The smell of bacon was in the air Saturday as thousands converged on Iowa’s capital city for an increasingly popular festival celebrating all things connected with the meat.
Some people wore Viking hats and others walked around with makeshift snouts for the Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival. The annual event featured more than 10,000 pounds of bacon served in unusual ways, such as chocolate-dipped bacon and bacon-flavored cupcakes and gelato.
Awesome!
He has links to how you can best make your voice heard, and grow that list!
Good Work!
Wow, this is an older video, but I just found it. Blogger is asking for fellow “Progressives” to kill Ted Nugent, and Alan Colmes is all about defending them
And you wonder why they want us disarmed?
A woman shot dead inside the New Castle County Courthouse on Monday morning had been mired in a long child custody dispute and feared for her safety, neighbors say. Christine Belford, 39, of Newark was one of three left dead by gunfire….Belford’s neighbours were shocked to hear of her death, but they knew she had issues over alimony and other payments by David Matsuiewicz. In 2009, he was sentenced by a federal judge to four years in prison over a bizarre domestic kidnapping and fraud. It’s not known whether he had been paroled from prison.
One neighbor said he knew of Belford’s upcoming court hearing and said that Belford feared something might happen….In Middletown, where David Matsuiewciz lived with Belford when they were married. some neighbors felt something like this could happen.
“There were lots of problems in the household when they lived there,” said Tracy Campbell. “I guess he was never going to let it go and that is the sad part somebody told me today that his ex-wife had a restraining order against him.”
So we have a guy who’s the furthest thing from a law abiding citizen. The story is still new so all the details aren’t concrete, but we have felony charges with a prison sentence, we have a strong possibility of parole and domestic violence, and we have a likely protection order.
And where did the shooting take place? A “GUN FREE ZONE!”, odd how “Gun Free” they seem to be when innocent people are taking gunfire.
Also interesting to note that he was sentenced to 4 years approximately 3 years ago (since its early in 2013 I don’t know when this beast arrived in prison, but something tells me it wasn’t last January), so we have violent and dangerous criminals being let loose.
He couldn’t legally get a gun, or a carry permit. He couldn’t legally take it into a court house, and obviously he couldn’t legally shoot and murder people.
Hey, but maybe if we ban sales of magazines, or make people go to gun shops to perform background checks none of this would have happened right?
If guns were as illegal as murder, nobody would be murdered with guns, right?
Evidently planes are less regulated than guns!
An Arizona entrepreneur, his wife and daughter were killed when their home-built airplane crashed in a San Diego nature preserve as they returned home from a family vacation.
Medical examiners said on Sunday that the owner of the plane was 65-year-old William A. Stern, who was piloting the four-seat Lancair IV-P aircraft when it crashed just north of Santee, California.
Of course I don’t know about the regulations, but the anti-gun people claim that Teddy Bears are more regulated than guns….but then again I know people who made teddy bears and other cuddly toys just because they were bored and had the supplies.
h/t Bob
Joan had another manic moment, and in there lies GLORY!
Trying to talk over the noise and over discuss or over intellectualize also leads to trouble. So we just need to get through this time and muck through the tough parts and get to a good place at the end. We have not had this discussion because everyone has been afraid to even mention it for fear of the wrath and undue influence of the pro-gun lobbyists. But in the end, saving lives is what everyone wants. It’s just how we get there that is causing way too much angst. The thing is, the angst is misplaced. There is real angst in Newtown, Connecticut. There is real angst in Aurora, Colorado and in Minneapolis, Minnesota and for the many families and friends trying to live around the hole caused by the violent death of a loved one.
That’s the truth there, we both want a safer America, we just differ with the methods.
What is everyone so afraid of? I am afraid that too many lives are being lost every day and that public safety is being put at risk because of the shootings that occur every day in America.
Who’s been doing the shootings? I haven’t shot anybody. Why are the current laws targeting ME?
I fear that the NRA lobbyists have had their way for far too long and have managed to take us on a slippery slope towards looser gun laws that have led to too many people who shouldn’t have access to guns getting them anyway and using them in too many places to kill too many people
Really? Since when has the NRA been lobbying for criminals and the mentally ill getting guns?
I am afraid they will let more shootings happen before they act. Fearing yet another mass shooting or school shooting is not an imaginary fear. It is real. In fact, just the other day, someone who should not have had access to a gun
Remember who’s talking about fear.
This is about our justice system. This is real and this is scary. Our lack of common sense gun measures as well as our lack of providing adequate mental health care and a system that allows people like Ms. Boland, to plea bargain out of federal charges are very serious problems and threaten our children and public safety. This must change. This is what the national “discussion” about gun violence prevention measures is all about.
Except Joan is fixated on GUNS, not criminals. Good job with that, why take actions that could accomplish something when you can effect innocent people in the name of criminals!
And yet, the gun lobbyists are focusing more on their own rights to own any kind of gun they wish to carry with them wherever they go. They have unreasonable fear of their own government and law enforcement officials
Yeah, as I said above, you focus on Law abiding gun owners while looking the other way with criminals. Hey, but let’s look at that article:
Statistics from the Southern Poverty Law Center – an Alabama-based civil rights nonprofit that tracks extremist organizations – suggest the interest in such patriot groups is taking off in the U.S….One of the groups not on the SPLC’s list for either state is the Sovereign Citizens movement, which Potok says is an underground group known for conducting seminars on how to bilk the government out of money from public assistance programs, how to evade foreclosure and other financial schemes.
First up, why so trusting of the Southern Poverty Law center, they’re a bit of an extremist group themselves
Schlueter doesn’t view the Sovereign Citizens as a threat.
“We don’t want to be the thought police,” said Schlueter. “Most of these peoples’ rub is with federal agencies. The one thing they will honor is with the sheriff, because that’s more of an old constitution, that’s an elected position.”
Schlueter said that the Sovereigns he sees in the county, and their related group, the Republic for the United States of America, identified as the largest subgroup of the Sovereign Citizens in the country so far, have not been violent.
The SPLC list of patriot groups doesn’t include any militias in Minnesota or North Dakota. Nationwide, about one-fourth of the 1,274 groups identified by the nonprofit as patriot groups in 2011 were also deemed to be militias.
But extremist groups are definitely on the radar of local and federal law enforcement agencies.
Nope, no thought police…but police should take action if you think the wrong things. IRONY METER PEGGED!
So backed to Joan:
I heard that in testimony at the Minnesota state legislature last week. This is not about self defense or hunting. This is about treasonous actions against the government. As threats and bullying remarks are being made on blogs, on phone calls to those of us who advocate for reasonable gun laws, on tweets and Facebook pages, in e-mails, etc. some of us have reason to be concerned.
No citation, I wonder why. We have boots-on-the-ground reports that say Joan and company were avoiding the pro-gun people like the plague, yet we’re bullies? Who are you going to believe?
People who testified supporting the bills in front of the Public Safety Committee have received some e-mails and threats to themselves and their businesses. It is disconcerting at the least
At the least. Again no citation, so we’re supposed to take the word of a known liar!
Our fear is coming from those who call themselves legal gun owners but who then bully, intimidate, threaten, demean and belittle people like me and politicians who support reasonable gun laws. Why do they do this? If they have an opinion and some facts that show they are right, they shouldn’t have to bully to get their way. These folks seem to fear those of us who are only trying to slog through the swamp to get through the miasma of the politics of gun policy.
Says the woman who moderates her comments to keep out civil arguments against her lies. Also what’s to be afraid of? When was the last time an anti-gun activist was harmed by a pro-gun activist? We’re armed, and we’re “bullies” but there’s been no violence. This points in one obvious direction. Also we’re the ones pushing fear? Does she read her own writing?
In all of this fear talk, the real reasons we are having this discussion have become lost in the swamp and the blizzard of rhetoric. Have we so soon forgotten the 20 small children who were massacred by a crazed gunman who should not have had a gun? Have we forgotten that the gun he did have was designed to kill as many as possible and inflict as much damage as possible?
Nope, we haven’t forgotten. We’re “lost in the swamp and the blizzard of rhetoric” because your response is CONFISCATION of LAWFULLY held firearms and banning common features on rifles and pistols.
Have we forgotten that the second amendment can co-exist with reasonable measures to keep our communities safe from gun violence and the devastation it causes every day in our lives?
Did you just say that?
Seriously Joan, keep burning up that Joyce Foundation money!
I gotta love these government support of strong companies:
Unsecured creditors of failed battery-maker A123 Systems Inc. who are owed about $173 million will recoup about 65 cents on the dollar, based on a proposed liquidation plan filed this week with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
Secured creditors of the 11-year-old government-backed Waltham company, who are owed at least $29 million, will be reimbursed in full under the plan, which requires court and creditor approvals.
The bulk of the money will be repaid from sale proceeds. Last month, the federal Committee for Foreign Investment in the United States endorsed the $257 million sale of most of A123’s assets to Chinese auto parts conglomerate Wanxiang Group.
Why am I thinking the “Bulk of the Money” isn’t going to be quite as good as any of us will hope. Are any of these “Green” companies backed by Daddy .gov making money?
Also nice that the assets are going to China. A feel-good story!
LaRue Tactical thinks that if they’re too dangerous for private citizens, then maybe Cops shouldn’t have them either!
The Second Amendment has always had fair-weather friends. LaRue Tactical, manufacturers of firearms and firearm accessories, is one company that will never be accused of being our fair-weather friend. When New York State passed its unconstitutional anti-gun law, LaRue swung into action. In a move reminiscent of Barrett Firearms’ banning of all sales to California law enforcement (http://www.thegunzone.com/rkba/rkba-50.html) after California banned .50BMG rifles, LaRue has stated that it will not sell anything to local law enforcement that it can’t sell to you and me.
Good on them! This in on the Heels of Barrett Firearms who has refused to do business with any state that bans the sale of their products to citizens. There is also the requests this:
The NYPD allows officers to select one of three firearms for duty carry: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Police_Department#Firearms):
• SIG P226 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIG_P226)
• Smith & Wesson 5946 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_%26_Wesson_Model_5906)
• Glock 19 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock_19#9.C3.9719mm_Parabellum).
All of these pistols are equipped with a greater than 7-round magazine, making them illegal for sale to law-abiding New York residents.
I think sending letters is worth the effort, tho Glock is Austrian, and therefore fine with NOT selling their citizens the arms they make, and they have a history of being less than friendly to civilian sales. SIG is German, but the American subsidiary certainly gains a TON from US Sales. While S&W no longer makes the 5946, I suspect they still sell parts and magazines to the Police, and they make killer AR-15 rifles in their M&P line. Also S&W got burned BAD by their corroboration with the anti-gun Clinton Administration, and their current reps are very fast to point out that it was a regrettable situation in the past.
Also don’t forget that all three companies sell to other states like Massachusetts where their products are not allowed for civilians to own or buy.
Make your voice heard!
h/t Sean
Was barely able to get out of bed this morning, and there is work to do in the Mouse Mines, so saddly all the awesome blog fodder I have open on my browser will have to wait.
While you wait, here’s a duck picture from Cargosquid
