pahouse.net
State Representative Ron Marsico (R-105), Minority Chairman
218 Ryan Office Building
PO Box 202105
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2105
(717) 783-2014
Fax: (717) 705-2010
rmarsico@pahousegop.com
State Representative Daylin Leach (D-149), Secretary
109A East Wing
PO Box 202149
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2149
(717) 783-9114
Fax: (717) 787-0861
dleach@pahouse.net
Representatives listed below are Pro 2nd Amendment
State Representative Deberah Kula (D-52)
104A East Wing
PO Box 202052
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2052
(717) 772-1858
Fax: (717) 780-4784
dkula@pahouse.net
State Representative Joseph A. Petrarca (D-55)
220 Irvis Office Building
PO Box 202055
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2055
(717) 787-5142
Fax: (717) 705-2014
jpetrarc@pahouse.net
State Representative Jesse White (D-46)
102B East Wing
PO Box 202046
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2046
(717) 783-6437
jwhite@pahouse.net
State Representative Tom C. Creighton (R-37)
400 Irvis Office Building
PO Box 202037
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2037
(717) 772-5290
Fax: (717) 783-1904
tcreight@pahousegop.com
State Representative Craig A. Dally (R-138)
211 Ryan Office Building
PO Box 202138
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2138
(717) 783-8573
Fax: (717) 705-1849
cdally@pahousegop.com
State Representative John R. Evans (R-5)
B12 Main Capitol Building
PO Box 202005
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2005
(717) 772-9940
Fax: (717) 772-7099
jevans@pahousegop.com
State Representative Will Gabig (R-199)
410 Irvis Office Building
PO Box 202199
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2199
(717) 772-2280
Fax: (717) 705-2012
wgabig@pahousegop.com
State Representative Glen R. Grell (R-87)
404 Irvis Office Building
PO Box 202087
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2087
(717) 783-2063
Fax: (717) 772-8418
ggrell@pahousegop.com
State Representative Kate Harper (R-61)
149A East Wing
PO Box 202061
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2061
(717) 787-2801
Fax: (717) 787-2022
kharper@pahousegop.com
State Representative Beverly Mackereth (R-196)
7 East Wing
PO Box 202196
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2196
(717) 783-2655
Fax: (717) 772-9869
bmackere@pahousegop.com
State Representative Todd Rock (R-90)
162A East Wing
PO Box 202090
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2090
(717) 783-5218
Fax: (717) 260-6505
trock@pahousegop.com
State Representative Katie True (R-41)
143A East Wing
PO Box 202041
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2041
(717) 705-7161
Fax: (717) 705-1946
ktrue@pahousegop.com
State Representative Tina Pickett (R-110)
155A East Wing
PO Box 202110
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2110
(717) 783-8238
Fax: (717) 705-1949
tpickett@pahousegop.com
Representatives listed below are Uncommitted on these issues
State Representative John E. Pallone (D-54)
325 Irvis Office Building
PO Box 202054
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2054
(717) 783-1819
Fax: (717) 772-9984
jpallone@pahouse.net
State Representative Don Walko (D-20)
121 Irvis Office Building
PO Box 202020
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2020
(717) 787-5470
Fax: (717) 783-0407
dwalko@pahouse.net
State Representative Sean M. Ramaley (D-16)
323 Main Capitol Building
PO Box 202016
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2016
(717) 787-4444
sramaley@pahouse.net
State Representative Carl W. Mantz (R-187)
53B East Wing
PO Box 202187
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2187
(717) 787-3017
Fax: (717) 772-9869
cmantz@pahousegop.com
Representatives listed below are dedicated Anti 2nd Amendment Fanatics
State Representative Kathy Manderino (D-194)
125 East Wing
PO Box 202194
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2194
(717) 787-1254
Fax: (717) 780-4770
kmanderi@pahouse.net
State Representative Lisa Bennington (D-21)
6A East Wing
PO Box 202021
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2021
(717) 705-7011
Fax: (717) 780-4761
lbenning@pahouse.net
State Representative Dan Frankel (D-23)
217 Irvis Office Building
PO Box 202023
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2023
(717) 705-1875
Fax: (717) 705-2034
dfrankel@pahouse.net
State Representative Harold James (D-186)
317 Irvis Office Building
PO Box 202186
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2186
(717) 787-9477
Fax: (717) 787-7517
hjames@pahouse.net
State Representative Greg Vitali (D-16)
103B East Wing
PO Box 202166
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2166
(717) 787-7647
Fax: (717) 705-2089
gvitali@pahouse.net
State Representative Jewell Williams (D-197)
101 Irvis Office Building
PO Box 202197
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2197
(717) 772-2004
Fax: (717) 787-2284
jwilliam@pahouse.net
State Representative Bernie O'Neill (R-29)
B13 Main Capitol Building
PO Box 202029
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2029
(717) 705-7170
Fax: (717) 783-3278
boneill@pahousegop.com
State Representative Chelsa Wagner (D-22)
109 Irvis Office Building
PO Box 202022
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2022
(717) 783-1582
Fax: (717) 780-4755
cwagner@pahouse.net
State Representative Bryan R. Lentz (D-161)
106B East Wing
PO Box 202161
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2161
(717) 787-8574
Fax: (717) 780-4777
blentz@pahouse.net
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
National Ammo Day...
Was actually celebrated yesterday by taking a n00b to the range.
New Ammo purchased:
200 rds 9mm
100 rds .38 spc
200 rds .45 acp
500 rds .22 lr
New Ammo expended:
200 rds 9mm
100 rds .38 spc
100 rds .45 acp
100 rds .22 lr
I once said something to the effect that "Freedom's armory isn't on a military base. It's in closets and attics all over America."
For my part, Freedom's armory just got a 500 rd boost, and a new user.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
National Ammo Day...
Was actually celebrated yesterday by taking a n00b to the range.
New Ammo purchased:
200 rds 9mm
100 rds .38 spc
200 rds .45 acp
500 rds .22 lr
New Ammo expended:
200 rds 9mm
100 rds .38 spc
100 rds .45 acp
100 rds .22 lr
I once said something to the effect that "Freedom's armory isn't on a military base. It's in closets and attics all over America."
For my part, Freedom's armory just got a 500 rd boost, and a new user.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Saturday, November 17, 2007
The Bee Movie...and others...
We had a fun evening out with the kids. You know, typical family stuff: movie, dinner, a little shopping.
I was enjoying the Bee Movie alongside my kids, right up until about the halfway point, and then my face fell in disgust.
Biting my tongue, my increasingly loud thoughts where "$PRIMARYDIETY *bleep*ing $RESERVEDWORD. Do they have to pack a leftist ideological indoctrination payload into EVERY $OBSCENITY kids movie? I mean, do you think they can just let an opportunity to brainwash the youth a America pass? $SUBDIETY damn."
Some kid's movies are worse than others. "Pocohontas" was transparent and outright offensive. "Happy Feet" was drenched in green cool-aide. "The Ant Bully" was a parable in collectivism. I can think of a few recent kid's movies that didn't have memetic payload hidden in it, but way too many of them do.
On the way to the restaurant, post movie, gwa9 and I agreed: We're pulling the plug. We're not going to pay $9.50 a head to have our kids dipped in heavy doses of collectivoLeftist dogma.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
PA Emergency Action Alert: Harrisburg Turnout
THR is organizing presence in Harrisburg for the judiciary committee meeting on the 20th
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Gentlemen:
It would be helpful if a significant number of pro 2nd Amendment supporters are in attendance Tuesday morning. The Pennsylvania House Committee Votes on the anti-rights bills (HB 18, HB 22, and HB 29) are scheduled Tuesday November 20 at 10:00 AM.
This extraordinary Judiciary Committee meeting has been moved to a much larger room: Room 140 Main Capitol.
It appears that the Governator is planning to pack the larger room with those who seek to demonize gun owners. Therefore, it is ok if you openly ask your members to attend if possible.
It will help if numbers of sportsmen and sportswomen attend - preferably wearing business casual. The media will try to get pictures of people who are dressed inappropriately or who are acting inappropriately in an attempt to portray gun owners as undisciplined.
Guns and knives cannot be carried in the Capitol - it is also a courthouse.
The only gun lockers are in the lower rear entrance.
Please avoid inflammatory signs and do not be baited into making inflammatory statements.
Please meet at the steps of the Rotunda no later than 9:30 AM and obtain 2nd Amendment badges from Melody Zullinger, Executive Director of the Federation of Sportsmen Clubs. And PLEASE comply with all direction from Melody.
We will all be judged based upon how the participants dress and act.
It is important to keep these bills in committee.
Thank you,
Harry Sxxxxxxx
Legislative Committee, Chairman
Pennsylvania Sportsmen's Association
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I am taking the day off work to be there.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Friday, November 16, 2007
A Public Service Announcement...
Ed Rendell, professional politician and gun bigot, is usually restrained by the state legislature, despite his various efforts to pack various commitees. Nonetheless, here he is, at it again, by meeting with the judiciary committee, aka the "gun bill graveyard".
From our friends, the NRA:
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Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee
Poised to Attack Our Gun Rights!
Contact the Members of the House Judiciary Committee TODAY!
At the request of Governor Ed Rendell (D), the Pennsylvania House Judiciary Committee has tentatively scheduled a meeting for Tuesday, November 20 at 10:00am, to vote on several anti-gun measures. Governor Rendell will be testifying at this meeting urging members to pass some of the most onerous firearm restrictions in the state’s history, including a “one-gun-a-month” gun rationing scheme, a requirement that individuals report lost or stolen firearms, and overturning Pennsylvania’s preemption law.
House Bill 18, sponsored by State Representative Dwight Evans (D-Philadelphia), would permit local municipalities to place further restrictions on the sale, possession, carrying, and use of firearms by gutting Pennsylvania’s preemption law. State preemption regulating firearms was enacted by the legislature to avoid the possibility of thousands of separate firearm laws across the Commonwealth. Without preemption there would be countless local firearms laws, making compliance impossible for law-abiding gun owners. In addition, this proposed legislation may also be in conflict with Article 1, Section 21 of the Constitution of Pennsylvania which states "The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned."
House Bill 22, "one-gun-a-month" legislation, sponsored by State Representative John Myers (D-Philadelphia), will prohibit law-abiding citizens from purchasing more than one handgun at a time, and impose a 30-day waiting period between single handgun purchases.
House Bill 29, "Lost or Stolen Firearms” legislation, sponsored by State Representative Jewell Williams (D-Philadelphia), would make it a crime to fail to report the loss or theft of a firearm to police within 24 hours of discovering the firearm missing. This proposal would criminalize victims of crime and is ineffective.
It is imperative that you contact the members of the House Judiciary Committee TODAY to strongly encourage them to OPPOSE this package of anti-gun bills! Contact information for the House Judiciary Committee is listed below.
State Representative Thomas R. Caltagirone (D-127), Chairman
(717) 787-3525
tcaltagi@pahouse.net
State Representative Daylin Leach (D-149), Secretary
(717) 783-9114
dleach@pahouse.net
State Representative Kathy Manderino (D-194)
(717) 787-1254
kmanderi@pahouse.net
State Representative John E. Pallone (D-54)
(717) 783-1819
jpallone@pahouse.net
State Representative Don Walko (D-20)
(717) 787-5470
dwalko@pahouse.net
State Representative Ron Marsico (R-105), Chairman
(717) 783-2014
rmarsico@pahousegop.com
State Representative Lisa Bennington (D-21)
(717) 705-7011
lbennington@pahouse.net
State Representative Dan Frankel (D-23)
(717) 705-1875
dfrankel@pahouse.net
State Representative Harold James (D-186)
(717) 787-9477
hjames@pahouse.net
State Representative Deberah Kula (D-52)
(717) 772-1858
dkula@pahouse.net
State Representative Bryan R. Lentz (D-161)
(717) 787-8574
blentz@pahouse.net
State Representative Joseph A. Petrarca (D-55)
(717) 787-5142
petrarca@pahouse.net.
State Representative Sean M. Ramaley (D-16)
(717) 787-4444
Sramaley@pahouse.net
State Representative Greg Vitali (D-16)
(717) 787-7647
greg@gregvitali.com
State Representative Chelsa Wagner (D-22)
(717) 783-1582
repwagner@pahouse.net
State Representative Jesse White (D-46)
(717) 783-6437
jwhite@pahouse.net
State Representative Jewell Williams (D-197)
(717) 772-2004
jwilliam@pahouse.net
State Representative Tom C. Creighton (R-37)
(717) 772-5290
tcreight@pahousegop.com
State Representative Craig A. Dally (R-138)
(717) 783-8573
cdally@pahousegop.com
State Representative John R. Evans (R-5)
(717) 772-9940
jevans@pahousegop.com
State Representative Will Gabig (R-199)
(717) 772-2280
wgabig@pahousegop.com
State Representative Glen R. Grell (R-87)
(717) 783-2063
ggrell@pahousegop.com
State Representative Kate Harper (R-61)
(717) 787-2801
kharper@pahousegop.com
State Representative Beverly Mackereth (R-196)
(717) 783-2655
bmackere@pahousegop.com
State Representative Carl W. Mantz (R-187)
(717) 787-3017
cmantz@pahousegop.com
State Representative Bernie O'Neill (R-29)
(717) 705-7170
boneill@pahousegop.com
State Representative Tina Pickett (R-110)
(717) 783-8238
tpickett@pahousegop.com
State Representative Todd Rock (R-90)
(717) 783-5218
trock@pahousegop.com
State Representative Katie True (R-41)
(717) 705-7161
ktrue@pahousegop.com
Please continue to check your email and www.NRAILA.org for updates on these important firearm issues.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Some more random geekery, crossposted from elsewhere...
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I never did C++ but I did take a java programing class in college how in the world you not use string when writing code? In our most basic program it still had to have string in it.
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Because in C/C++, there's really no such formal native contept of "strings" per se.
There is, however, the convention that a null terminated array of char is perfectly usable for stringlike purposes.
From this notion came a bunch of std lib functions, which would do perfectly horrifying things to regions of memory that did not happen to contain null terminated arrays of characters intended for stringlike purposes.
Like Navy nuclear reactors which have no safety mechanisms, and which allow the operator to perform "career limiting operations", C presumes that if you wrote 10,000 bytes past the end of the array overwriting the code segment you're currently executing, well, you must have had a good reason for doing that.
You see, critics of C bemoan that unlike interpreted languages, C doesn't have any facility for compositing and executing code on the fly. This is, of course, baloney, but that's not evident except to people who understand that all code is carefully crafted sequences of numbers. ;)
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
On Credentials...
I have enough credentials to know not to take them too seriously.
They are double edged swords.
On their bright side, fair credentials are quick & dirty ways to distinguish who has shown someone else they've done a given set of homework from those who have not shown someone else their homework.
On their dark side, credentials distinguish the orthodox from the heretic, which is crucial in determining who who gets to play with the zippo, and who gets tied to the stake.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Monday, November 12, 2007
Endless NJ Follies...
Longtime Readers know that I fled the dark & fascist state of New Jersey. I packed up my family and possessions, sold my home, folded the tents of my business, and ran screaming like a girl.
It seems it was not a moment too soon:
NJ School Cameras Fed Live To Cops.
When I was in school, these scenarios were presented as speculative fiction portraying a dystopian future, an example of what life would be like once "they" attained power.
Well, there it is. Our kids are living our dystopian future, paid for by our tax dollars, and applauded by gutless cowards seeking to hide behind Nanny State's skirts.
Of course, never let it be said that NJ has a clue when it comes to security. A few years back, we had "I am a corrupt asshole hiding behind my homosexuality" governor Jim McGreevey giving his literal butt buddy the state's top counter terror job, a post for which he wasn't even vaguely qualified. Now, we've got the freaking bad guys sitting on the state's counter terror task force committee.
Smooth move, New Jersey.
The thing is, people are catching on: Poll Finds Many Hoping To Leave New Jersey Behind N.J. Residents Upset With High Property Tax And Cost Of Living
Hopefully, these people have noticed the 1:1 causative correlation between the policies that made the state such a hell hole, and the party in firm control of that state.
Collectivist Leftism: leaving death, devastation and heartache in its wake, wherever it goes.
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Posted By: geekWithA.45
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Win a gun for Project Valor ITby guest EgregiousCharles
The Anarchangel is having a contest for biggest donator to Project Valor IT, voice-enabled laptops for soldiers. It's an excellent cause and the prize is an FEG PA-63 pistol. The contest runs through Monday. Go make sure I don't win!
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Posted By: EgregiousCharles
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Partial Victory @ U of Delaware...
FIRE reports that University President Patrick Harker has called an immediate halt to the activities of their indoctrination program.
If you've got 3 braincells to rub together though, you'll notice that Harker's statement is a careful study in Orwellian doublespeak, which can be parsed to please either constituency.
The goals of the indoctrination are not repudiated. They are, in fact, affirmed. Come to think of it, the methods aren't exactly repudiated either.
We're simply offered some vague notion that "there are reasons for concern that the actual purpose is not being fulfilled." and that it's not feasible to comment without a broad review, leaving him an out to claim that the program was co-opted somehow.
Well, perhaps that is the case, and if it is, he'd best get on with the "broad review" he didn't exactly promise, and get to the bottom of it.
Someone or some group in that camp thinks intensive political and social indoctrination is an OK thing to do in America, and it would be the height of irresponsibility to let that person continue to run around loose, neither identified nor held accountable.
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