Since I feel a bout of laziness coming on, I think it is time for me to copy-paste some good quotes from across the blogosphere. First up, Glenn Reynolds:
IS “TEABAGGER” THE NEW “N-WORD?” No, but when I hear someone use it, I know that nothing they say on the subject is worth taking seriously. Either they’re deliberately using it as a sexual slur, or they’re too ignorant to be worth listening to.
From the experience I have with people misusing that word, the latter option seems to be far more prevalent…
Next up, John Skookum, by way of Kevin Baker:
Rules are for the proles.
If you’re Charlie Rangel or Tim Geithner, you can cheat on your taxes without consequences.
If you’re Bill Clinton or Ted Kennedy, you can treat women in the most beastly fashion with impunity.
If you’re Al Gore or RFK Jr, you can pontificate about global warming while living in a mansion and flying around the world in private jets.
If you’re Nancy Pelosi, you can staff your vineyard with non-unionized illegal aliens living in squalor.
Welcome to Animal Farm, Democratic Party style.
Although, given the option between the Democratic Party aristocrats, and those who would actually support and defend them, I know which group I find the most distasteful…
Next up, Joe Huffman:
Just because you have never broken the law or injured another doesn’t mean those in power won’t think of you as a terrorist. Are you a gun owner? To some that means you are a potential threat to society. They may think 10% of gun owners “shouldn’t have guns”. But how can they determine which 10%? Just to be safe they have to send them all to the camps, just for a little while until they can sort them out, right? It is for the good of society. The world will be a better place soon. It’s will hurt for just a little bit. Sort of like an inoculation, a little jab and it stings for a few seconds and then everything will be better. It’s only 10%.
And yes, as Joe pointed out, things like that have happened before, right here on American soil.
Next up, Doctor Zero:
Many reasons have been offered for Ted Kennedy’s long, expensive, debased career: He was trading on his family name. The voters of Massachusetts thrust him on the country by perpetually re-electing him. It was America’s collective fault for letting him get away with Chappaquiddick. The media loved him because they love epic tales of heroic liberal politicians. We can learn not to repeat all of those mistakes.
When you go into the voting booths next year, remember what the past week has taught you about the Democrats. It would have been one thing to offer a salute to the parts of his political agenda they agreed with, while acknowledging the dark side. The full-on hagiography, coupled with the disgusting attempts to dismiss Mary Jo Kopechne’s life as a small price to pay for political power, reveal that this party knows nothing about the meaning of redemption, responsibility, and the value of individual human lives. The rest of us can neither afford nor tolerate anyone like Ted Kennedy, ever again.
As they say, you need to go read the whole thing.
Next, from KurtP:
If 52% was a landslide…
Like all those Obammatards keep saying.
What will they say about that 52% who now disapprove of his preformance?Or the 57% who would recall the entire Congress? A tsunami?
So much for the supposed “mandate for change” our Glorious President supposedly had, eh?
And finally, the ever-pantsless Robb Allen:
Something us gunnies talk of all the time is that your gun is not a talisman. It won’t ward off threats just as it won’t use mind control rays to make you go on killing sprees. In order to make the firearm effective, you must not only train with it on a regular basis, you need to make sure you have the correct mindset as to when and how to deploy it.
After having been one of the test gerbils for a “21-Foot Rule” demonstration in the military, I have always thought that indoor ranges should have a switch setting on their clotheslines that makes the target come at you as quickly as it can. You can accomplish pretty much the same thing with your range partner holding down the switch, but that requires the presence of said range partner, as well as sufficient space in the booth for you and his arm. Of course, it also requires a range that allows drawing and shooting from the holster, so maybe this is all just a moot pipedream. All the more reason to get a house with enough of a back 40 to have a range and one of these on my own, right? Yeah… Right…
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