Waco

Fun match today, and I got to break in the new camera....

Here's JR scootin' and reloading:



Yours truly with a nice double working:



Sadly, Rhonda's day was not so good.... But her gun was fixed, right?

Submit, or else

A few days ago, I quoted Goebbels:

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

A key part of the quote is the section that states:

It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

So, flash forward to 2009. You have an anti Obama sticker on your car. You get pulled over and your sign/sticker is confiscated by the Police because the officer believes your sign is a threat to the President of the United States.

And to cap it off, you're then visited by the Secret Service:

''The Secret Service called and said they were at my house," Harrison said.

After talking to his attorney, Harrison went home where he met the Secret Service.

''When I was on my way there, the Secret Service called me and said they weren't going to ransack my house or anything ... they just wanted to (walk through the house) and make sure I wasn't a part of any hate groups."

Harrison said he invited the Secret Service agents into the house and they were "very cordial."

''We walked through the house and my wife and 2-year-old were in the house," Harrison said.

He said they interviewed him for about 30 minutes and then left, not finding any evidence Harrison was a threat to the president.

I'll say it again, because I think it's important:

It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State

How special.

Police: Dead man jumped or fell from taxi on I-35

From the other JR.

I'd think a dead guy would have less ambition.

Doesn't

this look entertaining??

New shooter day!

Took a new shooter to the range today. We worked on quite a few pistols, letting her get a feel for what she liked, and finished up with some fun time on my GSG-5.

Until today, she had never fired a weapon before in her life.... Do note the nice little group on the target!

Now it's your turn, folks. Introduce a new shooter to the fun of shooting as soon as you can. Get more shooters out there and vested in our future because frankly, there aren't enough of us out there!

Obama's Rhetoric Is the Real 'Catastrophe'

As pointed out here and elsewhere, all among the producers and nowhere to be found amongst the ever growing popluation of looters... despite what the chose one and his minions state, we are not in the worst economic crises in the history of mankind.

President Barack Obama has turned fearmongering into an art form. He has repeatedly raised the specter of another Great Depression. First, he did so to win votes in the November election. He has done so again recently to sway congressional votes for his stimulus package.

This fearmongering may be good politics, but it is bad history and bad economics. It is bad history because our current economic woes don't come close to those of the 1930s. At worst, a comparison to the 1981-82 recession might be appropriate.

The latest survey pegs U.S. unemployment at 7.6%. That's more than three percentage points below the 1982 peak (10.8%) and not even a third of the peak in 1932 (25.2%). You simply can't equate 7.6% unemployment with the Great Depression.

Mr. Obama's analogies to the Great Depression are not only historically inaccurate, they're also dangerous. Repeated warnings from the White House about a coming economic apocalypse aren't likely to raise consumer and investor expectations for the future. In fact, they have contributed to the continuing decline in consumer confidence that is restraining a spending pickup. Beyond that, fearmongering can trigger a political stampede to embrace a "recovery" package that delivers a lot less than it promises.

Let's see, what did Goebbels say?

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Hmm, could the recent interest in a new version of the Fairness Doctrine be a sign of what Goebbels called for?? Nah, that could never happen here, right?

So

what better way to end the day at the range than get out the ARs and put some rounds downrange with the EBR.