A Dixie Carpetbagger

“What happens when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?”

I don’t know, but I think we’re about to find out.  If you’ll excuse me, I have to go pop some popcorn… hold my seat, I really don’t wanna miss this fight.

Watch and enjoy.

As far as a response, give me a second, I think I have it around here somewhere… okay, here it is.

I actually didn’t watch the whole thing.  I felt my mind going, so I decided to save myself and shut the window.  Also, I doubt the scope on a Galil is as high as they show it… that looks to be even higher than a scope mounted on the carry handle of an AR.

The best part is the comments… for once, decent comments on a YouTube video.  You know, any second, I expect to see four odd horses come over the horizon…

(H/T War on Guns)

You’ve been President just over one year. You’ve achieved nothing, and while the percentage of people who like you hasn’t fallen much (around 10%), the number of people who don’t like you is skyrocketing. Every candidate you’ve campaigned for has lost, but the one member of your party who won a race not only didn’t seek your help, he was endorsed by the Republicans… and he promised to vote against you.

What do you do?

Try even harder in the next year, of course! “What the president will not do is let this moment slip away. He hopes to have Republican support in doing so — but he is going to move forward on health reform.” Oh, and you admit that you and your predecessor are alike in a lot of ways. And you call your detractors terrorists. And you have your Treasury Secretary (who can’t figure out TurboTax) say that your spending money like a drunken sailor in a Hong Kong bar will “never” hurt your credit rating.

I… I… oh, blood and martyrs. (shakes head) You would think that his approval rating dropping like a thermometer in an icebox would be a hint that his ideas were crap, but apparently not. But, hey, at least he’s not Bush, right?

(H/T Uncle, Robb, Gun Free Zone )

“You can’t say nuclear, that really scares me, sometimes a brain can come  in quite handy…”

Breda has a post with video of Dear Leader saying “corpse-man” instead of “core-man.” Man, I’m so glad we have an eloquent President now, not a drunken, mumbling cowboy.*

The irony of the Bush “new-coo-lar” is that that pronunciation has been used by four Presidents: Eisenhower, Carter, Clinton, and Bush 43.  Two of these four were mocked for being raving dumbasses who couldn’t talk right.  (Hint: it’s not the Democrats.)

One of the weird things I have about Carter’s using “new-coo-lar” is that I can’t find any reference to how Hyman Rickover pronounced “nuclear.”  Carter was a prospective reactor officer, and Rickover would latch onto any little thing to harass a candidate with, like not being able to pronounce a word correctly.

* True story– right after the coronation inauguration, I was eating lunch at my favorite watering hole when the President came on, making a speech.  The gentleman down the bar (who had killed half a bottle of wine in 20 minutes)  looked at me, said “damn, it’s good to have a President who’s not a drunk, mumbling cowboy!”  He then got up, put on his cowboy hat, made sure his jeans came over his cowboy boots, then walked out to his duallie diesel truck and drove off.

Irony, they name is “Obama voter.”

… never name a post after a movie again.  Seriously.  The 300 post is now getting 90% of the spam.

Look, Senator LePew LeMieux… I’ve unsubscribed from your newsletter four times already. I don’t want any news from you except to hear that you’re no longer my Senator. I’m not kidding, being coy, or playing hard to get– I don’t want to get email from you. PERIOD.

I’m not buying your conversion to fiscal conservatism… remember, you’re “a Charlie Crist Republican,” and he’s not exactly a small spender. You’re Charlie’s handpicked seat warmer, and in January of next year, you’ll be gone. Might want to see if Marco Rubio wants any customizations made to the chair you’re sitting in… it’ll be his chair come 2011.

The one thing you could do to merit a smile on my face is to publicly announce you’re resigning, and that you’ve appointed Chuck Baldwin to your seat. Shy of that, stop sending me emails.

Found out why WordPress had been acting so screwy.  Apparently, the 2.9 upgrade messed with an old portion of the code… that handled timekeeping and scheduling.  Combine this with the fact that Wordpress assigns each scheduled post a unique cronjob…

So, in essence, every scheduled post has a timer that looks at the UNIX time, counts down to zero, and then publishes the post.  Unless you just piddled with the timekeeping code, in which case, each timer never reaches zero.  This means that the timer goes away (having passed the time it was set to execute), leaving a post with a publish date set to FUTURE.

The plugin I added takes care of this two ways.  It fixes the code, so that the timer actually executes, and it has a SQL query that looks for posts with a status of “scheduled/missed schedule” and a post time that has passed, and then posts them.  Belt and suspenders.

Tam has a link to a Media Matters story (no link from me, though) where the Left is now accusing CNN of learning conservative.

Seeing as words cannot adequately describe my response to the sheer disconnect that it takes of accusing CNN of leaning conservative, I created a GIF that shows the trajectory of Media Matters.  (You’re going to have to click the GIF.  For some reason it doesn’t animate otherwise.)

*Yes, this pun was intentional.

Remember this post?  Remember me talking about the “hand in the cookie jar defense?”  You know, “oh, mom, I wasn’t taking a cookie, I was just… umm… counting them!  Yeah, counting them!”  From the viewpoint of the person making this defense, the target of the defense must be either 1) stupid or 2) oblivious.  So a person who respected the intelligence of those they were debating would never use it, right?

That’s what I thought.  I mean, this this totally unexpected, and I never saw it coming.  I mean, they totally stood by their posts, right?  I’m just glad that no other anti-gunners act like this, and happy that actions like this aren’t entry #6 on a list published almost a year ago.

I kinda wanted to do this subtly and not do a snark broadside, but hey, that’s how I roll.

I wonder if Mrs. SFL was ever taught the old lawyer adage: never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.  Probably not, that sounds to… conservative.  Better to just try revising history, right?

There are two clear lessons here.  One– if your position is not logically sound, do not attempt to defend it.  Two– like diamonds, the Internet is forever.

I love Magpul equipment.  I have several 30 round PMAGs, and I’m looking at getting a B.A.D. Lever and possibly a MOE stock.  Affordable, excellent quality, durable as all get out… and they hate hippies.

“We put Boulder, Colorado, on everything that we make, and really that’s just a slap in the face to the hippies,” said Drake Clark, senior director of sales and business development for Magpul.

Which, of course, got all the hippies worked up.  This proves that the original presumption (hippies have no sense of humor) was correct.  Maybe it’s the lack of air at that altitude?

(H/T Tam)