Ninth Stage

Nancy Pelosi is a blinking machine.
Bush missed an opportunity to reduce America’s gasoline consumption, send all illegal aliens home.

Heard on NPR about the “consensus for compromise that the recent election shows we want” (condensed and paraphrased).
Compromise is fine in negotiations over the sale of say a house; seller and buyer agree on a price somewhere between the asking and offer and everyone is happy at the end.
With natural rights compromise is not possible [...]

It’s always time to complain about Comcast but this time it’s my computer that’s down.  I’m pretty sure that it’s the power supply but I won’t know until it’s replacement arrives Friday.  Slow posting ahead.

If he can’t be impeached, he can always be assassinated
- Ben Frankin

Southwest Airlines aircraft over Old Hickory Lake at Hendersonville, heading for BNA.

Not me, Tamara has a new toy; a 6.8-SPC AR.
In case your wondering what the configuration is, click here for the exact build specs.

Article here.
At the bottom of that page is an educational addendum:
Legal Lingo
Second Amendment
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Source: U.S. Constitution
Yup, the Second Amendment is just a bit of “Legal Lingo”, pesky too I hear.

You sneer at the NRA for playing on your classmates’ fears of gun-control, but if there is indeed no political threat to their guns, what is the harm in letting everyone believe the 2nd Amendment protects an individual right? Why would you bother challenging their interpretation of the 2nd Amendment — unless you and others [...]

And so is soccer.

John Wilder loses the leadership of the State Senate after 35 years.  How a Dem. retained the post during a Republican majority was one of those unexplained wonders.
State Rep. Stacey Campfield offers some insight on the change in leadership at the Capitol:

My, my, my. Little did I know how much the change in leadership would [...]

In December October, three Gallatin Police Department officers resigned in a statutory rape scandal. This time it’s not so lurid.
Two employees at the Gallatin Police Department are off the job amid separate internal investigations.
Susan Morrow asked to retire Wednesday after an investigation into allegations she compromised an active criminal investigation. The department would not [...]

I prefer a small government which may permit some evil to a large government that promotes evil at my expense.
- Michael Lee
Via The View From North Central Idaho.

An officer lied to a magistrate to get the “no knock warrant” that lead to the death of Kathryn Johnston.
In an affidavit to get a search warrant at the home Nov. 21, narcotics officer Jason R. Smith told a magistrate he and Officer Arthur Tesler had a confidential informant buy $50 worth of crack at [...]

Liberals aren’t just against guns, they’re against self defense.  We’ve seen it in England and now more of the same in CA.
Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, announced Wednesday he is considering proposing laws that would regulate a new type of Taser stun gun being marketed directly to consumers.
Remember, it serves the (il)Liberal agenda to keep [...]

Public Education in Massachusetts is working as planned. Evidence is available in this essay by 8th graders, winning 1st place in the annual Constitution and Bill of Rights Essay Contest sponsored by the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office and The Standard-Times.
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State, the [...]

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
- Thomas Jefferson

Another from The Trainer.  Weird problem with his Walther P22.

My wife wouldn’t do this for me if it was the last thing she never did.
Shamelessly stolen from The Trainer.

In Canada.
Police officer Jeff Resler was found not guilty of assault by Judge Robert Philp. Resler was up for two counts of assault and two counts of assault with a weapon for using his Taser to wake two sleeping men.
In November 2003, Resler and three other officers were investigating an armed robbery at Edmonton’s [...]

In a sharp move, the U.S. knife industry organization, U.S. Knife & Tool Association, has changed it’s name to Knife Rights. Perhaps taking a cue from the knife nannies across the pond, they’re going to push a rights based campaign preempting home-grown nannyism.
Via Gun Law News and The War on Guns.