Because I might be a criminal

Posted on February 20, 2009 by Phil Kadath

Today is the day that I spend an hour or so with a paper number in my hand while applying for renewal of my state issued Concealed Pistol License.

Since I last had my permit renewed I have moved out of King County and into Pierce County. In Washington, a applicant can only apply with the policing agency who polices his main residence. This was changed a decade or so ago after it was discovered that some agencies were supplementing their budgets by completing the process well within the 30 Day time frame and attracting many more applicants than they had residents.

Another quirk here in Washington (and a good one) is that if you are not DQ’d from having a permit, the agency HAS to give it to you withing 30 days. Places such as Seattle and King County would make people wait the entire 30. Because a market is a market is a market, smaller jursidictions, doing the exact same background checks as the larger, more leftist constabularies, would get them done in 5-7 days and call the applicant to let them know the permit was ready.

If you are a resident of King County and not within the jurisdiction of a one of its many burgs, you can go to any of the Sheriff’s Department sub-stations and apply. But only on certain days and within certain hours. As of late, there is a month wait for an appointment.

In Pierce County, you can apply any time between 0800-1600, on any weekday, without an appointment. But can only do so at the County Building in downtown Tacoma.

So that is where I am off to.

There is one happy note to this story: The building has parking lots/garages available, but I’ll be using their angle-in on street parking. And I’ll be driving Buddy. Not just because he is more easily driven in the confines of a city than my truck, but also because he has a bumper sticker on his ass that states

“There is No Government Like Less Government”

During the hour plus that I’ll most likely be stuck there, well over a hundred people will have driven by said message at downtown morning traffic speed.

Sometimes you need to look for the little joys in life.

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The Best Sales Pitch They Have

Posted on February 20, 2009 by Phil Kadath

And it is not a bad one, in my mind.

I would like to say tonight that if the American people will let the Republicans back in charge, the 60% of this bill that won’t be spent until after the next election, we’ll cut it off and let it go to the Americans.”

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX)

Hannity Show

February 19, 2009

Though his grammar is wrong. He should have said that it will STAY with Americans.

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Speak No Evil

Posted on February 20, 2009 by Phil Kadath

Of the Obamessiah.

Reynolds linked to a story of Obama’s visit to Mesa Dobson High School yesterday which was not all that flattering of Mr. President.

He later gets an email telling him that his quote of the text is no longer in the story and goes to investigate.

Turns out, a lot of remembered quotes are missing from the story.

Emails to the reporter have gone unanswered.

Too bad for that guy that Reynolds has screen caps (something still need to learn how to do).

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What do these two boats have in common?

Posted on February 20, 2009 by Phil Kadath

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The Answer is below the fold.

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Round Peg

Posted on February 20, 2009 by Phil Kadath

Round Hole.

During the 2008 Gubernatorial campaign here in Washington, it was pointed out that our state was going to face a $3-4 Billion deficit in 2009. Her Governoress refused to admit that was true and would repeat over and over that it was only “projected” to be that large and that she would make sure it wouldn’t happen.

And she succeeded!

Since her re-swearing in it is now known that Washington State is facing an $8 Billion budget deficit.

Oddly enough, that $8 Billion figure is nearly the exact amount the Her Governoress increased spending during her first four years in office, when she had a pair of Democrat supermajorities in the legislature and state Republicans were warning that the incoming tax reciepts weren’t going to increase every year.
Found via Sound Politics

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Watchmen is gonna be good

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Alaska

Wil Wheaton got to see an advance screening. I previously linked to the trailer here.

Zack Snyder’s Watchmen is as close to a perfect film adaptation of Alan Moore’s Watchmen as we were ever going to see….

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Boomershoot Picture of the Day

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Alaska

Three for the price of one today. If you’ve got the skilz to stitch these three together into a single panoramic shot of the Random Nuclear Strikes tent at Boomershoot 2008, you’ll win a shiny genuine No-Prize! Excelsior!

Rich wins the No-Prize! Excellent!

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The Soundboard: Porkulus Edition

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Phil Kadath

I tried finding some tunage that would accurately convey my feelings about the Stimupalooza that doesn’t.

This track wasn’t strong enough

F.O.A.D – Darkthrone

And this one was a bit too strong

Vote with a Bullet – C.O.C.

So I ultimately failed and am just going to have to keep on keeping on

Refuse/Resist – SepulturaEnjoy the crunch!

Both that contained in today’s tunage and the one coming down the pike called inflation.

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I don’t normally hope

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Phil Kadath

That Joe Huffman is wrong. That is usually a bad bet to make.

However, it would make my week if someone could tell me that yesterday’s ruling (pdf) by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals applies to the rest of us.

Today, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously in support of allowing employees to store legally owned firearms in locked, private motor vehicles while parked in employer parking lots. This decision upholds NRA-backed legislation passed in 2004.

“This is a victory for the millions of American workers who have been denied the right to protect themselves while commuting between their homes and their workplace,” said NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre. “This effort was aimed at skirting the will of the American people, and the intent of legislatures across this country while eviscerating Right-to-Carry laws. This ruling is a slap at the corporate elitists who have no regard for the constitutional rights of law abiding American workers.”

I would enjoy nothing more than to drop a printout of the above pdf on my bigoted Site Manager’s desk tomorrow morning and give him something to read over the weekend.

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They must just be waiting

Posted on February 19, 2009 by Phil Kadath

For their cabinet appointments

From the U.S. Postal Service to the Executive Office of the President, thousands of federal workers have not paid their 2007 federal income taxes.

The Internal Revenue Service is trying to collect billions of dollars in unpaid taxes from nearly half a million federal employees. According to IRS records, 171,549 current federal workers did not voluntarily pay their federal income taxes in 2007. The same is true for 37,752 active duty military and nearly 200,000 retired civilian and military personnel.

Documents obtained by WTOP through the Freedom of Information Act show 449,531 federal employees and retirees did not pay their taxes for a total of $3,586,784,725 in taxes owed last year.

Each year the IRS tracks the voluntary compliance rate of all federal workers and retirees. The percentage of employees and retirees who are delinquent has gone up and down over the past five years, but the amount unpaid has increased each year topping $3.5 billion for the first time in 2007.

The agency with the most delinquent employees is the U.S. Postal Service. With more than 747,000 employees, the postal service is the largest employer in the federal government, but with a 4.16 percent delinquency rate, it is a full 1 percent above the average compliance rate this year.

If they’d pay their taxes like the rest of us they wouldn’t have to think about cutting a day off the delivery week.

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