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 The Supreme Court is poised to forbid cities and states from banning handguns, stomach bringing an anti-climactic end to a political firefight that petered out decades ago.
Court watchers expect the ruling in McDonald v. City of Chicago to have little immediate policy impact outside the Windy City. And the ruling is unlikely to alter the policy agenda of gun control advocates, online who haven’t pushed handgun bans for 30 years or more.
But the ruling could open the door for a long-overdue public reckoning about the place of firearms in civil society. Such a debate is especially timely as gun rights advocates increasingly exert their political muscle by staging armed “musters” — or assemblies — in national parks and by openly carrying pistols to public meetings, to legislators’ offices, even to Whole Foods and Starbucks.
For decades, gun politics has been fought on two battlefields: a policy battlefield and a cultural one.
On the policy battlefield, gun control and gun rights advocates have sparred over issues such as background checks on gun purchases and protocols for granting permits to carry concealed weapons. Each side assembled favorable data, studies and analysis, all of which mattered very little because the real battle — the one that influenced political decision makers — was occurring on the cultural battlefield.
To date, gun rights forces, led by the 4 million member National Rifle Association, have dominated that battle. Many on this side base their civic identity on the belief that they alone can save American democracy from the designs of power-mad politicians backed by an easily swayed, civically emasculated populace.
The pistol-packing patriot narrative hinges on a core argument: that any gun regulation, no matter how modest, is one step down a “slippery slope” to inevitable tyranny. With unwitting help from early gun control supporters, who advocated handgun bans as the only sensible approach to spiraling crime rates, the slippery slope argument by the 1970s had become gun rights advocates’ political trump card.-[source]
People in Topeka can continue to walk around with their guns displayed after the City Council rejected a ban Tuesday on openly toting weapons in public.
Supporters of the ban, including Police Chief Ron Miller and assistant city attorney Kyle Smith – a former agent with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation – told council members they had the right to regulate ownership and use of guns in the city.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reported that opponents of the ban cited the U.S. Constitution’s 2nd Amendment giving them the right to bear arms. Others said the city had no business interfering with their God-given right to carry guns.-[source]
Schnucks, the St. Louis-based grocery store chain, has taken down the signs barring concealed weapons from its stores, including the company’s location in Jefferson City.
“At the time conceal and carry passed, Missouri allowed for signs to be put up in businesses and we did,” said Schnucks spokesperson Lori Willis. “As time passed, we had many discussions about the actual position we had taken and how it affected us. We made this change because our position is based on the fact that any customer who holds valid permit should be allowed to do so.”-[source]
 The federal government would have “absolute power” to shut down the Internet under the terms of a new US Senate bill being pushed by Joe Lieberman, clinic legislation which would hand President Obama a figurative “kill switch” to seize control of the world wide web in response to a Homeland Security directive.
“The legislation says that companies such as broadband providers, hospital search engines or software firms that the US Government selects “shall immediately comply with any emergency measure or action developed” by the Department of Homeland Security. Anyone failing to comply would be fined,” reports ZDNet’s Declan McCullagh. The 197-page bill (PDF) is entitled Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, or PCNAA.
“The legislation says that companies such as broadband providers, search engines or software firms that the US Government selects “shall immediately comply with any emergency measure or action developed” by the Department of Homeland Security. Anyone failing to comply would be fined,” reports ZDNet’s Declan McCullagh.
The 197-page bill (PDF) is entitled Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, or PCNAA. – [source]
The largest Internet-based corporations are seemingly happy with the bill, primarily because it contains language that will give them immunity from civil lawsuits and also reimburse them for any costs incurred if the Internet is shut down for a period of time.
“If there’s an “incident related to a cyber vulnerability” after the President has declared an emergency and the affected company has followed federal standards, plaintiffs’ lawyers cannot collect damages for economic harm. And if the harm is caused by an emergency order from the Feds, not only does the possibility of damages virtually disappear, but the US Treasury will even pick up the private company’s tab,” writes McCullagh.
 Dear beloved children,
Forget the neck ties. Forget the hand-made ‘Worlds Greatest Daddy’ cards. Forget the BestBuy/HomeDepot gift cards, the personalized car washes and all that other CRAP. Daddy needs a new BB Gun for fathers day!
Love, Dad.
There is nothing better than teaching your kids the value of mowing down hordes of enemies/civilians/buildings. Imagine the unending value of spending time with your children, fully immersed in dad’s commando fantasies. Imagine standing side-by-side on your front lawn inspiring mayhem with the passing APC’s disguised as SUV’s, terrorist infiltrators in station wagons and the communist liberals in their Volvos. Bring it to the mall for even more fun. Wait until the post office sees you with this bad boy!!!
 Remember the motto of the mini gun, There are no civilians!
Get Some! Get Some!!
 Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul reached out to gun advocates in Louisville Saturday. He is trying to shore up support from a major voting bloc. Fox 41 talked exclusively with Paul in a television interview about guns, drug political support and his strategy for moving past the backlash against his campaign.
Fox 41 was the only camera crew allowed into the Gun Show at the Kentucky Fair and Expo Center, abortion where we talked to U.S. Senate Candidate Rand Paul, about the road to November.
Paul can be seen on his campaign website shooting an automatic weapon. The lifetime NRA member and Gun Owners of America advocate says he is a proud defender of the Second Amendment.-[source]
The Supreme Court is poised to forbid cities and states from banning handguns, advice bringing an anticlimactic end to a political firefight that petered out decades ago.
Court-watchers expect the ruling in McDonald vs. City of Chicago to have little immediate policy impact outside the Windy City. And the ruling is unlikely to alter the policy agenda of gun control advocates, who haven’t pushed handgun bans for 30 years.
But the ruling could open the door for a long-overdue public reckoning about the place of firearms in civil society. Such a debate is especially timely as gun rights advocates increasingly exert their political muscle by staging armed “musters” — or assemblies — in national parks and by openly carrying pistols to public meetings, to legislators’ offices, even to Whole Foods and Starbucks.-[source]
Today, 06/14/2010, Moody’s downgraded the Greece government bond ratings into junk territory, citing the risks forced upon the Euro Zone/IMF rescue package for the debt laden country.
“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”—President Reagan
Neither the passage of time nor the passing of the man dulls the strength and truth of the words and warning that President Ronald Reagan offered Americans.
In this era of incalculable federal borrowing, shameless corporate bailouts and individuals drowning in debt, Reagan’s beliefs about the consequences of government entitlements, reckless spending, hard work and personal responsibility prove profoundly prescient.
Socialism promises security. It promises equality. It even promises prosperity. It delivers, however, poverty, misery, and tyranny. Equality was achieved only in the sense that everyone was equal in his or her misery.
Even Marxists admit that many “socialist” countries around the world are failing. However, they say, the reason for failure is not that socialism is deficient, but that the socialist economies are not practicing “pure” socialism. The perfect version of socialism would work; it is just the imperfect socialism that doesn’t work. Marxists like to compare a theoretically perfect version of socialism with practical, imperfect capitalism which allows them to claim that socialism is superior to capitalism.
Take a look at history. Take a look at the headlines. Socialism is a failed ideal and a gateway to oppression and generations of pain.
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 While you’re reading this, a criminal could be logging in to your router and using it as a porn server. He could be using a Bluetooth “sniper rifle” (like the one shown below) to tap into your phone while you chat by the window. He could even physically steal your printer and capture from its circuitry the financial records you printed last week.
Here are 10 scary — and real — home-security threats hackers may try, and how to block them — if you can. – [source]
A Chicago-based company called Tanagram Partners is currently developing military grade augmented reality technology that – if developed to the full potential of its prototypes – would completely change the face of military combat as we know it.
As futuristic and far-fetched as this seems, approved Tanagram is actually in the process of building this technology right now. The company is funded by a grant from DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), and plans on having a working proof-of-concept that runs on an iPhone by the first quarter of next year. Tanagram also hopes to have the server/client system operational as early as Q2 2011 as well as an open source head-mounted display (HMD) client by the end of next year. – [source]
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