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Year: 2009

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Getting in on the meme early

OK, this one is cropping up all over the place. I’m getting in quick: Kinda hard on the ants, though.

January 18, 2009February 15, 2021
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Well, this is certainly going well

(All links via the Drudge Report) The coronation of the Big O is some 2 days away and he’s doing a traveling road show on…

January 18, 2009February 13, 2021
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Video of the US Air Flight 1549 ditching

(Via Timebomb 2000) For all the talk I saw and heard about the response of the FDNY and NYPD, it looks to me like the…

January 18, 2009February 13, 2021
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A little something to think about

(Via Worldnet Daily) “Hamas took a gamble. We thought, at worst Israel will come and do something from the air – something superficial. They’ll come…

January 17, 2009February 15, 2021
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Politicians banned from DC!

(Via the Drudge Report) “Prostitution Free Zone” During Inauguration Oh wait…my bad. They’re talking about hookers….

January 17, 2009February 13, 2021
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Flashlight porn

(Via SayUncle) Les Jones has flashlight porn. We are all doomed.

January 17, 2009February 15, 2021
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Holy Cow!

The Mountain Man speaks (finally)! Into the blogroll with you, latecomer.

January 17, 2009February 15, 2021
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I wonder if there’s a connection

North Carolina’s new governor, Beverly Perdue has ordered deeper cuts to state budgets, another indication of a declining economy. At the same time, a study…

January 16, 2009February 15, 2021
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“No Republican has announced plans to oppose Holder’s nomination.”

Here’s a message for the Republican Party–if you people don’t get your act together and stop playing footsies with the Democrats (link via Drudge), we…

January 16, 2009February 15, 2021
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OK, we need to get on this on quickly

I missed it, but A Keyboard and a .45 didn’t. The confirmation hearing of Eric Holder, the Big O’s choice for Attorney General, starts tomorrow.…

January 14, 2009February 13, 2021
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“One has a sinking suspicion that the press is allowing itself to become Obama’s lapdog extraordinaire.”

(Via the Drudge Report) According to Sun-Times columnist and long-time Chicago journalist, Carol Marin, journalists at Barack Obama news conferences have come to realize that…

January 14, 2009February 15, 2021
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Another Transition oopsie

(Via the Drudge Report) Every incoming President has his share of these appointment gaffs. This time I find myself enjoying them a bit more than…

January 14, 2009February 15, 2021
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What you can do this week

(Via Timebomb 2000) Well fellow gunnies, the battle is joined. We have our first anti-civil rights legislation of the 111th Congress. Rep. Bobby Rush (Totalitarian-IL)…

January 13, 2009February 13, 2021
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Creeping socialism

(Via the Drudge Report) Isn’t creeping any longer. It’s here and if The Big O has his way, we may as well get used to…

January 12, 2009February 15, 2021
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Chance

(Via Xavier Thoughts) Presented without explanation or comment. You’ll understand why soon enough.

January 12, 2009February 15, 2021
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Leftist dictionary

(Via The View From North Central Idaho) Here’s a convenient dictionary of the language “Leftist”. You may want to keep this handy after the Big…

January 11, 2009February 15, 2021
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Someone hand me the Cluebat, please…

(Via the Drudge Report) So the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is up for sale and might close if no buyer is found? Pardon me while I wipe…

January 11, 2009February 13, 2021
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Hrumph

(Via the Drudge Report) Prince Harry has sparked a race row after “disturbing” video footage of him calling an Army colleague “Paki” emerged. This is…

January 11, 2009February 15, 2021
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The Lexington (NC) Gun and Knife Show

(1/22/2012: This page, for whatever reason, seems to place higher on Google than the show’s own site. If you want current dates and locations, please…

January 10, 2009February 13, 2021
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A safe story

Michael Bane, who many of you know from his TV shows, podcast and blog, recently had a gun safe failure. You can read about it…

January 10, 2009February 15, 2021
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A bad economy will make you fat

I’m assuming a slow news day… Americans may reduce the amount they spend on food in response to a sour economy but some experts fear…

January 9, 2009February 15, 2021
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It was a short honeymoon

(Via the Drudge Report) OK, so how do you top a (possibly inadvertent) snub of someone who should be one of your biggest allies? Why,…

January 8, 2009February 15, 2021
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Quick, someone call the cops!

An election has been stolen.

January 6, 2009February 13, 2021
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Hollyweird no more?

Well, not exactly, but it seems as if some Hollywood actors are coming out of the closet: A once-timid group of social outcasts is emerging…

January 6, 2009February 15, 2021
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Hunting expansion in NC proposed

There hasn’t been much good news for gun owners or hunters since the November election, but this message from Grassroots NC is like a breath…

January 6, 2009February 15, 2021
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Let the fun begin

The Big O has lost his first cabinet appointment before the fight was properly joined: Bill Richardson reportedly has withdrawn as the commerce secretary-designate in…

January 4, 2009February 15, 2021
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And for the first post of the new year…

Let’s talk about guns and shooting. I would like to say that we started out the New Year with a bang, but that would be…

January 2, 2009February 15, 2021

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