Oh my!

Posted on January 5, 2010 by Phil Kadath

I would like to frequent an establishment that post a sign such as this. Frequently.

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Found @ Samizdata.UK

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Wut?

Posted on January 5, 2010 by Phil Kadath

Easily the stupidest thing I’ve learned this year.

After taking a class that covered global warming last year, Jill Saylor decided to save energy by drying her laundry on a clothesline at her mobile home.

“I figured trailer parks were the one place left where hanging your laundry was actually still allowed,” she said, standing in front of her tidy yellow mobile home on an impeccably manicured lawn.

But she was wrong. Like the majority of the 60 million people who now live in the country’s roughly 300,000 private communities, Ms. Saylor was forbidden to dry her laundry outside because many people viewed it as an eyesore, not unlike storing junk cars in driveways, and a marker of poverty that lowers property values.

In the last year, however, state lawmakers in Colorado, Hawaii, Maine and Vermont have overridden these local rules with legislation protecting the right to hang laundry outdoors, citing environmental concerns since clothes dryers use at least 6 percent of all household electricity consumption.

Florida and Utah already had such laws, and similar bills are being considered in Maryland, North Carolina, Oregon and Virginia, clothesline advocates say.

I had no idea that clothes lines were illegal anywhere. The Wife set one up on the upper deck last summer and loved it.

Another reason I’m glad I have no neighbors behind me and that my yard is locked behind a six foot fence all the way around.

Found via Riehl

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Basic Economics

Posted on January 4, 2010 by Alaska

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h/t Dax Montana.

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RNS Quote of the Day, 01/04/2010

Posted on January 4, 2010 by Alaska

“It was always safe to buy these [GSE mortgage-backed security] notes,” he said. The U.S. government was always going to stand behind them. They’re as good as Treasury notes.” We are no longer sure this is the most inspiring comparison.

–“Marla Singer” in this post at Zerohedge about the unheralded Christmas 2009 expansion to infinity of the federal government’s backstopping of Fannie and Freddie’s losses

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Getting my knowledge on

Posted on January 4, 2010 by Phil Kadath

Well, folks. This is it. My first day as a student.

By the time you read this and my posts below, I will have my ass in a chair and my thinking cap on to make sure I don’t miss anything.

For the next three to five years I’ll be taking at least two classes per quarter at a local college or university.

This means that my blogging level will quite likely go down a measurable amount. If I can’t write in my lunch hour at work or on the weekend, it will probably have to pass. But not to worry, as David will be posting and I’ve still got two other good fellows waiting in the wings.

I’m sure the new time vaccum will be the topic of a number of future posts, which I’m excited for. It might even be like you’re learning right along with me. A proxy Bachelor of Science in Geography.

FYI: My thinking cap says Noveske on it.

I think I’ll work it into them easy and then switch up to the Remington hats after a few weeks.

UPDATE: Back home again, safe and sound and my head didn’t explode. Two things though:

1 – I might not have to worry about not posting as much this first quarter. My first class is a rehash of algebra (for my personal benefit before moving on to the stuff I haven’t used in 20 years) with full computer access. I’m not allowed to leave until class is over (out of respect for the others), but I can post. I’ve already put RNS in the browser. Oh, and maybe put up a 4Chan background.

2 – If I hear another person use the word “like” more than once in a sentence, I may have to hurt them very badly. I’m, like, really glad I can’t, like, fit a baseball bat in my backpack because I might, like, turn heads into, like, an oozing-gooey mush or something with it. I’m not the only person over 30 in the room, but only those under 30 spoke that way.

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One Equals Two

Posted on January 4, 2010 by Phil Kadath

But only when speaking of the 1st Amendment versus the Second Amendment.

Reason’s Damon Root looks at past cases of the states restricting 1st Amendment rights and the SCOTUS reactions to such infringements and uses those examples to knock out Chicago’s argument that cities, counties and states should be allowed to serve as “laboratories” in civil rights “experiments”.

In fact, he makes it look easy.

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More field testing

Posted on January 4, 2010 by Phil Kadath

In this case, China is testing their products in Iran.

What products, you might ask?

How well to their APC’s run down protesters?

The armoured anti-riot vehicles have a capacity of 10,000 liters to shoot cold and hot water, and three 100 liter tanks to shoot burning chemical liquids. The water is mixed with paint or tear gas that cannot be washed away. Each vehicle has two guns for shooting liquid up to a distance of 70 meters- it is controlled from inside the cabin. The price tag for each unit is 650,000 dollars. Also, a lot of extra burning liquid, paint, and tear gas was purchased.

It took four months for the delivery of the armoured vehicles, and since the Iranian regime was in a hurry, they had them delivered from China’s army organization- this is rare! China’s government was in as much of a hurry to get these to Iran.

Will it really take burning Persians to get obama to finally say that the Mullahs are bad?

Will he even say anything then?

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They’ve got the power

Posted on January 4, 2010 by Phil Kadath

It looks as though the Obamaton takeover of the Democratic Party is complete.

Or, at least they seem to think so

Democrats are moving to eliminate from the party’s national convention the superdelegates, the elected officials and party leaders whose role in the presidential nominating process came under intense scrutiny in last year’s closely-contested primary.

Those superdelegates provided, for a time, a lifeline to then-Sen. Hillary Clinton’s flagging campaign, and the effective end of their independent role would be a major step toward reshaping the Democratic Party — and its internal politics — in President Barack Obama’s image.

A group created by the Democratic National Committee to examine the role of the superdelegates, the Democratic Change Commission — steered by the Obama campaign’s top delegate counter, Jeff Berman — held a conference call Wednesday to recommend that these unpledged delegates cast their votes based upon the electoral results of their states rather than on personal preference.

Yes, the idea of superdelgates is and always was a dumb idea. But I’m suspecting something slightly more ulterior is at hand. It’ll never be my party, and probably never be yours either, but watch for the next move.If for no other reason than for entertainment purposes.

If Clinton, or anyone else for that matter, had any plans to pull a 2012 nomination out from under a failing Obama Administration, one of the two paths just slid down the hillside.

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RNS Quote of the Day 01/03/2010

Posted on January 3, 2010 by Alaska

Washington [was] a man who positively enjoyed reading other people’s mail. And I think we should just face it that Washington was able to tell a lie; and in fact, he told a great many of them and he smiled as he did. … It’s a sign of the times, I think, that I can think only better of him now that I know how adept he was at spying the daylights out of the British. And itself that’s a testament to how much we’ve changed since then, I think, because to the modern mind, not spying on your enemies in the middle of a struggle for survival would be a dereliction of duty on the part of any commander. And in this sense, as in so many others, Washington really was very far ahead of his time. Washington’s brilliance as a spymaster, his natural genius for the job, shines through….
–Alexander Rose, speaking about his book Washington’s Spies.

This spy ring of “lone dogs” — nearly impervious to penetration because they all knew each other from childhood — was run by Washington himself. He was reportedly like a boy with a new toy as he experimented with the invisible ink they concocted, which was impervious to discovery by heat.

Some months back, somebody posted something about using mildly deceptive tactics to help change the mind of a business owner so he’d allow CCW permit holders to carry on his premises. IIRC, Linoge took umbrage at the tactic being beneath the dignity of our civil-rights movement, although I can’t find either the post or his comment, so I could certainly be wrong about that in all number of ways. Still, I think this should make it a bit more difficult to scoff at deception or other dishonorable methods as being unworthy of being harnessed in service of the greater cause.

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Be Careful Out There

Posted on January 2, 2010 by Alaska

If you’re a California gun owner and you haven’t DONATED to the Calguns Foundation yet, here’s another example of why you should. The rifle you save may be your own.

CGF at Work: AR-15 Returned to Owner, No Charges Filed! 
Written by Kevin Thomason
Friday, 18 December 2009 10:42
Here is a great post from “Stan” – a Calguns.net member who had an AR-15 wrongly seized by the Orange County Sheriff’s Department. Working with the CGF and CGF attorneys, Stan was able to get his AR-15 back, and avoid prosecution. To read the original thread, click over to http://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=250919.

Stories like this are why we do what we do!

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