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Still MORE on “What is a Right?”

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Still MORE on “What is a Right?”

A new (to me) blogger at a new (to me) blog, Gun Values Board, linked to my recent CNN post, and through that link I found an interesting piece by Sailorcurt at Captain of a Crew of One: First time for everything. Curt says:

If your only argument is “that’s not a right because it’s not in the Constitution”, all I have to do is show you the 9th Amendment and your argument goes out the window.

So…what DOES constitute a right?

It’s very simple really. A right is something that you can do, obtain, produce or provide that does not infringe upon another’s rights and requires no outside intervention for you to do so.

That’s a different approach than I took in the eight-part “What is a Right?” series over there

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on the left sidebar, but he makes a good argument for his position.

It’s interesting (to me) that discussions of this type are still going on 200+ years after the ratification of the Constitution.

Thanks for the link, Nancy!

Help Another GunBlogger Out

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Help Another GunBlogger Out?

Squeaky is kinda in a bind. It looks like she’ll be eating ketchup soup for a week or two, if she can afford the water.

I’ve been a poor college student before. It sucks.

First, her job shorts her an entire week’s pay, then her car died.

I can’t forward her any money out of the Soldier’s Angels/Jed’s Dental Fund, but she’s put up a tip jar (left sidebar of her blog) in her desperation. I’ve given her $50.

C’mon – help a gunblogger out. Any little bit helps. She’s good people.

Spellcheckerz Don’t Do Context

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Spellcheckerz Don’t Do Context

Bopping around on Comcast’s home page this morning, I ran across something I found kinda interesting:

The video was about the sixth human foot to show up on the shores of British Columbia. A left foot this time. (However, the B.C. Coroner’s office is saying #6 is a hoax now.)

Still, I don’t think they suspect a Grizzly bear as the killer.

I think whichever “professional journalist” wrote the headline was looking for the word grisly.

It’s a good thing that Authorized Journalists have all those layers of fact-checking and oversight, ain’t it?

Why YOU Should Be a Gunblogger

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Why YOU Should Be a Gunblogger! (Bumped one last time)

You get a shot at stuff like THIS:

Dear Gun Blogger,

We at Para appreciate your support of the NRA and were glad to see you at the Second Amendment Blog Bash. Your name has been entered into a contest, and the 10 winners will get an invitation to attend a summer camp at Blackwater USA’s North Carolina facility with world class shooter and instructor Todd Jarrett.

The top ten gun bloggers in our contest will have the opportunity to shoot a special Para pistol and learn the secrets of a World Champion from Todd Jarrett. Gun Blogger Michael Bane and a video crew will record the event for Down Range TV.

The 10 bloggers with the most votes will receive an invitation to this exclusive event, so let all your readers know! They can cast their vote on the para-usa.com website: http://www.para-usa.com/new/special/blogger_contest06-08.php . Better yet, everyone who votes will have the option of entering their own name for a chance to win the 11th invitation to this exciting weekend!

– Tell all your readers to vote here, and enter to WIN a weekend at Blackwater with Champion Shooter Todd Jarrett.

Spread the word, voting ends July 1st. The Para-Blackwater Gun Bloggers weekend will be August 22-24, 2008. Invitees must provide their own transportation to Norfolk, Virginia. Para USA, along with Blackwater USA, is sponsoring this weekend of first class instruction at the most exclusive training facility in the United States. Please visit the link above for more details.

We also invite you to browse our new Para USA website at www.para-usa.com where you can view all of Para’s new pistols, and the latest reviews by all the top gunwriters.

Safe shooting and best regards,

Para USA, Inc.

Now is that cool or what?

So vote for me, wouldja?

(Bumped, because this contest is one vote per customer, and the voting ends July 1!)

This Sounds Promising

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Bill Whittle has posted again. I don’t check on him daily any more, just once every couple of weeks. His latest post is dated June 3, so I’m not that far behind.

He says his latest hiatus has been due to the writing of a screenplay, but that in the mean time he has also written some essays (in his head) soon to be posted. With respect to the screenplay, I hope he sells it, retains creative control, and makes a freaking fortune off of it.

With respect to his essays, I’m most eagerly awaiting those:

THE REPUBLIC OF EMOTION — How schools and modern teaching methods prepare us to be a society of self-centered crybabies without a clue as to how to think critically and act like adults.
LIFEBOAT — immigration and why the Melting Pot whips the Mosaic hands down and twice on Sunday.
THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT — The long-promised Global Warming essay, less about the science and more about the aneurism of politics and control that gives a very big lever to some very bad people.
THE WEIGHT OF OUR SKINS — A look at race, now that the Great Uniter has healed my soul.
THE PLAGUE — Civilizations rise and fall, and the pattern is always the same. Why? I think I may have an idea. And there may be a way around it.

“The Republic of Emotion” piece sounds like a bookend for The George Orwell Daycare Center. I very much look forward to seeing what he has to say on the subject. Same too for “The Plague.” That topic concerns me greatly. Hell, I want to read ’em all.

Welcome back, Bill. We’ve missed ya!

Bumper Sticker Sales a Success

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Bumper Sticker Sales a Success

The “McCain ’08” bumper sticker sales have been a roaring success. We cleared enough not only to cover Jed’s dental work, but also to donate $100 to Soldier’s Angels with a little left over for restocking. I’m currently down to two stickers left in inventory, but I can get more coming on very short notice.

From this point forward, any additional profits will go to Soldier’s Angels. Thank you for all of your support.

I Must’ve Struck a Nerve

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As of 10:34 this evening, this site has received 1,598 visits and 1,908 page views for just today, Friday, June 6. That’s a lot for me, especially on a Friday. The overwhelming majority of them came from links to The George Orwell Daycare Center post, mostly from SayUncle and Tam, but there have been at least four other blog links to the piece today, from Armed Canadian, Ricketyclick, The Fourth Checkraise and Life, Love and the Pursuit of Sanity, plus Prester Scott’s Livejournal and all of his friends.

Thank you all very much. It is sometimes frustrating to put a huge amount of effort into a post to have it virtually (in all meanings of the term) ignored.

But I repeat: I must’ve struck a nerve.

I know it is still possible to get a decent education out of many, possibly most school systems in this country – if you want one. But even when I was going to high school if you didn’t want to work, nobody was going to force you, and many didn’t. They did just enough to pass on to the next grade, and that didn’t require much.

Now, it appears, in many school systems it requires nothing at all.

So is it as bad as it appears to be? IS there anything we can do about it?

Because I have another education post waiting in the wings (not an �überpost!), but I’d like to hold off a bit on it and let it stew, and the comments and ideas of my readers are often my best inspiration.

No Higher Praise

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No Higher Praise

By the way, the blog itself is a pretty good read… I don’t visit as often as my husband, but I’ve never found something that’s not thought-provoking, even if I don’t agree. – “C” from “life, love, and the pursuit of sanity” in her post, Civic Literacy

(My emphasis.)

Now I’ve got a swelled head!