Snowflakes in Hell

NRA’s alert details the terms.  A judge signed a permanent injunction against the city.

Megan McArdle says about your 401K, “Don’t Look.”  I’ve been following this advice since the whole thing started.  I just don’t want to know.  I’m not in this for the short term, and I definitely don’t want to buy high and sell low.  I’m going to wait for this mess to bottom out and then get all my money into something where it’s going to ride with the recovery.

This AP article hints that NRA may be preparing to endorse the McCain/Palin ticket:

The NRA has not yet endorsed a presidential candidate, but LaPierre planned news conferences Thursday in Pennsylvania, Missouri, Colorado and Nevada to make an announcement on the presidential election. He declined Wednesday to reveal which candidate the NRA would endorse but added that the group would “be foolish to overlook the vast areas of agreement” it has with McCain.

I don’t think there is any other choice here.  We must defeat Obama.  With him running around threatning consequences to radio and TV station broadcast licenses, it would be hard to even hold the Campaign Finance stuff against McCain at this point.

Looks like there’s about to be a fight between the Obama Campaign and the National Shooting Sports foundation.  Just a guess here, but I’m betting that the list is protected by trade secret laws, which I understand is handled at the state level.  This should be interesting.

My understanding is that with trade secrets, if someone, for instance, left the list out on a table, and someone from the Obama camp picked it up, the campaign would not be liable.  But if they inticed someone to get it for them, they could be liable for misappropriating a trade secret.

More interesting stuff: There is a federal law called the Economic Espionage Act, passed in 1996, which makes misappropriating a trade secret a federal crime.  It not only makes the misappropriation of trade secrets a federal crime, but also conspiracy to misappropriate trade secrets a crime.

Makes them shaped like cartridges.

HR 1845 has passed the Pennsylvania Senate unanimously.  It had one amendment on it, and will have to go back to the house for a vote, but after that, which should be smooth sailing, it’ll be on to the Governor’s office for a signature, which should be forthcoming.  After this:

• Sheriffs will have to issue emergency LTCFs for qualified applicants.
• Carry completely lawful in state parks
• No Katrina like gun confiscations in Pennsylvania.

Job well done for all the parties involved in getting this to passage.

UPDATE: I’m told the house passed it unanimously right after the senate passed it.  So all it requires now is Rendell’s John Hancock, and it’s law.

A black man gets murdered shot with an firearm airgun while wearing an Obama t-shirt.  In London.  I thought only the USA had racist gun toting assholes in it.

UPDATE: I really either need to take time to carefully read stuff, or take a break from blogging while I’m doing election related stuff in the evenings.  Sorry about the inaccurate description here.

Cam Edwards notes that educators are taking up a petition to support an unrepetant terrorist.

Last night, literally just after walking in the door from speaking at Branch Valley up in Perkasie, I called up Caleb’s show to talk about the EVC stuff I’ve been doing.  Since I called in a little early, we ended up talking about Metallic Silhouette for a bit.  I think I start at about 35 or so minutes into the show.

Looks like the guy who got arrested open carrying at an Obama rally is going to trial:

District Judge Douglas Loughner ruled in Beaver County Court Monday that John Noble, 50, of 1063 Willowbrook Drive should stand trial on misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and disrupting a public meeting, stemming from the Sept. 29 rally for Democratic presidential running mates Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

The stakes are high on this.  If the state prevails in court here, people who open carry in a public place will be risking being arrested for disorderly conduct.  This is a big part of the reason I’ve been a pain in the ass about not provoking confrontations unnecessarily.  It was entirely predictable that trouble was to be found going to an Obama rally openly armed.  I think there’s no ground for the charges brought.  I really hope a judge agrees with that, or we’re all screwed.