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Well, my living out of boxes will soon be over. I’m going to be scarce through Wed of this week for my move. These past two weeks have been pretty busy for me. Put in a new network for a client that was pretty large and complicated. Now that the bulk of that work is done, I’m going to concentrate on moving and then life can resume. Catch everyone soon!

Chicago has banned the ownership of firearms for sometime now, and much like the D.C. Ban, it was sold on the premise of making things safer and cutting down on the crime in the city. Of course, it didn’t produce the results that they wanted. They still have a high murder rate of about 15.65 per 100k, with (as of 2005) 75% of those being committed with (now) an illegally owned firearm. Has all of these statistics stopped the city from disarming the rest of it’s citizens? Would Mayor Daley admit that perhaps this strategy is wrong? That would probably hurt this Democrat’s chances of remaining CEO of Mayors against Illegal Guns. As is usually the case, when a bad law is put in place, it takes nothing short of a Supreme Court act to remove it.

Now let’s talk about the latest out of the windy city. An 80 yr old vet (his name hasn’t been released) was at home and asleep with his wife and 12 yr old grandson late one night when 29 yr old Anthony Nelson broke into his house armed with an illegally purchased firearm, and stockings over his hands to prevent leaving prints. In short, Mr. Nelson meant business. Mr. Nelson fired one or two shots at the home owner before the homeowner returned fire with his own illegally purchased firearm. The same firearm he purchased because his house was broken into just 6 months earlier. The situation ended with Mr. Nelson dead, and the occupants of the home safe and sound. The vile piece of scum who is no longer a danger to society has a 13 page rap sheet, and even with all of that, the local courts and law enforcement were unable to keep him off the streets. What is the shocker of this whole story?

Police let the Korean War veteran, who walks with the aid of a cane, go without filing immediate charges because he appeared to act in self-defense, according to police sources.

They let him go… for now? I mean these “Only Ones” are really getting soft. I’m surprised they didn’t call in the SWAT team, shoot his dog, and then throw him down on his own front lawn and shackle him. After all, he’s a criminal in the eyes of the law much is that “vile piece of scum”. Maybe it was the cane, or perhaps the fact HE HAD NO OTHER EFFECTIVE MEANS to defend himself. A person should be allowed to defend themselves in their home with whatever means they see fit with. Whether it’s a katana, handgun, rifle, Scottish claymore (totally bad ass), or even a battle axe (even more bad ass). Now I know some liberals are going to froth at the mouth thinking, “OMG you’re an extremist, you want to allow Warren Buffet and Bill Gates to own nuclear weapons!”. You may not like what I have to say, but you have to agree the law is wrong here and I am right. I just want to nip the exaggerated argument in the bud. Don’t be so afraid that admitting the other side might be right that you alienate and further divide the people around you. The discussion here is firearms, swords, and axes as a means of defense. Nothing else.

So now, with all that being said, is Mayor Daley going to come out and say, “He won’t be prosecuted” and perhaps the law was wrong in the first place? Oh of course not, you guessed it already. This is same Mayor who thinks that shoving a rifle up someone’s butt shows how effective the gun ban in Chicago is.

Mayor Richard Daley refused to say today whether an 80-year-old Army veteran who shot and killed an intruder will be charged under the city’s handgun ban. Asked about the possibility of charges, the mayor ended a news conference he had called about summer curfew in the city.

At this point, I think it’s safe to say, the only thing that should be shoved up anyone’s butt is a sized twelve boot up Mayor Daley’s ass.

I will warn you all right now. The video I am linking at the bottom of this article isn’t easy to watch for anyone who likes dogs or animals, but here is what I’ve found so far. Police exercised a drug enforcement raid on a family in Missouri. Upon arriving around 8p, SWAT forced their way in (call it trying to exercise the element of surprise or whatever, but they forced their way in way harder than was needed), and almost immediately fired 5 shots killing one of the family dogs and severely wounding another. Only a very small amount of Marijuana was even found in the house, but they still saw fit to charge the parents with not only drug possession, but also child endangerment. I’m sorry, but their actions on the family endangered the children more than anything those parents did. All officers and investigators involved need to be reprimanded and perhaps find themselves brought up on such charges.

Stories like this really get my blood boiling because you have to wonder what the state will do you when you REALLY do something that pisses them off. In those cases you simply end up like the Branch Davidians or perhaps Randy Weaver. In this case, it’s another example of the failed war on drugs and a total overreaction of the system.

Where was the burden of proof for the police in obtaining that warrant in the first place? Have they gotten that easy to obtain that the privacy we thought to have in our homes is merely an illusion?

Well been suffering a bit of writers block. I have read the stories of Obama’s “mistress”. I’m just watching that to see what happens with that before I throw my $0.02 in.

One interesting thing that I did come across this interesting article yesterday. Most fisherman are pretty much out of business right now due to the oil slick in the Gulf. BP has been putting them to work in the cleanup operation in order to help them out. Now such a kind act on its part had to have a catch right? There is always a catch… (pun intended) They were making the fisherman (some of which can’t read) sign waivers that prevent them from suing BP in a future date.

No one wanted to waive the right to sue BP, but some fishermen, desperate for cash, signed the waiver anyway.

It took a large amount of public outcry, but as U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated once, “Sunlight Is the Best Disinfectant”. Once this story got out, it was so unpopular, BP voided all of the waivers and apologized. Have to wonder what they would have done if it hadn’t gone out. We need corporations and businesses to drive the economy, but this level of corporate greed completely turns my stomach.

Come on people! Back to work now!