Joe’s didn’t get through. My guess is, it got nabbed by the spam filter for too many links. Other posts are getting through. 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.  Most spam filters use number of links as a metric.
Author: Sebastian
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.
“Put up a blog and ask the blogging community how to make it part of the conversation,†he said. “There’s an opportunity for you to engage with bloggers by saying, ‘I like what you’re saying about health care but you aren’t talking about the gun issue.’ 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. More and more it’s becoming an issue of contention on the left, and more of a settled thing on the right.  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. Good! 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 “boys†to “guys†and “fellasâ€.
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.  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?   Get that folks?  Have a 14.5 inch M4 upper, violent nut case, 16 inch upper, you’re a OK.  Sounds a lot like the Canadian nonsense about pistol barrel lengths I linked to earlier.  See, we have our own nonsense too.
Converting People to Our Side?
This could be one of our folks, but the possibility of this kind of thing happening is exactly why I think it’s important to engage the gun control movement publicly. We don’t get to do this in the regular media.
Canadians Dueling Over Handgun Ban
It’s good to see that gun control is not such a settled issue in The Great White North, that things like this are still a bone of contention. Canada is a great example of why anyone who thinks they will stop with licensing and registration is a fool.
“The risk that a legal handgun becomes an illegal handgun is not a hypothetical risk. It’s established,” Bryant said, pointing to the Toronto police figure that 30 per cent of crime guns are stolen from legal owners and 70 per cent are smuggled.
To Bryant and company, it means that getting rid of legally owned handguns in Canada would reduce a significant number of handguns from getting into the hands of criminals.
If it were up to Ontario and Quebec, Canada would already have a handgun ban.
In The Line of Duty
This article talks about the slaying of an Oakland journalist. This would be not blog worthy material except that it closes with:
Don Bolles, a reporter for the Arizona Republic, was the last reporter killed in the line of duty in the United States. He was killed by a car bomb in 1976 while reporting on organized crime.
Emphasis mine. Sorry folks, journalist don’t get “killed in the line of duty” that’s reserved for police officers, firefighters, soldiers, and other such professions that report for duty (sorry John Kerry, not you) to serve the public. Reporters get murdered while working on a story, or killed on the job. As much as other journalists might think they have a duty to the public, that they serve, saying something like this diminishes those who actually do.