From Michael Ramirez:
On the other hand, he did appear very depressed lately…
Quote of the Day – Robb Wins Edition
The Winnah – from Sharp as a Marble:
Again, here’s a key illustration that these people think we’re too stupid to make the right choices, yet think the government (full of the same people who cannot make good choices) is up to the job after being chosen by the very same people that cannot make good choices.
We are being lorded over by people who cannot properly use Twitter, couldn’t boil water without a 12 page PowerPoint document and a governmentally Licensed Dihydrogen Monoxide Joule Application Specialist, or even have the most cursory comprehension of basic physics much less economics. They are not only stupid, they are dangerously so.
First runner up, however, goes to Tam:
I don’t have a problem with the idea that there are certain people who need to be dragged out behind the barn and Ol’ Yellered. The guy who shot up the theater in Colorado? Or what’s-his-face in Norway? That’s The Guy. He admits to being The Guy. Those guys are wasting precious oxygen that paramecia could be using to evolve.
If society wants to get all squeamish in those cases, then hand me the claw hammer and I’ll go in there and administer 28 ounces of Estwingazine intracranially and we’ll be done after you pass me that Handi-Wipe.
Some days picking just one is hard.
So I Bought Another Rifle
I decided to pull the trigger, so to speak, and purchased another Remington 700 – this time a .300 Winchester Magnum. This one is also a 5R, but it has a 26″ fluted barrel and a Bell & Carlson stock. All the metal is finished in black Cerakote. It’ll be a couple of weeks before I have it in hand, but it looks a lot like this one:
I’m no wimp, but when I go to the range, I like to SHOOT, and .300WM exceeds my shoulder capacity after ten five rounds, so I have to put a muzzle brake on it. Looks like there’s plenty of meat at the end for threading.
What say the Hive? Any recommendations for “Best Muzzle Brake for a .300 Win Mag”?
Oh, and my original 5R is going up for sale. I’m only going to keep one .308, and that’s going to be the M25.
UPDATE: Three nibbles on the .308 already!
UPDATE II – 3/29: I’ve got a buyer!
Quote of the Day – Inside Higher Ed Edition
This is from a piece discussing a new 2010 book by discredited history professor Michael Bellesiles. In particular, it refers to a paragraph in the promotional material for that book.
Seems that Bellesiles rubs off on his publishers, too.
The linked piece, “Amazing Disgrace,” is a pretty comprehensive review of the Arming America scandal, or as he terms it l’affaire Bellesiles, and worth your time.
Especially the last couple of paragraphs.
(h/t to Irons in the Fire for the link.)
Flying Solo
Somehow I missed this one when Bill posted it:
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Glock Perfection
Say Uncle linked to a Brietbart piece, ABC’s ‘Nightline’ Takes Aim at Glock Handguns in which ‘Nightline’ really hammers on the meme that Glock (the manufacturer) is eeeeeeviiilllll.
Something I noted though – I recently received a complimentary copy of Paul M. Barrett’s Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun from the publisher for review. I’m way overdue on that review (and honestly, others have done that far better than I), but I noted throughout the Brietbart column that it seemed that whoever did the ‘Nightline’ hit piece had read Mr. Barrett’s book, too. Used it as an outline, almost. When Barrett details how Glock would allow police departments to trade in their old service weapons for a discount on new Glocks, and then would sell those weapons to wholesalers, I could read an undercurrent of anger at how Glock was “putting guns on the streets” – especially when they took older Glock models (with pre-ban “high-capacity” magazines) in trade, thus illustrating the absurdity of the 1994 AWB. The ‘Nightline’ piece expands on that anger.
I’ve met Paul Barrett – he attended the Gun Blogger Rendezvous a couple of years ago, trying to gin up enthusiasm for his book. He seems a nice guy and a good investigative reporter, but I thought at the time that his book would be used as ammunition for the anti-gun forces out there, and I believe it has been.
Quote of the Day – Education Edition
From Please Do Not Adjust Your Child by Daren Jonescu:
Something has gone terribly wrong with the modern world, and public education is at the heart of the problem.
Exactly.
(h/t to QuadGMoto in a comment to a previous QotD)
Interesting Data Point
My Arizona CCW expired this month, so last month I filled out the renewal form and mailed them a cashier’s check.
It’s been a few weeks. No permit.
So I called them today. “We’re currently processing only those applications that came in before February 15,” I was told. “At the start of the year, it seems like EVERYBODY wanted to get a permit. We’re buried in applications.”
This is in a state where a permit is not required for carrying concealed. I have one because it gets me out of the instant background check when I purchase a firearm, and it also lets me carry in several other states (but no longer in Nevada).
I was advised to give them “another couple of weeks” before checking back.
Kalashnikitty Lives!
Seen on the back of an SUV this evening:
And this is why we’re still winning.
Edited to add, also THIS:
Quote of the Day – Larry Correia Edition
From a post on his Book of Face:
In my life I’ve milked cows, moved hay, done construction, worked in a cheese factory, answered phones in a call center, given auto insurance quotes, sold books, wrestled drunks, been an accountant, been an auditor, taught pistol and rifle shooting, opened my own business, lost my own business, got into contracting, been a finance manager, and then a senior finance manager, and now I’m a bestselling novelist… So over my life I’ve gone from very poor, to poor, to middle class, back to poor, to middle class, then to upper middle class, and now I’m rich. I don’t feel rich, but democrats feel that it is okay to take half of my income, so I must be rich. For all I know, I might be poor again tomorrow, but I at least I know how to cook beans and roll tortillas.
So forgive me if I don’t buy into your theory that we’re all trapped in some sort of friggin’ caste system here.
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If you are stuck in a minimum wage job for ten years, the problem is you. If you are trying to support a family for any extended period of time on a minimum wage job, the problem is you. If you don’t think the problem is you, the problem is you. If you don’t have the skills to get promoted or hired somewhere else, the problem is you. If there aren’t any jobs in you area, friggin’ move, but I’m betting the problem is still you.