Monthly Archives: July 2006

D.C. Gun Laws Protect No One

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2nd Amendment United States

I sharp contrast to the previous SC story, here’s one where the victims were unarmed and they were killed. Remember, gun beats knife every time.

Man Slain In Attack on Couple in Georgetown

Three assailants who cut the throat of an aspiring politician from Britain killed him and tried to rape his female companion early yesterday in the driveway of a Georgetown mansion, police reported, after the couple had returned from a night at the movies. The victim, Alan Senitt, 27, a Jewish activist and volunteer for former Virginia governor Mark R. Warner, died at the scene.

Within hours, D.C. police arrested four people in connection with one of the most brutal crimes in years on the affluent streets of Georgetown and said they were looking for possible links to other recent attacks in the city.

Argument for the Second Amendment

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Here’s a great argument for keeping the Second Amendment and not limiting it any further.

13-year-old pulls pistol, foils robbery

George Dickert wore a .38-caliber pistol on his hip on Monday — the same weapon he says his 13-year-old son used to chase off a gunman and others who he says barged into their Greenville home a day earlier. Dickert, 44, said that while he was swinging at a gun-wielding suspect, his son was retrieving a pistol from a bedroom. “He is the hero in this situation,” Dickert said.

Good thing we have a Castle Doctrine law in South Carolina now. If the Dad had been forced to use deadly force to protect his family, he wouldn’t have been prosecuted.

The great thing about this is the Dad has been training his son to defend himself. The police can’t protect us all the time. We must have the freedom to protect ourselves. If the kid hadn’t pulled a gun, his entire family would probably be dead right now.

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Pixar Continues on Top

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Year: 2006

Writers: John Lasseter and Joe Ranft

Director: John Lasseter

Length: 116 min

Category: Children’s

Studio: Pixar

Distributor: Disney

Rating: 5 out of 5

Once again Pixar comes out on top with a great movie. This one is even slicker than The Incredibles, which I thought would be hard to top. Even with a farm of computers that ran four times faster than the ones on The Incredibles each frame of “Cars” took an average of 17 processor hours to render.

The storyline is typical for Pixar (toy, fish, etc. gets lost and has to find their way home.) Pixar movies always have a lesson. The biggest moral lesson in Cars is “winning isn’t everything.” Even though the storyline followed a formula, I didn’t get bored.

One of the best things about this movie is the characters and the actors they got to voice them. Owen Wilson was a good choice for Lightning. I never realized that Paul Newman was Doc Hudson (aka the Hudson Hornet.) Larry the Cable Guy was a great choice for Mater because both of them are dumb as dirt. Cheech Marin was perfectly cast as Ramone. Tony Shalhoub voiced Luigi and this was a completely different role for him. (He plays the defective detective, Monk, on TV.) Once again, John Ratzenberger voices a character in a Pixar movie. (I believe he’s been in every Pixar movie made.) One big name who makes a breif appearance is Arnold Schwarzenegger as “The Governator”, a Hummer.

The soundtrack is excellent. Songs like Route 66 and Life Is A Highway are definitely chart toppers. Randy Newman wrote another excellent score for Pixar.

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Eliminating Poverty?

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Edwards Says U.S. Should Set Out to Eliminate Poverty

Former Democrat senator John Edwards, sketching out themes for a possible 2008 presidential campaign, said yesterday that the nation should set a goal of eliminating poverty over the next three decades. Edwards said that welfare reform has helped reduce poverty among single mothers but that the problem remains acute among young men. He called on society to strike a bargain with those in poverty by providing additional assistance for housing, health care, education and savings.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Why should anybody listen to Edwards when his only real job has been as an ambulance chaser? The government has tried to end poverty since Johnson was in the Whitehouse with very little success.

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Minimum Wage Causes Unemployment

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Money

Today found the best explanation yet of why minimum wage is immoral and causes unemployment on the Young Americans for Freedom site. I’m tempted to re-post the entire thing here, but I’ll just hit the highlights.

  • A minimum wage helps no one. Except for the politicians who propose it in an effort to look “sensitive to the need of the poor.”
  • It hurts young, black teenagers the most. The very people the politicans say they want to help.
  • The minimum wage is essentially an unfunded mandate by the government upon businesses to the tune of millions of dollars a year.
  • The government is telling this person that he has to accept at least the minimum wage for his labor or he cannot work.