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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

What I want the government to pay for to assist my "quality of life."

Laura Ingraham had fun on her show yesterday asking listeners what "quality of life" things they would like the government to pay for in lieu of contraception. Being involved in a bit a co-pay generation at the time, I didn't have the time to call her, but I did send her this email later:

RE: Quality of Life -- what I want the government to pay for.

Thomas Jefferson once wrote: "A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise, and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks." (Thomas Jefferson, Encyclopedia of T. Jefferson, 318, Foley, Ed., reissued 1967.)

Therefore, I would like the government to assist my "wellness" activity by supplying me with a case of small arms ammunition a month in my choice of caliber.

Mike Vanderboegh

PO Box 926

Pinson, AL 35126

7 comments:

Anonymous said...: A communist government keeping me supplied with communist calibers? That's a federal subsidy I can believe in!

I'll have some 7.62x39, a little 7.62x54r, and maybe some 9x18mm Makarov now and then.

Beats the heck out of government cheese.

III N TN

Psalm 144:1 Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:; March 6, 2012 at 7:30 AM
Anonymous said...: Mike, you gave a USPS PO BOX address.

NO HAZMAT CAN BE SHIPPED USPS!

Better amend your request for ammo, FedEx or ups ground will be fine...; March 6, 2012 at 8:50 AM
Pvt.Joker said...: It had to be Mike who came up with the first socialist program I might be willing to compromise my principles for.
A case a month!? That's better than I used to do with the National Guard as an instructor drawing "proficiency ammo"!; March 6, 2012 at 9:49 AM
nikalseyn said...: I really, really need a case or two or 9mm Luger in order to properly break in my new Beretta. It calms me and soothes the soul.; March 6, 2012 at 10:37 AM
pdxr13 said...: How about an "applicator" for the ammo. Something belt-fed would improve my quality of life.

A boy could easily spend $300K on belt-fed weapon ammunition during law school.

Be safe!; March 6, 2012 at 11:39 AM
Da Curly Wolf said...: Let's see. A pallet of ammo a week, one of the abandoned missle silos/bases that are up for sale. The means to fix, modifiy, reinforce and make livable that same base. An M1 Abrahms tank, a lifetime supply of fuel and ammo for that, a couple of classic sports cars, a new truck, $150million in cash. *fingersnap* Oh and green cards/slash citizen ship for any lovely lasses from south of the border, russia or anyplace else that wants to join my harem. That is all.; March 6, 2012 at 7:14 PM
emtgene said...: mike, you are short-changing yourself on this issue. whereas, the government of the united states decreed that each household in iraq could legally keep a full auto ak47 for defensive purposes, i think that the government should provide to each household of the u.s. a full auto m16 and sufficient ammo for all residents of said household to practice every year.; March 6, 2012 at 7:15 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

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