Void Where Prohibited

Porkbusters - The Secret Hold

Link: Ace of Spades HQ.

I'm not sure I'm buying this. A lot of these denials come from spokeswomen. That gives someone plausible deniability-- the spokeswoman can always claim she only meant "not to my knowlege" or that there was a misunderstanding in the question.

I can see where Ace is coming from here but the statement I had from Senator Kyl's office was clear, concise and unequivocal.  Of course I don't think there's a lot of doubt about Senator Kyl.

US made Enfield

Bought a US made British Enfield this weekend that my son had been holding in his store.  No 4 MK I.  It's going to take a bit of cleaning.  Ok, a lot of cleaning.  Stock is in excellent shape.  Just one gouge.  And that looks recent.  Bolt action feels good despite the gummy cosmoline.  Should be a very nice rifle when we're done with it.  Of course I hope I can get a better price on 303 British than Big 5 sells it for.  There's also a better sight available for it as I understand.  We have an early model 'L' sight.  And then there's also the tracking down of when and where it was made.  I did hear a rumor about some Turkish made enfields being  sold as US-made lend-lease.  But we'll see.

Porkbusters - The Secret Holder

Link: Porkbusters.

Senator Jon Kyl's R-Arizona office has stated to me that he was not involved in the "secret hold" of Senate bill S.2590 and that he in fact supports this bill and will vote for it when it comes back to the Senate Floor

Hezbollah lied. No one died.

Link: Michelle Malkin: The Great Ambulance Hoax:
All your fakes are belong to us.

Hezbollah doesn't need to fight Israel in the ground.  They just make stuff up and the MSM swallows it hook, line, and sinker.

And even were it true, keep in mind that Israel is targeting Hezbollah who hide among civilians.  Hezbolloh targets the civilians.

via Instapundit

Tom Cruise let go by Viacom

Link: Viacom to Break Ties With Cruise - Zap2it.

Paramount Pictures is severing its lucrative 14-year relationship with Tom Cruise, whose recent off-screen behavior proved to be too much for Viacom Inc. Chairman Sumner Redstone, who disclosed the superstar's termination Tuesday.

Poor boy.   What will he do?

Still Missing

Link: Michelle Malkin: Missing Fox News crew: Blogburst.

Fox News Channel reporter Steve Centanni and freelance cameraman Olaf Wiig are still missing. It has now been more than a week since their kidnapping at gunpoint in Gaza by unknown terrorists. FNC top management, the journalists' families, and Palestinian journalists continue to press for their release.

Townhall.com::Blog::Blog

Link: Townhall.com::Blog::Blog.

I agree with MKH that the Boston Globe's rhetoric on the "Nazi" like seizure of toilitries is a bit much.  However I do that that the TSA's response to the threat was way overblown.  Not sure of what's in that water bottle?  Ask the passenger to take a drink.  Toothpaste questionable?  Take a taste.  Nail polish remover?  Put it in check-on, that could be used to construct an IED.  But come on, let's be reasonable.  I'd be more suspicious of the swarthy young man with 4 liters of water than the 4 year girl with the plastic bottle of milk.

The problem with common sense is that it isn't very common.

libertarianism

All the discussion lately about who is a libertarian and who isn't really point out why we're never going to get a successful third party going in this county.  And although I usually state that I am a libertarian, I'm actually more of a rational anarchist.  I just want enough government to keep life moving smoothly but in today's society that would be hard to define.  Maybe a short dose of anarchy wouldn't hurt.

So then what is a libertarian.  I don't think I'm qualified to say.  I've based at lot of my beliefs on what I've read.  Robert A Heinlein and L. Neil Smith stand near the top of my influences. 

Live and let live. 
My rights end where yours begin.
Non-aggression
Self defense.

Mainly I think everyone should be able to live his/her life as they want.  Thomas Jefferson and company tried to insure that with the Bill of Rights.  I wish we could try to stick with that.

Suspended? I want to see the rest..

Link: Telegraph | News | Orange spokesman suspended over 'racist' comments.

"Islamophobic: Anyone who objects to having their transport blown up on the way to work."

Sorry, but I think that's funny. :)

UPDATE:  The original post and the rest of the Lefty Lexicon here

Profiling

Link: Samizdata.net.

In contrast, the airline scares have been just that; scares. Not a single bomb has exploded and (mercifully) not a a soul was taken. Yet the response could not be more different. This time, the message emerging from some official quarters is that it is time for profiling, a measure the mere utterance of which would have been unthinkable a year ago in the wake of 52 dead commuters.

Why the difference now? Perhaps it is just the cumulative weariness of one bloody thing following the next and a government that is rapidly running out of other ideas. Or perhaps it is because there is a dawning collective realisation that it will not take too much more of this to bring the whole wonderful, liberating phenomenon of commercial air travel to a juddering and insensible end. It seems that taboos can be easily dispensed with the moment they are no longer affordable.

Of course, the threat of profiling has precipitated a chorus of disapproval but, significantly, only from the usual and expected circles. I would wager that those exhausted travellers, stranded in blankets on the unforgiving stone floor of Heathrow's Terminal 2, would noisily and heartily approve.

What's this??  You mean I was 7 months ahead of the curve??  Who'da thunk it?  If you can identify your enemy by any means then you should do so.  I'm sorry if you get caught in a net aimed at your brethern, but perhaps you need to have a talk with them.