…on the Abigail standing picture, this one would have won:

Comment by Ride Fast

2009-07-02 07:40:03

“Having taken out the knit horsey with the yellow hunting club, the natural huntress prepares to pack her prize for the long crawl.”

And now the exploring begins! What a cutie.

Good one, RF! :)

While discussing the topic of bedding an M-14 stock:

The Inconvenience: “Remember that guy I met at the gun show?”
Me: “Which one?”
The Inconvenience: “The weird one.”
Me: “……………..”
The Inconvenience: “That didn’t really narrow it down, did it?”

The Girl Child and I just walked over to The Sister’s house. On the way, I passed a car parked at an apartment complex sporting this bumper sticker:

It’s a Che Guevara quote: “The true revolutionary is guided by feelings of love.”

I didn’t have a piece of paper, and I didn’t want to paraphrase, so when I got to The Sister’s house I looked up a couple of quotes I’m familiar with and wrote them down. I’ll be leaving this note on the car when I pass back by:

“I carried out a very summary inquiry and then the peasant Aristidio was executed. …It is not possible to tolerate even the suspicion of treason.” – Che Guevara 1956

“Hatred [is] an element of the struggle. …A relentless hatred of the enemy, impelling us over and beyond the natural limitations that man is heir to and transforming him into an effective, violent, selective and cold kiling machine. Our soldiers must be thus; a people without hatred cannot vanquish a brutal enemy. We must carry the war into every corner the enemy happens to carry it: to his home, to his centres of entertainment; a total war.” – Che Guevara, “Message to the Tricontinental”

FEELING THE LOVE? STUDY HISTORY, not BUMPER STICKERS.
<3, A Revolutionary

This is better than the time I left a note because someone had a bumper sticker that said “It doesn’t take a war to power my bicycle.” The bumper sticker was on their truck.

The Inconvenience: “Don’t let him in! He’ll puke a noodle on your knee!”

EDITED TO ADD:

QOTD: Saturday morning afternoon:

The Inconvenience: “Babe? Can you get me some Advil and a glass of water?”

Soooooomebody’s getting oooooold…

The Inconvenience, on possible career paths if law school doesn’t pan out:

“I could start a museum. We need a real museum here. A museum about like… kickin’ ass.”

Grocery store PA announcement: “And be sure to check out our delicious California navel oranges, full of nutritious vitamin C!”
The Sister: “More like full of SOCIALISM.”

Mike and I were sitting here working on his résumé. I was jotting down some notes on changes he needed to make.

Me (trying to remember): “Humvee… That’s… H…M…M…W…V?”
Mike: “Yeah.”
Me (now trying to decode): “Highly mobile… multi-wheeled vehicle?”
Mike: “Yup.”
Me: *makes wow, did they really need an acronym for that? face*
Mike: “I know. It’s like… as opposed to what, Highly Mobile Combat Unicycle?”

Bwaha. In totally unrelated news, Changeling finally came to Pullman! Off to the cinema we go. And it’s snowing. A lot.

Mike went to vote early this morning. We live directly across the street from our polling place, so as he was walking over there, he was joined by our orange tabby cat, who often accompanies us if we’re walking around the neighborhood.

The cat, incidentally named Gipper, meowed at Mike as he took his place in line (surrounded by Obama fanatics).

Mike looked at him and said, “What Gip, you want to vote? Don’t worry… I’m sure ACORN will let you register.”

Apparently the Obama-follower in front of him was not amused.

Mike is playing Call of Duty 4 at the moment, and one of the splash screens just popped up with the following quote:

“A leader leads by example, not by force.” – Sun Tzu

Apropos, I thought, on the heels of my last post. For example, if one believes those with the least in society are deserving of a hand up, perhaps one should freely give a portion of their income to provide that hand up, to serve as a charitable example to others. You know, rather than giving next to nothing and instead bringing in hired guns to force others to “give.”

Just food for thought.

I know you’ve probably all seen/read this, but READ IT AGAIN:

“But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society. And to that extent as radical as people tried to characterize the Warren court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it’s been interpreted, and the Warren court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can’t do to you, it says what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf. And that hasn’t shifted. One of the I think tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributed change and in some ways we still suffer from that.” – Barack Obama

Did you catch that? Did you REALLY catch that?

“It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution…”

As the cartoon says: THAT’S THE POINT. I just… I don’t even know what to say. This guy is openly advocating defiance of the Constitution AND PEOPLE ARE VOTING FOR HIM.

Contrast what he says laments:

“It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it’s been interpreted, and the Warren court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can’t do to you, it says what the federal government can’t do to you, but it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf.”

With what the 10th Amendment says:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

Again: THAT’S THE POINT.

Then, after claiming redistribution of wealth will make us all richer (hat tip to Karen on this one), he said:

“John McCain and Sarah Palin they call this socialistic,” Obama continued. “You know I don’t know when, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness.”

They’re calling it socialistic because it is socialistic, Barack. Taking money from somebody who earned it – because they have more – and giving it to somebody who did nothing to earn it – because they have less – WHAT ELSE WOULD YOU CALL THAT!?

And riddle me this, Barack. Let’s say I earn ten dollars, and I’d like to spend five of those dollars on some candy, and give the other five in the offering plate at my church. Except you think you know better what to do with my money, so you tell me I have to give five dollars to the government so you can give it to those you’ve deemed worthy of receiving “charity.” I say no, and you say tough, and send IRS agents backed up by people with guns to take it from me. And if I won’t give it, they’ll just take my stuff and throw me in jail, instead.

And I’m selfish? You – who voluntarily gave LESS THAN 1% of your (considerable) income to charity for several years running – want to call me selfish because I don’t believe in doing my giving at the point of a gun? Because I can give more when you leave me alone with my ten dollars, instead of leaving me with only five? Because I believe I should have freedom to choose what constitutes a cause or person worthy of my freely-given, hard-earned dollars?

We pay a private health insurance premium every month. We’re paying for our child’s birth out-of-pocket because that insurance won’t cover the midwife I’m seeing. We have not made a poor investment in a home we can’t afford, so we aren’t receiving any bailouts. We are not applying for WIC. Oh – and we could certainly qualify for all of the above. We could easily roll over and suckle at the taxpayer’s teat, and probably be living far more comfortably than we presently do. But we believe in personal responsibility, so we don’t. And that’s why this is personal to me. We have too much respect for our fellow man and his hard work to demand our fellow taxpayers foot the bill for us. All we ask in return is the same courtesy – to be left alone to enjoy what our hard work brings us.

And this is personal because, if you’re voting for Barack Obama, you are condoning the initiation of force against other Americans to confiscate their earnings and redistribute them. Today I may not be in the tax bracket most affected – but a few years from now, I certainly hope to be. So, if you’re voting for Barack Obama, you are signing off on use of force by the United States government to confiscate wealth Mike and I will earn, to give “back” to people we never took anything from.

Yeah, this is damn personal.

I’m not asking anyone to vote for John McCain, honest to Pete. This isn’t a partisan issue – it isn’t Republicans vs. Democrats. I’m just asking you not to vote for Barack Obama. Vote third party. Vote Ralph Nader for all I care! Write in Ron Paul. Stay home.

I – and many fellow Americans – are asking you not to initiate that aggression against us. Mark my words: It will not end well for the Republic.