Snowflakes in Hell

… even wasting ink printing nonsense like this:

If McCain wins, look for a full-fledged race and class war, fueled by a deflated and depressed country, soaring crime, homelessness - and hopelessness!

As SayUncle said, “And gun nuts are the crazy ones?” Up until now, I’ve thought the media wants Obama to win badly, but seeing how unhinged they’ve gotten lately, I’m left to wonder if they want him to go down in flames.  Might make for better headlines.

Among the rights that black bears have in New Jersey is not being killed by family pets when they wander onto your property.  I’m surprised the mother didn’t kill the dog.  A grizzly mama would have.  Charges in this case are outrageous.  The dog was penned, scaled the pen, and attacked the bear on their own property.  What’s the problem?

I will be happy to donate to Republican candidates if progressive political operatives are going to pull crap like this:

The warning letter is intended as a first step, alerting donors who might be considering giving to right-wing groups to a variety of potential dangers, including legal trouble, public exposure and watchdog groups digging through their lives.

Heh.  At least Mary McFate never tired to intimidate Brady supporters.  God help us if these people ever return to power.

… saying to the police.

“I can do that, it’s my lawn mower and my yard so I can shoot it if I want.”

He’s being charged with possession of a short barreled shotgun and disorderly conduct with a firearm.  No doubt the Bradys will be highlighting this guy shortly.

Apparently if you’re nine years old, and you shoot another student with a pea shooter, it’s third degree assault.  Now don’t get me wrong here.  The kid needed to be disciplined.  But are the schools so far gone these days they have to get the police involved?  No call to the parent?  Hell, I’d even prefer schools paddle kids than bring in the law to destroy their lives before they reach the age of ten.

UPDATE: Judging from the article, it looks like it might have been a BB gun.  In that case, getting the authorities involved wouldn’t have been inappropriate.

In the Chicago Tribune.  It’s easy to raise money when everyone thinks you’re the local animal shelter, rather than a radical animal rights activist group.

From the tolerant and thoughtful progressives in Delaware:

Dude, you’re not originally from the south. Your grammar and spelling are too good. Where did you grow up?

Stereotype much?  As a fellow northerner, I hate people who say crap like this.  And I don’t just say that because I’m living with a native Oklahoman.  Two things have to be true to believe this:

1. You have to have spent very little time in The South, and very little time getting to know people there.
2. You’ve never looked too terribly hard at people around you.

Ignorance is everywhere, and northern progressives don’t get a pass just for being northern progressives.  It’s definitely true in this case.

New Jersey, as a state, is completely off its rocker.  Seriously.   Animal Rights activists are peddling a book to kids in schools about aliens, namely Zargonians, that come to Earth and hunt humans for food and sport.  It’s designed to make kids think about hunting.  I think I’ve seen these Zargonians before:

Neither Governor Schwarzenegger nor former Governor Ventura could not be reached for comment on plans for countering the Zargonian menance.

There’s no better way for the gun rights movement to lose than for us to become a freak show.   I sincerely hope there is not a nascent open carry movement among furries.  Not that I am condemning furries.  It’s a free country.  I can’t say I get it, and to tell the truth, I think it’s pretty creepy, but if getting dressed up in a kangaroo suit is what gets you off, who am I to say anything?

But when you open carry, you become the face of the gun rights movement, and a guy in a Kangaroo suit ain’t my first choice, or even my second choice.  Come to think of it, a guy with a collar and a radio isn’t high up there either.  I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s a free country, but I’m going to feel free to laugh at you, and call you an idiot.  Apparently the good folks in Pittsburgh agree.

UPDATE: It would seem the page in question has been removed. Good. Had you seen it, it would have been a guy with a radio strapped to his shirt, all cop style, with a black hat, and a gun strapped to his hip. He claimed to be a Kangaroo. Seriously. Furries scare me.

UPDATE: Here’s the original out of my cache.  Don’t be that guy.

UPDATE: Rich makes a good point in the comments, that I ought not give the guy attention.  Links removed.

When we hear the word mouse gun, we generally don’t think of a .44 revolver.  Apparently there are people out there stupid enough to think that.  Clayton Cramer argues that this woman falls into the category of “people that shouldn’t have guns”:

A point that I often make to reporters–and they are usually surprised to hear me say this–is that not everyone should have a gun. There are people who the law prohibits from having guns–and I agree, such as violent felons. There are also people who the law does not prohibit, but whom I discourage from owning guns.

Well, it looks like this woman made great Brady fodder too.  I think I’ll stick to using my .44 on the hiking trail, and to shoot little metal animal shapes.  As for mice?  Well, I love cats, but Bitter is allergic.

I don’t generally think too poorly of people using old clothes as rags.  I even do this myself.  But if you’re going to use a nasty old pair of Hanes whitey tighties, please don’t leave it at the range on the bench for other people to have to avoid it like the nasty, skid stained, plague infested monstrosity it is.  That is all.

… can safely be chalked up to idiocy.  Namely because of this:

Rollert explained that he had been shooting his mother’s 9 mm Glock handgun and his brother’s 40-caliber Glock handgun earlier that day and decided to go to Wal-Mart to buy ammunition to replace what he had used, bringing the gun to make sure that the ammunition he bought fit into it, the complaint stated. He put a leather jacket on over the body armor and belt, he said, in order “to be safe and hide everything” and not create a disturbance.

Upon entering the store, the complaint stated, Rollert encountered a Wal-Mart employee and opened his jacket, telling the employee, “I don’t want you to worry, I got a loaded gun on.”

Is there a charge for being a complete idiot?  I don’t even want to think about how he planned to make sure the ammunition “fit,” or why he was wearing body armor to go shooting (I would think it’s the other shooters who need to be wearing body armor around this guy).

This would be something I’d expect the Brady Campaign to pick up for their blog, except that it doesn’t involve any dead children.

Apparently there’s a journalist in Canada that thinks James Madison should be shot.  No, seriously.

From Rick Hills of Prawfsblawg:

In my experience, intellectuals (as a class) are ideologically intolerant, easily offended by ordinary humor, and pretentious in their prejudices, which they disguise as universal truths.

I couldn’t agree more.  Hat tip to Instapundit (I think)

He’s only sorry because he got caught.

TD found a guy that’ll show you how to be an elite team fighter.  Back when I used to frequent the public ranges, every once in a while you’d see some guy show up all decked out in tactical gear.   I never saw anyone go so far as a mask and helmet, but ninja style hat, yes.  As would be expected, most of the time they couldn’t hit shit.  I’ve also seen, occassionaly, individuals who didn’t fully understand what a cold range means, and were adjusting something or another on their firearms while people were down range.

UPDATE: I guess I must live in a cave, or don’t hang out on forums enough, but I didn’t know the term Mall Ninja was actually named after a person.  My first inclination is to believe these are parodies… jokes on forum users if you will.  I just can’t believe anyone could be that delusional.

UPDATE: Apparently I do live in a cave, considering we’re all familiar with the person behind this Mall Ninja parody.

If this is the kind of male fashion you really like, why not just say “f^#k it” and go lesbian?  Thankfully we have plenty of real women on the gun blogsphere who like real men, not poofy metrosexuals who put on lipstick.  And at what point does a guy decide that putting on lipstick is OK?  Really.

As Bruce points out, step one is to unload the firearm, not get an ice cold bucket of Miller Lite.  Any guess on what The Garden State would do to an FID holder if this happened?

… you probably shouldn’t be complaining about stores selling things-which-are-not-porn-but-that-offends-me-anyway.

Now they are warning people that firearms may be mistaken for firearms, and telling people they may not be able to paint them.  I wonder if this was part of the deal with Bloomberg.

… as the Brady Campaign knows about guns.  Fortunately, Jay is a horse racing aficionado, and has debunked the PETA claims.

UPDATE: Jay has more here.

UPDATE: More from Marshall Manson.

Reverend Wright is the gift that just keeps on giving:

The Chicago pastor refused to apologize for suggesting black Americans should sing “God Damn America” instead of “God Bless America” and for suggesting America brought 9/11 on itself because, as he put it, “we have never apologized as a country” for slavery.

“Britain has apologized to Africans but this country’s leaders have refused to apologize,” he said. Wright also said, “You can’t do terrorism on other people and not expect it to come back on you.”

Speaking as someone who has never enslaved another human being, nor knows anyone who has, I think I can fairly tell Reverend Wright to go to hell.  One of the key concepts in American liberty is that we are not held to account for the sins of our fathers.  And speaking of our forefathers, is this not enough of an apology for you Rev. Wright?

While the Albany Times Union is busy suggesting New York State is about to mandate lasers, New South Wales is busy talking about banning them.

Christ no doubt wanted people to have great passion about their faith, but I don’t think this is what he had in mind.

US Airways is probably the crappiest airline on the planet.   Now there’s another reason that’s true.  Bitter and I are driving to Louisville in May, because of how much flying sucks.  Hopefully I won’t be flying again until Reno in October.