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I Miss Emma Peel
The gal could handle a Webley.
Woman & Webley
Feminine, dangerous and sexy. Not a bad mix, yeh?
No. Please, No.
Our “Progressive” friend…
rather looks as if she’s about to spritz your windows.
(Just what the Hell are the creative directors at the ad agency thinking, anyway?)
Right.
I do miss Emma.
The genius of ‘White Christmas’, huh, Rich? Perhaps it’s less than you think.
Mr. Lowry, you forgot to mention two extremely important things, concepts important to Christians everywhere: Nowhere in your article do you acknowledge that Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus. No small matter. Neither anywhere in your article do you mention Christ. Sorry, Rich, old son, but there is in fact a Reason for the Season. Which leads to the second point:
Indeed, these omissions are a huge flaw in the song ‘White Christmas’ too… ironically sanitized to ‘White’ by keeping the bathwater and tossing the Baby. (Just saying, pal.) All the snowy sentimentalism notwithstanding, ‘White Christmas’ can fairly be said to have contributed to the Progressive corruption of Christian identity of America. You might have brought up the point?
“The irony of the son of a [Jewish] cantor writing the characteristic American Christmas song is obvious.” Really? As an Orthodox Jew, I’m rather defensive of my Christian neighbors. The irony of a “Conservative” writer and editor of a major Conservative publication who can’t see the forest for the snow on the Christmas tree leaves me cold.
I’ll forgive Berlin. He was Jewish, and he wasn’t in an age when Christians and their Faith were under assault. You? You, Rich, live in a different age, at a time when you in particular ought to know better. Progressive Cancer is everywhere. Classical Liberal Faith – Christian and Jewish - is under attack on two major fronts – from pagan Earth-worshipers seeking power from within and pagan desert-god worshippers seeking power from without.
To be a Conservative means to hold to certain values and to defend those values at all cost. Did you even bother yesterday to attend church, Mr. Lowry?
Santa in Yerushalaim, huh?
Update: Heh. Penn Jillette surrounded by blithering twits.
Update: Findalis at Maggies’ place has a few additional observations. Oz is short a few wizards, apparently.
Update: Ron Paul has related thoughts (courtesy of ZeroHedge)
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Wayne LaPierre lands one off target. So far off, one hardly knows how to dial him back onto paper. And…
…right on cue, The New York Post notes that one school district took the NRA up on its advice. But of course.
“With this new evil, you can’t just sit there and hope that it doesn’t happen in your town. We must protect our kids.”
Recall Quinn’s First law: “Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent.” A school district with professional armed guards on grounds. Let’s see what we have here:
- Another layer of administrative expense, funded by the taxpayer. √
- A discrete, visible layer of armed authorities, patrolling school grounds. √
- Another layer of union activity, funding local campaigns. √
So I ask you, dear reader, what could possibly go wrong?
For starters, what’s wrong is the notion that we can fob-off our responsibility to defend our young and our selves onto “professionals.”
Worse, raising kids in an environment where they are taught that only those who have the authority to police may have the right of defense, even a monopoly on violence.
Then there’s the reality learned at Virginia Tech: Armed SWAT squadies, decked to the neck with gear and vests… showing up late to the dance, huddled like timid kittens outside while a single freak kept up shot after reload after shot. Kill after kill after kill after kill. Our brave armed pros made their way into the zone after the creep had expired to make sure the paperwork was properly filed. But don’t mess with them, folks… they’re professionals.
There is also the valuable intel available to a perp: If someone is not in blue dress-up, they’re not dangerous. (It’s a totally different scenario walking into a Starbucks where the gal behind you might well be packing.) Neutralize the blue guy and everyone else is… all. yours.
Wayne LaPierre is dead wrong on armed guards. Is there a better choice? Yours truly has no easy answers. Certainly the permission to carry and general knowledge that a school area is a shall-carry zone will have a deterrent effect. The mere possibility of unmarked armed guardians makes the objective all that more perilous for a criminal. There are the lessons of personal and civic responsibility for our children, the huge savings in cost and the less complex political budget issues. The difficulties of personal carry and privacy and secrecy and regular training for those adults who choose to carry. It is an awesome, terrible responsibility.
What we know from ugly experience is this: When lives are irreplaceable and seconds precious, the “pros” are always mere minutes away.
Hug your kid.
On Being in The Wilderness and the Long Game
We are ever more plainly at what I like to call a constitutional moment, in which our politics are so divided that we are getting down to the bedrock. The more one studies it, the more one sees guidelines for the long game.
There is going to be a huge mess to sort-out; there will be some time yet before course correction. What of the Tea Party Revolution you ask? Recall that Rick Santelli’s rant from the CMX came in 2009. It has only been four years since.
By what do we mean the Revolution? The war? That was no part of the Revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The Revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected, from 1760 to 1775, in the course of fifteen years before a drop of blood was shed at Lexington. The records of thirteen legislatures, the pamphleteers, newspapers in all the colonies, ought to be consulted during that period to ascertain the steps by which the public opinion was enlightened and informed concerning the authority of Parliament over the colonies. – JOHN ADAMS, letter to Thomas Jefferson, August 24, 1815
Fifteen years. The first Revolution took nearly a generation. There was much time in the Wilderness. Washington’s retreat through New Jersey. Of times and trying men’s souls; we’ve been here before. Pray. Take heart.
