On the Today Show this morning, the coverage was breathless about the cover-up and destruction of evidence in a major case. Hard drives being wiped by powerful figures got two whole minutes of coverage, and the reporter is anxious to see Justice get done.
Was this story about Fast and Furious? Of course not. It was about Nicolette Sheridan's firing from Desperate Housewives.
NBC continues their solidarity with this administration in abetting the cover-up of Fast and Furious. Shame.
Newbius
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Monday, March 12, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Super Tuesday 2012
Will the Wookiee win Virginia? I hope so, if only as a protest vote against Mittens. Tune in to the national feeds at 7:01PM to find out. I know of at least two people who voted for Dr. Paul...
Monday, March 5, 2012
QOTD: Judge Benson Everett Legg
"A citizen may not be required to offer a good and substantial reason why he should be permitted to exercise his rights. The right‘s existence is all the reason he needs."Judge Benson Everett Legg, in the case of Woollard v. Sheridan.
The opinion grants the Motion for Summary Judgment to Plaintiff Woollard, and denies the State of Maryland's claim. Score one victory for the Second Amendment Foundation, and Maryland Shall Issue (at the District Court level, too!).
Friday, March 2, 2012
Tournament tomorrow
Shooting sports of a different kind: Disc Golf. Like regular golf, only cooler. Anyway, this will be my first Singles tournament since I started playing the sport last summer. I doubt I will place, but it should be fun. Weather forecast is mid-60's with severe thunderstorms likely in the morning. I love a good challenge!
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Contrasts
Predator.
Prey.
Understand the differences. Know your role, play your part. Use the environment to your advantage...watch for those who do the same. Be aware.
Emulate the wolf...or the sheep. Your choice.
Newbius
Prey.
Understand the differences. Know your role, play your part. Use the environment to your advantage...watch for those who do the same. Be aware.
Emulate the wolf...or the sheep. Your choice.
Newbius
Friday, February 24, 2012
Happy Birthday Melissa!
An amazing young woman, out on the front lines doing the Lord's work, is having a birthday today. Please join me in wishing Melissa at Psalm 19 a happy day.
Newbius
Newbius
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Posting update
Still here, nothing to say. Watching the slow-motion train wreck of the American Political Process has me shaking my head in disbelief at the crassness and venality of it all. What ever happened to the Statesmen? Where did they go?
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Starbucks Buycott
Yesterday, my local Starbucks had at least two armed customers purchasing coffee-type stuff. I asked the 'Barista' if she had seen a drop in activity. She got a puzzled look on her face and said "No, if anything it is a little busier than normal for a Tuesday". Anecdotal, I know, but mark it as a data point.
Oh, and nobody got shot over parking spaces. The tables and couches were all full, and nobody got shot over table space. Nobody had a gunfight over the last blueberry scone, either. It is almost as if the Joyce Foundation front groups like the Brady bunch are lying about gun owners...
Newbius
Oh, and nobody got shot over parking spaces. The tables and couches were all full, and nobody got shot over table space. Nobody had a gunfight over the last blueberry scone, either. It is almost as if the Joyce Foundation front groups like the Brady bunch are lying about gun owners...
Newbius
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Happy Valentines Day
...to Mrs. Newbius. My best friend, my strongest supporter, my Love. You rescued me when I was lost, shone light into my darkness, and made me whole.
I love you more than words can express.
I love you more than words can express.
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Word for the day
Idiotlogue: Someone completely invested in, and devoted to, ideas that are stupid. See: Marxist Socialist, "99%er". Illustration: Barack Hussein Obama
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Now what?
Disclaimer: I fully support Emily Miller in her quest to expose the outrageous process for legally acquiring a firearm in the District if Criminals. That said...
I keep hearing from the Brady's and their ilk that "guns are different". That a little infringement on GUNS should be accepted because $GUNS CAN KILL, and $Guns are different, and gun owners are just looking for arguments to settle permanently. Politicians lap this up because it furthers their goal of aggrandizing more power unto themselves. Makes for good copy and good video to be seen on the side of $PROTECTING THE CHILDREN. But, what now? DC is on their way to One First (SCOTUS) again over their registration process. The DC resident still has no way to BEAR, since KEEP only applies "in the home". And the criminals ignore the laws anyway...
Councilman Mendelson's condescending display of willful ignorance about "market forces" preventing more FFLs in town, and the "lack of desire to acquire guns based on the miniscule number of registrations" since Heller, was so galling I almost broke my TV in anger. He knows damned good and well that the reason there aren't any more FFLs is because DC's zoning makes it IMPOSSIBLE to open a store. And, the registration process is so expensive and onerous as to dissuade all but the most dedicated (and financially well-off) from completing the process. There is a reason why Charles Sykes' office is at MPD. Just ask Alan Gura.
As for the anti-rights crowd trashing Emily Miller? I bet if you asked them to support outlawing abortion, they would recoil in horror at the affront to their Liberal sensibilities. If DC mandated that a woman go through every step that Emily Miller went through in order to obtain an abortion, there would be marches on city hall daily (all covered gleefully by a complicit media) until the laws were changed. A woman has the "constitutional right" (nowhere enumerated) to kill her unborn baby, but has to jump through the hoops Emily Miller jumped through to acquire a firearm (which IS enumerated in the Constitution)? Give me a break.
Emily Miller, a petite woman, is no match for a thug intent on doing her harm. She wants to acquire the means to protect herself, and equalize her odds against said thug, and the Powers That Be block her at every turn. Shameful.
Councilman Mendelson, you should go back to Emily Miller's articles documenting her journey through your morass of red tape. Every time you see the word Gun or Firearm, I want you to substitute the word ABORTION. Every time you see some class, certificate, mandate, or registration hoop, I want you to substitute Abortion Class, Abortion Certificate, Abortion Registration (with renewal every 3 years). I want you to make the young woman get schooled in some guy's basement about Abortions. I want you to require abortion clinic visits prior to allowing a procedure be done. I want you to make the person prove that they know abortion laws. I want you to ensure that the city's zoning laws make it as easy to open an abortion clinic as it now is to open a gun store. Lastly, I want you to have to openly answer for your role in molding "market forces" to make abortions as easy to acquire in DC as guns currently are.
After all, Abortions kill more people in the United States every year than guns do. We should regulate them at least as diligently. Right? Do it for the children.
Newbius
I keep hearing from the Brady's and their ilk that "guns are different". That a little infringement on GUNS should be accepted because $GUNS CAN KILL, and $Guns are different, and gun owners are just looking for arguments to settle permanently. Politicians lap this up because it furthers their goal of aggrandizing more power unto themselves. Makes for good copy and good video to be seen on the side of $PROTECTING THE CHILDREN. But, what now? DC is on their way to One First (SCOTUS) again over their registration process. The DC resident still has no way to BEAR, since KEEP only applies "in the home". And the criminals ignore the laws anyway...
Councilman Mendelson's condescending display of willful ignorance about "market forces" preventing more FFLs in town, and the "lack of desire to acquire guns based on the miniscule number of registrations" since Heller, was so galling I almost broke my TV in anger. He knows damned good and well that the reason there aren't any more FFLs is because DC's zoning makes it IMPOSSIBLE to open a store. And, the registration process is so expensive and onerous as to dissuade all but the most dedicated (and financially well-off) from completing the process. There is a reason why Charles Sykes' office is at MPD. Just ask Alan Gura.
As for the anti-rights crowd trashing Emily Miller? I bet if you asked them to support outlawing abortion, they would recoil in horror at the affront to their Liberal sensibilities. If DC mandated that a woman go through every step that Emily Miller went through in order to obtain an abortion, there would be marches on city hall daily (all covered gleefully by a complicit media) until the laws were changed. A woman has the "constitutional right" (nowhere enumerated) to kill her unborn baby, but has to jump through the hoops Emily Miller jumped through to acquire a firearm (which IS enumerated in the Constitution)? Give me a break.
Emily Miller, a petite woman, is no match for a thug intent on doing her harm. She wants to acquire the means to protect herself, and equalize her odds against said thug, and the Powers That Be block her at every turn. Shameful.
Councilman Mendelson, you should go back to Emily Miller's articles documenting her journey through your morass of red tape. Every time you see the word Gun or Firearm, I want you to substitute the word ABORTION. Every time you see some class, certificate, mandate, or registration hoop, I want you to substitute Abortion Class, Abortion Certificate, Abortion Registration (with renewal every 3 years). I want you to make the young woman get schooled in some guy's basement about Abortions. I want you to require abortion clinic visits prior to allowing a procedure be done. I want you to make the person prove that they know abortion laws. I want you to ensure that the city's zoning laws make it as easy to open an abortion clinic as it now is to open a gun store. Lastly, I want you to have to openly answer for your role in molding "market forces" to make abortions as easy to acquire in DC as guns currently are.
After all, Abortions kill more people in the United States every year than guns do. We should regulate them at least as diligently. Right? Do it for the children.
Newbius
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
QOTD: Commenter GS650G
In the post at TTAG HERE:
The soft bigotry of class warfare and snobbish superiority. I bet she has a nice liberal arts degree from a progressive women’s university on her wall, right next to a picture of her catNot that I like quoting TTAG, but that comment is GOLD and accurately describes the "anti's" that I run across in real life.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Super Bowl Xxxwhatever review
Game: Meh.
Half-time with prancing 50-something lip-syncing 20 year old tunes: Meh.
Commercials featuring recycled B-list stars and under-dressed Silicon Valleys: Meh.
Manufactured drama featuring thinly-disguised Obama Campaign adverts pretending to display the supremacy of Union Manufacturing Jobs in the burned-out sectors of once-great Detroit: Pawn Stars was more exciting.
I don't know why I bothered. Cupcake Wars had more competition, excitement, and suspense about the outcome. At least the M&Ms looked good...
Newbius
Half-time with prancing 50-something lip-syncing 20 year old tunes: Meh.
Commercials featuring recycled B-list stars and under-dressed Silicon Valleys: Meh.
Manufactured drama featuring thinly-disguised Obama Campaign adverts pretending to display the supremacy of Union Manufacturing Jobs in the burned-out sectors of once-great Detroit: Pawn Stars was more exciting.
I don't know why I bothered. Cupcake Wars had more competition, excitement, and suspense about the outcome. At least the M&Ms looked good...
Newbius
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Disc Golf Tourney today
Played a Doubles tournament today at 2 nearby courses. My first tournament, and we placed 'in the money'. It was a good day's exercise, and I got to meet some really nice people. I think this is a pretty good second hobby. And, discs are cheaper than ammunition. :D
Newbius
Newbius
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
War on some drugs
I wonder if the War on (some) drugs is in violation of the 21st Amendment?
If you made an 'intoxicating liquor' using extracts of, let's say, cocaine, cannibus, opiates, etc., would they be protected?
Just asking...not advocating.
If you made an 'intoxicating liquor' using extracts of, let's say, cocaine, cannibus, opiates, etc., would they be protected?
Just asking...not advocating.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Stories
Had a wonderful evening with OldNFO. Good times. One of the things that we discussed was how much of our history, our heritage, is being lost because the stories aren't being told. If you have a family member who is of the "Greatest Generation", please get them to tell their story.
To them, it may not be anything important. To them, their life is just what they did to get by. To us, it is a touch-point of a time and a people who were more important in shaping the world as we know it than anybody realizes. Their stories, their histories, need to be captured. Lest we forget who we are as a people, a nation, an ideal.
Pax,
Newbius
To them, it may not be anything important. To them, their life is just what they did to get by. To us, it is a touch-point of a time and a people who were more important in shaping the world as we know it than anybody realizes. Their stories, their histories, need to be captured. Lest we forget who we are as a people, a nation, an ideal.
Pax,
Newbius
Friday, January 27, 2012
DC Area Blogshoot
The Miller is hosting a blogshoot at the NRA Range in February. Go over to his place and RSVP. If you are local to me, we might be able to carpool if required.
I plan on going, The Good Lord willing (and the creek don't rise).
Good times.
I plan on going, The Good Lord willing (and the creek don't rise).
Good times.
QOTD-Don Challis
Don Challis, chief of police at the College of William and Mary, traveled to Richmond Wednesday to express his opposition to a proposed bill prohibiting colleges from banning weapons on campus. Challis said he doubted that in a Virginia Tech sort of emergency, “a person who rarely, if ever, shoots a weapon is going to be any kind of positive factor.” (Source: WaPo)
You mean, like the Campus Police officers on the scene? Or, maybe, the Blacksburg Police Department? Or, maybe, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office?
If these departments are anything like the average department in the nation, the officers might shoot 100-200 rounds per year during annual re-qualification.
200 rounds.
My friends would call that a good warm-up at the range. Every one of my friends who has a carry permit practices regularly, and expends several hundred rounds per session.
I know a few LEO's, too. They don't practice often. Mostly, their gun is part of their uniform. A symbol of authority. The answer of last resort.
Final thought, Chief Challis: When seconds count, how many minutes away are you? Would you rather have unarmed people facing an active shooter, or would you rather that the shooter was rendered inactive before you had a tragedy on your hands?
Based on your response above, it sounds like you would rather have an active shooter. It would give you a chance to get your face on TV after all. Might help your law enforcement career, too. Make sure that they spell your name right.
You mean, like the Campus Police officers on the scene? Or, maybe, the Blacksburg Police Department? Or, maybe, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office?
If these departments are anything like the average department in the nation, the officers might shoot 100-200 rounds per year during annual re-qualification.
200 rounds.
My friends would call that a good warm-up at the range. Every one of my friends who has a carry permit practices regularly, and expends several hundred rounds per session.
I know a few LEO's, too. They don't practice often. Mostly, their gun is part of their uniform. A symbol of authority. The answer of last resort.
Final thought, Chief Challis: When seconds count, how many minutes away are you? Would you rather have unarmed people facing an active shooter, or would you rather that the shooter was rendered inactive before you had a tragedy on your hands?
Based on your response above, it sounds like you would rather have an active shooter. It would give you a chance to get your face on TV after all. Might help your law enforcement career, too. Make sure that they spell your name right.
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