Biden: Have I mentioned yet that these new gun-control measures won’t fundamentally alter the chances of a mass shooting? « Hot Air: "Is there a law that will help Biden from continually shooting himself in the foot?If the Obamoron wasn't already the President, I'd be terrified that this doofus was next in line. Read More......
Paul-Cincy on January 31, 2013 at 8:32 PM"
Thursday, January 31, 2013
The Moron Speaks
The Cruzifiction O Hagel
Instapundit » Blog Archive » SO HOW’D THAT HAGEL HEARING GO? “It is very clear from the testimony that Sen. Hagel will not be …: "JANUARY 31, 2013 SO HOW’D THAT HAGEL HEARING GO? “It is very clear from the testimony that Sen. Hagel will not be bringing the potato salad to the next Mensa picnic.” And that’s from a Democrat. . . .Yessir. And I don't mean Arafat ;) Read More......
UPDATE: Prof. Stephen Clark writes on Ted Cruz: “Note Powerline’s take on Cruz’s cross-examination of Hagel and remind yourself that the Republican establishment didn’t want Cruz.” Yeah, they didn’t want Marco Rubio either, remember.
Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 4:25 pm"
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Of Course
Instapundit » Blog Archive » OF COURSE RAPISTS WANT WOMEN DISARMED. WHY ARE DEMOCRATS PRO-RAPE? Gun Control Activist Protesting…: "OF COURSE RAPISTS WANT WOMEN DISARMED. WHY ARE DEMOCRATS PRO-RAPE? Gun Control Activist Protesting How Easy it is to Buy Guns, is a Rapist.Read More......
Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 11:12 pm"
Dangerously Lost
protein wisdom | …because not just anybody can summarize the news: "Lost in D.C. [Darleen Click]"
Coming Clean?
Is U.S. Navy coming clean on TWA 800?: "In our 2003 book, “First Strike,” James Sanders and I had argued for the possibility of terrorist involvement in the destruction of TWA Flight 800 with 230 people on board on the night of July 17, 1996.This is a straight out RTWT. Read More......
When Graduate approached me, he first asked if I was still arguing for a terrorist-related incident. I replied, “I am totally confident of a missile strike, but I am fully agnostic as to who fired it. Am open to best evidence. After we presented initial theory, I have seen almost nothing to confirm.”
In Sanders’ defense, he had always believed that the U.S. Navy had accidentally shot down the 747. He made this case in his 1997 book, “The Downing of TWA Flight 800.” His research got his wife, Elizabeth, and him arrested and convicted on federal conspiracy charges."
And Couldn't Leave Fast Enough
Obama goes 'skeet shooting all the time'? Hardly ever, sources say | Fox News: ""The only time he shot skeet was for President's Cup," said the source, referring to a shooting competition tradition involving the presidential Marine guards. "I was there. He stayed for about five minutes, and couldn't leave fast enough."The liar in chief strikes again. Read More......
Skeet shooting "is very hard," said the source. "Especially for someone not used to guns ... He couldn't have been more uncomfortable.""
Saved By Carrying
PJ Media » ‘Carrying a Gun Saved My Life’: Meet Ryan Moore: "On December 11, 2010, in Conyers, GA, 22-year-old Ryan Moore was at a friend’s house for an evening of leisure. He borrowed a friend’s car to drive to the nearby grocery store, where his handgun saved his life. I interviewed Ryan Moore over e-mail about that evening."And check out the comments. Even some pointing out that libs are trying to make women less safe. Read More......
Du'O Today: European Shrinkage Edition
Rick Santelli Responds to Negative GDP Report: 'We Are Now Europe' | NewsBusters: "CNBC's Rick Santelli made a startling observation about the news that the economy actually shrunk in the fourth quarter last year.Read More......
"We are now Europe.""
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
I Bet I'd Beat Him
Rep. Blackburn: I’d love to go skeet shooting with the president — I bet I’d beat him « Hot Air: "Hey, Tennessee Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn has an idea — if the president is a skeet-shooting fan, why not host a bipartisan group of lawmakers at Camp David, and kill two birds (pun alert!) with one stone? It would provide an opportunity for some positive PR in terms of both across-the-aisle outreach and quelling Second-Amendment enthusiasts’ fears that Obama might be an anti-gun zealot? And if the “fact” that the president enjoys skeet shooting really is so very trivial to the overall gun debate we’re having, why did he bother mentioning it at all?"Heh. Read More......
Fists
Confessions of a Leftist Gun Owner « The Patriot Perspective: "He’s got his. You don’t need yours. He’s a hypocrite – and wants your world to be without guns."
The Gun Control Rejoinder You Were Looking For Is Almost Certainly Here
Gun Facts - Gun Control | Facts | Debunk | Myths: "INTRODUCTION: Gun Facts is a free e-book that debunks common myths about gun control. It is intended as a reference guide for journalists, activists, politicians, and other people interested in restoring honesty to the debate about guns, crime, and the 2nd Amendment.I'm most of the way through it and this is the most comprehensive gun reference I have seen so far. It looks like it was started maybe after Columbine and it's date ranges could stand some updating but even with that it's well worth your time. Read More......
Gun Facts has 112 pages of information. Divided into chapters based on gun control topics (assault weapons, ballistic finger printing, firearm availability, etc.), finding information is quick and easy.
Each chapter lists common gun control myths, then lists a number of documented and cited facts (with nearly 500 detailed footnotes). Thus when a neighbor, editor or politician repeats some sound bite about firearm control policy, you can quickly find that myth then rebuke with real information."
COTD: The Little People -- Warming Loons Edition
Matt Ridley: A Lukewarmer’s Ten Tests | Watts Up With That?: "James Cross says: January 28, 2013 at 1:09 pm I am pretty far to the left progressive side yet I find myself agreeing with these points.Read More......
I am actually fairly convinced that drastic action to limit greenhouse gases is not a good policy agenda even for the left, although it will be very hard to convince many of them of that. The biggest issue to me is that increasingly future greenhouse gases will come from the underdeveloped world so to achieve significant reduction would actually hamper the ability the underdeveloped world to adapt to any future effects of warning."
Saturday, January 26, 2013
But What Do Old, Dead Greeks Know?
Found in a comment: ""The state that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards, and its fighting by fools." - Thucydides."Quite a bit more than the latest crop of Greeks, that's for sure. Never mind our *sshat politicians. Read More......
Mamet On Fools
David Mamet: Gun Laws and the Fools of Chelm - Newsweek and The Daily Beast: "Many are opposed to private ownership of firearms, and their opposition comes under several heads. Their specific objections are answerable retail, but a wholesale response is that the Second Amendment guarantees the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. On a lower level of abstraction, there are more than 2 million instances a year of the armed citizen deterring or stopping armed criminals; a number four times that of all crimes involving firearms.I would say RTWT but that doesn't begin to describe it. Get this one for instance:
The Left loves a phantom statistic that a firearm in the hands of a citizen is X times more likely to cause accidental damage than to be used in the prevention of crime, but what is there about criminals that ensures that their gun use is accident-free? If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals."
Walk down Madison Avenue in New York. Many posh stores have, on view, or behind a two-way mirror, an armed guard. Walk into most any pawnshop, jewelry story, currency exchange, gold store in the country, and there will be an armed guard nearby. Why? As currency, jewelry, gold are precious. Who complains about the presence of these armed guards? And is this wealth more precious than our children?Read More......
Apparently it is: for the Left adduces arguments against armed presence in the school but not in the wristwatch stores. Q. How many accidental shootings occurred last year in jewelry stores, or on any premises with armed security guards?
COTD
Video: Milwaukee County sheriff’s PSA on self-protection « Hot Air: "The court has ruled that police do not have a constitutional duty to protect anyone.Read More......
And liberals want to remove methods of self-defense.
HondaV65 on January 26, 2013 at 10:41 AM"
Can I Count On You?
Video: Milwaukee County sheriff’s PSA on self-protection « Hot Air: "In the PSA, Sheriff David Clarke says, “With officers laid off and furloughed, simply calling 911 and waiting is no longer your best option. You could beg for mercy from a violent criminal, hide under the bed, or you can fight back. But are you prepared?”
“You have a duty to protect yourself and your family. We’re partners now. Can I count on you?”"
Friday, January 25, 2013
The Same Level
a note on guns | protein wisdom: "Here’s what I’ll tell Sen Feinstein and all the Democrats and Republicans who support any cosmetic bans on weaponry or any bans on my capacity to carry ammunition useful to that weaponry: if you disarm us, I and millions like me will make it our mission to bring you down to the same level."
Welcome To The Krugman Zone
The Keynesian Architects of the U.S. Warfare State | Joseph T. Salerno - YouTube: "The Donald M. Rembert lecture, presented at the 2012 Mises Institute Supporters Summit: "The Truth About War: A Revisionist Approach". Recorded at Callaway Gardens, Georgia, on 27 October 2012."
QOTD
OBSERVATIONS ON POLITICIANS: "Ernest Benn: "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy."Of course, this is the charitable take. A more reality-based one was provided by Rand:
“Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against – then you’ll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We’re after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you’d better get wise to it. There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now, that’s the system, Mr. Rearden, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”Are you getting it yet? Read More......
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Honesty Is The Best Policy
Charisma: a how-to: "Most people are half-aware that they are almost constantly surrounded by a net of lies. The big lies of politics and religion; the medium-sized lies of advertising and marketing; and all the little lies of the workplace and normal social interaction. Many people constantly pretend, even to themselves, to believe things that in other and deeper parts of their minds they know aren’t true – but they dare not confront those truths because they think the social and personal costs of doing so would be higher than they can bear.RTWT. Read More......
The charismatic who is honest and fearless brings a gift. By thinking unthinkables and saying unsayables and getting away with it – not being struck dead by lighting or instantly lynched – he offers his audience, too, a psychological release from the relentless tension of everyday lies. He gives them at least temporary permission to be more honest in their own thoughts.
This is extremely powerful. So much so that many people will follow a charismatic to his goal just for this. Most people who hear the old saw “Honesty is the best policy” doen’t realize that it dates from a time when the word “policy” had slightly different connotations than it does today; what the proverb meant then might be better translated as “Honesty is the most effective strategem.” Now you know why."
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