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Why Carry a Gun?

Why Carry a Gun?

My old grandpa said to me ‘Son, there comes a time in every man’s life when he stops bustin’ knuckles and starts bustin’ caps and usually it’s when he becomes too old to take an ass whoopin.’

I don’t carry a gun to kill people. I carry a gun to keep from being killed.

I don’t carry a gun to scare people. I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.

I don’t carry a gun because I’m paranoid. I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.

I don’t carry a gun because I’m[…]

Kris Kristofferson: Parasite

This past weekend my wife and I attended a Kristofferson concert.

Yeah, he’s a lefty, but he’s also an amazing poet. His songs capture much. Sunday Morning Coming Down, Bobby McGee, Help Me Make it Through the Night.

The crowd was as suspected - Older Boomers and a few on either side of the generation who grew-up listening to Janis Joplin, Kristofferson and others who covered his songs.  (WIllie Nelson does the best of which I am aware.)

But he couldn’t sing. His delivery had zero energy. Past his prime he ended lines on a downward minor chord rather than the higher notes[…]

Graph of the Day

For a solid year now, Randall Hoven has compiled data on various topics and presented it accurately with little or no editorial embellishment as the Graph of the Day on American Thinker.

Today he has stopped. One solid year of that level of work was enough.

In his column today saying adieu to this enormous amount of daily work, he provides a very quick overview of many of the topics he has covered with links to each of those graphs which, themselves, include links to source data. He also educates the reader as to where and how to go and get this information.

As John[…]

Perspective

One day, the father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the express purpose of showing him how poor people live.

They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family.

On their return from their trip, the father asked his son, “How was the trip?”

“It was great, Dad.”

“Did you see how poor people live?” the father asked.

“Oh yeah,” said the son.

“So, tell me, what you learned from the trip?” asked the father.

The son answered:

“I saw that we have one dog and they have[…]

Random Thoughts, 25 Jan 2010

So in the WSJ today a column that Barry, having been resoundingly told we DON’T LIKE HIS AGENDA, now will toughen his tone, not do a “reset” and keep on pushing his radical agenda.

Obama is your standard leftist adolescent. You don’t like what I just did? Watch while I do it ten times more! Nyah Nyah Nyah.

Never had to get a job. Pampered through years of schooling he probably didn’t qualify for (don’t argue, show me the transcripts and LSATs)

I can’t seriously believe we have to have 3 more years of this pre-adolescent irresponsible naif as president.

And we have Democrats,[…]

Our Car Industry - a Brit POV

You know how sometimes one short, well-written sentence can encapsulate an entire issue?

Here’s a phrase - just a part of a sentence - from the Telegraph (UK) today that does just that.

“… while Mr Obama seems far more interested in squandering taxpayers’ money on America’s largely pointless and sick car industry.”

Can’t improve on that.

Interesting Quote

I ran across this quote in one of the books I am reading, Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty (Paul Rahe).

Given the infatuation of the Left with all things European, and their true lack of regard of patriotism, and their current distaste for Christianity, one wonder about their response to this from Rousseau:

The patriotic spirit is an exclusive spirit, which makes us regard as a foreigner an almost as an enemy all other than our fellow citizens. Such was the spirit of Sparta and of Rome. The spirit of Christianity, on the contrary, makes us regard all men indifferently as our[…]

Conservative vs. Liberal

If a conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn’t buy one.

If a liberal doesn’t like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.

If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn’t eat meat.

If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.

If a conservative sees a foreign threat, he thinks about how to defeat his enemy.

A liberal wonders how to surrender gracefully and still look good.

If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.

If a liberal is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.

If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.

A liberal wonders who is going[…]

No, Hannity, America is NOT a ‘Christian Nation’

Obama the other day made an intelligent remark. Shocking not only because it was intelligent, but also because of the manner in which the Right Wing responded. It may well also have been the first time I agreed with him.

What was the remark? That America is not a Christian nation.

Of course it isn’t. The First Amendment states that rather clearly for those who, like Hannity, can’t seem to grasp this truism and historical fact.

Was America built on the Judeo-Christian heritage? Of course it was.

Could America have been created in any other religious tradition? Of course not.

Nonetheless our nation is specifically[…]

New Element Discovered

Something light in this heavy day…

 
Lawrence Livermore Laboratories has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science.
 
The new element, Governmentium (Gv), has one neutron, 25 assistant neutrons, 88 deputy neutrons, and 198 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.
 
These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.
 
Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. It can be detected because it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A tiny amount of Governmentium can cause a reaction that would normally take less than[…]