Thud Subject One: Syria: Three-round burst selected:
- The US wants "teeth" in Putin's UN proposal to divest Assad's military of it's Chem weapons. Channeling Jack in "A few good men", "Teeth, you want teeth? You can't handle teeth".
- Note that Russia was the vendor for all these gas weapons, can fake up "1,000 tons" of them very easily. There is NO way to effectively inspect after the "hand-over". WE will have to trust Putin...and he has bridges for sale.
- Note that the US CIA has been giving "traceable" weapons, mostly AKs and LMGs, to the Free Syrian Army (but only the "good" militias"). Yeah, we really know how to do that "traceable" weapon thing. Just ask Eric Holder how that's done...
Thud Subject Two: Colorado anti-gun recall: Two round burst selected:
- Read the actual results. The recalls succeeded, but only because they were polling-place elections, had less than 20% turnout. Okay then, two GFW* pols are gone. The gun laws aren't, and the Kingfish, Gov. Hickenlooper, who signed the laws after hinting he'd veto them, wasn't touched. Phyrric Victory. Magpul's departure from CO is a much harder hit than this.
- Now we get to see how the NRA-ILA will use this "victory" to keep the save-the-2A ball rolling. My guess: a money solicitation is in the mail. Not being a member of NRA, I won't get one, but I'd bet on it happening. If the NRA would double-down now, and go after Hickenlooper, I might send some shekels their way, but I bet they don't go after the real prize.
Thud Subject Three: US Public Schools: Three-round burst selected:
- Just saw on Fox News this ayem that the idea of paying dropouts to come back to class is upon us again, like a bad 'Nam foot-rot that won't go away forty years later. Let's see, what do we REALLY accomplish with this idea: Nothing! These louts and loutesses who would come back for a $100 gift card will stay only until it's spent. While they are there, they will either sleep off their dope in class or worse, be disruptive to those who are there voluntarily to learn. Portland Public Schools tried this out up in the North End. It failed.
- Have you noted the drumfire of liberal writers in the liberal blatts trying to shoot down the No Child Left Behind testing? The harassing fire is getting louder. You will recall that this "program" was passed during the Bush Administration, when the (D)s had a lock on both houses of Congress.
- NCLB is a Liberal-owned program, and even it's watered-down testing shows that schools are doing a worse and worse job on the kids all the time. The entire Liberal approach to education, that is, to just keep dumbing the lesson plans down until the dummies finally can "get" them, has failed.
Thud Subject Four: Obama masked bandit: Full-auto, empty the magazine!
- Check it out. Now stay tuned on this subject to see if this WHITE guy is charged with racial intimidation for wearing an Obama mask during a bank robbery. Get your bets down!
Thud Subject Five: Climate Hooey: Reload, fire another full-auto magazine:
- New study finds that out of 117 recent model-based climate studies, only three were "roughly accurate", and the other 114 "over-estimated the amount of warming" on the average, the over-estimations averaged on the order of double. That is not science, that is propaganda, and not very good propaganda at that.
That's it, readers. Your thud-gun recoil therapy for this week.
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* GFW (Gun Fearing Wuss), a term coined by the former gun-blogger and 2A-defender Kim duToit.
Off-topic, but I am spinning that Alford disc yet again and "Cavalry of the Clouds" just came up, which made me think of Our Bill. I do so hope that he has not been captured by nasty sadistic Azerbaijani saxophonists who maybe have him strapped to a chair with headphones on his ears, through which they are playing Ravel's "Bolero" on endless repeat.
Or, he could have just gone native, which is why we haven't heard from him.
You remember his remarks about Kate the Luddite Wife. Maybe he's hiding from her, taking his chances with the tribesmen.
Posted by: Justthisguy | September 13, 2013 at 04:45