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FAITHFUL EXECUTION OF THE LAW ACT OF 2014 - H.R 3973
To amend section 530D of title 28, United States Code.
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I have more principled reasons for my stand on owning firearms, and I don’t care one whit in the world for the Second Amendment. It means nothing to me. My rights have nothing to do with the U.S. Constitution, and …
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Officer Safety. That’s all you filthy mundanes need to know.
U.S. Army Gets Big-Ass Old-School Gun Want.
Via Twitter. Alternate title: Maybe I Really Do Need That Three-Piece German Mess Kit.
Know who is on the air near you. Success may depend on it.
Bracken sends via Twitter with the following comment: Politico: Sharyl Attkisson resigns from CBS News Sharyl had no place at CBS, a media arm of Obama’s Gangster Govt Inc. She dared to report on Operation Fast and Furious and Benghazi, …
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First posted here at WRSA back in 2010 and noted today on Maggie’s Farm with the following endorsement: 1 1/2 hours of history, including the Ukraine, the Nazi-Soviet pact, and how the Soviets learned mass murder from the Nazis, and …
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H/t to HC for this latest mainstream effort by Professor Reynolds in “normalizing” both the Second Amendment and the forbidden word. Not that schmucks like Sunstein and his ilk will pay any attention. (Banzai!)
Food for thought and then action. Get your gear squared away. The Bad People aren’t going to give you all the time you want. Invictus.
Yup. And it started a long time ago – or stated differently, the Revolution was. It’s just been since the fall of the monolithic state media machine in the late Nineties (thanks, Matt Drudge!) that the Counter-Revolution could begin. Viva …
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Bill takes Billy Beck’s recommended reading list, comments, and makes further suggestions. Oh, for the time to read ‘em all.
Thought On Urban Ops Tactical Planning Problem #2: Hasty Attack Live hard. Die free.
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KN@PPSTER on Sun, 09 Mar 2014 13:25:00 GMT
... let's call this a recommendation. By way of disclosure, I received no payment of any kind for this recommendation, and even turned down an offer of links to pirated e-versions (said offer from the author himself) in favor of buying the books I'm about to recommend. In making the foregoing statement, I'm assuming (safely, I think) that the author's friendship, which I highly value, has never been conditional on receipt of a positive review or recommendation.
So: I highly recommend
Conspiracies of Rome (which I have read) and
The Terror of Constantinople (which I am now reading) by Richard Blake. I strongly suspect that said recommendation will extend to
The Blood of Alexandria and
The Sword of Damascus, which I haven't yet read but intend to as soon as possible.
Richard Blake is a pseudonym for
Sean Gabb, whom you likely know as the public face of the United Kingdom's
Libertarian Alliance. For this reason, I should probably get one likely pre-conception out of the way: These novels are not "libertarian novels."
To be a little more specific and walk that back just a tiny bit, they are not didactic texts or ideological rants disguised as story of the type often associated with with the idea of "libertarian novels." They certainly embody values I've come to associate with Sean's non-fiction forays: Love of England and of "western civilization," an Epicurean sensibility, etc.
But -- and this is intended as compliment, not criticism --
story comes first, last and always in the Blake novels. If you're looking for
Ayn Rand Does The 7th Century AD, don't bother. Or at least don't blame me for pointing you in Blake's direction. The novels are intellectually rewarding, but they need to be read as novels.
Both the first and second novels are written in first person, past tense: The adventures of one young Aelric, set in the early 7th Century and as recalled by a very elderly Aelric in the late 7th Century. And, as the titles suggest, two background plot points loom large:
- The decline and decay of the Roman Empire; and
- The coalescence of the Holy Roman Catholic Church
Aelric, a dispossessed young English nobleman now employed by the Church, offends a local king and is forced to flee England (in the company of the priest Maximin) to do penance in Rome. That penance turns out to be, in brief, supervising the copying and shipment back to England of important books (the Church's goal being to Christianize England, Aelric's being to save knowledge for eventual re-dissemination to Europe to re-kindle its dying intellectual flame).
Were it that simple, we'd still have a fine yarn. But it quickly becomes more complicated, turning into a roaring good murder mystery and political thriller. If I have any complaint at all, it's that some of the "murder mystery" elements are more appropriate to 19th century "scientific detection" story-telling than to the Dark Ages. But I frankly found those elements to be a pretty good anchor in a strange environment. Gabb ... er, Blake ... tells me that the later novels stick more to the "political thriller" genre, letting the detective stuff fall by the wayside.
Now, about that environment: To me, the strongest writing point in the Aelric novels is a sense of verisimilitude. I've never lived in 7th Century Rome or Constantinople, of course, but Blake brings them to life. That's no small feat. One of my problems with modern literary and theatrical or film depictions of the first, say, 15 centuries A.D. is that they almost always feel like ... well ... depictions. The Aelric novels come across as the actual memoirs of a real person, experiencing real events in places that really existed.
Side note: One element of that verisimilitude is historical accuracy. For about the first 50 pages of Conspiracies of Rome, I found myself running to Wikipedia every few minutes to see if I had caught Blake in anachronism or error. No dice. Every time I checked, things checked out. I can't guarantee perfection on those fronts, but I can say that I quickly got too caught up in the story to keep worrying about such things.
I think you will be similarly captivated by these books, if you allow yourself the pleasure. So do that.
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KN@PPSTER on Fri, 07 Mar 2014 19:02:00 GMT
... I actually agree with
something I read at Salon. Quoth Andrew Leonard therein:
Exposing [Bitcoin creator Satoshi] Nakamoto's identity is the very definition of "news."
Now, I'm not assuming that Leah McGrath Goodman, of
Newsweek, got the right Nakamoto (the person
she identifies says he isn't that guy).
Nor do I know what all Goodman did to obtain the information she thinks she obtained. If she broke into Nakamoto's house, stole and rifled through his briefcase, that kind of thing, then she violated his rights ... not by knowing that he is who she says he is, but by doing those specific things.
But
if she got her facts right, and
if she did so without violating any of Nakamoto's real rights in the process ... well, there's no such thing as a "right to demand that people not know who you are or what you did."
The claim of a right to privacy -- a right to demand that people
not know something (or share what they know) -- is an "intellectual property" claim. And like all "intellectual property" claims, it's Grade A Horseapples.
Now, just to be clear: I don't agree with Leonard on anything else in the article. I don't believe for a minute that the outing of Satoshi Nakamoto, even if it turns out to be true and accurate, kills Bitcoin. And it sure as hell doesn't kill cryptocurrency as such. Someone's living in a fantasy world. But that someone is Andrew Leonard, not libertarians.
Driving is better than walking – and far better than pulling a cart. How will your current ride fare when things get sporty? Tempus fugit.
Worth a read. Be polite. Be professional. And have a plan to kill everyone you meet.