N.J. Gov. Christie and Newark Mayor Booker have some fun in this video. (Note: Mayor Booker did rush into a burning building to save someone. That’s the background of the plot.)

Even Campbell Brown, former NBC and CNN news anchor, is tired of Obama’s rhetoric towards women:

The women I know who are struggling in this economy couldn’t be further from the fictional character of Julia, presented in Mr. Obama’s Web ad, “The Life of Julia,” a silly and embarrassing caricature based on the assumption that women look to government at every meaningful phase of their lives for help.

My cousin in Louisiana started a small company with a little savings, renovating houses. A single mom, she saved enough to buy a home and provide child care for her son. When the economy went belly up, so did her company. She was forced to sell her home and move in with her parents. She has found another job, but doesn’t make enough to move out. Family, not government, has been everything to her at this time of crisis. She, and they, wouldn’t have it any other way.

More government is never the right answer.

I have to leave for work shortly so here are some quick links to stuff you might find interesting:

1. Reasonable gun laws (according to gun control advocates).

2. Rihanna’s stunt double and firearms instructor.

3. Permitless CCW rally today in Lansing, Michigan.

4. In Turkey, encouraging women to arm themselves for self-defense.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by.

Proving once again just how irrelevant they’ve become, the National Organization for Women held a protest in D.C. against Rush Limbaugh. From the Daily Caller:

Seven women participated in the National Organization for Women’s day of protest against Rush Limbaugh in front of Limbaugh’s D.C. affiliate WMAL, Friday.

NOW’s national protest day had been in the works since April 19, when the women’s advocacy group launched their “Enough Rush” campaign.

Pairing with media watchdog Media Matters for America NOW is targeting local affiliates and local advertisers, Friday’s demonstration was touted as the group’s big demonstration of opposition to Limbaugh with affiliates across the country participating in protests.

Video at the link.

The congress critter who helped start the witch-hunt against Gibson now says that maybe his legislation needs fixing:

“I don’t want the musicians from Nashville who are flying to Canada to perform this summer to worry about the government seizing their guitars,” Alexander, R-Tenn., said Friday in a statement released by his office.

Why seize guitars? Because many of those instruments are made from exotic woods that were outlawed by a 2008 amendment to the Lacey Act, an amendment Alexander himself wrote.

Much more at the link but any “tweaking” (see article) would not now help alleviate the bullshit the U.S. government is putting Gibson through.

And, Alexander is a Republican. Why is this creep still in office?

If you’re not familiar with all of this, here’s a link to all the posts I’ve put up here at Alphecca about it. Note: Ignore the last two posts from that search. They were about different “Gibsons” . . .

Three days ago I posted about the grievous treatment of a wounded vet passing through (with a stop at Walter Reed Medical Center for treatment of injuries suffered fighting for us) the fascist capital of our nation. Read that awful account here.

Anyway, it appears that some in Congress feel the way I (and, I’m sure, YOU do) and last night made a symbolic vote to urge D.C. to do the right thing:

The House voted late Thursday to urge the District of Columbia to allow U.S. troops to carry personal firearms within the nation’s capital — and the city’s non-voting member of Congress is vowing a fight to try to block the move.

By voice vote the House passed the measure, which expresses the “sense of Congress” that active-duty military personnel who live or work in Washington should be exempt from the city’s strict gun-control laws. Rep. Phil Gingrey, a Georgia Republican, sponsored the amendment, which was attached to the annual defense policy bill.

This would also have an impact on servicemen and women who travel through D.C. It would be nice, of course, if it applied to ALL of us citizens but alas, that isn’t in the wording.

Needless to say, D.C.’s Miss Anti-Gun Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton will try to stop that from happening. Details at the link and kudos to the Washington Times for bringing to our attention this whole travesty of justice.

A report from WWLP TV in Massachusetts on the states AWB contains a lot of interviews and (except for one cop) basically all are in agreement that it doesn’t work or prevent anything. Story here.

One theory says that every black hole contains a new universe.

“Not in our backyard,” as the saying goes. From Fox News:

The winds blowing through Canada’s broad St. Lawrence Valley and across Vermont’s hilltops are stirring up an international tempest over which country’s laws should govern how those breezes are harnessed for electricity.

Some residents of the Quebec town of Stanstead are upset about plans in Vermont to erect just south of the border two industrial-size wind turbines — one of which would be about 1,000 feet from a few Canadian and Vermont homes.

Much more at the link.

From Tulsa World:

Gov. Mary Fallin on Tuesday signed a measure allowing for guns to be carried openly.

The new law takes effect November 1st and you still need a CCW permit before you can do so.

Because they are the worst. This story involves a wounded vet on leave, properly transporting firearms through our nation’s capital, and how he was treated by some of the cops there. Rather than even try to quote a part of it — which would do the whole sorry story injustice — I’ll just urge you to read the whole thing.

The cops involved in this should have been thanking this man for his service — and the sacrifice of, the injuries he sustained in doing so — but instead, these cops treated him worse than, well:

Mr. Kim recalled. “I remember thinking, we treated detainees in Afghanistan better than this.”

Tar-and-feather these douche-bag cops.

For a guy who kept saying, sarcastically, that he’d like to see Sarah Palin on Jeopardy!, he made a fool of himself on the show. Video and transcript at the link.

At the Wall Street Journal, a look at two governors. One (N.J. Gov. Christie) is succeeding in getting state debt under control. The other (CA. Gov. Brown) is failing. You can read the comparison here.

If you’re going to steal a valuable antique gun, don’t then try to sell it on national TV. From the Denver Post:

A 64-year-old Erie man who tried to sell an antique pistol on the Discovery Channel TV show “American Guns” in December is accused of stealing the $20,000 revolver from a private museum in New Mexico.

More at the link. The gun is a Colt Dragoon black-powder revolver dating from the 1800’s and a viewer who knew of the missing gun called authorities. I’m guessing the alleged crook isn’t the brightest bulb in the chandelier.

From the NRA:

Senate Bill 2573, sponsored by state Senators Harold Metts (D-6), Rhoda Perry (D-3), Juan Pichardo (D-2), Paul Jabour (D-5) and Elizabeth Crowley (D-16), is a dramatic departure from current law and completely overturns state pre-emption of firearms. This bill would allow anti-gun localities to impose whatever gun control measures they desire, and strip the state of its ability to regulate firearms. This dangerous and sweeping bill needs to be defeated.

The second bill, Senate Bill 2582 would impact innocent youth going hunting or just being pulled over driving their parents’ car if one of the parents left a gun in it.

More at the link.