Thanks to "gun control" in the United Kingdom, some enterprising soul has come up with this.

Frankly, I think a good .45 pistol works a lot better (or a Model 29 .44 Magnum, if you prefer), but that's me.

(h/t to Jonah Goldberg at The Corner)

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The new M6034, which can fire 15,000 rounds before needing a barrell change. Video shows 850 rounds being fired with one pull of the trigger.

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Damn It All: Most of this post just got zapped. It's back to its unfinished form, minus all the updates. Sorry, I just can't write all that crap a second time.

Andrew Sullivan seems to suggest that long-time nemesis Mickey Kaus is a homophobe:

The great thing about blogging is that, if it's done right and honestLy, it can sometimes reveal things about yourself even you didn't know. Mickey Kaus has always done it right. Which is why his posts about "Brokeback Mountain" are must-reads.

Now, that may not seem like an accusation of homophobia, but the post links (by the words "Mickey Kaus has always done it right") Kaus' musings on Brokeback Mountain. Kaus suggests there's a "tsunami" of politically-correct, gay-friendly elite opinion brewing intended to browbeat mainstream (straight) audiences into seeing this film-- if you don't see Brokeback Mountain, the stealth messaging goes, you hate gays. He suggests rather that widespread mainstream rejection of the film, or at least disintrest in it, isn't gay-hatin' so much as just not being terribly interested in a gay love story.

A reader emails Kaus:

If I follow your logic, I should be genetically repelled from such films as Out of Africa, The Princess Bride, The Notebook, Wuthering Heights, The Big Easy, and basically every Hollywood romance ever made except Brokeback Mountain because I couldn't possibly enjoy a story about people who are not like myself.

The suggestion being that characters in those films "are not like himself," and therefore, so what if the characters in Brokeback Mountain "are not like himself"? Same thing, right? I mean, I'm not Cary Elwes or Dennis Quaid; so what's the difference if I see a movie about people who are also not like myself, such as Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhallenhyllenhall?

Kaus responds:

Er, no. If a gay man, say, goes to see "Wuthering Heights," there is at least one romantic lead of the sex he's interested in! In "Brokeback Mountain," neither of the two romantic leads is of a sex I'm interested in. ... My wild hypothesis is that more people will go see a movie if it features an actor or actress they find attractive! If heterosexual men in heartland America don't flock to see Brokeback Mountain it's not because they're bigoted. It's because they're heterosexual. "Heterosexuals Attracted to Members of the Opposite Sex"--for those cultural critics wondering what a commerical disappointment for this much-heralded movie will Tell Us About America Today, there's your headline. ...

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This guy is trouble.

Iran now makes North Korea look relatively peaceable.

I don't know about you, but this is beginning to worry me. Israel may strike at their uranium processing plants and the like, but it's just not at all likely they'll hit them all. Iran is moving to build a bomb, and I don't think that Israeli strikes can stop that.

I don't know if American strikes, short of nuclear strikes, can stop them, either.

And once they have the bomb...?

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Tammy Bruce explains it to them.

Best quote:

So you can take your gay sheepherder, noble communist supporting reporters, big-business is evil, Americans are hopelessly and inherently corrupt and violent and unfaithful movies and go to Cannes where at least the Parisian set will love you. But that won't exactly pay the bills, will it?

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Voting in America, but still Iraqi. Video at the Political Teen.

Thanks to SondraK. and The New Editor.

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Scott Peterson has written his own children's book.

Not really, of course. But it would be a good career move, definitely.

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Click on the pic after 4PM eastern, 1PM Pacific, 3PM Central. If you're on Mountain Time, I guess you sort of just judge it according to position of the sun.

Our guest will be Tom Maguire of Just One Minute, the web's go-to chronicler of Valerie Plame, Double-O Soccer Mom.

We'll also be talking about the "Bush in the Bubble" meme that's spreading through the media like a really popular meme.

And other stuff. We kind of make it up as we go along. That's where you come in:

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We love getting calls from our fifteen listneners, unless they're total morons. But I think that only stands to reason.

Oh, and vote for me, please. I'm reliably informed that all winners will get to go on a Manhattan vintage-store shopping spree with Sarah Jessica Parker, and, as you know, that's just my idea of Heaven on Earth.

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Worse than kissing Suha Arafat, he participated in a conference featuring maps displaying a Middle East free of the devil-state of Israel.

Thanks to OgreGunner.

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It's a point so obvious even I've made it ad nauseum. Still, it's a good point, and it's good to keep asking the question until we finally get an answer that's a bit more logically rigorous than "just because."

After comparing the elites' l"libertarian consensus" that just about anything of a sexual nature is permitted in the public square, whereas even mentioning Christmas is considered uncooth bordering on offensive, Carol Platt Liebau wonders:

All these measures spring from a laudable aversion to giving offense, and the impulse that prompts them is a tribute to the nation's history of religious tolerance. But nonbelievers or non-Christians are not being forced to celebrate Christmas (much less profess belief in Jesus' divinity).

So it's worth wondering: In a nation founded on religious principles, why should spiritual messages be tailored to the sensitivities of nonbelievers, while sexual messages are not similarly constrained for the sensibilities of traditionalists?

If there's a standard for deciding what content is appropriate for the public square, surely it should be uniformly applied. At the very least, we should rethink a status quo that presumes religious messages will elicit the kind of indignation once reserved for the crude sexual messages that pass without comment (or censure) today.

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