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- In The Mailbox: 02.28.23 (Afternoon Edition) : The Other McCain on Hey, longtime pw readers…
- In The Mailbox: 12.23.22 : The Other McCain on Patrick J. Carroll truly IS a sad, embittered psychopath
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Mrs. Clinton simply exudes that classic Weberian charisma, don’t she? So inevitable, so already elected.
– It’s not clear at this point just how many markers Bill has left on the media that he can use to bribe them but she’ll probably manage to sell everyone on the Left but the numbnut mellenial’s she needs to get elected, but that won’t stop her from wasting everyone’s time because her last breath will be consumed with getting back at slick Willey.
– You might call this bowling for Benghazi. Sawyer let her hang herself on her own words. She takes responsibility but she doesn’t. Sort of response you get whenever Kerry steps in the shit.
– Apparently the latest job requirement for SecState is being a totally feckless liar, although that may be only under Dem admins.
“For hate’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee!”
“Y’know Hillary, we’d-a both been a lot happier if you swallowed once in a while.”
Lying competently has always been the primary qualification of diplomats. What’s novel is doing this not in the interests of one’s own nation but in the interests of its adversaries.
For eight long years, Slick Willie told us “Ah feel yer pain.”
Now it’s our turn.
OT
Obama just cut Iraq loose.
He and his foreign policy team are going to investigate how America can assist Iraq until it’s too late to assist Iraq.
Fore!
It is almost like the MSM wants to show us that we wouldn’t have been better off with Hillary in 2008. They are will to go down with the USSR Obama.
Given that Hillary Roddam was dismissed from the Watergate investigation by Democrats who found her lying to be exceptionally offensive, it’s probably safe to say she’s a sociopath.
Not a charming one, but a sociopath nonetheless.
Sociopathy is practically a prerequisite for Democrat politicians these days.
“Get bent Bill. Oh, wait.”
I am not up on psychology but, I believe their is something to the idea of what I call “group psychopathy”. Like what happens with “mob action” or cruelty in gang crimes or war crimes. When the individuality goes, so does the empathy.
I don’t know, maybe it is just what happens when people follow a psychopath.
Madison seemed to think it’s just what happens when people follow other people, a.k.a, a tyranny of a majority, or even not of a majority but merely of a faction.
Rejecting that dusty old contract is all about enabling these ancient ways to persist.
Ho. Li. Kow.
The dog ate my homework.
As Levin observes, securing hard drives and similar systems is STEP 1 in any investigation. People on Twitter buy the lie that the Establicans are blowing the IRS investigation because they’re stupid, not because they would be implicated.
Cripes, people never learn.
MAD MAGAZINE PARODIES HILLARY.
The Journolista’s are still active, and stupidly malevolent always.
From my first link above.
>It is an incontrovertible fact that firearms are explicitly designed to kill living things<
so what. firearms are tools: a just society asks whether you used them in a prudent manner. legalized theft from taxation is unrelated to this topic.
>One would not get the same reaction from a crook if one pointed a banana at him. <
nr stupid peeps with an accent(british). loser : how about a machete like to socal dude? go world wide stupid!!11!!
yeah, had a friend that posted a cartoon comparing gun killings with Tylenol and Pinto recalls. um, the guns are malfunctioning I want to say, but of course she just posts it cause she cares more.
aren’t darn it.
cw cooke is a fabian reactionary: fuck him
>It is an incontrovertible fact that firearms are explicitly designed to kill living things <
sorry dude firearms are small machines designed to move an object from a-b. what you do with it is your own business.
good riddance to “Great Britain” an asshole artifact like iraq
Brat refers to Max Weber and the liberals soil themselves?
Whodathunkit?
I have no more problem with what Cooke said about guns than I do with what Brat said about the Government’s monopoly on violence, by the way.
>It is an incontrovertible fact that firearms are explicitly designed to kill living things <
no they are not. only if you want it. ask lennon.
oh cooke is an english idiot for mass consumption.
>It is an incontrovertible fact that firearms are explicitly designed to kill living things <
no deliver a mass to a distance with velocity. see steam railroads. loser.
c w cooke is like an s e cupp
Oh yes they are. They deliver mass over distance at velocity for the purpose of doing damage. Said damage primarily being intended to kill something. And there’s nothing wrong with that fact.
The moral element of the act of sending that mass down range remains with human agent.
>It is an incontrovertible fact that firearms are explicitly designed to kill living things <
clay pigeons not ask for comment clown
get back to me when c w cooke and s e cupp address black on black stuff. otherwise let allan sort it out.
It seem to me that the proper response to “[i]t is an incontrovertible fact that firearms are explicitly designed to kill living things,” is, “yeah, and your point is?”
If you want to fault him fault his reductionism.
peeps with the brit accent go to the hell you created. sharia in manchester now!
>If you want to fault him fault his reductionism.<
english accent and stupid fabianism and nyc gig and nr gig
Clay pigeons are training for wing shooting.
Back when the army taught long range marksmanship, it was so formations of armed men could kill other armed men maneuvering in the open from 1000 yards out. Hunters target practice for the same reason –i.e. where to aim at what distance to make that tiny fast mover hit where you want to hit.
That you don’t have kill every time you use a gun doesn’t change the fact that killing is what guns are for.
By the way, has it occured to you that you’re responding to Cooke’s neutral statement about guns the same way that leftards responded to Brat’s neutral observation about government’s monopoly on violence?
We can as easily simply say true, as say neutral. Also, it may have happened that Prof. Brat picked up Weber’s truism from Robert Nozick, though this is by no means either necessary or certain, just that libertarian leaners do tend to read Nozick.
Good to see you, mk. Say “hey” to rt.
They call them “snipers” because they would train to hit the snipes, the tiny birds common on the East Coast. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipe ) Those little fuckers are already camouflaged, and if they start flying, they are erratic as hell, and the veriest bitch to hit.
Much different than the 17th century British soldiers that would line up in tight shoulder-to-shoulder formations wearing bright red clothing.
And who could ever forget the Milwaukee Road’s Mass to a Distance with Velocity Deliverer Limited?
Will d0, guinspen!
Designed to kill living things. Maybe so. I don’t know.
Wild west prostitutes would have a Derringer in their garter to discourage bad behavior. And just having it there showing, worked.
Designed to discourage.
A loud report scares off attacking bears and naïve native people.
Designed to scare. Shoo off birds.
A shot to a non-vital appendage can injure without killing.
Designed to injure.
Women and men can use firearms to equalize power.
Designed to equalize.
Gunpowder itself was designed to go into mortars. Modern day mortars are designed to destroy. Originally they shot off fireworks, and still do.
Designed for fireworks.
Designed for noise.
Designed to bash things.
Designed to scare off.
Designed to injure.
Not necessarily designed to kill. So knock if off with insisting guns, all guns are designed to kill. They are not all designed explicitly to kill.
For example, this gun I have right here (how are you to be sure I don’t have one?) is designed to shut you the fuck up. Or possibly compel you to dance. Now dance! POW! Dance, I said, POW! Dance! POW! POW! POW!
See? this gun is designed for dancing.
I’m prepared to concede that guns are designed to injure, and that some guns, derringers in your example, trade off capacity to injure for other desiderata –concealment and portability in this case.
That said, often the intent of the one pulling the trigger is to cause an injury resulting in death.
Like I said, I have no problem with the notion that a gun is a lethal instrument. After all, isn’t that the whole premise behind basic gun safety?
My attitude is to tell the the anti-gunners to grow the fuck up..
I think I see what you’re sayng, and, no offense intended, pulling that kind of shit in real life can get you shot.
Which is what I take Cooke’s larger point to be. Words mean things. That ought not to change just because liberals treat words like masturbatory objects for the mind. The state does have a monopoly on violence. Guns kill.
Welcome to real life, as someone once said.
Which is why I put up the quote I did, this being a blog about the use and misuse of language.
Which is the interesting thing, i.e., rhetoric, the sham art of speech, used skillfully to produce . . . falsehoods (sometimes)! And the root of rhetoric?
FantasylandPolitics! Wheeeeeee.So, as if in contrast to a poor gunsmith who frequently produces a gun which never fires, the successful rhetorician frequently produces speech which hardly communicates a truth, for he is a skillful liar.
And yet the one would be run out of business while the other rises to be famously celebrated as “the architect”.
It’s called deadly force. When it’s in my hands it behooves me to bear that in mind. When it’s pointed at me it also behooves me to bear it in mind, for different reasons.
My .22 rifle is a deadly weapon but its length and caliber mean I’m more comfortable letting my wife or mother-in-law — neither experienced gunwomen — handle it.
My .40 S&W Beretta with the four-inch barrel? Different story.
Every gun is loaded, even when it isn’t. Every gun is lethal, except when it is.
Not only do words have meanings, actions have consequences, and those consequences will not be set aside just because the doer had a different goal. Running away from a fight only means the next fight will be sooner rather than later and that the enemy may not fight harder, but he will fight longer, because he knows he does not have to win, merely to outlast the whims of the next coward to run for office.
The Gods of the Copybook Headings shall not be Mocked, neither shalt they be Ignored.
Guns are indeed created for killing, and handguns are mostly made for killing other people.
However, they can only kill when a person fires them. The left blames the gun rather than the person holding it, because they believe that the gun is the cause of violence. We know the person is to blame.
McG, you have a Smith & Wesson Beretta?
The .40 cartridge is properly called “.40 S&W.”
McGehee says “Every gun is loaded, even when it isn’t.”
Indeed. It was the contention of the late great Elmer Keith that every gun should always be loaded. Not only because an unloaded gun makes a clumsy club but because if you habitually keep your guns loaded you’ll always treat them as such. Hand a gun to someone and tell them “careful, it’s loaded” they’ll treat it as if it is. On the other hand, if you hand someone a gun and tell them “don’t worry, it isn’t loaded” they’ll point it at you and pull the trigger.
Point taken, McG. I indeed have 9 mm Luger Beretta.
Edited: “had”
Bottom of pond does not equal current possession.