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The IBMeraphim

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The IBMeraphim*

In other good news this week, my order request for one of the 1,007 Italian-return M1 Carbines in “Service Grade” manufactured by International Business Machine Corp. made it to the offices of the Civilian Marksmanship Program at 10:00AM on Monday, July 7. Hopefully my order request will be one that is filled rather than rejected. Abby over at Bad Dogs and Such advises me that if the news is bad, I’ll probably hear fairly quickly. If the news is good, it will take 5-10 working days before I receive notice. At least, she tells me, that’s how it worked when she got her Saginaw S’G’.

* – “IBMeraphim” is a term from the five-book series by David Drake and S.M. Stirling, The General. If you’ve read them, you understand. If you haven’t, I don’t think I can explain it to you in less than 5,000 words, so I won’t even try.

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!

I Can Haz Podcast?

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I Can Haz Podcast?

Squeaky and Caleb are running a weekly podcast every Tuesday night at 11:00PM Eastern on topics of general shooty goodness. Tomorrow night’s ‘cast includes a pre-recorded interview with Michael Bane “about the ParaShoot and gun stuff.”

You can “tune in” by going to Gun Nuts: The Next Generation, and if you can’t catch it “live,” it’s available for download later.

Modern media. They’ll let anyone do it.

No wonder the LA Times is laying off people.

I Love Blogs

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I Love Blogs

Via Instapundit, I got to read Mudville Gazette‘s dissection of CNN’s (The Most Busted Name in News) treatment of Bud Day.

Read the whole thing, but the last line says it all:

America’s most decorated living veteran – it’s no small wonder the Left fears him.

And it’s no wonder the “Yellowstream Media” hates and fears the New Media.

Spread this one around.

CNN – STILL the Most Busted Name in News

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CNN – STILL the Most Busted Name in News

They’ve done it again! First they claim that the Assault Weapons Ban (that wasn’t) kept machine guns “off the street” and that a pre-ban AK-47 could destroy cinderblocks that a post-ban AK-47 couldn’t, then they decried the use of Gunkote with an example of a (REAL!) Glock, now it’s the claim that “55% of gun owners use them in suicide attempts.”

No, I am not sh!**ing you.

They did correct themselves…

…10 minutes later.

Which was a better turnaround than the first example. Hell, maybe they’re learning.

But I doubt it.

Diversity

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Diversity

“…a white guy driving his Chinese girlfriend in an Italian car to a Mexican restaurant, and getting pulled over by a black cop.” – Anonymous

Now, if you want to see a REAL example of “diversity,” go read the poem Marko posted. (via Tam. And she’s right. “If you don’t like it, you must be some kind of godless commie hippie.”)