Ninth Stage

Basically, I figure guns are like gays: They seem a lot more sinister and threatening until you get to know a few; and once you have one in the house, you can get downright defensive about them.
- Teresa Neilson Hayden

Saddam Hussein was hanged about 1/2 hour ago.

My comment spam would be cut by 90% if I could block all internet access from Amsterdam.

I always thought “one gun a month“* was the Columbia Record Club of firearm enthusiasts.  I guess I was wrong.
(*I figured they’d send me crappy guns like the crappy CDs Columbia sends out so I never joined.)

You may say that I’m a dreamer. But I’m not the only one. I hope some day you’ll join me. And the whole Islamic world will know we live with guns.
- Mike Adams

A U.S. based Islamic think tank has decided that the time has come to retire the 2nd Amendment. Their reasoning is laid out in a paper titled “In the Fight Against Terrorism, Some Rights Must Be Repealed.”
The newly appointed CIA Director Porter Goss, believes that terrorists may bring urban warfare techniques learned in Iraq [...]

When the government fears the people, you have liberty. When the people fear the government, you have tyranny.
- Thomas Jefferson

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
- Lord Acton

Worlds most dangerous roads part 1 and part 2. I’ve thrown in a few sample images but there are many more at the links above.
Bolivia’s “Road of Death”, North Yungas Road:

Hiking trail at China’s Mt. Huashan:

Guoliang tunnel road in China:

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
- James Madison

Pervasive Light has temporarily, I hope, removed his blog.  Say Uncle has a post about another blogger quitting when meatspace meets cyberspace.

A Gallatin city police officer resigned October 27 after an internal investigation over an alleged sexual relationship with a 17 year old girl. It’s statutory rape for a man to have consensual sexual relations with a minor four years or more younger than he, when the minor is between the ages of 13 [...]

Justice For Sal, a blog about Salvatore Culosi by his family. Sal Culosi was tragically shot dead by a not too well trained cop while being arrested for sports gambling with his buddies.
I’ve previously mentioned the blog here.
Reminded via a comment caught in my spam filter two days ago.

Gaia, whose precious carbon was trapped in fossil deposits, created human kind to free it and return it to the biosphere.
- Anonymous

Simunition (I guess) training for reacting to armed invaders in the workplace.*
[video]http://www.youtube.com/v/Wnu-Qjo5sMo[/video]
UPDATE *If your workplace is a warehouse that is.

From Catfish, basic AR15 Operation.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/v/YqxraAQ55W0[/video]

If she’s not hot we must not boycott.
Via Tim Blair.

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.
- Max Stirner

The Milton Friedman video series Free To Choose is available for online viewing again. Idea Channel.TV is the place to see the entire series and buy DVDs.
The series on Google Video disappeared so I’m glad to see another outlet appear.
Via Coal to Newcastle.

The UK has among the most repressive firearm laws in the world with an outright ban on handguns and severe restrictions on rifles and shotguns, exempting of course the government.
Last month, a new law restricting where air guns may be sold came into effect. Now, the inaptly named M(Scotland’s)P Tommy Sheridan plans to introduce [...]