I am (really) still cogitating on the topic I started the other day on defining ourselves. Comments (particularly from Ellendra and Paul Bonneau) have got my brain headed off in a different direction and I’ll simply have to wait and see if I can chase after it and catch it long enough to get something coherent down on pixels.
Meantime, here are some links, some related to that topic (though not always in an obvious way), some not at all.
- The end of neighbors. Or, this being a Canadian article, “The End of Neighbours.” The loss of neighborliness is a) not very good for us and b) exactly what we want.
- Portrait of Tom Palmer — the unlikely man who challenged D.C.’s gun laws and won. In case you missed it, Kurt Hofmann also had a good take on Palmer last week at JPFO.
- Wired (specifically the great James Bamford) interviews Snowden on (among other things) why he became a whistleblower.
- While researching for part II of “Defining Ourselves,” I went down this pathway and found the amazing variety of people and organizations who helped Jews during the Holocaust, and the equally amazing variey of ways they did it.
- On the topic of genocide … old colleague R. sent a link to this beautiful song about aftermath and rage. Patty Griffin: Cold as it Gets. Lyrics here.
- Bob Owens takes apart “smart guns.” Not that you’ll be surprised by any of the info. But being Bob Owens, he says it thoroughly and well.
“Smart guns…” Hmm, let’s see the Secret Service, the FBI and the CIA, etc. all start to carry one exclusively. We can watch to see how that works for them….
The end of neighbors?
[Looks around.]
Got lots of neighbors. I just don’t live next door to them.
Thanks for that Wiki link about saving Jews. Notably missing from that list of countries is the US. And then there is this:
“The U.S. had passed the Immigration Act of 1924 that restricted numbers of “new” immigrants from eastern and southern Europe.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis
See my piece on the current immigration crisis:
http://ncc-1776.org/tle2014/tle783-20140810-03.html
As to “smart” guns, I don’t agree with Owens. There is no way 300 million guns in America are going to be turned in because some guy invents a smart gun. If anything, this will expand gun sales as people who are concerned about e.g. children getting access to their gun, now will be able to buy. This just looks like the old fear of something new, to me. That guy is an inventor, with something new for the market. What’s wrong with that? Owens is just indulging in fear.
Great song about revenge, passed it on…
And now for something completely different, how to shoot at long range:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJUaiRIEduNXoal2_PkBZi0vDCIcEPxUn
He does tend to belabor a point, but there is a lot of good info there, and not just about $6000 rifles either. At one point where he does a historical review, I was amazed to learn that of the top 200 or so snipers the world has seen, virtually all of them were Russians, shooting crude Mosin-Nagants.