According to Kamasutra:
Congress is of the following kinds:
Loving congress
Congress of subsequent love
Congress of artificial love
Congress of transferred love
Congress like that of eunuchs
Deceitful congress
Congress of spontaneous love
Question is, which kind is the US Congress?
I guess it takes all kinds.
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I predict the new Atlas Shrugged movie opening today will force the James Taggarts of the business world to finally stand on principle and allow others to do the same. Thomas Paine wrote, "Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and of military defense." Emails with green "save the trees" slogans leave me with the impression the sender is a sleazy slimeball global warming fraudster, willing to sell his child into slavery. How do others react to these green mantras? How will they react after seeing this movie? Over-taggartized professional and trade associations and business networking groups can make us feel like we are the only ones cringing at the new green religion, but this movie, so long anticipated, comes out in very desperate times forcing many to take a hard look at economic reality.
Early in our marriage, I took my wife to a movie about Ayn Rand's life. It was very meaningful for my wife, who grew up in the Ukrainian SSR, and Helen quickly became a fan of Rand's books. We even named our daughter after this great author who gave such eloquent voice to the merits of the individual freedom essential in a rational Christian faith and true charity. Rand's horrible political incongruity [she did not have much respect for fetuses; also, see her views on self-defense here] and personal failures in applying her own philosophy, mainly due to her inability to recognize God's hand, do not detract from the moral case she makes for individual freedom. In fact, those failures serve to illustrate the necessity of rational faith as a bedrock for values supporting individual freedom. Besides, Ayn Rand is no longer an atheist, is she? God bless her.
Helen, Ayn and I, eagerly anticipate viewing the movie this evening.
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For months now, Reputation.com has been running ads pounding into our heads that the Old West was full of "itchy trigger fingers."
Not true. See here.
UPDATE: Just a few days after posting this, the ad seems to have been suddenly replaced. Hope the old ad is run out of town for good.
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We know that the real Old West bears no resemblance to Hollywood's mythical Old West, in terms of violent crime. The real Old West had a lot less of it than major eastern cities of the time. See here and here.
But I always assumed John Wayne was pro-gun. Maybe he was and I am no expert on John Wayne movies, but my confidence in this American icon was shaken when I saw the movie, "Angel and the Bad Man." John Wayne did not simply star in this movie--it was actually a John Wayne Production.
The movie involved Wayne's encounter with a Quaker family and, though enjoying the tension, I was hoping self-defense would win out over pacifist heresy. Unfortunately, the cheesy ending had Wayne turning to face his nemesis, voluntarily without his handgun--not nobly, but in suicidal haste, and while in close proximity to bystanders who could have been hit by ric's, or worse. Wayne was saved only by the Marshal's fortuitous use of a long gun, and the Marshal closed the movie with this moral: "Only a man that carries a gun ever needs one."
Very bad ending. Wish John Lott was there to call out John Wayne.
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Genocide is an ugly subject that needs to be shoved into every generation’s face because the deliberate extermination of some targeted group by their own government occurs somewhere in the world during every generation. What does not need to be pushed in conjunction with that awareness is the propaganda of pacifist victimhood and the exoneration by omission of the most prolific mass murderers because of an affinity for their ideologies. One spreads the false perception that resistance is futile, that none of those marked for death can or have saved themselves by fighting back. The other avoids all mention of the political dogma solely responsible for most mass murder. Screamers is a documentary that does all of the above.
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Without question, open carry provides a greater deterrence than concealed carry. Widespread deterrence from widespread open carry would keep this kind of thing off our streets and confine it to the silver screen:
Police Chase Leads To Death Of Nun, 83 - wcbstv.com.
There was horror in Harlem on Tuesday when an 83-year-old nun was killed and four others were injured in police chase that turned into a mangled mess on Lenox Avenue. It was a horrendous, near head-on collision that happened around 9:30 a.m and killed Sister Mary Celine Graham. Police, investigating an armed robbery
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What is it about gun critics and the ‘Wild West?’ (Dave Workman):
Historians have determined that there were very few homicides in the real Old West, compared to today. Maybe it’s because when bad guys really went bad, they pretty quickly went to Hell by the shortcut.
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I just don't get it when i hear people say Obama is a great speaker--maybe because i don't have TV and those predictable pauses just cause me to switch radio channels...or maybe it's the marijuana voice.
John T Reed: Is Barack Obama really the great speaker everyone has been saying?.
He frequently pauses randomly and for no reason other than mesmerizing the audience. This has the effect of drawing the audience up onto the front edge of their chairs as they instinctively strain to hear what the person is saying. Obama’s fellow Chicagoan, the late Paul Harvey, was the master of the theatrical pause. In Paul Harvey’s hands, the pause was the tool of a mastercraftsman, strategically placed when used, not random, not a cheap trick.
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Conservatives love Ayn Rand for her great writing and the moral case she makes for individual freedom, but typically we reject her atheism. Many of us are surprised to learn she was anti-gun, or at least very equivocal on armed self-defense. Relevant Ayn Rand quotes:
“I do not know enough about it to have an opinion, except to say that it’s not of primary importance. Forbidding guns or registering them is not going to stop criminals from having them; nor is it a great threat to the private, noncriminal citizen if he has to register the fact he has a gun. It’s not an important issue, unless you’re ready to begin a private uprising right now, which isn’t very practical.” [Answer to question “What is your opinion on gun control laws?” at Lecture, “The Moratorium on Brains” (Boston, Ford Hall Forum, 1971).]
“It’s a complex, technical issue in the philosophy of law. Handguns are instruments for killing people—they are not carried for hunting animals—and you have no right to kill people. You do have the right to self-defense, however. I don’t know how the issue is to be resolved to protect you without giving you the privilege to kill people at whim.” [Answer to question “What’s your attitude toward gun control?” at Lecture, “Censorship: Local and Express” (Boston, Ford Hall Forum, 1973).]
Granted, Ayn Rand did not grow up with American gun culture (though my wife came from Soviet Ukraine and understands well the importance of guns). Also, she did not have benefit of the voluminous legal and criminological research over the last several decades demonstrating the utility of guns.
Yet in noting her surprisingly anti-gun statements it is interesting to speculate on whether her atheism may have something to do with her lack of enthusiasm for armed self-defense. Certainly many atheists lead great and good lives and make fine, upstanding, armed citizens. (I’m no theologian but I believe Ayn Rand, who died in 1982, is no longer an atheist; she’s up there somewhere and God has probably allowed her to rename it “Galt’s Gulch,” or at least “God’s Gulch.”) I just disagree that atheism works on a grand scale to encourage values we need in a free society. I believe this is why communists sought to destroy religion and family.
In talking with people about armed self-defense, it’s amazing how frequently I hear: “I’m afraid I would shoot someone.” I usually take this kind of statement to mean they are afraid of shooting an innocent person, but as I consider the Ayn Rand quotes above I wonder if in some cases there is a fundamental unwillingness out there even to shoot evil people in defense of innocent life. More often, it is probably just an increase in fear due to lack of a theological roadmap. I can talk to them about how the equities are usually pretty clear in the case of a violent criminal attack against a family member, and how firearms training can help you stay within the societal ethics prescribed by law, but people don’t usually make moral decisions of this nature based on what is “taught” by court and legislature (human institutions) – these people are perhaps really at some level concerned, justifiably, about possible deadly hesitation which may result from not having some kind of a theological guide on whether to pull that trigger. Many atheists get good firearms training and do fine with all this; just speculation here, but possibly this basic fear may dissuade the majority of atheists from getting any private training.
As Ronald Reagan said, “Evil is powerless when the good are unafraid.” (And as I said, atheists can of course be good.)
If you are going to use lethal force, in matters of life and death, your decision “damn” well better be morally correct. Not to draw too close a parallel between lethal force and the Holy Eucharist, note Paul’s warning in 1 Corinthians 11:27-29: “Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and blood of the Lord. A man ought to examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup. For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body of the Lord eats and drinks judgment on himself.”
Faith is acquired through study and practice, as is firearms proficiency. It can move mountains, and it can certainly remove deadly hesitation in responding to a violent attack on your family.
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I declared candidacy Monday. Now I've hit the fuel jettison button, firing booster rockets. Hopefully, every good conservative in OC will see the flare, act immediately to fan my facebook political page and **IMPORTANT** invite others to do the same:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/David-R-Duringer-for-OC-71st-District-Republican-Central-Committee/325049951710?ref=ts
Let's do our part to restore the political environment of ordered liberty, first inscribed by the Author of Liberty upon the hearts of patriots then writ large within our Constitution, the loss of which should be to our everlasting shame. Elect CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATIVES to grassroots positions.
Stay safe,
David R. Duringer
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This country is going down the drain fast because of YOU....YOU keep your kid in public school and YOU keep watching demonic mainstream journalists.
I have not allowed television in my house since 1995, except when i briefly got a couple Moscow stations by satellite for my mother-in-law. We get our news from the internet (including great sites like WND), we rent DVDs we pick carefully (yes, we have TV sets, just not television.) Nothing good on TV since the 60's anyway, except maybe 24. And my daughter is just fine socially and consistently ranks in the top of her class in just about everything.
Pull the plug on mainstream filth.
WND: Very important open letter to WND readers.
This bizarre mindset infects more than just a few cable news personalities. A rare look at a normally hidden face of the "mainstream press" was afforded by the 2008 celebrity roast of NBC's "Today" co-anchor .... competed with each other to see who could tell the grossest sexual jokes about each other to a crowd of 1,900. I cannot quote any of it here, but let the first sentence of the
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Despite the deadly machinations of the sadistic Nero and a particularly frightening sequence on the ice planet Delta Vega where Kirk is chased by a horrific monster, the film imparts a generally positive worldview, refreshingly different from the bleakness of so many futuristic stories. To demonstrate Kirk's way with the ladies, though, there's a questionable scene of his making love to a Green Orion girl. The scene is fairly short but gratuitous, as is his ogling of her roommate (none other than Uhura# as she begins to disrobe #no nudity). That and the use of several expletives restrict this to mature teens and up. And apart from the Kirk scene, the film is devoid of sexual content. The film contains intense but not graphic action violence, a short but frisky bedroom scene with skimpy attire, some crude language and a single profanity. The USCCB Office for Film & Broadcasting classification is A-III -- adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 -- parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.
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Star Trek is rated PG-13 for sci-fi action and violence, and brief sexual content (Kirk is seen in bed with a woman, but they are both in their underwear and they are quickly interrupted). There are also a few brief vulgarities (i.e. the sort of "colourful metaphors" that Kirk and Spock were not familiar with when they visited the 20th century in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home).
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Minneapolis Gun Rights Examiner: Dispelling the myth of 'The Wild West'.
With all this talk of “The Wild West”, I thought it might be informative to look at the reality of crime in the “wild west” cattle towns and compare them to the peaceful streets of such eastern, gun-control paradises as DC, New York, Baltimore and Newark. In his book, Frontier Violence: Another Look, author W. Eugene Hollon, provides us with these astonishing facts: In Abilene, Ellsworth, Wichita, Dodge City, and Caldwell, for the years from 1870 to 1885, there were only 45 total homicides. This equates to a rate of approximately 1 murder per 100,000 residents per year. In Abilene, supposedly one of the wildest of the cow towns, not a single person was killed in 1869 or 1870.
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The attack stunned Herold's friends and neighbors - and even left actress Morgan Fairchild, who once appeared alongside Travis in an Old Navy ad, devastated. "This is not at all the personality I worked with," Fairchild told the Daily News. "It was like having a very bright child on the set that wanted to be a part of everything. He was just an amiable little guy, friendly and just loved to be the center of attention."
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The genius of concealed carry of handguns – the entire discretion of owning weapons– is in keeping thugs guessing as to who is armed and therefore who may fight back against their violent aggression. In Hollywood and in all celebrity-dom, you have your liberty purists, too, and some of them are fairly frank about their position in support of the armed citizen. What they carry and how they carry it isn’t always announced, but their position sometimes is made known.
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Link: Surprise! Guess which movies Americans really like.
One hundred percent of the Top 25 movies that year had no communist, socialist or anti-American content, and only 20 percent had any politically correct content.
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We have not had television since 1995, and there is some good TV out there that we've missed. Fortunately, we caught up with "24" on DVD and now there is something even better: JERICHO.
You can watch the first season episodes online, or get them on DVD. Second season starts February 2008, thanks to fan support . The series is extremely pro-gun. Spread the news.
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(Via NRA-ILA.) ABC's 20/20 show (one of the few that approach the gun issue with some fairness, at least with reporting by John Stossel re: Myths of Gun Control), now seeks "armed citizen" self-defense stories. You can sumit the story with a simple online form on ABC's site. (I like that the form acknowledges: "Perhaps you warded off a potential attacker by simply showing a gun?")
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Update from Naish:
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January 18, 2006
Dr. Ignatius Piazza
Founder and Director
http://www.frontsight.com
Episode 2 of Front Sight Challenge was Won By a
Deputy Sheriff Tactical Instructor who Barely
Edged Out a Computer Consultant in the Shooting
House.
This Week a Construction Worker, Sheriff, Attorney
and a Cop Shoot it Out in Episode 3 of Front Sight
Challenge to See Who Takes the Lead in the Series!
Will it be a Cop or an Civilian? (Cops are really
civilians too... they just don't like to be reminded!)
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Link: John Lott's Website: Reviews of "24".
Dr. Lott links to several reviews of the season opener for "24", a show he admits liking.
My wife and I became extremely addicted to this show after Blockbuster peddled a DVD to us. Not having television since 1995, we did not discover the show until last summer. After the initial "hit" from Blockbuster we saw all four seasons then available on DVD - took about two weeks. Not that the gun handling is perfect or that there is nothing to object to, politically or morally - there is, it's just that the show is so riveting and there's a lot of good in it, too. Saw the fifth season last month - took just a few sleep-deprived days. Very tempted to get TV just for "24" and also maybe for Front Sight Challenge, but I think we'll be able to hold out 'til the next DVD release. What a Rush.
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A Front Sight Student Beat Out a SWAT Cop to Win Episode 1 of Front Sight Challenge!
Who Will Become the Episode 2 Champion and Return to Battle Again in the Front Sight Challenge
All-Star Competition Later This Season?
Watch Episode 2 This Week on Versus (VS) Network Friday at 5:30pm Eastern Standard Time and Sunday At 2:00pm Eastern Standard Time
Check your Local TV Cable Guide for the Versus (VS) Channel In Your Zipcode or Click: http://www.versus.com/
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Here is an audio clip of a 9/10/97 interview by Roger Hedgecock of my wife, Helen Duringer, when his show was on location at McP's in Coronado:
Helen learned to parachute and to assemble, fire, disassemble and clean the AK-47 when she attended high school in Ukraine. The interview took place in 1997, only a couple years after she came to this country. She did quite well making her point, that the feminist push for women in the military manifests itself primarily in socialist countries. (Capitalism, on the other hand, requires strong families.) Not that women shouldn't shoot--that's a separate issue. Since then she's taken a number of classes with me at Front Sight, where I'm a Bronze member.
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Thank you!
