It takes a temperature of 20 below to trigger the B&B rule in this area. When invoked, B&B grants license to Bitch and Brag, that is, to bitch about the cold and brag about how comfortably you are surviving it because you're, like, real smart.
Officially, it's -19 the airport right now. Unofficially it's -17 at the homestead. So b'ing and/or b'ing would be wimpish.
Nevertheless, I am instructing the butler to add another log.
Jan 23, 2011
Jan 22, 2011
Guns and booze
One of the OMG arguments attending the new Iowa shall-issue status pits the pure of heart against the provision allowing concealed and open carry in bars and restaurants. It is not one of the easier areas of the debate.
I do my own drinking unarmed, and I confess I'd be a shade nervous about sharing bar space with an excitable woman packing a belly full of tequila shooters and a Lorcin in her cleavage.
I do my own drinking unarmed, and I confess I'd be a shade nervous about sharing bar space with an excitable woman packing a belly full of tequila shooters and a Lorcin in her cleavage.
It would be more comforting to be absolutely sure there are no weapons in the joint. (Say, isn't that a unicorn angel watching over us?)
However: I'm less concerned about a packing citizen who went through the CCW process. He, or she, has a clean background and has been exposed to at least a rudimentary education in firearms safety and responsibility. And if he values his CCW permit, as almost all of us do, he will be very careful not to abuse it.
The real worry is the thug with a rap sheet who walks in with a bad attitude and a stolen Glock in his boot. No change in the CCW law, or any law, will deter him because he is a criminal, and criminals, by definition, flip the bird at laws.
Just for the record, and for what it's worth, the new law allows you to have a drink or two while carrying, but when you hit .08 blood booze the permission stops.
Jan 21, 2011
Say, while he's up there schmoozing with Immelt, shouldn't the president bow to an honorable chapter in General Motors history?
Shouldn't he publicly thank the company for its millions of short-barrel, high-cap, assault weapons?
Shouldn't he publicly thank the company for its millions of short-barrel, high-cap, assault weapons?
Per capita, the great divisor
That previous post was, of course, based on today's news-cycle story as defined by Mr. Gibbs. Obama is heading for upstate New York to huff his pride in General Electric's $755 million contract with the Chinese.
The deal has been years in the making, but never mind that. If a little unearned credit sticks to His Obamaness, well, heck, that's okay with him, 2012-wise.
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A five-buck Chinese calculator is the most useful device in existence for analyzing political rhetoric. For instance, if Mr. Obama used one to divide $755 million by 308 million, he would discover the largess he sorta created amounts to $2.45 for every man, woman, and child in America. (Assuming of course that the whole shebang is pure profit.)
I don't know about you, but, by cracky, my Escalade is gonna be a white one.
The deal has been years in the making, but never mind that. If a little unearned credit sticks to His Obamaness, well, heck, that's okay with him, 2012-wise.
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A five-buck Chinese calculator is the most useful device in existence for analyzing political rhetoric. For instance, if Mr. Obama used one to divide $755 million by 308 million, he would discover the largess he sorta created amounts to $2.45 for every man, woman, and child in America. (Assuming of course that the whole shebang is pure profit.)
I don't know about you, but, by cracky, my Escalade is gonna be a white one.
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