I received an email from a Ms. Leanne W. yesterday suggesting this web page as a good source of pro Second Amendment material. Yup. Lots of good links there.
Quote of the day—Rabid Soledad Badger
@linoge_wotc @bostonraider13 I really don’t give a fuck what you call your boy toys. I call them all little dick replacements.
Rabid Soledad Badger (@rabidbadger)
Tweeted on February 28, 2013
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday! Via another tweet from Linoge.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Barack Obama
As long as there are those who fight to make it as easy as possible for dangerous people to get their hands on guns, then we’ve got to work as hard as possible for the sake of our children … to do more work to make it harder.
Barack Obama
President of the United States
September 21, 2013
Citing shootings, Obama says must ‘go back at’ gun-control push
[One of the criminals that supposedly prompted this renewed push to make the exercise of a specific enumerated right more difficult via enhanced background checked had a military security clearance. How much more thorough of a background check does this guy think one should have before they can exercise their rights?
The only conclusions I can come up with are that he, and others like him who advocate for more rigorous background checks in response to the Washington Navy Yard shooting, are either totally irrational and/or evil. Regardless of the conclusion there is no point in “conversation”, “compromise”, or “debate” with people who are insane and/or evil. There is nothing to be gained from talking with crazy and/or evil people. I’ve been there and done that. It will only drive you crazy. Your only option is to get them out of your lives.—Joe]
Quote of the day—Charles Krauthammer
A civilized society must disarm its citizenry if it is to have a modicum of domestic tranquility.
Charles Krauthammer
April 8, 1996
Both Sides Blowing Smoke In Gun Debate
[Reference needed.
I would cite Lenin, Chicago, and Washington D.C. for starters.—Joe]
Gun Song- Tommy Gun by The Clash
The Clash was a popular punk rock band mostly in the late 70s and 80s. Surprisingly, they were a fairly political band. A lot of punkers were against “the man” and leftists, and they were no exception there, but they also didn’t like the bleak “nothing is worth it” nihilism that so many embraced to justify their lack of morals.
Anyway, another Friday, and other gun song.
Quote of the day–U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman
If someone is so fearful that they are going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, it makes me very nervous that these people have weapons at all.
U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman
May 15, 2001
Supposedly from MSNBC Investigates report on The .50 Caliber Militia
[I haven’t been able to verify the quote so if someone finds that it is bogus let me know.
If someone is using weapons to protect their rights Waxman wants to take them away? Then he has a lot in common with the KKK (see “No Guns for Negros”). The only conclusion I can draw from this is that Waxman has plans to infringe the rights of the people and he wants to avoid resistance.—Joe]
Fading fast
Looking at the headlines, it looks like the Navy Yard shooter is fading from the above the fold news with incredible speed, considering the number of bodies he left in his wake. I wonder (rhetorically) if it’s because it doesn’t fit the left’s narrative on guns and race? He’s black, obviously crazy, and used a PC weapon (a pump shotgun, perhaps purchased on “Sheriff” Joe Biden’s recommendation). So, they “see nothing to be learned,” and much egg of their face from the early blather reporting.
Quote of the day—Judge Robert C. “Brunes” Brunetti
No one in this country should have guns.
Judge Robert C. “Brunes” Brunetti
September, 2013
Second Amendment Rights Attacked Behind Closed Doors
[Don’t ever let anyone tell you “No one wants to take your guns away.” People who say that are lying. It’s what gun grabbers do.
See also Nobody wants to take your guns (via correia45).—Joe]
Quote of the day—DumbGeezer
To them Stalin is a feature, not a bug.
DumbGeezer
September 2013
Comment to Dr. Grover Furr – An Example of Recto-Cranial Inversion
[I believe there is more than sufficient evidence to support this hypothesis.
Do not forget that in every genocide the victims outnumber the perpetrators by at least 100:1 and that you have an inalienable right to keep and bear arms and use them in defense of innocent human life.—Joe]
Say WHAT?
I’m still wondering about Fast and Furious, and we’re what, a couple dozen scandals removed from that now, each one taking the former one off the main headlines? You couldn’t make this stuff up– It would be taken as way too far beyond believability.
Quiz
1. In your best, logical assessment, America’s enemies would rather see American citizens;
A) armed.
B) disarmed.
2. In your best, logical assessment, America’s enemies would rather see U.S. Military personnel;
A) armed while on and off duty inside U.S. military installations.
B) disarmed while on and off duty inside U.S. military installations.
3. In your best, purely logical assessment, America’s enemies;
A) approve of the second amendment to the U.S. constitution and would like to see it protected and enforced.
B) disapprove of the second amendment to the U.S. constitution and would like to see it limited, eroded and degraded as much as possible.
4. In your best, purely logical, most detached and rational assessment, America’s enemies would rather see American citizens generally;
A) capable in the use of arms, having arms and ammunition of their own, being self sufficient and largely independent individually, largely fearless and moral, hopeful, principled, and more able to help their friends and neighbors in times of need such that outside help from official authorities is not crucial to survival.
B) ignorant in the use of arms, having no arms or ammunition of their own, being largely dependent on government programs for their sustenance, medicine, energy, education, transportation and protection, largely fearful and demoralized, unprincipled, and less able to help their friends and neighbors in times of need such that outside help from official authorities is crucial to survival.
You will be graded on your answers.
Something I don’t think I wanted to know
Video instructions on coffee enemas.
I don’t like coffee and this certainly doesn’t change that. On the other hand I know Susan and know she credits this therapy (and some other unconventional therapies) to surviving typically fatal cancer (melanoma) . See also here.
Quote of the day—Mike
A couple weeks ago I moved a guy that was really into audio stuff. His place was filled with speakers. He loved them more than anything. They are his life. We move different things for different people. For him it was his speakers. For you it is books and lead.
Mike
September 15, 2013
[As I mentioned earlier I moved to a new clock tower on Sunday. Rather than climb all those stairs with all those heavy boxes, two gun safes, and other stuff I hired movers. For the most part Barb and I just directed and supported them with fluids and food. One of the movers was more chatty than the others and told me the story above.
Interesting observation even if it wasn’t entirely complete. He didn’t see the assembled bed or some of the other articles from that room.—Joe]
Random thought of the day
Barb and I frequent have talks about “crazy people”. This morning was one of those times. I don’t remember exactly what she said but something she said gave me a new insight and I told her my new hypothesis.
We get frustrated, grumpy, and angry from dealing with people that aren’t entirely in touch with reality. I’ll bet they feel the same way when their world view doesn’t match reality and they try to deal with us.
Then this afternoon Lyle left the following comment on a blog post:
when you take an irrational position and hold that it is rational, when you look at sane people and consider them insane, when you look at justice and consider it injustice, when you take on the victim mentality and blame the self sufficient, then slowly but surely, reason and sanity themselves become your enemies, and insanity your friend, for reality makes you face your faults and insanity protects you from facing them.
There is more. It’s as if he read my mind and extrapolated.
One year ago today
About three weeks ago Barb L sent me an email with this note and the picture below.
I found this in my wallet. I wrote it when we were dating for about a week (or less). Still all true!
I met Barb one year ago today via match.com. We talked and talked. I was still in the parking garage in Bellevue Square where I had “drinks” (I had lemonade, she had something more conventional for a bar) when I sent my friends (and romance coaches) Kat and Maggie the following email:
From: Joe Huffman
To: Kat; Maggie
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2012 8:20 PM
Subject: I’m in love.I just meet someone. She is awesome!
I can’t wait to tell you….
Joe
Kat met Barb a few days later and after an hour or so when she had a few seconds of privacy Kat told me, “She’s a keeper!” I already knew that but it was nice to get a second opinion.
We are still doing great together.
Words mean things
I think that’s a Rush Limbaugh quote, to give credit where I believe credit is due, but maybe he got it somewhere else.
The shipyard shooting was described on the news tonight as having taken place in a “heavily secured” area. Has the term “heavily secured” been redefined while I wasn’t looking, or is that a blatantly moronic description?
Yet another mass shooting in what amounts to a gun free zone, in a long line of mass shooting in gun free zones, but in this case it can be said that this was a “heavily secured gun free zone”. In other words, the shooting took place inside a real live, physical, three-dimensional contradiction in terms. Which of course is the problem.
Last time this happened I had military vets tell me that trusting kids on the military bases with guns is not practical, which is either coming from a mental position of pre-conditioned, certain defeat, or it means we don’t have a military, which is certain defeat. Sorry guys; that’s insane. You may believe it with every fiber of your militarily experienced being, but it’s insane.
One would think we should have learned this lesson, that military bases can and do come under attack, in, say, December of 1941, but then people do forget. Fort Hood on the other hand, was in the news just within the last few weeks due to the trial. Is anyone in the military feeling a clue coming on yet, or are we simply going to ramp up the stupid, as I predict?
If we had sanity in our military, every low level grunt, every secretary, every truck driver, etc., would be a rifleman first and a whatever else, a floor polisher or cook, second. Militaries are for killing people and breaking things, and so if you don’t have the ability to kill people and break things on short notice, on any base or any boring flower planting assignment in some peaceful corner of the world, you’re not military material. (By the way there are no peaceful corners of the world. There are only places wherein the violence is taking a break and readying itself for the next push)
Which, practically, means we need the CMP back in full force and effect, jr high and high school shooting teams should be reinstated, and of course the NRA needs to be doing more of what it was born to do. If our government and military are tying their own hands, we’ll have to do it on our own.
It is being reported that the DC metro police were called in……….to protect a military installation against a single attacker (or maybe two we don’t know for sure yet). A civilian force had to go in and help save a United States military installation from one or two dumbshits.
Let that sink in for bit. We’re now telegraphing to the world, AGAIN, that a single trained squad, or two, could likely dominate an entire base inside the U.S. Could it get any worse, Mr. commander in Chief? How f-ing lame is that, you generals?
And their response appears to be that we need more restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms, i.e. more of the kind of poison that made this latest act possible. They want restrictions on the provision in the constitution that was designed to foster the security of a free state.
You know the saying; once is happenstance, twice is coincidence… Well the Fort Hood shooting was enemy action or worse. This last one (maintaining the conditions that made the Fort Hood shooting possible) borders on treason, or it leaps over that border. Conspiracy theories abound in regard to the lack of preparedness in Pearl Harbor in December of 1941. This is at least as bad, considering that Ft Hood was in the lime light just this summer.
What caliber for rampaging boat?
A shotgun worked in this case.
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Quote of the day—Morris Davis
The point they prove is that a nine millimeter on your belt doesn’t make the nine millimeters below it any bigger.
Morris Davis
February 22, 2013
Comment to A good day to NOT go to Starbucks
[It’s another Markley’s Law Monday!—Joe]
Quote of the day—Barb L.
You don’t get to be your own museum.
Barb L.
September 15, 2013
[I moved to a new clock tower today. I now have a clear field of fire into the lawns of homes over a mile away. It’s awesome!
I sorted through dozens of old boxes of stuff. Some of them contained stuff from 40 years ago. I’m a packrat and it’s difficult to let go of things. But I threw out garbage bag after garbage bag of stuff.
There were some things I had received from Microsoft that I considered historic. I help build Direct X and Windows Phone 7. I participated in the attempt at worlds record for the largest number of paper airplanes in flight at the same time and have one of the airplanes.
When I came across an artifact from the launch of Windows Phone Seven I wanted to pack it for the move. Barb was there and said to throw it. I started to explain how it was from the launch but she interrupted me with the above quote.
My response was:
Picture by Barb.–Joe]
Quote of the day—owlstead
So says the NRA. Which by the way stands for: ‘Nuts, Retards and Assholes.’
owlstead
September 9, 2013
Comment to In Colorado Recall, It’s Michael Bloomberg vs. the NRA
[You need to know what the anti-gun people think of you. It helps you do your part to keep things civil.—Joe]