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Image: The .45 Colt M-1911A1, one of the most famous handguns in the world. This pistol was discussed on a thread yesterday.

A punt gun is one way to shoot clay targets. Video.

Iceland is a Laffer Laboratory. Who knew? Conspiracy

Free trade and the Dems. Caught between brainless populism and their party's best interests. Bloomberg

Get your own Ann Coulter talking doll here.

Sarbanes and Oxley "wish they had done it differently." Thanks a lot,�guys. It's called the Law of Unintended Consequences.

An academic wants to "bring back the campus". The NY Sun.

Proof of the surge's success. A good one at Dr. Sanity - a cartoon.

Real badminton. Scroll down.�Amazing.

Whose fault is it if you're illegal? Wizbang. The whole story of the factory raid at And rightly So

Bono's Red Campaign. It is something about money�for Africa, having to do with kids buying stuff, or whatever. $100 million in marketing costs: net $18 million. At Advertising Age: �http://adage.com/article?article_id=115287&rf=23m�(h/t, Smart Christian)

UN says Canada "not nice enough."� Am Princess�(fixed)

Like Vista? Coyote doesn't like it yet, and explains why.

Is euthanasia a slippery slope? Volokh. Sure could be. These things should be left to Drs and their patients.

Taxman

If you drive a car, I'll tax the street
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat
If you get too cold I'll tax the heat
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.

NYT proposes taxing breathing - because of the CO2 output. Don't hold your breath for that to happen. But why tax it? Why not just make it illegal? I mean...if it's a crisis and all... Maybe the NYT editorial staff could begin by setting an example, and voluntarily quit breathing and killing trees for a few weeks.

Scooter? I like Cassandra's take on the story.

The 9th Circus wants Christianity censored. �h/t, Basil. Of course they do. The 9th is the embodiment of Establishment Moonbatism, and they all seem to reinforce each other.

Baby loves disco. This is sick. CSM

The Polar Bear Surge: Their numbers are way up. Riehl. Who knew they liked Palm trees, white sandy beaches, and Rum Punches?

Update on Liberty National, and their new clubhouse. This golf course has a big future, I would guess. Some location, and some views.

Harvard's "dreadful" new prez: Heather MacDonald at City Journal. A professional victimologist. So much for "Veritas."

I am a small man. Shape of Days. Shape of Days never holds back in his writing and can be scathingly honest - to a fault. No wonder he can't get a date. I like the guy. A quote:

I�m a small man. I don�t mean in stature, though that�s certainly true. No, I mean I�m small of spirit. I�m bitter. I�m dark on the inside and not in a good way. Sometimes that darkness comes spilling out, no matter how much I try to hold it in, and I hurt people�s feelings. This never ceases to surprise me. Not that I hurt them, but that they�re upset by it. Aren�t they like me? Don�t they hurt all the time anyway? What�s the difference?
This is what makes me a small man.

Hillary at the Nixon impeachment hearings. After being her boss at the hearings,

Jerry Zeifman decided that he could not recommend her for any position of public or private trust.

S,C and A explains why (keep reading - it's towards the end), and it isn't pretty. The truth about this creepy woman is well-hidden by the MSM.

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Women's Only Gym Hours At U of T - Guess Why?
I think the title is so appropriate that I've just repeated it here. And I have no doubt whatsoever that you already know the reason (sic sic sic) behind the craziness going on at the University of Toronto (ht - Maggies Farm). They might as well go ahead and take the next step and require all female students to wear this!...

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{Harvard's "dreadful" new prez: Heather MacDonald at City Journal. A professional victimologist. So much for "Veritas."}

not yet read the link,
but maybe "professional victim" is more accurate.

#1 gumshoe on 2007-03-09 09:11 (Reply)

I didn't get back to most of you gentlemen yesterday on the advice about the 1911A1 that I inherited.
I'm definitely keeping it, will fire it on occasion but will also probable go ahead and buy a Springfield Armory Mil_Spec model of the same weapon aand use it as my carry weapon.
There a bit of a helf but I'm a big guy and it you need some knock down dead power...well we are gathered here to spit on the grave of a lowlife house invader...etc.
Remember that dead men don'y get to testify, it's a rule.

I thinK I also mentioned that I just bought a very nice Browning safe /w/ dehumidifier. I holds 15 long guns and then some. Nice shelves fro pistols...So my new AKM-47 new in the box, my new in box M1AI from Springfield, and my new in box M-14 calibered in 6.8mm will all fit nicely.
I need a few grenades but they're illegal so I'll have to make my own. Got the styrafoam,soapshavings, and gasoline mixed nicely for some effective naplam, 12ga. landmines...no problem.
When the stuff get really thick I'm a member of the Marine Corps Aviation Association which gives me three close air supports a year...
I could use some C-4 or Semtex.
Boy scout motto...Be schizoid ..I mean prepared...

#2 Habu on 2007-03-09 09:12 (Reply)

{UN says Canada "not nice enough." Am Princess}

link ain't woikin,NJ.

#3 gumshoe on 2007-03-09 09:31 (Reply)

Thanks. Fixed it.

#4 the NJ on 2007-03-09 09:39 (Reply)

Habu:

That is a nice gun safe. Costly. I just use a locked closet, but nobody could find the guns in there. I can never find anything I need in there myself. Too much stored crap. And no guns worth stealing anyway.

#5 the NJ on 2007-03-09 09:54 (Reply)

i like Canada and have a long term,good friend
who is Canadian.

so it's eymbarassing to watch Canada be told "Jump!!"
and the reply "are we bending over far enough yet??"

#6 gumshoe on 2007-03-09 09:56 (Reply)

"and they reply..."

#7 gumshoe on 2007-03-09 09:58 (Reply)

Just got a Ft. Knox 16-gunner. Fits in a closet no problem. I'm curious about your 6.8. I'm thinking about an AR in 6.8.

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I have several Canadian friends. One of them told me once "we are raised to think that government is good. You Yanks are raised to think government is evil." The people I know up there hate the PC culture. But they, even more than we, simply accept it without challenge.

#8 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2007-03-09 10:33 (Reply)

NJ ..what forced my hand in getting the big expensive safe waas that I brought my baseball memorabilia to the house to make a CD to send to Sotheby's. due to the volume and nature of the items I have it was costing me many safe deposit boxes to store it all. Also the guns would have a nice home although I can' fit them in yet until I unload the baseball stuff.
I haven't heard from Sotheby's yet but the gent has more than one project I'm sure and in conjunction with their new partnership with one of the big baseball auction houses they're trying to figure out how to price the stuff. Time will tell.
I have items the Southeby guy says he's never seen up for auction. I'd like at this point to thank my long departed grandfather for getting his various team mates and others to sign stuff.
The guns I will shoot and take up reloading in my dotage in Montana.
My neighbor (2 miles away) has a skeet set up. I'll be able to fire from my place into the side of a mountain that's on BLM property.......while I'm rambling...

The samll guy....I get accused often enough of being a hard ass about things that I have to step back and assess if the criticism is valid. I usually try to file off a burr or two but then I say wait...actually it's WAIT!..If being a hard ass means not wanting 400,000 illegal peryear coming inot the States the sign me up. If it means I like to beat out enemies outright like Grant use to do, or ole R.E. Lee then once again sign me up. If it means I don't have the patience for metrosexuals and their arguments, well you know. I don't hink folks realize how nice it was in about 1954 in the USA..yeah we had the Russian Bear but that was about it. We had about half the population and schools where kids did what they were told to do.
Well ya kin want all ya want but we gots what we gots but ain't no wiedo in a mall gonna shoot folks dead while I'm around. Yeah one or two might go down initially but I'll be returning fire and moving toward the best position I can get.
Is that a hard ass?

#9 Habu on 2007-03-09 10:42 (Reply)

I would term that approach "American." There is really no good excuse for any law-abiding American not to be carrying.

#10 the NJ on 2007-03-09 11:02 (Reply)

I like antiques and collectibles. It is an interesting and fun hobby. Many times I have warned people who are selling their parents or grandparents antiques and collectibles that they will very likely regret it, but if they insist on selling, then I will buy. I like going to estate sales and auctions but when I had to break up my Moms' house (she was a bit of a collector too), I sold nothing. It all stayed with family and friends or went to charity. Be careful Habu. Storage is expensive and a problem too but you do not want to look back in 5 or 10 years and be sorry. Family things are irreplaceable.

RE: Being a hard ass....Where would this world be without hard asses? (ass's?, asss'?, ass'). IMO, nowhere good. I grew up around them so they do not bother me. My Sicilian Grandpa (yes, according to my beloved Grandpa, I am descended from Sicilian royalty) was definitely one and so was my sweet Irish Grandma and all of her sisters were too. lol.

#11 Patina on 2007-03-09 12:46 (Reply)

If you want to read up on an Al Gore-like previous incitement to believe horse manure (this time, about owning guns), search Dr. Michael Bellesiles.

#12 buddy larsen on 2007-03-09 12:49 (Reply)

buddy:

A devastating critique of Bellesiles is found in "Armed America" by Clayton E. Cramer. Private arms were omnipresent. In colonial America, laws were enacted that men had to be armed when going to church - a way of inspecting who was truly able to pass muster in their militia. Sometimes even slaves were armed.

I have said before that in 20 years I feel we may return to such a system - or implement some sort of Israeli or Swiss type of "arms at home" requirement.

#13 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2007-03-09 13:03 (Reply)

Skookumchuk,
Do some up to date research on the 6.8. I bought mine after finding out that all the spec. force people had demanded more knock down ,heavy hitting than they currently had. The Army got the 6.8 up and running and all the reports have been very favorable BUT BUT I read last week where a final decision to convert to the 6.8 has been shelved for now...I read that as a not good sign.
It could be that it's just one manufacutrer vs. another with a new toy. That's when I went out and bought the Springfirld Amory M1A1. I got five extra clips (20 rounds) and 500 rounds of ammo. I don't think that weapon is going away any tome soon..it's just too good.

This http://texasbrigadearmory.com/m40a1.htm .....will probably round out my collection. I know they're cute and all but I'd love bragging rights on dusting a Prairie dog at 1000 yds.

Right after that I'm buying a solar powered golf cart to haul all this gear around!

One of the many articles on the Chinese firedrill on the 6.8mm

http://www.defensereview.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=600

Good luck

#14 Habu on 2007-03-09 13:05 (Reply)

Habu:

I hear the 6.8 is a barrel burner.

Patina:

Mrs. Skookumchuk is like me - a pack rat. Lately we have been eliminating junk, which almost always involves tossing the new and junky and keeping the old and inherited.

#15 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2007-03-09 13:07 (Reply)

Forget the golf cart--get a Bradley.

#16 buddy larsen on 2007-03-09 13:17 (Reply)

Habu:

You need one of these -

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117314797358927846.html?mod=most_emailed_day

#17 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2007-03-09 13:20 (Reply)

Patina,
Great advice on family heirlooms and collectibles. One reason I'm selling a good portion (not) all of my baseball stuff is that I have no heirs. The insurance to pay for it for me to display would be prohibitive and I know there are fans out there who can afford it and would treat it with repect. Also things like baseballs etc do deteriorate with age and lose all value. Some of my stuff goes back to 1909 so it's now or never.
I still have all the scrapbooks and I've even got a taped interview with my grandfather from 1970. He was 75 then but still could recall everything. Plus I knew him as a boy growing up and listen to him tell me how he struck out Babe Ruth in the World Series of 1932, Or how at 38 years old he set down 25 Cardinals in a row (27 in a row is a perfect game) AND knocked in the winning run!! If I had an heir it would all be different but I don't so that's that.

#18 Habu on 2007-03-09 13:22 (Reply)

Skook--as you know, the significant thing about Bellesiles' work was not so much that it used deliberately dishonest research, nor even that it was so thunderously embraced by academia & the left, but that it was specifically aimed at distorting the history behind the 2nd Amendment--to thereby delegitmize the intent of the Founders.

A deep, basic, foundational attack on America, in order to prep the way for the Utopia Coming (and the gov't that won't be able to force that Utopia unless it first disarms its citizens).

#19 buddy larsen on 2007-03-09 13:26 (Reply)

hell, habu, dad, I'll be your heir! you probably want someone not your own age tho. fooey.

#20 buddy larsen on 2007-03-09 13:33 (Reply)

Skookumchuk,
It could be a barrel burner on full auto. Hell I may never shoot it, I don't really know what to do with it as I do believe the Army is going with something else other than an up calibered M-16...It may go down as one of my bad buys.
I got so pissed after reading about them shelving the 6.8 that I bought the AK. Now I can blast away.
I guess there's always hope that they'll use the 6.8mm round in whatever they develop. If that comes about I'm OK, but if they dump it after a while not too many will make ammo for a short lived caliber. I'm not really a gun collector I'm just wait'n for the muzzies to get rowdy here in the states. Of course there are probably three Muslims in Montana. But like the T-shirt says, "I'd walk a mile to smoke a camel", and I'll still be primarily in Florida for the next two years.

#21 Habu on 2007-03-09 13:39 (Reply)

Utopia is here and now.

Well, as much of it as we'll ever get. Carpe diem, says I. And meanwhile, block the moonbats so our kids and grandkids can have what we have.

#22 BD on 2007-03-09 13:41 (Reply)

I have two Colts, mine, and the one I inherited when my youngest brother died (my niece wanted me to have it -- she kept the rest of his firearms).

#23 rightwingprof (Link) on 2007-03-09 13:47 (Reply)

Thanks for the offer Buddy. I've been try'n to convince the wife that a surrogate wife might work. She hit me.

I'll have to read that 2nd amendment article...but they usually irritate me. I even balk at getting a concealed weapons permit ( but I have one) since I believe the 2nd amendment gives me all the law I need to keep and bear arms.
I sure couldn't figure out a couple of years back why the Aussies gave up their guns. I mean when you need one it's usually like RIGHT NOW.
Buddy I took your advice and now have an outdoor stashed weapon for a quick exit and then counter attack.
I'm just like you guys , I can't imagine not owning a firearm. It's un American.

#24 Habu on 2007-03-09 13:51 (Reply)

Habu:

I think you can get an 6.8 upper and use it with a standard AR lower, which if true may influence my decision.

Buddy:

The saving grace is that today there are more eyes in more places that can catch the slipshod or the dishonest. Tougher to do way back when, in the 60s say, plus the aura of academic omnipotence was still pretty strong. Not so now. I don't think that efforts to turn back the clock will really succeed.

#25 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2007-03-09 13:55 (Reply)

...why the Aussies gave up their guns.

For the same reason the Brits and the Canucks (in part) did too. It is as my Canadian friend said - if you believe that government is at base beneficent and worthy of great respect and the solution to your problems, then you give away your rights. What do you need them for?

#26 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2007-03-09 14:01 (Reply)

Skook,
You're right on the money about the interchange between the uppers. That was a big factor in buying the 6.8, I knew I could always convert which is darn nice.

Guns and citizens are the only thing that keep ANY government from becoming a police state. That I firmly believe. I am currently listening to a book on CD called "James Madison and the struggle for the Bill of Rights". I never realized how difficult a battle it was just to get the Constitution adopted. I'm now getting into the part on the Bill of Rights...Something tells me there won't be much opposition among the Founders regarding gun ownership. they all realized that governments were suspect and could usurp the "natural, God given rights of man"

#27 Habu on 2007-03-09 14:21 (Reply)

read somewhere the Oz are already experiencing crime upticks across the board. Geez, how could the great Oz people have slipped so badly on this one?

#28 buddy larsen on 2007-03-09 14:29 (Reply)

Buddy:

Again, it has to do with the fundamental assumptions that a people have about their rights and responsibilities and the role of the government.

A few days back I read an on-line article that I will try to dredge up comparing gun crime per capita (or some broadly similar value) in Victorian London, when there were few gun laws, with gun crime per capita in London today, where guns are nearly outlawed. Well, you can guess which is higher.

#29 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2007-03-09 14:49 (Reply)

Buddy,
I don't know. As you know I spent a lot of time in Australia in the 70's but that's a long time ago. Of course it seems like yesterday.
I do know this. At that time they were very very good people for being the grandson and daiughters of an Empires criminal class.
I think if I lived anywhere esle but the USA it would be Dearborn, no I mean Australia or New Zealand. For scenery you cannot beat the South Island of New Zealand, it is incredible. Kiwi's are also very friendly or back in the 1970's they were. It was like going back in time to the USA in the 1950's when you stepped off the plane in Christchurch,NZ.

It was like being on Mars stepping of the plane at Alice Springs, Australia...but the good neighborhood on Mars.
I can say with great pride that I even competed in the Todd River Yacht Club Race.
It takes place in a dry riverbed and the boats have no botttoms, you picks them up and start running...I folded my T shirt up and put it away somewhere to be worn again...of course it won't fit now!

#30 Habu on 2007-03-09 14:58 (Reply)

Skook,
I've seen a number of studies that show that when the citizens are armed and the bad guys know it crime goes down.
A good deal of research was done on this by a professor at Florida State who actually quit teaching and became a cop in Jacksonville, Florida.
I'll look too.

#31 Habu on 2007-03-09 15:02 (Reply)

Habu:

I agree that the South Island of New Zealand is pretty special. I remember taking the ferry from the North Island and wandering around for a few days. And very friendly people. Don't know much about Australia except for Sidney, Melbourne, and Adelaide, but nice people there, too. Still, a different expectation of government than here, which I think explains a lot.

#32 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2007-03-09 15:04 (Reply)

Kleck was the profs name..here's a start

http://www.nraila.org/media/misc/ACCC.htm

#33 Habu on 2007-03-09 15:05 (Reply)

GOV. BUSH GETS IT RIGHT, SAYS CCRKBA; ARMED CITIZENS REDUCE CRIME

For Immediate Release: July 12, 2006

BELLEVUE, WA � Florida Gov. Jeb Bush �nailed it� when he told reporters in Tallahassee � in reaction to the state�s drop in crime � that armed citizens are part of the equation, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said today.

Gov. Bush was quoted in the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel noting, �Law abiding citizens that have guns for protection actually probably are part of the reason we have a lower crime rate.�

Florida is one of 40 states with �right-to-carry� statutes that give citizens the ability to carry concealed handguns with the proper license. Last year, Florida also passed legislation that enables citizens to �stand their ground� and fight back when attacked in a public place where they have a right to be. (more)
http://www.ccrkba.org/pub/rkba/press-releases/bush_fl_ccw_reduces_crime.htm

#34 Habu on 2007-03-09 15:11 (Reply)

The SOWs (Status of Women) raised the money and support for the ridiculous gun registry in Canada and the Liberals legislated it, helped along by a MSM campaign waged after 14 women were separated from the men at an engineering college in Montreal and gunned down. IMO a massacre of that magnitude might have never happened if someone like Habu had been there but that is certainly not the way the presstitutes tell it.

The whole thing was reported as a feminist issue. The perps name was Marc Lepine and the MSM focused on his contempt for professional women and feminists but never reported on these very interesting (and somewhat predictable) facts.....

-'L�pine was born Gamil Rodrigue Gharbi, the son of Algerian immigrant Rachid Liass Gharbi and Canadian Monique L�pine, in Montreal. Gamil's father had contempt for women and believed that they were only intended to serve men.'-

ROP alert. But it is still remembered as The Canadian Day of Remembrance and Action Against Violence against Women. The feminists view the event as a "Violent Canadian men against helpless Canadian women" issue and ignore the facts about the Algerian immigrant culture Gamil Gharbi was raised in.

Canadian PM Harper was elected with a platform that included dismantling the registry. But he only has a minority government now and he will likely need a large majority to get it done. Even then I will believe it when I see it because how many times have we ever seen a large government agency disbanded once it was enacted? Seems like never.

#35 Patina on 2007-03-09 15:53 (Reply)

wonder what's the staus of those ROP boys who a few months ago were busted for conspiring to decapitate Harper and blow up Parliament or somesuch. Are they facing trial, I wonder?

#36 buddy larsen on 2007-03-09 16:07 (Reply)

timely:

http://instapundit.com/archives2/003206.php

#37 buddy larsen on 2007-03-09 16:46 (Reply)

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