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7:11pm: Environmentalism vs Conservation.
New political point.

Environmentalism is not the same thing as Conservation.

The former doesn't actually have the same goals as the latter, often times goals that are entirely political and not within the scope or direction of protecting the environment. While the latter entirely aims at conserving the environment.

Here is an example of Environmentalism at work.




We have too much government.

5:57pm: Psychological points reflecting the anti-gun bias of a number of people.
http://jpfo.org/filegen-n-z/ragingagainstselfdefense.htm

12:16pm: Some Thom Brennan


Only version I could find of this song with a Youtube link but it works mostly. The video is interesting if badly edited, some old video of a French alpine region I guess. [edit]Pyrenees[/edit]

This makes me want to take the Deuce to the top of a mountain in North Georgia and Camp for a few nights. Run a battery string, for powering basic lights and a bit of music and watch the stars roll by. Sad thing is that I hate doing such things alone. If I can't share something like that I just go melancholy.

12:09pm: On those universal background checks..
I'm sure, the idea that a spouse leaving their spouse at home with guns for more than 7 days is exactly the sort of crime we need to stop.

http://www.pagunblog.com/2013/03/12/we-have-language-for-s-374-the-transfer-ban/


If you left town for more than 7 days, and left your gay partner, or unrelated roommate at home with the guns, you’d be committing a felony. This should be called the “denying gun rights to gays act.” Remember that the federal government does not recognize gay marriage, even if you’re state does, thanks to DOMA. 5 years in prison.

Actually, even married couples are questionably legal, because the exemption between family only applies to gifts, not to temporary transfers. The 7 day implication is if you leave your spouse at home for more than 7 days, it’s an unlawful transfer, and you’re a 5 year felon. I suppose you could gift them to your spouse, or related co-habitant, and then have them gift them back when you arrive back home. Maybe the Attorney General will decide to create a form for that.

It would be illegal to lend a gun to a friend to take shooting. That would be a transfer. 5 years in federal prison.

Steals the livelihood of gun dealers by setting a fixed fee to conduct transfers. The fee is fixed by the Attorney General. What’s to prevent him from setting it at $1000?

Enacts defacto universal gun registration, because of record keeping requirements.

All lost and stolen guns must be reported to the federal and local government. This means everyone will have to fill out the theft/loss form, and not just FFLs. You only have 24 hours to comply. If you lose a gun on a hunting trip deep in the woods, and can’t get back home to fill out the form in 24 hours, you’re a felon and will spend 5 years in federal prison.

Want to lend a gun to a friend to go hunting? It’s a 5 year in prison felony.

No exception for state permits. All transfers must go through a dealer or 5 years in federal prison.
UPDATE: Teaching someone to shoot on your own land is a felony, 5 years, if you hand them the gun. Not an exempted transfer.

I'm sure this net effect is exactly what they're looking for.

2:22am: Compared rights..
X is a right which protects a persons access to a combination of technologies which allow them to control or at least exert some control of their right to self determination and/or life.

8:45pm: A CANCER CALLED LOVE - OF THE WAND & THE MOON



I am still strongly reminded of someone mostly removed from my life. She's out there, we talk from time to tim but she's effectively beyond my reach.

2:38am: History has meaning...
It doesn't take being a Supreme Court Justice to know that the opening shots of the Revolution were because the British had decided to collect the powder stores that the militia had. It also doesn't take being a Supreme Court Justice to know that the founding fathers had a problem with that action by the then government which is why they crafted the 2nd amendment the way that they did.

One may argue that "confiscating the powder stores" is reasonable and practical but history tells otherwise that it was NOT reasonable or acceptable. Thus to argue that the 2nd amendment means something else, patently ignores history.

2:09am: ..

2:31pm: Deep Blue day
Today is a nice and beautiful day. Work is being low stress and things are pretty good. Not great, just good, but still....

12:35pm: A comment on the current attributions of weather...
Hurricane Katrina and Sandy are as much proof of global warming/climate change as they are of God's wrath against sin and villainy.

1:11pm: Shout out to Duncan and his Photos...
Duncan is currently downrange in points middle east.



This one is nifty...
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10:52pm: Humber!

1:01pm: On that we are owned by the government video...
The government does not own us. We do NOT belong to the government.

The government is US. WE are the government. The folks in power, in DC, in agencies, they are there at our pleasure. They represent us. They are usually what people refer to as the government but they belong to us, NOT the other way around.

To twist this all to be the idea that we belong to the government is to turn the clock back to the days where the king ruled because of the holy mandate from god and the people were his subjects to rule and care for as a father to many small children.

We fought a revolution over this shit. People need to be careful what words they choose.

"Govern" is NOT the same thing as "Rule".

"Powers" are not the same things as "Rights".

12:55pm: Some Robert Rich and Ian Boddy....

1:38am: Somebody that I used to know...

12:03am: 'Pancham Se Gara'
This Sitar/Tabla/Tamboura piece is absolutely amazing.

Anoushka Shankar plays 'Pancham Se Gara'

12:42pm: Immigration decision and it's impact.
So the Supreme Court found mostly against the immigration law in Arizona, the benchmark being that the federal government's regulation of some area of law gave it supremacy over conflicting or in this case more strict law. This is interesting because this could mean that federal regulation of something like Commercial Motor Vehicles (over the road trucks) and their licensing/regulation or say assault weapons would be in conflict if the federal government has laws already relating to these. Even, as I heard on the radio, complementary laws on the subject.

This could mean that California's Assault Weapons ban or their more strict laws on emissions or Commercial Motor Vehicles is in conflict with federal law because the federal government regulates those things already.

4:04pm: Clayton picks up two bad apples from APD....
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/fired-officers-eagle-raid-hired-clayton-sheriff/nPW64/


I'm half tempted to start a betting pool on how long it is before there's a major court case involving Sgt. Willie Adams....

2:23am: Not new but new to me....

2:22am: I've always liked these guys....

5:36pm: Lancaster!

1:54am: Fare thee well Edgrrr...


About 5 years ago I adopted 2 cats, brothers, Edrrr and George. George, sadly went missing a few years ago.

Last night, Edgrrr was killed by a coyote. I got word while I was traveling home and it was hard news to take. I'm more or less on my own and the cats are the only source of constant companionship I have. Edgrrr was a special sort of cat in that he was always very happy to see me and was a rolly polly 20 pound ball of purr. An ex and I rescued a kitten ~3 years ago, Edgrrr was a very tolerant foster dad to that kitten being very companionable and at some point a bit too tolerant of Barrett's pushy nature.

As a cat, his main mode was laying about with a side of lazing about. He'd get up from inside the house and go out to lay on a bench in the back yard in the sun. A few years ago he got an abscess and the vet who treated him said he was the most laid back cat she'd ever had the pleasure of dealing with.

I'm already missing the big lumpus terribly.

2:43am: A thousand apes banging on typewriters....

5:17pm: Well, these guys are kinda shiny....


I love the warbly vocals. It's kinda like Siouxsie Sioux...

9:31pm: One more, with feeling...


Something of a requiem for the Royal Navy's carriers....