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Blog, May, 2010
May 31, 2010 2:35PM According to the FEC website, "VANBLOMMESTEYN, TIMOTHY" has filed for the NH-2 race. So far I haven't been able to pin down an email address, nor even a definite postal address. vanblommesteynfor congress.com is registered and parked, but there's no contact info. A whois on that site only lists a domain registry service. If anyone knows a good contact for Mr. Vanblommesteyn (not to mention his preferred spelling; I've found several variants), I'd much appreciate it if you could send me an email, so I can get the Gun Rights Questionnaire to him. Added 6/5/10: Mr. vanBlommesteyn's site is live now, and has a contact form. Questionnaire sent today.
May 28, 2010 11:30AM He lied. The signs remain. Personally, I generally think a private property owner can say how his property is used; although I can also make a good argument that his property rights end at your body. But this case was a little different. After entering a contractual agreement with hotel guests, Marriott unilaterally changed their rules – without first notifying their guests – in a way that would make anyone possessing a firearm a criminal. That's pretty damned disgusting. Marriott can ban firearms. And we can respect their right to do that. By never doing business with them. I have stayed in Marriott hotels on many occasions. Not anymore.
May 27, 2010 12:00PM That's a good sign. But what the heck are those eleven percent smoking?
May 26, 2010 2:55PM Hat tip to David Codrea's War on Guns
May 25, 2010 3:45PM I call BS. It's been known for many years that that rear-end collisions increase beyond the previous t-bone collision rate at traffic lights equipped with cameras. That's why redlight cameras are illegal in New Hampshire. Likewise, it's known that extending the yellow light interval by a mere three seconds drops all type accident rates dramatically, more so than fines. So never believe the lying scum who tell you redlight cameras are for anything but the money.
May 25, 2010 3:10PM Wow! I just got an email from FBI Director Mueller telling me that I have an 'overseas lottery prize' awaiting me. All I have to do is send some guy with a Chinese email address my full name, address, age, occupation, and $260 via Western Union. Then this guy will send me '2.3million united stated dollars' paid through a 'custom pin based ATM card with a maximum withdrawal limit of Three thousand us dollars a day'. I'm rich! But I wonder why the FBI Director is using an sbcglobal.net reply-to address? And appears to have English as a second language. And oddly enough, the email originated from smtp5.freeserve.com. I would have thought the FBI Director would use the DOJ servers. I've been hearing about these fake FBI emails, but I think this is the first one I've received. Or at least the first I actually looked at (needed something to do while resting from yard work). The scary part is that I've heard of people falling for these. Pitiful; this is one of the worst scams I've ever seen. This makes the Nigerian 411 letters look like Machiavellian masterpieces. Well, that people are stupid enough to fall for a scam so clumsy does explain how Obama got elected.
May 25, 2010 12:10PM TSA, that is.
Added: Just after posting that little gem about the competence (or lack thereof) of TSA screeners, I found this tidbit: So if you get frustrated by TSA's admitted competence problems, you get blacklisted so they can further abuse you. Except... If you keep reading, it isn't just the poor frustrated traveller who gets listed. It's 'aggressors, victims and witnesses'. Complete with full identifying data, including home address. Hat tip to David Codrea's War on Guns.
May 24, 2010 11:35PM
I have a handcrafted financial page that always displays spot gold and silver along with the Dow, and various individual stocks of interest, so this chart comes as no surprise to me. The market isn't 'up' relative to '99 in any real sense. That supposed increase is all inflation: Stocks are pricier not because they're better, but because your dollars are devalued and buy less every year. Look at that chart and tell me the economy is recovering.
May 23, 2010 5:45PM Okay, now that you're done laughing at the patent absurdity that a tiny population of primitive hunter/gatherers armed with – at best – stone-tipped spears completely wiped out all the over-sized critters, that I'd avoid unless armed with a Barrett .50 cal, on the entire continent – including areas they hadn't even reached yet – let's pretend this is real. Now tell Gore to shut the eff up; we're just fixing what we broke 12,000 years ago.
May 22, 2010 10:15AM Yepper, Police Superintendent Jody Weiss is brilliant. In one swell foop, he has reduced Chi-Town's murder rate by 29%. If you're killed indoors... it doesn't count. Possibly, this is a proactive measure to protect Mayor Daley from prosecution, should he decide to carry through with his threat to anally rape a reporter and shoot him for the crime of asking how effective the city's gun ban has been.
May 20, 2010 4:30PM
It's stupid, but harmless enough. Until some kid gets shot while trespassing. But this part: Added: Here's an email address for Louise Tilley at the school: lwilley@lin-wood.k12.nh.us. Maybe someone would like to advise them that trespassing at night can be risky in New Hampshire, and that teaching kids that extortion is fine is not a good thing. In fact, the phrase 'contributing to the delinquency of a minor' springs to mind. Any lawyers out there with an opinion?
May 20, 2010 3:10PM These people need professional help.
May 18, 2010 4:50PM Why would anyone hire a speaker whose sole claim to 'fame' is that she got knocked up as an under-age unmarried teen during her mother's failed run for the vice-presidency? And she'll speak on 'abstinence'? I do not think that word means what you think it means, Fezzini. I think I'll sign up with this Single Source Speakers outfit. I'm far more qualified to speak about abstinence for fifteen to thirty grand a pop than that spoiled brat (damn it).
May 17, 2010 11:10AM Added 12:45PM: Robertson responded with a refusal to answer the questions. Actually more weaselly than Hodes.
May 15, 2010 5:00PM
May 14, 2010 11:20AM Cheek must have a definition of 'most' that differs from other Tennesseans' usage. This is the semi-incumbent who couldn't even carry his home state in a presidential race; a failed politician. He is (or was; he may have sold the rental properties by now) a slumlord with a record of code violations. His 'documentary' film has been banned from schools because the 'science' was so bad; even pro-AGW people are embarrassed by it. Gore pushes AGW because he happens to own a carbon-trade company that stands to make several large fortunes if cap & trade becomes law. He claims global warming is going to cause sea levels to rise catastrophically in the near future, but just spent several million dollars buying ocean-front property. And not in Arizona. UT should be ashamed
May 12, 2010 11:55AM WTF? I've mentioned before that I look at some of the search strings people used to find my website. Some of them are pretty obvious in intent (hint to NH politicians: I'm seeing lots of visitors looking for your answers to the Gun Rights Questionnaire). Some of them are... well, like the above string. If the person who typed that into a search engine would send me a an email explaining what you were actually looking for – and if you found it here – I'd very much appreciate it.
May 7, 2010 12:50PM Impressed?
I'm not:
That's right; the "burst of hiring" was the government, the Census. The feds hired 600,000 thousand temps in March and April. Which means that there were virtually no new jobs in the civil market. It's all federal government growth. And your tax dollars are paying for those 600,000 snoops. On the bright side, these are temps, and they'll be out of jobs pretty quickly. Still light posting, as I'm trying to concentrate on finishing the next novel, working title Bargaining Position. Hopefully, this one will be picked up, too. I think you'll like it. It's less overtly political than Net Assets, strictly hard SF action/adventure. And remember, just 8 days until NA's paperback release!
May 2, 2010 3:40PM Personally, I wouldn't want to be associated with that display of terroristic ineptitude. I mean, look at the "bomb": a couple cans of gasoline, a couple of propane tanks, and some fireworks. If this is the best they can do, with pipe-bomb instructions all over the Internet, they might as well pack up and go home.
May 1, 2010 4:30PM Gee, I wonder why that would be? Back in January, I undertook the task of sending David Codrea's Questionnaire to all the candidates running for New Hampshire's 2nd Congressional District seat and for the Senate this year. Last month I expanded that to include the Governor's race. To date, I have received responses from two House candidates; one of whom, the Libertarian, doesn't take his own run seriously enough to register with the FEC (no, I'm not a fan of the FEC, but it's what we're stuck with for now), and three Senate candidates. Again, the Libertarian hasn't registered; nor has the one Republican who replied. The Dem, Paul Hodes, sent an uninformative form letter and refused to answer the questions. No candidate in the Governor's race has responded. Listen up, pols: If your RKBA position is bad enough that you won't even answer a few simple questions, you can't have my vote. If you make it though the primaries and are on the ballot in November, and haven't answered the questions, I will make a point of voting against you (Hodes could answer at this point, but his actions in the House have already guaranteed I'll vote against him). This is an important issue, and I'm not alone. When I look over my servers stats, I see what people typed into search engines to end up here. I see a lot of inquiries into positions on "gun control", "RKBA", and "gun rights". Often these include specific candidates' names. People want to know where you stand. Tell us, or stand down.
A little reminder that Net Assets is now available in additional formats.
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