The Smallest Minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. – Ayn Rand
U.S. Citizen does the math that liberals never do. Excerpt:
The (Affordable Care Act) tax represents a 20% increase in cost to their employer from $7.25 to $8.69 per hour.
Instead of paying the ACA tax, workers’ hours will be reduced.
RTWT. It’s short and to the point.
And goes along with the Steven Crowder piece below.
Bill Quick has some evidence backing him up.
Steven Crowder goes serious. Worth your thirteen minutes.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hhJ_49leBw?rel=0]
The Democrats keep throwing slow hanging curve-balls, the Republicans keep hitting ’em out of the park:
So, back in April I bought a custom-engraved AR15 lower, and I decided I wanted a “thumper” upper for it, either a .50 Beowulf or a .458 SOCOM. I went with the SOCOM because bullet selection for the .458 is better, I think, and the boltface matches the .308 Winchester casehead rather than the 7.62×39, so if I’d like to try a 6.5 Benchrest upper, I can.
Rock River Arms was promising “60-90 day” delivery on complete uppers, but on the parts page they advised that bolts and carriers were delayed. I inquired as to whether this would affect the 60-90 days on complete uppers, but was assured that would not be the case but it would be 90 days, so I’d have a complete rifle well in time for the Gun Blogger Rendezvous in September.
I placed my order on May 3.
On July 12 I inquired as to the status of my order. The response:
Most uppers and rifles run at least 90 days, some are extending by 30-45 days due to component availability.
Fair enough. I checked again on August 6. The response:
The .458’s are running over the approximate 90 day time frame, so it could be 30-45 days before it is available.
Well, that meant the Rendezvous would be a washout. So I waited some more.
I emailed them again yesterday, 154 days after placing the order. They replied this morning:
We just received the barrels in, the upper went to the floor to be built so it will be shipping out in 2 weeks to 30 days.
So, instead of 90 days, it’s going to be 168-182 days.
If I can believe them this time.
UPDATE, 10/9/12: I received this email today from UPS:
This message was sent to you at the request of ROCK RIVER ARMS to notify you that the electronic shipment information below has been transmitted to UPS. The physical package(s) may or may not have actually been tendered to UPS for shipment. To verify the actual transit status of your shipment, click on the tracking link below or contact ROCK RIVER ARMS directly.
Important Delivery Information
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Adult Signature Required – Adult must be at least 21 years of age
Scheduled Delivery: 15-October-2012
And Rock River has billed my credit card.
Looks like I’ll have a thumper next week!
This story makes me wince:
Rugby player loses testicle after final defeat
British rugby league player Paul Wood has lost a testicle after a collision during the English sport’s showpiece final at Manchester’s Old Trafford stadium on Saturday.
Wood was playing for the Warrington Wolves against Leeds Rhinos in the Super League Grand Final.
The prop sustained the injury one minute into the second half, but managed to play the rest of the match before seeking treatment.
(My emphasis.)
(*shudder*)
Expat Phil B. sends me this story:
The game controller in question:
I can hear the panties twisting from all the way over here.
Sent to me by my favorite Merchant O’Death.
Back when I wrote, “It’s most important that all potential victims be as dangerous as they can,” I opened the piece with this quote from a post at Grim’s Hall:
I was reading an article the other day, in the local newspaper, about an elderly Korean gentleman who has moved into town and opened a martial arts studio. He chastened the reporter who had come to interview him not to suggest that the martial arts were ‘all about fighting.’ “No!” he said. “The purpose is social harmony.”
That is exactly right. The secret of social harmony is simple: Old men must be dangerous.
Very nearly all the violence that plagues, rather than protects, society is the work of young males between the ages of fourteen and thirty. A substantial amount of the violence that protects rather than plagues society is performed by other members of the same group. The reasons for this predisposition are generally rooted in biology, which is to say that they are not going anywhere, in spite of the current fashion that suggests doping half the young with Ritalin.
The question is how to move these young men from the first group (violent and predatory) into the second (violent, but protective). This is to ask: what is the difference between a street gang and the Marine Corps, or a thug and a policeman? In every case, we see that the good youths are guided and disciplined by old men. This is half the answer to the problem.
In my essay Culture, I wrote about the problem America has not with violent crime, but inner-city violent crime; about how our crime statistics are skewed by the fact that young, urban black men are so much more violent than any other group, and that this may be because – at least in part – they have so few dangerous old men to guide them from violent-and-predatory to violent-but-protective.
Here’s a good example of one of the few. (h/t Instapundit.) And read the comments.
Interviewer: Why in the hell would anybody want a Sherman tank?
Cmd. Sgt. Maj. Zack Carey: Because it’s very hard to shoot yourself while you’re cleaning it.
Watch this 14-minute documentary on the situation in Greece:
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/50028620 w=500&h=281](Athens: Social Meltdown from Ross Domoney on Vimeo.)
Then go look at what’s going on in Greece right now.
And then read what the Greek Prime Minister is warning.
And this can’t happen here… why, exactly?
h/t to Bayou Renaissance Man for the link to the video. And by all means, read his entire piece, since he discusses also Spain, Italy, South Africa and Iran.
There are a bunch of international dominoes all lining up for what could be a spectacular fall.
What was it that Mostly Cajun said a while back? “Retire? I will probably get killed in the early battles of the coming revolution.”