2007 – Page 105 – Shall Not Be Questioned

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.

Don’t Assume

In regards to Bryan Miller’s new blog, one of my readers, tkdkerry, comments:

Well, he finally changed the â€œboysâ€ to â€œguysâ€ and â€œfellasâ€.

My female girlfriend, who has her Virginia Concealed Handgun License, and who carries a SIG239, might take offense to gun rights advocates being referred to as “boys”, “guys” or “fellas”. Don’t forget about Tam, Zendo Deb, Denise, Squeaky Wheel, or Kit.

Careful about offending the feminist gun nut crowd there Bryan :)

Crimes of Violence

Joseph gets two links today.Â Â This one for a quote from a US Attorney, who no doubt is eager to tout his prosecution of a whacky militia type, but done under the absurdities that are the National Firearms Act:

The mere possession of an AR 15 semiautomatic rifle with a barrel less than 16 inches is a crime of violence, he said.

So does that presume there’s nothing violent about having a 16 inch AR-15? Â Â Get that folks? Â Have a 14.5 inch M4 upper, violent nut case, 16 inch upper, you’re a OK.Â Â Sounds a lot like the Canadian nonsense about pistol barrel lengths I linked to earlier. Â See, we have our own nonsense too.