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Category: Blogs
Let’s Start a Pool
How long before Reasoned DiscourseTM commences? I’ll give it a few weeks.
UPDATE: In the comments, it would appear that Reasoned Discourse has already commenced, as comments there would appear to be moderated. That makes you wonder about this:
I came because of anger. But, I have stayed because of faith. A faith that tells me that love is stronger than hate. A faith in our cause that gives substance to our hopes for a safer society and makes us certain of realities we cannot see.
I would think someone that has faith in their cause wouldn’t be afraid of honest debate. You also have to love the implication that they are the side of love, and we are the side of hate.
Quote of the Day
From Rachel Lucas who is having difficulty with the love of her life heading off to active duty:
I hereby declare March 23 as Punch A Hippie In The Nuts Day. All you have to do to celebrate it is find a hippie, ask him how he feels about the military, and if he says anything other than “I love it because those guys make it possible for me to be a worthless hippieâ€, punch him right in the nuts.
I’ll get on board with that!
Interview With Me!
Ace has been interviewing gun bloggers. My interview is up here.
Congratulations Thirdpower
More Funny
I have no idea who it is that’s doing this VPC blog, but they need to keep it up, and come to the Second Amendment Blog Bash, so I can buy them a beer. It’s top notch satire.
On Banning Readers
I am sorry for the light posting today. I honestly just don’t have it in me today. Some people don’t seem to be happy that I banned a reader. I’m kind of curious what people think:
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I do promise I’ll tire of my new polling plugin eventually.
Unpleasantness
I don’t take banning users lightly, and despite repeated statements of disrespect from this particular commenter, I actually still feel bad about doing this. I have always wanted this blog to be open to all points of view, even ones that I find personally distasteful. I have accepted many points of view here, and have been very tolerant to people even taking an unfavorable view of me and the things I say. But there are lines that should not be crossed, and this crosses it:
Fuck you people. I get all this heartburn because I asked how NRA is treating someone to a concert that is sponsored by Gander Mountain?
No wonder you are from Waurika, that is where Comanche used to send all our mentally disabled, Bitch.
I was asking a serious question, but you assholes are so goddamned fragile you can’t answer it because you think it is some kind of attack.
Hell! It may have been, but if it was, I wasn’t aware of it. I really wanted to know about the mechanics of it.
Ok, you have provided me with an answer to a question that has been niggling at me for a while now. The answer to the question is: no! you are not small l libertarians, nor are you second amendment advocates, nor are you civil rights advocates, nor are you political conservatives (forget it, none of you are smart enough to know what that is), nor are you interested in procuring or reacquiring rights that have been lost or truncated over the years. You are simply people who like to feel important at no cost and have decided the best way to do that is to ride popular or semipopular coattails that have a chance of ascending to acceptance. You are merely cheerleaders with no loyalty to any team as long as you are paid. In your cases the pay is acceptance of a larger group .
Did I mention fuck you?
Oh, by the way, I will be in Comanche, Ok 0ver Easter. Bring your boyfriend, we’ll talk.
Comment by straightarrow on February 25th, 2008
I’ve been very tolerant of straightarrow up until that comment, despite his generally nasty disposition. I draw the line at attacking my girlfriend and making veiled threats against the host. I did not warn him. I will not lecture him like he is some kind of misbehaving school child, I just took what I thought was appropriate action. Since straightarrow is so insistent that I am nothing but a mouthpiece for the NRA, from now on, anytime he visits my blog, it will redirect him directly to NRA. No need for him to receive his propiganda filtered through this place, when he can get it right from the source.
UPDATE: I’ve determined through logs that I have one, possibly two other readers on the same IP subnet as straightarrow. Since these readers have never commented, I will deal with this issue differently, and will disable the redirect.
Gun Blogger Rendezvous III
It’s been scheduled. October 9th through the 12th. I have every intention to re-attend this year, but won’t know for sure until later in the year. I work for a biotech that’s been running off vulture capital for the past seven years, so you never know when I might find myself unemployed. Makes long term planning a bear, but I should be able to make it. I hope you can too.
EBR Pics
If Countertop keeps showing off pictures of his new EBR, Bitter is going to make me get her one. I’m more of an EBC person myself.