I'm all CCWed up for the next five years. Very smooth and simple procedure, five minutes and $25, including running my name past NCIC. One of the pleasant things is the absence of restrictions. For instance, the mother-may-i no longer forbids carrying uncased long guns in the truck.
I was prepared to show the clerk a copy of the law requiring her to accept my DD214 in lieu of the highly comprehensive four-hour course on gun safety and responsibility. We had had the discussion earlier when she said she never heard of such a thing. This time she accepted it without a murmur.
Feb 17, 2011
Cheerio and Adieu
A few months ago I noted the proposed sale of one of our defense outfits to furriners.
It was a complicated deal for L1 Identity Solutions. CEO Robert LaPenta proved talented over the years at farting away shareholder money, but not making any. He ran the company into the ground and had to auction it off. To generate any bids at all he found he had to split it up, despite promises to the contrary.
Part of L1 is a spook shop, a set of mercenaries under hire by American "intelligence" agencies. That sale became final yesterday, to BAE, which answers to London, the professional home of Kim Philby and the Cambridge Five.
That clears the way for peddling the rest of L1, basically the biometrics-related chunk, to Safron which is not only French but partially owned by the rulers of the Fifth Republic, a nation which has still not quite forgiven us for getting their soil all bloody in the summer of 1944.
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Oh well, the Limeys and the Frogs may not do much worse with their new spy toys and telescreens than we did.
It was a complicated deal for L1 Identity Solutions. CEO Robert LaPenta proved talented over the years at farting away shareholder money, but not making any. He ran the company into the ground and had to auction it off. To generate any bids at all he found he had to split it up, despite promises to the contrary.
Part of L1 is a spook shop, a set of mercenaries under hire by American "intelligence" agencies. That sale became final yesterday, to BAE, which answers to London, the professional home of Kim Philby and the Cambridge Five.
That clears the way for peddling the rest of L1, basically the biometrics-related chunk, to Safron which is not only French but partially owned by the rulers of the Fifth Republic, a nation which has still not quite forgiven us for getting their soil all bloody in the summer of 1944.
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Oh well, the Limeys and the Frogs may not do much worse with their new spy toys and telescreens than we did.
Defunding the Art Nazis
If today's U.S. House budget votes occur as advertised, I'll be especially attentive to the proposed cuts for the National Endowment for the Arts, a credentialed batch of snooty federal busybodies whose job it is to elevate your sense of beauty.
Whatever else art may be, it is intensely personal to the artist and to his followers. Divergent tastes gave us Grant Wood and Jackson Pollock. Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali. Robert Frost and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Less happily, we also have the guy who took your money to support himself as he slaved to write a poem which, in its entirety, reads: "ligght."
Robert Mapplethorpe found success taking pictures of himself with a bullwhip up his butt and of a Crucifix soaking in urine. The NDEA took your money to support him, too.
If you wished to personify absolute evil vis-a-vis the arts, you would need two characters. The first is a government thug who refused Mapplethorpe permission to create or display his penetrated butt shot. The second is the government thug who can and does make you pay for them.
cf. Oceania, Minitrue
Whatever else art may be, it is intensely personal to the artist and to his followers. Divergent tastes gave us Grant Wood and Jackson Pollock. Andy Warhol and Salvador Dali. Robert Frost and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Less happily, we also have the guy who took your money to support himself as he slaved to write a poem which, in its entirety, reads: "ligght."
Robert Mapplethorpe found success taking pictures of himself with a bullwhip up his butt and of a Crucifix soaking in urine. The NDEA took your money to support him, too.
If you wished to personify absolute evil vis-a-vis the arts, you would need two characters. The first is a government thug who refused Mapplethorpe permission to create or display his penetrated butt shot. The second is the government thug who can and does make you pay for them.
cf. Oceania, Minitrue
Feb 16, 2011
No, Dan
The Washington Post is praising congress persons for going out in public despite their Tucson panic.
(Personally, if I was a congress person I would be reluctant to show my face in public, but for reasons of embarrassment, not fear of getting shot.)
The critters are looking for a little better home defense, too:
Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) wants another layer. An aide said Burton plans to reintroduce a bill that would enclose the House's public galleries in something like Plexiglas, the kind of arrangement that shields liquor-store clerks.
Dan, don't you understand that liquor clerks are different from you and your colleagues? They serve a useful social purpose.
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(Personally, if I was a congress person I would be reluctant to show my face in public, but for reasons of embarrassment, not fear of getting shot.)
The critters are looking for a little better home defense, too:
Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.) wants another layer. An aide said Burton plans to reintroduce a bill that would enclose the House's public galleries in something like Plexiglas, the kind of arrangement that shields liquor-store clerks.
Dan, don't you understand that liquor clerks are different from you and your colleagues? They serve a useful social purpose.
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