Monday, May 11, 2009
It's 8:60 somewhere...
Chapter 8 verse 60 of the Qu'ran tells believers to, "strike terror into (the hearts of) the enemies".
Drilling in ANWR: How wide an impact? The truth is right here...
As oil prices begin to creep back up, here's an issue worth revisiting.
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) consists of about 20 million acres.
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) consists of about 20 million acres.
The area in which advocates want to drill for oil is about 2,000 acres.
The drawing below shows the relative proportion of these numbers.
For you shooters, that would be like a 7.62mm / .30-caliber hole in a 30" round shotgun patterning target.
I say, "Drill here. Drill now!"
Friday, May 8, 2009
Ball, Louisiana cop detains man over 'extremist' bumper sticker
The headline seems almost too crazy to believe:
The photo and caption below are from this official US Navy news story:
I think we should print out the Navy Web page that features this photo & caption in high quality mode (with the page URL set in the top margin) and send it to Ball, Louisiana Police Department:
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Suspect detained over 'extremist' bumper stickerMethinks these coppers need a little education...
'Don't Tread on Me' puts driver in 'watch' category in DHS report
The photo and caption below are from this official US Navy news story:
"Aboard the USS Salt Lake City (SSN 716) Sep. 11, 2002 -- A Sailor hoists the "Navy Jack" aboard the Salt Lake City in memory of the September 11 attacks on America. Under direction of the Secretary of the Navy, Gordon R. England, all U.S. Navy ships will fly the “Navy Jack” in place of the “Union Jack” for the duration of the war on terrorism. The “Navy Jack” is a flag consisting of a rattlesnake superimposed across thirteen horizontal alternating red and white stripes, with the motto, “Don’t Tread on Me.” U.S. Navy photo. (RELEASED)" (- emphasis mine)
I think we should print out the Navy Web page that features this photo & caption in high quality mode (with the page URL set in the top margin) and send it to Ball, Louisiana Police Department:
Ball Town Police DepartmentPerhaps someone should warn the department not to attempt to stop any Navy vessels that may happen to wander by on some tributary of the nearby Red River or the port of Alexandria!
100 Municipal Dr
Ball, LA 71405
phone (318) 640-4673
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Friday, May 1, 2009
Obama: Make the little children suffer!
Maybe Barack Obama came to his position on abortion because he has misinterpreted Mark 10:14.
(After all, he had a slightly unusual pastor, you know...)
Maybe he thinks it means, "Make the little children suffer, then send them to me right away".
It actually reads, "Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not".
On second thought, maybe he is the Messiah and I'm just a right-wing terrorist clinging to my religion and guns.
What in the world is wrong with me?!
Why not abortion rights through the FOURTH trimester?
(After all, he had a slightly unusual pastor, you know...)
Maybe he thinks it means, "Make the little children suffer, then send them to me right away".
It actually reads, "Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not".
On second thought, maybe he is the Messiah and I'm just a right-wing terrorist clinging to my religion and guns.
What in the world is wrong with me?!
Why not abortion rights through the FOURTH trimester?
Monday, April 13, 2009
U.N. ME - humorous, sobering documentary on United Nations incompetence & corruption
"U.N. ME" looks to be a humorous but sobering documentary on United Nations incompetence & corruption.
It's due out later this year, and you can help it gain wider release.
Hearing about the film prompted me to dig up this classic photo I got somewhere:
It's due out later this year, and you can help it gain wider release.
Hearing about the film prompted me to dig up this classic photo I got somewhere:
From their Web site: http://unmemovie.com
The United Nations was founded on the principles of maintaining international security and promoting the dignity of mankind. But as the 20th century became the 21st century, it seems that we haven't seen a marked improvement in our defense of human rights and collective security. U.N Me is a film that exposes the perversity of the U.N. and its failure to live up to its founding principles all wrapped up in a highly entertaining film.Promotional text from their Web site:
U.N. Me has uncovered the disturbing truth that an organization that was created to ennoble man has instead been ravaged by corruption, enables evil and sows global chaos. The film has a very strong emphasis on entertainment.
U.N. Me is irreverent, humorous and intense, using thoughtful and powerful interviews, dramatic images, hard-hitting politics and caustic commentary.
Filming has taken place on location in exotic settings throughout Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
An incredible new movie is coming soon, and I wanted to make sure you knew about it.The team behind "U.N. Me"
When the United Nations was founded more than sixty years ago, it embodied our hope for a safer, more peaceful world. But as reports of human rights violations and international conflicts make daily headlines, a question arises: is the United Nations living up to its founding ideals?
The answer is a resounding NO.
In a film that exposes the incompetence and corruption at the heart of the United Nations, filmmakers Ami Horowitz and Matthew Groff show how an organization created to ennoble mankind has instead become the clubhouse of dictators, tyrants and thugs. U.N. Me takes us on a harrowing and darkly humorous tour of the U.N.'s scandalous disregard for the people and principles it was founded to defend.
You can watch a trailer at the film's website: http://www.unmemovie.com
Check it out on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/UN-Me/42597808880
Or follow the film on Twitter: http://twitter.com/UN_Me
Ami Horowitz (Writer-Director-Producer) was an investment banker for 13 years. He has written for The National Review and The Weekly Standard. He lives in New York with his wife and children.# # #
Before signing on to U.N. Me, Matthew Groff (Writer-Director-Producer) was a post-production supervisor and assistant producer on the forthcoming documentary Sid Bernstein Presents...
Bob Richman (Cinematographer) was the cinematographer for the Academy Award winning film An Inconvenient Truth, Academy Award nominated documentary My Architect, and Borat.
Wolfgang Held (Cinematographer) was the cinematographer for award winning films such as Some Kind Of Monster, Children Underground and won a Primetime Emmy for Carrier. Wolfgang has just finished shooting Bruno, the Sascha Baron Cohen follow-up to Borat.
The credits of Doug Abel (Editor) include the Academy Award winning documentary The Fog of War, the documentary Some Kind of Monster, and the Emmy Award winning NBC hit 30 Rock.
Andrew Herwitz (Sales Agent), CEO of The Film Sales Company, has represented films such as Fahrenheit 9/11, Academy Award winning Born Into Brothels, and Academy Award nominated films My Architect and Iraq In Fragments.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
ABC's 20/20: "If I Only Had a Gun" (a rigged "experiment")
ABC's 20/20: "If I Only Had a Gun" (a rigged "experiment")
From the YouTube video description:
This was VERY deceptive and slanted!
In the fifth "experiment" shown, a shooter pops us from among the class members and begins shooting the defender.
This scenario is so slanted that it's beyond the pale.
Scenario six again shows the defender being targeted almost immediately.
I figured something was up when they touted her training and skills, yet I saw her blinking while shooting.
The "assailant" in all these "experiments" is a tactically trained, practicing police officer and instructor with advance knowledge that he has an armed opponent and exactly where he will be sitting!
Who could be expected to do well or even survive in that scenario?!
Lastly, the defenders were all wearing the same clothes, a long baggy shirt.
If they had been allowed to dress the way they wanted, they would have probably made clothing choices with firearm accessibility in mind.
While I agree on the need for training, each defender would have been just as dead without the firearm if so specifically targeted!
What if a defender unknown to the assailant had been present?
I guess ABC didn't think of that - or did they?!
It seems like this piece is trying to convince us all that having a defensive firearm is just way too much for us to handle.
This despite the evidence that shows hundreds of thousands of (even as many as 2 million) successful defensive uses of civilian firearms every year and other statistic that shows police officers are 5.5 times much more likely than a civilian to shoot the wrong person!
I wonder how John Stossel really feels about this one?!
I say, "Gimme a break!"
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Update 04/17/2009
From the YouTube video description:
"ABC's 20/20 did this experiment with the help of the Bethlehem, PA police department to see how someone would really react to a gunman entering a room."Links below are to the YouTube videos, and to my mirrors if they are pulled from YouTube:
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MX3QtumSuE
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxNRLMWkjc8
- http://207.234.249.73/gunfax/If_I_Only_Had_A_Gun_Part_1.flv
- http://207.234.249.73/gunfax/If_I_Only_Had_A_Gun_Part_2.flv
It's easy to see that the first two times and the fourth time, the "shooter" shot the instructor, then (obviously with advance knowledge) immediately went after the defensive firearm carrier, who was conveniently in the center of the crowd each time!
This was VERY deceptive and slanted!
In the fifth "experiment" shown, a shooter pops us from among the class members and begins shooting the defender.
This scenario is so slanted that it's beyond the pale.
Scenario six again shows the defender being targeted almost immediately.
I figured something was up when they touted her training and skills, yet I saw her blinking while shooting.
The "assailant" in all these "experiments" is a tactically trained, practicing police officer and instructor with advance knowledge that he has an armed opponent and exactly where he will be sitting!
Who could be expected to do well or even survive in that scenario?!
Lastly, the defenders were all wearing the same clothes, a long baggy shirt.
If they had been allowed to dress the way they wanted, they would have probably made clothing choices with firearm accessibility in mind.
While I agree on the need for training, each defender would have been just as dead without the firearm if so specifically targeted!
What if a defender unknown to the assailant had been present?
I guess ABC didn't think of that - or did they?!
It seems like this piece is trying to convince us all that having a defensive firearm is just way too much for us to handle.
This despite the evidence that shows hundreds of thousands of (even as many as 2 million) successful defensive uses of civilian firearms every year and other statistic that shows police officers are 5.5 times much more likely than a civilian to shoot the wrong person!
I wonder how John Stossel really feels about this one?!
I say, "Gimme a break!"
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Update 04/17/2009
Just a question:
How often have you heard of a mass shooting in which one of the civilian victims killed has a sidearm?
Monday, April 6, 2009
BornAgainAmerican.org - Wolf in sheep's clothing...
Today a forwarded message urging folks to visit BornAgainAmerican to listen to their "great" song found its way into my inbox and was passed along with the qualifier, "More right wing propoganda (sic) from my Republican brother-in-law."
Right-wing?!
This organization was founded by Norman Lear, founder of People for the American Way, whose goals are to promote secular humanism.
Actor Keith Carradine, tapped by Lear to write the song, recalls a key motivator: "The secular ideals of Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine are what we need to remind ourselves of at this critical time in our Nation's history."
While the official lyrics at the site say, "My Bible and the Bill of Rights", in Carradine's bio at the site, it says, "my bible is The Bill Of Rights". Quite different!
Now look at the lyrics on the "Add Your Voice" Page, and look at how many of the lyrics added by visitors are profoundly Christian or at least generically God-oriented in their content. Quite different again!
It's pretty clear to me that Lear and Company are brazenly co-opting the term "born again" to fool folks who don't look too close at the background.
For instance, on the "About Us" page, the photo inset on the left is titled, "The harvest of the spirit has begun". Wow...
(click for full-sized)
I think they want to gather as many signatures as they can, then later use that "support" base to push a very different agenda than many of their site visitors might have in mind.
Just watch the video "Norman Lear’s Preamble at the Lincoln Memorial" on the "About Us" page.
The song is well done, it is emotional and gripping, but this project looks to me like the classic wolf in sheep's clothing.
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Right-wing?!
This organization was founded by Norman Lear, founder of People for the American Way, whose goals are to promote secular humanism.
Actor Keith Carradine, tapped by Lear to write the song, recalls a key motivator: "The secular ideals of Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine are what we need to remind ourselves of at this critical time in our Nation's history."
While the official lyrics at the site say, "My Bible and the Bill of Rights", in Carradine's bio at the site, it says, "my bible is The Bill Of Rights". Quite different!
Now look at the lyrics on the "Add Your Voice" Page, and look at how many of the lyrics added by visitors are profoundly Christian or at least generically God-oriented in their content. Quite different again!
It's pretty clear to me that Lear and Company are brazenly co-opting the term "born again" to fool folks who don't look too close at the background.
For instance, on the "About Us" page, the photo inset on the left is titled, "The harvest of the spirit has begun". Wow...
I think they want to gather as many signatures as they can, then later use that "support" base to push a very different agenda than many of their site visitors might have in mind.
Just watch the video "Norman Lear’s Preamble at the Lincoln Memorial" on the "About Us" page.
The song is well done, it is emotional and gripping, but this project looks to me like the classic wolf in sheep's clothing.
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