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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…
Better Half and I took yesterday off to take her sister …

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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.
I’ve barely had time to breathe. It took me 45 minutes to …

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sonofa…

In a 5-2 vote this evening, my city’s council decided to disarm law-abiding, background-checked, proven-responsible citizens when they visit city parks, and, by the same vote, decided to empower criminals who can now be guaranteed that the vast majority of park-goers are defenseless, easy victims.
I was unable to make …

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it is a small blogosphere

Uncle asks, “What could possibly go wrong?”

Low-priority crimes like breaking and entering might not be prosecuted and the conviction rates will continue to decline if the proposed budget for the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office is approved, Prosecutor Kym Worthy told commissioners this morning.

“We can’t even cover

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the power of tables

I am somewhat remiss in linking to this, but fellow gunblogger Reputo has done an absolutely outstanding job refuting the specious myth that “guns are bad news for women”, in the following seven-part series:
“Guns are Bad News for Women?” Huh … – Part I
“Guns are Bad News for

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it is all about the grants

A month ago, the red light cameras at two intersections in my small town went “hot”, signaling the end of their warning/grace period, and the beginning of their active “enforcement”. In those 30 days, those two intersections have generated over 4,200 violations, each with a $50 fine. Over four thousand, …

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bugger the leader

In the process of coming to terms with the crime mecca his government has created in his country, British citizen James Higham shows me something I never knew before:

Almost 2,000 London addresses have been put on a “high risk register”, and are categorised as too dangerous for

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pack it up

I might have misspoke concerning the two old guys crossing the country on Piaggo MP3s – apparently, they did pack everything they personally needed on the scoots. I do know there is a crash-truck following them across the country, but they may very well have separated out their stuff …

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quote of the day

I’m secure enough in my self-esteem that I know I cannot handle a 150-pound guy coming at me, but I can handle a firearm to keep that man away from me.
Maria Heil

And yet there are those people who would aid and abet criminals by unjustly taking away …

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where did it all go?

So this is a very interesting graphic, as provided by Visual Economics:

(Click to make legible.)
So… the average American income before taxes is $63,091, but average expenditures total up to $49,638. Average federal taxes for that kind of situation would work out to be $6,000 to $7,000 or …

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well, then

On the basis of this search, I would wager that someone was a little tired of dealing with the pile of gos-se that is Firefox.
Should I be amused that the searcher in question is from Stoke-on-Trent, England?…

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hi there!

My quaint little webpage had an interesting visitor yesterday:

The first oddity is that someone from the US Department of State was web-browsing weblogs from a work computer on Saturday. The second oddity is that “clayton.state.gov” does not provide an http response if you browse to it, and …

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time goes on by

It is kind of strange to think that we have been living in Tennessee for over a year now…
In other news, lawnmower races are still awesome.…

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no car for you

I have discussed the “No Fly List”/”Terrorist Watch List” before, and I have additionally discussed how some people want to abridge your rights on the basis of being on an arbitrary list, but here is a quick recap: The list has no real oversight. You can be added …

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but was he wearing a white hat?

The Virginia Citizens Defense Leage has an outstanding follow-up to the “Wild-West” shooting I talked about a few days ago, reprinted in its entirety below (hopefully they will not mind too much – news like this deserves to be spread):

On Friday I received a surprise call from the gun

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how appropriate

Amazon.com has recently release a relatively interesting e-book reader called a “Kindle“, and more and more publishers are making more and more books available to download into it.
Two such books that were available on the Kindle were 1984 and Animal Farm, both written by the inimitable …

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turning money into noise

Want.
I could never actually rationalize buying it, but I still want it. That said, $7,500 for a fully-transferrable, fully-automatic firearm is not a bad price these days, when automatic M-16s can run $25,000+.
Of course, that is one of the great ironies of the fully-automatic situation – should …

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I’m sorry, what?

Federal prosecuters persue charge for legal firearm transaction.
Unless Kazemi was a prohibited person and the seller knew it, I don’t see how they could possibly have a case. Yes, she was only 20, but my understanding is that federal law only pertains to FFL sales. Sales by private …

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just goes to show

Speaking of criminals not bothering to obey laws, just yesterday, an armed man attacked, and then was shot and killed by, police officers in D.C.. So let us do a quick tally here… it was illegal for him to: (1) carry a loaded gun in D.C., (2) run over …

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10th Amendment

Tennessee to Federal Government: The 10th Amendment means something
ATF to Tennessee: No, really, it doesn’t
This was not unexpected. Via Tennessee Firearms Association

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