This is an excellent read from The American Prospect on just how we got into the financial mess we’re in today. It’s from an explicitly liberal magazine, but it’s very well argued, I think, and goes into a lot of detail. The kicker? It was published over a year ago.
I clear the ParaUSA gun blog 45 and hand it to The Mrs. And the following conversation takes place:
Me: Can you pull the trigger on this?
The Mrs: (points in safe direction and pulls trigger) Yes I can. Why?
Me: Just making sure. You couldn’t pull the trigger on my Sigs. That’s why I now have Glocks.
The Mrs: What?
Me: Well, we went to the range and you couldn’t pull the double action trigger on my Sigs so I sold them and replaced them with Glocks.
The Mrs: That’s so sweet.
It’s the little things.
Via Radley, we learn that MADD has outed restaurants that give money to the American Beverage Institute. These are the places that will be getting my money.
MADD has gone from a good cause to, basically, being prohibitionists.
Update: Since it was asked, link is mildly NSFW. Definite boob bottoms there. In other news, why is cleavage (tops) OK for news and TeeVee but the bottoms of the boobs are questionable? Hmm.
We’ve noted how Barack 55378008 Obama is running hard and fast from his anti-gun past quite a few times. If you’re the Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Ownership, that’s gotta sting. I mean, here’s a candidate who has supported every gun control pipe dream you could offer and once the spotlight is on him he drops you faster than a drug dealer can ditch evidence.
His anti-gun past results in the Democrat Leadership Council folks cranking up the false flag group, the American Hunters and Shooters Association.
And now, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership has a page on the 2008 Presidential Candidates
Record and Statements on the Gun Issue. I’m sure it’s a matter of time before the Obama Truth Squad, Digital Cybernauts, and lawyers demand that they take it down as being untrue. And by untrue they mean politically inconvenient.
Mr. C. reports that ParaUSA is donating a Para PXT LDA Limited Single Stack Pistol in 9MM to the event.
Man, I wish I could make it this year.
If you’re surprised by this, you’re not paying attention.
People say to me Hey, Uncle, it’s been a good hour or so since congress failed to save us and, well, I kinda thought we’d all be dead by now. And I’m not. So, what’s up with that?
Well, the problem is a bit overstated. You see, a while back someone decided that home ownership was good. So, people came up with ways to ensure more people could own homes. With more buyers, property values went up. Or, more likely, prices were inflated so that these ways to ensure more people could own homes would be profitable. Now, the trouble is that these inflated housing prices have come down. This sucks if you’re the owner of some property or the mortgage holder on the property and you borrowed or loaned money when the price was high. Now, you’re not screwed yet, if you can still make payments. But if you can’t, then these folks that loaned you money now have financial instruments valued at less than the assets they have a secured interest in. I mean, the loans still have value and are, most likely, still profitable. But there’s some risk.
Then they say to me Well, that doesn’t sound that bad. I mean, it’s not great but it doesn’t sound like the Apocalypse is coming. After all, whenever you lend money there’s a risk that’s why people charge money to loan money. What was the point of the bail out nonsense, then?
Well, for political posturing, of course.
And they say No, I mean what would the bail out have done?
Oh. Well, it would have given money to people who made bad business decisions. It would transfer assets held to the .gov. And we’d start over and be in the same mess. Imagine you’ve been stabbed in the neck. The bill would have been akin to cleaning up the blood instead of actually stopping the bleeding. More here.
Update: Wall Street does not agree.
Tonight on your six o’clock news, ZOMFG WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!!1111one!1.
As you were.
One paper notes Barack Obama is not quite as forthright regarding his stance on guns.
It’s a terrible shame really, the P22 was a wonderful promise. A promise made by Walther of a miniaturized P99, cute as a button, and chambered for .22 Long Rifle. The only problem is the implementation.
I dunno. I really like mine. It did have some problems but those were easily fixed. It’s a good, inexpensive plinker.
A write up on Lauer Custom Weaponry in the NY Daily News:
Ever since the city banned brightly colored guns in 2006, saying cops and kids might mistake them for toys, Lauer has relished his role as the pistol-packing provocateur of one of America’s biggest gun opponents.
He marketed a line of bright colors called the “Bloomberg Collection,” sold hundreds of graffiti-style patterns for five-borough themed machine guns, and just introduced a bright-red shade called “Furious Mike.”
NY spent a bunch of money and time and effort on a database of ballistic fingerprints. Seven years later, the number of prosecutions from the database: zero.
They should have just asked Maryland.
David has a report. Interesting bit on Obama and guns:
John Lott spoke, with an interesting point. He’d held a fellowship at Univ. of Chicago School of Law, when Obama was a prof. or sorta-prof. there, and they talked a few times. The first time Obama said “oh, you’re the gun guy.” When he said that he was, Obama said “I don’t believe people should be allowed to own guns.” Lott said maybe they should talk about it. Obama just smirked and left without a word. Lott noted that he is happy to debate the topic fairly; he’s often had Cass Sunstein, who is very anti-2A, to his house for dinner and they debate gun control amicably. But not Obama.
Obama has since changed the tune but the lyrics are the same.
A man is dead after trying to break into a woman’s home and she opened fire on him.
According to police the woman had a restraining order against the man although their exact relationship is unclear.
Has there ever been a dumber Presidential team than these two?
Also, noted shotgun expert Jon Stewart informs us there are no Beretta shotguns, which was quite the surprise.
St. Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, and Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign.
‘What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment.
Ouch.
Philadelphia officials cannot enact gun laws tougher than Pennsylvania’s law, a state appeals court ruled Friday in throwing out city ordinances that included limiting gun purchases to one a month and banning assault weapons.
Commonwealth Court dismissed a lawsuit against the Legislature filed by two members of Philadelphia’s City Council, Darrell L. Clarke and Donna Reed Miller.
The court cited language in several gun ordinances the council passed last year that the measures cannot take effect unless the Legislature were to let municipalities enact stricter laws. That has not happened.
National Review’s Kathleen Parker on The Palin Problem:
Palin’s narrative is fun, inspiring and all-American in that frontier way we seem to admire. When Palin first emerged as John McCain?s running mate, I confess I was delighted. She was the antithesis and nemesis of the hirsute, Birkenstock-wearing sisterhood ? a refreshing feminist of a different order who personified the modern successful working mother.
Palin didn?t make a mess cracking the glass ceiling. She simply glided through it.
It was fun while it lasted.
Palin?s recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who Is Clearly Out Of Her League.
No one hates saying that more than I do. Like so many women, I?ve been pulling for Palin, wishing her the best, hoping she will perform brilliantly. I?ve also noticed that I watch her interviews with the held breath of an anxious parent, my finger poised over the mute button in case it gets too painful. Unfortunately, it often does. My cringe reflex is exhausted.
Palin filibusters. She repeats words, filling space with deadwood. Cut the verbiage and there?s not much content there. Here?s but one example of many from her interview with Hannity: ?Well, there is a danger in allowing some obsessive partisanship to get into the issue that we?re talking about today. And that?s something that John McCain, too, his track record, proving that he can work both sides of the aisle, he can surpass the partisanship that must be surpassed to deal with an issue like this.?
When Couric pointed to polls showing that the financial crisis had boosted Obama?s numbers, Palin blustered wordily: ?I?m not looking at poll numbers. What I think Americans at the end of the day are going to be able to go back and look at track records and see who?s more apt to be talking about solutions and wishing for and hoping for solutions for some opportunity to change, and who?s actually done it??
If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself.
If Palin were a man, we?d all be guffawing, just as we do every time Joe Biden tickles the back of his throat with his toes. But because she?s a woman ? and the first ever on a Republican presidential ticket ? we are reluctant to say what is painfully true.
What to do?
McCain can?t repudiate his choice for running mate. He not only risks the wrath of the GOP?s unforgiving base, but he invites others to second-guess his executive decision-making ability. Barack Obama faces the same problem with Biden.
Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she loves. She can bow out for personal reasons, perhaps because she wants to spend more time with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first.
Do it for your country.
I thought it was the Left that was supposed to suffer from “PDS.”
Just picked up my Gun Blog 45.
And Todd Jarrett said some of us screwed up and left our lasers on and the batteries would be dead. I would be one of those.
You know what we haven’t argued about in a while? Fixing the AR-15. So, the US Army is asking the industry for ideas to improve it.
Like past efforts at exactly this effort and efforts to develop the Joint Combat Pistol, it will go no where. Except that some gun makers will probably make some really cool new stuff for us. Except HK.
FYI, smart quotes aren’t.
They keep getting turned into question marks.
And I wanna hold you in parenthesis.
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