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New zombie movie

(Via @GreatDismal on Twittter) A zombie movie from the zombie’s perspective. Shot on a $70 budget and probably distributed by the Japanese. Watch out Hollywood.…

May 24, 2009February 13, 2021
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Do you emit?

If you answer “No” or “WTF?” you might want to read this article from Wired. Short version is that if you have any device in…

May 21, 2009February 15, 2021
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Victorville ATF raid update

A help line has been established for gun owners who had weapons at a Victorville firearms shopped raided last week by federal agents. About 200…

May 21, 2009February 13, 2021
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Jeremy Clarkson really doesn’t like the new Honda Insight

Really. “…sit a dog on a ham slicer.”

May 20, 2009February 15, 2021
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“Government Motors” indeed

(Via the Drudge Report) We’re all going to need to be more careful about our jokes. General Motors Corp’s plan for a bankruptcy filing involves…

May 19, 2009February 15, 2021
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Oh look, another “common sense” gun law is proposed

I simply don’t understand why our elected representatives A) keep getting elected and B) insist that the Constitution really doesn’t mean what it plainly says.…

May 17, 2009February 13, 2021
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Automate your home security

(Via Timebomb 2000) They also have a web site at The Sentry Project. This has possibilities….

May 17, 2009February 15, 2021
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“A rifle in one hand, a laptop in the other.”

This (fairly even-handed) piece on the NRA Convention and gunbloggers has started making the rounds, and already the anti-freedom forces are using the comments to…

May 17, 2009February 15, 2021
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2nd Amendment Blog Bash

OK, I’m late to the party. (I’m sure that, in the best liberal tradition, it is actually an unconscious reaction to my anger at being…

May 17, 2009February 15, 2021
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Is the ATF at it again?

Unknown-there simply isn’t enough information. But we could be seeing the beginning of the next Red’s Trading Post. Or the beginning of the end for…

May 17, 2009February 15, 2021
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Tactical Bacon?

And it doesn’t have rails, a white light, a laser or anything. How tactical can it be?

May 17, 2009February 13, 2021
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How it used to be

An old mill town, ready for the scrap heap, makes a comeback.

May 17, 2009February 15, 2021
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How does your state rank for freedom?

(Via Karen DeCoster) The ratings are in–see how your state does. North Carolina ranks #23 overall–that means we’re barely on the right side of the…

May 16, 2009February 15, 2021
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You must click on the link below

You must. The Obama demands it. The Link.

May 16, 2009February 13, 2021
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How about some good news for a change?

(Via Wired) How about a plane full of passengers who were likely saved from a mid-ocean water landing by an observant USAF noncom in transit…

May 15, 2009February 15, 2021
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So does this mean that the march toward neo-socialism is going to stop?

(Via the Drudge Report) President Barack Obama, calling current deficit spending “unsustainable,” warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance…

May 15, 2009February 13, 2021
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Well, that didn’t take long

It seems that yesterday’s idea of the government setting pay for executives in the finance sector needed improvement, and the bloviating Bwarney Fwrank obliges. Oh,…

May 14, 2009February 13, 2021
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Just for the record

The notion that banks were forced to take TARP money and cough up preferred shares to our benighted government is now confirmed as fact. Please…

May 14, 2009February 15, 2021
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And those green sprouts just keep coming up

Our Lord and Master, The Obama, along with his dedicated cheerleaders in the legacy media and his tame bureaucrat lapdogs such as Timothy Geithner, is…

May 14, 2009February 15, 2021
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And the sheep went willingly to the slaughter

Leaders of the health care industry have offered $2 trillion in spending reductions over 10 years. The goal is to make insurance more affordable so…

May 11, 2009February 15, 2021
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Dick Cheney, Snarkmeister

Asked about recent verbal broadsides between Limbaugh and Powell, Cheney said, “If I had to choose in terms of being a Republican, I’d go with…

May 11, 2009February 15, 2021
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Trapped

For Mother’s Day, we left Mom alone for a change (which suited her just fine). Daughter is working at her summer job, and Son and…

May 10, 2009February 13, 2021
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Star Trek

If you haven’t went to see the new Star Trek movie… GO NOW. I watched the original series during it’s first run on TV. (Yes,…

May 10, 2009February 13, 2021
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Want to bet that there is an ethics complaint about the press release that the ethics complaint was dismissed?

(Via @AKGovSarahPalin) For some reason, Sarah Palin attracts more unreasoning hate than George W. Bush–and that’s saying something. To date, 9 of 14 harassment attempts…

May 9, 2009February 13, 2021
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But…but…ABC said we couldn’t do this

(Via Timebomb2000) “They just came in and separated the men from the women and said, ‘Give me your wallets and cell phones,’” said George Williams…

May 8, 2009February 15, 2021
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The One is not invincible

(Via Days of Our Trailers) Normally I would sooner stick sharp objects in my eyes than link the the Huffington Dumber than a Post, I…

May 8, 2009February 13, 2021
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Captain Chaos has passed on

Actor Dom DeLuise Dead at 75 One of the things that sucks about the aging process is that you get to see all those people…

May 5, 2009February 15, 2021
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Here’s how a government runs a business

(Via Virginia Foxx on Twitter) This must be the day for old adages. This time, it’s the old investment advice, “Buy low, sell high”. Except…

May 5, 2009February 15, 2021
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Ah yes…class warfare

A Charlotte “resort” whose business model is “to cater to the high buck corporate client” has decided that a name change is in order bacause…

May 5, 2009February 15, 2021
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Stratfor on swine flu

The folks at Stratfor have some interesting information on the swine flu, plus some interesting and useful thoughts on pandemics in general and our reactions…

May 5, 2009February 13, 2021

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