Ninth Stage

When someone invades your home, shoot to kill stop.  I don’t care what they say - the sons of bitches should have knocked and announced.  There ought to be a registry where you can list your home as a knock and announce home. F^(ker got off easy.

Stealing stuff from Kevin and Sean.

I like Cthulhu’s foreign policy of killing everyone and consuming everything, but I don’t agree with his domestic policy of killing everyone and consuming everything. Still better than Hillary. - “Sean”

I laughed out loud when I read this:
The Bush tax cuts, more than any other policy, are crippling the government financially.
If only it were true.

Even their dogs are better than you.
“A police dog is a police officer. There is no difference under the law,” [the judge] tells KDKA. “They are not pets and they are trained in the purposes of law enforcement and anyone who would taunt a police officer can be considered a threat to the community.”
Via Balko.

All the government paternalism in banning smoking in various locations is distilled to it’s essence in one Stalinist stroke. North Korea’s Kim Jong-il bans smoking.
In most cities, smoking bans are intended to protect the non-smoking majority from the minority who insist on lighting up.
North Korea’s Kim Jong-il has ordered a smoking ban
Kim Jong-il’s health [...]

On Government.
They’re not interested in doing the things you want them to do; they’re far more concerned about stopping you doing the things they don’t want you to do.
- Barry Beelzebub

Marko has a great analogy for taxation. And I love the tag, gallatinites.
Via Oleg.

A man records audio during his DWI stop and is charged with felony wiretapping.
The television show COPS is ok though, the police know they’re being taped.  A trooper recording a stop, audio and video, with his in car camera is OK though, the trooper knows he’s being taped.  A peon citizen recording a stop is [...]

Only seven days left to voice your opposition to the first step in the next five year plan to make the United States a true, we mean it this time, honest, workers paradise (and avoid insurance fraud by positively identifying your charred remains after the next terror attack) known as Real ID.
Via C.D.

Some years ago, about 1900, an old trapper from North Dakota hitched up some horses to his Studebaker wagon, packed a few possessions, especially his traps–and drove south.Several weeks later he stopped in a small town just north of the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. It was a Saturday morning–a lazy day–when he walked into [...]

Quote of the day Imprisonment by stealth.
What many of us have been thinking and talking about all along but well put.
Via Coals to Newcastle.

An Anniversary That We Must Never Forget.
Via A Voyage to Arcturus.
Funny how the death of 70 on that campus didn’t bring a cry for more gun control.

You are probably aware that new rules are about to go into effect requiring all air travelers to have a valid passport (or Air NEXUS card, or U.S. Coast Guard Merchant Mariner Document, or an Alien Registration Card, Form I-551, [...]

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 [...]

Who isn’t?
Paul Huebl, a former cop, is among those unhappy with the TSA. Here’s his post on the backscatter imaging machines the TSA is trying out in Phoenix. Below is his Thanksgiving video tribute to the TSA.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/v/-xDnLAPaxE0[/video]

Irons in the Fire warns about a bug/feature that allows cell phones to be used as roving bugs by, for example, the FBI.  More here and here.

We want to search your body.
Sky Harbor International Airport here will test a new federal screening system that takes X-rays of passenger’s bodies to detect concealed explosives and other weapons.
The technology, called backscatter, has been around for several years but has not been widely used in the U.S. as an anti-terrorism tool because of privacy [...]

OK, I’ve heard the UK’s message that handguns are bad so I promise to never bring a handgun into your island insane asylum (’though I reserve the right to curse Tony Blair and the Queen if I’m ever effing mugged in your increasingly hellholeish cities).  But this is beyond the pale of stupidity and I [...]

Yup, the federal government hasn’t built a fence on our southern border yet. This doesn’t mean that the feds are soft on border security. Evidence of the increased border security is the recent crackdown on Vegamite.
The US has banned Vegemite, even to the point of searching Australians for jars of the spread when they [...]

This is the kind of visitor I like to see in my logs:

Referring Link
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=michael bouchard testimony richmond atf&btnG=Google Search

Host Name
tias-gw5.treas.gov

IP Address
199.196.144.15

Country
United States

Region
Virginia

City
Dulles

ISP
Executive Office Of Asset Forfeiture

/Sarcasm
Update: I’m paranoid because I’d just used some bug spray on some ants. I glanced at the label and saw
It is a violation of Federal law to use this [...]