Light blogging alert

Folks, hold down the fort. I'm going to be busy indulging my geek side for a few days. I'll try to get a little something up if time allows, but I'm going to be doing well to just keep aware of what's going on outside of my bitty world for the next week.

Your task is to start beating on your Senators on health care "reform". Given what La Pelosi and her crew of imbeciles passed last night, if we want to have anything outside of witch doctors (and I'll bet there's something in there about them, just give it time to come out), we had better put the fear of the electorate into the Senate.

Did I miss something?

(Via Survivalblog)

I damn sure looks like it. This is dated October 14:

The United States reversed policy on Wednesday and said it would back launching talks on a treaty to regulate arms sales as long as the talks operated by consensus, a stance critics said gave every nation a veto.

The decision, announced in a statement released by the U.S. State Department, overturns the position of former President George W. Bush's administration, which had opposed such a treaty on the grounds that national controls were better.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States would support the talks as long as the negotiating forum, the so-called Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty, "operates under the rules of consensus decision-making."

Well, there's a handy way to get around that pesky Second Amendment--sign an international treaty!

Chains we can believe in.

His lips were moving

(Via Frugal Squirrels)

Last week, the voters of New York House District 23 rejected a conservative candidate, Doug Hoffman, for liberal candidate Bill Owens. Owens stated during the campaign that he was against the "public option" in health care "reform", that he opposed cutting Medicare benefits, taxing health care benefits, or increasing taxes on the middle class.

Newly-minted Representative Owens has thanked the voters of NY 23 by asking them to bend over and grab their ankles.

I guess he changed his mind. I have to wonder if any of the voters in NY 23 would like to change their minds now.

And now I have something to say

After a day of watching and reading the news, I have a few thoughts. Some will call me simplistic; others will call me worse. To hell with them all.

Devout Muslim we're told, possibly mentally ill we're told. Neither is an excuse for the actions of Nidal Malik Hasan.

Supposedly the "good doctor" didn't want to go to Afghanistan. I suspect few really do. But they man (or woman) up, go anyway and do their jobs. You see, it's what they signed up for. No one with an IQ over that of a turnip, who has joined any branch of the military since 9/11/2001, could think otherwise. Surely you've heard about the war? It's been on all the TV news....

But instead of holding up his end of the bargain, Nidal Malik Hasan decided to grab a gun or two and go kill a bunch of infidels. Sure, he didn't say that, but it's damn funny that not one of his victims identified so far "looks like him".

Some say that this isn't terrorism, not really. Hasan was just another in a long line of nutballs who decided to settle their score with life using a gun on people who had never done them any harm. I call "BULLSHIT!" on that one at the top of my lungs. For years, we have seen similar acts in Israel and they have been labeled "terrorism" by anyone with a shred of intellectual honesty.

No, it can't be terrorism, not here, not at home where we don't have to carry guns (according to one mealy-mouthed sorry-assed excuse for a general whose miserable name will never be uttered here). No, we don't have terrorism here.

Tell that to 3,000 dead on 9/11/2009. Tell that to the 13 additional victims of another terrorist who have just joined them. Just how many more have to die before we can be honest with ourselves? Whether we like it or not, whether it's politically correct or not, there seem to be a lot of people, all of a certain religion, who want us dead. The sooner we figure out that they take that seriously, and that we'd better take it seriously as well, the sooner this is going to be over.

Is Nidal Malik Hasan a sleeper agent? Is he a cell of one? Is he simply yet another "deeply disturbed individual"?

We don't know the answer now. It's possible we may never know, but since this one has been taken alive, I have hope. There have been too many other incidents in recent years involving Muslim men killing large numbers of non-Muslims to blithely believe that this isn't terrorism.

What to say?

Sources Identify Major as Gunman in Deadly Shooting Rampage at Fort Hood

Not sure what to say about this just yet; too little hard information is public. There are things about it that raise my eyebrows (more than just the "mass shooting" aspect does).

I guess it's just time to pray for the dead and their families.

SC man gets 3 years in prison for sex with horse

It's going to suck to be him in the hoosegow.

A South Carolina man caught on video having sex with a horse was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison after pleading guilty for the second time in two years to abusing the creature.

In South Carolina, the legal term for this transgression is "buggery". I don't know why, but I can't say that word without smiling. It sounds so...something.

"I've been through hell for the last year and it's caused a lot of hardship," Kenley told the newspaper. "There's a lot of ridicule and jokes going around about this thing. And a person can only take so much."

Not to mention the horse.

(Yes, I know, what scumbag did was wrong and I do feel sympathy for the lady and her horse. But the whole thing is so Theater of the Ludicrous that I simply have to laugh.)

Assumes?

More like they're counting on it.

The health care reform bill awaiting debate in the House assumes millions of workers and employers would rather pay $167 billion in fines than purchase or provide adequate coverage, according to a recent analysis...

Much as "gun control", which was more about control than it was guns; "health care reform" is not about health care or reform. It's about giving the government unprecedented power over your life.

Score that one as an oowie

Despite the interesting political news of the day (and here's hoping that if gets much more interesting as the evening progresses), I'm just not in the mood to blog. I had to have dental work (I cracked a molar, and they did a temporary crown today to hold me while we figure out if it will also be a root canal to go with it), and now that the Novocaine and whatever else have worn off, I'm just not in the mood to blog.

What I am in the mood for is painkillers. Paging Dr. House....

Sometimes the news is not the story

The Charlotte Observer breathlessly reports "The number of concealed weapons permits issued in South Carolina has risen sharply this year, state records show, as people worry about crime and their right to bear firearms."

OK, so that rates a "Well, duh!" Applications and grants of concealed carry permits have went through the roof all over the United States. Some people are finally getting the message that "911 is government sponsored dial-a-prayer".

But the good part of that article is the comments section, which is just full of gunny goodness. "Actually, my "grandma" (wife) prefers a Kahr PM 9 for carry and 20 gauge Mossburg pump resting beside the bed with 6 #1 shot in the mag. She says a .45 is to hard to hold to get the second tap center mass :-)"

I love some good snark first thing on a Monday morning. It just puts a shine on the whole week.