The Complete 9/11 Timeline Mirrored
"The Era of Osama lasted about an hour and half or so, from the time the first plane hit the tower to the moment the General Militia of Flight 93 reported for duty." -- James Robbins of UPI
billstclair.com/911timeline is a mirror of Paul Thompson's The Complete 9/11 Timeline, posted with his permission.
I got my Marlin 444P back yesterday. Marlin replaced the extractor and reworked the ejector. It works nicely now. I should soon receive my Ghost Ring Sight Kit and Bear Proof Ejector™ from Wild West Guns, silver alloy bullets are coming from Oregon Trail Bullet Company, and dies and cases should arrive soon at my friendly neighborhood gun shop. Then I'll be in business.
Cobra Enterprises makes small handguns: 3 styles of Deringers in a variety of calibers, two styles of single-action semi-auto .32 & .380 caliber pistols, and a .45 ACP double-action pistol. There are no prices on the web site or in the paper ad where I found it. Added to my Arms Manufacturers page. [shotgunnews]
L. Neil Smith at Sierra Times - September Song - the 911 anniversary should remind us of the evils of our government. [smith2004]
It is August 31, 2002 as I write this. Already the prospect of having to live through September 11 -- the first anniversary of the astonishing attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon -- is souring my stomach.
On that dreaded date -- only a few days from now -- the obligatory wearing and sharing of hair-shirts (they go so well, after all, with sackcloth and ashes), the transcontinental wailing and gnashing of teeth, the cleft-chinned, courageous, and, grimly-resolved White House campaigns against those vicious, subversive terrorist screeds, the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights, will make the lugubrious aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination look like the annual El Rancho Cucamonga Kumquat Festival, and the tearduct tournament following the Columbine High School Massacre look like the Teddybears' Picnic.
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They may very well make some big announcement -- like shutting down the Evil Internet or making all airline passengers show up stark naked to fly in straightjackets cheerfully stenciled with airline logos. If we're really lucky, we'll see Silverfoot Junior himself at Ground Zero using a chunk of glass from a broken Pentagon window to carve open the chest of Johnny Lindh, extract the kid's beating heart, and hold it up for him and everybody else to marvel at on national television.
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The concept that would actually prevent anyone from even thinking about trying to hijack a commercial airliner -- no searches of any kind, in the happy expectation that a percentage of passengers will be armed -- flies in the tic-quivering, neurotic face of statists who would rather see us slaughtered in the hundreds or thousands than leave us alone to exercise fundamental rights that were supposed to have been guaranteed.
Susan Cornwell at Reuters - Senators Overwhelmingly Pass Pilot Gun Bill - by 87 to 6. Unfortunately, it's attached to the bill that creates the KGB, er... Department of Homeland Security. [kaba]
The Senate measure was approved as an amendment to a bill creating President Bush's Homeland Security Department. But that legislation may not come up for a final vote for several weeks.
Then, assuming the Homeland Security bill passes, House and Senate negotiators would need to work out the differences in the guns-in-the-cockpit measures before sending a final version to Bush with the request he sign it into law.
Unlike the House bill, the Senate bill also would provide self-defense training for flight attendants. Several dozen of them rallied outside the Capitol Thursday to back the measure.
Project Freedom Press Releases - Paul Continues Fight to Arm Pilots - Dr. Paul is optimistic "that armed pilots legislation could become law by the end of the year."
Jon Dougherty at World Net Daily - Activist dares IRS to arrest him - Larken Rose hasn't paid U.S. income taxes since 1997. [kaba]
"I ... have not filed a federal income tax return for 1997 or any subsequent year. This is not because I am protesting any law, or because I do not want to pay my 'fair share'; it is because I refuse to be a victim of the biggest financial fraud in history," said "Theft By Deception" video producer Larken Rose.
Vowing not to "remain silent" as Washington allegedly continues to "defraud my fellow Americans," Rose, in his letter, admonished the IRS to "stop terrorizing the American public" while challenging them to "come and get me."
"I will not stand by and allow myself, my family and my neighbors to be extorted simply because some power-happy bureaucrats huff and puff about all the nasty things they will do to anyone who does not 'comply' with the IRS's misapplication of the law," Rose said.
Guardian Unlimited - Hunt enthusiasts say they would flout ban - if England bans fox hunting, the hunters and land owners will continue doing it. I hope they kill anybody who tries to stop them. [kaba]
Roy MacGregor at The Globe and Mail - A cross to burn, an axe to grind - Tony Altman is a Klansman with strong views about what's wrong with America. [kaba]
Take Sept. 11, 2001, for example.
"It didn't faze me at all," he comments.
"To tell you the truth, I wish they'd wiped out the entire city -- I despise New York City."
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But since the United States appears here to stay, one cannot help but ask Tony Altman what he believes could work under the circumstances.
Simple, he says, and lifts his SKS rifle to illustrate. "Thirty shots as fast as you can shoot it," he says. "Go right through that tree there," he says, pointing to a nearby elm more than a foot thick.
"Put Homeland Security into the hands of veteran Americans like me, real Americans, veterans and former policemen. I figure about 4 per cent of males would fit in.
"But we'd get a grip on things all right. We'd get a grip on things."
Ron Paul at LewRockwell.com - Arguments Against a War on Iraq - a speech given to the House of Representatives on Wednesday. Plenty of good reasons why the U.S. should not initiate a war with Iraq. [lew]
Mr. Speaker; I rise to urge the Congress to think twice before thrusting this nation into a war without merit -- one fraught with the danger of escalating into something no American will be pleased with. Thomas Jefferson once said: "Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interests to go to war." We have for months now heard plenty of false arithmetic and lame excuses for why we must pursue a preemptive war of aggression against an impoverished third world nation 6000 miles from our shores that doesn't even possess a navy or air force, on the pretense that it must be done for national security reasons.
For some reason such an attack makes me feel much less secure, while our country is made more vulnerable.
Congress must consider the fact that those with military experience advocate a "go slow" policy, while those without military experience are the ones demanding this war. We cannot ignore the fact that all of Iraq's neighbors oppose this attack, and our European allies object as well.
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Finally, there is a compelling moral argument against war in Iraq. Military force is justified only in self-defense; naked aggression is the province of dictators and rogue states. This is the danger of a new "preemptive first strike" doctrine. America is the most moral nation on earth, founded on moral principles, and we must apply moral principles when deciding to use military force. Finally, do the American people, and not just a handful of advisors to the President, really want this war?
Gary North at LewRockwell.com - Used Cars - good tips on how and why to buy used cars. [lew]
The Hunter at Sierra Times -
Finish The Job -
of kicking the Brady Bunch out of the Congress. [sierra]
Next week on September 11, exactly one year will have passed since Islamic fundamentalists perpetrated the most despicable act of terrorism the free people of America have ever endured. An ad campaign prominently featured in this month's hunting and shooting magazines is being sponsored by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, and urges gun owners and hunters to "Finish the job" of clearing gun-hating politicians out of Washington and your statehouse. Loyal readers may remember my warning the day after 9/11 that "the first thing we have to do is clear the gutless wonders demanding that we walk around unarmed out of the theater of operations before they give any more aid and comfort to the enemy." Events since have proved how right I and all the other rights activists were that day. It is, indeed, time to "finish the job".
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Congress is (finally) beginning to show some signs of reining in some of the ill-advised attempts to trade "essential liberty" for "temporary safety" enacted in a near-panic during the immediate aftermath of the attacks. Now is the time to reinforce that trend, and send an unmistakable pro-freedom message to Washington.
J.D. Tuccille, at EnterpriseEconomy.com - Bad medicine - doctors and pharmacies are refusing to take new medicare patients. Good. May it die a well-deserved death. [sierra]
With at least part of the revolt against government health plans fueled by low reimbursements, it might seem that more money would go a long way toward solving the problem. But those low payments are part of a desperate effort to dilute the red ink of a system that long ago outstripped projections of its cost to taxpayers. The National Center for Policy Analysis estimates that balancing Medicare's books would require more than doubling the tax from the current 3 percent of wages to 7 percent.
Steven Greenhut at The Orange County Register - Dumping the Constitution - the U.S. constitution has been flushed down the toilet. The OCR's web site has been redesigned. Nice, but my link to Mike Shelton's political comic no longer works, and I can't find it on the new site. Bummer, man. I sent them email asking where his cartoon went. [ocr]
Back in the early 1980s, when shock jocks first started titillating audiences with the basest humor, a DJ gained notoriety at Washington, D.C.'s DC 101 radio station with a daily skit he called "A Constitutional Moment."
Hard to believe anyone thought it was funny, but, as I recall, the Greaseman would read passages from the Constitution, while making noises that - sorry for being so graphic - sounded as if he were, well, taking a "constitutional." The skit would end with patriotic music and the loud flushing of a toilet.
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While these amendments are under assault, one in particular has been destroyed. As the 10th Amendment states, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Guess what, folks?
The Constitution does not specifically delegate to the federal government about 90 percent or more of its current functions. Sure, clever court rulings and tortured readings of the commerce clause have been used to justify the creation of an enormous, multitrillion-dollar centralized behemoth. That mega-state dictates how we live and work, violates our privacy, takes our money to give to special interests rather than for the common good, and bullies us into conforming to every jot and tittle of thousands of pages of rules created not by the legislature but by administrative tyrants working in enormous regulatory agencies.
L. Neil Smith at Project: Safe Skies - Re: Are you insane? - Neil responds to someone who thinks it's a bad idea for anyone who wants to fly armed to do so. [safeskies]
A long while ago, a collection of nature's mistakes like you made a movie for television about the dire consequences they expected if Florida went ahead with its plan to make it microscopically easier to carry a concealed weapon legally. The result -- in their movie, which I still have a tape of around here somewhere -- looked like a combination of Dodge City and Beirut.
The actual result, of course, was a 40% drop in violent crime over ten years or so, and I figure you must fall into the former of the two groups mentioned above if you haven't noticed that (it's since happened in other states, too) and learned something from it. By the way, the state that has the lowest per capita amount of violent crime, Vermont, has never outlawed the carrying of concealed weapons. You just drop it in your pocket and go.
Hunter at Project: Safe Skies - how do you want to be credited? - Good idea. [safeskies]
I am thinking of writing up the "unlikely thought" Kathy mentioned on the list of a "naked" protest of airport security for my column, hopefully this week. My intention is to suggest the original version as a "graphic" protest, but pick up Ragnar's idea of showing up in sandals and a swimsuit as a practical measure of solidarity. I am betting that if we push this idea hard enough we might actually be able to get people doing it. I always like to give credit where credit is due; if either or both of you would like to be mentioned as my inspiration by name or initials let me know in a private email.
Rene Sanchez at The Washington Post -
Nevada Ponders Looser Curbs on Marijuana 
- Nevada's Question 9,
which legalizes possession of up to 3 ounces of cannabis, is running
about even in the polls. Good. [grabbe]
