Month: November 2012

If At First You Don’t Succeed, Double Down on Failure

This will not be surprising to any readers of this blog:

Within the last hour Associated Press has reported through dozens of media outlets that at least 3 people are dead as a result of a shooting spree at a southwestern farm in Finland.

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The tragic news comes during a time that the country is aggressively seeking to tighten their control of firearms, especially hand weapons. Just this past Wednesday the Finnish parliament successfully voted to approve a newly amended Gun Control Act.

And what amendments will be demanded to stop this one? And then what happens when that fails to stop the mass shooters? You can see where this is going, because it’s where things have gone in many other countries. The Port Authur massacre lost Australians the right to semi-automatic rifles. Dunblane lost pistols for the British. School shootings in Germany lead to stricter rules there. Mass shootings have been a boon to the International Gun Control movement, so it’s no shocker the groups here do their level best to exploit them politically, despite ample evidence strong gun laws do not stop mass shootings.

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Another Member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns Convicted

Last week, another member of Bloomberg’s Illegal Mayors Against Guns group was convicted & sentenced for his crimes. Michael Pembleton of Sunflower, MS was caught in March loading $7,100 of designer purses he stole from his employer in the back of his vehicle. Yet, amazingly, Bloomberg featured Pembleton’s name on this ad asking Congress to do more to keep criminals from getting guns.

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Speaking of NRA in Hawaii …

… a quite balanced account of David Keene’s visit:

Keene said most people associate the NRA with its high-profile lobbying and political activity. In fact, he said, only about 12 percent of its budget goes toward those activities.

The bulk of the NRA’s work involves instructing youth how to use guns safely and responsibly.

A statistic that I’m sure astounds a good many people, including our opponents, who revel in myths about the NRA and its members.

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Training: It’s What’s For Dinner

Philadelphia Daily News reporter William Bender has yet another example of the Philadelphia Police not being properly trained in what the law is, as they harass yet another person open carrying legally. After the Fiorino settlement, the PPD promised to step up training for its officers on the carry laws in Pennsylvania. Apparently whatever they are doing isn’t enough to help. Is it going to take a big civil rights judgement to finally fix this?

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Blood from a Stone

An early step in running out of other people’s money. The Twinkie of today is not the same as the Twinkie I grew up with, so I will not mourn their demise very much. The cake is a shell of its former self, and I always preferred Tastykakes anyway (another company with legacy costs related to unions that very well may drive it out of business).

But if you do like the Twinkie, friends of mine in college did an experiment involving the shelf life of an unwrapped Twinkie, and the results were, shall we say, unnatural. If you go out and buy a few cases now, I’m pretty sure you can still be eating them a decade from now.

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Outdoor Channel Programming for Download?

Kevin notes the merger of The Outdoor Channel with InterMedia Outdoors, which publishes The Sportsman Channel, and notes:

And hopefully, this means…

MORE SPORTSMAN’S/OUTDOOR CHANNEL CONTENT AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD

Seriously guys, we’ve had downloaded TV shows for what, five, ten years now? Get with the program (pun intended). Podcasts are nice, NetFlix is nicer.

Netflix might be a possibility, but the big problem with making media available for download is the Cable TV and Satellite providers, who are the primary customers for this programming, aren’t going to appreciate if the content providers try to cut the middle man out. I doubt most Cable TV content providers could survive on revenue from Internet media and Netflix. The more content is available online, the less we need the cable companies to be anything other than Internet providers. The Cable companies don’t like that. I think they are dinosaurs, but they still control access to the vast majority of American TV sets.

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