The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State …
I have finally graduated to B-list status. I did cheat a little, because I was at 99 and needed just a few more links to push me over the 100 mark in Technorati authority, and I knew the Ron Paul aggregators out there would be enough to do it:
Yay! SayUncle is pretty close to A-list status, which is 500 links. Maybe a few posts about Ron Paul can push him over the top too.
The Philadelphia Phillies are one loss away from being the most losing team in Baseball:
Currently, the Phillies have lost 9,999 games since their first game on May 1, 1883.
While no fan wants the team to suffer another loss, it would be fitting for the record 10,000th loss to fall on Friday the 13th as they take on the St. Louis Cardinals.
There’s even a website.
I’ve come across a piece of startling news. All along most of us have thought that Ron Paul was the one libertarian in Congress. Well, through an informant, I’ve come to learn the truth. Ron Paul is actually an alien from the planet Simtar Alpha 5, and is part of an alien conspiracy to take over the Earth and enslave mankind. The Simtarians have actually been infiltrating our society for quite some time. Who crashed the planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon?  It wasn’t George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, it was Ron Paul!The Simtarians needed to strike at the highest levels of our economy and military. The reason no one saw any explosive wiring in the World Trade Center, or never saw the demolition team, is because they were Simtarians!  They are masters of disguise. If you’re thinking this is far fetched, look carefully at the smoke debris from the tower collapse, you will see an image of Ron Paul.
The Iraq War wasn’t started on behalf of the zionist conspiracy. Everyone has it all wrong, the real conspiracy is the Ron Paul/Simtarian conspiracy. Saddam Hussein was also a Simtarian, but they quickly realized that their plans for world conquest were never going to be realized through him, so they sent Ron Paul. It was actually Ron Paul who convinced Bush and Cheney to attack Iraq so he could get Saddam out of the way and begin the plan anew. The plan was brilliant! He would get Saddam out of the way, secretly working with Rumsfeld and Wolfwitz (Simtarians both), while appearing the entire time to actually be against the war, maintaining his reputation as a stalwart anti-interventionist, and maintaining the minions of naive college students who keep his Simtarian ambitions for world conquest alive.
You can call me a loony conspiracy theorist, but you’ll all realize I was right when your kids are learning Simtarian in school and the body mask comes off Ron Paul and you all realize we’re ruled by a lizard.
Looks like Uncle is going through it. I’ve been thinking about it myself. It really irks me that my AR carbine won’t accept a standard M7 bayonet. The reason is because the extra inch and a half on the barrel. One solution would be to put an M4 upper on it, but that makes it an SBR. I have a few questions if anyone can answer them.
Through curious definition in Pennsylvania law, I can’t carry a loaded rifle in a car. It’s only a summary offense to do so, but it’s a $300 fine. Loaded in this case means ammo not in a separate compartment from the rifle. However, if it’s an SBR, my carry license applies. I wouldn’t car carry a rifle with a round in the chamber, but a loaded magazine near the rifle or inserted into the mag well is considered loaded in PA law.
My New Hampshire carry license expires at the end of the month.  I put it in my pocket as a reminder to renew it.  It’s one of those things, the license is superfluous now, since Pennsylvania and New Hampshire have reciprocity, and there’s no other state that New Hampshire gets me that Florida doesn’t already.  So there’s no real need to renew New Hampshire. But hey, it’s 20 bucks so why not.  Slip it into the pocket this morning so I would remember.
Except I went to get it, and it was gone.  I seem to have lost the damned thing. The even bigger problem is there’s a good chance it lost it at work. I’m really hoping I lost it on the lunch break, but I’m not really too sure where it happened, I just know that sometime between before lunch, and when I left work, I no longer could locate my New Hampshire license.
Big fear? Someone at work will find my license, which has my name, address, and vitals (but thank God not social #) on it, and will freak out and wonder why their IT manager has a “Pistol and Revolver License” from New Hampshire of all places. I guess now I’m not going to renew now though :)  Either way, you’d be surprised by how many people in this area, because we’re so close to the Garden State, and employ so many people from there (they call it the Garden State because what do you need for a good garden? Lots of fertilizer. Their politicians supply it in abundance.) think it’s just a license to possess rather than carry.
The last thing I want is to get a call into the HR droid’s office tomorrow and get questioned why I have a gun license.  I might be entirely too tempted to say “None of your fucking business.”, which could get interesting. Fortunatly, they’d be utterly screwed without me, but HR droids tend to not care too much about matters beyond keeping the company from being sued, or keeping the blame deflected off them if something is amiss.
I need to be more careful in the future.
The Tiahrt Amendment stays in place. Let the hewing and hawing from the anti-gun crowd begin. Seriously, with everything they put into getting that removed, they have to be feeling pretty browbeat right now. Gun control is a dying issue.  We shouldn’t get complacent, but we have them on the run folks.
I’m always wondering what New Jersey is going to stoop to next.  Apparently, it’s banning quick release bike tires for tires under a certain size. They are prone to accidents:
(AP) TRENTON, N.J. Certain bicycles with quick-release wheels couldn’t be sold in New Jersey under legislation approved Monday by the Assembly. The bikes allow wheels to be removed without tools so they can be quickly secured with a chain lock or transported in vehicles. Lawmakers said they are prone to accidents. Under the bill, it would be illegal to sell bicycles with quick-release wheels if the bicycle has a front wheel less than 20 inches in diameter. Assemblyman Paul Moriarty, a Democrat from Gloucester, said the bill mainly targets children’s bicycles.
How many times did we fall off our bikes when we were kids? Several for me, and I’m just fine.  Of course, others would say that explains a lot.
Tam reminded me of an old movie with Tom Selleck called Runaway. I didn’t think anyone else would remember this.  Heat seeking bullets might not be too far fetched though.  I mean, you won’t get bullets to turn corners and do aerial acrobatics, but minor corrections and some degree of guidance might be possible. Back during Vietnam, there was a type of gun introduced that, well, wasn’t even really a firearm.  It’s actually a miniature rocket gun called the Gyrojet.  It looks something like this:
 
These were tested in Vietnam, and although the projectiles hit harder than a .45 ACP at distance, they were ineffective at close ranges, and left a smoke trail back to the shooter. You can actually buy these, and there is still some ammunition left for it out there, though it’s outrageously expensive. If you want to see one up close, there are a few of them in the National Firearms Museum at NRA headquarters in Fairfax, Virginia.
If we used the same idea today, with modern technology, it might actually be possible to create a projectile for a weapon such as this with some form of guidance on it. I don’t know how practical it would be, but it sure would be pretty cool. We’re still a long ways off from deer cooking ballistics, though.
Judging from the reaction, everyone seems to like the new theme. It works better for most people, I think. I like it as well. I’ve made a few minor modifications to address some suggestions that hopefully are implemented to everyone’s satisfaction. Any further suggestions are, of course, welcome.
Apparently John McCain has found the reason his candidacy is sinking.  No, it’s not his blatant disregard for the First Amendment.  It’s the “gay sweaters”.
According to one insider, the knit-picking was the crescendo of a tirade by the Arizona senator, in which he blistered aides about the minutiae of the campaign. While many septuagenarians live in a perpetual state of sweater weather, McCain reportedly declared his frustration with being told to don the perceived homosexual outerwear in order to look younger and more approachable.
Riiight… it doesn’t have anything to do with pissing off Republican voters at all. They were willing to overlook his assault on the first amendment through campaign finance reform, and see past his support for the immigration bill, but the gay sweaters were just too much!
On the bright side, this at least opens the door for Ron Paul to blame his footwear when his campaign starts circling the bowl.