Last month the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the District of Columbia had violated the Second Amendment by making armed self-defense in the home impractical and banning the most popular weapons used for that purpose. Last week the D.C. Council responded by unanimously approving a law that makes armed self-defense in the home impractical and bans the most popular weapons used for that purpose.
Along the way, she counts orgasms: "Fifteen!" But they're other peoples', not hers.
She is desperately trying to get the attention of this guy who comes into the restaurant where she works.
And then one day it all falls into place and she knows exactly what she has to do.
Have you ever seen such a look of Perfect Bliss on anyone's face?
I don't know what the excitement is all about; we've been doing this in Turonistan for years.
The boys and I saw Batman last night. Heath Ledger plays the villain, The Joker. This is a world-class nasty dude. He is just a wildly over-the-top, scary, chilling and spellbinding villain. Remember Drexel, the crazy white Rasta pimp in True Romance? ("Hey, Marty! This ain't whiteboy day, is it?") Well, this Joker is in that league. He just steals every scene he's in, as a good villain should.
And grilled on a plank of fragrant cedar. Um-num-num!
Beware the man who owns only one citrus zester; he may know how to use it.
Readers will no doubt react differently to the tone of the story; for my part, I thought it rather too involved in a particular narrative about the heroic efforts of the UN and global civil society activists to overcome the demonic and ignorant efforts of the NRA, which pulls the strings of the US government, to end the flow of small arms and light weapons into the hands of child soldiers in conflicts worldwide.
It's a handmade telegraph key from Jerry Pittenger:
Gaze upon its beauty! Ball-bearing pivots! Two pounds! Way, way shiny!
And here it is all dressed up:
Now, as impressive as this is, Roberta X has built a straight key, not out of brass bar-stock, but out of square brass tubing! I s**t you not! It's hollow.
Violation of Rule Three in the illustration (above).
Andy in Taiwan also spotted "rubesoisie" but he notes that only one other blogger beat them on this. And that blogger would be ...?
What IS it about chartreuse?
I am rapidly losing all faith in *all* government services, because if the people and organizations that citizens have to go to for protection from corrupt people are full of corrupt people themselves, as we keep seeing, then there really is no hope.
No. When I was 12 years old, my family, living in Ohio at the time, was the victim of a home invasion robbery. My father, who was smoking a cigarette in our unlit garage, got to watch as two men pushed a car backwards up our driveway in the dark, and proceed to try to crowbar their way into one of our windows. He went inside and retrieved a .22 caliber pistol from the basement, sent us all into the attic, called the police, then turned on all the lights in the house and brandished the firearm at the two men, telling them he would shoot them if they did not leave. I have talked to my father quite a bit about that moment, pondering it now as a grown man, what that was like: staring at two men who could have easily beaten him to death, one with a crowbar, watching them ponder their chances, then watching one walk to their car silently while the other circled around the house. I really hope that if the time ever comes, I can measure up to the actions of my father.
My father never fired a shot. When the police arrived, and the police report was filed, no shooting was on record, and what happened to us never made it into a single gun statistic. I remember this incident because it was formative for me. When I hear people say that the only purpose of a gun is to shoot an attacker, I smile. When they tell me gun statistics compiled from self-defense shootings are accurate, I smile. I smile because I have a ring-activated Tarnhelm smart gun behind a fingerprint activated safe in my house, available to me inside of five seconds, but never available to a child, an intruder, or a robber. I smile because I know that the people who wish to ban guns are advocating a different path for my life: beaten to death in my house at twelve years of age with a crowbar. I smile and I remember.
This ordinary guy is on a cruise ship that gets gets destroyed by a massive tropical storm, he washes up on deserted tropical isle with the one other survivor, Christie Brinkley. At first they are both too traumatized by the loss of their loved ones and busy seeing to the demands of survival, but eventually they begin to have have torrid, physical encounters nearly constantly and it’s everything the guy ever dreamt it would be. One day the guy is sullen and joyless, Christie asks him what’s wrong, he tells her she wouldn’t understand - it’s a man thing. She begs him to tell her, reminding him that she has never refused him anything and that they are each other's world. He says “Okay, please wear this for me.” He hands her a salvaged man’s suit and hat and asks her to put it on. “Stand right here please, I’ll be right back.” He runs away from her, and keeps running all the way around the island until he comes up behind her dressed up as a man. He walks up to her and taps her on the shoulder and says “Hey buddy, do you know I’m nailing Christie Brinkley?”
Whoops!Clever boy! What an interesting observation.
QUOTE: Second, the gun in the home may not have been the gun used in the death.
Incredible! They interviewed the family members! They could have easily found this out by asking the very people they interviewed (who would know). After all, the implication sought from ALL these pseudo-scientific "studies" is that YOUR gun will hurt YOU. Here, they had the chance to ask whether or not it was YOUR gun that "caused" YOUR death and they failed to ask. Logically, that raises a strong suspicion that they did not ask because the researchers either knew or strongly suspected that the answer would not support their desired result.
If the ACLU wants to maintain its credibility as the defender of the bill of rights then it must endorse the 2nd amendment as an individual right, and not maintain its pathetic stance claiming it disagrees with the SCOTUS. The fat lady has sung. Get with the program.Effin' A, John!!
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