Chronicling the depravities of the State.
I found this story which states exactly how things should be:
Before he got away, a citizen who was legally carrying a weapon tried to stop him and was unsuccessful. Even though the suspect got away, police commend the heroism of the man who decided to put himself in harms way.
When a person tries to do the right thing they should be commended.
Good news everybody Yahoo is finally doing something to help improve the Internet. News was brought to my attention that GeoCities is being shutdown. To this end Yahoo also release the most useful help file on their site.
I’m sure most of you know of GeoCities. Although there were sometimes little nuggets of great information somebody pounded together in 5 minutes you had to hope the site wasn’t over the 3kb (at least that’s what it seemed like) limit imposed by Yahoo. Likewise you had to hop there weren’t so many adds injected into the site by Yahoo that it would make your browser take a big dump (remember we didn’t always have those super fast JavaScript engines).
Well good riddance. I only wish I could do a Spartan kick in GeoCities’s chest to send them down an apparently never ending void.
Man I’m late with this news but alas it’s posted now. Gun rights activist Meleanie Hain was murdered by her husband. There is a good write up over at The Brenda Fallacy.
Likewise Random Nuclear Strikes shows us the “peace loving” anti-gun crowd is already dancing in the blood and proclaiming how happy they are that a gun rights activist was shot to death. Don’t believe me head over to the last linked article and read comments like this one by Doughh:
No offense but now there are 2 less right wing wacko gun nuts running around. Do feel sorry for the kids though.
Apparently Meleanie had become worried in recent times that her husband was becoming dangerous. It seems her husband had become abusive and she was making an attempt to leave him taking their two kids with her. In the end the bastard shot her and himself but by sheer fortune didn’t bring harm to either of their children.
Although we have a ton of “peace loving” anti-gunners dancing up and down a user going by the name of graycoyote tells us some very important details:
You’re conveniently leaving out a couple of details.
1) Scott Hain, not Meleanie, fired the first shot. She had privately confided with several of her friends that Scott was become more abusive and controlling of her life, and she was considering divorcing him and taking her two kids (2 and 6). It appears that early indications is that she told him that she was divorcing him, so he shot her with HIS service weapon from work.
2) Scott Hain was both a corrections officer and a parole officer, and officially considered a law enforcement officer under PA law. So a cop shot his wife with his service weapon, essentially.
3) All of you assholes who are just absolutely gleeful that she was killed, or it is some sort of lesson to be learned here that “guns shouldn’t have been as available to allow stuff like this to happen”, Scott Hain was a cop, who would be untouched by a majority of gun control laws even in places like DC, Chicago, and New York.
Yup no amount of gun control laws would have prevented this as her husband was a cop who qualified to carry a service gun.
Anyways for the few of you who haven’t heard of Meleanie she made the news a while back by exercising her second amendment right at a soccer game. The anti-gun crowd shit their pants proclaiming she was being irresponsible carrying a gun that close to *gasp* CHILDREN! In actuality nobody was shot and if somebody had been there to cause anybody harm Meleanie would have been able to give the attendees a fighting chance.
Hopefully her children make it through this with some semblance of sanity left.
OK so far I’ve managed to keep myself out of the health care debate on this blog. I feel the debate is rather annoying and rouses heavily emotional arguments. Since the right to bear arms already promotes those without a good argument to use emotions I figured that subject was enough.
But alas Kevin over at the Smallest Minority did another one of his great uber-posts on why Health Care is not a right. I’d paraphrase and such but really you just need to hit the link and read what he has typed.
And since I’m posting about it I might as well just come out and say it, I’m against government provided health care. My reasoning pretty much is summed up by Kevin’s uber-post.
You know it saddens me that we have to go to India to find a proper response to self defense situations. Snowflakes in Hell has a good story posted about a girl in India who defender her family:
Militants often demand food and lodging in nearby villages.
When they forced their way into Miss Kausar’s home, her father Noor Mohammad refused their demands and was attacked.
His daughter was hiding under a bed when she heard him crying as the gunmen thrashed him with sticks. According to police, she ran towards her father’s attacker and struck him with an axe. As he collapsed, she snatched his AK47 and shot him dead.
Good work by his daughter. Also note that this is a story involving an AK-47 that was actually an AK-47. Any how as stated on Snowflakes in Hell if this story happened here the police would have to give a speech about how what the man’s daughter did was the incorrect action to take in such a situation. You know the usual speech police give when a person takes their own defense as a personal responsibility. Here is how Indian police respond:
Police have hailed the woman’s bravery.
They said she would be nominated for the president’s gallantry award.
She may also receive a £4,000 reward if, as police believe, the dead terrorist is confirmed as Uzafa Shah, a wanted Pakistani LeT commander who had been active in the area for the past four years.
That’s right reward the person who saved their family, don’t berate their actions. I wish the police in our country responded in same.
A big hat tip goes to Says Uncle for this story. Cameron Aulner proved what being a man of action means:
Westminster Police confirm that on September 19th, a man grabbed and molested a little girl. Witnesses say he picked her up and was headed for the door.
Bystanders started yelling for help. But no one stopped the suspect, 34-year-old Kevin Salyers. Until something even more unusual happened.
A man working at the Comcast table at the front of the store tackled the suspect. Even more amazing, the Comcast employee, 22-year-old Cameron Aulner was in a wheelchair.
Yup while perfectly capable bystanders started yelling for help Mr. Aulner, whom lost the use of his legs, decided to take action. Glad to see there are still people out there willing to act while others stand by and wait for somebody else to act.
Here is a rather funny story from Days of our Trailers. Some drunk decided to be funny and steal a flag from his local VFW and burn it. Here is the thing if you want to fuck with somebody you may want to pick somebody besides veterans of foreign wars. See veterans that have been sent across the ocean to other countries to fulfill their duties often had to find creative ways to entertain themselves. These ideas often involve pranks on other people. So you are dealing with a population of people who probably entertained themselves by finding creative ways to get at other people.
Well the members of the VFW did get back at the flag thief. They found him and, I’m guessing, provided him the option of an ass beating or something less painful but more humiliating. The VFW members duct taped the flag thief to a flag pole at a kids soccer game. I say kudos to the members of the VFW to creativity and victory.
As most of you guys have figured out by now I like security. Being I like security I find the AES encryption scheme to be very useful as it’s a scheme that, as of yet, doesn’t have a practical attack against it. This is rather funny considering how simple the implementation of AES is (the algorithm itself, implementing it in code correcting isn’t quite so easy do to unforeseen attack vectors being introduced by poor implementation).
So how simple is it? Simple enough where the entire algorithm can be explained with a stick figured comic strip. A hat tip goes to Bruce Schneier’s blog for this one.
OK I have to post this immediately. I went to the student town hall meeting at the University of Minnesota campus. There representative Ron Paul was speaking and afterwards he did the rounds signing things. Here’s what I got him to sign:
Yes he signed my spare carry magazine which was loaded at the time. That’s how you test if a politician is pro-gun or not.
Wow Sebastian and Bitter from Snowflakes in Hell do amazing work. They have been taking the war to Mayors Against Illegal Guns faster than anybody else I know of. A great post there made by Bitter establishes the connection between Mayors Against Illegal Guns and the Brady Campaign. This is a big deal since Bloomberg is trying to make it appear as though his posse isn’t an anti-gun organization but a group only against illegal guns. Of course we know that’s not true.
Keep up the good work you two.