McGee speaks

"I remember one of Meyer's concepts about cultural resiliency. In the third world , the village of one thousand can provide itself with what it needs for survival. Smash the cities and half the villages and the other half keeps going. In our world, the village of one thousand has to import water, fuel, food, clothing, medicine, electric power, and entertainment. Smash the cities and all the villages die. And the city itself is frail. It has little nerve-center nodules. Water plant, power transmission lines, telephone switching facilities."

Potential

I transcribe with exactitude from the auction bill:

 "Mauser ModelK98K 709 mm rifle."


That would be a biggy, well into the NFA no-no class, eh?

I'll hit the sale anyway, mainly to look at the 6.35 Ortgies and the Winchester 102.

The  alternative is mowing the lawn.

EDIT: All junk. Let some other fool have the stuff. One of them returned my missing "s" in return for my not bidding it up. :)

Welfare Queen

A real one, to wit:

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,  Head of the Commonwealth, Supreme Governor of the Church of England, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Lancaster Lord of Mann and Paramount Chief of Fiji. 




AKA Regina of the Chilly Toes, making us wonder if Phil might not have been behind this. 


Liz applied for The Dole,  heating assistance  to chase the chill from the cold stone of Buckingham Palace. 


That particular fund was designed to pay for warm schools and hospitals. 

Her Majesty's government said, "Sure,"  then, egad, reneged and thwarted Royal Desire.  It seems some spoilsport of a PUS got to thinking about those ever-so-disrespectful cads on Fleet Street.




"I also feel a bit uneasy about the probable adverse press coverage if the palace were given a grant at the expense of, say, a hospital," the official said.




Move to Britain. Apply for welfare. You'll meet such a nice class of people in the queue.

I say, aren't those guns wonderful, Cyril?

in Kennesaw, Georgia, police estimate that half the residents are lawbreakers.

That's all right, though, because rapists, burglars, and similar vermin don't know which half does honor Kennesaw's mandatory gun ownership law. So they ply their trades in other towns, and Kennesaw is the safer for it.

Even the Financial Times of London seems impressed that Kennesaw sports an amazingly low crime rate.

Reporter Anna Fifield, a New Zealander who proclaims herself a liberal, writes:

"But almost 30 years after the law was passed, it is still in place and still popular, not least because Kennesaw’s crime rate has remained disproportionately low, even as the town’s population swelled from 5,000 in 1982 to almost 35,000 now. According to the latest FBI statistics, Kennesaw recorded 31 violent crimes – mainly robberies and aggravated assaults – during 2008. In other similar-sized local towns the figures were much higher – 127 in Dalton and 188 in Hinesville. For property crimes – largely burglaries and thefts – Kennesaw recorded 555 while Dalton had 1,124 and Hinesville 1,802.." 


I think we'd like Anna.  As she interviewed sources at Nick's Gun Shop there was some talk of taking her in back for a bit of shooting.

"But the trainer is out and the firing range at the back of the shop is busy. I spot groups of women in purple earmuffs, and fathers and sons lining up in the 10 alleys to shoot bullets into posters of deranged zombies called Bob and Steve. I am relieved: while I am game to try shooting, I am afraid I might enjoy it." 


(h/t  Jeff)