Month: December 2015

It’s almost a shame that this Democratic national gun buyback scheme is DOA.

Charles W Cooke has worked out how useful such things (in this particular case, a 125% reimbursement of market value) are with admirable speed: “Were I so minded, I’d just use the money on the debit card to pay for the things I have to buy anyway, and then buy all my guns back with the money in my bank account that I hadn’t had to spend.” …Yup, that’s how it works. With the extra wrinkle that ‘market value’ is a flexible concept, given that the gun control people desperately need to buy back as many guns as possible for propaganda purposes.

So you take your worn-out guns, get new-gun prices for them, get an extra 25% off of that, and use the money to buy new guns and more ammo.  This happens all the time when they do buybacks.  You can even talk about it in public, because, well, the Left doesn’t let its smart people go fight in the gun control arena…

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/221743/

Tweet of the Day, I RT This Tweet From @aterkel Unironically edition.

After all, this revelation about progressive PR firm Fitzgibbon Media’s President Trevor FitzGibbon’s apparent history of sexual assaults/harassment is absolutely a scandal and an outrage. Particularly when, as @baseballcrank notes, you look at the third paragraph in that list.

Then again, we’ve known for some time that progressives are curiously lax sometimes in policing their own. Or, more accurately: in policing their own white males. It’s nice to see some on the Left caring about that, for a change.

My spoiler-free review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Bottom line: It Did Not Suck. Also… :JJ Abrams waves his fingers: There were no Episodes I through III. Mind you, there was also virtually none of the Extended Universe that all the true Star Wars fans* know, and I don’t know how much of the former counter-balances the latter for hardcore fans. For myself, I had an excellent time, and there was a bunch of stuff in that movie that I didn’t anticipate at all.  So… good job with not giving spoilers, Internet!

Moe Lane

PS: Hell yeah you should go see this flick. As I said on Twitter:

*Look, I’m a nerd and a geek and a SF fan.  I’ve watched the movies and played a bunch of the video games. But I don’t pretend to be steeped in the Knowledge the way that some people are.

Just a reminder: five days left to order from Amazon…

…and have it show up in time for Christmas.  And yes, I have absolutely no shame.  Or rather, I am not ashamed to rattle the Amazon tip jar, given that people need to buy all this stuff for Christmas anyway and I don’t mind catching some of the drippings.  After all, it doesn’t hurt my readers in the slightest.

Moe Lane

PS: Even if you’re just a lurker who dislikes me, you should keep in mind that somebody that you do like is probably rattling a tip jar right now.  And if he or she is on the Left, he or she is undoubtedly having to scramble for every dime, because the Online Left has a remarkable number of cheapskates. So  I guess that what I’m saying is, you should maybe give your ideological compatriots a Christmas present?  ‘Tis the season, and all that.

I am half-convinced that Oak Island is an elaborate Illuminati joke.

Oak Island is that weird place that may or may not have buried treasure buried in it somewhere; and the people who think that there is buried treasure are, for some reason, prepared to find that treasure if they have to sift through every molecule on the island. That sort of… ah, dedication… can also encourage other… ah, enthusiasms. Case in point:

Researchers claim they have evidence that Roman ships visited North America ‘during the first century or earlier.’

Their theory centres on the discovery of what they believe to be a Roman sword on Oak Island, off Nova Scotia.

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