July 21, 2008

 

"...They looked at me and thought, ' She doesn't fit the profile of of someone

 coming in with a gun,' so they left me alone and I walked right past them,' said

 McVey, who was the first and only person to register a handgun Thursday when

 she entered the station with her Ruger .357 Magnum in a blue plastic bag around

 1 p.m.

 

  McVey's experience was mostly uneventful, she said. The security guard who

 screened her belongings was surprised when she told him there was a gun in

 the bag.

 

  Once he handed her off to policemen, the process was smooth.

 

  ' The cops were professional, polite and courteous,' McVey said.

  ' A couple of them remarked what a nice gun it was.'

 

   McVey found the cops very encouraging of her gun ownership. ' I asked

   them, Do you mind good people owning guns?' she said. ' One said,

   It will help make our job easier..."

 

                                           - Comments from a news story written by

                                             Sarah Raymond of the San Jose Examiner,

                                             about the one handgun applicant to slip past

                                             the noses of the Lamestream Media and

                                             begin the handgun ownership registration

                                             process in Washington D.C.

 

 

To All,

    It would seem that the police on the DC beat know something that the Chief and the Mayor do not.

 

 

Quality, Not Quantity:

     Sarah Raymond's report in the San Jose Examiner about the first D.C. handgun ownership applicant, one Amy McVey, brings to light a number of interesting observations about what is going on inside the Beltway's city limits regarding the "new handgun ban" (Same as the old ban?).

 

     Typically, there was an underestimation by those who oppose gun ownership about the ability of females to recognize the efficacy of firearms ownership. That it was the Fourth Estate that committed this theoretical sin of feminism is perhaps yet another example of cosmic irony.

 

     In addition, it should not be surprising to anyone that a handgun ownership law with significant input from the Brady Bunch will generate more of the kinds of unintended regulatory consequences that they are so famous for.

 

     For example, in trying to maintain the ban on semiautomatic designs almost a hundred years old, applicants will end up "up-gunning" much in the way that the bans on compact handguns resulted in purchaser preferences for full-size, more powerful caliber handguns. (In this case, Ms. McVey chose a .357 magnum revolver, a caliber that has a higher likelihood of stopping a bad guy with a decently placed shot than such popular police rounds as 9mm Parabellum).

 

      Likewise the idea of keeping most of the original ban may prove controversial, in that those Blue Dogs in Congress who were elected on alleged affinity for the individual rights interpretation of the Second Amendment may just have to vote on legislation dealing specifically with DC's unconstitutional shenanigans. Any lack of vote or support may have the same effect as voting for a gun ban, since 14th Amendment incorporation is now a main impetus of pro-gun forces after Heller. This poses a potential destabilization of the current liberal leadership in the Congress, since large numbers of their membership will face political retribution at the same time Congress has record low (and lower the the President's) approval ratings.

 

    It remains to be seen how the Federal Judiciary intends to treat Heller in the upcoming months. Suffice it to say that any Congress that let's the lower courts run roughshod over such a civil liberty as the right to keep and bear arms will most likely face the ire, once again, of those voters who appear to the uneducated as bitter and parochial. Unfortunately for the uneducated, they also vote.

 

Link at:

http://www.examiner.com/a-1496295~First_to_register_handgun__owner__doesn_t_fit__profile.html

 

 

 

Drink Gatorade, and Eat Polyethylene- 315 Condors Can't Be Wrong:

 

 

 

     While it is said that a picture is worth a thousand words, perhaps this video showing condors scavenging Gatorade from the side of the road near the Big Sur fire recently may finally drive home the idea that condors are not too picky on what they ingest.

 

      In turn, it sort of makes one wonder what other kinds of garbage on the side of the road that these Paleolithic turkeys are fond of swallowing. Given the plethora of hazardous objects and spilled liquids out there, one wonders whether the California Condor is ready to release into the wild. Given that some of them have not been able to get out of the way of fires over the past few years, even when equipped with the power of flight, it's no wonder that the birds have been threatened by extinction all these years.

 

 

D'Oh Update:

     One of the more "interesting coincidences" in the current presidential campaign is the interesting confluence between Democrat talking points on energy (best epitomized by the pontifications of Algore) and the so-called "Pickens Plan".

 

      Simply put, T. Boone Pickens wants to replace refined gasoline with natural gas as a transportation fuel. In turn, natural gas-powered electrical generation would have to be somehow replaced with wind and solar, all in the name of reducing dependence on foreign sources of petroleum.

 

      What Algore, Pickens, and the Dems don't mention is the negative effect that this plan would have in recent investments in additional natural gas-generated electrical capacity by publicly owned and/or regulated utilities.

 

     Face it, with today's costs, including the battling of environmentalists normally opposed to energy development, electrical plants using natural gas generation systems have not yet, as Will Roger's might have said, "...bin paid furr..." . Yet Pickens would presumably try to turn the country on a relative dime and try to put up windmill farms wherever one could possibly get even the slightest zephyr ( Perhaps a good location would be outside Algore's front door in Tennesee. After all, a greater source of hot air on this planet does not exist.).

 

    What would then happen to the investments, and the bonds that funded them, that were dedicated just a few years ago to make up for years of lack of infrastructure development, environmental obstructionism, and parochial development policies? Why, they would be what the Bond Boys call SOL. That means utility ratepayers from coast to coast would be on the hook, one way or another.

 

    This is not to say that adding more windfarms is not a good idea, though one may have to convince the folks at National Audobon that masses of windmills in the nation's migratory flyways won't have an adverse effect on bird populations (Hint- environmentalists regularly sue against windfarms that are situated or otherwise operated in such a way that birds are "taken" by their operation.). But before the nation's utility ratepayers decide to write off billions of investment dollars by parking a windmill in every backyard (Yes, even Teddy Kennedy's back yard), they perhaps should remember the old Texas adage about buying a pig in a poke.

 

Link at:

http://www.pickensplan.com/

 

 

Respectfully,