Standard Mischief

So I’ve noticed that several of my regular reads have also been reading, (and commenting), over at Claire’s blog at Backwoods Home Magazine.

The problem with the above blog’s RSS feed is that its not a full text feed.

The hyperlinks are missing in the full text of  this version of the feed. Nevertheless, I’d much rather read it than the official one.

I really hate Yahoo pipes, with its kludgey and slow attempt at a usable GUI, but this was someone else’s work and it was free. It’s good enough that I haven’t bothered to code up anything better for myself.

Since at least a third of my income this year has been from writing exactly these types of screen-scraping scripts, I probably don’t have an excuse for that. Oh well.

Enjoy.

Shouldn’t we name bills after heroes, when we can? Isn’t that better than naming them posthumously after an innocent victim?

Louisiana’s governor Bobby Jindal signed House Bill 1272 into law that allows “any church, synagogue, mosque, or other similar place of worship” to exercise control over who may carry firearms in defense of the congregation. That means it would be legal for someone in Louisiana to be a hero just like Jeanne Assam was at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

As you can expect, the left side of the “separation of church and state” crowd doesn’t like this slight relaxation of the laws concerning churches one bit. You’ll get all the usual “blood running in the pews” and “fights over parking spaces ending in gunfire” scenarios that somehow never really pan out as true. I won’t link to that crap, but if you want to find it, they’re calling it the “guns in churches bill”. Knowing that, you don’t need anything higher than a white belt in “search engine-fu” to find all the hand wringing you want.

Let the anti-freedom crowd pick the catch-phrases, and you’re fighting an unfair fight with one hand tied behind your back. I know what I’m going to call HB 1272.
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Jeanne Assam has a blog and a book out.

nola.com published a link to the bill. Thanks, I’m always bashing the MSM for not doing that.

You can find the text of the bill (linked as a pdf) on this page, and it’s a compact 3 pages of double spaced text and the usual wide margins, so you just know it was meant to be read by the voters.