Firearms & Freedom

Finally, Joe Biden is a raging socialist, and Palin called him out on it. He failed to apologize and excuse himself from the stage, as any self-respecting man would do upon the revelation that he is indeed a freedom-hating Bolshevik. This tells me all I need to know about Biden… not only is he a socialist, but he’s doesn’t see it as a problem! … - Greg Morris, West, By God

Bill could have really added some oomph to that endorsement if he’d only been willing to concede that Obama is a carbon-based life form meeting the minimal requirements defined by scientists for sentient life. - Jonah Goldberg, on Bill Clinton’s response to whether Obama was qualified to be president.

Blogging will be light the next few days. I am out of town for Independance Day. Happy 4th.

Hat tip failblog.org

“I’m gonna rip them apart,” Fagan said of young victims during his testimony on the bill. “I’m going to make sure that the rest of their life is ruined, that when they’re 8 years old, they throw up; when they’re 12 years old, they won’t sleep; when they’re 19 years old, they’ll have nightmares and they’ll never have a relationship with anybody.” - MA Rep. James Fagan (D)

I understand that the worst among out society has the right to a good defense in court, but for a trial lawyer to threaten to further ruin the lives of victims of child sexual assault makes him about as bad as the people that originally traumatized the victims. He is not talking about trying to establish the truth here, or even trying to provide an effective defense, he is talking about threatening and bullying crime victims to suppress testimony. That is unconscionable.

“Hello? 911? Yes, I think I smell a man with a gun. Yes… I said ’smell’. I can smell the… hello?? hello???” - Robb from Sharp as a Marble on the effect of using Hoppe’s #9 on a carry gun.

The Dallas Morning News reports:

Cameron Sands of Fort Worth kicked in the door of the house and shot himself in the stomach as he pulled a gun out of his pants to shoot the homeowner, police said. The homeowner was not injured.

We keep hearing (bogus) stats about how much more likely a gun in your house is to injure you, instead of an intruder, maybe we need stats on the likelihood of your crime gun killing you…

“There’s some kind of destabilization over there.” - N.Y. Gov Paterson, about Mayor Mike Bloomberg, quoted at the N.Y. Post

Hat Tip Cam & Company

After a weekend that that left us with (if I remember right) the 3rd highest rainfall for the month of June by June 8th, caused extensive flooding, and a lake to leave, it is now raining again.