- Conservatives are boring and stodgy even when they finally come out and advocate civil disobedience. Libs are nevertheless horrified.
- A “Martin Luther of gun-rights”? Well, hardly people. But sounds like a good guy anyhow.
- The New York Times discovers the obvious: just because you make healthy food available to the poor doesn’t mean they’ll rush out and buy it.
- “Who are you and what have you done with Bob Owens?” Armed Lutheran does a more detailed takedown on Owens’ Bloombergian “blame the gun” L.A. Times blart. (Via Sipsey Street.) And here’s the NSFW version.
- An “abstinence only” high school has an outbreak of chlamydia. Oopsie.
- More from The Oatmeal: “My Dog, the Paradox.”
I hung out in bed most of the day yesterday, with my foot elevated and bound in the pressure bandage MamaLiberty suggested. With Ava boarding for the duration, I had only Robbie and the cat — both championship sleepers — for company. Nobody, nobody, nobody tried to guilt-trip me into walking, playing, running, riding, throwing tennis balls, playing tug-o-war or otherwise doing exhausting things.
It was a cross between unthinkable luxury and excruciating boredom. I could have gotten some writing done or caught up on my email backlog, but my whole being seemed as stiff and useless as my injured ankle. Aiming for better things today.
So glad you got some rest, Claire. Acute pain from an injury is nature’s way of getting us to stop running and allow the healing to start. I’m as much a fan of pain medication as anyone, but it can be counterproductive. Let the pain be your guide to know when you need to rest that ankle. It will pay off in the long run.
I remember being quite frustrated with poor mobility when I broke my ankle, until I simply accepted the idea that it was a golden opportunity to do all the reading and writing I wanted. The glass half full… 🙂
“Acute pain from an injury is nature’s way of getting us to stop running and allow the healing to start.”
Well, nature is certainly communicating loud and clear this morning. 🙁 Thanks for the encouragement.
Oatmeal makes me laugh so hard that I cry. Thank you.
Claire listen to ML she is spot on with her advice. Rest, elevation, ice and compression are the way to go. A strong, young thing like you will be up and at ’em before you know it. :^)
[Conservatives are boring and stodgy even when they finally come out and advocate civil disobedience.]
Yeah, I had to roll my eyes at some of his prescriptions. But the good news is the overall message, “ignore the law”, something conservatives desperately need practice at. And it’s got the flavor of something I wrote a while back:
http://strike-the-root.com/government-force-of-nature
I read Lozada’s critique of Murray. It also had some valid points, seems to me. I didn’t get that he was particularly horrified, just that he picked nits over what laws to disobey or what strategies to use. Criticizing Murray over the help by a billionaire to get the program started was silly; it’s not like liberals are averse to using billionaires (Bloomberg, etc.)
[The external safety on a Glock? It’s called your finger, Bob. In both cases cited the officers would never have discharged their weapons had they followed the first rule.]
Not that I am a defender of Owens, but the complainers seem to be missing the point: that officers, even with training, often DO NOT follow the first rule (actually, the third rule!), and a different gun likely would have been more forgiving of their violation. Why is that such a horror to contemplate? Are Glocks not to be criticized?
[“My Dog, the Paradox.”]
Ah, what a wonderful exposition of why I would never own a dog. 🙂
I was amused that the elites of the New York Times were surprised by the poor food choices of the poor and undereducated. I am old enough to remember when even the poorest chose food that we now consider as being healthy. Even now I go to the grocery and see elderly women using EBT to buy beans, greens for cooking, flour and cornmeal (rather than mixes), apples, and other fruit and vegetables that are in season (again the early training to buy what is cheaper because it hasn’t been shipped from around the world). The ease of convenience foods and junk foods doesn’t appeal to them since they learned to eat “real food” when they were young. They also tend to buy whole chicken at half the cost of the choice pieces and hamburger and stew meat when meat is purchased. Again it is a matter of what they grew up with. The younger women use the EBT to buy mostly food that their grandmothers wouldn’t touch. Even when the older women are heavy they are more likely to move faster and know exactly what they want and where it is. The extra weight doesn’t affect their movement or their decisiveness. I would guess that they are basically in better health than many much younger women.
The athletic trainer at our school always says for sprains R-I-C-E. Rest, ice, compress, and elevate. It sounds as you are doing all four.
Murray’s idea of insurance against government reprisals is already active in the U.S. war tax resistance movement.
There’s something called the “war tax resisters penalty fund” (http://www.nwtrcc.org/wtrpf/) that reimburses resisters for any penalties and interest added to resisted taxes that the IRS succeeds in seizing. That way, the resisters don’t lose any more than they would have if they’d paid the tax in the first place. It means there’s no financial risk to discourage potential war tax resisters from resisting.
They fund the reimbursements by sending out requests to all of the subscribers of the fund to cover a percentage of the reimbursement amount. So, for instance, in a recent appeal meant to reimburse $4888.14 to a war tax resister, each subscriber was asked to pay $27.44.
People who cannot (or who aren’t yet willing) to become war tax resisters but who sympathize with the movement can subscribe to the fund as a way of showing their support.
Here are some other historical real-life examples of mutual insurance pacts in the service of civil disobedience campaigns: https://sniggle.net/TPL/index5.php?entry=09Sep12
Couple of good articles by Bill Bonner, via Lew Rockwell:
http://bonnerandpartners.com/to-the-class-of-2015-you-chumps/
http://bonnerandpartners.com/a-generational-storm-is-coming/
I like Murray’s idea, and creating a fund to cover the legal costs, etc., of fighting onerous regulations sounds good. I doubt that it would work to pay any actual fines, though. My guess is that courts would quickly declare that to be “against public policy”. It’s not legal (or possible) to insure against your own criminal actions, which is how this would be seen.
“Not that I am a defender of Owens, but the complainers seem to be missing the point: that officers, even with training, often DO NOT follow the first rule (actually, the third rule!), and a different gun likely would have been more forgiving of their violation. Why is that such a horror to contemplate? Are Glocks not to be criticized?”
You miss the whole point, Paul. It’s not the Glocks that are the problem, it’s the idiots holding them. They would be just as stupid no matter what gun they were holding. Please go back and read Armed Lutheran’s piece once again for a better understanding of the issue.
Eh, I wrote a big thing in response, and then I decided I just don’t care. The real solution to this and a lot of other problems is to get rid of cops altogether.
Thanks for sharing, and the kind words.
From what I’ve seen, today’s liberals think of “revolution” exclusively in terms of conservatives rebelling against liberal government. The idea of an unpopular liberal administration, leading to a conservative sweep of the three branches, turning into a reactionary “Christian government” takeover, siezing enough power to institute a religious dictatorship, never occurs to them.
When I lead liberals to that scenario, and ask whether they’ll be satisfied to live under such, or whether they’ll want to borrow a gun, they get a real funny look on their face.