It is always Bill of Rights Day here

But since Uncle pointed it out, any reason is a good reason fro a book sale.

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Hypocrisy, They Name is Government

Banker bonuses … Bad

Bureaucrat bonuses … Good?

The economy has been in the dumps for years, but the good times keep on rolling for some favored D.C. employees.

City officials have doled out nearly $15 million in bonuses and awards since Mayor Adrian Fenty took office in January 2007, records obtained by The Examiner under the Freedom of Information Act show.

Among the big winners were Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, who was handed $41,250 in August 2007 after barely two months on the job; Department of Health Director Pierre Vigilance, who was given $15,000 in 2008; and city property manager Robin-Eve Jasper, handed $18,000 over two years.

The bonuses were ladled out even as the city was facing nine-figure budget shortfalls and officials — including Rhee — were firing employees by the busload, claiming they could no longer afford them.

For some strange reason, no leftosphere sites or MSM news orgs have seen fit to report on this.

It must be because MoveOn hasn’t invited them to join the protester bus tour or something.

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Yippie Ki Yay!

The dates for the Fifth Annual Gunblogger Rendezvous have been announced, hombres.

Even though the Gun Blogger Rendezvous isn’t until next September, there’s a ton of work that has to be done well in advance of the event. First and foremost is the negotiating of the contracts with the Silver Legacy and setting the event dates. Last year I didn’t get to that until February, and we were just barely able to get the dates and amenities we needed.

This year I’m on it a bit earlier, and the dates have now been set and the final contract negotiations finalized. The details have now been sorted out, and the contracts will be signed in the next day or so.

The official dates for Gun Blogger Rendezvous V are Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, September 9th., 10th., 11th., and 12th.

If you need to be told those are for 2010, don’t bother signing up.

Otherwise, mark your calendars.

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It’s not “Selling Out”

It’s “Buying In”

Cap and Tax is just about dead. Not quite. But almost.

It is so nearly dead because folks have realized that, if it passes, they will end up paying more to keep the lights and heat on in their homes and businesses.

A less known fact about the current Cap & Tax plan is that it was at least partially created and written by Blythe Masters (aka the same person who created “Credit Default Swaps”).

Because of these facts, Washington’s very own Maria Cantwell (D-Itzy) has written up a “Cap & Rebate” bill.

Under her bill, the federal government would auction off carbon shares to the nation’s 2,000 or so fuel producers, such as coal and oil companies. Every two years, the shares would expire and, over the years, the U.S. government would offer fewer and fewer shares for sale as a way to reduce carbon consumption.

Three-fourths of the money raised would be rebated directly to legal U.S. citizens. Cantwell’s office estimated that an average family of four would receive a total of about $1,100 a year in the form of tax-free monthly checks.

“We will give everyone a dividend check,” Cantwell said. “We will keep consumers whole and that is important.”

The other 25 percent of the money raised would be used exclusively for clean-energy research and development, energy efficiency programs and for assistance to communities and workers transitioning to a clean energy economy.

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Cantwell also said her bill would eliminate Wall Street manipulation and speculation in the trading of the shares. The bill would allow limited trading of the shares among the companies who own them, with a price ceiling and floor set to ensure there were no volatile swings in the market. The trading would be regulated by the U.S. Treasury.

So, just as ignorant, but with more money to the Plebs, most of whom aren’t smart enough to realize that any check they get is their own money.

It is almost as though the Democrats (and RINOs) get their horrible ideas on a Buy One, Get One Free basis.

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Have any cheese to spare?

These two guys will bring the whine.

First, Erik Schelzig at the AP is a gun bigot who doesn’t like you exercising your civil rights

NRA Quietly Winning Battles for Looser Gun Laws

It’s been the year of the gun in Tennessee. In a flurry of legislative action, handgun owners won the right to take their weapons onto sports fields and playgrounds and, at least briefly, into bars.

A change in leadership at the state Capitol helped open the doors to the gun-related bills and put Tennessee at the forefront of a largely unnoticed trend: In much of the country, it is getting easier to carry guns.

A nationwide review by The Associated Press found that over the last two years, 24 states, mostly in the South and West, have passed 47 new laws loosening gun restrictions.

Among other things, legislatures have allowed firearms to be carried in cars, made it illegal to ask job candidates whether they own a gun, and expanded agreements that make permits to carry handguns in one state valid in another.

The trend is attributed in large part to a push by the National Rifle Association. The NRA, which for years has blocked attempts in Washington to tighten firearms laws, has ramped up its efforts at the state level to chip away at gun restrictions.

And to Schelzig, those are all “bad things”.

I’d insert a homily on the topic of registering and restricting “journalist’s” 1st Amendment rights similar to what he’d have done to firearms owners, but I hate sounding like a broken record.
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Next up, Cenk Uygur (of the leftist radio show “The Young Turks”), gets his panties in a bunch over people’s belief that ACORN helped Obama become President.

A new poll by Public Policy Polling shows that 52% of Republicans believe that Obama did not really win the 2008 election. You think that’s absurd, get a load of why — ACORN stole it for him. Yes, a majority of Republicans in the country believe ACORN flat out stole the election for Obama. Only 27% of Republicans believe Obama won the election legitimately. 27%.

Those are stunning numbers. There is not one shred of evidence that ACORN “stole” one vote for Obama in the 2008 election. Do you know how many it would have needed to “steal” to swing the election from Obama to McCain? 9.5 million.

But it’s not just Republicans. 26% of Americans believe that ACORN stole the 2008 election. Only 62% of the country believes Obama was legitimately elected. That’s mental.

He describes said beliefs as “A gross failure of the media” because some of then dared to report on the one or more of the ACORN stories.

I’d like to believe that, in fairness, he would also consider it mental that a over 1/3 of the American citizenry believed that Bush was “Selected, Not Elected”?

But of course he doesn’t. As a semi-regular listener to his radio show when it was on Air America, I heard him repeatedly claim that as what he believes.

He would probably consider the “Selected” meme A Gross Sucess of the Media

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Captures my mood today

Crank it, then ride the waves….

Original is more lush, but less dynamic range:

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RNS Quote of the Day, 12/13/09

Hey, when you vote for somebody, you expect to get something back!

–Roland Martin

I caught this quote while flipping past some Comcast-sponsored black-public-interest roundtable show starring Mr. Martin. The entire show was about how President Obama has not come through for blacks. I’d posit that it’s the type of attitude evinced by the quote that’s part of the problem.

When I vote for somebody, I expect them to represent a set of principles, not give me a handout.

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This is too funny

I don’t watch the Tonight Show, but this was fantastic:

I’ve started reading Going Rogue, and it’s not bad.

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RSS Corruption Bleg

So it looks like all that hentai, er, literature that I downloaded from 4chan the other week brought some unwanted visitors along for the ride, as it seems to be only my posts that load up the RSS feed with spam. I’ve run my antiquated Symantec Antivirus and come up clean, but that thing’s a few years old and can’t be updated or removed due to the fact that my computer’s a freebie leftover from the office and our IT guy forgot the uninstall password.

Any recommendations for a handy virus/spyware/nastiness-removal tool I can buy online and download, and that will run without being upset that Symantec’s sitting on the drive as well? Cheaper is better; I’m likely to be replacing this machine with a pair of refurbished Mac iBooks in the very near future.

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Thing of Beauty

Not my gun. Custom Remington XP-100 in .260 Remington, converted to center-grip configuration.

XP-1.jpg

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