Friday - March 12, 2010
Airsoft Update: A Post For B3
Consider this the final update to my original post on the subject. I would have called this story over and done with nearly a week ago, but the pro-gun side of the internet leads the rest of the digital world by several days on these kind of stories, and the digital world leads the MSM by an equal or even greater amount. So like a bad penny, this one keeps turning up. Let’s put it to sleep forever then, if we can.
Note: To be fair to reader B3 he did come around to agree that the current toy gun receiver under question was sufficiently different from a real one that a functional weapon could be based on it. But he didn’t have one of the original versions of the toy gun receiver and had to posit that the design could have changed. Has it? I don’t know. Were the seized toys of that “original” design? I don’t know. I do know that design changes take some time to put in place, especially when your manufacturer is overseas.
Quoth B3:
I do not have an original WE receiver that I can compare to, as the first version of the gun was really buggy and didn’t work very good at all. However, unlike real steel, Airsoft can change on a dime by changing the castings for the upper and lower. And it appears that if they are off in size from the RS major components, they have changed.
So, I will stand corrected, the current version of the WE M4 is NOT dimensionally equal to a real steel M4 or AR rifle system. And is as dimensionally in-accurate as other airsoft replicas available.
So this post is for B3, but NOT to bring him to task. No way; he did the RIGHT thing passing along what he’d heard, and he’s the man on the inside of the Airsoft game world. But for those other folks out there - that means YOU BATFE - here is the email chain I’ve had going with the Airsplat company and pics of their attempts to make one of the WE M4 toy gun receivers mate up with real AR-15 gun parts. It doesn’t work.
Gosh, but what about modifying them, wouldn’t that do it? Looks like a big NO to me. There isn’t enough metal on the toy receiver to re-drill the holes without leaving a mess. You’d have to weld on or glue on extra plates on the outside, which would then force you to build your own longer pins. And moving the pins, especially the rear one, could cause all sorts of interference internally. The magazine catch isn’t right either, nor do the internal areas line up for use with the real gun’s internal parts. You’d have to do a tremendous amount of very careful fabrication - casting, welding, machining - just to make that happen. And in the end you MIGHT get things to function - you might NOT is more likely - but the toy gun’s metal is of such low quality - compared to a real firearm!! - that it would likely break.
And that is the big rub about this whole story. The toy gun parts look like the real ones, but they aren’t usable for actual firearms. And it would take tremendous amounts of work by a fully equipped precision machinist to make the necessary modifications, if that is even possible. (and one willing to knowingly skirt the law!) And after all that, on the slight chance you could do all that, you’d still have a dangerously weak receiver. So BATFE’s claim that the toy parts can be “easily modified” for fully automatic fire seems to be rather false. Nearly the same amount of work would be required to mill a real one out of proper bar stock in the first place. So why bother?
Now, let’s lay this one to rest. The modification can’t be done easily. It can’t be done safely. It probably can’t be done at all, even by a skilled professional. These things are toys, not actual firearms parts.
And a big thanks to Airsplat for giving it the old college try, and then some. I edited the emails down to the core concepts, thus the [snip][snip][snip] stuff.
From: Drew458
To: airsplat.com
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 8:31 AM
Subject: corporate response wanted on ATF seizure
Dear AirSplat
News item: ATF seizes shipment of Airsoft toy guns imported from Taiwan , says they can be easily converted to fully automatic lethal weapons.
[snip]
This claim by the ATF seems preposterous, but if your toys are made from parts that are fundamentally identical then they may have a valid point. Even if only AR15 parts can be fit to it, devices like the Lightning Link can be used to allow full-auto fire.
Just how close to real life are your parts?
From: AirSplat
To: Drew458
Sent: Thursday, March 4, 2010, 10:00 PM
Subject: RE: corporate response wanted on ATF seizure
Drew,
It’s great to hear from you about this. We’ve actually been following this for quite some time now. And seen many of the articles and blogs posting about it.
[snip]
We did catch word of the possible usage of it being so realistic that it could be modified to fire real bullets. One version we heard was that a real steal upper could be used with this lower. So, just out of curiosity, several personnel here brought in several of their AR’s to work to test with.
[snip]
Synopsis: It doesn’t work.
From: Drew458
To: airsplat
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 9:22 AM
Subject: RE: corporate response wanted on ATF seizure
Again, my thanks for your great response. I posted your letter and gave you kudos for your research and good business decisions. Unfortunately I have a reader who says it can be done with the one particular model of receiver. [snip]
From: AirSplat
To: Drew458
Sent: Monday, March 8, 2010, 6:19 PM
Subject: RE: corporate response wanted on ATF seizure
Drew,
I have to say, I’m surprised to hear someone saying they are so confident it’s possible. [snip] Fair enough, [snip] we will take it upon ourselves to do so, just to prove a point or just to humor everyone.
I’ll have one of the techs pull out the sample and some people to bring in their guns and we’ll take some pictures for you. Keep you posted!
From: AirSplat
To: Drew458
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010, 1:44 PM
Subject: RE: corporate response wanted on ATF seizure
Drew,
Here are the images.
In general, you’ll notice many parts including upper and lower all seem very close to the naked eye. But on closer examination you’ll see the lower is 1/8” shorter, the upper doesn’t even fit on the lower, the pins are different sizes, lots of minor changes that are really noticeable, but when put side by side, become blatantly obvious.
Hope this helps. Feel free to let us know if you have any other questions.
AirSplat.com
More pics below the fold if you still aren’t convinced yet.
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Permalink • ARCHEOLOGY and WOW what a find. Viking heads …..
No comment for me to make that I haven’t made before. Am always wowed by this kind of thing.
Archaeologists uncover headless corpses of 51 Vikings executed by Saxons in Dorset killing fieldBy David Derbyshire
Last updated at 2:55 PM on 12th March 2010
They knelt and cowered together - a once proud and fearless band of raiders stripped and humiliated by their Saxon captors.
One by one, their executioners stepped forward, uttered a prayer and brought their axes and swords crashing down on the necks of the Viking prisoners.
The axes fell until the roadside was sticky with blood from the decapitated corpses of the 51 men, most barely in their twenties.
Soon the excited crowd joined in, spearing a couple of heads on stakes, placing the rest in a neat pile and tossing the bodies into a ditch.
For more than 1,000 years this bloody roadside act was forgotten, one of many atrocities in the long and violent struggle between the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse invaders.
Now, thanks to an extraordinary piece of luck - and detective work - the massacre has been uncovered by archaeologists in a discovery that sheds fascinating new light on life in Viking Britain.
The 51 beheaded skeletons were discovered last summer near Weymouth, Dorset, during excavations for a relief road.
Over the following two months, Oxford Archaeology removed the skulls which had been placed together in one part of a pit, and the bodies which had been thrown roughly into a heap a few feet away.
A chemical analysis of teeth from ten of the men showed they grew up in countries where the climate is far colder than Britain - with one individual thought to have come from within the Arctic Circle.
Carbon dating showed they were buried between 910 and 1030AD, a time when England was being unified under Saxon kings and when Vikings from Denmark had begun a second wave of raids on the South Coast.
Oxford Archaeology project manager David Score said: ‘To find out that the young men executed were Vikings is a thrilling development.
‘Any mass grave is a relatively rare find, but to find one on this scale, from this period of history, is extremely unusual.’
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Permalink • No, it’s not wkend women or even eye candy. Am posting this due to some confusion. Take a look.
Somethin’ ain’t quite right here although she is darn pretty. This photo appeared in the hard copy of the morning paper along with this story.
Malaysian Prince wins £1.2 million defamation suit against wife
A Malaysian prince was awarded 6 million ringgit (£1.2 million) in damages in a defamation suit against his teenage wife who accused him of sexual and physical abuse after fleeing home to Indonesia.Miss Pinot and her mother told Indonesian media that the Prince, 32, held her captive and treated her as a sex slave. She also made graphic allegations of physical torture during their marriage.
The Prince subsequently filed a defamation suit against Miss Pinot and her mother, both of whom refused to testify in the hearings.
But that is not the photo they ran in the on line version .... they ran this. Now then. Is this the girl above? The mouth is different and so is the nose. Even allowing for weight gain, which of the 2 pix are more recent. But since the top photo is so damn pretty, who really cares?
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Permalink • BATTLE OF THE CARTOONS ?
Can’t say I always care for Garland but I can’t deny he’s clever and , yeah, he is pretty damn good. I have to remind myself that since I’m to the right of his general views, my opinions can often be colored. Still, no matter. He has talent and he’s often funny as so many illustrators are and so ... here.
From the Daily Telegraph
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Permalink • Government Departments Arming Themselves
Department of Education Buying MORE Shotguns
Why do they need more? Why do they have any to begin with? By what authority do they arm themselves? Why do they need short barreled weapons?
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) intends to purchase twenty-seven (27) REMINGTON BRAND MODEL 870 POLICE 12/14P MOD GRWC XS4 KXCS SF. RAMAC #24587 GAUGE: 12 BARREL: 14” - PARKERIZED CHOKE: MODIFIED SIGHTS: GHOST RING REAR WILSON COMBAT; FRONT - XS CONTOUR BEAD SIGHT STOCK: KNOXX REDUCE RECOIL ADJUSTABLE STOCK FORE-END: SPEEDFEED SPORT-SOLID - 14” LOP are designated as the only shotguns authorized for ED based on compatibility with ED existing shotgun inventory, certified armor and combat training and protocol, maintenance, and parts.
The required date of delivery is March 22, 2010.
If the workers at the DOE feel the need for armed protection, hire some guards. Or borrow some Marines. And why would they need armed protection in the first place?
h/t to Moonbattery, who also noted late last year that the EPA is buying 9mm Glock pistols
Haven’t these dummies heard that government is a gun-free zone?
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Permalink • Nobody Listens To Poor Joe B
The Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, was set to withdraw from all peace talks with Israel last night after the announcement this week that 1600 apartments would be added to Jewish settlements in occupied East Jerusalem.
The announcement enraged the visiting US Vice-President, Joe Biden, who has told the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that it was liable to ‘’set the Middle East on fire’’.
Mr Biden blames Mr Netanyahu for the decision, telling officials on Wednesday that the United States’ close relationship with Israel was jeopardising its other bilateral relationships across the region.
How much would it cost to ship Israel about 200 million cinder blocks and 50,000 cubic yards of concrete? 1600 homes? Build 160,000!
Oh, and “occupied East Jerusalem”??? Like Gaza, and the Golan Heights? Bite me: it’s Israel. All of it.
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Permalink • Don’t We Wish
stolen from Theo’s, of course
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Permalink • Light Up Band-Aid Cures Skin Cancer
This is an amazing claim, but they’ve done the trials and it appears to work! It is miniaturization of an already existing and effective treatment. Important point: this treatment is for non melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) only.
Researchers in Scotland unveiled Friday a new treatment for skin cancer that is almost as easy for patients to use, and doctors to administer, as a simple band-aid.
The Ambulight PDT therapy allows doctors to get patients with increasingly common non-melanoma skin cancer in and out of the hospital in just minutes and leaves virtually no scar.
Dermatology professor James Ferguson, who was involved in the clinical trials at Scotland’s Dundee University, tells CBSNews.com the biggest advantage to the Ambulight is that it’s simply “a lot less painful”.
It uses the same principles as light treatments available for years; covering the cancerous skin patch with a light-sensitive cream which is absorbed only by the cancer cells, then blasting the area with a beam of light that turns the cream into a toxic compound. It effectively kills the cancerous cells without affecting the surrounding tissue.
What makes the Ambulight PDT novel is its size and portability. The light emitting device is about the size of a computer mouse.
Patients have cream applied to the lesion, have a clear bandage placed over the cream, and then fix the Ambulight PDT to the bandage. It can do the rest of the work while the patient remains mobile.
The medicines and light combination involved has been in use in the United States for years, “it’s just a new way of delivering it that happens to be much more comfortable,” Ferguson tells CBS News.
According to Ferguson, both the United States and Great Britain are seeing a huge increase in the number of non-melanoma skin cancers reported each year.
The high-tech device contains a small light that combines with a chemical cream to kill skin cancer cells.
The Ambulight plaster has already been used on 50 patients with a success rate of up to 90%. It is less painful than surgery and leaves no scar.
Muriel Lowe, who had two treatments a week apart, described the result as “fantastic”.
She said: “I have a skin condition that means normal surgery would scar me.
“The doctor told me that cosmetically this would be much better. The treatment is called photodynamic therapy.”
Ambicare, the company that makes the Ambulight device, says
Ambulight PDT is a light-emitting sticking plaster for the treatment of non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) Simple and easily applied, the plasters are used in Photodynamic therapy (PDT) which is an established alternative to surgery for many forms of skin cancer.
PDT has become a key treatment for skin cancers, an established and growing health issue in many regions of the world. The incidence of non-malignant skin cancer continues to grow rapidly and now affects 15% of the UK, 40% of the USA, and 75% of the Australian populations during their lifetimes. The number of skin cancer lesions requiring treatment is doubling every ten years, as individuals live longer and are affected by the consequences of excessive sun exposure.
Photodynamic Therapy has become a key treatment for skin cancers and its use is expanding. PDT is being more widely adopted as it shows greater cost effectiveness and excellent cosmetic outcome while reducing secondary issues such as infection.
PDT is a multi-step process involving the application of a photosensitive drug followed by controlled exposure to a selective light source which activates daughter compound of the drug and destroys the diseased cells. PDT treatment is less invasive and avoids the scarring associated with surgical removal of the tumour and the need for an in-patient hospital stay.
Ambicare also has a version of their device that works on acne, by killing the Propionibacteria that causes it. Another version works for skin rejuvenation. Different wavelengths of light I gather.
All in all, a nice step forward for technology. And all based on the old nearly-wiccan homeopathic belief that red light is good for the skin, and that sunlight can cure acne. The cream used for the cancer treatment is usually aminolevulinic acid.
This is just the beginning. PDT may also be effective for treating internal tumors as well. Research continues. Light therapy is being used for many things these days, from curing neonatal jaundice to alleviating seasonal mood disorders. Cool!
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Permalink • ‘Terrorist British Airways worker planned to take advantage of strike’ a pox on unions and muslims
Two things this country and the world can do without. Unions and muslims.
So there I was last night looking up flights to the USA on Brit. Air. Originally I had planned to use ship, those plans are not abandoned, but there was a very good write up in the weekend travel section of a little known flight BA runs where one can clear US Immigration at Shannon Airport. Huh? Now that’d be ideal. The filght takes an hour longer then the regular overseas flight BUT, you save time once arriving. So anyhow I’m trying to get further info and as it’s a business class flight I know it won’t be cheap. I also know that the damn union is striking BA and positions are being staffed by volunteers and I guess, strike breakers. So it is pretty risky. And then I woke up to this when I brought in the morning paper. Damn these useless bastards.
Yeah I know I’m not supposed to think this way but have to ask anyway.
Are you all certain that genocide isn’t after all, the only answer? This is a scary read. The boat’s getting to look good again. Oh right. Pirates. Can’t win these days.
BA worker ‘planned to use strike to become suicide bomber and passed on secrets to terror masterminds in Yemen’By SAM GREENHILL and PAUL SIMS
A would-be suicide bomber worked for British Airways and plotted to take advantage of cabin crew strikes to launch an attack, it was alleged yesterday.
Rajib Karim, a trusted IT expert at the airline, planned to volunteer for crew training to help keep flights running during the threatened walkouts.
He also used his access to BA’s computer systems to gain insider knowledge about airline security and pass it to terror masterminds in Yemen and Pakistan, a court heard.
Union bosses seized on the revelations to claim that passengers could be endangered by BA’s tactics for beating the planned strikes. The airline says it has more than 1,000 volunteer staff ready to work as cabin crew in the event of industrial action.
Karim, 30, was born in Bangladesh and came to Britain a few years ago to get a UK passport which would smooth his terror mission, it was claimed.
Two years ago he secured a full-time job at a BA call centre in Newcastle upon Tyne and became ‘heavily involved’ in software development.
But he had a ‘clear intention and desire’ for martyrdom and wanted to become a suicide bomber, Westminster Magistrates Court heard.
His computer allegedly contained encrypted files showing he was in contact with terrorists abroad.
Karim requested ‘permission’ from ‘those who appear to be able to give [it]’ to carry out an atrocity in the UK and suggested to colleagues in Yemen that he might be able to train as a cabin crew member to work on planes during strikes.
This would give him ‘inside knowledge’ of training and procedures that could assist in carrying out a terror attack, the court heard.
He also offered to travel to Yemen and Pakistan to train in terrorism, and suggested other people he knew who could potentially be recruited.
The court heard that Karim gave details of ways in which BA security systems and computer servers could be subjected to physical or internal attack to inflict ‘severe financial losses’.
Thousands of BA passengers face travel chaos as cabin crew plan TWO crippling strikes
By RAY MASSEY
Last updated at 1:48 PM on 12th March 2010British Airways cabin crew are to stage a series of crippling strikes threatening travel chaos for more than a million passengers, it was announced today.
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Permalink • ‘And then the fight started…’
Flapjawman sent me these this morning. Flapjawman is a LtCol in Army Intelligence. I’ve known him since we started playing D&D together back in ‘74. I’d post his pic but that might blow his cover. Anyway, enjoy!
My wife sat down on the settee next to me as I was flipping channels. She asked, “What’s on TV?”
I said, “Dust”.
And then the fight started…
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My wife and I were watching “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” while we were in bed.. I turned to her and said, “Do you want to have sex?”
“No,” she answered.
I then said, “Is that your final answer?”
She didn’t even look at me this time, simply saying, “Yes.”
So I said, “Then I’d like to phone a friend.”
And then the fight started....
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Saturday morning I got up early, quietly dressed, made my lunch, and slipped quietly into the garage. I hooked up the boat up to the van, and proceeded to back out into a torrential downpour. The wind was blowing 50 mph, so I pulled back into the garage, turned on the radio, and discovered that the weather would be bad all day.
I went back into the house, quietly undressed, and slipped back into bed. I cuddled up to my wife’s back, now with a different anticipation, and whispered, “The weather out there is terrible.”
My loving wife of 5 years replied, “Can you believe my stupid husband is out fishing in that?”
And that’s how the fight started…
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I rear-ended a car this morning. So, there we were alongside the road and slowly the other driver got out of his car. You know how sometimes you just get so stressed and little things just seem funny? Yeah, well I couldn’t believe it.... He was a DWARF!!! He stormed over to my car, looked up at me, and shouted, “I AM NOT HAPPY!!!”So, I looked down at him and said, “Well, then which one are you?”
And then the fight started.....
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My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary. She said, “I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 150 in about 3 seconds.”I bought her a bathroom scale.
And then the fight started…
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When I got home last night, my wife demanded that I take her some place expensive… so, I took her to a petrol station.And then the fight started…
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After retiring, I went to the Social Security office to apply for Social Security. The woman behind the counter asked me for my driver’s license to verify my age. I looked in my pockets and realized I had left my wallet at home. I told the woman that I was very sorry, but I would have to go home and come back later.The woman said, “Unbutton your shirt”. So I opened my shirt revealing my curly silver hair. She said, “That silver hair on your chest is proof enough for me,” and she processed my Social Security application.
When I got home, I excitedly told my wife about my experience at the Social Security office.
She said, “You should have dropped your pants. You might have gotten disability, too.”
And then the fight started…
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My wife and I were sitting at a table at my school reunion, and I kept staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sat alone at a nearby table.My wife asked, “Do you know her?”
“Yes,” I sighed, “She’s my old girlfriend. I understand she took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear she hasn’t been sober since.”
“My God!” says my wife, “who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?”
And then the fight started…
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I took my wife to a restaurant. The waiter, for some reason took my order first. “I’ll have the steak, medium rare, please.”He said, “Aren’t you worried about the mad cow?”
“Nah , she can order for herself.”
And then the fight started…
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A woman was standing nude, looking in the bedroom mirror. She was not happy with what she saw and said to her husband, “I feel horrible; I look old, fat and ugly. I really need you to pay me a compliment.”The husband replied, “Your eyesight’s damn near perfect.”
And then the fight started......
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Permalink • ‘…the right to keep and bear chairs…’
Ex-police officer stunned by chair-wielding patron.
Pull-quote:
“I basically kept hitting him until he wasn’t moving anymore,”
Yep! That’s how I’d do it. I’d basically hit, shoot, stab, etc until he’s no longer a threat… moving. (uhh, is his chest still rising and falling?)
The man who stopped a bar shooting incident by hitting the suspected gunman with a chair was hailed as a hero on Monday.
The Saturday night shootings at Jim’s Sports Club Bar and Grill left one man dead, another critically wounded and a third with a less serious wound. Authorities said the suspect, Jason Musburger, 47, a former Chisholm police officer, had gone to the bar to confront his ex-wife.
Ryan Simonson, 27, of Chisholm, confirmed Monday that he was the patron who smashed a chair over the suspect’s head, knocking him unconscious.
“He’s a hero,” Mayor Michael Jugovich said, adding that Simonson likely saved other lives, given that the suspect had a second gun he was unable to use.
I’m still bemused by the use of the term ‘suspect’. He’s not a ‘suspect’. He did it, and the chair proves it!
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Permalink • Thursday - March 11, 2010
Vilmar’s version of Aesop’s Antz and Grasshoppers
I thought of Vilmar immediately upon recovering from Mountain Dew shooting from my nose:
Once upon a time, there was a happy-go-lucky grasshopper who lived only to have fun. All through the long summer days, he would sing and dance, and laugh at the industrious ants who were busily preparing for winter. But then cruel winter came, and the grasshopper was starving. In desperation, he approached the ants’ nest and begged for food. “You should have danced less and worked more,” the ants scolded him, but then, being basically kind-hearted creatures, they decided to give him a few of their hard-won crumbs.
The next summer was exactly like the one before: Once more, the ants worked without pause, while the grasshopper sang and danced. When winter came, he appealed to the ants again, only this time, he brought his 10,000 children along with him. “It’s thanks to your kindness,” he said, “that I made it through the winter, and was able to father these little ones. Surely, you won’t let us all starve to death.”
The ants convened a meeting of their Council to decide what to do. On the one hand, they felt a certain responsibility for the grasshopper and his huge brood; on the other hand, feeding 10,000 growing grasshoppers could make a serious dent in their winter provisions.
Finally, one Council member had a brilliant idea. “Let’s just take some food from the hardest-working ants. They’ve got more than enough, and won’t mind sharing their good fortune with the needy grasshoppers.”
The Council-of-Ants thought this was a splendid plan, and quickly acted on it. As a result, the grasshoppers survived the winter, the ants congratulated themselves on their compassion, and hardly anyone noticed that the hardest-working ants, whose food had been seized, left the nest in disgust.
Summer came around once again, and once again the grasshoppers danced and sang, while the ants toiled and saved. But without the hardest-working ants to do the heavy-lifting, the ants did not get very much accomplished, and barely accumulated enough food to get themselves through the winter.
And then, one cold and snowy day, the ants heard an ominous rumble approaching ever-closer. It was the sound of a million grasshoppers, all converging on their tiny ant-hill. “Since time immemorial,” Grandfather Grasshopper solemnly declared, “the ant people have shared their winter provisions with the grasshopper people. We demand that you do so now, immediately, or we’ll destroy your nest, and take by force what is rightfully ours.”
This is how the Dilemma of the Welfare State, aka the Entitlement Crisis, came into the world.
Oh, read the source here.
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Permalink • ‘The Wreck of the… uh… Barack Hussein?’
Lisa Farizio owes Gordon Lightfoot an apology.
The legend lives on from old Honest Abe on down
Of the group that they call “Grand Old Party.”
The media it’s said gave her up for half dead
Though in truth she is still hale and hearty.
But in two-thousand eight she fell under the great weight
Of a candidate too weak to steer her.
That good ship and true failed in states that were blue
When the gales of November came callin’.
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Not that very many people ever read this far down, but this blog was the creation of Allan Kelly and his friend Vilmar. Vilmar moved on to his own blog some time ago, and Allan ran this place alone until his sudden and unexpected death partway through 2006. We all miss him. A lot. Even though he is gone this site will always still be more than a little bit his. We who are left to carry on the BMEWS tradition owe him a great debt of gratitude, and we hope to be able to pay that back by following his last advice to us all:
It's been a long strange trip without you Skipper, but thanks for pointing us in the right direction and giving us a swift kick in the behind to get us going. Keep lookin' down on us, will ya? Thanks.
- Keep a firm grasp of Right and Wrong
- Stay involved with government on every level and don't let those bastards get away with a thing
- Use every legal means to defend yourself in the event of real internal trouble, and, most importantly:
- Keep talking to each other, whether here or elsewhere
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Oh, and here's some kind of visitor flag counter thingy. Hey, all the cool blogs have one, so I should too. The Visitors Online thingy up at the top doesn't count anything, but it looks neat. It had better, since I paid actual money for it.
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