Your Moment of Zen
The last one scrolled off the front page, time for a new one (and I need it):
That’s from Zion National Park, Utah.
Hopenchangen Hopenhagen Carbonhagen
Hopenchangen Hopenhagen Carbonhagen
So Obamateur is flying to Carbonhagen on his way to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize to inspire other World Leaders™ to Do the Right Thing© and cut per capita CO2 emissions back to 19th Century levels in order to Save the Planet!©™® In the mean time, the Imperial Senate Democrats are preparing to throw their female constituency under the bus® by prohibiting Federal funds from being used to pay for abortions just so they can get Health Care Reform©™® passed and fvck the rest of us, too.
Just when do the actions of our Congressweasels fall to the level of “a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object…a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism”?
Just askin’.
UPDATE: Who needs Carbonhagen? The EPA can just make sh!t up as they go!
Remembering Pearl Harbor Day
Sixty-eight years ago today, Japanese Naval aircraft attacked Pearl Harbor and surrounding Army and Marine air bases on the islands of Hawaii, precipitating America’s entry into World War II. From an article in Sunday’s Houston Chronicle about the addition of a Japanese Navy mini-sub to the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredricksburg, Texas (birthplace of Adm. Chester Nimitz):
The youngest of the World War II veterans are now in their 80s and it’s estimated less than 1 million Pacific war combatants, primarily from the Navy and Marine Corps, are alive.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgdVyukGIOA&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&w=640&h=505]
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I think I’d like to visit that museum.
Quote of the Day – Chicken Little Edition
This time it’s me, paraphrasing what I’ve seen in several places recently:
“Environmentalism” is all about CONTROL. You can tell because no matter what the dire warning is – “Climate Change” (née Anthropogenic Global Warming), Global Cooling (The coming Ice Age), the Population Bomb (which Ehrlich is still not ashamed of [read that – how can someone be so wrong for so long and still hold a professorship?]), Nuclear Winter, and to a lesser extent Silent Spring and the Ozone Hole – the solution is ALWAYS THE SAME: CONTROL OF OUR LIVES AND CONTROL OF OUR MONEY BY OUR “INTELLECTUAL SUPERIORS,” THE MORONS WE PUT IN PUBLIC OFFICE AND THE “EXPERTS” THEY APPOINT.
Quote of the Day – California Edition
Quote of the Day – California Edition
The State of California has been mismanaged literally for decades now. Governor Gray Davis was recalled because of it, and Arnold “The Governator” Schwarzenegger got himself elected – twice! – to the Captaincy of the Titanic on the promise that he could fix it.
He failed, because the electorate cannot figure out that you cannot spend money you don’t have – at least not for very long, and Ahnold refuses to unsheathe the Clue-Bat™ on them.
He wants to keep getting re-elected (to something, anyway.)
So when I ran across this while perusing the internet this afternoon, I knew it would make the perfect QotD:
Mark’s one sentence description of California:
California: where the Anarchists sound like Libertarians, the Libertarians sound like Republicans, the Republicans sound like Democrats and the Democrats sound like Leon Trotsky, and about the only saving grace is that they do not actually get all the government they pay for.
Can I get an “AMEN!”?
The Gun You Carry
. . . when you can’t carry a gun.
I live in Arizona. It tends to be a bit warm here nine months out of the year. And (to put it mildly) I’m on the husky side. My preferred carry piece is a 1911, but it’s tough (for me) to wear clothes that will adequately conceal such a piece, whether it’s my full-sized Kimber Classic, my Para USA Commander-sized Gunblog 45, or my Kimber Ultra CDPII.
Well, conceal it and still give me reasonable access to it.
Recently I’ve been toting a S&W Model 60 2″ snubbie .38 revolver in the front pocket of my jeans, but it’s just a little bit lumpy. My (ex-)boss purchased a Kel-Tec PF9 a while back, and I found that I really liked it – 7+1 rounds of full-house 9mm (+P rated, but not as a steady diet) in a pretty tiny package that still offered reasonable sights.
I picked one up a couple of days ago. I still need to do a “fluff & buff” on it, then run a couple hundred rounds through it, but I think this will easily fill the bill for the gun I carry when I can’t carry a gun. Mine looks just like this one:
The slide is hard-chromed on mine.
Get Offa My Lawn
Get Offa My Lawn!
Borepatch, creator of the Clippy cartoon that’s drawn so much traffic to TSM over the last couple of days (odd how that works, isn’t it?) has been on top of the AGW thing for a while, and has some more snark to bring. But on a more serious note, he asks (and answers) the question, Should you be a Global Warming Skeptic?
Worth your time.
What Socialism Looks Like
What Socialism Looks Like
From In Iraq Now (at 56):
In a Socialist system, all the money is collective–there is one budget. Just like us. There is an Army budget. If pay goes up, procurementgoes down. The opposite is also true. Reduction in Force (the Army’s version of layoffs) means more money for equipment.
Medical care is free, or the same price for all, but no one gets to choose their doctor. Just like the Army.
In a Socialist system everyone gets the same pay if they have the same rank, regardless of their productivity. Unions work this way. In the Army an E4 with four years service who is a first-rate Blackhawk crew chief, fit, and fully qualified makes exactly the same pay as an E4 with four years service who is truck driver flunked the PT Test and still can’t fill out a maintenance inspection form.
RTWT.
And also about Charlie’s Angels.
FIX BAYONETS
FIX BAYONETS!
Congressional Candidate Lieutenant Colonel Allen West:
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Hell yeah. I’d vote for him in a heartbeat.
First “Law Abiding Citizen” now “Harry Brown”
First “Law Abiding Citizen” now “Harry Brown“
Watch the trailer:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVOSfHFNlcI&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&w=640&h=385]
It was supposed to release in the US on 11/6/09, but I can’t find it showing anywhere. It’s also supposed to have opened in the UK on 11/11. Someone’s seen it, because there are currently 40 User Comments at IMDB. This is typical:
This film accurately depicts life in modern Britain today.
Not the image of a flowing rolling countryside of middle class England which is often depicted in typical international films but one of an inner city “sink” estate – Elephant & Castle in London – with all of its associated problems.
I saw the film last night and it brought back all the memories I have of having lived in similar circumstances.
Michael Caine is excellent, this is probably one of his best films and I expect film nominations for his role.
The film gives a gritty but realistic view of the life most people live on the sink estates of Britain, all are there through no choice of their own, but some are aware of the conditions they are forced to live in.
I don’t think we’ll see the British government promoting this film as it portraits the country in a very bad light, though, if you are not from Britain and would like a taste of what some of us have to put up with I recommend you see this film.
I’d like to see it.