Sipsey Street Irregulars

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

The M-1/M-2/M-3 carbines.

"Nobody Wanted to Give Up the M-1 Carbine: Classic weapon endured through three big American wars."

Suckered into giving in to the darker demons of her natural collectivist instincts.

Administrators literally shred Constitution after reporter calls it 'oppressive' and 'triggering'

What the ?!?!?!?

Adams County rancher shot and killed by deputies

Bloomberg buying politicians again.

New York Billionaire Bloomberg Pours In Millions In Effort to “Buy” VA Senate

Monday, November 2, 2015

A List for the Historically Amnesiac and Culturally Ignorant.

"Top 10 Iconic Movie Guns."

This list is for people whose knowledge of history and film goes back as far as yesterday's breakfast. I would rather suggest the following as "Iconic" (in no particular order) --

Full Auto Competitors:

Gary Cooper's Lewis Gun in For Whom the Bell Tolls.

William Holden's M1917 in The Wild Bunch.

Robert Taylor's Vickers gun in Bataan.

Audie Murphy's MG-42 in To Hell and Back

Audie Murphy's Ma Deuce in To Hell and Back.

Al Pacino's "Leetle Fren" in Scarface.

Edward G. Robinson's Thompson in Little Caesar.

Steve McQueen's BAR in The Sand Pebbles.

Rifles:

Gary Cooper's 1903 Springfield in Sergeant York.

Tom Selleck's Sharps in Quigley Down Under.

John Wayne's Winchester carbine in Stagecoach.

Jimmy Stewart's "Winchester '73."

Daniel Day Lewis' flintlock rifle in Last of the Mohicans.

Edward Fox's custom assassination takedown rifle in The Day of the Jackal.

The Martini-Henry .577-450 rifles in Zulu.

Sean Bean's Baker rifle in Sharpe's Rifles series.

Pistols:

Any M1911 .45 in every Bogart movie ever made.

I'm sure I've missed many. Suggest your own.

Hollywood's latest anti-firearm propaganda flick -- using the lie of "pro-life," a mush-for-brains pastor and funding from the pro-abortion death cult left.

"Pro-life means anti-gun? Pastor loses support after film takes aim at NRA and Sarah Palin."

Again, I recommend Greg Hopkins' book, A Time To Kill, as a specific antidote to this poisonous drivel.

Proof that no terrible idea, especially a killer ideology, ever truly dies.

Bernie Sanders and the Brazen Return of Socialism

He's got his, Mac, so go for that collectivist tyranny. He knows he can always bribe his way to being left alone himself.

"Bill Gates says that capitalism cannot save us from climate change."

The world’s richest man, Bill Gates, has said that the private sector is too selfish and inefficient to produce effective energy alternatives to fossil fuels.

The role of "Sid Vicious" comes into greater focus.

Hillary Clinton’s rogue agenda: Why Sid Blumenthal matters.

"Government needs to be more than crass extortion." Sure, but it ain't. The question is, what do we do about it?

"The Public Sector: Standing in Our Way until We Pay Up."

Three from Herschel Smith.

"I am forced by death and destruction to say there should be war"

"Off-Duty Newark Cop Arrested For Pointing Gun."

"Bear Spray Or 230-Grain Fat Boy?"

Sunday, November 1, 2015

McCain: Halt Army Handgun Program, Choose the Bullet First

"The Army should suspend or cancel the current [request for proposal] until it can conduct a caliber study to determine what caliber and cartridge is optimum for the next handgun to meet current and emerging threats."

But that's not the most embarrassing thing the Army ought to be concerned about in this report. THIS is:

"Meanwhile, the Army maintains that it adopted the requirement for a new modular handgun from the Air Force in October 2013."

You. Have. GOT. To. Be. Kidding. From the Junior Birdmen? Really? Not the Marines mind you, not the SEALS. You might as well try to excuse your own mistake in selecting an ICBM by saying you got the requirements from the Coast Guard.

Look for more of this in collectivist-run corruptocracies.

High Bridge Arms, founded in the mid-1950s by Olympic shooter Bob Chow, shuts down rather than give local police its customer list.

So, if Christians were to act more like the Muslim death cult, we'd be criticized less often?

Atheist explains honestly why he feels free to criticize Christians

“I would say two things,” Zuckerman said. “I know what keeps me from critiquing Islam on my blog is just fear. “I’ve got three kids,” he said. “So I know I can say anything about Christianity or Mormonism, and I’m not living in fear, which is a testament to Christianity and Mormonism, and that’s wonderful. Thank you. “I would never write the same kind of stuff that I do about certain religions – Judaism, Christianity, LDS, whatever – as I would about Islam – just straight up fear,” Zuckerman said.

Who Killed the Liberal Arts?

Uh, I'll venture to suggest "collectivists."

" Everything that Barack Obama does is calculated to destroy America, which he despises."

Barack Obama is not seeking "legacy"

Barack Obama's sole aim has been, since he first entered politics and continues as he winds down this presidency, the complete destruction of America as it was founded. It is an insult to the intelligence of all Americans who must listen to elitist pundits on Fox news and elsewhere, and political drones in either party endeavor to make Obama's behavior fit a pattern of normalcy. Attributing his destructive policies to "legacy building" is either self-delusion on the part of the people who make that claim or cowardliness.

Why am I not surprised?

Marco Rubio’s New Billionaire Backer Top Funder for Open Borders

Georgia becomes 'border state' for violent illegal immigrants

A groundbreaking Channel 2 Action News investigation has exposed a pattern involving thousands of unauthorized immigrants convicted of violent crimes. Many are removed from the United States multiple times after committing even more crimes.

"Too big to jail."

As Benghazi inquiry fades, Clinton still faces legal questions about emails

Wrong about many other things, Ernst Toller was right about this.

On the day that his books were burned by the Nazis, Toller wrote: "Beneath the yoke of barbarism one must not keep silence; one must fight. Whoever is silent at such a time is a traitor to humanity."

"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

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.