Ninth Stage

So The Antlantic hired a photographer who is famous for photo-shopping photographs of crying babies and monkeys to photograph McCain.  She then deceived the candidate by taking unflattering images.  She bragged about the deception and showed off her photoshop prowess on the images of McCain.  Sweet.
Hiring her to photograph Obama though would be biased.  See, [...]

Tonight Nashville’s WKRN Channel 2 news at 10 had segment called “Life of a Gun”. Mostly it’s trying to find controversy over a Sheriff office selling confiscated guns.
Classie Wilson was killed by 14 year old using a recycled handgun. The gun had been”traded in” by the Maury County Sheriff in 2001. [...]

The headline tells it all. Or does it?
[Besides guns,] Deputies also bought stolen boats, trailers, trucks, electronics and drugs. All told, close to $2-million worth of stolen property was recovered.
A storefront sting netted a bunch of stolen goods including guns.  But one boat or one truck is more valuable than a pile of the [...]

ABC News has has the usual anti-gun whine up without any comparison or context. What’s funny is that for and article titled “The Scourge of Illegal Guns” they have an image of a toy gun:

Barricaded in an apartment with a television, a couch, a toaster, an end table, a lamp, a bag of flour, a broom, a toothbrush and a Ruger Mini-14.
Cote Arraigned Following Assault Rifle Standoff
BY JAMES JARDINE, Staff Writer
Tuesday October 9, 2007
ST. JOHNSBURY — Robert Cote, who held off police by barricading himself in his apartment with [...]

Massachusetts resident and journalist Steve Baily went to a New Hampshire gun show with New Hampshire resident and former prison guard Walter Belair.  Belair purchased a revolver and let Baily touch it.  Touching the revolver made Baily feel all icky and stuff.  Washing his hands didn’t get the icky off so Baily wrote an anti-gun [...]

Political expression in America is being liberated as has never before been done in human history. Why does that bother Feinstein, Boxer, Clinton, Kucinich and other Fairness Doctrine advocates?
Because not all speech advances the Progressive agenda.
Via CTN.

This is just about the worst news story about so called “assault weapons” I have ever read.
A few tidbits:

“They’re capable of firing hundreds of rounds in just a few short seconds.“
“Captain Mark Holley with Shreveport’s Narcotics Unit says assault rifles are popular with big game hunters.“
Shreveport police variously get “three to five per day” or [...]