As I've said, I've seen this movie before. And I don't want to sit through it again, so I'm tuning out as best I can.
The eight years of the Clinton Administration were tough on me, mentally. (As, apparently, the eight years of the Bush Administration were on lefties). I got myself twisted in knots learning all about their misdeeds and trying to convince other people that they were doing bad things. Which they were.
It's not healthy for me.
So, I'm going to tune out of politics as best as I can for the next four or eight years.
I'm going to try to put my head down and just take care of my family and focus on other hobbies that are good for my mental health. Photography, for example.
Whatever happens in the next 8 years, don't even tell me. I'm not listening.
At least, I'm going to try. We'll see how long that I last.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Back in the Fight
I read today that President-Elect is bent on closing Gitmo when he takes office. Hmmmm. Is that wise?
Let me digress a moment.
Have you ever watched an old favorite movie and caught something that you had missed before?
I had that experience this week. "Saving Private Ryan" - one of my favorites. If you can watch that movie and not get choked up when Tom Hanks - the hero Capt. Miller - is dying on the bridge at the end and he pulls Pvt. Ryan down and whispers "Earn this". Wow.
Here's what I caught that I missed.
There's a scene midway through the movie when Hanks and his squad has to decide what to do with a prisoner. The captain had stopped his squad's mission to find Ryan to engage an artillery battery at a radar site.
"Not smart, captain, considering our objective".
"Our objective is to win the war", says Hanks.
Of course, one of Hank's men gets killed and the squad wants revenge on their one captive. His mousy squad member gets in his face and challenges him. You can't let them kill him, he argues - he surrendered. Hanks sends the captive walking away.
"You just going to let him go, captain?"
"He'll be intercepted by one of our units and processed."
"Unless he finds his Wermacht unit first, and rejoins the fight."
Cut to later in the movie in the climatic battle scene to save the bridge. Captain Miller gets shot as he's trying to blow up the bridge to prevent the German advance, fatally.
What I missed was who shoots our hero. It is, of course, the German captive that he lets go.
Does he get away? No. The mousy soldier who argued for his release steps up and executes him.
Justice, but too late.
It's just fiction, I know.
But consider this: of the 250 high-level threats that were detained at Gitmo and then released under pressure by liberals, 50 or so have been subsequently killed in battle by our troops. How many did they kill of our guys after their release before we got them again.
Would you want to be the one sent to the family of a U.S. soldier KIA to explain that we had the bad guy in custody, but let them go so they could get back in the fight?
Think about it.
Let me digress a moment.
Have you ever watched an old favorite movie and caught something that you had missed before?
I had that experience this week. "Saving Private Ryan" - one of my favorites. If you can watch that movie and not get choked up when Tom Hanks - the hero Capt. Miller - is dying on the bridge at the end and he pulls Pvt. Ryan down and whispers "Earn this". Wow.
Here's what I caught that I missed.
There's a scene midway through the movie when Hanks and his squad has to decide what to do with a prisoner. The captain had stopped his squad's mission to find Ryan to engage an artillery battery at a radar site.
"Not smart, captain, considering our objective".
"Our objective is to win the war", says Hanks.
Of course, one of Hank's men gets killed and the squad wants revenge on their one captive. His mousy squad member gets in his face and challenges him. You can't let them kill him, he argues - he surrendered. Hanks sends the captive walking away.
"You just going to let him go, captain?"
"He'll be intercepted by one of our units and processed."
"Unless he finds his Wermacht unit first, and rejoins the fight."
Cut to later in the movie in the climatic battle scene to save the bridge. Captain Miller gets shot as he's trying to blow up the bridge to prevent the German advance, fatally.
What I missed was who shoots our hero. It is, of course, the German captive that he lets go.
Does he get away? No. The mousy soldier who argued for his release steps up and executes him.
Justice, but too late.
It's just fiction, I know.
But consider this: of the 250 high-level threats that were detained at Gitmo and then released under pressure by liberals, 50 or so have been subsequently killed in battle by our troops. How many did they kill of our guys after their release before we got them again.
Would you want to be the one sent to the family of a U.S. soldier KIA to explain that we had the bad guy in custody, but let them go so they could get back in the fight?
Think about it.
My Wildest Obama Prediction
It's fairly easy, if you've been watching his campaign for the last two years, to predict President Obama's action once he takes office.
Those pundits who are all offering up their insights that Obama will have to "govern from the center" are fooling themselves. He will pay back the Democrat interests groups right away with a flood of Executive Orders, as all presidents do. The point this time is that the Democrat interest groups have become very left wing.
It will be a left-wing extravaganza. Abortion-a-palooza. Labor unions free to run over workers who don't wish to join. Shutting down talk radio. More sub-prime "affordable housing". etc.
Predictable.
So, let me throw out my wildest prediction for President Obama's first year:
President Obama will be put in the position of having to consider pardoning George W. Bush.
Oh, yeah.
It's not a far-fetched notion at all. Here's my evidence:
- The Democrats control both houses of Congress and the Presidency. There are some Committee Chairmen/Chairwomen who are just itching to hold war crimes hearings on George Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and other nefarious warmongers. Itching. One of them will pull the trigger.
- The left-wing organizations and websites - I'm thinking MoveOn.org, Code Pink, etc. - have been calling for war crimes trials for two years. Believe me. I read their websites even if you don't.
- Vincent Bugliosi, professional crank and agitator (Motto: I'm brilliant and the rest of you morons are extemely incompetent!) not only wrote a book encouraging this ("The case against George W. Bush", I think), but has been working the country trying to find a U.S. Attorney who will prosecute the case once Bush leaves office. Some nutbag U.S. Attorney will file an indictment.
And when they do - what will President Obama do?
I think he will be forced to realize, as all president's do, that if we go down the road of criminalizing policy decisions, especially war time decisions, that he could be next. He will issue a pardon.
How popular will "the One" be when he pardons George W. Bush.
Remember, you heard it here first...
Those pundits who are all offering up their insights that Obama will have to "govern from the center" are fooling themselves. He will pay back the Democrat interests groups right away with a flood of Executive Orders, as all presidents do. The point this time is that the Democrat interest groups have become very left wing.
It will be a left-wing extravaganza. Abortion-a-palooza. Labor unions free to run over workers who don't wish to join. Shutting down talk radio. More sub-prime "affordable housing". etc.
Predictable.
So, let me throw out my wildest prediction for President Obama's first year:
President Obama will be put in the position of having to consider pardoning George W. Bush.
Oh, yeah.
It's not a far-fetched notion at all. Here's my evidence:
- The Democrats control both houses of Congress and the Presidency. There are some Committee Chairmen/Chairwomen who are just itching to hold war crimes hearings on George Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and other nefarious warmongers. Itching. One of them will pull the trigger.
- The left-wing organizations and websites - I'm thinking MoveOn.org, Code Pink, etc. - have been calling for war crimes trials for two years. Believe me. I read their websites even if you don't.
- Vincent Bugliosi, professional crank and agitator (Motto: I'm brilliant and the rest of you morons are extemely incompetent!) not only wrote a book encouraging this ("The case against George W. Bush", I think), but has been working the country trying to find a U.S. Attorney who will prosecute the case once Bush leaves office. Some nutbag U.S. Attorney will file an indictment.
And when they do - what will President Obama do?
I think he will be forced to realize, as all president's do, that if we go down the road of criminalizing policy decisions, especially war time decisions, that he could be next. He will issue a pardon.
How popular will "the One" be when he pardons George W. Bush.
Remember, you heard it here first...
Can I Have My Vote Back?
Where's John McCain?
It's been more than a week since Govenor Sarah Palin, his chosen running mate, came under withering and remorseless fire - from his very own campaign staffers. Anonymous cowardly fire.
My expectation would have been that he would publicly defend her, and insist that his former staffers stop it instantly.
Isn't he the guy with self-proclaimed righteousness? The guy who would name names of wrongdoers and make them famous?
Here's your chance, Senator McCain. Identify your staffers who trashed Sarah Palin. Name them publicly. Since you can no longer make them resign, insist that the RNC see too it that they are never hired to work in a Republican campaign again.
Crickets........
Lying low-class S.O.B.
Can I go back to despising John McCain now?
It's been more than a week since Govenor Sarah Palin, his chosen running mate, came under withering and remorseless fire - from his very own campaign staffers. Anonymous cowardly fire.
My expectation would have been that he would publicly defend her, and insist that his former staffers stop it instantly.
Isn't he the guy with self-proclaimed righteousness? The guy who would name names of wrongdoers and make them famous?
Here's your chance, Senator McCain. Identify your staffers who trashed Sarah Palin. Name them publicly. Since you can no longer make them resign, insist that the RNC see too it that they are never hired to work in a Republican campaign again.
Crickets........
Lying low-class S.O.B.
Can I go back to despising John McCain now?
Friday, November 07, 2008
Post-Election Thanks and Congratulations
First, the thank yous:
1. Thank you, President Bush. You made the hard choices and kept us safe for 7 years after the biggest terrorist attack on our country. You brought us out of the economic and psychological hit that our nation took on that day. You changed our stance from defense to offense in this war that was thrust on us, and took down many of our enemy and reduced the threat to our very existence.
Yes, President Bush made mistakes - as all President's do. We probably disagree on what those mistakes were. But the level to which he was demonized by the press and by the Democrats over the last two years is shameful, and will in the long term hurt our country.
2. Thank you, Governor Sarah Palin. You are an authentic and accomplished person. You showed us the huge gap between the professional Washington crowd (politicians and press corps) and the regular folks. You were a breath of fresh air, and you completely energized the Republican base.
Now, Congratulations:
Congratulations, President-elect Obama. You ran a long, disciplined, effective campaign and won. Disappointed as I am, I acknowledge the victory.
It was a historic victory, and our country can be proud of it. Our first African-American President. It's a victory that literally could not have happened anywhere else in the world, outside of Africa. It could not have happened in Europe, for example. Only in America.
I will not be a bitter Republican and oppose you from the outset. I will not say that you are illegitimate and that you are "not my President". No, I will not do to you what many Democrats did to President Bush for 8 years. I saw how damaging that has been to our country overall.
You will be the President of the United States. My President. Do the duty that you will swear to do (support and defend the Constitution from all enemies foreign or domestic). Serve well. I will wish you success.
Moving on.
1. Thank you, President Bush. You made the hard choices and kept us safe for 7 years after the biggest terrorist attack on our country. You brought us out of the economic and psychological hit that our nation took on that day. You changed our stance from defense to offense in this war that was thrust on us, and took down many of our enemy and reduced the threat to our very existence.
Yes, President Bush made mistakes - as all President's do. We probably disagree on what those mistakes were. But the level to which he was demonized by the press and by the Democrats over the last two years is shameful, and will in the long term hurt our country.
2. Thank you, Governor Sarah Palin. You are an authentic and accomplished person. You showed us the huge gap between the professional Washington crowd (politicians and press corps) and the regular folks. You were a breath of fresh air, and you completely energized the Republican base.
Now, Congratulations:
Congratulations, President-elect Obama. You ran a long, disciplined, effective campaign and won. Disappointed as I am, I acknowledge the victory.
It was a historic victory, and our country can be proud of it. Our first African-American President. It's a victory that literally could not have happened anywhere else in the world, outside of Africa. It could not have happened in Europe, for example. Only in America.
I will not be a bitter Republican and oppose you from the outset. I will not say that you are illegitimate and that you are "not my President". No, I will not do to you what many Democrats did to President Bush for 8 years. I saw how damaging that has been to our country overall.
You will be the President of the United States. My President. Do the duty that you will swear to do (support and defend the Constitution from all enemies foreign or domestic). Serve well. I will wish you success.
Moving on.
Deconstructing the Losing McCain Campaign
It's clear to me: John McCain lost because of John McCain.
He had a chance to win, amazingly. Many pundits of pointed out the strong Democrat headwind this year. He should have been 20 points down. Yet Obama had so many weaknesses that McCain was competitive. He could have won, but didn't. Here's why:
1. "Me too"-ism.
I like Ann Coulter's theory that any time you give voters a choice between a Democrate-Lite and a Democrat, the Democrat wins. McCain is often the Democrat-Lite.
It's that Maverick b.s. Let me translate "maverick" for you - it means "I can't stand Republican policies either". As in:
- you hate tax cuts? Hey, me too!
- you want open borders and amnesty for illegals? Hey, me too!
- you hate the Bush administration? Hey, me too!
I had to gag this whole campaign listening to McCain. Constantly sticking his thumb in my eye. It should be a requirement for the nominee of a political party that you actually like the party. NO MORE MAVERICKS!
2. Senatorial "Niceness".
John McCain prizes bipartisanship above everything else. That means great hesitance in criticizing Democrats to the point of appeasing them.
Excuse me, Senator. Running for President is necessarily a partisan activity. Be a partisan.
That means, first of all, lifting up the virtues of your own party. McCain never did that, never made the case for Republican ideals. He only made the case for John McCain.
That means taking on your opponent, early in the race. McCain should have been taking on Obama's radical associations early on, when he secured the nomination back in March. Doing it so late in the race looked desperate.
McCain unilaterally disarmed. Disarmed is defeated.
3. The Economic Bailout exposed McCain as a liar.
McCain's self-proclaimed strength was opposing spending and making big spenders famous. "You will know their names". Yeah, right.
Nice theory, but he failed when his big test came. Let's recap what happened. When Wall St. melted down, and the Adminstration proclaimed the need for a bailout, McCain was faced with his big moment.
What he could have done was this:
1. Oppose the bailout as a socialist intervention in the markets. The public was massively opposed to the Paulson plan, with phone calls to Congress running 200:1 against. There were other ways to solve the crisis - conservative ways. Go to Washington and champion a conservative fix.
2. Oppose the pork. The Paulson plan grew from a 3 page memo to a 450-page pork laden bill that the President signed. Oppose the pork - and make the authors of the pork famous - as promised.
3. Demand accountability.
-Demand Paulson's resignation. If a cabinet officer comes to the President and says that his department has failed so badly that he needs $700,000,000,000 to fix it or the whole U.S. economy will fail - he should be fired.
- Same with the SEC chairman.
- Identify the Congressmen who pushed banks to issue bad sub-prime loans that caused the meltdown. Pledge to "get" the people who caused the mess (as O'Reilly urged him to do).
What did he do instead?
1. Support the bailout by tinkering around the edges and then urging Americans to support it.
2. Overlook the pork.
3. Blame everyone and no one. We all share blame in this - Yada Yada Yada.
His performance in on the bailout both made him look erratic and exposed the lie that he will oppose pork and make spenders famous.
McCain lost because he is the same McCain that I have loathed in public office for years. Period.
He had a chance to win, amazingly. Many pundits of pointed out the strong Democrat headwind this year. He should have been 20 points down. Yet Obama had so many weaknesses that McCain was competitive. He could have won, but didn't. Here's why:
1. "Me too"-ism.
I like Ann Coulter's theory that any time you give voters a choice between a Democrate-Lite and a Democrat, the Democrat wins. McCain is often the Democrat-Lite.
It's that Maverick b.s. Let me translate "maverick" for you - it means "I can't stand Republican policies either". As in:
- you hate tax cuts? Hey, me too!
- you want open borders and amnesty for illegals? Hey, me too!
- you hate the Bush administration? Hey, me too!
I had to gag this whole campaign listening to McCain. Constantly sticking his thumb in my eye. It should be a requirement for the nominee of a political party that you actually like the party. NO MORE MAVERICKS!
2. Senatorial "Niceness".
John McCain prizes bipartisanship above everything else. That means great hesitance in criticizing Democrats to the point of appeasing them.
Excuse me, Senator. Running for President is necessarily a partisan activity. Be a partisan.
That means, first of all, lifting up the virtues of your own party. McCain never did that, never made the case for Republican ideals. He only made the case for John McCain.
That means taking on your opponent, early in the race. McCain should have been taking on Obama's radical associations early on, when he secured the nomination back in March. Doing it so late in the race looked desperate.
McCain unilaterally disarmed. Disarmed is defeated.
3. The Economic Bailout exposed McCain as a liar.
McCain's self-proclaimed strength was opposing spending and making big spenders famous. "You will know their names". Yeah, right.
Nice theory, but he failed when his big test came. Let's recap what happened. When Wall St. melted down, and the Adminstration proclaimed the need for a bailout, McCain was faced with his big moment.
What he could have done was this:
1. Oppose the bailout as a socialist intervention in the markets. The public was massively opposed to the Paulson plan, with phone calls to Congress running 200:1 against. There were other ways to solve the crisis - conservative ways. Go to Washington and champion a conservative fix.
2. Oppose the pork. The Paulson plan grew from a 3 page memo to a 450-page pork laden bill that the President signed. Oppose the pork - and make the authors of the pork famous - as promised.
3. Demand accountability.
-Demand Paulson's resignation. If a cabinet officer comes to the President and says that his department has failed so badly that he needs $700,000,000,000 to fix it or the whole U.S. economy will fail - he should be fired.
- Same with the SEC chairman.
- Identify the Congressmen who pushed banks to issue bad sub-prime loans that caused the meltdown. Pledge to "get" the people who caused the mess (as O'Reilly urged him to do).
What did he do instead?
1. Support the bailout by tinkering around the edges and then urging Americans to support it.
2. Overlook the pork.
3. Blame everyone and no one. We all share blame in this - Yada Yada Yada.
His performance in on the bailout both made him look erratic and exposed the lie that he will oppose pork and make spenders famous.
McCain lost because he is the same McCain that I have loathed in public office for years. Period.
Trashing Sarah
First, let me just say that the trashing of Govenor Sarah Palin in the aftermath of the election by insiders of the McCain campaign is absolutely disgraceful. She was a net lift to the ticket, without doubt. McCain would have lost by a much bigger margin without her. She energized millions like me.
Second, let me ask - where is John McCain defending her? It's Friday already and not a peep out of him to shush his staff. Where is his honor?
Third, let me say unequivocally that the RNC should not let this stand. Whoever is speaking to reporters anonymously on background should be identified and banned from any future campaign staffs or Congressional staffs. Period.
Disgraceful. But then again, I never particularly thought that John McCain behaved with honor. That's just me.
Second, let me ask - where is John McCain defending her? It's Friday already and not a peep out of him to shush his staff. Where is his honor?
Third, let me say unequivocally that the RNC should not let this stand. Whoever is speaking to reporters anonymously on background should be identified and banned from any future campaign staffs or Congressional staffs. Period.
Disgraceful. But then again, I never particularly thought that John McCain behaved with honor. That's just me.
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
The Pendulum Swings Back
I guess it's becoming our national habit to trade nightmares every eight years.
The Clinton years were a nightmare for me. Eight years of saying "Are you kidding me?" and "Can you not see how bad this guy is?". Apparently eight years of George W. Bush was a similar nightmare for some of you.Now we're switching again, and I'm headed for a long eight years of deep depression.
Let me just say that it's shameful that we, as a country, just chose an unqualified socialist racist over a war hero with long years of service to our country. It's Bob Dole and Bill Clinton all over again. I am legitimately ashamed of my country this morning. I'll get over it. What else am I going to do?
My bleak assessment for our immediate future?
- The Supreme Court is lost for a couple of decades. Obama will get to name at least two justices in his first term and the court will lurch back left. The 2nd Amendment gone. Abortion on demand all day long for any reason. Coddling terrorists and handcuffing our security agencies. Gone.
- It's katy-bar-the-door in Congress. Not only tax and spend. But liberal facism and intolerance writ large. Look for the "Fairness Doctrine" right away to kill talk radio as payback.
- The military will be disparaged again, as it was in the Clinton Administration, and drawn down drastically. We will be vunerable again.
- And here's one that no one is talking about yet - but will happen: Look immediately for a Congressional persecution of the Bush Administration. I'm talking war crimes trials or the like. It's going to get ugly.
I'm inclined to just shut up for the next eight years for my sanity. It's not going to make any difference to point out the obvious to a country that would elect a travesty like Barack Obama.
The Clinton years were a nightmare for me. Eight years of saying "Are you kidding me?" and "Can you not see how bad this guy is?". Apparently eight years of George W. Bush was a similar nightmare for some of you.Now we're switching again, and I'm headed for a long eight years of deep depression.
Let me just say that it's shameful that we, as a country, just chose an unqualified socialist racist over a war hero with long years of service to our country. It's Bob Dole and Bill Clinton all over again. I am legitimately ashamed of my country this morning. I'll get over it. What else am I going to do?
My bleak assessment for our immediate future?
- The Supreme Court is lost for a couple of decades. Obama will get to name at least two justices in his first term and the court will lurch back left. The 2nd Amendment gone. Abortion on demand all day long for any reason. Coddling terrorists and handcuffing our security agencies. Gone.
- It's katy-bar-the-door in Congress. Not only tax and spend. But liberal facism and intolerance writ large. Look for the "Fairness Doctrine" right away to kill talk radio as payback.
- The military will be disparaged again, as it was in the Clinton Administration, and drawn down drastically. We will be vunerable again.
- And here's one that no one is talking about yet - but will happen: Look immediately for a Congressional persecution of the Bush Administration. I'm talking war crimes trials or the like. It's going to get ugly.
I'm inclined to just shut up for the next eight years for my sanity. It's not going to make any difference to point out the obvious to a country that would elect a travesty like Barack Obama.
Monday, November 03, 2008
My Prediction for Election Day
I'm predicting a narrow McCain victory for tomorrow.
I don't think McCain has run a good campaign. I think he completely wasted Sarah Palin's skills by keeping her off of the Sunday shows. McCain doesn't particularly deserve to win.
The bottom line though: I just can't believe that America would elect a socialist radical like Obama for President. I just can't believe that it can happen.
WAKE UP AMERICA!
He is without doubt the most pro-abortion candidate ever to run for President - even voting not to protect babies after they are mistakenly "born" in a botched abortion. How could you even think about voting for a man who would take this position? Really?
He wants to confiscate wealth. He wants to radically draw down the military and try for a nuclear freeze.
The list goes on and on. How is this guy even still in the running?
As I've said before, I'm walking into the voting booth and voting proudly for Sarah Palin. McCain's just lucky that he's on the same line as her.
WAKE UP AMERICA! Before it's too late.
I don't think McCain has run a good campaign. I think he completely wasted Sarah Palin's skills by keeping her off of the Sunday shows. McCain doesn't particularly deserve to win.
The bottom line though: I just can't believe that America would elect a socialist radical like Obama for President. I just can't believe that it can happen.
WAKE UP AMERICA!
He is without doubt the most pro-abortion candidate ever to run for President - even voting not to protect babies after they are mistakenly "born" in a botched abortion. How could you even think about voting for a man who would take this position? Really?
He wants to confiscate wealth. He wants to radically draw down the military and try for a nuclear freeze.
The list goes on and on. How is this guy even still in the running?
As I've said before, I'm walking into the voting booth and voting proudly for Sarah Palin. McCain's just lucky that he's on the same line as her.
WAKE UP AMERICA! Before it's too late.
Roll 'em Up!
I was listening to WLS radio out of Chicago tonight on my drive home from work.
They were commenting on the sheerly incredible logistics of the giant Obama election party in Grant Park in downtown Chicago. At least one million people headed downtown for a party. 200 port-a-potties. Their advice?:
"If you live in Chicago, begin panicing now!"
If McCain pulls out an upset tomorrow, it's going to get really ugly at that particular gathering. If Obama wins, it's going to look like a World Series riot.
Just stay inside everybody.
They were commenting on the sheerly incredible logistics of the giant Obama election party in Grant Park in downtown Chicago. At least one million people headed downtown for a party. 200 port-a-potties. Their advice?:
"If you live in Chicago, begin panicing now!"
If McCain pulls out an upset tomorrow, it's going to get really ugly at that particular gathering. If Obama wins, it's going to look like a World Series riot.
Just stay inside everybody.
An Apology, Rare on Partisan, to Sen. Obama
I hereby apologize to Sen. Obama.
I was saying a lot last week that I didn't believe that Senator Obama's trip to Hawaii was for the stated purpose of visiting a sick and dying grandmother. I believed that it was to talk with Hawii officials to have them lock up his fraudulent birth certificate until after the election at least.
His grandmother died today.
I was wrong.
He went for both reasons.
My condolences to the Obamas.
I was saying a lot last week that I didn't believe that Senator Obama's trip to Hawaii was for the stated purpose of visiting a sick and dying grandmother. I believed that it was to talk with Hawii officials to have them lock up his fraudulent birth certificate until after the election at least.
His grandmother died today.
I was wrong.
He went for both reasons.
My condolences to the Obamas.
Saturday, November 01, 2008
Brisk Business at the Death-Mart
I was doing some browsing at the local gun and military surplus store this week.
This place is an impressively masculine place, if you haven't been to one. Wall to wall machismo.
They have guns - hundreds of them. Pick your projectile dispenser: handguns, rifles of every imaginable caliber, shotguns for hunting or home defense, assault rifles of various national origin.
They have knives - cases of them. Pick your serrated edge.
They have camo - racks of them. All kinds of clothes to disappear in.
What they have most of this week are customers. No recession in there! They were doing a brisk business at the gun counter, let me tell you.
There were only two topics of conversation in the gun store:
1. The election. The general consensus of the Firearms Owner Identification Card-carrying crowd was that either
a. Obama was going to win and then ban guns (so you better get them now while you could) or
b. McCain was going to win and there would be riots in the streets from those angered by denying Obama the presidency - a 2nd American Revolution. Something that I have read a lot of lately on the far left websites that I frequent.
2. Firepower. What weapon or combination of weapons would intimidate an angry mob on your lawn. Okay, I'm exaggerating there - but not much.
By the way, my answer to the question would be some combination of a Chinese or Romanian assault weapon with a 30 round clip, a 9mm with multiple clips, a scoped rifle, and a shotgun. No particular reason I would choose that set.
Just browsing.
Go vote next week. And, please, let's all have a peaceful Nov. 5th whatever the outcome.
This place is an impressively masculine place, if you haven't been to one. Wall to wall machismo.
They have guns - hundreds of them. Pick your projectile dispenser: handguns, rifles of every imaginable caliber, shotguns for hunting or home defense, assault rifles of various national origin.
They have knives - cases of them. Pick your serrated edge.
They have camo - racks of them. All kinds of clothes to disappear in.
What they have most of this week are customers. No recession in there! They were doing a brisk business at the gun counter, let me tell you.
There were only two topics of conversation in the gun store:
1. The election. The general consensus of the Firearms Owner Identification Card-carrying crowd was that either
a. Obama was going to win and then ban guns (so you better get them now while you could) or
b. McCain was going to win and there would be riots in the streets from those angered by denying Obama the presidency - a 2nd American Revolution. Something that I have read a lot of lately on the far left websites that I frequent.
2. Firepower. What weapon or combination of weapons would intimidate an angry mob on your lawn. Okay, I'm exaggerating there - but not much.
By the way, my answer to the question would be some combination of a Chinese or Romanian assault weapon with a 30 round clip, a 9mm with multiple clips, a scoped rifle, and a shotgun. No particular reason I would choose that set.
Just browsing.
Go vote next week. And, please, let's all have a peaceful Nov. 5th whatever the outcome.
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