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Quote of the Day.

How much training do you think you need to determine that the thug/s standing there demanding your wallet, car keys, or vagina is not there to hold hands, eat a bowl of granola and sing Kumbyah with you?

– Gunscribe at From the Heartland, “Editorial Staff Lack Education” on why private citizens don’t need the “incredible amount of firearms training” that police receive.

RTWT if you haven’t already.

And it’s been my experience that private citizens interested in firearms “train” a lot more than most police officers do, at least at the “hitting the target” part.

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Quote of the Day.

Gun owners, men and women alike, have been very therapeutic for me. They are an incredibly encouraging and generous lot, letting a newcomer borrow their pistols, try a variety of guns and use up their ammunition. With the price of metal so high, sharing bullets is right up there with putting gas in my tank.

– Julia Zaher, Columnist’s NRA gun instruction continues, MLive.com

This weekend I loaded 200 rounds of .45ACP (all I had brass for – more is on order), and 500 rounds of .223. I also prepped the 50 .308 cases I fired last weekend, and some time this week I’ll be loading 200 rounds of .308, and later this week I should be receiving 1,000 .45ACP cases and 1,000 200 grain Rainier hollowpoints, but I doubt I’ll get a chance to load many of those before I leave for the NRA convention next week.

Damned straight ammo is expensive.

h/t: Say Uncle

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Quote of the Day.

No matter what you get, you’re going to get a piece of American history. Just think of it as a little bit of Americana….. with a bayonet lug.

– “Barney” from a comment at Bad Dogs and Such on CMP rifles.

Hell yeah!

Sales of the IBMeraphim open on July 7. My order’s going out FedEx.

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For generations our primary vision of a dystopian future has been that of Orwell’s 1984. This was a fundamentally “masculine” nightmare of fascist brutality. But with the demise of the Soviet Union and the vanishing memory of the great twentieth-century fascist and communist dictatorships, the nightmare vision of 1984 is slowly fading away. In its place, Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is emerging as the more prophetic book. As we unravel the human genome and master the ability to make people happy with televised entertainment and psychoactive drugs, politics is increasingly a vehicle for delivering prepackaged joy. America’s political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now more and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.

Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism, p. 20

Couldn’t let that one pass unquoted.

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Quote of the Day.

Both campaigns are showing how green they are by filling mailboxes with metric tons of ads printed on the pulped carcasses of dead trees. The airwaves are jammed with promises that Barack will heal the sick and the blind, Hillary will get you a gold house and a rocket car, and both of them are promising they’ll not only slash gas prices and punish rich fat cats, but they’ll also get you a great-paying job and your own personal physician to live at your house and fix what ails you for free, Free, FREE!
Tam, from Misunderstanding the concept

Read the whole thing, because she’s bang-on about what the job of President is supposed to be limited to.

And McCain? His only saving grace is he’s not promising you your own personal physician. Like I said, he’s the least objectionable repulsive Democrat in the race.

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Quote of the Day.

Obama wants me to believe that a candidate who: (1) was utterly supine and silent for 20 years in his own church as racial hate was propagated by the pastor; (2) who refuses to condemn a prominent supporter and fundraiser for whom bombing American sites is still seen as a good thing, and (3) who has said not a single word on the campaign trail as his party heavyweights removed post-Abramoff earmark reforms… is a candidate who will stand up to Washington interests and change the way business is done. While helping get America past its racial issues, and healing its political divides. That a candidate talking up charter schools as part of the solution, who has received positive ratings from teachers unions for blocking them, is to be taken at face value.

50 bucks for that whole bridge, you say?

Joe Katzman, Straining Belief: The Obama Campaign & Michelle’s UCLA Speech

RTWT.

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Much like Eric Cartman, my hatred for hippies cannot become more intense without physically manifesting itself as a glowing orb which would follow me around occasionally bellowing things like “BRING ME THE HEAD OF ED BEGLEY JUNIOR!” or “MARTIN SHEEN MUST BE PUNISHED IN THE FLAMES OF A THOUSAND POUNDS OF STYROFOAM!” – Stingray from Atomic Nerds post Earth Day: Of COURSE it Pisses Me Off

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Quote of the Day.

From Van der Leun:

(T)he Internet makes it drop-dead easy to find at least 30 things that really piss you off before your first cup of coffee cools. I don’t care where you’re coming from, this axiom (15 Minutes Internet = 30 Things That Frost Your Cookies) is universal.