August 2007 – Page 22 – Shall Not Be Questioned

The Gun Blogger Rendezvous

So I do really want to go to the gun blogger rendevous, and as of now I’m planning on it. I will make my final decision shortly. The basic hangup is the same weekend, my high school marching band is having a reunion. Right now, there isn’t enough people from my years saying they are attending yet, but I’m keeping an eye on it. If it comes down to getting the old mallet section together, along with some more friends from those years, I might be tempted away from gun blogger goodness, as I might not ever have a chance to see these folks back together in one place ever again. But right now, it’s not looking like it’s headed in that direction.

Put me down as a strong tentative, but I will know more definitely by the end of the month.

More PSH

I think SayUncle has offically launched the term “Pants Shitting Hysterics” into the gun blogging vernacular, such that we now call it PSH for short.Â Â Well, Ahab has the latest example from a media type who apparently thinks that he can’t be trusted with firearms, and, possibly none of us should be either.

Bitter Headed Home

Bitter had to take a day off work to deal with all the insurance mess from the accident.Â Fortunately, it seems that everything has worked out OK.Â Â The at fault insurance company seems to be picking up the whole tab, as they should.Â She dropped off her car at a local body shop, and got herself a rental car, and is now on her way back to Virginia.

In the mail today, I got our new carry ammo.Â It’s been six months (you replace you carry ammo every six months, right?) since I got Bitter her first box of carry ammo that doesn’t suck, so I got us both new boxes of Corbon DPX 9mm.Â Prior to dating me, Bitter used whatever carry ammo someone gave her, which used to be Silver Bear 115gr HP.

I’m a big believer on not skimping on defense loads.Â Your life is worth something you know is going to work, and Corbon has a fantastic reputation for making a quality produc.Â DPX in particular does well in tests that involve firing through barriers.Â It’s expensive, but I think it’s hard to beat as a carry load.

Sir Elton the Luddite

Elton John things we have too much technology, and should shut down the internet for five years and see what happens.

Steve Cappelli Switching Sides?

From the Inquirer, it appears one of our stalwarts against gun control in the Pennsylvania General Assembly might be switching sides:

After a face-to-face meeting with Cappelli last month, Thomas said the lawmaker had agreed to become a spokesman for some of the Legislative Black Caucus’ gun-control bills, 33 of which are stalled in committee.

Specifically, Cappelli agreed to support House Bill 1746, which would allow the city to enact its own gun laws in consultation with the U.S. and state attorneys general, Thomas said.

Needless to say, this is not a welcome development.Â I have to drive through Philadelphia on my way to see Bitter. Â The city, given the chance, will ban concealed carry within city limits.Â I do not favor weakening our state’s preemption laws.Â The Pennsylvania Constitution applies in Philadelphia, as it does in every other city in Pennsylvania.Â If we let Philadelphia infringe on it, other cities are sure to demand the ability to do the same.Â That would create the patchwork of local regulations that preemption was created to avoid.

Miller Blog Comments

Joe’s didn’t get through.Â My guess is, it got nabbed by the spam filter for too many links.Â Other posts are getting through.Â I don’t think, due to the speed which comments appear, that there’s any moderating going on, but the slight delay would seem to indicate there’s some spam filtering happening.Â Â Most spam filters use number of links as a metric.

Your Tax Dollars at Work

Countertop tells the story of our goverment’s plan to give 55 billion dollars in subsidies to oil refiners, already swimming in lute due to our nations very tight refining capacity, in order to encourage them to keep blending ethanol into gasoline.

I think there are too many special interests that are bound to make any government energy policy a boondoggle. This is one area I think the markets should sort out. If we’re worried about global warming, there are better ways to deal with it than politicians mandating how we produce energy in this country. They are bound to get it wrong.

Anti-Gun Blog Woes

Jeff links to a pretty good NYT article on anti-gun blogger woes:

But, she said, liberal bloggers have expressed little interest in the subject.

Mr. Rasiej suggested she start blogging herself.

â€œPut up a blog and ask the blogging community how to make it part of the conversation,â€ he said. â€œThereâ€™s an opportunity for you to engage with bloggers by saying, â€˜I like what youâ€™re saying about health care but you arenâ€™t talking about the gun issue.â€™ Create a presence for yourself in this community. Write on Kos or MyDD.â€

The reason is because liberals don’t care about gun control anymore.Â More and more it’s becoming an issue of contention on the left, and more of a settled thing on the right. Â I think the lack of gun control blogs is a testament to that.

Bank Robbery a Hazardous Profession

Via Zendo Deb, it seems that Bank Robbery is a rather hazardous profession.Â Good!Â Let’s make sure it stays that way.

Boston Beer Coming to Pennsylvania

I have to congratulate the Boston Beer Company, makers of Sam Adams, for choosing to open a new brewery in Pennsylvania rather than Freetown, Massachusetts.

Bit of advice for Deval Patrick: When business is fleeing Massachusetts for Pennsylvania, man, you have a real problem.