Got this from the NRA:

ALERT ! “Assault Weapons” & Magazine Ban filed by Florida Senator
TO: USF & NRA Members & Friends
FROM: Marion P. Hammer
Unified Sportsmen of Florida Executive Director
NRA Past President
SUBJECT: SB-500
It has started !! The threat by the Brady Campaign/Million Mom Marchers to reenact the Clinton Gun Ban state by state has started with Florida. The first Gun Ban bill has been filed for the 2005 Florida Legislative Session which begins in March 2005. The bill has not been referred to committees yet. We will notify members when it has been referenced and will provide email addresses to legislators you need to contact to help fight this bill.
SB 500 – Assault Weapons/Detachable Magazine Ban by Gwen Margolis (D-Miami Beach); Would ban the manufacture, importation, possession, purchase, sale, or transfer of any semi-automatic firearm defined as “assault weapons” and any detachable magazine capable of holding more than 10 rounds. It would require forfeiture and confiscation of any such firearm or magazine. Further, it would require the state to destroy any such firearm within 60 days after confiscation or forfeiture. It provides immunity from prosecution if firearm is voluntarily surrendered. Otherwise, it makes a violation of the provisions of this bill a felony of the second degree (15 years in prison and $10,000 fine).

Not just bans, but confiscations – including of magazines. Now, the only full-capacity magazine I had I gave to SarahK in a highly publicized event (I prefer 1911s with 8rd Wilson Combat magazines), but this is pretty messed-up. I assume there is no way this bill will get any traction, but who proposed it should be publically pistol-whipped by the governor as an example to others.
UPDATE: Here’s the bill from the Florida Senate website. Here’s Margolis’s page. Here’s her e-mail: margolis.gwen.web@flsenate.gov. Everyone send her a quick e-mail and tell her she is a muckadoo. If she asks what that means, tell her it’s a slur for Hispanic Jews.

Sorry for the light blogging… no, wait, I’m not sorry. Even Best of the Web is off now. Still, I’ll try and keep up the funny until I head to Boise.
Anyway, John Hawkins has his 3rd Annual Twenty Most Annoying Liberals In The United States.
While Bush made Time’s Man of the Year, Powerline made Time’s Blog of the Year. Kudos to them, and I better start lobbying for next year.

I got a message from Scott we’re done taking orders on the IMAO Christmas CD. Thanks to everyone who bought it and hope you enjoy it and have a Merry Christmas.
UPDATE: What the hell: Merry Christmas to all my readers.
Guess it’s back to hocking t-shirts. I still need to get up the new modeling photos, some them shown here.

Comment spam keeps getting worse and worse. I use MT-Blacklist to clean some of it up, but that just slows it down. Right now the oil is still gushing into my ocean and onto the beach, and I have to stop the flow before I can worry about cleaning up. As an attempt at that, you now have to preview any comment before posting. If that doesn’t work, I may use a code system like SarahK (I’d rather that than registration). Since you’ll have to preview, use more html tags. I’ll later add instruction on how to do a hyperlink to the comments section for those not as familiar with HTML.
Now, if that stops it, I have no idea how I can clean it up. MT-Blacklist can’t search back far enough to find it all, and it would take forever to go through each individual post. I’m thinking there must be some solution where I export all my posts and comments as one big text file and do a function on that. Might have to write my own program if no one has one to do that. Better think about putting a Linux install on my old computer…
As for the IMAO Christmas CD, I assume some of you have gotten it by now. Make sure to tell me what you think, especially about the Happy Dance (without giving out details). That was my very first video editing.
Anyhoo, it should be known that the tracks start at track 2, and track 1 is the data (namely the Happy Dance). Also, the Happy Dance is an mpeg 4, so update your decoders (just get the latest version of Windows Media Player – it’s less evil that their other products).
Blog posting is going to start winding down. I leave for a Christmas vacation with my family in Idaho Wednesday night and won’t be back until Janurary 2nd. My parents now have a cabel modem, and I may post some (I’ll try to have a special Christmas post), but it’s time to focus on family. I’ll open my blog to my guest bloggers, though, if they feel like posting anything.
Be honorable, ronin.

Just gave a pint of blood which got me thinking: In Europe, do they give a liter of blood? Actually, since a liter is bigger, do they give 0.568 liters to equal a good ole American pint? So, do any of my nationally challenged (i.e., foreign) readers know the answer to that one?

… I had to go to a soap store with her at the airport.
As SarahK admired all the funky looking soap, the shop clerk happily informed us that all the soap was handmade without chemicals. I was about to inform her that was impossible because all substances are composed solely of chemicals, but SarahK hit me.

I gave SarahK a present to take home with her with the instruction not to open it until Christmas. Long story short, Orlando security was temporarily shutdown and SarahK was surrounded with police.
I thought she was going to check that bag!
Details here.
Anyway, a portion of the profit from each IMAO Christmas CD goes towards the SarahK defense fund.