"So you think private nukes should be legal?"

Denninger grabs this argument by the throat, tears its head off and drop-kicks it up its ass.

Is there a reasonable argument to be made that a person possessing a nuclear device would have reason to use it under any rationally-foreseeable circumstance that would be deemed, in full totality of the circumstance in hindsight, self-defense?

I can't come up with the circumstances under which that would apply, despite putting a fair bit of mental effort into it.

We answered the question with logic, didn't we?

RTWT.  I love this guy.  (In A Totally Non-Gay-Way(Not That There's Anything Wrong With That(Insert Any Further Appropriate PC Disclaimers Here.).).)

Cats and guns and Proglodyte idiocy

Ah, cats and guns.  Two of my favorite things.  (BTW, it's Sam's 7th birthday today.  Still a finicky little prima donna, but we love him.)

Anyway, I know most Conservatives are dog folks, but I don't hold it against 'em.  It is possible, contrary to popular belief, to train a cat.  The method?  A squirt bottle.

Most cats hate getting wet.  So, when your furball starts acting the fool, give him a couple of blasts of water, and he'll immediately run off somewhere private to lick that nasty dihydrogen monoxide off his precious fur.  But if you want the training to stick, it's important that, to him, it comes out of nowhere.  You can't let the cat see you hose him.  If he does, he'll do whatever he likes when you're not around.  He'll walk up to the squirt bottle, sniff it, mark it and pay it no attention...until you reach for it.

See, it doesn't take a cat long to figure out that it's not the device, it's the human pulling the trigger.  So, Proglodyte gun-grabbers, if you are unable to wrap your brain around this selfsame concept, you officially have less critical thinking ability than a common housecat.

How does it feel to be that stupid?  It hurts me just thinking about it--I don't know how you survive.

This is how WE do it...!

Ah, the sweet, sweet sound of a female US Navy sailor beating a rapist's ass...

He then stopped where several other buses were parked and tried to kiss her. After she refused, he pulled out a knife and tried to rape her.

Prosecutors said that she knocked the knife from his hand, broke it in two, bit him in the hand, forced him to the ground and locked him between her thighs, the Daily Mail reports.

The man, known as K S, has been charged with attempted rape, threatening to kill, assault and consuming alcohol illegally, the Daily Mail reports.

Emphasis mine.  Broke the knife in two??  Holy crap--this lady should have joined the SEALS!! 

Well done indeed, ma'am!!  I'm amazed the scumbag was actually charged in an Islamic country, but I'm quite happy about it.  It's my personal opinion that all f*cking rapists must f*cking hang. 

Preferably by their nuts.

(HT Conservative Treehouse)

And they actually think they're intelligent.

Cold Fury dissects the tragicomic irony of so-called Proglodyte 'intelligence,' in particular regarding the Boston Atrocity.

And now we have the unappetizing spectacle of “liberal” idiots opining endlessly on TV and in op-eds everywhere about how utterly mystifying, how completely BAFFLING, how very nearly impossible it is for smart folks like them to discern the motives of the latest batch of Islamist killers to hit us.

Even after it’s been going on for more than thirty years. Even after they’ve told us themselves, again and again and again, in plain, direct language, what they intend to do to us and precisely why. When you think about it, it has to be pretty frustrating for the Muslims, not to be able to penetrate thick-as-a-brick “liberal” skulls with even the most pointed and stark language they can come up with.

Ignorance I can forgive, maybe, or at least partially overlook. This isn’t ignorance; it’s stupidity. Incandescent, blinding, brain-searing stupidity.

RTWT.  In the next post, I shall provide proof positive that Proglodytes(particularly the gun-grabbing variety)are dumber than house pets.

Well, they won't have far to take me...

(HT Wirecutter)

UPDATE:  I've been mulling this over, and Google-Earthed it myself.  It's real.  It's there.

Now, the final part of Rev. Hopkins' video goes deep into the Book of Revelation, and while I can see some disturbing parallels, I'm not going to get into matters of faith here.  You either believe or you don't, and that's your decision.  God did give us free will, after all.

Also, I can't see if those are vehicles belonging to FEMA, DHS, FBI or MiB.  I still don't know how she reached that conclusion.  Not saying she's wrong, I just can't tell from this resolution. 

However, there are things here that should concern you.

First off, this is clearly a prison complex.  The perimeter roads, the cages, the layers of fencing, the inward-facing razor wire, the no-man's-land...it's a prison.  Google other complexes and you'll see the similarity.  It just can't be anything else.

Second, Rev. Hopkins is right:  I've looked over the Federal and State prison registries, and this place isn't on any of them.  Officially, it simply does not exist.  Yet, here it is.

Third, those pits.  Now, plenty of places have runoff pits.  You see them near rest areas, fuel stops, any place that might have hazardous spills that could contaminate the ground and groundwater.  But this doesn't explain these.  Runoff pits are right next door, not across the road.  And even the skankiest truckstop, let alone a prison facility, doesn't generate enough hazmat spillage to justify that huge conglomeration of holes in the ground.

Furthermore, runoff pits are lined with impermeable sheeting to keep the spills from contacting the environment, and they're gradually sloped.  These pits are fairly square-edged, and there's no evidence of any sort of liner.  These aren't runoff pits.  So...what are they for?

Fourth, the "killing field."  I can't come up with another explanation for it.  If anyone has better photos, or a theory that makes sense, I'm open to seeing it.

Yeah...this is Very Not Good.

ARRESTED???

By now, the knee-jerk Proglodyte "zero tolerance" policies of Publik Skool towards anything that might possibly look like, resemble or remind anyone of a ZOMGEVILGUN, have been so well-documented that it doesn't surprise me anymore.  But this is absolutely outrageous.

Eighth grader Jared Marcum wore a shirt that featured the NRA logo and a hunting rifle. The shirt didn’t violate school policy, which specifically bans clothing that features profanity, violence, and discriminatory messages, but says nothing about guns.

When Jared arrived at school, his teacher demanded that he remove the shirt. He refused. His teacher then had him removed from the class room, he was suspended, and then arrested and charged with obstruction and disturbing the education process.

All for wearing a NRA T-Shirt that says “Protect Your Rights.”

Emphasis mine. 

Suspension?  Removal from class?  This kid, in fact any American kid, ought to take it as a badge of honor in this context.  But...arrested?  ARRESTED?  For wearing a damn T-shirt?  What country do these people think they're in?

Any cop who would make this arrest doesn't deserve to wear a badge.  Period, blanket statement, don't give me any "I was just doing my job" bullshit, I'm not gonna hear it.  This is wrong, and if you don't know that, you're on the wrong side of...well, everything.

If you have children in Publik Skool, move Heaven and Earth to get them out of there.  This crap is only going to get worse.  Jared, God be with you and yours during these trials.

Calm analysis of the Boston Lockdown

OK, so...

This recent unpleasantness in Boston, along with the usual overreaction by the authorities, has gotten the American blogosphere into quite a stir.

On the one side, you have the pro-lockdown folks, many of whom are current or former LEO.  They're all like "Look, dude, this was an emergency!  Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do to find these guys!"  On the other, anti-lockdown side, the opinion runs "If you can do this every time there's a so-called 'emergency,' where does it end?"

I stand mostly on the anti-lockdown side, although I will concede that both sides have a valid point.  How about we all just take five, calm down and discuss this thing rationally?  Like this:

• It's in order for the authorities to 'lock down' an area immediately adjacent to or surrounding an incident, or where suspected terrorists are hiding, and order people not to leave their homes. On the other hand, it's not in order for them to enter homes without permission to search for those they're seeking. They need probable cause to do so, and a search warrant. If I'm in that position, I'll certainly refuse permission for a search, unless the officer(s) concerned can articulate both probable cause and immediate, overriding necessity. If they can't or won't, I'll resist any attempt to search my home without a warrant. Under such circumstances, they're the criminal(s) - not me!
• If authorities restrict citizens to their homes to minimize the risk to them from dangerous individuals, it's incumbent upon those same authorities to allow those citizens to defend themselves if necessary. That means allowing them to possess effective means of defense: namely, firearms - and not just any firearms, but effective defensive weapons. Vice-President Biden notwithstanding, a double-barreled shotgun is not the most efficient means of defense. It's much harder to control and has a much shorter effective range than (say) an AR-15 rifle. Massachusetts is one of the most restrictive states in the Union in terms of gun rights, and Boston is even worse than the rest of the state. If the authorities there aren't in a position to protect or defend their people against attack, they need to lift those restrictions so that their people can defend themselves. Anything else is hypocrisy.
• The authorities' response must be rational and proportionate to the threat. In Boston, it wasn't. They 'locked down' hundreds of thousands of citizens over many square miles of urban area, shut down rail traffic over more than 100 miles of track, re-routed air traffic, etc. This was a ridiculous over-reaction. In New York in 2001, Madrid in 2004, London in 2005, Mumbai in 2008 and many similar incidents, no city was entirely locked down like that (although, of course, individual buildings and specific areas were locked down). Boston's panicked reaction cost hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars in economic damage. Chalk that up as a terrorist success. It must not happen again.

RTWT.  Let's start planning ahead here.

"Sister...you have a twin sister!"

Either we're all trapped in the Star Wars Universe Of Completely Improbable Coincidences or Erin has perfected some kind of Symbiotic Mind Meld and is expressing my attitude perfectly.  Reposted in full because this one's too good to let get away:

QFT

Note for future reference: Any proposal by any politician containing the words “common sense” contains none of it.

Patriots, Americans, Children of God...

...heed these words.

lessthantolerant – though we will most likely be forced into a grim business, it’s important that we not enjoy it. Go look at the pictures and video from Boston. That’s what the sort of war that’s brewing here will look like – innocents bear the brunt of civil wars, and collateral damage is inevitable – while I am pretty sure no patriots would target a civilian social event, when shit gets real, accidents and collateral will happen. Women, the elderly, and children will die because of the direct actions of both sides in the fight.

Things are going to get despicably black, and whatever needs to be done, will be so – but it’s important that we not come to relish the black acts. We’ll have enough to answer for in the end as we stand before God, without having to justify blood-lust.

Ain’t nothing fun or glorious about what’s coming. After years of abuse, I know the desire to get some payback long deserved. Once the pot start boiling over, and reactions and results meet reality, it will quickly become apparent that “real” ain’t very pretty.

There won’t be any greatness to this. Just a lot of slaughter and suffering. By all parties. And it’s going to last a long time. The satisfaction of retribution fades. The jubilation over a victory calms. Guilt, pain, loss, these things are forever.

Don’t be too happy about what’s probably coming. I ain’t trying to dissuade anybody from paying liberty’s toll. But I won’ t be called to the table for blowing sunshine up anybodies assholes either. Not over this. This is reality. There is no riding off into the sunset and a happy ending.

War is the second worst word in the world.

Right behind “slavery.”

Misha's expansion:

You just won the thread, LC HempRopeAndStreetlight.

Pay attention, everybody, because HRAS just nailed it, right on the fucking head. Every word of that comment ought to be engraved in a brass plate and put in a prominent place wherever patriots gather. Not to demoralize, but to help understand the full gravity of the situation.

What we’re looking at, should it come to pass, is not a reason to be cheerful. It’s quite the opposite. There is no glory in bloodshed, there is no such thing as a “splendid little war”, and there is precious little consolation to be found even in victory, should that be granted to us. I’ll proceed in the following as if we will win, portraying the best case scenario. And that’s not pretty. If we lose, it will be worse.

War is sometimes, regrettably, necessary, but it is never desirable. It is not a consummation devoutly to be wish’d for, and one should never find pleasure in the thought of it. Because if one is capable of doing so, then one hasn’t understood the concept at all.

The second revolutionary war, or second civil war if you prefer, will be bloody. It will leave a lot of people dead. A lot of us writing here today will be among them. So will a lot of our loved ones. And a lot of innocent people who wanted no part of the fight but became casualties of it nonetheless.

Songs will, most likely, not be sung about us either. We’ll be numbers, statistics, just another butcher’s bill, and though those fallen for liberty will most likely be remembered fondly as a concept, as in “we thank those who fought and died for liberty” every anniversary of our victory, statues most likely won’t be erected in our honor, any more than the vast majority of those fallen before us are household names now. Some will be, to be sure, but most will not be.

So if it’s glory you’re after, you need to pick up another hobby.

Then there are those of us who survive. They might very well end up envying those who did not.

Because, again, there is no such thing as “a splendid little war.” Innocents will die, orders will be given and we’ll either be the ones giving them or the ones following them, that will lead to the destruction of people who never deserved to die. That is the nature of the beast. The enemy won’t be polite enough to place himself in areas where he can be safely and clinically wiped out without impacting the surrounding civilians, and we won’t always have the option of not striking anyways. In fact, most cases we won’t have that option at all.

So we will end up with innocent blood on our hands, and no amount of cheering that we got the bastards as well is going to make up for that.

As HRAS already said, jubilation that you just scored a hit on the enemy is temporary. Guilt, shame, remorse and hindsight, on the other hand, are not. They’re forever. And that’s a long, long time.

If what is happening leads to what increasingly looks inevitable, then that is not a reason for good cheer and “America FUCK YEAH!”, because all of us, no exceptions, will have a lot to answer for. Both to ourselves in the unlikely event that we survive and to G-d when we face Him.

I’m not trying to be a downer here, because we have to do what we have to do and slavery is not an option, it is worse than any alternative, but keep all of this in mind.

Grim resolve and determination is the order of the day if, Heaven forbid, it comes to that, we’ll do what we have to do as free human beings, but don’t delude yourselves into thinking that it will, in any way, be glorious.

Because it won’t be.

I can promise you that much.

Exactly right, brothers.  God help us all.