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Super Tuesday is dominating the news, but in New Orleans, Carnival is apparently enjoying a resurgence after a two year post-Katrina recession.

Be careful where you fall ill or become incapacitated

Propaganda Poster for Aktion T4 - Click

Doctors and other health care professionals in Louisiana are now free to put patients to sleep like a dog or a convict if the weather is too nasty. Dr. Anna Pou, accused of murder for euthanizing patients under her care during the immediate aftermath of hurricane Katrina so she and her helpers could go home has been cleared for now. A Grand Jury failed to return an indictment against her, but you'd think she had been acquitted to read the MSM.

You can read the wah-wah sympathetic AP story here, or read the Plains Feeder's earlier posts about the Katrina grandma murders:
October 15, 2005: Get that Living Will signed
October 21, 2005: Arrests Likely in Katrina 'Mercy Killings'
July 18, 2006: Euthanasia in Louisiana - 2nd Degree Murder
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These are the same murderous liberal monsters who think poison shots are a good way to ease the cost to society of sick folks. If it doesn't pay society to treat you, then you get no treatment. If your maintenance costs are too high, then active euthanasia is the solution. Like Action T4.

This nasty business always gains traction with the introduction of any form of socialism. No wonder it is popular in the European countries. When the state pays the state gets the say. Think Hillarycare.

These dangerous hypocrites howl about lethal injections being too inhumane and painful to use on condemned criminals. Go figure.

Is Ray Nagin in Lebanon?

The Blame Bush for Everything crowd is now saying that the Bush administration has bungled the evacuation of US citizens from the war zone in Lebanon. As Rush Limbaugh pointed out on his radio show today, someone must have passed out a talking points paper telling the Bush Bashers to compare the evacuation to the hyped up horrors of hurricane Katrina.

These hateful cats who would harm America to regain political power must have noted the dip in Bush's poll numbers following the big Gulf Coast disaster. I'm surprised they aren't comparing it to Viet-Nam. At least Viet-Nam was a war.

I wonder where these goofballs get the notion that Americans who get caught in foreign wars or terrorist actions, far-away natural disasters, or get jammed up in other countries by incomprehensible laws or official corruption have a free ticket home coming to them from Uncle Sugar? The US government's consular presence abroad isn't American Express.

The old feeder has been jammed up as a civilian overseas in all of the above mentioned scenarios, once I even went to a US Embassy in the middle east to get help. I couldn't get past the Marines and all I wanted to do was use their Autovon phone to tell the folks at the office what I was up to. I had two US passports at the time. I knew I was going to have to get my own sorry butt out of Dodge. You travel in foreign countries at your own risk and at your own expense.
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If this effort to connect Katrina to Lebanon grows legs, I wonder if we will see stories of poor, (probably black) US expats and 'tourists' in Lebanon being euthanized Katrina-style by George Bush's desperately unprepared functionaries.
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Update: State 29 tells of an Iowa family who actually their vacation in Beirut, which came to a "shocking end" when the current war started. Read about it here; National lampoon's Beirut Vacation, with State 29's observation on the Des Moines Register's editorial position prohibiting mention of how gosh-awful stupid these tourists were to travel to lebanon in spite of ample warning.

Euthanasia in Louisiana - 2nd Degree Murder

I need to go to safety now...

I'm glad the cowardly and despicable health care professionals who allegedly gave their inconvenient charges lethal injections so they wouldn't have to deal with them during a hurricane are going to be called to account. The Plains Feeder noted the suspicions that were in the news after hurricane Katrina. I figured the stories were probably true. Now a jury will get to decide.

It is a frightening thought: doctors and nurses killing helpless seniors so they could leave work to take care of themselves and their property. Telling them with that square smile they all have, "I'm going to give you something to make you feel better!", as they pump poison into their veins. Be careful where you fall ill or become incapacitated. Keep an eye on the weather. Some panicky doc might give you a hot shot so she can hurry home to save her household. Perhaps you'll feel better about it knowing she will probably be opposed to using lethal injections for executions.
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Dr. Kevorkian was convicted of second degree murder. He got 10 to 25 years, and the cats he killed were begging for it. Whatever else happens to them, Dr. Anna Pou and the nurses, Cheri Landry and Laura Bubo, should never be working in health care again.

CBS' 60 Minutes to sink New Orleans

Drudge had a "Flash" this morning about a Time magazine story saying the recovery efforts in New Orleans are more screwed up than previously thought. Big surprise. Here is a link, but Drudge moves 'em around, so...

But the big story this morning is from the Bayou Buzz: Will CBS 60 Minutes Sink New Orleans? (And also a Drudge "Flash") Seems 60 Minutes will air a segment tonight in which 'experts' will claim New Orleans is really doomed by rising waters.

Naturally, the folks in Louisiana hope this grim scenario isn't true. The Bayou Buzz story quotes numerous letters that important folks with a stake in seeing New Orleans recover from hurricane Katrina and the fiasco that followed have sent to CBS asking for a fact-check on the gloomy story.

Louisiana, which has been attempting to recover from the horrific impact of two horrific hurricanes within a span of a month is now asking Sixty Minutes to delay a segment that is set to be broadcast Sunday which Louisiana Recovery Authority Executive Director, Andy Kopplin has called "inaccurate and unbalanced"

The segment is focused upon the opinion of a professor who is claiming that New Orleans, within this century, will be detached from the continent and protected by very high levees.

Whether CBS will delay airing tonight's scheduled 'death sentence for New Orleans story is doubtful. Not only is the cat already out of the bag, but CBS in general and 60 Minutes in particular, have not been known to let facts stand in the way of a 'make a difference' story. Remember Dan Rather? I wonder if this Professor Tim Kusky CBS quotes sent his study to CBS by fax from a Kinko's?

Update: Holy Coast had this story on friday. Silly me. HC's Rick Moore reminds us how "House Speaker Dennis Hastert suggested that rebuilding New Orleans was a mistake" right after the Katrina floods. How can 60 Minutes agree with anything Hastert said?

Update: Bayou Buzz's Steve Sabludowsky, a New Orleans native, questions Prof. Kusky's credentials, and asks 60 Minutes to apologize.

Arrests Likely in Katrina 'Mercy Killings'

Update: 7/18/06 - Doctor and nurses arrested, charged with 2nd degree murder
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Perhaps the stories of panicky doctors and other care-givers having killed patients and other helpless folk during the hurricane Katrina disaster in New Oleans and other affected areas are true. The Washington Post reports that Louisiana Attorney General Charles 'Hummer' Foti says his office will likely be filing charges.

Six hospitals and 13 nursing homes in Louisiana are under investigation. The investigations were wide-ranging, looking into whether patients were abandoned, evacuated improperly, or euthanized to spare them further suffering, said attorney general's spokeswoman Kris Wartelle.

If these charges are true, I hope they don't get off with some theory of justification. Euthanasia, last I heard, was still a crime here in America. I can already hear the apellate courts citing Dutch law.

For some laughs, read more news stories about the antics of Louisiana AG Charles Foti, courtesy GoogleNews and what the blogs are saying, from Technorati.

Reptilian refugees in Scottsbluff, Nebraska?

The Sioux City Journal reports that Scottsbluff's Riverside Zoo has added four alligators to their collection. The new reptiles were donated by another zoo in Louisiana. I'm wondering if these are hurricane Katrina refugees.

More disaster-justified gun grabbery

Michelle Malkin says , "another good reason not to move back to the Katrina disaster area" is that FEMA doesn't allow 'refugees' to keep their guns. Once you put yourself in mother Gummint's loving care, you won't need self-defense any more. That is the theory.

Michelle also has a link to the Second Amendment Foundation, a good outfit that hasn't the membership numbers of the NRA, but has them beat in the 'balls' category. Nothing says you can't belong to both.

Previously:
The NRA and the Katrina gun grab - part II
NRA responds to Katrina gun grab
Americans just plain don't want niggers to have guns

Update: Gun nut Jeff at Alphecca covers FEMA's anti-gun slant in his Weekly Check on the Bias.

I can't explain the swimming piglets.

21st century American hurricane fighters

Is it possible that Americans took the sting out of Rita with a collective force of will power? A few years ago Art Bell wanted to help out an area in Florida that was suffering from a severe drought and asked his listeners to contribute their thoughts and prayers at a specific time. They did and it rained much more than they even wanted it to. Art Bell is probably one of the few who could consciously pull something like this off. I'll bet there's greater potential in the leaderless unconscious.

What about Katrina's horrible destruction? I don't think the general population, like myself, had any notion of how bad that hurricane could be when we watched it on TV. Our collective will power, at best, consisted of sympathy for the victims as was evidenced by the money we sent in to charity. But we're not always at our best and I have to wonder if a lot of people, at least a lot of people like myself who were high and dry, watched this very natural disaster unfold with a considerable amount of wild primal interest in seeing how bad it could get. In effect Katrina was invited in to entertain us with her wet and windy dance.

Rita was different because now we've all been educated in the ways of seemingly uncontrollable hurricanes. It's not only bad for the people who have lost their homes and have been displaced, not to mention those who lost people they loved. It's also bad for those of us not in hurricane country who are going to watch a bundle of our money take a one way trip down south. And we don't like to see offshore drilling platforms shut down and refineries closed, leading to higher gas prices. All these things and more were being added to our collective unconscious as Category 5 Hurricane Rita did a wild and deadly dance out in the Gulf Of Mexico.

This time we were believers and we were scared. Is it possible that we arrogant, pompous, petty and bickering humans were able to unconsciously and spontaneously mobilize ourselves in a defensive manner to resist - if not rob - Rita of her power?

bin Laden's weather machine

Stephen Cimbala, a political scientist at Pennsylvania State University, says "It's like Osama bin Laden's running the weather", as part of an article noting a correlation between the hurricanes, Katrina and Rita, and President Bush's slipping poll numbers. Like maybe Osama was planning to seek the Democrat nomination in 2008.

This comment has been picked up by Islamo Fascists at the Islamic Community Net hosted by Yahoo. With the slight theological adjustment that it is really Allah who runs the weather. To wit:

Allah (S.W.T.) has protected Usama bin Laden all these years from the most intense McCarthyite mudslinging and ensuing military mobilization ever in the history of the all mankind while simultaneously plaguing the US with horrendous drought, huge flocks of locusts, floods and hurricanes - just to name a few of the huge problems faced by the US during the Bush regime. Just last year, "Homeland Security" was in all a tizzy because they were worried that bwoo-ha-ha terrorists would sneak soybean "rust" (a plant parasite) from deep within South America to the US.

This news was quickly picked up and run with by the Chiapas Indy (commie) site, which will print anything as long as it can be twisted into anti-Americanism. Now it has made its way to this commie blog P, which hides its Marxist bent under the skirts of Populism and Progressivism.

I'm pretty sure that Osama's wicked terrorist weather machine's control center is located in Venezuela, with some of the hurricane directing equipment operating out of Aruba and Cuba. It only makes sense. Rumsfeld's old weather machine, abandoned by the US in Viet-Nam, has been perfected by the ChiComs and sold off to Osama's Al Qaeda. It is just too obvious. Even the Fishing Girls are on the Hurricane Storm Surge weapon.
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Update: Paxety Pages' Mahone Dunbar sees Bush as the Weather Master with the help of G.O.D. (Hat Tip: Babalu Blog)

Update: MosNews: A meteorologist in Pocatello, Idaho, claims Japanese gangsters known as the Yakuza used KGB inventions to cause Hurricane Katrina; numerous blogs sucked in.

Mississippi mud

Mayor Nagin's New Tune

The Feeder notes that the most popular search engine keywords pointing browsers this way are now "katrina joke". This is a big improvement over "barnyard sex", but all the same, a poor reflection on the Plains Feeder. None of the Katrina jokes I have heard so far are very funny, but if you really want a laugh, imagine New Orleans Mayor Nagin singing the old Dean Martin tune, Mississippi Mud:

When the sun goes down the tide goes out
The people gather round and they all begin to shout
Hey hey Uncle Dud it's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud
It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud

What a dance do they do
Lordy how I'm telling you
They don't need no band
They keep time by clapping their hands
Just as happy as a cow chewing on a cud
When the people beat their feet on the Mississippi mud

Lordy how they play it
Goodness how they sway it
Uncle Joe, Uncle Jim
How they pound the mire with vigor and vim
Joy the music thrills me
Boy it nearly kills me
What a show when they go
Say they beat up either fast or slow

When the sun goes down the tide goes out
The people gather round and they all begin to shout
Say hey Uncle Dud it's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud
It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud

What a dance do they do
Lordy how I'm telling you
They don't need no band
They keep time by clapping their hands
Just as happy as a cow chewing on a cud
When the people beat their feet on the Mississippi mud

When the sun goes down the tide goes out
The people gather round and they all begin to shout
Hey hey Uncle Dud it's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud
It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud

What a dance do they do
Lordy how I'm telling you
They don't need no band
They keep time by clapping their hands
Just as happy as a cow chewing on a cud
When the people beat their feet
When the people beat their feet
When the people beat their feet
On the Mississippi mud

I picture Nagin tapping his toes and clapping, with Gov. Blanco singing backup. Pres. Bush can play Uncle Dud. I wish I had a more suggestive foto.

Grain farmers get Katrina heads-up

Welcoming homeless hurricane survivors, sending volunteers with supplies and raising money to help, American private citizens have comported themselves well. Now we face the prospect of doing with less (read: real budget cuts - pork slashed), one way or another, to pay for the public sector's role in the rebuilding.

I hope we can do it without too much of our public money getting lost to bureaucratic inefficiency, eaten up by corruption or just plain stolen. Maybe we can also do it without whining or squabbling over our share of the doing with less.

I came across this article: Proper grain storage could be more important than usual this year, at Agriculture Online, Successful Farming mag's website. Grain farmers are taking steps to mitigate the economic impact Katrina may have in store for the crops in the fields now.

David Shelton, a UNL agricultural engineer at the Haskell Agricultural Laboratory near Concord, Nebraska said "Proper grain storage could be more important than usual this year" because "Producers may want to store grain longer than usual this season in hopes that grain prices will improve once Gulf Coast ports return to full capacity".
Mitigation.
Responsible folks mitigate their damages. No wonder we don't see much of it.
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What now? Wait for another storm?

Victims of Socialism

Katrina has washed the ugly detritus of the "Great Society" out into the daylight. It isn't pretty. How could the US have spent trillions of dollars to build the Great Society, to fight War on Poverty and this be what we got.

Large numbers poor and helpless semi-citizens. Folks who are told every day that they are oppressed, that their only hope is obeisance to Saint Check. Men whose manhood has been stolen by a Great Society that paid them to abandon their sons and daughters. That paid them not to marry or to plan a career. That paid women to breed more clients for the swelling cadres of social workers and correctional officers. That paid men and women to live in squalor. That paid them to send their kids to worthless public schools. A Great Society that left them to their own devices to form values and morals.

The powers that run the Big Easy didn't want the out of town customers to see this evidence of social failure. After all, they were gaming the system to their greasy benefit. And now Katrina has washed their shame out into the street. These folks are victims of more than just a storm. They are the miserable detritus of our experiment with socialism.

What now? Spend more money? We have already spent trillions only to see the numbers of these wretches increase. Wait for another storm?
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Update: For an analysis that is well considered (read: less like a rant) and a treat to read see Katrina at North Western Winds.

The trouble with anti poverty programs that are too generous is that they serve to break down the cause and effect relationship between decisions that we make. I'm not arguing that the intent behind such programs is malign, but we have a responsibility to observe the results of our actions and if need be, concede that they might be ill founded. People are not turnips that will flourish - guaranteed! - if only we will give them the right amount of water and fertilizer. People live in relationships with one another and it is those webs of relation that need to be cared for. If the webs in New Orleans had been healthier, there would have been fewer people stranded and those charged with their care would not have been content to send them to the dome when there were busses that could have been used to get them out. Needless to say, such a society would not loot it's neighbors or shoot at its rescuers.

I think this Canadian might just be OK.
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Addendum:
* Dick McDonald at The Right Scale: The Great Society turned out to be The Poorer Society.
* The hoodoo view: Katrina reveals nefarious agenda – the destruction of the great society.
* The Austrian School raises Hayek's 'compassionate' head again at Balkinization.
* The 'hell in a handbasket' crowd, bless their hearts, are well represented at Misantropicity.
* Get your AP story for today from the Frat Pack. Katrina and a second look at government. Don't laugh.

You look like you might survive, but you...

Katrina survivors should thank their lucky stars they weren't sick in a hospital or in a nursing home when the water came up. Deadly triage or plain old neglect, it must have been awful. Pandagon, on the other (read: left) hand, thinks it is just more conservative racism, since Negroes can't run their own lives.

Loco Louie: Bush bombed levee to drown blacks

Louis Farrakhan, that shiny Fruit of Islam, has weighed in on the deliberate flooding of Negroes in New Orleans. Seems Louie, "heard from a very reliable source who saw a 25 foot deep crater under the levee breach. It may have been blown up to destroy the black part of town and keep the white part dry."

I had heard about how Bush ordered the levees and or sea walls in New Orleans blasted with explosives, taking quick advantage of Katrina's high water to drown Negroes . This Bush did because because they didn't vote for him, or to save money on welfare, or maybe because he is just a racist. In fact I heard about this theory first from Girls Gone Fishing, and got more details at Cytations.

If the Bush gang, or anyone else, actually was trying to drown Negroes, they didn't get very many.

The Right Wing News has given the The Post-Katrina "Foot-In-Mouth-Award" to Louis for exposing this attempted genocide.

The NRA and the Katrina gun grab - part II

Today the old feeder received another e-mail response from the NRA (the gun club, not the Nebraska Rewilding Association) regarding their weak response to the official gun grab inflicted on the Katrina survivors. A day late and a dollar short, I'd say.

Thank you for contacting the NRA-ILA. In regards to your concerns, please read the following statements from Wayne LaPierre and Chris W. Cox:

National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre slammed New Orleans authorities Monday for seizing legal firearms from lawful residents.

"What we've seen in Louisiana - the breakdown of law and order in the aftermath of disaster - is exactly the kind of situation where the Second Amendment was intended to allow citizens to protect themselves, " LaPierre said.

"When law enforcement isn't available, Americans turn to the one right that protects all the others - the right to keep and bear arms," LaPierre said. "This attempt to repeal the Second Amendment should be condemned."

The New York Times reported last Thursday that no civilians in New Orleans will be allowed to have guns, quoting the superintendent of police that "only law enforcement are allowed to have weapons."

A Louisiana state statute allows the chief law enforcement officer to "regulate possession" of firearms during declared emergencies. "But regulate doesn't mean confiscate," said Chris W. Cox, the NRA's chief lobbyist.

"Authorities are using that statute to do what the looters and criminals could not: disarm the law-abiding citizens of New Orleans trying to protect their homes and families," Cox said.

"The NRA will not stand idly by while guns are confiscated from law-abiding people who're trying to defend themselves," he said.

"We're exploring every legal option available to protect the rights of lawful people in New Orleans," Cox said, "and we're taking steps to overturn such laws in every state where they exist."

"Local authorities in New Orleans are turning nature's assault on human life into man's assault on human rights," LaPierre said. "Four million NRA members intend to stop this unconstitutional power grab."

Sincerely,

Amanda Millward

Here is their belated press release on the matter. Maybe, if YOU join the NRA and make yourself heard, they will be ready next time.

White people among Katrina victims

Now the truth can be told: not all hurricane Katrina victims were black. I was beginning to wonder if the Canadian Girls were on to something, but now the blogs are echoing with the news that some white folks might have been affected by the storm. Yesterday, Wizbang posted this: Breaking News: White People Affected by Hurricane Too. Today, Michelle Malkin even says some of her people were touched by Katrina.

This is good news, I suppose. We don't wan't this catastrophe to turn into an ugly race thing.

Evacuation a success

I can't honestly say I followed the "Big Evacuation" very closely. I figure most folks know how to keep their heads out of the water. What I did hear made me wonder why everyone was blaming everyone else. For what? Looked to me like the evacuation we got wasn't so awful.

We all knew N.O. mayor Nagin and LA Gov. Blanco were bungling lightweights 'way before Katrina. And we knew that poor folks tricked into depending on a system that then fails them can get mean and nasty. Nobody really wants the Feds running the show in their town until the local dolts they've elected show they can't. Given all this, I'm not surprised to see this post at Wizbang: "With each passing day it is becoming increasingly clear that the evacuation of New Orleans was a phenomenal success."

Americans just plain don't want niggers to have guns

Why is it that, even though Americans are more or less generally supportive of the Second Amendment, we have accepted the disarming of the civil populace in the wake of hurricane Katrina? Volokh, one of the first giants of the blogosphere to address this Constitutional catastrophe, may have the answer in this Reason article from February, 2005: The Klan's Favorite Law: Gun control in the postwar South:

"If you believe everything that Michael Moore says in Bowling for Columbine and his books, then you would think that 'pro-gun' people are white racists, and that 'gun control' would be a wonderful way to help minorities. But a look at America's past reveals what historian Clayton Cramer has accurately called 'The Racist Roots of Gun Control.'"

Down South, (and I'm guessing it would play the same 'up North') otherwise decent, law abiding Americans just plain don't want niggers to have guns. (Or white folks either, if they are so poor as to be niggers.)

As it is the fashion to say these days, this is not acceptable. So why are you accepting it?

Update: "Sean Penn stuns fans as he is pictured in NY POST roaming the streets of hurricane hit New Orleans -- armed with a shotgun!..." From the Drudge Report. I guess Mr. Penn is neither a 'nigger' nor is he poor, so it must be OK.
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Wizbang: Who cares what happens to black people as long as Democrats stay in office, right?

NRA responds to Katrina gun grab

I was wondering, along with a few others, why there is no outcry from the NRA over the unconstitutional confiscation of firearms from peaceable citizens in the wake of hurricane Katrina. This old feeder is a Life Member, so I asked by e-mail why no action. Here is the reply I received:

Thank you for your e-mail. Numerous media sources are reporting on an apparent campaign by New Orleans city authorities to confiscate lawfully-owned firearms from people in the city. Louisiana statute does grant the government, during a state of emergency, broad powers in regulating and controlling firearms.

However, we have seen not just with Hurricane Katrina, but other similar situations, that when police are unable to control the criminal element, people turn to the one freedom that protects all others-the Second Amendment.

While one can certainly understand the dire predicaments of all those affected by Hurricane Katrina, as we have learned throughout history, campaigns to disarm the lawful do nothing to disarm the criminal. And in truth, these restrictions make citizens less safe. Despite the valiant efforts of many law enforcement officers and rescue workers, too many of those left in the wake of Katrina are ultimately responsible for their own security and safety and that of their families and loved ones; especially when communication is virtually non-existent and police can't be quickly summoned to respond to calls for help. At these times, lawful gun ownership is paramount to personal safety.

Of course, the entire situation in New Orleans is constantly in flux. But rest assured NRA is monitoring this situation very closely and will address any activity by the government that unduly infringes upon the rights of lawful gun owners at the appropriate time. As we learn more, we will report to our members accordingly. In the interim, however, we join with all Americans in offering our thoughts, prayers, and assistance to the victims and survivors of this terrible natural disaster.

Sincerely,

Erik Eckberg
NRA-ILA

I'm sorry, Erik, but it sounds like double-talk to me. Since when do Louisiana statutes that "grant the government, during a state of emergency, broad powers in regulating and controlling firearms" supercede the US Constitution? All the more reason we need a Supreme Court that knows how to read the plain language of our Constitution.

Update: Ten Ring has more on the story and links to other responses from the NRA and the GOA (Gun Owners of America, for you squares), Plus Which you get the Packing.org crowd's in-your-face reaction and Cam Edwards, who isn't afraid to call a grab a grab.

Update: The heavyweights blog the gun grab - Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds hopes that, "that some civil rights organization -- the NRA, say -- will help the injured parties bring suit." Plus Which Dave Kopel at The Volokh Conspiracy shows the research and promises an article for Reason.com on the matter.

Update: Want a little Ugly Truth?