Saturday, February 04, 2006

Blogger Was Down...

...a good part of the day. I did manage to get the gallery I talked about compiled, but will probably save it for Monday, seeing as how traffic on weekends is always much slower.

I put the time to good use--in addition to the tedium of posting pictures into the draft, I wrote an article about home defense for the next issue of Preparedness Now, researched my next GUNS Magazine submission about gun control in Brazil, took the kids down to the beach and walked 2 miles while they skated the Strand, and coached eldest son Uday while he made his first ever dinner: Italian sausages with red and green sliced peppers in a Portobello mushroom and tomato sauce over vegetable trio rotini.

The kid done good.

Million Moon March Update

That gallery post I talked about will follow shortly. Also, I don't think this project warrants a separate blog--at least I don't have time to maintain one. So the plan for now will be to just post updates here at WarOnGuns.

A couple people have raised concerns about Control Arms rejecting their photos and substituting ones of their own--to make opponents appear to be supporters. By choosing this fraudulent tack, they have outsmarted themselves and tainted their results. By claiming protest submissions as additions to their ranks, they can no longer present "honest" numbers.

Additionally, their reason for rejection doesn't even adhere to their own posted rejection criteria:
* Incompatible file type (we can only accept jpeg images at this time)
* Poor image composition-- the image quality is too poor for us to display the image online
* Easily identifiable third party advertising or slogans
* Inappropriate or potentially offensive content or information that might give your exact location details to those browsing the galleries (eg; house no. and street name).
The images I've seen have been excellent, there has been no advertising spam, and their criteria for being "inappropriate or potentially offensive" is qualified by the concern that it might give away "location details." Nothing I've seen does that.

So they took my original submission:



and replaced it with this:



I resubmitted this image, and sent it back to them (you now have an email address if you wish to bypass their site form) with the following reply:


You are absolutely NOT authorized to substitute the picture I submitted with one of your choosing.

I am getting reports from others who have joined me in submitting protest photos to your site, only to have you turn around and--after having your "administrators" review them--add them to your rank of supporters.

The numbers you will be presenting at the conclusion of your project are tainted by your choosing this dishonest tactic. This is the kind of fraud I expect from police state worshippers/genocide enablers who want a world where global government has a monopoly of force. You rely on lies to advance your agenda. How pathetic.

The hell with you subversive frauds. Free Americans will never disarm. There will never be enough of you to force us.

Molon Labe!

David Codrea

I Forgot to Mention You Could WIN Something Cool...

...when I posted my latest "Shameless Plug."

If you turn to pg. 108 of the March 2006 issue of GUNS Magazine, you can find out how to win a Kimber 8400 Classic in .300 WSM caliber, a Leupold 3.5-10X VXIII scope, 5 boxes of Winchester .300 WSM 180-grain AccuBond ammunition, and from Butler Creek, Flip-Open Scope Covers, and a Camo Comfort Stretch Sling with Uncle Mike's QD Sling Swivels.

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We're the Only Ones Clueless Enough...

The probe continued into how a handgun apparently smuggled into the Cook County Jail ended up being used in a shooting this week that left three inmates slightly wounded...
The good news is, they traced the gun back to its 1972 owner (take that, registry naysayers!). And I don't know why the reactionary press had to mention the inmate's mother who works for the sheriff's office. After all, she hadn't been to see him for weeks...

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It's Second Amendment Saturday...

...over at Free Constitution...