August 28, 2008

"A Firebomb Is a Firebomb Is a Firebomb."

John M. Murtagh:

During the April 16 debate between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, moderator George Stephanopoulos brought up “a gentleman named William Ayers,” who “was part of the Weather Underground in the 1970s. They bombed the Pentagon, the Capitol, and other buildings. He’s never apologized for that.” Stephanopoulos then asked Obama to explain his relationship with Ayers. Obama’s answer: “The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was eight years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn’t make much sense, George.” Obama was indeed only eight in early 1970. I was only nine then, the year Ayers’s Weathermen tried to murder me.

Read the whole thing; via Insty.

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August 06, 2008

Goddamn, I Dig These Genius, Heroic Women

. . . who want to take us back to the Dark Ages, so they can . . . hide their candles under a burka, I guess. Weren't we just talking about the superior abilities of women vs. men when it comes to pure evil? Perhaps Al Qaeda's real weakness is not just "stifling the enquiring mind," or "expecting a servile womb to breed free men," but rather that self-destructive combination of the two we've seen throughout human history.

BTW, who knew that cognitive dissonance could lead to such a bad case of lead poisoning?


(Furthermore, I've been sounding the alarm on 9mm's for years: there are some very compact .45 ACPs out there. And if it's so essential to have a small gun, just get a .32 or a .480, and empty it into the target. I love the Hi-Power as an artifact [it's definitely on my "if I acquire the funds to collect" list], but if you want compactness with decent stopping ability, get an Officer's Model, and get on with your life.

A nine is neither fish, nor fowl, nor good red herring.

And, no--despite my small hands my next sidearm won't be the Officer's model, but rather a Commander. Those guns are still slightly oversized for me, but never mind the awkwardness of the trigger pull--and that maneuvering around to get at the safety--they still have a bit of weight to them, so I can shoot them as accurately as I can a 1911. Ironically, I do quite well with 1911s, and I realize that's a bit counter-intuitive, since they don't fit my infamously small hands all that well.

When Jan Libourel was still at the helm of Handguns magazine, he'd occasionally decide to test the dimensions of a gun's trigger pull, and invariably the extremes he chose to test the firearm [at least in dry fire, at the office] were me--"little Joy Whittemore of Hunting,"--and my angel / editor / sponsor / best, most worthy adversary in repartee, the late, great David W. Arnold.

If Dave and I could both reach the trigger comfortably, it tended to get stellar reviews.)

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August 01, 2008

"Woman's Virtue Is Man's Greatest Invention."

Of course, we promoted it, too—as part of the Temperence Movement, the activism surrounding marital abstinence that preceded widespread availability of birth control, and the Abolitionist and Woman's Suffrage movements.

But late in the Nineteenth Century / early in the 20th Century the female angle was, like, Hey—we're morally superior to you, so listen to us when we say we don't want to have sex as much as you do. It's not because we don't want to have twenty children and die young. Oh, no—it's because we're a real spiritual gender.

Sure we are. Sure. I gots me a red phone that rings when the Big Guy wants to talk to me. How many of you testostoro-cretins got that?

YesterdayÂ’s huge blasts in Iraq were carried out by four different women and few infidels were involved. These women continued the centuries-old feud between Sunni and ShiÂ’ite Muslims. If anyone still believes that women are more compassionate than men, think about this: According to the International Herald Tribune,

The second (female-launched) attack occurred inside a tent that provided shade and rest for female marchers. The female bomber walked into the tent, sat down and, according to a police official, Abu Ali, read the Koran with the women sitting inside. When she exited the tent, she left a bag behind, and moments later, it exploded.

The woman sat down and prayed with them, and then sent them to their deaths.

I remember two films, one by my friend Pierre Rehov, the other by a promising newcomer, Shaun Beyer. Both filmmakers had interviewed Palestinian female terrorists in Israeli jails. None of the terrorists showed any remorse. Many were proud of their murderous or potentially murderous attacks. They all seemed quite religious. One woman had assumed a leadership position; she and her enforcers policed and punished the other women with enormous cruelty.

But by all means, let's continue the charade.

Read the whole thing, please.

And the h/t goes to Insty, who is quite taken with the "Damsels of Death" headline.

Of course, Glenn didn't go to junior high school as a female. As far as I know. So he might not understand female evil the way some of us nerdy girls do. We really really really get it. Holy fuck—do we get it.

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