‘A Woman Having an Absolutely Wonderful Time’

October 14, 2011 By Trey Garrison 1 Comment

In other words, get bent, feminists.

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You know the photo. You’ve seen it a hundred times. A beautiful, statuesque young woman is walking down a street in Florence, Italy. She’s clutching her shawl, and she seems to be moving swiftly. More than a dozen men are staring at her longingly. One of them is grabbing his crotch.

The iconic 1951 image “American Girl in Italy” turns 60 on Monday. As its anniversary approaches, the stunning woman in the photo — Ninalee Craig, now 83 — is speaking up about it. She wants to explain what the photo represents, and what it doesn’t.

“Some people want to use it as a symbol of harassment of women, but that’s what we’ve been fighting all these years,” Craig said in a telephone interview from her home in Toronto. “It’s not a symbol of harassment. It’s a symbol of a woman having an absolutely wonderful time!”

Full story here

Anyway — been away awhile. Got some big projects under way. Hopefully some big news about my novel soon. More later.

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Rosa Parks, Redux: Woman Gropes TSA Agent

July 16, 2011 By Trey Garrison 2 Comments

If you don’t see how this action by this brave little woman puts the underline on the sexual abuse committed by the TSA every day, then you only have two IQ digits to rub together.

Woman Gropes TSA Agent’s Breast at Security Checkpoint: MyFoxNY.com

Filed Under Civil Wrongs, Culture Jamming, Friendly Police State

On TV Discussing the Operation Gun Walker Fiasco

July 15, 2011 By Trey Garrison 1 Comment

Screen shot 2011-07-15 at 8.39.25 AMHere’s the video of my appearance with the lovely Jane McGarry on NBC DFW 5′s Nonstop Nightly.

I can’t embed it so follow this link right here.

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Gunwalker “Fast & Furious” Designed to Promote Gun Control

July 14, 2011 By Trey Garrison 1 Comment

Here’s a screen cap of the smoking gun email.

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Source and more detail on the story here.

I’ll be discussing this on NBC DFW 5 tonight with Jane McGarry.

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On TV: I’ll Be on NBC DFW Tonight

July 13, 2011 By Trey Garrison 1 Comment

UPDATE: Because of the raid on the DA’s office by the FBI, my segment got bumped until Thursday night. Stay tuned.

On Jane McGarry’s “Nonstop Nightly” on Channel 5 (I think, check nbcdfw.com) to discuss the newest blunder from the Department of Justice — their cover up of the Operation Gun Walker cluster eff. To deal with the 2,500 firearms the ATF let get across the border to Mexican gangs, their solution is more gun control. ATF-Guns

Brilliant move from the grease trap of law enforcement that is the ATF.

(What do I wear? Bowtie and fez (fezzes and bowties are cool) or a Reno 911 t-shirt?)

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Newly Published: Blessed is the (Colt) Peacemaker

June 27, 2011 By Trey Garrison 2 Comments

My latest column is up at Guns.com. It deals with the issue of guns in church. Here’s a preview.church-jesus3

For many – especially gun control folks– churches and guns go together like, well, children and guns. Christians on both sides of the pew can cite dueling scripture verses.

Yes, Jesus said, “But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.” Matthew 5:39 (KJV)

Of course He also said, “Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take [it], and likewise [his] scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.” Luke 22:36 (KJV)

I’m not walking on these waters, because all of that should mean jack and squat when it comes to writing laws on gun rights. Why? Well, I’d quote the First Amendment here and the implied separation of church and state, but that’s something I trust all our readers know.

Enjoy the full piece here.

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Taxation = Theft

June 7, 2011 By Trey Garrison 29 Comments

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Here’s The Video of My Fox 4 Discussion on Gun Rights

May 5, 2011 By Trey Garrison 5 Comments

Texas Could Soon Allow Guns at Work: MyFoxDFW.com

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I’ll Be on Fox 4 Tonight at 9 p.m.

May 5, 2011 By Trey Garrison 2 Comments

Not doing a perp walk or being ambushed by a reporter. I’ll be discussing a gun rights bill currently under debate in Austin.EvilAssaultWeapon

Check it out if you can. It’s going to be sometime in the 9 p.m. broadcast.

(Question: Bow tie or no? I wear a bow tie now. Bow ties are cool.)

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The Most Influential Woman of the Last and Next Century

March 9, 2011 By Trey Garrison 4 Comments

From the Sydney Morning Herald. Also, her most influential book is coming to the big screen. Part one of the trilogy hits theaters April 15. See the trailer below. (Best review of the movie so far? “Both Rand lovers and haters will enjoy this.”)

Woman of real influence who wanted to be judged only on her merits

Ross Cameron

March 10, 2011

Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged is the best-selling novel of the 20th century never to appear on film. That changes on April 15 with the release of the first of an Atlas Shrugged trilogy – the YouTube trailers are closing in on a million hits. This calls for an overview of the life of one of the most loved and loathed thinkers of the modern era.

If the 20th century could be reduced to a single sentence it might read: “a struggle between free markets and communism in which free markets prevailed”.

Many thinkers contributed to the final victory with economists such as Milton Friedman and F.A. Hayek arguing persuasively that capitalism is superior because it works. Ayn Rand went for the jugular, arguing that capitalism is morally good.

Rand was born into a secular Jewish family of pharmacists in St Petersburg. She was one of the first women admitted to Petrograd University as the horror of the Bolshevik Revolution was unleashed. An anti-communist student council was elected, and immediately crushed, and several of her activist colleagues disappeared.Rand procured some early Hollywood film reels and was utterly transfixed. When her mother mentioned relatives in Chicago, Rand pleaded, ”Write to them, mother. Write and tell them. I have to go to America. Ask them to help. Do it today. Do it now.” In 1926 she escaped near starvation in the USSR recalling ”tears of splendour” as her ship approached the Manhattan skyline.

She went to Hollywood as a prospective screenwriter, marching into Paramount Pictures to explain: “I want to write movies.” Quickly brushed aside she headed for the gates when Cecil B. DeMille drove by and stopped his car to ask, ”Why are you staring at me?” In her thick accent she replied, ”I’ve just arrived from Russia and I am very happy to meet you.” ”Get in,” DeMille replied, and proceeded to arrange jobs, first as an extra in King of Kings then as a script reviewer. Rand now had the modest income she needed to write.

Her tone from the outset was purist, rationalist, atheist and anti-communist. In 1944, after 12 rejections, she found a publisher for The Fountainhead. Without powerful advocates or a marketing budget, the book sold slowly but it kept selling, in a classic slow burn, by word of mouth…

Read the full story here.

Here’s the trailer.

For more about the movie and where to see it, go here.

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