Cats, Guns, and National Security

President Trump laid out the baseline to consider:  The Radical Left Democrats: First they try to take away your guns. Then they try to take away your police! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 12, 2020 President Trump's recent tweet about his opposition wanting to "take away your guns," and then "take away your police" points to how the current rioting and such actually goes to a far larger matter. And an anti-gun website did a double-fail by 1. making a minimal pro-2A argument, but more so 2. by slyly laying out that larger, more dangerous intent.   "The Trace," a Bloomberg anti-gun site, posted an article, "Police, Power, and the Specter of Guns." In its discussion of racial tensions, it accidentally makes a point about how private arms can restrain abusive law enforcement by citing Black Panther activity in California. (See here from The Truth About Guns for that aspect of the article.) However, as I pointed out...

Perhaps this explains my love life--or lack thereof. THE BURN! ========================================================= tjwparso  multi-part sequential posting of the episode "In Theory" (added 07 NOV 2021): Data targeted for getting pulled out of Friend Zone: Data gonna get some?: The obligatory Guinan insight (hate the actress, but I LOVE the character!): Talking to the guys (and Troi): Data makes his move--Data style: Data's first big lesson in Female-ese: Data "ain't nothing but business, y'all, from 9 to 5": Just Star Trek story stuff: Data trying--"solicitous" AND "lovers' quarrel" (I'm picking up some great lines!): Data includes analysis of kissing her with developing a new food supplement for Spot--HIGH HONOR!: All story stuff: Picard takes point and saves the ship (of course): CONCLUSION--with the burn! (Spot is the real hero here): PERSONAL NOTE: I actually did something like Data's burn line on a bre...

First catch of the year for my feline master. Pic with keys show post-consumption remains (just above black). Rest assured torture was involved in preparation. THAT'S MY BOY! Dad is so proud.

The "Password" franchise is probably my favorite game show franchise ever. I posted an article before using it for a political point. Here, it's just for fun. This is hardly a conclusive composition. Password Bloopers [Betty White and "Bull"] Passwood(Mostly Password Plus) Bloopers [Debralee Scott flashes audience] Super Password: The Testimony Incident Super Password - Funniest Puzzle Ever? [Kathy] Super Password Bloopers [Week 12 -- December 1984] Super Password: Bert destroys the Magic Toaster Betty White Destroys The "Magic Toaster" Password Plus "French" Incident Super Password (November 26, 1984) [The "Nimnal" Incident]  

Ian "Gun Jesus" McCollum seems a bit liberal or NeverTrump, but does good work. The M1 .30 Carbine is a good weapon when used within its ballistic limits. Just treat the early issue magazines as basically disposable. "Forgotten Weapons" page on M1 Carbine:  https://www.forgottenweapons.com/light-rifle-program/ CAVEAT TO THE TITLE:  NOT a "whole new class." Carbines, be they .30 or pistol-caliber, are (along with home defense shotguns) the modern descendants of the blunderbuss. The 1688/89 English Bill of Rights had a certain "Keep Arms" guarantee, which was interpreted as guaranteeing a peasant could keep a blunderbuss to ward off burglars. In America's settlement history, blunderbusses were rare, supplanted by full-size muskets and such given the frontier nature here that differed from the Old Country. That said, and Heller's focus on handguns acknowledged, if there is one sort of modern (rifled) weapon that is HISTORICALLY at the...