And read Big Trouble in Little Benghazi over at Great Satan, Inc.
Truth in Advertising
I bet they teach their eighth-graders how to put a condom on a banana!
Or is that fourth-graders now? Progressives – so hard to keep up with.
Quote of the Day – Tyler Cowen Edition
But you won’t hear the words “Supreme Court Justice Eric Holder.”
SandCastle Air
For the first six Gun Blogger Rendezvous, I drove from Tucson to Reno. It’s about 15 hours each way, if you average 55MPH over the trip including stops for food and fuel. I can do that in one shot, but that’s about my limit. This year I got an interesting offer. Danno from Sandcastle Scrolls was going for the first time – and Dan owns a plane. A plane that cruises at 200MPH. Specifically, this plane:
Pretty, isn’t it? It’s a 1967 Cessna 310, with two Continental fuel-injected 471 cubic-inch six-cylinder boxer engines rated at about 260Hp each. At 200MPH, they burn about 25GPH for an average fuel economy of 8MPG – not bad at that speed. As Dan reported on his blog,
We fired up the #1 engine at 10:27 local and shut them down 3:26 later on the ramp at Carson City. (note flight time is not the same as engine time. Engine time includes taxi time at each end while flight time is from take off to landing.)
Beats the hell out of 15 hours. Including idling, run-up, takeoff and landing, we burned about 91 gallons each way. At well over $5/gal. Ouch. Still, the scenery from 8500 to 10,000 ft ASL is a lot nicer than it is at ground level over Nevada:
Trust me, the desert is MUCH prettier from the air. And you don’t get to do this – our approach and landing at Carson City:
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Dan’s been flying about 25 years. He greased the landing at Carson, and did it even better on our return to Chandler. Not a bad way to travel! And without blogging, I’d never have gotten this chance.
Oh, and the speed? Here’s the proof:
That’s from the GPS on my Blackberry.
Quote of the Day – The Brink Edition
On paper, given Obama’s record, this election should be a cakewalk for the Republicans. Why isn’t it? I am afraid the answer may be that the country is closer to the point of no return than most of us believed. With over 100 million Americans receiving federal welfare benefits, millions more going on Social Security disability, and many millions on top of that living on entitlement programs–not to mention enormous numbers of public employees–we may have gotten to the point where the government economy is more important, in the short term, than the real economy. My father, the least cynical of men, used to quote a political philosopher to the effect that democracy will work until people figure out they can vote themselves money. I fear that time may have come.
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I am afraid the problem in this year’s race is economic self-interest: we are perilously close to the point where 50% of our population cares more about the money it gets (or expects to get) from government than about the well-being of the nation as a whole. Throw in a few confused students, pro-abortion fanatics, etc., and you have a Democratic majority.
John Hinderaker, Powerline, Why is This Election Close?
Don’t they always protest after losing an election that the populace inexplicably didn’t “vote in their own best interest”?
Nuke the Site from Orbit
It’s the only way to be sure.
9/11
So, Muslim protesters attacked the U.S. Embassies in Cairo, Egypt and Benghazi, Libya because they were upset about
A 14-minute movie trailer, posted on YouTube in English and Arabic, (that) portrays Muhammad as a womanizer and fraud
Well whoop-te-do.
Reportedly, the attackers killed one person in Libya. It is not known whether the victim was American or not.
And you know what the most important thing I learned is?
According to Bloomberg:
In Egypt’s capital, Cairo, Islamist demonstrators scaled the walls of the U.S. Embassy, ripped down a U.S. flag and chanted “Obama, we are here to sacrifice for Osama.”
The Egyptian crowds, numbering in the hundreds, chanted “We are all Osama bin Laden” as the U.S. marked the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks that killed about 3,000 people on orders of the man the protesters were extolling.
Isn’t that special!
I think we’ve restocked on JDAMs and Mavericks, and I understand that the Army is issuing a new and much-improved round for the M4.
UPDATE 9/12/11: The U.S. Ambassador to Libya and three staffers have been killed. That’s our thanks for helping oust Gaddafi.
“We sacrificed dozens and hundreds during the uprising for our dignity. The Prophet’s dignity is more important to us and we are ready to sacrifice millions,” said mosque preacher Mohamed Abu Gabal who joined the protest.
Well, there are tens of millions of Americans prepared to help you make that sacrifice, Mohamed.
What the (Blank) Could Possibly Go Worng?
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0 for 7
Well, I’ve been attending the Gun Blogger Rendezvous since its inception. The first year the top prize at the Saturday night raffle was a pistol – a High Point 9mm. Each year since the prizes have gotten better and better – more guns, more neat swag. I even gave away a gun at the 2009 GBR.
But I’ve never won one.
I’d hoped that last year would end my dry streak. Bea had donated a Ruger Blackhawk that she said she wanted me to win, but it was not to be. Molly Smith took home the certificate for that one.
This year, Ruger Engineering Johnson donated a .45LC Vaquero I really wanted.
My nemesis took it once again. (Meddling kids!) And she’s sponsored by Smith & Wesson!
Oh well, I guess winning a gun will be a once-in-a-lifetime event for me.
Buth there’s always next year.
(Typos corrected. I was in a hurry and typing on my EeePC keyboard. Sue me.)
Quote of the Day – Mr C.Edition
Commenting on his win in the Super Senior Rimfire class at the Western National Steel Challenge Chamionship:
You don’t have to outshoot ’em, you just have to outlive ’em!