Another excellent rebuke of Barack Obama’s stance on the second amendment.
Year: 2008
Chicks with Guns
Over at GunPundit, the high school girl’s rifle team from Central High in Washington DC, circa 1922. I’d be doubtful any of these ladies are still alive today. He asks:
What’s with resting the rifle on the left-hand fingers? Just to pose for the photo? Or is/was that an accepted shooting stance?
I’ve seen people shoot like that. To get the elbow down onto the hip if you have a long torso. One of our best female indoor silhouette shooters shoots like that. Any stance is valid if you can hit with it, I’d say. I find I have to extend my fingers in such a manner to get my elbow on the hip bone, but I find it to be too unstable with fingers extended.
More on Michael “Snuffy” Pfleger
Attacking Obama on Gun Rights
Jacob has the latest attack ad against Obama’s position on guns.
Cancer and Cell Phones
New York Times need to learn that neurosurgeons are not cancer experts or cell phone experts:
Last week, three prominent neurosurgeons told the CNN interviewer Larry King that they did not hold cellphones next to their ears. “I think the safe practice,†said Dr. Keith Black, a surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, “is to use an earpiece so you keep the microwave antenna away from your brain.â€
These are people that operate on brains. They are not experts on things that cause cancer. Their opinions should carry little more weight than any reasonably educated person you pull off the street, which is to say very little.  They do get this right:
Cellphones emit non-ionizing radiation, waves of energy that are too weak to break chemical bonds or to set off the DNA damage known to cause cancer. There is no known biological mechanism to explain how non-ionizing radiation might lead to cancer.
That is pretty much it, end of story. Basically, cell phones use a weak microwave transceivers to get signals to and from a cell tower. If microwaves cause cancer, we’re doomed, because they are all around us, all the time. Cell phone transmit microwaves at fractions of a watt. A typical civilian marine radar transmits microwaves at 4000 watts of power. Yet you don’t typically hear concerns about fishermen getting cancer from the boat’s radar unit, or people living near airports getting their brains cooked by the tower’s radar dish, which is even more powerful.
Hat tip to Instapundit
Quote of the Day
From Michelle Obama:
“The way this campaign has been run is the way we need to be forever. Don’t trust bloggers or someone else’s opinion, because people lie.”
Well, I definitely don’t trust you, Michelle. You want my pie.
Massachusetts Health Care
Get it, or we’ll fine you. To me, the worst part of this whole fiasco is this type of system is likely to pass in other states. All thanks to that conservative of conservatives, Mitt Romney.
Felons for Gun Control
David has more to say about a group that popped up in a media article a few weeks ago.
More on NRA Voting Patterns
Some interesting statistics on how NRA members vote. I hope blog readers who are eligible to vote in NRA elections do so. It’s really the only way to make sure your views are represented in Fairfax. Bitter thinks participation is low because of the lack of star power. I actually don’t tend to vote for the celebrities because they don’t usually need any help getting votes. I tend to pick about 6 or so candidates, and leave it at that. Here’s a poll to answer some questions I’m curious about:
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On High Ammo Prices in Alaska
An article from an Ancorage newspaper on high ammo prices:
Just ask members of the Alaska Machine Gun Association, who practically breathe bullets.
“That same ammo that we bought for, say, 6 cents a round three years ago is now 35 cents a round,” said Dave Arieno, president of the club.
Arieno says a United Nations effort to limit the sale of surplus military ammunition, combined with war in Iraq, have boosted some prices. High fuel and freight costs don’t help — especially in rural Alaska.
I can’t imagine the Philly media covering how hard high ammo prices are on machine gun shooters. Alaska is a different place.