January 28, 2009

 

                               

          

 

 

To All,

     Kind of brings new meaning to the term "German Engineering".

 

In other news...:

 

Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves:

      Face it, UCLA Law gives great symposia. And on January 23, 2009, there was a great one.

 

      After all, where else do lowly firearms rights volunteers get to mingle with some of the intellectual greats of the Great Patriotic War to Preserve Firearms Rights and Peeve Off Commie Pinkos? Folks like Gary Kleck, Joyce Lee Malcolm,  and Eugene Volokh?

 

     Not only that, but we got a free lunch too, just for the price of showing up and having to stomach the theories and expressed desires of those who would steal our rights and heritage.

 

     In reality, it was not such an inexpensive price. Surely there has to be an OSHA regulation somewhere denoting the LD-50 of exposure to the likes of Dennis Hennigan, who apparently does not believe that suicides can be done without a firearm present (Or that distraught teens have not ever substituted alcohol, pills, bridges, tall buildings, or razor blades for the family handgun as the opportunity and desperation arose...).

 

     Still, if one could somehow keep the arugula, roast beef, pilaf and cheesecake down after listening to how Hennigan intends to continue failed "supply-side" measures designed to disarm us all, then one might be ready to acknowledge that it's going to be raining bandini from the Beltway in short order.

 

     After all, it was Hennigan and his fellow gungrabbers Jens Ludwig and Andrew Samaha who discussed (with a draft-only, not ready for quotation/non-peer-reviewed study, no less) how they were going to continue lobbying for regulating each and every firearms transaction, firearms rationing in general, and empowering the ATF to finish off every legal dealer from Kittery to Nome.

 

     Face it, elections do have consequences. And no amount of wishful thinking, nor the sportsman-like sentiment of "wanting Obama to succeed" in bringing about Socialist policies of disarmament (among other things) will be acceptable to those willing to test "conclusions" in a meaningful way.  It ultimately may require cranking the pinkies of every last Blue Dog in the Congress, but suffice it to say that the Second Amendment will be preserved by any means necessary.

Stay tuned.

 

 

 

 

Thank God For Mad Magazine:

    For all of us who have had it up to the eyebrows with "Obamamania" (Not a Presidency, but an Incredible Simulation) and the claims of approval ratings higher than the Van Allen Belt (and just as toxic...), the folks at Mad Magazine have introduced perhaps some timely levity.

 

    At the very least, they are posing the interesting conundrum as to whether the President's "habit" constitutes an unsuitable role model for Mad's subscriber base (not to mention the hordes of the nation's youth that are known to cluster around the magazine stands of 7-11's across the land). Or, perhaps, some much needed advertising for a tobacco industry painted with the red-dot of Donkey Party tax gatherers deep into the money hunt. Hopefully we will all be able to laugh at this, when it is said and done. In the mean time, Mad Magazine can be purchased at news stands all over. Buy today.

 

Link at:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jacob-s-lybbert/2009/01/27/liberal-cartoonists-complain-obama-too-cool-handsome-satirize

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/us/27belmont.html?_r=1

 

 

 

From a Secret Location in Sacramento....:

 

 

 

Well, at least someone is on top of things. Perhaps we all will be able to sell the ping pong paddles in lieu of pay, or in lieu of those IOU's they are talking about handing out.

 

Links at:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/01/27/state/n180909S88.DTL

 

http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitolalertlatest/018992.html

 

 

Stoopid Is As Stoopid Does Update-

     Fresh off of Chuck Michel's "ass-whuppin" of the City of San Francisco over the right to keep and bear arms while one is a tenant in public housing, the Legal Beagles of the Bay have decided to try to abrogate the First Amendment instead.

 

    In a story by C. W. Nevius in the San Francisco Chronicle, it seems that the city has decided to declare various areas of the city as "drug free zones" based upon the say-so of city officials. Once declared, police will have discretion to keep folks from "congregating" for the purposes of scoring drug buys.

 

   Unfortunately, congregating for the purposes of purchasing illegal narcotics looks a lot like waiting for one's significant other to return after parking in the notoriously crowded Tenderloin. Or congregating for one's barbershop quartet members just prior to an impromptu street concert. Or even standing as a group on a corner trying to decide between "Thai" or "Italian" (No, I won't even go there...Wouldn't be prudent...). In turn, that makes the possibilities of camouflage for enterprising dope peddlers endless.

 

     It will be interesting to see if the ACLU steps up for the First Amendment like the NRA has stood for the Second. But this continued habit of tossing out the Bill of Rights by the City Fathers of Frisco needs to be reconsidered if the City By The Bay is going to retain it's civil liberties bona fides and Secret Decoder Ring. In the post-Heller environment, it is not enough to say that Newsom and Co. are just borrowing from the "experience" of Washington DC. Of course, if the ACLU thinks that perhaps they will "lose" such a case, and are incapable of defending the Bill of Rights, then perhaps they might need a new batch of attorneys. Give us a call Gavin, let's do lunch. Perhaps we can pass on some referrals.

 

Link at:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/26/BAGB15HD3Q.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea

 

 

And Now, Simply For The Heck Of It:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Respectfully,

 

 

Anthony Canales

SFVMC-NRA