I borrowed this expression from a Powerline article last week:
“Consistently wrong, but never in doubt.”
Hinderaker uses it to describe the Global Warming “scientists”, but it actually applies to all socialists.
Month: February 2019
Priceless
I remember once seeing a cartoon in which a woman wearing a “Girl Power” t-shirt is buying a box of Tampax, and the (male) clerk smirking at her, saying, “Some things just never change, do they?”
I had a similar reaction to this one:
You may now clean the coffee off your screens.
Sanity Returns
…at least, finally, to the price of ammo. From Eric at AmmoMan comes this offering:
Y’all can do the calculations on the other calibers — I don’t have any guns chambered for ’em — but the per-round (non-rebate) prices are:
- Federal .45 ACP 230gr: 35c
- CCI .22 LR 40gr: 6.4c
- Blazer 9mm 115gr FMJ (not pictured): 19c
That’s more like it. I can now suggest culling vermin with .22 ammo as the “7-cent solution” and not the “25-cent solution”, as during the Obama Years [shudder].
During the Happy Times (2001 – 2008), I urged everyone to buy ammo because those prices wouldn’t last. I thought that the cost of ammo would go up if we elected a RatBastard Democrat to the presidency, but what I did not predict was that under CommiePres Obama, the huge sales pressure on the “popular” rifle calibers (5.56mm and 7.62x39mm) would cause serious shortages in the other calibers as manufacturers retooled to meet the demand. Hence the rationing of, say, .22 LR at places like Wal-Mart and Academy, and the complete disappearance of various calibers at local gun stores.
So let us learn from history, as we conservatives like to do, and buy ammo by the truckload during these, the Happy Times II. That way, when the next Commie asshole president starts talking about “how much ammunition does a person need?” en route to setting purchase limits, we can say, “Fuck you.”
Watch your Inbox — I’m on almost all the ammo sellers’ mailing lists, and you should be too — and take advantage of the low prices when they’re promoted. (And try, where possible, to buy American — remember, asshole Commie politicians will always ban ammo imports when they can, so let’s try to keep our guys in business.)
As much as I like to promote National Ammo Day on November 19th each year, nothing would give me greater pleasure than to do so this year, only to be told: “Shut up, Kim. I have enough ammo stored for two generations already.”
Make me and Baby Vulcan proud.
Dire Consequences
…in this case, what happens when you elect a Socialist asshole vegan from New Jersey [some overlap] to Congress:
Sen. Cory Booker said in an interview published Tuesday that the continuation of meat-eating will destroy the planet.
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“We will destroy our planet unless we start figuring out a better way forward when it comes to our climate change and our environment,” he added.
Despite his apocalyptic claims, Mr. Booker cautioned that he doesn’t want to ban meat-eating or even preach to people.
Of course you don’t, you lying fuckwit. You’re a Socialist: your kind has a collective orgasm by banning stuff and preaching to people because — wait for it — you know better than we do what’s good for us (and in this case, the planet). And vegans are even worse.
Go choke on a celery stick, Spartacus, and the sooner the better.
Not Guilty
So the MAGA-inspired attack on that actor turns out to have been staged, for whatever (I don’t care which) reason. Predictably, when the thing was first publicized, the fucking Lefty media were all over it — right up until it was proven false. Then we got shit like the following, with the inevitable (and splendid) rejoinder:
Has anyone else noticed that every time one of us MAGA people has been accused of a hate crime, it turns out that the entire episode was either a put-up job (as above), a complete fabrication (e.g. “slashed hijab”), or self-inflicted with no witnesses (e.g. “hateful graffiti”)?
One would almost think that the Left was playing the whole thing to advance their various agenda… Reichstag fire, anyone?
So Much For Background Checks
Like everyone here I was saddened to read of the mass shooting that happened in Illinois last week. Dude got laid off, pulled a gun and started shooting, killing six and wounding several more, including cops. I was expecting to have ILGov Fatboi Pritzker immediately start calling for more stringent gun control laws etc., and was wondering what was taking him so long. Here’s probably why the delay:
The chief also released new details about Martin’s criminal background and the weapon in the shooting.
Martin should have been legally barred from purchasing a gun due to his felony record. He had a 1995 conviction for aggravated assault for stabbing a woman in Marshall County, Mississippi.
However, in January 2014, Martin applied for and was issued an Illinois Firearm Owners Identification (FOI) card, which is required to own or purchase a gun in Illinois.
On March 6 2014, Martin applied to purchase a handgun at a licensed dealer in Aurora. Five days later, he took possession of a Smith & Wesson .40 caliber revolver, the same type of gun described as the weapon in Sunday’s shooting.
On March 16 2014, Martin applied for a Concealed Carry permit in an unknown location. He was fingerprinted during the background check, and his prior felony conviction came to light during the background check.
At the discovery, Martin’s CCW application was rejected, and his FOI card was revoked. He apparently retained possession of the handgun, however.
Ziman was unable to explain why the felony conviction did not prevent Martin from obtaining a FOI card in the first place, merely saying it was possible that it would not have been discovered until the more rigorous CCW check.
So much for the much-vaunted background checks we’re always hearing about. Illinois screwed up, and six people died because of it. I would hope that the murdered people’s families initiate a class-action lawsuit for negligence against the state, because a law unenforced isn’t a law. Of course, Illinois is bankrupt because they’re paying off (or not even paying) excessively-high entitlements to former government workers, so the lawsuit might be a waste of time. And needless to say, the gnomes at the IL State Police (representing “police power”, see below) won’t be fired for negligence because unions.
One last thing about the choirboy’s gun: S&W doesn’t make a revolver chambered in .40 S&W, so it must have been a semi-automatic pistol (Clueless Journalism 101).
State of Illinois constitution, Article I, Section 22:
“Subject only to the police power, the right of the individual citizen to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”