Don’t normally root for Oklahoma, but have to cheer any Big 12 team that beats the SEC’s Big Dog Alabama 45-31. Sweet.
Big Game Bob has himself a hot QB in Trevor Knight. In fact, he has three good ones. Texas is still trying to find just one of any note. Maybe UT should hire Bob Stoops to replace Mack Brown. Couldn’t hurt.
“I know it sounds incredible, but there is no doubt about it whatsoever. According to Reuters, Anthony Podesta’s lobbying firm, the Podesta Group, has received over $900,000 in payments from the [Yanukovych] regime, using its European Center for a Modern Ukraine front organization as an intermediary.
“Other top Washington lobbyists are also serving the regime, including, to be nonpartisan about the matter, former Romney adviser Vin Weber. But Weber’s lack of principle is a private matter. Podesta has a direct connection to the president of the United States.”
Via Instapundit.
UPDATE: Judicial Watch lists ten most corrupt pols: from Wormtongue with his “continual lies;” the Lizard Queen with her shouted “What difference does it make?” about why an ambassador was left to die; to GOP Speaker John Boehner who collected $200,000 to move House legislation along. And seven more. While the non-Fox News media gives us Miley Cyrus, et al.
Posted in Blogosphere, Obamalot, The Culture
Even living in a neighborhood where the police “are just minutes away,” (though that might be way too late) I find my guns a great comfort.
Knowing that many of my peaceful but cooperative neighbors also are armed adds to the assurance. I only fret that they and I do not get to the range to practice often enough—because a gun without practice is almost as useless as an unloaded one.
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Useful ideas from Strategy Page:
“Practice basic combat operations, like changing magazines. You must take cover when you do this as people who don’t, often get shot…
“Practice shooting at long range…While it’s true that most combat is at shorter ranges…,you will sometimes find yourselves being shot at by people farther away…
“Cars and trucks, unless armored, are not bullet proof…take cover behind concrete or steel. Fighting from behind an unarmored vehicle means you will eventually get shot when you don’t expect to. Indeed, when ambushed and in an unarmored vehicle that cannot move, the best thing to do is get away from that vehicle as soon as possible.”
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Not that I ever expect to have to fight more than one (at the most) criminal at Rancho Roly Poly, but it’s better to be prepared. Certainly that than totally reliant on the always late-arriving police and therefore, like the gun-controllers and other antigunners generally, oblivious to the possibilities.
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As Cobb puts it: “Education about protecting one’s own life is more important than education about the context of laws passed and theories about collective states and militias. I have no spiffy analogy to offer illustrating the foolishness – but look to your own martial education and re-evaluate your position.”
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This old favorite from blogger Meryl Yourish, which she appropriately headlined “What A Difference A Gun Makes,” further illustrates the comfort level.
Via Jerry Pournelle and Cobb.
UPDATE: Study: Concealed Carry Equals Fewer Murders.
MORE: A picture we can never expect to see in Texas. If we ever do they can rename the place New York and take down the Lone Star forever.
“Judish peeled off $30 cash and walked out with 1/8 ounce of Larry OG, a potent strain of marijuana that connoisseurs like for its euphoric rush. ‘It’s cool to be part of history,’ he said with a grin. He had put his name on a list to be the first customer 14 hours earlier.”
It won’t be so cool to go to jail. It’s still a federal crime to buy, sell, or smoke marijuana. Which is why I say good luck to people like this who are foolish enough to put their names on a list the Choom Administration’s feds may soon be demanding to see.
Via Althouse.
UPDATE: Or, maybe not. “The feds say they’ll intervene if governments can’t prevent distribution to minors or trafficking across state borders, but those are both inevitable and no one should expect that Attorney General Eric Holder’s troops will arrest people as they cross into Utah. Those are President Obama’s voters.“
The recent cooperation by both of our corrupt political parties in cutting military retiree income, including war-disabled retirees, is an ominous warning we ignore at our peril.
So far (how ironic is this) militant lesbian feminist Camille Paglia is the only one I’ve seen take up the challenge.
“The entire elite class now, in finance, in politics and so on, none of them have military service—hardly anyone, there are a few. But there is no prestige attached to it anymore. That is a recipe for disaster,” she says. “These people don’t think in military ways, so there’s this illusion out there that people are basically nice, people are basically kind, if we’re just nice and benevolent to everyone they’ll be nice too. They literally don’t have any sense of evil or criminality.”
I also think people are basically kind and cooperative. But I know that some are not and so I own guns and am ready to use them if need be. But then I’m also a veteran. Fortunately not a disabled one, having to depend on our lying political class.
The elite will learn. Wormtongue won’t be in the White House forever. We just have to hope that too many of us don’t have to learn with them. But I fear that as their pathetic attitudes trickle down to corrupt the tiny fraction of the populace still eager to serve, conscription will have to come back. And if you think the military is expensive now…
Paglia’s take on this and many other contentious topics is part of a larger interview you’d do well to read. Who else is championing the old-fashioned masculine virtues? Other than Duck Dynasty, I mean.
She isn’t the first to make this argument, but she does it better than most: “Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It’s oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys,” she says, pointing to the most obvious example: the way many schools have cut recess. “They’re making a toxic environment for boys. Primary education does everything in its power to turn boys into neuters.”
Via WSJ and Darkwater.
Posted in Blogosphere, Guns, The Culture, The War, Troops
An anonymouse to warm us up on this frigid New Year’s Eve in CenTex land, courtesy of Planck’s Constant way back in 2008. More at the link. Racier, too.
“Forced anal cavity searches have replaced pepper spraying and tasering as the most popular [police] form of degrading human beings…”
Texas has had some of these, too.
At least it’s preferable to being murdered like Miriam Carey.
Via Instapundit.
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