Where a Redneck Jew, a Hispanic Catholic, and a Computer Geek write about Gun Rights, Self Defense and whatever else we can think about.
Fresh off the Twitterverse:
I knew collecting all those screen caps would pay. From the original post: CSGV: Trapped in its own contradictions.
The best piece of standard software in Windows 7 is the Snipping Tool, hands down!
Doing my round thru the Facebooks and checking my favorite “Likes,” I had to bump on one promising post by the Coalition to Stop Gun Rights Violence.
The Yosemite Sam hologram caught my attention and I thought this was going to be a good post to poke fun at. And then I read the following comment:
I copied it and pasted it here for easier reading:
Morena Hockley To me it means those of us who live in safe neighborhoods can’t turn our backs on our fellow Americans in dangerous areas who live in fear of being shot by stray bullets. No parent should have to bury a child who is shot while watching TV in bed, or killed while walking to school. It’s easy to turn our backs and say, oh the NRA is too strong and too many people are in love with guns. But knowing the fear that exists in some neighborhoods, and realizing that more children are falling victim to our gun culture everyday should push us to work together to make it so EVERY neighborhood in America is safe. We are better than this, and we can’t let ourselves be bullied into letting up our efforts. We aren’t trying to take guns away, we are working to create an environment where it is harder for guns to fall into the wrong hands.
Don’t you just love Soft Liberal Racism? “those of us who live in safe neighborhoods”? As opposed to those of you who live in them ghettos?
Ms. Hockley’s Facebook entries read like the typical Liberal Mom well encased in a “safe” Home Owners Association with private security, worried about school bus access and recycling year old tofu for a “better” planet. That is, she has more in common with “The Real Wives of BrainDead Country” than a working mom. Her attitude reminds me of a quote from the movie Swordfish:
Thousands die every day for no reason at all, where’s your bleeding heart for them? You give your twenty dollars to Greenpeace every year thinking you’re changing the world?
These are Lounge Activists who need to “feel” they are doing something worthwhile but it should not involve sweating or thinking or getting close to them people who make her feel icky. I bet if she accidentally drives the periphery of a downtrodden neighborhood, she’d wet her little La Perla undies and will force hubby to take her Prius for a full wash and service to get rid of any mephitic vibes. She will probably comment her experience during her regular Oprah book club meeting asking why the Government is not doing more to save that people from themselves. And, of course she will make public via Facebook her faux activism in order to calm her soul and feel she is changing the world. Don’t ask her to understand the complexities of decades of failed liberal politics rotting away family principles or how the unchecked drug trade & gang activity has those neighborhoods under siege or how liberal sentencing puts the same violent criminals back in circulation over and over to reap on new victims. It is easier for her to send her $20 to Ladd who will have some willing Accomplice of the Cloth and his minions stand in front of a gun store protesting guns because it is safer there that protesting in front of the local drug house that will have their asses would be shot three minutes after the banners go up and they start singing “We Shall Overcome.” For Ms. Hockley, Ghettos are bad because they are not properly color coordinated and may bring down the property values. And oh yes! They are smelly and full of ugly people; perhaps a shower and a seaweed facial may improve their lives.
And, of course blame the NRA because there must be a villain in every Fairy Tale.
Activism is easy when your don’t have to work at it and thinking is not required.
Last week I watched a six part show called Moon Machines. As a child of the Apollo Program, the show brought many cherished memories. We ate, breathed, drank and enjoyed anything related to the race for the moon.
I also found myself getting mad because apparently we no longer have that drive to do the “impossible” anymore. Watching the episode The Lunar Rover, I was reminded of a little tidbit of information that really ticked me off and produced the pic below.
[sigh]
According to the auction page, it is a Hitler Guard Luger pistol.
The pistol comes with a unique and very unusual precisely machined anodized brass flashlight made to slip over the end of the barrel with about 3/4 inch ears that fit over each side of receiver and rest on receiver rails.
Estimated Price: $75,000 – $150,000 and it was sold. I wonder what was the winning bid.
The fight to fight at night is older than we think.
Just got myself very willingly in a cool project helping some friends and that might mean light blogging for the rest of the week. That is of course if CSGV does not do/say something stupid and then I’ll claim the benefit of a break to come down on their butts.
I’ll be checking my Facebook, Twitter & Email so, if you need to get in touch with me….
I get home from a long hot & humid night dealing with idiots and I was not expecting this:
I laughed hard because knowing about Larry, you know there is that stuff and more around the house. I mean he got a tetsubo for Christmas from the wife….and was told immediately that it was an OUTSIDE toy; so the idea that he forgot a couple of chained sticks under a sofa is well within the realm of possibility.
And I got the doghouse because I was making very normal, very safe incendiary devices.
