The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

From the GOA

matt | May 24, 2006

Nifty bill to be introduced into congress
Basically, under this law, I (a resident of Rhode Island) can go to gun shows with my Father In Law (a resident of New York) in New York and buy guns there without having to pay extra to have them shipped to a dealer in RI + the RI [...]

Posted my letter to Ambassador Bolton

matt | May 23, 2006

Linkage
For the uninitiated, the UN is holding a conference on an international treaty to ban guns. The date? The 4th of July. NRA Site on it

Massachusetts, health care, and an old, dead Greek dude.

matt | May 8, 2006

Okay, so as many of you know. Massachusetts is requiring citizens to purchase health care via a variety of options, depending on income level.
I think the idea here is that it will lower health care costs for the rest of us if we stop having to subsidize (either through taxes or higher medical bills) the [...]

Immigration and Tea

matt | May 2, 2006

Okay, so why the hell has a discussion about foreign invaders* been turned into a discussion about immigration? What amazes me is that otherwise intelligent people are being duped by this crap. This is not an anti-immigrant argument!

Immigrants come to the country, go through customs, are naturalized, and become citizens.

Visitors (including those with work visas [...]