   | 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, long-winded post, and realized a short, sweet, simple summary might be… [...] 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, I am not alone: [...] When you get right down to it, PayPal is effectively the only game in town when it comes to online money transfers. [...] 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 range. [...] Words have meanings, folks:
… [...] 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, because using specific vocabularies basically allows politicians to… [...] Just when you think the internet cannot get any more stupid, Robb goes and resets the metric. [...] I am shamelessly stealing this list from Kevin. Deal with it already.
… [...] Headline: Military Poised to Help FEMA Battle Swine Flu Outbreak. [...] … 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 Oleg Volk, but you will have to make do.… [...] 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 myth seems to hold water, simply because it is natural to… [...] 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 compelling way, and miles of illuminating equations. [...] Everyone today is all over the NFA Handbook changes that have suddenly turned thousands of rifles into unregistered SBR tickets to Club Fed. [...] 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 arbitrary, whimsical rule-change: … [...] 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:
… [...] In the previous post (which I was going to talk about before he beat me to it), Linoge said:
… [...] 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 42nd). Friday night, one person was killed and another… [...] And for today, Marko wins the internets:
… [...] 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 popularity seems to be dropping. Fast:
… [...] Yesterday, I drove six hours, round trip, to spend about seven hours hanging out with some cool guys and bad-ass hardware. [...] Friendly advice for my fellow East Tennesseeans who might be considering a visit to Hero Gear: Winchester, TN, is in the Central Time Zone. [...] It is 100+ miles to Winchester. [...] 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:
… [...] I head into the bathroom at the theater before my showing of the newest Harry Potter, and what should confront me but this: [...] 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 usual, click on the image to big-size it, and the first… [...] Bob S. put up a great question for all of the anti-rights advocates out there:
… [...] 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.
… [...] 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) net”. [...] And here is your afternoon’s cup of reality: [...] 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:
… [...] If you are an anti-rights advocate, news like this must be terribly awkward:
… [...] 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 adult(s) in question consider the child in question even-more-mature-enough to use… [...] 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, though. [...] 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. – Kevin S. … [...] 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, we considered everything that would have to be done to the… [...] 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 to help Hero Gear put the finishing touches on… [...] 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 writers and editors of the Commercial Appeal are paid… [...] Our Glorious President, the Whiner-in-Chief:
… [...] 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 of our health care. [...] 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 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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