I fear that I have been wasting my time with the soap and ballot boxes.
Only one box left.
My conviction that the last box will work is only reinforced by the Islamists using it and getting the government to be afraid to say boo to them.
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06 January 2010
05 January 2010
Rumination
I wonder how far a 13th Amendment defense would fly for refusal to pay taxes.
The people on welfare aren't working.
The taxpayers are.
If the taxpayers stop paying taxes, the government punishes them.
Sounds like the taxpayers are enslaved by the welfare types and the government is playing the roll of overseer.
The people on welfare aren't working.
The taxpayers are.
If the taxpayers stop paying taxes, the government punishes them.
Sounds like the taxpayers are enslaved by the welfare types and the government is playing the roll of overseer.
Comments:
04 January 2010
03 January 2010
Other Than The Ticket...
"There was no single piece of intelligence that said, 'this guy is going to get on a plane.'" John Brennan, White House Aide, top counterterrorism expert.
02 January 2010
How About A Nice Hot Cup Of STFU
I have decided that if someone is going to call me a racist for saying a minority is incompetent, then their opinion is meaningless on all things. I am not calling that guy a CENSORED, I am saying he's not doing his job and you would agree if he wasn't black; which is far more racist than what I actually said.
Dead Trees
One brilliant thing about having real, printed, books is you know that they have not been altered should a fact, thought or idea contained within become politically incorrect.
27 December 2009
Quote Of The Random Interval
From Tam: "The Qutbists decry the West as soulless, impersonal, mechanized: they would do well to remember that, along with animal husbandry, shoe-making and porno movies, another field the West has turned soulless, impersonal, and mechanized is genocide."
http://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2009/12/farce-is-strong-in-this-one.html
http://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2009/12/farce-is-strong-in-this-one.html
Unintended Controversy
On my Facebook page I posted this picture:
I went off on my mini rant about the proper name for .45 Colt is not, and has never been, .45 Long Colt.
Ravenclaw Eric had never heard of an Anaconda in .45 Colt. Sadly, the Anaconda is no longer in production in either .45 Colt or .44 Magnum.
Here are some better pictures of some of the details:
Barrel Markings:
Loaded cylinder; note the headstamps.
I went off on my mini rant about the proper name for .45 Colt is not, and has never been, .45 Long Colt.
Ravenclaw Eric had never heard of an Anaconda in .45 Colt. Sadly, the Anaconda is no longer in production in either .45 Colt or .44 Magnum.
Here are some better pictures of some of the details:
Barrel Markings:
Loaded cylinder; note the headstamps.
25 December 2009
Well Isn't This Just Odd?
I've owned this book for several years.
I seem to be so influenced by the cover that I have made...
This:
And this:
And this:
I seem to be so influenced by the cover that I have made...
This:
And this:
And this:
Reduce My Health Care By $2,500 A Year?
I don't have insurance and plan on dying if I get really sick. I don't go to the doctor. Period. The only way they can "reduce" my health care costs $2,500 a year is to MAIL ME A CHECK!
Wanna bet that their little plan will cost me money since they will require I have a plan at all now?
Gunnies, this should be a trip-wire issue.
I'll bet not a shot is fired. The threepers can kindly shut the fuck up any time now.
Wanna bet that their little plan will cost me money since they will require I have a plan at all now?
Gunnies, this should be a trip-wire issue.
I'll bet not a shot is fired. The threepers can kindly shut the fuck up any time now.
Quote Of The Moment
"First off, if Reid wasn't shoving this force-backed, tyrannical wealth-redistributing, power-grabbing, non-Constitutionally-delegated monstrosity down our throats, we wouldn't "need no stinking" exception clause. This, to me, is like a rapist assuring us he'll use lubrication."
From: http://www.examiner.com/x-1417-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m12d20-Does-Reid-amendment-allay-gun-owner-fears-over-health-care-bill (Dead Link)
From: http://www.examiner.com/x-1417-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m12d20-Does-Reid-amendment-allay-gun-owner-fears-over-health-care-bill (Dead Link)
It's A Christmas Miracle
I dipped my toe into an old debate over the superiority of the cast vs forged receivers on the M1A and managed to add something new. I had not even been following the debate that closely.
I feel like I just won the internet!
24 December 2009
Ravenclaw Eric's Post About Scrooge Got Me To Thinking
Welfare.
It should not provide luxuries. Basic food, shelter and nothing else.
"But the poor have a right to be comfortable too!" I will not disagree. And they are free to get a job and garner those luxuries.
Someone on welfare should not be living better than someone paying taxes. Full stop.
Welfare should be something you want to get off of because working is better, not take a lifestyle hit because you got a job. A job should be a step up from welfare, not down.
Of course, the people we kick off welfare are sure going to vote against us next time, so we should make sure it's an amendment or something equally hard to repeal.
It should not provide luxuries. Basic food, shelter and nothing else.
"But the poor have a right to be comfortable too!" I will not disagree. And they are free to get a job and garner those luxuries.
Someone on welfare should not be living better than someone paying taxes. Full stop.
Welfare should be something you want to get off of because working is better, not take a lifestyle hit because you got a job. A job should be a step up from welfare, not down.
Of course, the people we kick off welfare are sure going to vote against us next time, so we should make sure it's an amendment or something equally hard to repeal.
21 December 2009
It Bears Repeating
This is not a "military-style semi-automatic weapon". This is a MILITARY ISSUE semi-automatic weapon. The real thing. Not neutered or down graded.
18 December 2009
Consider
What would happen if we stop caring how our enemies feel about our enmity?
How would we conduct the war when we didn't worry if they were offended by our actions?
What would the world say when CAIR insists that we are offending moslems if we insist that we asked Scott Helvenston if he is offended; and insist upon waiting for his answer before addressing their claim.
What if we just said, "Tough shit. You offend us too."
What if we started following the Geneva and Hague conventions to the letter about the treatment of those found under arms and out of uniform?
What if?
How would we conduct the war when we didn't worry if they were offended by our actions?
What would the world say when CAIR insists that we are offending moslems if we insist that we asked Scott Helvenston if he is offended; and insist upon waiting for his answer before addressing their claim.
What if we just said, "Tough shit. You offend us too."
What if we started following the Geneva and Hague conventions to the letter about the treatment of those found under arms and out of uniform?
What if?
16 December 2009
Read The Whole Thing
http://neanderpundit.com/?p=3387
It's basically what I want to scream at Libtard Lenny. I am a firm believer that once someone has said it correctly, then I should stop trying to find new words to say it.
It's basically what I want to scream at Libtard Lenny. I am a firm believer that once someone has said it correctly, then I should stop trying to find new words to say it.
Ramming It Down
The Dems are prepared to sacrifice seats in congress to ram the health care bill down our throats.
It's actually a great long term strategy for them. Look at 1994 when their gun control agenda cost them congress for 12 years. The Republicans didn't repeal a single thing, so why not lose some seats for a while and take a slowing of the agenda?
If they ram this down and there's a '94esque bloodletting, I want it to be known to the dumbass stupid party; we expect an repeal as part of the first day's business. And we expect repeal to be a rider in every bill passed until it's gone. None of this pussy-assed kneeling on the ball shit and waiting around for it to expire like the AWB; which didn't really get us gunnies much because Brady is still law.
It's actually a great long term strategy for them. Look at 1994 when their gun control agenda cost them congress for 12 years. The Republicans didn't repeal a single thing, so why not lose some seats for a while and take a slowing of the agenda?
If they ram this down and there's a '94esque bloodletting, I want it to be known to the dumbass stupid party; we expect an repeal as part of the first day's business. And we expect repeal to be a rider in every bill passed until it's gone. None of this pussy-assed kneeling on the ball shit and waiting around for it to expire like the AWB; which didn't really get us gunnies much because Brady is still law.
15 December 2009
If This Is A B+ What Does An F Look Like
Guys, look at the polls and the likelihood that you will lose your majority in 2010. That's an indication that you are not even pulling a C (Satisfactory).
14 December 2009
Anvil Arms
The lower receivers I've been using for my AR15s were made by a company out of Lakeland, Florida called Anvil Arms. They are no more. The product was excellent and the service friendly; but that was not enough to keep them in business
They appear to have been foreclosed on and there are several irate customers on www.ar15.com who are posting quite vocally about it. I don't think it was malice that caused Anvil to take their money and leave them hanging, I think it was optimism coupled with denial. I'll bet they honestly believed that they would turn the corner on their profit/loss "real soon now" and all would be better... Alas. The classic grew too fast, bit off more than they could chew business failure.
Some of these irate people are attempting to figure out where the owner of the company lives or works to make an attempt to get their money back. Jon Kruger, the person, legally, owes them nothing. Anvil Arms, the company, does. Anvil Arms was liquidated and auctioned off to pay creditors; very rarely is there anything left over for customers who've paid and not received product.
Yes, it sucks for those who lost money; but this is how incorporation and limited liability work. The very title, "limited liability" should tell them something.
They appear to have been foreclosed on and there are several irate customers on www.ar15.com who are posting quite vocally about it. I don't think it was malice that caused Anvil to take their money and leave them hanging, I think it was optimism coupled with denial. I'll bet they honestly believed that they would turn the corner on their profit/loss "real soon now" and all would be better... Alas. The classic grew too fast, bit off more than they could chew business failure.
Some of these irate people are attempting to figure out where the owner of the company lives or works to make an attempt to get their money back. Jon Kruger, the person, legally, owes them nothing. Anvil Arms, the company, does. Anvil Arms was liquidated and auctioned off to pay creditors; very rarely is there anything left over for customers who've paid and not received product.
Yes, it sucks for those who lost money; but this is how incorporation and limited liability work. The very title, "limited liability" should tell them something.
10 December 2009
I Don't Care
John Lennon has been dead for 29 years and two days, I still don't care.
Elvis Presley has been dead even longer, and I still don't care.
Neither artist's death brought a "damn, no more new music from them, that sucks" response from me.
Elvis Presley has been dead even longer, and I still don't care.
Neither artist's death brought a "damn, no more new music from them, that sucks" response from me.
29 November 2009
Problem Fixed
Sabrina's flash-hider was askew.
The crush washer I was using was not deforming evenly, so it was not parallel or concentric with the bore. I replaced it with my last spare.
Suddenly I understand why suppressor manufacturers require the use of peel-washers.
It's odd how I went from having spares to being out of them. I used two on The Lovely Harvey's carbines. I've used two on Sabrina now. I used one on Kaylee when I ditched the slip-over. They are cheap parts, but shipping is almost always more than the parts so you wait until you have an order for something else.
The crush washer I was using was not deforming evenly, so it was not parallel or concentric with the bore. I replaced it with my last spare.
Suddenly I understand why suppressor manufacturers require the use of peel-washers.
It's odd how I went from having spares to being out of them. I used two on The Lovely Harvey's carbines. I've used two on Sabrina now. I used one on Kaylee when I ditched the slip-over. They are cheap parts, but shipping is almost always more than the parts so you wait until you have an order for something else.
Something You're Going To Have To Get Used To
I've read some condemnations of the shooting of those 4 police because they were cops.
What the hell do you think the Threepers are talking about when they talk about their tripwires?
Shooting the neighbors?
If it comes to armed insurrection here in the USA, the police will be wearing the uniform of the enemy. Now, before it starts, is when a policeman should be deciding to take it off or begin vocally opposing the laws that are triggering the anger that the congresses are asking him to enforce.
Police organizations should be talking about constitutional issues and discussing strategies publicly for methods to not bother enforcing unconstitutional laws.
They need to establish themselves on our side of the line before the shooting starts, or be counted as part of the government we'd be trying to overthrow.
Just an example. Everyone's most hated police organization, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, is really just a police organization. They are just doing what Congress has told them they want them to do. It's a bit of a chicken and egg conundrum, but Congress could fix BATFE tomorrow. ATF has no real power over congress.
What the hell do you think the Threepers are talking about when they talk about their tripwires?
Shooting the neighbors?
If it comes to armed insurrection here in the USA, the police will be wearing the uniform of the enemy. Now, before it starts, is when a policeman should be deciding to take it off or begin vocally opposing the laws that are triggering the anger that the congresses are asking him to enforce.
Police organizations should be talking about constitutional issues and discussing strategies publicly for methods to not bother enforcing unconstitutional laws.
They need to establish themselves on our side of the line before the shooting starts, or be counted as part of the government we'd be trying to overthrow.
Just an example. Everyone's most hated police organization, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, is really just a police organization. They are just doing what Congress has told them they want them to do. It's a bit of a chicken and egg conundrum, but Congress could fix BATFE tomorrow. ATF has no real power over congress.
AR Stuff That Baffles Me
There is a camp of people who are dedicated to the 1:7 twist in the AR.
This was actually the second choice for the twist in the 5.56x45mm NATO development, the original being 1:9.
1:9 did not stabilize the NATO tracer round when tested in "arctic" conditions. Winter, in Alaska.
If your argument for 1:7 is that you can shoot surplus NATO ammo, will you be shooting tracers in the winter in Alaska? If not, 1:9 is actually optimal for NATO ball ammo.
This was actually the second choice for the twist in the 5.56x45mm NATO development, the original being 1:9.
1:9 did not stabilize the NATO tracer round when tested in "arctic" conditions. Winter, in Alaska.
If your argument for 1:7 is that you can shoot surplus NATO ammo, will you be shooting tracers in the winter in Alaska? If not, 1:9 is actually optimal for NATO ball ammo.
28 November 2009
What Makes It Science...
Is publishing your data and methodology so that anyone, ANYONE, can duplicate your experiment.
If they know enough about the field, then their repetition of the experiment will either confirm or contradict the original findings.
If it contradicts, then real scientists sit down and say, "That's odd, what did we do different from each other that yielded these differing results?" Real scientists want to find out why the results varied.
This cycle repeats until nobody bothers doing the experiment anymore because EVERYONE is getting the same results. The reason there is no debate about what happens when I apply flame to hydrogen gas in Earth's atmosphere is that ANYONE can do the experiment and it ALWAYS comes out the same. To replicate some of these experiments, one needs a lot more education than I have, but those people do exist and they are trying to replicate the experiments.
What you do not do, if you are a scientist, is censure the work of those who have come up with results that differ from yours. You do not hide the data. You do not hide your methodology. You do not manipulate the editorial board of the magazines that publish the peer-reviews in your field. If you do all of that you are no longer a scientist, you are an ideologue. This is the tactic of religion, not science.
If two scientists working with the same data and methodology get different results, then something is not accounted for. In the recent CRU scandal, what was not accounted for was the original researchers were lying. They literally made up the data and adjusted the methodology to fit their conclusion; one should not be shocked when honest researchers took what the CRU SAID was their data and methods and got different results. The key change here is HONEST.
If they know enough about the field, then their repetition of the experiment will either confirm or contradict the original findings.
If it contradicts, then real scientists sit down and say, "That's odd, what did we do different from each other that yielded these differing results?" Real scientists want to find out why the results varied.
This cycle repeats until nobody bothers doing the experiment anymore because EVERYONE is getting the same results. The reason there is no debate about what happens when I apply flame to hydrogen gas in Earth's atmosphere is that ANYONE can do the experiment and it ALWAYS comes out the same. To replicate some of these experiments, one needs a lot more education than I have, but those people do exist and they are trying to replicate the experiments.
What you do not do, if you are a scientist, is censure the work of those who have come up with results that differ from yours. You do not hide the data. You do not hide your methodology. You do not manipulate the editorial board of the magazines that publish the peer-reviews in your field. If you do all of that you are no longer a scientist, you are an ideologue. This is the tactic of religion, not science.
If two scientists working with the same data and methodology get different results, then something is not accounted for. In the recent CRU scandal, what was not accounted for was the original researchers were lying. They literally made up the data and adjusted the methodology to fit their conclusion; one should not be shocked when honest researchers took what the CRU SAID was their data and methods and got different results. The key change here is HONEST.
It turns out that I was overestimating (link down the memory hole) the scientific integrity of the East Anglia Climate "Research" Unit. And I say that having already compared them, unfavorably I remind you, to the hoaxers behind Piltdown Man.
As the linked article demonstrates, the CRU is simply unable to respond to requests for their raw data. Because that data no longer exists. How could such a thing be possible, you may ask. Suddenly obsolete file formats? Fire in the archives? An idiot with an electromagnet? No, nothing so innocent. The real reason is that they deliberately threw it in the garbage, sometime in the 1980s.
27 November 2009
By The Way...
If I am supposed to give Mr Obama a pass because he is black; that's racist. Real racist, not the crap the media screams is racism whenever they get half a chance.
26 November 2009
So That's It Then
To the President, Congress and Supreme Court of the United States, their subsidiary offices and directories:
Charging those SEALs with assault will result in no more captures.
They are not stupid men, they will notice very quickly that a corpse cannot complain about a split lip and start shooting them instead of capturing them.
Try to charge them for that and they can, justly, hide behind the Geneva Convention and its treatment of combatants who refuse to wear uniforms. Before you say, "No they cannot!" remember that we did not bring a single Nazi up on charges for how they dealt with partizans in the Balkans. Not failed to convict, but refused to charge.
Make the attempt to change the military around that point and you will rapidly discover you don't have much of a military left. Do it just right and you may find more and more soldiers looking really hard at the "and domestic" portion of their service oaths. They swore to defend the nation and the constitution, not the sitting government.
Charging those SEALs with assault will result in no more captures.
They are not stupid men, they will notice very quickly that a corpse cannot complain about a split lip and start shooting them instead of capturing them.
Try to charge them for that and they can, justly, hide behind the Geneva Convention and its treatment of combatants who refuse to wear uniforms. Before you say, "No they cannot!" remember that we did not bring a single Nazi up on charges for how they dealt with partizans in the Balkans. Not failed to convict, but refused to charge.
Make the attempt to change the military around that point and you will rapidly discover you don't have much of a military left. Do it just right and you may find more and more soldiers looking really hard at the "and domestic" portion of their service oaths. They swore to defend the nation and the constitution, not the sitting government.
25 November 2009
Spread The Word
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/11/24/the_fix_is_in_99280.html
Notable quote: "Peer review is the practice of subjecting scientific papers to review by other scientists with relevant expertise before they can be published in professional journals. The idea is to weed out research with obvious flaws or weak arguments, but there is a clear danger that such a process will simply reinforce groupthink. If it is corrupted, peer review can be a mechanism for an entrenched establishment to exclude legitimate challenges by simply refusing to give critics a hearing."
FuzzyGeff commented at 1325 26NOV09:
Smoking gun? Try mushroom cloud.
Notable quote: "Peer review is the practice of subjecting scientific papers to review by other scientists with relevant expertise before they can be published in professional journals. The idea is to weed out research with obvious flaws or weak arguments, but there is a clear danger that such a process will simply reinforce groupthink. If it is corrupted, peer review can be a mechanism for an entrenched establishment to exclude legitimate challenges by simply refusing to give critics a hearing."
FuzzyGeff commented at 1325 26NOV09:
Smoking gun? Try mushroom cloud.
This incident shows such shameless violations of basic scientific ethics that some people have started referring to the conspirator Michael Mann as "Piltdown" Mann. I must protest that unfair characterization: the Piltdown Man hoaxers never tried to suppress dissent by threatening journal editors.
20 November 2009
File Under "Shit I Had No Idea I NEEDED"
http://www.brownells.com/.aspx/pid=27504/Product/M1_GARAND_EN_BLOC_CLIP_POUCHES?mc_ID=4031
A grab and go bag for a Garand. How have I owned a Garand for months and not known about this?
Christmas is just around the corner for you employed folks wondering what poor McThag needs.
A grab and go bag for a Garand. How have I owned a Garand for months and not known about this?
Christmas is just around the corner for you employed folks wondering what poor McThag needs.
Wow!
Wings Over Vietnam (Strike Fighters 2) looks absolutely fabulous in 1920x1200!
The Mac Pro has enough smoke to run it under unlimited details too.
We are glad.
UPDATE: Some screen shots below the fold.
The Mac Pro has enough smoke to run it under unlimited details too.
We are glad.
UPDATE: Some screen shots below the fold.
17 November 2009
Bootcamp!
I have installed Windows XP Professional on my spare drive on my Mac Pro.
The same copy of Windows XP Professional also runs using Parallels Desktop.
Microsoft took the activation and registration painlessly.
Tomorrow we do the drivers for the joysticks.
If I get brave, I will install Microsoft Flight Simulator X Gold Edition and/or IL2. I am hoping that my install of IL2 and Wings Over Vietnam can be simply moved off the old C: drive from the old computer.
I will not install anything but my games over there. I have the OSX 10.5.8 on the Mac side of things for all other computer needs.
The same copy of Windows XP Professional also runs using Parallels Desktop.
Microsoft took the activation and registration painlessly.
Tomorrow we do the drivers for the joysticks.
If I get brave, I will install Microsoft Flight Simulator X Gold Edition and/or IL2. I am hoping that my install of IL2 and Wings Over Vietnam can be simply moved off the old C: drive from the old computer.
I will not install anything but my games over there. I have the OSX 10.5.8 on the Mac side of things for all other computer needs.
16 November 2009
Someone Needs To Say It
I think that Og and Roberta X were talking past each other in their little spat. I hate when that happens.
She's right, we cannot sacrifice the bill of rights because we don't like the teachings of a religion.
He's right, we cannot allow a religion to attempt to take over the nation. The bill of rights is not just a prohibition of the Government declaring a state religion, but a prohibition of a religion BECOMING the state religion.
The thing that the radical Moslems are not getting is, here in America, what power the rules and laws your religion has over a member is entirely up to the member and if they wish to leave, you must let them go. Full stop. We do not accept that you get to kill them for leaving because your "good book" says so.
We don't allow human sacrifice either.
Something a lot of people do not want to admit when we talk about the Islam "problem" is that we are at war with Islam.
"No we're not," I keep hearing. Yes we are. Islam is most certainly at war with Western Civilization and it's an existential war. By refusing to acknowledge the fight and refusing to fight back, we are letting them win; but we are not "not at war" because we are refusing to accept the declaration from the other side.
The rounding up of Japanese-Americans in WW2 gets cited a lot as doing it wrong. It was wrong. I have yet to hear a rational call to round up the Moslems. Since we are at war, I suggest we stop letting new people from those nations controlled by Islam come here for the duration of the war.
I am also of the opinion that we don't allow anyone who's not actively trying to become a citizen to stay longer than 90 days a year for any reason. And if they fail to become one in the proscribed time, back home they go, forever.
She's right, we cannot sacrifice the bill of rights because we don't like the teachings of a religion.
He's right, we cannot allow a religion to attempt to take over the nation. The bill of rights is not just a prohibition of the Government declaring a state religion, but a prohibition of a religion BECOMING the state religion.
The thing that the radical Moslems are not getting is, here in America, what power the rules and laws your religion has over a member is entirely up to the member and if they wish to leave, you must let them go. Full stop. We do not accept that you get to kill them for leaving because your "good book" says so.
We don't allow human sacrifice either.
Something a lot of people do not want to admit when we talk about the Islam "problem" is that we are at war with Islam.
"No we're not," I keep hearing. Yes we are. Islam is most certainly at war with Western Civilization and it's an existential war. By refusing to acknowledge the fight and refusing to fight back, we are letting them win; but we are not "not at war" because we are refusing to accept the declaration from the other side.
The rounding up of Japanese-Americans in WW2 gets cited a lot as doing it wrong. It was wrong. I have yet to hear a rational call to round up the Moslems. Since we are at war, I suggest we stop letting new people from those nations controlled by Islam come here for the duration of the war.
I am also of the opinion that we don't allow anyone who's not actively trying to become a citizen to stay longer than 90 days a year for any reason. And if they fail to become one in the proscribed time, back home they go, forever.
15 November 2009
Fun With Cameras Timers And Tripods
...or, "Git off my lawn!"
With Marv's super duper flash you can see up the barrel and look at the bolt face! And see that we do not have a round chambered.
With Marv's super duper flash you can see up the barrel and look at the bolt face! And see that we do not have a round chambered.
It Has To Work For Everyone Or No One
Roberta X is in the center of quite the raging debate about Islam, its intent, what we should do about it, what we can do about it and whether what we can and should do about it is contraindicated by the 1st Amendment.
Neanderpundit has weighed in on it as well.
Lemme see if I can add a bit of clarity.
Moslems are setting up little enclaves where non-moslems are not welcome to live, and sometimes not even visit or shop. They have their own legal code (Sharia) they apply and don't use the local laws. From these enclaves, they expand by moving into adjacent areas and do more of the same.
For purposes of debate we shall say that the above is OK and protected by the 1st Amendment's Religious Freedom Clause.
There's a BUT here.
Whites are setting up little enclaves where non-whites are not welcome to live, and sometimes not even visit or shop. They have their own legal code they apply and don't use the local laws. From these enclaves, they expand by moving into adjacent areas and do more of the same.
Is this protected?
Gun-owners are setting up little enclaves where non-gun-owners are not welcome to live, and sometimes not even visit or shop. They have their own legal code (The Constitution) they apply and don't use the local laws. From these enclaves, they expand by moving into adjacent areas and do more of the same.
How about that?
Blacks are setting up little enclaves where non-blacks are not welcome to live, and sometimes not even visit or shop. They have their own legal code they apply and don't use the local laws. From these enclaves, they expand by moving into adjacent areas and do more of the same.
Or this?
I cannot use religious reasons to make an all white neighborhood. I cannot use religious reasons to not hire women. I cannot use religious reasons to not hire homosexuals.
But I can use religious reasons to create all Moslem neighborhoods with businesses that don't hire women or homosexuals?
Either I can exclude anyone on the basis of religion and those equality laws are invalid; or the laws are valid and religious freedom, like all rights, is tempered with responsibility. If the 1st Amendment is a catch-all that lets me ignore the local legal system at my whim because God says; then Gawd says I must have a Machinegun and it is a sin to pay $200 to register it and I must kill anyone who tries to take it away from me.
How much you wanna bet that I would be left alone and allowed to keep my MG on religious grounds? Me neither.
Neanderpundit has weighed in on it as well.
Lemme see if I can add a bit of clarity.
Moslems are setting up little enclaves where non-moslems are not welcome to live, and sometimes not even visit or shop. They have their own legal code (Sharia) they apply and don't use the local laws. From these enclaves, they expand by moving into adjacent areas and do more of the same.
For purposes of debate we shall say that the above is OK and protected by the 1st Amendment's Religious Freedom Clause.
There's a BUT here.
Whites are setting up little enclaves where non-whites are not welcome to live, and sometimes not even visit or shop. They have their own legal code they apply and don't use the local laws. From these enclaves, they expand by moving into adjacent areas and do more of the same.
Is this protected?
Gun-owners are setting up little enclaves where non-gun-owners are not welcome to live, and sometimes not even visit or shop. They have their own legal code (The Constitution) they apply and don't use the local laws. From these enclaves, they expand by moving into adjacent areas and do more of the same.
How about that?
Blacks are setting up little enclaves where non-blacks are not welcome to live, and sometimes not even visit or shop. They have their own legal code they apply and don't use the local laws. From these enclaves, they expand by moving into adjacent areas and do more of the same.
Or this?
I cannot use religious reasons to make an all white neighborhood. I cannot use religious reasons to not hire women. I cannot use religious reasons to not hire homosexuals.
But I can use religious reasons to create all Moslem neighborhoods with businesses that don't hire women or homosexuals?
Either I can exclude anyone on the basis of religion and those equality laws are invalid; or the laws are valid and religious freedom, like all rights, is tempered with responsibility. If the 1st Amendment is a catch-all that lets me ignore the local legal system at my whim because God says; then Gawd says I must have a Machinegun and it is a sin to pay $200 to register it and I must kill anyone who tries to take it away from me.
How much you wanna bet that I would be left alone and allowed to keep my MG on religious grounds? Me neither.
13 November 2009
Who Reminds Him To Breathe
“Unfortunately, America loves Guns. We love guns to a point where that uh we see devastation on a daily basis. You don’t blame a group.”
Richard M Daley, Mayor of Chicago; said while blaming a group: gunowners.
10 November 2009
It's That Time Again
And the hull broke open and they all drowned like rats as their lung filled with...WAH TUHR!
03 November 2009
Air Superiority
One reason the UAVs like the Predator and Reaper are so effective (read able to operate at all) is total air superiority.
They are not stealthy, they are not fast, they are not maneuverable. They ARE unopposed, at present.
If we fight a war where the airspace is contested, and we skimp on things like fighters we are not going to be able to fly UAVs with the impunity we currently employ.
Cutting funding for F-22A and clipping the orders for F-35 by 50% is exactly skimping on fighters.
By the way, if you are going to use the argument that the A-10C and F-15E are "good enough" so we don't need so many of the new two, then you are going to have to start buying the older designs as well because they are wearing out.
This doesn't even really address the whole picture. The Navy and Marines need planes too and the way they use them wears them out faster.
They are not stealthy, they are not fast, they are not maneuverable. They ARE unopposed, at present.
If we fight a war where the airspace is contested, and we skimp on things like fighters we are not going to be able to fly UAVs with the impunity we currently employ.
Cutting funding for F-22A and clipping the orders for F-35 by 50% is exactly skimping on fighters.
By the way, if you are going to use the argument that the A-10C and F-15E are "good enough" so we don't need so many of the new two, then you are going to have to start buying the older designs as well because they are wearing out.
This doesn't even really address the whole picture. The Navy and Marines need planes too and the way they use them wears them out faster.
02 November 2009
Thanks!
I got the maquette on the left in the mail today.
It's Shelly Wahnee from the webcomic, Wapsi Square. The one on the right is Monica Villarreal from the same comic. I bought Monica. Shelly just showed up.
Who was generous? There was no note.
It's Shelly Wahnee from the webcomic, Wapsi Square. The one on the right is Monica Villarreal from the same comic. I bought Monica. Shelly just showed up.
Who was generous? There was no note.
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