Who’s got the the biggest

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Phil Kadath

Starship?

Hit this. Gawk.

In that order.

Found via the AoSHQ ONT

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I can’t support him either

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Phil Kadath

Clint Didier, the third place finisher in Washington’s “Top Two” Senate primary last week, is refusing to endorse the Republican establishment pick and second place finisher, Dino Rossi.

As would I.

Clint Didier, the candidate Sarah Palin backed in the Washington state Senate race, today said he’s not yet ready to support Dino Rossi, the GOP victor in Tuesday’s primary.

“I want to endorse Dino Rossi; I really do,” Didier said at a Seattle press conference. But he said he came away from a long conversation with Rossi the evening before without the assurances he needed. “At this moment, I cannot endorse Dino Rossi,” Didier said.

Didier wants three promises from Rossi:

1 – Block any new federal spending.

2 – Oppose any new taxes on all income brackets.

3 – Introduce a copy of Ron Paul’s very foolish and not at all Libertarian “Sanctity of Life Act” in the Senate.

That is his price for his endorsement. An endorsement that Rossi cannot win without. I am pretty sure that Rossi knows this and every day he doesn’t acquiesce makes him weaker with the Didier crowd.

I only want the first two, and without them I don’t know what I’m going to do on election day. Am I “very likely” to end up inking the bubble next to Rossi’s name simply because he’s not Patty Murray? No. It is possible, but I want to think on it between now and then. I don’t want to vote for a Republican version of Murray simply because he’s not Murray. That is not what the 2010 elections are about.

And Rossi needs to figure this out soon. A large percentage of other Didier supporters I’ve spoken to locally aren’t as “flexible” as I am and will simply stay home or leave that area of the ballot blank.

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Nice family you got there, lady

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Phil Kadath

Some kids you just wish were at home being good little video game addicts.

Boy, 10, accused in botched Metro robbery remains in custody

Wide-eyed, chubby-faced and standing just 4 feet 1, the 10-year-old boy walked into a crowded juvenile courtroom Thursday nursing a bullet wound and facing criminal charges that seemed to belie his young age.

But King County Deputy Prosecutor Julie Kline described the boy as a “danger to the community and a danger to himself,” someone who is no stranger to Seattle police. Since July 2008, when he was 8, the boy has been investigated 13 times for crimes that include theft, robbery with assault and robberies with a weapon, Detective Benjamin Hughey told Superior Court Commissioner Julia Garratt. He has never been charged, according to court records.

Now the boy and his two half- brothers — ages 12 and 14 — were in juvenile court, accused of participating in a botched armed robbery Tuesday night aboard a Metro Transit bus that ended with the 10-year-old accidentally shooting himself in his right arm.

According to Seattle police, the three confronted a 17-year-old boy on Metro’s Route 7 bus shortly before 8 p.m. The 10-year-old ordered the older boy to empty his pockets while his half-brothers surrounded the victim, police said.

The 17-year-old told police that the 10-year-old unzipped the older boy’s backpack and reached inside. The 17-year-old had a .22-caliber semi-automatic handgun in the backpack and he was afraid the younger boy was reaching for the gun.

The older boy grabbed the 10-year-old in a bear hug and during the struggle a gunshot went off inside the backpack, wounding the younger boy, police said.

And, of course, the mother is positive that the police are railroading her “baby”.

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Not quite a carney harker

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Phil Kadath

If’n you’re not doing anything important today, I’ll be using the skills I learned as a teen working behind the tables at gunshows helping friends at the annual Laurel Oaks retirement community “Garage Sale”.

There are over to 150 homes in this gated community and usually at least 1/3 of them will have stuff for sale. They’re opening the gates from 0900 to 1600 so that non-residents can peruse.

The main entrance is at the 1900 block of Marvin Rd. S.E. in Lacey (the first right after you cross the train tracks).

I’ll be bringing some of my own stuff down to try and pick up some quick walkin’ around money. Bring yourself and the little lady down and wander around with her for a bit. Who knows what you might find. If you don’t spend any of your cash there, you can make the quick 3 mile hop to Cabelas, which is just on the other side of I-5.

Come early for the good stuff. Hope to see you there.

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RNS Quote of the Day, 08/20/10

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Alaska

…Cameron has accompanied this… by an extremely radical political and social agenda to try and, if you will, lift the dead weight of the state off of British national life. If I tell you that more than half, or roughly half, of all economic activity in the United Kingdom is accounted for by the state, that the country has, if not the highest, very close to the highest taxes in Europe, it has an enormous public sector workforce of about six million people, about a million of them recruited under the Labour government. Cameron is trying to reverse that. He’s saying this isn’t just a matter of cuts to reduce the deficit to half of what it is by the end of a five year parliament. This is an attempt to revive free enterprise, and to revive, just as importantly, volunteerism in British society. And to understand that, you’d have to know how much weaker is the community reflex, the community instinct in this country than it is in the United States. British friends of mine who go to the United States are always struck by the enormous strength of the community in America. That’s not to say it doesn’t exist here, but there is a much larger instinct to rely on the state to solve problems here than there is in the United States. Cameron wants to reverse that. It’s an extremely ambitious project, and it’s far from certain he can pull it off. If he pulls it off, he’ll turn out to be one of the great prime ministers in British history.

—John Burns, on Hugh Hewitt’s show.

I made fun of Burns’ hair some years ago; however, despite his sixties-era hippie do, he’s quite the astute observer.

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NRA Attorney Paul Clement Throws Self Under Bus

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Alaska

Pretty damned cool. In the latest Nordyke briefs, former Solicitor General Paul Clement reversed his position in Heller. Says Calguns Foundation Chair Gene Hoffman:

Many of you saw my criticisms of certain decisions around the McDonald Oral Argument as it related to NRA and their choice of counsel. I still find that episode in bad taste and form, but I want to offer an apology to one portion of that incident.Paul Clement and Jeffrey Bucholtz argued for the United States as Solicitor General and Deputy Solicitor General in Heller. Mr. Clement asked for the divided argument in McDonald and one can argue that only Mr. Clement could have succeeded to divide Mr. Gura’s time – as he did. At that time I was suspicious as I remained very unhappy with Mr. Clements argument as US SG in Heller and I still see both incidents as ill advised.That said it takes a big person to throw one’s self under the bus. Yesterday (8/18) NRA filed a brief authored by Paul Clement and Jeffrey Bucholtz. Again, Mr. Clement argued for the US SG’s office in Heller and Mr. Bucholtz was at the table that day. In today’s NRA brief, they explained how their argument was wrong and that means that intermediate scrutiny should not apply to the review of laws under the Second Amendment (emphasis added):

Quote:
Terminology aside, however, Justice Breyer’s approach in substance was simply intermediate scrutiny. Justice Breyer relied (see id. at 2852) on cases such as Turner Broadcasting Sys., Inc. v. FCC, 520 U.S. 180 (1997), and Thompson v. Western States Med. Center, 535 U.S. 357 (2002), which explicitly apply intermediate scrutiny. Even more revealingly, Justice Breyer invoked Burdick v. Takushi, 504 U.S. 428 (1992), the case on which the United States principally relied in advocating that the Court adopt intermediate scrutiny. See Br. of U.S., Heller, at 8, 24, 28. Because Justice Breyer’s interest-balancing amounted to intermediate scrutiny and the Court rejected it (and reaffirmed that rejection in McDonald), it would be inappropriate for this Court to adopt intermediate scrutiny as the standard for judging restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms.

I’m glad that Mr. Clement and Mr. Bucholtz are zealously advocating for the right to arms – even when it means admitting personal error.

-Gene

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The California Hills Are Already Full

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Alaska

…so don’t try bugging out to them:

“People have already been ALL OVER the Sierra back-country for the past hundred and seventy years. I’ve been on Enduro races and dual-sport rides up in what we thought was in the back-freaking-nothing, places where you could barely stand upright because there was no level ground, and come across houses and people in the most unexpected places. There are mountain passes with names on them, on little twisty broken asphalt roads, with a development in the pines nearby. All the Sheriffs drive 4×4’s because they know the dirt and backroads that lace the area.” –Dirtcrashr

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The best they have?

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Phil Kadath

In what I can only guess passes on the leftosphere as a cutting edge idea these days, the Pacific Northwest’s own Jesus’ General is promoting September 12th as “Burn the Confederate Flag Day”

Burn the Confederate Flag Day is a protest against the right’s exploitation of racial prejudice for political gain.  We urge you to burn the Confederate flag, a long-time symbol of racial hatred, on Sept 12, the date when the racially-divisive Tea Party holds its annual hate fest.

I guess that burning an American flag is now passe’.

Or maybe, now that Obama is President, its “racist”.

If they were planning on burning up the actual quasi-official flag of the Tea Party, The Gadsen, then I might get a tad worked up. But this idea is just covered in teh stoopid.

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The Soundboard: It’s been a long time Edition

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Phil Kadath

Yes, with the time off from school I’m working on re-firing up the FTP server so we can rock on Thursdays again (I don’t know about y’all but that is the day I need it most).

In the meantime, we’re bound by the rules of streaming video.

And for some motivation, I took the 1000 watts that I pulled from my gold truck before trading it in on Bull and stuffed into Buddy the Jeep last weekend. So yeah, I sway as I motorvate down the highway.

This is now a few years old, but it still kicks my ass.

The lyrics are silly but if you want them you can find them here.

And I’m not yet sure that 1K is enough wattage for this track

Enjoy!

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Overcharged

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Phil Kadath

I’m not talking dollars here.

Yesterday, Uncle posted about the guy folks are calling The Ice Man. Douglas Kaynor was making plastic pop bottles pop in his backyard using dry ice. His neighbor complained, the police arrived and Kaynor is now facing 10 charges in federal court.

In an eerily similar new case, two bartenders who do tricks like breath fire and juggle liquor bottles were arrested in Chicago for…. wait for it…. breathing fire and juggling liquor bottles. They face 45 years each for what they have been employed by the bar owner to do for a decade.

I guess I must have missed which bill Obama signed that gave the power of arrest to the Fun Police.

Second story link found @ Bill Quick’s

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