OVER AT ITS TACTICAL, Debunking 9 Classic Myths and Whoppers about Firearms. There’s less flaming in the comments than I would have expected . . . .
Archive for 2010
September 17, 2010
HEY, BEARDED MARXISTS, THIS IS HOW COMMUNISM WORKS OUT:
“State retribution for tiny thefts, such as stealing a potato, even by a child, would include being tied up and thrown into a pond…”
“… parents were forced to bury their children alive or were doused in excrement and urine, others were set alight, or had a nose or ear cut off. One record shows how a man was branded with hot metal. People were forced to work naked in the middle of winter; 80 per cent of all the villagers in one region of a quarter of a million Chinese were banned from the official canteen because they were too old or ill to be effective workers, so were deliberately starved to death.”
Just another day on one of those big, friendly socialist plantations, where everyone gets free health care.
A ONE-DAY-ONLY SALE on this tabletop gas grill.
TODD HENDERSON: We Are The Super Rich. “I, like the president before me, am a law professor at the University of Chicago Law School, and my wife, like the first lady before her, works at the University of Chicago Hospitals, where she is a doctor who treats children with cancer. Our combined income exceeds the $250,000 threshold for the super rich (but not by that much), and the president plans on raising my taxes. After all, we can afford it, and the world we are now living in has that familiar Marxian tone of those who need take and those who can afford it pay. The problem is, we can’t afford it. Here is why.”
UPDATE: From the comments: “You should find no ear more empathetic than the President’s. The First Lady complained about the financial limits they faced living in your neighborhood and earning over $400K.”
Yes, yes she did:
“I know we’re spending — I added it up for the first time — we spend between the two kids, on extracurriculars outside the classroom, we’re spending about $10,000 a year on piano and dance and sports supplements and so on and so forth,” Mrs. Obama tells the women. “And summer programs. That’s the other huge cost. Barack is saying, ‘Whyyyyyy are we spending that?’ And I’m saying, ‘Do you know what summer camp costs?’”
Heh.
WHY CAN WE HAVE VIAGRA ADS, but not ads for female sex enhancers?
KEVIN WILLIAMSON: The Entitlement Bubble Bust Is Going To Be A Nightmare.
HEREDITARY BLOOD DISORDER CURED WITH GENE THERAPY. “A 21-year-old Frenchman is the first person in the world to be cured of the blood disorder beta-thalassaemia through gene therapy. But there is some confusion over what made the treatment work.”
NAZIS GATHERING AT REP. DEBBIE HALVORSON’S (D-IL) OFFICE IN CHICAGO? I hate Illinois Nazis. Shouldn’t Debbie Halvorson?
UPDATE: More on Halvorson’s Brown Shirts.
ANOTHER UPDATE: From Gateway Pundit, link above: “One of the protesters has been identified. She’s one of Obama’s Organizing for America staffers. They shipped her from Missouri to Chicago for their Hitler rally.”
Halvorson’s opponent is demanding an apology and turning it into a fundraising appeal. (Bumped).
OUCH: Home Depot founder rips Obama WH as “tenured” academics, apologizes for creating jobs. But hey, leave us tenured academics out of this — Obama never had tenure, and his longterm employment prospects look pretty shaky at present . . . .
Video at the link. Plus, from the comments: “Expect a tax audit from the IRS.” Ya think?
ARE WE HEADING FOR a space bubble?
AT AMAZON, it’s the Friday Sale.
BOB OWENS: Gunned Down in Vegas: What Really Happened to Erik Scott? “An accomplished young man is killed by police outside a Vegas Costco, and bystander accounts starkly contrast with official reports. . . . For the record, the Costco did not have signs posted prohibiting the carrying of concealed weapons. Scott did not violate any laws in carrying his weapon in the store. It is quite possible that Erik Scott was gunned down without having committed so much as a misdemeanor crime, and that the officers who shot him will be merely the latest exonerated in a long line from an apparently unaccountable police force.”
Here’s a statement from Scott’s father in the West Point Alumni class notes. (Bumped).
THE HILL: THE TEA PARTY’S ALREADY WON: “Even before Christine O’Donnell handily defeated Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) in an epic upset Tuesday night, the Tea Parties, all of them, had already won. No matter what happens in the midterm elections on Nov. 2, the Tea Party has moved the Democrats to the right and the Republicans even more so, and President Obama’s agenda is dead. . . . What debuted in nationwide protests on April 15, 2009, has taken less than 18 months to become the current driving force in American politics.”
Hey, I told you so. On April 15, 2009.
THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR JOHN MCCAIN, NEWSCASTERS WOULD BE FIRED FOR DARING TO SPEAK THE TRUTH: And they were right!
Amid the ongoing BP oil spill in July, McKelway covered a Capitol Hill demonstration by environmental groups protesting the influence of oil-industry contributions to members of Congress.
In his piece, McKelway said the sparsely attended event attracted protesters “largely representing far-left environmental groups.” He went on to say the protest “may be a risky strategy because the one man who has more campaign contributions from BP than anybody else in history is now sitting in the Oval Office, President Barack Obama, who accepted $77,051 in campaign contributions from BP.”
Now he’s been canned.
POPULAR SCIENCE tests the new iPods.
MAXINE WATERS UPDATE: OneUnited received more preferential treatment than first disclosed. “Maxine Waters and the Democrats may have thought that all of the bad news from her intervention with OneUnited bank had already been aired, but the Washington Post reports that the House Ethics Committee only scratched the surface. Far from a single intervention by Waters, the record shows an unprecedented effort conducted by Congress, Treasury, and its regulators to rescue the bank in which Waters’ husband had invested a significant amount of money. In 707 applications of TARP money, OneUnited got the most special attention.”
LAMINATED LINEN, the ancient world’s Kevlar. “Presented at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Anaheim, Calif., the study suggests that Alexander and his soldiers protected themselves with linothorax, a type of body armor made by laminating together layers of linen. . . . In order to determine how wearable this armor was, and how effective it would have been in protecting its wearer from arrows and other battlefield hazards, Aldrete and Bartell reconstructed several complete sets of linen armor using only material that were only available in the ancient world.”
UNEXPECTEDLY! Consumer sentiment weakest since August 2009. “Consumer sentiment unexpectedly worsened in early September to its weakest level in more than a year, as distress over jobs and finances intensified among upper-income families, a survey released on Friday showed.”
HOW TO BREAK IN a new car.
DAVID FREDDOSO: If Delaware seemed like good news to Dems, Wisconsin is killing them now. “The significance here goes beyond this state.”
RESEARCHERS BUILD MOON GARDEN: “The Moon is not the most hospitable place for growing fruits and vegetables. The lack of atmosphere and natural water, extreme temperatures, and exposure to cosmic rays present some serious challenges for future inhabitants who want to pursue sustainable living on the Moon. With these challenges in mind, scientists have built a lunar greenhouse that is designed to grow plants such as potatoes, peanuts, tomatoes, and peppers under the Moon’s extreme conditions.”