Via Jaded Haven:
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Daphne opines, “We’re Doomed”.
Nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Tag: linkery
Open the Floodgates!
Primeval Papa is looking for advice in selecting his first AR-15.
No, THIS is the Quote of the Day
(T)here is no such thing as “Anti-Government Phobia.” It’s not a ‘phobia,’ it’s the natural instinct of self-preservation.
Weird and Pissed Off – Phobia?
RTWT.
Quote of the Day
From Adaptive Curmudgeon:
A Federation of 50 states has an inherent range of options. It allows people to move from places they hate (see: gun buffs in California) to places they favor (see: gun buffs in Texas). It allows each individual to seek their own habitat (see: hippies in California) and leave places where they’re unhappy (see: hippies in Texas). It’s bad to lock people in a place from which there is no escape (see: most nations in most of history).
That part’s serious. The rest of the post is pretty humorous. Because it, too is true.
Quote of the Day – Electile Dysfunction Edition
This, from Lissa:
I look forward to pulling the lever for Not Obama in November, but until then, I’m going to sit back in disgust and rail at the skies for giving me such unpalatable candidates.
A pox on all their houses, say I . . .
Camoflage and Pearls
Cowboy Blob has an excellent example of why we’re winning – The Debutante Hunters, a 12 minute short-subject from the Sundance Film Festival. Go. Watch. Make Sarah Brady cry.
5 Most Wanted
What 5 firearms would I purchase, should price nor practicality be an issue?
Well, I’m a practical kinda guy, but here’s my list:
1) Single-shot falling-block type rifle. For me, this is a tossup between a Ruger No. 1 in a varmint caliber, or a Shiloh Sharps .45-110 Quigley. (Or, in AR15.com tradition, BOTH!)
2) A semi-auto combat-style shotgun. I’m not a shotgunner and I don’t follow 3-gun so I’m not really sure what’s hot right now, but I have only one scattergun in my safe at the moment – a Mossberg 590 pump. I’m open to suggestions on this one.
3) A 4″ barreled Colt Python in Royal Blue with the roller-bearing action job. (Did anybody ever make a 5″ version of this revolver?)
4) A really nice full-custom Browning Hi-Power, like this Cylinder & Slide Peerless Grade. After all, price is no object, right?
5) Uncle wants a full-tilt G.E. Minigun. OK, I can see that. But I think I’d really like something similar, but not as big. Lakeside Guns makes firing miniature replicas of 1917, 1919 and M2 Browning belt-fed machine guns that fire the .22 Long Rifle cartridge. I’d like a six-barreled 6,000 round-per-minute mini-minigun that shoots the .22 – complete with backpack power supply/ammo hopper so it’s man-portable. I want to carry it and to be able to shoot it like Jesse Ventura in Predator.
Damned Hughes Amendment….
SOPA – Too Little, Too Late
In the fine TSM tradition of using Other People’s Words when they say it better than I can, I quote Larry Correia quoting co-author Mike Kupari on the recent legislative setback of the SOPA bill by an uprising of netizens:
You didn’t care when the government decided it could spy on you without a warrant. You didn’t care when they started telling you what you could eat. You didn’t care when your kids’ education was turned into indoctrination. You didn’t care when they were more worried about military veterans than Islamic terrorists. You didn’t care when they spent so much money that our entire economic system may collapse. You didn’t care when they gave billions of your money to unions and corporations that were their political contributors. You didn’t care when inert cosmetic features on guns were felonies. You didn’t care when they made it a fucking crime to not have government approved health insurance.
All of these things were done in your name. On your behalf. To help you, protect you, take care of you. Each time you gave them more power and gave away more of your freedom. Each time you believed them when they said they were protecting you, or helping the less fortunate, or sticking it to “the rich” who “aren’t paying their fair share”.
Each time you applauded their efforts. Mocked those that were concerned. Called them uncaring or racist or alarmist or stupid. Each time you asked for more. You begged them to take care of you, protect you, right wrongs, enforce equality.
But now that your Internet porn and bit torrents are threatened, NOW you care?
It’s too late for all that, kids. Turning off Wikipedia for a couple days isn’t going to win back the freedoms we’ve pissed away. It isn’t going to undo decades of expanding government power. They’ve already decided there’s nothing they can’t do, no law they can’t pass.
We watched it happen. We let it happen. We have the country we deserve.
So go ahead, post a rant about SOPA on your blog. Link to Ron Paul’s web page. Pretend you’re doing something. It’ll make you feel better. Then you will go back to business as usual and so will they.
Democracy in action. Isn’t it beautiful?
Can I get an “AMEN!”?
Edited to add this found at Tam’s:
I Am TJIC
And Borepatch has a damned fine idea to commemorate the first anniversary of his violation by the Democratic People’s Republic of Massachussetts. (Motto: “Live Free or Here.”)
Go. Read.
Quote of the Day – Sean Sorrentino
I like to watch the Bravo series Inside the Actor’s Studio. Near the end of each show, host James Lipton asks his guests a list of 10 questions, the last of which is always “If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?”
Sean Sorrentino just gave me the perfect answer:
When I reach the Pearly Gates, I want the first thing I will hear to be “Unload and show clear.”