- The fourth shock wave of ObamaCare is about to strike
- And even Obama’s hometown paper says, “Stop digging, start over.”
- The Dallas Buyers Club is in my Netflix queue for sure. From everything I’ve read or heard, it’s a spectacular indictment of big government (specifically the death-dealing FDA) and a celebration of Outlaw entrepreneurism. That it stars Matthew McConaughey is merely a plus.
- Another long-time outdoors writer and sportsman who’s shocked to learn that laws passed against eeeeeeevvil gun owners also — oops! — apply to him. (H/T to LA)
- “Can’t we all just get along?” “Well, ah, no.” Mike Vanderboegh nails it again.
- Well, is this gonna cause more melodrama in the security theater, or what?
- Unbelievably, British police make a plausible case that a spy guy whose decomposing corpse was found locked in a gym bag died by a self-caused accident. Definitely news of the weird.
- Alas, the Puppycide documentary folks did not make their Kickstarter funding goal — though nearly 1,000 donors and a last-minute push put them over $60k. The good news is, that with the strong support and urging of those donors, they’re aiming for a relaunch this week, this time to fund a 30-minute doc rather than a feature-length film. I’ll keep you posted when that happens and hope everybody who pledged before will jump in again.
- Speaking of dogs, and to end on a happier note: have some puppy-and-toddler cuteness.
Re the Obummercare shockwaves. Very good analysis, and from a fairly reliable source. I can just see this administration attempting to draft doctors and other professionals into total involuntary servitude. Oh yeah… Atlas is shrugging.
Re: “Can’t We All Just Get Along”:
Amazing how many of the same people who argue for “democracy” and “the majority has spoken,” scream the loudest about how they’re “being opressed” when the majority doesn’t go their way.
Re: The British spy:
Britain declares a number of obviously-not-natural-or-accidental deaths as accidents or natural causes. It’s one reason they have such a low official murder rate. I admit I haven’t done enough research to say for certain, but I’m quite sure that if this tendancy was adjusted for, their per-capita murder rate would be several times that of the US.
Re: The spy. Nothing in that story seems logical. Houdini would be proud, though.
Tangentially related to your security comments, we apparently need to have serious new concerns about the Communist Chinese https://usjf.net/2013/11/watch-chinese-troops-american-soil/?utm_source=USJF+List&utm_campaign=035c20de1e-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7e542187d9-035c20de1e-43312445
and the Russians http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/world/europe/a-russian-gps-using-us-soil-stirs-spy-fears.html?ref=centralintelligenceagency&_r=1&
Of course, Obama isn’t the first to betray us. Clinton, as I recall, when he was in Russia asked them how they could help him convince the American people to go along with whatever it was he was trying to do at the time.
Clinton’s aid to the Communist Chinese is well documented in the books Year of the Rat http://www.amazon.com/Year-Rat-Clinton-Compromised-Security/dp/0895263335/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1384735516&sr=8-3&keywords=year+of+the+rat
and Red Dragon Rising http://www.amazon.com/Red-Dragon-Rising-Edward-Timperlake-ebook/dp/B007NJPKGA/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1384735585&sr=8-4&keywords=red+dragon+rising
I really believe (but I could be wrong) that if I were locked inside a gym bag (never seen one- don’t really know they are made) I could get out even if I were naked. I bet I could chew my way out if nothing else. Unless the air supply was really small or something. That just doesn’t make sense at all to me. Not that I’m going to test my hypothesis- at least not without a trusted friend right there to help me if I’m wrong.
The thing is, Kent, that you could not apply the padlock, or probably even run the zipper… from the inside. Not to mention the WHY of it. There are so many easier ways to kill yourself. This wouldn’t likely make the list. Accident? Oh please. How do you “accidentally” zip and padlock yourself into a bag?
The only mystery here is who killed him and put him in the bag. The rest is nonsense.
Maybe it is hard to escape from a gym bag if you have been cut into pieces so you would fit?
I could see someone figuring out how to climb into a gym bag, zip it from the inside and then working the lock by using the fabric like mittens. Hard, but with practice not impossible. I don’t see that someone would do that without a key on the inside and a trusted buddy on the outside. I woudl also have knife or scissors on the inside with me.
I’ve ripped so many duffel bags, I can’t see how the seams would hold long enough to die in one. Forget the padlock, go through the side!
Glaring ommisions are The Bible, as well as books on leadership,relationships, strategy, and L.I. tactics(FM 7-8). Still, this is pretty cool: http://zerogov.com/?p=3114
There’s repetition in those book lists.
But add to them:
“Mushrooming Without Fear — The Beginner’s Guide to Collecting Safe and Delicious Mushrooms”, Alexander Schwab, Skyhorse Publishing, 2006. Describes in words and great close-up photos only the GOOD mushrooms; all the rest should be ignored.
A more practical Shakespeare (one volume) might be “The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works,” 1998, Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd.
Alternative medicine could use the following:
1) “Healing Secrets of the Native Americans”, Porter Shimer, Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers, 2004
2) “The Green Pharmacy” James A. Duke, St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 1998
And gardening needs “The Garden Primer”, Barbara Damrosch, Workman Publishing, 2008. A comprehensive guide to all things growing.
On that shortage of doctors:
[Obama might try to intimidate doctors like he intimidated Chief Justice John Roberts into switching his vote to uphold Obamacare. Doctors should brace themselves for the same kind of venomous denunciations that Obama has aimed at millionaires and billionaires.]
Yeah, that oughta work. Hmmm, seems to me one of the primary sources for donation to the D party is the health care industry and doctors specifically. Obamacare sounds like a version of, “The beatings will continue until morale improves.”
I remember listening to Molyneux when he was talking about the government take-over of health care in Canada. He said the primary architect of that plan was asked how he got the doctors to buy in to this takeover. The response was, “I stuffed their mouths with gold.” It will be interesting to see if threats and violence are as effective.
On that Bob Sampson article, I always have to roll my eyes when a supposed gun writer calls cartridges “bullets”. And no, I don’t buy the “everybody calls them that” rationale – as if ordinary people don’t understand what a cartridge is.
However I think there should be some states for hoplophobes to live in, and Connecticut sounds like a good one. Gun owners would be wise to move away from such states, rather than writing pointless articles bemoaning the red tape for buying “bullets”.
Physicians historically (in this country) have gone into the profession to achieve independence. I remember hearing one say, regarding a local issue, that trying to get them to act in concert is like herding cats. As the Obamacare 2016 article recently referenced on this site noted, a lot will simply quit. Our life expectancy, which is definitely not the best, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy is sure to go down. I do think the figures are skewed a little by the fatalities from inner city conditions.
I have to admit the suicide story rivals our own Vincent Foster affair.
Paul B: I missed the “bullets” reference when I read the article. That’s special.
FWIW, another suicide story http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/9149066/Report-into-Rudolf-Hess-death-fails-to-answer-unexplained-questions-about-Nazi-prisoners-suicide.html