Our mighty Navy SEALs not only put a bullet through Osama’s head, but carried off his computers, disks and hard drives. So far, all they’ve revealed is that Osama had multiple Netflix rentals of “Rendition,” “In the Valley of Elah,” “Fahrenheit 9/11” and “Love Actually.”
Can you imagine what’s on Osama’s hard drives? I mean besides the goat pornography. Pants are wetting throughout Pakistan’s military establishment.Ann Coulter, Next Time, Use FedEx
It’s a Twofer!
So (formerly) Great Britain has “some of the toughest gun laws in the world,” according to former Home Secretary Alun Michael, gun laws that were necessary because (he said) “We recognize that only the strictest control of firearms will protect the public.”
They tell us that getting groped and probed and scanned by the TSA is necessary too, and for the same reason – “protecting the public.”
So much for airport security: Man ‘smuggled 80 guns into Britain’ by hiding them in suitcases
An American man is suspected of smuggling 80 weapons into the UK by hiding them in his suitcases.Former U.S. marine Steven Greenoe, who holds British citizenship, apparently strolled through airport security in both Britain and America with dozens of handguns stashed in his suitcases on ten flights last year.
He is believed to have delivered them to criminal contacts in the North West of England.
On one occasion, Greenoe was stopped after officials at Atlanta airport spotted the firearms.But incredibly he was allowed to board the flight after telling officials he worked as an international security consultant.
The revelations are an embarrassment for transatlantic security and for the UK Border Agency. (Ya THINK?)
It makes a mockery of security regulations which mean innocent passengers have to carry cosmetics in clear plastic bags when in fact Greenoe apparently had no problems carrying weapons in a suitcase. (Those regulations were already a mockery. Now they’re a belly-laugh.)
So… did Project Fast and Furious expand to include Jolly Olde England? Is Greenoe a BATF employee, on or off the books?
Oh, and get this:
A number of 9mm semi-automatic pistols believed to have been bought by Mr Greenoe for $500 each in a North Carolina gunshop were offered for sale at up to £5,000 a piece in Britain a week later, according to the Times.
More than 60 weapons, including more than 20 Glock pistols and more than a dozen Ruger handguns, are understood to be still unaccounted for.
Wow! At current exchange rates, that’s an $8200 return on a $500 investment (minus, of course, the plane fare.) Still, you’re looking at close to a 16:1 ROI if you can move five at a time, and he’s moved at least 60 guns that they know about. At a guess, we’re talking $400k worth of profit.
I am once again reminded of Father Guido Sarducci’s Five-Minute University Economics class: “Supply and-a Demand. That’s it.”
Apparently no one in Britain’s gun-control culture has taken that one.
Got a New Gun Blogger Rendezvous Attendee
The United travel vouchers have been used. The Redneck Engineer will be coming this year, flying in from Texas. He may be bringing his homemade .50!
I guess I’d better make my reservations soon.
The Jokes have Started
From Primeval Papa this morning (we work together):
A Navy SEAL walks into a bar and says, “Give me a bin Laden!”
The bartender says, “Sorry, sir, but I don’t know that cocktail.”
“It’s easy,” replies the SEAL. “Two shots and a splash of water!”
Want to Make $200?
Pascal is running a contest:
The GOP is having a debate tomorrow in South Carolina.
Your challenge is to listen to the questions and answers and decide what the best answer YOU would come up with.
In the past, TV tells us who wins, and they’ve rigged the set-up. IOW, they NAIL our minds with this set up time and again. I have myself come up with better answers, some of which were quite funny while being practical.
It is my thinking that the American public is far smarter than any currently serving politician or well-known spokesmouth. Here is your chance to prove that is true and get some publicity too.
I am going to do my part to drum up interest in unofficial answers.
To that end, I am prepared to divide up $200 for the answers submitted to my email box that I find better than the answers given by the GOP stiffs to the conservative unfriendly questions served up by the establishmentarian water carriers. And turning the tables on the water carriers by mocking their question before tailoring your answer can be a winner!
Deadline for submission is 11:59 PM Saturday, 5/07/11.
Go read the whole thing. And give ’em hell!
Public Education Achieves its Goals
In Detroit.
Report: Nearly Half Of Detroiters Can’t Read
From that report (PDF):
The National Institute for Literacy estimates that 47% of adults (more than 200,000 individuals) in the City of Detroit are functionally illiterate, referring to the inability of an individual to use reading, speaking, writing, and computational skills in everyday life situations.
It gets better:
We also know that of the 200,000 adults who are functionally illiterate, approximately half have a high school diploma or GED, so this issue cannot be solely addressed by a focus on adult high-school completion.
While these numbers are less severe for the region as a whole, the region at-large is far from immune to this issue. Within the tri-county region, there are a number of municipalities with illiteracy rates rivaling Detroit: Southfield at 24%, Warren at 17%, Inkster at 34%, Pontiac at 34%.
Further, from the (short) CBS story, it would appear that certain areas in the D.C. metropolis and around Cleveland are even worse. Truly, if our education system had been foisted on us by a foreign power, it would have been an act of war.
UPDATE: Breda takes this and puts her own, much more detailed spin on it.
Quote of the Day – “Imagine” Edition
Imagine Harry out in the woods, wearing his invisibility cloak, carrying a .50bmg Barrett, turning Deatheaters into pink mist, scratching a lightning bolt into his rifle stock for each kill. I don’t think Madam Pomfrey has any spells that can scrape your brains off of the trees and put you back together after something like that. Voldmort’s wand may be 13.5 inches with a phoenix-feather core, but Harry’s would be 0.50 inches with a tungsten core. Let’s see Voldy wave his at 3,000 feet per second. Better hope you have some Essence of Dittany for that sucking chest wound.
William the Coroner, Harry Potter Needs a 1911
RTWT
I’m Conflicted on This One (Possibly NSFW)
I don’t know if it’s brilliant, or if I’d have the (*ahem*) testicular fortitude to post a picture of it had I thought of it myself, but you be the judge:
I bet the charge throws are very consistent!
I’m not even going to ask what he uses for case lube.
Found at (where else?) AR15.com.
Quote of the Day – Human Transformation Edition
It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment. – Christopher Hitchens
See What We Got Here Is … Failure to Communicate for more on this concept. See also this previous QotD and this one.
