Happy Monday.

This is one of those observations that will be completely true until it is completely not. That's what "revolutionary" means. I still want an S4.

Journalism is a deeply sexist profession, as are editors and publishers. At least, I think that's what this is telling me. Hey, I didn't make the rules; those misogynist journos did.

The French are preparing to pull out of Mali and that has folks wringing their hands about the place becoming a terrorist haven. Um, no shit. Unless you want to occupy it, you're going to have to live with the fact that third-world shit holes attract terrorists like shit attracts flies. Power vacuums will be filled, either by the good guys or by the not good guys and deciding to leave a power vacuum (or create one, *cough* Libya *cough*) is a conscious decision of the good guys not to exercise the extent of their power to prevent places from becoming terrorist havens.

This made me laugh.

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Happy St. Patrick's Day All

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Last week no DOOM at all, this week a puny pared-down DOOM hardly worth the name. It's not due to any lack of grim news, I assure you. Next week I shall endeavor to load the DOOM ship to the gunwales before it sets sail.

They'll turn us all into beggars 'cause they're easier to please, as Instapundit often says. But slavery of this kind is not imposed upon a reluctant and conquered people -- it is offered with a smile, and accepted by the grateful recipients with a glad heart. And that's the terrible tragedy of this kind of slavery -- we have not only asked for the chains that bind us, but we forged many of the links ourselves.

Walter Russel Mead has written often about how the the death of the so-called "blue social model" is not a war of white against black or rich against poor, but of the young against the old. This is even more true in Europe than it is here. Europe is in the process of eating its own seed-corn. America is not quite as far down the path as our cousins over on the Continent, but we're getting there -- and our war between young and old may be even more bitter than the one in Europe.

The death of the Westphalian nation-state model may be in progress right now -- bankrupt nation-states are increasingly turning to old-fashioned thievery to pay the bills (though they lay a thin gloss of the law on it and call it "taxation" or "confiscation"). (Like I said: old-fashioned thievery.)

It's not so much that austerity was tried and found too difficult. It's that it was found too difficult and not tried.

If, as I do, you assume that we must tear down before we can rebuild, ObamaCare may be the best gift Democrats have ever given the nation. It's doing a bang-up job of ruining the medical industry already, and it's not even fully implemented yet.
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With the govt having effectively killed InTrade, we're left up to our own prediction devices. There's a poll just below if you got JavaScript enabled.

You thought planet killer space rocks were a big problem eh? Turns out the greatest extinction level threats we face are more terrestrial in nature...

...open predicting. Puntitificate to your hearts content..but don't forget to bring the racism. This post sports the new fresh lilac smell racism in the new and improved extra large economy size box.

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The resident firearms expert has a life today, so I got a couple things.

This is my preferred carry piece. I shoot this one more accurately than anything else I have, it carries ok (a bit bulky in the summer but I have figured that out), and it's a classic, time-tested design.

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This weapon features a thumb safety, which toggles (on either side lefties) that locks the slide into position, and a grip safety (see that thing on the back?) Very similar to the old S&W Lemon Squeezer design, it can't be fired unless you grip the grip. Most good holsters like this one from Galco place leather between the hammer and the firing pin, which lets you carry confidently in "Condition One" (a round in the chamber, ready to shoot). But that's just an added comfort thing, A Springfield 1911 is perfectly safe to carry with the hammer back and a round chambered.

In other news, the Local Knights of Columbus are about to raffle off this beauty, and I bought $100 of the winning tickets (I hope).

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Apologies for the abbreviated thread today. I have a home project going that needs to be finished by sundown, or the Mrs. might be using me for target practice.

And The Hypocrite Of The Decade Award Goes To ...

Heckuva job, Arizona.

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Have at it.

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Read the comments in this WaPo piece

Its all there and then some - uncle tom, oreo, etc.
Fresh open thread, now with 50% more racism.

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Content is for runners-up.

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