The Supreme Court today decided that owning a firearm is a personal right and not a collective right of millitias as many gun control advocates would have you believe.  I guess those pesky commas will get you every time...

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 I found it odd many secondAmendment opponents said this particular one only applies to millitias and not the populace despite the fact none of the other Amendments are in question...

First every webathon.  It's eight hours and it's to raise money for care packages for the troops.  Please be part of this..

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/from-the-frontlines

You can also find info on Michelle Malkin's site.

BBC notes most of the Aussie's track and field team will be skipping the opening ceremonies in Beijing because of crappy air quality.  How did the Chinese get the bid to host the games again?

A 20 year old US Army medic returns home to a hero's welcome.  She is only the second woman to receive the Silver Star since WWII.

On Saturday, Brown, wearing a burgundy beret and camouflage uniform, thanked those supporting service members still serving in the war, including her brother Justin Brown, who enlisted with her two years ago.

She also thanked the soldiers with her April 25, 2007, when she was part of a four-vehicle convoy, patrolling near the village of Jani Khel when the bomb blast occurred at dusk.

Brown, attached to the 782nd Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne, managed to get to the injured soldiers, who were thrown or stumbled from the burning vehicle. She hovered over one wounded soldier as mortar rounds landed nearby. The soldiers were removed to safety and survived their wounds.

The UN Human Rights Council (HRC) said the UK must "consider holding a referendum on the desirability or otherwise of a written constitution, preferably republican".

The council has 29 members including Saudi Arabia, Cuba and Sri Lanka.

It was the Sri Lankan envoy who raised concerns over the British monarchy.

Yes the same HRC that condemns Israel for it's abuses yet routinely ignores Sudan's genocide, Iran's executions of gays and Saudi Arabia's treatment of woman and foreigners that aren't Muslim.   They stated Britain needs to have a written constitution (which I doubt any of the aforementioned countries even have) and should hold a referendum on whether the public wants a monarchy.  I'm sure the citizens of Iran would like a vote to see whether or not they want to be ruled by Islamic extremists, or the citizens of Cuba would love to be able to voice their own opinions about the wonders socialism and what it has done for their countries (here's a hint, they can't). 

This is why I love the UN.  They take the time to tackle the real issues in the world. 

The UN is a waste of time and money and is irrelevant in today's society.   We should kick them out of the US and pull out, then the organizations loses what legitimacy they have left.

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Looks like a the Leopard can't change it's spots.  Dems promised to end the culture of corruption and end all of the earmarks and frivolous spending in Congress.  Not likely people said.

The WaPo has some an interesting article showing the pork barrel spending is in fact going up.  Here are some damning snippets

Requests include $204,000 for an infantry platoon battle course from Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor, both Arkansas Democrats; $2.2 million for nanofluids for advanced military mobility from Rep. Geoff Davis (R-Ky); $98 million for a Northrop Grumman project to develop an aircraft sensor suite, from Sens. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Mel Martinez (R-Fla.).

Chambliss was a part of another bipartisan group of lawmakers who also requested allocating $497 million to United Technologies, Lockheed Martin and Pratt & Whitney for "advanced procurement or line close down costs," the watchdog group's data show.

Funding for an indoor small-arms range in Connecticut? It's in there too, at $11 million, care of Sens. Lieberman and Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) So is $10 million for school-age services on a military base in Kentucky.

Tens of millions of dollars more are directed at lawmakers' state universities, sometimes for research of metals, composites and other technology. That includes $2.5 million for development of three-dimensional integrated circuit research at Boise State University and $3 million for "superstructural particle evaluation" at East Carolina University.

 

People elected this crop of losers in for "change" and they promised to do what's best for the people.  The only thing they've managed to do is prevent us from drilling in ANWR to help lower fuel costs. I swear, the most 535 worthless people in the US...

I like to play TF2 to unwind at the end of the day.  It's a great game and I'm pretty into it.  I usually hate RPG's like WoW and games like that.  If you get a chance and have TF2 come by and play!

I wonder where all the anti-Patriot Act people are now?  So many times on sites like Digg, Broaband Reports, Washington Post and others I've heard about how it's horrible the government tap phone lines to listen to possible terrorists.  Now that the Obama messiah has sponsored a bill that earmarked this legislation in what will the civil liberty types say now?  I'm waiting.....

Interestingly enough, this was passed by the Senate Banking Committee 19-2 before the Memorial Day recess, so it isn't new.  Why hasn't this been reported?  To me this isn't indicative of what a free nation is supposed to be.   The citizens on the UK have already given up their rights to privacy and freedom by allowing their government to create an all encompassing surveillance state with their cameras on every street corner.   Are we next?

I would like to say I'm surprised someone from the GOP would vote on this bill let alone co-sponsor it, but alas I'm not. 

I also saw a little interesting clip on how Obama conducted his politics while in Chicago.  So much for "Change"...

eeewwwwwwww!!!

If you're hooking up in NY double wrap your piece. 

According to this story from Yahoo! News, G8 energy ministers looked for solutions to the record prices.  They finally came to the conclusion most of us already knew.  They were touting the need for domestic efficiency and non-reliance on OPEC.  Really, it takes you guys that long to figure that out?

I for one will not be driving my WRX anymore.  I can't afford the 56-77 dollar fill ups anymore.   What have other people done due to the gas prices?  Has the current fuel costs curbed your spending?