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Lessons in Smaller Government

Bitter, who claims she’ll get me to like Mitt Romney so much I’ll want to kick him in the nuts by the time he hits the campaign trail, has started a new category called Lessons in Smaller Government by Mitt Romney.

I agree that Romney is a lackluster candidate. He has the odor of a rank political opportunist, who will say whatever he feels he needs to say, and take any position he needs to take, in order to get himself elected. Unfortunately, I think I could probably say the same thing about 99% of politicians. Getting me to despise politicians isn’t hard, and they usually do a good job of that on their own, but I can’t quite work up enough nut kicking indignation about the former governor of Massachusetts. But I will certainly give Bitter a fair chance to try.

My other options for 2008 are shaping up to be Rudy Giuliani, who I think was a fantastic mayor of New York, but I have some issues with him, particularly that he hasn’t seen a gun control law he didn’t like. John McCain is, sadly, shaping up to be my preferred choice for 2008, which pisses me off because I already think McCain deserves a kick in the nuts for McCain-Feingold. But I have no idea how Rudy would behave on the national stage, and I’m already suspicious of Romney. Plus, I want some strong leadership for 2008, because I think Bush’s has been pretty abysmal, and I tend to like McCain’s opinions on the war. Casting a vote for McCain will make me feel dirty, but unless someone else comes along, I think he’s the lesser of the three evils. And if Hillary or Obama runs for the Democrats, the Republicans could run Britney Spears and I’d still vote for them.

More XCR Gun Porn

Here’s some more neat footage of the XCR in action.Â I mentioned that it could easily convert from 5.56x45mm to 7.62×39.Â Here’s the procedure:

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Firing 7.62x39mm

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I really want one, but sadly I spent all my money on new Windows for the upstairs.

Give Bruce a Hand

The Ten Ring asks us to help out Bruce of mAss Backwards, who has recently escaped from the People’s Republic of Taxachusetts to Live Free or Die in New Hampshire. He’s looking to raise funds to buy himself an evil black rifle that would make Mayor Mumbles crap his pants. Maybe some of my Massachusetts and formerly Massachusetts readers would like a Live Free or Here T-shirt.

Depending on how well the fund raising goes, I have a great suggestion for a pretty sweet black rifle that I’ve been drooling over for quite some time. Robinson Arms XCR. Note how easy it is to switch from 5.56x45mm to 7.62x39mm. I haven’t shot one, but it looks pretty sweet. Bask in the glory:

Damn, we really need to figure out a way to get rid of The Hughes Amendment. They do make a civilianized semi-auto version though.

The Need to Work Together

SayUncle posts: The fudds are upset because they arenâ€™t fuddy enough. I think we EBR folks need to have a sitdown with the fudds..

For my non gun blogging LiveJournal followers, Fudds are hunters, and EBRs are Evil Black Rifles. Hunters are a big component of the gun-rights movement, but traditionally they’ve been difficult to motivate in comparison to their numbers, and some are quite often willing to accept compromises that leave other types of gun owners hung out to dry.
I’m willing to make the Fudds a deal, that if they’ll go to war with me to help me keep my evil black rifles, I’ll go with them over preserving land use rules to favor hunting. Here’s the things the Fudds need to understand: your numbers are shrinking, and in a few generations there may be very few hunters left. You need us EBR types to fight along with you, but that means you need to fight with us, and not throw us under the bus every time Chuck Schumer and Diane Feinstein try to assure you they will never take your sniper..err.. I mean hunting rifle. But we EBR types need to understand that we need you too, so we’ll have to agree to fight to preserve hunting, even though that’s not important to us. We’ll also help fight off weenies like PETA. We may not agree on priorities, but we can probably at least agree that PETA deserves a kick in the nuts.
The gun control groups have long had wet and wild dreams about pulling hunters away from the gun rights movement. It’s mostly wishful thinking on their part, but it’s a fact that many hunters are difficult to motivate to care about gun rights. But we can probably seek comfort that the fake pro-gun groups run by the gun control movement will probably find it difficult to motivate the same people.

Drug Warrior Politicians Can So Go To Hell

I’ve been battling a cold for the past week, and have so far managed to avoid buying any Sudafed to help with the congestion, but I finally got tired of feeling stuffed up, so I broke down and forked over my license and John Hancock to buy a pack of the good stuff.

I just have one thing to say about Sudafed PE: it sucks! The PE apparently stands for Placebo Effect, because I’m not convinced that crap does a damned thing. It certainly doesn’t clear me up. The government, and any Congress Critter who voted for this, can take all the packs of Sudafed PE I’ve bought, and and stuff them where the sun don’t shine.

I don’t care if people make methamphetamines from pseudoephedrine containing products, I really don’t. What I buy is between me and the pharmacist who’s selling it to me, and as far as I’m concerned, the politicians can keep their noses out of my f**king business. Fork over my license and sign forms because I have a stuffy nose? Piss off.

I feel bad for the kid behind the counter though, because clearly he has been abused over this. I felt the need to make the comment “You’d think I was buying plutonium or something.” as I affixed my signature to his government watch list. He ran through a rehashed script, in a rather defensive tone, “People are using to make meth. It’s a new law. It’s not just us. It’s every pharmacy counter in the country.” So I said “I know, I just still think it sucks.” I guess I should have just kept my mouth shut, it wasn’t his fault, and I wasn’t trying to rag on him.

Americans in early times would have brought out the tar and feathers for any politician who had this much gumption. Two centuries ago, Pennsylvanians, over a 9 cent a gallon excise tax on whiskey, engaged in outright rebellion, which got so out of hand that Washington himself lead federal troops into Western Pennsylvania to put down the uprising. What have we become? We’ve gotten too accustomed, as Americans, to bending over for the politicians. From time to time, they need to be reminded who they work for. So write your Congress Critter, and tell them, in very nice, polite and eloquent prose, that how you treat a stuffy nose is none of his damned business. And if that doesn’t work, I’ll bring the tar, and you can bring the feathers!

Guest Bloggers

It’s not my intention to make this a group blog, but I will invite guest bloggers from time to time to blog about things that I have no expertise on, but that I think would be of interest to folks. To that end, my first guest blogger will be my friend Brad, who will blog about The Philadelphia Eagles. Brad is an escapee from the People’s Republic of Massachusetts, and currently resides with his wife and kids in Chester County, PA, so at heart, he’s really still a Patriots fan, but we won’t hold that against him.

Anti-Althouse

Time for a new category titled “Things I Don’t Understand”, where I chronicle things that just have never made sense to me. The first one is why so many people on the left hate Ann Althouse, and make a regular point of harassing her.

Prof. Althouse has always struck me as being gracious and amiable, and about as far away as one can get from being an left/right ideologue. So why does the left want to crucify her so? Seriously, if you hate Ann, you should hate me a lot more, because I’m more right-of-center than Ann is, but I’ll bet I couldn’t attract a fraction of the wrath she does. Why? That’s something I don’t understand.

I think the people running around out there trying to cause trouble for Prof Althouse need to a) get lives, and b) take a long hard look at yourself, because you’ve become as estranged from reality as Paris Hilton is from chastity.

Pennsylvania Treating Adults as Responsible

In a move that feels much like Brady Grading Time, where we shoot for a low grade, Advocates For Butting Their Noses Where They Don’t Belong, notes:

They let motorcyclists ride without helmets, haven’t cracked down on seat-belt use, and still allow distracting carloads of passengers to ride with inexperienced drivers.

They have, however, landed hard on drunken drivers.

All in all, Pennsylvania lawmakers have done a mediocre job of keeping motorists out of harm’s way, a national traffic-safety advocacy group said in a report released yesterday.

In a fourth annual state-by-state report card, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety placed Pennsylvania among 31 states that have advanced, but not nearly enough, in their highway safety laws.

New Jersey scored better, ranking among 16 states that have adopted most or all of the 15 safety measures deemed important by the coalition of insurance, consumer, health, safety and law enforcement organizations.

New Jersey scored better, so I’ll make that reason number 2823 I’d rather spend the rest of my life with my head in a pile of manure than live in that state. Keep up the good work Pennsylvania! Hopefully our new Democratic legislature will tell these ninnies to go to hell, but I won’t hold my breath.

So if I may borrow some style from from Kim Du Toit, if you happen to know anyone who works with the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, make sure to give them a swift kick in the nuts.

Let the Race to the Bottom Begin

It seems that the Philadelphia mayoral race might come down to who’s been shot the most. For the record, I’ve never thought Dwight Evans to be a bad guy. I don’t agree with him most of the time, but I think he’d make a better mayor than John Street. I’d hate to think that being shot scores you sufficient political points in Philadelphia politics that the candidates feel compelled to recall these incidents to gain advantage over each other in the race.

Cartoon of the Day

Sorry, but color, me, skeptical. The cartoon is right about one thing though. It’s not just Democrats that want to close the gun show “loophole”. It’s Republican Mike Castle of Delaware spearheading the effort! So Mike, if you or any of your staffers come across this post, I’d just like to point out how much you suck, and that I’m really glad I don’t live in Delaware.