Brady Bunch gives us 11 out of 100 points.

Yet we’re the safest state to live in.

Heh. Excuse me while I go clean my guns.

I’ll get to the post topic in a moment. First …

It’s with both a measure of sadness and glee that I observe what’s happening in Tibet and how China is dealing with it. If you haven’t read anything about it, well, peaceful Tibetans are starting to get a little bit pissed about being stomped on and having their culture and history essentially erased by the strong-armed Chinese commie government. Proving that even monks can get pissed off when enough of their freedom and history is whitewashed in the name of collectivism.

Here’s a snippet from an article I came across:

Though many were small in scale, the widening Tibetan protests are forcing Beijing to pursue suppression while on the run, from town to town and province to province across its vast western region. Sunday’s lockdown in Tongren required police imported from other towns, the locals said.

Skittering around trying to stomp out all of those Tibetan cockroaches, eh?

The Chinese government attempted to control what the public saw and heard about protests that erupted Friday. Access to YouTube.com, usually readily available in China, was blocked after videos appeared on the site Saturday showing foreign news reports about the Lhasa demonstrations, montages of photos, and scenes from Tibet-related protests abroad.

Imagine the Bush administration shutting down access to YouTube during something like the weeks following hurricane Katrina. We would have a full-on civil war.

Television news reports by CNN and the BBC were periodically cut during the day, and the screens went black during a live speech by the Dalai Lama carried on the networks.

Imagine CNN, MSNBC, and FOX being shut down by our government when anyone critical of the handling of Katrina starts talking. Think everything would be honkey-dorey?

China’s communist government had hoped Beijing’s hosting of the Aug. 8-24 Olympics would boost its popularity at home as well as its image abroad. Instead the event already has attracted the scrutiny of China’s human rights record.

… but they’re oh-so-content pointing the finger at our “gun violence”.

Thubten Samphel, a spokesman for the Dalai Lama’s government, said multiple people inside Tibet had counted at least 80 corpses since the violence broke out Friday. He did not know how many of the bodies were protesters. The figures could not be independently verified because China restricts foreign media access to Tibet.

Next time some pachouli-smelling, granola-chewing, guevara-loving, deranged code-pink retard starts barking about how we’re living under some kind of authoritarian dictatorship, tell ‘em they can fuck themselves sideways in their organic exit-hole with a pair of BBQ tongs … while watching YouTube, no less.

Fact is our arms - our “gun culture” - should be in place to instill some measure of fear and doubt into our politicians. Our government carries a big stick in the form of a military, increasingly militarized police, and all sorts of tools at their disposal intended to keep watch and “manage” the citizens. Sure, we can threaten them with rocks and molotov cocktails, but really, isn’t it a lot easier just to keep a few firearms around and let everything remain politely distrustful?

STFU.

BEIJING, March 13 (Xinhua) — The Information Office of China’s State Council issued “The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2007″ on Thursday, revealing about 30,000 people die from gun wounds every year in the United States.

The United States has an estimated 250 million privately-owned firearms, the largest number in the world, according to the Chinese report.

“Frequent gun violence poses a serious threat to people’s life and property security,” said the report.

Almost as serious a threat as a tank rolling over someone in a public square!

Dumbass idea.

A proposal to put armed police officers in Iowa college classrooms may get a vote of support tonight from the Davenport City Council.

The council will hear a presentation for “Cops on Campus,” a proposal by Davenport police detective Greg Keller that would permit officers to take college courses tuition-free. However, the officers would be required to be equipped with a cell phone that is interactive with a school’s security system to respond to life-threatening situations. Officers also would be required to meet course requirements.

“This isn’t going to stop the problem,” Keller said of a recent spate of shootings on college campuses in other states, “but it is a tool.”

No, you’re a tool. Why not just let law-abiding students PAY for classes and carry? Bingo, problem solved. Guess you don’t like that because you aren’t getting those extra perks like a cell phone and free college classes.

Douchebag.

Too funny …

Would-be burglar Pal Nagy, 43, got quite a shock when he crawled through a window in suburban Budapest, Hungary. Not only did he encounter Virgine Ujlaky, 23, but he caught her in the middle of practice.

She’s an Olympic fencer.

“Within seconds and a few swift slashes of the sword,” Ananova.com reported, “the crook was pinned against the wall, with the blade against his throat as the swordswoman reached for the phone and called police.”

The arrested perp had to be treated for shock, but no such problems for Ujlaky.

“I wasn’t scared when I saw him,” she said. “It was good practice, as I have a competition coming up this week.”

I love this story - something about the swashbuckling grace of a fencer making a criminal soil their shorts puts an impossibly large grin on my face. It would only be better if she gave him two cuts - one on each cheek - Inigo Montoya style.

First I’ve heard of it.

WINTER HAVEN | The Police Department is ditching $38,000 worth of guns after two .45-caliber GAP Glock Model 37 pistols exploded in separate training incidents a year a part, causing minor injuries to an officer and a cadet.

Ditching? Hmmm.

The department tried to work out a solution with Glock. The gun’s Georgia-based manufacturer offered to swap out the nearly 2 1/2 -year-old guns if the department paid the company $10,000. But Police Chief Mark LeVine said that is unfair.

I don’t have a Glock. I don’t necessarily dislike them, just chose something different for my own carry gun. That being said, all I’ve heard about them is that they’ll go bang when you pull the trigger and have excellent reliability. So what is it, you Glock fans out there? Just a case of them not cleaning the darn things, bad ammunition, or just a case of crappy luck?

Stolen with great glee from AlanDP.

Here are the rules:
1) Look up 15 of your favorite movies on IMDB.

2) Take a quote from each and post them for your readership to properly identify.

3) As your movie-savvy readers correctly identify the quotes’ cinematic origins in the comments, strike out the quotes and name the commenter who answered correctly.

4) If the commenter also identifies the name of the speaker (the character or the actor), he or she gets bonus points in the form of a link to his or her site.

Some of these are from memory because quite honestly there are a few movies here that I could probably recite from memory as if I had a script in front of me.

Here we gooooooo ….

1: “KLATU! VERATA! NECKTIE!”
You go, Eric!

2: “You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads!”
Eric on a roll!

3: “Oh, man! I just shot Marvin in the face!”
von Michigan strikes again!

4: “I know kung-fu.” … “Show me.”
Mr. Eric likes these movies too!

5: “Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop. A normal speeder will panic and immediately pull over to the side. This is wrong. It arouses contempt in the cop heart. Make the bastard chase you. He will follow.”
DINGDINGDING! Andy carved a little Z in my forehead!

6: “Negative, I am a meat popsicle.”
ET brought his multipass!

7: “Throw yourself in next time, and rid us of your stupidity!”
Andy has turned into something … unnatural!

8: “Asps. Very dangerous.”
Matt goes first! Er … guesses first!

9: “Do you know what it’s like to fall in the mud and get kicked… in the head… with an iron boot? Of course you don’t, no one does. It never happens. It’s a dumb question… skip it.”
ET speaks jive!

10: “You better shave her a little closer before you kiss her goodnight.”

11: “I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.”
Armed Canadian knows his flouride!

12: “She threw it all away just to make me look ridiculous! And a man in my position can’t afford to be made to look ridiculous!”

13: “I didn’t know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.”
Matt is the king!

14: “Darling. Light, of my life. I’m not gonna hurt ya. You didn’t let me finish my sentence. I said, I’m not gonna hurt ya. I’m just gonna bash your brains in. I’m gonna bash ‘em right the fuck in. Ha, ha.”

15: “It’s possible, pig. It’s conceivable you miserable vomitous mass that I’m only lying here because I lack the strength to stand…”
Eric von Michigan pwns the movie junkie game!

For shining a little light on that myth.

The idea that homeschooled kids are some kind of freakish, feral wolf-children who are part of some local cult and spend all their time huddled in a corner with a pile of books written in 1853 that they must get through else their parents will refuse to allow them a shower is pure ridiculousness.

In fact, the more states like California push legislation that makes it illegal for your child not to be indoctrinated with state money in the name of “fairness” and “opportunity”, the more people are going to realize that homeschooling is quite an option. Get together with some other parents and you can choose your kids classmates, teach them about whatever it is THEY are interested in, and take them to the range for a bit of 2A education if you want.

Your average 5-year-old doesn’t know the story of the Battle of Bunker Hill. Mine has scribbled his interpretation of it with crayons, complete with patriots sitting in trenches, and British with big, white eyes. He’s yet to draw bullets and bloody bayonets, but I’ll say this … when he does, I’ll heap a big pile of ice cream in front of him as a reward. If he did it in a public school, he’d be suspended in order to see a psychiatrist, and I’d be meeting with social services.