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December 6, 2009 - Sunday
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Category: News and Politics
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November 30, 2009 - Monday
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Category: News and Politics
As I was watching this presentation and wondering what in the world would someone possibly want to use this for ... IT HIT ME !!!
The freakin'ultimate HLBA meeting tool.     
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November 23, 2009 - Monday
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Category: News and Politics
Lieutenant Paddy Rice of the 1st battalion Grenadier Guards was wounded in the back and neck while on duty in central Helmand. Here is the account in his own words ...The video does not do it justice ... click here to see the pic's.
He is one lucky dude ...
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November 17, 2009 - Tuesday
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Category: News and Politics
Workin' my way through the 'reader' this morning and came across a post by BLACKFIVE that caught my eye. The title was "ONE MORE BURN NOTICE PHOTO WITH SOMEONE YOU SHOULD KNOW" and being a fan of Burn Notice just had to check it out. WOW, was I ever surprised to see a picture of Jeffrey Donovan and Bruce Campbell holding a flag in the background, while Lt. Col. Mark Bieger is presumably swearing in Spc. Peter Jank during a reenlistment ceremony. For those who don't remember LTC Bieger THIS should jog your memory.
While meandering down memory lane I couldn't help myself from reading quite a few of Michael Yon's post's or 'dispatches', as I had been following them from the beginning up to around 2007. Even had 9 months of 'catching up' to do after coming back from the Katrina adventure. If you have time to read his 31AUG2005 post 'Gates of Fire' you are in for a treat ... but I digress ...
BLACKFIVE has pictures of Jeff and Bruce on the firing range in Iraq while on what is presumably a USO tour.
Cool ...
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November 8, 2009 - Sunday
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Category: News and Politics
A quick start guide, for the recovering Liberal.
It's quite long ... Sarah might want to go take in a movie while it's loading. 
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November 7, 2009 - Saturday
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Category: News and Politics
Quarterly Firearm and Ammunition Excise Taxes up 52 Percent
NEWTOWN, Conn – According to the most recent Firearms and Ammunition Excise Tax Collection Report, released by the Department of the Treasury, firearm and ammunition manufacturers report excise tax obligations to be more than$122 million in the second calendar quarter of 2009, up 52 percent over the same time period reported in 2008.
This dramatic increase follows a 43 percent increase in excise tax obligations from the previous quarter (1Q, 2009) and 12 straight months of significant increases in FBI background checks – another strong indicator of firearm sales. Excise tax obligations over the last reported 12 months (July 2008 through June 2009) were more than $419.8 million, an increase of $105.9 million (33.7 percent) over the preceding 12–month period (July 2007 through June 2008). The year’s substantial increases in background checks and federal excise tax obligations began just prior to the 2008 elections and flourished despite a worsening economy.
Manufacturers of firearms and ammunition pay a federal excise tax -- a major source of wildlife conservation funding -- on all firearms and ammunition manufactured (11 percent on long guns and ammunition and 10 percent on handguns).
The report, which covers the time period of April 1, 2009 through June 30, 2009, shows that $33.5 million was due in taxes for pistols and revolvers, $42.3 million for long guns and $46.1 million for ammunition. Compared to the same quarter in 2008, excise tax obligations were up 44.4 percent for handguns, 51.3 percent for long guns and 57.5 percent for ammunition.
Translation to sales: Using the latest reporting data as an indication of sales, a projection of $1.14 billion was generated in the second quarter (calendar year) of 2009. Please keep in mind that although excise taxes are one of the best indicators of industry performance, they only reflect what excise taxes the manufacturers have filed and do NOT reflect retail mark-up and final retail sales.
Pistols and revolvers: $33,552,785.73 / .10 = $33,552,857.30 = $335.5 million for handguns
Long guns: $42,373,696.86 / .11 = $385,215,426.00 = $385.2 million for long guns Ammunition: $46,157,400.88 / .11 = $419,612,735.27 = $419.6 million for ammunition
Total estimation for the quarter: $1.14 billion
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November 2, 2009 - Monday
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Category: News and Politics
It would seem that the demise of this long hated monstrosity may soon be at hand ...
Gun control advocates activists are pissing themselves and wailing aloud at the thought of the Conservative Party having enough support from the Opposition Party, to someday toss this on the ash heap of history.
Bill C-391 is what is causing the GFW's (gun fearing wussies) handwringing and teethnashing fits of horror.
It not only eliminates the need to register rifles and shotguns but requires that the information contained on seven million registered guns be destroyed. The main concern for this is the cost. Massive cost overruns, not the inevitable misuse by a government agency.
According to Wikipedia (feel free to take this with a grain of salt or two, since the article contains at least one bald-faced lie that i'm not even going to mention) :
1) Police departments frequently use the Canadian Firearms Registry data base to allow police officers to check if a residence or property might contain a registered firearm before responding to a call.
2) In a Canada Firearms Centre (CAFC) survey, 92% of general duty police officers stated that they use the system.
3) The Canadian Firearms Centre says police make more than 13,000 queries to the system each week.
Indeed, these are some rather shocking numbers when you realize the potential of this Draconian law ...
I applaud our neighbors to the North for this endeavor of throwing off these tyrannic shackles to their freedom.
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October 29, 2009 - Thursday
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Category: News and Politics
I swear ...
This story may actually be the most amusing thing you see today, or the saddest.
But this one is cool as hell. There is no way that he can be related to harold ...
Wait a doggone minute ... does WalMart really sell caskets and urns online? Creepy
Hands down, this is probably the coolest thing you will see today !
Here is an oldie-but-goody ... a big brother heads up.
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October 27, 2009 - Tuesday
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Category: News and Politics
Talk about creepy ... Dude pulls 0.99 G's on the green light and freaks out OnStar.
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October 23, 2009 - Friday
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Category: News and Politics
“Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.” ~ John Locke
Just finished reading the first chapter of Mike Vanderboegh's book, 'Absolved' ... It is awesome.
Many of you will not even take the time to go check it out, let alone read it. Your loss. It is another of many books that are on my 'wish list' to purchase when available ...
Chapter One: The Battle of Sipsey Street
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October 18, 2009 - Sunday
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October 12, 2009 - Monday
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Category: News and Politics
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October 8, 2009 - Thursday
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Category: News and Politics
I don't recall if I mentioned it anywhere hereabouts last fall, when Meleanie Hain made the national news with the Open Carry of her Glock to her daughters soccer match. I have never understood why she would carry openly if she had a LTC (License to Carry). Granted, it is not specifically a CCW license ... but still ? Why bother scaring the native GFW's ?
It is rumoured that she and her husband had been having some problems of as late, and were separated. Not any more. In an apparent murder/suicide the Hain's problems are over. Unfortunately, the children were witness to it.
UPDATE * ~ The victim was on a webcam call to a mutual friend of the Hain's when her husband walked into the kitchen and was seen firing his pistol ...
* some added details ...
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I guess it doesn't pay to play with your neighbors dog when there are excitable LEO's around. There has to be more to this story though, I mean really ... Since when is it against the law to play with a dog that is tied to a tree ?
Cop shoots ... woman and dog are expected to recover ...
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This should serve as a PSA to those who own Jennings firearms. I actually own one of the little .25 Ravens mouseguns and have NEVER felt compelled to leave a round chambered in a striker fired pistol.
At a Lakeland, FL range saturday, a fellow had just finished firing one of the 9mm models, reloaded it so his wife could shoot it next, and apparently charged it before laying it on the bench. Before the Mrs. could pick it up, it malfunctioned, firing and continued to slamfire? in a full auto fashion ...
Both of them were treated and released, but a shooter from the next shooting lane was in stable condition ...
* some added details ... (I don't know who is dumber, the interviewer or the interviewee)
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Maybe the Somali's should try robbing the Red Cross or something ... Pirating just isn't their thing. How embarrassing is it that they attacked a Naval Ship. And just to rub salt in their wound ...
French Navy - 5 / Somali's - 0
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And for your viewing pleasure ... some Bit's and Pieces of Assploding jihadi's
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The fun starts about the 1:45 mark ... hard to believe it takes that long to get permission to return fire 
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September 30, 2009 - Wednesday
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Category: News and Politics
It looks like Alan Gura is going to get another crack at the Supreme's. This time he will be appealing a challenge to a lower appeals court ruling that said the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to handguns only in the face of federal regulation, not against state and municipal restrictions.
Thirty-four states had asked the Supreme Court to take up the gun advocates appeals and a separate one filed by the National Rifle Association< against Chicago. (The justices did not act on that petition Wednesday.) Gura, who represented the challengers to the Washington, D.C., ordinance two years ago, represents the Chicago gun owners. Gura stressed in his petitions that lower courts disagree about the extent of individuals' right to have guns.
The case, McDonald v. City of Chicago, is likely to be scheduled for January.
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September 29, 2009 - Tuesday
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Category: News and Politics
VIA: Times Union Flag Burner Pilloried  Local VFW goes all medieval on his ass The young man was given three choices:
•get turned over to the police, •go one-on-one in a fight with a seasoned war veteran •be duct-taped to a flagpole for six hours with a sign around his neck identifying his alleged crime: flag burning.
It was the third option that would still have the small town buzzing a week after a 21-year-old was hunted down and forced to endure a public humiliation with its roots dating to the Middle Ages. Members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1938 were incensed enough to tie up the man last Sunday after they accused him of setting the flag in front of their building on fire.
Post Commander Nick Normile, a Vietnam War veteran, said the man came into the post’s bar Sept. 18 on Poplar Avenue and was eventually turned away for not having a proper ID.
Apparently angered, the young man, who Normile did not want to name, cut the rope of the American flag flying overhead and used a cigarette lighter to set it on fire, Normile and others said.
The man sat pilloried as the village had its fall youth soccer picnic with a long parade of children passing in front of him.
“He’ll never disrespect the flag again, I can tell you that,” Normile said.
Normile said the flag had at one point flown over U.S. troops in Iraq had special significance.
The Rensselaer County Sheriffs office confirmed knowledge of the event, but said they were not involved. State Police in Brunswick were contacted, but a trooper said no record of the event could be found.
The flag will be disposed of at a formal ceremony, Normile said.
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