Archive for March, 2007
Monday, March 12th, 2007 | Posted in Politics | 1 Comment »
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia finally ruled that several D.C. anti-gun laws were unconstitutional.
The case covered three separate District of Columbia laws:
- A law that prevents handgun registration
- A law that requires rifles and shotguns to be either disassembled or disabled when being stored
- A law that requires a permit to carry a gun in your own home
Here’s the bad news:
- The fascist govermnent weasels are appealing the verdict and they will continue to enforce their unconstitutional laws during the appeal.
- The verdict does not affect laws that governs concealed carry permits outside the home.
- The anti-Constitution beauracrats are still allowed to place “reasonable restrictions” on the exercise of a citizens Constitutional rights. Reasonable restrictions such as “to get a permit to carry a gun in your own home, you have to attend a year long training course held by the government and the next one is scheduled for 2092.”
- Due to extremely successful media manipulation, the Democrats are rising inpower. Expect a series of new anti-gun laws to be enacted over the next six years. Even if this was good news, it’s likely to be the last good news you hear for a long long time.
The NOAA Satellite and Information Service publishes an enormous variety of interesting data.
Of special interest today is the United States Climate Summary for February 2007. It seems that February 2007 was the coldest February since 1994 and the 34th coldest February on record.
As Al Gore seems to be making a lot of money from selling “carbon offsets” to wealthy maroons, I feel that I should sue him. Al promised me global warming and he failed to deliver.
In this country, verbal contracts are enforceable in court and I feel that Al and I had a verbal contract. Al told me that if I didn’t sell my SUV and buy a hybrid car, the ice caps would melt and turn the entire planet into WaterWorld. Al’s even doing his part in helping to heat up this cold rock, by spending $30,000/yr to heat, cool, and light up his mansion. That’s more money than many Americans take home each year.
Al probably doesn’t even care that sea ice has grown by 8% in the Southern Ocean since 1978. He’s happily making money selling his Global Warming schitck. He’ll stop laughing when I sue him for everything he’s got and he really is forced to cut his energy consumption.
Maybe I’ll even get that shyster John Edwards to represent me in court. His frivilous and scientifically unsound lawsuits have raised the costs of medical care for every American family. This sort of case sounds like it’s right up his alley.
Nevada State Democratic Chairman Tom Collins and U.S. Senator Harry Reid have cancelled a planned August presidential candidate debate because the event was co-sponsored by FoxNews.
This is complete hypocrisy. If the Republican Party cancelled debates that were sponsored by news networks they felt were hostile to them, the Republican Partywould have to boycott PBS, CBS, ABC, NBC, NPR and the AP.
If the Democratic Party doesn’t feel that their positions can hold up to criticism, perhaps they should seek more intellectually defensable positions.
Where you support or oppose the U.S.-led mission to achieve freedom for the Iraqi people, one criticism of the Bush administration seems to be unavoidable. This is that the Bush administration has never clearly explained the reasoning behind their decision.
The benefits of the forced regime change in Iraq are far reaching, but they are not immediately obvious to those whose intellectual capacity is limited to chanting “No blood for oil.”
The U.S.-led mission in Iraq is the single most far-sighted and strategic act of a Presidential administration in my lifetime. However, this is not an obvious fact and the Bush administration has done almost nothing to make it more understandable to the average person.
What we needed to do — and still need to do — is to make an example for Muslims all over the glove. An example of a prosperous and peaceful Democratic nation — that is also an Islamic nation. The next questions was selecting who what country we moved fast-forward into the 21st century.
Saudi Arabia? Ha! Get real. We could not take Mecca without causing a world war.
Afghanistan? Almost useless. Afghanistan is the sticks. The Arabs wouldn’t care that it existed at all, except that it provided a useful training ground for them. And good luck making Afghanistan democratic or prosperous. Afghanistan is still in the warlord stage of sociopolitical development. It’s going to take generations to fix.
Iran? Mmmm… Now we’re getting closer. Except, at the time, it looked strongly like the liberal Muslims were gaining ground inside Iran. It wouldn’t do to kick a liberal Muslim regime in the teeth.
What about Iraq?
Iraq had, and has, some very appealing qualities from military, political, and cultural standpoints:
- Iraq has 1/3rd the population of Iran. This is easier to manage within budget.
- We had already pretty much destroyed its armed forces. It was much easier to win a war with Iraq than a war with Iran.
- Unlike Iran, the government of Iraq was very unpopular domestically. The Iraqi’s were ready for a new political direction.
- Iraq was geographically perfect. It is reachable it by land and by sea annd it borders our entire next round of targets. America is, to a great extent, a sea power. We don’t fight well when we can’t use the ocean for resupply.
- Everyone hated Saddam. The Muslims wouldn’t even stand up for that ruthless sonofabitch. The only friends he had were the French, Russians, and Germans whom he bribed — and they wouldn’t do anything for him but whine. We didn’t seriously believe that we would face French, German, or Russian troops defending Saddam from the United States Marine Corps.
- We were already spending taxpayer dollars to enforce the no-fly zone. We didn’t want that situtation to last forever.
- Saddam was completely ignoring the agreements he made which ended the last war — giving us clear legal justification for an invasion.
- Iraq has an awesome population. Until The Baath Party took over in 1965, Iraq was doing very well. They are politically aware and ready for the future. As far as countries go, Iraq shouldn’t be much more difficult to turn around than East Germany — if we do it right.
Fixing Iraq is a critical component in winning the war on Islamist terrorism.
Whether you agree with this assessment or not, Al Qaeda clearly does. It took Al Qaeda a few months to work this all out, but as soon as they did they rushed troops, arms, and money into Iraq. Al Qaeda knows that they cannot let us win Iraq and still win their overall War Against Modernity.
Iraq is a difficult fight and it is going to remain difficult — because it’s critical for us and it’s critical for Al Qaeda. No one can afford to lose. That makes for a bitter fight, a long fight, and a bloody fight.
President Bush never promised us an easy war. However, I believe that Al Qaeda’s move into Iraq was more successful than we estimated. That’s one of the nasty things about war — the best laid plans go completely to hell as soon as the first shot is fired. Enemy action is dynamic and our enemies are smart and dedicated. This isn’t Hollywood, where every war ends after two hours. This is going to be a long bloody battle protecting the country we are incubating against all threats to its livelihood.
Invocon will be displaying their new Electromagnetic Personnel Interdiction Control (EPIC) weapon at the Navy Opportunity Forum 2007.
The device is a non-lethal, stand-off, electromagnetic weapon which is designed to make the targets feel too ill to fight — without causing long-term damage.
Here is Invocon’s abstract for the show:
This company is developing a non-lethal, stand-off weapon for military and law enforcement personnel that could ultimately work through walls and other non-metallic structures. Through disruption of the vestibular system, the device would render a human temporarily powerless to effectively resist arrest or subjugation without causing permanent physical damage. The first known demonstration of a vestibular response to an electromagnetic stimulus has been performed. This response constitutes the basis of a potential non-lethal weapon. This systems engineering company provides research and product development services related to radio frequency electronics, precision instrumentation, and communication for aerospace and defense customers. Additional funding is sought for research into the effects of the stimulus and potential delivery mechanisms for non-lethal weapons as well as medical diagnostic or treatment applications.
And here is an abstract from an earlier Navy SBIR award to Invocon:
The Marine Corps has a requirement for a non-destructive stun weapon that would render a hostile war fighter ineffective for a period of time. There is significant political and military interest in such a capability. In addition, the ability to remotely incapacitate a human being without permanent damage would be a landmark event in the field of civil law enforcement. The desirability of waging bloodless war to counter threats to national security is virtually limitless since both military and civil authority could determine a priori when and if loss of human life is necessary. IVC proposes to investigate the use of beamed RF energy to excite and interrupt the normal process of human hearing and equilibrium. The focus will be in two areas. (1) Interruption of the mechanical transduction process by which sound and position (relative to gravity) are converted to messages that are processed by the brain. (2) Interruption of the chemical engine which sustains the proper operation of the nerve cells that respond to the mechanical transduction mechanisms referenced in item (1). Interruption of either or both of these processes has been clinically shown to produce complete disorientation and confusion. Second order effects would be extreme motion sickness.
The Navy Opportunity Forum 2007 is being held 7-9 May at the Hyatt Regency in Crystal City Virginia.
In Saudi Arabia this week a 19yr old girl was sentenced to 90 lashes for the “crime” of being alone with a man. The man was a rapist who threatened, conned, and assaulted her. The woman is undeniably and inarguably the victim.
This man and six accomplices raped the then-18yr old girl at knife-point fourteen times over the course of three hours. They photographed the assault and threatened to release the photos if the girl went to the authorities.
Five of the rapists were charged and they have been given sentences ranging from ten months to five years. The prosecution of the rapists was difficult, because Islamic law requires witneses to support a rape charge and women do not count as witnesses.
These rapists believed that they would be immune to prosecution because the young woman could not safely turn to the legal authorities for help. The woman could not even turn to her family for help — she was beaten by her younger brother for bringing shame onto the family.
The purpose of law is to protect the life and liberty of a nations citizens. Clearly, Islamic law does not consider women to be citizens.
The moral relativism of the modern American left tells us that we are no better than the Islamists and that they are no worse than us — we are all just different. I cannot accept this fundamentally flawed conclusion. This is not the way that I behave and this is not the way that America as a culture behaves. I do not believe that this is an acceptable way for any human being or society to behave. This is not different, this is wrong.
John Wayne is the iconic American. No other single human being better represents what it means to be an American. When presented with almost any ethical, you can determine the proper course of action simply be asking yourself “What would John Wayne Do?”
People who would do something like this are not people with whom I would like to make peace.
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Even if…
- you voted for John Kerry
- you think Islam is “cool”
- you’re a lesbian
- you live in California
- you’ve never even seen a gun
- you’re under eighteen
- you think that Saddamn Hussein was a great leader
- you hate Jews
- you’re a pacifist
- you’ve never been to church in your life
- you’ve never touched alcohol
- you think that Leon Klinghoffer got what he deserved
- you’re a virgin
- you protest at the WTO every weekend
- you think that GWB blew up the World Trade Centers
… terrorists still want to kill you.
The only thing that you can do to keep the terrorists from wanting to kill you is to convert to their specific brand of fundamentalist Islam.
If you are not will to do that — and I am not — then the only reasonable course is to kill the terrorists before they kill us.
The Democrats seem to be calling for America to make peace with the terrorists. They don’t seem to understand thaht the terrorists have no interest in making peace with us.
The Lapeer County Sheriff’s Department is auctioning off an original Colt M-16 A1.
The rifle was purchased for $500 in the 1970’s. Due to ridiculously silly firearms laws enacted in the 1980’s, the rifle is now worth approximately $16,000.
The Sherriff’s Department is selling the rifle in a closed-bid auction to pay for guns and equipment for it’s staff.
This auction is a win for everyone. Full-automatic rifles are not terribly useful for law-enforcement purposes. The Sherriff’s Department gets new gear, the taxpayers save money, and some happy purchaser get a beautiful vintage M-16 A1.
