Truth.
Also via Tam, American Thinker‘s Conservative Grief. Must-read.
I’m more of a libertarian, but he’s right on the money.
Tag: linkery
Quote of the Day.
From Tam:
Look, if I want to read about failed relationships, career problems, family struggles, and substance abuse, I’ll write a friggin’ diary. The characters in the books I like to read have problems, too, but they usually solve them with laser beams or tactical nuclear warheads. I read these books because I wish I could solve my problems that way, too. This is called “escapism”, and is why most folks seek entertainment in the first place.
Hear hear!
This was almost the QotD, from the same post:
See, housing costs money, and you need a house to keep your books in so that they don’t get wet or blow around too much. If it weren’t for books you wouldn’t need a house and could just live under a bridge someplace, which is a lot cheaper and would therefore allow you to retire now.
My only argument with that is that my house also keeps my guns dry and rust-free. Other than that, no quibbles.
Quote of the Day.
Via Shooting the Messenger from the NY Post op-ed, Fools Rush In:
Conservatives are one Justice away from completing the tantalizing half-century project to get the Supreme Court to stop using the Constitution as an Etch-a-Sketch for their ideas about right and wrong.
Fits disagrees with the op-ed, but that one pull-quote says a lot.
You Want Gun Pr0n?.
Via Cowboy Blob, you’ve GOT to check out this estate auction. Six hundred and seventy-two (so far) pieces ranging from the merely rare to the exotic to almost literally unobtanium. Everything from Perazzi shotguns to a Ma Deuce. A 20-round box magazine fed scoped 1903 Springfield (yes, you read that right) to a Boyes .55 caliber anti-tank rifle. Check this out: there’s both a Lahti AND a Solothurn. And don’t get me started on the pistols!
The original owner must have been collecting for decades. UPDATE: He was. He was Bruce Stern, attorney (of course) and NRA director who died last July. It must’ve taken this long just to catalog everything. Dave Hardy said about him last July:
I have been honored to have Bruce Stern as a personal friend for the last 40 years. We met on our first day of active duty in the Army at Ft Lee Va, and served together at Long Binh in Vietnam. I accompanied him several times on “shopping” trips for weapons both in the States and in VN. He was truly passionate about firearms collecting, and I sorely miss him. Rest in peace my friend
Oh how I wish I could win the lottery!
(Tam will be disappointed – he apparently didn’t collect Smiths.)
Leibowitz Does it Again!.
Bob Leibowitz has reviewed the Gura & Possessky responding brief in D.C. v Heller, and done a bang-up job of it so I don’t have to. Hell, go to the main page and just start reading.
No John McCain – Better Stated.
Bill Quick does a detailed fact-filled analysis of why John McCain should be the LAST choice for President in his post john mccain: the list of infamy (I don’t know why Bill is channeling ee cummings). I strongly suggest you read it if you haven’t.
Apparently Ann Coulter has.
Quote of the Day.
From House of Eratosthenes, where I need to spend some time perusing the archives:
Today’s Best Sentence I’ve Heard or Read Lately (BSIHORL) award goes to Ramesh Ponnuru, writing in the National Review Online, who writes about Caroline Kennedy’s Political Romanticism
She says that Obama could be a president like her father. I assume that means that he’ll be overrated, not that he’ll bring us to the brink of nuclear war.
I don’t know about that. Obama seems to have some curious ideas about how to deal with Pakistan….
Movie Gun Meme.
The day before yesterday The Munchkin Wrangler wrote about the best movie prop ever – the M41-A pulse rifle from Aliens. Yesterday, Jay G wrote about his personal movie prop, Judge Dredd’s “Lawgiver.” Today, Say Uncle linked to both of those, and threw in his personal favorite, the gun used by Robocop.
A long time ago I wrote about movie prop guns, too, and coincidentally one of them was from Aliens…
Plus, I was reminded by all of this of the piece I wrote about the making of Aliens about a year later.
UPDATE: Cryptic Suberranean votes for Decker’s “Chief’s Special” from Bladerunner.
Quote of the Day.
Well, from the 20th of January, but still good!
Twenty-Six Years Ago Today: Reagan Becomes President and Iran Blinks
Wonder what they’ll do next year when Hillary’s sworn in?
From Empire of Dirt. Even though he’s a McCain supporter, it’s a good quote.
OMG.and WTF, Over?
I’m amazed these dogs don’t maul their owners in their sleep, and Rachel Lucas has nothing to fear from Sunny. Here’s a sample of what how some people abuse their pets. Click on the photo for the whole sordid tale.
Something tells me that these people need a life.