The back of an official government sign out near Promontory Point:
A closeup, showing that Utahns celebrate diversity:
And the front side:
EDIT: This post is almost an exact duplicate on one I posted almost three years ago. It turns out that in the three years since I originally posted photos of this sign… it looks like people have left the sign alone. It’s indistinguishable in its shotupedness.
In short, Gov. Quinn reminds me why my home state sucks politically (and why nobody should EVER trust a Chicago politician) by taking an already passed bill that permits in-state internet sales of ammunition, and completely re-wrote it to be a ban on common firearms and firearm accessories.
Some illustrations from a 1979 McDonnell-DouglasF-15 armament handbook illustrating the pointy end of the F-15: the M-61 20mm Vulcan Gatling gun.
The M-61 could send several different rounds downrange, including target rounds, armor piercing and high explosive incendiary.
The amendment was sponsored by Democratic Sens. Frank Lautenberg (N.J.), Barbara Boxer (Calif.), Jack Reed (R.I.), Bob Menendez (N.J.), Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), Schumer and Dianne Feinstein (Calif.). S.A. 2575 would make it illegal to transfer or possess large capacity feeding devices such as gun magazines, belts, feed stripes and drums of more than 10 rounds of ammunition with the exception of .22 caliber rim fire ammunition.
It never freakin’ ends with these power-mad wannabe tyrants. The sad thing is that they are firmly embedded in states where a voting majority of public has accepted sub-citizen status, so they’ll just keep getting re-elected. Gah.
Well, keep an eye on this one. Anyone who votes for this monstrosity, vote ’em out in November if you can.
Keep in mind, this ten-round limit will affect not just the mythical “assault weapons on our streets,” but the majority of *pistols* as well.
A tale of two reactions to Sideshow Bob going on a rampage in Aurora last week.
First, the citizens of Colorado:
Background checks to buy guns in Colorado went up 41% since the shooting.
And on the other end of the reaction scale, NYC’s duly elected Mayor Bloomberg went full retard:
“I don’t understand why police officers across this country don’t stand up collectively and say we’re going to go on strike, we’re not going to protect you unless you, the public, through your legislature, do what’s required to keep us safe.”
So the people of Colorado want to defend themselves, while the people of NYC – they elected Bloomberg, after all – want a fascist police state where the cops will permit crime to go unpunished in order to force unconstitutional changes onto society.
Huh.
Feinstein is speaking out on assault weapons, calling for a national “conversation” about their dangers — though she admits that politically, any reforms are unlikely to happen.
“Weapons of war don’t belong on the streets,” she said Sunday.
OK. Well, then clearly she’s *not* talking about the sort of weapons used in the Batman Massacre, since none of them were assault weapons. For those who do not know, and do not wish to venture forth in continued ignorance, an “assault weapon” is required to have several features, one of which is a full-automatic mode. The AR-15 used in the massacre was semi-auto only, which means it is *NOT* an assault weapon. Actual assault weapons have been effectively banned for civilian ownership since the unConstitutional “National Firearms Act” of the 1930s. Since then, to own an actual assault weapon, a civilian must procure a Class 3 Federal Firearms License, with is expensive, a pain in the rear to get, and a pain in the rear to maintain (you give up your 4th Amendment rights when you get a Class 3 FFL). Nobody in their right mind would go to war with a semi-only version of a weapon that had a select fire model.
But you know what class of person *does* have actual weapons of war on the streets of America? The police. Many of whom have actual assault weapons in the trunks of their cruisers, in the form of an M-4 carbine or similar.
So, Ms. Feinstein must therefore be arguing that the solution to the problem of lone nutjobs is to take the cops guns away.There’s really no other *honest* way to interpret what she’s saying.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
No joke:
Reports are confused, but it looks like someone wearing a gas mask went bugnuts in a theater in Aurora, Colorado, a few minutes into the new Batman movie, opening fire on the crowd with either an “assault rifle” (which, let’s face it, could mean anything) or a shotgun, and set off at least one explosive device. The shooter has apparently been caught, and rumors are he looks like an “Indian” (which *kind* of Indian is unknown as yet).
For further speculation, I can’t do better than this commenter on a the relevant Fark.com thread:
Dr. Mojo PhD
2012-07-20 05:01:29 AM
It’s either radical Muslims, radical anti-Muslims, extremist Christians, extremist Jews, militant atheists, white supremacists, black supremacists, gangs, militia members, right-wing extremists, left-wing extremists, a lone nut, or several lone nuts who decided not to be lonely any more.
There, all the bases are covered.
But if it’s radical centrists, boy will I have egg on my face.
Cyanotype print 24: A-4 graphite vane
A Peenemunde layout diagram of the “Druckstuck M” graphite vanes used to direct the thrust of the rocket engine on the A-4 (V-2) ballistic missile.
A hand made cyanotype blueprint on sturdy 12X18 watercolor paper. Each is unique, and likely to feature small imperfections.The blue will fade if left in the sun. If this happens, it can be darkened by placing it somewhere dark with good air flow to re-oxidize the ink. Alternatively. hydrogen peroxide, available from grocery stores, will instantly oxidize the ink and restore it to its full hue.
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Cyanotype print 11: A-11
A painting created in 1946 at White Sands, under the direction of Werner von Braun and by deBeek, the artist responsible for paintings at Peenemunde during the war. The design is typically considered to be the “A-11,” a hypothetical three-stage rocket capable of putting a V-2 rocket into orbit. It was described here.
In order to get best-quality prints of the A-11, it must be processed for more than four times as long as the other images, and consequently costs a little more.
A hand made cyanotype blueprint on sturdy 12X18 watercolor paper. Each is unique, and likely to feature small imperfections.The blue will fade if left in the sun. If this happens, it can be darkened by placing it somewhere dark with good air flow to re-oxidize the ink. Alternatively. hydrogen peroxide, available from grocery stores, will instantly oxidize the ink and restore it to its full hue.