The Smallest Minority

AAAAAGGGHH! My EYES! My EYES!

Damn you, puppyblender!

Finally, Someone Explained it so I can Understand!

There are a lot of folks who can’t understand how we came to have an oil shortage here in America. Well, there’s a very simple answer….

Nobody bothered to check the oil. We just didn’t know we were getting low.

The reason for that is purely geographical.

All our oil is in Alaska, Texas, California, and

Oklahoma….

All our dipsticks are in Washington, DC.

Who? Him? He’s Harmless.

TheHighRoad.org contributor Jim March applied to be on ComedyCentral’s upcoming program The Debate Show. Probably not a bright idea, but I appreciate his effort. His application is public, and available here. Well written.

He was accepted. He completed taping yesterday. He wasn’t the only gun rights supporter “used,” apparently:

This was a total SHAM!!! This is from the person that I know who went, I feel for him and Jim.

I thought the Debate Show (MTV Tv Production – I was interviewed and selected as a knowledgeable member of the gun community) would be an opportunity for me to support our side in protecting the Second Amendment. But, instead I was a set up for a comedy routine. I spent most of the day preparing. They stood me in the audience as if I were an audience member and asked me “what do you find interesting about shooting?”. I answered that it is a zenish experience, timing the release of the trigger with the aiming of the firearm, that its fun and isnt an olympic sport for nothing. One of the panelists was an a**wipe commedian and proceeded to show how i proved guns were just an extension of guys penis’s. He had a penis pump that he brought out and asked one of the panelists if he’d agree to give up his guns in exchange for the penis pump. He reduced our gun rights to a penis pump.

Basically i was the set up for HIS joke. I spent all f***king day prepping for this opportunity to debate about gun control and they reduced it to a joke. I walked off the set and demanded a car to take me home. that, or have the balls to put me back on. they didn’t – i left…

f**kers all. hollywood can suck my barrel!…. they consider themselves so liberal, so passionate, yet they are a bunch of money hungry, dishonest sh**s!

Pass along that the “Debate Show” is a bunch of liberal sh**ts setting up honest gun owners for their own comedic purposes. Dont be shy, they weren’t. They tried to humiliate a member of our community. F’her the little lying biatch.

(Emphasis mine, otherwise unedited.)

Here’s what Jim had to say:

I just finally got home by train, walked in the door 20 minutes ago.

I am absolutely furious. It was far worse than what 50 Shooter posted already.

I’m working on a full report right now. First I have to start googling the clowns that were on this turd.

Another thing: this was NEVER presented to me as destined for Comedy Central. This thread is literally the first time I’ve heard that. Which explains one HELL of a lot.

Oh MAN have they screwed with the wrong dude here.

Grrrrrr.

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The single biggest idiot was this…well, obviously professional actor, who supposedly had a psychology degree and was involved in “treating” people with “gun afflictions” by dealing with their underlying “sexuality issues”. Ya. I knew things had gone WAY south once I realized this bizarre gadget he’d just handed me was something I’d vaguely heard of but never seen. A penis pump. Swear to God.

Anyways. This same moron was also a “hunting advocate”. ‘Cept he didn’t like guns. So he advocated “manly hunting”. With rocks. Cut to video of three morons in camo wandering through the woods annoying various furred/feathered critters with thrown rocks.

Ok, so by the end of this bizarre crap as the closing credits are rolling, he pulls out a fairly big rock and holds it in a throwing position, growling and snarling at me, and making pathetic throwing motions.

I came *this* close to pulling a knife on his dumbass. Had my hand all the way in my pocket. Paused there, thought better of it.

Read the whole HighRoad thread.

I find it FASCINATING that gun-haters consider gun owners to be dangerous borderline homicidal maniacs, but have no fear that ridiculing and provoking a gun-rights supporter in this way will result in a “postal experience” with blood painting the walls. Their blood.

Even going so far as to (jokingly) threaten to attack one with a rock, after provoking him.

No, they are perfectly safe goading us, and they know it.

But I’d vote to acquit.

The Next Big Stupid Lie

Clayton Cramer has the scoop: Apparently Bush is responsible for keeping the Air Force grounded on 9/11 so they were unable to intercept the four airliners.

Reynolds Aluminum must be working overtime making foil for the moonbats.

(Use the Heavy Duty foil, shiny side out, three layers. It works best if you wrap your entire head and seal it at the neck with duct tape.)

Sheesh.

The Last Stand of the Woodstock Nation

Interesting piece on politics and the loyal opposition “the other side” over at Roger L. Simon (hat tip Instapundit – Read Cathy Siepp’s piece, too.) The title of this post comes from a line in the comments, to wit:

The 2004 election is the last stand of (the) Woodstock Nation, and its Baby Boomers are determined to fight to the death. But their shrill, grating, and mindless nature of their attacks will only prove self-destructive in the end and hastern [sic] their demise.

Read the piece, it’s worth it, but that comment really caught my attention.

Last stand of the Woodstock Nation, indeed.

Gotta Watch This One!

Small Town Country Girl has an EXCELLENT piece up on the government’s various Wars and the fact that they cost a LOT in taxes.

(Also via The Carnival. Read the Carnival. Much good stuff.)

No More Loyal Opposition

Dustbury has an interesting post up that touches on my Item 32 in 40 Things About Me and This Blog in his The next-to-last Democrat. Dustbury’s piece was inspired by Emperor Misha, not me, but I thought the coincidence was interesting, and it’s a good read.

(Found via the Carnival of the Vanities #87, hosted by Dispatches from the Culture Wars this week.)

More Torricelling of Kerry

Via Dodd of Ipse Dixit comes this NYTimes (!) piece lambasting the presumptive Democrat nominee:

ith the election season moving into full swing as Americans start thinking about their summer travel plans, it’s sadly predictable that politicians will try to curry favor with voters by playing silly blame games and proposing simplistic quick fixes for rising gasoline prices, which are averaging more than $2 a gallon. A case in point is the demand made yesterday by 20 Senate Democrats that the government release as much as 60 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve over the next two months.

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Experts estimate that at most, turning on the spigot now would knock only a few cents off a gallon.

Senator John Kerry, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, knows this, of course, and he demeans the seriousness of his own candidacy when he suggests that President Bush could single-handedly bring down fuel costs. Senator Kerry has urged the administration to stop buying oil for the reserve, as if that would make a difference.

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Rather than pretending that there are facile switch-flipping fixes, Senator Kerry should be talking about bolstering conservation efforts and fuel economy standards, and encouraging new investment in refining capacity.

Why shouldn’t Kerry recommend “switch-flipping” when he’s already so good at “flip-flopping?”

When the NYTimes starts whacking the Democrat’s Golden Boy, he’s in serious trouble.

Here are two quotes from the piece that I found particularly interesting, given the source:

The real culprit behind rising energy costs is the roaring demand from growing economies, especially China’s and the United States’, though the volatile situation in the Middle East does seem to add a risk premium.

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In the meantime, we all need to keep the shrill hyperbole about “record high” oil prices in perspective. A barrel of oil now costs more than $40, but when adjusted for inflation, that price is less alarming. During past spikes, oil has cost well over twice that amount in today’s dollars. Yes, high fuel costs could ultimately endanger the economic recovery, but there is no reason to believe that they will do so at this level.

Let’s see, the American economy is “growing” and producing “roaring demand,”; oil has, in the past, cost twice as much as it does now; there is no reason to believe that current high oil prices will endanger our economic recovery.

Why is this not front-page news, but instead buried in the opinion section?

Clayton Cramer links to this ThisisLondon report on the sentencing of an 18 year-old who shot a 13 year-old boy in the head:

Dean Davis was accidentally killed as he watched DVDs with his friends when one put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger as a “prank”, believing it could not fire.

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Dean’s killer, Renelle Coke, 18, was sentenced to two years in prison after the judge accepted his genuine ” distress and remorse” over the shooting.

Coke pleaded guilty to manslaughter and possessing the weapon, which was brought to the house in Walthamstow by another teenager.

He loaded the Valtro 8000FS pistol with four bullets, pointed it at Dean’s head, then played with the hammer mechanism.

The gun fired at point-blank range, leaving Dean with severe head injuries from which he died in hospital.

This is a Brocock Valtro 8000FS

It’s a blank pistol, not sold legally in England.

It’s quite possible for a blank pistol – held close to the skull – to kill. Actor Jon-Erik Hexum managed to kill himself with a .44 Magnum loaded with blanks. The concussion is quite real. But note that Coke had the weapon, loaded the weapon, pointed the weapon at his victim’s head, and pulled the trigger.

But the gun was at fault.

Jailing Coke, Judge Hubert Dunn said: “It is an appallingly sad case. It illustrates the great danger of guns and ammunition.
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My children come and visit our house but they don’t want to stay here any more, because the whole place just reminds them of what has happened to little Dean. That is what guns have done to our family.”

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Detective Chief Superintendent John Coles, head of the Met’s Operation Trident, said: “Guns are the fashion accessory of the new millennium – once upon a time it was flick knives and knuckledusters; now youngsters seem to think that it’s cool to be seen with a gun in your hand.”

AFTER the ban. AFTER they disarmed the people who represented the good “gun culture” – the ones who understand that guns are dangerous if mishandled. The ones who teach safe gun handling.

He added: “We are doing very strong work with the community and targeting kids as young as six and seven so that they are being talked away from thinking like this.

“The message should be clear – guns are not cool, they are stupid and they do kill.”

No, people who view them as fashion accessories are stupid and do kill. Deliberate criminals kill. But the gun is just a magic talisman that the philosophy has made it in the minds of the criminal class.

Until the people in the UK accept that the philosophy that blames the gun is wrong and a failure, the problem is going to continue. Turning up the power on gun bans has failed and will continue to fail. We’ve got teenagers playing with blank guns that have no idea what any kind of gun can actually do, and a system that ensures that they’ll never have a chance to learn while also ensuring that they really want that magic talisman that gives them power over others.

It has been said that repeating the same behavior while expecting a different result is one definition of insanity. The UK’s decades-long war on guns is certainly a good example of this.