Sunday (not so) funnies, 3/6/11

Bloomberg propaganda snake oil comes to Iowa

Gun Check Truck Rolls into Iowa City

Iowa gun shows for March 2011

Mar 4-6 McGergor

Mar 11-12 Clarinda, Page County Fairgrounds

Mar 11-12 Marshalltown, Marshall County Fairgrounds

Mar 12-13 Mason City, National Guard Armory

Mar 18-20 Des Moines, Iowa State Fairgrounds

Mar 25-27 Cedar Rapids, Hawkeye Downs

*** I get this list from the link below and other searches and I can't guarantee the accuracy of the list. If anyone notices a show that needs to be corrected, please let me know in the comments.

For more details go to Iowa Gun Shows

Stylish - What?

ASM826 over at Random Acts of Patriotism seems to think I have style.

My first response is ppffftt. I have never been accused of having style. Character maybe (as in I'm a character), but style? Nope.

The Theme\Meme seems to be: List seven things about yourself that other people might not know. Then pass the award to 15 other bloggers.

Like people would be interested in me...

Okay, I'll bite.

1. My favorite car was my 68 Falcon. Nothing pretty but it was solid, reliable transportation.

2. I'm the last of 11 children (and no, we are not Catholic or Mormon). My sisters used to introduce me as the baby of the family until one day I corrected them in front of their guest by saying it took Mom and Dad 11 times to get it right. Dad thought it was funny but Mom had a different opinion.

3. I shook the hand of Governor Robert Ray at a Hawkeye football game. The only time I ever saw him or a game live and in person. We had a nice chat and the Hawkeyes won that day. Still not a big fan of either though.

4. My first gun was a Glenfield Model 60. It was given to me by my brother and I gave it back to him for Christmas a few years ago. The following year he gave it back and I returned it to him the next Christmas. It's now a tradition to pass it to each other at least once a year.

5. The boys and I made a trebuchet for a science "fair" (not a competition because, you know, everyone is a winner - ugh). We set it up and threw water balloons at the other kids. Yeah, we would have won. After storming the gates with our battering rams...

6. One of my favorite movies is It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Mindless escapism, all-star cast and Ethel Merman falling on her keester.

7. When I was 17, I was taking my grandfather home and I drove through a four way intersection. A couple of seconds down the street he remarked, "They must have taken the stop sign down since the last time I was through." I muttered, "Yeah, they must have," but he knew and was cool enough not to rat me out.

I could add several other things to the list since my wife never reads this blog. Maybe another time.

And now for the tags:

The Rifleman a nationally ranked shooter who combs the internet for gun news so you don't have to.

Escape from: Oppression in the Midwest keeping an eye on Illinois injustice. And now in Wisconsin.

Midwest Chick at Non-Original Rants looks at the world from all angles.

Hope and Change Cartoons commentary on our state of affairs or affairs of state. Take your pick.

Green Mountains Homesteading Vermont freedom fighter.

Coordinated Illumination gives a unique look at our world.

While Xavier hasn't been keeping up with the blogging, look back through the older posts for some wonderful story writing and his pawn shop finds.

Since I am an Iowa-centric Blogger, here are a few others with connections to the Hawkeye state:

True Blue Sam A true woodsman who now is in the Land of Lincoln.

The Travis McGee Reader from the frozen and beautiful Iowa's Spirit Lake area.

Robert's Gun Shop fighting the good fight for the Iowa Firearms Coalition. We don't always agree but we're in this together.

Ben and Bawb's Blog where Bawb gleans the archives for valuable shooter information. His articles on Military and Survival make for some good reading and may help you in a pinch.

Cold Hard Cashner Iowa's hard fighting libertarian.

Burlington Derailed has been a thorn in the side of southeastern Iowa for several years and doing a good job of it.

The "insightfully vulgar" State29 keeping an eye on our state's political machine and Register hacks.

And the irreverent Iowahawk who understands what satire is.

All of these blogs have given me valuable information, humor to warm the heart and almost always given me something to think about.

If you haven't visited, please go to some of these blogs. If you're disappointed, you get your money back.

Defending yourself is asking for trouble

"Individual in their home or in their car or a public street would have, under this bill, the right to use deadly force with limited liability of a lawsuit," said Scott County Sheriff Dennis Conard.

But Scott County Attorney Mike Walton said that's asking for trouble.

Self-defense laws could change in Iowa

House File: HF7

Guns and bars don't mix in Buchanan County

A Buchanan County resident was charged with brandishing a gun after he was in a fight at a bar.

The story does not indicate that he was intoxicated, although it is intimated through the comments from the sheriff.

He got into a fight and pulled his gun - no shots were fired. Both his permit to carry and permit to purchase was confiscated.

Gun ban update, 3/2/11

Cedar Falls votes against a ban.

North Liberty punted.

Robot attacks window treatments, ends standoff

Pottawattmie County standoff ends after five hours

Who can argue against common sense gun laws

Iowa gun law advances in Iowa Senate

Require more training to get your permission slip.

Make you pay the costs for a denial of your permit by the sheriff.

Can't carry where they sell booze. Places like your local HyVee and Casey's inconvenience stores.

Here's a little tidbit regarding training:

Applications for permits to carry weapons shall be made to the sheriff of the county in which the applicant resides. Applications for professional permits to carry weapons for persons who are nonresidents of the state, or whose need to go armed arises out of employment by the state, shall be made to the commissioner of public safety. In either case, the sheriff or commissioner, before issuing the permit, shall 1 determine that the requirements of sections 724.6 to 724.10, 2 have been satisfied.

This will throw the approval process right back to the county sheriffs and make you pay to appeal if he/she doesn't think your training is good enough.

Good luck getting those permits in Johnson, Lee, Linn and any other county that had a sheriff go on record against losing their permit gatekeeper role.

The Senate Study Bill - SSB1056

Iowa’s county attorneys oppose the ‘stand your ground’ bill

Here's why:

The bill would “encourage escalation of violence in the face of a conflict, rather than de-escalation,” Corwin Ritchie, executive director of the Iowa County Attorneys Association, said in a written statement. “As trained law officers can tell you, shooting first and asking questions later will not make any Iowan safer.”

Corwin R. Ritchie gets his "sky is falling" letter published in the Des Moines Register

Giving up power always upsets those with the most power to lose.