Welcome to your weekend travel thread. By special request of commenter Seamus M., this week's topic is traveling with pets.

How about some music to kick off the thread?

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The Weekly Standard has a piece nicely illustrating my point on the last podcast about the government being the main obstacle to economic dynamism. Pity the poor bureaucrats.

Speaking of innovations that can spur the economy, have you heard about the crowdfunding project for a movie about Kermit Gosnell's house of abortion horrors? Well you wouldn't have if Kickstarter had their way.

And of course my favorite leftist boot on the neck of the economy comes from the greens, who just got the 5th installment of the IPCC's report on Global Warming or whatever they're calling it now. The Heartland Institute has a report from the climate realist side that rubbishes any claim of "consensus" (for whatever that's worth) but it's hard for people to hear about it when the newsertainment business propagandizes for the other side.

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For your non-eclipse needs

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Ace posted on Friday about two sentence horror stories, and Oregon Muse mentioned them again in the Book Thread.

So...how about an open thread for Morons' versions of them? more...

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Welcome again to the Spaced-Out Challenge! Whether you have a question about equipment, a new astronomical discovery you want to expand on, or just want to kick back and enjoy the cosmos above, come one come all on our weekly astronomical journey.

This week, we enjoy a fantastic sight: a red moon eclipsed by our home, joined by the showstoppers of our solar system. Let's dive in!
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Warning Shots

The left continues to soil itself over Florida's so-called "warning shot" bill.

Fortunately, we at the HQ know that anytime they talk about gun laws (a) they're virtually guaranteed to be wrong and (b) we can turn to Andrew Branca to get the real story:

Much of the discussion of SB-448 is replete with terms like “warning shot” and “stand-your-ground.” In reality, however, the law does not even mention the term “warning shot,” nor does it make any substantive changes whatever to Florida’s stand-your-ground law.

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The bill is prefaced with a legislative statement that notes that people have been criminally prosecuted and sentenced to mandatory minimum sentences under Florida’s “10-20-Life” statute for having threatened the use of force in circumstances where an actual use of force would have been justifiable under Florida’s self-defense laws (chapter 776).

In essence, the legislature is identifying as a problem the fact that prosecutors are sending defendants to prison for long periods of time for having threatened force, whereas if those same defendants had actually used force their actions would have been lawfully justified.

Be sure to read the whole thing.

Image h/t @ShivaPundit

Related, if you're on Twitter, you should follow Branca if for no other reason than to watch the pummeling the leftwing loons at the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence are about to receive.

Also, if you happen to be in the Indianapolis area, Branca's speaking at the NRA Annual Meeting beginning at 3:45pm on April 25th.

Gun Of The Week

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I am torn between being somewhat amused, and biting back "You can't possibly be that stupid."

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C'mon in. Don't cost nothin'.

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