The Democrat disaster preparedness plan:
1. Don’t have a disaster.
2. And if you do have a disaster…
3. DIE QUICKLY.
“George Bush Barack Obama doesn’t care about black disabled people.”
I spent Hurricane Opal in a shelter with my disabled grandmother– so this upsets me a bit. No plans… whatsoever? Not even having the Social Security and Medicare offices fax the local Emergency Operation Centers a list of people who might need help?
(H/T Hope n’ Change)
Glenn Beck has a trailer out for his new thriller, The Overton Window:
Now, most of us can (probably) tell where the stanzas used in the trailer come from. (Hint: not Glenn Beck.) The writers at The Huffer’s Postings The Huffing Post? Not so much. After many statements of how poor a poet Beck was, a few lone conservative voices in the wilderness informed the “educated” Left that the lines were not Beck’s… but Rudyard Kipling’s.
Oops.
Google, motherf… oh wait, I’ve already said that. Seriously, two minutes with Google will save you from a lot of mocking on the Internet. But that begs the question: can leftists who use Google stay leftists? And more importantly– has anybody on the left read Kipling’s “Tommy”?
To add insult to injury, if you’re a part of the dead-tree media, who do you get to review a book by one of the more popular commentators in T.V. right now? A guy that hates him! At this point, I’m just going to sit back at pop some popcorn and watch the express plow into the Volkswagen Beetle sitting in the railroad crossing.
Scene: Smalltown Post Office, interior, late afternoon. Two postal clerks (who look remarkably like Barney Frank and Liza Minnelli) are standing behind the counter. A loud TEENK, TEENK, TEENK noise is heard from outside. There is no direct view of what is causing the noise.
Barney Frank Simulacrum: There goes that guy on the SMART car again.
Liza Minnelli Simulacrum: Why does he always honk his horn like that?
BFS: I don’t know. It’s annoying, though.
LMS: Damn skippy.
From outside, an engine is heard revving up to full power. Both postal workers look at each other in surprise. Moments later, the SMART car bursts through the exterior wall sideways and comes to rest in front of the clerks. It is obvious that the SMART car has been T-boned by a larger vehicle.
SMART Car Driver: Ugggh…
In the hole the SMART car entered through, a figure is seen. The figure steps into the room and is revealed as A Dixie Carpetbagger, holding a fireman’s axe.
Dixie: Oh, I’m sorry. Did I break your concentration? I didn’t mean to do that. Please, continue. You were honkin’ your horn and wavin’ to everyone. [silence] What’s the matter? Oh, you were finished? Oh, well, allow me to retort!
The Carpetbagger then walks to the SMART car, and using only one hand, rips the driver’s door off with the fireman’s axe.
Dixie: What’s the 0-60 time of this vehicle?
SCD: What?
Dixie: [Slams axe into the hood and rips it off] Why do you always drive around honkin’ your horn and wavin’ at folks like a prom queen?
SCD: What?
Dixie: Look, I ain’t playin’ this game. I seen the movie, we both know how this goes. How ’bout you just fire up your Mattel car and get out of here while I’m comin’ down off my berserker rage?
The driver fires up his car and begins driving out of the hole his car entered through. As he passes The Carpetbagger, he honks his horn (TEENK) and speeds away. The Carpetbagger stands in hole and waves his axe at the (slowly) fleeing car.
Dixie: I’ll get you, Smart Car Driver… if it’s the last thing I do!
(Why yes, I had inspiration…)
In history, it was the Republican Party that was founded to end slavery, while the Democratic Party was founded to keep the issue from ever coming to public debate. However, in the dimension that our Fearless Leader resides in, Abraham Lincoln must’ve been a Democrat.
Mr. President: FREE SOIL, FREE LABOR, FREE LAND, FREE MEN. At the time that my party had that as their slogan, your party was singing a song called N*gger Doodle Dandy at their conventions. Would it hurt so much to admit the Republican’s role in history, or would that force you to admit what the Democrats have done?
(H/T USCitizen)
Ban Anything That’s Fun or Exciting
“Peasant, we’s heard you’s liked playing airsoft, so we’s gonna ban the crap outta that so’s ya’s can’t plays it no mo’. Jus’ ‘member, we’s from the gub-mint, and we’s here to help ya’s.”
Just to re-cap, from the post where I first heard about this:
Basically, if the ATF claims these airsoft guns can be easily converted into real guns, they should just demonstrate the conversion, and put a couple of magazines through it.
So, did the ATF test the gun like this? From the third page of the ATF’s letter:
To determine if the submitted sample (as modified) is capable of expelling a projectile … [t]he test fire was conducted a total of three times…
Wait, wait, wait… how was the gun modified? Well, the lower was Dremeled into shape, an M16 hammer, hammer pin, hammer spring, buffer and buffer spring were put in, and then an AR-15 upper was put on and held in place with a drift punch in place of the front retention pin. In other words, As long as you have access to a whole bunch of parts off M-16s, you can assemble an Ar-15. With a crappy airsoft lower. Or, to quote a commenter over at Uncle’s:
My water glass can be converted into a machine gun.
You take the glass and replace it with a machine gun, take the water and replace it with ammo.
Voila, machine gun.
There’s “massaging the evidence,” and then there’s “we took it to the massage parlor down on Riverside and got it a happy ending.” This is the latter. To recap: if you have access to parts from an M-16, an AR-15 upper, drift punches and a Dremel tool, you can create a machine gun. Kinda. Sorta. Maybe.
Oh, and they have re-defined transfers, too. Now, your favorite gun writer will have to fill out a 4473 to get an evaluation gun. It’s almost like they’re trying to clamp down on us gun owners, isn’t it?
A nationwide alert has been issued for 17 members of the Afghan military who have gone AWOL from a Texas Air Force base where foreign military officers who are training to become pilots are taught English [...] (they) have security badges that give them access to secure U.S. defense installations…
There’s no delicate way for me to say this, but…
YOU. HAVE. GOT. TO. BE. F*CKING. KIDDING. ME.
These guys had better be at the local strip club getting their groove on, or somebody’s about to be assigned to Elmendorf… permanently.
(H/T Liberalguy)
Kevin Baker has a post up detailing how few Britons have guns. Crime skyrocketed when the U.K. brought their gun bans into effect, and the populace wants to… ban more guns. Bonus: Kevin has attracted a Scottish troll (och, wee laddie, I’m-a gonna EAT YOU!) who has an off-the-scale density. One section from the quotes I want to point out:
James Kelly: Thank you for the clarification, Ken. Answer – Because I believe in democracy and the rule of law, rather than ‘might is right’ and imposing one’s will by force.
Unix-Jedi: So sending other people to apply force on your behalf means you’re not imposing your will by force?
James Kelly: Electing a parliament that passes laws, the police and the courts implement those laws…this is pretty basic stuff. I thought belief in democracy and the rule of law was a shared value between our two countries.
Ken: So. If you take A’s property by force, it’s theft. If some guy with a badge claiming to be acting “in the name of the People/King/G-d/Whatever” does it, it’s…what, exactly? Apart from the salutary (sorry for the big word there) benefit of not exposing you to personal danger, that is. The point is, you are perfectly happy imposing your will by someone else’s force. There are several words for that, you know.
Note the interplay– Mr. Kelly believes that if X amount of the population says A, then Y amount must simply roll over and play dead. This belief (I may not do [ACTION], but if I can convince people to vote for [ACTION], not only is it okay, but it is proper) and “group rights” are yin and yang… perfect, matched pairs. I would like to introduce you to a quote from a friend of mine, Major Reid:
“To vote is to wield authority; it is the supreme authority from which all other authority derives — such as mine to make your lives miserable once a day. Force, if you will! — the franchise is force, naked and raw, the Power of the Rods and the Ax. Whether it is exerted by ten men or by ten billion, political authority is force.”
Some of you recognize this quote immediately. You see, Major Reid is the H&MP (History and Moral Philosophy) professor in Starship Troopers. The next section is the part I think is the perfect answer to Mr. Kelly:
“But this universe consists of paired dualities. What is the converse of authority? Mr. Rico.”
He had picked one I could answer. “Responsibility, sir.”
“Applause. Both for practical reasons and for mathematically verifiable moral reasons, authority and responsibility must be equal, else a balancing takes place as surely as current `flows between points of unequal potential. To permit irresponsible authority is to sow disaster; to hold a man responsible for anything he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy. The unlimited democracies were unstable because their citizens were not responsible for the fashion in which they exerted their sovereign authority . . . other than through the tragic logic of history.”
BINGO! “Because I can!” is not– repeat NOT– a valid answer for pulling the lever for anything. Every time you vote, the responsibility for and consequences of your vote rests on you, and you alone. Conversely, it is not– repeat NOT– moral for you to vote to do anything that you cannot do in your own power. However, the most ardent anti-rights advocates always hide in the safety of the masses…
Tired of trying to grow a nice beard, only to fail horribly? Tired of birds and other small animals nesting in your beard while you sleep? Introducing a solution to all these problems– the Terrorist Beanie! Put on your beanie, throw on a pair of shades, and instantly become a manly badass! Never wait in line at the TSA checkpoint again! Attract the ladies! Yours for only $29.95, plus shipping and handling… sunglasses not included.
(Is it just me, or does it look like they used Weer’d as the model for those?)
A bus driver who T-boned a taxi (killing the cabbie) and one who beat down McGruff are back on the job, with back pay given. Do I even need to say that they belong to a union? What the blazes is it with union members and violence? Are those shirts coated on the inside with chili powder or something?
The weird part is that the driver who put the hurt on the guy in the dog suit pulled over to do it. Stopping your vehicle to beat down a costumed cop isn’t exactly a sign of mental stability… but, hey, maybe he knew the guy. “Hold on folks, we gotta make a stop… that’s the bastid who stole my wife!”
(H/T Instapundit)
One of the most horrifying stories I’ve heard from the Korean war was written by one of my favorite military authors, Dave Hackworth. He recounted the time when he and his platoon were holding a hilltop and were attacked by a literal wave of Chinese. Men fired until they ran out of ammo, machine gunners fired until they slagged their barrels, and still the Chinese came. One machine gunner ran out of belted ammo and ran his Garand dry, only to find himself in a bunker with 10 Chinese soldiers. He shot 8, knocked two out, and then left a grenade as a parting gift while he headed south.
I relate this story to set up a question– do you think that Ms. Spangler has that same sinking dread right about now? Her latest “victory” video has less than 200 views (as of 12:00 AM 13 June 2010). A video showing girls at the NRA convention has over 2,000… and it’s a week newer.
