Void Where Prohibited

Gunman Saves Woman's Life

Link: The Smallest Minority.

Kevin's right.  You'll never hear this the way it happened.  A woman's life was saved because a man with a gun and the willingness to use it was in the right place at the right time.  I'm sure someone will say that they should've waited for the police to arrive.  Of course by then the killer is gone and the woman's in a body bag.  But that's better than allowing a law-abiding citizen to carry a gun.

Here's my take.  The woman's alive.  The attempted killer's dead.  All's well that ends well.

via David Codrea at War on guns.

Blogger sued by loser company

Link: NOTICE! YOU HAVE BEEN SUED : SEO Book.com.

Better check out this article at SEO Book.com.  Seems Traffic Power is suing over a comment.  However, based on this link at Instapundit it'll take more than a lawsuit to regaind their "good name".  Assuming they ever have one.  Maybe it's just a new method of raising capital.

Top 10 things I learned from television

Link: King of Fools - Observing Television Violence.

This post at King of Fools got me thinking about what else I've learned from television and I thought I'd throw out a little meme.  (forgive me if this one has been done).

1. All cars blow up when they crash.  In fact when driving over a cliff they will almost always blow up in mid-air.
2. No matter how hard you hit someone in the jaw with your fist you'll never even bruise your knuckles.  Especially if you are the good guy.
3. If you are a different ethnic background than your companions, small, and scared.  You gonna die!!
4. No matter how slow you are, you should always run straight away from someone trying to run you down.  Obviously doorways, other cars, steel light poles, etc. will not help.
5. Dads are stupid, mom's are smart.  Although when dad's become grand-dads they very often get smarter.
6. No matter what keys you hit, the words on the computer screen will always be spelled right.
7. Not matter what's at hand the scientist can make a radio out of it.  Twice as fast if he/she is under 12.
8. Clothing will only rip enough to be provocative not revealing.  Except on Cinimax.
9. No nerd under 18 has ever seen a naked woman in spite of his Dad's Playboy collection.  Jocks start reading Playboy at 6.
10. Guns only jam at the most inopportune moment.  At which point it must be thrown at whoever you are fighting. 

I know there's more, but that's what I have off the top of my head.  Let's see what you've got.

Maria Sharapova's breasts falling out of her top

Link: Maria Sharapova: Titillating?.

Well not quite falling out of her top.   But it was too much for our Canadian cousins.  Reserved is one thing, but this time they've become quite Victorian.

Thanks to Randy Cassingham of This is True

UPDATE:  I'm a bit late with this but Randy dug a bit deeper and found that the Canadian in question wasn't complaining about the picture that the paper printed.

Hurricane Katrina Hits My Hometown

Link: The Florida Masochist: Katrina blogging.

Looks like Katrina is giving Broward County a bit of trouble.  Of course after watching the live feed from Channel 4 I'm not surprised there's one death already.  Although Katrina is only a Cat 1 it's still dangerous but people seem to be just out driving around.  I sat out more than one storm including Cleo which hit us dead center.  But going out in the storm was just never considered.  Just glad my brother who works for Broward County FD isn't working til Saturday.

via Michell Malkin

John Roberts Humor

Link: No Government Cheese.

Cassandra has collected a number of Judge Roberts funny notes

So far I haven't seen anything I dislike about John Roberts.  At least he has a clue about the contitution.  Wonder if we can get him to dis-bar the 9th Circuit Court.

Blackfive has the REAL Sheehan story.

Link: BLACKFIVE: Army Specialist Casey Sheehan - Someone You Should (Have) Know(n).

The truth shall set you free.

via MuD & PHuD

Utah gets tough... on music fans?

Link: Instapundit.com.

The police involved insist they did everything politely and above board.  However in my opinion the video looks pretty damning.  For what they were purporting to accomplish I'd think a couple of patrol cars would've sufficed not fully armored assault teams.  This was way too heavy handed.

If I were King of the Forreessssttt...

Link: Eric's Grumbles Before The Grave.

By some bizarre set of circumstances, you are the president as of now. Name the first 5 things you’d do. Level of difficulty: it must actually be stuff the president is constitutionally allowed to do.

1. Declare the "War on Drugs" lost.  Decriminalize and tax all sales.
2. Declare the 2nd Amendment the sole Gun law and it applies to every individual.
3. Declare "Individual Responsibility".  You did it?  You deal with it.  Society is no longer your scapegoat.
4. Declare the "Nonagression Act" for individuals.  If you aggress against someone and they kill you?  Ciao, Baby.  This includes speech.  Better think before opening your mouth.
5. Initiate the shutdown of Government wherever it says "you may not".  The government's sole purpose from here on out is to facilitate interaction between individuals.

HDTV and rabbit ears

I just bought a new 47" Samsung rear projection HDTV.  Good beginnner set I think.  And since it has a built-in HDTV tuner I hooked up the rabbit ears I had laying around in addition to the cable. 

The HD picture is fantastic.  I never want to watch cable again. :)  Except that there are more channels, but the HD picture over the rabbit ears beats anything on the cable.  Including the digital channels.

But to me there's just something wrong about HDTV and rabbit ears. :)