It’s been reported that TN House Republican Caucus Leader Debra Maggart said this to some TFA folks when they expressed their displeasure at her blocking gun rights bills last session.
Well, Debra, you’re right. We probably wouldn’t start voting for Democrats.
Have fun in retirement! The NRA and TFA set an example with you. We are not kidding.
I buy a lot of used cars. I mean, I used to, back when I would buy an $800, drive it for a year, and sell it for $800.
So as a direct result of that, I have spent a lot of time looking at used car lots. Mostly, that involves driving down the local highway that has 86,000 used car lots on it and stopping when I see something that might meet my criteria.
I pull in, jump out of my car, check the mileage, and leave when I see they are asking $4,000 for a 20 year old car with 250,000 miles on it.
Apparently, that makes me a racist or something:
Abdullah told Channel 4 News he faces religious bigotry in many subtle ways as he conducts business at his car lot.
“When I approach a customer pulling up, they see me, and they get right back in their car again. I know for a fact they were interested in a certain vehicle,” Abdullah said.
Okay, then.
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Says the guy with the thick Russian accent:
I love that guy.
That I have never heard of this case before today.
Now, if you will excuse me, I have to go pick up my wookie suit from the dry cleaners.
Via ace
This is a Smith and Wesson .32 revolver with a low 5-digit serial (20xxx). It was recently handed down to me. My grandmother’s father bought it used in 1920. Best I can tell it was made in 1904. Click any to embiggenate.
It’s probably valued at $200, but worth a hell of a lot more than that to me.
So a guy open carried into a showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” in Cookeville this weekend. This caused a theater employee to call police, since the theater is posted “no guns allowed.”
The cops show up and try to find the guy amongst the other guests, but can’t. The decision was made to stop the movie and ask to speak with the gentleman with the gun.
No arrests, because all three had permits and our statute requires the posting to be “prominent.” Police decided the theater’s sign did not meet that criteria.
Betcha they have a bigger sign now.
I’ve talked here a few times about how it’s sometimes frustrating that a business has different views on civil rights than I do. When the owner of several popular local restaurants spearheaded a campaign to derail restaurant carry, I mocked him and stopped going to his restaurants.
When Costco employees freaked out about a guy with a CCW to the point they had him killed by police, I cancelled my membership.
When Regions Bank banned carry permit holders from their branches, I closed my accounts after 14 years of doing business with them. When my new bank did the same thing a year later, I moved my money again.
When looking for furniture, I don’t shop at American Signature Furniture.
I don’t do business with businesses that don’t support my rights. I encourage others not to do business with them, by explaining my reasoning.
You know what I don’t do?
I don’t try to deny their right to do business via force of government.
I don’t lobby the government to deny them the right to buy land.
And I sure as hell don’t wish death upon their customers.
Honestly that last one is the worst, and I’m afraid that’s where its going in this case. Instead of just not eating there and using a perhaps-effective boycott, they’re going to turn to demonizing the people who do eat there. It’s a new low, going after consumers of a product who’s producer hold views you don’t agree with.
It’s days like this that remind me why I’m not on Facebook.
So I’m rocking a Samsung Galaxy S III 4G
I also have an Eye-Fi Pro X2 8 GB
Through the magic of computers and Al Gore’s Internet, this means that when I take a picture with my fancy pants camera, it shows up on my phone. The process is roughly this:
This is all entirely automatic. I literally have to do nothing but take the picture and a couple of minutes later it’s on my phone. It’s very, very convenient.
Well, yesterday I went to show someone a picture of Casey (our Belgian Malinois) and none of my Picasa Web Albums were on my phone! Poof! Gone! TRAGEDY!
As it turns out, this was an easy fix that took me two days to find. There seems to be a rebranding of Picasa to Google Photos in the midst. When I updated the Google+ App the other day, it turned on “Sync Google Photos” under System Settings->Accounts and Sync->(your google account). That broke the Picasa sync, apparently.
I unchecked that guy. Then I unchecked and re-checked “Sync Picasa Web albums” and voila! Now I have my pretty pretty pictures back.
I’m putting this out there in the hopes that someone else who has this problem won’t have to go to the third page of a discussion board on the fifth page of google results in order to find this.
