I don’t know how I missed this one when it was first posted in April of last year. Andrew Klavan and Bill Whittle skewer Obama’s The Road We’ve Traveled:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aR1ekUSfyU?rel=0]
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Quote of the Day – Glenn Reynolds Edition
Actually, he gets two. First up, this one, from his post on Gun Control Politics:
Resort to theatrical efforts at emotional blackmail is an admission that you have no intellectual arguments. Which is par for the course with the smarmy Diane Sawyer, of course, and with the even-smarmier gun control movement.
I would ask “have you no decency?” — but we already know the answer to that.
Which presents me the perfect opportunity to insert this video clip of the “smarmy Diane Sawyer” from 2007:
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The second quote is from an older post having to do with the civil war in Syria, but it has more a more universal applicability:
In a revolution, if you’re not willing to die or kill for your beliefs you’re basically irrelevant. Tweeting doesn’t count.
Out With the Old, In With the… Older!
About seven years ago, I bought a Winchester 94 for BAG day, the 24″ blued version, chambered in .45 Long Colt. Nice rifle, but the 24″ barrel was a bit unwieldy and I really wanted something in stainless, but at the time those were rare as hen’s teeth.
Well, my favorite Merchant-O’Death dropped me an email last night to inform me that they’d just received a stainless Rossi M92 carbine in .45LC, if I was interested.
So this morning I trekked over to the shop, hunted for a place to park, (thanks, Obama!) and went in and made a trade. Almost seven years ago I dropped $399 on the Winchester. I got $400 for it today on trade, and dropped an extra $105 to pick up the Rossi. Two model years older (Winchester ’92 vs. ’94), but much handier with a 16″ barrel, and the action is quite smooth. Now I’m looking at modifying it with a peep sight to replace the bolt-mounted safety and a metal magazine follower to replace the plastic one. These seem to be the most recommended modifications made by the Cowboy Action shooters. Very nice piece!
Quote of the Day – Fracking Edition
From Dale at Mostly Cajun:
I worked for a company refurbishing a SONATRACH liquifaction plant that took that gas and liquified it and sold it to, among other places, the US, shipping it to the facility that sits behind my office, where we turn the liquid back into gas and pump it into the pipelines that spread that energy all over the country. When we were buying gas from overseas, it was thirteen bucks for a thousand cubic feet. Now it’s a bit over three. The reason for the difference is one word, ‘FRACKING’. Yeah, the same word that’s joining global warming as the word of the week for the envirowhacko movement. And make no bones about it, under the present regime, envirowhackos are at the highest levels of the government.
So let’s see if we can put a couple of things on the table: Our own government wants to shut down OUR gas production. No sweat, huh? We can still buy gas from overseas, right? AT five times the cost of what we can suck it out of the ground here. Since gas is the energy for electricity, heating, and a million other uses in modern life, prices across the board will go up. Oh, wait! That overseas gas? Under control of all manner of people that the obama regime seems to empower. OPEC? They’re one of the more stable and benign. And how’s OPEC gonna fare as one ‘stable’ government after another falls to the obama-endorsed ‘Arab Spring’?
Michael Ramirez – Need I Say More?
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Your 13:29 of Zen
Watch right about 7:20. Yikes! Oh, and my strong suggestion is to crank up the definition as high as your connection will allow and watch it full-screen.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v2L2UGZJAM?rel=0]
Quote of the Day – David Mamet Edition
David Mamet, playwright and recent convert to the right has written an op-ed on gun control for Newsweak. Today’s QotD is excerpted from its opening:
Karl Marx summed up Communism as “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” This is a good, pithy saying, which, in practice, has succeeded in bringing, upon those under its sway, misery, poverty, rape, torture, slavery, and death.
For the saying implies but does not name the effective agency of its supposed utopia. The agency is called “The State,” and the motto, fleshed out, for the benefit of the easily confused must read “The State will take from each according to his ability: the State will give to each according to his needs.” “Needs and abilities” are, of course, subjective. So the operative statement may be reduced to “the State shall take, the State shall give.”
Read. The. Whole. Thing.
Your .Gov at Work
No one can convince me that this was an “unintended consequence.” Via GOF in comments:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhhkhmCbcZk?rel=0]
The .gov essentially just took their property from them without compensation.
Edited to add: Don’t forget, essentially the same thing is happening to Roger Kimball (and undoubtedly hundreds if not thousands of others) on the other side of the country where Sandy made landfall.
FrackNation
I watched the documentary FrackNation that I helped fund last night when it aired on AXS. It is a takedown of the previous crockumentary Gasland, and the opposition to fracking both here and around the world using, you know, facts.
The central focus of the film is the town of Dimock, PA and the people there who have been fighting against the anti-fracking forces, and one thing that struck me in particular was a montage of residents decrying the incredibly slanted media coverage of the topic without, as one person put it, any attempt at balance at all.
I was reminded of The Narrative – an excerpt from a Stephen Hunter novel I posted here a while back:
You do not fight the narrative. The narrative will destroy you. The narrative is all-powerful. The narrative rules. It rules us, it rules Washington, it rules everything.
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The narrative is the set of assumptions the press believes in, possibly without even knowing that it believes in them. It’s so powerful because it’s unconscious. It’s not like they get together every morning and decide “These are the lies we will tell today.” No, that would be too crude and honest. Rather, it’s a set of casual, nonrigorous assumptions about a reality they’ve never really experienced that’s arranged in such a way as to reinforce their best and most ideal presumptions about themselves and their importance to the system and the way they’ve chosen to live their lives. It’s a way of arranging things a certain way that they all believe in without ever really addressing carefully. It permeates their whole culture. They know, for example, that Bush is a moron and Obama is a saint. They know communism was a phony threat cooked up by right-wing cranks as a way to leverage power to the executive. They know that Saddam didn’t have weapons of mass destruction, the response to Katrina was fucked up…. Cheney’s a devil. Biden’s a genius. Soft power good, hard power bad. Forgiveness excellent, punishment counterproductive, capital punishment a sin.
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And the narrative is the bedrock of their culture, the keystone of their faith, the altar of their church. They don’t even know they’re true believers, because in theory they despise the true believer in anything. But they will absolutely de-frackin’-stroy anybody who makes them question that….
And the media knows that fracking is a horrible thing that destroys ground water and air quality and must be stopped at all costs because it will contribute to Global Warming.
Now THIS is a Gun Rights Spokesman
Larry Correia on “assault weapons.”
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzyuvl5Ry4g?rel=0]
Good on ya, Larry, but it wasn’t Cynthia McKinney, it was Carolyn McCarthy. Understandable error.
And Larry’s essay referred to was An Opinion on Gun Control. Highly recommended.