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A few days ago, I demonstrated that the hypothesis of “more guns equal more deaths” is false, according to numbers accumulated by the CDC and BATFE. However, at the time, I presented that information in a text-heavy, [...]

when representation is lacking

A little over a week ago, my city’s council decided to “opt out” of the new Tennessee law allowing law-abiding, licensed, trained, background-checked individuals to carry their firearms into city parks. I was not amused. Apparently, though, [...]

paypal sucks

When you get right down to it, PayPal is effectively the only game in town when it comes to online money transfers.
PayPal is also rabidly anti-firearm, to the point that if you perform a transaction and mention [...]

it is big, jim

When a house’s MLS listing includes specific, close-up, non-Google-Maps aerial photographs of the structure, it is probably outside of my price [...]

quote of the day

Words have meanings, folks:

By the way, let’s stop referring to presidential appointees as “czar”. A czar was a hereditary ruler, and there was only one at a time.
The correct term for a political boss [...]

not technically a lie

Over the past six months, our Glorious President has been trumpeting the numbers of “jobs created” by his various “stimulus” plans. As always, the exact words a politician uses are important, and you should always pay attention to them, [...]

duck and cover

Just when you think the internet cannot get any more stupid, Robb goes and resets the metric.
I hope you are proud of yourself – a stupidity singularity like that is dangerous, [...]

just a matter of perspective

I am shamelessly stealing this list from Kevin. Deal with it already.

Tell me again why people thought GWB was so stupid?

If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and [...]

Never waste a good crisis

Headline: Military Poised to Help FEMA Battle Swine Flu Outbreak.
Yeah, that’s gonna do wonders for the tin foil [...]

i promised you pictures

… and here are the pictures from the recent Hero Gear Hero-15 focus group meeting and shoot:

Head over here if you want to see the full-size images. I am certainly no [...]

the numbers are out there

One specious myth that crops up from time to time when dealing with hoplophobic anti-rights advocates is that, as the number of firearms owned by citizens increases, so too does the number of firearm-related deaths. On the surface, this [...]

lasers… in… space…

If you ever needed something to read for a few hours or so, this should suffice. Granted, it totally demolishes some of the near-and-dear weapon systems of the sci-fi genre, but it does so in a wonderfully [...]

It’s not just the ATF

Everyone today is all over the NFA Handbook changes that have suddenly turned thousands of rifles into unregistered SBR tickets to Club Fed.
It’s probably not maliciousness. It’s probably incompetence that comes from not realizing cutting out [...]

extending your length

There are times (more and more of them, recently) when the American government really gets on my nerves… like, for example, when it turns an entire subset of citizens into criminals overnight, on the basis of an

put it in print

As a follow-up to the bar shooting in Tellico Plains, it is looking like the shooter really, honestly, and truly did not have a handgun carry permit:

“He doesn’t have a permit for the gun [...]

OOOH! Me! Me! I know!

In the previous post (which I was going to talk about before he beat me to it), Linoge said:

On a more topical note, I am not entirely sure why the shooter was released… Tennessee does have an [...]

misdirection for misdirection’s sake

Back on July 14th, it became legal for law-abiding, licensed, trained individuals to carry handguns into restaurants that serve alcohol here in Tennessee, making Tennessee the 41st state to allow such things (with Arizona following closely along as the [...]

saying it how it is

And for today, Marko wins the internets:

Yesterday morning, on my weekly sojourn into town for Dadcation Day, I spotted a bumper sticker in the Borders parking lot that had me shaking my head:

HEALTH CARE IS [...]

slippety-slidey

This should serve as a warning to all egomaniacs with aspirations to being President: if you successfully make it to the Oval Office, do not follow the gameplan our Glorious President seems to be following, especially given how is [...]

focusing on the grouping

Yesterday, I drove six hours, round trip, to spend about seven hours hanging out with some cool guys and bad-ass hardware.
And it was good.
Hero Gear, down on Winchester, TN, is about to launch [...]

probably should have checked

Friendly advice for my fellow East Tennesseeans who might be considering a visit to Hero Gear: Winchester, TN, is in the Central Time Zone.
That is [...]

hit it

It is 100+ miles to Winchester.
I have a full tank of gas, B.O.M.B.E.R., and a camera.
It is dark out.
And I am wearing [...]

vote with your dollars

While hoplophobic, discriminatory restaurateurs are considering denying patrons their natural right of self-defense, Bass Pro goes and clarifies that not only is carrying fine by them, but open carrying is shiny too:

OpenCarry.org (OCDO) is pleased to [...]

it is contagious

I head into the bathroom at the theater before my showing of the newest Harry Potter, and what should confront me but this:

As viral ad campaigns go, District 9 has had an interesting [...]

the way we see things

Well, it looks like my XTi is back to fully-operating condition. I took a few pictures around my town yesterday, and then tinkered them into HDRs – gotta love RAW images, apart from the whole “MASSIVE filesize” thing… As [...]

oh yes

Made. Of.

clearing up doubt

Bob S. put up a great question for all of the anti-rights advocates out there:

How many?

That is all I want to know. We hear all the time that know matter how well behaved gun owners are, that [...]

yadda yadda yadda

This is a hellaciously long read, but if you are curretly a scoot-jockey, or are considering becoming one (like, say, me), it is probably worth your time.
One interesting quote out of it:

In six months of researching [...]

clue-by-four

If you link to my webpage, and I do not link to your webpage by way of my blogroll to the right, please drop me a comment or an email at “linoge (at) wallsofthecity (dot) [...]

sounds familiar

And here is your afternoon’s cup of reality:

(Courtesy of Politics, Guns, and [...]

too little, too late

It would appear as though Jeffrey P. Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, has issued something of an apology concerning their appropriately-Orwellian Kindle disaster:

This is an apology for the way we previously [...]

lies, damned lies, and statistics

If you are an anti-rights advocate, news like this must be terribly awkward:

The myth that legal guns sales in the United States are responsible for Mexican drug cartel violence took another serious blow last week when [...]

start them out young

I certainly agree that firearms should be kept out of childrens’ reach until such time as those children are mature enough to handle them, and then that handling should only take place under very close adult supervision until the [...]

woah

For the first time in far too long, all six of my mutual funds are in the black for the quarter-to-date and year-to-date trackers. The past-12-months tracker is still a little… disheartening, [...]

now there is a first

Something I said actually got featured over at The Smallest Minority as the “Quote of the Day“:

Don’t they get paid by the hit over at the examiner? If so, the jokes on us. – [...]

off his nut

A little while back, Better Half and I put down our first offer on a house in our currently year-long house-hunt. We did our homework, we checked the sales record of the house, we examined the neighborhood, [...]

would you like rails with that?

Speaking of my scoot-riding dreams, I will not be attending the Motorcycle Safety Foundation Basic Rider Course this weekend. Instead, it is scheduled for next weekend, because this weekend, I will be headed down to Winchester, TN, in order [...]

back from hiatus

I have been going kind of light on the Commercial Appeal of late, simply because I have had other things to write about. However, the God’s honest truth is that they can easily outstrip me – the [...]

the world’s smallest violin

Our Glorious President, the Whiner-in-Chief:

A telling episode recounted by Senate Finance ranking member Charles Grassley reveals the Obama administration might be more worried than they are letting on that a Republican senator’s comparison of the healthcare [...]

giving money away

Les Jones points out another fantastic way that the Federal Government is losing money, in addition to allowing you to bypass credit card contract details… And to think that some people believe this same government should be in charge [...]

up and down and up and down and…

To answer the burning question that has been keeping you up at night, yes, you can do pretty damn near everything Dollywood has to offer in a single day, but you had better be prepared for the hangover afterwards…

I’m not dead

I feel like it’s been a week since I wrote anything. My sister got married over the weekend, I’ve been assigned two additional projects at work, and my wife and I are dogsitting for her brother this week.

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