Despicable Me

Yes it's for kids, but Despicable Me is easily the funniest movie I've seen this year.

Preemption wins...

...in both Ohio and New York.

More wins for the good guys.

Oh @*#!

We're screwed.

Journey into Mystery #29

Another Joe Maneely cover.

Journey into Unknown Worlds #47 (1955)

A very nice cover by Bill Everett.

Wham!

Well if that didn't damn near knock me off my seat. The Fourth Circuit is going to receive whether the Federal statues barring possession of weapons by anyone convicted of a domestic violence charge is constitutional. I can hear the screams in Bradyland already.

H/T to Glenn.

Mattel M16 Marauder

This ad came from the back of Hawkman #21 published 1967. I was six years old at the time. Damn, wish I'd had one.

Do you have to reach a certain level of stupid to be a school administrator?

I’m not sure this is a zero tolerance moment since by the Principal’s own admission he can determine discipline based on the circumstances. This smells of engaging stupid and going full bore. A High School student accidentally mistakes her father’s lunchbox for hers and brings a paring knife to school. The knife was found during a search of student belongings. She was suspended for 10 days then the rest of the year. The story doesn’t say she was charged but implies it. She has never been in trouble before. Anyone engaged in this little farce deserves to find themselves unemployed and out on their butts.

Update: She was charged.

Update: Appears the schools administrators dispute the facts as reported in the news and are holding a hearing on the matter. I'm curious to see the outcome, but I think I understand why they went to the press rather than use your appeals process. You had their daughter arrested rather than dealing with the matter administratively.

Primeval

I wasn't even aware there was a third series of Primeval until today. Each episode you get a creature of the day terrorizing London. Actually it's better than it sounds. During the first episode a prehistoric Croc eats a British cop putting a ticket on a car. My thought was that if he'd had a gun he could have fired at the thing and...missed.

NJ Governor Christie may have commuted...

...Brian Aitkens' sentence, but that doesn't make him a friend of gun owners in New Jersey or anywhere else. Bob Owens tells the tale here. Too bad. I liked the way he was standing up to the left in New Jersey.

WAPO Jumps on the Bandwagon

The Washington Post is supporting the ATF in their push to require reporting of multiple sales of long guns along the border even thought hey admit it’s probably illegal. They also repeat the bogus claim that it guns bought in the United States being used by the cartels. No one denies that some firearms are finding their way across the border. The truth is that the numbers are only a small fraction of the weapons seized by the Mexican government and being used by the cartels. The numbers don’t justify attacks on our Second Amendment rights. Our rights come before Mexico’s problems, but this isn’t about helping the Mexicans. It’s a gun control in the United States. The WAPO certainly supports that.

H/T to Sebastian.

Joel Rosenberg

If you wish to donate to the Joel Rosenberg defense fund you can go here to do so. The donate button is to the right.

A poll on the FCC regulation of the Internet.

American voters believe free market competition will protect Internet users more than government regulation and fear that regulation will be used to push a political agenda.

H/T to Glenn.

I like this...

...if only because I can't help but wonder if my oldest daughter, who was labeled ADD in 1st Grade, became the self fulfilling prophecy of her teachers, school administrators, doctors and their drugs. Maybe not, but I don't see that the drugs ever did her a damn bit of good. In any event, this is a cool video.



H/T to Claire.

This is getting old...

The New York Times has an editorial in support of a crackdown on the border. Not a crackdown on illegal immigration but a crackdown on all those evil guns shops selling their wares to the drug cartels south of the border. They want the long gun reporting requirement being pushed by the ATF put into effect. I truly don’t believe they think for a minute it will make a damn bit of difference in the all out warfare going on between the corrupt Mexican military/police and the drug cartels. They aren’t that stupid. Well, yeah they are but this strikes me as more of a push for gun control through the Federal bureaucracy. Mexico is just the excuse. It's the same old shit.

H/T to Sebastian.