This pic apparently is NCAA football recruit Kenneth Page who ditched UNC at the last minute in favor of Clemson. I wonder what changed his mind.

How many anti-gun cliches can CNN cram into a news story? Let's see, the guns are just deadly guns, they're "cop killer" guns. They're the "guns of choice" and can shoot through schools. What, no Wild West reference?

The article itself is filled with anti-gun propaganda.

ATF special agent Tom Mangan says the .50-caliber rifle has become one of the "guns of choice" for the drug cartels. The weapon fires palm-sized .50-caliber rounds that can cut through just about anything.

Mangan showed CNN the power of the rifle on a gun range near Phoenix, Arizona. The weapon, a Barrett, was seized in an ATF raid. A round fired from 100 yards away tore through a car door and both sides of a bulletproof vest like those used by Mexican police.

"There's nothing that's going to stop this round," Mangan says.

Okay, so big guns are bad. Check.

The guns confiscated included AK-47 rifles and dozens of Fabrique National pistols. The semiautomatic pistols fire a 5.7-by-28 millimeter round, which is technically a rifle round, according to the ATF. Newell says the round has a special nickname in Mexico. "It's called 'mata policias,' or 'cop killer,' " he says.

Okay, so little guns are bad too. Hmm, what does that leave?

For what it's worth, our AR-15 can penetrate a car door and both sides of a "bullet proof" vest too. And compared to the .50, it's got a bullet the size of a pea. And where do they get off claiming the 5.7x28 is technically a rifle round? Wasn't it specifically developed for the 5.7 handgun? Has anyone yet made a 5.7 varmint rifle? And why don't they point out that MAC-10s, TEC-9s, and Uzi's "technically" shoot a handgun round?

Such media bias and misunderstanding of basic firearms knowledge is not surprising. (I'm still trying to find that 25mm handgun.) We expect more of it as the Supreme Court ruling on the Second Amendment nears.

I wonder if this will make CNN's Recession Watch.

Sales of existing homes in the U.S. unexpectedly rose in February for the first time in seven months, easing concern credit restrictions and falling prices would hurt demand.

Purchases increased 2.9 percent to an annual rate of 5.03 million, the National Association of Realtors said today in Washington. The median price of single-family homes dropped 8.7 percent from February 2007, the most in four decades of record keeping.

Economists had predicted a decline and were shocked, I say, shocked to find out that lower prices actually stimulated demand. Apparently they don't teach Economics 101 anymore.

Spring has officially started, but someone forgot to tell Mother Nature.

With above-average levels of snow in some parts of the country this winter, a few ski resorts are taking advantage by staying open longer.

Aspen Skiing Co. announced Aspen Highlands in Colorado will stay open until April 27, making that area the fourth in Colorado to announce an extended ski season this spring. . .

The state's snowpack was at 125 percent of its 30-year historical average.

Then there's this:

Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on.

No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously. . .

The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to wipe out most of the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year's time. For all four sources, it's the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.

But the global warming zealots are not convinced.

A new study has suggested that the yields of rice, which is a major food source, will drop in many areas in the future, as a result of increasing global warming.

Global Warming has definitely jumped the shark.

Another week, another sex scandal, and another unknown political party. But still no stories about a "culture of corruption".

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and an ex-aide were charged Monday with perjury and obstruction of justice after prosecutors said sexually explicit text messages between the two contradicted their sworn court testimony.

Kilpatrick defiantly declared his innocence just an hour after the charges were announced.

The article goes on for nearly 1000 words, but for some reason there is no mention of Kilpatrick's political party. That must mean he's not a Republican.

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Guess the Political Party -- 03/10/2008

When I bought my car the first thing I did was throw away the tire iron. Having it there might tempt me to try to change the tire myself. Now I am forced to call the auto club and leave it to the real professionals.

I'm much safer now...

Or at least that's the mentality in the UK:

Fire extinguishers could be removed from communal areas in flats throughout the country because they are a safety hazard, it has emerged.

The life-saving devices encourage untrained people to fight a fire rather than leave the building, risk assessors in Bournemouth decided.

The SCOTUS began hearing Second Amendment arguments today, and the idiots were out in droves. I hope this isn't representative of what they are teaching at GW:

Pat Harvey, a 24-year-old second-year law student at George Washington University, said : "If a democratically elected city council has had a law on the books for 30 years, it's not the court's job to overturn it."

So I guess Pat Harvey thinks that landmark civil rights cases like Brown v. Board of Education, Miranda v. Arizona, and Roe v. Wade are unjust because they overturned decades of "democratically elected" law.

First of all we're shocked, I say, shocked that the Washington Post actually characterized D.C.'s plan as "anti-gun". But if you look at D.C.'s plan, it's actually anti-civil rights. They plan to send policemen door-to-door searching homes.

D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) and Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier announced several new initiatives today aimed at combating gun crimes, including one encouraging residents to submit to voluntary searches of their homes in exchange for amnesty if the residents have illegal guns or drugs.

The "safe homes initiative" is aimed at residents, such as parents or guardians who know or suspect their children have guns in their home, who want to cooperate with police, Lanier said.

The program will begin March 24 in the Washington Highlands area of Southeast Washington, where officers will go door to door asking residents for permission to search their homes. It will then expand to other areas of the city.

Of course the searches are "voluntary". When intimidating officers show up at the front door asking permission to come inside and look around, they can always say no.

But as a casual watcher of COPS and other police-type shows, I am amazed to see people that volunteer to let officers rifle through their property looking for contraband. If you ever get pulled over or the police ever show up to your door, if they ask to look around the answer is always NO. If an officer wants to search your property, you should let him know in no uncertain terms that it is against your wishes and will be done under duress.

Don't fall for that "What are you hiding?" crap. Let them know that you are not going to voluntarily surrender your civil rights. Better yet, laugh it off and ask them if criminals ever really fall for that trick.

When I read the headline the first thing I thought of was Chris Rock's: "I'm not saying he should've done it, but I understand."

Watching the video I could only ask myself, why wasn't the reporter's cameraman helping her?? I don't care if your job is filming things, when you see a woman being attacked you don't just stand there and film it.

CNN reports that New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was apparently caught up in a prostitution ring. I don't usually care about stories like this, but in skimming CNN's article I found it very difficult to figure out what political party Spitzer belonged too.

It wasn't mentioned in the headline, story summary, or even the first few paragraphs. That must mean that he's not a Republican. But if you manage to read the story all the way down to the second to the last paragraph (paragraph 21), you're finally told that Spitzer is a Democrat.

It's buried in the bio section:

Spitzer, 48, served as New York's attorney general for eight years before being elected governor.

Time magazine named him "Crusader of the Year" during his two terms as New York attorney general.

Tabloids labeled him "Eliot Ness," after the hero in the crime drama "The Untouchables," because of his reputation for rooting out corruption, busting white-collar criminals and tackling organized crime.

He was also known for prosecuting several prostitution rings.

He also worked as an assistant district attorney in Manhattan and worked for three New York law firms after receiving his law degree from Harvard.

The first-term Democrat had been considered a rising star among his party.

Spitzer is married and has three daughters.

CNN Headline: "Authors: U.S. economy could fall casualty to wars"

I'll stop believing the media is biased when I read headlines about the rising cost of social programs and about how entitlements are wrecking our economy.

Via SayUncle

In Chicago, some idiot named Robert Fioretti wants to ban little plastic bags because that's where drug users put drugs. In other news, that's what the Uncle family puts carrots, school lunch items, small gun parts, and all those extra rubberbands in.

"Everyone knows when you have guns, bad things happen." - Rep. Norm Dicks, D-WA

Via Bitter.

Bitter argues that 'frickin' isn't foul language. IMHO, "frickin" is just as back as "fucking". Personally, I'm tired of these idiots who don't want to swear, so they replace the real cuss words with fake words that sound nearly the same. If you are going to fucking cuss, then fucking do it.

A guy at work chastised me for saying goddammit. He said I shouldn't take the Lord's name in vain, and he's probably right. But he says Gosh Darn all the time. I yelled right back at him for using replacement words that mean exactly the same thing. Disrespect is disprespect. Even though you replace a few letters, the intent is there.

"I say, we slaughter all the whales..." -- Ravenwood, January 3, 2003.

"Eat Whale And Save The Planet" - Norwegian Lobby, March 4, 2008.

"11 inches of snow -- in March -- in Arkansas" -- CNN Headline, March 4, 2008.

The twisted logic of a Virginia liberal:

- Governor orders Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC) to speak against bill
- ABC objects to bill on behalf of the administration
- Bill passes
- Governor vetos bill because ABC objected to it

Governor = asshat

The Virginian-Pilot is beginning their assault on gun rights with a page dedicated to Virginia's gun culture. They include a series of anti-gun articles and a time-line that starts in 1918. (As if guns didn't exist before then.) Pull the trigger on their semi-automatic animation and you get the three-shot burst of a machine-gun.

They research Virginia's gun freedom like it's an anachronism and lament the lack of gun control. They study gun owners like you would a gorilla at the zoo. They claim their agenda is to provide information to readers about where we are now and where we might be headed, but the tone of narrator's voice in the video lets you know what side they are on. Listen to the surprise in the reporters voice when she laments that law-abiding gun owners have even "greater freedom" in the wake of mass shootings. She then expresses shock and begins listing all the (gasp) legal places Virginians can carry guns.

Not once do they mention places that are off limits to carrying guns. They don't mention that a person can lose their gun freedom because of misdemeanor charges, or that dealers can lose their business because forms are filled out with "N" instead of "No". She doesn't mention that you can be arrested for driving on Virginia's GW Parkway with a gun, or that your concealed carry permit is no good when you go out to dinner.

They also don't mention the lives that guns save. They don't talk about women being murdered after getting a restraining order, or civilians using guns to thwart criminals. They don't mention gun control's racist roots, born out of the civil war as a way to keep free blacks from getting too uppity. So far there is a lot left out.

The four part special begins today, but if the introductory video is any guide it appears to be pretty one-sided.

Most Americans know that if you trespass on private property, you are risking life and limb. But leave it to the European press to turn their trespassing crime into a "gun incident".

Danish journalist Terkel Svensson was assigned to cover Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's trip to Crawford, Texas. As he blabbed away on his cell phone, he wandered onto private property and scared the bejesus out of an old woman.

"I was just so occupied dictating my story that I didn't really see where I went," Svensson told me later. "I was just walking and talking."

What Svensson didn't realize was that he had stopped walking a couple hundred feet away, on the front lawn of an elderly woman. An elderly woman who looked through her window and didn't like that a strange man was standing outside her house. An elderly woman who had, um, a gun.

[...]

"I will show the photos to my wife and children," Svensson told me. "They thought I was on a safe trip."

You were on a safe trip, until you broke the law by invading someone else's property.

I'm not sure who this guy is or why it's front page news at CNN, but did anyone else notice this kid's shaggy mane? Are all British soldiers allowed to wear their hair that long?

I've never seen U.S. troops with long hair like that (except in low-budget movies). Hell even most ex-military guys I know still wear their hair high and tight.