Wednesday, April 3. 2013
February, March, April and May are my busiest times of the year at work. No time to think except in the shower. No time for thoughtful posts. One must make hay while the sun shines.
More gun news: Connecticut Customers Rush to Store to Purchase Guns, Ammo
You betcha. Got a good load of .22 LR and a large load of 20 and 12 ga ammo yesterday. That's me: insane. 'Insane' crowds as customers flood Connecticut gun stores before vote
Piers Morgan has armed security. And I read that Jim Carrey has an armed bodyguard whenever in public. Since I am cheap and not wealthy, I have to be my own bodyguard. If armed protection is OK for the President and Piers Morgan, it's OK for me.
BTW, Drudge is truly fun today
Tuesday, April 2. 2013
I can't say I am too thrilled with what the Dem-ruled Connecticut legislature is about to do with firearms. I like to try my best to be law-abiding, but I do not know how many firearms we have around the place any more than I know how many hammers we have. Some are antiques, workable probably and oiled, but not fired for 30 years. Some are probably in closets and drawers we have never opened and in dark corners of the attics which we have never explored.
This place has been inhabited by firearm owners, country men, since 1823. As far as I know, not one of them every shot anybody, even if they deserved it.
My late father-in-law's farm, on which we now blissfully reside in commuting distance to Hartford, always had handguns (old .45 revolvers) in the drawer in the tack room of the barn (in case a horse needed shooting - broken leg, terminal colic, etc) and a .410 leaning on the barn wall for pigeons, Copperheads, and rattlers. He liked pigeon stew, and plenty of them lived in the barn before we tightened it up. (I liked the squab better.)
When he lived here, there was no crime at all. He was a big shot insurance fellow, and a gentleman farmer just as I aspire to be. Math genius actuary-turned executive, but farm-raised. Family tradition. Family farm, now. Third generation here, if we can keep it with the taxes which insist on taxing us as if we were a 60-acre housing development (they term that "taxable at best use". What is "best use"?). Otherwise, some developer will fill it with McMansions on 1/4-acre lots with no woodchucks, no horses, no goat, no meadows, no snakes, no barn pigeons, no barns, no barn cats, and no firearms. Safe and sterile.
Like most states with some creepy urban zones, most firearm crime is done by career crims and sociopathic and drug gangs, but I do not see our wise legislature attending to that at all. There are no dainty female suburban votes in that.
Connecticut's Gun Control: A Rush To Pass Laws That Couldn't Have Prevented Tragedy
It is so much easier to take on the law-abiding than the crims, because evil can never be legislated away. See Three Felonies a Day
 Meet the new climate deniers
Fiendish Turtle Smuggler Tried to Steal Over 10% of an Entire Species
A Brief History of Applause
10 Things I hate about LA
Pregnant "man" and his divorce case
A.D.H.D. Seen in 11% of U.S. Children as Diagnoses Rise
The Bible vs. the Heart - The human heart alone is a terribly flawed guide to social policy.
When Men Forsake God, Tyranny Always Follows
“Why so many jobs are crappy"
Is Disability the New Welfare?
“Unfit for Work: The Startling Rise of Disability in America”
The Obamas live the 1 percent life
Connecticut lawmakers clamp down on guns
The Bigotry attitude: Inequality for All:
Bigotry is too prized a resource to just watch it drain away in some communal pool of brotherhood and sisterhood. The only thing to do is to find ways to dam it up and create national parks of bigotry that will allow future generations of civil rights warriors to rough it by camping out under the burning crosses while admiring themselves for their artificial courage in defense of a manufactured cause.
Monday, April 1. 2013
KC Johnson: A College with Strange Sex Misconduct Hearings ('No' Means 'No,' and 'Yes' Can Mean 'No' Too)
If I were a horny college student today, I think I'd feel more comfortable chasing the townie girls. But that runs up against this advice: Princeton mom: Women have a 'shelf life'. Why that article got so much attention is beyond me, because every gal knows it even if they decide to wait a while.
Warmist claims Anthropogenic Global Warming causes more polar ice. The pirate doesn't call it "HotColdWetDry" for nothing. (h/t, reader)
Indeed, it explains everything, and few theories have this sort of power to explain everything that happens outdoors - after the fact.
Saturday, March 30. 2013
MORE FREE STUFF– FOR DEADBEATS!
As she asks, "Does doing the “right thing” even matter anymore, or does it just make you a doofus?"
Friday, March 29. 2013
Scott Turow on Amazon/Goodreads: This is how modern monopolies can be built.
Smart move by Amazon. A heck of a lot more people read Goodreads than read the NYT Book Review or, God knows, the NY Review of Books or The London Review of Books. I do enjoy the intelligence of the London Review.
People still love books but, with the appealing Teaching Company DVDs, it's tough for me to do more than a book per week.
I am just back from my assigned 1- hour Good Friday vigil at church (4-5 AM). So quiet, peaceful, serious, in semi-darkness (but with an almost -full moon shining in the windows) with the black-draped cross. I imagined being one of those who kept him company during his execution. I prayed for the souls of all of those I care about, and I prayed that his death would indeed redeem my sinful nature and my flawed soul. Lay it all at the foot of the cross, Pastor advises.
"Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living."
They bought it for $3 at a yard sale
Excellent investment, but I would not have even noticed it. Those people have a good eye for junk.
A review of gun safes.
I just keep mine locked in a bedroom closet. That meets the legal requirement here. But, since I have a carry permit, can I carry at night?
New York State: Least free state in the US
Freedom in the 50 states, but mostly in the red states?
Hunters Begin Boycotting Colorado
What the heck happened to Colorado?
But why does marriage require a license?
It does not, really. There is "common law marriage."
15 Year Old Wisconsin Conservative Meets Bullying From Teachers
If Obama Really Wanted to Reduce Gun Crimes He’d Focus on the Inner City… But He Won’t Because It’s Too Obvious
The culture war was never a fair fight
Sunstein sees government officials as an enlightened “guardian class” ...
We can't even be trusted to feed ourselves anymore. Who anointed these guardians? Aren't they just lowly politicos - a widely-disrespected class of people in America?
Cuban tourism: Castro Cash Cow Gets Fatter than Ever
Do they go there for the whores or for the Poverty Porn?
Media Ignores Lavish Obama Vacations, Slammed Bush for Mountain Biking
Teachers’ Unions Don’t Empower Teachers
A Steyn rant: The end of free speech in Canada
Here's Hate Speech for you: I hate those Canadian court Thought Police jerks. So crucify me.
The Truth about Bob Woodward - and Nixon
Seduction: Tell them how special and smart they are
The Wisdom of Dan Quayle
America’s “Daddy Party” Needs To Grow Up
Let's cool it with the marriage wars
Thursday, March 28. 2013
 If marriage is primarily a legal contract, then why can't two elderly sisters marry? It might very well be to their advantage, and they may love eachother deeply. Or does marriage have to involve sex? If so, who from the government is going to check to make sure that sex is happening? God knows, the world is full of sexless marriages.
And, yes, what about polygamy? Why not? It's not Christian but it is Old Testament Jewish and it is modern (quietly) Mormon - and Islam. How many wives did David have? I read that Solomon had 200 wives and 800 concubines, or maybe the other way around. I do not know when the Israelites gave up polygamy.
The whole topic becomes more and more absurd and confusing as cultural traditions are undermined. Gays can get married while the heterosexual people are now up to 50% childbirth out of wedlock. Crazy world. It's called cultural change.
Then I noticed this: Kagan ’09: ‘There Is No Constitutional Right To Same-Sex Marriage’. That statement signifies to me that she is an unwise person. The Constitution does not set up government to dole out rights to the people, but rather to protect the mostly-unlimited rights of a free people. But I am repeating myself.
Freedom and privacy require no "penumbra." Back to the US Constitution, the American social contract:
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This list of rights should not be read to limit in any way any other rights of the people.
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The powers not specifically granted to the federal government by the Constitution, nor prohibited by the Constitution to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Obamacare is not medical insurance in any real sense of the term "insurance." It is set up to pay your medical bills. It is no freebie, however. It's expensive.
Coyote splains it one more time: The Meaning of Health "Insurance"
I have two annoyed comments, and a few brief questions:
- Would my hernia repair have cost me $18,000 to the hospital if there were no insurance?
- Obamacare will render my medical insurace plan, an old-fashioned family Major Medical, illegal next year. So I can't keep the insurance I like.
- Will it be illegal for businesses, and rich folks, to self-insure under Obamacare? How would that work? And what about people like me, who like to pay their doctors themselves? Will that be permitted? What if I want to take Granny to Switzerland for herbal treatments for her dementia?
AVI likes Dunkin Donuts too
Do Millennials Stand a Chance in the Real World?
There Are No High Speed Trains And There Won't Ever Be
Pope Francis will wash the feet of prisoners in a youth detention centre near Rome on Maundy Thursday.
Hooray! April 4th Is Topless Jihad Day
She has a crush on a guy. Should she follow her feelings?
The Deconstruction of marriage
Why polygamy will eventually be legalized
Why do the young vote for dependency—when the essence of youth is a quest for independence?
California’s Golden Bureaucrat Snags $400K of Yearly Compensation – for the Rest of Her Life!
The Left Still Giving Corrupt Detroit Machine a Pass
Most Illegal Immigrant Families Collect Welfare
Senik on gay marriage:
I want a "leave me alone" society -- one where Christian schools can turn people away for rejecting their doctrine, just as gay rights groups can reject those who don't share their beliefs. I don't want us all to get along -- not because I'm misanthropic (well, not just because I'm misanthropic), but because I know that "consensus" is usually a fancy word for muting minority viewpoints. I want us all to be free to be annoyed with each other from our separate corners. Is that too much to ask?
Wednesday, March 27. 2013
McArdle: The number of jobs requiring high-skilled labor has declined.
People with BAs are driving people without them out of their "subprime", blue-collar jobs.
Two confused thoughts:
1. Marriage. Everybody is writing about the gay marriage topic. How is marriage defined? Is the Supreme Court being asked to be a dictionary? To revise the dictionary? That's above their pay grade.
2. Is there a "right" to gay marriage? Isn't that the wrong question? The Federal government was never assigned the power to determine such personal things in a country in which the presumption of local and, most importantly, individual liberty is the centerpiece. We do not have, or need, delimited rights. Government has delimited powers (supposedly). I guess the issue had to become a federal case because marriage is not so much about a relationship, but, maybe unfortunately, about a legal status with many legal implications.
Sunday, March 24. 2013
Obamacare isn’t forever, but what’s next is worse
Charles Krauthammer, MD, gets it. He always did. Our money- and power-greedy government has always drooled over the idea of control of medical care because so much emotion and money is involved. Votes, power, control.
Believe me, personal care does not lie in the future. At that point, I will give up. I will give up charity care too, if there is any of it left. I did not enter Medicine to be an employee or a peon. If that is what the people want, they can have it.
For me, it's a calling but I will not do it as a government peon.
Friday, March 22. 2013
I have no idea. I prefer Bach to Beyonce. In fact, never listened to the latter despite being a hip youngish New Yorker. Here's the argument: Can Republicans Close the Pop Culture Gap?
Just curious, but how does Obama have so much time to watch TV and to listen to tunes? I find no time for TV. Not that that bothers me very much but I spose it would matter if I were running for office.
More details on how well the Polar Bears are doing these days
You can learn some interesting natural history from the article and the comments
Intelligence and genetics
Fox hunting is an extreme sport
Tried it a few times with my Mom as a lad. Scary and exhilarating. We had a local hunt club. We had a member die on a hunt (overhead branch). Broken bones galore, of course. It sucks to fall off a galloping horse.
Think Ethanol is Environmentally Friendly? Think Again.
Soda Wars: CBS News Declares a Statistical Zero 'Staggering'
Pew Study Proves Fox News' Critics Horribly, Terribly, Completely Wrong
Elizabeth Warren already planning to cash in
She's already made $7 million in teaching and public service. Does she need more? Or is it just the Indian Way?
Proof that cold weather causes murder
Government Is The Liberals' Religion
People in Newtown want guns
‘Illegal immigration is to immigration what shoplifting is to shopping’ (video)
Great quote.
Are white people allowed to discuss racial issues?
Legal Education: Are Two Years Enough?
Why loans are a bad idea for certificate education
Tennessee State Senator Whips-Up Opposition to University’s Sex Week
Insty likes to claim that every week was sex week when he was in college
US plan calls for more scanning of private Web traffic, email
Thanks a lot, George Bush, for creating that psychotic agency
We Have Met the RINO and He Is Us
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