The gun bigots in Canada are unhappy

that CA hasn't signed on to the "Let the UN control all arms" treaty.  Sounds like their PM & Co. care more about Canada than Kerry and Obama care about the US.


What?  Anybody expected truth out of these people?
From at least June 26, 2013 to as recently as September 15, under the topic, "Where can I get free or low-cost care in my community?" the following statement appeared: "If you can't afford any health plan, you can get free or low-cost health and dental care at a nearby community health center."
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However, sometime between September 16 and September 23, the reference to "free" care was dropped. The title of the topic was changed as well, and now reads: "Where can I get low-cost care in my community?"


"Because we've got one and they have to do something to justify the cost(besides, they like kicking doors)!"
An Arlington spokeswoman said the raid was perfectly legal and appropriate. "The purpose was to improve the quality of life, to resolve safety issues within neighborhoods and to hold the property owner responsible for creating blight conditions on their property," she stated, not really explaining how this or even marijuana cultivation requires a SWAT team.


If this is true, then every Marine involved needs to lose his commission.


A little more of the Obamacare future:
But when he attended King George Surgery in Stevenage, his GP said he could not have the minor operation – which doctors often do under local anaesthetic in their own consulting rooms.

Mr Merrett, 46, said: ‘I was told, in no uncertain terms, that unless I gave up smoking or signed up to a quitting clinic they would refuse to treat me. I was gobsmacked.’
He claims the doctor told him: ‘These directions are not mine. It’s not me refusing this treatment,  it’s the NHS trust.’
And let me remind you of the words of the man chosen to help run Obamacare:
The decision is not whether or not we will ration care—the decision is whether we will ration with our eyes open. And right now, we are doing it blindly. ... 
...any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must, MUST redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent health care is, by definition, redistributional."
They really like that word, don't they?

It seems Terry Pratchett is far more than a fine author

ENGLISH fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett says he was so excited after being knighted by the Queen that he decided to make his own sword to equip himself for his new status.

It was not enough, however, simply to find some metal and get a blacksmith to bash it into shape.

Pratchett, believing the sword would not truly be his own unless it was made from metal he had produced, found a field with deposits of iron ore near his home in Wiltshire, west of London.

He gathered the deposits and smelted the iron ore himself.
Yeah. He got ore, got some help and smelted it into iron, refined it, went to a blacksmith for help and forged it into his sword. Freakin' marvelous.

Too bad the article ends on such a sour note:
Pratchett has stored the sword, which he completed last year, in a secret location, apparently concerned about the authorities taking an interest in it.

He said: "It annoys me that knights aren’t allowed to carry their swords. That would be knife crime."
Hell YES they'd 'take an interest'; they don't like commoners, even if they are good subjects, having arms of any kind.

'Knife crime' my ass; the real crime is those idiotic laws.

Mr. Pratchett, I salute you.

And much thanks to you who pointed me to this.

A fine quote from a good book

I acquired a black-market weapon.(Sales are all registered, but for a small premium of 50%, one may buy a new pistol not far from the spaceport. They come in by the shipload, as they do anywhere the local rulers utter magic incantations to keep them out. Never let your religious beliefs get in the way of the law of supply and demand.)

The Weapon, Michael Z Williamson