2008 – Page 30 – Shall Not Be Questioned

Something for Us to Avoid

We feel a deep pleasure from realizing that we believe something in common with our friends, and different from most people.Â We feel an even deeper pleasure letting everyone know of this fact.Â This feeling is EVIL.Â Learn to see it in yourself, and then learn to be horrified by how thoroughly it can poison your mind.Â Yes evidence may at times force you to disagree with a majority, and your friends may have correlated exposure to that evidence, but take no pleasure when you and your associates disagree with others; that is the road to rationality ruin.

We have way too much of this in the pro-gun community.Â Way too much.Â I notice it particularly in those who would have us believe we’re, sure as sin, on the road to a marxist dictatorship with the election of Obama.Â That’s right along this line of thinking, if you ask me.

That also, if you ask me, describes much of the open carry movement as well.

Interesting Double Standard

You know, Obama supporters came totally unhinged about what happened to Dan Cooper, and said I was all manner of awful things.Â All I did was ask people not to buy his product.Â If this is their idea of an acceptable boycott, apparently I didn’t go nearly far enough!

Universal Health Care

This is bound to do wonders for the economy:

Mr. Baucus would create a nationwide marketplace, a â€œhealth insurance exchange,â€ where people could compare and buy insurance policies. The options would include private insurance policies and a new public plan similar to Medicare. Insurers could no longer deny coverage to people who had been sick. Congress would also limit insurersâ€™ ability to charge higher premiums because of a personâ€™s age or prior illness.

People would have a duty to obtain coverage when affordable options were available to all through employers or through the insurance exchange. This obligation â€œwould be enforced, possibly through the tax system,â€ the plan says.

Enforced through the tax system, eh?Â Well, at least that’s probably constitutional.Â Either way, there’s no word on how they plan to pay for what is bound to be an enormously expensive program.Â To me this is the worst of both worlds.Â There will be no incentive to control health care costs with a system like this, and costs will spiral out of control.

Stay Classy, Chris King

Chris King, my local state representative who was just defeated by a Republican in an overwhelmingly Democratic year, apparently has just closed up his office.

The door to the district office of state Rep. Chris King, D-142, on Wood Lane in Middletown was locked late Thursday morning. Calls to the office received a message referring calls to the Middletown office of state Sen. Tommy Tomlinson, R-6, at 215-945-2800.

House offices are required to transition on November 30th according to state law.Â Most state reps will keep their offices open to serve constituents as close to that date as possible.Â Says Frank Farry, who defeated King on November 4th:

â€œWeâ€™re diligently working to get our office open as soon as possible,â€ Farry said. â€œIâ€™ve already spent several days in Harrisburg trying to get the necessary approvals. Iâ€™m disappointed Rep. King chose to close his office within a few days of the election instead of remaining open until the Nov. 30 deadline. He committed to me [that] we would have a transition between our two offices, but that obviously is not going to occur.â€

I hope no one needs any constituent services in the next few weeks.

Quote of the Day

Cam Edwards reminds us that it’s the birthday of Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis:

Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the governmentâ€™s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.â€ â€” Justice Louis Brandeis, 1928

We’re going to be seeing a lot of that over the next four years.

The Evil Marshmallow Guns

Scott Bach opines on New Jersey’s A2116, .50 caliber firearms ban:

Many hunting and historical firearms fall into this category, so A2116 would ironically ban Revolutionary and Civil War flintlocks and muskets that won the very freedom that the legislation seeks to take away, not to mention popular hunting rifles. It could also ban a truly evil scourge of society that shoots 100+ caliber projectiles: marshmallow guns.

Read the whole thing.

Waaah! Waaah!

Apparently some GOP governors are getting pissy because they think Palin is stealing the spotlight which, of course, rightly belongs to them!Â OK GOP governors, it’s time to put on your big boy pants, and stop stomping around in a hissy fit.Â If you want media attention, because you want to run for President or something, then run against her in the primary.Â It’s how the system is supposed to work.

How the hell are we ever going to defeat Progressives when we have this whiny bunch as the ones who are supposed to show us the way?Â God help us.

Family Friend

Turns out Bill Ayers is pretty familiar with Obama after all.Â You know, I’ve been saying that I don’t think people have to worry about Obama shipping anyone off to concentration camps in cattle cars.Â I still stand by that, because I think Obama is hiring and appointing solid progressives, within our legal traditions, not murderers.Â But you know, it’s kind of hard to be credible when one of your “family friends” actually has, you know, advocated putting Americans into cattle cars and shipping them off to concentration camps.Â I can’t blame people for going off the deep end if Obama is the one pushing them.

How You Know Capitalism is Doomed

When formerly red countries have a better tax structure than Western European ones.

Personal Record at Indoor Pistol Silhouette

Somehow I managed to shoot 33/40 tonight on indoor pistol silhouette. Basically the only thing I changed was to swap out the Millet red dot scope on my Mk.III with a BSA red dot scope that I bought from SayUncle. I don’t know if it’s because it’s heavier, or just better quality optics, or I was just lucky tonight. We’ll see after next week.

I continue to struggle with my Kimber Govt. Model 82. I can shoot into the mid 30s with Bitter’s CZ 452 on a good night, but I have a hard time breaking the 30 point mark with the Kimber. It’s an 11lb rifle, and while it does tend to mute minor muscle movements, when I try to hold steady with it I’m swaying like a skyscraper in a hurricane. I think part of it is that the shooting position that’s comfortable with the CZ has an entirely different natural point of aim with a heavier rifle. It’s probably boils down to needing to practice with the Kimber more, and the CZ less. But I have to admit I love Bitter’s CZ 452. I think by this point I’ve probably shot 100x more rounds through it than she has.