Passed the house. Minnick voted against it – I called to say thanks, but they’ve left the office for the weekend and his mailbox is full.

For all you climate-change types who are so very principled and so committed to saving the earth that you want the government to enforce your POV at the point of a gun, you have given up buying anything and everything from China, right?

*crickets*

U.S. Army soldiers from Ft. Rucker patrol the downtown area of Samson, Alabama after a shooting spree March 10, 2009.
REUTERS/Mark Wallheiser

Around here, we consider this to be a rather large problem.

§ 1385. Use of Army and Air Force as posse comitatus

Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

That picture is potentially one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen as a citizen of the United States. What we have here, ladies and gentlemen, are uniformed members of the United States Army patrolling your streets in vests marked POLICE.

Let that sink in for a minute. And then get used to it, because I think it’s only the beginning.

Everyone – from the officer who issued this blatantly illegal order on down to the guys you see above – should be run up on charges. They all took an oath, and “just following orders” is unacceptable.

Just a reminder to make sure your links/blogrolls/etc. are pointed at politicsgunsandbeer.com. My old domain – laurelzimmer.com – is going to stop redirecting in a couple of days, and I don’t want to lose y’all in the void.

All is well in north Idaho – I’ll try to get a substantive post up soon!

It might have something to do with the fact I fed her my “I Voted” sticker.

Well, I made it to California. The shit has not yet hit the fan.

Egress back to Free America is scheduled for early Sunday.

Posting/email replies/etc. will be limited until then – though my folks actually have a decent wireless connection out here in the sticks, their computer’s fan runs constantly and gives me a god-awful headache.

Idaho Congressmen are 1 for 1 on this one.

My Representative, Bill Sali (who represents north and west Idaho), voted no. The other Idaho Representative, Mike Simpson (who represents southeast Idaho) voted yes.

Thank you, Representative Sali. Keep it up, please.

Representative Simpson, you are a frickin’ idiot. Either your constituents are frickin’ idiots as well, or you just did something really stupid considering there’s an election a little over a month away. Good luck with that.