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Comments Are Functional

But I’ve switched services, so all the old comments are, unfortunately, gone.

Sorry about that. But this site is only six weeks or so old, and there weren’t that many comments anyway. Hopefully Haloscan will be more reliable. (It’s free too, so I won’t hold my breath.)

Back from the Casa Grande Shoot

We knocked off early due to the increasing heat and had lunch at Famous Sam’s, but a great time was had by all.

I got to set off the one tannerite charge (one shot, thank you,) and I found out that the 1917 Enfield makes a pretty decent skeet gun. (No kidding! I have witnesses!)

I’ve gotta do some more of that!

Still have quite a bit of ammo left, but not a single round of .30-06.

I plan on taking care of THAT little problem shortly.

Open Mouth, Insert Foot, Shoot Foot

Day by Day, it just keeps getting better…

(Off to the AR15.com Casa Grade shoot. I’ll write about it later. I’ve got 450 rounds of .223, about 200 rounds of .45, about 100 rounds of .30-06, and 200 rounds of .22. That ought to last until about noon, I hope.)

7,000 Hits

At 7:56 tonight, someone from the Mindspring.com domain was my 7,000th visitor since I started running Sitemeter.

I started this blog May 14th. I believe I got sitemeter running a couple of days later.

7,000 hits in six weeks.

Whoa.

Sorry About the Light Posting

Life intrudes, you know. But, a quick one – today’s Friday Five:

1. How are you planning to spend the summer?

Working

2. What was your first summer job?

I worked in a hobby/crafts shop. (I was seriously into building scale models at the time.)

3. If you could go anywhere this summer, where would you go?

The Florida Keys.

4. What was your worst vacation ever?

Last year’s. I didn’t get one.

5. What was your best vacation ever?

My honeymoon. In the Florida Keys.

Comments are Down, and Blogging Will be Light

I’m really busy, and there’s an AR15.com shoot this weekend, so I’ve got a lot of ammo to load tonight and tomorrow.

Having said this, I did want to mention the recent decisions of the Supreme Court. They don’t fill me with confidence should they grant cert. to Silviera v. Lockyer. The majority has demonstrated that they don’t consider the Constitution as any kind of limit to their power. The 14th Amendment apparenty doesn’t mean what it says (University of Michigan decisions). On the other hand, they’re willing to use the 9th Amendment to recognize an unenumerated right of privacy, and use that to overcome the democratically passed laws of some states. The Founders did fear that, by enumerating some rights but not others, that future societies might denigrate the unenumerated rights.

In the case of the Second Amendment, we have an enumerated right that has been denigrated.

So here’s the question: If Silviera makes it to SCOTUS will they ignore the meaning of the Second Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment on the basis of “public good?” Or will they decide that the Bill of Rights really means what it says, even if an individual right to arms means that bad things with guns can happen?

You can bet your ass it will be a “divided court” again. And O’Connor will probably be the swing vote.

If you wish to discuss this, e-mail me and I’ll put up the interesting ones in a post.

Dept. of “Kill all the Lawyers”

According to the Detroit News, Ford will no longer lease vehicles in the state of New York because of New York’s ah, unique liability laws.

It seems that the law in NY prevents lessors from being held responsible for accidents.

Ford cited a $1-million verdict against its consumer loan unit resulting from a suit by a girl whose father, while driving a leased car, ran over her while she was sunbathing.

Well, hell, that was obviously Ford’s fault.

Jebus.

Ayup.

Artist is Larry Wright of the Detroit News.

I Want to Start a Local Chapter

I Wasn’t Going to Comment on This Member of the Deep Space Nine, But… (Thanks to Charles Austin who’s filling in for Dodd over at Ipse Dixit for the oh-so-apt allusion.)

Well, I won’t, really. I’ll just repeat what Glen Reynolds said.

When Gephardt said during a C-Span televised rally:

“When I’m president, we’ll do executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does tomorrow or any other day.”

I didn’t find it surprising at all. As Glen said:

“Gephardt’s not a constitutional ignoramus, or an incipient dictator. He’s just your standard-model lying politician!”

Woohoo! That gets my vote.

Indeed.