Monthly Archives: February 2012

Wow, Now I’m Important!

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Heh. Thanks, guys.

Larry, of Last Refuge of Scoundrel and Knitebane of Knitebane Manor have each bestowed upon me a bloghonor.

The Liebster Blog Award:

The rules are:

1. Copy and paste award on your blog. Done.
2. Link back to the blogger who gave you the award. Done, above.
3. Pick your five favorite blogs with less than 200 followers and leave a comment on their blog to let them know they have received an award. I know Larry picked ten, since he got picked twice, but I’m going consider them overlapping. It’s hard enough to find just five that have below 200 followers in my list.
4. Hope that the five blogs chosen will keep spreading the love and pass it on to five more blogs. Man, this is tough. I follow over fifty blogs, but many are either highly popular (more than 200 followers) or inactive.

1. Alvie at The Cliffs of Insanity
2. Sean at An NC Gun Blog
3. Barron Barnett at The Minuteman (Probably has more than 200 followers. Eh.)
4. Agirlandhergun at A Girl and Her Gun
5. Knitebane at Knitebane Manor

Martha Boggs Has No Regrets

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Since there were some in the gun blogging community who were so quick to support hypocrite Martha Boggs for kicking out Tennessee state Senator Stacey Campfield for his views, I figured I’d ask what I didn’t see anyone else ask. Does her establishment ban guns?

Well, my message was summarily ignored, but apparently my email address was not. I got this in my inbox yesterday:

Dear Friends
I want to thank everyone for all the wonderful e-mails sent over the last few days. While I have read each and every one of them, I dearly wish that I had the time to respond to you all personally. The stories and emotions that you shared with me are deeply touching. I truly had no idea that the power of the internet would take this story of a simple act of defiance and take it all the way around the world in a matter of 72 hours and touch so many lives. Despite what may have been mis-reported in local media I do not regret my actions in the least.

Mr. Campfield’s statements are like salt on the wounds of segment of society which has been marginalized far too long. For those of us who watched the government turn a blind eye to the AIDS epedemic because it “only affected homosexuals”, we cannot allow an elected offical make statements which spit on the graves of all our friends and family we lost and continue to lose because of AIDS.

While I truly appreciate the sentiment to come by and patronize my establishment, that was not my intent so if you truly feel compeled to make a contribution against hatred and intolerance, please donate to the local politican of your choice where you money and your vote will do the most good to you personally. If you do have a chance to come to The Bistro, feel free to say Hi. I will be the lady with a pony tail bussing tables. let the healing begin, it will get better.
love
Martha Boggs

While I don’t deny Boggs her property rights, including the right to kick out anyone she damn pleases for any reason whatsoever, I thought it important given the article that Linoge pointed to that either she lied to the press, or Mary Scott of WBIR misreported it.

But that’s the rub. I don’t deny Boggs her property rights, as much as I think, (from what I can gather), she’s likely a leftwinger. By the same token, as despicable as racists are, I’d rather their freedom of association be preserved than the alternative of “I’m from the Government, and I’m hear to help.”

Jericho in Real Life – A Proposed Project

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I just finished watching the entire TV series, Jericho, for what was probably the sixth time since the series ended. Now, I haven’t had a television since 1999, so I hadn’t even heard of the show until after the first season ended on a maddening cliff hanger and then the show was canceled. From reading about it on Michelle Malkin’s place, I heard that fans protested by sending literally tons of peanuts to CBS, a reference to a story told in one episode.

I had heard that it was “conservative friendly,” especially considering the liberal, politically correct tripe that usually comes out of Hollywood. So, since CBS was putting all the full episodes up on its site, I began watching it.

I was not disappointed.

Oh, sure, there were some imperfections and few detours down Liberaltopia Lane, but all in all, it was good series.

CBS brought the show back for a final seven episodes that at least wrapped up the cliff hangers that were the most maddening to see unresolved.

After this last viewing of all 29 episodes I came up with the idea of maybe doing a series here on this blog on the show with some applications to a possible, future, real life disaster. My intention is not fandom, per se, but rather lessons learned. It’s fiction, yes, I know, but there were some excellent points made and some things to think about. I may also do a bit of fisking; sort of a “Perfecting Jericho” effort.

I may have some details to work out. I am certain I can do this without violating an copyrights, but given how ridiculously litigious some unnamed entities can be, I’m not so sure that would matter, especially in the current SOPA/PIPA/OPEN environment in DC, today.

Number one warning, though, is that it will, most definitely contain spoilers. The show is about six years old, now, so if you haven’t seen it, do that before reading any of my posts on it.

Feel free to leave any thoughts or advice in the comments.