A few paragraphs pulled from a WaPo blog:
D.C. Attorney General: All Guns Must Be Registered
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“All handguns have to be registered,” Nickles said.
Among the likely regulations: Gun owners would have to be 18 or older and could not have been convicted of a felony or any weapon-related charge or have been in a mental hospital for the past five years. Registrants also will be finger-printed and required to pass a written test to be sure they understand the city’s gun laws, Nickles said.
At least initially, he added, residents would be limited to one handgun apiece. The city will set up a hotline for firearm registrations.
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Yea that’s about enough for one day. Don’t want to kill my good mood.
I’m getting back on my bike ’till I bonk.
The anticipation was killing me, so at 9:42 I left the phone, watch, and PDA at home, saddled up, and went for a bike ride. I wasn’t going to just sit there and refresh the screen until it was released. The highest court in the land said yesterday that all of the remaining opinions would be released today, starting at 10:00 AM.
After exploring neighborhoods nearby via petal power, around 11:15 I returned home and all I had to do was glance at the RSS aggravator. I’m real happy I won’t have to blog about Plan B.
So 5 out of 9 Supreme Beings agreed with the just mildly obscure language in the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States that the right to keep fully functional (assembled in working order and without a trigger lock) exists, and people who have them may move them from room to room without a permit err, I mean a permit that D.C. must now issue. It’s not much, but it’s a start. One useless liberty infringing law struck down ~10,000 or so more to go.
I’m not going to read the decision today. There’s plenty of time later for that. And while I may read some of the bloggers, I’ll be most interested in what the anti-freedom people - bloggers and people like Adrian Fenty, Mayor of D.C. - have to say.
I also most certainly want to write about the others in the suit - Parker and others - who’s pleadings to the court just didn’t have standing. There’s a post or two there too.
Thanks to this post at Consumerist.com, I find out that 86% of milk sellers in New York City are price-gouging customers! By a whole 40 or 50 cents per gallon!
So there’s a state goverment set price on goods like milk? Does that set price take in consideration the cost of higher overhead in a major metropolitan area? Who the hell is channeling Hugo Chávez anyway?
Select comments:
dabusdriver
When almost all the milk retailers are charging the higher “gouging” price, you would think that’s because the market costs of the milk inputs overall have risen, and not because any single retailer is trying to make a quick buck.
Why doesn’t NY state just set fixed prices for everything, in order to join the great consumer paradises of North Korea, Zimbabwe and Venezuela. Let me know how that works out.
Keavy_Rain
So how exactly are consumers being “price gouged” here? Who determines the fair price for a gallon of milk in New York?
You’d think supply and demand would set prices, but it is an election year and we gotta detract the masses from the important issues with stupid stuff like this.
czarandy
Next month on Consumerist:
Milk shortages hit New York City
punkrawka
Glad to see that Consumerist commenters have some understanding of economics, even if Consumerist editors don’t.
You’re doing it wrong.
Google-fu - noun
1. The ability to use Google with zen like prowess.
2. A measure of one’s level of skill in using the Google search engine in order to find needed but near worthless minutia.
Etymology: A portmanteau of the search engine Google and kung fu.
Compare Google Juice [1] [2] [3] or The nofollow attribute [1] [2]
I think I’ve passed on a bit of slang that I absorbed via osmosis from JMPP*, but usage has mutated. This is an attempt to correct that. I can has meme.
* plus seekret fifth name.
Yep, it’s coming down to which way the superdelegates decide to vote because neither candidate currently has enough of the “voted by the people” delegates to win. Those superdelegates, the Democratic Noblemen and Women, can flip, or flop, or take thinly veiled bribes, or jocky for the best overseas diplomatic prestige post, or demand pork for their district, or whatever all the way up to the Denver convention. The whole country has now become a smoke-filled back-room. The party of the downtrodden, the discriminated and the disenfranchised ought to be real proud right about now.
Undoubtedly there are people out there who whined about Jon Kerry allegedly winning the popular vote now poo-pooing any claims by Hillary for arguably doing the exact same thing in the primaries.
There’s also some fight left in the seating of the Florida and Michigan delegates.
It’s not over by a long shot until after Denver.