I feel naked without my Kindle.

I've been using my Kindle all day without any problems and I get to work and boot it up and the screen had gone mammaries up. The screen was lined with an image frozen on it. I went online to troubleshoot. I rebooted it. Nothing happened. I plugged it in to charge. Nothing happened. I called Amazon. I'll say this for those guys, a new replacement Kindle is already en route.

Stealth Gun Control

The President is not the Second Amendment's friend. Anyone who buys his claims that he is out and out wrong. Any bills he's signed that might seem to "support" our Second Amendment rights are meant to push a false impression prior to the next election. Open opposition to the Second Amendment would just make his reelection more difficult than it is already going to be. So he tries to push along what measures he can behind the scenes like his attempt to the military's selling of once fired brass. His 2012/2013 budget is another example of this approach. Fortunately for us, the NRA/ILA pays attention to the details the rest of us might miss. President Obama's budget is probably dead on arrival. That doesn't mean he and his minions won't try to hide this stuff in some other bill later. It's times like these I'm glad to have the NRA on our side.

H/T to John Richardson.

The Gunny says...

...register to vote.

Hell Yes!

H/T to Kevin.

Yes.

Typical bureaucratic...

...bushwah.

N.C. FOOD ‘INSPECTOR’ SENDS GIRL‘S LUNCH HOME AFTER DETERMINING IT’S NOT HEALTHY ENOUGH

H/T to Jeff.

Starbucks Buycott

I didn't male it to Starbucks yesterday, but drove by this morning as soon as I got off work. At 6:30 a.m. business seemed to be rocking, and the hot chocolate was fine. I suspect the boycott won't even be a noticeable blip. Me, I'll be going back. Even if Starbucks doesn't give us direct support, I'm OK with neutrality in this circumstance. The antis should have been as well. It would have saved them embarrassment.

If you don't pull the trigger...

...you won't shoot yourself in the finger or any other part of your anatomy.

H/T to The Duck.

Oh Wow!

H/T to Borepatch.

Yesterday...

...I got off work at 6:30 a.m. intending to take care of a few things before I went to sleep. I sat on the sofa and that was that until noon. I spent the rest of the day getting a new rim for my car and two new front tires then back to work. The new rim was courtesy of the asshat who left two large pavers in the middle of Hillsborough Road and the bent rim that resulted when I ran over one. What caliber for....

I stopped caring about Star Wars...

after about the fourth re-edit of the original. George Lucas should have been a member of the Soviet Politburo.

Bill Whittle; Why We Suck

Now that's fricking...

...blow your soda out your nose funny. Oh yeah, and ouch!

When I read that, I looked around and found this. Again, ouch.

H/T to Robb.

A Heinlein Quote

Morality is your agreement with yourself to abide by your own rules. - Jubal Harshaw in Stranger in a Strange Land

All Star Western #109

Cover art by Gil Kane.