So its Thursday, and I happen to be home! So time for another Squirrel Report!
I think you all know, we’ll be talking about guns and the political sphere right now. We don’t want to talk about the cowardly act in Connecticut tonight because the facts still aren’t really out, and we all feel the same way about the event.
What we do want to talk about is the fallout. Proposed gun bans, protests, discussions, and what people are buying in retaliation.
Call in to talk about what you bought, but also talk about the conversations you’ve had about guns and the Second Amendment. Seems everybody is talking about this, which means people who don’t normally talk about guns are now talking about them. You hearing some people turn? You hearing some outrageous anti-rights claims? You changing some minds? Do you sell guns or equipment?
Call in with your stories at 9pm EST, for THE SQUIRREL REPORT!
The TSA’s bizarre new policy where it orders travelers who have already passed security to “freeze” on command has been caught on camera, with the clip illustrating once more how the federal agency has implemented a series of ludicrous policies that seemingly have no other purpose than to act as an obedience test for the traveling public.
I’m not surprised because this is what we’ve been taught in public schools. Don’t be an individual, follow the group! Also the person in authority is always right, and shouldn’t be questioned.
I think I told the story before, but as a child I was sent to woman who ran a small babysitting business outside my school for about an hour every morning when my parents had to go to work. She wasn’t a good person. She didn’t commit any serious abuse, but she was constantly yelling and swearing at us. Her grandson was in the group, and he was a bully, and she looked the other way when he decided to hurt the others for fun. Overall it was a miserable time for me from about age 6-8.
When my folks decided I was old enough to look after myself and to lock up the house and walk to school when it was time, I thanked them profusely, not for the trust and responsibility, but salvation from that bitch and her ugly kids.
My Mom was SHOCKED! She asked why I felt that way, I told her. She asked why I had never told her about any of this before. My answer was “She was a grown-up, and you sent me to stay with her. I didn’t want to be bad.”
That event was one of the shaping moments of my life. I learned that adults can be bad, and adults in authority don’t always deserve it.
It seems so many others haven’t learned that lesson, like I did. But hey, it was practically in the drinking water. Just read this article the other day:
Dungeons & Dragons was a series about six kids who were transported to a dimension filled with wizards and fire-snorting reptiles and cryptic clues and an extremely-evil despot named Venger….The kids were all heroic — all but a semi-heroic member of their troupe named Eric. Eric was a whiner, a complainer, a guy who didn’t like to go along with whatever the others wanted to do. Usually, he would grudgingly agree to participate, and it would always turn out well, and Eric would be glad he joined in. He was the one thing I really didn’t like about the show.
So why, you may wonder, did I leave him in there? Answer: I had to.
As you may know, there are those out there who attempt to influence the content of childrens’ television. We call them “parents groups,” although many are not comprised of parents, or at least not of folks whose primary interest is as parents. Study them and you’ll find a wide array of agendum at work…and I suspect that, in some cases, their stated goals are far from their real goals.
Nevertheless, they all seek to make kidvid more enriching and redeeming, at least by their definitions, and at the time, they had enough clout to cause the networks to yield. Consultants were brought in and we, the folks who were writing cartoons, were ordered to include certain “pro-social” morals in our shows. At the time, the dominant “pro-social” moral was as follows: The group is always right…the complainer is always wrong.
This was the message of way too many eighties’ cartoon shows. If all your friends want to go get pizza and you want a burger, you should bow to the will of the majority and go get pizza with them. There was even a show for one season on CBS called The Get-Along Gang, which was dedicated unabashedly to this principle. Each week, whichever member of the gang didn’t get along with the gang learned the error of his or her ways.
We were forced to insert this “lesson” in D & D, which is why Eric was always saying, “I don’t want to do that” and paying for his social recalcitrance. I thought it was forced and repetitive, but I especially objected to the lesson. I don’t believe you should always go along with the group. What about thinking for yourself? What about developing your own personality and viewpoint? What about doing things because you decide they’re the right thing to do, not because the majority ruled and you got outvoted?
We weren’t allowed to teach any of that. We had to teach kids to join gangs. And then to do whatever the rest of the gang wanted to do.
What a stupid thing to teach children.
Not so stupid when you want them to obey without question, an idiot with a badge, who offers no security at the expense of our liberty, and often out personal property. Do you think the TSA would have survived its first year if Americans had been taught to respectfully question authority?
A freight train slammed into a parade float carrying wounded veterans on Thursday, killing four people and injuring 17 others as the float tried to get through a West Texas railroad crossing on its way to an honorary banquet, authorities said.
The train was sounding its horn and people were jumping off the decorated flatbed truck before the collision around 4:40 p.m. in Midland, according to witnesses and Union Pacific spokesman Tom Lange. A preliminary investigation indicates the crossing gate and lights were working, Lange said, though he didn’t know if the train crew saw the float approaching.
Again, they love trains (tho the jury is out how they actually feel about war vets), so this little smudge can be overlooked! It only makes sense!
If you don’t like people laughing at you, stop being hysterical!
I don’t much care for Larry Pratt, he’s well known for being intentionally inflammatory over furthering the debate in attempts to gain attention for his lackluster gun-rights group (which spends just as much time attacking people for being Democrats, rather than furthering gun rights). Still man he gets Piers to loose his shit here.
Antis are Children dressed up as adults.
And Alan Gottlieb, who is just awesome, getting the same response.
They’re angry, and they’re irrational, and they want to tell us all how to live!
**UPDATE** This one is pretty crazy too!
John Lott is being polite, factual, and making a great point…so they cut his mic so that the guests can tell full-on lies. (I think we remember from my post the other day about Australia’s “Declining” violent crime rate)
Gotta love it when people bring the real Grown-Up conversation to the table
Don’t punish the innocents, and understand that the Ben Franklin quote was WRONG! Ben said “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” Its a nice quote, but the truth is those who give up Liberty for Safety GET Neither.
We’ve made it illegal to purchase certain substances for the sake of safety, and we have violent drug cartels taking over whole countries, and violent gangs taking over our cities!
We’ve sacrificed our 4th Amendment rights for greater safety in airline travel….to an agency that hasn’t stopped one terrorist, or prevented one attack.
We’ve sacrificed freedom making “Gun Free Zones”…the very locations where these violent events are happening.
Even if you’re so bent that you wish to live in a prison for the promise you’re safe…you’ll note that even prisons aren’t safe.
When you attempt to sacrifice freedom for safety, you’re just sacrificing freeom…PERIOD. FULL STOP! END OF TRANSMISSION!
Hell there are even compelling arguments that you’re sacrificing freedom for LESS safety!
An Australian court has ruled that a bureaucrat who was injured while having sex on a business trip is eligible for workers’ compensation benefits.
The Full Bench of the Federal Court ruled Dec. 13 in favor of the woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, and rejecting the appeal of the federal government’s insurer, ending a five-year legal battle.
The woman was hospitalized after being injured in 2007 during sex with a male friend while staying in a motel in the town of Nowra, 100 miles south of her hometown of Sydney.
During the sex, a glass light fitting was torn from its mount above the bed and landed on her face, injuring her nose and mouth. She later suffered depression and was unable to continue working for the government.
Her claim for workers’ compensation for her physical and psychological injuries was initially approved by government insurer Comcare, then rejected after further investigation.
I don’t know how they roll in Australia, but unless her bureau was “bordello inspection”, this isn’t a workman’s comp case. She might have a say for litigation against the hotel, but something tells me the public courts might not be so accepting of her litany of medical issues.
Maybe I should have claimed this burn, that I actually got performing my work duties!
Did you catch the big story out of Afghanistan the other day—the one about how a U.S. platoon was decimated in a nighttime raid? The soldiers couldn’t fight effectively because their unit cohesion had disintegrated after one of them mentioned he is gay.
How about the recent study showing it is now impossible to train new jarheads at Parris Island? Marine recruits are so afraid a gay bunkmate might be eyeballing them in the shower that they can’t follow even basic commands.
What about the recruitment crisis generally—and the tens of thousands of military personnel who have announced they will not re-up because they don’t want to work with gays and lesbians?
You didn’t hear about those developments? Don’t be alarmed. Nobody did—because they never happened. Yet they certainly should have, if those opposed to gays in the military were right. More than a year ago, the military’s policy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) was formally repealed. Social conservatives had repeatedly predicted nothing less than utter disaster if that were to happen…..Writing in The Wall Street Journal recently, co-authors Sherif Girgis, Ryan Anderson, and Robert George oppose gay marriage by arguing that “weakening marital norms will hurt children and spouses, especially the poorest” and will foster “family breakdown.” What’s more, they write, same-sex marriage is unnatural, since it omits “sexual-reproductive complementarity.” And furthermore, this truth has been recognized by “ancient thinkers untouched by Judaism or Christianity—including Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, Musonius Rufus, Xenophanes and Plutarch.”
Ah, well then. Who could possibly argue with Musonius Rufus?
These arguments from tradition and natural law also have some ugly historical echoes. When Judge Leon Bazile convicted Mildred and Richard Loving, an interracial couple, of violating Virginia’s law against miscegenation, he insisted: “Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages.” When, a few years earlier, the black group The Platters was arrested for playing music for white women, Cincinnati judge Gilbert Bettman berated them: “You have taken that which can be the core of reproductive life and turned it into a socially abhorrent, tawdry indulgence in lust.” Sound familiar?
Nothing more to add! A friend of mine once said, Gays are kinda like guns, they seem scary when you hear people talking about them, or see them on the news, but once you have one in your home, you feel pretty silly about all of that.
Joan Peterson, who is paid to advocate against Constitutionally Protected Rights:
This video reflects the views of the majority of Americans. Today, political leaders and media personalities have publicly admitted that they have been wrong about their views about guns. One even apologized
The prospect of a renewed assault weapons ban in the wake of the Connecticut school massacre has set of a round of buying, as thousands of Americans head to their local gun store to secure the popular AR-15 — the model used by the school gunman — before potential government prohibitions on their purchase.
They are also buying the .223 ammunition used by the AR-15 and the type of high-capacity magazines covered under the last federal assault weapons ban, which Congress let expire without renewing.
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation says it set a new record for single-day background check submittals this past weekend.
In San Diego, Northwest Armory gun store owner Karl Durkheimer said Saturday “was the biggest day we’ve seen in 20 years. Sunday will probably eclipse that.”
In southwest Ohio, from dawn to dusk a Cincinnati gun show had a line of 400 waiting to get in, said Joe Eaton of the Buckeye Firearms Association.
“Sales were through the roof on Saturday,” said Eaton. “People were buying everything they could out of fear the president would try to ban certain guns and high-capacity magazines.”
One order for Magpul PMags was cancelled today at Traction Control.
At 5:30 AM I showed 9,330 units on hand, when the order was received (at 5:00 PM) the quantity available was zero. My distributor reported over 70,000 Magpul PMags were sold last weekend alone.
Honestly I think the Antis have gotten lean and hungry after all these crushing defeats, and promoting the most pathetic laws as “major victories”, and when it comes to blood dancing, the blood of children is the best for their dancing shoes. Sebastian notes that the antis pulled out professionally printed signs for their protests, that very likely were printed in advance, just waiting for a moment, ANY moment to distributed to their hundreds, tens, ones of supporters. We have elected officials who have wanted to pass bans for ages, but didn’t dare, now they may dare…while the people obviously don’t support them.
