The Smallest Minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. – Ayn Rand
Breda‘s other half (no, that’s not a “short” joke) Mike has written a three-piece (so far) essay on the divide in our culture, entitled Concord Bridge or Fort Sumter. I recommend you read all three parts.
I can’t find fault with it.
ETA: Read this too.
Alan Caruba on global systemic failure. Go. Read.
Quote of the… well, end, I suppose:
The Republicans more or less follow the laws and constitutional procedures, the Democrats deliberately and consciously break them. But the Republicans, while they complain incessantly about the Democrats, never identify this underlying fact. Why? Because that would show that the system is no longer legitimate. And the function of the Republicans, as “patriotic, conservative Americans,” is to uphold the goodness and legitimacy of the system, a legitimacy which rests on the belief that everyone in American politics shares the same basic principles and loyalties. So the Republicans, as defenders of the system and its presumed basic unity, cannot expose what the Democrats are. If they exposed it, politics would be replaced by open war between two radically incompatible parties and America as we know it would come to an end. — Lawrence Auster, View from the Right, Kagan’s non-recusal and what it means
Found at Van der Leun’s. I’ve been saying it for years. So have others. This is a realization that most people will not be able to avoid much longer, regardless of the education system, the media, and the .gov. Sooner or later Mr. and Ms. MiddleAmerica are finally going to say “ENOUGH!”
Saturday is National Ammo Day. My contribution this year is going to have to be the 500 Speer 158 grain .357 SWCHP bullets and 500 pieces of Starline .38+P brass I ordered today from Midway. I should receive the order next week.
I hope that’s enough to make Sarah Brady cry.
And that tells you everything you really need to know about the Obama administration:
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So when will Corzine be put in the cell reserved for Kenneth Lay?
I’m getting a new gun for Bowling Pins. US Citizen of Traction Control has an FFL, and access to a large stock of firearms. Well, I’m reducing that stock by Qty. 1. I’m ordering one of these:
That’s a S&W Model 327 TRR8 – a Scandium-alloy 8-shot N-Frame .357 magnum with a stainless cylinder milled for moon clips, 5″ stainless barrel with a Dan Wesson style barrel shroud, provisions for mounting Picatinny rails both on the top strap and under the barrel, all finished in matte black.
Here’s a shot of the business end with both rails attached:
It should make a fine Pin gun.
Or: Eight people can have a lot of fun in the rain.
Turnout was light Sunday due to the weather (and the NASCAR race in Phoenix). Bill and Elaine Tab rejoined us from the soon-to-be-frozen North, and Joe Lancaster rejoined us from his latest tour of the Sandbox. It drizzled on us off and on, and we had a downpour for a few minutes in the middle of the match, but eight of us in total showed up with nineteen guns. First rounds went downrange about 8:30, and we were finished by 11. The competition was pretty fierce, with several ties and several sets going four or more rounds.
The winner in Major was Jim Burnett with his Clark Custom 1911 pin gun. Minor and overall pistol champ was John Higgins with his EAA Witness 9mm. (In the eternal argument between .45 and 9mm, 9mm can be faster in pin shooting.) Revolver had only four competitors this month, and Jim won that one as well with his S&W .41 Magnum, squeaking by John and his Python. I learned firsthand that you should not try to reload your revolver with an EMPTY speed loader. It will cost you the round. I took the .22 rimfire class with my MkII Target. I had a couple of really good runs with it.
The next match is December 11. Hope to see you there!
From The Washington Examiner, Conn Colin’s column (say that three times fast) “Facts show Fannie, Freddie led mortgage market to the collapse“:
From 1992 through the height of the housing bubble, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac used their monopoly position in the mortgage securitization industry to reward firms like Countrywide for making bad bets in the housing market. Countrywide’s success was a signal to other market participants to lower their standards as well.
Wall Street banks are not blameless for the financial crisis. But they were only responding to the incentives set up by the federal government. Ignoring this history will help no one.
But ignore it they will. It does not fit The Narrative™.
RTWT. The .gov set up the conditions, the lenders ran with it. If they didn’t they’d have been penalized by the .gov. Once one major lender did it, everybody did it. Why wouldn’t they?
I’m back, but I’ve got to build three tables for the bowling pin match tomorrow, cut some pin tops, and load a hundred rounds of .45LC. Maybe later.
