The Daily Kos has proposed the detailed firearm confiscation plan the NYT and other more delicate souls have been tippy-toeing around. It’s comprehensive. It’s brutal. It takes no prisoners multi-millions of prisoners. With no due process. After a mere quick skim I can spot a dozen reasons that while it would turn streets bloody from Miami, Florida, to Homer, Alaska… it still wouldn’t damnwell work. If “work” means eliminate firearms. For eliminating firearms, it’s completely, wildly laughable. Though I admit it would certainly be excellent at creating both civil war and tyranny. How ’bout a Commentariat fisking, guys? Go for…
Category: Guns and Gun Rights
Of course.
How to escape the culture of mass deception (via RLW in comments). Written from a conservative, not libertarian, perspective. But the basic point is good. Thailand investigates the U.S. ambassador for lèse-majesté — because he criticized lèse-majesté arrests. Never, but never, ever, did I think anybody would say this about marijuana. Never. Ugh. Big data to be the next trillion-dollar business? Oh, please … Socks. Containing urine. Circulated by walking. Generating electricity. Just because you’re inept and unprepared, buddy, doesn’t mean the rest of us are. (Still, the certification process sounds horribly inadequate if it was anything like he describes.)…
Per MamaLiberty in comments, the Future of Freedom Foundation is offering two gun-rights ebooks FREE today and tomorrow. The books are: The Tyranny of Gun Control (various authors including Sheldon Richman and Jim Bovard) and Freedom and Security: The Second Amendment and The Right to Keep and Bear Arms by Scott McPherson. Get ’em while you can. The timing of this is perfect.
Jim Bovard on our fearmongering president. Charles C.W. Cooke does it again. Our right to bear arms is not up for debate. (Heck, even that elitist, statist pig Alexander Hamilton knew that.) Well. So much for all that oh-so-careful vetting. Surprise, surprise. Iran lies and Obama just nods like a bobblehead doll. Alas, the middle class is now a minority. The graph says it most vividly. You can feel the squeeze. LOL! Glenn Harlan Reynolds on Donald Trump as the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. (Or to put it another way, when leaders are fiddling while nations burn you don’t get John…
For the first time in days it’s not drenching and flooding. Oh, there’s a little hail here and there. A few scattered thunder-boomers. The wetland across the road is extremely wet. And my waterfall (yes, I have my own personal waterfall, but only when the weather is like this) is merrily burbling away. Other than that, it’s lovely. Blue. Dry. Gave me a chance to put the dogs in the yard and go out and tape up a few more seams on Old Blue. Taping worked as a proof-of-concept but I apparently missed a few spots, first go-round. More weather…
They shouldn’t have euthanized the alligator. Should have given him a medal. No, Colbert. The problem isn’t that you don’t have to show ID to buy ammo. The problem is that you do have to show it to buy Sudafed. This is how tyranny creeps its creepy little way into our heads. Barack Obama … um created Donald Trump. Two good ones from TZP: Bear Bussjaeger’s “Speaking Ill of the Dead” and William Lehman’s guest commentary, “Controlled Violence, or Pistols and Other Things that Go Boom”. Subscribers to TZP alerts got an early look at both of these. Guess you…
A social-justice pecksniff explains that there’s nothing wrong with suppressing free speech and erasing history. It’s just a way of achieving a better future. Meanwhile, both members of the formerly well-regarded Couple Christakis have now fled Yale because they can’t work in such an environment. Kevin of The Smallest Minority takes all of three lines to explain weapons of war You already know the USPS has been photographing the outside of all your mail (“security,” of course). Now they’re offering to email you the photos. As a service. (H/T ML) The answer to terror: tougher (armed) citizens, not bigger government.…
The deadly truth about climate change You’ve heard Glorious Leader say it. And you probably didn’t believe that climate change was the greatest threat to our liberty and security. But now actual, unretouched photos reveal the shocking truth about the deadly peril we face from climate change. Tell it to the terrorists Last night Glorious Leader also equated gun ownership with terrorists and terrorism. Clearly he should send that message directly to the terrorists:
And the Washington Post’s reporting on the issue is totally unbiased, non-prejudicial, and not at all filled with gloating references to terrorism and mass murder as you’d expect. More.
We’re expecting five storms in rapid sequence over the next week. Some of them hard and windy. So should I go offline at any time, don’t worry. It’s not the ATF, FBI, CIA, or NSA. Just Ma Nature.
This will be a good test of how well my tape job did on fixing Old Blue’s leaks. So far so good after a week of normal wet conditions. Few drops of water in the trunk, but no lakes, rivers, or waterfalls in the passenger compartment.
Another table
The library held a mosaics class one morning last month. While everybody else worked on wooden planks the teacher provided, I decided to do another table. Specifically this one: