Click to embiggen. Para on the left, S&W K-22 and 1917 on the right.
The card with the orangutan was a birthday card from my daughter. Inside she wrote:
Dave– this kind of reminds me of you lying around the house.
Out of the mouths of babes, eh? Now I will admit to a penchant for relaxing completely when I do relax, but still…. “O would that power, the giftie gie us….”
I’m currently recovering from one of the worst head colds I’ve ever had. It started last Friday and I finally broke it on Wednesday. I’m still getting headaches from sinus pressure, which aspirin doesn’t do a damn thing for, though after last night’s entertainment I’m not feeling so bad about it.
I had just one last big pressure area that, no matter how many time I blew my nose, would go away.
I’m talking to a co-woker and get a bit of a residual cough thing going on. I get up and head to the fridge to grab a cold bottle of water. I take a drink as he’s talking to me and I don’t know what it was, most likely the water temp, but it chose that moment to let go.
My head let out a whine from released air pressure that lasted about 10 seconds. I was so stunned that it was happening that I just sat there, staring forward, and let it go.
My co-worker hears it and looks at what I’m looking at, which happens to be my desktop CPU.
He asked “Is there something wrong with your computer?”
I replied “Nope, there’s something wrong with my head.”
To which he smartassed “We already knew that.”
My head is still sore from that pressure headache. Relief should arrive by end of business tomorrow. Just in time for the weekend.
Gov. Brian Schweitzer has signed into law a bill that aims to exempt Montana-made guns from federal regulation, adding firepower to a battery of legislative efforts to assert states’ rights across the nation.
“It’s a gun bill, but it’s another way of demonstrating the sovereignty of the state of Montana,†Democrat Schweitzer said.
Since the law applies only to those guns that are made and kept in Montana, its impact is limited. The state is home to just a handful of specialty gun makers, known for recreating rifles used to settle the West, and most of their customers are out-of-state.
But supporters of the new law hope it triggers a court case testing the legal basis for federal rules governing gun sales.
“What we need here is for Montana to be able to handle Montana’s business and affairs,†bill sponsor Rep. Joel Boniek, a Republican and wilderness guide from Livingston, told fellow lawmakers during the bill’s House debate.
I might have to start up a Big Sky based collection. With The Wife having numerous relates living there, I’m sure I could find a volunteer to give me some space for a safe.
Not one, not two, but… yeah, OK, just two quotes today.
Taking off on David’s idea below, you could call it a “T.E.A.B.A.G.G.E.R twofer”.
First
They will be selling the ‘Obama burger’ — you pay for one and they cut it in half and give the rest to the guy behind you for free !
An anonymous reader of Mark Krikorian of NRO from the Greenville S.C. T.E.A. Party
Sound about right to me. But only if the guy behind me whines that he doesn’t like pickles on his burger.
Secondly
Several sites are attempting to ensure that the enthusiasm of yesterdays tea parties isn’t a flash in the pan, including AfterTheTeaParty.com and TaxDayTeaParty.com.
If 100-1,000 people show up at a rally, the event may or may not get media coverage, and that coverage may or may not be snarky or dismissive. Congressmen may or may not notice, and the President’s spokesman will announce he’s not aware of them.
But if 100-1,000 people show up at a town council, city council, etc. meeting, in most places, that’s an earthquake. It varies widely, but most local government budget meetings are sleepy affairs, and many local lawmakers are used to settling their spending with minimal scrutiny. They’ve never seen anything like several hundred people showing up with the same message of “don’t waste my money.”
I’m sure that they’d probably cancel the meeting, though I doubt they’d admit to doing so because they needed to go home and change their underwear.
And since I like this video, here is a third item
It’s not like they’re advocating for a reinstitution of the Scary Looking Guns Ban or anything?
Oh. Nevermind.
Okay, you internet-savvy RNS readers. We need to pwn this “Teabagger” slur. Somebody needs to set up a T-shirt design for me (see comments here). This design idea’s free to you; I just wanna buy one.
Something like the above, but with a clean M4 or other EBR silhouette inserted below “Bought A Gun.”
Click to embiggen the craptacular cellphone pic of what I consider my BAG day gun. 
How ’bout them grips? More in a bit….
Perfection from Sebastian the other day: Hello, My Name is Tom, and I’m Packing
Many years ago in a lifetime far, far away April 16th was the first time The Wife and I went out together.
I took her to lunch and then off to the Woodland Park Zoo (zoos are always a good place for a first date) and afterwards I let her win on the GoKart track. Then we went to dinner and retired to her place for a movie (Apollo 13, if I remember correctly).
She doesn’t know I’m posting this and will probably be very surprised when she drops by RNS today.
Can’t Get No Better – Cody ChesnuTT
For those who thought yesterday’s selection was rough, this is the exact opposite.
Take a listen and enjoy!
I would call yesterday’s gatherings a rousing success, even without (or possibly because of) my abscence.
I say this because I have trudged through the leftosphere swamps and read their reactions to them. I have also listened in on their radio broadcasts and heard the folks calling into those shows.
Guess what? There are a lot of white taxpayers in America. That is about the worst actual fact that they can come up with: That a large number of those protesting yesterday were white. It is a good thing the leftosphere bloggers didn’t look around during those anti-Bush protests during the early stages of the fight in Iraq, because they were soooo integrated, ya know. There were both college students and ex-college students there!
One of the frontpagers over at the C&R blog noticed that this was all they had in the arsenal and decided to prop up a post titled “10 Republican Lies on Tax Day” that included facts not previously know to modern man.
Like that if only 479,000 small business owners are going to be effected by Obama’s tax increases, then the Republicans are lying when they say “people” will be effected. Or that because only 100 family owned farms are going to be destroyed per year by the Death Tax under Obama’s plan, that the Republicans are lying when they say that people will be hurt by said plan.
Or my personal favorite: That when Republicans say that 40% of Americans pay no taxes, even though the topic of the entire discussion was the federal income tax, that Republicans are lying “because every worker pays into Social Security and Medicare”.
Jane Hamsher of FDL even went so far as to work out her own timeline of the T.E.A. Party idea, in contrast to the one from Michelle Malkin. Strangely though, instead of containing just factual statements on the history of it, Hamsher slides in some opinion.
Did you know that if you are the first person in the country to host an anti-Porkulus rally and you are invited to be a call in guest on a local radio station so that you can promote your rally, that you aren’t “grass-roots” because the station is a FOX affiliate and the host is a board member of the Young America’s Foundation? Neither did I?
Glad to know that Jane doesn’t fool herself into believing Code Pink and ANSWER aren’t “grass roots” either.
Speaking of Code Pink and ANSWER, did you notice anything missing from the reports on the over 400 rallies held yesterday?
Yes, there were no arrests or property damage, and the areas where people gathered were clear of litter.
Those darned wingnuts! Always pickin’ up after themselves and not breaking other people’s stuff or starting fistfights! Just who do they think they are!?!
