Boston's Gun Bible, Second Edition
"It is terrible to contemplete how few politicians are hanged." -- G. K. Chesterton
From kaba:
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom." -- Albert Einstein
Tom Tomorrow's This Modern World - We've got to attack someone - my title. Cartoon commentary on the reason for the coming war. Guess GW's administration took dog wagging lessons from Slick Willie. Hehe. [lew]
Patrick J. Buchanan at World Net Dally - Who gave mankind the gift of WMD? - we did. And Harry Truman did it best, er... worst. [lew]
What does history show? That it was the good Christian countries of the West that invented and first used all the Weapons of Mass Destruction we all deplore -- now that the other guys have got them.
Declan McCullagh at CNet - Apple: Burn DVDs--and we'll burn you - this one hits close to home. My wife bought the Other World Computing external SuperDrive, which came bundled with their DVD Enabler patch. iDVD works on the external drive for the primary user on our machine (me), but not for any other users. Other World gave us some support, but has now stated that they have agreed with Apple to no longer support DVD Enabler. They also said that DVD Enabler doesn't work with Jaguar. They are recommending that we swap the new drive with the internal drive in our PowerBook, which they say will make iDVD work without DVD Enabler. We haven't tried it yet. Slashdot discussion here. [/.]
Patricia O'Connell at Business Week - Self-Defense at 30,000 Feet - Flight Watch America is giving practical training for airplane passengers who want to be equipped to help stop hijackings. Of course the government won't allow you to carry the best tools for the job, but a rational mind and a free will are your most potent weapons. Be prepared and their are plenty of available tools. [firearmnews]
Kevin McCullough at NewsMax - 'Signs' - a review of Mel Gibson's new film. Well, not quite. More a review of Mel Gibson. Mr. McCullough likes him. [kaba]
"Signs" is not about the crop circles. It instead argues that God does show us hints of who He is and how He works in everyday life. But for a major motion picture star to argue that this message needs to be told on the big screen of the American cinema will only give Pretendlanders yet another reason to snub their high-society noses at Gibson.
Gibson has not had a moral message in every film he's made, but as he has matured in recent years, his best work has been in the films he has chosen. These films build up families, strengthen the belief that freedom is costly and was bought with a price, and in his most recent -- God exists and stays with you through the longest and darkest of nights.
Stay the course, Mel! Stay the course!
Ed Lewis - To Serve and Protect the state. A primer on how applying for a drivers license and title gives away your sovereign right to travel unimpeded. I have read about people who managed to drive with no license, registration, or title. Seems to me that you'd have to be willing to shoot lots of cops to do it in today's world. So, what's the problem? [kaba]
It is the job of the highway patrols, for example, to assure commercial vehicles are being operated safely and have met all compelled performance. It is not their job to harass American Citizens exercising their freedom in their private property known still as automobiles or whatever - that is, as long as the automobile or whatever isn't declared a motor vehicle by the owner registering it as such or themselves as commercial drivers by applying for a "driver's" or "operator's" license.
But, because people obey what they think is "law" through contracts and commercial agreements with compelled performance not revealed to them, they place themselves under "statutory (actually Admiralty/maritime) jurisdiction" of the government. People unwillingly, unknowingly, and unintentionally put themselves under the complete control of the government when it comes to their travel.
Armed & Secure is the first branded product of the American Liberty Foundation. It has been endorsed by Gunowners of America.
Bob Murphy at anti-state.com - In Search of the Antimarx - an entertaining little ditty from one of the best cat herders out there. [anti-state]
Stand - EUCD in the UK - DMCA is spelled EUCD in the European Union. A pile of shit by any other name still reeks. [samizdata]
Sunni Maravillosa at Free-Market.Net - Freedom Book of the Month for August, 2002: Boston's Gun Bible, 2nd Edition - A review of the second edition of Boston T. Party's masterpiece. Order it today from JPFO.
The second edition is not simply a housecleaning of typos and other fussy stuff; Boston added 10 new chapters -- about 200 more pages than the first edition. That's how much more value he's packed into this book -- and the first edition was a powerhouse. New in BGB II are chapters on rating battle rifles and carbines, combat rifle optics, FALs, and ancillary issues to gun ownership (reloading, caching, etc.), among others. Only one chapter was deleted, and another, on curio and relic guns, was shortened. Boston says his goals were to dispel common gun misconceptions, and to compose the best gun encyclopedia for the modern gunowner. He certainly delivers with BGB II.
Sunni Maravillosa at Sierra Times - "But I'm Only One Person!" - some folks whined about Sunni's last Sierra Times piece that one person can't do much. "Nonsense!" says she. [sierra]
Think about it for a minute. Where does any progress come from -- any technological innovation, any new idea? It comes from an individual. Human minds do not work as bees in a beehive -- they are autonomous. One person comes up with an idea, and that idea starts a fire in his mind. He becomes excited about it ... he considers the possibilities ... he examines related ideas, pros and cons ... and, if he's a man of action, he acts. That may involve getting other people's help and support, but he must act if the idea is to take shape.
Barry Bright at Free Kentucky - "Liberal" justus is not blind - comments on the sentencing of Charlie Puckett to 30 months and a day for the crime of possessing some wood and metal. [kaba]
So when Terry Ingram titled his eyewitness report on Charlie's sentencing "Justice was Blind Today" it struck that chord in my mind that sometimes forces me to the keyboard.
Our enemies are not blind. They know exactly what they do. They are despicable beyond description. Any profanity one could apply to them would wither in the black shadow of their evil.
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If you are one of the tiny minority who do not shirk your responsibility, then you should begin a deafening roar to shut down the BATF Nazi scum and deprive them of all they care about: their paychecks and their retirement plans. Of course Dubya and Ashcroft should put them on trial for treason and execute them but that would, at this time, be too much to hope for. You have to get control of the hanging tree before you need to worry about who you're going to hang.
