Word from Dave Hardy is that there’s a major shakeup at ATF. Hopefully they can clean this mess up before we’re looking at President Obama. Also, Dave points to an article that talks about the kinds of justices that Obama would likely nominate.
Year: 2008
Memorial Day
You can read about the history of memorial day here. Wyatt has his thoughts, and highlights a World War I veteran, which Marshall Manson thinks our society doesn’t pay enough attention to. Brent Greer joined a local boy scout troop to plant flags on the graves of veterans. Tam’s reminder is simple, but powerful. Jeff has pictures from Arlington National Cemetary. Murdoc has a fantastic shot of a 21 gun salute.
In other news, Google pretty clearly doesn’t appreciate the sacrifices made by others so they could make their fortune, but Yahoo! does. I mean, you can do an earth day logo, but not one for memorial day?
Congrats to Kit and John
Kit and John have gotten married, and someone actually liveblogged the wedding.
IIcx’s, IIsi’s and NeXTs, Oh My
I’ve decided it’s high time to get rid of some of my old hardware I’ve been keeping around for sentimental reasons, and not much else. Here’s what I have:
- Two NeXT Monochrome Mexapixel Displays. They both work, the natural rubber pads on both have gooed off by this point.
- Three 68040 25MHz NeXT Cubes. One has a bad SCSI HD, the other is missing RAM. One boots up, but needs to be booted into single user mode and have all the Netinfo crap turned off. None of them have the Dimension color board.
- One 68040 Turbo slab, monochrome. Missing RAM.
- One Mac IIcx, no monitor. Seems to work.
- One Mac IIsi, w 12″ monior. Missing HD.
- I seem to have keyboards and cables to go with all this stuff. I think I have some NeXT software and optical disks too. No clue whether the optical drives are still functioning.
If anyone wants them, they are free to a good home if you want to come pick them up. If you want them, but don’t want to pick them up, let me know where you are and I can see if I plan to be by that way any time in the NeXT year (ha!), and I might be able to deliver.
UPDATE: Looks like Tam and TD are interested. Now I just need to figure out how to get the machines to them.
Special Ops Trade Show
Just when we start to think we Second Amendment Blog Bash attendees are the cool kids, Greg proves us wrong by attending a Special Operations Industry Trade Show. I’ll be honest, I didn’t know there was such a thing, but it sounds like a pretty cool show.
Thoughts on The Second Amendment Blog Bash
Bitter decided to do a car interview on the way back from Kentucky, to get my thoughts on how our first Second Amendment Blog Bash went. I talk about the genisis of the idea at least year’s Annual Meeting in St. Louis. The idea that NRA should do something with blogs actually originated with Dave Kopel, and before we could reach out to NRA, they reached out to us.
By the way, Eyeblast.tv has an entire channel dedicated to the Second Amendment Blog Bash, so be sure to stop by an peruse the videos.
E-Mail Evidence
From David Olofson, we have the e-mail that ATF claims proves he purchased M16 parts. I see a lot of talk about M16 magazines, which are identical to AR-15 magazines, and talk about a bolt, which are also identical, AFAIK. But I only see one mention of M16 parts, and I would agree that in the realm of “proof” this isn’t it.
Quote of the Day
And there they were, being blatantly threatened by this gerrymandered race-baiting footsoldier of the class war, this remora on the flank of Leviathan, this vacuous sinkhole of consumption that does nothing but suck in tax dollars and shit out red tape and misery. In a perfect world, they wouldn’t have sat for that. In a just world, they’d have stood as one and walked from that room and let little Maxine foam away at her tinpot Trotskyite fantasies.
Read the whole thing. The only thing that disturbs me more than that Maxine Waters said this was that I’ve heard so much of it from people, I’m frankly getting sick of it. Oil company greed is not responsible for high prices. Anyone with even the most basic understanding of economics can wrap their heads around that. Yet you hear from a lot of people, even people with PhDs, that oil company profits are obscene. Well, we have a shortage of petroleum products, and the profits are a signal to the market that we need more resources put into growing energy supplies. If the politicians remove the profit, what we’ll have is ever rising prices, and if they monkey with that, shortages.
New Banner
I played around for a bit and finally came up with something I could live with. You may have to hit shift-refresh to have it load the new graphic. Of course, if you think you can come up with something better, feel free to give it a try. If I get multiple entries that I like, I might just rotate banners occasionally. I wasn’t able to incorporate a firearm in any way I liked, so I decided to leave it out.
Let me know what you think
Giving Up the First to Exercise the Second?
I’m glad to see that Red’s Trading Post will continue to operate, but it sucks that it appears removing his blog was part of the settlement. Maybe not though, and it just comes down to it being a good will gesture. Either way, we really need to get some momentum going on HR 4900.
UPDATE: According to comments at Joe’s, this was not the case. That doesn’t mean HR 4900 isn’t still important. No doubt this legal fight has cost Ryan a hefty chunk of change.