Author: Kevin

OMFG!

Allahpundit is… unbelievable.

I literally laughed out loud at this one.

After the recent brouhaha over Glenn Reynolds’ endorsement of the “Celebrate Diversity” T-shirt, Allah has found a way for Glenn to “prove his decency” to the Left.

Don’t drink or eat anything before opening the link.

I would say “Touché,” but this was not a touch to the chest with an épée, it’s a goddammed axeblow to the skull!

All bow to Allah! We are not worthy!

“Recovered,” My Ass

I was going to write a piece on the State of New York confiscating 63 year-old Thad Shank’s gun collection, but Ravenwood had done the definitive job of it. I can’t add anything.

I will NEVER register my guns, nor live where it’s required. Period. It’s an invitation to the State to find you in minor violation of the rules, and take everything you’ve got.

Fuck ’em.

There’s a nice turn of phrase, from the New York Daily News‘s Zev Chafets:

Why Bush is going to win

In 1972, The New Yorker’s movie critic, Pauline Kael, won herself a place in political lore by expressing astonishment at the Republicans’ 49-state landslide victory. “How could that be?” she demanded. “I don’t know a single person who voted for Nixon.”

I don’t live in such a rarified world, but most of my friends are voting for John Kerry. And I imagine that a good many will be shocked when President Bush wins in November.

It is possible that no Democrat could beat Bush this year. The President has Ralph Nader on his side, and demography. Since the 2000 election, shifts in population have added seven electoral votes to the Red Bush states and subtracted seven from Goreland.

This alone might be enough to put Bush over the top in a tight race. But despite the polls, I don’t think this election will be close, and this time the Democratic establishment won’t be able to blame the Supreme Court. If they’re fair, they’ll blame themselves. Since this is politics, they’ll blame the candidate.

John Kerry is not a bad man. He probably wouldn’t make a bad President. But he is a bad candidate in a terrible situation. He represents the wing of the Democratic Party that is imbued with a sense of its own moral, intellectual, cultural and social superiority. In short, he is the standard bearer for the unbearable.

Amen.

These people don’t comprise a majority of the electorate or even Democratic voters (how could they and remain an elite?), but they have convinced themselves that they and their candidate – if packaged properly – will prove irresistibly attractive to lesser Americans.

Precisely. They believe they can fool the average gullible idiot into voting for them. After all, it’s how the Repubicans win!

It’s a common theme if you read the DemocraticUnderground.com forums and other Lefty sites.

Boston, with its flag-waving and saluting and balloon-blowing was supposed to be a commercial for this new and superior brand of politics. But Americans are expert TV watchers. A lot of them voted with their remotes. Those who did watch weren’t impressed. The Democrats’ much anticipated post-convention bump turned into a thud. George McGovern got one of those in 1972.

Kerry now has 90 days to convince voters that a Bush victory in November would be, as his wife put it in Milwaukee on Monday, “four more years of hell.”

The problem is, most Americans don’t regard their lives as “hell” or Bush as Satan. The economy, after all, is not really in a Great Depression. In fact, it’s doing pretty well. Iraq isn’t Vietnam, and won’t be unless there’s a draft. The Islamic jihad against America isn’t Bush’s fault, either. A candidate who insists otherwise is bound to strike voters as detached from reality.

Kerry ought to know this, and he may. But his party is dominated, as it was in 1972, by people who talk only to one another and who are convinced that everybody despises Bush. They will judge Kerry by how hard he goes after the Crawford Beelzebub.

Right now the polls look even. But that’s an optical illusion. The President has a Republican convention coming up and the power of incumbency to shape events between now and November. In other words, he’s way ahead.

Kerry is a weak campaigner. Barring some kind of national disaster, his best shot is the debates. Democratic true believers think he’ll kill Bush, one on one. That’s what they thought about Al Gore, too.

Calling a presidential race in August is risky, especially a race that’s supposedly close. But no guts, no glory. Bush will beat Kerry in a walk. If I’m right, you read it here first. If not, well, even Pauline Kael got it wrong once in a while.

As several people have noted, Kerry does better the less you see (and hear) of him. But now he has to be out in public – doing things like faking lunch at Wendy’s for a photo-op, getting dissed by some Marines there, and then having a gourmet box-lunch of Shrimp Vindaloo delivered from the local Yacht Club. Apparently Teresa has never had Chili before.

Yes, we “little people” will certainly recognize Sen. Kerry’s obvious superiority and vote him in as the man best qualified to tell us how best to live our miserable little lives.

“Standard bearer for the unbearable,” indeed.

I’ve Noticed This Myself…

Frank J. has generated a list of “fun facts” about Democrats that lives up to (or down to) his well-deserved reputation.

But this one is my favorite:

Democrats are big into class warfare. They also are for gun control which has caused the deadliest firearms to be too expensive except for the rich to buy. So, if class warfare ever goes to blows, it won’t last long.

Ayup. The rest are almost as good.

In relation to the “Rotten Log” post below concerning the “Celebrate Diversity” shirt, another moonbat-with-a-blog wrote another “I’m OFFENDED!“ post on it. At least Steve Gillard doesn’t use an alias, but he gives links for his moonbat readers to send objection letters to – I suppose – get Reynolds in hot water. Quote:

Reynolds has said any number of biased, unfair and truly repellent things on his site. Which is his right. But this crosses a rather broad line. I mean, where does he keep this shirt, next to his Wehrmacht World Tour and Hitler: No More Mister Nice Guy shirts.
I think it’s time we start asking people, like his boss, how his views and public statements coincide with the education provided by the University of Tennessee.

Hell, I have that question about any number of professors, starting with Noam Chomsky and MIT. Note the invocation of Godwin’s Law.

Steve continues with a list of contacts for the perennially outraged to write to, including:

University of Tennessee Law School Dean Tom Galligan

Sen. Randy McNally – head of the Tennessee Senate’s Education Committee

House Member Les Whittington – in charge of the House Education committee

The Memphis Commercial Appeal and the Nashville Tennessean newspapers.

Steve says:

Just ask them if they agree that a professor at the state’s public university should be advertising a shirt which opposes diversity.

My. Mouth. Hangs. Agape.

How…?

Now, when the Right does this, it’s called “censorship” by the Left. It’s “violation of their First Amendment Right of Free Speech.” But when they do it…

And, once again, the comments are priceless! (Hat tip, Spoons.)

No running commentary this time. It’s too tiring. Just go read. Here’s a taste:

I worry less about that than the minority kid in his class. If that is his opinion, can a minority kid be treated fairly by him. Diversity isn’t an opinion, but state policy. Does the university agree he should be opposing state policy on a commercial website?
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Since Glenn Reynolds is a patriotic guy opposed to “Islamofacism” and since several of our financial trophy buildings are now at risk of an Al Qaeda attack, I now invite Mr. Reynolds to come down to Newark, New Jersey (in the shirt) to help guard the Prudential Building against being attacked.
There are a number of local crips and bloods who (in spite of New Jersey’s draconian gun control laws) appreciate the gun culture as much as he does. I’m *quite sure* they’ll have an interesting take on the shirt.

*sigh*

The Left leaves me… tired.

John Lott Must Read Me

Awhile back I noticed that John Lott had me listed in his blogroll.

Not anymore!

I feel so special!

The Microsoft™ SmartGun



Via Clayton Cramer comes this hilarious cartoon. Go read.

Point by Freakin’ Point

Mike at Cold Fury has written the transcript of the press conference I’d PAY to see. A taste:

“Christ almighty, what is it with you people? You’ve spent a couple of years asking why we didn’t prevent 9/11, calling for an investigation, asking ‘how much did Bush know and when did he know it?’ You blamed us for something we failed to prevent after eight months in office, and yet to this day you give the Clinton admin a free pass, even though he had eight years—eight fucking years, people—to do something about al Qaeda and didn’t do one goddamned thing.

“You finally get your investigation, the results of which confirm most of what we’d been saying all along, but you don’t want to hear that any more than you wanted to hear about the fact that one of the Democrat commissioners, Jamie Gorelick, was responsible for the so-called “wall of separation” prohibiting information-sharing between the FBI and CIA, which nearly everyone now acknowledges was one of the biggest problems preventing any effective defense against terrorist networks. You do deign to acknowledge that problem, but the part you originally claimed to be most interested in—who was responsible—is suddenly not so interesting anymore the moment you realized you couldn’t reasonably blame us for it.

“You insist that Condi and Bush must testify publicly to the commission (even though Condi had already testified once), but it doesn’t seem to bother you when Clinton gets to testify behind closed doors. You laud Richard Clarke’s and Joe Wilson’s credibility, but when it’s clearly shown that they’re liars you don’t seem to want to bring it up anymore. You hint at all sorts of sinister skullduggery on our part, but when Sandy Berger openly admits to stealing classified documents for God only knows what reason, you couldn’t care less.

And it just gets better. No kidding! With links, too!

(Hat Tip, my favorite African-American.)

They Can’t Have Mine

Heartless Libertarian reports that the U.S. military is apparently short about a million “standard capacity” magazines for its M16/M4 weapons. I’ve got seven myself for my custom-built AR-15, purchased after the so-called “ban” that made manufacturing new ones for civilian consumption illegal, but did absolutely nothing to affect the existing supply except drive up the prices. And I’m a piker. I know there are people who have over a hundred.

Unintended consequences…

I Wonder If These Guys Get to Run Their Ad Shortly Before the Election?

But hopefully everyone will have seen this by then. Several times.

You should.