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Quote of the Day I

"The bottom line is we're not broke, there's plenty of money, it's just the government doesn't have it,"

"The government has a right, the government and the people of the United States have a right to run the programs of the United States. Health, welfare, housing - all these things."

   -- Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN)

Quote of the Day II

"If fewer civilians carried weapons, police might be less trigger happy."

  -- David Frum

Quote of the Day III

"Thank God I was not on the property at the time of this attempted break in. I am an avid hunter and marksman and I will not hesitate to shoot anyone who has myself or family in fear for our lives. I take the invasion of my personal space very seriously regardless of who you are."

  - Kid Rock

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Classic.

At the Ballpark in Arlington, there's a statue of Nolan Ryan at the outfield entrance. He's got his hat in his hand, and is standing there like he's appreciating the crowd cheering him after his 7th no hitter.

I always thought this would have been a better statue.

Kinda felt bad for Ventura after this, by most accounts he's a pretty decent guy. Still this was epic.

Also, anybody who took on Bo Jackson in this mess wasn't thinkin so good. What a horse he was.

20 years ago today. No cryin in baseball.

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No it's actually Peter Capaldi.

I have no idea who that is.

Capaldi wearing some sinister facial hair for his role as
Cardinal Richelieu in a BBC Three Musketeers project

Eh, he's got a Doctor sort of look.

Interview: The Right Scoop jut cut the video of the announcement, the unveiling, and the interview with the next Doctor.

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Supporters of Open Carry in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart in Waco TX yesterday. Before they held their gathering they called the police to tell them what they were doing as a courtesy. The officer said they didn't have to do that, but it was a good idea.

I particularly liked how the officer explained the law.

Common sense.

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Posted by: Dave in Texas at 09:14 AM | Comments (126)
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SSK Brings Out The Big Guns

The .950 JDJ, the largest caliber center fire rifle ever made, looks and sounds like one shot would send a grizzly bear flying into the air.

Of course it won't, because physics, but the video of it being fired is entertaining nonetheless.

SSK Industries has a long history of innovative firearms and ammo, with the .375 JDJ offering for the T/C Contender being something I've been interested in for a long time. I really should pull the trigger on that one of these days.

Stopping Power and High Minimum Capacity Mags

Maet linked this story in the ONT a while back.

Sergeant Timothy Gramins fired 43 rounds at an assailant shooting at him and hit him 14 times with 6 shots in supposedly fatal locations. But the shooter just kept on coming.

Give it a read and keep it in mind next time some anti-gunner who's watched too much TV tells you you don't need more than X rounds in your gun.

Gun Of The Week

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Marksmanship Award

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Now with 3,000% less content.

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The good news is, everything that could possibly go wrong already has.

Mr Mugabe, 89, won 61% of the vote, against Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's 34%.

Mr Tsvangirai earlier said the elections for parliament and president were fraudulent and promised to take legal action

Open thread. This one doesn't smell like an abattoir, just stale farts.

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Evil, Murderous Oppressor of Brown People

Good morning morons and moronettes and welcome to the the award-winning AoSHQ's Sunday Morning Book Thread.

It's time to be proud to be an American again

OK, so when the U.S. military shows up to kill bad guys, how should the results be rated?

a) Unquestionably bad
b) Sometimes good, sometimes bad
c) Pretty good most of the time

If you're part of the Noam Chomsky/LuapNor Axis of Poo, or are sitting around waiting for your Obamaphone to arrive, you'll probably think the answer is (a). If you hear nothing but MSM accounts of the Iraq War and post-war phase, you might also be inclined to choose (a).

However, author Michael Banzet, a now-retired Air Force officer who spent his last tour in Iraq helping to rebuild the post-Saddam Iraqi Air Force, might want to have a few words with you. Not only would Mike choose (c), but he probably thinks it doesn't go far enough to describe the overwhelmingly benign influence of the U.S. military, even when its soldiers are doing their primary jobs, i.e killing people and breaking things.

Mike discovered that not many people seem to know about this, and one of the reasons is that the MSM simply did not report the good news coming out of Iraq.

So he wrote his book, A Flowershop in Baghdad, (available on Kindle and paperback) as a corrective. I'm mentioned this book in a couple of previous threads, but now I've finished reading it, so I can review it. It's full of amazing stories about what the American military personnel were doing to help rebuild Iraq, and this also includes accounts of some brave Iraqis who risked not only their own lives, but the lives of their families, just by showing up every day as students at the schools Mike helped set up to train the new generation of Iraqi leadership.

Think about this. We complain about going home from work because the rush hour traffic is bad. At least we have the expectation of getting home alive. But an Iraqi who is working close to the Americans might get ratted out to the terrorists and killed when he is outside the secure perimeter of his work environment. So many stay there all week, and when they do go home, they take randomly chosen circuitous routes so they won't be tailed.

The stories Mike tells are amazing, funny, and poignant, and sometimes all three. Especially the one I am about to repeat. I picked it because I think it best encapsulates everything Mike is trying to get his readers to understand about how beneficial the U.S. military's involvement in Iraq actually is, and how utterly at odds it is with how it got reported in U.S. media outlets:

Mike showed up at work one morning and all the Iraqis were upset and agitated about something and he was told thst a member of one of their families were taken at gunpoint by an armed group after first smashing in the door. Nobody yet knew who the snatchers were. It could have been terrorists, usually backed by Iran, or an ad-hoc Iraqi security force called the "Wolf Brigades". Or, it could have been Americans. So Mike goes out to make some inquiries about this, and was told there were no operations in the area where the relative was taken. So Mike goes back to the Iraqis, and they're not as agitated as before. He was then told that the armed men were using Humvees, so it most likely wasn't terrorists. Mike then goes out to make more phone calls, and again comes up with no information. Dejected, he goes back, wondering what he's going to say to the Iraqis and what they're state of mind they're going to be in:

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