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Technorati: indiana, second amendment, firearms, legislation, guns, universities, campus
 
The following Indiana Senate bills are all likely to pass, thank God:
SB 29. Prohibits a local unit of government from imposing a minimum lot size on which a shooting range may be located. Prohibits a local unit of government from regulating […]

Indiana is becoming a major automobile manufacturing state.

I heard this on the radio in the car, and finally found a link to a story:
The first body parts turned up Tuesday morning in a trash bag a state highway crew found while spreading salt on Interstate 380 as an ice storm loomed in the Poconos.
In the hours that followed, state troopers found a […]

AAA just left. Okay, off to do those errands. Back shortly.

Hat tip to Bull Dog Pundit. Before you read this, get out the duct tape and wrap your head.

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The Ummels have already sunk $75,000 into legal fees. For […]

I left my lights on yesterday. The battery is dead. We have a charger. We do not have cables, or I could charge it from the other Explorer.

Almost forgot. I have extremely important certified mail to send. Back later.

It looks like I’m not the only one with a neighbor running for Peterson’s seat. And I just signed a petition to get JT somebody on the ballot this weekend.

So this morning, I stepped onto what looked like a wet driveway, and found out as my butt hit and I slid all the way down the driveway into the street that it wasn’t wet, it was ice.
If that had happened when I was a kid, I would have done it over and over again. […]

Wait. Didn’t we throw the school board idiots out on their cans? These are the bozos who voted against allowing — wait for it — a local BB gun club to hold their state tournament at State College High:

David Hutchinson
Chris Small
Gowen Roper
Donna Queeney
Lou Ann Evans

And the biggest idiot of them all, at least from what […]

I’d hit McCain hard and heavy for his patently false statement about Romney, and I’d keep hitting McCain hard, on all of the issues that would hurt him worst (but stay far away from character assassination). Just sayin.

John Derbyshire weighs in on Obama and his “oratorical skills,” with such gems as “vaporous flapdoodle,” and “great gusts of hot air.”

The Lost marathon, that is. Just started the penultimate episode of the season. Then, the two-hour finale, and the TiVO will be clear.
And the commenter is right. I got BSG and Lost mixed up. BSG is one more season. Lost is 48 more episodes, to be broadcast over the next three seasons (starting Thursday, 1/31).
Oh. […]

Like the man says:
If you give control of your medical care to the state, then the state controls the medical care you receive.
But that’s fine, as long as Betricia “We have a RIGHT to ‘free’ healthcare!” Limousine Liberal gets all of the choices she wants. Controlling the rubes? That’s what liberalism is all about — […]

Obama creams Hillary in South Carolina, although the interesting part is here:
I’m watching CNN’s coverage so as to avoid the smeared glowing spots that Shep Smith puts on my retinas. As far as the CNN “Best Political Team on Television” is concerned, this whole thing is about race and gender. They went from discussing their […]

Technorati: lost, television, jj abrams, teen magazines
 
 
Lost has been on hiatus since May 23, and I’m not really part of the ultra-geeky obsessed-with-Lost movement, so I hadn’t visited Lostpedia or any forums until just yesterday. I had forgotten all about the “Jack and Kate!” and “Jack and Sawyer!” groupies.
If you don’t watch […]

Around 2:45 yesterday afternoon, the internet connection on my laptop died. I repaired the connection, but it didn’t come back. I headed into the office, rebooted the cable modem, and the online light didn’t come on. I tried rebooting it again, this time leaving it unplugged for about five minutes, but still, no online light.
I […]

For months — and I don’t mean a couple of months, I mean close to a year — the Home Depot and the Geisinger med center have been going up. I drive past both of these every day on my way to and from town, and on most days, there is no sign of any […]

Seventeen to go. Lost episodes, that is. I found that they weren’t nearly as irritating to watch as they were the first time around because I know the season changed direction. I’m up to the smoke monster killing Mr. Eco (boy, that was sad; he was a fascinating character, and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is always good, […]

Dreamhost is having problems — hence, the slow response time.

From RealClearPolitics:
 
 
 
 
 
 

Poll
Date
McCain
Giuliani
Huckabee
Thompson
Romney
Paul
Spread

Keystone Poll
01/08 - 01/14
30
14
12
8
7
2
McCain +16.0

Quinnipiac
11/26 - 12/03
13
27
13
6
6

Giuliani +14.0

Quinnipiac
10/31 - 11/05
12
29
6
11
7

Giuliani +17.0

Quinnipiac
10/01 - 10/08
13
32
2
13
8

Giuliani +19.0

Strategic Vision (R)
09/28 - 09/30
8
45
2
15
7

Giuliani +30.0

Keystone Poll
08/24 - 09/02
19
32
–
11
12

Giuliani +13.0

Quinnipiac
08/14 - 08/20
13
31
2
8
7

Giuliani +18.0

Quinnipiac
07/30 - 08/06
16
29
1
14
3

Giuliani +13.0

Strategic Vision (R)
07/06 - 07/08
10
42
2
16
6

Giuliani +26.0

Quinnipiac
06/18 - 06/25
15
29
1
15
3

Giuliani +14.0

Keystone Poll
05/29 - 06/07
29
29
–
–
12

Tie

Quinnipiac
05/22 - 05/28
11
28
1
10
9

Giuliani +17.0

Quinnipiac
04/17 - 04/24
17
29
2
6
5

Giuliani +12.0

Strategic Vision (R)
04/13 - 04/15
17
44
1
10
3

Giuliani +27.0

Quinnipiac
03/19 - 03/25
18
33
–
6
5

Giuliani +15.0

Strategic […]

Sequoias or solar panels? Ah, when moobats collide! Hat tip to Blue Crab Blvd.

Technorati: opinionator, nyt, republican debate, talkleft, jeralyn merritt, moonbats, wackjobs, nutcases, progressives, liberals, democrats, idiots, morons
I guess so — Gabriel has the scoop (and Hotair has clips). Bryan says it was dull, but the hallmark of the evening seems to have been polite. […]

The Atlantic is now a free-access site.

There was one GOP candidate I could campaign for, and he’s dropped out (by the way, let’s hope this isn’t true). Most Fredheads are supporting Mitt. Bob Krumm is kind of leaning Rudy, but not endorsing anybody right now.
I’m going to go with Bob here, except since all of the remaining candidates are — at […]

Lost will be starting next month, and that means I need to start burning last season’s episodes to DVDs. Given how bad the first half of last season was and I can only burn in real time, that means I have to watch them all over again.
The second half of the season won’t be nearly […]

The Anchoress is best when she’s fed up, and she’s pretty much had it: Wipe your little eyes, and haul up your drawers.
I may repost the link to this periodically. There are way too many people out there who need to be beaten down hard with a cluebat.

Worse today.

Technorati: csi, csi: miami, calleigh duquesne, emily proctor, guns, firearms, gun owners, television
I’m not going to start whining about “positive images” on television, but the reason I changed the channel to hear our math whiz show off her skills was a particularly annoying anti-gun show. Anyway, I started […]

I just heard a kid on TV say, “56 times 10,000 would be about . . . uh . . . well . . . a lot!”
Forget multiplication tables. They’re not teaching decimal places in schools now? And the really scary part is this was on one of those “educational” Discovery programs.

The first 16 weeks of the interferon treatment was, well, you don’t ever want to be that sick. That’s long over, but anyway, for the last couple of days, I’ve been coughing (not a dry smoker’s cough, a phlegm-y, lungs full of nasty shit cough), sneezing, struggling to breathe, and drowning in snot. So I […]

Chalk it down to not being awake. The internet connection suddenly died. I rebooted the cable modem, and it booted up just fine, but no connection. I waited, then repeated. Same result. So I called tech support.
No outage. So he says, “Do you have a router?” and before he went any further, I felt like […]

Matthew Tabor’s post on Cooper requires that I repost this pitch-perfect, dead-on gem. It’s one of my favorites, since I’m old enough to have been forced in school to suffer through The Deerslayer.
Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses
by Mark Twain

Read single article or […]

These people just can’t stop. The Ron Paul Forum: A Jewish Defector Warns America.
Knock, knock. Does “shame” mean anything to you folks?

Technorati: cloverfield, jj abrams, lost, godzilla, blair witch project
Nobody who sees this movie will feel ambivalent about it. You will either really like this movie, maybe even love it, or you will really dislike it. But even if you hate it, I promise that you will be frozen in your seat […]

to St. Sam’s of Walton, with a side trip to Wal-Mart next door, and Bed, Bath and Beyond.
Maybe Cloverfield this afternoon. From what I know about it, I suspect I may find it really annoying. But I’m tempted.

Warmening in the Alleghenies (click to hugefy). Somebody’s carbon footprint isn’t big enough.
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More warmening pics at Tim Blair.

Tell me this isn’t kewl. Baretta’s CX4 Storm:

Specs here.
I don’t own one, but I do own these (among others). Click to enhugen:

This is pretty cool, too (specs here), but .50-cal rifles are always cool. Ever seen what one of these babies can do to a watermelon? Click to embiggify.

I used to carry this Ruger P95DC […]

That was stupid. I had 100 and some comments in the akismet queue, and clicked the delete all button before I’d gotten to the last screen. I hope nobody’s comment was in there.
Duh.

David Petzal — another lefty (no, not that kind of lefty) — says:
And so I swore that one day I would make rifles so wonderful that everyone would lust after them, but they would be made left-hand only, and right handers could only grind their teeth in envy. Well, I got into this business instead, […]