They always love to rub their good weather in the rest of our faces ;) Today in Roanoke, where I’m spending the holiday season, it’s bright and sunny, and 54 degrees. Compared to home, it’s spring!
Month: December 2007
Selective Outrage About Incandecent Bulbs
I think Justin has a pretty good explanation for why we’re selectively angry about Congress banning our light bulbs.
Small Arms Sales Figures
Apparently up 10% this year. I wouldn’t be surprised, though, to find that a lot of this increase is due to higher ammunition prices. I’m really curious how the companies that manufacture reloading gear and supplies are doing.
NRA Gets Involved in Dem Primary
Well, it’s not an endorsement, but the NRA appears to be preparing to do a mailing for Bill Richardson. Good! Richardson is the only Democrat in this race who has done good things for us. I doubt this will push him over the top, but I think Richardson has, so far, been running a brilliant campaign for Vice President.
Zendo Deb Responds to Bryan
Zendo Deb isn’t happy with Bryan Miller putting words and sentiments into her mouth.
Getting Hunters on Board
Conservative UAW guy is displaying a fantastic poster by Oleg Volk that I think is one of the best ways I’ve seen to help explain to hunters the importance of this fight.  I hadn’t seen this one before.
Girly Men
This is hilarious:
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Apparently this is a reality TV show called “Gay Army“. If I were gay, I’d be offended. Maybe European gay folks are a little more wimpy than the gay guys I know.
“Facts are Stubborn Things”
Yes, Mitt, they are.
As you know, Mitt got caught lying about being a “lifelong hunter” and winning the NRA’s endorsement. However, for those of you who are just following the gun news, there are a few new nuggets to add to his collection of stories that the NYT says have showed his talent for being “prone to exaggeration.” Well, when he made his big religion speech, he claimed that he saw his father march with Martin Luther King. A little research proves it never happened, and well, you just have to watch how he pulls a Clinton trick out from his ass.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up60e-ygalU[/youtube]
The NYT even caught him in Iowa, and he now blames journalists for their ignorant reporting on his claims on getting tough on drugs.
On Thursday, for instance, at a campaign stop in Indianola, he ran into trouble when talking about his record on illegal drugs while governor of Massachusetts. Mr. Romney had been airing ads in Iowa attacking his rival, Mike Huckabee, for his record on clemencies while governor of Arkansas and for reducing penalties for methamphetamine-related crimes.
“I’m very proud of the fact that we, my state, when I was governor, we made it tougher for people with meth labs,†he said, echoing his commercial in which he claimed that he “got tough on drugs like meth†in the governor’s office.
“We cracked down on crime and on meth in particular,†Mr. Romney added. “It’s a very important topic. I want to make sure we do everything we can to keep our kids off of this terrible, pernicious, captivating drug.†…
Mr. Romney’s office proposed legislation that would have toughened penalties on those in possession of the drug and chemicals to manufacture it, but the bill stalled in the state legislature.
After The New York Times pointed out Mr. Romney’s misstatement in a posting on its politics blog, he made sure to correct himself before taking questions from reporters at his next campaign stop here.
“If I said this morning that we ‘got tough’ on methamphetamines, I proposed we get tough on methamphetamine and I’ve corrected that right here for all of you,†he said. “You don’t need to make any error of reporting that somehow Governor Romney actually got it done.â€
You see, if you interpreted his statement that “when I was governor, we made it tougher for people with meth labs” to mean anything other than “when I was governor, we thought about making it tougher for people with meth labs,” then Mitt wants you to know that it’s an error in your judgment.
You can see that if Romney is elected, we get to go back to the good old days of debating what the word “is” means, along with a very public debate on reasonable interpretations of common phrases. You’ll sleep better at night knowing that your tax dollars are funding some recent college grad to look through every copy of every dictionary in every language to find obscure interpretations of words like “saw” and “endorsement.” Who doesn’t look forward to those important debates?
In the Name of Reasoned Discourse
Thirdpower gets his comment deleted over at Bryan’s blog because it was an attack on a CeaseFire PA board member that he says isn’t germane to his post.
Well, folks, it’s Bryan’s sandbox, so you play by his rules. But I note it’s always the anti-gunners that like to delete comments. I won’t generally do that here, except for threats or truly vile statements. I can count on one hand the number of comments I’ve deleted. You’ll note I didn’t delete any of Jadegold’s musings, even when he attacked NRA leaders like Harlan Carter or Jeff Cooper. Anyone is free to disagree with me, or make outlandish accusations, but on blogs, we ferret out the truth. The anti-gunners ferret out the comments because the truth isn’t, and has never been on their side.
The Notorious Triangle of Death
Looks like the American Red Cross is the most recognized organization, but look at this:
Consumer Reports was the next most-familiar organization, followed by the AARP and then the National Rifle Association.
Take that Brady Campaign!
The most-powerful group was the labor union AFL-CIO, netting 84 percent, narrowly topping the National Rifle Association, which garnered 83 percent of respondents who said they believed the group had at least a fair amount power.
That’s sure to make Peter Hamm choke on his Christmas ham.