1 The works of Carlton Mellick III are priceless gems.

2 This seems to be the one area of American life that the progressive left has not been able to impose its worldview on. I'm not sure why this is; perhaps it's because gun owners are so numerous or so well-organized (the left bitterly complains about the NRA and the "gun lobby")... - It helps enormously that the NRA and other pro-gun organizations are in it to win it. Rights defended by the Republican Party are lost. Like this. Warning: TPM link: http://tinyurl.com/cslomea Former Republican National Committee chairman and MSNBC commentator Michael Steele on Friday said he found the press conference led by National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre "very haunting and very disturbing." Asked by MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts for his immediate response to the NRA presser, Steele initially appeared speechless. “I don’t even know where to begin," Steele said. "As a supporter of the Second Amendment and a supporter of the NRA, even though I’m not a member of the NRA, I just found it very haunting and very disturbing that our country now, that are talking about arming our teachers and our principals in classrooms. What does that say about us? And I do not believe that's where the American people want to go. I do not believe that is the response that should be coming out of the tragedy in Newtown."

3 Because there is no Christmas movie thread allow me to recommend Hogfather Die Hard 1&2 Lethal Weapon 1&2 Rare Exports a Christmas Tale Tokyo Godfathers The Lion in Winter

4

Here's a quote that I probably found here on the HQ at some point, I really don't remember where I found it.  I've tried to track down the source (i.e., it what context Judge Kosinski wrote it), but have not found it yet.

 

 

The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those
exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed -
where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences
those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or
can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these
contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a
free people get to make only once.

2009
Judge Alex Kozinski

 

5
Number 43 opining from the Out House beats number 44 orally flatulating from the White House any day.

6

I couldn't make it through the NYT article.

I think part of the problem is not pluralism (as he seems to be claiming) but the fact that after some what 1800 years or so, of Chirstan writing, the various themes have becoem tropes, and cliched.

This is not a knock against religion, more of an observation that there are only so many ways you can tie the themes of Christianity together into engaging fiction before you're just copying someone else's work.  I don't necessarily think this is a bad thing per se.  If our world is doomed because not enough people got their morality from a fiction book, our world was already doomed because people needed to get morality from a fiction book!

 

Having said that "A Canticle for Liebowitz" by Watler Miller Jr. Is a great piece of Catholic Post-Apocolyptic Sci-Fi (from the 1960s if memory serves).

7 &

8 The liberals know that gun laws would never pass a vote so they try to impose them via federal mandate.  And that is exactly what Obama is planning.  Every gun law since the 1930s banning machine guns is unconstitutional.


EVERY.DAMN.ONE



As for books, I am still working my way through the Wheel Of Time re-read in prep for the last book coming out next month.  I am on number 4 now.

9 "Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies" by Ben Macintyre. Fascinating book. I thought I knew a fair amount about the XX Committee (double-cross or disinformation), but I learned a lot from this book. Covers the quite eccentric crew of double agents used by the Brits to cause the Nazis to deploy troops poorly. Like many Allied efforts in WWII, a close-run thing. I also liked Macintyre's "Operation Mincemeat." Not the most fluid writer in the world, but exhaustively researched and extremely interesting.

10

Union members..with exceptions like the retards in the SEIU and AFSCME..are big gun rights advocates.

 

Film Actors Guild (F.A.G.) card holders are very anti-gun, except of course for their body guards

11 re: Guns in Schools What's lost is that turning a "Gun Free Zone" into a "Guns Might Be Here, or Not, Do You Want to Find Out?" Zone solves the problem. You don't ** need ** an armed guard in every school. Just the possibility of one or more people carrying a gun in a school. ____ And I'm perfectly okay with having a separate, voluntary credential to "carry in a school" -- minimum five years in district, background check, yearly trainings, carry on person reqmnt, et cetera. You'd have more than zero guns in a school. More correctly, there *could* be a good guy with a gun at the school ... _ That would seem to be a good thing. _

12 Rule number one of struggling against liberals is not to surrender out of the gate. The credentialed elite of the Republican Party has been in almost continuous violation of that rule for half a century or more.

13

>>Rule number one of struggling against liberals is not to surrender out of the gate.

Hmmmm.....the name Boehner sounds German, not French

 

14 3  -

What, no Bad Santa?

That's quite a list there. 

One of my favorites is The Bishop's Wife.  Not the remake with Denzel, where he really DID look like he intended to boink the guy's wife.  The original, with  Cary Grant, David Niven, and Loretta Young. 

15 Morning all. I slept in this AM

16 Allow me to add to the Christmas movies list: Batman Returns

17 I'm flicking through the 15 volume "Time/Life History of Flight" series. The kind of series advertised in the 70s and 80s where you got a new volume every month. Found it at a yard sale for $3- Good stuff.

18 The funny part about all this is that obama and his minions really are the living reasons why the founders put a 2nd amendment in the bill of rights to start with. The whole irony is every time the left vents their pie hole on the 2nd amendment they add weight to its existence.  I think the reason why the left will always fail on this debate is because its a chinese handcuff. The more they scream for gun control the more clear the reasons for the 2nd amendment become.

19 Found it at a yard sale for $3-

Good stuff.

Posted by: BumperStickerist at December 23, 2012 11:28 AM (RuUvx)

LOL, I got a set of Time Life Books for household repair free from someone. Looked at them and they were woefully out of date and wifey said "we have no room for those" get rid of them.

Took them down to the dumpsters and left them sitting in a box nearby.  They were gone the next day.

20 So yesterday I go to the local pawn shop and they have an ugly Bushmaster in camo paint for $1000.
It came out of pawn two weeks ago. I could have bought it to flip it and make a grand but it may be priceless someday. The big find there was an early model Taurus 85 .38 spcl in unfired condition for $200 out the door.

21 17 -

I read all the AP yearbooks, that ran from '64 to '77.  Found all of them really cheap, some less than the cost of shipping.  It's an interesting time capsule, including the fact that you could see where the AP stopped trying to be unbiased (about the same time Watergate was wrapping up, and Jimmah was being foisted on us). 

22

More correctly, there *could* be a good guy with a gun at the school ...

 

This fact is very conveniently overlooked in any discussion about  guns. To the Left, every   gun owner is a rabid, out-of-control merchant of death. It's the same tactic they employed against the Tea Party.  This is why  the public  never hears of those times when a massacre is prevented by the presence of  a good guy (or gal)  with a firearm. This is a conversation I want  to have.

 

That there are conscientious, responsible gun owners who practice safe handling and are aware of the law is totally  lost on them.

23 Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at December 23, 2012 11:31 AM (yiIja) It all comes down to those who trust the government and those who don't.

24 Any post that begins with a picture of Richard Petty is a good one.

25 I'm not inclined to consider a movie a "Christmas" movie just because the story takes place at Christmas time.  I think in order to qualify, the theme of the movie or the "take home lesson" should be Christmas oriented.

26 24 oldsailors poet AMEN

27 as a thought experiment for the Left - try this: Pretend you are a person who's decided to shoot a bunch of students - for whatevere reason. There are ten schools within a five mile radius of your current location. One of them is, explicitly, a "Gun Free Zone" the other nine aren't. Two of the nine have armed guards/police stationed there. The other seven allow teachers and administrators to carry a weapon if they've passed background checks and had training. There is no record of who is carrying or even if a person carrying a gun is there at any given time. 10 schools - one decision. Which school would you decide to flame out in? _

28

Any post that begins with a picture of Richard Petty is a good one.

 

That's a big 10-4.

 

Appropos of nothing in  particular, I'd like to see a return of those "Question Authority"  bumper stickers.

29

"an international dispute between the Republic and France over an innkeeper's wandering pigs"

See also the Pig (near-) War in Washington's San Juan Islands, between the Americans & British

30

Any post that begins with a picture of Richard Petty is a good one.

 

 

Just don't be a fast lane Magoo on I-95 in NC where he might just be  stuck behind you.  Move over or risk getting rubbed on.

31

We all knew where it was going when Obama started his appearances after Sandy Hook with words for the victims, and then changed to a lecturing tone about how "we" must do better and "we" must change. Of course, we knew it wasn't about rational people having a give and take dialogue in good faith about a number of potential solutions. It was always going to be gun control, and it was always going to be "us" that would have to accept gun control, and "them" who would dictate the terms. That there would be no presumption by the left of any good faith on our part, or any acknowledgement that we hate what happened as much as anyone. Or that we might just possibly hold honest differences of opinions backed up by research.

 

 No, we always knew it was headed to us being on the receiving end of the nasty emotional venting of the "WE" care more then you gun nuts, you caused this, don't you DARE propose ANYTHING, just shut up" variety.   

 

And who should Obama appoint to head this national "conversation"? Why none other than that champion of bi-partisan give and take with the always calming, rational, and knowledgeable demeanor. That mediator of mediators - Joe Biden.

 

As a fellow Delawarean I was ashamed of Joe Biden's condescending, hectoring, interrupting, and demagogic performance at the recent VP debate with Paul Ryan.

 

Obama's selecting one of the most partisan and strident liberals to head this "national conversation" on gun control is a demonstration of bad faith and ensures that it will have all the nasty characteristics we knew were coming.

 

I have never owned a gun personally, but the left's loathsome politicization of this incident has hardened my position incredibly.  

 

 

32 Got my first royalty check for my eBooks this week. Not enough to buy a case of Val-U-Rite, but still a nice little pat on the back.

33

Me, I'd buy it just to find out what happened with those pigs.

 

I'm guessing bacon,   sausage, chitlins, and pig knuckles. But that's just me.

34 Got my first royalty check for my eBooks this week. Not enough to buy a case of Val-U-Rite, but still a nice little pat on the back. Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at December 23, 2012 11:43 AM (azHfB) Congrats, Mine will be be on Amazon in 7 business days. I can't wait. It's been a journy. Congratulations to you, it's thankless hard work but man, when the final manuscript was submitted, I sat and cried. It was like a child leaving home.

35 Is anyone else actually reading any books this week?

36 His scholarship was so transparently dishonest that they revoked his Bancroft Book Award prize and he also lost his job at the university where he was teaching. Given that the book is completely fraudulent, I'm surprised it's even still in print. Two addendums. That was the first and only time that a Bancroft has been revoked. And the original publisher dumped the book. It's now published by a tiny commie press originally founded by a 9/11 Truther.

37 To properly frame the discussion, let me be perfectly clear that the vast majority of responsible gun owners agree that no private citizen should own guns. 


Anyone that disagrees is obviously an irresponsible gun owner and should be investigated by the BATFE, DHS, DoJ, and TSA for starters before we detain them indefinitely without trial or representation.


Any questions?

38 I want to buy a handgun for personal defense at my home. What should I buy? Any suggestions? I was leaning toward a revolver cause i dont want to deal with jamming when I need it to work, and if I need more than 5 or 6 shots in home defense im fucked anyway.

39 That there are conscientious, responsible gun owners who practice safe handling and are aware of the law is totally lost on them.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at December 23, 2012 11:31 AM (yiIja)

Liberalism is a mental disease. I like to call it narcissistic projection.  What they fear, everyone must fear, what they plan to do, everyone must do, etc etc.

Basically, because they are bumbling idiots who would probably shoot their own dick off if they had to use a gun to defend themselves, then everyone out there must be a bumbling idiot who would shoot their own dick off. if they had to use a gun to defend themselves. They accused Bush of being a wannabe dictator, because they were afraid of Bush cutting in on their plans of installing a dictator.

Projection is their language. 

40 Clearly, Mr. Petty owns too many guns.

41 I want to buy a handgun for personal defense at my home. What should I buy? Any suggestions? I was leaning toward a revolver cause i dont want to deal with jamming when I need it to work, and if I need more than 5 or 6 shots in home defense im fucked anyway. Posted by: Mr. Pink at December 23, 2012 11:48 AM (++kZl) Go to a shop with a range and shoot them all. The one that feels comfortable in your hand and you can hit a target with is the one you want.

42 Muslim Brotherhood claims victory in Egypt constitution vote amid fraud allegations Things are going to great in Egypt, I am sure obama must be thrilled on what ever Military Golf Course he is on today.

43 'And then there's this book here, which claimed to be a scientific study on the origins of American "gun culture.' Yeah, but that book got quoted in Supreme Court briefs even after the author had been fired and his awards rescinded. Gun banners don't give a damn about truth or reality or facts.

44 32 Got my first royalty check for my eBooks this week. Not enough to buy a case of Val-U-Rite, but still a nice little pat on the back. Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at December 23, 2012 11:43 AM (azHfB) Great feeling, isn't it?

45

Well, I guess I'm done with the book I've been reading the last year, '350 Beers of the World".

 

I'll find out later today how I did in the Great Beer Challange. Managed to try 116 of them.

 

Hope I win. That was one expensive competition.

46

acting President Obama has announced that he wants to have a "national conversation on guns."

 

 

 

Yeah, we'll get on that right after we have a national conversation on minority crime.

47 Posted by: Mr. Pink at December 23, 2012 11:48 AM (++kZl)


For home defense (and for the beginner/novice) nothing beats a 12 gauge...

48 Congrats, Mine will be be on Amazon in 7 business days. I can't wait. It's been a journy. Congratulations to you, it's thankless hard work but man, when the final manuscript was submitted, I sat and cried. It was like a child leaving home. Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at December 23, 2012 11:46 AM (3Y7RV) Congrats!

49 OK Disarm the Secret Service and give them collector muskets

50 Anyone who still wants guns, rifles or ammo should go to Traction Control/Well-Regulated Militia: http://tinyurl.com/2ea4lhn Still pre panic prices and a huge inventory and good reliable service.  PROTIP:The fear of semi-auto's jamming is utter and complete bullshit.  If it's good enough for the Secret Service, the military, SWAT and every law enforcement officer in the country it ought to be good enough for Joe Homeowner.  Anytime you have to use a firearm to defend yourself and your family you're fucked.  Get a semi-auto with as much mag capacity as you can so you have a better chance.

51 question for the group:


what do we think of Taurus handguns? quality? No? your thoughts please


was looking at some Taurus revolvers the other day

52 Great feeling, isn't it? Posted by: baldilocks via iPad at December 23, 2012 11:52 AM (Su0W2) Yes indeedly doodly.

53 OT early, but it is something I read: our own Kensington got a shout out on Twitchy at the bottom of the thread linked in my sig!

54 You know, obama can suck the fart out of my ass. We had a national conversation on guns 200+ years ago.  The discussion started on Concord bridge, and ended when England lost, we won, and we drafted a constitution where in crystal clear language it says the right of the PEOPLE to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

55 There was an ABC poll taken last weekend. So the shooting is fresh in everyone's mind, it's on TV 24/7, everyone everywhere is talking about it.

Result of the poll: 71% opposed a ban on handguns. If in the immediate aftermath you still have 71% of people opposed to a handgun ban, it ain't gonna happen any time soon.

56 Didn't Reagan try to Nan assault weapons?

57

Moving forward from my rant above on gun control, I'm starting to dig into "Back To Blood", Tom Wolfe's Miami opus. So far, so good.

 

My wife felt is was pretty good, but not up to the "Bonfire of the Vanities" or "A Man In Full" level previously established by Wolfe.

 

Interestingly (to me), I've postponed starting it in part because it's in hardback and not on my Kindle. Guess I've become a convert.

 

Probably going to get a new Kindle "White paper(/?)" for the built in light, but some reviews complain about the light's quality. Any thoughyts from here?

 

58

Congratulations, Gregory.  Making money from writing must be thrilling.

 

And OSP, I know you'll tell us when your book is up, and I promise to buy.  Congratulations!

 

I finished "In the Garden of Beasts" in the car this week.  Learned still more reasons why FDR was a nasty piece of work, not that I needed any more, and that Martha Dodd had "issues."  And that Ambassador Dodd was a decent man who tried.

 

I just started a mystery called "Shame" but the author named the main character "Maryelizabeth" which is just annoying somehow.  Plus it's about a serial killer and I'm so tired of that.  It's by Alan Russell who someone here recommended but I couldn't find the book that was recommended at the library so I got this one.  We shall see.

 

I have four books on dog traning to read as my dog is leash-aggressive.  She also gets cranky at the dog park if she gets crowded by anyone but her best friend, but fortunately she does come when called. 

 

And most important, I got a book called "The Process of Forgiveness" by a Cistercian priest named Meninger.  I really need to read this one but, knowing me, will put it off as long as possible.  Sometimes, wounds are like a comforting blanket that you just need to keep yourself wrapped in.

59 41 "Go to a shop with a range and shoot them all. The one that feels comfortable in your hand and you can hit a target with is the one you want."  This is the best advice, but pick your top 3 'cuz chances are you may not have the one you like best available.  The important thing is to get SOMETHING now (not at panic prices) and you can get exactly what you want later if need be.

60 Would have been interesting to see what Romney would have done had he won. Remember he banned assault weapons in MA. I'm pretty sure he would have been fully onboard with the gun grab craze just as much as Obama. Would have been his first official FUCK YOU to conservatives even before taking office.

61 "Given that the book is completely fraudulent, I'm surprised it's even still in print."  Seriously - is that why you link to it on Amazon, so Ace can get a commission when it's bought by a moron? 

The chubby Guatemalan still has the Nobel Peace Prize, based on a work of fiction presented as fact.

62 >The discussion started on Concord bridge, and ended when England lost, we won, and we drafted a constitution where in crystal clear language it says the right of the PEOPLE to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.



Loud Fuck Yeah, with oak leaf clusters

63 "Go to a shop with a range and shoot them all. The one that feels comfortable in your hand and you can hit a target with is the one you want." This is the best advice, but pick your top 3 'cuz chances are you may not have the one you like best available. The important thing is to get SOMETHING now (not at panic prices) and you can get exactly what you want later if need be.

Posted by: DAve at December 23, 2012 11:57 AM (XDC0v)

_________________________

That's how I am spending Christmas Eve day. I have some family coming into town. They're bringing their guns. We're going to the range for me to test drive different options. I am sad to say these are Democrat family members. But at least Democrats who don't want to ban guns, so they're only 80% evil, not 100% 

64 2  “I donÂ’t even know where to begin," Steele said. "As a supporter of the Second Amendment and a supporter of the NRA, even though IÂ’m not a member of the NRA, I just found it very haunting and very disturbing that our country now, that are talking about arming our teachers and our principals in classrooms. What does that say about us? And I do not believe that's where the American people want to go. I do not believe that is the response that should be coming out of the tragedy in Newtown."  La Pierre's proposal IS crazy: but it better not be a final proposal but rather just a starting point for negotiations.  Steele is welcome to propose a more effective response.  If he had one he would have.  Most people are incapable of having a "national conversation" 'cuz they never think very much about anything at all.

65

The other reason the public doesn't here about a lunatic stopped by an armed citizen is because there is no massacre. It got stopped after a couple shots so there is no news worthy of national broadcast. The only times murders get national press is if a) there are a lot of them and they can use it to push an anti-gun agenda or b) the victim is really hot/young.

Mr Pink - I've put 1000's of rounds through my Sig P220 and I'd trust it with my life. (Just stick with the Sig factory mags and always make sure the mag is sseated). Oldsailors advice is awesome. Go to a range with rentals and find something you can shoot quickly and accurately. Figure out the longest line of site distance in your house and assume that is the maximum engagement range. Spin your target and see how you do.

 

66

OK, 'rons 'n 'ettes. I gotta take B'Gal out for some  last minute Christmas shopping, which will also involve me shopping at the liquor  store.

 

Y'all have fun and try not to trash the place, 'k?

67 There are a few million TEA party members and close supporters. So a lot of people don't personally get exposed to them, and the MFM (delenda est) can destroy their reputation with relative ease. . There are 150 to 200 million responsible gun owners. Everybody but insular liberals knows a few. Much harder to set the false narrative that they're all crazy monsters. Bonus: makes it clearer that th mfm are lying when they're lying about you.

68 Y'all have fun and try not to trash the place, 'k? Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit. at December 23, 2012 12:03 PM (yiIja) Party Pooper.

69 If you will, socialism is a form of people looking out for themselves, they may be wrong but they see that it benefits them. So it goes with guns... More often than not they see all manner of guns as something that benefits them. I know I'd get one if I wasn't so damn sure that my tendency to play with things will lead to accidental firing. In the end, people support gun rights because they want to preserve the ability to have one. However, many see "assault" weapons are superfluous... Hence the ability of such laws to gain attraction.

70 I'll add SINT and whichever Gremlins movies were Christmas based. It is all well and good for children and acid freaks to still believe in Santa Claus — but it is still a profoundly morbid day for us working professionals. It is unsettling to know that one out of every twenty people you meet on Xmas will be dead this time next year... Some people can accept this, and some can't. That is why God made whiskey, and also why Wild Turkey comes in $300 shaped canisters during most of the Christmas season." "Fear and Loathing in Elko" Rolling Stone (23 January 1992)

71 Rereading Gift from the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. And a bunch of cookie recipes.

72 >>> Posted by: occam STFU, dunce

73 I have Vince flynns latest but it's wrapped under the tree. The Mrs. Won't give it too me till Christmas morning.

74 51 Taurus has an uneven reputation.  That said, they're cheap and available (that's why) and anything's better than nothing in these VERY unstable and unpredictable times.  You can get something better later if that right hasn't been f'd with by TFG.  Check out Traction Control/Well-Regulated Militia: http://tinyurl.com/2ea4lhn

75 63 Great news Mr. Moo- it's been great having you around lately, BTW

76

I'd like to see some Republican congressman propose turning Capitol Hill and the White House into Gun Free Government zones. It'll get voted down of course.

But would that illustrate that our better do realize that the presence of guns does make precious assets (thier asses) a wee bit safer?

Now if guns protect those people, why is it that an even more precious resource (our children) are not deserving of the same kind of protection?

 

77 >Most people are incapable of having a "national conversation" 'cuz they never think very much about anything at all.

Posted by: DAve at December 23, 2012 12:02 PM (XDC0v)

the one or two liberals who have been willing to engage me on Twitter about guns invariably retreated when faced with stuff like facts and logic. Their conversational tactics include but are not limited to:

1) red herrings

2) strawmen

3) non sequiturs

78 39 The projection comes mostly from knowing that they don't have sufficient self-control and they assume noone else does either

79 18 Is top-notch

80 The projection comes mostly from knowing that they don't have sufficient self-control and they assume noone else does either Posted by: DAve at December 23, 2012 12:13 PM (XDC0v) That and their hippy parents taught them to fear inanimate objects.

81 Is it necessary...for TFG and his fat ass ugly wife to pollute the AoSHQ book thread?

Well I guess it does make a good point.

OK, I'll sit down now.

82 Oh, three people were open carrying in church this morning.

83 35 Is anyone else actually reading any books this week? -------- Stilll working my way through the 13-in-1 Lemony Snickets ebook I bought a while ago. I'm through volume 4, but haven't yet got past stuff that was in the movie. Mostly just counts as twiddling my thumbs waiting for Sabrina Chase to finish her next book, though.

84 Enough with the Romney hate Give it a rest

85 OSP, and you never felt safer, right?

86 OK, I'll sit down now. Posted by: sTevo at December 23, 2012 12:15 PM (VMcEw) Good morning sTevo, unfortunatly a picture is worth a thousand words. No matter how disgusting those words might be.

87 Thinking about starting the five Wrinkle in Time books.

88 OSP, and you never felt safer, right? Posted by: sTevo at December 23, 2012 12:17 PM (VMcEw) It doesn't suck, mine is in the Mrs. purse between my feet.

89 81 Well, does anyone have anything else to say about books?  If so what's stopping them?  I have a book suggestion: Gunsmithing the AR by Patrick Sweeney.  Everyone should have a copy.

90 Posted by: DAve at December 23, 2012 12:18 PM (XDC0v) Hmm, I will be purchasing that today.

91 Posted by: Jones in CO at December 23, 2012 11:59 AM (8sCoq)

The comment about citizen/colonists being able to resist the English soldiers goes to the heart of our problems today. 


Just think, if all the colonists had been disarmed in the 1700s, the United Colonies of America would have attained the same political/socialist state of grace that today's United Kingdom has achieved, but far sooner than we progressives will be able to do.  But I comfort myself with the vast number of liberties we have already been able to take away from an unsuspecting populace even though they are (currently) able to bear arms.

92 Here's a book to satisfy the guns and books

http://www.midwayusa.com/Product/537267/speer-reloading-manual-14


Even if you do not do your own reloading it is full of good stuff.

93 90 You'll love it. A really great resource to start a national conversation on barrel length, twist rates and different sights and handguards

94 RE: ...anti-gun laws will never pass.... Did all the conservative pundits not say the same thing about Obama's health care plan? ...and if it did, the Supreme Court would overturn the law?

95 84 Enough with the Romney hate

Give it a rest

Posted by: TexasJew at December 23, 2012 12:17 PM (lD8ju)

____________________________

Dude I wasn't hating on anyone. I said it would have been interesting to see his reaction to it given he signed into law an assault weapons ban as governor.  And I'm not sure when I have ever showed any hate towards Romney. I wanted him to win. I voted for him. I donated money to him. I volunteered for his campaign. That doesn't mean I have to agree with everything he said or did.

96 Oh, three people were open carrying in church this morning. Posted by: Oldsailors Poet, Wonders what Dagny thinks at December 23, 2012 12:15 PM (3Y7RV) ------------------------------------------------------------ And you're still alive to tell us about it? Did their guns jam or something?

97 Did all the conservative pundits not say the same thing about Obama's health care plan? ...and if it did, the Supreme Court would overturn the law? Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 23, 2012 12:22 PM (c7WWW) Good point, thats the scaryness.

98

I'm skimming a college calculus book as well as dabbling in Paradise Lost, but no real heavy reading.  Looking foreward to the final WoT book in January, if for no other reason than to see an end to the damn thing.

99 Prince Harry got himself a top commander taliban scalp. We have to close the Hellfire and 30mm loophole.

100 Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at December 23, 2012 12:22 PM (HDgX3) I hated him, I hate him even more now. Not shy about saying it.

101 Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 23, 2012 12:22 PM (c7WWW)

Your liberal pundits continue to act and speak as though this was a nation of laws not men!  They will soon realize that this is a nation of progressives not laws!

102 I don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but David Gregory committed a crime on Meet The Press this morning when he waved a high-capacity magazine around. MTP is still hosted in DC, right? "DC High Capacity Ammunition Magazines - D.C. Official Code 7-2506.01 (b) No person in the District shall possess, sell, or transfer any large capacity ammunition feeding device regardless of whether the device is attached to a firearm.

103 There are aspects of 'Back to Blood' that ring true, but remember who was Wolfe's guide, a fired lefty Miami Herald reporter, with a Spitzer problem,
who brought about the removal of several of his colleagues, because they had the nerve of contributing to our local version of a Radio Free network, Meanwhile we have folks who have been identified as 'agents of influence' for the Cuban government, still writing columns.

Taking Captain's advice, I'm starting Middlemarch,

104 Speaking of pigs and war, any historical fiction writers ever cover the "Great San Juan Islands Pig War"? Occured in the San Juan Islands now mostly in Washington State but thre was some dispute at the time between the US and Canada over the exact boarder.

105  I want to buy a handgun for personal defense at my home. What should I buy? Any suggestions?

I was leaning toward a revolver cause i dont want to deal with jamming when I need it to work, and if I need more than 5 or 6 shots in home defense im fucked anyway.

Posted by: Mr. Pink at December 23, 2012 11:48 AM (++kZl)

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From the way you frame the question, I assume you are a novice firearms owner.  A semi-auto is not necessarily any less reliable than a revolver but a  semi-auto   pistol does require a bit more to think about (like are you strong enough to rack the slide?)

Frankly, I don't think you can go wrong with a .38 Special snubnose revolver.  It is small enough to fairly easy concealed carry and packs a decent punch in a small package.   It's not the best cartridge out there but is generally adequate  and does not have too much recoil for a novice.  There are plenty of good brands out there:  Taurus makes a decent one if you're on a budget.

 

One thing I would suggest is get some practice with a .22 first.  You will build your markmanship skills and be less likely to develop bad habits (like flinching in anticipation of the recoil).  Most indoor pistol ranges will have handguns you can rent.  Since not all handguns will fit your hand the same way, that will let you sample some different firearms with a relatively small investment.

106 Prince Harry got himself a top commander taliban scalp. We have to close the Hellfire and 30mm loophole. Posted by: RWC at December 23, 2012 12:23 PM (sqp6o) He takes after his Daddy, Dianas Red Headed Bodyguard.

107 Fucking supermarket is a fucking madhouse... 40 minutes to kickoff. I have to waste six hours on a fuxking Obama voter today because of an accident of blood relation.

108 Reading Cary's translation of Dante's "Inferno", just not very rapidly!

109

I read "Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter."  I did not enjoy it as much as I thought I would and found myself skimming a bit.

Just for a hoot, I'm re-reading this Phyllis Whitney book from my youth, "The Winter People."  It's one of those books that I remember very vividly for some reason. I actually think it would make a fun, Gothic-y B movie if they filmed it as a late 60s period piece.

Hard to read this week with all the holiday prep, just on the train commute, pretty much.

I bought some drawing books for my son, and a book for my daughter by the person that does the webcomic "Homestuck" which she loves.

I bought "In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks" by Adam Carolla for Mr. Gem. Kind of a light year for book gifts this year.

110 Highly recommend "i2" by James Bannon-- his first novel available for the Kindle-- it's 5 bucks-- it's about a scientist who manages to have himself basically injected into a baby clone after his death-- it's riveting and well worth checking out-- you can even borrow it for free if you have Amazon Prime-- enjoy!

111 I started "the Name of the Rose" Umberto Eco last night but I'm just not highbrow enough to appreciate it. At 10% in I am just barely curious enough to keep going.

112 The Gun Digest "Book of the AR" series is ok.  Really they have quite a few books that ought to be studied.  They have a number of books on firearm assembly and disassembly, tho i usually prefer Youtube for that.  Using Youtube tho is predicated on an internet that works and works freely, so a hard copy may very well be preeferable.

113 99 Prince Harry got himself a top commander taliban scalp. We have to close the Hellfire and 30mm loophole. Posted by: RWC at December 23, 2012 12:23 PM (sqp6o) That boy would bring some needed backbone to old Albion. If I were Prince Charles, I'd decline Mom's offer to go grouse hunting together.

114 The Gun Digest Book of CCW by Massad Ayoob, the greatest expert in the country by far

115 That boy would bring some needed backbone to old Albion. If I were Prince Charles, I'd decline Mom's offer to go grouse hunting together. Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 23, 2012 12:27 PM (c2oll) I just pray Kates Baby is a Girl and they name her Diana. That would break it off in the stogy ole creeps ass.

116 Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at December 23, 2012 12:22 PM (HDgX3) Yeah, about that AWB bill that Romney signed... http://tinyurl.com/bws7kr6

117 Reading Poul Anderson' High Crusade this week. This sentence jumped out: "Being unarmed, the enslaved natives had no hope of revolting against the relatively small number of alien masters."

Read one review lately that lamented so much juvenile sci fi is dystopian. Writers extrapolate from current trends. If people perceive and label the result to be dystopian, it would be nice if they would give more thought to what they are voting for in the present.

118 what do we think of Taurus handguns? quality? No? your thoughts please


was looking at some Taurus revolvers the other day

Posted by: Jones in CO at December 23, 2012 11:55 AM (8sCoq)

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I like their snubnose revolvers.  I think they are a decent quality with a good fit and finish.

 

I don't have any experience with their semi-auto pistols. 

119 Just finished re-reading Steyn's "After America" this morning.

You know, because I wanted something light and cheerful.

120 Citizen Anachronda, check link in name for early Christmas present ;-)  (I'm editing as fast as I can!)

And on the reading front, read and thoroughly enjoyed Ringo's Last Centurion Kinda abrupt ending, wanted more, but very satisfying and may I say, pertinent to the times we live in.

121

A million thanks to Clayton Cramer and the others that debunked Bellesiles' piece of fiction.

122 My favorite Royals story. Probably my only one. I don't much care for them. Queen Elizabeth was riding with the Duke of Edinburough in the Welch countryside with only a couple of men to keep the safe in an emergency. They came upon another couple, riding in the other direction. "I say," said the woman, "but you do bear a striking resemblance to the Queen and the Duke!" Without missing a beat, Elizabeth responded dryly, "that's reassuring." And off they went.

123 We tried the national conversation and got Obamaphone lady. Now lets try a national shut the fuck up and invoke the Antideficiency Act.

124

Late mornign 'rons!  Thanks for the book tips so far; I bought one of Sgt Mom's and put the two on the secrets from D-Day on my wishlist.  On a pistol or revolver, buy what feels good to you and you will trust.  Then practice.  It should be like picking up any other tool you own and are familiar with.  Be safe!

125 Yeah, about that AWB bill that Romney signed...


http://tinyurl.com/bws7kr6

Posted by: RWC at December 23, 2012 12:28 PM (sqp6o)

________________

And here we go...jumping down into the weeds over this. The MFM's headlines would have been "ROMNEY, WHO SIGNED AWB NOW OPPOSES AWB BECAUSE OF TEA PARTY PRESSURE". Or some such shit.

So many of you don't get that perception is more important than reality. Maybe he signed an AWB, maybe he didn't technically. Doesn't matter. The perception is he did. And that's what matters.

126 120 Citizen Anachronda, check link in name for early Christmas present ;-) (I'm editing as fast as I can!) ------- Thanks!

127 I read "Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter."I did not enjoy it as much as I thought I would and found myself skimming Not as good as his previous "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies", which is hilarious. The first wedding proposal scene, where she tries to brain him with a fireplace poker is a favorite.

128 Now would be a very good time to start gathering gunsmithing and AR-type special tools.  A VERY good time now that i think about it.  Every phase of AR service can be done in someone's garage.  And is.

129 Larry Corriea's superb gun control essay, linked here, led me back to re-reading the Monster Hunters books. Even better than I remembered, Recently finished the latest Harry Dresden, Cold Days,. Highly recommended. I like the series so much that I'm paying release prices. Just can't wait for paperback.

130 Basically off-thread now: I read two books this last week, Orthodoxy by Chesterton, and Childhood's End, by Clarke. The closest either of them come to tying into the gun theme is that Childhood's End reminded me of other apocalyptic books, especially Lucifer's Hammer. Guns figure prominently in the book, empowering survivors to resist barbarism (or try) and fight for nuclear power. Chemical weapons also figure in. It's a good work, though very bleak.

131 Most people who say the want a national conversation just want you to shut up while they lecture you

132 yep, what DAve said....

133 All of them, DAve.

134 127 IllTemperedCur Second Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is the better work. If you enjoy those type of books I recommend Peter Clines. His ex-heroes books are great, well paced an plotted. And 14 is even better.

135 From now on we should frame everything this way....

We don't want tax cuts. We want a national conversation on why taxes are so high.

We don't want spending cuts. We want a national conversation on why we're spending 100% more today than we did 10 years ago even though the population has grown by only 15%.

136 129 You forgot the link, but you're very right. http://tinyurl.com/catntyr

137 >Queen Elizabeth was riding with the Duke of Edinburough in the Welch countryside



excuse me, that's 'Welsh'. Welch is a kind of jelly.


-Jones in CO, who is half-Welsh

138 129 Splunge Cold Days is the Dresden pinnacle. Prior books always seemed geared toward a PG crowd. Cold Days is R. Butcher can plot a story and pace it. Try Peter Clines and Ian McDonald for similar quality. And Jasper Fforde.

139 My theory of why Europeans accept gun control? They've been serfs so long they don't know any better. Plus its the way their lords have always liked it. Americans [real ones] refuse to be serfs

140 New thread, ya buncha book-readin' nerds

141

Thanks, ITC!

I have that on my library hold list and I was going to bounce it to make room for something else, but now I think I'll wait for it.   Sounds like that one has a lot more humor in it.  Er - ALVH wasn't supposed to be funny, was it?

142 139 Yip

143 David Gregory breaking DC law on Meet the Press should be mentioned more than once.

144 I started reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and thought the funniest part about it was the introduction to it. It's the sort of thing which is a funny concept, but after about ten pages of random zombie scenes being thrown into the text of Pride and Prejudice, it got a bit stale. Maybe I should have stuck it out.

145

122My favorite Royals story. Probably my only one. I don't much care for them.

 

 

Here's mine. A famous American photographer was presented to the Queen, who said, "What an interesting coincidence. We have a brother-in-law who's a photographer."

 

The photographer replied, "That IS an interesting coincidence. I have a brother-in-law who's a queen."

146 143 There oughta be outrage and a high-profile arrest

147

Somebody here turned me on to Eckert's The Frontiersmen.

 

THANK YOU

148 Man Faith Evans can sing.  Without autotune

149 Funny how Geothermal links to some BS from Ross Douchehat in two places on the front page.

150 Barry, if you want gun control, start with the Bloods and the Crips. Then we'll talk.

151 Yes, there was an extensive effort to plant a large colony of German settlers in Texas in the 1840s

Said like it didn't succeed, it did.

152 David Gregory breaking DC law on Meet the Press should be mentioned more than once. Posted by: Spade

It deserves its own post post-haste.

If anyone in DC has some spare time, reporting the crime would go a long way in making DC a safer and sane place. Please, for the childrenz.

153 I'm about a third through 'One of Our Thursdays is Missing' by Jasper Fforde. This is the latest in the Thursday Next series. Thursday Next is a cop who discovers the possibility of entering works of fiction to find worlds as fully detailed as the author thought to make them.

Such as weather. Unless the author specifically said what kind of day it was, there is no discernible weather. Just an empty sky with no sun or moon and nary breeze. Minor unnamed character are actually faceless.

In the first book Thursday believe her experiences in 'Jane Eyre' are fairly unique, with the reality within the book having been created by an invention of her scientist uncle. Yet the reason she enters the novel is to prevent the villain from altering the story and retroactively altering every copy in existence. (It soon becomes apparent that Thursday's world is not ours but is very similar. For instance, Thursday is a veteran of a Crimean War that continued for over a century and was her world's Vietnam.)

By the second book it becomes apparent that each book is a reality unto itself, although dependent on readership for its survival. It's somewhat like the interpretation of gods that fade away for lack of followers. Travel between these realities is easily done once you know how and a government with a police force exists to maintain order, such as keeping military stories from launching invasions to conquer chick lit outposts.

This volume is different in that the narrator is not Thursday Next. At least, not the Thursday Next. Instead, it is the woman holding the lead role of Thursday in the fictionalized version of her famous adventures. She has reason to believe the real Thursday has gone missing and sets out to investigate, despite being an actress by profession and having little of the skills and experience of the real Thursday Next.

If this sounds strange, it is. And only a tiny hint of cascade of strange ideas that erupt from Jasper Fforde's head. For example, Thursday's father doesn't exist and never did. He was a Time Cop who was believed to have gone rogue and was retroactively erased. Yet he continues to put in appearances and managed to father Thursday and her siblings. That is just one small subplot in the series.

154 136 129 You forgot the link, but you're very right. http://tinyurl.com/catntyr

Thanks. I didn't forget the link; by "linked here" I meant "linked from the HQ recently," but it would have been better to include a link.

138 129 Cold Days is the Dresden pinnacle. Prior books always seemed geared toward a PG crowd. Cold Days is R.

I see what you mean. I suspect it's driven more by the plot situation than by a deliberate shift in style, though.

Butcher can plot a story and pace it.

Try Peter Clines and Ian McDonald for similar quality.

And Jasper Fforde.

These names are all new to me. I will research them. Thank you for the tip.

155 Tell SCoaMF all future meetings will be televised live or they won't happen. The balls in his mouth.

156 Has this been linked? Good reminder: http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=90514

157 I'll say this for the NRA.  They never, ever say the following.

"This isn't the hill to die on."

For them, EVERYTHING is the hill to die on. 

No retreat, no surrender.

And it sounds cheesy, but it works for them.

And I respect the ever lovin' hell out them for it.

Boehner?  Right off the bat, that guy puts $800 billion in extra taxes on the table.  Right. Off. The. Bat.

Fuck it.

I nominate Wayne LaPierre for Speaker of the House.

158 "I said it would have been interesting to see [Romney's] reaction to it given he signed into law an assault weapons ban as governor."

Personally, I was as depressed as anyone to see the SCOAMF re-elected.

But, I also said two things at the time.

First, that so much bad shit will happen shortly that victory this year was a poisoned chalice. Even Barky with his legendarily narcissistic self-regard is going to have many sobering moments where he wishes he were retired in Hawaii.

And second, that genuine conservatives would have been horribly disappointed with a Romney victory. It would look like Massachusetts. Technocratic tinkering around the edges of the welfare-warfare state. No willingness to confront, clinically describe or make fun of the foibles of Fedzilla, as Reagan so regularly did.

Plus, Romney would probably have signed an assault weapons ban had one been put on his desk. He did it before. The guy is a wet squish on that issue and always has been. (I can't be the only one who remembers Romney in the '08 primaries confidently talking up his "lifetime membership in the NRA" while the ink was still runny on the certificate.)

159 120 Citizen Anachronda, check link in name for early Christmas present ------- Gah! You're like Santa Claus with a bag full of frustration!

160 Sharp elbow thread up

161 137 - excuse me, that's 'Welsh'. Welch is a kind of jelly.


Have you read Robert Graves' Goodby To All That, about his WWI service?  He was in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, and mentioned that the regiment made a point of spelling it that way.  He did not say why, though.

162 >>>>excuse me, that's 'Welsh'. Welch is a kind of jelly.<<<<<

Or a Fusilier.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Welch_Fusiliers

163 Steve beat me....

164 105 I want to buy a handgun for personal defense at my home. What should I buy? Any suggestions? I was leaning toward a revolver cause i dont want to deal with jamming when I need it to work, and if I need more than 5 or 6 shots in home defense im fucked anyway.
Posted by: Mr. Pink at December 23, 2012 11:48 AM (++kZl)

Retired Buckeye Cop at December 23, 2012 12:25 PM (nYHk7)

******

Everything RBC said is sound advice.  However, if he offers to give you any coaching at the range, remember, at no time should both his hands be on your shoulders as he coaches you from behind.

Just sayin'.  It's a range safety thing.

But seriously, his advice is spot on.

165 Every tragedy involving a gun is suddenly the time to have a national "debate" on disarming good citizens and destroying our constitutional freedoms.

A tragedy for the left, is a time to evoke emotion based talking points, while holding dead children up as a human shield from reasoned conservative logic. 

The sickness is that so many find these fascist ideals rational, and find using dead children for THEIR politics reasonable.

166 Yes, there was an extensive effort to plant a large colony of German settlers in Texas in the 1840s I'm from a little place outside of New Braunfels, so I grew up thinking everyone celebrated Oktoberfest. My grandmother didn't speak English until she went to school in 1st grade. There would be more of places like it today around South and Central Texas, except there was an effort to strip the German names off of towns and neighborhoods and Anglicize everything in the wake of WWI. Ethnic prejudice and xenophobia hasn't always been limited to blacks and Hispanics, although Hollywood and the Left may try to convince you otherwise.

167 -Jones in CO, who is half-Welsh Posted by: Jones in CO at December 23, 2012 12:39 PM (8sCoq) Tell me, at y'all still allergic to vowels?

168 One of the reasons I got this smarter-than-me phone was so I could get ebooks on it. I have the Kindle app. How do I download books written by roonz and roonettez, is there a trick to it?

169 Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 23, 2012 01:24 PM (yh0zB)


Amazon has a Kindle app for androids.  Download that and use it to download e-books for the Kindle.

170 Here is the app

http://is.gd/aSnixM

171 Oops you already have the app.

172 I asked wifey, she says it is easier to download via the computer and it gives her a choice of what to download to Kindle or Android.

Her android (Samsung) came with a Kindle app that talked to Amazon to let it know the address.

173 I have the android as well, I'm wondering if I can download a book to the computer and then transfer it or if there is a reason I can't do that. Anti piracy software or something.

174 168 One of the reasons I got this smarter-than-me phone was so I could get ebooks on it. I have the Kindle app. How do I download books written by roonz and roonettez, is there a trick to it? ---------- It needs to be attached to your Amazon account; there's a setting for that somewhere. Then, when you buy an ebook over atamaxon.com, you get a little "deliver to my..." drop down thingie. You can use that to select your droid. Or, you can go into the library on the kindle app (by selecting the Archive at the top of the library screen) and pick individual books to download to the device.

175 I have the android as well, I'm wondering if I can download a book to the computer and then transfer it or if there is a reason I can't do that. Anti piracy software or something.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 23, 2012 01:36 PM (yh0zB)

If it has DRM you will not be able to do it, but you can have the computer tell Amazon to send it to your android and not the computer.

If it doesn't have DRM then you can move it about at will. e-books from Baen have no DRM.  Some of the Daw and Tor books have no DRM.

Books you download from Guttenberg have no DRM.

176 173 I have the android as well, I'm wondering if I can download a book to the computer and then transfer it or if there is a reason I can't do that. Anti piracy software or something. -------- All the ebooks you've bought from Amazon are available on the cloud, so you don't normally need to do that; you can go into the library on the device and pick books to downloaf. For things that you bought elsewhere, there's an email address to which you can send documents for each device; these are listed in the "manage your kindle" page on amazon, which you can find at the bottom of amazon's page. Sending a document to that address delivers it to the device and stores it in the cloud, so you can select it on other devices and download it. It is possible to sideload documents to a kindle reader or the PC app, but I don't know if there's a way to do it for a droid. In that case, the document is *not* in the loud, so you'll need to sideload it to any device on which you want to read it. But, yeah, stuff you buy from amaon is generally copy protected. If you don't trust the cloud, Calibre is your friend. And, for the record, this stupid on-screen keyboard on the ipad sucks. It's slow and error-prone, but at least I've figured out how to turn off autocorrect.

177 Grrr. Downloaf, indeed. I hate you, zombie Steve Jobs!

178 GGE, BTW, Baen has a large selection of free books

179 tomc, thanks for the i2 recommendation. Downloaded it for my son and husband.

180

The word "conversation" went out the window for me years ago when Hillary Clinton described her relationship with Bill Clinton as a conversation that began when they met.

 

Fellow citizens, if what Bill and Hillary have is a "conversation" and not an arrangement, and Bill wants a reset on the verb "to be" from time to time, then we have (another) insight on their Progressive minds and have again had the basis of their public and private duplicity displayed.

181

Conversation goes like this:

You want to take my guns away?

You can't have them.

End of conversation.

182 What a frikkin nightmare. So I wanted to download Firehearted, I knew I had Kindle on the phone so I bought the Kindle copy. The stupid phone couldn't open it. SO I downloaded it on my computer so I would have it, then I bought the epub version. My stupid phone couldn't open it. So I went online and asked HTF do you do this.

Apparently only Amazon books are immediately available on the phone but only if you buy them from Amazon using your phone. However there is a work around.

Here's how you do it Android users: connect the phone as a media device to your computer, open the android files and find the Kindle folder, drag and drop the kindle version of the book from your computer to the Kindle folder on your phone. Now you can open it in the kindle app.

So I now have an epub version of the book in addition to the kindle version. Maybe I can get an ereader program for my computer, but for the time being I'm glad they still make paper books.

Now I'm off to find Christopher Taylor's books to download. I have a feeling I'll be spending lots of money in the near future.

Vic, I was aware of Baens offerings, and now they are available through Amazon I think.

183 Nice numbers for the suffix, Mr. Moose.  It's like a multiple choice question that is fun to answer.  Maybe even "E. All the above."

184 Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at December 23, 2012 02:40 PM (yh0zB)


You should be able to copy any DRM free ebook to the Kindle folder on your android directly using the computer.


That is how I get the Kindle version from Baen to my Kindle. I never go through Amazon at all.

185 Vic, I was aware of Baens offerings, and now they are available through Amazon I think.

It's been a while since I checked but Baen's prices at their site were better than Amazon's for the same books.

186 You should be able to copy any DRM free ebook to the Kindle folder on your android directly using the computer.

Posted by: Vic at December 23, 2012 02:46 PM (53z96)

Yes, you just have to plug it into your computer and drop it into the phone's Kindle folder. If you download it directly into the phone it has to be through Amazon or it won't open.

Of course my boy now has my phone, talking to his little girly friend, which is why I got my stupidphone in the first place, so he could have the old flip phone...but he won't get it till Christmas morn. I'm going to make him call her first thing so she has his number instead of mine.

187 It looks like a Canadian moron has some e-books for sale too. (See the sock.)

188

"Is anyone else actually reading any books this week?"

 

Finished G.K. Chesterton's "The Man Who Knew Too Much". I thought it was going to be the basis for the Hitchcock movie, but instead is a series of short stories with nothing to do with the movies. There was a lot of stuff about "Jewish financier's" dragging England into a war as well as a lot of pro-socialism (but not government socialists, interestingly enough) that I didn't see in the Father Brown series. I's need to check wiki, but I *really* hope these stories were written before the Father Brown ones and that those things were things Chesterton grew out of. 

189 DAMN YOU ANDYCANUCK!!!  (downloads)

190 182 What a frikkin nightmare. So I wanted to download Firehearted, I knew I had Kindle on the phone so I bought the Kindle copy. The stupid phone couldn't open it.

--------

Well, that's odd. I just downloaded Firehearted onto my Android tablet in the Kindle by going to the archive and downloading it. Worked just fine. I bought it before I even had this tablet.

Did you buy it from Amazon?

191 Did you buy it from Amazon?

Posted by: Citizen Anachronda at December 23, 2012 03:28 PM (1c58W)

No I did not, which is why I had the problem. If I had downloaded through Amazon it would have gone in right away.

192 a-HA! So that's who was in my online store! GGE, I can refund yaz if you like for the one you didn't use. And thanks!

193 a-HA! So that's who was in my online store! GGE, I can refund yaz if you like for the one you didn't use. And thanks!

Posted by: Sabrina Chase at December 23, 2012 03:35 PM (wfSF5)

Thanks, but I've already downloaded it on to my laptop.

194 and firefox has an ereader add-on...I'm all set.

195 Hello! About the "Arming America" book -- I'm wondering if that's the book I heard some liberals discussing. Does anyone here know if the author makes the observation that, when armed, he used to go to dangerous places, inviting catastrophe, that he would have avoided if he weren't armed? That was one of his arguments against carrying weapons -- that it encourages people to take stupid risks. I think his story mostly gives evidence of his lack of common sense and provides a reason to question the validity of his opinions. I know that if I had a gun, I would especially avoid dangerous places because I wouldn't want to put myself in the position of needing to shoot someone.

196 OTOH, if enough non-criminals with guns hung out there, it wouldn't be a dangerous place anymore. At least, not after a brief very dangerous period.

197 Good point, epobirs.

198 About weapons in the hands of the citizenry as a bulwark of liberty, something nowadays scoffed at--I am reading Levy's Origin of the Bill of Rights, which has been in the Ready Reserve locker for many years now, waiting for a spare moment. I am thoroughly enjoying it. But I should think, after the example shown by Vietnam and Iraq, as well as the fact that we are functionally about to be ran out of Afghanistan by the Taliban, that the idea of a populace armed with small arms only will automatically crumple before the might of the United States Army is not a belief backed up by reality. What I am in favor of is military-grade weapons held by those interested in doing so and who are responsible members of town and county based organizations, who might also do things such as disaster relief work, but who normally don't do mch of anything. There is a word for this, a historic one, and that is not the National Guard, because people should be able to be citizen-owners of their communties without being subject to military law and service contracts. I think society as a whoe would be better off. If you are dead set against a new reinvigorated, non-National Guard militia, independent of the constabulary, that for most of the time would not do much of anything, but would serve as a local manpower mobilization tool in times of distress, and would cement the idea of the responsibe middle-class yeomanry, not the government, not the police, as the ultimate owners of their communities (though with the appropriate nods to expertise when it is found), then what you are really saying is that you will not in general trust the people, ever, but only government professionals. Which makes me wonder what kind of government you would set up if you had free reign. And if you think Little Leagues should be government or association-ran.

199 Eric Holder wanted to have a national conversation on race.  So he walked thousands of guns to Mexico and they have the equivalent of a dozen Sandy Hooks.

Do I want a conversation with his boss?   The guy who won when his opponent's sealed divorce record was mysteriously released into the wild?  The mad drone bomber of the Pakistani skies?

I want him in Hawaii if it can't be further away from me and mine.  I'd feel safe if he was the first man on Mars without fuel for the return trip and a dead radio.  He's talking, that's why the TV has an off button.

200 "acting President" heh heh.

201 That's a great job with that photo of the Obama's at the Inauguration Parade.  As a Washingtonian, I'd like to point out that they actually have an arsenal on their left.  That's the J. Edgar Hoover Building, FBI HQ.

202 FTR, I read all three of Sabrina Chase's Sequoya books and really enjoyed them. If you're looking for a Kindle book to read, get hers.