Blog, February, 2010
   By Carl Bussjaeger

February 28, 2010 4:30PM
SPLC to do hit piece on Mike Vanderboegh, requests his help
Mr. Vanderboegh:

I am writing an article about you and the Three Percenters for the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report magazine. I wanted to speak to you about the organization and to fact check some details. I won’t need much of your time. I can be reached at the number below during normal business hours.

Thank you for your time,

Jamie Kizzire
Southern Poverty Law Center
(334) 956-8264

The SPLC has been slandering Mr. Vanderboegh for years, and they expected him to call long distance at his expense to help with the smear?

That's just too funny, regardless of what one might think of either the SPLC or Threepers.

So... Is Jamie perhaps a naive intern who was set up by a co-worker as a joke, or merely stupid?

Feel free to ask that yourself: Jamie.Kizzire@splcenter.org

February 28, 2010 2:20PM
ATF seizes 30 toy guns, infuriating local business owner
A local business owner is flabbergasted after a shipment of 30 toy guns for his store was confiscated by ATF agents in Tacoma.

Special Agent Kelvin Crenshaw said the toys can be easily retro-fitted into dangerous weapons.

Just to be sure we're all on the same page, we're talking about toy Airsoft guns. They use mechanical force or compressed air to project little plastic balls.

I challenge Special Asshole Crenshaw to post a video demonstrating how to convert one of these toys into a real M-4.

At least they didn't stomp any kittens to death this time. Yet.

What I'm guessing happened is that the firearms "experts" of the ATF simply looked at the toys in their crates and mistook them for the real thing. They ejaculated in sheer joy at intercepting machine guns, not recognizing the realistic replicas for what they really were. Now they're trying to cover their asses.

On the other hand, these idiots did classify a shoelace as a machine gun, so why not toys?

David Codrea also has a few things to say about this. Be sure to watch the video to see the ATF "firearms expert" as he first tries to insert the magazine backwards. Yeah, the idiot who isn't sure how to load the thing does know how to convert it into a machine gun.

And just to add insult to injury, the ATF refuses to release the "test results" that prove these are readily convertible. That's probably because they don't want to admit that they still don't have any testing standards.

February 26, 2010 4:00PM
Wash. teacher killed outside school before classes
The man had been released on bail Monday after being arrested a week ago for violating a protective order the teacher, Jennifer Paulson, obtained in September 2008, Tacoma police spokesman Mark Fulghum said.

Gee, a double shield failure. The Gun Free Zone force field didn't bounce the gun, and the magical Protective Order of Invulnerability didn't stop the bullet. For that matter, the POoI is supposed to cause all firearms to reject the person.

February 26, 2010 3:45PM
Oklahoma City Community College Closed, Police Say Gun Report False
Stewart said later that a campus security officer accidentally fired his gun as the library was being evacuated.

An imaginary gun prompts an evacuation of a designated Helpless Victim Zone of potential targets at gun point by a "security officer" who incompetently, yet negligently, fires his gun.

So wrong, on so many levels.

And of course they didn't find any guns. Everyone know those Helpless Victim Zone Gun Free Zone force fields automatically repel them.

February 25, 2010 4:05PM

Sheriff says he'll undermine gun ban
“I have told the CSU police chief I will not support this in any way,” Sheriff Alderden told The Gazette. “If anyone with one of my permits gets arrested for concealed carry at CSU, I will refuse to book that person into my jail. Furthermore, I will show up at court and testify on that person’s behalf, and I will do whatever I can to discourage a conviction. I will not be a party to this very poor decision.”

I've heard good things about Sheriff Alderden before. This confirms them. Well said, sir. Thank you very much.

I've been accused at times of being a "cop basher". Not so. I bash abusive, rights-bashing, thuggish LEOs. But honorable peace officers like Sheriff Alderden have my respect and gratitude.

(Hat tip to David Codrea)

February 24, 2010 3:25PM

Things I Won't Work With: Dioxygen Difluoride
"A. G. Streng, folks, absolutely takes the corrosive exploding cake, and I have to tip my asbestos-lined titanium hat to him."

Just go read that. A little chemistry background will enhance the effect, but isn't necessary. I could not get through the article without cracking up several times.

Yes, Sunni, there are people out there crazier than me.

February 24, 2010 1:45pm

Teacher tackles gunman supected in school shooting
"Benke confronted the 32-year-old gunman, tackled him and pinned him to the ground with the help of another teacher, stopping what could have been a much more violent encounter in a city all too familiar with tragic school shootings."

First, I'd like to thank math teacher Mr. Benke for having the courage to charge a man with gun. Well done, sir! You and your associate saved a lot of children.

But how was this possible? How did Eastwood get that rifle through the force fields of the Gun Free Zone? I think the contractor building the force field projectors should be investigated. They are obviously providing products of Wal-Mart-scale shoddiness.

OK, [/sarcasm]. Designated gun free zones only work against peaceable people. Scum like Eastwood, already set on committing mass murder, aren't much bothered by such rules. So all they accomplished, as we see here and at other schools, or GFZ-designated malls, and Luby's Diner, is to actually establish Helpless Victim Zones. These Zones become target rich opportunities, where killers can, safely for themselves, operate with impunity.

It also appears that Eastwood had a criminal record and a history of mental illness which would mean he can't have a gun... Kind of like that imaginary force field, huh?

Of course, felon-enablers like the Brady Conspiracy to Protect Violent Criminals, will point to this as yet another reason to just ban guns, completely ignoring the reality that guns are banned there. They'll also tell you that only the police should have guns and they'll protect you. Of course, when the police aren't there... better find a math teacher.

February 24, 2010 10:15AM

IRS worker's widow sues pilot's wife
"Claim death says Sheryl Stack had a duty to 'avoid a foreseeable risk of injury to others.'"
"The widow of an Internal Revenue Service employee killed when Andrew Joseph Stack III flew his plane into an office building has sued Stack's wife, saying she should have warned others about her husband."

Despite the fact that Vernon Hunter was a supervisor of IRS collections, arguably the most noxious division of a despicable organization, I was trying to empathize with the victims of an act that should not have happened. Then I saw this article. Sympathy is right out where Mrs. Hunter is concerned.

I would have understood if she sued Joe Stack's estate for what he did. But Sheryl Stack?

Sure, Mrs. Hunter lost her husband, through no fault of her own. So did Mrs. Stack.

And sure, Mrs. Hunter lost her home... umm, uh... Well actually she didn't. But Mrs. Stack did, through no fault of her own. But the woman possibly most hurt by Joe Stack is being sued by another victim.

And I just love Mrs. Hunter's reasoning: Sheryl Stack had a duty to protect others from her husband.

Oddly enough, courts at every level, right up to the US Supreme Court, have ruled that police officers – the guys with the motto "To protect and serve" – have no duty to protect a citizen, except in special cases such as paid informants, essentially government employees. Yeah, the government has no duty to protect you.

But Mrs. Hunter insists that her government-employed husband, the tax collector, had a right to the citizen's, Mrs. Stack's, protection.

And why is that? Because "Vernon Hunter belonged to a class of persons the (law) was designed to protect". See? He was special, above us mere citizens.

He was an "only one".

See, us serfs have a duty to protect our betters.

Protect this.

February 23, 2010 3:00PM

I cannot disagree.

February 23, 2010 3:00PM

Reid: 'Men, when they're out of work, tend to become abusive'
""Women don't have jobs either, but women aren’t abusive, most of the time," he said.

"Men, when they're out of work, tend to become abusive," the majority leader added. "Our domestic crisis shelters in Nevada are jammed.” "

There is a reason that Reid is going to lose his Senate seat come November. (Polling shows him losing by double digits even against relative unknown Danny Tarkanian, who by the way gave excellent responses on the Gun Rights Questionnaire.) Stuff like this is part of why.

First he perpetuates the myth that only men commit domestic violence. Crime stats say otherwise, that women offend at a virtually equal rate as men. Denying that fact means that you aren't looking at the whole problem and are, thus, unlikely to fix the whole problem.

Then the idiot asserts that all men become abusive. That's insulting and slanderous. Speak for yourself, Reid; I guess we'll see just how abusive you get when Nevadans vote you out.

February 23, 2010 1:45PM

A guide to firearms for "authorized journalists".

If the second link wasn't clear enough, "authorized journalists" are those despicable weasels in lamestream news who happily participate in the demonization of firearms and gun owners by regurgitating some victim-disarming creep's lying press release.

The graphic is amusing but also disturbing: I've seen at least 6 of those misidentifications in actual LSM reports.

February 23, 2010 1:35PM

Anger as Apple purges adult apps
' "It came to the point where we were getting customer complaints from women who found the content getting too degrading and objectionable, as well as parents who were upset with what their kids were able to see," Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of product marketing, told the New York Times. '

This doesn't directly affect me since I don't have an iPhone. I'm generally satisfied with using my cell phone as a phone. But why did Apple feel the need to cater to prudish, irresponsible cretins?

Prudish? Yes. Just because something isn't to your own taste, doesn't mean it's eeeevil. There's no call to insist someone else can't have it.

Irresponsible? Dambetcha. Here are parents buying expensive electronics for their children, and not exercising their own responsibility to make sure it isn't misused by the kid. Rather than policing their children, they want Apple – and by extension, the rest of the world – to police everyone else, to accomplish what they won't do. Look parents, I didn't father your children; it isn't up to me, or anyone else, to do your job for you.

Cretins? Oh, yeah. Apparently too stupid to think, "Hey, I don't like that app. Maybe I shoulden't buy it and run it on my iPhone." Probably the same morons who get outraged by crass DJs but can't figure out how to use the tuner to change stations. Of the occasional visitor here, who doesn't like I say. It's a big Internet; don't go to sites you don't like. If you stumble upon one, leave.

Of course, Apple isn't demonstrating much sense here. They've limited the functionality of their product. They pissed off app developers with whom they had agreements and who may now refuse to do any further development of other apps. (Can you blame them? Why go to the trouble when Apple might just renege on another agreement?) And Apple has lost the future revenue from the purged apps.

February 22, 2010 5:20PM

Hey, Barry. A hint: You're doing it wrong. Have you noticed this gets worse when you push commie healthcare?

February 22, 2010 3:30

The Transportation Prevention Administration has a new logo, compliments of Bruce Schneier's contest.

February 22, 2010 1:20PM

Newbius at Blogspot comments on the idiots at Richmond Free Press. "Wild West legislators". "General Assembly fanatically supports gun-toters".

No, that isn't an editorial page opinion column. That's what passes for front page news at RFP. Just a little biased and ethically-challenged, I'd say. And they must be getting pretty desperate to resort to such blatantly stupid propaganda. I guess their victim disarmament agenda isn't going so well.

I always found that whole "wild west" thing funny. It was really pretty mild compared to high crime Eastern cities of the same period. In fact, in the "wild west" serious crime was so rare that the exceptions were so few and publicized that more than a century later we still remember invididual names. Like Jesse James and Billy the Kid. Quick, without looking it up, what were the names of the Columbine shooters?

And speaking of victim disarmament, I had another interesting web search string recorded this morning:

That would be the Gun Rights Questionnaire that most of the NH House and Senate candidates are refusing to answer. And so long as they refuse, I refuse to vote for any of them.

Binnie is a Republican running for the US Senate in New Hampshire. Clearly folks want to know where he stands on this issue; I'm one of them. It's too bad that Mr. Binnie declines to even acknowledge the Gun Rights Questionnaire, which I sent to him 1/4/10.

New Hampshire tends to be firearms-friendly, which purely pisses off the Brady Conspiracy to Protect Violent Criminals. And Republicans generally woo the gun owner vote. So you might expect that Binnie would be happy to tell us where he stands on RKBA. But he won't

I can't help suspecting that Binnie's refusal to answer the questions indicates that his take on the issue would cost him votes from gun owners. I suppose he could prove me wrong by finally answering the questions, but as things stand I will not vote for him. Nor will I vote for anyone else (the one Democrat and most Republicans) who have refused to answer the questions.

February 20, 2010 9:30AM

FBI closes anthrax case, says scientist was killer

Isn't that convenient? For seven years, they couldn't come up with any evidence to pin it on him, even though they hounded him to death (literally).

But once he's dead for a couple of years, and largely forgotten, they can suddenly determine it was him and close the case.

Fumbling Buncha Incompetents.

February 19, 2010 12:55PM

Anti-gun violence group gives NH low marks, NH demands lower score

Check out the readers' comments. This is part of what I love about New Hampshire: We're smart enough to see through the Bradys' BS, and understand the real correlation between gun ownership and crime.

February 18, 2010 3:15PM

Gun Owners Against Illegal Mayors

Heh. Yes, I do oppose illegal mayors. Like Bloomie, who has admitted to conspiring to illegally purchase firearms.

February 18, 2010 1:15PM

Report: Officers lose 243 Homeland Security guns
"Nearly 180 Department of Homeland Security weapons were lost -- some falling into the hands of criminals -- after officers left them in restrooms, vehicles and other public places, according to an inspector general report."

What is it with these highly trained professionals, these Only Ones, and their inability to keep track of their guns? In all my years, I have never misplaced a firearm this way.

And someone explain why an ICE officer was keeping a fully automatic rifle at home? His duty sidearm, sure. But an assault rifle?

February 17, 2010

If you are a cop at any level, read this.
Related poll
Courtesy of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership

February 17, 2010 5:00PM

Obama says stimulus bill saved troubled economy
"President Barack Obama hailed Wednesday's one-year-old economic stimulus law as an accomplishment that staved off another Great Depression and kept up to 2 million people on the job."

Whoo Hoo! And such a bargain at just $393,500 per job.