The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State …
PETA is telling Ben and Jerry’s ice cream they need to start making their product out of human milk.
“PETA’s request comes in the wake of news reports that a Swiss restaurant owner will begin purchasing breast milk from nursing mothers and substituting breast milk for 75 percent of the cow’s milk in the food he serves,” the statement says.
PETA officials say a move to human breast milk would lessen the suffering of dairy cows and their babies on factory farms and benefit human health.
Eeew.
The Jawa Report has an excellent bit of Amature Journalism that outlines how the Obama campaign is likely behind an astroturf campaign to promote sleazy and blatantly false claims about Sarah Palin.
Looks like Chicago politics to me. Why would we want to elect a president from there again?
Here’s the news release from NRA fact checking FactCheck.org’s original fact checking of NRA.
Dave Hardy talks about how newspapers used to report the news.
Yup, reporters were more respected then. I recall reading of the Civil War … at one point Grant needs to get a message to President Lincoln, so he just sends it with a reporter who is going to DC. He adds a verbal message. The reporter only reveals that years after the event; Grant told him that it was for Lincoln alone. After Shiloh, I think, Grant for the only time gets blind drunk and passes out. A reporter (with whom he was riding) throws his coat over him to hide his stars if anyone rides by, and only reveals the event long after the war is over. A reporter is within earshot of Grant giving orders to his commanders, and is chastised — you’re not supposed to listen in at this level! Nobody thought anything unusual of a reporter traveling with army headquarters, it’s just that there’s an unwritten rule you won’t actually listen in to Grant and Meade giving orders for the day. No need for interviews: you’re there when everything is happening, out riding and drinking with them, etc.
Read the whole thing. I suspect a lot of the trust afforded the military of journalists had to do with the fact that information was just much harder to disperse back then. It’s much much harder to control information these days. That probably tends to create less trust than you could instill in people when information was much more difficult to spread around.
I also think part of the problem isn’t so much bias, but people’s perception of the media as providing accurate and unbiased information. Blogs are certainly biased, but we don’t claim to be anything other than biased. I think journalism would be better off if papers were just up front with the biases in their reporting, and everyone knew about them.
Two Philadelphia Police officers were shot today. Fortunatly, the scumbag that did it is now taking a dirt nap, and won’t be shooting anyone else. One officer is in critical condition.
UPDATE: The officer in question, Patrick McDonald, has died. More from Wyatt.
National Review has more to say about FactCheck.org lack of facts. Apparently the Washington Post is joining in the deception as well. You can’t really blame them, they do have an election to win, after all.
UPDATE: CNN Joins in with the same nonsense.
UPDATE: The Washington Independent too.
UPDATE: Firearms and freedom sums it up:
I can sum up factcheck.org’s “check†of the NRA material in 5 words: “Obama says that’s not true!â€
Like I said, they have an election to win.
I found a nice way to calculate my readership from RSS feeds here. It nailed both my bloglines feeds, so I have good confidence it’s accurate. Apparently 310 or so people are reading via RSS. That’s 310 people who don’t give a crap whether my site is blue, red, green, black or brown. I want to thank them for reading, and for doing their part to make the blogosphere truly color blind.
UPDATE: Someone asks about readership number in total. It’s hard to say, but based on my understanding of the data google analytics gives, it’s somewhere along the lines of 25,000 readers, a reader being defined as someone who shows up at least one or twice a week. I should really do some research on how these numbers are calculated though, and get a number I feel more confident in.
Looks like some ward leaders in Northeast Philly aren’t sold on Obama yet. Philly has to be pretty solid to carry the state. This is a good sign for McCain.
Breda has been busy making sure we pass the Second Amendment traditions down the line. No doubt there are pant shitters out there who would be horrified by this.
David Codrea is looking for some help on looking for a petition for rulemaking on part of ATF which will amend the definition of the term “pistol” in the Code of Federal Regulations.
Looking through all the rulemaking proposals, I couldn’t find any which propose to modify 27 CFR § 478.11, which defines the handgun:
Any firearm which has a short stock and is designed to be held and fired by the use of a single hand
That’s not to say they aren’t planning on proposing a new rule, however. It might just be that hammer hasn’t fallen yet. Rulemaking is a process at the federal level for making changes to federal regulations. It’s the same process we’re currently going through with the Department of Interior on National Park carry. ATF can’t just change federal regulations willy nilly, but I wouldn’t count on the ATF not just altering their interpretation of existing rule when it comes to the pocket pistol. It’s not like we haven’t seen that happen before.