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Skip It seems the moment we automate some given process with labor-saving devices, we identify some new problem, unresolved issue, or unmet need, and the scarce labor resources that had been employed in the now automated line of work are eventually shifted over to the new problem to address the continued and ongoing struggle against scarcity … Read more
Who said it?
“We express our deepest sympathies to the victims, the wounded, and their families. We mourn, as one people, for our nation’s loss – and pledge our support to any and all who need it. I would like to ask now that we all observe a moment of silence for the victims of the attack.”
All we’ve heard from the MSM (and most of them wouldn’t know which end to point down range) is AR-15! AR-15!AR-15!AR-15!AR-15!AR-15!AR-15!AR-15!AR-15!AR-15!AR-15!AR-15!AR-15!AR-15!AR-15!AR-15!AR-15!AR-15!AR-15!AR-15!AR-15!AR-15!AR-15!AR-15!AR-15!AR-15!AR-15!AR-15!AR-15!
Ad nauseum. They’re all wrong. From Bearing Arms:
The rifle used by the Islamist terrorist in Orlando was not an AR-15.
Hillary Clinton – which is it? Shot: I want to be sure that we get small businesses starting and growing in America again. We have stalled out. I was very surprised to see that when I began to dig into it…it turns out that we’re not producing as many small businesses as we used to … Read more
As regular readers may have noticed, my rate of posting has plummeted over the last month or so and when I have been able to, the post is rather short or just pointing out what someone else has said. Perhaps there will come a time to explain but given what happened this morning in Orlando, I thought I’d share this quick thought / email I wrote in our Grokster email group on the Islamic Terrorism that a known wolf (FBI tracked) carried out:
Subject: Mystery shooter in Orlando has suicide vest, belongs to which religion?
I have been painting upstairs [grandson’s nursery] so I have been listening to the [Sunday] talking head shows and they’ve all mentioned it. Meet The Press, however, almost went wall to wall with it. You have no idea, with that coven of corrupt Collectivists on their panel, how many times I had to restrain myself from throwing the paint buckets at the TV.
The worst part was when they all, even the so called RINOs (e.g., I don’t think they even rise to the low bar of being RINOs) were all talking about “we haven’t had the conversation about guns” since 9/11.
What planet are these people from – that “conversation” has
I wonder if late at night, Obama says something along the lines of, “See Michelle, I told you that Americans can ‘absorb’ another terrorist attack, and Fort Hood, Boston, Garland, Chattanooga, and San Bernardino just keep proving me right.” And now Orlando. (H/T: Instapundit)
If you get to blame our gun control policy for putting the weapon into Omar Mateen’s hands, then I get to blame our immigration policy for putting Muslim terrorists inside our borders. See how that works? (H/T: Instapundit)
“I think I believe in American power more than Obama does.” King Abdullah was educated here in the States. Wish the same thing had happened to Obama.
Ah yes, a number of women all ga-ga that perhaps it will be a woman in the Oval Office… …just hope that Monica didn’t have a brother. (H/T: ReasonTV)
The trouble with centralism is not just that it fails to solve all our problems but that, apart from creating the illusion that all problems are soluble (and often imposing astonishingly high costs on its alleged beneficiaries), it either hampers or crowds out private-governance strategies that actually do work. -Gerard Casey (University College Dublin) (H/T: … Read more
This vital consideration of incentives is almost systematically overlooked in the proposals of agitators for more and bigger government welfare schemes. We should all rightly be concerned with the plight of the poor and unfortunate. But the hard two-part question that any plan for relieving poverty must answer is: How can we mitigate the penalties … Read more
There is no doubt that there are those on the Left that want to disarm the American populace (e.g.,Senator Feinstein (D-CA) for one who has said as much in the past). I am quite sure that if Hillary gains the Oval Office, she will do what she can to defenestrate the Second Amendment via regulations … Read more
Nothing is too big to fail, including civilizations, and ours is no exception. The decline of the West is historically inevitable, subject to the universal principle of entropy that functions on every plane of natural existence, including the cultural. The agencies by which it works on this level are readily isolated: the endemic vices and … Read more
Shot:
BuzzFeed cancels $1.3 million ad buy by RNC because Trump is “hazardous to our health.”
Chaser:
“If BuzzFeed has the right to refuse business because a potential customer supports a policy that offends their conscience, why don’t Christian bakers who are being asked to cater a gay wedding have the same right?”
Obviously we’re homophobic and racist for noting that BuzzFeed is being discriminatory but the Left doesn’t
The hubris of knowledge…
Yo, Michelle Obama, The House You Wake Up In Was Rebuilt Under Harry Truman. “Okay, America, it’s time for a history lesson. When the First “Lady,” Michelle Obama, claimed recently that the house she wakes up in every day was “built by slaves” the poor woman didn’t realize just how badly she stepped in the historical quicksand.
There Are No Stop Signs Between Hate Speech Laws and Totalitarianism (H/T: CNSNews, singer Charlie Daniels) Well of course it is – the First Amendment talks only about speech and makes no difference between so-called hate speech and political speech. Yet, our feckless political class, both the crassest and stupidest in history, fail to learn … Read more
This story parallels that of former Congressman and LTC Allen West (retired) after violating rules of engagement by firing a pistol next to an enemy combatant trying to get info about an impending ambush of his troops – getting the information he needed but then immediately turned himself into his superior officer and suffered the consequences of his actions. Emphasis mine:
SECRETARY WITHOUT HONOR: When I hear people say Clinton emails don’t matter, I remember a young Marine captain who owned up to his career-ruining mistake.
Apologists for Hillary Clinton’s alleged criminal mishandling of classified documents say that it doesn’t matter, that she really did nothing wrong, or nothing significant. But the real question is not so much what she did as how she has responded to being found out.Once during the mid-1960s when I was on active duty in the Marine Corps, I was the air liaison officer for a battalion of Marines aboard 11 ships in the Mediterranean. As the air officer and a senior captain, I had a rotating responsibility for the nuclear codebook, kept in the safe in the operations room of the lead amphibious squadron command ship. I shared that duty with another captain, a squared-away young man, liked by all he commanded and the son of a very high-ranking Marine. . . .
Against all regulations, the codebook had been out of the safe and unattended. It mattered not…
Shot:
The International Institute of New Hampshire’s proposed caseload is for 225 individuals – 170 individuals or 25-35 families in Manchester, and 55 individuals or 10-15 families in Nashua. Ascentria Community Service’s [ formerly known as Lutheran Social Services; guess they “burnt” that name out like Progressives did with Liberals -Skip] proposed caseload is 270 individuals: 135 individuals or 30-35 families in Concord, and 135 individuals or 30-35 families in Nashua.
Cities and towns cannot block federal refugee resettlement, just as they are prohibited from restricting people of any race or ethnicity from moving into town.
Guess what you get to look forward to!
Shot: JFK PROPOSES THAT AMERICA LAND A MAN ON THE MOON WITHIN A DECADE. Chaser: State Dept. Says It Would Need 75 Years to Release Clinton Emails. Hmm, on the Democrat side, I betcha that’s STILL the “Can do!” spirit – just not the way most of us would think, though. (H/T: Instapundit)
…, they’ll bring Venezuela here (H/T: Powerline)