Archive for October, 2007

Students Strap On Empty Holsters to Protest Gun Restrictions on Campus

I guess we’ve learned nothing from the tragic murder of defenseless college students attending VA Tech. Well, nothing the people from the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence Group want us to remember.

The entire article can be found here, but this is the part I find dumbfounding:

“You don’t like the fact that you can’t have a gun on your college campus? Drop out of school,” said Peter Hamm, a spokesman for the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

When someone pulls out a gun and starts firing in a crowded environment, it’s more likely that additional victims will be harmed, Hamm said.

“Let’s be grateful that those holsters are empty,” he said.

Isn’t that mature? If you don’t like being stripped of your 2nd Amendment rights, drop out of school. Wouldn’t the Brady Bunch just love that? Only Libtards are welcome at universities now. Only in your wild and wacky dreams Mr. Hamm.

The practicality of students being able to carry their concealed weapons on campus was hashed out at the time of the VA Tech murderous rampage. Apparently the Brady Bunch believes that American citizens are ready to just duck and cover again. Not so much with the Students for Concealed Carry on Campus Group:

College students across the country have been strapping empty holsters around their waists this week to protest laws that prohibit concealed weapons on campus, citing concerns over campus shootings.

“People who would otherwise be able to defend themselves are left defenseless when on campus,” said Ethan Bratt, a graduate student wearing an empty holster this week on the campus of Seattle Pacific University.

Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, a group of college students, parents and citizens who organized after the deadly shootings at Virginia Tech University in April, launched the protest.

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Question & Answer: U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif

From the Reno Gazette Journal:

Question: You have been doing well in several states’ straw polls, but not registering highly in the nationalcroppedtammihunter.JPG polls. What is the disconnect?

Answer: In Texas, there were 1,300 delegates, who had either been to the national convention or the state convention, and I beat the nearest guy, Fred Thompson, by better than 2-to-1. Now the Iowa straw poll, where you had to pay

$35 a vote, I announced early continue reading ….

I’m hoping to get Duncan back to Wyoming before our county conventions are held on January 5th. The precinct people loved him when they met him back in September and I know they’d love to see him again before January.

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Check this out

I’ve got nothing to blog, but Tieki Rae has a great post over at Haemet. Head on over and check it out.

Truly hilarious

I’m going to have to run out of town tomorrow for a job interview. Wish me luck!

Anyway, I know many of you might have seen this over at HotAir, but I wanted it on Sunflower Desert because it is HILARIOUS! Seriously, each time my hubby and I watch it, we laugh harder than the time before.

Funniest lines:

I gotta bad bite and Oh my gosh it’s planning something!

Please enjoy:

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Git yer vaccinations before you head to the race!

This is hilarious. Granted, you’d think that most NASCAR fans would vote Republican. But this looks like the Democrats trying to shoot the rest of the votes they get from the South in the foot. This video is a hoot:

I saw the story first over at HotAir, then Tieki Rae emailed the Fox News link to me this afternoon, which of course made it fit to blog here at Sunflower Desert.

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Comment of the Week!

Yay!! It’s finally Friday!!! I hope all the people who are at the Conservative Leadership Conference are having a blast. In the mean time, it’s work, work, work, around here. Oh well!

This week, comment of the week goes out to someone we don’t know personally (at least not in our friendly little blogging circle), yet they said what I wanted to hear regarding my 1st Hand Reporting on the Presidential Forum in Wyoming.

The winner is Chris, and he or she is a precinct committee person here in Wyoming:

I am a Wyoming precinct person and I can’t wait to vote for Duncan Hunter at our countyhappy-face_happyface_smiley_2400×2400.jpg convention.

Aww … that does my heart good. Seriously folks, this man can win the election if the Republicans come together and give him the nod. I’m getting tired of hearing Christians talk about there being no good candidate to vote for. Hello!?

Remember how to play:

  • Go back to your own blog and find your favorite comment that someone left you
  • Copy it and bring it back here and post it in the comments of this post
  • Please feel free to link back to your blog /post where the comment took place and also the commenter’s blog.
  • If your comment gets caught in the moderation queue, call me. Just kidding! I have a new plugin that should let you through the spam filter, even with the links! We’ll see, huh?
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  • HAVE FUN!

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Common Sense from the Motor City Madman

I saw this over at Foehammer’s place. I think it is always great to start the week off with some 2nd Amendment common sense. Enjoy:

Defiant Infidel has it too!

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Sex Offender Arrested in Virginia

I know I’ve been a little absent from blogging. It’s that other part of my world that interferes once in awhile. You know, I think we refer to it as real life? :)

Anyway, I saw this and thought of it as a good news bad news story. Good news that the pervert was caught. Bad news that he was even walking the streets in the first place and that he was taken in alive. I’d heard a few days ago that he was considered to be armed and dangerous. I have to admit, that always makes me a little giddy hoping they somehow manage to get shot and killed instead of taken into custody without incidence. Really, think of the tax dollars that could be saved.

It looks like the law is really getting tough:

Mitchell had 14 prior arrests ranging from burglary and bomb threats to lewd and lascivious conduct, police said.

The girl ran away the day a new Florida law took effect making the state’s sex predator penalties some of the toughest in the nation.

The law requires offenders to register e-mail and instant message handles with authorities, information that will be shared with social networking sites like Myspace.com. The state also tripled the maximum sentences to 15 years for soliciting minors for sex and possessing child pornography.

I’d laugh if that wasn’t so completely asinine. Umm… which email addresses and instant message handles are they suppose to register with authorities? I mean, we all know how difficult it is to get MORE THAN ONE!! How is that even enforceable?! Why not change the 15 years to either death or life in prison? This way, we won’t have to worry about their freaking email and IM handles. Seriously, 15 years is considered tough?! Not in my book.

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Feeding the hate

For an incident that happened on September 20th, I’m sure having difficulty finding the MSM coverage. What incident you ask? Oh, nothing much, just a race hating protest going on at Grambling State University in Louisiana that included placing a noose around a kindergarten student’s neck.

Don’t get too excited, it was a lesson the young girl needed to learn so that she’ll never forget how she’s been treated by whites. Oh, that’s right, the people placing the noose around her neck are black! I’m confused, so I cannot imagine what that little girl must have been thinking.

The article can be found at The News Star. However, it seems that pictures of the educational lesson have been hard to find, I mean taken down. Fortunately, a friend has sent me a picture:

Feeding the Hate

Apparently, the lesson took place because the children in kindergarten were curious as to why anyone would go to jail over a school yard fight. I guess the teachers forgot to mention that the school yard fight involved 6 kids beating 1 kid into unconsciousness, but who cares, right?

The incident happened Sept. 20, the same day thousands of protesters took part in a civil rights march in Jena alongside the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton to speak out against the arrests on adult charges of six black defendants accused of beating a fellow white classmate into unconsciousness. The mock rally of smaller scale took place at Alma J. Brown Elementary School, which is on the GSU campus and run by the university.

I, personally, am outraged over the reverse turn that racism has taken. I’m sick of people demanding that the color of their skin get noticed, and frankly, I don’t care what color your skin is. I won’t deny blacks the right to hate whites or even whites the right to hate blacks. Attempting to legislate what’s in a person’s heart is futile.

I firmly believe that hate crimes legislation simply spawns more hatred. I don’t think the Jena six should be (or even are for that matter) prosecuted because they were 6 black kids trying to seriously harm a white kid. I think they should be prosecuted because they are six thugs trying to bring serious bodily harm to another person. I’d feel the same way if the tables were turned and the perpetrators were white and the victim black. But to come to the defense of the thugs who committed this barbaric act, on the basis of race? Are you nuts?! Trust me, there are people out there much more worth your time than these thugs. Am I missing something?

In the meantime, I pray that the little girl in the picture realizes that forgiveness can be a necessary key to living a successful life. One day, we will all be accountable for our own actions, and pointing the finger and blaming others will get us nowhere.

Oh, did I mention the woman holding the little girl up so she could fit her head in the noose was her grandmother? Continue reading ‘Feeding the hate’

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Wyoming Senators Oppose Hate Crimes

I hope I never take the Congressional people for granted that Wyoming sends to Washington. I feel sorry for conservatives in other states who have critters in Congress such as John F. Kerry, and Ted Kennedy for their elected representatives.

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From the Casper Star Tribune:

The Senate approved an amendment attaching the hate-crimes legislation to a wide-ranging defense bill by voice vote Thursday. Wyoming’s two Republican senators, Mike Enzi and John Barrasso, voted against moving forward with the legislation.

Barrasso, who succeeded the late Sen. Craig Thomas earlier this year, and Enzi have consistently objected to hate-crimes legislation, saying that all victims should be treated equally. Both said they opposed combining the legislation with bill that authorizes military spending.

“(Democrats are) in charge of getting critical bills through, yet they are delaying passage of these bills by trying to empty their outbox full of controversial issues,” Enzi said.

Barrasso said that victims suffer no matter what the motivation is for a crime.

“Criminal offenses such as these should be treated and prosecuted in an impartial manner,” he said. “Congress should focus on creating laws that protect all Americans equally and justly.”

Under current federal law, hate crimes apply to acts of violence against individuals on the basis of race, religion, color or national origin. The bill would extend the hate crimes category to include sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or disability and give federal authorities greater leeway to participate in hate crime investigations.

Must be difficult trying to get any work done when you work with rats.

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