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One child is conversing through the internet with a friend who lives across town; the other is writing a letter to a girl some 10,000 miles away that he knows because his dad and her mom read each others’ blogs and participate in the same gun forum.

Y’know, even though I don’t have a flying car, I like living in the future…

[I spent last weekend using a radio to talk with Eastern and Western Europe, the Philippines, Russia, China, and South America.  Thanks to the wonders of modern signal processing pulling people out of the weeds I wouldn’t have otherwise been able to hear or talk with made it that much more fun. 

The wonders of modern technology make this an awesome place.  I’ve made more contacts through gun blogging and GBC than I would have previously at any other time.  I can easily find and independently verify information on my own.  It’s a wonderful age, that the media and the gun grabbers I think are starting to hate.  It’s too easy for people to figure out the anti-gunner lies, or discover facts they would rather have us not see. 

Guns, bringing people from all over the world together.  Even kids.  -B ]

HB 1016 just passed the senate 47 – 0 with 2 excused.  At this point it has to move across Christine’s desk.  Normally I would be concerned, but with the overwhelming support from both the house and senate I’m not too concerned.

Supposedly according to the NRA’s facebook page there are those who disagree with the legalization of suppressors claiming they could only be used for nefarious purposes.  That’s why absolutely no one showed up to EITHER public hearing to speak out against it here in Washington.

Suppressors are a safety device, if you disagree with suppressors, pull the muffler off your car or shut the hell up!

H/T to Uncle on the facebook incident.

Update:It has been Signed.

Some how the police forgot not only about the kids they arrested and placed in the van but the van itself.

Police who busted a Fort Lee, N.J., high school house party over the weekend left a van full of teens locked up and parked outside in the freezing cold for 14 hours without food, water or access to a bathroom.

How is it you forgot about a van full of kids for 14 hours?  Not only were they forgotten about, but it was someone else walking by that found them banging on the vehicle. 

You have another instance where a police officer is trying to arrest a judge, his reason, the judge refused to sign off on an arrest warrant.

As time goes on, I’m getting a stronger feeling that the police believe they are above and exempted from the law.  They are exempted from the consequences of negligent discharge and even in some instances have gotten away with murder. 

Running into a cop when he’s having a bad day is starting to look like it will end quite badly for you, he on the other hand will still go home to his family while you’re either dead or forgotten in the back of his cruiser.  No worries though because the officer wont be held accountable for their actions.

Blogging is going to be a bit light.  I’m helping out a club with a radio contest this weekend. 

Here are a couple links to things I want to write up on but just don’t have the time.  I can feel the free ice cream machine stirring stuff up, but it just doesn’t want to flow.

• Obama stops drilling here and tells Brazil to drill so we can import their oil.
• First Portland shuts down a lemonade stand, now Hazelwood has shut down Girl Scouts selling cookies.
• FBI wastes more money on another ID system.

I’ll try and get some cream flowing again. 

“Choices”? What about the choices of the students that will be expelled if they choose to carry everyday self-defense tools which they carry off campus on a regular basis? Would they use the same argument if the bill were to allow mixed race couples on campus? Or allowing Jews and Muslims on campus? Or how about forbidding the university administration to expel students who obtained abortions? Would those be “choices” the administration should be allowed to make?

[I have always been amazed that people seem to think that allowing people to have a choice is some how forcing others into something.  People are not being forced into anything, the only changes being made is allowing people the choice to exercise their rights.  It baffles my mind how people twist the idea of allowing someone to exercise their rights becomes a violation of their rights.

People seem to love choices as long as the choices are things that they want access too.  All too many people are willing to piss on other people’s rights when they don’t like it or disagree with it.  The fact is though allowing people to carry arms for self-defense does not interfere with the rights of others, in fact it helps prevent others from interfering with your rights as well as the rights of others.  Just the same, rights need to be supported whether you like them or not.  -B]

That’s the same Al Baker who went after a bunch of agencies in Nevada. Awesome job Mr. Baker!

H/T to Joe. 

A Federal Reserve official announced today that the US has reached a cross roads towards insolvency. 

"If we continue down on the path on which the fiscal authorities put us, we will become insolvent, the question is when," Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher said in a question and answer session after delivering a speech at the University of Frankfurt. "The short-term negotiations are very important, I look at this as a tipping point."

As time moves forward people, agencies, and others will progress through the stages.  The pain train is coming whether people like it or not.  To come out of this is going to take blood sweat and tears, pain is unavoidable and the longer people try and prolong the inevitable the more the final crash is going to hurt.  If you think everything is roses and unicorns, think again.

Apparently SEIU has been harassing Sodexo USA, to the point that Sodexo has now filed a civil suit under the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.

Union thuggery is the only way unions can continue to gain members and power.  Unions are not looking out for the employees or members, they are looking out for themselves.  They take a percentage of the employees pay in “dues.”  The more the worker makes, the more profit the union gets paid.  This means it’s in their best interests to extort as much as they can for pay.  Then when the employee works harder, pulls extra shifts, and does overtime the union gets paid a percentage of that labor.  The union did nothing for the employee all union does is get paid more.

Unions are worthless, they are nothing more that thieves who in many cases can force their people to give up money just for employment.  What do unions really do currently, seriously?  I fail to see any union do anything I can NOT do myself.  If I don’t like the environment I work in, I have every right to quit.  I do not have a right to work for a particular company, just the same a particular company doesn’t have right to retain me as an employee.  Unions are the creation of people who don’t have the balls to deal with problems themselves.  If you don’t like what a company is doing, do not work for them, do not buy their products, and do not support them.  Unions steal from people under the guise of protecting  and helping them, no different from the government. 

H/T Phil.