The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

Punditry: Shooty things

matt | February 2, 2010

Okay, to recap: Heller says that the FedGov can’t ban guns in common use, or that are logical evolutions of the arms required to be kept for militia purposes. DC is forced to open up their gun registry, but the registry is not abolished. There is suggestion that registration of arms may be reasonable, but [...]

Miscellany

matt | November 19, 2009

Back from Carnage. Great con. Played in:

The Unexplained. Lots of fun. Bought it.

Heavy Gear Blitz. Decent, but likely won’t pick up yet another minis game. I’m not going to say it’s better or worse than Battletech – just different. Battletech is shoot, shoot, shoot, now you’re in arm’s reach, and you beat the crap out [...]

Attention New Yorkers: Gillibrand is an anti-freedom sellout

matt | September 18, 2009

Apparently, Gillibrand’s ascension to Hillary’s seat has resulted in massive compromises on her ideas of freedom, leading to:

Confirmation of a supreme court justice who does not believe in civil rights.

Statements of opposition and correlating votes against civil rights.

Specifically, she first voted to confirm justice Sotomayor who has repeatedly voted to deny incorporation to the states [...]

Choices and consequences

matt | August 20, 2009

I love how I am expected to pay for other peoples’ poor life choices, and consequent lack of (whatever is on the political agenda this week).

Random collection of stuff

matt | August 3, 2009

So, when I find interesting things, I email myself to blog about them. Many of these are actually months old, and some of them are worth commenting on, and some of them are not. Enjoy:

Severed Fifth – Jono Bacon’s solo metal project. I’ve not listened to the album, but the idea is interesting.

Matt and Trey [...]

Great article

matt | May 5, 2009

Somewhat apropos in regards to this post by , this article is quite good.

Well, it’s official

matt | April 27, 2009

Apparently Hillary left something on the seat which infected Gillibrand. She’s just as bad as who she replaced.
Linky, click “votes”.

Ice cream

matt | April 3, 2009

A friend of mine sent me the following:

In Honor of the 44th President of the United States, Baskin-Robbins Ice
Cream has issued a new flavor, ” Barocky Road .”
Barocky Road is a blend of half Vanilla, half Chocolate, and surrounded
by Nuts and Flakes.
The Vanilla portion of the mix is not openly advertised and usually
denied as an [...]

Apparently, they don’t like the first amendment either…

matt | March 30, 2009

We know that the UN wants to abrogate the Second Amendment (calling it the illegal traffic in small arms), but apparently freedom of speech doesn’t matter much either.
I should note that this was a vote from the human rights council.
The US should leave the UN. Immediately. They are more concerned with stability than freedom, and [...]

Mexican drug war violence

matt | March 28, 2009

So, there have been a lot of articles recently about how US guns find their way into Mexico, and how we need to restrict gun rights in this country in order to help Mexico.
Hmmm…
Seems to me that there is a problem with the illegal flow of guns across the border, not the fact that they [...]