Can't happen here

Some of our younger friends may appreciate a quick explanation of the reference to Nuremberg. 

In 1934, American journalist William L. Shirer  decided to try to understand the Nazi phenomena. He went to a National Socialist rally in the old Bavarian city and reported:

 "I was a little shocked at the faces," Shirer wrote in his diary, 'when Hitler finally appeared on the balcony for a moment. They reminded me of the crazed expressions I once saw in the back country of Louisiana on the faces of some Holy Rollers...they looked up at him as if he were a Messiah, their faces transformed into something positively inhuman'."

Adolph Hitler's tame writers labeled it "The Rally of Unity and Strength."

Obama is no Hitler. Mill-run Obama worshippers  are not NDSAP material.  But  words have meanings and ideas have consequences, so let's be wary about those who sculpt graven images to an unexplained "unity."

Fear

"Unity," the alpha word varously woven into the rhetorical excesses of the recent extravaganza on our Capitol steps ought to frighten us.

Has anyone ever seen  "unity" more perfectly expressed than in the grainy old films shot at Nuremberg in the 1930s?

Headline fun

Reuters latest on-line head for the Ascension story:

"A sea of People for Obama Inauguration"

A writing man unawed by High Office and the trappings of Coronation might play with that a little and write: 

"People Asea at  Obama Inauguration."

Certainly happy I know no such disrespectful louts.

CCW Showdown on the High Plains

Two years ago Nebraska enacted a CCW law, permitting their issue to the trained and vetted and including a state preemption. The Nebraska AG has just ruled the preemption nullifies carrying bans in 12 cities. (Duh?).

Some of the cities say they'll keep their CCW bans anyway and remain risk-free zones for the Thugaric tribes.

Stand by for the High Noon faceoff,  our lawyers against theirs.