You may find yourself living in the White House
You may find your armed forces in another part of the world
You may find yourself a cog in the wheel of a large autocracy
You may find yourself with a dutiful House and a dutiful wife
You may ask yourself, well, how did I get here?
Letting the days go by, let the waiter hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
States turning blue again after the money’s gone
Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground
You may ask yourself, how do I work this?
You may ask yourself, where is that large Marine whirly-bird?
You may tell yourself, this is not my beautiful house
You may tell yourself, this is not my beautiful wife
Letting the daze go by, let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by, water flowing underground
Into the red again, after the money’s gone
Once in a lifetime, water flowing underground
Shame that it ever was, shame that it ever was, shame that it ever was, shame that it ever was
Shame that it ever was, shame that it ever was, shame that it ever was, shame that it ever was
Archive of entries posted on August 2021
More Advance Notice Than They Gave Our Allies in Afghanistan
ATF Targets Stabilizing Braces
NRA American Rifleman | August 26, 2021In June, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) published a notice of proposed rulemaking that would make nearly all firearms configured with a pistol stabilizing brace subject to the National Firearms Act, requiring taxation and registration of millions of lawfully acquired firearms. The proposal represents a dramatic shift in ATF treatment of pistol-stabilizing braces.
The new rule would implement a points system akin to the method used for determining the legality of imported handguns. Brace-equipped firearms would be required to weigh more than 4 lbs. and measure between 12″ and 26″. Braces installed on firearms meeting those parameters are examined for certain features, and the firearm itself is examined for similar features. Factors include whether or not a brace appears similar to a certain stock design or how the brace is attached to the host firearm. On the ATF-provided worksheet, the features are assigned an arbitrary number of points. Exceeding a pre-determined number of points would make the pistol in question subject to NFA regulation.
The new factoring system makes it nearly impossible for any brace-equipped pistol to avoid classification as an NFA-regulated firearm. Arbitrary evaluation criteria, such as whether or not the brace has a “rear surface useful for shouldering the firearm” gives gun owners no clearly defined parameters. Additionally, ATF doesn’t acknowledge that this rule reverses nearly a decade of assurances that the addition of a stabilizing brace does not create an NFA-regulated firearm.
An open-comment period gives gun owners the opportunity to communicate with the ATF and share their thoughts on the issues, ambiguities and difficulties associated with such a proposal. The National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action provides a resource for NRA members and gun owners looking to add their thoughts to the register. Comments will be accepted on the proposal up to and including Sept. 8, 2021.
That’s a hell of a lot of notice.
Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secretary of HHS Called In to Help Biden Overcome a Captcha on His Login Page
What Goes Around Comes Around
Media Delay Reporting on Suicide Bombers Until They Can Ascertain Their Preferred Pronouns
“Yes, little bits have been identified, but how would they have identified themselves? As LGBQT bits, or as BIPOC bits? We simply don’t know.”
“Also, it’s too early to call this a hate crime. It may have been merely a cry for help.”
Congress has appropriated more money to study the issue.
Major has bitten the lead scientist.
April Fools!
Straight Line of the Day: What Is the Message on Joe Biden’s Answering Machine?
Welcome to IMAO! The Moss on the Roof, You See, Makes Us Invisible to Aerial Surveillance
RIP 3
Marine Whose Wife Is Expecting Baby in 3 Weeks Among 13 U.S. Troops Killed in Kabul Bombing
KTLA |8/27/2021Rylee McCollum, a Marine from Wyoming whose wife is expecting a baby in three weeks, was among those killed, his sister, Cheyenne McCollum, told The Associated Press.
My only question is, why did the liberal media publish this? To gloat? Because they got rid of their boogeyman Donald Trump and put in this feeble, febrile old corrupt lying pervert. Well. Take your victory lap, KTLA.
Circumstantial Evidence
Friday Night Open Thread: Recap
(Consults notes): I think we should check in on how you are doing with the Big Three: not sinning, what to do with found money, and murder.
Clear-ish conscience? Either way, let’s proceed.
Which rhymes with Greed. Greed is morally bad, but it works, as Gordon Gekko Insurance illustrates. But I’m here to speak against greed.
An example of greed is seen at a lot of barbecues. If there’s just one last tasty chicken thigh, or a rib, inevitably the the guy ahead of you in line who already has two on his plate AND two ears of corn takes it before you. That’s greed.
I’m not going to name names, because this is a moral post.
What do the philosophers say about greed? Some of them were greedy for attention, so take them with a huge grain of salt. A virtual impossibility, for a salt crystal; but that’s an example of verbal / metaphoric greed.
We may be getting too philosophical here. Philosophers are far too academic to use the word “greed,” and use the term “avarice” instead, so take their words with another grain of salt, of whatever size. They try to position themselves as the salt of the earth, when everyone knows that only apostles are.
The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them, than they possess their wealth.
— Pliny
I wish this dude specified when writing whether he was Pliny the Elder or Pliny the Younger. But he didn’t. Greed may have been involved.
The ancients knew all about greed, and apparently all about Hollywood and Hillary:
Avarice is so insatiable that it is not in the power of abundance to content it.
— Seneca
And about Hillary specifically.
Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.
— Juvenal
And Hillary and Nancy Pelosi (though this may have been because they met them).
Avarice, in old age, is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach our journey’s end?
— Cicero
Does anyone think it’s odd that the ancient Greeks and Romans recognized the problem of greed, yet here we are in 2021 with the same problem? And the same women?
For you kids out there who are now in your fifties, why do you think Star Wars named that character “Greedo”? Ah ha!
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Do you have something you’d like to share? A link? A joke? Some words of wisdom? A topic to discuss? It’s our nightly Open Thread, and you have the floor.
Biden’s Musical Q and A
Biden is challenged: not just morally, ethically, physically, mentally, and CornPopply, but now musically.
Something completely different
I realized yesterday when I imagined Paul Simon’s “You Can Call Me Al” coming out of Biden’s mouth, that this was an untapped vein. Or, in Hunter’s case, the closest thing possible to an untapped vein.
REPORTER: Mr. President, where are you on negotiations with the Taliban?
BIDEN: On a long, lonesome highway, east of Omaha.
You can listen to the engine moanin’ out as one long song
And the thing about the woman, or the girl, you knew the night before . . .
REPORTERETTE: Will our troops, civilians, and Afghani allies be safe?
Well, my thoughts will soon be wandering, the way they always do
When I’m Biden sixteen hours and there’s nothing much to do
And I don’t much like hidin’, I guess chocalate chip is too.
REPORTER: But you’re making press appearances again?
BIDEN: Here I am, on the road again
There I am, up on the stage
Here I go, playing sitar again
There I go, {reading from teleprompter} “Turn The Page.”
{Turns to a page.}
REPORTER: Where has Hunter been lately?
BIDEN: When you walk into a restaurant strung out from the road
And you feel the eyes upon you as you’re making off with gold
You pretend it doesn’t bother you, but you just want to explode.
REPORTER: Speaking of which . . .
BIDEN {holding up hand}: No, let me finish.
Most times you can’t hear ’em talk, other times you can
All the Democrat clichés, “Is it woman or a man?”
And you’ve always seen Outnumbered, so you don’t dare make a stand.
REPORTER: So, Hunter’s . . .
BIDEN: Here I am, on the road again
There I am, up on the stage
Here I go, playing the star again
There I go, intern or page.
{Looks down at binder; turns page.}
REPORTER: You are clearly in the spotlight here, no more than six feet away from us, but not wearing a mask. Can you speak to that?
BIDEN: Look, man, out there in the spotlight you’re a million miles away
Every ounce of energy you try to give away
As the sweat pours out your body like the Musilex, as you say.
REPORTERETTE: Your spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, has said you are full of vigor — I hope that’s the word she used — and that she “has a hard time keeping up with you.”
BIDEN: Later in the evening as you lie awake in bed
With the echoes from the amplifiers ringin’ in your head
You stroke the day’s last silhouette, remembering what she said.
REPORTER: Mr. Biden , when will you hold your next press availability?
BIDEN: Twenty-Five or Six to Four.
REPORTERETTE: Could you clarify that?
BIDEN: Innagadavida, baby!
REPORTER: What is your plan for operations in Afghanistan?
BIDEN: {Quotes lyrics from “Louie, Louie” as he shuffles off without taking further questions.}
