Take a break and watch this episode of PJTV’s Louder with Crowder to see what the left wants to inflict upon Americans with their $1 Trillion health care plan (which expands to a minimum $2.3 Trillion after the first decade).
Afterwards, read this tale of socialized medicine on our nation’s Indian Reservations, where the term “Don’t get sick after June” is the rule and not the exception.
I didn’t have a QotD I was happy with until I read Robb’s sidearm epiphany.
After my range trip last night, I’m not only positive I don’t want to trade it, but I’ve actually realized the more I shoot the 1911, the less I like my Glock.
That is a common problem for Glock owners. I loved my G30 until I bought a HiPower, which caused me to shoot my 1911’s more. It didn’t take long for me to trade the 30 in on another JMB designed sidearm.
Glock owners, sequester yourselves! Whatever you do, avoid the temptation to put your hands on a steel or alloy framed pistol designed by God’s own armorer! Do not let thyself be corrupted!
Speaking of the HiPower, it is complete and refinished and is only waiting for me to pay off the smith who made it perfect again (it’s very likely older than 95% of RNS readers, let’s see a Glock do that). I’ll be debuting it at GBR IV in September.
Via Robb, Kevin Baker was introduced to the logic of one Marc Rubin. Kevin has extended an invitation to Mr. Rubin for a discussion on the individual right to own firearms over at TSM. We await Rubin’s answer.
You see, Mr. Rubin believes that the grammar used by the writers of the Bill of Rights is absolute proof that there is no individual right to own firearms.
An excerpt:
For those who don’t know there are two types of rights enumerated in the Constitution, states rights and individual rights. As any Constitutional scholar will tell you, when the Framers were referring to a state’s right they used the term “the people:”. When they were referring to an individual right, they used the word ” person”.The 5th amendment is a good example. It begins with the words, “No person shall…” and lays out guarantees, among them, double jeopardy and that no person in a criminal case shall be compelled to be a witness against himself.
Once you understand who the Framers are referring to when they say “the people”, which is a collective for the individual states, and not referring to an individual right,  it’s time to deal with the most misused and misunderstood part of the 2nd amendment - the words “to keep and bear arms”.
I really dislike having to break this to Mr. Rubin, but using his logic, the 4th Amendment, including the landmark Roe vs. Wade, has just been declared null and void.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Get it? The state governments and the peoples representatives and their functionaries have the right to not be searched by the federal government in their executive, legislative, and judicial buildings, including, but not limited to their administrative buildings and modes of transport.
Not you and I. Otherwise, using Rubin’s logic, the Framers would have used the phrase “The right of every person”.
Now, if you want a truly headspinning experience, try to sort out the 10th Amendment using Rubin’s reasoning.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Those silly Framers! They repeated themselves. Why would they do that?
If Kevin does get a nibble out of Mr. Rubin I do seriously hope that he asks him how he reconciles this conundrum.
If he doesn’t receive a response, then Mr. Rubin is simply a coward of the first order.
The circular logic in the following idea can only be the swirling of a toilet bowl.
In a bid to stop Muslim extremists from becoming more militant, the UK Government is set to issue a guideline for police, directing them not to charge them in many hate crime cases, a move that has created outrage amongst critics.
Guidelines will tell forces to press for conviction only in cases of clear-cut criminal acts, and refrain from proceeding when evidence of lawbreaking is “borderline.â€
Officers will be advised to turn a blind eye on crimes such as incitement to religious hatred or viewing extremist material on the Internet.
“For instance, where there has been incitement or someone has been on the internet there can be a grey area where there is some discretion and it would be more sensible to avoid going down the criminal route,†the Daily Express quoted a White Hall source, as saying.
Not charging them with a crime to try and stop them from committing said crime in the future?
Ow. Brain hurts.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m one who believes that so called “hate crime” laws are evil in legalese.
But if you are going to single out a particularly hate-filled group and tell them that they stand much less chance of being charged with breaking a particular law on the books than anyone else not in their hate-filled group would be charged with if they did the same thing does not fit the definition of “discouragement”.
In fact, logically, it would do the exact opposite.
Spending the past few decades implying to women that if they physically assault their spouse that they will more than likely not be going to jail hasn’t lessened the number of physical assaults men have had to endure without being able to defend themselves.
Ow. The stupid. It hurts.
Found via CCinZ
Via the AutoBlog and the Axis of Oversteer, replays of what I was watching this weekend.
Both links go to videos of Formula 1 cars flexing through corners shot at 1500 frames per second (make sure to catch the frontleft lockup and repeated shots of the flatspot created by it). The second vid is overlapped practice laps showing how Lewis Hamilton was recording those excellent lap times (no brainer hint: brake later, accelerate earlier).
During my late high school years I was a naysayer about my ability of actually being able to draw on Social Security when our time came. I was derided as being a pessimist.
Not because of the stupid crap I did while still feeling invincible, but because the program was considered one of those things that “will always be there”.
The 20 year reunion will be coming up shortly. I’m wondering if being able to prove I was right would make my attendance worth it?
Probably not. Plus, as I understand it, after the initial comedy, reunions are pretty depressing. I can go to work and be depressed.
Or I can read this bit of news
How quickly can 700 government employees spend three-quarters of a million taxpayer dollars at a resort hotel?
Last week the Social Security Administration flew approximately 700 of its managers from across the U.S. and Guam to Phoenix, Arizona’s posh Arizona Biltmore Hotel and Resort, for “organizational training.†The event, which included musical entertainment and dancing, skits, catered food, cocktails, and a “casino night†featuring “door prizes,†cost us lowly taxpayers approximately $750,000.
Forget that the Social Security Administration, a division of the U.S. Government to which every American is required by force of law to hand-over a portion of their earnings, has been headed for insolvency for over a decade. Ignore the fact that SSA is estimated to waste hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars each year in faulty “overpayments.â€
And as long as we’re experiencing a need for disregarding details, make sure you overlook these facts, as well: The United States Federal deficit is rapidly approaching $1 trillion (last month it surpassed $991 billion).
Precious metals. Guns and ammo. The only REAL investments that’ll always be there.
Found @ Say Anything
Into the town of Tiburon, CA in your car without being photographed.
Your presence has been noted.
The posh and picturesque town that juts into San Francisco Bay is poised to do something unprecedented: use cameras to record the license plate number of every vehicle that crosses city limits.
Some residents describe the plan as a commonsense way to thwart thieves, most of whom come from out of town. Others see an electronic border gate and worry that the project will only reinforce Tiburon’s image of exclusivity and snootiness.
“I personally don’t see too much harm in it, because I have nothing to hide,” commodities broker Paul Lambert, 64, said after a trip to Boardwalk Market in downtown Tiburon on a recent afternoon.
Personally, I’m warming to the belief that anyone who publicly states that they have nothing to hide should have every aspect of their 4th Amendment rights violated just to double check.
Stupidity should be painful, after all.
Found via Dan Riehl
Doesn’t only take place on the websites of anti-gun rights folks.
It also takes place in the United States House of Representatives
This little bit of C-Span was lauded across the leftosphere the end of last week as how Congress, and everyday true believers, should deal with people who don’t tow the line on single payer health care.
For those who don’t care to click, Dennis Kucinich spends nearly three minutes verbally abusing David Gratzer of the Manhatten Institute. Gratzer is testifying on the topic wait times and medical maladies caused by socialized medicine. Kicinich portrays the Canadian health care system as a Holy Grail.
One of the truths in life is that 10% of any group/gathering/population will be a pain in the ass for the other 90%.
It doesn’t matter if it is motorcyclists, dog breeders, bicyclists, plumbers, or doctors.
Which is why I am not surprised to find that the racist organization calling themselves The Southern Poverty Law Center was able to find a couple dozen white supremacists who say that they’re currently enlisted in the US Military. I’m sure that if the SPLC looked hard enough they’d find a few dozen Black and Brown supremacists as well.
But being the SPLC, they only care about the ones whose arms extend with the fingers flat. No worries about arms extended with balled fists or mouths that speak of La Raza.
This, of course, got local leftist hate-monger, David Neiwert, to post about how right he believes he’s been all along and how the DHS was should have started surveillance on folks after their report came out.
If one also takes the story on disgraced judge and current Democrat Rep. Alcee Hastings’ bill to create space on military bases that stand the possibility to be used as political internment camps, I think we can figrure out who will be the first ones through the gates: The ones who get little to no due process and who can, quite literally, be ordered to walk through the gates on just the mere accusation of being a white supremacist.
According to this guy, having less than average personal wealth makes one trigger happy.
It is just foolhardy to place guns in developments of poor people, many of whom are unemployed, and place these guns around children.
Emmanuel Cleaver II – Democrat of Missouri
Sure, some bad personal choice has landed folks in public housing. But turning public housing into an internment camp where they have to rely on the goodness of others for their own personal safety is not and never will be the answer.
