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October 10, 2025 by 6 Comments

The quote of the day regards the continuing Federal government shutdown. I found it on of all places a long range hunting forum. The suggestion comes from “VTbluegrass”.

Speaking of the shutdown itself. It appears everyone in Washington has decided no movement will happen this week, so that’s a fun update.

They should do this like the Catholics. If no budget is passed we get to lock their butts in that building with no media to pander to until they work it out. I am tired of both sides BS media appearances and the attempts at puns and jabs.

Imagine that. Locked into the floor of the Senate and the House like the College of Cardinals locked into the Sistine Chapel during the conclave to elect a new pope. Given both houses of Congress are in session usually for less than five days a week, I could see this expanded to more than the budget.

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March 20, 2025 by

The quote of the day comes from Keith Meadows’ Between the Sunlight and the Thunder.

Even if I were now only eighteen, it didn’t take a university degree to work out that politicians, second-hand car salesmen, pimps, and pawn-brokers came from the same mould. They all sold things that belonged to someone else.

“Gil Freeman” reflecting on Kenya in the year after his family was murdered by the Mau Mau.

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July 25, 2024 by 3 Comments

The quote of the day comes from Don Surber. He started in journalism when journalists reported the facts and left opinions to the editorial writers. Sadly today every so-called journalist on TV or in the press wants to add their own slant to every story.

From Don on how the press covered Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu‘s address to Congress and how it virtually ignored the violent pro-Palestinian demonstrations in DC which made January 6th look like a picnic:

Today’s journalists do not write news stories. They write press releases.

Unlike Winston Smith who had doubts about the Party, today’s journalists are busy rewriting history so that it matches the narrative of the day. If they aren’t rewriting history, they are erasing it.

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March 20, 2024 by 2 Comments

I stumbled across this quote while reading a novel by Andrew Wareham about the RAF in India during WWII. The protagonist, Group Captain Thomas Stark, is talking to his adjutant Henry.

Good argument in itself, Henry! Whenever someone says “common sense” to me, I know it’s going to be bloody stupid. “Common sense” always means you’re too bloody lazy to learn the facts and apply the science, or too bloody stupid to make something up.

The Last Campaign by Andrew Wareham (#commision earned)

How many times have we heard the phrase “common sense” when applied to a new gun control law, regulation, or other governmental restriction on our rights? When a politician or gun control activist utters those words, I either turn them off or think “BOHICA!” I think Thomas Paine would be appalled at how American politicians have perverted this phrase.

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February 4, 2024 by 1 Comment

The quote of the day comes from the US Army’s Lt Col. Max Ferguson. He is writing in a Substack called the Harding Project. The goal of the Harding Project is to improve the writing of military officers and non-coms as well as to encourage them to submit articles to the various branch journals.

He wrote:

But writing is powerful. It’s the purest form of thought. The best briefing you never had to present because it’s all on the page for anyone to read at any time. Even years from now. 

Transposing Lt. Col. Ferguson’s thoughts from military writing to blogging I must say I appreciate this. Not to say that all blogging is a pure form of thought and that includes my own. Sometimes it is just ranting and raving or else you’d go nuts from keeping it inside.

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December 28, 2023 by 1 Comment

The quote of the day comes from Lee Williams, The Gun Writer, in his fisking of The Trace’s  “The Most Memorable Gun Violence Journalism of 2023.”

Regarding a CNN story that used the Gun Violence Archive (sic) as its source, he wrote:

Any data from the Gun Violence Archive, we have shown numerous times, is about as reliable as a $20 Rolex. Keep in mind the GVA claims there were 417 mass shootings in 2019. The FBI says there were 30, because it uses a much narrower and realistic definition.

A $20 Rolex is right up there with a bridge for sale that connects Manhattan with Brooklyn. Both are offered up for sale by con artists.

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May 16, 2023 by

Sometimes you can find what should be the quote of the day in the most unusual places. In this case, I found the quote in some modern romance novel that I picked up so as to having something to read and kill time.

Not a book in sight. If someone’s character can be explained by the books on their shelves, surely no books means no soul.

By this measure, I have a lot of soul. An eccentric, wide-ranging, omnivorous soul as I’m surrounded by books on everything from modern financial theory to outdoor conservation to history with everything in between including fiction.

However, I get it naturally as my Mom spent half her career as school librarian and the first half as an English and History teacher. My Dad was a big reader as well though his tastes ran more to the Robert Ruark, Jack O’Connor, and Ben East.

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December 4, 2021 by

Every Saturday morning I go to the Powerline Blog to see their roundup of the week in pictures. Along the way I stumbled across a post by Kevin Roche on a speech given by President Biden regarding the Omicron variant. Or, as Roche put it, the Moronic Variant.

From the post:

Biden delivered the remarks setting forth his big plan to stem the panic he has helped foment over the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus. Does this make sense? Are we going to develop seasonal campaigns to address each new variant of the virus? This is madness.

As always, the remarks stressed a theme with monomaniacal intensity. We are all voyagers on the good ship Pequod. Biden is our Captain Ahab. Covid-19 is his Moby Dick. The prospects are not good.

The Moby Dick reference is very apropos given it was first announced in November. If you have ever read Melville’s book, you might remember this line from the very first paragraph.

Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

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July 22, 2021 by 2 Comments

I am reading Kurt Schlichter’s latest Kelly Turnbull thriller The Split. It had a quote that combines my Irish heritage and my disdain for “woke-ism”.

An Irish crime boss is being questioned in his Charlestown bar by a People’s Bureau of Investigation (what used to be the FBI) Special Agent regarding a bank robbery gone bad. The agent is warning that trouble is coming from the authorities if he doesn’t cooperate.

“We’ve survived Cromwell and the Potato Famine by sticking together,” Seamus said.

“But will you survive woke?”

“We’ll take our chances.”

Schlichter is a good story teller and he knows just how to parody the politically correct. I can recommend reading the whole series.

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June 4, 2021 by

Today is the 19th anniversary of Marvin Heemeyer’s one-man war against an oppressive bureaucracy in Granby, Colorado. The name may not ring a bell but a picture of his weapon of choice will.

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Yes, that heavily “modified” Komatsu D355A is what became known as “Killdozer”. It was the instrument he used to destroy 13 buildings in Granby including the town hall. You may disagree with what he did and you may disagree on the details of the story. You might even thing he was an anti-government deluded lunatic who inspires “right wing preppers.”

However, Mr. Heemeyer did leave us with a great quote in notes that were found after his self-inflicted death.

I was always willing to be reasonable until I had to be unreasonable. Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.