Ninth Stage

Ciao

Finished, finally. I completed two projects and fielded dozens of phone calls today.
Glad this day is over.
Everybody’s favorite Gay Gun-Nut in Vermont has taken a well deserved vacation from blogging this week. We all probably found him first through his Weekly Check on the Bias (against guns) but we return for his insight [...]

It strikes me that visiting the U.N.’s home page feels like visiting Enron’s website before the fall.
A facade of respectability hiding massive corruption.
I guess that feeling comes from reading items like this.
I can only hope that the U.N. meets the same fate.

Colorado may start recognizing the Second Amendment.
At least recognizing it a little more fully. Publicola has been covering legislation in Colorado that, if passed, would recognize (almost) everyone’s right to carry concealed WITHOUT PRIOR PERMISSION - “Vermont Carry” if you will.
Well, that’s the way I’ve always heard it should be:
You want to carry concealed, [...]

NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! needs a geography lesson.
Today Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! host Peter Sagal referred to the Knoxville woman who filed the lawsuit over Janet Jackson’s Boob-gate or Breast-gate incident as a “woman in the Midwest”.
Attention Pete Sagel - Knoxville is not even remotely in the Midwest!

Too Loud for ya?
Move to Calgary where the city council is acting like a small time condominium homeowners association.
And for you criminals reading this; note that Calgary is located in that giant victim disarmament zone known as Canada. They’re not completely disarmed yet, just give ‘em a couple years.
Via. A Coyote at the Dog [...]

While talking to a WWII veteran friend of mine he recounted this ditty to me that he sang to himself while part of the occupation force in Japan:
Japan, Japan
Where the sun never shines
And you shiver when the cold wind blows
He was a young marine and had been on many famous islands in the pacific, invaded [...]

Never one to ignore Say Uncle’s advice I offer up the following:
“Janet, Jackson, Boob, Superbowl or Halftime“

UN Weapons Inspectors just another bureaucracy.
Doing what bureaucracies do best - keeping themselves in business by never finishing the job.

Glenn received a bizarre e-mail from a nanotechnology PR hack.

The industry is not hiding from any real problems by ignoring your delusional fantasies and rantings, any more than one truly ignores a wino’s claims on skid row that bugs are crawling under his skin. The very really issues of nano-health and environmental issues as explored [...]

Have you spent so much for so many?
I haven’t. James Rummel has been at it for years. He’s been introducing new shooters into the sport at his own expense and he’s up to almost 600 new shooters trained at this writing.
I’m in awe and now feel that I should do some of my [...]

I know I’m late to it but;
“whine and neuroses”.
Lileks at his screedy best - heh heh.

WMDs
“Einstein was mistaken; but he was not wrong.”

A Supermajority for Spending Laws?
That’s OK as far as it goes. How about a supermajority of Presidents (past and present) be required to sign any new tax/fee increases into law - yes, including the dead ones.
Link via Instapundit.

Rich finally got one!
Congratulations!

From Merde in France comes the story of frenchy whining about one Franck Moulet.
Honestly when I read that name, Franck Moulet, I thought it was a joke - something of a “Franco Mullet” sort of thing and the photo of him didn’t help disabuse me of that thought. But I was wrong, that’s his real [...]

Via Instapundit and in the spirit of this I give you Live From Brussels’ reaction to the scandalous BBC:

Advice week (no not MY advice).
This is funny and this is funnier (or at least longer).
From Anticipatory Retaliation:
154. Shouldn’t treat ‘piss-bottles’ with extra-strength icy hot.
From Cold Fury:
The cops never think it�s as funny as you do.
All good advice.
Anticipatory Retaliation link via someone else (If it was you let me know).
Update: It was Lt. Smash.

The Commie Tsar goes all Roman.

Long known as “The Golden State” California is working on a new moniker:
“Horse Manure State”.