Saturday, February 01, 2003

It's obviously not a good morning.


I remember Columbia's first flight. I was a senior in high school. The day that it returned to Earth, a friend and I ditched school to watch it land at Edwards AFB. That was back in the days before everyone started to think that shuttle flights and landings were mere routine. I still remember the way she looked high overhead when we all heard the twin sonic booms with two chase planes in tow.

Thursday, January 30, 2003

Well that sucks... I just realized that the New Times L.A. is no more. Their website now mirrors that hideous, left-wing, cage-liner we know as the L.A. Weekly.

Tuesday, January 28, 2003

I've figured out what it takes to make me a more responsible, active
blogger...



BREAK THINGS!!



In the process of cleaning up the mess, I inadvertently post stuff.
Blixey's pixeys report "Iraq Seems Unwilling to Give Up Weapons"


Nothin' gets by the Swedish Chef, does it?



(OK... I know that it's bogus, but if you look for the exact phrase "French military victories" on Google, it only turns up ~70 hits out of the 3.1 billion pages they've crawled!)

Monday, January 27, 2003

Are liberals starting to see that they've been slugging it out with a tarbaby?


NEWS ANALYSIS
Bush has mastered D.C. politics
Halfway into first term, he's seen as 'far better than his father'


...From the SF Chronicle, of all places.

There's a book called "Dial 911 and Die". (Available here from Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership.) Its basic premise is that gun control works because enough people have been convinced that Government will protect them. As a result, people get killed waiting on hold. David Kopel shows that it can happen on a larger scale.


In the 1990s, the UN convinced the Bosnia Muslims that they didn't really need arms of their own; UN forces would be there to protect them. This is in keeping with the UN's view that "The spread of illicit arms and light weapons is a global threat to human security and human rights". By this, Koffi Annon means the types of arms we Americans recognize as protected by the 2nd Amendment to our Constitution. These are small arms that one can use to protect home and hearth. The type that the Bosnian Muslims surrendered to the UN.


The kind they could have used when the Bosnian Serbs rolled into Srebrenica on July 11, 1995.


Over 7500 Bosnian Muslim men and boys died there. They died waiting for the UN to come and rescue them. The Dutch troops assigned to protect the Srebrenica area never showed.


Now fast forward a few years. It's Fall of 2001. Four aircraft take off from East Coast airports. Their passengers are mostly Americans who've also been told that their Government will protect them in times of danger. They've been conditioned to think that active resistance to violence on their part is inappropriate. "Just dial 911." They've been told that fighting back against criminals will make things worse. They are all sure of this. And the 19 foreigners on board were all well aware of how the others on the planes were indoctrinated into this thinking.


The rest of that history we all know. We also know how one plane's American passengers realized, unfortunately too late, that they were responsible for their own safety. They realized that Government could not protect them and that action on their part would be their only hope. The passengers of Flight 93 fought back. They lost their lives in the fight, but in doing so, they saved an untold number of lives in Washington D.C.; including, perhaps, many in Congress who would have the rest of us disarm in the belief that Government will always be there to protect us.