Our man from Davison, he of great physical, and trivial mental, girth is at it again. He’s hawking his latest anti-gun propaganda (using Columbine as the backdrop) at Cannes.

Growing up in Michigan, Moore was surrounded by guns. In northern Michigan, on the opening day of deer season, over a million enthusiastic sharpshooters take to the woods. Moore was a crack shot himself.

Now he’s just a crack pot.

Next, he rewrites American history.

Moore’s own conclusions are bleak. “The early genesis of fear in America came from having a slave population… that grew from 700,000 to four million,” he states. The Colt 6-shooter, invented in 1836, was cheap and portable, and was just what the white folk needed to “contain slavery” for the final 25 years. “It’s something we’re raised with in the United States ? to believe in not only the gun, but using violence to get what we want and enforce a class system, so the have-nots stay there.”

This is a novel interpretation. If there was such tremendous demand for the six shooter to hold down the “nigras,” why was their main recorded use prior to 1846 killing Indians in the west? Why was Colt unable to sell so few of them until he got an order from the Army during the Mexican War, that finally established the company? Surely, if this is the reason for the skyrocketing demand for handguns, wouldn’t there be some evidence of large six-shooter sales in the antebellum South, instead of some of the earliest implementations of concealed carry laws in the young nation?

Mr. Moore wants us to believe that the same states that were so fearful of their slave population that they loaded up on six-shooters (when long guns were just as effective for holding down slave rebellions), also passed laws against carrying those very same weapons?

This is the Internet, Mike. We can fact-check your ass, particularly when it’s as large and lardy a target as yours.

Maybe he and (hopefully-soon-to-be-ex) Professor Bellisles can get together and co-author their next work of historical fiction.

Yeah, I know blogging’s been light this weekend–I’ve been both busy and uninspired.

But Patricia got this spam that she and I thought was amusing, and worth posting.

We are desparately looking for 100 lazy people who wish to make lots of money without working.

We are not looking for people who are self-motivated.

We are not looking for people who join every ‘get rich quick’ scheme offered on the internet.

We are not looking for class presidents, beautiful people, career builders or even college graduates.

We don’t even want union workers or trade school graduates.

We want the laziest people that exist – the guys and gals who expect to make money without lifting a finger. We want the people who stay in bed until noon. We want those of you who think that getting out of bed to go lay on the couch is an effort that is best not thought about.

If you meet these criteria, go to:

[email address snipped]

and type in the Subject Line the following words:

“I do not want to work”.

In fact, if you are so lazy that typing those words in the Subject line is an effort, than don’t bother. Just click on the email and we’ll know that you want us to send you the domain name anyhow, because then we will be absolutely certain that you are the kind of person we want.

In case you haven’t figured it out yet, we want the kind of people who DO NOT take risks. If you are the kind of person who will consider doing something that’s NOT a ‘sure thing’, then do NOT respond. This is too easy a way to make money and there’s no challenge in it.

If you can get to the website that we are going to email you, you will be able to see the first home business in history that requires no work. NONE.

By clicking on this email and then going to this website, you will be telling us that you want to make enough money that you can quit your regular job and sleep all day.

We are not looking for a commitment from you and we don’t even want your money. As a matter of fact, we don’t even want you to hear from us again if the idea of making lots of money without working does not interest you.

So this is the first and last email we will ever send you.

That is a promise.

So if nothing else, remember this – to make money without working for it just send an email with the following words in the subject line: “I do not want to work” to:

[email address deleted]

and we will email you back with the website that gives you information on the best of both worlds – a way to make money without having to work.

We look forward to hearing from you.

In all seriousness,

Mark

[Monday afternoon update]

Reader Dr. Clausewitz has the best surmise as to the source. He thinks it’s a solicitation to join the Democratic Party.

A couple days ago. Microsoft released a patch for newly-discovered security holes in Internet Explorer.

It doesn’t work.

Better get that new company going.

With all of the focus on Israel, and what Bush knew and when did he know it, the spotlight has been off of South Asia, where the danger of war, even nuclear war, remains high. Suman Palit is all over it, though.

That should be the name of this legislation introduced by Congressman Nick Lampson (D-TX). The NASA Johnson Space Center, and many of its employees, are in his district. Its official title is the “Space Exploration Act of 2002,” and it will read like a dream-come-true to many space enthusiasts.

Let’s dissect it: First, the statement of purpose:

To restore a vision for the United States human space flight program by instituting a series of incremental goals that will facilitate the scientific exploration of the solar system and aid in the search for life elsewhere in the universe, and for other purposes.

Note the archaic language. “Human space flight program” is a notion left over from the Cold War, and it’s getting pretty long in the tooth. This legislation clearly assumes that the primary purpose for humans to be in space is “exploration,” and a “search for life elsewhere in the universe.” It pays lip service to “other purposes,” but it’s non specific, and this is the last time you’ll hear about them from the drafters of the bill.

Continue reading Clear Lake Full Employment Bill →

Steve at Happy Fun Pundit has a first-hand report of Norm Mineta’s FAA-screener hiring process.

The stupid gits.

Here’s a link to the blood libel poster at San Francisco State. We ought to Google-bomb the Allah out of this. The administration needs to either crack down hard, or drop their speech codes. Maybe enough exposure of this will shame them into one or the other.

Here’s a link to the blood libel poster at San Francisco State. We ought to Google-bomb the Allah out of this. The administration needs to either crack down hard, or drop their speech codes. Maybe enough exposure of this will shame them into one or the other.

Here’s a link to the blood libel poster at San Francisco State. We ought to Google-bomb the Allah out of this. The administration needs to either crack down hard, or drop their speech codes. Maybe enough exposure of this will shame them into one or the other.

My Fox News column is up, and as I promised, it’s the solar sail story. But I just noticed that I wrote:

Imagine that the sail is at an angle with respect to the sun. Some of the thrust is directed radially along its orbit…

Rather than “radially” it should have been “tangentially.”

That post has been up there with that error for days. I thought you guys are supposed to be fact checking my ass! Falling down on the job again, eh?

[Update at 11:54 AM PDT]

The Fox News folks have fixed it. Down the memory hole…