Commenting on his win in the Super Senior Rimfire class at the Western National Steel Challenge Chamionship:
You don’t have to outshoot ’em, you just have to outlive ’em!
Tag: QotD
Quote of the Day – Milton Friedman Edition
From this video:
In my opinion, a society that aims at equality before liberty will end up with neither equality nor liberty. And a society that aims first for liberty will not end up with equality, but it will end up a closer approach to equality than any other kind of system that has ever been developed. Now that conclusion is based both on evidence across history, and also I believe, on reasoning. Which, if you try to follow through the implications of aiming first at equality, will become clear to you:You can only aim at equality by giving some people the right to take things from others. And what ultimately happens when you aim at equality is that A and B decide what C shall do for D – except that they take a little bit of a commission off on the way.
Haven’t You Heard?
Quote of the day, from Tam:
You know, you expect it from MSNBC, but from the national network shows down to the local news programs, the Party Convention-related blurbs this morning have all had an air of
“Now that the Nazis in Tampa have finished their cross-burning, put women back in purdah, and shoved grandma onto an ice floe, let’s see what the Real Americans are doing in Charlotte. Bob, over to you; do you have any official sense yet on how much more the Real Americans care about the little guy than the Nazis do, or are they saving that for a surprise?“
Well, Barry still hasn’t lost his core constituency: The American media.
But, but George Stephanopoulos says there’s no bias in the media!
And by all means, read the rest of Tam’s post, which would be a QotD in and of itself.
Quote of the Day – Parental Government Edition
Parenting is an interesting metaphor for taking care of a country. The Democrats remind me of a family with two kids: one whom they think is “normal” and the other whom they think is “special” – delicate, sensitive, sickly, utterly dependent on them for everything. As parents, they completely ignore the “normal” kid and devote all their love, attention, and money to the “special” one. The life of the whole family revolves around him.The fact is, half the reason he’s so sickly is that he’s been treated this way all his life.
When the Democrats are in charge, I feel like the “normal” brother.
— “Bugs” in a comment at The GOP Goes Alinsky on Obama by J. Christian Adams at PJ Media
Interesting observation.
Quote of the Day – Canadian Perspective
This was in my inbox when I returned from lunch today:
Sir,
I found your blog earlier today by accident, and have enjoyed the ensuing perusal. I wanted to add a smidgen of perspective to your already-comprehensive discussions.
I am Canadian, a long-time shooter, and a student of history. I have extensive knowledge of the anti-gun machinations of my own government, beginning with the FAC program incept in 1978.
During the implementation process of our gun control measures, the plan was at every step argued against by well-reasoned, rational, calm, logical and effortlessly sensible persons who took great pains to carefully explain why further gun control measures were worthless and most certainly would not achieve the results being sold to the general public as their justification.
It eventually dawned on me, as I watched the government repeatedly ignore these eminently commonsensical explanations and forge ahead with complete disregard for logic, that the whole thing wasn’t about what was logical or rational. It was about what the government wanted to do. End of story.
I determined then that when governments do things that make no sense and fly in the face of logic that even an utter simpleton could comprehend, it does not mean that senses have been taken complete leave of. It simply means that there are portions of the operative agenda that you have not, for whatever reason, been made privy to.
Gun control is not, and never has been, about what is logical or reasonable. It is far worse than that, because what remains after removing those two as potential justifiers, must be the truth…….
Yours Most Respectfully,
Michael D Young
Ontario, CANADA
…and I would’ve gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for those meddling kids…
Hear, hear for us meddling kids!
Quote of the Day
Neil Armstrong, first human being to set foot on the lunar surface has died of complications following heart surgery. He was 82 years old. Jerry Pournelle, scientist and author, and only three years his junior has today’s Quote of the Day:
I always knew that I’d see the first man on the moon, but I never dreamed that I’d see the last.
I turned 50 this year. I was seven years old when Neil Armstrong left his first bootprint in the lunar dust. I was 10 when Eugene Cernan left the last bootprint there. I hope that before I pass, I’ll get to see another human being walk on the surface of the moon.
But I’m not holding my breath.
That link also ties to this extremely sad and appropriate XKCD ‘toon:
Quote of the Day – Leviathan Edition
Essentially central planning is not about the efficient allocation of economic resources, it is about control.
Central planning maximizes the extent of control that the state, and the people running the state, exercise. The desire to control others is a constant in history and is part and parcel of the construction of states. If the state can grab all the land and resources and control who and on what terms people get access to them, then this maximizes control, even if it sacrifices economic efficiency.
This sort of economic and political control — not Marxist ideology — is what central planning is all about. This is not to deny that Marxist ideology supported and legitimized central planning in several 20th-century societies. But it is to emphasize that the emergence and persistence of central planning is often a solution to the central economic and political problem of many elites: to control and extract resources from society.
Why Central Planning? from the Why Nations Fail blog.
And our current system of .gov doesn’t have to be socialist to still be all for central planning. Read The Church of the MSM and the New Reformation, if you haven’t already.
I think I’ve got another book to read.
Quote of the Day – “So Do I” Edition
I remember when we had a President that tore down walls to advance independence rather than tearing down the successful to advance dependence. — In Jennifer’s Head, I Thought That Sounded Familiar
Quote of the Day
This.
Quote of the Day – Tough History Coming Edition
From the comments to More on Rights:
“In other words I think the only thing that can turn this country around now is to have a strong reinforcement of existing Property Rights by the government”
I’m thinking we might have to explain them TO the Government, at sword point, eventually..
Either way someone’s gonna be ‘splain’in somethin, at the point of a sword before this plays out..
I’ve lost faith that it can be any other way.. Look at it this way.. 5 years ago “prepping” was something that crazy Mormons did… Now, there are crazy preppers on TV but.. Thousands of ‘real’ preppers quietly preparing..
It’s not that they ARE doing it. It’s that if someone tells you “I think it’s all going to go to hell soon” you argue about ‘how’ soon is soon.. Not If..
I’ve noticed this myself in discussions with customers. Just last weekend, Tucson had its first-ever survivalist/prepper Expo, and from all reports it was well attended. Just not covered much by the media.