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McCain Does Something Right

I might just have to reconsider McCain… It’s about time he did something right:

McCain Veep is Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin

DENVER — John McCain tapped little-known Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his vice presidential running mate on Friday in a startling selection on the eve of the Republican National Convention.

In an announcement, the campaign said that Palin, who has been governor less than two years, “has the record of reform and bipartisanship that others can only speak of.”

“Her experience in shaking up the status quo is exactly what is needed in Washington today,” the campaign said.

UPDATE: Obama spokeswoman Adrianne March said, “Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency. Gov. Palin shares John McCain’s commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush’s failed economic policies. That’s not the change we need; it’s just more of the same.”

Excuse me? Isn’t that a bit like the pot calling the kettle…erm, black?

Seriously, who comes up with this stuff?

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My Rights Are Not A Loophole

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Gun & Knife Control at the Convention

From the NY Daily News:

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A small but startling sign welcomed the gun lovers who arrived at the National Rifle Association’s annual gathering Friday.

“Firearms WILL NOT be allowed in Hall A during the Celebration of American Values Leadership Forum.”

Beyond this sign at the Kentucky Exposition Center was a row of 10 metal detectors. They were manned by uniformed Secret Service officers deployed because the scheduled speakers included presumptive Republican nominee John McCain.

The Secret Service sets the rules in such circumstances, and even NRA big shots had to go through the screening. Thousands found themselves standing in a long, slow, feeder line before they even reached one of the lines that stretched in front of each metal detector.

Many had been alerted to the no-firearms edict, so few arrived packing.

“I got a gun in the car,” said Deborah Phelps of Fredonia, Ky.

The alert, however, said nothing about pocketknives, which seemingly everybody here was carrying. Hundreds of conventiongoers finally reached the detectors only to be told they could not be admitted with an implement they had never even considered to be a weapon.

Yet another long line formed at a glassed-in kiosk where a pair of Expo Center security guards agreed to watch over the knives.

“It’s kind of ironic, isn’t it?” Rob Stevens of Bedford, Ky., said. “We preach the right to carry everywhere, and we got to start by turning in a pocketknife.”

A pair of Long Islanders who had driven 800 miles to attend the gathering turned in their tickets rather than suffer the humiliation of standing in line to surrender a tiny knife.

“It’s supposed to be about freedom,” said Anne-Marie Biggins of Bethpage as she stood with Brian O’Connor of Farmingdale.

A 16-year-old local boy named Zachary Hicks who arrived in uniform was turned away because he had a folding knife.

Barbara Heetderts of Dallas was about to follow her husband through the screening when an officer found she had six spent shell casings. She was barred from entry.

“Why?” she asked. “It’s empty brass cases.”

“They’re cartridges,” the officer said.

“No, they’re cases,” she replied. “A cartridge has powder, a primer and a bullet in it.”

“I’m saying you can’t take them in,” the officer said.

Her empty cases joined hundreds of knives, scissors and nail clippers at the kiosk. The line now stretched across the lobby, and the woman running the German Roasted Nuts stand on the far side began taking knives and placing them in white paper bags bearing the owner’s name.

“We’re hoping they buy nuts when they pick up their knives,” said Eydie Brown.

“This whole thing is nuts,” one of the knife owners remarked.

Nearly 100 people were still waiting to check their knives when the pro-gun speeches began.

Former Bush mini-me Karl Rove got three standing ovations as he made jokes about Barack Obama’s unfortunate remark about bitter people clinging to guns and religion.

“Doesn’t that make us clingers?” Rove asked the crowd. “Or does that make us Klingons?”

NAVY SEAL Marcus Luttrell told the crowd he’d been briefly jailed in New York Thursday for slapping a foreign-sounding man who had insulted America.

The man who will almost certainly be facing Obama in the November election was the last to speak. John McCain bemoaned those occasions when a particular violent crime has prompted calls for tighter restrictions on firearms. Such crimes include assassinations and attempted assassinations, the memory of which make even NRA members cringe at jokes even about Obama. The fear that such a thing could also happen to McCain himself was what prompted the zero tolerance at the hall’s entrance.

As McCain spoke on, the Secret Service began dismantling the metal detectors, having briefly brought gun and even penknife control to the NRA convention.

Members began drifting out to reclaim their knives - and all seemed back to normal as they wandered down the hall to inspect the thousands of firearms on display in what another sign called “Acres of Guns.”

mdaly@nydailynews.com

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Another reason I won’t be voting for John McCain

Consider S890, the 2001 bill by John McCain & Joe Lieberman called:

(The) Gun Show Loophole Closing and Gun Law Enforcement Act of 2001

This bill stipulated:

• No Gun Shows without a License, and No Timetable for Licenses to be Issued
• All Attendees Must be Registered
• Even Book and Clothing Vendors Must be Registered, and Individual Book Titles can be Registered
• Limitless Regulations and Registration can be Imposed

The door wide was left wide open for abuse of these sweeping and powerful provisions. But no one would abuse the law, would they? No one would want to shut down gun shows, one of the best means of spreading support for the second amendment, would they?

Now John McCain wants to be our president, and he claims he’s a friend to gun owners.

I call “Bull Shit” on that.

He believe he’s a friend of gun owners like I believe Hillary Clinton & Barack “Sheik” Obama are having a secret, passionate affair.

Now all we’re missing is photo’s of him out duck hunting with a big SEG on his face.

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Anti-Rights Propaganda

Here’s a commercial from the Mayors Against All Illegal Guns. Interesting that they have video of all three major candidates saying they’d support closing something called a “Gun Show Loophole”, whatever that may be. What I don’t get, is how anyone who professes to support the second amendment can justify voting for any of these clowns. Not to mention the anti-rights mayors, including Bloomberg, who are members of this citizens disarmament cabal, and who star in this commercial. Ironically, the members of this groups are either rich enough to hire their own body guards, or have them provided to them free by their subjects. I think they’d rethink their position a little bit if the situation were reversed.

(h/t) Armed and Safe

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