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Will Brown Would Like Some Advice.

Constrained by range limitations he’s looking to build a short range precison rifle:

My thought here is to discover what options I might pursue, with a gun I already own, to turn it into a reliable shooter at it’s ballistic practical extreme, that I can also fire at a local known-distance outdoor range. I own a Marlin 983S that I intend to use as the basic platform, with which I can shoot 3/8 inch groups (from a rest) at 25 yards indoors without a scope (ie: the gun’s basic accuracy exceeds my ability to shoot it).

If you have some thoughts on the topic, perhaps you can head on over and give him some suggestions.

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Ridicule is the Best Revenge.

I thought Iowahawk’s “My Name is Rather, and I’m a Dick” satires were classics, but I believe he’s topped himself with “BoxBux Sux as Stix Hix Nix Xmas Flix.” Classic excerpt:

Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert, who gave glowing, 5-star reviews to each of the films, said he was not surprised by their poor financial performance.

“It’s sad, but hopefully these wonderful films will do much better in the overseas market,” said Ebert. “No matter how much down inside they know how Christmas is wrong, and Santa is wrong, it’s hard for Americans to see their elves portrayed in a balanced, realistic way, as tragically haunted sadistic pederasts. By contrast European filmgoers are much more sophisticated and educated, so they eat that shit right up.”

Go, read!

P.S.: “There’s got to be a pony in there somewhere.” Oh. Damn!

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Quote(s) of the Day.

The dogma of multiculturalism holds that all cultures are equal, except Western culture, which (unlike every other society on the planet) has a history of oppression and war is therefore worse. All religions are equal, except Christianity, which informed the beliefs of the capitalist bloodsuckers who founded America and is therefore worse. All races are equal, except Caucasians, who long ago went into business with black slave traders in Africa, and therefore they are worse. The genders, too, are equal, except for those paternalistic males, who with their testosterone and aggression have made this planet a polluted living hell, and therefore they are worse.

Once you understand this, the Multicultural Pyramid of Oppression, you can begin to understand how to turn to your advantage certain circumstances that are beyond your control: such as where you were born, the type of genitalia you were born with, into what race you were born, and the religion of your parents. You see, the fewer things you have in common with The Oppressors, the more you can cast yourself as The Victim. And as The Victim, you are virtuous, so there are certain things you can get away with that others can’t: like actually oppressing people. – Evan Coyne Maloney, at Brain Terminal

AND:

(T)here’s a process with certain steps. Tolerance is required. Then acceptance, which must lead to endorsement, lest people feel marginalized – often by the very people they cant stand, mind you. Endorsement is followed by recognition of the new standard as equal to the old, because all ideas are valid (although some ideas are more valid than others, a judgment that’s determined by the newness of the idea versus the reactionary elements who subscribed to the old idea.) (T)hen the new standard must be subsidized, because it is discriminatory not to extend the usual state advantages; then it must be recognized as having superior aspects, in order to empower the marginalized people who believe it. Eventually these advantages will be used as evidence to suggest it’s superior to the old idea in some way that appeals to the intellectual fashion of the day. The process usually takes about 25 years. – James Lileks from The Bleat

Discuss.

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Spock has a Beard!.

I stumbled upon an alternate universe!

There’s a blog named The Largest Minority! Unsurprisingly, the authors are liberal Leftist “Progressives.” Ah, the hell with it. Let’s call a spade a spade – they’re Leftists.

Just remember – It is far easier for we as civilized men to behave like barbarians than it is for them as barbarians to behave like civilized men! 😉

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Happy Thanksgiving.

And a link. Marko the Munchkin Wrangler expresses his beliefs. Hear, hear! Excerpt:

I believe that you cannot have a right to anything that necessitates a financial obligation on the part of someone else. You have a right to life, liberty, and honestly acquired property, not to any sort of monetary or material thing. The former merely requires your fellow citizens to leave you alone; the latter requires them to work for you free of charge.

Why is it that immigrants so often have a better handle on what being an American means than so many of our neighbors who were born here?

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Read and Compare.

I ran across something tonight I hadn’t read in quite a while, and I’d like to share it with you. For quite some time Steven Den Beste was one of the finest voices of reason in the blogosphere before, for medical reasons, he pretty much departed the field and took to blogging about anime. But the piece I want you to read isn’t by Steven, it’s an email from one of his readers, a young man living in Spain at the time.

But first, I want you to read something else. Something by a young man living in Minnesota. I want you to read A Profound Divide. It’ll take you a few minutes, but please bear with it. Read it. Cogitate on it for a bit.

Then read An American in Spain.

Afterward, you might want to read the piece that inspired Den Beste’s correspondent, Steven’s Non-European Country, too.

And read all the links that aren’t broken from age. They’re worth your time, too.

This is Where Gun Control Comes From

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At least it is here in the U.S.

Expanding on Clayton Cramer’s seminal paper The Racist Roots of Gun Control, Michael Menkus of GeorgiaCarry.org has authored a paper on the state of Georgia’s gun control history, entitled DISARM THE NEGROES: The Racist Roots of Gun Control (a PDF file.) Illustrated with images of period newspapers, deeply researched and footnoted, it’s worth your time.

Some time back I was trading comments with a European on someone else’s site. He was aghast at the “lax laws” here, and protested that “guns are extremely dangerous!” or words to that effect. I believe my response was “Yes they are. That’s why we shouldn’t entrust them only to criminals and governments. But I repeat myself.”

In Europe gun control developed out of a fear of anarchists and communists, and it didn’t begin until about the turn of the 20th Century. Here, however, gun control grew out of a fear of the people our nation oppressed – people who quite often outnumbered their oppressors, and the legacy of that oppression has twisted and distorted our legal system for over 140 years.

The Supreme Court now has an opportunity to untwist a bit of that. I hope they take it.

But I don’t think they will.

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Quote of the Day.

Beating Hitler took six years (39 to 45) and beating the Communists took another 34 (45 to 89). Was it worth it?

I don’t draw a direct comparison between the War on Terror and the Cold War, but they are both nasty, heavy, unwanted burdens. If anything, the War on Terror is more intricate. Right here at Bagram — dozens of fighters, lots of transports. Transports– this is a war of economic development, of economic connectivity. What a complicated task. But given the technological compression of the planet, can we quit?

Col. Austin Bay, A conversation in Bagram, Afghanistan.

Read. The. Whole. Thing.

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Quote of the Day.

No, ye card-carrying members of the Hollywood left: All your “explanations” are dead wrong. You just don’t want to come to grips with the fact that you hate America but your audience doesn’t.

And they aren’t willing to pay you to insult them.

From The Bidinotto Blog‘s post, Anti-war movies tank at the box office. RTWT.

I believe I said much the same thing after seeing only the movie trailers a while back.

UPDATE: The commenters to this Breitbart piece on the commercial failure of these films all seem to agree with me. It isn’t that “They don’t want to be reminded about the mental toll that the Iraq War is having on us,” it’s that they’re sick and tired of Hollywood shitting on the military, “flyover country,” and America in general.

Sample comment:

Hallelujah! Thank you, to all the responders so far. It does my heart good to see that so many people (all of you?) feel the same way that I do about these movies, and Hollywood in general.

I have an idea for Hollywood: Let’s get some great actors, some great directors, some great producers, and some great screenwriters, and let’s make a movie that edifies America, edifies our troops, and captures on the big screen the true bravery and gallantry that are being exhibited every day over in Iraq. Make a movie like that, and THEN let’s see how movie-goers respond!

Hollywood makes a sucky product that doesn’t sell, and the only reason they can come up with is, “People go to the movies to escape. We just need to make our anti-American military films more entertaining” … *groan* What a bunch of self-righteous dullards.

God bless America.

Read ’em all.